Fish "Solo"

Good morning, good afternoon
And what have you got to say?
Well, I'm waiting, but I can't stay long
It's such a lovely day
There's a time to be talking
And there's a time when it's no use
Right now I think the things you say
Are liable to confuse

I've just gone solo
Do you play solo
Ain't life a solo?

What a wonderful way to live
She's travelling all over the world
Why, the flame and all the golden
Opportunities unfurled
No time for the gent with the mulliner bently
And heaven knows what else
Why, he wouldn't even stand a chance
With all his oilwells

She just went solo
Do you play solo
Ain't life a solo

I've always lived in a maison
On the other side of the moon
I've always kept a unicorn
And I never sing out of tune
I could tell you that the grass
Is really greener on the other side of the hill
But I can't communicate with you
And I guess I never will

We've all gone solo
We all play solo
Ain't life a solo

Fish "Questions"

Fish in Bethlehem 2008, "That Time Of The Night"

Fish at Nearfest 2008, "That Time Of The Night"

Fish " The Perception Of Johnny Punter" Live (part 1)

Just another nigger, a spooky piece of white trash,
Just another jewboy, spic, mick, yid, raghead motherfucker living on the planet.

(usa version: just another wake up, a hostage of a sunrise,
Just another paranoid, victimised motherfucker living on the planet.)

Just before it kicks in

Just like a silver bullet,
Take a good look at yourself in the mirror and tell me that its worth it,
Said itll never happen, you said youd never get caught out,
You settled in a habit, so now youre mr fixit,
Just another alien, living on the planet,
Living on the planet, living on the planet.
Its just one of those days when you know that somethings gonna happen.

Another betrayal, lose another friend,
You know you never need them, on your own until the bitter end.
Just another pick up, just another kill, someone elses daughter, someone elses girl,
Living on the planet.
We are in another world, living on the planet we are, we are,
And you know theres some days when you feel that somethings gonna happen,
This is one of those days which you know that somethings gonna happen,
And somethings gonna happen.

Somedays you just wake up and you dont have any real sense of direction, you just cant find the will to get up and go through with it all, your next allotted 24 hour slice of destiny.
Rather than a world of opportunities,theres just a bad vibe and its full of threats and just too many negative variables.
Id noticed these houses way up in the hills and I tried to imagine what it would have been like living up there isolated from the world, every night watching the fires crawl slowly down the val
And knowing that one night it was gonna be your turn for the visit.
I tried to imagine what it would have been like hiding in a cellar with your family and the fear hoping that when they do come, when the dogs dont bark, and the silence is around you, you hope
They burn the whole house around your ears and they dont discover you hiding in the cellar because youve got nowhere to go, and you know that one day that somethings gonna happen.
Theres one day, just one day.

Just another village burning in the hills,
I saw it on the tv, just another thrill,
Someone elses problems, someone elses grief,
Someone elses children, living on the planet,
We are in another world living on the planet,
We are in another world living on the planet, we are, we are.

Its just one of those places that never exist till youve been there,
Its just one of those things that you never will see till you wake up,
And you know that somewhere theres somebody thats out there who thinks like you do.
And you hope that today is the day that its all gonna happen for you.
And you know theres somedays when you feel that somethings gonna happen.
This is one of those days which you know that somethings gonna happen.

Fish " The Perception Of Johnny Punter" Live (part 2)

Fish "That Time Of The Night"

Norges Nasjonaldag 17.mai/Norway's Constitution Day 17th May

NORWEGIAN LYRICS

Ja, vi elsker dette landet,
Som det stiger frem,
Furet, værbitt, over vannet,
Med de tusen hjem.
Elsker, elsker det og tenker
På vår far og mor
Og den saganatt som senker
Drømme på vår jord,
Og den saganatt som senker
Senker drømme på vår jord,

Norske mann i hus og hytte,
Takk din store Gud!
Landet ville han beskytte
Skjønt det mørkt så ut.
Alt hva fedrene har kjempet,
Mødrene har grett,
Har den Herre stille lempet,
Så vi vant vår rett,
Har den Herre stille lempet,
Så vi vant, vi vant vår rett.

Ja, vi elsker dette landet,
Som det stiger frem,
Furet, værbitt over vannet,
Med de tusen hjem!
Og som fedres kamp har hevet
Det fra nød til seier
Også vi når det blir krevet,
For dets fred slår leir,
Også vi når det blir krevet,
For dets fred, dets fred slår leir.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Yes, we love this country
as it rises forth,
rugged, weathered, above the sea,
with those thousand homes.
Loving, loving it and thinking
about our father and mother
and the saga night that sends
dreams to our earth.
And the saga night that sends,
sends dreams to our earth.

Norseman, in house and cabin,
Thank your great God!
It was His will to protect the country
Although things looked dark.
While fathers fought
And mothers cried,
Our Lord quietly opened the way
So that we won our right.
Our Lord quietly opened the way
So that we won our rights.

