over a mile

HOJO LIVE

2007-02-28T23:30:00.000+04:00

Howard Jones Live @ Jambase - 27th Feb, 07

Accoustic with Robin Boult

What a fantastic gig!
Together we can cast away the fear
Together we can wipe away the tear
Together we can strip down the barriers
And be one
Don't wanna talk about the weather
Don't wanna talk about the news
Just wanna get to the real you inside

Like to get to know you well
So we can be one
So we can be one together

---
Come on sing a long to this song

Words: Howard Jones

INSIDE

2007-01-31T12:17:00.000+04:00

I stood inside of something I'd outgrown
A simple sadness in the great unknown
Words: Roddy Frame

IVS - KARACHI

2007-01-25T08:42:00.000+04:00

Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture

The Nusserwanjee Building is a 100 year old Kharadar landmark. It was relocated, stone by stone, to become a part of the IVS campus. A monumental undertaking, all 20,000 sq. ft. of the building has been transported to a beautiful new site by the sea.

This is the place I live
Where is everyone? Are we the only ones?
This is the place I live
And so does everyone, so does everyone.

Words: E.B.T.G.

NCA LAHORE

2007-01-23T00:27:00.000+04:00

National College of Arts - Lahore

This place seems so familiar
But then I can't be sure

Words: Depeche Mode

COOCO'S DEN - LAHORE

2007-01-19T23:48:00.000+04:00

Did I imagine or do these walls have eyes
Did I imagine they held us hypnotized
Life in slow motion somehow it don't feel real
Words: David Gray

Cooco's Den - If you haven't had dinner on the roof top, close to midnight, with the temperature around -2, you haven't lived - or at least experienced Lahore as it should be in late December.

FOOD STREET - LAHORE

2007-01-17T22:20:00.000+04:00

New year's eve - started my meal in 2006 and finished it in 2007

LAHORE 05

2007-01-17T22:12:00.000+04:00

Auriga Complex, Gulberg

LAHORE 04

2007-01-17T11:19:00.000+04:00

Take your eyes of me
There's nothing here to see
Just trying to keep my head together

Words: David Gray

LAHORE 03

2007-01-17T11:17:00.000+04:00

There’s a man I meet walks up our street
He’s a worker for the council
Has been twenty years
And he takes no lip off nobody
And litter off the gutter
Puts it in a bag
And never seems to mutter
And he packs his lunch in a sunblest bag
The children call him bogie
He never lets on
But I know ’cause he once told me
He let me know a secret about the money in his kitty
He’s gonna buy a dinghy
Gonna call her dignity

Words: Deacon Blue

LAHORE 02

2007-01-17T10:42:00.000+04:00

And the driver turned about and said,
"Finding what you want is like
Trying to divide ice from snow"

Words: Justin Currie

LAHORE 01

2007-01-17T10:32:00.000+04:00

The space between
The wicked lies we tell
And hope to keep safe from the pain

Words: Dave Mathews

LAHORE MUSEUM

2007-01-16T07:43:00.000+04:00

Images from the Lahore Museum - 10th January, 2007

And the sun would glint
An a time well spent
An a time that ain't no more

Words: David Gray

THE PAST

2006-12-20T13:08:00.000+04:00

You'll hear my reputation anywhere you ask
They'll say I'm always chasing, so the die is cast
'Cause everytime I fall in love, out falls the past

Words: Del Amitri

SUNSHINE

2006-12-16T20:35:00.000+04:00

& it's you & me in the summertime
we'll be hand in hand down in the park
with a squeeze & a sigh & that twinkle in your eye
& all the sunshine banishes the dark

Words: The Sundays

LEAVE THIS CITY

2006-12-16T20:28:00.000+04:00

gone forever
the writing on the wall
they've boarded up the cinema
strawberry dreams and the dust-filled beams
shut down in a modern town ...
feel the city inside you
leave this city behind you

Words: The Sundays

BIRD

2006-12-16T00:37:00.000+04:00

But then this bird just flew away
She was never meant to stay
Oh to keep her caged
Would just delay the spring

Words: Travis

NO, SURRENDER

2006-12-10T21:58:00.000+04:00

I recently heard a new song by Justin Currie. As the song is yet to be (officially) released, I sat down and transcribed the lyrics because I think the words are very relevant and deserve attention.

