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Bambo Houses
Sore de mo, hitobito no seikatsu wa tsuzuite iru
All the buildings I have loved
Are barely standing
All the children too young and thin
Sing bamboo music
Bamboo Music
I walk through open fields
Where children sing
Bamboo music
A song of life itself
Play to win
In bamboo music
We work -- working harder still
Down where life begins
From here to heaven
We fight -- fighting harder still
Down where life begins
From here to heaven
Building bamboo houses by the million
Lighting fires that only burn inside
Singing bamboo music by the million
Fighting for our lives
I walk through the fields
Where children sing
Bamboo music
A glimpse of life itself
Of sun and steel
In bamboo music
We work -- working harder still
Down where life begins
From here to heaven
We fight -- fighting harder still
Down where life begins
From here to heaven
Building bamboo houses by the million
Lighting fires that only burn inside
Singing bamboo music by the million
Fighting for our lives
Pop Song
Behind the iron gates
The shifts were worked in silence
Each weekend beckoned like Ulysses' Sirens
And as the words were few
We'd listen to the radio
It was loud and irritated me so
I'll tell you I love you
I'll tell you I love you
Like my favourite pop song
These promises won't keep
Though every road begins and ends with you
The fall still hurts, the bruise still blue
I'll paint you pictures of bright tomorrows
But the money goes and the time goes too
I'll tell you I love you
I'll tell you I love you
Like my favourite pop song
I'll tell you I love you
Like the stars above you
Like my favourite pop song
Favourite pop song
Wild, unwise, trivialised, untrue
We squander these gifts
Like another Sunday supplement
They're just so much cash
In the hands of the government
I'll tell you I love you
I'll tell you I love you
Like my favourite pop song
Favourite pop song
Earthbound (starblind)
Like a black crow standing on a sea of shells
She's blessed by magic and the sound of liberty's bells
And I'll raise the curfew and sit by her door
She's been through this world before
Out in the snowfields, coyote tracks
She calls out its name with the words I lack
And it turns its head and howls to the moon
She's gonna be leaving me soon
She's giving me questions and quizical looks
She tears up my papers and burns all my books
They gave her nothing she didn't already know
She's getting ready to go
Down in the basement among her things
I opened her boxes and found her rings
I offered her money she said "They're not for sale"
She guards her secrets well
Somebody saw her down on the beach
Followed her footsteps but they ended at the sea
Still when she found out she goes and raises hell
She guards her secrets well
Each face is a mirror reflecting her own
She squanders affection and rarely goes home alone
But I wouldn't ask for anything if only she'd tell me its through
She guards her secrets too
Like a black crow standing on a sea of shells
She's blessed by magic and the sound of liberty's bells
And I'll raise the curfew and sit by her door
She's been through this world before
Endgame
I just sank into sleep, the conversation wasn't worth repeating
Faith would start the morning off by judging love she'd finally found me wanting
She said that I was born with one foot in the door
Displays of affection but you don't know what it's for
And Jesus said "Don't worry son, that's just the sound of God laughing"
The room was quite a mess, the court said I had no defence against her
The bags were packed, the doors were closing, the three day truce of hostilities was over
I thought I'd notice when my tail was in the fire
She dressed the wounds with vitriol to keep the burns alive
And Jesus said "If you listen good you'll hear the sound of God laughing"
Last chances in the car, the fine white lines are leading to the station
I'll start the journey off defining love with a thousand explanations
Rows of telegraph poles where the railway meets the sea
Counting crucifixions on this road to Calvary
And the DJ said "You've been listening to the wonderfully sound of God laughing"
And Jesus said "Well it's over once you've heard the sound of God laughing"
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