ECHOES

Sunlit ripples on the sea

Beyond my reach

I reminisce about your memory

And I can't breathe

You're an Echo, Echo

Voices blurring, I run like a gun

And all the echoes of our summer, glimmer in the sun

And the weightless waves wash over me

They never seem to fade away

Cast a pebble to the sea

Stand by me

Singing songs that echo me

You're all a dream, all a dream, all a dream, all a dream

all an Echo, Echo

Sunset brings evening, and night stock perfumes

Feel the coldness of the twilight, crimson is the moon

The weightless waves wash over me

They never seem to fade away

I sit on a quiet beach

And gaze into the sea

And I think you're everything

To me

Naked and bleeding, the ocean glistens gold

Waking in the mist and light, dawn is moments old

And the weightless waves wash over me

They're never gonna fade away

I sit on a quiet beach

And gaze into the sea

And i think of everything

That's happened to me

La la la la la la la la la

Dream Forever, Dream Forever

La la la la la la la la la

Dream Forever, Dream Forever

Music: Hubbard/Stevenson 1983/2008

Lyrics: Stevenson 1982

Bohemian Highway

Everybody's hooked on something

Everyone has their habits to feed

You man get a buzz from stealing

But me I'm a nicotine freak

Everyday the world gets madder

Joy riding the teenage craze

Fuck me i don't need that shit man

I'd Like to think I've got more brains

You'd Kill the oceans, kill the skies

Kill the ozone so we'd all die

You'd kill your mum for her gold ring

To get your fix of Heroin

But when you gonna learn that killing just don't pay

Bohemian

Highway

Bohemian Highway

Everybody's high on something

Everybody's building bombs

God damn the worlds a nightmare

Every maniacs wielding a gun

Everyday the world gets faster

Ram raiding a teenage craze

But me i don't follow that stuff man

You must have shit for brains

You'd Kill the oceans, kill the skies

Kill the ozone so we'd all die

You'd kill your mum for her gold ring

To get your fix of Heroin

But when you gonna learn that killing just don't pay

Bohemian

Highway

Bohemian Highway

Our Cities Aren't safe when you're around

Our Streets Aren't safe when you're around

Our homes Aren't safe when you're around

No no, Just go

You'd Kill the oceans, kill the skies

Kill the ozone so we'd all die

You'd kill your mum for her gold ring

To get your fix of Heroin

But when you gonna learn that killing just don't pay

Bohemian

Highway

Bohemian Highway

Whatcha gonna say to the devils son?

Whatcha gonna do when the Hoodoo comes?

Whatcha gonna do when you face his gun?

Whatcha gonna do when the Voodoo comes?

When the Voodoo comes?

Midnight Blues

11:59

On a blue sunday evening

Another lazy weekend's gone by

Without your loving baby

The night air is cold

You know the north wind blows how she blows

If there was a light in your window girl

That's where I'd be coming home, coming home

But time is on my side

12:15

Can't get you out of my head, out of my head

You know you hurt me sweet child

With all those bad things that you said

Monday morning

I feel a blue day dawning

Do you remember those sweet September skies?

Oh girl, oh girl

But time is on my side

Long, long days of pain

Can't take heartache again

You got me drowning in the whiskey baby

You got me, you got me

The Midnight Blues

Long, long days of pain

Can't take heartache again

You got me drowning in the whiskey baby

You got me, you got me

The Midnight Blues

Long, long days of pain

Can't take heartache again

You got me drowning in the whiskey baby

You got me, you got me

The Midnight Blues

Lyrics: Stevenson (1991)

Music: Cooper/Stevenson/Bellis (1991)

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Song For Someone

I've played the fool

So many times before

I've had it up to my neck

With all this crap I've had to endure

Now I'm not gonna take this lying down

Get outta my face you've lost the crown

You ain't my princess anymore

This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)

This is a song for you

This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)

This is a song for you

Just for you

There's no hard feelings

There's nothing left to say

If you wanna make a mess of these things

Then thats alright by me

I refuse to say it's ok

Gonna change things along the way

Keep Your hassles away from me

Close aint good girl

Put some distance in our way

What am i supposed to say

I'm the loser either way

Heart of stone no where to go

It's all over anyway

Don't beg me darling just walk away

This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)

This is a song for you

This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)

This is a song for you

Just for you

This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)

This is a song to you

This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)

This is a song for you

This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)

This is a song to you

This ain't a song for someone (No, no, no, no)

This is a song for you

Music: Stevenson / Bellis (January 1991)

Lyrics: Mirfin (May 1991)

Runaway Train

Black heart inside your shell

Everything you touch, turns into hell

But i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you

You ripped the love, right out outta my heart

You took me in and you spat me out

Still i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you

You're out of control (Don't you know that)

There's a 2 minute warning on the radio

Don't you know

You're a Runaway Train on a journey i don't wanna go

With cold eyes you'd stare at me

You've taken everything that you could see

But i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you

Now you're free you're running wild

Like a pyromaniac spitting out fire

Still i wonder how I'm ever gonna live, now I'm without you

You're out of control (Don't you know that)

There's a 2 minute (2 minute warning) warning on the radio (And it said)

Told you so

You're a Runaway Train on a journey i don't wanna go

The train keeps rolling

It just keeps rolling

This train keeps rolling

It just keeps rolling along

You're out of control (Don't you know that)

There's a 2 minute warning on the radio

Return my soul

You're a Runaway Train on a journey i don't wanna go

Music: Stevenson 1992

Lyrics: Stevenson 1992

The Joy Poet

Europe is dying 1993

The old man harbours his memories

Violins swimming, swirling through his ears

As the earth is swallowed up by the sea

Vienna is drowning now!

Oh! Vienna is drowning now!

