Κολυμπώ για ζοή

A sign of time
I lost my life, forgot to die
Like any man, a frightened guy
I'm keeping memories inside
Of wounded love

But I know
I'm more than sad and more today
I'm eating words too hard to say
A single tear and I'm away
Away and gone

I need you
So far from hell, so far from you
'Cause heaven's hard and black and gray
You're just a someone gone away
You never said goodbye
Why, lover, why?
Why do flowers die?
Why, lover, why?

Everytime
I hear your voice, you heard my name
You build the fire, wet the flame
I swim for life, can't take the rain
No turning back

Κολυμπάς με το κορίτσι σου στη λίμνη των εραστών

You're with your baby
And you're parked alone
On a summer night
You're deep in love
But you're deeper in the woods
You think you're doin' alright

Did you hear that voice
Did you see that face
Or was it just a dream
This can't be real
That only happens, babe
On the movie screen

Oh, but he's back
He's the man behind the mask
And he's out of control
He's back
The man behind the mask
And he crawled out of his hole

You're swimmin' with your girl
Out on lovers' lake
And the wind blows cold
It chills your bones
But you're still on the make
That's a bad mistake

But the moon was full
And you had a chance
To be all alone
But you're not alone
This is your last dance
And your last romance

Yeah, cause he's back
He's the man behind the mask
And he's out of control
He's back
The man behind the mask
And he crawled out of his hole

Oh, if you see him comin'
Get away if you can
Just keep on runnin'
Run as fast as you can
He's a dangerous, dangerous man

And he's out tonight
And he's watchin' you
And he knows your house
No, don't turn out the lights

Yeah, cause he's back
He's the man behind the mask
And he's out of control
He's back
The man behind the mask
And he's after your soul

Πηδώντας ατην πισίνα, κολυμπώντας στο κρύο, δε θα κολυμπήσω στη ταχύτητα του ήχου

Tell me your stories, write down your secrets
And play this music as loud as can be
Get me a sandwich, buy me some hot tea
And sing this song as loud as can be
Teach me poker, dance with me slowly
And play this music as loud as can be
Open the window, draw down the curtains
And sing this song as loud as can be

I live all deadly like a cartoon
Maybe I can see myself in you
Yes, I want to see myself in you

Oh it is all great
No it's not
Yes, it is all great
It happens to everyone
If you think about it, it starts out at a younger age


Jumping in the pool, swimming in the cold
I ain't gonna swim at the speed of sound
I ain't gonna climb the walls, no, no
It would take more than a day to change
It would take more than a thousand pens and papers
To let go, to grow, so much crap

Tell me a story, write down a secret
Buy me a sandwich, get me some hot tea
Speak in your language, turn off the TV
Make me a drawing, cook me Welsh rabbit
Send me a postcard, write me a letter
And sing this song as loud as it can be

I'm a black eyed raccoon working from the moon
I look back and all I did was blank
Not there, never there
It was all dream of gray fantasy
Too much hope tricking me
Draw the smiles on my face
Draw your face on my face
I miss you

Τρία χρόνια κολυμβώντας ευθυγράμμως προς τα ανάντη

It would simply say everything if you would
Take a pen and write my name on a friend
Who never cared to let me in
And take a vast ravine that for
Three years swimmin' straight upstream
And the wind... the wind will drag me down the end

You live inside my wall and I
I reach back, hit you harder than God falls
Christ, amen, amen, amen
You're such a line to break and I
I'm so scared to make another mistake in the end

But I just wanna be happy again
Until it all falls down
And where does that leave me?
With things, things, I've got so many things to say
And with a broken heart, and a straight face
I'm sayin': "Brother, help me"

It's just a natural phase that I
I go through and then it's taken away
And then BAM! BAM! I'm fixed (I'm fixed, I'm fixed. I'm fixed)
Yeah, and I'm in another place to be where I
I can't sleep without the thought of me being so
So damned sic, (I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick)

So take this song, take this song away
Until it all falls down
And where does that leave me?
With things, things, I've got so many things to say
And with a broken heart and a straight face

And he says: "Reach for the girl
Reach for the girl and hold her close
Believe you can shine when you're silver
And I promise you gold, I promise you gold
And whenever you're dark inside
Don't let go; no, don't let go
Remember there's rain and there's candy and Christmasy winter snow
And remember I love you the same
and I'll strangle your pain"
And he tells me to sing
So I sing, and I sing
For my brother who keeps me sane
And tells me everything will be OK

I'm so alone. God, I'm so alone.
I'm so alone. I'm alone

Μερικοί λένε ότι ο έρωτας είναι ποταμός που πνίγει το τρυφερό καλάμι

Some say love it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razer
That leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love it is a hunger
An endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
And you its only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
That never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
Who cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying
That never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose

Βυθιζομένος στο πόνο που εκείνος προξενά

Some days, when my soul has left my body
Feel I'm floating high above me
Like I'm looking down upon me

Start sinking everytime I get to thinking
It's easier to keep on moving
Never stop to let the truth in

Sometimes I feel like it's all been done
Sometimes I feel like I am the only one
Sometimes I wanna change everything I've ever done
Too tired to fight and yet too scared to run

And if I stop for a minute
I think about things I really don't wanna know
And I'm the first to admit it
Without you I'm a liner stranded in an ice floe

I feel like a thief who has no faith
Maybe more than by the grade
Of the drugs you took that day

Sinking in the pain he's been inflicting
Yet he's feeling like the victim
Just a horoscope's to blame

Sometimes I feel like a little lost child
Sometimes I feel like the chosen one
Sometimes I wanna shout out till everything goes quiet
Sometimes I wonder why I was ever born

And if I stop for a minute
I think about things I really don't wanna know
And I'm the first to admit it
Without you I'm a child and so
Wherever you go I'll follow

One... yeah...
And baby you are just beautiful
From crown to your cuticles
You held down my two sons
You never frown when duty calls
You know me, I gave you more than you can handle
But you still keep a handle on it
Even when I take something beautiful and vandal on it
No more females?
Well how come my emails
got notes on a scandal
It's like Eve with the apple
A priest in the chapel
Overcome by the devil's tackle
I'm still shackling the bad till I know
I'm such a hassle every time I let my thoughts go
I get baffled so I hardly pause
I just crossed seas with these gnarly broads
'Cause it hurts me just to see what I finally lost
So I guess I'm just a fiend
Consumed by the scene
The stage and the screens
Where it's just me and Keane

Ο καιρός είναι σαν υγρό στα χέρια μου, κολυμπώ προς ξηρά σαν εσύ

Time is like a bullet from behind
I run for cover just like you
Time is like a liquid in my hands
I swim for dry land just like you

Time is like a blanket on my face
I try to be here just like you
Time is just a fiction of our minds
I will survive and so will you

We are the only ones right now
That are celebrating
And we are joining hands right now
We are the only ones right now
That are suffocating
We are the dying ones right now

As the water grinds the stone
We rise and fall
As our ashes turn to dust
We shine like stars

Kisses on the dance floor in my past
I need some comfort just like you
Beating like a bass drum, time goes by
I want the last dance just like you

Drowning in the flood of morning light
I'm only human just like you
Do you hear the city waking up?
I will survive and so will you

We are the ones, the only ones
We are the ones, the dying ones

Βυθιζόμαστε απλά στον ωκεανό προσώπων;

Let's paint the picture of the perfect place
They got it better than what anyone's told you
There'll be the king of hearts
and you're the queen of spades
And we'll fight for you like we were your soldiers
I know we got it good, but they got it made
And the grass is getting greener each day
I know things are looking up
but soon they'll take us down
Before anybody's knowing our name

All the right friends in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down
They got all the right moves in all the right faces
So yeah, we're going down

Said everybody knows
Everybody knows where we're going
Yeah, we're going down

Do you think I'm special, do you think I'm nice
Am I bright enough to shine in your spaces
Between the noise you hear and the sound you like
Are we just sinking in the ocean of faces?
It can't be possible, the rain can fall
Only when it's over our heads
The sun is shining everyday but it's far away
Over the world they said

It don't matter what you see
I know I could never be
Someone that'll look like you
It don't matter what you say
I know I could never face
Someone that can sound like you

Σπάζοντας τα εμπόδια, πνίγοντας τις λύπες σου

Follow the underdog
Hold on its collar tag
This city loves a scrap
One day it's gonna bite

Sticks and stones and animal bones
Can't stop me from having
A good day on a bad day
There's good days and bad days

Making a night of it
Breaking the barriers
Drowning your sorrows
Upset the regulars

Sticks and stones and animal bones
Can't stop me from getting away with
Good days and bad days
There's good days and bad days

If you had a different attitude
Instead of take and take and take
You have missed an opportunity
And that's a really big mistake

If you had a different attitude
You'd still have good days and bad days
Hey, hey, hey

Αν ήσουν ένας ποταμός, θα σε κολύμπησα

If you were a cowboy I would trail you
If you were a piece of wood I'd nail you to the floor
If you were a sailboat I would sail you to the shore

If you were a river I would swim you
If you were a house I would live in you all my days
If you were a preacher I'd begin to change my ways

Sometimes I believe in fate
But the chances we create
Always seem to ring more true
You took a chance on loving me
I took a chance on loving you

If I was in jail I know you'd spring me
If I was a telephone you'd ring me all day long
If I was in pain I know you'd sing me soothing songs

If I was hungry you would feed me
If I was in darkness you would lead me to the light
If I was a book I know you'd read me every night

Δε θα πνιγώ

I'm thinking about
Letting it out
I wanna give in
I wanna go out

Been looking around
I've finally found
The rhythm of love
The feeling of sound

It's making a change
The feeling is strange
It's coming right back
Right back in my range

Not worried about
Anything else
I'm waking up
To the beat of my heart
The beat of my heart
It tears us apart
The beat of my heart
Now I'm back to the start

