1 YOU ARE YOUNG 2 SILENCED BY THE NIGHT 3 DISCONNECTED 4 WATCH HOW YOU GO 5 SOVEREIGN LIGHT CAFÉ 6 ON THE ROAD 7 THE STARTING LINE 8 BLACK RAIN 9 NEON RIVER 10 DAY WILL COME 11 IN YOUR OWN TIME 12 SEA FOG 13 STRANGELAND 14 RUN WITH ME 15 THE BOYS 16 IT’S NOT TRUE www.keanemusic.com www.cherrytreerecords.com Published by Universal Music Publishing.
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YOU ARE YOUNG
SILENCED BY THE NIGHT
Fearful child, have faith in brighter days Stay until this darkness fades away Lie still beside me I’ll hold you now, I’ll hold you forever
In a city like mine there’s no point in fighting I close my eyes, see you and me driving If I am a river, you are the ocean Got the radio on, got the wheels in motion
Winter’s hand will freeze your heart again Doors will close, no time to start again Nothing is given Except the ties that hold us together
We were silenced by the night But you and I, we’re gonna rise again Divided from the light I want to love the way we used to then
Lay down your load Because every day it’s going to grow And bask in the sunshine Try to pay no mind, Try to pay no mind at all
I lie in the dark, I feel I’m falling Feel your hand on my back, hear your voice calling I’m out of my depth, girl stick close to me Because the people in this town, they look straight through me
To all the things that you don’t know You’ve got time to realise you’re shielded by the hands of love Because you are young
We were silenced by the night But you and I, we’re gonna rise again Divided from the light I want to love the way we used to then
Fading light may make a fool of me Courage fail, strength slip away from me Lie still beside me And hold me now and hold me forever
Because baby I’m not scared of this world when you’re here No baby I’m not scared of this world when you’re here
Lay down your load Because every day it’s going to grow These days are sacred Hey now don’t be scared Baby don’t be scared at all Of all the things that you don’t know You’ve got time to realise you’re shielded by the hands of love Because you are young You’ve got time, you’ve got to try to bring some good into this world Because you are young
Oh you and I we’re gonna rise again Oh you and I we’re gonna rise again We were silenced by the night But you and I, we’re gonna rise again Divided from the light I want to love the way we used to then
DISCONNECTED
WATCH HOW YOU GO
Something’s crept in under our door Silent, soaking through the floor Pinching like a stone in my shoe Some chemical that’s breaking down the glue That’s been binding me to you
The more we rush about, the less we do I never saw you drift away The more we spin around, the less we move I never saw your spirit break
Ooh I feel like I just don’t know you anymore But I’ve been burned and I’ve been wrong so many times We walk in circles, the blind leading the blind Well, I thought that love watched over this house But you’re boarding up the windows now We’ve been leaning on each other so hard Tied so tight we wound up miles apart Making simple things so hard Ooh I feel like I just don’t know you anymore But I’ve been burned and I’ve been down so many times We walk in circles, the blind leading the blind We’ve been disconnected somehow There’s an invisible wall between us now But I’ve been wrong and I’ve been down so many times We walk in circles, the blind leading the blind I see the landscape change before my eyes The features I’ve been navigating by No, nothing looks the way it did before I don’t know where to look, or what to look for I feel like I just don’t know you anymore But I’ve been burned and I’ve been down so many times We walk in circles, the blind leading the blind We’ve been disconnected somehow There’s an invisible wall between us now But I’ve been wrong and I’ve been down so many times We walk in circles, the blind leading the blind We’ve been disconnected somehow There’s an invisible wall between us now
I wish that I could be your journey’s end But you were only passing through, yeah It’s not for me to try to steer your way I wish you well in all you do Just say you’ll watch how you go Be gracious with your light And may the years be kind now Just say you’ll mind how you roll The things that we have shared Will soon be left behind now I hope you know that you’re a graceful soul You fill the room with hope and light It’s only right that you should go your way Because nothing ever lasts that long The things that we have shared Will still remain behind now
SOVEREIGN LIGHT CAFÉ I’m going back to a time when we owned this town Down Powdermill Lane and the battlegrounds We were friends and lovers and clueless clowns I didn’t know I was finding out how I’d be torn from you When we talked about things we were going to do We were wide-eyed dreamers, and wiser too
We’d go down to the rides on East Parade By the lights of the Palace Arcade And watch night coming down On the Sovereign Light Café I’m begging you for some sign But you’ve still got nothing to say Don’t turn your back on me, don’t walk away I’m a better man now than I was that day Let’s go down to the rides on East Parade By the lights of the Palace Arcade And watch night coming down On the Sovereign Light Café Let’s go down to the bandstand on the pier Watch the drunks and the lovers appear To take turns as the stars Of the Sovereign Light Café I wheel my bike off the train Up the North Trade Road And look for you in Marley Lane In every building, every street sign Oh why did we ever go so far from home? Well you’ve got nothing to hide You can’t change who you really are You can get a big house and a faster car You can run away boy, but you won’t go far Yeah I’m going where the people know my name
