Look around for the traces Or the signs they left behind There’s no one here who knows the faces It’s funny how they just went blind And the road it just gets longer And further from our past And our memories just get shorter And the future comes so fast CH And they say that there's no reason To remember what we've seen But you won’t know where you’re going to If you don’t know where you been So who dictates the landscape And the picture we will see If the money buys the whisky Will the talk be silenced endlessly? A nation’s strength lies in its people And a nation’s heart is hard to hold And the people’s stories are its history And without a past we’ve got no soul CH Like steps to the future We tread them with caution We stumble and stammer As the blame is apportioned As the wheel comes full circle As we unravel the mystery Selective amnesia Is rewriting history. I have been into the war zones I have seen a country bleed I've seen chains in the eyes of children And souls of men that can't be freed There’s no road without a story There’s no journey that’s been in vain There’s no peace without atonement There’s no joy without the pain CH

Run that by me one more time Is it yours or is it mine Broken circuits block the lines Rage and storming hides the signs Tell me once in words I'll hear Say it simple say it clear And as the dread of dark draws near I'll draw the veil on my fear Paint the picture draw the map Could this be just one more trap What has slipped out through the gap As my hands lie helpless on my lap New beginnings broken ends Times tough passage winds and bends We find ourselves we lose our friends As one page starts another ends CH Come the day my ship will find me Come the day I'll stand alone Come the day I'll leave behind me All the days I cast in stone I see you you see me We both know how it's meant to be But when it's time to plant the tree We find out that our hearts are'nt free Draw the water from the well Cool my fevered heart as well Who's the keeper of the spell That turns my heaven into hell Little words escape the cage A laugh that turns to roars of rage Like turning gears our lives engage To play out on this darkened stage I look into a face I know But now that face has lost it's glow I see eyes that I don't know The signs of danger start to grow CH I'll turn my back I'll turn my cheek I'll turn my eyes I wont speak In no time days become a week I lie alone, the floorboards creak The mists of memory cloud my mind I clutch at straws that I find Who's undone these ties that bind As the fabric of our lives unwinds Hold your hand out lift your head Look into my eyes instead Come back to this tortured bed There's no return on the lives we've lead We've played the game we've had our fun This time it's no practise run I look at you to see who's won It's like like looking straight into the sun

If there are moments when we lose our way If there are times when we must hide away And say things we didn't mean to say Could I still touch you If we land on a barren rocky shore If we are bruised and we can take no more If we ran out of strength we had in store Could I still touch you There's nothing left to shout about There's nowhere left to crawl It's all out in the open now There's no more Berlin wall There's nothing left to hide behind There's nothing left to say Thats been said so much better Than I could ever say If there are dreams that you just cannot share If there are secrets that you cannot bare If your breaks in life just dont seem fair Could I still touch you If I could choose another destiny If I could live in purest harmony I would still need to light to fire in me I would touch you Take me On that highway Take me Home once more Like a firelight That loves a winter I am on this journey To your door When the moon gets lost and leaves us cold When the world gets small and we grow old When there's nothing left that's left untold Could I still touch you And when the kids are all grown up and gone And we wonder if they'll ever phone And we sit back and think of what we've done Could I still touch you

There's a light in the city that calls to your heart Like the edge of a dream that transports you And shadows five hundred years old that seem to whisper And Cape Town is bowing it's head to the winter Those storms seem so far from me now And the hole in my heart and the memories hardly linger The waiter is laughing at Daniel's Italian Brendolini is ordering the wine But the back of my mind is on fire like this little kitchen The truth only hurts if you manage to find it Bologna's a good place to look All that I found was a ghost in the dusk in Bologna As the clouds start to gather out over Ferarra The storm in my heart starts to fade But filled with misgiving it's time for returning To the dry land where my beds been made My hearts on the run and my head's in decision Leaves me no choice but to fly I'm boarding the plane as the rain starts to fall In Bologna at the end of July There's rain in Bologna And now that I'm leaving I leave with this rain in my heart There's a street in Bologna where merchants once travelled With riches and spoils of war And the wars of the heart that I left behind in Bologna And nights when the wine flowed like heavenly bodies And secrets slipped out without fear And song that just seemed to rise up from the shadows And Nibs and Amanda are talking about Jo'burg In that country where our dreams are held My dreams are suspended and hang from thread like a madman’s And nothing comes closer than a good bit of distance To see how the limits imposed On our lives can be lifted, I'm lost in the night in Bologna On the road to the mountains and Santa Sofia The storms start to darken the day But back in my homeland the storms of our birthing Are drifting much further away I'd stay if I could but there's somebody calling Leaves me no choice but to fly I'm leaving with longing As the rain starts to fall in Bologna at the end of July

