Union Town - Blinding Lights

Union Town
Blinding Lights 7"
2010

lyrics:
A. Blinding lights

Breathing life into cold dark dead-end nights
I've been worried inside and through with running
Lived like a soldier, blinding lights
Pale Faces, waiting to inhale

Every hour seems a minute when you don't sleep
in the dark - staring at the clock
Lived like a soldier, blinding lights
Pale Faces, leave no traces

And I know spending time in the darkness
Will never set me free, it consumes what's left of me

Breathing life into cold dark dead-end nights
I've been worried inside, and through with running
Lived like a soldier, blinding lights
Pale faces, leave no traces

Caught broken down, lost in a world too huge
Afraid of trying, too afraid to lose
When the trouble builds too tall, I hope you realize it means nothing at all

Tell me don't it make you proud, to love the world somehow

And I know spending time in the darkness
Will never set me free, it consumes what's left of me

B1. Singing our world into existence

'My title comes from the practice of Australian Aboriginal people who, during their period of 'dream-time', sing their world into existence' (Chatwin, 1987)

Can you see the faces without names on the streets?
Too much time alone, robbed of identity
Battered minds live bitter times
Severed heads through twisted lies
Eyes of fire and ice

Pushing at the back
While dying at the front
Hear us singing our song
The chorus of our song bleeds

Bodies white and trembling shiver underneath
The facades of wealth and image, falsely conceived
Battered minds live bitter times
Severed heads through twisted lies
Eyes of fire and ice

Now the lights go out over Europe
Will we ever see them burn again?
Everything is alright, yeah everything is alright
Because we fooled ourselves into believing
One identity, one world, one rationality

Singing our world into existence
Sung it loud without hesitance
Who wrote these words we've got stuck in our minds?
Singing out, throats bleeding
Who wrote these songs we' re stuck in repeating?
Who wrote the songs we have stuck in our minds?
Singing our world into existence
Singing our world into existence

B2. Start from the end

Before you were gone, and I went away
I never thought of leaving
Marriage of convenience
Band aids to stop the bleeding

There's no place like home when you' re far away
It helps not to think about it
Take the 'far and away'
There's no place like home left anyway

What I said is what I'd say

Make way for the day, and I am happy to say
We will both live to see it
Wordless and intense
Victims of circumstance

Heart over our heads, a tinge of regret
that we're too proud to admit to
no more worry inside
just the passing of time

What I said is what I'd say
Start from the end
Start from the end