Work Of Heart

I. No One Ever Gets Out Alive

II. Two Lovers in the Moon

III. We Are the People

IV. All Us Children (So Sadly Far Apart)

V. We Are the People (reprise)

VI. No One Ever Gets Out Alive (finale)

No one ever gets out alive

Not you or me

Can you imagine TV in heaven

Ghosts on Eleven Alive

Elvis and Jesus on Johnny Carson

God on the same 9 to 5

(Thank goodness) No-one ever gets out alive

Not you or me

Under the spreading chestnut in April

I'm gonna lay me down

Get on with being one of the people

Don't let it get me down

(Thank goodness) No-one ever gets out alive

Not you or me

All of my life I've been chasing reality

All that I write is a dream

But some dreams come true

Though it's only a few

The most are off-beam

And all that I see are the ghosts of the robbers

Who laid all these traps

Where blind politicians made desperate decisions

With wall to wall cops

And I'm so surprised at you

I never realised that you needed living this way

I thought you had brains

But it only remains

To bid you good day

And a very good day

Cos me and my lady know it's so shady

We sometimes try turning away

But where can we go

Where we just wouldn't know

There's only today

But the road's so long and longer

Like a dream adrift a stone

Where she and I together lie

And then apart are thrown

Two pebbles in the wheeltreads

Of passing afternoon

Shed by time and circumstance

Two lovers in the moon

And through the passing years love

I will quest for you and I

I know you are my lady

You'll believe me by and by

By and by

Falling here with her

Into the evening breeze

Over her shoulder

Before the sunset seas

O my love

Must we leave this place

To believe

That all the time

We slowly climb

Towards the vision

We are the people

Precious time began

We are the people

When all is said and done

We are the people

We are everyone

We are the people

And gone

We don't have precious time my love

To hide in high rise crime above

These politics of slime my love

We only have each others eyes

To see the world

(Can I read your hands

Are there any lines

Do we carry on

Are there any signs?)

I'm looking to build a home

With you

If I ask you to be part

Of me

And true

In the heart

That I will always be

In you

And I trust my true love

You in me

And I'm looking to build this dream

Come true

Into the deep of deepest

Heart to heart

With you

And all us children

In this present world

So sadly far apart

Can you hear me

As all the time

We slowly climb

Towards the vision

We are the people

Precious time began

We are the people

When all is said and done

We are the people

We are everyone

And gone

And power

Cannot be held

For longer than splitting an atom

Or longer than batting an eyelid

Or longer than being a bee

On a flower

Any by and by

I'm gonna see your face

In another sky

As we leave this place

With an old invitation in your smile

No prosecution or any trial

And under the spreading chestnut in April

I'm gonna lay my case

With you in my arms as two of the people

Head out to inner space

(Thank goodness) No one ever gets out alive

Not you or me

I didn't say no-one ever got out

But no-one ever gets out alive

Not you or me