ON THE ROAD Have you been feeling that pull? And are you hearing that call? Because you’ve got everything that you need to make a start I had a dream of my own Just walking out of my home And going I don’t know where to sing beneath the stars Your whole life lies ahead It’s just around the bend
So when the sun is coming up and you go And there’s still so many things you don’t know Don’t you look back, I’ve no doubt that I Will see you on the road And when the world’s laying you low Why don’t you let me carry your load When things get bad, you know you’ll have a friend All along the road And I would love it some time If you would walk at my side Going I don’t know where to sleep beneath the stars If in your life you need a hand Reaching the promised land Golden light lies ahead It’s just around the bend So when the sun is coming up and you go And there’s still so many things you don’t know Don’t you look back, I’ve no doubt that I Will see you on the road And when the world’s laying you low Why don’t you let me carry your load When things get bad, you know you’ll have a friend All along the road So when the sun is coming up and you go And there’s still so many things you don’t know Don’t you look back, I’ve no doubt that I Will meet you on the road And when the world’s laying you low Don’t you let it rattle your bones Sometimes the dream itself can keep you safe All along the road
THE STARTING LINE This town was our lovers’ stage But now you can’t recognise The streetlights that are daggers to your eyes You can’t find your bearings You’re slipping into the ground The scene has no colour and no sound Do you still believe in me After the things I’ve done? Do you fear for what we have become? The ground is uneven We stumble from day to day But shelter where it’s easy I know your feet are like lead But you’ve got to get underway Drag your heart up to the starting line Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time It’s too easy to get left behind I know you’ve been kicked around But tie up your thoughts and lay them down on me Each heart is a paper kite Blown around by the breeze Love won’t rest till it brings you to your knees Some find it easy Some will never even know You think you’ve done your journey Then you stumble and find that there’s such a long way to go
Drag your heart up to the starting line Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time It’s too easy to get left behind I know you’ve been kicked around You want to be lost and not be found But let’s take the back way into town And drink to the bad times Lay them down on me Girl I still believe in you You’re too good to fall so low We’re going to find a better life I know Things will be clearer And soon as we make a start We’ll be that much nearer We’re too old to just stand here Waiting to break apart
BLACK RAIN I open my eyes, everything shines We swim as the breeze blows down the coast Down on my luck, breathing my last Dirty your hands, carry me home Red sky turning round, black rain falling round If you’ve got love you’d better hope that that’s enough Sandstorm cuts your skin, Black Kites circling If you’ve got love you’d better hope that that’s enough We came from the south to Lebanon’s shore Folded our clothes, dived into peace
The blackest of seas glittering red Lit by the fire over our heads Red sky turning round, black rain falling round If you’ve got love you’d better hope that that’s enough Sandstorm cuts your skin, Sunbirds circling If you’ve got love you’d better hope that that’s enough You’d better hope that that’s enough
NEON RIVER Well you were happy where you were But that girl she reeled you in This town was never good enough Because she was going to everything And if you ever spoke of love She just smiled and put you down Because she was making other plans She had a vision of light and sound She said the neon on the river will light my way And everything that we’ve been dreaming of, We’ll make it real one day So save your money, pack your bag We’d better run before we disappear She took the train into the city But you’re still here You hear a song that takes you back To some long-forgotten night And friends who said they had your back But they just turned and ran and let you fight
And on the bowling alley wall You used all your smartest lines But they’ve been painted over now Looks like you’re going to get left behind She said the neon on the river will light my way And all the things that we’ve been dreaming of, We’ll make them real one day So save your money, pack your bag I want to run with you on Stamford Hill She took the train into the city But you stood still You stood still above the track You knew as you watched her go That she was never coming back You stuck to places that you know You said you were scared of heights And that you didn’t want to go Where everyone else goes
DAY WILL COME The winter night has wrapped a rag around your eyes And stolen your sight Oh you seem so far away I hope you’ll find your way back some day I miss you, I miss you Some days set your world on fire And some days they sink like stones
That’s when your heart will cry out Until your body is numb And the night will try to tempt you But the day will come We dream hard, we shoot high Sometimes our fingers graze the sky But we can’t hold on Some days set your world on fire And some days they sink like stones That’s when your heart will cry out Until your body is numb And the night will try to tempt you But the day will come Brother don’t hang your head Until your distance is run Because though it seems so far away You know the day will come
IN YOUR OWN TIME You’ve got nowhere to go Got no way out of this hole Got no one to say it’s all just the way things are Well wouldn’t it be good To look into a brighter day It’s just the way things are In your own time There’s no map to guide our way So I say nothing, you say nothing In your own way Thought I could help you find your place But I’m as lost as you are lost these days Oh wouldn’t it be fine To close your eyes and see something Something more than this In your own time There’s no map to guide our way
