I left her

 I left my mother in Japan

I left her Tokyo

I left her in the blue Havana

Cafe in Borneo

She fell asleep in Bucharest

I put her on a train

She arrived in a parcel In Budapest

And I cried my tears in vain

I left my mother in Miami

And on the streets of Vancouver

And she was a pearl on the cold Scottish shore

Where the Eagles swoop and the yammy

Tides are washing her like a shell

I left her so I'm going to hell

To find out if I can find her well

But she's probably going to heaven

I left her somewhere off Lundy

I left her on Tuesday

Found her on Sunday

And it is a pool of retirement

fund pay

That the sharks are all circling round

And nothing remains 

But the bullet

It's so hard to chew

Not much remains but the brain

Where once such intelligence grew

You say you can save my soul, well who, knew

Who knew did you?

No you needn't say for you don't get pay

For doing what you're supposed to do

You are the same non-believer

Who bit the bullet of faith

Well did it serve you to leave her

When you went and got egg on your face?

And we're all in a traffic jam now boys

All time has come to a stop

For I left to go and buy an ice cream

Just from the snack shop

When I got back she was swimming

When I got back with the pop

And I could see the sunlight

gleaming over the water wave tops

I guess I must have left her for the last time

Just when the carousel stopped

And I climbed off the dancing pony

And then dizzy I just dropped

The Bells of St Peter and Paul street

 There's a lot of to and fro in the tower

Where they ring the bells of the power

They ring them for freedom

They ring for the kingdom

They ring them for heaven

And the might

There's a lot of up and downs

In the bottoms

It's as if some borough

Had turned rotten

Still they ring them old bells

And the people know full well

That ballot paper's not been forgotten

They go back and forth down the street

All the shades of Eden in relief

The colours of colour blind

When you look inside your mind

You can see some kind of grief

Oh but then you hear the bells

In the church rung

Soft like mercy's rains

That soothe the day's pains

And you remember your belief

The Bells of St Peter and Paul's street

Two bells

 I met two bell ringers in a pub

One said to the other now here's the rub

While you push down, I pull up

Ain't none of us gonna know how to ring the cup

And they drank from the brim

They filled their bells up to the rim

They drank like the clappers

And all the happy slappers

Came in

The bell ringers of the church 

Joined the game

They crashed their bell like pints

And spilled their notes from great heights

Heard in heaven's powers

Those folk of the bell towers

Bothered, seven bells were knocked out of them

The fire engines rang

The big bang explosions of the bells sang

And as the birds of tomorrow

Dawn broke their wingspan

They began in the sorrow

But together they swang

Two bells swinging

Two bells singing

Two bells ringing

In time

Two bells together chime

The other side of beauty

 The other side of beauty is the pain

You can feel it everytime it rains

You can try and walk away 

But you'll come back again

Because the otherside of beauty is pain

Yes you better do your duty to beauty

You better do the same for your pain

If you don't know you have a cutie

That you've stolen all the booty

Then look again

 the otherside of beauty is pain

There is a wrong to every right

There is a fragility to might

There's a shadow to every light

And a dawn to every night

A wrong to every right

The other side of beauty is the pain

The other side of beauty is the pain

There once was this guy Narcissus 

Women said "I wish he would kiss us"

