Song: ''Up in the Air'' by Bob Mould.

All other songs: words/music by Heidi Berry. © Universal Music Publishing Group.

 

NORTHERN COUNTRY

 

Wherever you are in the world tonight

I wonder if you feel what I feel

Wherever you go in your head tonight

I wonder if you hear what I hear

 

Say it’s only the sound of my beating heart

It’s only the sound of the long, cold night wind

 

Wherever you are lie, where you lay your head

I wonder if you ever hear my cry

And as I lie here in sleeplessness

I know I something think I hear you call

But it’s only the sound of my loneliness

It’s only the sound of the blood running round my veins

 

And if I wait for your call

Will you find me

I’m like a ghost in my own time

Living in this cold, grey northern country

 

There never could be a night so long as this

Minutes into hours into the end

But I’m listening to a music exquisite

It’s beauty is my power and my prayer

And it’s only the sound of my beating heart

It’s only song of the long, cold night wind

 

 

TIME

 

You put the fear behind you, yet you’re still aware

That one day you might finally cease to care

And never know it’s day or night, or if you’re hot or cold

Or if you’re growing up or growing old

 

Time and time and time and time again

You swear you’ll never get this way again

Time and time and time and time again

You know you’ll never get this way again

 

Anyone can tell you there’s the red, and there’s the green

It’s when you lose the difference in between

Love and joy and beauty are all lost to shades of grey

It’s like a veil gets drawn against the day

 

Time and time and time and time again

You swear you’ll never get this way again

Time and time and time and time again

You know you’ll never get this way again

 

Time and time and time and time again

You swear you’ll never get this way again

Time and time and time and time again

You know you’ll never get this way –

 

When you wake up crying and you don’t know where you are

And fighting down a rising, cold hysteria

You don’t know where it’s come from

You don’t even know its name

But it won’t make you happy

And it won’t keep you sane

 

Time and time and time and time again

You swear you’ll never get this way again

Time and time and time and time again

You know you’ll never get this way again

 

 

THE MOON AND THE SUN

 

She’s ever rising, ever falling

The moon and the sun

Made of water, made of sand

Running right through your hands

And it’s only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

 

She will be there for you

Be the one that is yours

You’ll accept nothing less 

And expect nothing more

And only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

 

See the face that she’s wearing today

Turn around when she’s dreaming tonight

To become something more when she wakes

What you offer to her she will take

 

She will be there for you

Be the one that is yours

You’ll accept nothing less 

And expect nothing more

And only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

 

She’s the mother and then she’s the child

She’s the daughter, the sister to some

She’s your lover and then she’s your friend

She’s the night and the day

Moon and sun

 

She is many and one

She is more than you know

You’ll accept nothing less 

And expect nothing more

And only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

 

She will be there for you 

Be the one that is yours

You’ll accept nothing less 

And expect nothing more

And only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

 

 

ONLY HUMAN

 

And if you are just who you think you may be

Well then you’ll know, you’ll know, you’ll know

Where’s the right and wrong

If anyone could tell you

You wouldn’t listen anyway

If anyone should offer you their time

Could you take it from them

 

And you’re used to your own company

But you know, you know, you know

That’s no way to stay

If anyone should ask you

Would you tell them everything

If anyone should offer you their heart

Could you give the same way

 

You’re so afraid you’re too far gone

But you know, you know, you know

You’ll find a way to be

If anyone can help you

Would you let them try

If anyone should open up their arms

Would you step inside

 

Nothing gets lost without something being gains

You know, you know, you know you need to change

So say you’re only human

And don’t live so all alone

And anyone that’s listening to these words

Do you recognise this?

 

 

UP IN THE AIR

Words/Music: Bob Mould. © BMG Rights Management

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Pass away the hours, hear the footsteps of the past
Walking up the stairs of time, knowing that I'm trapped
Cold winds of indifference persuade a movement south
Thinking that it's better there
The warmer climes that we seek out

Poor bird flies up in the air, never getting anywhere
And how much misery can one soul take?
Trying to fly away might have been your fist mistake
Oh poor bird

Oh poor bird

Picking petals off a flower
Loves me, loves me not
Is love another way to count the things you haven't got?
We wish the best to all our friends, young and old alike
When the dust has settled in the sky
Well, you can have anything you like

Poor bird flies up in the air, never getting anywhere
And how much misery can one soul take?
Trying to fly away might have been your fist mistake
Oh poor bird

Oh poor bird

Poor bird flies up in the air, never getting anywhere
And how much misery can one soul take?
Trying to fly away might have been your fist mistake
Oh poor bird

Oh poor bird

Oh poor bird

 

 

WASHINGTON SQUARE

 

Fly by night, across dark water
Over the clouds, through space and time
Come and look for me
By the arch and the wading pool
By the old men at the tables in the winter time
That's where I'll be
 

And I'm always here
In Washington Square Park

 

It's like two trains running in two tunnels
Suddenly all is light
And your train comes into view
Face so close, see your breath on the glass
I'll follow your eyes
As you veer away into the dark
 

And I'll still be here
In Washington Square Park

 

No, no, do not grieve for a story never told
You see, that I'm still the child
It's you who's growing old
You're growing old

 

And I'm always here
In Washington Square Park

 

 

NORTHSHORE TRAIN

 

Pale in the morning sunlight, the seabirds fly by the factories. The electric towers stand in lines on the water's edge. Silhouetted cormorant arched it's wings to dry them at low tide, yesterday afternoon. In the mist of morning, 5 o' clock, sister drives me to the station.

