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With half an eye on history
And half an ounce of hope Sold his soul in the vestry Money for old rope Been this way a million times But now his time is nigh He steps into the spotlight He wants to say 'hi Hello, we're so glad you came You've never seen me before' He's so ambitious, he's so game But yesterday he was dressed the same Then he was so much easier to ignore Here Comes The Groom But the world's not an inn and there isn't any room for you But here he comes He married into money Just to kiss and tell He ripped the contract open He's out of his shell He looks into a mirror Practising his poise But it reflects so badly The groom just gets annoyed He gasps, he forgets his lines He's never done that before The scientists say he's doing fine This fumbling frantic frankenstein Soon he's gonna do the dinosaur Here Comes The Groom His fingers are on the cliff edge His head is going under Is that applause? No that's just thunder.... Why do you keep saying I do? What does the bride mean to you? Play me some Puccini Make it heavy on the strings Walk me to the altar The choir can't even sing Right side for the photographs Left side for the kids God made me do it So that's what I did He coughs, loosens his bow-tie You've never seen him before He kisses the bride, oh you know why Love's one more thing you can buy He was unfaithful before he went outdoors (and now he's in the graveyard) Here Comes The Groom..... |
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Sometimes when you get mystic
I have to leave the room Another accident statistic While the big bass drum goes boom There's an apocalypse now on Station Road If there's a nuclear winter, at least it'll snow Your talk turns all of me upside down You turned up my ticket at the lost and found And all I got was the current crown worn by Cathy's New Clown Our enemies are at the border We couldn't go back too soon Be a nice girl and don't take orders That's what they're saying in the back room You got a big black box that I can't get a look in And I wanna look at you but I don't get a look in I'm like a talking head with the sound turned down Or Pavlov's dog when he wasn't around I'm just a little bit lost so I'm heading downtown to be Cathy's New Clown One upon a time I didn't know you That's the way the story goes But how I wish, how I wish you'd let me show you That I love the lines but hate the clothes That's the way it goes Turn the speakers up to ten now Listen to what he has to say Watch out there's a body talking body-talk A big mouth just gets in the way, hey When I'm with you, there's something to it You know the old lie and you can see through it But now I'm alone and I'm homeward bound Cover my tracks up and cover new ground Put down the purse cos I'm buying this round I'm putting pepper down for the pack of bloodhounds And all I need is a single sound, I'll be Cathy's New Clown Here he comes..... |
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Well you can dance on tv with your diamonds on
Sing in tune for a world that is going for a song Get the steps all right but the words go wrong And you can wake up in the morning with sweaty hands Turn the radio on to the right waveband Think about today and the one that you planned Under the desperate gaze of the whole wide world You turned into a spaced cowgirl Spaced Cowgirl Lock up the medicine chest This wild wild woman is way out west Spaced Cowgirl Lock up the reins and the spurs None of you cowboys are true to her Well, you can be a good lover, hammer nails into hearts And you can be a big loser when the real horror starts You can blow hot and cold on the sacred graph You had a good evening but you don't know where All you recall is a fall guy with an up for sale stare Fell down by the bed and not to say your prayers Under the watchful eye.... Sometimes I listen to you, it's the whiskey talking Sometimes I watch you move and it's the whiskey walking Sometimes I sit and think of the things that might have been Well, your eyes never open, when you sleep they don't close And it rained so hard and your a delicate rose Then it got so cold that your feelings froze No, I still don't believe in all your second sight The automatic pilot flies your eyes tonight Smile at the bird, we'll get you home alright (alright) Under the watchful eye... Spaced Cowgirl Lock up the medicine chest There's no frontier left way out west Spaced Cowgirl Wasn't she the first to say I can't remember my lines today.... |
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Well, the power of the bullet is fascinating
They're polishing the luga facsimiles The little kids grow up imitating Cowboys shoot indians before puberty Don't get me to the battle on time I'd be useless in the front line Don't point that thing at me You know I'm scared of guns You can argue, say it's harmless In the nightmare fairground gallery We're all under pain of death To keel right over gracefully I ached to be a uniform man And toss that baton in a marching band Don't point that thing at me You know I'm scared of guns I'm scared of guns, they're out of your hands I'm scared of guns, they might go bang I'm scared of guns, Hey Joe, they're out of control I'm scared of guns, fear eat the soul Don't shoot me I wanna put flowers in the barrels Like the famous photo, understand That I'd rather get hit on the head That hold cold metal in my hand The new arrival, the latest addition The little boys running out of ammunition Don't point that thing at me You know I'm scared of guns |