No, Surrender

Big Macs for the fat
low-cal wraps for the call centre battery hens
Japanese snacks for the choice folks citizens
caviar kickbacks for the citadel denizens
airport shoe shine servicing the suits
among the little silver stereos and hand rolled cheroots
first class passengers file on last
after the scum are packed in with their tax-free loot
checkout calamity, cheated out of loyalty points
ten more years of this joint you’d be home and dry
beggars beat round the cash machine
but you just slip between them with the usual lie
terrible tales of kidnapped kids
keep you focused on the family and filling up the fridge
neighborhood watchers, shop door dodgers
stick their semis on the market and start racking up the bits

Should you stand and fight?
Should you die for what you think is right,
so your useless contribution will be remembered?
If you’re asking me, I say
No, surrender.
No, surrender.

Constant growth the cancerous cure
a swarming race of profiteers ensure
cheap cars for the rich
cheap lives for the poor
cheap weeks in the sun
free drinks at the door
puerile propaganda plugs up the TV
keep folk following the money so they’ll never be free
keep them swallowing the swill
the celebrities, the paedophiles,
the immigrants invading from the camp over the hill
war talk, the big debate
foot soldiers in the capital liberating new kinds of hate
come shots of human dots caught in the spotlight glare
he dies who dares,
fatuous fast track are sneering at the shelf stackers
little middle-Englanders can’t stand the backpackers
fortress freedom, come on in
take your chances, you might win

Should you stand and fight?
Should you die for what you think is right,
so your useless contribution will be remembered?
If you’re asking me, I say
No, surrender.
surrender, surrender

Sunset beaches, security patrol
keep out the undesirables who don’t accept the code
equal opportunity to live in total poverty
execute the ignorant, incarcerate the slow
car caressant managers, choking up the avenues
braindead patriots standing in salute
paperwork raining again and again
so the billionaires can claim there’s an enemy to shoot
pill pushers, door steppers
personal goal shoppers, life style trend-setters
meditating mind benders
hair-brained share sellers pumping out stocks
‘til you’re choking on a chain letter, avalanche of dross
dog squads trawling through every country
tracking down fools who are bullshit hungry
blinded by divinity, followers fall
into the mantrap saddle on the way to war
athletes compete in grand charades
while tanks flatten streets and a nation laughs
visa holders gape at the changing guards
while creeps bribe bums to take their photographs
film fans flock to the latest schlock
blockbusters block out even the vaguest thought
bankrupt schools grind out fool after fool
and feed them to a system where idiots rule
polling booths, phone votes, bogus questionnaires
you get a say as if anybody cares
Joe Public doesn’t wanna play,
so liquidate his life as he looks the other way
don’t get sick, don’t get wise,
or they’ll gut you with a justice where everything is lies
march down main street, complain if you want
but it’s 20 years straight for the losers at the front

If you’re asking me, I say
No, surrender.

If you’re asking me, I say
No, surrender.
surrender,
just surrender.

Words: Justin Currie

MONOLITH

2006-12-09T21:37:00.000+04:00

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair ... or else!

SHINE A LIGHT

2006-12-08T00:53:00.000+04:00

[Lord, shine a light for me]
[I'm waiting to be called]
[I'm ready to go home]
[I'm ready to receive forgiveness for my sins]
[I'm ready to begin]

Morten Harket

TIME WELL SPENT

2006-12-05T22:19:00.000+04:00

That the sky would lift
That I'd find my place
That I'd see your face in the door
And the sun would glint
An a time well spent
An a time that ain't no more

Words: David Gray

ARIZONA SKY

2006-12-05T22:16:00.000+04:00

The arizona sky
The sky is bigger there
It took my breath away
That doesn’t happen every day

Words: China Crisis

FASHION

2006-12-04T23:47:00.000+04:00

fashion - the timing's all wrong
they taste another flavour
and pretty soon you're gone
fashion - this time it's too late
you knew you'd have to pay for this one day

Words: The Sundays

REALLY

2006-11-29T23:35:00.000+04:00

So I went for a walk around the corniche this afternoon, and this is what I saw - really.

