Live In Japan (Russian DVD)

God's Monkey (live 1993)

One push
You fall in
Born in darkness
Built on shame
And hurting
Filled with silence
Filled with silence
And stars
Stars
Stars
Find the ladder
Climb the ladder
To God's monkey
No songs
To sing
That I believe in
That I believe in
Can't breathe the air
It's too thin
This far from heaven
This far from heaven
And stars
Stars
Find the ladder
Climb the ladder
To God's monkey.

God's Monkey (live 1993)

Performed live in 1993 during the Road To Graceland Tour.

Brightness Falls (live 1993)

Baby, baby
I hate to go
Don't leave me alone with this sorrow
The body's heavy
The getting's slow
Lost in moments
Caught in moments
The night is starless
And stands below
And I need you by my side


Baby, baby
I love you so
Don't leave me alone in this hollow
When brightness falls
Who'll come running?
When brightness falls
Who'll come running in?
Saved by silence
Save by noise
Save by lightning
Saved by joy
Building on emptiness
And all you broken hearted people


Baby, Baby
The hurt heals slow
And who can believe in tomorrow?
When brightness falls
Who'll come running?
When brightness falls
Who'll come running in?
The ticket's exploded
Only one way out
Live in lightness
Lost in lightness
There's nothing left to write about
And time's no longer
The greatest injustice of all
On this new day.

Brightness Falls (live 1993)

Performed live in 1993 during the Road To Graceland Tour.

Every Colour You Are (live 1993)

I touched his hand
Burned like coal
Put pay to the devil
And saw the mountain fall

Feel like crying
The jokes gone to far
You can be anything you want
Every colour you are

Family man
His patience tried
Put a torch to his home
And warmed his hands by the fire
The greed of desire

My roads uncrossed
White lined and tarred
By believing in you
Every colour you are

Every Colour You Are (live 1993)

Performed live in 1993 during the Road To Graceland Tour.

Jean The Birdman (live 1993)

He gambles on the saddle
He's pulling on the mane
He thrashes on the horse's back
Ambition is a bloody game

Horse doesn't want to jump
The river looks too wide
Well he faces every hurdle
With a nervous state of mind

"Stay with me, breathe deeply
take three passes back
turn and make a full attack"

The gods are laughing
And they're tugging at the reins
But he's taken to his wings
And they hit the bank

Heaven may stone him
But Jean the birdman pulls it off

His finger's on the trigger
His eye is on the clock
He doesn't give the game away
And quickly fires the bullets off

Six hearts cut short
Still dreaming they're alive
Blown 'round in dusty circles
Like an absent state of mind

Who hunter? Who victim?
God love America
He surely doesn't love him

Hitching out of nowhere
Lines of traffic knee deep
A chance to stave the morning off
And get some sleep

Heaven may stone him
But Jean the birdman pulls it off

He wears a crucifix
His mother left to him
It's wrapped in chains around his heart
Rusted and wafer thin

"Don't count on luck son"
All the angels sing
"Don't need to check a weathervane
We all know what tomorrow brings"

Life is a cattle farm
Coyotes with the mules
Life is a bullring
For taking risks and flouting rules

Who needs a safety net
The world is open wide
Just look out for card sharks
And the danger signs

Heaven may stone him
But Jean the birdman pulls it off

Jean The Birdman (live 1993)

Performed live in 1993 during the Road To Graceland Tour.

Firepower (live 1993)

He beats the door and breaks his watch
Raids the fridge and eats the lot
No room for silence, pause of thought
To ease the hurt inside him

They placed a barrel at his head
Raging blind and rising
Cursed by saints and all the rest
He can't stand up for trying

Shot through with anger and desire
A mouth to feed, a room for hire
He drinks 'goodbyes', the bottle dry
Brutalised but smiling

Causing casualties by the hour
Outweighed by stars
And Firepower

Causing casualties by the hour
Waylayed by stars
And Firepower

He beats the door and breaks the lock
Afraid to sleep he won't let up
No room for silence, pause or thought
To ease the hurt inside him

Firepower (live 1993)

Performed live in 1993 during the Road To Graceland Tour.

Damage (live 1993)

I found the way
By the sound of your voice
So many things to say
But these are only words
Now I've only words
Once there was a choice

And I want to love

Did I give you much?
Well you gave me things
You gave me stars to hold
Songs to sing

I only want to be loved

And I hurt and I hurt
And the damage is done
You gave me songs to sing
Shadow and sun

Why didn't I stay?
Why couldn't I?
So many lives to cross
Well I just had to leave
There goes everything
Everything

Can I meet you there?
God knows the place
And I'll touch your hand
Kiss your face

We only want to be loved
We only want to be loved

And I want to be love

And I hurt and I hurt
And the damage is done
You gave me songs to sing
Shadow and sun
Earthbound, starblind
Tied to someone

Damage (live 1993)

Performed live in 1993 during the Road To Graceland Tour.