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How can you be so dark and disgusting
When she's all sweetness and light She doesn't lie through her teeth all day She doesn't grind them in her dreams When you hold her tight at night How can you be so sick and suspicious When she's health and goodness personified? That love you gave her, it's just a virus That wants blood for Dr.Hyde She's an angel and you're a clown She'll be flying when you're six feet under the ground You'll be lying because someone told you you should She's an angel and you're no good How can you be so cool and distant When she always does her best to be here Right between your dreams and your nightmare desires The hole in your wall has got so small Her stockings are so sheer How can you be so greedy and hopeless She gives you everything but you still want more If you could see the looks you give her That's something you'd abhor She's an angel and you're a joke A shaggy dog shuffling in to give the punchline a poke You're just dying to turn her into Red Riding Hood She's an angel and you're no good She's a not a Barbie doll You can drag around on some dog collar You can't wrap love up in Clingflim Keep it from getting older She'll always be so artless You're heartless, getting colder Don't try to come from behind Cos I'll be right over your shoulder How can you treat her dumb and stupid When she knows that you're not the bee's knees You'll have to let her turn the bedside light right off Instead of you turning it down to mood by the three degrees How can you be so limp and spineless When she'd even help you to make your final stand It's not enough for anyone Just to lie back and think of Iceland She's not an angel, she's flesh and blood You do the dirty and she's crawled around right in your mud Now you're crying, I think that we knew that you would She's an angel and you're no good |
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It's been raining for a million years
And the weather just won't turn Try to build a fire round your place And the damned logs refuse to burn The braindead have been sitting on their sunbeds Where's heaven for its own sake Lying dead or half-forgotten At the bottom of a bottomless lake But when the sun comes out The world's gonna go crazy Everybody's gonna move their arms about Cos what they believed is turned inside-out When the sun comes out It's been raining since I don't know when We're all in for a big surprise Go to the woods in your dreams tonight And when you awake you won't believe your eyes It's all the rage, it'll make the front page Gotta get the gutter press going down the drain Butter melts if you leave it near the window And it's time to try and use a deckchair again But when the sun comes out.... When the sun comes out His pa will be so disappointed To find out his son was double-jointed Some will flounder Some will be anointed The son couldn't wait to do a turn-about It's been raining but it's gonna stop Cats and dogs will shake themselves Time to work, time to pick those hops I gotta go and mend the greenhouse shelves This was meant, well, it's all heaven-sent Go out naked and have no fear One boy spent a little life in torment But now he's grinning from ear to ear Now he's grinning from here to here... |
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I shot John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 63
They blamed it on Oswald carelessly But it was the devil in me Put Jesus on the cross, I put a gag on the Boss I kissed him on the cheek so he couldn't speak But that was the devil in me It was the devil in me It's the devil in me that's unlevelling me Put it down to the devil in me I made you breakfast, put poisoned sheets on the bed I made you cry, couldda made you laugh instead But that was the devil in me So I killed you off, I tore your famous brown furcoat I laughed at your cough, ignored your suicide note But that was the devil in me..... I blew up the bus, I started World War III Hijacked the plane with Qadaffi, blew the hostages free That was the devil in me I'm sponsored by a company that I don't believe in I advertise their things for cash, that ain't deceiving No, that's just the devil in me It was the devil in me.... I gave you acid rain I polluted the sea I covered your thoughts up With graffiti You can call me by my real name Or you can call me humanity Because it all seems just like human behaviour It all seems like human behaviour to me Put it down to the devil in me It was the devil in me It was the devil in me Well it's the devil in me makes me do these things Devil in me that makes me sing Devil in me gave you a wedding ring Put it down to the devil in me |
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Your footman barred me from the door
