Simple Minds : Black and White 050505

New-Wave / United-Kingdom
(2005 - Sanctuary Records)
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1. STAY VISIBLE

The road opens wide
There's space here for the two of us
We'd like to call you
But now we are tired

The text is the same
The music as well
I'm just making this up
As I go along

Stay visible
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Stay visible

The road keeps on flowing
I feel like I'm drowning
And in this little place
My bike does not fit
It does not fit in my parking space

Stay visible
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Stay visible
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Home
Home
Home
Home


2. HOME

God gave me travelling shoes,
God gave me the wanderer's eye,
God gave two gold coins to help me to the other side.
He then turned around and said - be careful how the small things grow,
When God gives you travelling shoes,
You know that it is time to go.
Home,
Home,
Home.

He then sent in the ship at night,
And it took me to a hidden port.
Slipped me the key at last,
To open up my prison door.
Gave me blackbird's wings,
Gifted me with beggar's eyes.
But when God sends in the jackals,
You know that it is time to say bye, bye, bye.
So I'm going home.

Home,
Home,
Home,
Home,
Home.

So God gave me travelling shoes,
Gave me one last reprieve.
He then gave me hunger,
Denying me the air to breath.
Not even one small case,
Not even one last goodbye.
But God gave me travelling shoes,
And without them I would surely die,
So I'm going home.

Home,
Home,
Home,
Home


3. STRANGER

Tell me why.
Do you know what were looking for?
Any truth in the rumours I ignore?
Tell me why, I still deny?
Anytime secrets, in every sound.
I can keep my feet up off the ground.
I'm in the air, reeling everywhere.
There's something new and I must say.
It makes me feel so super real. Just look and you'll find.
We are drifting through space and time.

Stranger, beautiful stranger,
Come tell me if you are, the silent star, Explain!
Stranger, beautiful stranger,
I wonder if you are the silent star,
Explain.

Tell me why, do you know what we're looking for?
Any truth in the rumours I ignore?
Then tell me why I still deny?

Summertime,
Winter,
Moonlight,
And the Sun.
I get the feeling this has just begun,
And yet it feels so super real.
Look and you'll find,
We are moving through space and time.

Tell me who you are.
Tell me who you are.
Who are you?


4. DIFFERENT WORLD

It's all right
It's all right
Let me go high
Let me go high

Let me go high into a different world
Let me go high into a different world

It's all right, it's ok
To believe in something
You find the spark inside yourself
It begins from nothing
From the man of the cave
To the soul of the brave
For the love of God
Let me go now

Let me go high into a different world
Let me go high into a different world
Let me go high into a different world

It's all right, it's ok
To believe in something
But if it falls between ourselves
Could kill like nothing
From the man of the cave
To the soul of the brave
For the love of God
Let me close now

Let me go high into a different world
Let me go high into a different world
Let me go by into a different world
Let me go high into a different world
Let me go high into a different world


5. UNDERNEATH THE ICE

Although every building's standing tall
I look to you as something that much greater
I searched through all religions
In the hope that something would entice
I dreamed of crossing bridges, mountain ridges
From the Pole to the Equator
But when I saw you skating by

I was underneath the ice
I woke up staring at the sun
I searched for you in every hidden angle

All through my imagination, every face and place, every memory inside
High above the clouds they say there are galaxies and other destination
And then I saw you skating by but I was underneath the ice
Today I dreamed another dream, predestined to come and save me later
Today I dreamed another dream that you would come to take me home
From underneath the ice


6. THE JEWELLER PART 2

It's a long cold distance through the galaxies.
If my eyes were open wide maybe I could see.
If a burned out future seems like all that's in store
I'd tumble to the ground like a fading meteor.

Jeweller to the stars, Jeweller to the stars,
Jeweller to the stars, that's who you are.

That's who you are.
Ever been out walking where the air gets thin,
Or stranded on a planet losing out on oxygen?
Scream out "listen" in a silent place,
Feel that you're falling, calling into space.

Jeweller to the stars, Jeweller to the stars,
Jeweller to the stars, that's who you are.

That's who you are.
That's who you are.

It's a long cold distance through the galaxies.
My eyes were open wide, oh desolately.
If a burned out future seems like all that's in store
I'd tumble to the ground like a fading meteor.

Jeweller to the stars, Jeweller to the stars,
Jeweller to the stars, that's who you are.

That's who you are.


7. A LIFE SHOT IN BLACK AND WHITE

A life shot in black and white
Lays me down
Takes to me where
Words still fail me, yes

A life shot in black and white
Shames me now, as it takes us there
Where nothing can break this
Toiling back, I am still ashen
I keep falling back
On what I believe still matters
I'm slamming on the brakes
And like a haunted child, I was born to break

A life shot in black and white
Throws me down, then raises me
With colours still bleeding, yes
It's all there in black and white
We've seen it now, seen it there
And the moment's not leaving

A life shot in black and white
Stares me down, take me where
And like doves we won't leave never
We're still here in black and white
Changes now, changes there but the spirit can't leave us


8. KISS THE GROUND

I'm in a golden temple,
In a bombed out street,
Feel the rough and tumble
Down where the borders meet.
I hear a sandstorm falling
Down where the tears have dried
And there's a west wind calling,
But I get no reply.

And I kiss the ground,
I kiss the ground,
Nothing around.

There is no hidden karma,
There is no sacred plight,
There is no special armour
To take me through the night.

I kiss the ground,
I kiss the ground,
Nothing around,

I kiss the ground.
I kiss the ground,
Nothing around.

Into the space between us,
Into the words that say
That every law demeans us
Then every price you pay.

There is no hidden karma,
There is no sacred plight,
There is no special armour
To take me through the night.

I kiss the ground,
I kiss the ground,
Nothing around,

I kiss the ground.
I kiss the ground,
I kiss the ground,
Nothing around,

I kiss the ground.

There is no manna-mania,
There is no banquet here,
There is only ghettoes.

I kiss the ground.


9. DOLPHINS

When they say that
Say it's wise
They say that
Now is the only time
To reach for what remains
To look o'er what's the same

Dolphins swim around
Dolphins drag me down
Drag me down

Say that, it's the truth
There's an oceans
Right in front of you
Dolphins, hit the sound
And when dolphins circle around

If it seems so
Like the world juts in
Those dolphins, drag me down
Drag me down

Say that, say its wise
Say that it' the only vice
Yet you say so what remains?
And look so uncertain

And dolphins look around
And then dolphins drag me down
And when it looks through
The world juts in
Dolphins drag me down
Drag me down

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