Exposure (live 1993)

(It is impossible to achieve the aim without suffering)*

Exposure
Out in the open

(*voice of J.G. Bennett)

Exposure (live 1993)

Performed during the Road To Graceland tour 1993

Gone To Earth (live 1993)

With a burning candle
A book of holy things
They'll throw you up against the wall
Bind your hands with string
Caught in the sudden shower
Our host of heavenly Kings
They're all victims of circumstance
Of ancient bells that bring
All the fear in the world, naked and shy
Down upon our heads, with no reason why

And though voices may holler
For all they're worth
The rabbits have fled their burrows
Gone to earth

Gone To Earth (live 1993)

Performed live in 1993 during the Road To Graceland Tour.

20th Century Dreaming (live 1993)

Cold morning
Start of another day
Sleeping through the epilogue
Waking to the sound of rain
Driven to the crossroads
Where value's meaningless
What did you do to my faith
In justice, hope and happiness

Social, economical, spiritual
I'm moving to the house of love

Take my fire
Take my food and water
Forget about those promises
Of social good and social order
Lassoed by the cowboys
Tied down and it shows
Well I'm roping in those bad dreams
And selling off my work clothes

Social, economical, spiritual
I'm moving to the house of love

Gonna take a course of action
To restore my sight
'til the heart of motivation
Is filled with a golden light
They're hiding in the treetops
Tugging at my coat
But the power lines are falling down
And burning in the undergrowth

Social, economical, spiritual
I'm moving to the house of love

As the river runs
Tumbles and turns
You know you shouldn't stay
Or play the game again
But it could be different this time
You may win

Dreaming, dreaming
Dreaming, dreaming lying down

Dreaming,dreaming
Dreaming, dreaming lying down

I'm moving to the house of love

Here comes the dreaming

20th Century Dreaming (live 1993)

Performed live in 1993 during the Road To Graceland Tour.

Wave (live 1993)

It seems that I remember
I dreamed a thousand dreams
We'd face the days together
No matter what they'd bring
A strength inside like I'd never known
Opened the door to life and let it go

This sun may shine forever
Upon the back of love
A kingdom raised from ashes
And held within your arms
And should the rain break through the trees
We'll find a shelter there and never leave

I'll run to you, nothing stands between us now
Nothing I can lose
This light inside can never die
Another world just made for two
I'll swim the seas inside with you
And like the waves, without a sound
I'll never let you down

Upon a wave of summer
A hilltop paved with gold
We shut our eyes and made
The promises we hold
A will to guide and see us through
I'd do it all again because of you

I'd tear my very soul to make you mine

Wave (live 1993)

Performed live in 1993 during the Road To Graceland Tour.

Riverman (live 1993)

I see your eyes light up like fire
It's medicine to me
But as the hunted live their lives
You're keeping out of reach

So I keep running, falling
Till I reach the water
Run with me holyman
But when I reach out
I find I'm standing right beside her
Now we're living
Blessed with all the thunder in the world

Now, should you ask me to come home
To wake up from the sleep
Like a boat inside a storm
Is there no hope for me?

So I keep running, falling
Wade into the water
Run with me riverman
But when I reach out
I find I'm standing right beside her
Now we're living
Blessed with all the thunder in the world

Riverman (live 1993)

Performed live in 1993 during the Road To Graceland Tour.

Darshan (live 1993)

Darshan

Two birds
One stone
One chance
Is thrown
Don't make
Mistakes

Two thieves
Strung up
One knife
One cut
Two doors
One shut

One light
One way
One road
To take
We stand
And wait

From cool
To warm

Darshan (live 1993)

Performed live in 1993 during the Road To Graceland Tour

The First Day (live 1993)

Bring out the stars
And fade to silence
Let the heart decide
and watch it grow

Ring out the bells
Trading in blindness
Fooled by kisses
Touched by wings

Shadow-fall
And water fills the room
Bathed in moon grey blue

Baby came and spoke her name
With promises to call again
Swimming gold in a blackened sea
She troubles me
She troubles me

Counting the ways
To fall without landing
Stumbling into flight
Descent and slide

Compressing sound
From coal to diamond
Words are knotted tight
To chords that bind
Shadow-fall

And water fills the room
Bathed in moon grey blue
Baby came and spoke her name
With promises to call again
Swimming gold in a shipwrecked sea

She troubles me
She troubles me

Received by the eye, believed by the word
Be seen to make haste, when the soundings are heard
Don't discourage me

Whittling down the wood with the stone
If the boundary breaks I'm no longer alone
Don't discourage me

Bring out the stars
On the first day
The first day
The first day

The First Day (live 1993)

Performed live in 1993 during the Road To Graceland Tour.