The Take Off and Landing of Everything

Fly Boy Blue It's a lethal ballet Air traffic congestion I'm having a baby Second thoughts Scotch Dinner and Someone's dancing on the box A former MP and no one's watching My oldest friends are a serious habit Fly boy blue So bring your faces Home to

If you wake in the quake and the roll of the heartbroken Pounding the ground in a sawn off ballet Bring us in an indigo dawn with the lovelorn and renegade You always found peace in the grip of a beat daring Time alone with the pounding of your heart

This blue world and her countless sisters And all that came before that day Our atoms straining to align Was the universe in rehearsal for us When all the world is sucking on its sleeve You'll hear an urgent morse in the gentle rain And if you plot y

I live and die by the hot and cold in strangers' eyes But danger lies behind the tape across my door I know a place where angels lace the lemonade And I cannot stay where all the broken plans were made Broken devotion Can I jump in the gun And fly Ov

The first to put a simple truth in words Binds the world in a feeling all familliar 'Cause everybody owns the great ideas And it feels like there's a big one round the corner Antenna up and out into New York Somewhere in all that talk is all the answ

I am electric With a bottle in me Got a bottle in me And glory be these fuckers are lgnoring me I'm from another century I am a preacher When I've got in on me And I've got in on me And glory be these fuckers are ignoring me We never learn from histo

I'm running out of miracles The streets alive with one-man shows The corner boys were moved along We're plummeting like crippled crows Oh my soul Oh long before you and I were born Others beat these benches with their empty cups To the night and its