17 October 2009: King Tut's (Glasgow, Scotland)

This skin full of bones
Offers me no
Resistance to your charms
And I am on the rocks.
I have chosen
Ruffled feathers and the devil we know best.

You sing to me,
And I,
I am lost.

You will find me in
The darkest corners and
I will ask you to leave.
I want nothing here that doesn't need to be.
I have chosen
Ruffled feathers and the devil we know best.

You sing to me,
And I,
I am lost.

You sing to me
With your arms open wide and
You sing to me
With a bird in your hand.
You sing to me,
With your arms open wide and
You sing to me.
I will stay here,
If you want me to.
I will stay here,
If you ask me.

Knee deep and born into it,
You didn't ask for this and don't I know it?
A father's son,
We couldn't hope for less.
Pry these workds from my cold dead lips,
Home is where the heart is.

And the ghosts I draw
Will leave you cold.
A bankrupt father
To skin and bones.

I'm moving over;
I'm making room for you.
I'm making room.

I will occupy the space between
What you say and what you mean.
And you say
That the devil's in the detail.
And if that's true
When he is through with me he will
Sure as hell be after you.

And the ghosts I draw
Will leave you cold.
A bankrupt father
To skin and bones.

We escape, we escape, we escape
With our minds made up.
We escape, we escape, we escape
And our time is up.

It took a blow to the head
And I realized what I
Was put on this earth to achieve
It showed me the way
So make an example of me
Hang me up from the tallest tree
Make an example of me

This is not the voice of reason
It's the cross I was chosen to bear
This is not the voice of reason

My time has surely come
I'm as guilty as can be
This is treason
In the first degree
Now the gallows tree
she calls to me my name
There can be no reprieve for me now
In this lifetime

This is not the voice of reason
It's the cross I was chosen to bear
This is not the voice of reason

Make an example of me
Make an example of me

Into your
Crooked arms I fall.
Once again,
Your light will guide me in.
A promise to myself I break I know,
The night will always win.

Safe in hope we sleep,
We held our breath,
And we saw the deep,
We saw the deep.

We held out breath
As we slipped beneath
This cold heartless sea
(Guide us in)
You followed me down
(Your truth will out)
In search of the truth
(From far and wide)
We saw its leaves
(We saw its leaves unfold)
Through salt stung eyes
(Through salt stung eyes)
It tore at our hands
(I knew we'd pay)
We held on tight
(We held on tight)

Safe in hope we sleep,
We held our breath,
And we saw the deep.
Some cold comfort in
Sealing our fate
Though we never speak
Since we saw the deep.

In a fog-like sleep I slip beneath
Your skin...

Lose me in
Half truths and alibis.
I want to believe in you.
I want you to lose me in half truths and alibis.

The feeling is,
The feeling is one I remember from way back when
Way back when we were kings
And the way that the cold left its mark on our skin.
You buried my head in the sand.
We were slipping up slowly.

Cold hands wrapped around our throats
And as the storm about us broke
Well we were busy making plans
Plans to keep ourselves afloat.

We rise, we fall, we pitch, we yaw.
No sleep, no sleep, no sleep,
No sleep, no sleep, no sleep,
No sleep, no sleep, no sleep.

The feeling is,
The feeling is one I remember from way back when
Way back when we were kings
And the way that the cold left its mark on our skin.
You buried my head in the sand.
We were slipping up slowly.

You pulled the wool
Over our eyes
You stole the wind
From my sails

I pushed her too hard

I dreamed too big for my
Landlocked world to contain
Here I sit with head in hand
I sing elegies to lessons I will never learn

I pushed her too hard

All men will be
Sailors until the sea
Shall set them free
I close my eyes and

All men will be
Sailors until the sea
Shall set them free
I close my eyes and

All men will be
Sailors until the sea
Shall set them free
I close my eyes and swim

How could I,
have led these men to their demise,
and they just follow?
Exploration's last great prize,
it wasn't mine.

CHORUS:
and mores the shame
you will remember my name

Great god,
this is an awful place,
and I do not think that we can hope,
for any better things now,
oh the end,
cannot be far,
it cannot be far,
I cannot wait.
Explorations last great prize,
a saving grace,
it wasn't mine

Some things are better left forgotten
Or the weight of the world will crush your bones
In an ideal situation
This will all be over soon.

And I will leave this world in pieces
I will leave it to the scarab and the crows
Under seas and under soil
In a million years
Our bones will be your oil

One by one
It happens to us all
When you least expect
Your sky will tumble down
We were surprised to find
It was our time to sink or swim

And I will leave this world in pieces
I will leave it to the scarab and the crows
Under seas and under soil
In a million years
Our bones will be your oil

We're out of our death in
A sea of regrets and
I hate to say I told you so
We're out of our depth in
A sea of excess and
This is everything I hoped it would be

You could have saved yourself
I gave you more than one chance
"I Am Murdered, I Am Murdered" you cried
Well, well,
You could have survived

I will rot, a broken man, in this green and pleasant land
Your position can't save you now
(Your position can't save you)
You were the finger on my trigger
And the rope around my neck
As you were as well

Your position can't save you now
You could have saved yourself
I gave you more than one chance
"I Am Murdered, I Am Murdered" you cried
Well, well,
If the truth be told
It is I that will meet my demise at your hands Mr. Perceval
I am murdered
You will hang a guilty man in England's green and pleasant land

Your position (you were the rope around my neck) can't save you now (you were the finger on my trigger)
Your position can't save you now (you were the rope around my neck)
Your position can't save you now
As the bullet flies, you cannot hide behind
Your position (you were the rope around my neck) can't save you now (you were the finger on my trigger)
Your position can't save you now (you were the rope around my neck)
Your position can't save me now (you were the finger on my trigger)
Your position can't save me now