Lyrics
Riverside - 2001 - Tracklist
1. Delirious
2. Dreams In America
3. Over The Moon
4. Gone To Pablo
5. The Man Is Alive
6. An Irishman In Chinatown
7. Rescue Mission
8. The One
9. Hudson Lady
10. This Is For Life
11. You Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time
12. The Hill Of Allen Instrumental
1.Delirious
You play safe
You loose the game
You keep your secrets
I wanna fly on a high trapeze
I get dizzy off my knees
Hope there is a dove waiting to fly with me
Because I know that shelf's no place for me to be
Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious
I played hide and seek and found you
I brought a small bouquet to give you
Full of daydreams and cliches to please you
I'm such a novice at this
Forgive me, forgive me
Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious
Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious, delirious
I'll try a little harder every day, every day
To take in what you say to me
To give you what you want me to
To love you like I should do
Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious
Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious, delirious ..
2.Dreams In America
Crimson rises over black and grey
As the morning comes
Silence, but the cricket sings
And I can hear you breathing
Water, mountains, rise and fall
Rise and fall with dignity
One more day without you
Is just too much for me
Through the eyes of love I see your face
And in the words of love I call your name
Through the eyes of love I see your face
And in these dreams I feel no pain
Dreams in America
Dreams in America
So we curl into a little ball and roll
To where we lie in ecstasy
Breezes soothe our souls
Listen to the lover's fantasy
Through the eyes of love I see your face
And in the words of love I call your name
Through the eyes of love I see your face
And in these dreams I feel no pain
Dreams in America
Dreams in America
We seem to go our separate ways
Our bodies tune into a different rhyme
The only thought that is a saving grace
Reunion, with the passage of time
Dreams in America
Dreams in America .
3.Over The Moon
Two of us caught out in a violent storm
Suddenly thrown together in the magical sea of love
So much danger coming off the island
So much danger headed for the mainland
I'll revel in this magic
Sitting in the front row
Watch you taming the lions
Watch you walking the wire
Watch you dance in the big top
Taking me higher and higher and higher
When she moves, I watch her
When she speaks, I listen
when she stands, I stand beside her
When she laughs, I'm over the moon
Side by side on Southbound train
Swaying to the engine
Rocking in the June sun
Two little babies in a cradle
Breathing
Swallowing
Drowning, drowning, drowning
When she moves, I watch her
When she speaks, I listen
When she stands, I stand beside her
When she laughs, I'm over the moon
Over the moon ..
4.Gone To Pablo
The maid came to her room Wednesday morning
Found a pistol lying by her side
For thirteen years she kept her fires burning
Lost in pictures, no place left to hide
Jaqueline's gone to Pablo
Jaqueline's gone to Pablo
Alone too long, the night became her lover
She knew that he'd been waiting all this time
With dreams and magic pictures to uncover
Now that all that earthly sadness was behind
Jaqueline's gone to Pablo
Jaqueline's gone to Pablo
People go to galleries in Europe
To wonder and to feel Picasso's soul
Jaqueline's gone to Pablo
Jaqueline's gone to Pablo
Jaqueline's gone to Pablo
Jaqueline's gone to Pablo
5.The Man Is Alive
The night sometimes seems dangerous
We wonder what it hides
It sometimes brings us closer
And forever changes our lives
Strangers talk in open ways
We cannot always understand
Who have not felt the loving touch
And seen the guiding hand
I was brought up near the riverside
In a quiet Irish town
An eighteen-month-old baby
The night they laid my daddy down
Everyone knew everyone
And everybody else as well
My home was filled with sorrow then
Too much for me to tell
The man is alive
Alive and breathing
It's taken me so long to see
The man is alive
Alive and breathing
The man is alive in me
We stood among the totem poles
Under the Canadian moonlight
She told me all about her childhood days
On the Vancouver mountain side
An eighteen-month-old baby
The night her daddy passed away
We stood and watched the darkness
Flowing into the light of day
The night sometimes seems dangerous
We wonder what it hides
It sometimes brings us closer
And forever changes our lives
Strangers talk in open ways
We cannot always understand
But we begin to feel the loving touch
And see the guiding hand
The man is alive
Alive and breathing
It's taken me so long to see
The man is alive
Alive and breathing
The man is alive in me
6.An Irishman In Chinatown
Oh the other day in Chinatown
A place you all know well
I was taking in the action all around
There was people rushing everywhere
With things to buy and sell
There was taxis looking for someone to run down
I was studying the walkmans in a special discount store
When I saw her walking by
Oh, she was unbelievably beautiful
And I'd love the things she wore
So there and then up to her I did fly
We could go for a walk
We could maybe stay in
We could have a good talk
But then again
I'd love to just take you for a walk down Broadway
Or any other way
Just yourself and meself, ah go on!
