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Sleepwalker
Dream talker
In a shady world
Of disbelieving
Love seemed always
To be leaving
Sleepwalker
Dream talker
Comotosed to walk the ceiling
Numb, and never feeling

Doesn't the city
Look so pretty
In a late night lazy
Sort of way
Floating through your life
In a somnambulistic decay

Love love
Where did it go?
Gone to the land
Of satin and snow
Long gone
With that look on your face
Lost in your box
Of feathers and lace

I was a drifter
A dreamer
A delusion believer
When emotion you were thieving
Your heart was really grieving

Sleepwalker
Dream talker
In a shady world
Of disbelieving
Love seemed always
To be leaving
Sleepwalker
Dream talker
Comotosed to walk the ceiling
Numb, and never feeling

Life life
Where did it go?
Off to the land
Where the cold winds blow
Numb numb
Dumb as can be
Someone made a zombie
And the zombie was me

I was a drifter
A dreamer
A dream dream believer
When to everybody
I was lying
My heart was softly crying

Tears run down my paralysed face
Your head a confusion
Of snowflakes and mace
Lost in a sea
Of jelly and glue
With my half lit illusions
What am i gonna do?

Sleepwalker
Dream talker
In a shady world
Of disbelieving
Love seemed always
To be leaving
Sleepwalker
Dream talker
Comotosed to walk the ceiling
Numb, and never feeling

Doesn't the city
Look so pretty
In a late night lazy
Sort of way
Floating through your life
In a somnambulistic decay

Why did you have to go?
Why did you have to be you?
And do the things you always do
Each time it hurts inside
The things you say
The games you play
Makes me feel like my heart had died
Just like my world fell in around me
Tears found me
Abandoned and they drowned me

Life is often a roller coaster ride
You slide
You hit the bottom hard
You have to run away and hide
But you gotta sit up
Shake yourself down
Start your life again
And see the funny side
Here's a little song
To help the pain along
Come on and sing now

Tragedy
Take a look and see
I'm laughing in the face of adversity
And like the need to sing a song
I need a little hurt to get along
Tragedy
Take a look and be
A survivor in the face of adversity
And like the need to sing a song
I need a little hurt to make me strong

I've tasted love
Love comes and goes
I've cried the tears
The tears have flowed
I felt the world had dragged me down
Not a single friend around
I needed time
I needed help
I had to find the strength myself
Sometimes i walked the path of regret
The sun came out shining
But i still got wet
I could have had a drink or two
A pill to numb the blues
But i hung on for the ride in time
To see the funny side
And now i sing

Tragedy
Take a look at me
I'm laughing in the face of adversity
And like the need to sing a song
I need a little hurt to get along
Tragedy
Take a look and be
A survivor in the face of adversity
And like the need to sing a song
I need a little hurt to make me strong

You always like to dress in black
To mourn the feelings that you lack
Sorrow, anger, hurt and pain
Forever on attack

Always saw the other view
Didn't know what you should do
Never got told the honest truth
You feel it twisted up your youth

Now your
Satan's child
Always running, mercy young and
Satan's child
On the darker side of wild
(yeah)

Oh yeah

You tried to read the books they banned
Colour to the life you planned
Bigger highs to numb their lies
They're always in demand

Stability had turned its cheek
Security's just for the weak
Your life is for the moment
And your future's looking bleak
Because your

Satan's child
Soul in trouble, hurt on the double
Satan's child
On the darker side of wild
(yeah)

Secretly living in your shame
Where they know you by another name
Laugh or cry, live or die
To you it's all the same
Because your

Satan's child
Easily bruising, sorrow cruising
Satan's child
On the darker side of wild

(now you're)
Satan's child
Cold retribution the only solution
Satan's child
On the darker side of wild

On the darker side of wild

Heart in velvet
Heart in velvet

Wrap my heart in velvet
Put it in your pocket
Take it out each evening
Kiss it and love it
Wrap my heart in velvet
Save it for tomorrow
When you're feeling sad
Let it help you through your sorrow
Wrap my heart in velvet
Keep it safe from danger
Let it be your friend
When you feel like a stranger

And if you love me
Wrap my heart in velvet
Wrap my heart in velvet
Hide it safely away
And save it for a rainy day

Wrap my heart in velvet
Seal my soul in silk
Cover my kisses in satin
Put them in a box for a rainy day

Wrap my heart in velvet
Let it be your treasure
Let it give you the warmth
That only love can measure

Wrap my heart in velvet
Let it be a token
For the many times
Your poor heart was broken
Wrap my heart in velvet
Till its fully grown
There may be a moment
That you lose your own

And if you love me
Wrap my heart in velvet
Wrap my heart in velvet
Hide it safely away
And save it for a rainy day

