Psychotropia Lyrics

[Read nicks intro to Psychotropia here]

Hilly Fields

Mr C.G. Fields lost his job with the Board of Trade
Walking through the fields he saw things that made others afraid

Yeah 1892, lines are still on you Hilly Fields
Yeah 18th of July, someone in the sky Hilly Fields.

18th of July, marked in with a circle of red
He left them all behind, filed under missing or dead it said

Yeah 1892, lines are still on you Hilly Fields
Yeah 18th of July someone in the sky,  Hilly Fields ?

Pimply little post boy

Yeah 1892 lives in me and you Hilly Fields, Hilly Fields, Hilly Fields.


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Treeline

Tressillian skies, you and me. Tressillian flies

Finding your love's Tressillian sunrise
Trying is all that's left they are trying
Under the ice trying
Under the Treeline.

You and I been so high, high.

Finding your love's vesuvian incline
You are the one who's keeping me under
Out in the cold trying
Under the Treeline.

You and I, been so high, high.
Verstehen sie nicht oder sind sie beneigen
Over the trees higher,
Under the Treeline.

Uruguay, you and I, high, high, high.
Uruguay, we'll get high Uruguay, high, high, high.

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49 Cigars

You 49 Cigars, leaving the scene, leaving the scene.
We saw you in the shore, under the hill under the trees.

Under garage eyes see me cry.

You 49 Cigars crossing the lake crossing to you.
49 Cigars ( shouting at me I loathe that why can't people be civil? )

You come away with me, down by the lake, under the trees

Under garage eyes see me cry (alright OK then South Ken tube station)

49 Cigars you 49 Cigars.  Going away going away.

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Beverly

I faced the narrows of a closing summer town.
Some like the winter, but for me its the end.

Who are we to wonder Mrs Avery
Who are we to wonder about Beverly

Evergreen girl Beverly why did you leave me (Beverly Rose)
Why did you leave me in 1955.

I stayed that summer in a boarding house
Down in the foyer came the middle-aged men.

Who are we to wonder Mrs Avery
Who are we to wonder about Beverly

Evergreen girl Beverly why did you leave me (Beverly Rose)
Why did you leave me in 1955. 

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On The Beach (the ladder descends)

Got your letter on Monday, but I dropped it on the beach
And watched it blowing away, like something meant to be.

On the beach on the beach again
Blown away in the race to come free
On the Beach where the sky bleeds the sea

Who's calling, I'm falling, the ladder descends to the parallel world

And I wonder who's living under my skin these days
Looking out through the back of my head
Just trying to find my way.

On the beach, on the beach again
Blown away all the pain you don't need,
On the beach with the waves over me.

Who's calling, I'm falling, the ladder descends to the parallel world.

On the beach, on the beach again
Blown away in the race to come free
On the beach with the waves over me.

Who's calling, I'm falling, the ladder descends to the parallel world.
Just diving, arriving, the ladder descends to the parallel world.

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Psychotropia

Freezing hot a tiny dot a million imitations, psychotropia
On the wing my guitar string has reached Tressillian station, psychotropia

Cross a thousand seas just to reach the trees til we're riding free on the vacuumed breeze
Flying.
And I wanna run in a different sun where the rushes come like the waves that drum the beach
Flying.

Eyelids hide the truth inside perception's reinvention, psychotropia

And the open door just blew open more like the rain that falls on the ocean floor.
Flying.
And I wanna run through a different sun where the rushes come like the waves that drum the beach
(This is Yolande, dignity dignity)

And I wanna run in a different sun when the rushes come like the waves that drum the beach.
(actually things have changed a little bit)

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A Hundred Years Later

One more time again round somebody else's dream,
Round this spiral path where everything's what it seems
Round and Round.

Leaving through the small town factory gate 
On the last day lost in space, blown away
Leaving down a songline in my mind
A Hundred Years Later, in ten minutes time.

Round my haunted house through a hole in the eiderdown I fly
(listen to the vine)
In the guise of a wiser man playing with the band
Songs I don't understand.

Leaving through the small town factory gates
On the last day I could face, thrown away
Leaving down a songline in my mind
A hundred years later in ten minutes time

One more nightline your hilarity my design. 

Leaving through the small town factory gate
On the last day I can face, thrown away,
Leaving down a songline in my mind
A hundred years later, in ten minutes time.


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Heaven's Gate

October 1825 ten strong men held the ropes
As the balloon lifted higher,
Then she lifted into the air
And the shout went out.

To Heaven's gate, to heaven's gate
Til could feel the breath of angels on a face
Through heaven's gate.