But the kisses he gave they were all in vain

For the other side of beauty is the pain

Nothing on his lips could he feel

No love to him seemed not so real

Just to prove love did exist

His own reflection he did kiss

And so he turned the wheel once again

For the other side of beauty is the pain

The otherside of beauty is the pain

And Mona Lisa stands in her picture frame

You can see her smile it is a little strained

For the love she'd known had passed

Now only love's brush strokes last

For the other side of beauty is the pain

Yes in each smile, in each love that laughs

There's a beauty that must fade 

Like photographs

And when they say you're made

It's enough to draw the shade

For the other side of beauty is the pain

Two lovers they took a walk through a field

When one said to the other let's and  take a meal

They picked flowers and grass

And oh how sweetly the hours did pass

But the other side of beauty is the pain

For he had to join the foreign legion

For that was the custom of the region

And so their love did pass,

Just like sand through the hourglass

For the other side of beauty,

the other side of beauty,

The other side of beauty is the pain

The other side of beauty is the pain

Everytime you love another

It's something you must discover

That hidden behind every doorway of the mind

The two faced Janus is the same

Yes the other side of beauty is the pain

If you look inside of Eden's doors

It's there for all rich or poor

The beauty is the winner

But pain's the cold dinner

The other side of beauty is the pain. 

The tree of Good and evil

Like Robin hood and the devil

Ever since the love was forgotten

The soft fig fruit had turned rotten

And the apple fell from the bough

And it's still falling now just like a sacred cow

For the otherside of beauty is the pain

Dancing Queen

 Fire in the belly

That burns up to the heart

Fire in the gallery

That burns up all the art

Fire in the church

That burns the holy part

Fire in the street

Where student protests start

I can hear the fire bells 

ringing in the city tonight

Can you see them running

Yelling hell hath no fury

Like woman scorned might

For the flames are licking

like tongues of beating feet

Fire dancers roaming

Through the rainy streets

Kettle drummers drumming

Bo peep has lost her sheep

All the fine beachcombers

Are looking for ants teeth

Any anti rollers fighting with belief

Dance on you crazy dancers

Against dark days of grief

Dancing shall give you answers

And each time you move your feet

Dreams like prayers of prancers

Are sent up to God's relief

So dance into tomorrow

Let daylight take your sorrow

All hail Great Queen Swallow

Who returns to love

The black-hearted beast

The day was red as thunder

 The shadows left the ships abroad

And the days were red as thunder

The fellows they had not abhorred

All the waves that they went under

They went the way of those before

When the days were red as thunder

They stood down from the platform ground

Where the trees were split asunder

From the hills to the gills, of the mills

The days were red as thunder

The fish were swimming in the seas

As I swam down under

And the legs of all the bumble bees

Yes the days were red as thunder

And the fellowship of falling crowns

The days were red as thunder

And it was as the sun went down

For the day was red as thunder

I saw three ships come sailing in

And the days they spelt a blunder

Of all mistakes that I could make

The day was red as thunder

Black earth rotted in the ground

And the fires they caught lumber

And burned the whole big ship down

for the days were red as thunder

Oh can you see the silent tree

Singing in the meadow

Oh can you hear the birds sing clear

As the day it falls to shadows

I heard the lips of the ships

 As they kissed in wonder

Of the tips and the hips

And the day was red as thunder

The clouds they lay

Like leviathans at bay

In a heaven's harbour

I did say that all was grey

And the day was red as thunder

Shame it lay, upon me weighed

Like tonnes of golden plunder

I thought I stole a treasure trove

But the day was red as thunder

The final count was when the mount

Blew off the top the table

And all could say who did pay

When Cain killed Abel

I shook in there, and there he stood

And all the anger left me

And grief and tears and love and years

This was how bereft me

I could not say how to stay

But I knew the wonder

For you are true as skies are blue

Yet the day is red as thunder

That's why mum's gone to iceland

 Yes mum's gone to iceland

She's left the neon lights behind

The adverts and the hard won

Victories of being kind

Yes mum's gone to iceland

I see her in the shelves

In the frozen freezers

With the salmon en croute

I should have gone there with her

Should have tailed her like a hound

But I couldn't bring myself to be there

I was a vain and angry child

I thought she was weak for being left behind

I was ashamed of the sadness that I felt in her eyes

For it all is still in iceland,  in the frozen isles

In the exploding geysers, in the shipwrecked paradise

Yes mum's gone to iceland, and it's the end of the world

But only the beginning of tomorrow for another boy or girl

Born in spring like the swallow

Born to cross desert or sea

Yes the bird has flown to iceland

Now she's as free as free can be