Polar Bear CD : LYRICS
All Songs © Ben Walker 2003
Fine Line
Oh the summer came and the summer went
The autumn did the same
We tried so hard to understand
That complicated game
The moon lit up our way ahead
And the stars came out to greet us
Our breath was seen on the cold night air
As we gazed upon that miracle
I didn't need to know you
You didn't have a name
Someone stole your heart that night
An angel so you claimed
Chorus
There's a fine, fine line
That keeps us all from turning
There's a hard, hard lesson
We should have learned by now
There's a big, wide sky
That we're all living under
If the truth is out there
I don't want to know
She said that I've found comfort
I want to share with you
She told me of her visions
And how they'd all come true
She clutched that book close to her breast
She closed her tired eyes
She whispered that salvation
Was just a prayer away
It was just another Christmas Eve
In another little town
But she was so convinced
It was the answer she had found
Chorus
The Salvation Army sisters were playing
Tambourines and Flutes
The Jesus Army were bombing love
Upon their new recruits
The Witnesses were in the streets
They were showing me the light
All holy Icons vanquished on that
Revelation night
So winter turns to spring again
And do you still believe?
The book and verse that hold your life
You found on Christmas Eve
That night in late December
You joined in holy union
Do you still believe, beyond all doubt?
That was the only way
You say it's real, it's so beautiful
It's the love I've never known
I'd gladly give my life to them
My possessions and my home
Chorus
-----------------------------------------------Don't Throw The Magic Away
A voice came calling me late last night
It spoke in the tongue of an angel
But I was to weary and caught in my head
I blocked out that voice with a pillow
The voice was telling me come outside
Come and see what the night has to show you
Come and hear what the moon and stars have to say
Don't throw the magic away
Don't throw the magic away
A boy came to visit me late last night
He pulled on my sleeve to follow
Into the garden we'll play hide and seek
I said maybe we'll play tomorrow
But tomorrow is too long a time he said
Tomorrow may never arrive
For the night will be over, the sun's on his way
Don't throw the magic away
Don't throw the magic away
Then a girl came to visit me late last night
She sat on my bed and whispered
Come into the garden and dance for a while
I've brought my dancing slippers
I said my toes are too tired, my legs are too weak
I've been working all day
Now I'm dead on my feet
She looked at me sadly, she wanted to say
Daddy don't throw this magic away
Don't throw the magic away
Three men came to visit me late last night
They'd followed a star to find me
They were neither wise nor mystical travellers
Nor were they the Magi
They said we've come to give you the gifts that we bring
If you listen we'll tell you our story
But it comes at a price you're not willing to pay
Don't throw the magic away
Don't throw the magic away
Then the voice called again to me late last night
It spoke in the tongue of an angel
But I was too weary and caught in my head
I blocked out that voice with a pillow
The voice was telling me to open my eyes
Open my ears and listen
To open my heart and come out to play
And don't throw the magic away
Don't throw the magic away
-----------------------------------------------------------Polar Bear (I can see you)
Polar bear I can see you
Do you know I'm looking at you?
Do you sing when you're happy?
Cry when you're sad?
Can you even be bothered to try?
Polar bear I can see you
Do you know I've been thinking about you?
Do you live in your mind?
Are you missing your kind?
Are you tired, do you want to go home?
Have you been thinking of pastures new?
Have you been trying to fly?
Or wandering round in circles again
Counting the days 'til you die?
Chorus
And oh Polar bear where do they go?
What do they see when their eyes are so blind?
Your coat tells a tale of deceit and betrayal
This isn't how life was supposed to turn out
Oh Polar bear where do they go?
Now that the evening has turned into night
There's nobody there and why should we care
Because I have found you and for now
You have me
Polar bear I can feel you
Do you know I've been lost for some time?
Been wandering around, my eyes to the ground
Too afraid to look at the sky
Polar bear I can hear you
Crying out into the night
The shadows that stalk us
And phantoms that haunt us
They whisper goodbyes in our ears
Is it that you and I are the same?
Have we both been fighting too long?
Don't turn your back on me now Polar bear
It's been fine up 'til now I suppose
Chorus
Polar bear I can touch you
Can I run my hands through your fur?
Though you're asleep in your cave for the day
I'd like you to swim in your pool
Polar bear can you see me
Cause I am looking at you
Does that faded icescape fool you?
Like the thousands of others before
There's millions of hands reaching out through the bare
Countless eyes gaze upon you
Can anyone see what I see Polar bear?
Can they touch what isn't there?
Chorus
Polar bear I can see you
---------------------------------------September Skies
Kathy played the tambourine
Just as she always did
She got it from the wooden box
The one without the lid.
She would play very gently
Though her timing went awry
She'd look out of the window
At the clear September skyChorus
She was happy just to be there
She didn't know the reason why
She would play upon her tambourine
And look out at the clear September Skies
Kathy was the quiet type
Didn't have too much to say
She'd ask about the children
Send her love and then be on her way.
