What Does Anything Mean? Basically
Album - 1 ottobre 1985 - Debaser id 48381

You can shake your hips,you can seal your lips, i can't make that trip
And all lifes fears could invade my ears, i can handle it

I can call on a friend and remember the faces we wore at school
Making the madness and solitary sadness, a friendly fool
I thought of stories they told us long ago
Of how the world was a perfume garden
I haven't yet learned to tame the creature there
And that at least i think is something good

All across the town and across the street, you could feel the heat
Let me tell you friend,they could hardly wait to mark your sheet
It was maximum joy for the men they employed, to hold you down
Well i hope now you know that this isn't the bliss that you thought you'd found
Endless emtpiness, endless ringing bells
I couldn't show you but i'd hoped to one day
A pretty promise to teach the tender child
To welcome madness every Monday

Beck beck beck and call
Didn't seem to matter at all
Beck beck beck and call
Told us how to conquer it all
Beck beck beck and call
Didn't seem to matter at all
Beck beck beck and call
Told us how to conquer it all

You can shake your hips,you can seal your lips, i can't make that trip
And all lifes fears could invade my ears, i can handle it

I can call on a friend, i can laugh with a friend that i know from school
Making the madness and solitary sadness, a friendly fool

Beck beck beck and call
They taught us how to conquer it all
Beck beck beck and call
These children have nothing at all

Listening hard for the voice of the child
I thought i heard an alarm bell ringing
Pulled from my sleep by invisible hands
The gentle sound of a lady singing

Oh when it's summer and the skies are glass
Oh when it's summer and the skies are glass
I just have to make the evenings last they're always flying past
Oh when it's raining and the skies are black
Oh when it's raining and the skies are black
I just have to hear the thunder roll and hear the lightning crack

With fading powers,we sit for hours by a television screen
With funny cigarettes and talk for hours of the places that we've seen

Oh brother can you hear my voice?
Oh brother can you hear my voice?
Every second that you cling to life you have to feel alive
Well it's an easy thing to sell your skin
It's an easy thing to sell your skin
With the devil banging on the door , you always let him in.

With fading powers, we dream of hours that'll never come again
Old defenders are themselves defenceless when the mad attack the sane

What can you do, when you see no future in front of you?
Food for the few
So many it seems, stand in front of you
I see my face reflected there in a sweating brow.
You hate what you see, but what can be done when there's no way out
No way out

Now brother can you hear my voice
Brother can you hear my voice
Every second that you cling to life you have to feel alive
And now it's summer and the skies are glass
When it's summer and the skies are glass
I just have to make the evenings last, they're always flashing past

So there we cower
We sit for hours by a television screen
With funny cigarettes and talk for hours of the places that we've seen

But when you sleep
But when you sleep
Where do you go?
Where do you go?

But when you sleep
But when you sleep
Where do you go?
Where do you go?

I don't know
I don't know

The Autumn leaves were falling
Hearing nature talking
I thought I heard her calling
Hush now don't you cry
Figure in the sky

Can't stop myself from shaking
My mind at last is waking
Eight minds embracing
Figures in the sky

Hadn't time to analyse
What I saw before my eyes
But nothing would surprise me
Here on our beach
Far away from you all

I thought I heard her calling

Unsure of what we're facing
The precious time we're wasting
I'll always be embracing
Figures in the sky

I delve into myself,ceaselessly
Oh but i rarely see,what i want to see
Embracing the future,forgetting the past
Loves,loss and misfortune
The chaos and the crass
Crass

I'm wary of you, but you're oblivious to me
I'm chained to your ego
But there isn't a key
I play with emotions but never my own
Don't you recognise me?
Try looking inwardly
Ah but you won't see me

Such a strange fascination as i wallow in waste
That such a trivial victory can put a smile on your face
Using me as the scapegoat, for what you want to beleive
So i'll just bow out politely
And tip my cap as i leave

Ah comme ci,comme ca, comme ci

My eyes are wide open,yours are closed
It's time you realised i'm a part of you

Look inwardly,don't bleed for me
Look to yourself

With the sun in your eyes
Always mistaking
The truth from the lies
In the love that you're making
Don't pretend it isn't so

With the sun in your eyes
It always reveals
A voluntary bondage
That always appeals
It's how you make the garden grow

But why this weakness
No-one knows
Our conscience cries his sorrow
While we sleep
But once the morning's dawned
Out the back-door
Silently he creeps

With the sun in your eyes
Always reminding
A sense of excitement
You've no hope of finding
With the chains that bind your feet

Belonging or longing
For a few empty hours
In a strangers bed
To chase away
A fear that's in your head

And why this weakness
No-one knows
The vacant faceless voices
On the phone
Bring words that offer no
Consolation when you're all alone

With the sun in your eyes

Beaten on the brow of history
A union forged in slavery
In all that's hope and decency
A hope for you and a hope for me
For every woman child and man
To those who'll chain you if they can
The babe you're bouncing on your knee
Needs your help now can't you see

So here we are waking
Savages shaking
The road that we're taking
We've walked before

And if these times
Should seal our fate
You won't see me
At Heavens gate

Danger is lurking
Evil is working
Yet here we are hiding
Behind our doors

Come out come out
It's time to grow
Enjoy the ride
One more time before you go

According to Hoyle
All cards on the table
What else can you do
When life is unstable

The night's growing colder
The enemy bolder
But as you grow older
You cease to care

But if we run
Or try to hide
And turn our faces
We'll have no hopes
To keep alive

According to Hoyle
All cards on the table
Reactions cool
The world is unstable
According to Hoyle
All cards on the table
What can you do
When life is unstable

So here we are waking
Savages shaking
Here we are hiding
Danger is lurking