So I say nothing, you say nothing In your own way Thought I could help you find your place But I’m as lost as you are lost It’s not the way Things are going to change you know The battles you have fought won’t go to waste you know Things are going to change, it just takes time In your own time There’s no map to guide our way So I say nothing, you say nothing In your own way Thought I could help you find your place But I’m as lost as you are lost It’s just the way
SEA FOG The sun bleeds in, hear the magpie sing for sorrow It makes things better Maybe we’ll get to spread our wings tomorrow If luck will let us Can anyone fly into these grey skies? Is there somewhere I’m meant to be? Sea fog comes, like a river rolls a stone It’s rolling me I missed my turn in the dark - I hear your voice It makes things easy I strayed too far from the road Wish you could always make things easy And I won’t fight through the rising tide If that’s the way it has to be Sea fog comes, like a river rolls a stone It’s rolling me Sea fog comes, like a river rolls a stone It’s rolling me Sea fog rolling, sea fog rolling, sea fog rolling
STRANGELAND Lover I remember laying out our map Throwing our possessions in the van Your tapes piled on the back seat And a camera in your hand Dressed for our arrival in the strangeland
You get no time to put things right, to put things Strangeland dreams You tore my baby away from me We get no time to put things right, to put things right You get no time to put things right, to put things right To put things right, to put things right
RUN WITH ME
Strangeland blind You got no reason, you got no rhyme Well you could write it in the dirt girl You get no time to put things right, to put things right Write it on a ten pound note Everything that I have learned so far We drove across the border as the winter rains ran dry Nothing’s worth knowing till you know your part And only fitful birdsong filled the sky You threw your head back, screaming Times are getting leaner As we raced across wet sand If ever you were on my side And leapt into the waters of the strangeland Oh how I wish that you were stood here now Leading me to shelter when the night comes down (Chorus) “Baby,” you said, “We’re not ever gonna go home.” You wound the rope around me And “Baby, will you run with me wherever I go?” And you pulled the knots in tight And shook me like a bad dream from your sight Well it’s the pressure of the years girl Burning little holes in love And now the things I’ve done to forget you Till we make every little thing so hard Well it’s not what I had planned Nothing comes easy to a cage-like heart The sweetest thoughts get twisted in the strangeland Strangeland blind Now the light is failing You got no reason, you got no rhyme If ever you were at my side Then love I need you to be stood there now Down to the wire where the bad ones go “Baby,” you said, “We’re not ever gonna go home.” And “Baby, will you run with me wherever I go?” Well maybe those words never really mattered at all But lately those words run with me wherever I go
THE BOYS
IT’S NOT TRUE
The boys are grinning from the photograph It’s Friday night and they’re trying so hard The sun is dropping and they want to go Driving into town to see some girls they know
You’ve been watching dawn from the gutter Trading one bad move for another It’s been a stormy night but it’s almost through
The boys, blazing on a summer night Girls they want to watch them ride Is that the way it was before? Because I don’t remember. Boys, friends at every bar in town Running all the good days down Is that the way it was before? Because I don’t remember.
Friends you once loved don’t know you Even your own eyes don’t know you You think this whole world’s trying to bury you But it’s not true So don’t you say There’s something in your core that can’t be saved Because it’s not true And every atom of my heart is missing you
We felt like fighters when we caught the plane Until that day we’d never heard its name We did some things we didn’t understand And now we feel like strangers in our own land
Well it’s OK to be scared when You’re stuck behind a door that won’t open The shadows in your dreams that are chasing you They’re not true
The boys, blazing on a summer night Girls they want to watch them fight Is that the way it was before? Because I can’t remember. Boys, friends at every bar in town Running all the good days down Is that the way it was before? Because I can’t remember.
So don’t you say There’s something in your core that can’t be saved Because it’s not true And every atom of my heart is missing you
This photograph, I hold it when I sleep Because people soon stop asking When I cannot explain what I have seen And at the bars in town All the boys in town Are running all the good days down Running all the good days down Running all the good days down All the good days down
The good will come through I wish that you could feel it the way you used to I wish you could believe it the way you used to The way you used to
Written by Keane. Produced by Dan Grech-Marguerat for 365 Artists. Engineered by Dan Grech-Marguerat and Tom Hough. Mixed by Dan Grech-Marguerat assisted by Duncan Fuller. Additional programming on tracks 5 & 6: Dave Fridmann. Recorded at Sea Fog, RAK and Air Studios. Mixed at The Engine Room. Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway. Photography: Alex Lake. Design & art direction: Tourist. Managed by Adam Tudhope, assisted by Beth Louise Warren. Published by Universal Music Publishing. www.keanemusic.com www.cherrytreerecords.com
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