Fanfare For The Comic Muse

Ignorance Is Bliss

I rely upon your charity to survive
I deny myself to prove that I am alive
I plead guilty if sweet innocence is this
I support the motion

Ignorance is bliss
Kill me with your kiss
Bliss
Whoops apocalypse
Ignorance must be bliss

You rely upon my charity to survive
I deny myself to keep this world alive
You walk headlong off the edge of the abyss
I oppose the motion

Ignorance is bliss
Kill me with your kiss
Bliss
Whoops apocalypse
Ignorance must be bliss...

We rely upon our charity to survive
We deny ourselves the luxury of life
We could go on fighting till there's nothing left
I propose the motion, ignorance is bliss

Indian Rain

I feel as if I have been buried alive
For the best part of five hundred years
My body encased in a mountain of waste
Until one day my face reappears
My limbs, they are bent with the years they have spent
In positions tormenting my soul
But now they are free to emancipate me
From the celibacy of this hole

So turn in your grave
Hold back the incoming wave

Warm wind in my face like the linen and the lace
Soft surrounding her waist like a mask
Fresh air in my lungs like the sharing of songs
Pleasure tripping our tongues through the grass
New blood in my veins like red indian rain
Stripping us of all the shame we possess
With tears in my eyes and anguish I will cry
I was free all the time I confess

So turn in your grave
Hold back the incoming wave
So turn in your grave...

Hold back the incoming wave
Of indian rain
Indian rain

Bleak Landscape

I cannot reconcile myself to this
I wish I could
I cannot live the life I ought to live
I know I should
I cannot bring myself to pray
Except to wish these words away
They echo round my head

But soon they will escape across the bleak landscape

There is a tree that grows out of this earth
It stands alone
There is a wind that shaped it from its birth
By whom the seed was sown
I cannot bring myself to sing
It is a wild untethered ting that echoes round my head

But soon it will escape across the bleak landscape

I cannot bring myself to speak
Except to wish myself asleep, asleep
But every word unuttered
Only serves to clutter up my head
And when I go to bed I dream that

Soon I will escape across the bleak landscape
And soon we shall escape across our very own bleak landscape

Tailspin

Tailspin, is the world gonna win?
Is the ocean gonna open up and let us in?
Hard luck, your policies suck
Your rhetoric will save your face but not your skin
This crime is hard to define
So watch the leaves turn brown for the last time
Too late, you've sealed our fate
No u-turns, no emergency debate

But wait
I hate unhappy endings
And there doesn't have to be one

Tailspin, the airs getting thin
The ocean;s getting sick of all the crap you're pumping in
Test ban, get a real good tan
Your rhetoric'll save your face but not your cancerous skin-
Deep, life is cheap
The forests pine and the willow's weep
Check-mate, you've sealed our fate
The world is way past it's sell-by date

But wait
I hate unhappy endings
And there doesn't have to be one

Tailspin, is the world gonna win?
Tailspin, from the outside looking in
Tailspin, I repent my sins
But when I get to heaven will he let me in?
Tailspin, save our skins
Save our skins

But wait
I hate unhappy endings
And there doesn't have to be one
The message we are sending
Is a very real one
The world we are defending
Could be a very green one
We all hate unhappy endings
And there doesn't have to be one
There doesn't have to be one
There doesn't have to be a tailspin

The Rise And Fall

The rise and fall, the fall and rise
The freezing breath, the frightened eyes
The rise and fall, the fall and rise
The naked truth, the naked eye

Hold me in your arms
Hold me till you kill me
Hold me till you break my will
And passion fills my heart

The rise and fall, the fall and rise
The open heart, the opened eyes
The rise and fall, the fall and rise
My lady laughs, my lady cries

She cries
Hold me in your arms
Hold me till you kill me
Hold me till you break my will
And passion fills my heart

The rise and fall, the fall and rise
The holy ghost is exorcised
And you and I shall no longer
Look at life through half-closed eye

Hold me in your arms
Hold me till you kill me
Hold me till you break my will
And passion fills my heart...

Passion fills my heart

Logic Vs Emotion

I stood upon the listed bridge dividing different images

Logic verses emotion
A mountain stream verses the ocean
Will we ever learn?
Logic verses emotion
Politicians carry the motion
Will we ever learn?

I'll take you upstream
Up to my origin
My water pure as glass
My beauty everlasting
I was here before you
A million years before you
I can only warn you
I'll be here when you're gone

"Leave my house alone
I won't leave my home"
Said the old lady
Kneeling by the river-bank crying
"Leave our valley alone
You're destroying our home"
Chorused the creatures
Watching as their paradise disappeared

I stood upon the listed bridge dividing different images

I'll take you downstream
Down where they turn me green
I suffer the indignity
Of administering your poisons to the sea
The impurity of maturity
Teach them all the appreciation of beauty

"Leave my house alone
I won't leave my home"
Said the old lady
Kneeling by the river-bank crying
"Leave our valley alone
You're destroying our home"
Chorused the creatures
Watching as their paradise disappeared under the water

I stood upon the listed bridge dividing different images

Logic verses emotion
A mountain stream feeding an ocean
Politicians go through the motions
Displaying such depth of devotion
Logic verses emotion
Seems to be a lot of confusion
There is no forgone conclusion
There is no simple solution
The answer lies in your emotions
The answer lies in your emotions
Let them speak to you

Secret Garden

So much time and so little to do
I furnish my mind with pictures of you
Fading portraits, peculiar names
Replaced by your face in a big golden frame

Take me inside you
There I will find you
Quietly sleeping
Water is seeping
Down from the skies and
Into your eyes and
Into the secret garden

The icon hangs alone on the wall
Her sweet mouth is saying nothing at all
Golden fragments of moments in time
Tarnished with guilt for an innocent crime

Take me inside you
There I will find you
Quietly sleeping
Water is seeping
Down from the skies and
Into your eyes and
Into the secret
Your beautiful secret
Take me inside you

There I will find you
Quietly sleeping
Water is seeping
Down from the skies and
Into your eyes and
Into the secret garden