I'm up from my down
I turn it around
I'm making it back
I'm not gonna drown

I'm taking a stance
I won't miss a chance
I want you to see
I'm not scared to dance

The way that you feel
Could never be real
I want you to know
I finished the deal

So I'm saying to you
I'll always be true
To the rhythm inside
To the beat of my heart

Αν και η μητέρα μου κλαίεις ότι αν προσπαθήσω σίγουρα θα πνιγώ

Annan water you loom so deep and wide
I would cross over if you would stem the tide
Build a boat that I might ford the other side
To reach the farthest shore where my true love lies in wait for me
In wait for me, in wait for me, in wait for me

Oh, gray river, your waters ramble wild
The horses shiver and bite against the bridle
But I will cross if mine own horse is pulled from me
Though my mother cries that if I try I sure will drowned be
Will drowned be, will drowned be, drowned be

If you call and let me pass
You may render me a wreck when I come back
So calm your waves and slow the churn
And you may have my precious bones on my return

Annan water, oh hear, my true love's call
Here her holler above your water's pall
God that I could, that my two arms could give me way
And I would cross your breath and rest my breast about her amber ring
Her amber ring, her amber ring, amber ring

Μόνος μου πάνω απ'ένα εξοργισμένο ωκεανό, που έκλεψε το μοναδικό κορίτσι που αγάπησα, και που το έπνιξε βαθιά μέσα σε μένα

"Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream", she said
"The one that makes me laugh", she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you, I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"

Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face, I kissed her neck
And dreamed of all the different ways
I had to make her glow
"Why are you so far away?", she said
"Oh, won't you ever know that
I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you?"

You, soft and only
You, lost and lonely
You, strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream

Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone, alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me

You, soft and only
You, lost and lonely
You, just like heaven

Θέλω να περπατώ στον ανοικτό άνεμο, θέλω να μιλώ σαν εραστής, θέλω να καταδυθώ στον ωκεανό σου

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?

So, baby, talk to me
Like lovers do
Walk with me
Like lovers do
Talk to me
Like lovers do

Here comes the rain again
Raining in my head like a tragedy
Tearing me apart like a new emotion
I want to breathe in the open wind
I want to kiss like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?

Ο Ντάνιελ σώζει την Κγρέις. Εκείνη είναι σε βαθύ νερό, ελπίζω πως αυτός είναι δεινός κολυμβητής

Are you aching for the blade?
That's OK, we're insured
Are you aching for the grave?
That's OK, we're insured

Daniel's saving Grace
She's out in deep water
Hope he's a good swimmer
Daniel plays his ace
Deep inside his temple
He knows how to serve her

Daniel drinks his weight
Drinks like Richard Burton
Dance like John Travolta, now
Daniel's saving Grace
He was all but drowning
Now they live like dolphins

We're getting away with it all messed up
Getting away with it all messed up
That's the living

Να πνιχτείς σε σμαραγδένια μάτια, καταπιές το αλάτι επιθυμίας. Φαντασίες καίγονται, δεν θα γυρίσεις ποτέ, χαμένος στη θάλασσα

Hear my voice and surrender
There will be no tomorrow
I'll be everything you desire
Touch me, feel the thunder
Long and deep in the water
I am the Siren, calling from the sea

Hear me calling, calling you into my arms
Hear me calling, calling you into my arms

Come with me and surrender
Close your eyes to the future
I'll be everything you desire
Touch my lips, taste the white skin
Feed your soul the illusion
Give your dream to the darkness, calling from the sea

Hear me calling, calling you into my arms
Hear me calling, calling you into my arms

Follow me down in the moonlight
Drown yourself in emerald eyes
Swallow the salt of desire
Fantasies burn, you'll never return, lost at sea

In my arms you'll surrender
There will be no tomorrow
I am everything you desire
Dark and deep as the ocean
Rising up from the water
I am the Siren, calling from the sea

Hear me calling, calling you into my arms
You'll never return, fantasies burn
You'll never return, lost at sea
Hear me calling, calling you into my arms (never return)

Υπνωτίζωμαι όπως πνίγομαι τώρα, πνίγωντας στα μάτια σου

I just look at you
And I'm hypnotized
Like I'm drowning now
Drowning in your eyes
You are beautiful
Past imagining
And I want you more
More than anything

And I cannot speak
And I've lost my sight
All my senses gone
Lost in you tonight
And I want your love
Be my lady... be my lady

Do I ask too much?
Do I want too much?
Want to know you now
Want to feel your touch
You just look at me
Feel the fire start
Want to make you burn
Want to touch your heart

Got a racing heart
And my mind's a roar
Never felt like this
Never loved before
And it's dangerous
I would willingly
Burn to ashes now
If you'll stay with me

Με μεταχειρίζεααι σαν τον ωκεανό σου, κολυμπάς στο αίμα μου όταν είναι ζεστό

I met you on somebody's island
You thought you had known me before
I brought you a crate of papaya
They waited all night by your door
You probably wouldn't remember
I probably couldn't forget
Jungle love in the surf in the pouring rain
Everything's better when wet

But lately you live in the jungle
I never see you alone
But we need some definite answers
So I thought I would write you a poem
The question to everyone's answer
Is usually asked from within
But the patterns of rain and the truth they contain
Have written my life on your skin

You treat me like I was your ocean
You swim in my blood when it's warm
My cycles of circular motion
Protect you and keep you from harm
You live in a world of illusion
Where everything's peaches and cream
We all face a scarlet conclusion
But we spend our time in a dream

Jungle love is drivin' me mad
Is makin' me crazy

Στέκωντας στο όριο ενός αχανή ωκεανού, προσαραγμένος σαν δραπέτης, χαμένος στη θάλασσα

Standing at the limit of an endless ocean
Stranded like a runaway, lost at sea
City on a rainy day down in the harbour
Watching as the grey clouds shadow the bay

Looking everywhere 'cause I had to find you
This is not the way that I remember it here
Anyone will tell you it's a prisoner island
Hidden in the summer for a million years

Great Southern Land, burnt you black

So you look into the land and it will tell you a story
Story 'bout a journey ended long ago
Listen to the motion of the wind in the mountains
Maybe you can hear them talking like I do
"They're gonna betray you, they're gonna forget you
Are you gonna let them take you over that way?"

Great Southern Land, Great Southern Land
You walk alone like a primitive man
And they make it work with sticks and bones
See their hungry eyes, it's a hungry home

I hear the sound of the strangers' voices
I see their hungry eyes, their hungry eyes
Great Southern Land, Great Southern Land
They burnt you black, black against the ground

Great Southern Land, in the sleeping sun
You walk alone with the ghost of time
They burnt you black, black against the ground
And they make it work with rocks and sand

Είμαστε νεκροί στο νερό τώρα

People stand in line
A premonition of
The killer's angel eyes
An Armageddon sky
Tell it like it is
It's like the old man says
We're dead in the water now
Dead in the water

They come from miles around
In avarice and love
To suckle on the blood
Of some forgotten god
Sell it like it is
It's like the old man says
We're dead in the water now
Dead in the water

A simple act of faith
A celebration of
The colour and the creed
The cancer and it's seed
Crackles on the mic
Call it what you like
We're dead in the water now
We're dead in the water now
Dead in the water

Τώρα κολυμπάς στο πιο βαθυγάλαζο και εμείς δεν είμαστε οι όποιοι επίσης πνιγόντας εκεί

I remember when I last saw you
Did you care? Did you see me too?
You looked like you had a lot to prove
Now that life was cathching up with you

Mirror, mirror on the bedroom floor
You paid the price and you knew the score
I heard you are sorry and I hope it's true
But all your friends are going to bitch at you
Please come back for another look, you're the pretty one
Please come back for another look

We all told you how great you were
And we can't believe that you can't be sure
Now you're swimming in the deepest blue
And we're not ones to βε drowning there too
Please come back for another look, you're the pretty one
Please come back for another look

So you drink it all for the two of us
'Cause we gotta know if bottom of your bottle is really there
You drink it all to get through from us
Come back for another look

I heard you are sorry, and I hope it's true
All our friends are going to be there for you
We want to know what you're going through
And where you've been and where it's leading to
Well, could it be that we're lesser alive?
Can ourselves just barely survive?
It doesn't matter if the words aren't true
If you don't want to hear what they say about you

Στα γαλάζια βάθη ξανά, στο σιωπηλό νερό

And you may find yourself
Living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself
In another part of the world
And you may find yourself
Behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself
In a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself
"Well... how did I get here?"

Letting the days go by
Let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by
Water flowing underground
Into the blue again
After the money's gone
Once in a lifetime
Water flowing underground

And you may ask yourself
"How do I work this?"
And you may ask yourself
"Where is that large automobile?"
And you may tell yourself
"This is not my beautiful house!"
And you may tell yourself
"This is not my beautiful wife!"

Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...

Water dissolving and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Under the water, carry the water
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!

Letting the days go by
Let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by
Water flowing underground
Into the blue again
In the silent water
Under the rocks and stones
Tthere is water underground

And you may ask yourself
"What is that beautiful house?"
And you may ask yourself
"Where does that highway go to?"
And you may ask yourself
"Am I right? Am I wrong?"
And you may tell yourself
"My God! What have I done??"