They say it's going to make you crazy It blows like a mother from the east And the wild fires spread a wild fire They say its got the soul of a beast And when the winter comes you brace yourself You never get the chill from your feet And the nights are longer than the knives of the wide boys Hanging on the corner of the street And dignity is hard to find And harder to hang on to And hope is just a state of mind you're in And helpless is the way you feel Facing hell and cold sharp steel And heartless are the streets they call your home The night Harry J went to war Harry seemed no different From any other man on the street Softly spoken unassuming Quiet and discreet But he lived in the middle of a gangland That was ruled by the scum of the streets They called themselves the Hard Living Kids They'd stick a knife in your heart without missing a beat But there comes a time when this impotence Starts chiselling away at your soul And a man like Harry knows that it cant go on And every time he dropped his eyes Pretending that he just didn't see Was another step closer to the edge The night Harry J went to war Now the cops they just seemed paralysed Either dead scared or didn't have a care And when the shit was going down out in the street The only place to be was not out there For Harry it was just a matter of time A matter of when and how The Hard Living Kids would push their luck too far Cause it was running out by the hour Then one night when the wind blew madly On her way home work The kids robbed and roughed up Harry's wife And Harry knew the time had come He had a date with destiny This time the kids had fooled with his life The night Harry J went to war So Harry took a loaded shotgun And walked into the street He didn't have to ask directions Or wonder who he'd meet Before that long dark night was gone Three Hard Living Kids lay dead And things would change for the people there And change the lives they lead Then Harry gave himself in And the Judge gave him fifteen years But not before the story had been told And Harry bore the burden And he wept for what he'd done But the hearts of a thousand victims remained cold The night Harry J went to war The streets where Harry's house is Are different from before The Hard Living Kids have moved on They finally lost the war But even in his prison cell The law is deaf and blind Cause the Kids roam free behind the prison walls And Harry's not their kind And the folks at home sleep easier And anyone you meet Will tell you Harry's name will never die No one calls it murder They call it cleaning up And every man and woman knows the reason why The night Harry J won the war

Deep in the night There’s a darkness that has its own light There’s a darkness that’s almost as bright As the moon as it hunts through the night And the past comes and goes from your sight Letting go of what’s wrong or what’s right In the soft glow of dreams, Time moves so slow And there’s nothing like time to capsize Your life when you are lost in the flow And are waiting for your star to rise When you’re stranded with nowhere to go Killing time, killing memories and pain When you’re out at the end of the road When you’re blinded by your past again As the seeds of despair start to grow As the night moves so slow As your world starts to turn As it’s core starts to glow And your mind starts to burn But the fire in your heart Is as cold as a stone And the blood in your veins Is like cold mountain streams And the only way home Is in the soft glow of dreams Deep in the night There’s a darkness that has its own light There’s a darkness that’s almost as bright As the moon as it hunts through the night It’s the place where your dreams will unfold And the dangers of dreaming revealed But without dreams you’re out in the cold And the world is a bare rocky field It’s a frontier of secrets and fears And of warm conscious streams It’s a home for your dreams There’s a home for your dreams And let the secret world grow In the soft Glow of Dreams

Well it leaves your heart abandoned on the highway And your tidy life just out of control And there's no way home or place to hide away When the Gypsy soul comes to stay And there’s just no point to try and find him The more you search the less you see Like the fog in off the ocean There’s no walls but you’re not free Oh the heart is like the ocean And there’s no shelter on the shore And when you feel the storm approaching The gypsy soul comes through your door chorus Have you seen the eyes of strangers When there's nowhere left to hide And the journey keeps on calling So they hitch another ride And there's no point and there's no reason And there's no hope if you get called Oh that Gypsy soul will haunt you And the road becomes your world And if you hold me firm and gentle If you understand my plight And if the light goes out inside me Would you see me through the night Now that feeling has come to take me To this place I don't choose to go So I stand here in quiet surrender The Gypsy soul just won't let go

The valley is peaceful No sign of disention or rage Small towns like pictures Waiting for life to engage Homesteads and field The sweet smell of fruit on the trees The heat of the valley Floats like a flame on the breeze But hidden from view is The hunger and death and disease The peace in the valley Will shatter like silence Like a raging beast brought to it's knees Heroes where are the heroes The voices of power Now sound like the fumbling of fools Where reason is dangerous Danger will make it's own rules But it's all so familiar Like a dream that you wake from in fear And nothing is moving And nothing is changing round here There's a feeling of floundering In a ship that no one can steer And the peace in the vallley Is broke by rumbling As the roaring and raging draw near The valley is peaceful But gloom hangs like shadows and shame And no one believes in the talk Or the terms of the game And the Heroes sit pretty They close their ranks and their eyes And it's only beginnig As the flame of the ideal dies And the mothers sit helpless As the night fills with darkness and cries And the peace in the valley Will burst like a drumbeat As the next wave of heroes arrive