Said I couldn't see you no more What's with this bureaucracy When I filled the forms you left for me He's a loyal man who waits for you Where loyalty is such taboo Sixteen keyholes in one straight line I look through them from time to time The weather down your end looks fine But the forecast's grim down mine I'm no gamble better understand I like to know the story plan People say I got no sense But I'm waiting for an audience with you And all the wrestlers you've employed And all the boys with whom you toyed You tell me please don't get annoyed You're behaving like some Helen of Troy I don't care for original sin It's a stupid world we're living in Your paid assassin makes me wait He eats with fingers off his plate He says you've got a pressing date With r.i.ps and heads of state I know that he won't let me in Cos villains always have bad skin People say I got no sense But I'm waiting for an audience with you A plastic surgeon's your best friend He's got the means to any end He's so efficient, you're so vain So we won't see your face again Heaven knows how hard you tried Hell was such a bumpy ride The widow with the holy eyes Got a pistol strapped into her thighs Says you're as sweet as apple pie You only get so bitchy cos you're shy But that's a load of papal bull I put you on that pedestal People say I got no sense But I'm waiting for an audience with you Give me the strength of Hercules His fallen arches, water knees And please please let me be like I oughtta be Lost and lonely, hurt and happy With a singer's vanity Now everything seems like a myth The strength that I have performed with Two thousand stairs and there's no lift Gonna get to the top and there's no if What's for me when I get there Is it just wheelchairs and grey hair And never was one letter sent I told the truth but told it bent That's the custom that's the law But don't ask me the reason for I'm just a boy in love with you I'm rejected by the things you do People say I got no sense But I'm waiting for an audience with you |
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In an office two miles underground
They can't tell night from day Secretaries typing errors of judgement In eternally full in-trays Phones ring in, get put on hold Well I'm just waiting for my nails to dry I was coming unstuck with nothing to show You stuck to him like felt on velcro But now he's gone solo He's taken all the amps, smashed the bedside lamp Taken all the lightbulbs and the decorative wheelclamps You got a dark dark dark heart It's the heart of darkness Now you live in a filing cabinet You're another painful smiling face What you had doesn't even have the grace To be forgotten without a trace It lies, it cheats, it moans, it bleats Almost human in every detail In this stinking room, no-one goes to bed There's nothing to say that hasn't been said It's not enough to wish you were dead You had the last laugh but he didn't know why He jumped out the window, man, he thought he could fly You got a dark dark dark heart It's the heart of darkness Look at your body well you're lying still There's a smile across your face At the funeral yesterday Your corpse looked out of place You looked like death to the gathered throng But I knew you were laughing inside Something about your sense of humour Based on innuendo and rumour You were the ultimate consumer I took all your things, I threw away your wedding rings You had a big collection, baby, now they don't look so fetching You got a dark dark dark heart It's the heart of darkness It's 4 am inside my mind But it's dusk out on the street The lamps are burning fireflies Who couldn't stand the heat I got cool bed linen, baby So the story should be complete But somewhere in the back of behind There's a light that makes me feel unkind Those stupid things I made you sign It ain't deus ex machina It's not some soul subpoena It's just when things mean nothing it makes you meaner You got a dark dark dark heart It's the heart of darkness |
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He's done it all a million times
The gags, the repartee, the little crimes Every audience is special and that goes for you He looks into your eyes again He never does it but he tries again That old boy lost look could bruise you black and blue Everybody's looking for a single row so they can be alone Cos every time the lights go up, they'd rather be at home I looked through all the wanted ads with a fine toothed comb And all I came up with was another evening Doing the same thing twice That's what I was doing All the drinks that he's been sinking Never ask him what he's thinking Every audience is unique and that goes for you Dead or alive you're coming with me Because everything's my cup of tea That's why I've got a gold suit and some green italian shoes Everybody says they had, but we all know they didn't It's impossible to be a little bit pregnant Give me the whole fruit cos I'm getting just a segment And all I end up with is another evening Doing the same thing twice Well it hurts so bad to get this stoned By ugly looking bureaucrats with ears like headphones Reading The Sun, Sunday Sport, S.Ideal Home, Woman's Own Looks like you're on your own Bring me on the magic sponge My dying gasp, my final lunge It's all over now bar the dance Do it now but don't get caught I've been having third thoughts They can be so clever, only when the script demands You cluttered up the sky now so you can't follow any star Someone's sitting next to you in an empty cinema No-one wants to end up face down in a reservoir And I don't wanna end up with another evening Saying the same thing twice |
