Lyrics
The Acoustic Motorbike - 1992 - Tracklist
1. Mary Watches Everything
2. You
3. I Believe In You
4. I Need Love*
5. Exploring The Blue
6. This Is Your Country
7. The Acoustic Motorbike
8. Can't Help Falling In Love*
9. Bones
10. Bridge Of Sorrow
11. Listen To The Hoofbeat
12. Be Well
* Song not written by Luka Bloom
1.Mary Watches Everything
Images of innocence
Coming through the prison walls
One fine day in England
Justice calls
Mary watches everything
In her living room alone
Televisions flickering
With the volume down
Everything is changing
In the outside world
There are signs of re-arranging
Softer spoken words
Here men talk in whispers
Of a woman or a girl
Things are only changing
In the outside world
Images of people
Turning power on its head
They walk across that danger zone
So many died or fled
Mary watches everything
In her living room alone
Televisions flickering
With the volume down
Everything is changing
In the outside world
There are signs of re-arranging
Softer spoken words
Here men talk in whispers
Of a woman or a girl
Things are only changing
In the outside world
Mary watches everything
She never heeds the bell
When the genuine and the curious ones
Come and ask if she is well
They talk and talk and hang around like everyday
Mary stays inside
Voices fade away
Everything is changing
In the outside world
There are signs of re-arranging
Softer spoken words
Here men talk in whispers
Of a woman or a girl
Things are only changing
In the outside world
2.You
Simply living room scene
Photographs of you
The floor is a mess with my things
My jeans, my shoes
A voice called in the dead of the night
I heard it before, it never warns
We love to smell roses
There are no roses without thorns
And I have loved
And I do
Still I love ... you ... you
Outside autumn leaves
Lightly kiss the ground
What once was luscious green
Now is gorgeous brown
And I have loved
And I do
Still I love ... you ... you
3.I Believe In You
Every string makes its own tune
The oak tree stands in its own shadow
I'm alone now
But not without you
Every bird flies its own path
The road goes to its destination
I'm alone now
But not without you
I believe
I believe in you
I believe
I believe in you
Every river has its own spring
The day goes to its own sunset
I'm alone now
But not without you
What a heart has given
Is always there
It's a gift to call upon
Anytime anywhere
I believe
I believe in you
I believe
I believe in you
Your life's dance
Moves you
Your life's hand
Holds you
And my heart still loves you
As much as it can do ...
5.Exploring The Blue
I go down into the water
And dive as deep as man can go
Into those dark places
Watch the underwater flow
Exploring the blue
Exploring the blue
Exploring the blue
In search of you
Here I stand by the mountain
Look up to the sky
Knowing it's a matter of having to climb
Above this place these clouds lie
Exploring the blue
Exploring the blue
Exploring the blue
In search of you
It may be high
It may be low
Where I think you are
That's where I'll go
That's where I'll go
That's where I'll go
I go into the water
And dive as deep as man can go
6.This Is Your Country
It's a race with time to the subway, every morning
You work so hard
Making a new life everyday
Looking out sometimes, beyond Manhattan
At the fields and streets you fled
When you went away
I know the tug you feel
Inside your heart
I've dreamed that dream
So please remember
Please remember
This is your country
So if you close your eyes in south Boston
An Atlantic sunset fills your mind
Child again in long summer evenings
Before the age of the cruel and unkind
This is your country
This is your country waiting for you
Come back home
Come back home
7.The Acoustic Motorbike
The day began with a rainbow in the sand
As I cycled into Kerry
Cattle grazing on a steep hillside
Looked well fed, well balanced
Close to the edge
Pedal on, pedal on, pedal on for miles
Pedal on
Pedal on, pedal on, pedal on for miles
Pedal on
I take a break, I close my eyes
And I'm happy as the dolphin
In a quiet spot talking to myself
Talking about the rain
Talking about the rain
All this rain
Pedal on
Pedal on, pedal on, pedal on for miles
Pedal on
You see whenever I'm alone
I tend to brood
But when I'm out on my bike
It's a different mood
I leave my brain at home
