JOHN MCGLYNN
EXHALE
Call out it's a lovely day
It's a lovely day
In all your dreams you find yourself

A figure on a wall
In someone else's photograph

A saviour to us all

When all your days and doubts are down

To one last curtain call

The first of us

The lonely one

The last of us to fall

The last to fall

The last...
WATERFALL
In the darkest night finally there

Through the brightening air

Under sweeping skies

On to a bright new dawn
From the darkest heart of the lake
Gentle waters break
Over sleeping sands
On to a silent shore
Steel that shines on an empty stage

Sweet the life in an open grave
Full of love you gave 

Of an endless Spring
In the oldest part of it all
Stands the Waterfall
And the softest sounds that it makes

So the wide wind takes of the best of me 

Down to a shining sea
Steel that shines on an empty stage

Sweet the life in an open grave

Full of love you gave 

Of an endless Spring

When the gifts you bore

Ended everything

And the gifts you bore

Ended everything
SARAH JANE
Listen to me Sarah Jane
Listen to these words that make you live again

Helped me see reality

Be the man I got to be 

See the things I got to see
If you hadn't crossed the line
If you hadn't paved the road and made the time

Nothing I would rather do

Than walk the London streets with you

Walk the London streets with you
Listen to me Sarah Jane
Listen to these words that make you live again
All the week you made me see

But Friday got away from me
Friday got away from me
Listen to me Sarah Jane
If you were to have your time and live again
Nothing I would rather do

Than walk the London streets with you

Rainy London streets with you
Listen to these words that make you live again

Helped me see reality
See the things I got to see

Be the man I got to be

See the things I got to see

Be the man I got to be
WAKE
Wake, my incandescent heart
It's all in your dream
It's all in your dream
Wake to one too beautiful
It's all in your dream
It's all in your dream
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If you won't wear a ring
It won't mean a thing
It won't mean a thing
And you're the bird that sings
It won't mean a thing
It won't mean a thing
And if she sleeps more than than she should
She's just half a world away

She's just half a world away
And if she sleeps more than than she should
More than is good
More than is good
If you won't wear a ring my love
It won't mean a thing
It won't mean a thing
And if she sleeps more than than she should
She's just half a world away

She's just half a world away
Until today
Until today
And it won't mean a thing
It won't mean a thing
It won't mean a thing
It won't mean a thing
She's just half a world away
She's just half a world away

And it won't mean a thing
It won't mean a thing
She's just half a world away

She's just half a world away

She's just half a world away
HEAVENWARD
And all of your days you've had something to feel guilty of
Held it there with grim delight
And where are the faces that said heal with your happiness

Surely gone to heaven?
Around and around and around 

Diffident where the wind blows
And there are the places living deep in your memories

All around the fading light

And there where you whispered in a strange kind of reverie

All alone confess it
Around and around and around 

Diffident where the wind blows
Around and around and around 

Diffident where the wind blows
And where is it prayed for?

And where do you pay for it?

All truth and struggling

Heavenward
MONTMARTRE
Here in Montmartre 

There are passages of love

I heard you wandering far away

Deep in a place 

That can't possibly exist
Put all of your faith in one kiss
Have a lovely time in the sun
In the sun
True to your word
You have given me this one
Lone memory sketch of the two of us

Here is this place 

Where the sun can never set

No place no time, just believe in it
Have a lovely time in the sun
In the sun
Here in Montmartre
Under passages of love
I heard you wandering far above
Deep in this place 

That can't possibly exist

Put all of your faith in one kiss
Have a lovely time in the sun
In the sun
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DREAMS OF LISA
Early morning 'round Victoria
In the Summer sun

They're waiting for a train to come
Promenading on the river as they've always done
As they've always done
And never bothered anyone
Takes her home and makes the dinner
And their time is run
As if the day has just begun
Dreams of Lisa

Says she'll love him

When the money's gone
And so would anyone 

And so would anyone
Dreams of Lisa

Says she'll love him

When the money's gone.
SPIRITED AWAY
I was the lamb 

She'd absolved for the day

And she rested there in the strangers air 
in the sudden night
And her song was delight

And such a lovely way
In a whirlpool of summer rain
It was all she had to give me
And it was all she had to give me
All she had to give
And all the world would know how happy we were then
And she sang for love
And she was beautiful
Yes she was
Admhaim do Dhia uilechumhachtach

agus daoibhse, a bráithe

gur pheacaigh mé go trom
le smaoineamh agus le briathar
le ghiomh agus le faillí

trí mo choir féin
trí mo choir féin
trí mo choir féin

trí mo mhór choir féin
[“I confess to God Almighty

And to you my brothers
That I have sinned heavily
In thought and word
In action and fault

Through my own sins
Through my own sins
Through my own sins
Through my own great sins”]
She couldn't stay away

God she was beautiful

Yes she was
And now we sing
Now we even dance alone

And it was all she had to give me

All she had to give me
And the world would know how happy we were then
But she couldn't stay away
God she was beautiful

Yes she was
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FRAGMENTS
When love is not returned

She will enfold you 

In ancient passion
Temporal memories

Of all her jaded lovers
When love is not returned 

She will betray you 

With honey sweet lips
And you'll get carried away
Into her modern nightmare
Desperate she remains and so the story goes on

On and on and on
When love is not returned 

She holds on tightly

'til nothing's left but fragments

That drift away now

Signifying nothing
She flies away, free as a bird
'til she touched him

They whirl and dance around us
When love is not returned 

She holds on tightly
'til nothing's left but fragments

That drift away now
Signifying nothing
That drift away now
Signifying nothing
THE RIVER
When all of the light in your world has flickered and stilled

And all your time disappears
Can I stay awhile?
I saw you today
I saw you were drifting away
When you're only holding on and every second is lasting a day
It's funny how a little music
Can take you away
You could have been anything
You could have had all this, couldn't you?

You could have been anything
Now only the rain gentled waters carry you still

They'll hold the ones that you've loved

Well maybe they will
I
You could have been anything
You could have had all this, couldn't you?

You could have been anything