The Division Bell

~The division bell~



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1. Cluster One 5:58

2. What Do You Want From Me 4:21

3. Poles Apart 7:04

4. Marooned 5:28

5. A Great Day For Freedom 4:18

6. Wearing The Inside Out 6:48

7. Take It Back 6:12

8. Coming Back To Life 6:19

9. Keep Talking 6:10

10.Lost For Words 5:15

11.High Hopes 8:32



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Total time 66:30



WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME

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As you look around this room tonight

Settle in your seat and dim the lights

Do you want my blood, do you want my tears

What do you want



What do you want from me



Should I sing until I can't sing any more

Play these things until my fingers are raw

You're so hard to please



What do you want from me



Do you think that I know something you don't know



What do you want from me



If I don't promise you the answers would you go



What do you want from me



Should I stand out in the rain

Do you want me to make a daisy chain for you

I'm not the one you need



What do you want from me



You can have anything you want

You can drift, you can dream, even walk on water

Anything you want

You can own everything you see

Sell your soul for complete control

Is that really what you need



You can lose yourself this night

See inside there is nothing to hide

Turn and face the light



What do you want from me





POLES APART

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Did you know... It was all going to go so wrong for you

And did you see it was going to be so right for me

Why did we tell you then

You were always the golden boy then

And that you'd never lose that light in your eyes



Hey you... did you ever realise what you'd become

And did you see that it wasn't only me you were running from

Did you know all the time but it never bothered you anyway

Leading the blind while stared out the steel in your eyes



The rain fell slow, down on the roofs of uncertainty

I thought of you and the years and all the sadness fell away from me

And did you know...



I never thought that you'd lose that light in your eyes





MAROONED

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Cover design Storm Thorgerson

Sculptures by Aden Hynes ....





A GREAT DAY FOR FREEDOM

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On the day the wall came down

They threw the locks onto the ground

And with glasses high we raised a cry for freedom had arrived



On the way the wall came down

The Ship of Fools had finally run aground

Promises lit up the night like paper doves in flight



I dreamed you had left my side

No warms, not even pride remained

And even though you needed me

It was clear that I could not do a thing for you



Now life devalues day by day

As friends and neighbours turn away

And there's a change, that even with regreat, cannot be undone



Now frontiers shift like desert sands

While nations wash their bloodied hands

Of loyalty, of history, in shades of grey



I woke to the sound of drums

The music played, the morning sun streamed in

I turned and I looked at you

And all but the bitter residue slipped away... slipped away





WEARING THE INSIDE OUT

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From morning to night I stayed out of sight

Didn't recognize I'd become

No more than alive I'd barely survive

In a word... overrun



Won't hear a sound

From my mouth

I've spent too long

On the inside out

My skin is cold

To the human touch

This bleeding heart's

Not beating much



I murmured a vow of silence and now

I don't even hear when I think aloud

Extinguished by light I turn on the night

Wear its darknes with an empty smile



I'm creeping back to life

My nervous system all awry

I'm wearing the inside out



Look at him now

He's paler somehow

But he's coming round

He's starting to choke

It's been so long since he spoke

Well he can have the words right from my mouth



And with these words I can see

Clear through the clouds that covered me

Just give it time then speak my name

Now we can hear ourselves again



I'm holding out

For the day

When all the clouds

Have blown away

I'm with you now

Can speak your name

Now we can hear ourselves again





He's curled into the corner

But still the screen is flickering

With an endless stream of garbage to curse the plase

In a sea of random images

The self destricting animal

Waiting for the waves to break





He's standing on the threshold

Caught in fiery anger

And hurled into the furnace he'll curse the place

He's torn in all directions

And still the screen is flickering

Waiting for the flames to break





TAKE IT BACK

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Her love rains down on me easy as the breeze

I listen to her breathing it sounds like the waves on the sea

I was thinking all about her, burning with rage and desire

We were spinning into darkness; the earth was on fire



She could take it back, she might take it back some day



So I spy on her, I lie to her, I make promises I cannot keep

Then I hear her laughter rising, rising from the deep

And I make her prove her love for me, I take all that I can take

And I push her to the limit to see if she will break



She might take it back, she could take it back some day



Now I have seen the warnings, screaming from all sides

It's easy to ignore them and G-d knows I 've tried

All of this temptation, it turned my faith to lies

Until I couldn't see the danger or hear the rising tide



She can take it back, she will take it back some day (3 times)





COMING BACK TO LIFE

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Where were you when I was burned and broken

While the days slipped by from my window watching

Where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless

Because the things you say and the things you do surround me

While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words

Dying to believe in what you heard

I was staring straight into the shinning sun



Lost in thought and lost in time

While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted

Outside the rain fell dark and slow

What I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime

I took a heavenly ride through our silence

I knew the moment had arrived

For killing the past and coming back to life



I took a heavenly ride through our silence

I knew the waiting has begun

And headed straight... into the shining sun





KEEP TALKING

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For millions of years mankind lived just like animals

Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination

We learned to talk



There's a silence surrounding me

I can't seem to think straight

I'll sit in the corner

No one can bother me

I think I should speak now

I cant seem to speak now

My words won't come out right

I feel like I'm drowning

I'm feeling weak now

But I can't show my weakness

I sometimes wonder

Where do we go from here



Why won't you talk to me

You never talk to me

What are you thinking

What are you feeling

Why won't you talk to me

You never talk to me

What are you thinking

What are you feeling



It doesn't have to be like this

All we need to do is make sure we keep talking





It doesn't have to be like this

All we need to do is make sure we keep talking



I feel like I'm drowning

You know I can't breathe now

We're going nowhere

We're going nowhere



Why won't you talk to me

You never talk to me

What are you thinking

What are you feeling

Why won't you talk to me

You never talk to me

What are you thinking

Where do we go from here





LOST FOR WORDS

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I was spending my time in the doldrums

I was caught in a cauldron of hate

I felt persecuted and paralysed

I thought that everything else would just wait



While you are wasting your time on your enemies

Engulfed in a fever of spite

Beyong your tunnel vision reality fades

Like shadowes into the night



To martyr yourself to caution

Is not going to help at all

Because there'll be no safety in numbers

When the Right One walks out of the door



Can you see your days blighted by darkness ?

Is it true you beat your fists on the floor ?

Stuck in a world of isolation

While the ivy grows over the door



So I open my door to my enemies

And I ask could we wipe the slate clean

But they tell me do please go fuck myself

You know you just can't win





HIGH HOPES

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Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young

In a world of magnets and miracles

Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary

The ringing of the division bell had begun



Along the Long Road and on down the Causeway

Do they still meet there by Cut



There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps

Running before time took our dreams away

Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground

To a life consumed by slow decay



The grass was greener

The light was brighter

With friends surrounded

The nights of wonder



Looking beyong the embers of bridges glowing behind us

To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side

Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again

Dragged by the force of some inner tide



At a higher altitude with flag unfurled

We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world



Encumbered forever by desire and ambition

There's a hunger still unsatisfied

Our weary eyes still stray to be horizon

Though down this road we've been so many times



The grass was greener

The light was brighter

The taste was sweeter

The nights of wonder

With friends surrounded

The dawn mist glowing

The water flowing

The endless river



Forever and ever