It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Words: U2

In your heart you wonder
Which of these is true;
The road that leads to nowhere,
the road that leads to you.
Words: Enya

Everywhere you go
you always take the weather with you
Words: Crowded House

And somebody told me
That this is the place
Where everything's better
Everything's safe
Words: Glen Phillips

The shining sea the silver sky
A perfect world before my eyes
Words: Ian McCulloch

Just a perfect day,
You made me forget myself.
I thought I was someone else,
Someone good.
Words: Lou Reed

The state I'm in
Got goosebumps on my skin
See the water I'll jump right in
Words: David Gray

What I get from my reflection isn't what I thought I'd see.
Words: J. O. C.

ANOTHER BRIDGE

2006-11-26T14:18:00.000+04:00

[cause time's gone by and all the things we did]
[are now so much water under another bridge]

Words: E.B.T.G.

WINTER RETURNS

2006-11-26T14:13:00.000+04:00

[Crazy skies all wild above me now]
[Winter howling at my face]

Words: D. Gray

ACT 2, SCENE 2

2006-11-26T09:32:00.000+04:00

"O Juliet, Juliet! Wherefore art thou Juliet?"
"It is the East, and Juliet ain't even here - bugger!"

PAST & PRESENT

2006-11-26T02:37:00.000+04:00

[feel the city inside you]

[leave this city behind you]

[past and present]

[they converge on every side]

[the wires all get tangled]

[when now and then collide]

Words: Gavurin/Wheeler

NO DIFFERENCE

2006-11-26T02:27:00.000+04:00

[and the light goes down]
[and all the lights come on]
[and they call to me,]
[oh come on, come on,]
[and you don't make no difference to me.]

Words: E.B.T.G.

BLIND

2006-11-24T14:35:00.000+04:00

[You know it's clear that I've been blind]
[I've been a fool]
[To ever open up my heart]
[To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule]

Words: D. Gray

SECRET

2006-11-23T00:23:00.000+04:00

[Inside they harbour secret thoughts]
[They peek through windows that have twice been locked]

Words: Texas

POSSIBILITY

2006-11-15T14:03:00.000+04:00

[Blog Thought]

They say it isn't possible... but life always finds a way.

STRANDED

2006-11-13T10:20:00.000+04:00

[Sometimes]
[I get the feeling that I'm]
[Stranded in the wrong time]

Words: Keane

WONDER

2006-11-13T10:14:00.000+04:00

[Drawing me further in]
[No sentence I can speak]
[For the wonder so unique]

Words: D. Gray

STARRING ROLE

2006-11-13T10:08:00.000+04:00

[Just take a seat they're always free]
[No surprise no mystery]
[In this theatre that I call my soul]
[I always play the starring role]

Words: Gordon Summoner

MY DOOR

2006-11-13T09:59:00.000+04:00

[Now no one's knocked upon my door]
[For a thousand years or more...]

Words: Gordon Summoner

PUZZLE

2006-11-13T09:53:00.000+04:00

[It's hard to know where I stand]
[It's hard to know where I am]
[Or maybe it's a puzzle I don't understand]

Words: Keane

SORRY

2006-11-08T13:04:00.000+04:00

[blogword post]

All that I've witnessed
Hard to believe
I can still find it in me
To be so naive
Cry on your pillow
Into the night
'cause saying you're sorry
Won't make it right

Words: David Gray

CELEBRATE

2006-10-25T22:38:00.000+04:00

Tonight was a real cracker!

A MIRACLE

2006-10-25T22:28:00.000+04:00

[Up in the office]
[They're talking profits]
[I don't know what it is]
[But I don't feel safe]
[That human hope]
[Can still survive]
[Right now it seems]
[A miracle of faith]
[We like our murder]
[Nice and blurred]
[Don't want to look no further]
[Than the skin]
[I can't stand these confines that I'm in]

Words: David Gray
--
Blogword post

PEACE & JOBS & FREEDOM

2006-10-21T22:09:00.000+04:00

[I`m standing at the window of the world]
[And suddenly the world begins to scream]
[We want the promise and the promise can be made]

[Who said the words]
[Peace and jobs and freedom]

Words: Deacon Blue

NOTHING TO DO

2006-10-21T22:02:00.000+04:00

[Wet feet visit the same old places]
[Finding nothing new]
[It's a binful of tissues from made-up faces]
[In a townful of nothing to do]

Words: Del Amitri

THE ROOM

2006-10-21T21:59:00.000+04:00

[The room was humming harder]
[As the ceiling flew away]

Words: Procol Harum

PRICK LEE

2006-09-27T11:46:00.000+04:00

If I could, I would ... get rid of all the little pricks in this world!

NOT RIGHT HERE

2006-09-13T12:02:00.000+04:00

[When I'm weak and my head is sore]
[And I feel like I can't go on no more]
[I come in here where normal rules do not apply]
[Can't tell the bottle from the mountain top]
[No we're not right]

Words: David Gray

THE END

2006-08-30T10:40:00.001+04:00

[Raise a glass for ignorance, drink a toast to fear]
[The beginning of the end has come that's why we all are here]

Words: J.O.C.

LIGHT

2006-08-27T22:45:00.000+04:00

[Time after time]
[They drag you down]
[Down in the darkness deep]
[Fools in their madness all around]
[Know that the light don't sleep]

Words: David Gray

PAST

2006-08-27T22:39:00.000+04:00

[... Or what the time is]
[Twenty five past eternity]

Words: David Gray

WISH

2006-08-27T22:31:00.000+04:00

[Only wish that you were here]
[You know I'm seeing it so clear]
[I've been afraid]
[To tell you how I really feel]

Words: David Gray

INSPIRE

2006-08-23T13:19:00.000+04:00

Standing In Spire(d)

FREE

2006-08-16T13:34:00.000+04:00

I'm free (no ties to bind me)
I'm free (left the world behind me)
I took my life and I walked away

I'm free (no ropes to tie me)
I'm free (where no one can find me)
I packed my life and I walked away

I left the dust of a million dreams
Lying dead by the side of the road

Words: Midge Ure

IN BLOOM

2006-08-09T19:51:00.000+04:00

[So soon]
[Vanishing days]
[Perfume]
[Of dead bouquets]

[In bloom]

Words: Ian McCulloch

SPACE BETWEEN

2006-08-09T11:24:00.000+04:00

[The space between, the tears we cry]
[Is the laughter keeps us coming back for more]
[The space between, the wicked lies we tell]
[And hope to keep us safe from the pain]

Words: Dave Matthews

RAINTOWN

2006-08-02T18:32:00.000+04:00

[Raintown]
[Rain down]
[On all these tired eyes, tears and frowns]
[In a raintown]
[Rain down]
[On all those days you're not around]

Words: Deacon Blue

TOGETHER FOR LEBANON

2006-08-02T13:15:00.000+04:00

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Please donate and/or help spread the word..

INTAFADA

2006-07-29T20:05:00.000+04:00

BELONG

2006-07-29T18:44:00.000+04:00

[Belong, belong to a family]
[Belong, belong to a school]
[Belong, belong to a city]
[Been so long, long, long]
[Since I had somebody to belong to]

Words: Del Amitri

A BOAT

2006-07-29T18:40:00.000+04:00

[Make me a boat]
[Away I'll float]
[Into the stillness of a pure blue sky]
[There's nothing here to hold me now]
[And I got no more tears to cry]

Words: David Gray

IGNITE

2006-07-28T18:22:00.000+04:00

ignite passion to spark a revolution

IN RUINS

2006-07-27T12:41:00.000+04:00

MEDIA

2006-07-26T22:10:00.000+04:00

[I can't believe you]
[You bend your words like Uri Geller's spoons]
[Not quite safe here]
[When every judgement seems to smack of doom]

Words: Glen Philips

MONOCHROME VISION

2006-07-21T23:53:00.000+04:00

And without her it might as well be the surface of the moon

Words: J. Currie

ALONE

2006-07-21T23:45:00.000+04:00

['Cos you can find yourself a lover]
[You can find yourself a home]
[You can want no other ever]
[But it's never too late to be alone]

Words: J. Currie

SIGN

2006-07-21T23:42:00.000+04:00

Separate but equal

PRAYER 2

2006-07-20T22:24:00.000+04:00

[Lift me up - when I'm falling]
[Lift me up - I'm weak and I'm dying]
[Lift me up - I need you to hold me]
[Lift me up - Keep me from drowning again]

Words: J.O.C.

