I need to know

I need to know if you love me
I need to know if you care
I need to know if your doves are free
To fly off into the air

I need to know if you use me
I need to know if you dare
I need to know if you colour me
Like you dye your very own hair

I need to know how many there are
I need to know the score
I need to count a penny a car
For every time that you walk out the door

I need to know the margin
I need to know your line
In need to know I'm not arguin'
Wasting each other's time

I need to know the truth
I need to know the lie
I need to be given some proof
And it has got to fly

I need to know the cut to make
Before I hold the knife
I need to know if it is a mistake
To stop the blood to this life

I need to know the blade
I need to know the other side
I need to know how you made
Your very own paradise

I need to feel the weight
I need you to give me the price
Of all the things that hang on the fate
Of this our sacrifice

I need to know the letter
I need to know the law
I need to know you better
Much better than before

I need to know the business
I need to know the rhyme
I need to know if its kismet
Or if it is the century's greatest crime

I need to know your intentions
Before I reveal you mine
I need to know your contention
Then I can be content to follow your line

Let's put our heads together

Let's put our heads together you and I
We can work it out if we really try
We get to be the detectives, we can be the spies

Two heads are better than one
If you can see it running then I can see it run
You take the steering wheel, I'll put the brakes on
No one can hurt us, we are going, going gone
Let's put our heads together you and I

I wish I could say just how it will turn out
You are right from your side, I am right from mine
The biggest of our problems comes from where we draw the line
Let's put our heads together you and I

I've seen the sun through a looking glass
You've been looking through the rain
I've leant my weight on green, green grass
And its left on you a stain
I think that we can make it, I think we can regain
of the river that has passed, and cross it just the same
Let's put our heads together you and I

Ode to an invisible duck

O duck where art thou
Thou nimble winged beastie
Art thou hiding in the undergrowth
Or flown for a feastie?
What does it mean
All this natural desire?

Oh invisible duck I see no more your power
I hear no more you
Pronounce quack
As if passing judgement
Upon all that runs off your back
Or softly preening
Like a princess screening
Herself for an unveiling
At a debutants ball
Oh where are you? You April fool?

Sway

He used her up

Drank her cup

Now she’s a dried up vessel

One vein too blue

One more cell to chew

He ate her brain, who knew

But now she is free

And he, he

He is the Zombie father

The step in the grain

That makes the plane

Jump when we shave the wood farther

He, he is the bitter root

Of rivalry

That keeps the bitter lemon tree

Growing

That leaves all grandmothers

Sucking lemons

Selling eggs and bacons

That leaves the chickens in the gardens

And the cold wind that hardens

The apples that sway

She sees them like she did

When she was a child

And he is her father who has broken his promises

And let the butterflies out of her enclosure

Like kissing lips

They part and fly away

Knocking off early, kicking off late

Knocking off early, kicking off late

Man’s work kind of girly, standing at the pearly gates

Its not as if I’m nearly laying in state

But knocking off early, kicking off late

Just a drop of your liquor will keep me up to date

With the loving times of late

I’ve missed it in the newspapers

Reading about the muse

Who’s always accused of starting a spate

She’s been killing her lovers

With bows and arrows

Letting fly near the fire

They’ve been falling from the sky

Dropping like flies

Like Icarus they couldn’t get any higher

Oh just give me a drop of your sweet honey nectar

Just enough for a bee

Don’t worry my flower, I ain’t gonna sting yer

Least not anyway now

Oh knocking off early and kicking off late

Clocking in the tower out of date

Its way past the hour, I should have lost this power

But Cinderella she is dancing so great

The workers in the road

Are lifting man covers

They are pulling up lovers

From the drains

They’re shifting the stones

And covering old bones

Of contention and of hate

Well they’re burying the hatchet

And letting the hammer fall

They’re keeping me awake with the drilling in the wall

But you have to watch it

In case they make a mistake

And Open up the gate

Knocking off early, and kicking off late

I’m trying to find the pearly gate

Seeing its nearly time to make the call

To St Peter before its too late

Could it be

Could it be that you were just sleeping?
Could it be that you were at prayer
Well I didn't know I was heaping
Upon you my own despair

Could it be that you were hoping
That I would come rescue you there?
Could it have been that I had not seen you weeping
Into the colours of your hair?

Could it have been the darkness seeping
Through the pores of your skin
Could it have been the night was keeping
Its treasures you had hidden within

Could it be that I lay waiting
Like a poacher for in wait by his snare
Could it be that you came stepping in
And layed all my plans bare

Unknown

Oh you don't know where you are going
And you don't know where you've been
And its just like its been snowing
And now the path's unseen
But you must take the first step
Yes you must take the leap
Into the dark of journey unknowing
Quite how it will turn out in the end

Just hold tight to your marbles
Yes hold onto your hat