The bus was always late for her
She didn't seem to mind
She'd wait outside by the entrance hall
Easy for the driver to findChorus
Kathy liked her colouring books
She could stay within the lines
But what she really loved to do the most
Paint the pictures in her mind
She would sit away from the others
Just far enough away
Pretending she was visiting her friends
She wasn't there to stayChorus
-------------------------------------------------------Playing The Fame Game
She said I want to be famous, but I don't know why
I've done a little bit of modelling work
I should give acting another try
I want a life that gives to me, not the other way around
Everybody should know my name
I going to follow this dream I have found.Chorus
I want to play the fame game
I have to be someone, a name to this face
I want to play the fame game
I'll give it all up and get out of this place
I want to play the fame game
I'll live and I'll die in the public's eyes
Walking the dream
Will never be enough for me
She said I want to be famous, but I don't know how
I've got this friend who can help me out
He should be calling me any day now
I should be riding in limousines
I should be drinking Champagne
I want to wreck my hotel room
Or maybe change my nameChorus
You haven't asked me what I'm wearing tonight
You haven't asked me why I'm here
Don't you understand I'm going to be the next big thing?
Don't you understand I'm nearly there?
She said I'm going to be famous, but I don't know when
Get a movie or a modelling job, might be famous then
I'll rise above the people, wave them goodbye
Get a plane to anywhere
Follow this dream until I die
I want to play the fame game
I have to be someone, a name to this face
I want to play the fame game
I'll give it all up and get out of this place
I want to play the fame game
I'll live and I'll die in the public's eyes
Walking the dream will never be enough
Walking the dream will never be enough
Walking the dream will never be enough
For me
--------------------------------------------------------Still Sitting Here
I'm sitting here and waiting in this institution chair
The perfume of incontinence hangs heavy in the air
I'd like to read the paper, but I've forgotten how to read
A chance I might remember the name I used to be
My eyes are failing quickly, doesn't matter much these days
I mutter in the silence, it's just my peculiar ways
My mind's begun to crumble and my legs have given out
I'm laughing then I'm crying while the others scream and shout
Seven years or so I'm told that I've been sitting here
I used to be a someone, but that status is now gone I fear
My teeth they get collected so that I don't cause offence
Food is liquidised and the radio makes little sense
The photographs beside my bed are people I once knew
I know that I should recognise them, even just a few
In moments of great insights I might shake my fist with rage
But mostly I just sit here; I'm neither a clown nor a sage
I used to be a soldier, that was many years ago
When I can remember I've a medal that I'd like to show you
People who say they knew me, say I used to dance and sing
And play the pipe and whistle; I was married, there's a ring..
Did I love my wife so dearly and my children and their
games
I've forgotten what they look like, their faces and their
names
But in my dreams and visions I can see them very dear
Couldn't tell you where they are now, but I loved them
very dear
The Circuits in my mind have blown the wiring in my
head
When I die I wonder if I'll know that I am really dead?
Nothing seems to make much sense upon this time I
dwell
I'll drink my institution drink and sit another spell.
I'd love to smoke a cigarette and smell the new mown
hay
I'd love to hold a woman close and dance the night away
If I could just remember all the things I loved to do
Perhaps I wouldn't be sitting here... perhaps it would be
you
I might have been a prophet or a wise man or a fool
I might have had a kingdom over which I ruled
Maybe I was someone who no one really knew
Maybe I'm still sitting here alone and so confused
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Winter
The East wind blew
On his breath came the winter snow
The streetlights were twinkling
In their neon coats
From an upstairs window, on a busy little street
We sat in silence as the rain turns to sleet
Carly, another summer should have come around again
But the world it turns slowly, when you're not here
Carly, by now the world should be a better place
But winter came to stay, and took your youth away.
Fallen Angel, you've nowhere left to fall.
A broken princess, you dance in an empty hall
Revenge of the night, on a nameless, faithless soul
Will the silence always beg forgiveness?
Carly, another spring should be on its way by now
The world it turns slowly when you're not here
Carly, the world should be a safer place by now
The winter came to stay and took your youth away
Carly, the wind is blowing against the window
The world it turns slowly when you're not here
Carly, you should never have felt such pain
But the winter came to stay and took your life away
Winter came to stay and took our lives away
the East wind blows...
----------------------------------------------------------------------Gone For Evermore
Five o'clock on a Sunday morning
The sun was fighting with the night
Last night's whisky was winning
Sleep was in my sights
Wearily I climbed the stairs, searching for some rest
I heard a Seagull calling his children
As they slumbered in their nest
He Sang:
Darkness, sad times, stay away from our door
Heartache and loneliness, trouble us no more
Bad dreams and nightmares, they're all far behind us
Dark times and loneliness are gone for evermore
I know we've had our share of problems
I know we've had our little spats
We've got our home and our family
The children and the cats
I know you find life hard sometimes
It runs away so fast
Don't dwell too much upon what's coming
Leave the sorrow for the past
Because:
Darkness and sad times will stay away from our door
Heartache and loneliness, will trouble us no more
Bad dreams and nightmares, they're all far behind us
For the dark times and loneliness are gone for evermore