Boy (1980)
I will fallow
; Twilight ; An cat dubh ; Into the heart
; Out of control
; Stories for boys
; The ocean ; A day without me
; Another
place, another time ; The electric co. ; Shadows and
tall trees.
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I was on the outside, when you said,
You said you needed me
I was looking at myself, I was blind
I could not see
A boy tries hard to be a man,
His mother takes him by the hand,
If he stops to think he start to cry
Oh why?
If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway - I will follow
I was on the inside
When they pulled the four walls down
I was looking through the window, I was lost
I am found
If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway - I will follow
Your eyes make a circle
I see you when I go in there
If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway - I will follow
I will follow
I will follow...
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I looked into his eyes, they're closed
But I see something
A teacher told me why, I laugh
When the old men cry
My body grows and grows
It frightens me, you know
The old man tried to walk me home
I thought he should have known
Twilight, twilight, twilight, twilight
Lost my way
Night and day
Can't find my way
(In the shadows boy meets man
In the shadows boy meets man)
I'm running in the rain
I'm caught in a late night play
It's all and everything
I'm soaking through the skin
Twilight, twilight, twilight, twilight
Darkened day
Lost my way
Night and day
Can't find my way
(In the shadows boy meets man
In the shadows boy meets man)
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Say goodnight
She waits for me
To turn out the light
Really still
She waits to
Break my will
Woah-oh-oh
Yes and I know the truth about you
She cat
And in the daylight
A Black bird maims
So vile the sight
And when she is done
She sleeps beside the wire
Woah-oh-oh
Yes and I know the truth about you
She cat
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Into the heart
Of a child
I stay a while
But I can go there
Into the heart
Of a child
I can smile
I can't go there
Into the heart
Into the heart
Of a child
I can't go back
I can't stay a while
Into the heart
Into the heart
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Monday morning
Eighteen years of dawning
I say how long
Say how long
There was one dull morning
When we were awfully boring
I was so sound
It was so round
I was having feelings
Out of control
I had real pins and needles
Out of control
Oh oh oh
Boys and girls
who go to school and girls
They make children
Not like this one
I was having feelings
Out of control
I had real pins and needles
Out of control
Oh oh oh
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There's a place I go when I am far way
There's a T.V. show and I can play
Sometimes when a hero takes me
Sometimes I don't let go
Oh oh oh
There's a picture book with colour photographs
There's a comic strip that makes me laugh
Sometime away he takes me
Sometimes I don't let go
Stories for boys, stories for boys,
Stories for boys, stories for boys,
Stories for boys
There's a place I go and it's a part of me
There's a radio and I will go
Sometimes a hero talks me
Sometimes I don't let go
Stories for boys
Stories for boys
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A picture in grey, Dorian Gray
Just me by the sea
And I felt like a star
I thought the world could go far
If they listened to what I said
The ocean, the ocean
Washes my feet
Splashes the soul of my shoes
When I looked around
The world couldn't be found,
Just me by the sea
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Starting a landslide in my ego
Looked from the outside
to the world I left behind
I am dreaming
You're always
If I was sleeping
I'll stay
A day without me...
Whatever the feelings
I keep feeling
Whatever the feelings
You left behind
A day without me...
I started a landslide in my ego
Looked from the outside
To the world I left behind
In the world I left behind
Wipe your eyes
Let me let go
In the world I left behind
Shed a tear
And let love go
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Boy, stupid boy
Don't sit at the table
Until you're able to
Toy, broken toy
Shout and shout
You're inside out
If you don't know... Electric Co.
If you don't know... Electric Co.
Red, running red
Play for real
Toy could feel
A hole in your head
You won't shout but
You're spoon fed
If you don't know... Electric Co.
If you don't know... Electric Co.
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Back to the cold restless streets at
night
I talk to myself about tomorrow night
Walls of white protest, a gravestone in name
Who is it now? It's always the same
Who is it now? Who calls me inside
Are the leaves on the trees just a living disguise?
I walk the sweet rain tragicomedy
I'll walk home again to the street melody
But I know oh no
But I know oh no
I know
Shadows and tall trees
Shadows and tall trees
Shadows and tall trees
Shadows and tall trees
Life through a window, a discoloured pain
Mrs Brown's washing is always the same
I walk the sweet rain tragicomedy
I'll walk home again to the street melody
(Out there)
Do you feel in me, anything redeeming
Any worthwhile feeling
Is life like a tightrope? Handing on my ceiling
But I know oh no
But I know oh no
I know
Shadows and tall trees...