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| 1. |
| 3:20 | 
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Drowning here in Summer's Cauldron
Under mats of flower lava Please don't pull me out this is how I would want to go Breathing in the boiling butter Fruit of sweating golden Inca Please don't heed my shout I'm relax in the undertow When Miss Moon lays down And Sir Sun stands up Me I'm found floating round and round Like a bug in brandy In this big bronze cup Drowning here in Summer's Cauldron Trees are dancing drunk with nectar Grass is waving underwater Please don't pull me out this is how I would want to go Insect bomber Buddhist droning Copper chord of August's organ Please don't heed my shout I'm relax in the undertow When Miss Moon lays down in her hilltop bed And Sir Sun stands up raise his regal head Me I'm found floating round and round Like a bug in brandy In this big bronze cup Drowning here in Summer's Cauldron |
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| 2. |
| 3:06 |
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Laying on the grass my heart it flares like fire
The way you slap my face just fills me with desire You play hard to get 'Cause you're teacher's pet But when the boats have gone We'll take a tumble excuse for a fumble Shocked me too the things we used to do on grass If you fancy we can buy an ice-cream cone Your mate has gone She didn't want to be alone I will pounce on you Just us and the Cuckoos You are helpless now Over and over we flatten the clover Shocked me too the things we used to do on grass It would shock you too the things we used to do on grass Grass, grass. Things we did on grass |
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| 3. |
| 3:14 |
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Meet you in the secret place
Scuffling in the dirt I wait Whistle will blow, whistle will blow, Share a joke the laugh's on me But when I get you on your own we'll see Someone might hear, someone might hear You're a working girl now You've got money of your own Hmmm The meeting place Hmmm The meeting place Strolling under grimey skies Machines that make you kiss in time Smoke on your breath, smoke on your breath Chimney never looked so good Never looked the way it should From lying in the bracken wood Coat on the ground, coat on the ground Take a walk down the lane We'll be late back again Hmmm The meeting place Hmmm The meeting place |
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| 4. |
| 3:21 |
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I can't hold you down
If you want to fly Can't you see I'm all broke up inside Well just you use your two X Ray eyes Hurt like Kryptonite Put me on my knees Now that I've found out just what you're doing With your secret identities That's really super Supergirl How you saved yourself in seconds flat And your friends are going to say That's really super Supergirl How you're changing all the world's weather But you couldn't put us back together Now I feel like I'm tethered deep Inside your Fortress of Solitude Don't mean to be rude But I don't feel super Supergirl I won't call again Even in a jam Now I realise you could be on a mission Saving some other man That's really super Supergirl How you saved yourself in seconds flat And your friends are going to say That's really super Supergirl How you stopped the universe from dying But you're never going to stop me crying And I feel like you're trying hard To sweep me like dirt underneath your cape Well I might be an ape But I used to feel super Supergirl That's really super Supergirl How you saved yourself in seconds flat And your friends are going to say That's really super Supergirl How you're changing the world's weather But you couldn't put us back together Super Supergirl How you stopped the universe from dying But you're never going to stop me crying Super Supergirl I'm here in your Fortress of Solitude Don't mean to be rude But I don't feel super |
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| 5. |
| 2:50 |
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Orange and lemon
Raincoats roll and tumble Together, just liked fruit tipped from a tray Pineapple wet heads Watch new hairdos crumble As scenery sunlight shifts away Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Apples and cherries Are varnished in water Despite, striped awnings bright dismay I push my paintbrush To conjure a new world While this one is slowly washed away Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey When it rains it rains All the colors in my paintbox When it rains it rains Tickets for the front row seats Up on the rooftops Orange and lemon Raincoats roll and tumble apples and cherries Together, dropped in diamond disarray Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window Behind the curtain silver falling Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey |
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| 6. |
| 3:44 |
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One thousand umbrellas
