Still in the Mood Deacon Blue

By the light of the waning moon Under a blueblack sky They talked the slow way home Of years passed closely by They caught only a casual look From strangers with things to do Only a loveless heart Could

Will We Be Lovers Deacon Blue

All my worries All my care Is held in check For you not there Evening comes And darkness falls We sit round And curtain out The black night There is a time Away From here Seasons pass So quickly come And

Plastic Shoes Deacon Blue

Plastic shoes Empty in the hall Well, I gathered the news That you'd gone after all Whats left is this: And from what I can recall Theres something I've missed And I have seen it all You caught me drawn

Your Constant Heart Deacon Blue

Your constant heart Beats like the road It cuts through the rain And clears the snow And in our summer We take it slow Letting the wind Die in the hollow Oh, your constant heart Your constant heart Your

The Wildness Deacon Blue

Can't grow cold So the morning Would never know Of the wildness Of the wildness Driving me on again Of the wildness Of the wildness Shaking me Letting me know There were two of us driving We were six

I Will See You Tomorrow Deacon Blue

Outside the world The wind is howling Through the broken trees And the moon is shining As the river meets the sea And I will see you tomorrow Calm and bright in tender light And my heart will be racing

Homesick Deacon Blue

There's me and daddy out at Lunan Bay Now looking dandy stepping out Saturday I can still see the buses Lined up to take the dancing home That's me on the stairs suitcase in hand Kidding on but knowing

Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel The Rain Deacon Blue

Would the rain, the frozen rain Be as cold upon your forehead As the tears that plough your beaten face again Would the rain Could your hands, your grubby hands Pull your coat around your shoulder Steel

Only Tender Love Deacon Blue

Way out there in the wilderness Of love and pain Under the gentle arches we rode The silver streets Couldn't see a difference between gold or Wooden cross Could never see where we're falling Came in to

Rae Deacon Blue

I can't go with you And I can't let you go You can't be with me So I won't let it show I don't want you to know So I'll just have to let you go I'm going to love you so much better You'll forget the error

The Day That Jackie Jumped The Jail Deacon Blue

The day that Jackie jumped the jail The day that Jackie jumped the jail There was a big explosion just as he got off the motorway And thirty thousand fireworks took the piss out of Princes Street Gardens

Walking Back Home Deacon Blue

The stars and satellites Are quiet over the hills tonight And the cats' eyes and white lines Are heading out for miles The frost on the embankment Keeps my feet on the road But the tunes and beers Are

The Very Thing Deacon Blue

One day all of us will work We'll stand outside this orchard and we'll talk When all is said, all is done We'll still be thinking about home They say that love might be the very thing If only it could

Born In A Storm Deacon Blue

That hurricane day Will soon pass away And someone will sweep All the jetsam back into the bay And we'll come down Like we always did And knock on my door Like the big bad wind Born in a storm Is that

Silhouette Deacon Blue

Down in the streets they're walking and kissing All he sees is the lights in her her eyes She feels his hand and smells his warm breath Looking up all she sees is the night sky He saw her standing there

Your Swaying Arms Deacon Blue

upon Walk with me in streets Where she once stood Say if it could be that we once passed like strangers Long before the love we ever new 'Cause I've been longing For a new world waiting I've been hoping

Beautiful Stranger Deacon Blue

Seven lonely days in a fifty ton lorry I know you made me what I am And I fall to pieces Johnny Cash in black singin' Undertand your man from St.

The World Is Lit By Lightning Deacon Blue

I'm sorry About the light in this place Makes my heart seem cold As the words on these pages Maybe I'm reminded By a shop window displays or a decoration Like some church candle That might just burn,

Christmas & Glasgow Deacon Blue

He was lying in the half light Of Christmas and Glasgow Thinking and talking Talking to St Enoch about Christmas and Glasgow Drinking and talking And the sweet smell Of the Kelvin Hall Circus And the sweet

All I Want Deacon Blue

A cautious smile under the western sky Would curl upwards like the wild sea A special friend knowing all the ways of love Would talk his way back inside a tiny second Don't promise good intention One in

Fergus Sings The Blues Deacon Blue

Fergus sings the Blues In bars of twelve or less I'm a stranger To the land To this wilderness All Things are possible But happen less and less This Is my country These Are my reasons 'Cause I look In

A Brighter Star Than You Will Shine Deacon Blue

Down on the flag stones Accordions, sweet trumpets rise Rusty memories of sin and doubting Mingle in around the Queen Street, traffic noise Would that all the love in the world Watch me through the night

James Joyce Soles Deacon Blue

Here's the pictures I promised to send You see the airbase Where we were sent Now the winter Has started to descend Your loving son was sent here I got your letter From Boise Idaho To James Joyce Soles

Twist And Shout Deacon Blue

I wrote this once before Long before the summer You were then a student And we were dark as angels We were in the east Working to the west The west was looking south And the south she had no pity

