Videos and Lyrics from New Road Movie

All the World Over

In tower blocks in silent cities

They went out on the balconies

And let all their voices rise

Fly up into the night

All the caged birds

Sing to be heard

All the world over

We open our eyes

To the first ray of light

All the world over

I don’t know when it all begins

Sunlight touching skin

Senses start to wake

The faces taking shape

All the caged birds

Sing to be heard

All the world over

We open our eyes

To the first ray of light

All the world over

This is the time

For the time of our lives

All the world over

Live right, live good, live life

For those who no longer can

Live right, live good, live life

For those who no longer can

Northern Morning

They’re filming the first scene

Of the rest of his life

Praying for action

Waiting on the light

They pulled up the backdrop

And quit the back lot

Went searching for the magic

… and here’s the money shot!

One special moment

He plays over and over

She comes out of the sun

As cool as a northern morning

Cars stop speeding

brakes start squealing

And a heart skips beating

All on a northern morning

Some kind of soul from the Coal Coast

Is it happily ever after?

Hey, I can’t pretend, love’s a foreign movie

Who knows when it might end?

Up on the coal coast

Way past sunset

He’ll flick through the footage

And he’ll catch his breath

One special moment

He plays over and over

She comes out of the sun

As cool as a northern morning

Cars stop speeding

Brakes start squealing

And a heart skips beating

All on a northern morning

Up on the coal coast waiting

.. waiting on the light

Up on the coal coast waiting

Waiting on the light

Up on the coal coast waiting

Hey yeah yeah yeah

One special moment

He plays over and over

She comes out of the sun

As cool as a northern morning

Sleepers start dreaming

Dreamers start scheming

And this heart’s still beating

All on a northern morning

yeaaaahhh

Love Is Gonna Keep Us Cryin'

Oh our arms have never felt so empty

And our hearts never sank so low

starcrossed lovers’ dreams are melting

And there’s nothing left to hold

as long as stars are shining

Love is gonna keep us cryin’

Oh no we can’t fight it

Love is gonna keep us cryin’

We learn to sleep under the dark clouds

Live all our days in minor keys

Never believe that we can keep rising

And just one song could set us free

As long as stars are shining

Love is gonna keep us cryin’

Oh no we can’t fight it

Love is gonna keep us cryin’

So you can show me a world without tears

And I’ll show you a place without love

We’ve got to learn to love with no fear

And only fear that we can’t love enough

As long as stars are shining

Love is gonna keep us crying’

Hey we’re living not dying

if love is gonna keep us crying

oh oh oh

oh whoa whoa whoa whoa

oh oh oh

oh whoa whoa whoa whoa

love is gonna keep us cryin’

love’s gonna keep us cryin’

on no we can’t fight it

love is gonna keep us cryin’

Comsat Angels

The story starts right at the end

And all our bad dreams begin again

This is where I came in

Barbed wire trees

in fields of steel

Ice-cold concrete

Tomorrow’s cities

They’re all fading in the rain

Comsat Angels

Cold War babies

Lie in waiting

As the world is changing

Comsat Angels

Keep on dreaming

Then start receiving

Comsat Angels … Comsat Angels

Are they half asleep

in the half light

waiting for the warning signal?

Or are all they dead to the world?

Stone saints in cathedrals

While under falling skies

The hate goes marching on (and on and on)