Upturned couldn't catch all the rain That drained out of my head When you said we were Over and over I cried 'Til I floated downstream To a town they call Misery oh oh misery Misery oh oh misery And one million teacups I bet couldn't hold all the wet That fell out of my eyes When you fell out with me Now I'm crawling the wallpaper That's looking more like a roadmap To misery oh oh misery How can you smile and forecast Weather's getting better And you'll soon forget her If you let the sunshine come through How can you smile and forecast Weather's getting better If you never let a girl rain all over you And just when I thought that my vista was golden in hue One thousand umbrellas opened to spoil the view One million salt seas Recalled from school atlas Alas would be filled to the brim Sunny Jim couldn't jump it How can I be pleased When I'm handed the keys To a town they call Misery Oh oh Misery So with a mop and a bucket I'll just say forget her And carry on sweeping up Where I've been weeping The Jesters will creep in To strike down the newly crowned Monarch Of Misery oh oh Misery How can you smile and forecast Weather's getting better And you'll soon forget her If you let the sunshine come through How can you smile and forecast Weather's getting better If you never let a girl rain all over you Just when I thought that my skies were a June July blue One thousand umbrellas opened Two thousand umbrellas opened Ten thousand umbrellas opened to spoil the view |
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| 7. |
| 3:22 |
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Season cycle moving round and round
Pushing life up from a cold dead ground It's growing green It's growing green, well Darling don't you ever stop to wonder About the clouds about the hail and thunder 'Bout the baby and its umbilical Who's pushing the pedals on the season cycle? Summer chased by Autumn Autumn chased by Winter season cycle go from death to life Winter chased by Springtime bring a harvest or a man his wife Springtime's turning it's growing green It's growing green, well Darling, don't you ever sit and ponder darling did you ever think About the building of the hills a yonder all this life stuff's closely linked Where we're going in this verdant spiral Who's pushing the pedals on the season cycle? Round and round and round and round I really get confused on who would make all this is there a God in Heaven Everybody says join our religion get to Heaven I say no thanks why bless my soul I'm already there! Autumn is Royal As Spring is clown But to repaint Summer They're closing Winter down Darling don't you ever stop to wonder darling did you ever think About the clouds about the hail and thunder all this life stuff's closely linked About the baby and its umbilical Who's pushing the pedals on the season cycle? Season cycle Darling, don't you ever sit and ponder darling did you ever think About the building of the hills a yonder all this life stuff's closely linked Where we're going in the verdant spiral Who's pushing the pedals on the season cycle? |
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| 8. |
| 2:52 |
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I've been praying all the week through
At home, at work and on the bus I've been praying I can keep you And to earn enough for us I can take humiliation And hurtful comments from the boss I'm just praying by the weekend I can earn enough for us Found a house that won't repair itself With it's windows cracking And a roof held together with holes Just because we're at the bottom of the ladder We shouldn't be sadder Than others like us Who have goals for the betterment of life Glad that you want to be my wife, but honest I've been praying all the week through At home at work and on the bus I've been praying I can keep you And to earn enough for us So you're saying that we're going to be three Now, a father's what I'll be Don't get me wrong, I'm so proud But the belt's already tight I'll get another job at night, but honest I can take humiliation And hurtful comments from the boss I'm just praying by the weekend I can earn enough for us Just because we're at the bottom of the ladder We shouldn't be sadder Than others like us Who have goals for the betterment of life Glad that you want to be my wife, but honest I can take humiliation And hurtful comments from the Boss I'm just praying by the weekend I can earn enough for us I can earn enough for us |
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| 9. |
| 3:32 |
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It's your big day, your big day
So you want to tie the knot Tie it tight, don't let it rot, the memory of this day Are you deafened by the bells Could be heaven, could be hell In a cell for two Big day come and big day go Life goes on after the show But will your love have the fire and glow Like on the big day Statistics they don't say a lot But can you keep what you have got forever together There's a lesson to be learnt Many fingers have been burnt with the touch of gold Love can come and love can go What your chance is I don't know But if you have love then let it show like on the big day You're a new recruit The big day in your wedding suit today Like on the big day yes you're looking fine The big day sign on the dotted line The big day it's your wedding march today |
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| 10. |
| 4:16 |
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My heart is taken it's not lost in space
