The Realm Of The Hungry Ghosts  1986

Into The Waves

In Your Hand

What can you hold in your hand when you die?
What are you missing when you don't even try?
Can you see the future written on a card?
It might not happen, but it's ever so hard

How can you own when you don't own you?
How can you decide when you don't know what's true?
What do you see in the rest of your life?
"I see prosperity," it's ever so nice

What do you feel at the end of the day?
What do you think do you mean what you say?
Can you talk to neighbours, do you have to shout?
Have you ever wondered what it's all about?

What do you see in the palm of your hand?
What will you do with what you have found?
Have to go soon back to where you came
Will we remember even your name?

Surge And Run

I feel I could melt away
Maybe I could get away
Away from it all
If I melted into a wall.

Nothing to care about
If I faded out
Nothing to care about
If I faded out...

Take a look into the wall
You'll find nothing there at all.

Dreamsleep

I have seen my dream that they call hallucination
I have glimpsed my hopes far beyond the horizon
Now it shares my thoughts and breathes my air in
As it stops me running from a misty vision

It takes over and engulfs all
I become this formless entity

I have climbed the peak to seek new sensation
Can't retrace my steps, trapped in my own creation
Travelled in time, can't think how I used to
Less confused than then, yet more questions to answer

In day dreams
In dark dreams
In dreamsleep

The Last Refuge

I lie here
Waiting for you
My soul on fire
My fingers trickle
Overground

Feel my solitude
Dark deep
Endless
Eyes once so full
Now dry
After waterfalls
Drenched my skin

The pain is gone
Remain
In colours
My spirit broken
My refuge gone
My last moment

The Beginning Of The End

Sitting
Waiting
Staring at the edge of the air
I feel the wall fade with care

Take out a madman - shoot him
Discover pleasure - losing
You are - everything
You always - wanted to be
You always - will you see
So don't mind me

Take a trip to eventually
Come with me to eventually

Line of ice
Line of ice is crystal clear
Prey on hope and made of fears
Tremble like a ...
Hold you close to me my dear

Unusual illusions
Delicate and beautiful
Takes a breath
To shatter them
It's always always happening

Hear the face that never smiles
Take a seat and stay a while
She's so
Very volatile

Unusually beautiful
Everything is wonderful
Take my hand and rest a while
She's so very volatile

Forget the man - you know you can
Forget the man - possess the land
It's running through my fingers she's like sand

The biggest joke is the one that's yet to come!

Questions

For how long will your ghost walk with me?
I thought your ashes lived among the roses now.
Were you the white shadow that sent me sleepless nights?
I ran from you then as I did as a child.
My birthplace no longer held me as your white charger appeared,
For the time had begun, my eyes spelt out hope.
I wanted to leave the beggar child at mother's door
But I knew she was part and parcel of my whole.
And you, my brother, I ask were we ever close?
Or did our cat and dog fighting secretly take its toll?
For you live in your world and I live in mine.
Yours solid to the grasp, mine flows undefined.
I have a listening ear or shoulder to cry.
My friend that leaves for life across the water.
And I wish you safe passage 'cause you're leaving for love
Which is a rare thing in a day and an age

Which Hand?

Power, the web of desire
Will bring the house down.
Burn, spat the preacher
From a hill that entered heaven.
Pay or die - cried the boatman.
Blood - screamed the goddess.
I long for the peace of night
In which all colours blend.
Perhaps it's death calling me, another death.
I need to feel again,
To feel myself
In self love.
I need to love again,
To feel myself
In self love.
I need to feel again.
I need to love again

A'dam And Eva

Something that's old and something that's new
Something to borrow and something that's blue
Something to tease her and something to please her
She's giving us answers, but we don't believe her

Amsterdam Eva
Amsterdam Eva - I bet she's seen you

Something to borrow and something that's blue
Something that's old something that's new
Someone to be there, someone to leave her
Someone to listen, pick up the receiver

Amsterdam Eva
Amsterdam Eva - I bet she's seen you

Turning on red lights and swimming in beer fights
Dancing on tables, it's fucking your head night
Amsterdam Eva is walking on water
She's down on her knees and she's cutting the corners

She's screaming blue murder, but eating her words
She carries a warning that nobody heard
Amsterdam Eva is down on her knees
And she's begging you please
I bet she's seen you

Amsterdam, old Amsterdam, very far away