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I took a deep breath and I just stood there staring
It could have been stupid but I was past caring It all seemed to depend on one little kiss Oh but who would have thought it would turn out like this And if I had I'd still have taken the risk Please pick me up, 'cause I'm falling apart That's why I try Hard not to start These affairs of the heart These affairs of the heart Out in the big world, it was coming on morning The newsreader on breakfast tv was still yawning An h-bomb in taiwan, a sex-bomb in spain If you spill that red wine, white will get out the stain Forget the mess, baby, when will I see you again Please pick me up while I'm playing this part That's why I try Hard not to start These affairs of the heart These affairs of the heart This movie is paper, it's 2-d, it's see-through I know what happens cos I saw the preview This mental fandango could drive me insane Just me, these six steel strings and you off in spain Plainly the rain mainly falls down my drain Please pick me up and then pull me apart That's why I try Hard not to start These affairs of the heart These affairs of the heart |
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There's nothing that's better at all
That's better than the sound of the closest call Tells you to act proud, act proud, walk tall There's nothing that's better at all There's nothing that can be compared To the silver braid that plaits your hair It's as if you didn't care There's nothing that can be compared There's trouble in your town The wind blew in and your confidence drowned Hasn't been the same since you found There's trouble in your town I didn't read your letters With you, they're never news And they're no substitute for the times I never see you That's all anyway What have you got to lose Goes for me too.... There's nothing I'd rather do Take you in and pull you through Take you in and pull you through There's nothing I'd rather do There's nothing I'd rather do |
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You might remember this conversation when you get older
You may recall the warning signs on the road But if you lose all recollection Or misplace your sense of direction Here's a quarter taped to the number of my phone When childish habits are slow to die You might look up and wonder why Things snowball in the twinkling of an eye You could be paying for the present on expenses You might realise your biggest lies on a movie screen You might be living in a mansion Your corporation in expansion With a broken heart that far exceeds your wildest dreams Somewhere way under the rainbow Dragging round an empty pot of glue Bruised and confused it could happen to you Seeing for the first time that dreams can come true I was living up the stairs from a mortuary He could hear me bring the bodies home at night He tried to say "I was just like you" I shouted back "you're an old fool" He said "listen" and I told him "I'd rather die" But I changed my mind |
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Midweek and we reached Scarlet Town
I was almost dying of thirst We parked the car in some old schoolyard The windscreen caked in dirt There was no water in the engine left No tread upon the tyres The electrics were broke cos you went mad You ripped out all the wires Across the road, a small cafe In this state of disrepair You went for papers and a shave So I saved you a chair I knew it wasn't the journey's end And that your dream was incomplete But I just could not stand anymore I was dead upon my feet I was dead upon my feet There's nothing there in the market square But the ghost of the Scarlet Town Crier I was dead upon my feet I sing the red rose and the briar I sing the red rose and the briar The waitress told me her life story She'd always meant to up and go She wiped a cup on her red pinafore As we waited for you to show And I told her just a little of you But left the picture incomplete You still weren't there to paint it in person So I skipped out on the street I skipped out on the street The newsagent grinned, he said yes you'd been in You bought a local paper and some shades The washroom attendant said that you'd freshened up That you'd left but you hadn't paid And I couldn't figure out where you were So I went back just to look near the car There was nothing there where it should have been Just oil on dirt and tar Just oil on dirt and tar There's nothing there in the market square But the ghost of the Scarlet Town Crier And there was nothing there where it should have been I sing the red rose and the briar I sing the red rose and the briar I saw it parked way down the street In a garage off on the right And a man said 'get your hands off son' I just traded that wreck for a motorbike There was nothing left of mine inside Not even the broken radio And I couldn't figure out where that left me So I went back to look for Rose The Cafe Rouge was a lunchtime rush Of regulars yelling for food The service in there left a lot to be desired And all the regulars were getting rude I saw an apron thrown over a chair A note said 'hey John we're gone, we're gone' And I just smiled cos I loved you both So I put the apron on I put the apron on There's nothing there in the market square But the ghost of the Scarlet Town Crier And I just put the apron on I sing the red rose and the briar I sing the red rose and the briar |
