Nine in a Pond Is Here
IQ
Album • 1985
15 Tracks
IQ
Album • 1985
I can feel the movement Growing all around me everywhere I can hear the language of the revolution every day If you pledge to join me We can fight for reason everywhere All the things we wished for Are ours for the asking anyway Many years ago we lived here All too soon our hopes were drowned Now as if I never knew you Life goes on in different towns And I can walk round you, past you, through you Because you're only ghosts now Yes, I can walk round you, past you, through you Because you're only ghosts now Somehow in this silent city A little of us still remains Mingled with the distant laughter Fused with dust in future rains And I can walk round you, past you, through you Because you're only ghosts now Yes, I can walk round you, past you, through you Because you're only ghosts now
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026
I was waiting for the change To come from underneath the ground Caught in half-light, there she stood But I had given all I could Upside down the shape looked normal In its magic uniform I can't remember getting older I can't get it off my mind It's only fascination diving Keeps my spirits half-alive My infatuation driving my incentive to survive Does it suffocate the daughters Or does torture sink a thrill? Still obsessed with time will time It's now and never, watch it swell It's only fascination diving Keeps my spirits half-alive My infatuation driving my incentive to survive It may be far away but it's here to stay New reminders sway into yesterday She walks towards me now She lives, I don't know how I can hardly move, I can hardly breathe Roses, I am chrome No, she's not at home Shot down to the bone Sitting here alone She walks towards me now She lives, I don't know how I can hardly move I can hardly believe in even nothing I hide you in bullets, I had it all Still dragged from shock to shock One drink to let me sink If I never see you again If I'm jaded, stretched or cleaned Don't tell me, I guessed While you bled for me less I love what you used to be
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026
Is it me that you're speaking to? Can you really put me down? Do you know the things to say? What will happen in the meantime? Are you telling me the truth? Can you really put me down? Would you bother if you could? What will happen if you do? What will happen to my friends? Will they be the same as you? Can you tell me if I'm wrong? When will I be right again?
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026
Across the plateau no clouds storm the sky Above the riverbed the world's run dry I beat the air, for those who hear And through the night my call goes out unheard I cry for company and get no word The silent groan, God only knows I stand alone The wind devides the empty shells below Deep in the valley night begins to grow The memory, the best of me From out the shadows something takes my hand To lead me homeward through a foreign land The silence grown, the palest eyes I'm the only one A mother's son, a father's pride How can I run and where to hide? I close my eyes and hope tonight My healing flesh will be all right; A baby cries, another ghost A different side to claim the most My blood gone black and down to dust So save my soul or let me die I'm still alive I'm on the other side Shaken down, lovely but cockeyed No wonder I feel nervous Lord, they don't deserve us anyway I want to burn these wings You can see how it's happening Still they're telling me to smack the enemy It's killing time! I should have known before Only bad's half as good as dead I can't go any faster, stuck like alabaster White as I know We stand in lines of old, staying cold Swallow all the anger Releases get away, coming down Across the fields of amber To the water, ocean far below As the mirror to the sun The colour of the evening, never let go Hold my stomach, keep it tight They're pulling out the breathing, let it go; If you ever change your mind Don't be caught alone, no, it's only me With all the hopes and fears combined It's hard to care for living anymore I wouldn't let you down again Inspired by hunger, fired by lust I sold the children's faces, painted gold Something moving taking hold Is gathering but never growing old I did everything I could just to say Believe me, you're not alone But with the winter in my bones Oh what else can I do now? It's only me I wouldn't let you down again Break back to back lately Oh and how they moved when I was Younger than this Get my spirit caught beneath the surface See me play dead today I love my daydreams, leave my doldrums Armies of priests All come to practice their party pieces Pounding like metal from side to side To shoot, to save And risk that horizon No smoke can shield, it stays unhealed Safe in our stillness At last we see him rise from out the earth I set the silhouette that leaves me scarred Lost my condition from the perfect star I caught the fire, can't help but see There's none to carry on I knew these plains before the world was mine With no escape in mind, I'll be resigned Inside alone, I know for sure The future's all gone
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026
So the certainty is I can get no air Getting nowhere at all Open-ended and suspended one by one In the slipstream And Harvest hold the horrorbag Emotion starts to lag With panache I keep a-crashing Through the sky No compassion have I Kick a kiss of superstition and I cry "Just a guide or I throw All the panic I can muster Threatening to the cluster"; The hangman's whore so obvious Discretion's such a drag But I know his apparatus snows my mind When it gets too far out Guard the ribs and fall I long to catch my breath, condemn it all As the number I become They count me out a volunteer See how they run in silence up all the belfry steps Each unaffected by the sight of the blistered skin; Someone to calm me till the pounding in my head stops Over the tens of thousands find no way out or in: Through the pandemonium, my heart is beating like a drum Barricaded in here, crawling's getting creepier With my head in my hands, all the heaven in my heart Get me out of here, let me get away Let me go from here, get me out away Get me out of here, let me get away Let me out of here, let me go today
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026
Break out the waters Waiting for anything to come Hold on forever Hell below and Heaven dead ahead Don't ever change your way Burn down the prison Stay in the balance of the wire Hold on forever Only you can turn that lethal level I'll keep you safer than sound Even the rain won't fall in a straight line Take it from me, you'll find that the pulses shine I take the strain Let go the millions of us The whole divide It wasn't easy, I want to stay "You're not alone So don't look back You better see It's getting black You're not alone Surrender now You're going to fall in line You better learn this time" I'm trying to get there I'm falling from nowhere
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026
Singing praises was never a feature encouraged in me or my kind Every time they remain with my hands on my mouth The crowded borders leave me colour-blind Pushing me for the death warmed up and the flowers and fur to parade In the time that it takes for the ritual wake They've broken all the promises they made I was driven away to distraction and Couldn't see we were all laid to waste Never sleeping, I saw my abduction from Solid areas fallen from grace I come drifting through the draughting Dropping out of sight I'm not begging for love, I'm empty as I am I'm beginning to wonder Is the ability too weak? If this stark interior surrounds me Am I so unique? Little blue souvenir to remind me of Restless days when I should have said No And you know that I've nothing to share with you For the chance of the love that we save I wanted to be magnificent For the less-than-a-lifetime of mine I forget where I came in All I know there's no discipline now
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026
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