Marillion - Afraid Of Sunlight (1995) Songlist: Gaspacho Cannibal Surf Babe Beautiful Afraid Of Sunrise Out Of This World Afraid Of Sunlight Beyond You King Gazpacho Saw you walking on your velvet lawn Is it lonely on the moon? You took a dive and swallowed all you could Did you drink too much too soon? Nothing left for you to fight about And no-one wants to see you try The nearest neighbours are a mile away Does the ocean hear you cry? Punching at the sky They say the King is losin' his grip again They said you're bullet proof, they said you feel no pain It seems the hero is misunderstood again Is it love or is it surgery Makes he seem so ill at ease As she's begging you to please calm down In her silk Armani on her knees Did you carry out those threats I heard Or were you only playing macho? And the stains on her Versace scarf Were they really just Gazpacho? They say the King is watching his back again They say the King is losing his grip again Raging like a bull to an empty ring D'you think they will forgive a hero anything? Now the ring is just a band of gold And your wife needs Police protection While you're sparring with the journalists You're trying to win back her affection Is this what it means to be a man boxing up all your emotion So now she's gone and you're alone at last You can tell it to the ocean They say the King is losing his grip again They say the King is countin' his numbered days You never lost a fight in your whole life You never had no trouble sleepin' through the night The bottle and the doctor get you through the day The boys who run the house'll make it all OK You think they will forgive a hero anything Maybe Hollywood... but maybe then again Now the ring is just a band of gold... Drive the road Cannibal Surf Babe Well she tied me to the headboard with a surf leash And her wet hair hugged her body like a long-lost friend And I really tried my best to get across to her But nothing she would say could be defended Well her birthday suit it was her only present When I looked into her eyes; no history And I told her eating people wasn't pleasant But she laughed a snake eye laugh and walked away from me I watched her as she walked across the coals I watched her as she walked across the coals I was born in Nineteen sixty weird And I am your nightmare surfer babe Mr. Wilson where's your sandbox and your beard Are you still looking for the perfect microwave So I did my best to try and get across her I said: "One day every pebble hits the beach" And I kissed her face and held her like a long-lost friend But she was too far out there To be reached I was born in Nineteen sixty weird, old man Mr. Wilson I'm your nightmare surfer babe Mr. Wilson where's your sandbox and your beard old man Are you still looking for that perfect microwave And the sun came up over the mountain And the waves rolled in across the bay And the fabulous brightly coloured birds flew up out of the forest And she said Well we're all heaven's beautiful children together in paradise Lie down my dear... you're going to enjoy this She looks like she had sex with a tyranausus rex I was born in Nineteen sixty weird Mr. Wilson I'm your nightmare surfer babe Mr. Wilson where's your sandbox and your beard old man Are you still looking for that perfect microwave I watched her as she walked across the coals I watched her as she walked across the coals Beautiful Everybody knows that we live in a world where they give bad names to beautiful things Everybody knows that we live in a world where we don't give beautiful things a second glance Heaven only knows that we live in a world where what we call beautiful is just something on sale And the leaves turn from red to brown To be trodden down To be trodden down And the leaves turn from red to brown Fall to the ground Fall to the ground We don't have to live in a world where we give bad names to beautiful things We should live in a beautiful world We should give beautiful a second glance And the leaves fall from red to brown To be trodden down Trodden down And the leaves turn green to red to brown Fall to the ground And get kicked around You're strong enough to be... Have you the courage to be... Have you the faith to be... Honest enough to say... Don't have to be the same... Don't have to be this way C'mon and sign your name You wild enough to remain beautiful? Beautiful All the leaves turn from red to brown To be trodden down Trodden down And we fall green to red to brown Falled to the ground To be kicked around You're strong enough to be... Why don't you stand up and say Give yourself a break They laugh at you anyway So why don't you stand up and be Beautiful. Afraid Of Sunrise Dressed in black, no turning back We blanked out the Great White Way Fingers in desires crack We'd bridge and tunnel into day Abandoned to the salt of skin Abandoned to the highway Sand running in the hourglass Heat of leather and mirages So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight Dayglo Jesus on the dash Scorch marks on the road ahead Friendly fire in hostile water Keep the faith, don't lose your head Don't lose your head Afraid of sunlight So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight Agave flower Sleeps beside me Drivin' on Nevada's burnin' Phoenix rising Drivin' on To sunlight Dayglo Jesus on the dash Scorch marks on the road ahead Friendly fire in hostile waters Keep the faith, don't lose your head Don't lose your head So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight How do we now come to be Afraid Afraid of Sunlight Out Of This World Three hundred miles an hour on water In your purpose-built machine No one dared to call a boat Screaming blue Out of this world Make history This is your day Blue Bird At such speeds... things fly What did she say?... I know the pain of too much tenderness Wondering when or if you'll come back again Wanting to live for you And being banned from giving But only love will turn you around Only love will turn you around Only love Only love will turn you around So we live you and I Either side of the edge And we run and we scream With the dilated stare of obsession and dreaming What the hell do we want Is it only to go Where nobody has gone A better way than the herd Sing a different song Til you're running the ledge To the gasp from the crowd Spinning round in your head Everything that she said... Afraid Of Sunlight Drive the road and surrender Time comes around... out of my hands Small boats on the beach at the dead of night Come and go before first light Leave me running in the wheel King of the world How do you feel? What is there to feel? So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight? Tell me girl why you and me Scared of sunlight? Been in pain for so long I can't even say what hurts anymore I will leave you alone I will deny I will leave you to bleed I will leave you with your life So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight? Tell me girl why you and me Scared of sunlight? All your spirit rack abuses Come to haunt you back by day All your Byzantine excuse Given time, given you away Don't be surprised when daylight comes To find that memory prick your thumbs You'll tell them where to run to hid I'm already dead Matter of time So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight How do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight How do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight Dayglo Jesus on the dash Chalk marks on the road ahead Friendly fire in hostile waters Keep the faith Don't lose your head So how do we now come to be?... Beyond You If you were a baby I would take you and run I could hide you in the folds of my heart There's a truth in the madness that I can't get beyond And a fever that won't leave me alone I don't want my heart Don't want my head Don't want my friends Don't want my bed I can't live with myself I can't live with myself Can't take no help I try to want you But I can't get beyond you I will stare from the window At the shapes in the rain As the space between us drives me insane I can't live with myself I can't live with myself Can't take no help I want no one else If I was a child I would refuse to leave I would sit down on the street Kick my legs and scream I'm not much of a man but I know how I am I know this won't fade away I will pretend and be strong But I wonder where I belong And the feeling comes in waves A hole in my body.. aching Like a heart dying A soul crying Exhausted and insecure Took all you have and I still want more And I reach out to hold you but all I do is hurt you Hurt you I can't live with myself I can't live with myself Can't take no help I try to want it But I can't get beyond you If I was a child I would take you and run And I say I don't know... But I kno And I say I'll go But I don't let go You just spent the whole day Driving away King How long can you stand Tightening up Avoiding the fight Avoiding the truth Tighten the smile Tighten the lie Will you get what you wan To be cursed with your dreams I hope for your sake Something gets in the way How long can you stand Living under the lens The kiss of success The ensuing, all consuming, mess Message of love They arrive everyday People you touch Wasting away People you don't know Give you no choice And your sick to your stomach At the sound of your voice And the shape of your face And the sound of your name They send you pictures of yourself It's someone you don't know And they call you a genius Cause you're easier to sell But the fire in your belly That gave you the song Is suddenly gone And you feel like a fake Is that what you want? I hope for your sake.. You've got what it takes You've got what it take You've got what it takes To be spoilt to death.