Χρειαζόμαστε να χορέψουμε με τη ζωή, να κολυμπήσαμε στη ψυχή των ματιών σου, μέχρι αναλυόμαστε στη νύχτα

I was thinking out loud
One life's such a short time for love
When a match made in heaven arrives
Eternity is never enough

It's all been so simple till now
There's no brilliance like beauty out there
No knowledge as wise as the heart
We all need a reason to care

I need to dance with life
Sweep you away into the night
When there is no one else around
I will make every day count

We need to dance with life
Swim in the soul of your eyes
Till we melt into the night
Oh, we need to dance with life
And we leave a brilliant light behind

We could lay on the ground
We could look at that light in the sky
Show the moon and the million stars
The stars that we become when we die

It's no secret how I feel
This flesh and bone I love you is sealed
To cover me up and hide the deal
And the deal with me
To dance with life

Breathe the sweet fresh air
And make every second your last
And I'll touch you from the world I wake in
Make the most of the present and the past

Μέσα από ξένους ωκεανούς, κάτω από τη θάλασσα

The deal is on the rise again
The ship comes into shore
You've been away to somewhere
But life goes on no less

Through the foreign ocean
Underneath the sea

The walls come tumbling down
We'll be forever calm
And you'll be here in my arms
I'll keep you away from harm

I thought about you twice just then
You get me every time
Keeps coming out of nowhere
It cannot be defined

Your colours are magnificent
From magenta to bright blue

Έρχομαι, όχι πνίγομαι, κολυμπώντας πιο κοντά σε σένα

I've crossed deserts for miles
Swam water for time
Searching places to find
A piece of something to call mine (I'm coming, coming closer to you)

Ran along many moors
Walked through many doors
The place where I wanna be
Is the place I can call mine (I'm coming, coming closer to you)

I'm moving, I'm coming
Can you hear what I hear?
It's calling you my dear out of reach (take me to the beach)
I can hear it calling you
I'm coming, not drowning
Swimming closer to you

Never been here before
I'm intrigued, I'm unsure
I'm searching for more
I've got something that's all mine

Take me somewhere I can breathe
I've got so much to see
This is where I wanna be
In a place I can call mine

Many faces I have seen
Many places I have been
Walked the desert, swam the shores (coming closer to you)
Many faces I have known
Many ways in which I've grown
Moving closer on my own (coming closer to you)

I'm moving, I feel it
I'm comin', not drownin'

Κάποιος μου περιμένει να σηκωθώ και βυθιστώ στον ωκεανό

I'm dancing in the shadows of life
And death is all around me tonight
I miss you making love to me right
Beside myself I'm holding you tight
Someone is waiting for me to rise
And dive into the ocean I cried
And I cried and I cried my baby to sleep
Beside myself my soul to keep

Right beside you I see
Right beside you I stay
Right beside you I'll be
Right beside you always

We're dancing in the shade of the summer sun
The drums are playing the change
To come was yesterday in the heat
Beside myself I need to keep

Right beside you I feel
Right beside you I am
Right beside you I kneel
Right beside you I stand
Right beside you I see
Right beside you I stay
Right beside you I'll be
Right beside you always

Driving into town with the top down
Sun sinking low into the water
I can feel your speed
One hand on the wheel
One hand on my knee
I can tell you what I want
You can tell me what you need
Darling, nights are getting cooler
And the city's so close
There's a place we can do it
Somewhere right along the coast
We'll arive on time
Just a little bit late
It's not a matter of style
Just a lesson in taste

I remember when I was your child
You made me up to be your lover
Now I'm sitting right beside you
Other people still exist
I don't pretend to love them less but darling
When you drive this way I lose my breath

Right beside you
I feel rght beside you
I am right beside you
I kneel right beside you
I stand right beside you
I see right beside you
I stay right beside you
I'll be right beside you
Always

Μερικές φορές εκείνη βύσιζε, μερικές φορές κολυμπούσε, μέχρι έφτασε στο φράγμα ενός μυλωνά

A farmer there lived in the north country
A hey ho bonny o
He had daughters one, two, three
The swans swim so bonny o
These daughters they walked by the river's brim
A hey ho bonny o
The eldest pushed the youngest in
The swans swim so bonny o

"Sister, sister, pray lend me your hand
With a hey ho a bonny o
And I will give you house and land"
The swans swim so bonny o
"I'll give you neither hand nor glove
With a hey ho a bonny o
Unless you give me your own true love"
The swans swim so bonny o

Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam
With a hey ho and a bonny o
Until she came to a miller's dam
The swans swim so bonny o
The miller's daughter, dressed in red
With a hey ho and a bonny o
She went for some water to make some bread
The swans swim so bonny o

"Father, oh daddy, here swims a swan
With a hey ho and a bonny o
It's very like a gentle woman"
The swans swim so bonny o
He laid her on the bank to dry
With a hey ho and a bonny o
There came a harper passing by
The swans swim so bonny o

He made harp pins of her fingers fair
With a hey ho and a bonny o
He made harp strings of her golden hair
The swans swim so bonny o
He made a harp of her breast bone
With a hey ho and a bonny o
And straight it began to play alone
The swans swim so bonny o

He brought it to her father's hall
With a hey ho and a bonny o
And there was the court, assembled all
The swans swim so bonny o
He laid the harp upon a stone
With a hey ho and a bonny o
And straight it began to play alone
The swans swim so bonny o

"And there does sit my father, the King
With a hey ho and a bonny o
And yonder sits my mother, the Queen
The swans swim so bonny o
And there does sit my brother Hugh
With a hey ho and a bonny o
And by him William, sweet and true
The swans swim so bonny o
And there does sit my false sister, Anne
With a hey ho and a bonny o
Who drowned me for the sake of a man"
The swans swim so bonny o

Επιπλέοντας με τους χείμαρρους μέχρι υποβρύχια ρεύματα με σύρουν κάτω

I'm sick of all this emptiness I've chosen for a life
Without no direction, it's a never-ending strife
It seemed so perfect as I planted fertile seeds
But in this barren soil I've lost my basic...
I've lost my basic needs

I wish that I could leave this trap, I want another me
I find myself in places I was not supposed to be
At the finger post I try to look another way
But all I see is future forming the shape of something...
The shape of something gray

Sometimes I'm afraid I've lost my way
Certain I always fail to cease the day
Somewhere I began to go astray
If I could only change...
Another life is all it takes

If there was a way to live my life again
I'd make sure that I would avoid the pain
Of moving silently, floating with the streams
Till undercurrents drag me under

Κολυμπούσαμε στον ωκεανό, χορεύαμε στη βροχή. Καθόμαστε πάνω στη στέγη και τρέφαμε άμετρες φιλοδοξίες

I can still remember
The way life used to be
When everything was simple
The days were endlessly
Recalling the emotions
Of my distant memories
We didn't know what love was
But still we did believe

We were swimming in the ocean
Dancing in the rain
We're sitting on the rooftop
And reaching for the stars
Those days are gone forever
But the legend never leaves
We felt so free but emptiness
Is all that's left in me

When love lives in heaven
Why does it hurt so bad?
Why does it make me sad
All the tears in my eyes?
When love dies in heaven
Why do the angels smile?
Tell me the reason why
All the tears in my eyes
When love lives in heaven

But you could be the one
Who turns my world around
If I could only turn to you...

Βγάζω το καπέλο στους τραγουδιστές όταν πνίγουν όλες τις λήπες τους τραγουδώντας τραγούδια

I've had the same jeans on for four days now
I'm gonna go to a disco in the middle of the town
Everybody's dressing up
I'm dressing down

Life's one big circle
And it doesn't end
When it ends
Will you still be my friend?

I'm not making a fool of myself
Oh, tell me I'm not making a fool of myself

So, when you look in the mirror
Reflecting back at you someone that you don't know
Oh, that's just made your head spin around
So get yourself together
Get your feet back on the ground

I take my hats off to the busker man
When they drown all the sorrows singing songs
Now everything has worked out to plan
But believe me it started as long as it can

My mind's not perfect but it's sincere
You'd be amazed at what you can achieve in a year
And you try so hard but your heart's on a switch
And I know you try so hard nut your heart's on a switch

Same Jeans on for four days now
Everybody's dressing up I'm dressing down
I'm not making a fool of myself
Now believe me, lady, I can't tell

Αναρριχήθηκα στις κορυφείς των βουνών, κολύμπησα μέσα από τον γαλανό ωκεανό

All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true... I was made for you

I climbed across the mountain tops
Swam all across the ocean blue
I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules
But, baby, I broke them all for you
Because even when I was flat broke
You made me feel like a million bucks
You do, I was made for you

You see the smile that's on my mouth
It's hiding the words that don't come out
And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed
They don't know my head is a mess
No, they don't know who I really am
And they don't know what I've been through
Like you do and I was made for you...

Καταδύοντας γιατί δεν μπορείς να σταματήσεις την ολίσθηση, πλέοντας στα κατάντη

Sailin' away on the crest of a wave
It's like magic
Rollin' and ridin' and slippin' and slidin'
It's magic

And you, and your sweet desire
You took me, higher and higher, baby
It's a livin' thing
It's a terrible thing to lose
It's a given thing
What a terrible thing to lose

Making believe this is what you've conceived
From your worst day (I'm takin' a dive)
Moving in line when you look back in time
To the first day (I'm takin', I'm takin')

Takin' a dive 'cause you can't halt the slide
Floating downstream (I'm takin' a dive)
So let her go don't start spoiling the show
It's a bad dream (I'm takin', I'm takin')

Οι επίκλησεις των μηχανών πνιγόμενες στο ατμός

Motor
Power - force - motion - drive
Propaganda!

On joyless lanes we walk in lines
A calm but steady flow
Accompanied by loud commands
Our strength is running low

Another hope feeds another dream
Another truth installed by the machine
A secret wish, the marrying of lies
Today comes true what common sense denies

Rotating wheels of destiny inflame the city lights
Machines call out for followers far out into the night
The calls of the machines drowning in the steam

Another hope feeds another dream
Another truth installed by the machine
A secret wish, the marrying of lies
Today you find is true what common sense denies

Another hope
Another dream
Another truth
Installed by the machine

Πνίγομαι στο νερό και είσαι το χέρι μου στο πηγάδι

Baby, I'm angry
Baby, I'm scared
We're living in a dark time
And nobody cares
Baby, I'm tired
Life isn't fair
You are the only one who
Will always be there

Hold on, to me
Say you'll always love me
Tell me anything, you want
Hold on, baby
Say you'll never leave me
Promise that you will hold on

Baby, I'm sorry
I don't mean to cry
But, I never needed you more
Than I need you tonight

I'm a small honeybee
I drown in the water
And you are my hand in the well

Πνίγηκα, παρασύρθηκα με ροή και θεωρήθηκα ως νεκρό

I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain

I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag
I was schooled with a strap right across my back

I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead
I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled
I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread
I was crowned with a spike right thru my head

But it's all right now
In fact, it's a gas!
But it's all right
I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash
It's a gas! gas! gas!