Yes, we love this country
as it rises forth,
rugged and weathered, above the sea,
With those thousand homes.
And as our fathers' struggle has raised it
from distress to victory,
even we, when it is demanded,
for its peace will encamp
even we, when it is demanded,
for its peace will encamp

NOE HELT ANNET ENN FISH.......Brad Paisley/Allison Krauss "Whiskey Lullaby"

She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart he spent his whole life tryin' to forget
We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind
Until the night

1st Chorus
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees
We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that said I'll love her till I die
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby

(Sing lullaby)

The rumors flew but nobody know how much she blamed herself
For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath
She finally drank her pain away a little at a time
But she never could get drunk enough to get him off her mind
Until the night

2nd Chorus
She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away his memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength she had to get up off her knees
We found her with her face down in the pillow
Clinging to his picture for dear life
We laid her next to him beneath the willow
While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby

(Sing lullaby)

Fish "Blind Curve"

Last night you said I was cold, untouchable
A lonely piece of action from another town
I just want to be free, I`m happy to be lonely
Can`t you stay away?
Just leave me alone with my thoughts.
Just a runaway, just a runaway,
I`m saving myself.

2) Passing Strangers

Strung out below a necklace of carnival lights
Cold moan, held on the crest of the night
I`m too tired to fight

So now we`re passing strangers, at single tables
Still trying to get over,
Still trying to write love songs for passing
strangers
All those passing strangers.

And the twinkling lies, all those twinkling lies,
Sparkle with the wet ink on the paper.

3) Mylo

Oh I remember Toronto when Mylo went down,
And we sat and cried on the phone
I never felt so alone,
He was the first of our own
Some of us go down in a blaze of obscurity
Some of us go down in a haze of publicity
The price of infamy, the edge of insanity

Another Holiday Inn, another temporary home,
And an interviewer threatened me with a
microphone,
`Talk to me, won`t you tell me your stories.`

So I talked about conscience and I talked about
pain
and he looked out the window and it started to
rain
I thought maybe I`ve already gone crazy.
So I reached for a bottle and he reached for the
door,
And I picked up the sleeping pills crushed on the
floor
Inviting me to a casual obscenity.

4) Perimeter Walk

It would be incredible if we could
Retrace all the times that we lived here
All the collisions
Wasted, I`ve never been so wasted
I`ve never been this far out before

Perimeter walk.
There`s a presence here.
I feel could have been ancient,
I could have been mystical

There`s a presence,
A childhood, my childhood,
My childhood, childhood, a misplaced childhood,
My childhood, a misplaced childhood,
Give it back to me, give it back to me.
A childhood, that childhood, that childhood,
that childhood, that childhood
Oh please give it back to me.

5) Threshold

I saw a war widow in a launderette,
Washing the memories from her husband`s clothes
She had medals pinned to a threadbare greatcoat
A lump in her throat with cemetery eyes

I see convoys curbcrawling West German Autobahns
Trying to pick up a war
They`re going to even the score
Oh... I can`t take any more
I see black flags on factories,
Soup ladles poised on the lips of the poor
I see children with vacant stares,
Destined for rape in the alleyways
Does anybody care, I can`t take any more
Should we say goodbye? Hey

I see priests, politicians
The heroes in black plastic body-bags under
nations` flags
I see children pleading with outstretched hands,
Drenched in napalm, this is no Vietnam

I can`t take any more, should we say goodbye,
How can we justify?
They call us civilised...

Fish "Suger Mice" Leamington Spa 2009

Fish "Where In The World" Leamington Spa 2009

Marillion "Voice In The Crowd"

Marillion "Shadows On The Barley"

Marillion "Tic Tac Toe"

Marillion "Story From A Thin Wall"

Marillion "Exile On Princes Street"

Fish og Sam Brown " Just Good Friends"

Fish -
Album: Internal Exile
(Dick/Usher/Boult/Simmonds)

There's something I want to ask you
Before it's too late,
It's been on my mind since the first time we met
It scares me now more, now there's more at stake,
It seems we're so close yet so far away.

chorus: What would you do if I got down
On my knees to you
Would you hold it against me,
Would you stand in line?
What would you do if I
Opened my heart to you,
Would I be another who's wasting his time,
Darling are we just good friends?

Could you turn me down gently would I
Be out of order,
If I declared my true feelings or do I
Act out the part,
Of the father confessor of the shoulder to cry on
We're always so close yet so far away

(chorus)

Do I really need to ask you
I'm sure that you know by now,
Do we just play a game where we try to pretend,
That all that's between us is all that's between us,
And all we can rely on is just being good friends.

(chorus)

So are we left to chance meetings,
Is that all we can depend on?
Resigned to raise glasses in anonymous cafes,
Reciting our failures as if we needed
Proof or regret,
Over what might have
And what should have been, Darling, are we just good friends?

Leamington Spa,"Gone Fishing" Convention Aug. 2009.