We talk and laugh as we wait, then embrace, then say goodbye.

In silent, slow motion I ride the train beside the ocean.

In silent, slow motion I ride the train beside the sea.

 

Many words are in my heart I'll never say and feeling incomplete I'm bound away and a deep red is the colour of the air today. So, we're riding through the hill town, watch the railway from your garden. Rollercoaster river train - now I look to see if I see her, from my window find the garden.

We're sailing past your house now, but I see the blinds are down.

In silent, slow motion I ride the train beside the ocean.

In silent, slow motion I ride the train beside the sea.

 

I am a lonely traveller in time, I'm counting out the years I'll never find.

And so sad and heavy is this heart of mine.

Well, we come at last to the city, you can feel its weight upon the ground. You wonder how to breath in an atmosphere of oil and noise.

This is where my father lives, though he was born beside the sea.

In silent, slow motion I ride the train beside the ocean.

In silent, slow motion I ride the train beside the sea.

 

 

 

THE MOUNTAIN

 

If you are my true friend
Then you'll listen
You see, I've been dreaming again
Looking for something
That's been lost
And these eyes have been a camera
They hold memories clear and fine
I'm turning away 
 

And I remember
The way it was to live
Inside a small girl
To cast no shadow on the ground
But there is someone here with me
And he is tying
A red, red ribbon to a tree
 

Oh my mother
My good friend
I knew you so little then
And my sister
And my two brothers
We can still talk to each other
In the dark
 

So if today
Is such a long, lonely time away
Then I'll remember
The sound of snow
And I'll remember
The forest
And I'll remember
The Mountain

 

 

MERCURY

 

I walk through the graveyard

And a late snow is on the ground

The bones lying underneath the ivy

Black crow he flies

His shadow moves across the stones

The snow that holds my footprint melts away

 

I turn from the West Gate and I look to the East

I will await the coming dawn

To welcome the traveller home

 

I wonder do you hear me

Singing softly to myself

And I wonder do you recognise the tune

And times I’ve been so lonesome for another human sound

I have cried and I have shouted to myself

 

I turn from the West gate and I look to the East

I will await the coming dawn

To welcome the traveller home

 

Dawn to dusk and dust to dust 

And days of mercury

In mind’s eye the time gone by

Is set like crystal

At end of year the days grow dim

You feel the time gone by

But you can’t hold on to Mercury

 

I turn from the West gate and I look to the East

While Earth awaits with opened arms

To welcome all travellers home

 

 

ONE STRING VIOLIN

 

Come, here the call, feel the beat

Of the shuffling drummer

And move, you will sway, you will dance

Though you feel like you’re dying

For these are the songs and they ways of the world

All that is lost can never be regained

The way that it is and the way it shall be

You will dance

 

And turn slowly turn, make an arc, to the one string violin

Your face is the mask that you’re broken inside

For these are the songs and they ways of the world

The stillborn loves and never-shall-bes

When trying sometimes is it’s only reward

You will turn

 

And hope is a word that you use when all hope has departed

And dreams – the country where your fears

For these are the songs and they ways of the world

With broken hearts with empty eyes

The weak and the strong will all join in the song

And will dance

 

 

 

LITTLE FOX

 

If I had the time to live over
Would I find the way to get it right
Would I say the words I really are meant to say
Would I change the things that I'd done
The voice calls
Come, come away little fox, little bird
Run away into the night
You will burn your eyes, you will burn your wings
If you go into the light

If I had the strength to begin again
Can I find which way to go
If my legs stay steady and my heart stays strong
Can I bend the road my own way
The voice calls
Come, come away little fox, little bird
Run away into the night
You will burn your eyes, you will burn your wings
If you go into the light

If I give the very best part of me
Will I have enough left for myself
And will I change when I turn around
Will I recognize my own name

The voice calls

Come, come away little fox, little bird

Run away into the night

You will burn your eyes, you will burn your wings

If you go into the light

 

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FOLLOW

 

Rain again

Looks like it’ll never end

Looks like this city 

Will wash away

Away – to the open sea

Tumble the buildings, bodies and trees

 

You follow (follow, follow)

What your heart says do my friend

You follow (follow follow)

What your heart says do

 

Float away from me (from me from me)

See your face out in the wave

Bow my head to insane circumstance

Open hands – let it all go

 

You follow (follow, follow)

What your heart says do my friend

You follow (follow follow)

What your heart says do

 

You follow (follow, follow)

What your heart says do my friend

You follow (follow follow)

What your heart says do

 

Line on my hand say, “Yes, this is how it shall be”

Read the facts there, the way they stand

Oh, I see your face still in the wave

On you go away from me

 

You follow (follow, follow)

What your heart says do my friend

You follow (follow follow)

What your heart says do

 

You follow (follow, follow)

What your heart says do my friend

You follow -

 

 

CRADLE

 

(Oh) Lift me in your arms
Cradle me like a child
I feel your heart
Sense your smile in the dark

 

 

NEEDLE’S EYE

 

Falling up, ride through the sky

Drawn by the moon

Through the needle’s eye

Pulled by my roots

Don’t understand

How I fell so far

How I lost the land

Head over heels

Breathing the foam

Thrown through the cloud

To the undertow

 

And falling up, ride through the sky

Drawn by the moon

Through the needle’s eye

 

The sun and rain 

Have hollowed me

When the wind blows

It blows through me

You hear me sing

Like a sympathetic string

And this sound is all 

That’s left of me

 

Falling up, ride through the sky

Drawn by the moon

Through the needle’s eye

 

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