Κολυμπώντας σ'ένα πέλαγο προσώπων, κουρασμένος από τα ανθρώπινα γένη

When I was a young boy
I tried to listen
And I wanna feel like that
Little white shadows
Blink and glisten
Part of a system I am

If you ever feel like
Something's missing
Things you'll never understand
Little white shadows
Sparkle and glisten
Part of a system, a plan

All this noise, I'm waking up
All this space I'm taking up
All this sound that's breaking up
Oh...

Maybe you get what you wanted
Maybe you stumbled upon it
Everything you ever wanted
In a permanent state

Maybe you'll know when you've seen it
Maybe if you say it, you'll mean it
And when you find it, you'll keep it
In a permanent state (a permanent state)

When I was a young boy
I tried to listen
Don't you wanna feel like that?
You're part of the human race
All of the stars and the outer space
Part of a system, a plan

All this noise, I'm waking up
All this space I'm taking up
I cannot hear, you're breaking up
Oh...

Swimming on a sea of faces
Tired of the human races
Oh, an answer now is what I need
See it in the new sun rising
See it break on your horizon
Oh, come on, love, stay with me

Είμαστε πελαγωμένοι στη νύχτα αυτή, επιπλέουμε σε θάλασσες δυσπιστίας

Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love
That everyone is talking of?
Where is the love?
Where is this love
That everyone is dreaming of?

Come to bed
Come to bed
Come to bed
I cannot sleep in all this heat
Come to bed
Come to bed
This terror's all within my head

Don't be deceived, no land in sight
We're all adrift in this dark night
We float on seas of disbelief
While singing songs of pain relief

Shake my body, release my soul
Punish my senses, lose control
This body's young but my spirit's old
Scatter my ashes and let this feelings grow

Μια καταδικάσμένη δίψα πνίγοντας το παρελθόν

All alone staring through
Midnight eyes fading blue
A pouring rain, a broken glass
A starving thirst drowning the past

Abandoned queen, discarded king
A diamond hanging by the string
My beating heart, my trembling hand
A broken wave turns stone to sand

Rescue me - the stars are falling
Rescue me - the night's so dark
Rescue me - I'm locked outside your door

The broken storm is now but standing still
Silent is the good in the morning chill
The cards are cut now my tear has fallen
The hand has been dealt by a fortune card
I'm broken down an I'm moving light
Chasing down the darkness passing through your gate
A silent voice...

Θέλοντας μου να φαίνομαι το ίδιο με τα νερά τόσο βαθυά

Say no more
If you want to kiss goodnight
That's alright by me
Close your door
Make sure the latch is tight
Fall gently to sleep
We don't have to rush ahead
Putting questions in your head
And an ache in your heart

Let's take a lifetime
All that we desire
Build it day by day into forever
Let's take a lifetime
All that you require
Here and now and ever

In these times
Love is not some harmless game
It's played strictly for keeps
No, It's no crime
Wanting me to feel the same
With the water so deep
Come tomorrow once again
We'll be together until then
We've dreaming to do

Let's take a lifetime
All that you desire
Build it day by day into forever
Let's take a lifetime
All that you require
Here and now and lasting ever more

So hard to leave you standing there in the light
You look so lovely
If we must...
No use tempting fate

Βούτησε στον ωκεανό, μωρό μου, ξέρεις ότι πρεπει να δοκοιμάσεις

How many dreams am I looking for in your eyes
In your eyes?
Ooh, baby, bet it seems that you're reaching down
All alone, on your own
Dreams are emotions, baby, you know you gotta try

How am I supposed to know
What's in your head
What's on your mind?
I'm searching for your love
That's in your heart, I need it
Here I go impossible again
Should I hold you close to keep the night from ending?

I know I put you on a pedestal in my eyes
In my eyes
I don't like it when you put me down
'Cause it hurts, yeah, it hurts
Win some and lose some, baby, you know you gotta try

I feel it my heart
And in my soul
And through my veins
Falling from my lips
Three little words
'I love you'
And here I go impossible again
And should I hold you close to keep the night from ending?

Dive into the ocean, baby, you know you gotta try

Άσε μου να μπω, άσε μου να πνιγώ ή να μάθω να κολυμπήσω

Maybe I could be the one they adore
That could be my reputation
It's where I'm from that lets them think I'm a whore
I'm an educated virgin

Sleepwalker, don't be shy
Now don't open your eyes tonight
You'll be the one that defends my life
While I'm dead asleep dreamin'

Cupid, don't draw back your bow
Sam Cooke didn't know what I know
I'll never be your valentine
The sleepwalker in me
And God only know that I've tried

Let me in, let me drown or learn how to swim
Just don't leave me at the window
I could be the one to be your next best friend
You may need someone to hold you

Sleepwalker, take this knife
You may see someone tonight
You'd be the one that saves my life
When I'm dead asleep dreamin'

I'm in your movie and everyone looks sad
But I can hear you, your voice, the laugh-track
But you never saw my best scene
The one where I sleep
Sleepwalk into your dreams

Now, sleepwalker, what's my line?
It's only a matter of time
Until I learn to open up my eyes
When I'm dead asleep dreamin'

Πάνω στο νερό έχουμε περπατήσει σαν το άφοβο παιδί

In darkness we do what we can
In daylight we're oblivion
Our hearts so raw and clear
Are turning away, turning away from here

On water we have walked
Like the fearless child
What was fastened we've unlocked
Revealing wondrous wild
And in search for confirmation
We have jumped into the fire
And scrambled with our burning feet
Through uncontrolled desire

There's a well upon the hill
From our ancient past
Where an age is standing still
Holding strong and fast
And there's those that try to tame it
And to carve it into stone
Ah, but words cannot extinguish it
However hard they're thrown

On Racherie they have worked
With their island dreams
By Lough Cleggan they have nourished
In the mountain streams
And in searching for acceptance
They had given it away
Only the children of thier children
Know the price they had to pay

Σκόπεψα να κολυμπήσω όρθιος μα τώρα πήγα πολύ βαθιά

You only stay with me in the morning
You only hold me when I sleep
I was meant to tread the water
But now I've gotten in too deep

For every piece of me that wants you
Another piece backs away

You only waited up for hours
Just to spend a little time alone with me
And I can say I've never bought you flowers
I can't work out what they mean

I never thought that I'd love someone
That was someone else's dream

'Cause you give me something
That makes me scared alright
This could be nothing
But I'm willing to give it a try
Please give me something
'Cause someday I might know my heart

But it might be a second too late
And the words that I could never say
Are gonna come out anyway

Πηγαίνοντας σε κύκλους μέχρι πνιγούμε πάλι

In the passage of time
To a cigarette burn
To the book that I read
To the sentence I learn
Up and down
Going round
Going round till we drown again

I'm gonna set myself up
I'm going up to the top
Up to the top, to the top
I'm going down to the ground
Going round
Till we drown
Going round till we drown again

Factory
Imitation of life
Factory
We all go out to lunch

A certain ratio we know
Has left us unaware
Someone else has taken leave
Someone who didn't care
Elevators just don't crash
The answer lies within
Elevators, elevators
Answer lies within

To the Glittering Prize
To the fool in the sky
I've got a jewel in my eye
I'm going up, coming down
Going round
Till we drown
Going round till we drown again

To the centre of the man
Because he had a plan
He had a plan to escape
But now we've got it on tape
Going up, coming down
Going round
Going round till we drown again

Να εμπιστευτείς τον ωκεανό, δεν θα πνιγείς ποτέ

They tried to catch a falling star
Thinking that she had gone too far
She did but kept it hidden well
Until she cracked and then she fell

If all the history is true
She's gonna end up just like you
You made it to the other side
But tell me, who will be my guide?

They build you up so they can tear you down
Trust the ocean, you'll never drown
Who is next? Who's gonna steal your crown?
You'll see

I have learnt my lesson well
The truth is out there, I can tell
Don't look back and don't give in
To their lies and goodbyes
Northern Star

Fulfil the longing in your heart
Then we will never be apart
And if they dare to question you
Just tell them that our love is true

They buy your dreams so they can sell your soul
Is it any wonder we've lost control?
Feelings come, feelings go

I have learnt my lesson well
The truth is out there, I can tell
Don't look back and don't succumb
To their lies and goodbyes
Live your life without regret
Don't be someone who they forget
When you're lost reach out for me
And you'll see she's not far
Northern Star

Έλα και να πνιγείς στη λίμνη του πάθους της

She has come from the shadows of the dream world
A dark angel from the darker side of love
Across a sea of tears
A hundred thousand years
Come with her and dance in the moonlight
And you are lost to this world ever more
Put your hand in her hand

Come and fly now with the angels
Rise again now like the Phoenix
You're the love that lives forever
In the heart that never dies, never dies
Heart of Lilith!

