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I'm through with love hangovers
It's best that I stay sober No rolling in the clover No Gretna Green trip over No honeymoon in Paris I only feel embarrassed For the cool cats The charmed kittens Both smitten by the love songs That he's written Caught in the sights Of a deadly sniper The magic piper of love The magic piper of love Of love, of love My girlfriend, she go blotto Of cunnings and his grotto It turns out he's a dirty old man The nice place that I want to be Is sat up on this Christmas tree While playing these games of Catch as catch can Cause he's a sweet talker A silent stalker All the savvy of a street walker More deadly than a horned viper The magic piper of love The magic piper of love Of love, of love He's a heart breaker A mover and a shaker The magic piper of love It's kind of hard to swallow You know you've gotta follow The magic piper of love Cause he's a city slicker An expert politic-er The magic piper of love Of love, of love Of love, of love Of love, of love |
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Stepping out in style
On a seventies night |
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I'm carrying on
I don't know why I'm carrying on Don't get me wrong I've still got my dreams to build upon It's just you've got your agenda and I've got mine So why should I surrender, when you're just spinning me a line I'm tripping out Strange to say I'm tripping out Yet it all makes perfect sense Though once or twice I've had my doubts 'Cause I've lost all sense of being And I've lost all sense of time But worst of all I've lost what was never really mine Once we reached for the stars On a wing and a prayer and a stolen guitar Summer nights piggin' out On pie in the sky We were in with s shout But it all disappeared in a blink of an eye So no one waved goodbye No one waved goodbye I'm running scared I don't know why I'm running scared A sudden sense of something nauseous in the air Yet I know the answer hides In the corners of my mind So I drift and sift about Just to see what I can find Once we reached for the stars On a wing and a prayer and a stolen guitar Summer nights piggin' out On a pie in the sky We were in with a shout But it all disappeared in a blink of an eye So no one waved goodbye No one waved goodbye |
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It seems I'm cursed and what is worse
The play I'm in seems unrehearsed The spotlight swims before my eyes I lack the wits to improvise What a knockback What a stepback What a setback What a downer What a letdown What a step-down What a comedown What a downer Is it conceit that finds me here? Too much wine or too much beer? Bleary eyed I face the throng Too far out and too far gone What a knockback What a stepback What a setback What a downer What a letdown What a step-down What a comedown What a downer Should I topple from the stage Please don't heckle, please don't rage Just lay your grievance at my door You'll get your money back and more What a knockback What a stepback What a setback What a downer What a letdown What a step-down What a comedown What a downer |
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you've given me a headstart
I'm brewing up a brainstorm And we leave the grunges far behind In the quagmire of the unkempt minds 'cause its got no style, no elequence No elegance no sexuality all it takes is common sense for anyone to see As the world keeps turning you got to keep on learning You got to keep on yearning You got to keep on burning As the world keeps turning you got to keep on learning You got to keep on yearning You got to keep on burning You got to keep on burning you're throwing me a lifeline The way you're looking so fine, sublime From the youngsters who've just learned to shave To the oldsters raving on their graves Its the same old story, Englands glory Claming back the Union Jack, my arse Got to prove it together now To counteract this class As the world keeps turning you got to keep on learning You got to keep on yearning You got to keep on burning As the world keeps turning you got to keep on learning You got to keep on yearning You got to keep on burning You got to keep on burning Burning You won't get far in a cable car You reach the top then you had to stop When you jump back down to the underground you've a train to catch, you've plans to hatch So lift the latch on the clubhouse door there's a thousand souls out on the floor Keep turning and you got to keep on learning and You got to keep on yearning and You got to keep on burning As the world keeps turning you got to keep on learning You got to keep on yearning You got to keep on burning You got to keep on burning You got to keep on burning Burning, burning, burning You got to keep on burning Burning, burning, burning |