Wrap my heart in velvet
Keep it in the cool and shade
Let it hold the tears
For the mistakes you made
Wrap my heart in velvet
For no more i'll need it
Keep it like a child
Nurture and feed it
Wrap my heart in velvet
Keep it near you when your sleeping
Let it be the vessel
For the love you're keeping

And if you love me
Wrap my heart in velvet
Wrap my heart in velvet
Hide it safely away
And save it for a rainy day

And don't hurt my heart
Please don't hurt my heart
Then you'll never see my cry
You'll never see me die

Wrap my heart in velvet

Night and dark
Forever in my heart
Walking in the midnight rain
I'll never fall in love again

Night and dark
Nobody to see me cry
And like a flower slowly dies
So will i

Night and dark
In your shadows i can hide my pain
In my heart
The light will never shine again
The light will never shine again

Night and dark
Forever in my heart
For all the love i ever lost
My soul now feels a bitter frost

Night and dark
Forever when you say goodbye
All the stars will fade and die
In my sky

Night and dark
In your shadows i can hide my pain
In my heart
The light will never shine again
The light will never shine again

Night and dark
Forever in my heart
I'll always sing a song that's sad
For all the love i never had

Night and dark
Until the earth begins to crack
I know i'll never get them back
Roll the credits fade to black
God's tears are falling
Like stars they are falling
For the host of angels
Dying in my soul
God's tears are falling
Heaven's calling
Calling me, calling
A drifter alone in the dark
In the dark you'll never see me cry
In the dark you'll never see me cry
You'll never see the tears in my eyes
You'll never see the tears that i try to hide
In the night and dark

I'm tired of drifting
I'm tired of lying
I've been walking
When i could have been flying
Sitting and waiting
In a life slowly dying
When the sun comes up tomorrow
I'll ask my heart where to follow

Midnight soul
Searching for dreams
Looking for answers
Walking the lonely road
With all the other
Neon dancers

Like a child
In the dark
On an endless night
Dancing with shadows
Underneath the street light
With all the other beautiful losers
At the edge of their lives
Forever falling
While pretending to fly

Midnight soul
Hide from the sun
Stardust romancers
Walking the lonely road
With all the other
Streetwise chancers
Always a child
Chasing your dreams
Looking for answers
Won't you be my midnight soul

And together
Maybe we can find a better life tomorrow
And there'll be no more sorrow
Maybe we can find a better life tomorrow

You kissed my grateful skin
And left a chain of bites and bruises
I'm sorry when you grin
Almost diamonds for the losers
I'll swim inside your tears
And wander through your rooms of silence
The motive crystal clear
Your tongue is love
And your heart is violence

Almost diamonds
Scratched perfection
Almost diamonds
Tears in glycerine

I spied you kissing her
You faked your love
My broken brother
Everybody burn
Secrets spill and smiles are smothered
You have to roll the dice
Pain is two
And fire is sixes
Vengeance feels nice
I know the shine
Behind your tricks is

Almost diamonds
Scratched perfection
Almost diamonds
Tears in glycerine


Who would have thought
It would end like this
You gave a stranger
A dangerous kiss
Now your pretty eyes
Say these precious lies
We're just beautiful imitations

They were
Almost diamonds
Scratched perfection
Almost diamonds
Tears in glycerine

Catch our teardrops
As they fall
You know we nearly
Had it all
Fallen tears of glycerine
Gone is all of what we dream
Almost diamonds
Scratched perfection
Dark reflections
Love won't find us
Only in dreams

Lonely go-go dancer
Dancing in crazy foam
Surrounded by your acolytes
But going home alone
When did you last see
A sun-drenched afternoon
When did the morning light
Last invade your room?

Disguise your nightlife pallor
With a tan from a machine
Behind your ears
A sticky scent
Of decadence and dreams

We all adore
Your sequinned smile
Revolving in your cloud of blue
Untouchable to anyone
Anyone but you

Lonely go-go dancer
On your revolving stage
Spinning super nova
Of the glamour age
When did you last feel
The brush of a lover's kiss
Someone who wants you for you
Is it love you miss
As you dance with dreaming eyes
Sleeping deep
With eyes awake
Thinking of a future
And the money you may make

We all adore
Your sequinned smile
Revolving in your cloud of blues
Untouchable to anyone
Anyone but you

Lonely go-go dancer
Crying softly to yourself
Why is one so beautiful
Left upon the shelf

Who gave you a face of angels
Dizzy with aspirations
Tied you with limitations
To a life of youth and beauty
Cruel desires
To be a singer
Fires that burn to be an actor
But with no voice
Or expression
You're trapped with your nightlife profession

Lonely go-go dancer
Share a little
Of your art
Give your body
Give your beauty
But most of all
Your heart

We all adore
Your sequinned smile
Revolving in your cloud of blue
Untouchable to anyone
Anyone but you