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Bob Dylan is my father, Joan Baez is my mother
And I'm their bastard son Though my roots show through I'm just 22 I don't belong to anyone When The Band was disbanded, I was disowned I got a number you can ring me on but I ain't got no phone Got a forwarding address, baby I ain't got no home I got no direction home That's the style of a bastard child This is the song of a bastard son Uncle Lenny used to make me laugh Took away my nightmares, tore my daydreams in half Showed them to me reflected upside-down In the mirror that Suzanne Vega found Lenny's still doing his tricks today Only goes to show that growing up might pay Bruce and James were family friends Took my mind to Carolina through the New Jersey bends Gave me a harmonica when I was three Nailed a banjo to my knees Now Bruce is a foreman and James is a slave Bruce gave in and James just gave up My family didn't grow up too well with technology And I think this is why they disowned me But now I wanna get back into the fold I don't wanna be a black sheep, I don't wanna grow old Here's to Warren, Neil, T-Bone, Andy, Lou, Townes, Elliott Tom, Steve, Elizabeth, Elvia, Dave You're singing something good and it's gotta be saved I think so! I've only just started playing guitar and already they say I'm a has-been Say my songs are too long, words are too strong, shoes aren't clean See the synthesizer's broken, the 12 inch does not exist It's gonna take a blessed life to get on to the hitlist I'm gonna need a blessed life to get on to the hitlist But I'm singing for the men, for the women and the kids Who grew up like me with seven basic instincts hid Bob Dylan is my father, Joan Baez is my mother And I'm their bastard son. |
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I was holding up a cigarette and trying to find my mouth
Tyring hard to look so cool like any other ticket tout People sipping on each other's blood, they're all out for the count Talking turkey all around me, what are they all on about? It's the world and all its problems The world and all its problems The world and all its problems I'm walking out it's past midnight, so I stay in the light Please stop breathing on my shoulder, he's just trying to start a fight He says "What was that you called me?" And something says I might Just try to reason with him, where's the beaten track tonight? It's the world and all its problems The world and all its problems The world and all its problems Jesus Gandhi's on a limb out where good guys don't go Telling all these parables that everybody knows And no-one wants to hear them cos he tells them all so slow You can catch him on the news when he becomes a superhero It's the world and all its problems The world and all its problems The world and all its problems I'm sitting on your sofa Thinking about how things rhyme How I wish you'd plug the dansette in And turn it up just one more time One more time Everybody wants all the truth but it's easier to lie Me I love this girl called Ruth, we had to say goodbye I loved her so much sometimes that it made me wanna die And I'd hate her so much sometimes and we knew the reason why It's the world and all its problems The world and all its problems The world and all its problems |
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Got a stupid job, but it's fair money
Got a brand new car but I can't drive I've got a sweetheart, I call her honey And I've also got a wife People say that they're depressed But they go out, they're so well dressed What is it that makes them feel that way? Can't get it in no drug store No man's an island, that's for sure And it looks like the world just ran out of things to say So, give me some of the people's drug Give me some of the people's drug Whatever makes you feel that good I'll take it like I know I should So, give me some of the people, people's drug Give me some of the people's drug Pick me up and take me to a movie Give me an ending that I can understand Sell me a rocking soundtrack, make it groovy Give me backstage passes to the band People always whine whine whine Shut up and pay the fine fine fine What's the difference anyway Beteween being safe and being rad When the big joke is we've all been had You won't get to read the news in USA Today So, give me some of the people's drug Give me some of the people's drug Whatever makes you feel that good I'll take it like I know I should So, give me some of the people, people's drug Give me some of the people's drug God, it's a wacky race we're running And I must atone for all my sins God grant me some of what you're giving Heard you don't need needles, don't need pins I'll pay prescription where's the bill I thought it was a bitter pill But what's it matter what I feel Take the dog and take the wife Shoe me how to life the life The price you people pay well it's gotta be a steal So, give me some of the people's drug Give me some of the people's drug Whatever makes you feel that good I'll take it like I know I should So, give me some of the people, people's drug Give me some of the people's drug |
