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Any way the wind blows The direction sent not always known Raise the sail and angle it in Tame the breeze It will take you home All the roads that lead us too The place where two hearts beat in tune Are travelled often Through our lives Just once we hope The love of another To tame the tide Soothing worries of being cast adrift Bobbing Directionless Alone and sad When darkness hides you from a dream Use the light to guide you in A sea of trouble The swell obscures No sign of land Mountainous, thrown Cast adrift, tossed about Use your eyes at the peak of the crest The harbour's safety Haven sent Lost amid life's confusion Mind's that melt Bound by fusion Sorting the pain where loneliness cast you Alone you wander Praying for union It's not easy to be alone Unless through choice you are drawn Finding she who calms the storm Hope upon hope A sweetheart comes Dragging you loveless On to the shore. AGL
Invisible amid a crowd of thousands Obscurity Does her best to hide him No matter how loudly he tries to call out The throng he drowns in Does not hear him Individual All alone In a sea of faces None of them known I'd like to reach out To all of the lonely Show them the world Social acceptance There are those of course Who choose to be alone Living life Never moaning On their own simply strolling It is Ok if that's their thing But what of those that desperately seek The approval of others The hope to meet Kindred in spirit No wish to be meek Social inclusion Minus any confusion Friendly regard The outset Not hard Recognised by many, and more truly liked Approval the drug Allowing them to feel that life is all right Every person that we meet in this short life Is either a comrade Or they may perhaps dislike We cannot be admired or even cared for by all If we were there would be no need to rise to the call Life is not as short as the

Smelt the witch!

I hear they've closed the car-plant down The steel works melted into the ground Unemployment rising fast Acceptable in this Tory land I see the miners were sent home Even though there's still coal to be found Cheaper to buy it from foreign lands Their workers laughing all the way home I applied to go on one of those schemes You know the ones, where you were paid in beans To me, I think its just like school I ended up with all of those fools Who treated me poorly Ignored the rules I watched the UK send a force Thousands of miles To the edge of the world The Sheffield burnt before she died All of those Guardsman duly fried I am not saying that the sacrificed Don't deserve anything but praise The truth of war is hard to bear Those who were bound paid so dear The honour lies with them alone Not in she who sent them down I see they want to send her off Military honours, OH MY GOD! The values held by those who are veiled from the truth that wealt