Holed up in your little room, we talk for hour on empty hour, pacing up and down between the walls that we have built ourselves. No more with the long goodbye, I can't stand another tear; I won't wait for the bell to toll.. Read »

Under darkening thundering towering skies We live through these painful days Walking like strangers in streets of damnation Under the enemy's gaze Well we all create monsters, come back for their masters The prices the D.. Read »

So where do we begin? It must be thirty-five years . . . You've the breath of my mother, the life of a stranger; and there's so much to tell - so much I need to know. All of the stories, and reasons But your face I remem.. Read »

One swallow never made a spring You can buy a crown - it doesn't make you king Beware the trinkets that we bring When the visionary dreams set hard and grey as flesh made into stone You tore the statues to the ground c.. Read »

Across the flatlands we came out of nowhere special Like a peasant revolution - makeshift weapons in our hands We crashed the gates so hard we'd never heard that kind of sound before And braced ourselves for victory and th.. Read »

They found us in the courtyard at our table in the shade We toasted our last few moments and then the end came They took us back to the airstrip in that beaten up old car And we rattled across the African scrubland in sile.. Read »

In the tall grass upon the dune He rests his head on you It's warm wind and a faded sky You watch him drifting far away Dreaming, drowning Did you marry a man who married the sea? He looks right through you to the dist.. Read »

Well we all learned how to use a fork and a knife How sometimes we have to wear a suit and tie And understand these things are what give us the right To go around the world acting superior We live with missiles and the a.. Read »

Cassandra's still shouting from the city walls but no one ever hears And far below the traffic moves like fish upon the ocean floor to the rhythms of the tide We're holding on so tight because it seems as if we're moving v.. Read »

It seems strange to write about these things now but the time has probably come when we should accept whatever is past and gone and never will return. Looking back to the beginning I see a flood of painful memories a.. Read »