Waving to the crowds climbing through the clouds spinning round and round.
Only one way now.

All control is gone and fate decreed
That we must ride beyond where we can breathe.
Just pray for delivery from gravity's betrayal.

Suddenly a storm blew up and a strange vortex carried the balloon
Spinning it higher and higher, up and up.

To heaven's gate to heaven's gate, we could feel the breath of angels today.
Through heaven's gate. It was two days later to the day when the balloon returned to land.

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Remember

Was I?
Waiting on the phone was I 
Talking on the phone were you

Remember DCT Remember DCT.

Walking on the road was I
Waiting on the street were you

Remember DCT Remember DCT Remember DCT
Will you.

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Elegant Daze

Hey ho your conversation still drifts in one direction.

Hey these elegant daze.

Hey ho I'll cry in colours. Hey ho can't wait til summer

Hey its these elegant daze (lost upon a hillside)
Hey its these elegant daze (something on the breeze)

Beach beach, walking on the beach, beach walking on the beach.

Well the elephant daze, well the elegant daze (conversations suffer)
Well the elegant daze (lost upon the hillside)
Well the elegant daze.

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DCT Dreams

Far from the shore, Tressillian skies
DCT Dreams with marmalade eyes.
Come away.

You hold my heart it bleeds in your hands
Crawls from your eyes in marmalade brands
Come away.

I am the cream in margarine scenes,
Bleeds from my skies in marmalade streams.

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The Otherside

There's another place where we'll go together
In the morning, like in olden days.

Ciro, I knew him well on the otherside
Ciro, I knew him well on the otherside

There's another way sailing further south and
More to windward you can be there too

Ciro I knew him well on the otherside
Ciro I knew him well on the otherside

Ciro I knew him well on the otherside

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On The Coast 2

There was a girl she could almost have been mine (1959).
Down on the coast in the heat of summertime
In summer.

Just as the sky turned from blue to cloudy grey
She hired a boat just to row across the bay
In summer

In the shallows on the coast.

High on a wave we got carried for miles
There was a bird and the clouds raced us by

We came to land but she'd Autumn in her eyes
and in her heart.

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Everyone Knows

Everyone knows 'bout semaphore sunday
Sundays in June and ships in the sky.
Nobody's face, taking my airspace
Nobody feels, but everyone knows

Down in the fields Tressillian sunday
We're walking your streets
We're living among you.
Changing your lives out of my headspace
Nobody feels but everyone knows

Its a delusion. Everybody knows everybody knows
Beautiful delusion, beautiful confusion.

See for yourself.

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1923

Dark night deep in December old bones in Winter's hand
He sat by dying fire and cursed this frozen land.
Thoughts travel out of the harbour
South to the warmer seas.
The 7th day from Tangiers.
Warm scent ran with the breeze.
Out in the desert, Cairo.

Cairo, Cairo. City of light waits for him in the night.
Cairo, Cairo.

Warm night across the old quarter moon stayed behind a cloud
Cold fear, a touch of steel. No friend would save him now.
And in the streets near Al Azhar the word went on ahead
The crowd on Tahrir square the Englishman is dead
He'll never see Allah.

Cairo, Cairo. City of light waits for him in the night.
Cairo, Cairo.

And though the wounds were not fatal
Morning he'd never see
He lives in darkened nightmare
Cairo in '23.

With him forever.
Cairo, Cairo. City of light waits for him in the night.
Cairo.

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GB Obergine

In blue but grey Tressillian
In green shaded green.

GB Obergine dreaming plasticine

In green but green Tressillian
In green shaded green.

GB Obergine (18th of July) dreaming plasticine

We're going to stay all day.

GB Obergine dreaming plasticine (who could you be?)

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On The Coast

There was a girl she could almost have been mine (1959)
Down on the coast in the heat of summer time

In summer in the shallows on the coast.

Just as the sky turned from blue to cloudy grey.
She hired a boat just to row across the bay

In summer, On the shallows, on the Coast

High on a wave we got carried for miles
There was a bird and the clouds raced us by.

We came to land but she'd autumn in her eyes
and in her heart.

In the shallows on the coast
There's one man in the park, he's waiting for me.

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Doors Of Perception

There's a wave that's rolling near
A slowly changing atmosphere
Feel the seconds turn to years (it's the doorway)

Yeah the doors of your perception 
Yeah are open.
In our daily lives sometimes we must fly.

There's a change from within
Watch your daily mask slipping
'Cos looking out and looking in's the same.

Yeah the doors of your perception
Yeah are open.
In our daily live sometimes we must fly.

Yeah the doors of your perception are open.
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