This Changing Light Deacon Blue

I wrote this once before Long before the summer You were then a student And we were dark as angels We were in the east Working to the west The west was looking south And the south she had no pity But last

Closing Time Deacon Blue

This is the way we walk This is how we walk At closing time These are the songs we sing These are our songs At closing time And in the clear Of this sweet moonshine We'll walk back To where we started

When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)? Deacon Blue

Pale blue eyes, the same old house, no ties A little bit older but not so worldly wise That I cant see your lights on me Making me regretfully say The wonder of it all was you And underneath it all

Your Town Deacon Blue

I wouldnt want to be you Mostly not even near you When youre gone they will curse you And raise the tide against you I no longer care now For what you said was fair now I just dont go there now

Bethlehem's Gate Deacon Blue

There was a night As purple as this With a love so close We longed to be missed Summer '89 And everything stood Sure and free and there To be finished I long to be there As bright as the sky At Bethlehem's

Love's Great Fears Deacon Blue

You know the agony Of seeing it all slip away Well maybe now you'd be happy Just to talk it out straight If it's just Slipping away About the danger of Believing in plans in hand About the role that you

Ragman Deacon Blue

Offered her a roof The rain had made it shine Offered her a song Wasn't really mine [Chorus] I showed her all my things She offered me belongings She thought I was a Ragman She offered me possessions I

Dignity Deacon Blue

There`s a man I meet Walks up our street He`s a worker for the council Has been twenty years And he takes no lip off nobody And litter off the gutter Puts it in a bag And never thinks to

Wages Day Deacon Blue

There he stood and there we left Outside the flashing neon sign With the smell of cheap cigars And the hope of sweet perfume And his heart it was reeling With the thrill of it all All to do and only hours

Long Window To Love Deacon Blue

You're taking down the signs Now the time has come and the cleansing's coming You're turning down the lights In this cruel light symbols mean nothing You're taking down the signs Turning round your eyes

Raintown Deacon Blue

It's a rain dirt town job hurts but it don't pay All these calls they're making me and driving you insane Don't you see Don't you understand Waiting for the phone to ring to make me all I am.

Orphans Deacon Blue

I now describe my country As if to strangers This train is full of songs Of local winners And the wind surrounds the towers And the flags they are blowing And the bunting and the distance Stretches over

Chocolate Girl Deacon Blue

Alan doesn't understand her He only thinks in numbers He only drinks in restaurants Where the girls are fully covered And he can't trust his yearnings And he doesn't like pretending His tempers stretched

He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now Deacon Blue

There's a shadow on his photograph on Tinian '45 Smiling like a college boy who's glad to be alive But now he owns a factory and a store in Los Alamos A wife called Beverly sells second hand Ford Motors

Real Gone Kid Deacon Blue

And I'd tear out the pages That I've got in these books Just to find you some words Just to get some reward And I'll show you all the photographs That I ever got took And I'll play you old 45's That now

Indigo Sky Deacon Blue

We went as we know how As far as the wind and the sky would allow Waking from sleep Alive to the noise we came After the turn of the year With only the sky as a silver seer Of anything restively turning

One Hundred Things Deacon Blue

Poorly You're more than poorly Jimmy More than that Worse than that This is a case of photographs Smudged and dropped and laughed at Here's some things that came in post Letters never sent but wrote Shelves

One Day I'll Go Walking Deacon Blue

Water Tiny at first then bigger And it flowed right down From the highest hill And it grew and it joined The battling burn And it flowed right through To where we are now Standing Beside a cool cool stream

My America Deacon Blue

Church bells go ringing for you and I This bright sky is singing for you and I All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye Oh my America my new found

Riches Deacon Blue

It's good to know how big a life can be Especially when it falls away so easily And how hard it is to let you take your leave Also I wish you all the things that you believe in Like riches Now that they're

I'll Never Fall In Love Again Deacon Blue

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte) What do you get when you fall in love?

I`Ll Never Fall In Love Again Deacon Blue

What do you get when you fall in love, A girl with a pin to burst your bubble, That's what you get for all your trouble, I'll never fall in love again, I'll never fall in love again.

Kings Of The Western World Deacon Blue

at the Kings of the Western World I went out and caught the train home Looked at the land so the story goes They've got factories and jobs and playground provided And the workers are willing so the story

Bound to Love Deacon Blue

answer that's not there You know the cost of everything And the value of nothing The only thing that's certain Is you're bound to love again And he just came from Eden Where the fruit was on the tree

Cover from the Sky Deacon Blue

I will love you when the morning is ascending I will love you when the moon is riding high I will love you when we only have pretending When our home becomes a cover from the sky Well my eyes have seen

Goodnight Jamsie Deacon Blue

You were a good man Jamsie Everyone loves you Now you're gone And the seagulls over Where you lie Sing your final song I'm walking back Away from here To see where you belong Here's the church And here's