Come and drown in the lake of her passion
Come and die so you can be reborn
Hear the siren sing
Hear the death knell ring
She's a witch, a siren and a vampyre
She has come from the distance stars
To take your heart
To break your heart

Come and kiss, kiss the lips of Lilith
Come and kiss and you will be no more
Feel the fire
Of desire

Θα πηγαίναμε πάνω στον ποταμό, και στον ποταμό θα βουτούσαμε

I come from down in the valley
Where, mister, when you're young
They bring you up to do
Like your daddy done
Me and Mary, we met in high school
When she was just seventeen
We'd ride out of this valley
Down to where the fields were green

We'd go down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh, down to the river we'd ride

Then I got Mary pregnant
And, man, that was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday
I got a union card and a wedding coat
We went down to the court-house
And the judge put it all to rest
No wedding day, smiles no walk down the aisle
No flowers, no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh, down to the river we did ride

I got a job working construction
For the Johnston Company
But lately there ain't been much work
On account of the economy
Now all them things that seemed so important
Well, mister, they vanished right into the air
Now I just act like I don't remember
Mary acts like she don't care

But I remember us riding in my brother's car
Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
At night on them banks I'd lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take
Now those memories come back to haunt me
They haunt me like a curse
Is a dream, a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse?

That sends me down to the river
Though I know the river is dry
That sends me down to the river tonight
Down to the river, my baby and I
Oh, down to the river we ride

Ήμουν μοναχικός πηγαίνοντας πουθενά, πνιγομένος σε στεγνή γη

I'm going nowhere
Gotta face up to it
Gotta wake up to it
I feel so guilty
Killing time is a sin
There's no way you can win

A dam burst of dreams flows thru' me
They slow me where I could be
Flash point feelings flow
Thru' my mind moving

From the mountains to the sea
I'll run across this land
Looking out for strength and beauty
A diamond in the sand
I will chase the four winds over
Trying to understand
And I won't stop until I'm holding
Heaven in my hands

I won't let nobody
Turn me off of the track
Now there's no turning back
Won't let no worries
Turn my head inside out
Now there's no room for doubt

I'm heading for my destiny
And it feels electric to me
Flash point feelings go
Thru' my mind

I was lonely going nowhere
Drowning on dry land
I was almost stranded there
A shipwreck on the sand
But now I'll chase the whole world over
Making my demands
And I won't stop until I'm holding
Heaven in my hands

Μεγαλώνουν τα κύματα; Είμαι χαμένος και μόνος, παρασυρμένος προς το πέλαγος

I'm a million miles from anywhere. Where can I be?
Somewhere out on the ocean
Just take a look out on the horizon. What can you see?
There's nothing there for me

Even standing on the corner of a busy city street
I still feel so lonely
Why do you say you want to be with me
But the next day say you don't?

I feel shipwrecked
I might as well be shipwrecked
I'm helpless and alone, drifting out to sea
I can't believe what you said to me
Without you I feel shipwrecked
But I can't let it show
A million miles away from anywhere... oh

Is it my imagination
Or is it getting darker? Are the waves getting higher?
I'm a million miles from anywhere
A million miles from anything I know

You know that's why I'm shipwrecked
I might as well be shipwrecked
I'm helpless and alone, drifting out to sea
I can't believe what you said to me
You know that's why I'm shipwrecked, shipwrecked
Losing my direction
Please come and rescue me
Shipwrecked

Πνίγομαι, μην με σώσεις. Είναι ακριβώς ο τρόπος που θα ήθελα να πάω

I hold you, I touch you
In a maze, can't find my way
I think you, I drink you
I'm being served to you on a tray
You see, girl
That's what I go through every day
Is this the way it should feel?

Pinch me, I'm dreaming
But if it is, don't let me know
I'm drowning, don't save me
It's just the way I'd like to go
You see, girl
You thrill me, half kill me
That's what you do...

Ai no corrida, that's where I am
You send me there
You dream is my command
Ai no corrida, I find myself
No other thought
Just you and nothing else
You and nothing else

Before my heart saw you
Each day was just another day
Night, the lonely interlude
Just came, then blew away
You know, girl
Everything was come what may
Until you fell in my life

This spell I'm under
Has caught me, I'm in a daze
Your lightning and thunder
Sets my poor heart ablaze
You see, girl
You thrill me, half kill me
That's what you do

Δεν θέλω να σ'άσω να ξέρεις ότι πνίγομαι στην ανάμνηση σου

Making my way downtown
Walking fast
Faces passed
And I'm home bound

Staring blankly ahead
Just making my way
Making a way
Through the crowd

And I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder....

If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could just
See you... tonight

It's always times like these
When I think of you
And I wonder
If you ever think of me

'Cause everything's so wrong
And I don't belong
Living in your precious memories

And I, I
Don't want to let you know
I, I
Drown in your memory
I, I
Don't want to let this go
I, I
Don't...

And I still need you
And I still miss you
And now I wonder...

If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass us by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could just
See you...
If I could just
Hold you... tonight

Όταν ο καιρός είναι καλός, ψαρεύουμε ή κολυμπούμε στη θάλασσα

In the summertime
When the weather is high
You can stretch right up
An' touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Ηave a drink, have a drive
Go out an' see what you can find

If her daddy's rich
Take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor
Just do as you feel
Speed along the lane
Do a ton, or a ton an' twenty five
When the sun goes down
You can make it
Make it good in a lay-by

We're not grey people
We're not dirty, we're not mean
We love everybody
But we do as we please
When the weather's fine
We go fishing or go swimming in the sea
We're always happy
Life's for living
Yeah! That's our philosophy

When the winter's here
Yeah, it's party time
Bring a bottle, wear your bright clothes
It'll soon be summertime
And we'll sing again
We'll go driving or maybe we'll settle down
If she's rich, if she's nice
Bring your friends
An' we'll all go into town

Πήδησε στον ωκεανό, συγκράτησε τη παλίρροια

Open your eyes, I see
Your eyes are open
Wear no disguise for me
Come into the open

Melting the ice for me
Jump into the ocean
Hold back the tide, I see
Your love in motion

When it's cold outside
Am I here in vain?
Hold on to the nights
There will be no shame

Always
I wanna be with you
And make believe with you
And live in harmony, harmony, oh, love
(Always)

Με έχεις πνιγομένος σε ποταμό, με κρύο και πυρετό

You've got me dancin' and cryin'
Rollin' and flying
Love, don't let me go
You've got me drownin' in a river
Cold and in fever
Love, don't let me go

Αν μου έλεγες ότι πνιγόσουν δεν θα σου έδινα ένα χέρι

I can feel it coming in the air tonight (Oh, Lord)
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life (Oh, Lord)
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight? (Oh, Lord, oh, Lord)

Well, if you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
I've seen your face before, my friend
But I don't know if you know who I am
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off the grin
I know where you've been
It's all been a pack of lies

Well, I remember, I remember, don't worry
How could I ever forget?
It's the first time
The last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up
No, you don't fool me
The hurt doesn't show
But the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you or me

I can feel it in the air tonight (Oh, Lord)
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life (Oh, Lord)

Είμαστε ήδη υγροί, και θα πάμε να κολυμήσουμε

Get a load of me, get a load of you
Walkin' down the street, and I hardly know you
It's just like we were meant to be

Holding hands with you, and we're out at night
Got a girlfriend, you say it isn't right
And I've got someone waiting too

This is, this is just the beginning
We're already wet, and we're gonna go swimming

Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you?
Why can't I speak whenever I talk about you?
It's inevitable, it's a fact that we're gonna get down to it
So tell me...
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you?

Isn't this the best part of breakin' up?
Finding someone else you can't get enough of
Someone who wants to be with you too

It's an itch we know we are gonna scratch
Gonna take a while for this egg to hatch
But wouldn't it be beautiful

Here we are, we're at the beginning
We haven't fucked yet, but my head's spinning

I'd love for you to make me wonder
Where it's goin'
I'd love for you to pull me under
Somethin's growin'
Out of this that we can control
Baby, I am dyin'

Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you?
Why can't I speak whenever I talk about you?

Σε κόσμο δρακιών πνίγομαι σιγά

Here I lie, in a lost and lonely part of town
Held in time - In a world of tears I slowly drown
Goin' home - I just can't make it all alone
I really should be holding you, holding you
Loving you, loving you

Tragedy
When the feeling's gone and you can't go on, it's tragedy
When the morning cries and you don't know why, it's hard to bear
With no-one to love, you you're goin' nowhere

Night and day there's a burning down inside of me
Burning love with a yearning that won't let me be
Down I go and I just can't take it all alone
I really should be holding you, holding you
Loving you, loving you

Tragedy
When you lose control and you got no soul, it's tragedy
When the morning cries and you don't know why, it's hard to bear
With no-one beside you, you're goin' nowhere

Με σηκώνεις για να βαδίσω πάνω σε τρικυμιώδης θάλασσα

When I am down and, oh, my soul, so weary
When troubles come and my heart burdened be
I am still and wait here in the silence
Until you come and sit a while with me

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains
You raise me up to walk on stormy seas
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders
You raise me up... to more than I can be

Εκείνος βυθίζεται στη θάλασσα και τα πανιά της είναι πλήρα

He followed her to work this morning
He'd never seen that dress before
She seemed to sail right through those dark clouds forming
That he knows he's headed for

After seven years of marriage
He wanted out
Now after seven months of freedom
It's clear that there's no doubt

She's gonna make it
And he never will
He's at the foot of the mountain
And she's over that hill
He's sinkin' at sea
And her sails are filled
She's gonna make it
And he never will

And you know it's not like she's forgot about him
She's just dealing with the pain
And the fact that she's survived so well without him
You know it's driving him insane

And the crazy thing about it
Is she'd take him back
But the fool in him that walked out
Is the fool that just won't ask

Πνιγόμενος στα υγρά πελάγη στη γραμμή Πικαδίλι

Vodka intimate, an affair with isolation in a Blackheath cell
Extinguishing the fires in a private hell
Provoking the heartache to renew the licence
Of a bleeding heart poet in a fragile capsule
Propping up the crust of the glitter conscience
Wrapped in the christening shawl of a hangover
Baptised in the tears from the real