Fish "A Gentleman's Excuse Me"

Fish "Cliche"

:o)...her er våre nyeste familiebilder,17.mai 2007,Side,Tyrkia, og Holmsbu des. 2009(Med Mark Wilkinson)

Fish og hans datter Tara.

Free music - Tara

"TARA"
I want to be there in the morning, I want to wake up by your side.
If I can make it back I'll be there, if I can catch the early flight.
I'll bring you dragon's teeth from silver beaches, shells from Africa.
I'll give you China dolls and silken shawls, orchids for your hair,
treasures drowned in sunken galleons, jewels from desert caves
when I get there.

We'll see each other in the morning when the sun comes up
We'll see each other in the morning when the sun comes up
in the morning

I'll guard you from the monsters on the tv, from the pirates
in the corners of your dreams. I'll keep you from the cold
and safe from trolls from the bad men while you play.
I'll hunt for crocodiles and snakes with smiles I'll keep them
far away from your innocence in all it's wonder.

We'll see each other in the morning when the sun comes up
We'll see each other in the morning when the sun comes up
in the morning, in the morning, when the sun comes up

Fish og Tara,St.Mary's Church, Haddington Skottland Aug.2006 (Convention -06)

Fish "Suger Mice"

I was flicking through the channels on the tv
On a sunday in milwaukee in the rain
Trying to piece together conversations,
Trying to find out where to lay the blame

But when it comes right down to it there's no use trying to pretend
For when it gets right down to it there's no one here that's left to blame,
Blame it on me, you can blame it on me
We're just sugar mice in the rain

I heard sinatra calling me down through the floorboards
Where you pay a quarter for a partnership in rhyme
To the jukebox crying in the corner
While the waitress is counting out the time

For when it comes right down to it there's no use trying to pretend
For when it gets right down to it there's no one really left to blame,
Blame it on me, you can blame it on me
We're just sugar mice in the rain

I know what I feel, know what I want I know what I am
Daddy took a raincheck
Cos I know what I want, know what I feel I know what I need
Daddy took a raincheck, your daddy took a raincheck
Ain't no one in here that's left to blame but me
Blame it on me, blame it on me

Well the toughest thing that I ever did was talk to the kids on the phone
When I heard them asking questions I knew
That you were all alone, can't you understand that the
Government left me out of work, I just couldn't stand the
Looks on the faces saying what a jerk

So if you want my address it's number one
At the end of the bar
Where I sit with the broken angels clutching at straws and
Nursing the scars, blame it on me, blame it on me
Sugar mice in the rain, your daddy took a raincheck
Your daddy took a raincheck

Fish "The Company"

Where beggars take cheques and children steal credit cards
from the pockets of wrecks in the middle of the road.
I came to in my future and that was just yesterday,
unsure of my past and that's a knot in my gut.
You buy me a drink then you think that you've got the right
to crawl in my head and rifle my soul.
You tell me I'm free and want me to compromise
to sell out my dreams you say you'll make it worthwhile.
Oh, boys would you drink to me now
here on the hill, half way up, half way down
You tell me I'm drunk the you sit back and smug a while
convinced that you're right that you're still in command of your senses.
I laugh at your superior attitude
your insincere plattitudes make me throw up.
Oh, boys would you drink to me now
here on the hill, half way up, half way down
Oh, boys would you drink to me now
here on the hill, half way up, half way down
Oh for the company born to the company
live for the company until I die.
The sooner you realise that I'm perfectly happy
if I'm left to decide the company I choose
The company I choose is solidly singular
totally trustworthy, straight and sincere
polished, experienced, witty and charming
so why don't you push off, this company's my own.
Oh, boys would you drink to me now
here on the hill, half way up, half way down
Oh, boys would you drink to me now
here on the hill, half way up, half way down
Oh for the company, dream of the company
live for the company until I die.
Oh for the company, dream of the company
drink to the company until we die
until we die
until we die.

Fish "Raingods Dancing"

Empty churches, empty pews, in the subway nothing moves and the static on the radio is drowning out the sound of Raingod's dancing,
Empty playgrounds, empty bars, I can't remember how it was before the flood when all I had to do was recognise the love that's trapped inside.

I gave it all, I took it back and in the end there's nothing left except a shell surrounding emptiness and loneliness, a core of pain,
I see my pathway shining.

Raingods with Zippo's, a tinman hides a broken heart,
Raingods with Zippo's, he knows the flame has gone that soon he'll fall apart,

So I lay me down to lie and with the rain my lullaby I drift away to dreamless sleep, leave behind a life that died, a victim of a Plague of Ghosts
I was wrapped up in my guilt buried deep within my memories, a shelter of self-pity that I know the rain will wash away, I sense the storm arriving.

Raingods with Zippo's, a tin man rusts away and slowly falls apart,
Raingods with Zippo's and all he leaves behind a bleeding broken heart.

Fish "Childhood's End"