She says "I come from China"
I says "I'm from Ireland"
And "Isn't this a fine small world"
So we went down to the village
And we'd been walking hand in hand
Admiring all the things I couldn't afford
We could go for a walk
We could maybe stay in
We could have a good talk
But then again
I'd love to just give you one small kiss
Just a little one, ah go on!
Oh well, she brought me back to her place
Just to drink a cup of tea
She brought me in and made me feel at home
It was a tiny room she lived in with another family
But they were out and we were all alone.
7.Rescue Mission
I give to you
Reason to live
We come together
Season to give
We question everything we see
When someone's talking
There's nothing to believe
The flow of love
Rescue mission, baby
The seed of love blossoms in me
The sound of love
Rescue mission, baby
The pulse of love
It's a celebration
I give to you
Reason to live
We come together
Season to give
It pains to hear
Those voices of our children
They wake in fear
Look for you and me to hold them
The flow of love
Rescue mission, baby
The seed of love blossoms in me
The sound of love
Rescue mission, baby
The pulse of love
It's a celebration
I give to you
I give to you
Rescue mission, baby ..
8.The One
Why should you be the one to go out on the edge
Do you really want to be another dead hero?
Why should you be the one to go out on the edge
Do you really want to be another dead hero?
People have expectations of a man in your position
They want you to carry some torch into the public view
Voyeurs of this world ignoring your beautiful words
Say they want you to survive
But they demand this madness of you
Why should you be the one to go out on the edge
Do you really want to be another dead hero?
I love your music and I love your songs
I love the wild things in your head
I want you here with us
Helping us to stick this mad place
But for so many years now this habit's been forming
And so many others have failed
You made friends with that devil
Now he feels a little kinder to face
Why should you be the one to go out on the edge
Do you really want to be another dead hero?
I think of the young ones who make their way home
Through the night after one of your shows
Their lives a little richer
For having been touched by you
They dance and they sweat and they call out your name
The excitement just belts out and flows
You've been singing your guts out
Is that not enough to do?
Why should you be the one to go out on the edge
Do you really want to be another dead hero?
9.Hudson Lady
Though I want you badly
I can get on easy
Sometimes inside you
Gets too much for me
The way you look at me
The way you talk to me
The way you push on me
The way you frustrate me
What do you do
This city is grey
What do you say
Looking over me
Children come
They fly too high
You take us down
We learn to cry
Hudson Lady
People get sucked into you
People get hooked on you
Something happens to me
When I get together with you
The way you look at me
The way you talk to me
The look of love on you
The flesh and blood of you
The rush of want in you
The tingle of touch in you
What do you do
This city is grey
What do you say
Looking over me
Children come
They fly too high
You take us down
We learn to cry
Hudson Lady
Nighthawks swagger in front of you
Sirens punctuate your symphony
Hudson Lady
Hudson Lady ..
10.This Is For Life
She met her love
In an English prison cell
He looked so tired
On their wedding day
Visitors hours
So the time flew by
Before they parted
Heard each other say
This is for life for me
This is for life for me
He said
If love walks on beaches
What am I to do
If love talks in soft whispers
What am I to do
Lovers gaze at sunsets
What am I to do
What am I to do
This is for life for me
This is for life for me
She sends soul kisses
To that moonless place
She's a time keeper
She knows he will come home
She's a lighthouse
He looks for her in his mind's eye
Just to hear her say
This is for life for me
This is for life for me
This is for life
This is for life
11.You Couldn't Have Come ...
Where is this place we've come to
We don't know what to say
We long to see each other
And are frightened of that day
You met me in a barren place
You walked me to the hill
We were so good for each other then
I know we could be still
You couldn't have come at a better time
You couldn't have come at a better time
You couldn't have come at a better time
Not if you tried, oh no
Not if you tried, oh no
We have five hundred questions
Between you and me
But when you look into my eyes my love
Tell me what you see
Is it something you're not sure of
Is it something true and fine
Or is it just another case
Of the right thing at the wrong time
You couldn't have come at a better time
You couldn't have come at a better time
You couldn't have come at a better time
Since we were first together
By the lakeside sky so blue
We were so good for each other
Me and you and me and you and
Me and you and me and you
You couldn't have come at a better time
You couldn't have come at a better time
You couldn't have come at a better time
Not if you tried, oh no ..
12.The Hill Of Allen (instrumental)
