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I've come across the desert
To greet you with a smile My camel looks so tired It's hardly worth my while To tell you of my travels Across the golden East I see your preparations Invite me first to feast Take me I'm yours Because dreams are made of this Forever there'll be A heaven in your kiss Amusing belly dancers Distract me from my wine Across Tibetian mountains Are memories of mine I've stood some ghostly moments With natives in the hills Recorded here on paper My chills and thrills and spills It's really been some welcome You never seem to change A grape to tempt your leisure Romantic gestures strange My eagle flies tomorrow It's a game I treasure dear To seek the helpless future My love at last I'm here |
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I met her in a bar room
Her name I didn't catch She looked like something special The kind who'd understand The room was almost spinning She pulled another smile She had the grace like pleasure She had a certain style Sunlight on the lino Woke me with a shake I looked around to find her but she'd gone Goodbye Girl Goodbye Girl Goodbye Girl She took me to her hotel The room on the second floor A kettle and two coffees Her number on the door She said I hardly know you Agreed we kissed goodnight I knew that in the morning Somehow I'd wake to find Goodbye Girl Goodbye Girl Goodbye Girl I lost my silver razor My clubroom locker keys The money in the waistcoat It doesn't bother me My wife has moved to Guernsey So mug is not the word If you ever see her Say hello Goodbye Girl Goodbye Girl Goodbye Girl Goodbye Girl |
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The Indians send signals from the rocks above the pass;
The cowboys take position in the bushes and the grass. The squaw is with the corporal ?she is tied against a tree. She doesn?t mind the language; it?s the beatings she don?t need. She lets loose all the horses when the corporal is asleep, And he wakes to find the fire?s dead and an arrow?s in his ass, And Davy Crockett rides around and says it?s cool for cats. It?s cool for cats. Cool for cats... The Sweeney's doing ninety ?cause they?ve got the word to go. They get a gang of villans in a shed out by Heathrowe. They?re countin?out the fivers when the handcuffs lock again. In and out in one swift with the numbers on their names. It?s funny how the misses always looks the bleedin?same. And meanwhile, at the station, there?s a couple?a likely lads, Who swear like how?s-your-father, and they?re very cool for cats. They?re cool for cats. <Cool for cats...> To change the mood a little, I?ve been posing ?round the pub. I see in my reflection: I?m looking slightly rough. I fancy this; I fancy that. I want a piece of flesh. I give a little muscle and I spend a little cash But all I get is bitter and a nasty little rash. And by the time I?m sober, I?ve forgotten what I?ve had. And everybody tells me that it?s cool to be a cat. Cool for cats. Cool for cats... Shape up at the disco when I think I?ve got her pulled. I ask her lots of questions as she hangs on to the wall. I kiss her for the first time and then I take her home. I?m invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone. She likes to go to discos, but she?s never on her own. I said, ?I?ll see you later,?and I give her some old chat, But it?s not like that on the T.V. ?when it?s cool for cats, It?s cool for ca-a-a-ats. Cool for cats... |
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I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham Out on a windy common That night I ain’t forgotten When she dealt out the rations With some or other passions I said you are a lady Perhaps she said I may be We moved into a basement With thoughts of our engagement We stayed in by the telly Although the room was smelly We spent our time just kissing The Railway Arms we’re missing But love had got us hooked up And all our time it took up I got a job with Stanley He said I’d come in handy And started me on Monday So I had a bath on Sunday I worked eleven hours And bought the girl some flowers She said she’d seen a doctor And nothing now could stop her I worked all through the winter The weather brass and bitter I put away a tenner Each week to make her better And when the time was ready We had to sell the telly Late evenings by the fire With little kicks inside her This morning at 4:50 I took her rather nifty Down to an incubator Where thirty minutes later She gave birth to a daughter Within a year a walker She looked just like her mother If there could be another And now she’s two years older Her mother’s with a soldier She left me when my drinking Became a proper stinging The devil came and took me From bar to street to bookie No more nights by the telly No more nights nappies smelling Alone here in the kitchen I feel there’s something missing I’d beg for some forgiveness But begging’s not my business And she won’t write a letter Although I always tell her And so it’s my assumption I’m really up the junction |
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The case was pulled from under the bed
