Deep and Wide and Tall: The Platinum Collection

Well, when I've questioned
All I could and come undone
And only sadness stands
Between me and the sun

When loving leaves and leaves me
Waiting on the one
And my heart can't hide
And when seduction separates me from surprise

I open my eyes and I let your love decide
I let your love decide
I let your love decide

Well, when I saw you in the spring
You caught my eye
Eluded me and made me wonder why
An unassuming, undermining kinda guy

Could not be on your side
And when your brown eyes
And my blue did so collide
I sat by your side and I shied away

And I let your love decide
I let your love decide
I let your love decide

Well, if the world was like I wished
When I was young
When all the things that I had thought
Could still be done

When we could win the wars
And wars could still be won and I didn't miss you
And when the world was opening up
Like a father to his son and I could kiss you

Well, let your love decide
Well, let your love decide
Let your love decide

So let your love decide

From the mountain tops down to the sunny street
A different drum is playing a different kind of beat
It's like a mystery that never ends
I see you crying and I want to kill your friends

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet
It's obvious
Just count me in and count me out and
I'll be waiting for the shout
Oblivious

Met Mo and she's okay, said no one really changed
Got different badges but they wear them just the same
Down by the ballroom I recognized
That flaming fountain in those kindered caring eyes.

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet
It's obvious
Just count me in and count me out and
I'll be waiting for the shout
Oblivious

I hope it haunts me 'til I'm hopeless
I hope it hits you when you go
And sometimes on the edge of sleeping
It rises up to let me know it's not so deep
I'm not so slow

They're calling all the shots
They call and say they phoned
They'll call us lonely when we're really just alone
And like a funny film, it's kinda cute
They bought the bullets and there's no one left to shoot.

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet
It's obvious
Just count me in and count me out and
I'll be waiting for the shout
Oblivious...

I look around me and what do I see?
Sadness surrounds me, alone as can be
With too much time and too much distance

These chains that bind me, they won't set me free
I look behind me and coming for me, yeah
My best friend, she's my resistance

So if you find yourself alone and so unkind
And if you've asked yourself, over and over
And even if your heartbeats hurt like goodbyes
Try, try, try, open your mind
Spend some time with the gentle kind

I was torn between the darkness and the light
Lost to all belief that it could turn out right
But my quiet friend turned me 'round
Made me see again

She took my hand, said nothing much
No lesson learned, just a gentle touch
And I was coming 'round
I am, I am coming 'round again

So if you find yourself alone and so unkind
And if you've asked yourself, over and over
And even if your heartbeats hurt like goodbyes
Try, try, try, open your mind
Spend some time with the gentle kind

'cause in a hard world, with fastness and an eye on the money
I heard a soft voice, saying "Never worry, hold on honey"
When my world was gone, a whisper kind of eased my mind
And I am holdin' on to the gentle kind

She took my hand, said nothing much
No lesson learned, just a soft touch

So if you find yourself alone and so unkind
And if you've asked yourself, over and over
And even if your heartbeats hurt like goodbyes
Try, try, try, open your mind
Spend some time with the gentle kind

Open your mind
Spend some time with the gentle kind
Open your mind
Spend some time with the gentle kind

I've been searching
Seems like so long
For perfection
In a world made wrong
Here it's hard to be strong
Seems like we're heading
Down and down and down
But that's love

In my life, a million dreams take over
Paradise, a million miles away

You've been hurting
And I can see
As the world turns round and round
You spin with me
And when you're down
Don't you know I'm down too
But up or down
There's nowhere else I'd rather be
Than with you

In my mind, a million dreams take over
Paradise, a million miles away

In my life, a million dreams take over
Paradise, a million miles away

But walking down this lonely road
I stop and think of you
And I can see now
'cause I believe now
Paradise is true
Paradise is you

Jock's got a vote in Parochia
Ten long years and he's still got her
Paying tax and and doing stir
Worry about it later.
And the wind blows hot and the wind blows cold
But it blows us good so we've been told
Music's food 'til the art-biz folds
Let them all eat culture.

Chorus:
The past is steeped in shame,
But tomorrow's fair game,
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning Britain.

Twenty years and a loaded gun
Funerals, fear and the war ain't won
Paddy's just a figure of fun
It lightens up the danger.
And a corporal sneers at a catholic boy
And he eyes his gun like a rich man's toy
He's killing more than celtic joy
Death is not a stranger.

Taffy's time's gonna come one day
It's a loud sweet voice and it won't give way
A house is not a holiday
Your sons are leaving home Neil.
In the hills and the valleys and far away
You can hear the song of democracy
The echo of eternity
With a Rak-a-Rak-a feel.

Chorus

From the Tyne to where to the Thames does flow
My English brothers and sisters know
It's not a case of where you go
It's race and creed and colour.
From the police cell to the deep dark grave
On the underground's just a stop away
Don't be too black, don't be too gay
Just get a little duller.

But in this green and pleasant land,
Where I make my home, I make my stand
Make it cool just to be a man,
A uniform's a traitor.
Love is international
And if you stand or if you fall,
Just let them know you gave your all,
Worry about it later.

Chorus

My girl
She fled the fatherland
And all it's dumb demands
My Girl
She is the essence pure
She's super sure, she's got the cure
She's love ambassadress
With a message

Here comes the bottom line

Are we going to live together
Lovers over all
One unending understanding
Deep & wide & tall

My girl
She is the sweetest sound
When living lets me down
My girl
Can turn me on this way
From a world away
She's love's ambassadress
She's got a message

Here comes the bottom line

Are we going to live together
Lovers over all
One unending understanding
Deep & wide & tall

Ran a red light, running lonely through Gaudi's soft confusion
Hey, hey, my Barcelonian
Such a gentle Jones running through my bones
Placa reial calls, it calls, it calls
It calls the night home

And then her eyes like Spanish horses
Danced as language died
They danced like Spanish horses

As saddened skies descended on the night
We saw two ships set sail
And the lights danced on the water
They danced, they danced like Spanish horses

Trying to exercise, thought that daytime dies, race
Run and stumble, fall into dark
Feel the fire, see the spark
Then you fall, then you fall
So free and humble, you tumble

Into her eyes like Spanish horses
Danced as language died
They danced like Spanish horses

As saddened skies descended on the night
We saw two ships set sail
And the lights danced on the water
They danced, they danced like Spanish horses

You're born from bloody revolution
You're lost to simplicity and small solutions
So you burn when you're born
Then you burn, burn, burn, burn, burn
Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn