The Church Lyrics

The Church Chord and Tabs

City There, smoke turns into serpents in the air Beware, there's no sanctuary anywhere On this very spot,...

Disappointment Far below the surface, where the women sway Green shadows greet another day Drowned for the moment, ...

Essence The universe is female Eluding the science of men You sway and you swagger with your neat little da...

Fading Away Don't come to pieces in my hand White stars reflecting dust and sand That perfume makes me think of...

Grind The wine in your hand is worth two at the bar And everybody knows what you've been drinking Disgrac...

Laughing Five o' clock, fade away the shadows Leaving by the window or the door And they're laughing Laughing...

Metropolis There'll never be another quite like you I'm so involved with everything you do Don't say nothing go...
Metropolis Chords and Tabs

Monday Morning Beyond the city, and evening dust Dreams and thunder rattle the rust You had an idea that you won't ...
Monday Morning Chords and Tabs

Pharaoh Hi to all the people that are selling me Here's one straight from the factory They've sewn my eyes u...

Russian Autumn Heart Combustion, suggestions, roaring engines Jewels and lathes that build a world Titanic Howard Hughes,...

Terra Nova Cain Turn down the gravity, this is all too heavy I'll show you how the ancients once traveled They used ...

Transient Here for now, here for now An island coincidence away Boarding a train always leaving today Approach...

You're Still Beautiful It was only seven years ago Your mirror finally broke Your little bunch of followers turned you into...

Angelica Stretching out to catch Stretching out to catch Stretching out to catch the slender message Angeli...

Authority She says it's OK The rent just went on entertainment But who's gonna say It's just not my day She's ...

Business Woman Imagine her, all of her wealth And in the arms of somebody else I imagine her in bed With her commun...
Business Woman Chords and Tabs

Day Of The Dead Day of the dead down in Mexico You ever been on a holiday? You ever thought that you been here befor...

Eastern Instrumental ...

Fly Home Listen Protect your thoughts, don't hide If you Can't face yourself, collide The blue sheet of sky D...

Lost My Touch Streets of burnt-out shells, insurance jobs A temporary spell in hell and it throbs It throbs like h...

Loveblind Have I told you 'bout the case of the man who had no face? (I'm sure I have) His wife suspected som...

Lullaby We come to pay homage to the golden one We share and bear the message of your newborn son We follow ...
Lullaby Chords and Tabs

My Little Problem You must have heard about my little problem Ah come on, you must have heard about it It's no ordinar...
My Little Problem Chords and Tabs

The Dead Man's Dream Once I had a name, forgotten now I breathed the air in a century of wonder I can hear it now in the ...

The Maven Here comes the Maven, he's coming around He's such a connoisseur, he's such an autograph hound, yeah...
The Maven Chords and Tabs

Two Places At Once Arrive in a hive city somewhere in the east floating down a crowded street as though I am or I will ...

Cut In Two Cut in two, that's the kind of ship I'm running Cut in two, that's the kind of spell I'm casting Cut...

Drought The earth is sucked bare by the sun The empty clouded sky The dazzling drone of pure heat rings alon...

Freeze To Burn People getting frightened 'cause the night is very thick When I think about you sister, we need to p...

Leave Your Clothes On First thing you know is you don't know a thing Second thing you think about is that you're sinking T...

Macabre Tavern (Left Kilbey) first night of summer the air comes rushing in across the... Bringing strange birds fr...

The Myths You Made When the failing light With the feeling's gone (feeling's gone) I'll ask you twice tonight To make s...

The Time Being Every day As you notice the sun slips away A strange turbulence fills the air Gargoyles and winged m...

Disappear? Like a womb, night was all around Someone, somewhere must have talked some sense I could feel it mov...

Dropping Names I want to break to be beautiful Seven long nights to think A handful of words, a sleeveful of birds ...

Electric Alone, at the end of the day As I stand before the relics Of what used to be you and me You turn wit...

Electric Lash The electric lash of trees in the studio Fills my head with light Only the voice of the girl on the ...

Fly Baby smiled like a tiny child She talks her head off, and the land lies wild Tossed and turned on a ...

It Doesn't Change Sinking silk, and burning gold Touch you as the air is turning cold Another place I look for you The...

It's No Reason Crocodile skin water, city shadows wait Put your head into your hands, the ending is so great Take a...
It's No Reason Chords and Tabs

Now I Wonder Why In a moment of triumph, I find defeat uncontrolled In the second of honor, a despair sharp and old S...

One Day Tell me, is everything unplanned? It's all so unexpected that I just can't understand We run so hard...

Travel By Thought I know it was the wind that kept your door closed The echo of another time, an age of beauty She liv...

Afterlife Waaah! Waaah! ...

Anna Miranda Anna Miranda I've been waiting here On my verandah, southern hemisphere All of the slow storms which...

Desert I, I am the stranger this time around You, you are the changeless sounds of sand I could be here for...

Dream Washed into a sentimental gloom Loneliness about the Battle-clad Byzantium commands And these dark ...

Forgotten Reign I walk through your forgotten reign An anient central nation Taken under the hand When she used to ...

Frozen And Distant We are seething All those pretty pretty months were so deceiving We are glowing All those lucky luck...

Hunter A silver lamp-lit sign Flashes in the rain Inside the taxi That takes me to my plane And the party's...

Much Too Much There's a fire in the eastern perimeter There's an alligator in the stew And everybody who's going t...

Nose Dive Remembering eye brushes no obstacle You feel nothing, nothing touches you Nothing, nothing coming th...

Perfect Child In a garden, in a kitchen On an earth beyond adventure On an island in the sea As a message from the...

Ride Into The Sunset Out in the open high in the sun Blue fields of sky where the West is one I fell into town and I co...

Take It Back She said thanks for the present Thanks for the future too But it'll take something better than this ...

Texas Moon One more day I may forget my reason Some would say we bathed like a harpoon Followed politely south ...

The Feast There were many guests at the table Misfortune, jealousy, and sloth Acting fine, drink the wine Spil...

We Both Know Why You're Here There is no reason to struggle Nothing on earth you should fear You say you received it but I just d...

You Got Off Light It seems you think I promised you the moon You must be seeing stars The callous future with a nervou...

Bel-Air A palm tree nodded at me last night Said hey you look so pale I don't know if it was the air or the ...

Busdriver Busdriver, busdriver you have taken me too far And I feel that I've been lost And I don't know where...

Chrome Injury Cut your life into the steel Take your place behind the wheel Watch the metal scene just peel away D...

Don't Open The Door To Strangers Don't open the door to strangers Don't let them in, to your heart They only want to take you far fro...

Fighter Pilot....Korean War A thousand powdered parts Past the sun and moon The hint of timelessness splashed On this afternoon ...

For A Moment We're Strangers In the empty place the soul stripped bare Of skins and heart and I come apart In your icy hands I fo...

Is This Where You Live Oceanic lights are cleverly dim Bluish features in the lower reaches We raise out traffic flares to ...

Memories In Future Tense Last year today seemed a long way away And ahead of me A new face and street, people who meet you In...

She Never Said I'm not exact but I'm not insane I clutched at someone in the dark again It's so hard to remember he...

The Unguarded Moment So hard finding inspiration I knew you'd find me crying Tell those girls with rifles for minds That ...
The Unguarded Moment Chords and Tabs

Afterimage Instrumental ...

Comedown You should decide what you want to believe in How can I describe what I'm receiving It's like the ma...

Further Adventures Of The Time Being They built the pyramids, toiled with tons of stone Irrigated deserts, built giant golden thrones Bui...

Grandiose Instrumental ...

It Could Be Anyone (This could be WAY off !) Within this city will come to your children identical sisters in mirrors o...

Ladyboy An open door, an extended hand, What can I say, I understand She talks like a bird yet she walks li...

Magician Among The Spirits Far across the water, far across the sea, magician among the spirits, the next delivery And the scen...

Ritz By Steve Harley / Cockney Rebel Hark to Roualt's white insanity, Clowns in drag concealing vanity,...

Romany Caravan Instrumental ...

A New Season Shaded crystal water, bathed in by God's daughter. Sighing whispers near, a new season pae cure to c...

Antenna Why do you always wrongly assume That you're so well aware of what's happening there, Right here in ...

Blood Money Blind with dollars, Bought and sold. And you pay for everything in cold, hard cash. Better read thr...

Destination Our instruments have no way of measuring this feeling Can never cut below the floor, or penetrate th...

Hotel Womb Volcano pierce the air, ashes block out the sun. Down in the lair, well I met her there With a price...

Lost Sometimes I'm wondering under prehistoric skies. I feel it's all beginning right before my eyes. I m...

North, South, East and West A war's being waged and the world's just a stage (in this city) The real estate's prime, the number ...

Reptile Too dangerous to keep. Too feeble to let go. And you want to bite the hand. Should have stopped this...
Reptile Chords and Tabs

Spark I'm saturated. I'm wet with your tears, you spill so easily. In reflection I'll see you again. Appr...

Under the Milky Way Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty, Sound of their breath fades with the light. I think ab...
Under the Milky Way Chords and Tabs

A Fire Burns A Fire Burns The rusty stream of dawn completes The scenes where cars once crawled these streets A...

Almost With You See the chains which bind the men Can you taste their lonely arrogance It's always too late And your...
Almost With You Chords and Tabs

An Interlude "They're going to send you away" she said Psychic angels spread on the top of her head And...

Don't Look Back Sometime up here, watching a cloud Funny how they shape your thoughts Right out loud Some days you l...

Field Of Mars It's a long way home from the Field of Mars Distant, alone, beneath the platinum stars And I turn to...

Just For You Sometimes when the darkness loses its hold I tread politely in the cold Racking my brains Pumping my...
Just For You Chords and Tabs

Secret Corners Lying alone, isn't that you Drifting away Is the only thing left to do Such a sad place, such a los...

To Be In Your Eyes Night-time is so lonely When you hear a sound But it's only an empty heart Beating on through the ni...

When You Were Mine On a day like this, a hundred lifetimes ago You on a shore, across the point I looked through my han...

You Took You took a piece of my heart You took a piece of my heart And I don't know why No I don't know why I...

Aura We all came back from the war I wish somebody would tell me the score We raked old Poseidon over the...

Chaos I wasn't expecting this Now everything is destroyed Underneath us are the nothings Underneath them ...

Dome I saw this film about some people who lived in a dome In a beautiful field next to a river of foam I...

Feel For all time Looking for something to remind me Something out the corner of my eye Why can't I feel ...
Feel Chords and Tabs

Kings See history fade, it's crystal clear Aurora what you doing here Buttering the mouths of thieves Shut...

Lustre Well we had just begun When the night came down Sweating rain on everyone Anyone who was hanging aro...

Mistress You're shivering again After all that we've been through Is that all you can do I didn't wanna come ...

Old Flame Naomi will not be consoled by your blues She calls down the crows then she pulls on her shoes Out in...

Paradox You are a paradox to me, a senseless maze I run around, I'm looking for you all of my days The more ...

Ripple Tiny baby, so naive I can't believe what you believe You were once so happy here It may not be Eden ...
Ripple Chords and Tabs

Swan Lake Oh my ugly duckling, nobody loves you Daddy said he'd buy you some ballet shoes But he spent all he ...

The Disillusionist In autumn he comes to this town When the peoples guard is down On a day like today Overcast and gray...

Witch Hunt People 'round here say you're a witch They're intrigued in seeing you roast They really intend to bu...

Anaesthesia I remember going out yeah Everything is spinning round Remember feeling like I'd drowned Behind the ...

Another Earth At the back of your mind Where you hide your real self Lay down your head You see her once more She...

Buffalo Snow came up Friday, I gotta go Spending winter up in Buffalo Someone I met there is calling me so G...

Glow Worm You're so easy to love You're so easy to adore You're easy to want I always want more..... The way y...

Louisiana Empty birdcage in her room Curtains pulled against the moon Follow her down to Louisiana Hotel room ...
Louisiana Chords and Tabs

No Certainty Attached You can't confuse me You can't take me on as you are You don't dare refuse me Cos I know where in th...

Ricochet After the demise of our beloved leader Everybody knew that something had to give Cassandra she told ...

The Great Machine A thousand beggars cram the street You hit so deep into the sheets Pontoons buckle jungle beats The ...

This Is It He had a room in the best part of town He got a chocolate on his eiderdown Staring out over roofs at...

Tranquility I heard about Maria, she hated the rat race And she escaped to a beautiful place Birds of neo-paradi...

5:28 ...will be (?) 5:25 pm...5:26 pm...5:27 pm...5:28 pm ...

All See It Now You shouldn't have to feel so frightened And you just wanna feel enlightened baby, in front of you O...

Don't Move Holiday for two beautiful furniture powdered gun drifting up inside Cretaceous man become just what ...

Florian Trout Florian Trout was a distant boy, he lived in a very strange town Where was he, you may well ask, whe...

Get Over It Walking down the street, I'm walking down the street People drift by and they dance a certain beat I...

She Comes In Singing You've got a lot of nerve Gonna get what you deserve You've gone around the curve You got a face li...

Stop Ok stop, stop ! (spoken) How long ? Long enough to know I don't know any more How deep ?Deep inside ...

Take Your Place These are the marks you made You never meant to fade They come in to take your place And these are t...

The Moon And The Sea The boat goes out, surrender yours It could be any day The fishermen shout, approaching storm It's j...

Towards Sleep Trust her distant island cluster Protecting her from intrusive things I know I really shouldn't trus...

Traitor I never understand why you put up your hand And volunteered to play the company man You wanna come b...

Trying To Get In Curled in the warm winter sun All alone number one (?) Gentle caramel melting dream Things meant for...

Who Is The One ? (Spoken as if through a telephone) ? walked off all dreamy eyed Inconvenience the rest of the group ...

Already Yesterday It's already yesterday, we're off the calendar I heard the sirens play just like an orchestra Mechan...

Columbus The king had something changed within him I should have told him no Oh Columbus, I never should have...

Disenchanted Well look at you, Hands full of money you always wanted to have Saying sweet life is a downright dr...

Myrrh Emerald haunt in overdrive Nightmare descent into Jericho city Camel dust heralds our arrival New Ch...
Myrrh Chords and Tabs

Night Of Light Dishwater cafe in a torn paper street A rundown future let me down now everything's complete Uncurli...

Roman Oh what a feeling baby, knowledge and brutality Whose soul you stealing baby, lost your immortality ...

Tantalized God I've been asleep so long, I've been away Back from software limbo the natives call today I let t...

Tristesse Here in this desert, beneath the sun and stars Still troubled by the rumblings of a million distant ...

Youth Worshipper Youth worshipper, goddess of ruin Youth worshipper, like you know what you're doing I'll bet the sun...

All The Young Dudes Well, Billy rapped all night about his suicide How he kick it in the head when he reached twenty-fiv...

Cortez The Killer He came dancing across the water With galleons and his guns Looking for the new world A palace in th...

Decadence Watch her out there on display Dancing in her sleepy way And all her visions start to play The icicl...

Friction I knew it musta been some big set-up All the action just would not let up It's justa little bit back...

Hiroshima Mon Amour Somehow we drifted off too far Communicate like distant stars Splintered voices down the phone The s...

It's All Too Much It's all too much When I look into your eyes Your love is there for me The deeper that I go inside ...

Silver Machine I, I just took a ride On a silver machine And I'm still feeling mean Oh, do you want to ride See yo...

The Endless Sea Oh babe, what a place to be In the service of the bourgeoisie Where can my believers be I want to ju...

The Faith Healer If your body's feelin' bad And it's the only one you have You want to take away the pain And go out ...

The Porpoise Song My, my, the clock in the sky is pounding away There's so much to say A face, a voice, an overdub has...

10,000 Miles Dark, small, so fragile A treasure to your heart Grace your fingers across the lacquer Think of some...

A Month Of Sundays Badman's woman with that look in her eye You stop to wonder as she passes by Something inside you is...

Constant In Opal Me and the puzzled travelers We searched the ground for wealth And scoured the dreaming valleys On d...

Into My Hands I take love into my hands Journey back to winterland Cut my losses, grow my hair See some man to tak...

Maybe These Boys... Framed up baby, know her place Slippery salmon all over her face Browsing down through the mirrored ...

No Explanation You pull the sheets around you throat Talking like the harpy again I've got this heartache in my coa...

Shadow Cabinet Now chased by the shapes of your vows Look at the things she allows Junction fever must have closed ...

Violet Town Newspaper face against the ground Phantom bus pass through violet town On its way through the yellow...

Volumes Borrowed grapes from stores of gold Put plastic back where metal's sold Men in quarries connect thei...

After Everything Now that it's over I found myself fleeting The sound permeated all directions at once I never said g...

Chromium Silver needles Golden eagles Frightened faces Basket cases Jags and riches Queens and witches Electr...

Invisible Sitting in the shadows and the evening oscillating Feeling light and feeling like it's a-gonna chang...

Night Friends Night friends Coming through the mirror Sliding down the light Night friends Arriving in the garden ...

Numbers Oh yeah Your one and only life Ripped from the earth with these bare hands You dare Question the rit...

Oxydental Sixteen spirit voices in a menal melange The disembodied chorus in a bucket of flange Baby serpents ...

Radiance When a cloudy morning rain touched our little town Three small sisters and a friend walking in the f...

Reprieve [Slow] When you're gone And no more tracks for me to run on When you're gone I couldn't see a way o...

Seen It Coming Hey man, think it through now Why don't you stay for a while Eve and Aurora gonna come on over Know ...

Song For The Asking (I am a sailor on the water, did not find me through the dark) I don't know, I don't know, I don't ...

The Awful Ache Esmerelda falls in love every Saturday And on Sunday morning don't remember a thing And the gringos ...

Undo God it's so high, God it's so high Why don't I fly, why don't I fly Don't say goodbye, don't say goo...

A Different Man Inside himself, He runs to look in the mirror And the face that stares right back Has never been an...