Get up on the sattle
No hanging around
I don't diddle-daddle
I work my legs
I pump my thights
Take in the scenery passing me by
The Kerry mountains or the Wicklow hills
The antidote to my emotional ills
A motion built upon human toil
Nuclear free needs no oil
But it makes me hot, makes me hard
I never thought I could have come this far
Through miles of mountains, valleys, streams
This is the right stuff filling my dreams
So come on, get up on your bike
Ah go on, get up on your bike
Pedal on
Pedal on, pedal on, pedal on for miles
Pedal on
Finally
With my face to that bitter wind
I bombed it into Killarney
Skin raw like a sushi dinner
And an appetite
That would eat the hind leg of the lamb of God
Even though you know
I wouldn't dream of doing such a thing
Then settle down for a quiet night
Think about what I've seen and done
And wonder
There's a reason for this
Now is the time
To speak of the problem troubling my mind
Sick of the traffic choking our towns
Freaking me out, bringing me down
Knock down houses, build more lanes
Once was a problem, now it's insane
My solution it's one that I like
It's Muddy
The Acoustic Motorbike
So come on, get up on your bike
Ah go on, get up on your bike
Pedal on
Pedal on, pedal on, pedal on for miles
Pedal on
Ah go on
Ah go on
Get up on your bike
Get up on your bike
9.Bones
See this life
I hate it now
Though I don't want to
See this life
I hate it now
Though I didn't used to
Once there was a way to dream
A warm pool to lie in
Someone's murdered the child in me
This place I'll die in
Bones are all you see
Because that's what left of me
Bones are all you see
Because that's what left of me
See that man
I hate him now
Though I don't want to
See that man
I hate him now
Though I didn't used to
One there was a time of love
That time is no longer
So I scream to God above
Take me from this hunger
This road and me.
10.Bridge Of Sorrow
Cigarette ends on a nightclub floor
All the people you know are going to the door
You danced all night tried again and again
But you could breathe no life into the tired veins
New Year's Eve it's the lowest tide
There's a burning emptiness inside
Out into the night and the winter's air
But you know you can't face another year
Don't go to the bridge of sorrow
Don't go to the bridge of sorrow
You don't belong to a respectable scheme
You don't belong in the mainstream
You don't belong in the material world
You try to talk you were never heard
So you're keeping to yourself
Doing the best you can
It's been this way since time began
Don't go to the bridge of sorrow
Don't go to the bridge of sorrow
Who is to say what is the best to do
When the world is as heavy as it is for you
There is no comfort by the light of the moon
Something is gonna give soon
You've run away from the mother and father
But you can't escape the heart of the matter
'Cause all around you other lives are falling
But voices are heard calling
Don't go to the bridge of sorrow
Don't go to the bridge of sorrow
11.Listen To The Hoofbeat
Listen to the hoofbeat
Spirit coming alive
Listen to the hoofbeat
Bringing together tribes
Listen to the hoofbeat
New blood on the plains
Listen to the hoofbeat
Shaking off ancient pains
Listen to the medicine man
He hasn't been heard for years
Listen to the medicine man
Call a wiping of tears
Listen to the hoofbeat
Mother earth been too long crying
Mothers' wounds too great to bear
Mothers' children finally rising
New blood everywhere
Listen to the hoofbeat
Listen to the hoofbeat
In Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Mending the sacred hoop
Far away from the cities
Never again to bow or stoop
Listen to the hoofbeat
Ghosts of Wounded Knee
Listen to the hoofbeat
Setting the spirits free
Mother earth been too long crying
Mothers' wounds too great to bear
Mothers' children finally rising
New blood everywhere
Listen to the hoofbeat
Listen to the hoofbeat
Listen
12.Be Well
Be well my love
Be well
As you brave
the raging storm
Be well my love
Be well
Into a new world
we are born
Step out on the road
alone for awhile
Underneath Dublin sky
the quiet grows
Go on through the night
alone for awhile
Walk along the waterfront
to Sandycobh
Fare thee well my love
Fare thee well
I must go down embrace the sea
Fare thee well my love
Fare thee well
Feel the waves wash over me