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I'm going back to my school
I'm going back to my old school 'Cause to tell you the truth Move this old fool I'm going back to my suit I'm going back to my old suit Though I'm somewhat dismayed 'Cause the cuffs they are frayed Still it's my best suit And I woke with a start And remembered in part A dream that I'd chased That I've since laid to waste Has the love that I'd craved Somehow got mislaid along the way? Am I still okay? I'm running away with myself Am I still okay? I'm running away with myself I'm going back to my youth I'm going back to my wild youth Though our trousers were wide We had soul, we had side Ain't I the living proof? I'm going back to my roots I'm going back to my grass roots 'Cause it's time to re-group Before spring-heeled we'll shoot on the good foot And I woke with a start And remembered in part A dream that I had back when I was a lad And the key that I los To my memory box that got locked away Am I still okay? I'm running away with myself Am I still okay? I'm running away with myself |
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The thunder cracks against the night
The dark explodes with yellow light The railroad sign is flashin' bright The people stare but I don't care My flesh is cold against my bones And Cheryl's goin' home Come, hear me shouting through the rain Is there a way to stop the train? I've got some reasons to explain About the way I was today The whistle moans and I'm alone And Cheryl's goin' home Santa Rose Special's down the line I'm runnin' desperately behind There's only one thing on my mind The rain and tears are in my eyes The things I have to say won't be known And Cheryl's goin' home And Cheryl's goin' home Oh, Cheryl's goin' home, Cheryl's goin' home |
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Way back when I was all of three
I fell down and skinned my knee It didn't matter much to me C'est la vie At the tender age of ten, running wild and free I didn't get no sympathy, fine by me I wasn't concerned with the ways of the world and his wife The pattern was set in stone for the rest of my life It doesn't matter if I win or lose As long as I am free to choose It doesn't matter if I win or lose As long as I am free to choose I'd just turned seventeen when it all went wrong So I sang a different song In a strange and awkward key Doh ray me I cut myself some slack, I headed way down south And though my heart was in my mouth I knew that things would turn out fine Just marking time I wasn't concerned with the way of the world and his wife That pattern was set in stone for the rest of my life It doesn't matter if I win or lose As long as I am free to choose It doesn't matter if I win or lose As long as I am free to choose And how the years have flown and I'm full grown With a small child of my own Who fell down and skinned his knee C'est la vie He said "It doesn't matter if I win or lose As long as I am free to choose It doesn't matter if I win or lose As long as I am free to choose" |
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At the blast that was the past
Came the superhuman brain Set the universe aflame Put the rest of us to shame I looked to the skies with expectant eyes Feeling bedazzled, humbled and small The Answer was clearly writ large on the wall I ain't got time for all that I'm a superficial cat I'm in a dwam that's where I'm at 'Cause I'm a superficial cat At the dawning of all time In the black hole of his mind All his secrets will be sold As the infinite unfolds I don't have time for all that I'm a superficial cat |
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Well, don't get me wrong, I won't hurt myself
Back in the 80's, straight off the shelves I even enrolled in the old school of cool But how quickly I learned to be nobody's fool Don't wanna live in an Adidas world With the Adidas boys and the Adidas girls Don't wanna live in an Adidas world With the Adidas boys and the Adidas girls I tried it once or twice, but let's not be wrong You can't defeat the enemy by singing his song Adi Dassler, have you heard the news? Gonna stomp all over your three-stripe shoes Don't wanna live in an Adidas world With the Adidas boys and the Adidas girls Don't wanna live in an Adidas world With the Adidas boys and the Adidas girls You've gotta kowtow to the corporate cow To the new superpowers I respectfully bow Adidas, Nike, I salute your name But I've twisted my ankle, so I'm out of the game Don't wanna live in an Adidas world With the Adidas boys and the Adidas girls Don't wanna live in an Adidas world With the Adidas boys and the Adidas girls Don't wanna live in an Adidas world With the Adidas boys and the Adidas girls Don't wanna live in an Adidas world With the Adidas boys and the Adidas girls |
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