She made a call to a sympathetic friend And made arrangements The door was closed there was a note I couldn't be bothered maybe I'll choke No more engagements With where have you beens And faraway frowns Trying to be good By not being round And here in the bar The pianoman's found Another nail in my heart That stupid old bug That kills only love I want to be good Is that not enough So play me the song That makes it so tough Another nail for my heart Then play me the song That makes it so tough Another nail for my heart I had excuses those little boy lies Then she computed by watching my eyes And told me firmly She couldn't stand it I'm bad on the heart She dropped her makeup and I found the bar Now it concerns me I've had a bad time Now love has resigned I've been such a fool I've loved and goodbyed So here in the bar The pianoman's found Another nail for my heart And here in the bar The pianoman's found Another nail for my heart |
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They do it down on Camber Sands, they do it at Waikiki
Lazing about the beach all day, at night the crickets creepy Squinting faces at the sky, a Harold Robbins paperback Surfers drop their boards and dry, and everybody wants a hack But behind the chalet, my holiday's complete And I feel like William Tell Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet Pulling mussels from a shell Pulling mussels from a shell Shrinking in the sea so cold, topless ladies look away A he-man in a sudden shower shelters from the rain You wish you had a motorboat to pose around the harbor bar And when the sun goes off to bed, you hook it up behind the car But behind the chalet, my holiday's complete And I feel like William Tell Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet Pulling mussels from a shell Pulling mussels from a shell Two fat ladies window shop, something for the mantelpiece In for bingo, all the nines, a panda for sweet little niece Coach drivers stand about, looking at a local map About the boy, he's gone away, down to next door's caravan But behind the chalet, my holiday's complete And I feel like William Tell Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet Pulling mussels from a shell Pulling mussels from a shell But behind the chalet, my holiday's complete And I feel like William Tell Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet Pulling mussels from a shell Pulling mussels from a shell |
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You've left my ring by the soap,
Now is that love? You cleaned me out you could say broke, Now is that love? The better better better it gets The more these girls forget That that is love. You won't get dressed you walk about, Now is that, is that A teasing glance has pushed me out, Now is that, is that The tougher tougher tougher it gets The more my lips frequent Now that is love. Beat me up with your letters, your walk out notes, Funny how you still find me right here at home. Legs up with a book and a drink, Now is that love that's making you think. You've called my bluff I'm not so hot, Now is that love My assets froze while yours have dropped, Now is that, is that It's the cupid cupid cupid disguise That more or less survived Now that is love. ... Beat me up with your letters, your walk out notes, Funny how you still find me right here at home. Legs up with a book and a drink, Now is that love that's making you think. You've made my bed the finger points Now is that, is that love The more you more you more you cool down The easier love is found Now that is love. |
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I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste,
a flannel for my face Pajamas, a hairbrush, new shoes and a case I said to my reflection let's get out of this place Past the church and the steeple, the landry on nthe hill Billboards and the buildings, memorials of it still Keep calling and calling But forget it all, I know I will Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered What's been going on, Now that you have gone, There's no other. Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted by but the truth is discovered. I'm at the carpark, the airport, the baggage carousel The people keep on crowding. I'm wishing I was well. I saidit's no ocassion, it's no story I can tell. At my beside empty pocket, a foot without a sock Your body gets mech closer, I fumble the clock Alarmed bythe seduction, I wish that it would stop. (repeat chorus) I bought anovel, some perfume, a fortune all for you. But it's not my conscience that hates to be untrue I asked of my reflection thee me what isthere to do (repeat chorus) |
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There's a stain on my notebook
Where your coffee cup was And there's ash in the pages Now I've got myself lost I was writing to tell you That my feelings tonight Are a stain on my notebook That rings your goodbye With the way that you left me I can hardly contain The hurt and the anger And the joy of the pain Now knowing I am single They'll be fire in my eyes And a stain on my notebook For a new love tonight From the lips without passion To the lips with a kiss There's nothing of your love That I'll ever miss The stain on my notebook Remain all that's left Of the memory of late nights And coffee in bed Now she's gone And I'm back on the beat A stain on my notebook Says nothing to me Now she's gone And I'm out with a friend With lips full of passion And coffee in bed |