PRAYER

2006-07-20T22:20:00.000+04:00

[You know my deepest sin]
[You've seen me deep within]
[So fill me now like wind]
[And let the miracle begin]

Words: a-ha

OPPRESSION

2006-07-20T22:17:00.000+04:00

[Stand up, all victims of oppression]
[For the tyrants fear your might]
[Don't cling so hard to your possessions]
[For you have nothing, if you have no rights]

Words: Billy Bragg

DISAPPEARING WORLD - 2

2006-07-20T14:42:00.000+04:00

[Night falling on the city]
[Sparkling red and gold]
[Don’t it just look so pretty]
[This disappearing world]

Words: David Gray

TERMINAL - CASE 2

2006-07-20T10:57:00.000+04:00

[A bucketful of Babylon]
[A belly full of hate]
[Go to sleep my one true love]
[And may your dreams be sweet]

Words: David Gray

TERMINAL - CASE

2006-07-20T10:51:00.000+04:00

[One lifetime is long enough]
[Is long enough to wait]
[The rain like silver in my ears]
[Fat nothing on my plate]

Words: David Gray

2006-07-19T12:36:00.000+04:00

Please Sir, may I have some more?...
[wednesday blogword]

THE CITY

2006-07-19T11:20:00.000+04:00

Sometimes you have to step back to see the bigger picture...

SIT DOWN

2006-07-18T15:49:00.000+04:00

[Those who feel the breath of sadness]
[Sit down next to me]
[Those who find they’re touched by madness]
[Sit down next to me]
[Those who find themselves ridiculous]
[Sit down next to me]
[In love, in fear, in hate, in tears..]
[...Sit down next to me]

Words: James

SUNSET

2006-07-18T15:40:00.000+04:00

[And it collides with clouds]
[That set the sky free]
[Indicating right, indicating wrong]
[I'm just like anyone]
[I wanna see the sun]

Words: Roddy Frame

HORIZON

2006-07-18T15:17:00.000+04:00

Altitude: 24,000 ft
Temp: -17 C.
Time: 6:14 pm

SLEEP

2006-07-13T13:42:00.000+04:00

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

FEELING

2006-07-12T22:32:00.000+04:00

Got that sinking feeling again like it is all going down the drain...

NIGHTBLINDNESS

2006-07-12T18:39:00.000+04:00

[I wish that there was something left to say]
[How we gonna find the eyes to see]
[a brighter day]

Words: David Gray

BABYLON

2006-07-12T13:00:00.000+04:00

[Friday night I'm going nowhere]
[All the lights are changing green to red]
[Turning over TV stations]
[Situations running through my head]

Words: D. Gray

A DROP

2006-07-10T12:41:00.000+04:00

Image inspired by SaaD

[She's passing this way]

[And if you're looking for love,]

[she'll give it away]

[Yeah, we've all drunk from that cup]

[You'll be hooked within minutes of tasting a drop]

Words: Del Amitri

THIRST

2006-07-09T21:09:00.000+04:00

[And I slake my thirst]
[Memories of you and me]

Words: Roddy Frame

SOLACE

2006-07-09T16:08:00.000+04:00

[When I'm weak and my head is sore]
[And I feel like I can't go on no more]
[I come in here where normal rules do not apply]

Words: David Gray

DRINK

2006-07-08T20:16:00.000+04:00

You go to my head like a sip of sparkling brew

Words: Glen Phillips

VELVET

2006-07-08T01:01:00.000+04:00

Her skin is like velvet
Her face cut from stone

Words: a-ha

HONEYDRIP

2006-07-07T18:38:00.000+04:00

[And drip honeydrip, drip your innocence]
[Drip over me through the night]
[Drip, honey, drip, drip your inner sense]
['Cos I'm feeling guilty tonight]

