IQ LYRICS

1. No Love Lost

Through the stinging of the system
Wandering lonely as a cloud
Talking only in the open
Congregation is even now disallowed
Growing anger in the city
Banner headlines around the world
What has to be done is called reformation
To heal the rift of living apart together
Forgive them, they know not what they do
There's no love lost at all
Save them they rue the day when
They ever got involved
Even so I have a dream
Turning circles in my head
That they're closing down all the no-go areas
Opening one for them both instead
Forgive them, they know not what they do
There's no love lost at all
Save them God are you waiting open-armed?
All of the problems over the years
I'm sure can be sorted with peaceful solutions
My warm shoulder dries your tears
I want no more heartache
Oh for crying out loud
No point asking if you're leaving
Didn't I make that clear
If we agree to differ
The closer, I'm certain, we'll always feel
Forgive them they know not what they do
There's no love lost at all
Save them they rue the day when
They ever got involved

2. Promises (As The Years Go By)

(Don't make any false promises)

Stay awhile, when I'm not alone
I forget all the anger in me
Kiss a tear when the hammer falls
They're holding me here in never ending circles
I can still remember summer madness
I can taste the perfume on your cheek
The heat is overcome by coldness, How
Consoling words are insignificant
Say you'll pray

Justify the actions
These are days of the mob-rule, sharp tongue, curfew
When the mind is in solitary confinement
Makes the mood that breaks you
There's a spirit seeking liberation
Here's a fire with a hungry heart
If I listen maybe, time will tell me
The reasons why we're torn apart

Uh, Uh, Uh, As the years go by
Don't make any false promises
As the years go by
Say you'll pray

Here the silence is too loud
In a steel barred jail on the other side
We invented the differences
That weaved the web with which we lied
Caught in the middle of a cold war zone
I left my lover in a far-off place
She'll kiss a tear when the hammer's falling
And wipe the darkness from my face

Uh, Uh, Uh, As the years go by
Don't make any false promises
As the years go by
Just say you'll pray

Uh, Uh, Uh, As the years go by
Don't make any false promises
As the years go by
Just say you'll pray, Oh

Just say you'll pray...

3. Nomzamo

Look beyond the colour
Past the covering on us to see what we are
Turn the faded pages
The mark we leave on history is what we are
Every country is part of us
Irrespective of the one where we grew up
Yes you are my sister
Though we never shared a home that's what you are
And your eyes keep shining in the darkness
Defying all the chains that's what you are
Home for the homeless, hope for the hopeless
Between the lines on your face I can read...
Nomzamo, Nomzamo...
They of the silk white breast seemingly proud
They are so much more less on the day of the vow
Here's a woman who is tired and weary
Leading resistance and still laying wreathes
How can we stand by and watch this happen?
Is this the justice we preach
It seems too much to ask for an equal, peaceful living
In a land of screams, stinging tears and broken smiles
Following through all extremes
'One who will suffer many trials'
Is this a land to inherit?
Crumbs on the table the segregated people starve
With gleeful oppression the mindless procession
Cast nonchalance out of their cars
Somewhere, sometime we pay for the crimes we incessantly do
If we believe that we are what we leave
I left a hope--what did you?
Reeling from punches which leave them winded
Reeling from laws which should be rescinded now
Nomzamo, Nomzamo...

4. Still Life

Weird scenes are coming through the airwaves
From a flickering tube
An old film with an older theme
And those actors could be us
But the ending is good so I'm thinking
"There's the rub"

Later when we meet
It's emotion going through the motions
A kick to break up or a kiss to make up
But then there'll be another scene
Like the one yesterday

When we say hello, we mean goodbye
Feigning paradise, wanting to cry
Love, all our passion I'm sorry to say
Is part of the game we play

So we're into action on cue
And go spinning like a reel
Summing up this relationship
And the way I feel

I think maybe we should go on out
Into the moonlight, out of the spotlight
And examine where we are and where we've been to
Where we're going is down without a happy ending

When we say hello we mean goodbye
Feigning paradise, wanting to cry
Love, all our passion I'm sorry to say
Is part of the game we play

5. Passing Strangers

I wish I had a penny
For every time I told her I loved her
But that sincerity I know won't raise the fare
She was born with a wanderlust
And against the odds she made the grade
Now out of sight is out of mind to her
I'm scared...
It's a big bad big bad dead end world
If I close my eyes I can't forget you, stranger
In my sleep I see you dancing into danger
Mister don't shoot her
You can't see the whites for the reds of her eyes
Maybe she's been crying over me
While you're lying over her
Talk of us is words in perfect tenses
It seems that action men have broke down your defences
We're passing strangers
But your leaving left me wondering why
These times have changed us
Caught in the middle of a big bad dead end world
Caught in the middle of a big bad dead end world
Friends rally round but it's not just a question of sympathy
Others come and go why won't you come and go with me?
We're passing strangers
But your leaving left me wondering why
These times have changed us
Caught in the middle of a big bad dead end world
Caught in the middle of a big bad dead end world