Running blind headlong into the eye of the night Knowing I'll be alright I can survive till tomorrow But the flashes of life have me running for cover in pure fright Comes a time about three in the morming the cracks start to show When the devil comes out of his hole When the devil comes round for your soul And the silence is shattered Your senses are battered And your hearts on the midnight patrol Refrain: Hold this stranger tonight I'm running for cover Where is the reason in saying the things that I'm saying I hear my voice but it has a life all of it's own Like a prisoner of conscience I'm locked in a game I'm not playing Like a prisoner of war I'm defenceless and faceless as stone I'm a prisoner without any chains I'm calling out to you again And if you can reach me Please wont you teach me To live with my scars and my stains Refrain: Like a battle scared soldier I carry my pride like a flag While under the surface I know that I'm battered and reeling And I wait and you wait and watch as the hours just drag While all that it takes is a touch for the wounds to start healing I'm waiting for you in this black night It's you that can bring back the light And if you can hold me like a lover and infold me And tell me that we'll be allright Refrain:

I see you with eyes once filled with fury I see you with eyes once filled with fear I see with eyes once dark as thunder I look for you with eyes that are now clear I see you when I least expect the moment I see you when I'm lost inside my head I see you when the winter comes to tease me I look for you when a part of me is dead I see you in the shadows I see you in my mind I lose my mind in the shadows But the shadows just don't seem to mind I see you rolling with the laughter I see you reeling from the blows I see you riding on the high wind I look for you in a place nobody goes I see you walking to the future I see you in the arms of destiny I see you just hoping that you'll notice How I feel for you with insensitivity I see you when my visions filled with danger I see you when my head can't stand the heat I see you when my life's that of a stranger I look for you in that far off place we meet I see you and the secrets that we gather I see you walking to your destiny I see you in a place I'll keep forever And I feel for you with insensitivity

Memories hang like spiders Suspended in thin air Strangers faces fill my nights The dreams go wild out there Like a runaway On a desert island Like a runaway On a desert island I'm a runaway On a tiny island Once upon a time I was a stranger Caught between fiction and truth And I saw a world that was stranger Than the real world and twice as uncouth For a while I hung in the balance In the half world elusive as truth Well there's no real world It's your own world You are the real world You are the real world Once upon a time there was a stranger And he ruled the land with an iron fist Like a dark force in some children's story He'd hold up the world and he'd insist That the world he made was the real world And millions followed like flies For millions his world became their world It's like when you start believing your own lies And it's so easy To deceive And it's so easy To believe But it's alright now Oh yes, it's alright now As the sun goes down like the vanquished In some unholy game And the moon calls the lovers And the moon calls my name And the night brings the comfort And the night brings the pain And the stars they warm my body And the stars they calm my brain And the river flows right through me And the river heals the pain That the darkness marked my heart with But that won't happen to me again Like a runaway Like a runaway Like a runaway I won't get lost again And I'm alright now Oh yes, I'm okay Oh yes, I'm okay Oh yes, I'm okay Oh yes, I'm okay And I'm okay Oh, I'm okay Yes, I'm okay Yes, I'm okay

When the moon shows signs of danger in your stars And when your heart is hung out like a skin to dry And when all that’s left is nothing In the place once filled with loving And if I say that’s just life well that’s a lie Well you know that there’s a demon in my heart And you’ve seen the way my soul can slowly die But you’ve seen it all before Like a blood stain on your floor But in your heart you can’t say that I didn’t try From this silent field of battle From the comfort of alone Everything makes perfect sense Though everything has turned to stone And there’s nothing quite as empty As the last stop on the line And when there’s nothing left to say And all the colours gone away You walk the only road you know I waIk the road that’s mine Well the words you said were clear enough at the time And I know that you must think that I’m half blind And when you said it couldn’t be How was I supposed to see The words you said were so far from your mind. There’s a big old moon out on the hills tonight And it shines into my memory’s darkened door And the taste that’s left is almost sweet Now that I’ve got back on my feet And the images are too strong to ignore From this silent field of battle I battle all alone And in the crazy light of moon The shadows of my memory roam And there’s nothing quite as lonely As the last stop on the line And when there’s nothing left to say And the all the hope has gone away You walk the only road you know I walk the road that’s mine And as the darkness turns to danger something dies The night becomes so long you want to cry The words turn into muddy tracks And finally we both turn our backs When there’s nothing left to say Say goodbye There’s a quiet moon on the battlefield tonight And the time has come to put my heart at ease And all the words still left to say That now won’t see the light of day Are like silent ghosts just drifting through the trees So when all is said and done where do we stand When we finally reach the last stop on the line The road ahead is like a mystery Like a night that’s black and blustery And the blood stain on the floor looks just like mine From this silent field of battle From the comfort of alone Nothing more makes any sense And everything has turned to stone And there’s nothing quite as empty As the last stop on the line And when there’s nothing left to say And all the colours gone away You walk the only road you know I waIk the road that’s mine