Words: Ian McCulloch

CROWDED

2006-07-07T16:03:00.000+04:00

['Cause there ain't room enough for two]
[In dreams that were made for me and you]
[I'm telling you, it's getting mighty crowded]
[Too crowded for me]

Words: Elvis Costello

INNOCENCE

2006-07-06T21:20:00.000+04:00

[Breathe your honesty]
[Breathe your innocence to me]
[Breathe your word and set me free]
[Breathe to make me breathe]

Words: Midge Ure

LITTLE LOVE

2006-07-05T15:14:00.000+04:00

[And life ain't worth living without a little love]
[But a little love is never enough]

Words: Currie/Harvie

LESSON 1

2006-07-04T13:55:00.000+04:00

[what’s the use of two strong legs]
[if you only run away]
[and what’s the use of the finest voice]
[if you’ve nothing good to say]
[what’s the use in strength and muscle]
[if you only push and shove]
[and what’s the use of two good ears]
[if you can’t hear those you love]

Words: Si Kahn

MISSING

2006-07-03T13:56:00.000+04:00

[I look up at your house]
[And I can almost hear you]
[Shout down to me]
[Where I always used to be]
[And I miss you-]
[Like the deserts miss the rain]

Words: E.B.T.G.

THE STORY

2006-07-01T23:38:00.000+04:00

[stories of rags to riches leave me in stitches]
[and with a thread that's hard to follow]

Words: T.C.S.

THE ITCH

2006-07-01T23:15:00.000+04:00

[and the itch to get rich quick]
[has never been so hard to reach]
[with my hands tied behind my back]
[shin deep in cement and sand]

Words: T.C.S.

RESERVED

2006-07-01T12:06:00.000+04:00

[Tell her not to go]
[I ain't holding on no more]
[Tell her something in my mind freezes up from time to time]

[Tell her not to cry]
[I just got scared that's all]
[Tell her I'll be by her side, all she has to do is call]

Words: Currie/Harvie

CHOICE(S)

2006-06-28T21:29:00.000+04:00

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads.
One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness,
the other to total extinction.
Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

GET BY

2006-06-27T11:24:00.000+04:00

[i've been changing my mind]
[through with looking behind]
[it's a crash course in life]
[the best you can do is get by]
[no getting out alive]

Words: Glen Phillips

DAYDREAM

2006-06-26T21:31:00.000+04:00

[row upon row of houses return an empty stare]
[let the daydream for a little while longer]
[hope I'll never wake]
[when I'm thinking about you]

Words: Gavurin/Wheeler

WINDOW

2006-06-26T17:17:00.000+04:00

[Tell me if, you want to see]
[A world outside your window]
[A world outside your window isn't free]
[And tell me if you wanna catch that feeling of redemption]
[That feeling of redemption doesn't do much for me]

Words: Tanita Tikaram

SHADOW

2006-06-26T11:38:00.000+04:00

[you gotta rise from these ashes]
[like a bird of flame]
[step out of the shadow]
[we've gotta go where we can shine]

Words: D. Gray

WASH AWAY

2006-06-26T11:24:00.000+04:00

[Listen to the rhythm of the rain falling,]
[Say you’re gonna change your foolish ways.]
[Make a promise, break a promise in the same day,]
[It goes the same way, anyway.]
[So you pray for silence and it’s sadness and it’s violence]
[To be washed away, one day.]

Words: Roddy Frame

JUST GETTING BY

2006-06-25T19:35:00.000+04:00

[Look at me, is it written on my face, the luxuries I've known?]

[Am I a foreign presence, someplace that used to be my home?]
[So if you see me walking, just a regular guy]
[Well it's just the business of life]
[If you're not getting lucky, you're just getting by]

Words: J. Currie

BLAZE

2006-06-25T13:33:00.000+04:00

[I climb higher move towards the fire]
[so blaze sun]
[watch until it dies slow falling from the sky]
[pale fading sun]

Words: Gavurin/Wheeler