Moseley Shoals By Ocean Colour Scene

Riverboat Song

I see double up ahead
Where the riverboat swayed beneath the sun
Is where the river runs red
Like a King who stalks the wings and shoots a dove
And frees an eagle instead
It's more or less the same as the things that you said
I see trouble up the road
Like the things you found in love are by the way
And like to cheat on your soul
Like the best and worst of thoughts that lose control
Before you lie on your bed
It's more or less the same as the things that you said
Anyway for all the things you know tell me why does the river not flow
Anyway for all the things you said tell me why does the river run red
Anyway for all the things you've seen tell me when will the river run green
And anyway for all the things you know tell me why does the river not flow
It's more or less the things you fail to say in your way that's your trouble
Like a King who stalks the wings and shoots the moon and the stars And his double
It's more or less the same as the things that you said
I see trouble up ahead
Where the river boat swayed beneath the sun
Is where the river runs red
I see double - that's my trouble.

The Day We Caught The Train
I never saw it as the start its more a change of heart
Rapping on the windows, whistling down the chimney pot
blowing off the dust in the room where I forgot I laid my plans in solid rock
Stepping through the door like a troubadour whiling just an hour away,
looking at the trees on the roadside feeling its a holiday.
You and I should ride the coast and wind up in our favourite coats just miles away.
Roll a number write another song like Jimmy heard the day he caught the train.
He sipped another rum and coke and told a dirty joke
Walking like Groucho sucking on a number 10
Rolling on the floor with the cigarette burns walked in I'll miss the crush and I'm home again.
Stepping through the door with the night in store whiling just an hour away,
step into the sky in the starbright feeling its a brighter day.
You and I should ride the tracks and find ourselves just wading through tomorrow
and you and I when we're coming down we're only getting back and you know I feel no sorrow.
When you find that things are getting wild don't you need days like these.

The Circle
Saturday afternoon the sunshine pours like wine through your window
But I know golden June can turn an empty grey against your window
And I feel like I'm on the outside of a circle -
If I walk by the trees I'll catch the falling leaves if the wind blows
But I know all this means is whiling on the hours watching side-shows
Will I turn my coat to the rain I don't know
But I'm going somewhere I can warm my bones
Fare you well I'll carry me away
and sing for those I know upon their birthdays.

Lining Your Pockets
Well hello my old friend you know I've been away
I'm not asking for much but please remember my name
You've been lining your pockets for no other reason
Than to buy up the things that I gave without reasonable pay
Well I wondered through fortune and I flirted with fame
but we never got the money we always gave it away
Old benchmark on the park he got lost on the world
but he doesn't seem to know about any of it at all
he said - all the things that I wanted
you know I had to pay and pay...
and so I say

Fleeting Mind
The brilliance of my fleeting mind
Chimes like voices in foreign caves
it chimes in time - takes me where I'm going
Alone my fleeting mind is knowing
believe it when I pin it down
And that's not hard to forget
with my hands upon my knees
You will steal from my fleeting mind
Remember all our words they are just smoke rings in the rain:
that's just a poem in brilliant places
but poets, they are too grim
they steal like party thieves from crowded rooms
to rhyme their homes with better places
The brilliance of their minds
will seek with never knowing
alone my fleeting mind is knowing
believe it when I pin it down
And that's not hard to forget
with my thought like sifting leaves
I believe in my fleeting mind.

40 Past Midnight
Well I'm waiting standing on the corner
And it's coming 40 past the hour
In the midnight lonely freezing hour
With my insides churning in the gutter
And I'm waiting 40 past midnight
Catching rain in the soda light
Won't you come & call me to your window
Please don't leave me waiting on the corner
We could have the best time if you lighten up your life
With my pockets holey in the inside
With my bus ride rolling in the gutter
But if you would only light your lamp light
Then I would be here than any other
Well I'm waiting 40 past midnight
Catching cold in the pouring rain
Won't you come & take me to your door
So I can take myself home again
When I'm waiting standing on the corner
And the soda light begins to flicker
And it's getting 40 past the hour
And I think I won't see what I figure
Well I'm waiting freezing on the inside
Staring up at your window pane
If you won't come see me this evening
I can see myself here again

One For The Road
No I never knew you
We both went to different schools
Me so scared of the rules
You chasing all the girls
Now it seems to me
We never grew up we just got ourselves free
Inventing what we could be
To buy all their curls
Get up and dance - Get up and smile
Get up and drink to the days
that who are gone in the shortest while
Get up and dance - Get up and smile
Get up and drink to the ones
who are gone in the shortest while
She was just eighteen she collapsed and they took her away
She didn't make it for more than an hour
Then she was gone
What do you say when someone's been taken that way
before they've had a day to fly in the sun.

It's My Shadow
Who is that upon the stairs
acting like he don't know where
and who is laying down all the cards
and giving me the wrong things to say
and like a wheel on the table
He's a Cain to my Abel: Oh.....it's my shadow
A confessor to my dreams casting ribbons round my feet
Oh.....into my day
It's my shadow
Making eyes until the sun lights the daytime as she comes Oh..... into my day
Happy in the time when I would have been there to see you
Happy in the time when I would have been there at all
Happy when the night is gone and I believe you
Happy when the night is gone and I need a call.
Who is chasing in the wind all the letters never sent
and who is dusting down the stars and giving me the wrong moves to make.
And like a wheel on the table, he's a Cain to my Abel dancing upon the floor, its my shadow
making eyes until the sun blinds the daytime as she comes Oh.....into my day
Its my shadow
Like a willow to my stream casting heaven round my feet Oh.....into my day.
When you find that things are getting wild is that the hardest smile that you can ever feel.
Paralysed until the sun lights the daytime as she comes. And if my shadow comes a creeping
Then I'll always find me sleeping in the sun.

Policeman & Pirates
The house caught on fire in the winter
the bosses lay slain
and each of the workers decided to ten-fold their pay
and they saw in the mirror the sun had been shot down in flames
and nobody minded the hole in the sky or the rain
but it doesn't really matter when the judgements are said 'cos we all take our chances to find out romance is in some others bed
and you might burn your fingers hock your best rings for those who'd have you standing naked then publicly auction the use of a hose
all the children were laughing their faces in half at the pain of the girl who loved talking to walls and jumping at trains
and the words that ring true in the playground of fools will remain
and nobody minded the hole in the sky or the rain
but it doesn't really matter when the rights have been read 'cos we all take our chances to glance at the wife in the opposite bed
and I bet Nero and Pilate could easily explain
how policemen & pirates get stoned in glass houses just finding their way.

Downstream
Lay down your head & look to your window
Where do you go when its not where you're going
And how do you see when the light isn't shining
Where you could be if you worked out the timing
And how does it feel when the world comes on so real & true
And how do you do the things you do to you
If I were a king & you were a lady
What would I sing to say what I'm saying
And would you believe the verses left open
My heart on my sleeve the rhyming all broken
And how does it feel when the world comes back so real & true
And how do you do the things you do to you
Sell me a river and I'll skate away
to the downstream where I did play
So easy minded like a hill on the skyline
tripped up and blinded getting lost on the sidelines
And how does it feel when each word comes back so real & true
And how do you do the things you do to you

You've Got It Bad
And if I could hold you where would you belong
Sitting here to reason how the world's gone wrong
And if I could listen to half the words you say
Would your pathway glisten and help you on your way
Oh you've got it bad
But you shouldn't expect any cover
Oh you've got it so bad
Worse than any other
If I was in your shoes would it be the same
Would you sit in silence while I dish out the blame
And if the world was laughing would you close your ears
There is no creed of chanting to make the world more clear
If I bought you flowers would you watch them grow
Spring time is for certain to follow on the snow

Get Away
Well I used to be a listener - there was nothing left to get
About what you are and what you haven't been yet
and some of them like to tell a story that is long and old
and couch it in indifference and the wine
that they were sold to get away
Well someone's got to tell them that its not deserved,
rehearsed or written down by playwrights over time
just picking up on a nerve.
And some of them got a difference that they reserve for you
Well I like them all but I don't trust any of them
well shouldn't you, just get away
Well I used to think my freedom was a lot of things I'd give,
demanding on my time but I had so much time to give,
and I used to think that everything was a knee in what you are.
But finding out the truth that hurts
so I never went that far
I always get away
Well it comes down to the fact that I'm now different from the past,
demanding all my ideals its just trying to make them last,
and some of the things that you say they're ringing home so true,
I hang my head out of the door and I follow you,
yes I follow you and get away