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In the movie of your life
They'll get some real jerk to be you Edited so he can act Cast because of his TVQ In the movie of your life You'll be less famous than he is That'll be a strange turn of events You'll be a cameo amongst the rushes And you're learning all the lines Though it was you who said them in the first place Since then someone wrote them down To pay for his new beach space There's all these things you can't recall And things you know you didn't say But in the move of your life The truth just flirts and runs away And it's so plain to me You're happy with this parody But in a glittering instant you hold the light so we can see That your joke's become your reality All your tricks so limp and tame You said you were a stage magician But it's only moths in light Heaven burnt out in collision It's only seats that they're booking In the movie of your life The truth won't get a look-in And it's so plain to me You're happy with this parody But in a glittering instant you hold the light so we can see That your joke's become your reality Everyone knows that you're divine so we await your resurrection And they say that you'll be just fine After you dry out on the critical clothesline And you know it's all made up How come your face has ceased to be you? All your doubts and greatest fears They will be confirmed at the preview Celluloid has shaped the day And put the cat amongst the coughers One business lunch on drugs Now you're waiting for the next big offer And it's so plain to me You're happy with this parody But in a glittering instant you hold the light so we can see That your joke's become your reality |
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I can tell when you're telling lies
I can see it in your smiling eyes I can't help when you're telling lies I can see it in your lack of surprise I can see just where the truth doesn't lie Watching you cut through the bind that ties Once upon a time a story with a happy end But that's all in the past now, it's all around the bend You can't appease me now, those hopeless things you send And you can't please me now and we can't start again There's too much history, and no clean sheets When I get to hear his story, it puts my feet to sleep It's all romantic nothing about a heart in a rage Murdered by some cartoon villain who ripped out the last page I can tell when you're telling lies I can see it in your smiling eyes I can't help when you're telling lies I can see it in your lack of surprise I can see just where the truth doesn't lie Watching you cut through the bind that ties Happy ever after, a prince apparent and his bride All his disarming charm and her unfaithful side He's scouting for success and she's his girl guide The day the die was cast, it was the day I died And now your hips are up for grabs and now the chips are down I could be jetting with the set instead of with this clown You want it to be unabridged, all bridges should be burnt Sometimes you must recross them, that's something you never learnt I can tell when you're telling lies I can see it in your smiling eyes I can't help when you're telling lies I can see it in your lack of surprise I can see just where the truth doesn't lie Watching you cut through the bind that ties There are some tricks you can't pull I mean the wool that is Over my eyes That's what happens when lookng for love Becomes a game of I Spy I know you're combing someone's hair, or someone's soothing you A lie may well fool someone else but it tells the truth About you to you I can tell when you're telling lies I can see it in your smiling eyes I can't help when you're telling lies I can see it in your lack of surprise I can see just where the truth doesn't lie Watching you cut through the bind that ties |
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The streets are doing a war dance
As their sight is restored to the blind And I'm sifting trash on the offchance That there might be something to find And Mary lets her fingers do the walking Her baby's nearly due She's listening but no-one's talking At the citizen's advice bureau And Joe is down on the dole-queue He should have signed on yesterday Even if he was a carpenter and she was his lady He still wouldn't be able to make it pay No And he don't believe in angels She's been seeing another man Infidelity runs in the family But that wasn't a part of the plan And shepherds watch the flicks by night At the King's Cross all night show Something's trying to catch their eyes But they're too grossed out to know And the three kings travel like three ships a-sailing They've got some gifts he'll need Cocaine for sniffing, money