Ancient History Sometimes I wonder how I got mixed up with you You just cannot comprehend the things that I do The t...

Anyway Empires crumble in the distance Violet crumble [Brian: it's a kind of chocolate bar] in my bowl Cons...

Appalatia Appalatia You're such a beautiful high Applicator A pale blue desire Cloudy in my memory Like one l...

Autumn Soon The puppetmaster understands the need The jury needs to feel the greed And seeds revolve and grow an...

Don't You Fall Babe this city is a mouth Set to swallow you What you doing in this town? So take my hand, you'll fa...

Fog Don't even try reading my mind again It's the second time I've caught you Rummaging around in my hea...

Fraulein One night I saw all this The ship that drifted in And from that afternoon you changed Some fallen le...

Gypsy Stomp According to my calculations It ought to be around here somewhere In spite of human limitations My e...

I Am A Rock A winters day, in a deep and dark December I am alone, gazing from my window into the streets below ...

I Kept Everything I kept everything Mornings and days paraded through space And stripped of all their meaning I saved...

In A Heartbeat Your room is damp, your love's turning cold Where is the meaning I thought we could hold I can't bel...

In This Room Oh the avenging angel Shiver in the way of her stare I will admit that she never loved me But I admi...

June June arrives, rumoured days Days of willing it to be In the nest futures hatch It's such a lovely th...

Lay Low They say that it's inevitable They say it's uniform They say it's undetectable Do you know who is yo...

Life Speeds Up The clouds in the sky are all rushing by A stare's just a backwards glance The years and the days ar...

Lizard Lizard, lizard Still (.....) darkness black summer (.....) Somewhere a plane leaves You're skin's st...

Man We press on and on Funny how the future's always waiting for you When the day has gone We hide away ...

Maya Where, how did you notice Why, what can't you see Yeah, if that's all the difference it makes Yeah, ...

Musk Infidel baby Oh my heathen child Baghdad's still ten leagues away I go on undefiled Wrap yourself i...

Nightmare I wanna consume, I wanna eat up a mountain Drink up an ocean, dream up a world I wanna consume, I wa...

Nothing Seeker I'm sorry if I come across as thoughtless I'm happy if I come across at all It's useless when the en...

Reversal Wonder who's taken you Now God has forsaken you I thought I was waking you I see I'll just shaken yo...

Room Full Of Diamonds Standing in a room full of diamonds I don't know which way to turn Girlfriend's in the next room wit...

Sad He never should have been in your home You never should have left them alone You should have recogni...

Sealine The minute the sting penetrates your finger You're strapped to the pain like an angry stranger The m...

See Your Lights Come down Come down, come to me She's somewhere sliding through me Even thought I can't believe it I...

Sisters Anna sits beside her research Silence in the dappled moonlight Sleeping cat and dying fire Embers of...

Someone Special I said I've had visions of weeping She said I've had the same about you They come to me sometimes wh...

Song In Space (1-2-3...) (1-2-3-4!) You You wake up late Yet you're asleep Inside a dream Then You feel somethi...

Summer At the sea, in the sand You were free to my hand As we touched behind the wind Left so much outside ...

Tear It All Away People say to see is to believe Then they just believe in that they can perceive What they see is no...
Tear It All Away Chords and Tabs

Telepath You got no reason to go I'll make it up, I don't know You got no reason to stay Anyway, any day The...

The Night Is Very Soft Tiny drops of water glistened on her black fur Taillights in earshot, headlights shine through her A...

The Theater And Its Double Baby I know there's people out there starving Baby don't go, you got the wrong idea Baby don't say t...

The View Someone fell across me Regretting their honesty Shook away their cautious care Looked right through ...

Too Fast For You Come down, another day Morning streaked on a perspex screen The screaming beaked blackbirds peck The...

Unsubstantiated Ghost in flesh, I can see but you can't see As we begin our descent into vanity She's an X-ray of a ...

Wam Spell Echo drenched inside reverb rain Your festive summer you just couldn't blame (wait ?) We became free...

Warm Oily Voices Baby sleep Dark in a winter of Coral And sheets of powdering snow ...

White Star Line You wake up in the suffocating out-of-it (Arabic ?) darkness Dragging the river of your very soul Yo...

Why Don't You Love Me Sometimes you're dressed in Castillian vogue Other times you speak with a faux (false ?) Scottish br...

Won't Let You Sleep Lying face down in the dust Your body crippled with mistrust I wonder if you'll ever rise Too much o...

You've Got To Go There's a distant light shining over you tonight You've been transformed, you'll always be my storm ...