Drowning in the liquid seas on the Piccadilly line, rat race
Scuttling through the damp electric labyrinth
Caress Ophelia's hand with breathstroke ambition
An albatross in the marrytime tradition
Sheathed within the Walkman wear the halo of distortion
Aural contraceptive, aborting pregnant conversation
She turned the harpoon and it pierced my heart
She hung herself around my neck

From the Time-Life-Guardians in their conscience bubbles
Safe and dry in my sea of troubles
Nine to five with suitable ties
Cast adrift as their side-show, peepshow, stereo hero
Be calm, be still, bewitch, drowning in the real

The thief of Baghdad hides in Islington now
Praying deportation for his sacred cow
A legacy of romance from a twilight world
The dowry of a relative mystery girl
A Vietnamese flower, a Dockland union
A mistress of release from a magazine's thighs
Magdalenes contracts more than favours
The feeding hands of western promise hold her by the throat

A son of a swastika of '45 parading a peroxide standard
Graffiti conjure disciples testaments of hatred
Aerosol wands whisper where the searchlights trim the barbed wire hedges
This is Brixton chess

A knight for Embankment folds his newspaper castle
A creature of habit, begs the boatman's coin
He'll fade with old soldiers in the grease stained roll call
And linger with the heartburn of Good Friday's last supper

Son watches father scan obituary columns in search of absent school friends
While his generation digests high fibre ignorance
Cowering behind curtains and the taped up painted windows
Decriminalised genocide, provided door to door Belsens
Pandora's box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens
Waiting, the season of the button, the penultimate migration
Radioactive perfumes, for the fashionably, for the terminally insane, insane
Do you realise? Do you realise?
Do you realise this world is totally fugazi?

Where are the prophets? Where are the visionaries? Where are the poets
To breach the dawn of the sentimental mercenary?

Δεν ξέρω πώς βυθίζομαι ή κολυμπώ

The water is wide, I cannot cross over
And neither I have wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row - my love and I

There is a ship, and she sails the sea
She's loaded deep as deep can be
But not so deep as the love I'm in
I know not how I sink or swim

I leaned my back against a young oak
Thinking it'd be a trusty tree
But first it bent and then it broke
And there still bides true love in me

I put my hand into a soft bush
Thinking the sweetest flower to find
But I pricked my finger to the bone
And left the sweetest flower alone

O, love is gentle and love is kind
Gay as a jewel, when first it's new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like morning dew

Μόνο οι πνιγόμενοι άνθρωποι μπορούσαν να τον δουν

Suzanne takes you down
To her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you wanna be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover

And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind

And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind

Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the sea-weed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror

And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind

Θα αποσπήσεις τα μαλιά σου, πνιγμένος σε απόγνωση

Feel the pressure
Your back's up against the wall
Love is in the mood
You're just about to fall
If you're afraid to love
Afraid to take a chance
You'd better hide your feeling
Get out or you can't

'Cause you'll be going loco
Down in a Acapulco
If you stay to long
Yes, you'll be goin loco
Down in a Acapulco
The magic down there is so strong

You can hear voices bleeding through those warm Latin nights
Memories are lost and found
Leaving broken hearts
All over town, all over town

You will be pulling out your hair
Drowning in despair
With a whole lot of loving
On your way to nowhere
Your search for paradise will come to an end
When you realize what a fool you've been

You'll be haunted by her face
Missing hear warm embrace
Memories of loving her
Holding her tight, every night
Was that the best part of your life?
Hearing her voice, soft and low
Begging you to please, please don't go
Don't go, no
Don't go

Σκέπτομαι για τους υπαινιγμούς να καταδυθώ πολύ βαθύ, και ίσως για τις επιπλοκές

I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications

Especially at night
I worry over situations
I know it'll be alright
Perhaps it's just my imagination

Alone between the sheets
Only brings exasperation
It's time to walk the streets
Smell the desperation

At least there's pretty lights
And though there's little variation
It nullifies the night
From overkill

Day after day, it reappears
Night after night, my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Come back another day

Αισθάνομαι σαν να θα πνιγώ σ'αυτή την άγνωστη πόλη

Cutting through the darkest night
Are my two headlights
Trying to keep it clear
But I'm losing it here to the twilight
There's a dead end to my left
There's a burning bush to my right
You aren't in sight
You aren't in sight

Mother's on the stoop
Boys in souped-up coupes
On this hot summer night
Between fight and flight
Is the blind man's sight
And a choice that's right
I roll the window down
Feel like I'm gonna drown
In this strange town
Feel broken down
I feel broken down

(A sweet sorrow is
The call tomorrow)

Do you want me
Like I want you?
Or am I standing still
Beneath the darkened sky?
Or am I standing still
With the scenery flying by?
Or am I standing still?
Out of the corner of my eye
Was that you
Passing me by?

Do you love me
Like I love you?

Do you need me
Like I'm needing you now?
Are you passing me by
Or am I standing still?

Ο ποταμός είναι πλατύς, θα κολυμπήσω κατά πλάτος του

How many of you people out there
Been hurt in some kind of love affair
And how many times do you swear that you'll never love again?

How many lonely, sleepless nights?
How many lies, how many fights?
And why would you want to put yourself through all that again?

"Love is pain," I hear you say
Love has a cruel and bitter way
Of paying you back for all the faith you ever had in your brain

How could it be that what you need the most
Can leave you feeling just like a ghost?
You never want to feel so sad and lost again

One day you could be looking
Through an old book in rainy weather
You see a picture of her smiling at you
When you were still together
You could be walking down the street
And who should you chance to meet?
But that same old smile that you've been thinking of all day

You can turn the clock to zero, honey
I'll sell the stock, we'll spend all the money
We're starting up a brand new day
Turn the clock all the way back
I wonder if she'll take me back
I'm thinking in a brand new way

Turn the clock to zero, sister
You'll never know how much I missed her
Starting up a brand new day
Turn the clock to zero, boss
The river's wide, we'll swim across
Starting up a brand new day

It could happen to you - just like it happened to me
There's simply no immunity - there's no guarantee
I say love's such a force if you find yourself in it
And sometimes no reflection, is there?
Baby, wait a minute, wait a minute

Turn the clock to zero, honey
I'll sell the stock, we'll spend all the money
We're starting up a brand new day
Turn the clock to zero, Mac
I'm begging her to take me back
I'm thinking in a brand new way

Turn the clock to zero, boss
The river's wide, we'll swim across
Started up a brand new day
Turn the clock to zero, buddy
Don't wanna be no fuddy duddy
Starting up a brand new day

I'm the rhythm in your tune
I'm the sun and you're the moon
I'm a bat and you're the cave
You're the beach and I'm the wave
I’m the plough and you’re the land
You're the glove and I'm the hand
I'm the train and you're the station
I'm a flagpole to your nation - yeah

I'm the present to your future
You're the wound and I’m the suture
You're the magnet to my pole
I'm the devil in your soul
You're the pupil, I'm the teacher
You're the church and I'm the preacher
You're the flower, I'm the rain
You're the tunnel, I'm the train

You're the crop to my rotation
You're the sum of my equation
I'm the answer to your question
If you follow my suggestion
We can turn this ship around
We'll go up instead of down
You're the pan and I'm the handle
You're the flame and I'm the candle

Stand up, all you lovers in the world
Stand up and be counted, every boy and every girl
Stand up, all you lovers in the world
Starting up a brand new day

Θα μπορούσα να πνιγώ αν έμεινα εδώ

Knew the signs, wasn't right
I was stupid for a while
Swept away by you
And now I feel like a fool
So confused, my heart's bruised
Was I ever loved by you?

Out of reach, too far
I never had your heart
Out of reach, couldn't see
We were never meant to be

Catch myself from despair
I could drown if I stay here
Keeping busy every day
I know I will be OK

But I was so confused
My heart's bruised
Was I ever loved by you?

So much hurt, so much pain
Takes a while to regain
What is lost inside
And I hope that in time
You'll be out of my mind
And I'll be over you

But now I'm
So confused,
My heart's bruised
Was I ever loved by you?

Out of reach, so far
You never gave your heart
In my reach, I can see
There's a life out there for me

Τότε διαβάζεις παλιά ερωτικά γράμματα πνιγομένος στη θάλασσα

Outside the gates of heaven
Oh, there lives a unicorn
I close my eyes to seven
Oh, this world is not my home

A broken heart in danger
And a pillow filled with tears
Oh, can you see the strangers
In the pain and in the fears?

Can you feel my heart?
Baby, don't give up
Can you feel my love tonight?

In 100 years, love is illegal
In 100 years from now
In 100 years, love is illegal
In this lonely, heartbreak town

In 100 years, love is illegal
All your dreams will die
In 100 years, love is illegal
And your hope will not survive

(L. O. V. E.)
(Love is illegal, my heart)
(Can you hear my heart is beating?)

You're looking through a fire
Computers everywhere
Oh, you're a shotgun rider
Controllers here and there

Then you read old love letters
Drowning in the sea
Oh, baby, it doesn't matter
Oh, you've lost all what you feel

Μα δεν φοβάμαι γιατί το Λονδίνο πνίγεται και μένω δίπλα στο ποτάμι

London calling to the far away towns
Now war is declared and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls

London calling, now don't look to us
Phoney beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
Except for the ring of that truncheon thing

The ice age is coming, the sun, zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning and I live by the river

London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, you can go at it alone
London calling to the zombies of death
Quit holding out and draw another breath

London calling, and I don't wanna shout
But while we were talking I saw you running out
London calling, see we ain't got no high
Except for that one with the yellowy eyes

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning and I, I live by the river

Now get this
London calling, yes, I was there, too
And you know what they said? Well, some of it was true
London calling at the top of the dial
And after all this, won't you give me a smile?
London calling

I never felt so much alike...