for corruption, and a whole load of videos of I Love Lucy But the king of the country he's getting frightened He doesn't want to be another man's pawn And he crushes the beer can between his hands He sees his fate, the clown yells Checkmate And another star is born But the baby is killed in an instant As though his whole life were a dream Though his book sells well and he pulls out the stops Everyone knows he's a hyped-up hasbeen And the t-shirts just embarrass And thought become memories after a while He's looking so much older now It's hard to belive that that was style And he throws his cloak out to his fan It's his last chance sacrifice The girls are crawling a cut-glass sea No-one even wants to look twice Cos the circle's all but full now But the stalls are empty for the latest son Who just smiles and says Give my regards to Fleet Street, I've gotta run The streets are doing a war dance As their sight is restored to the blind And I'm sifting trash on the offchance That there might be something to find... |
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When it's time to pack your bags
When everything appears as the drag that it is Get down that brown case that your grandma had Open it up and think of your dad When you're feeling empty And the echos round this cold white room have no identity When it's time to pack your bags Save a little room for me When it's time to buy a home When you're sick of using a different phone everyday Settle up your debts and then settle down Take that suitcase back to the lost and found When you're feeling lonely I guarantee the neighbourhood community will rally round you Wait and see When it's time to buy a home Save a little room for me When it's time to lie down When you're sick of the sound and the sight hurts your eyes Wrap up warm in a single bed Tie up the loose strings that are in your head When you're feeling empty Dreams will fill you up in the Big Sleep City When it's time for you lie down Save a little room for me Save a little room for me |
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I've lost my rifle and bayonet
I've lost my pull-through too I've lost the socks that you sent me That lasted the whole winter through I've lost the razor that shaved me I've lost my four-by-two I've lost my hold all And now I've got damn all Since I've lost you. |
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I put my forehead to the door
And I heard the famous sound of infidelity Looks like I loved and lost once more, Oh, but all's fair in love and war supposedly I couldn't even burst in on you See scrabbling sheets hear your excuse Give you the evil eye or verbal abuse Why do you do what you do When the things that you do hurt the person you are Why do you do what you do When the things that you do hurt the person you are I slam my glass down on the bar And my problems they hit the floor so gracefully I don't know where I parked the car But that's ok, tonight I'm on the town without me Tonight it's just me and my evil twin The one who slips one more drink in The one who slips away, when I start sinking Why do you do what you do When the things that you do hurt the person you are Why do you do what you do When the things that you do hurt theperson you are The person you are I got a job to pay the rent Put people out of work by repositioning Now no-one's sitting on the fence Whose garden will we end up sitting in? It's getting much too hot to heal the sky And it hurts too much to open up our eyes To fundamental truths that we hold as lies Why do we do what we do When the things that we do hurt the people we are? Why do you do what you do When the things that you do hurt the person you are? The person you are The person you are The person. |
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It's so easly to forgo, so hard to forget
So hard for to realise that I'm not dead yet When everything that we wanted is beyond beyond And all that I hoped for is long dead gone So how can I sleep in this memory bed Where I feel like a grave with a tomb for a bedhead With your name and my name carved deep in the stone Now faded away cos we're long dead gone We're long dead gone, long dead gone Now faded away because we're long dead gone And love lies bewildered, checking its pulse To see if it compares to anything else And two things still beating, but never as one And one thing lies choking cos it's long dead gone So here rests in pieces Whatever it was that we could admit to Whatever it was that was me and you So why won't I just let it die and get rid Of the truth that we both would've rather kept hid Better to live a lie than pretend that you're not And to live out a love that is long dead gone It's long dead gone, long dead gone Don't live out a love which is long dead gone Never live out a love that is long dead gone Don't live out a love which is long dead gone |
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Well you say you've got everything you wanted
