- A Leaf From A Tree
Sometimes I feel I might just fall apart
Trying to hold all this in my heart
Late at night when the house is dark,
I'm scared, yes, I'm scared
That, like the wind takes a leaf from a tree,
Time will take your love from me
Like the wind takes a leaf from a tree
- Delaney's Gone Back On The Wine
In a rundown little tavern, back in old Galway Town,
Where the boys and me would practice every day.
Over in the square, amongst his cronies there
Big Joe Delaney's mandolin held sway
Occasionally he'd drop in, to buy another bottle,
Until the day he joined in our strange song.
Since then we've been together, one-night-stands and stormy weather.
And after all the souped up cocktails,
- Forward Bound
It's all too wonderful
Don't want to think it through
Warm up that body time forgot, it's all I want to do
It all seems so absurd
We've never needed words
I got no time for vertigo sat on top of the world
- Invisible To You
Didn't see me, you didn't see me at all
Couldn't hear me, so you couldn't have heard me fall
And you never knew though I did everything I could do
'Cause I, I was invisible to you
Lost my shadow, crossed my shadow with yours
Passed a mirror, got no reflection there anymore
Since you walked right through, now I can't even seem to be blue
- Lady In Green
A lady in a green coat interrupted his day
Floating in grey water in the most peculiar way.
He looked without much feeling at the curls behind her head,
Then he realized she was dead.
Life is dear and much too short -
Something has gone wrong.
Why should a living lady
- Tootsies
Mother’s pregnant in some clinic
Brother Ernie is a spiv
Uncle Alfred says (the cynic)
We’re too Catholic to live
Sister Suzy’s always praying
To the statues on the shelf
And I’m dangling my tootsies
While I’m singing to myself