Αισθάνεται πολύ καλά (κολυμπώντας στο στομάχι σου)

I recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone
I recommend walking around naked in your living room
Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)
It feels so good (swimming in your stomach)
Wait until the dust settles

I recommend biting off more than you can chew to anyone - I certainly do
I recommend sticking your foot in your mouth at any time - feel free
Throw it down (the caution blocks you from the wind)
Hold it up (to the rays)
You wait and see when the smoke clears

Wear it out (the way a three-year-old would do)
Melt it down (you're gonna have to eventually, anyway)
The fire trucks are coming up around the bend

You live, you learn
You love, you learn
You cry, you learn
You lose, you learn
You bleed, you learn
You scream, you learn

You grieve, you learn
You choke, you learn
You laugh, you learn
You choose, you learn
You pray, you learn
You ask, you learn
You live, you learn

Χτες ήπια αρκετά για να πνιθώ

Sitting here just watching you sleep
Wish I could slip inside and be
In some technicolor dream
But the air's too thick for one of us to breathe
I'm not fool enough to think
You couldn't live life without me

I didn't come this far to throw the towel in
I didn't fight this hard to walk away
If I ain't smart enough to say "I'm sorry"
It's just because the words got in the way

I remember how it used to be
I was you and you were me
We were more than just the same
Now these shoes don't fit, my skin's too tight
When you want a kiss, I take a bite
Let your heart call up the cops, read me my rights
Last night I drank enough to drown
Raise a toast to your good looks and to my health
Look, we both know how much I've let you down
Janie, don't you take your love to town

Janie, don't you take your love to town
If I gotta beg, I'll beg
Just don't walk away
Janie, don't you take your love to town

You deserve a shooter, a saint
Someone to give it to you straight
To find the soul through flesh and bone
My life's a treasure, full of sunny weather
But it's left me feeling cold
Now all you wanna do is take me home
I hated you the night you said you loved me
I hated you, 'cause I couldn't love myself
I'm begging you now, baby, please just hold me
I got one foot in, one foot off the ground

Sittin' here while you're fast asleep
In the bathroom by the sink
Trying to write the right words down
I turn out the lights, close my eyes
There ain't no prayers or kiss goodnight
What I'll forget to say tomorrow, I'll say now
Janie, don't you take your love to town

Εκεί όπου ο κόσμος πνίγεται και ο κόσμος υπηρετά

Hey now, little speedyhead
The read on the speedmeter says
You have to go to task in the city
Where people drown and people serve
Don’t be shy. Your just deserve
Is only just light years to go

Me, my thoughts are flower-strewn
Ocean storm, bayberry moon
I have got to leave to find my way
Watch the road and memorize
This life that pass before my eyes
And nothing is going my way

The ocean is the river's goal
A need to leave the water knows
We're closer now than light years to go

I have got to find the river
Bergamot and vetiver
Run through my head and fall away
Leave the road and memorize
This life that pass before my eyes
And nothing is going my way

There's no one left to take the lead
But I tell you and you can see
We're closer now than light years to go
Pick up here and chase the ride
The river empties to the tide
Fall into the ocean

The river to the ocean goes
A fortune for the undertow
None of these is going my way
There is nothing left to throw
Of ginger, lemon, indigo
Coriander stem and rose of hay
Strength and courage overrides
The privileged and weary eyes
Of river poet, search naiveté
Pick up here and chase the ride
The river empties to the tide
All of this is coming your way

Κολυμπώ στις φλόγες επιθυμίας

I get up
I run through the world like a fire
Heat it up
I swim in the flames of desire

Chase it if you care, take it if you dare
It's there in the air
Answer to the gun, dance in the sun
Run, boy, run

Run for your life, you're movin' on and on
The art of survival is turnin' me on
And I'll be chasin' it all night long
Don'tcha wanna live?

I get out
I roam through the streets like a tiger
Let it out
I swing like a bird on a wire

Everywhere you go, everybody knows
Oh don'tcha know
Everythin' you do, anybody new
They're all on to you

Fight for your life, turn it all round
The art of survival isn't gettin' me down
And I'll be chasin' it all night long
Don'tcha wanna live?

Κρατήσαμε τα χέρια μας και γελήσαμε, μετά πηδήσαμε στο νερό

We held hands and laughed
Then we jumped in the water
Off the jetty we'd fly
As the sun got hotter
We were any age
Floating through space
Happy for once in the human race

(Oh, I wanna stay)
On this sweet Sunday
And into Monday
Your arms wrapped around me
Where my love has found me
Has finally found me
But am I really free?

If I could read your mind
I hope I'd find
The same love I have in mine
If I could go back in time
I'd try to find you
And make up for all this wasted time

Like a broken record
I've stayed protected
From promises
From disappointments
I wanna hear your dreams
Wanna drift away
Wanna break you in
Oh, I wanna stay
Stay in heaven, oh, in heaven
And see my life finally begin
Will we be together, oh, forever?
Darling, please let me in

Γλυκή ανακούφιση με ηρεμά, ωθά να πνίξω

Sweet relief calms me down
Makes me drown
Lost and found
Neighbours complain
Sheets are stained
Hotel shower
The best around

Spacing from Paris to New York
Silver sunglasses
Silver phone
Connect us to someone
Who doesn't know
About these feelings we can't control

People they want us to fall down
But we won't ever
Touch the ground
'Cause we're perfectly balanced
We'll float around
Till noone is near
Do you hear this sound

This strange feeling captures us
It generates this huge fuzz
I miss you all the time I must face
I miss your touch and your embrace

Μπορώ να κλαίω σπαρακτικά, πνιγμένος στις αυταρχικές μου συνήθειες

My life is extraordinairy bare
I fought the fear and chased the pain
My life doesn't need to be explained
I chose to walk the line as one
Sometimes, as I live upon my island
Cut off from emotion and its pain
Oh, that's when I am tempted by the waters
Waters that can take me far away

So, I'll just keep on walking down this open road
Hoping someone somewhere needs me
So, I'll just keep on walking down this open road
Talking to the man who knows me
Yes, he knows me, the man is me

My life was once full of people's faces
Brought to me by love, which isn't strange
Oh, my life had the goodness of blue waters
"A day's a day for all", I used to say
Sometimes, I can sit and cry my heart out
Drowning in my autocratic ways

My life is now full of people's faces
Within the light of change I pulled away
My life shows that no man is an island
I've exchanhed the piece of life I cut away

Now you won't see me walking down that open road
I've found someone now who needs me
No, you won't see me walking down that open road
I've found at last the man who knows me
Yes, he knows me and the man is me

Κρύψε το κεφάλι μου, θέλω να πνίξω τη λύπη μου

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere

Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorow, no tomorow

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen

Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

Είναι περισσότερο από όνειρο, ίσως πνιγόμαστε σε Αυτοκρατορίες Τέρψης

When the heat of light melts into the speeding time
When the King returns from the Ivory City side
Let the Magnet-Mages wave the signals, flashing, oh, so fast
Then you'll meet me there under the moonshine

In a Lovers' Heaven, we'll keep our promises at last
In a Lovers' Heaven, we'll forget the past

Do you want to dance with me
Through one of those lonely nights?
It's more than a dream, maybe
We're reaching the Gardens of Delight
Do you want to dance with me
Through one of those lonely nights?
It's more than a dream, maybe
We're drowning in Empires of Delight

In the stardust dawn underneath the crystal roofs
Where the solar boys are playing games they'll never lose
Where the sailors sway through the lightdomes shining from the skies
There, you'll meet me, darling, anyway

πνιγμένοι στη θάλασσα έρωτα, εκεί όπου όλοι θα ήθελαν να πνίξουν

Wait a minute, baby
Stay with me awhile
Said you'd give me light
But you never told be about the fire

Drowning in the sea of love
Where everyone would love to drown
And now it's gone
It doesn't matter anymore
When you build your house
Then call me home

And he was just like a great dark wing
Within the wings of a storm
I think I had met my match
He was singing
And undoing the laces

Sara, you're the poet in my heart
Never change, never stop
But now it's gone
It doesn't matter what for
But when you build your house
I'll come by

Hold on, the night is coming
And the starling flew for days
I'd stay home at night all the time
I'd go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere
Ask me and I'm there because I care

All I ever wanted
Was to know that you were dreaming
(There's a heartbeat
And it never really died)

Το πλοίο μου θα έφυγε από τη χώρα, μα θα προτιμούσα να κολυμπήσω προς την ξηρά

I'm just a normal boy
That sank when I fell overboard
My ship would leave the country
But I'd rather swim ashore

Without a life that's sadly stuck again
Wish I was much more masculine
Maybe then I could learn to swim
Like 'fourteen miles away'

You're floating up and down
I spin, colliding into sound
Like whales beneath me, diving down
I'm sinking to the bottom of my
Everything that freaks me out
The lighthouse beam has just run out
I'm cold, as cold as cold can be

I want to swim away but don't know how
Sometimes it feels just like I'm falling in the ocean
Let the waves up take me down
Let the hurricane set in motion
Let the rain of what I feel right now come down
Let the rain come down

Where is the coastguard?
I keep looking each direction
For a spotlight, give me something
I need something for protection
Maybe flotsam junk will do just fine
The jets, I'm sunk, I'm left behind
I'm treading for my life, believe me
(How can I keep up this breathing)

Not knowing how to think
I scream aloud, begin to sink
My legs and arms are broken down
With envy for the solid ground
I'm reaching for the life within me
How can one man stop his ending
I thought of just your face
Relaxed, and floated into space

Now waking to the sun
I calculate what I had done
Like jumping from the bow, yeah
Just to prove I knew how, yeah
It's midnight's late reminder of
The loss of her, the one I love
My will to quickly end it all
So thought no end my need to fall

Into the ocean, end it all
(Goodbye)
Into space...
I thought of just your face

Αν πίστεψα πως ο έρωτας μας θα τέλειωσα, θα εμένα βρήκα πνιγμένος στα δάκρυα μου

You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always be around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you'll stay in my heart

I feel like this is the beginning
Though I've loved you for a million years
And if I thought our love was ending
I'd find myself drowning in my own tears

You must have known that I was lonely
Because you came to my rescue
And I know that this must be heaven
How could so much love be inside of you?

