First And Last And Always Lyrics:

Black Planet

(In the western sky)

(My kingdom come)

So still so dark all over Europe

And I ride down the highway 101

By the side of the ocean headed for sunset

For the kingdom come

For the

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Black

Black planet

Black

Black world

[repeat]

Run around in the radiation

Run around in the acid rain

On a

Black

Black planet

Black planet hanging over the highway

Out of my mind's eye

Out of the memory

Black world out of my mind

Still so dark all over Europe

And the rainbow rises here

In the western sky

The kill to show for

At the end of the great white pier

I see a

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Run around in the radiation

Tune in turn on burn out in the acid rain on a..

CHORUS[repeat to fade]

Walk Away

And in the summer when the clouds show through

I might go the same way too if

You and I could talk together

Well what am I supposed to do with

You and I would walk together

Then with always close around and

Now you gaze toward the doorway

When the weather comes falling down

CHORUS

And when the rain comes down

Would you choose to walk or stay

Would you choose to walk

Would you choose to stay

Would you

Walk walk walk walk walk away

(away) (away) away away (away) away

away away walk away

Would you choose to walk away

And when the rain comes down

Would you choose to walk or stay

Would you choose to walk

Would you choose to stay

Would you

Walk walk walk walk walk away

Though when the day is nearly

Through I might see the same way too if

You would name the things

That bring you down on me so I could say it's

Not quite true if you don't really

Know or understand the circumstance

Behind then I might clear your

Mind and you won't have to go so

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No Time To Cry

It's just a feeling

I get sometimes

A feeling

Sometimes

And I get frightened

Just like you

I get frightened too

but it's ...

CHORUS

(no no no) No time for heartache

(no no no) No time to run and hide

(no no no) No time for breaking down

(no no no) No time to cry

Sometimes in the world as is you've

Got to shake the hand that feeds you

It's just like Adam says

It's not so hard to understand

It's just like always coming down on

Just like Jesus never came and

What did you expect to find

It's just like always here again it's ...

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Everything will be alright

Everything will turn out fine

Some nights I still can't sleep

And the voices pass with time

And I keep

[repeat]

No time for tears

No time to run and hide

No time to be afraid of fear

I keep no time to cry

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A Rock and a Hard Place

And she came to look for me

Sold me name and innocence

Took my key

And told me to follow her

Down from igor with her bangles and her reference

One from the church from the valley of the

Well she wanted a haven and a place to hide

So I gave her an alibi took her inside but

A rock and a hard place await for for me

Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Everything I ever did right or wrong

Hid out of sight where I belong, belong

And I didn't have the heart to tell her

Why

And there wasn't a part of me that

Didn't want to say goodbye but

Cause and effect go hand in hand with

The devil may care but I don't mind and I

Thought she'd never quite understand so I

Left her there that night but will she

Find me? I don't think so, no

When you go, you go alone

And I'm gone ...

far away [x4]

And I didn't have the heart to tell

Why

And there wasn't a part of me that

Didn't want to say goodbye but...

CHORUS [to fade]

Marian (version)

In a sea of faces, in a sea of doubt

In this cruel place your voice above the maelstrom

In the wake of this ship of fools I'm falling further down

If you can see me, Marian, reach out and take me home ...

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I hear you calling Marian

Across the water, across the wave

I hear you calling Marian

Can you hear me calling you to

Save me, save me, save me from the

Grave ...

Marian

Marian, there's a weight above me

And the pressure is all too strong

To breathe deep

Breathe long and hard

To take the water down and go to sleep

To sink still further

Beneath the fatal wave

Marian I think I'm drowning

This sea is killing me

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Was ich kann und was ich konnte (What I can do and what I could do)

Weiss ich gar nicht mehr (I just don't know anymore)

Gib mir wieder etwas Schönes (Give me something beautiful again)

Zieh mich aus dem Meer (Drag me from the sea)

Ich höre dich rufen Marian (I hear you calling Marian)

Kannst du mich schreien hören (Can you hear me calling?)

Ich bin hier allein (I am here alone)

Ich höre dich rufen Marian (I hear you calling Marian)

Ohne deine Hilfe verliere ich mich in diesem Ort

(Without your help I am lost in this place)

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[repeat Marian til end]

First and Last and Always

See a body and a dream of the dead days

A following lost and blind

Living far from here

Tomorrow is hard to find

And it seems like twenty five years of

Promises and give me more

Scenes of a hand-me-down in

Dresses heard before

CHORUS 1

First and last and always: til the end of time

First and last and always: Mine [echo]

Maybe it's not so easy

Maybe it's a way to long

Say, say you'll be by me

When the evidence comes along

CHORUS 2

First and last and always: My calling, my time

First and last and always: Mine [echo]

My calling

My time

See a place and a dream of the dead days

A following lost and blind

Cross my heart with silver

Here's the key behind

Seems like twenty five years of

Ever after ever more more more

Seems I wore this face for you

Far too long before

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CHORUS 1 [x2 and fade]

Possession

Carrion child,

Prey for me, play your

Wild card, see the house come down around your

Head, home to me, so much dreaming

Some say I am growing cold and

Taking over

Nothing, cuts, two ways ...