6. Human Nature

Free as the wind
Tall as a tree
Wide as a mind
Deep as a sea
You crawled on my land
Now I grow in your hand
Always like the first time
Unlike the others
They're so-so
So called lovers
Theirs is the push that comes to shove
But not in our evolution
It's natural
From great to grand
True love is never really planned
And wipes the memory of those who came
Before our evolution
It's natural
And with you see me walk on air
I know that I can do it
When you're holding tightly to my sleeve
The one with my heart upon it
Hard as a mountain range
Bright as a harvest moon
The set gets rearranged
But there's still time to join our show
Every dog must have its day
Everyone's a winner
And every time the lights go down on us
I'm the bginner (sic)
How lady luck has changed
"So long Salem"
The set gets rearranged
But there's still time to join the show
Free as the wind
Tall as a tree
Wide as a mind
Deep as a sea
An interlude
With haunting melodies of nursery rhymes
Singing the changes, singing the changes, singing...
I hear talk of classroom drama
Maybe it's a kind of psychodrama
Children, the mirrors of our yesterdays
On the land out of the sea
Blowing in the breeze
Mind over metaphor
Fall in love with innocence
Don't dally long with diligence
Stand up choose me
Don't refuse me
They pawned our world of peace
A flock of sheep to fleece
Our flood of love won't cease
No harm can come our way
And it's easy to see what sets us apart
From the creatures still on the ocean bed
Our evolution it's natural
It goes from great to grand
Falls into place like something that we planned
When you curl your arms around my frame
Or curl your lips around my name
And do just what comes natural
The first thing on your mind
Do just what comes natural
I prefer your kind of human nature

7. Screaming

Sooner or later
Ready or not
We find ourselves dissolved in soil
The big sleep state
I don't worry
When you got to go you got to go
But wouldn't it be nice to have a say
In our final day
When I take my dying breath
You'd better bet your life I'm going out
Screaming
Like I came in
Screaming
Love and emotion
We're told will keep us sheltered
From the threat of the bear
But danger is everywhere
So take my hand now
As they adopt their fighting stance
Parade our derision
And assume the position, configuration
When I take my dying breath
You'd better bet your life I'm going out
Screaming
Like I came in
Screaming
I want to be the first to go, to test the water
I miss those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
In our younger phase
All the things I took for granted but most of all
You
When I take my dying breath
You'd better bet your life I'm going out
Screaming
Like I came in now
Screaming

8. Common Ground

Here we are
Alive and free
Far away in time from our darkest day
That took our young and brave
From the cradle to the grave
70 years ago on July one 1916 on the Somme
The enemies had never seen fighting like this before
Such a simple plan--
How could any german man
survive through that ordeal?
Company 'A' to Company 'B'
"Morale is high here, sir, but I don't think it's safe to go"
Company 'A' from Company 'B'
"Mister you have your orders and you must obey"
So the first line rose, and the first line fell
And a poet who survived later wrote about
A "Sunlit vision of Hell"
And "Larks singing"
Because after all it's just another summer's day in France
And the Tommies on the Somme sang
"We are fighting to turn no-man's land into a common ground"
A common ground

9. Colourflow

With all the tears and rain
In every pleasure and every pain
and despair, delight, disdain
I hurt you, didn't i?
The summer was almost gone
I won't forget the first time
Swimming in pools of your innocence
Leave your mark and the colourflow of you

Hey don't you feel sensation?
Hey don't you feel the yearn?
Just lying there for the taking
Don't give, make me earn all your love
Promise me all your soul
Give to me all your heart
You'll never be on your own
For all your life

You know you made me shine
Through orange lights and wet streets
But that's outside our undercover
You concerned me when you showed me

The colourflow of you

Hey don't you feel emotion?
Hey don't you feel spellbound?
Just lying there for the taking
What you lost I found all your love
Promise me all your soul
Give to me all your heart
You'll never be on your own
For all your life

Some people make it look so easy
Some you think they'd never heard of compromise
But we can speak oceans by motions
We simplify all your love
Promise me all your soul
Give to me all your heart
You'll never be on your own
For all your life

The colourflow of, colourflow of, colourflow of you

10. No Love Lost (Piano / Vocal Version)

Through the stinging of the system
Wandering lonely as a cloud
Talking only in the open
Congregation is even now disallowed
Growing anger in the city
Banner headlines around the world
What has to be done is called reformation
To heal the rift of living apart together
Forgive them, they know not what they do
There's no love lost at all
Save them they rue the day when
They ever got involved
Even so I have a dream
Turning circles in my head
That they're closing down all the no-go areas
Opening one for them both instead
Forgive them, they know not what they do
There's no love lost at all
Save them God are you waiting open-armed?
All of the problems over the years
I'm sure can be sorted with peaceful solutions
My warm shoulder dries your tears
I want no more heartache
Oh for crying out loud
No point asking if you're leaving
Didn't I make that clear
If we agree to differ
The closer, I'm certain, we'll always feel
Forgive them they know not what they do
There's no love lost at all
Save them they rue the day when
They ever got involved





IQ LYRICS