Love has joined us
Let's think sweet love

Πού θα είναι ο έρωτας όταν διαλύσεις; Πνίγεσαι

Some days are all Mondays
Sort of time on ice
It seems like jet planes
Sit on runways
Under clear blue skies
Who needs it?
Nothing is real but the girl
Nothing is real but me

Money goes to money
In a figure eight around me
Money, where will love be
when you liquidate?
You're drowning

Now done is done
You have to face the horrible days
You were the one
Running sevens

Then luck was gone
A magic man without his wand
Praying for a seven or eleven

Wind down
Put your mind down
Like you're missing school
I'll teach you to find out
While you're dying
In your living room
How much you need me

Nothing is real but the girl
Only my eyes are solid
Nothing is real but me
Nothing is real but the girl

Έχω επεχειρήσει να φτάσω την ακτή σου, κύματα αμφιβολίας συνεχίζουν να με πνίγουν

I'm not proud, I was wrong
And the truth is hard to take
I felt sure we had enough
But our love went overboard
Lifeboat lies lost at sea
I've been trying to reach your shore
Waves of doubt keep drowning me

All the dreams that we were building
We never fulfilled them
Could be better, should be better
For lessons in love

For restless eyes, egos burn
And the mold is hard to break
Now we've waded in too deep
And love is overboard
Heavy hearts, token words
All the hopes I ever had
Fade like footprints in the sand

All the homes that we were building
We never lived in
Could be better, should be better
Lessons in love
If we lose the time before us
The future will ignore us
We should use it, we could use it, yeah
Lessons in love

Lost without love...
Lessons in love
When will you ever learn
Lessons in love
When there's nowhere left to turn
Lessons in love
Don't let your spirit burn
Lessons in love
I'll wait till you return

All the dreams that we were building
We never lived them
We could use it, we should use it
For lessons in love

Βρέχει από τότε που έφυγες, τώρα πνίγομαι στη πλημμύρα

This Romeo is bleeding
But you can't see his blood
It's nothing but some feelings
That this old dog kicked up

It's been raining since you left me
Now I'm drowning in the flood
You see I've always been a fighter
But, without you, I give up

Now I can't sing a love song
Like the way it's meant to be
Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore
But, baby, that's just me

And I will love you, baby - Always
And I'll be there forever and a day - Always
I'll be there till the stars don't shine
Till the heavens burst
And he words don't rhyme
I know when I die, you'll be on my mind
And I'll love you always

Now your pictures that you left behind
Are just memories of a different life
Some that made us laugh, some that made us cry
One that made you have to say goodbye

What I'd give to run my fingers through your hair
To touch your lips, to hold you near
When you say your prayers try to understand
I've made mistakes, I'm just a man

When he holds you close, when he pulls you near
When he says the words you've been needing to hear
I wish I was him, 'cause those words are mine
To say to you till the end of time

If you told me to cry for you
I could
If you told me to die for you
I would
Take a look at my face
There's no price I won't pay
To say these words to you

Well, there ain't no luck
In these loaded dice
But baby if you give me just one more try
We can pack up our old dreams
And our old lives
We'll find a place where the sun still shines

Yeah, I will love you, baby - Always
And I'll be there forever and a day - Always

Άσε την βροχή να γεμίσει την ψυχή μου και να πνίξει τους φόβους μου

I was waiting for so long
For a miracle to come
Everyone told me to be strong
Hold on and don't shed a tear

Through the darkness and good times
I knew I'd make it through
And the world thought I had it all
But I was waiting for you

Hush, love
I see a light in the sky
Oh, it's almost blinding me
I can't believe I've been touched
By an angel with love

Let the rain come down and wash away my tears
Let it fill my soul and drown my fears
Let it shatter the walls for a new sun
A new day has... come

Where it was dark now there's light
Where there was pain now there's joy
Where there was weakness I found my strength
All in the eyes of a boy

Είμαστε μόνο δύο χαμένες ψυχές κολυμπώντας σε γυάλα ψαρών

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell?
Blue skys from pain?
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here

Έτσι κολυμπάς προς τη δισκοθήκη, έξω από τα νερά σου

You pick out your credit cards and check into the night
A dozen tequilas and you're feeling all right
So you swim to the disco, out of your depth, jaded gigolo
Your lucky charms are tarnished, so you leave alone
But there's one place left to go before the taxi home
After all, you've made your marks

One night you'll play Elizabeth Taylor
The next night you're Marilyn Monroe
Forever kissing frogs that think they're princes
Oh, Lady Nina, where did all the romance go?

Your little sister babysits, your husband picks you up at six
The make-up hides the bruises and the tears so they never show
'Cause your beauty is the only thing you've ever owned
It's the only way you've ever known to make your marks
You made your marks, you made your marks

Lady Nina, I'd love to take you home with me
But I love my wife and I love my family
I've got a good job, responsibilities
And I need to keep respect from society
I know you'll never act with me, I know that you're in love with me
So how do I compare to the sailors of the ships of the night?
Was I all right?
Did you come tonight, Lady Nina?

Ebony flowers pinned to a velvet cushion in a red light
And Edith Piaf sings a lullaby for the night
Just making marks, just making marks
You made your marks

Θα προσπαθήσω να κολυμπήσω και σου σύρω

Peeling the skin back from my eyes
I felt surprised
That the time on the clock was the time
I usually retired
To the place where I cleared my head of you
But just for today
I think I'll lie here and dream of you

I've got you under my skin
Where the rain can't get in
But if the sweat pours out, just shout
I'll try to swim and pull you out

A howling wind that blows the litter
As the rain flows
As street lamps pour orange coloured shapes
Through your windows
A broken soul stares from a pair of watering eyes
Uncertain emotions force an uncertain smile

Πνίξε μου στο αβαθή νερό πριν να πάω πολύ βαθιά

I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know, if you know what I mean

Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box
Religion is the smile on a dog

Choke me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep

What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?

Philosophy is a walk on slippery rocks
Religion is a light in the fog

Don't let me get too deep

Εκείνη κολύμπησε πλάϊ μένα, έσωσα τη ζωή της

Summer lovin' had me a blast
Summer lovin', happened so fast
I met a girl crazy for me
I met a boy cute as can be

Summer days driftin' away
To those summer nights
"Tell me more, tell me more
Did you get very far?"
"Tell me more, tell me more
Like, does he have a car?"

She swam by me, she got a cramp
He ran by me, got my suit damp
I saved her life, she nearly drowned
He showed up, splashing around

Summer sun, something's begun
But those summer nights
"Tell me more, tell me more
Was it love at first sight?"
"Tell me more, tell me more
Did she put up a fight?"

Took her bowlin' in the Arcade
We went strollin', drank lemonade
We made out under the dock
We stayed up till ten o'clock

Summer fling don't mean a thing
But those summer nights
"Tell me more, tell me more
But you don't got to brag"
"Tell me more, tell me more
'Cause he sounds like a drag"

He got friendly, holdin' my hand
Well, she got friendly, down in the sand
He was sweet, just turned eightteen
Well, she was good, you know what I mean

Summer heat, boy and girl meet
But those summer nights
"Tell me more, tell me more
How much dough did he spend?"
"Tell me more, tell me more
Could she get me a friend?"

It turned colder, that's where it ends
So I told her we'd still be friends
Then we made our true love vow
Wonder what she's doin' now

Περπάτησε πάνω στον ωκεανό

We spotted the ocean
At the head of the trail
Where are we going
So far away?
And somebody told me
That this is the place
Where everything’s better
Everything’s safe

Walk on the ocean
Step on the stones
Flesh becomes water
Wood becomes bone

And half and hour later
We packed up our things
We said we’d send letters
And all those little things
And they knew we were lying
But they smiled just the same
It seemed they’d already
Forgotten we’d came

Now we’re back at the homestead
Where the air makes you choke
And people don’t know you
And trust is a joke
We don’t even have pictures
Just memories to hold
That grow sweeter each season
As we slowly grow old

Έτσι πήδησε στον ποταμό και μάθε να κολυμπάς

Hush, little baby, don't cry like that
God's gonna buy you a Cadillac
He's chosen you to do His will
You can spread the word in your 'coupe de ville'

So jump in the river and learn to swim
God's gonna wash away all your sins
And if you still can't see the light
God's gonna buy you a satellite

Look to the heavens and see it shine
Heals the sick and leads the blind
Tune it in and hear it say
It's counting down to Judgement Day

Hey satellite man, your time has come
Your word received by everyone
And should you fall, well, that's okay
You love the ones that you betray

Αγάπη μου, θα κολυμπήσω οιαδήποτε θάλασσα

When the going gets tough
The tough get going
When the going gets tough
The tough get ready

I got something to tell you
I got something to say
I'm gonna put this dream in motion
Never let nothing stand in my way
When the going gets tough
The tough get going

I'm gonna get myself 'cross the river
That's the price I'm willing to pay
I'm gonna make you stand and deliver
And give me love in the old-fashion way

Darlin', I'll climb any mountain
Darlin', I'll do anything

Ooh, can I touch you
And do the things that lovers do
Ooh, wanna hold you
I gotta get it through to you

'Cos when the going gets tough
The tough get going
When the going gets rough
The tough get rough

I'm gonna buy me a one-way ticket
Nothin's gonna hold me back
Your love's like a slow train coming
And I feel it coming down the track

Darlin', I'll climb any mountain
Darlin', I'll swim any sea
Darlin', I'll reach for the heaven
Darlin', with you lovin' me