Marillion - Radiation (1998) Songlist: Costa del Slough Under the Sun Answering Machine Three Minute Boy She'll Never Know These Chains Born To Run Cathedral Wall A Few Words for the Dead Costa del Slough The hole in the ozone layer is allright by me Makes England warmer in the summer Them tropical guys had it too good too long High time they learned to sing another song And anyway, what's wrong with the odd melanoma If it gets us all out of the coma Under the Sun It used to rain Dreary and grey Most every day But not anymore We come out of our homes We lie down Under the cloud that never comes We roll in the radiation And we make love Under the sun Under the sun The polar ice is melting Suits me fine We go to the beach On the Northern Line We watch the sea Comin up the street Under the sun Under the sun It used to rain Dreary and grey Most every day But not any more We take off our clothes And have some fun Under the sun Under the sun Oh. Thank God we didn't do that on stage, eh? Yeah Answering Machine We flew here to see you My feelings and I I looked down the city From up in the sky The sun was reflecting From the roofs and the water Spring had come early In the parks and the old town I came with a mission To patch up a dream We walked and I talked and my words were absorbed Into the answering machine I came two thousand miles Just to take a look at you But you were broken and frozen A heartbreak of a statue In the bulletproof mirrors where your eyes used to be I stared at myself and I called for some help Into the answering machine The day slipped by and I tried and tried You took me home and you said goodnight Sleep tight On the floor by the bedroom door I watched you sleep and I left before first light The bugs don't bite The bugs don't bite The bugs bite From the land of the frozen To the land of the low We journeyd together But we were always alone So if I should come calling Best not pick up the phone Cause I'm no good for you and you're no good for me Let me talk to the answering machine I can cope with the answering machine I'm a friend of the answering machine Three Minute Boy Here today Gone this afternoon Another tune We almost remember What's the story Sex and drugs again Business as usual The clock's already ticking La la la la When he was young Staring at the TV He watched the fun Happenin' to other people Now they scream As they run after him Like a dream Like Elvis and the Beatles A three minute song is all he wrote He only did it for a joke They played him on the radio From Tokyo to Timbuktu A three minute boy, ain't that somethin? They named their children after him The good times rolled beneath his feet He skipped along the one way street She's a pretty girl She don't know how it started She made a movie He almost remembered She measured up They moved into a basement We're so in love! They giggled to the nation La la la la Three minute millionaire they said The numbers rattled round his head They spun him three times round the globe She waited patiently at home And all the pretty girls wanted him In places that he'd never been Too much love will do you in Forgive Forgive Forgive Forgive Three minute kid is here again Surrounded by three minute friends He found someone to understand To shock the world and hold his hand No religion, no restrain No direction No complaints No future and No way out, no time to think about it All the moneys gone He don't know what they spent it on Girlfriends gone off with the jag Gone back to her mum and dad He's curled up on the studio floor He just can't take it anymore The flashgun went off without warning He'll read about it tomorrow morning. She's goin' out with someone new In this week at number two Three minute boy aint that somethin She'll Never Know In the after-silence Fighting leaves behind I try to think it over But my mind's gone blind I lost the right to argue Somewhere down the line I had to tell She told me Go to Hell and here I am In the gaping hole Home truths tear in a home Married to this hurting I know it's all my fault Who can tell Looks like we have A house to sell Now she'll never know What anyone could tell her Now she'll never know What anyone can see Now she won't believe me Ever again, completely Now I hang around Feet back on the ground I just can't stand I just can't stand Now she'll Never know What anyone could tell her Now she'll never know What anyone can see Now she won't believe me Ever again, completely Now she'll never know Or ever dream How much She means to me These Chains Everything crashed His wife left him He lost all of his money And most of his friends He lay awake all Night Lonely and desperate Contemplating Starting again 4.00 in the morning Sat in the kitchen Keys on the table Went out for a drive He didn't know Where he was going didn't know If he was alive The dawn was breakin A new day was rising Shadows creepin over the fields He watched the pink light Steal across the horizon He realised He saw with new eyes These chains are all your own These chains are comfortable This cage was never locked Born free but scared to be This cage was mad for you With care and constant attention This cage is safe and warm Will you die and never know what it's like Outside. Born To Run The quiet sadness of people on the north Echoes silently around cold grey places Ecstasies undared tremble upon the edge of the tightly, respectably unfulfilled Who drink to excess in order to forget what never happened Brave faces Well dressed ordered minds on suicides edge Reflected in the rainskimmed slate grey, battleship grey, hardship grey And further south, and homeless Here I am Globally-altered and dishevilled Oh darling, I've done it all An antithesis of sorts And yet bound together hopelessly in love With the inevitable loss And the end How can we run from ourselves? Cathedral Wall Curl up tight into a ball Curl my body against the soil Staring up here staring up here At the Cathedral Wall I will sleep tonight Be a baby Foget all Be a baby watch the quiet stones Massive friend Cathedral Wall I will sleep tonight A mother to the living A mother to the dead Silent as the moonlight I come to lay my head And I won't know you Anymore The peckish evening rolls once more Into the ravenous night Of hunger pains That keep our troubled souls awake A mother to the living A mother to the dead My ghost will drink the moonlight Magic stones My heart and bones And I won't know you Anymore She's cold and she knows peace Cathedral Wall She's cold, she shows I borrow Keep away Keep away my love, my love And pray I might sleep tonight The violence of my heartbeat The violence of my blood I will sleep with the Cathedral And, one day, you'll give up And I will love you But I won't know you Anymore A Few Words for the Dead Can you make it your own Can you take it by the throat Make your own luck - learn the skills Get in early For the kill It carries on Pick up the weapon Marry it Give it your name Define yourself by it Take it down to the disco Trigger happy LadyKiller Take em out See the weirdos On the hill Come to get you If you stand still It carries on Somewhere in history You were wronged Raise your children To bang the drum Tell all your family Tell all your friends Teach your brothers To avenge It carries on Or you could love You could love Lie down in the flowers In the blue of air Open your eyes Why use up your life for anything else? No need to fight for what everyone has What do you need? It's already there It's already there You could love So she carried the stars in his pocket He drank the sunrise till he was drunk He embraced the angels They swam like little minnows in his blood Ghosts in his eyes Out walking beside him Laughling like children in his mind They chanted his mantra together You could love They were happy