Comsat Angels

Cold War babies

Lie in waiting

As the world is changing

Comsat Angels

Keep on dreaming

Then start receiving

Comsat Angels … Comsat Angels

Waiting for a miracle

Miracles are gonna happen

All the lines are opening

Now’s the time

To make the angels sing

Comsat Angels

Cold war babies

Comsat Angels

Miracles are gonna happen

Comsat Angels

Cold war babies

Comsat Angels

Miracles are gonna happen

Come Whatever

Come whatever

Sun showers turn to thunderclouds

heavy weather

hear the dark skies break out loud

If dust devils

blow our gold dream down

I’ll be always by your side

Come whatever

pull the shade on hurricanes

Lie together

the roof will roll, the house will shake

We may never

get through our time unscathed

but I’ll be always by your side

Don’t fight the river

Or it will surely pull you under

Let the water spirits

Take you where they want to

Rise up in the ocean

Go skimming on the surface

On the sunlit ripples

As the sunlight glistens

Come whatever

Love and the world’s well lost

We’ll hold each other

keep dancing when the music stops

and if we ever

ever have to count the cost

I’ll be always by your side

Come whatever

pull the shade on hurricanes

Lie together

the roof will roll, the house will shake

We may never

make it through our time unscathed

but I’ll be always by your side

Come whatever, come whatever ,

I’ll be always by your side

Almost Light

I can’t remember when the darkness fell

Like a switch was flicked sadness cast its spell

And we’d lie down to sleep, dream through all the night

For a touch of hope, a hint of sky

Woah woah woah

Almost light

Blue dawn breaking

New life waking

And it’s almost light

Feel the city stirring

World’s started turning

Almost Light

Come on step up

Stand in tomorrow’s skyline

It was all too easy then for hate to stop the clock

Let the shadows in shut the lovelight off

I still believed our time was hiding in plain sight

Then I saw the stars shine in your eyes

Yeah yeah yeah

Almost light

Blue dawn breaking

New life waking

And it’s almost light

Feel the city stirring

world’s started turning

And I know just one time

All of us losers

Hey we’re gonna win

Let the day begin …

First there was a touch of hope and a hint of sky

Then I saw the stars shine in your eyes

Woah woah woah

Almost light

Blue dawn breaking

New life waking

And it’s almost light

Feel the city stirring

World’s started turning

Almost Light

Come on step up

Stand in tomorrow’s skyline

Almost Light

Pool to Pool

The turquoise ribbons

flow like a river

suburbs to outskirts

rich folks’ jewels

shining pool to pool

Follow the swimmer

chasing the shimmer

on eternal

Sunday afternoons

moving pool to pool

diving

deeper

into the clearest blue

(from pool to pool)

diving

deeper

into the clearest blue

(pool to pool)

No one listens

in summer kitchens

or sees the ripples

flowing out of view

moving pool to pool

Suddenly it’s autumn

and the days are falling

feel the shiver

passing through

moving pool to pool

diving

deeper

into the clearest blue

pool to pool

diving

deeper

into the clearest blue

Chemical Beach

We’re different people

still living in the same old place

trying to make a difference

hoping to leave a trace

we’d make our mark in the sand

but the tide would rise higher

I’m still searching for diamonds

right here on the shoreline

On the Chemical Beach

We’d dream of California

And shiver in the sunshine

On the Chemical Beach

Chemical

Thought the gems all around us

were nothing special

Didn’t know they weren’t shining

Hey all the world over

If coal dust was gold dust

We’d be millionaires

Laurel Canyon

Hawthorn Square

On the Chemical Beach

We’d dream of California

And shiver in the sunshine

On the Chemical Beach

the godforsaken Harbour

I’m crashing like the breakers

On the Chemical Beach

Chemical

The Chemical Beach

Chemical

The Chemical Beach

I’m crashing like the breakers

Crashing like the breakers

On the Chemical Beach

Anything Can Happen

Stuck in the sticks and in the doldrums

Damp bank holidays repeat

Nothing rhymes hope sinks eternal

Years fly by minutes go so slowly

Please don’t say hey it’s all to play for

It’s always a goalless draw

Anything anything can happen

But it never does

And all our happy endings

Don’t turn out quite as good

The ones we fall in love with

Are never who we should

Anything anything can happen

But it never does

So you can wake me when it’s over

Then I can go back to dream

I really won’t be heartbroken

It’s just a little disappointing

So don’t tell me tomorrow’s a brand new day

it’s gonna be the same

Anything anything can happen

But it never does

And all our happy endings

Don’t turn out quite as good

The ones we fall in love with

Are never who we should

Anything anything can happen

But it never does

Oh it never does

Ba ba ba ba ba mmmmm

Ba ba ba ba ba

The Last Motel

Ah this is the last motel

And we’re checking in

Ah the last motel

Hey this is the last motel

And we’re checking in

Hey the last motel Last Motel

New Road Movie

The days are wide open

the future’s foreclosed

when there’s nothing worth losing

then it’s time to go

and we’ll drive under impossible skies

we’ll ride like we’ve left nothing behind

The new road movie

Time to start shooting

our own new road movie

In hard scrabble evenings

on the edge of the dream

we sleep in the scrublands

and live somewhere between

frozen sunsets, stony ground

changing seasons in windblown towns

The new road movie

time to start shooting

our own new road movie

and there’s a new bonfire

on every city block

another funeral pyre

to all the things we’ve lost yeah yeah

all the things we’ve lost

The new road movie

the new road movie

time to start shooting

the new road movie

let it roll