All your beds are full and your houses are haunted And everything you need, well you got it on credit There's nothing we can think and you haven't said it But something tells me that everything is gonna change When your shares hit low and the world starts to rearrange And when it does I know that You won't be where it's at You better learn The facts of life I guess that no-one ever took you aside And pointed out the difference between black and white And now it seems that role has fallen to me Which is kinds strange when you consider who you wanna be And you come you don't know How low you'll have to go To realize the facts of life You're too old to learn your ABCs And it's much more sinister than the birds and the bees You know I told you it was, didn't I? So now you're dead buried and neglected And you're learning much more than you ever expected No-one can explain your heart attack Now everyone's bringing up baby behind your back Bet you wish you'd listened close Instead of taking an overdose Bet you wish you knew The facts of life The facts of life |
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With all your vice and volume the whole of last week
The plastic pretenders to paradise speak Of your fictions of triumph and legends of pain The sense that you'd left you'd be back once again There's a glint in your eyes and the sky starts to laugh It's two to one you never did things by half And I'm out on the rooftops yelling your name 'Cause without you this town will be too much the same You went driving in the rain I'll never see you again There's nothing in the air left to compare To all of your passion and genius pain You went driving in the rain I'll never see you again There was talk of an illness that came by surprise The papers did penance, the whole town took sides Oh, but it was your dancing and mischeivous mind And then we were shot of you, but no-one's that blind And there's flowers have bloomed down the side of your street Where you and your demons did openly meet And I hope it's wide open where you've got to There's closed minds in this town that couldn't accept you You went driving in the rain I'll never see you again There's nothing in the air left to compare To all of your passion and genius pain You went driving in the rain I'll never see you again They're making excuses, the reasons the facts They're reasoning how long you'll take to come back But there's guilt in their prayers, maybe shame in their pride They know it was no fault of yours down inside They steps can't be retraced cos tracks disappear And there'd be no welcome for you back here Because you were the worst side of everyone's soul They had to get rid or face up to the cold You went driving in the rain I'll never see you again There's nothing in the air left to compare To all of your passion and genius pain You went driving in the rain I'll never see you again |
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Been living in the city too long now
Even my lungs have started to groan Everybody is singing their own song Sometimes I wanna sing alone Never been a primadonna Never seem to wanna be the one to complain Enough's too much and now I'm gonna Stop the madness soon before it drives me insane So, take me where the sun won't shine on me Take me where my conscience won't go Take me where the sun won't shine on me Don't tell me I'm backing out 'cause I don't wanna know Everyone around this town is so angry Blaring horns, swearing, shaking fists If everybody in the world was a hit man We'd wipe each other off each other's hit lists Who wants to stand and be counted All anger ever amounted to was lines on your face I don't want to be the one to start the shouting I'm part of this society and I know my place So, take me where the sun won't shine on me Take me where my conscience won't go Take me where the sun won't shine on me Don't tell me I'm backing out 'cause I don't wanna know Everything around this town is so boring Nothing changes, nothing doesn't stay the same Ten years ago when we had high ideals We couldn't wait to play the protest game But now we have our thing together Brand new leather, three bank accounts Who cares about the starving millions We're just happy that our cheques don't bounce So, take me where the sun won't shine on me Take me where my conscience won't go Take me where the sun won't shine on me Don't tell me I'm backing out 'cause I don't wanna know |
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Look over yonder
What do you see? The sun is a-risin' Most definitely A new day is comin', whoo-hoo People are changin' Ain't it beautiful, whoo-hoo Crystal blue persuasion Better get ready Gonna see the light Love, love is the answer, whoo-hoo And that's all right So don't you give up now, whoo-hoo It's so easy to find Just look to your soul (Look to your soul) And open your mind Crystal blue persuasion Mm-hmm It's a new vibration Crystal blue persuasion Crystal Blue persuasion Maybe tomorrow When he looks down On every green field, whoo-hoo And every town All of his children In every nation There'll be peace and good Brotherhood Crystal blue persuasion Yeah Crystal blue persuasion, aha Crystal blue persuasion, aha Crystal blue persuasion, aha (Oh) Crystal blue persuasion, aha Crystal blue persuasion, aha Crystal blue persuasion, aha Crystal blue persuasion, aha |
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