Possession: taking over

Stand these pictures on your shelf

And wear your heart upon my sleeve,

Wear a dress that you can see through,

See yourself inside;

I'll be your imagination,

Tear apart what you believe,

Make a mess of your conviction,

Take away my pride and leave,

Nothing, but the debris,

Cuts, two ways,

Carrion child,

Prey for me, play your

Wild card, see the house come down around your

Possession: taking over ...

Possession: shake shake shake shake shake shake;

Possession: taking over ...

Somehow the fact takes over, and the fiction coming through,

Somehow I do my crying breaking down for you,

This way doubt takes over, contradiction coming through,

This way I do my lying, making up and making out for you ...

Possession: taking over

Child (nothing)

Prey for me (but the debris)

Play your wild card (cuts two ways)

Some say I'm growing cold and

Taking over ... Down around your

Head (nothing)

Home to me (but the debris)

So much dreaming, see the house come down around your

Possession: shake shake shake shake shake shake shake

Possession: taking over ...

Possession: shake shake shake shake shake shake shake

Possession: taking hold

Nine While Nine

And it's passing strange

And I'm waiting for the train

Caught up on this line again

And it's passing slowly

Killing time but it's

Better than living in what will come and I've

Still got some of your letters with me and I

Thought sometimes or I read too much

And I think you know let's

Drink to the dead lying under the water and the

Cost of the blood on the driven snow and the

Lipstick on my cigarettes

Frost upon the window pane

Nine while nine and I'm waiting

For the train ...

She said do you remember a time when angels

Do you remember a time when fear

In the days when I was stronger

In the days when you were here she said

When days had no beginning

While days had no end when

Shadows grew no longer I

Knew no other friend but you

Were wild

You were wild ...

Frost upon these cigarettes

Lipstick on the window pane and I've

Lost all sense of the world outside but I

Can't forget so I call your name and I'm

Looking for a life for me and I'm

Looking for a life for you and I'm

Talking to myself again and it's

So damn cold it's just not true and I'm

Walking through the rain

Trying to hold on waiting for the train and I'm

Only looking for what you want but it's

Lonely here and I think you knew and I'm

And I'm waiting

And I wait in vain

Nine while nine and I'm waiting

For the train ... [repeat last verse x2]

Amphetamine Logic

Watch them do

The falling over

Watch them do

The standing still

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Nothing but the knife to live for

One life all I need

Give me one good reason

Give me more s...

(Women)

And the women come and go

(Talk)

Talking about me like they know

(Men)

Bought and sold

And the world keeps turning

People cold

And people burning

CHORUS [x2]

(Amphetamine logic)

Hit up

Steel in hand

Lit up

Like candles

Burning

Like Catherine wheels

Turning

On

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(Amphetamine logic)

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Some Kind of Stranger

And yes I believe in what we had

But words got in the way

And only yesterday

As I was leaving

Lord knows I've tried to say but I've

Heard a million conversations

Going where they've been before

Seen the way that careful lingers

Undecided at the door

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And all I know for sure

All I know for real

Is knowing doesn't mean so much

When placed against the feeling

The heat inside

When bodies meet

When fingers touch

All my words are secondhand and

Useless in the face of this

Rationale and rhyme and reason

Pale beside a single kiss

And I've heard so many things I

Fail to understand at all

I'd settle anytime for

Unknown footsteps in the hall outside

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Because the world is cruel and

Promises are broken

Don't try to tell me

Anything don't try to tell me

You'll be true to me you know the

Real truth is never spoken

And I know the world is cold but

If you hold on tight to what you

Find you might not mind too much though

Even this must pass away and

Memories may last for years but

Names are just for souvenirs

Some kind of angel let me

Look into your eyes

Don't give me whys and wherefores

Reason or surprise

I don't care for words that don't belong

And I don't care what you're called

Tell me later if at all

I can wait a long long time

Before I hear another love song

Come here I think you're beautiful

My door is open wide

Some kind of angel come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful

I think you're beautiful beautiful

Some kind of angel come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful

I think you're beautiful

Some kind of angel come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful

My door is open wide

Some kind of stranger come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful

I think you're beautiful beautiful

Some kind of stranger come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful

I think you're beautiful

Some kind of stranger come inside

[repeat last three verses to fade]