And I don't want to see your mooney mooney face I say why on earth do you revolve around me Aren't you aware of the gravity Don't need another satellite I'm happy standing on my feet of clay I have no wish to swim your milky milky way I say why on earth do you send your letters 'round here Only to gum up the atmosphere Don't need another satellite So circling we'll orbit another year Two worlds that won't collide So circling we'll orbit another year Moon still tries to steal the tide away Don't need another satellite Don't need another satellite Abort your mission let's just say you tried Before you glimpse I have a darker darker side I say why in Heaven's name do you come on these trips Only to freeze in a total eclipse Don't need another satellite So circling we'll orbit another year Two worlds that won't collide So circling we'll orbit another year Moon still tries to steal the tide away Don't need another satellite Don't need another satellite |
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| 11. |
| 2:26 |
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From pools of xylophone clear
From caves of memory I saw the children at heart That we once used to be Borne on foaming seahorse herd Compose with trumpeting shell From lines across their hands A song as new as new moon As old as all the sands Shrank to stagnant from Atlantic wild Lost that child 'til mermaid Smiled Summoned by drum rolling surf As laughing fish compel The young boy woken in me By clanging diving bell Breakers pillow fight the shore She wriggles free in the tide I'm locked in adult land Back in the mirror she slides Waving with comb in hand I was lucky to remain beguiled Grown to child since mermaid Smiled |
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| 12. |
| 3:24 |
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The man who sailed around his soul
From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold The man who walked across his heart Who took no compass, guide or chart To rope and tar his blood congealed When he found his self revealed ugly and cold And the sirens that sing By your nose with its ring They'll drag you in For your sins Now he sits all alone And it's no place like home It's empty skin A bag to keep life's souvenirs in The man who sailed around his soul The man who sailed around his soul The man who sailed around his soul Came back again to find a hole Where once he thought compassion and the truth Had laid to warm his freezing carcass on return The man who walked across his heart Was doomed to journey from the start Of every love affair he'd broken All the lies he'd ever spoken Tattooed on his arm And the jellyfish stings Even angels with wings Who look too deep And dare to peep Now he sits all alone Knowing flesh blood and bone Is everything He found the treasure he'd been seeking The man who sailed around his soul |
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| 13. |
| 2:31 |
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It frightens me when you come to mind
The day you dropped in the shopping line And my heart beats faster when I think of all the signs When they carried you out your mouth was open wide The cat went astray and the dog did pine for days and days And we felt so guilty when we played you up When you were ill, so ill What sticks in my mind is the sweet jar On the sideboard. And your multicolored tea cosy What sticks in my mind is the dew-drop hanging off your nose Shrivelled up and blue And I'm getting older, too But I don't want to die like you Don't want to die like you |
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| 14. |
| 3:50 |
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Fire they cried
So evil must die And yields are good So men pull back hoods and smile The scapegoat blood spilled Spittled and grilled it crackled and spat And children grew fat on the meat Change must be earnt Sacrificial bonfire must burn Burn up the old Ring in the new Assembled on high Silhouette against the sky The smoke prayed and pranced And sparks did their dance in the wind Shadows wore thin with less and less skin And the clothes that were draped Was all that told man from ape Change must be earnt Sacrificial bonfire must reign Reign over good Banish the bad |
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| 15. |
| 3:40 |
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, hope you got the letter, and...
I pray you can make it better down here. I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer but all the people that you made in your image, see them starving on their feet 'cause they don't get enough to eat from God, I can't believe in you Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but... I feel that I should be heard loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in amount of tears and all the people that you made in your image, see them fighting in the street 'cause they can't make opinions meet about God, I can't believe in you Did you make disease, and the diamond blue? Did you make mankind after we made you? And the devil too! , don't know if you noticed, but... your name is on a lot of quotes in this book, and us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look, and all the people that you made in your image still believing that junk is true. Well I know it ain't, and so do you, dear God, I can't believe in I don't believe in I won't believe in heaven and hell. No saints, no sinners, no devil as well. No pearly gates, no thorny crown. You're always letting us humans down. The wars you bring, the babes you drown. Those lost at sea and never found, and it's the same the whole world 'round. The hurt I see helps to compound that Father, Son and Holy Ghost is just somebody's unholy hoax, and if you're up there you'd perceive that my heart's here upon my sleeve. If there's one thing I don't believe in it's you.... |
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