Amber clouds burst and split the blackened skies

The old man wakes and he writes

His ink well has spanned ten thousand summer nights

Now all the river's are running wild

Oh! the earths a raging fireball and the devils gonna stoke it

Burning down, down, down, down

No~one's seen, no~one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning

Going down, down, down, down

Beaches and wastegrounds washed by poisoned seas

The old man lives without machines

He has no wireless, he has no tv

He cannot hear the frightened trees

Oh! the earths a raging fireball and the devils gonna stoke it

Burning down, down, down, down

No~one's seen, no~one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning

Going down, down, down, down

Oh! the earths a raging fireball and the devils gonna stoke it

Burning down, down, down, down

No~one's seen, no~one's told the Joy Poet he's drowning

Going down, down, down, down

Burning down, down, down, down

Going down, down, down, down

Burning down, down, down, down

Lyrics: Stevenson (Dec 1990)

Music: Bellis/Stevenson (Dec 1990)

A song about about an old reclusive Austrian Poet who writes poems about the beauty in the world. But the poet has been cut off from society for so long he doesnt realise the world is dying around him from global warming and all the harm man has done to the planet.

A Man Dressed In Black

I see him walking down the street one day

He turns and looks, looks my way

But as i turn to say

He fades away

He's a stranger in this vicinity

He Looks like an agent of mystery

And in the long dark shadows

He walks the city streets

He's a man, Dressed In Black

And Like the speed of light he moves through you

He's a man, Dressed In Black

Through the wind and rain, i'll still keep searching for you

Down Avenues and boulevards

He flits through Cafe's and City bars

I Thought i saw him smoking

By a burned out car

He's like a ghost who floats from place to place

One day i'm gonna meet him face to face

But like drifting gunsmoke

He fades and leaves no trace

He's a man, Dressed In Black

And Like the speed of light he moves through you

He's a man, Dressed In Black

Through the wind and rain, i'll still keep searching for you

No Face, No Trace, A Silhouette through Mist And Haze

This Stranger, He's Dressed in Black

No Name, Always The Same, He Flickers Through Cinematic Frames

This Stranger, He's Dressed in Black

He's a man, Dressed In Black

And Like the speed of light he moves through you

He's a man, Dressed In Black

Through the wind and rain, i'll still keep searching for you

For You, for you, for you, for you

Stranger, Stranger

Stranger, Stranger

Lyrics: Stevenson (2012)

Music: Hubbard/Stevenson (1984)

ON THE RUN

In a dirty bed sit

In the dead end part of town

The wolves are at my door

And I'm begging a pound

I steel a gun and shoot a stranger

I'm not the man i used to be

What have i done (What have I done)

What have i done (I'm on the run)

What have i done (I pulled the trigger)

I'm on the run (Just for fun)

In a railway station

Platform 2 is where I'm found

Held up in a luggage van

On a train that's nowhere bound

I'm heading for a cold asylum

The sound of sirens all around

What have i done (What have I done)

What have i done (I'm on the run)

What have i done (I pulled the trigger)

I'm on the run (Just for fun)

Oh momma

It wasn't my gun

The trigger just slipped

All we were doing was having some fun

The law are on my back

I'm a wanted man

Oh Momma, oh Momma

Help me if you can

I'm not going down

I'm not going down

Can't you see, can't you hear, can't you feel

I'm out of control

What have i done (What have I done)

What have i done (I'm on the run)

What have i done (I pulled the trigger)

I'm on the run (Just for fun)

What have i done (What have I done)

What have i done (I'm on the run)

What have i done (I pulled the trigger)

I'm on the run (Just for fun)

Lyrics: Stevenson (1991)

Music: Bellis/Stevenson (1991)

The Last Song

I'm looking through windows

And sleeping on pillows

That hide your face ~ from me

You're casting a shadow

I'm drowning in sorrow

You've left no trace ~ for me to see

But it's too late now

What am i gonna do?

But it's too late now

Just what have you, what have you put me through?

It's been so long

Since i played this song . . . . .

For you

Your face in slow motion

Is cast in my ocean

I dive beneath ~ the velvet blue

You're just an illusion

Reality i'm losing

I close my eyes ~ and dream of you

But it's too late now

What am i gonna do?

But it's too late now

Just what have you, what have you put me through?

It's been so long

Since i played this song . . . . .

But it's too late now

What am i gonna do?

But it's too late now

Just what have you, what have you put me through?

It's been so long

Since i played this song . . . . .

For you

Lyrics: Stevenson (Mar. 1983/Aug. 1986)

Music: Stevenson (July 1990)

Harvest Of The Blind

Behind the colonnades stands a bamboo house

Where i spent my childhood day's

Now that seems worlds apart

'cos all the toxic sprays and insecticides

Have destroyed my secret garden

Now there's nowhere to hide

What are we eating?

Why are the rains on fire?, fire?, fire?,

What are we reaping?

This is The Harvest of the Blind

A panoramic view

Now walls rise up and spoil the love

I alway's knew

As tears fill up my eye's

My bleeding heart can't take the lies

I hate it all ~ as the black rains fall

What are we eating?

Why are the rains on fire?, fire?, fire?,

What are we reaping?

This is The Harvest of the Blind

Do you remember the day's

We used to sit and watch the blue skies ~ rolling?

And do you remember the times

We'd lay in fields of our desire?

Now they're gone

Oh Take me home

Now they're gone

Oh! take me home

Take me, yeah!

What are we eating?

Why are the rains on fire?, fire?, fire?,

What are we reaping?

This is The Harvest of the Blind

What are we eating?

Why are the rains on fire?, fire?, fire?,

What are we reaping?

This is The Harvest of the Blind

Words: Stevenson (sept. 1990)

Music: Bellis/Stevenson (Dec. 1990)