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She goes for her medical
She's passed, it's a miracle She's up over the moon She whistles nonsense tunes She wants drinks for everyone She's found a chord that she can strum Emotions leaking out Her paint's all over town What's that she's playing? (Annie, get your gun) What's that she's taking? (The song has to be sung) She's gone electric (Annie, wipe them out) That's unexpected (Strum that thing and shout) Don't pull that trigger (Annie, get your gun) Don't shoot that singer (You're shooting number one) He's not into miracles Sees life all too cynical The cat has got his tongue Now she bangs on his drum He says, "Pull the other one." Bells ring, look what you have done Emotions leaking out Her paint's all over town (Repeat chorus |
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She unscrews the top of a new whiskey bottle
And shuffles about in her candle lit hovel, Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens She smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens, The black and white t.v. has long seen a picture The cross on the wall is a permanent fixture, The postman delivers the final reminders She sells off her silver and poodles in China. Drinks to remember, I me and myself And winds up the clock And knocks dust from the shelf Home is a love that I miss very much So the past has been bottled and labelled with love. During the war time an American pilot Made every air raid a time of excitement, She moved to his prairie and married the Texan She learnt from a distance how love was a lesson, He became drinker and she became mother She knew that one day she'd be one or the other, He ate himself older, drunk himself dizzy Proud of her features, she kept herself pretty. Drinks to remember, I me and myself And winds up the clock And knocks dust from the shelf Home is a love that I miss very much So the past has been bottled and labelled with love. He like a cowboy died drunk in his slumber Out on the porch in the middle of summer, She crossed the ocean back home to her family But they had retired to roads that were sandy, She moved home alone without friends or relations Lived in a world full of age reservation, On moth eaten armchairs she'd say that she'd sod all The friends who had left her to drink from the bottle . Drinks to remember, I me and myself And winds up the clock And knocks dust from the shelf Home is a love that I miss very much So the past has been bottled and labelled with love. The past has been bottled and labelled with love. The past - has been bottled and labelled with love. |
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It all went wrong when I grew jealous
I didn't realize my strength Could take the life of one so precious Together we were known as good friends Did you ever read the words That said love would end I read them tonight Mistakes I can't defend I didn't stop to think And I upset her I said good night tonight the last time forever I think of her tonight She keeps me from my sleep but what can I do With all of these memories I used to be so shy And hide my temper I've said good night tonight the last time forever It all went wrong when I grew jealous I didn't realize my strength Could take the life of one so precious Together we were known as good friends Did you ever read the words That say I love you I read them tonight But what good can they do I regret what I have done It wasn't clever I've said good night tonight the last time forever (x3) |
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I feel like I'm pounding on a big door No one can hear me knocking I feel like I'm falling flat to the floor No one can catch me from falling The hourglass has no more grains of sand My watched has stopped no more turning hands The crew have abandoned the ship The lights are on but no one is in Chorus: Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown I feel like I'm calling on a telephone No one can hear the ringing I feel like I'm running up a steep hill No one can stop me from running The hourglass has no more grains of sand My watched has stopped no more turning hands The little hand shakes its fist The face is hanging out on a spring Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown The hourglass has no more grains of sand Little red grains of sand My watched has stopped no more turning hands Little green neon hands Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown Feel like I'm calling back to the shore No one can hear me calling I feel like I'm falling flat to the floor No one can catch me from falling |
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She gave to me her tenderness
Her friendship and her love I see her face from time to time There in the sky above We grew up learning as we went What a voyage our life could be It took us through a wilderness Into the calmest sea Her smile could lift me from the pain I often found within She said some things I won't forget She made a few bells ring So simple her humility Her beauty found in grace Today she lives another life In some fantastic place She showed me how to raise a smile Out of a bed of gloom And in her garden sanctuary A life began to bloom She visualized a world ahead And planned how it would be She left behind the strongest love That lives eternally I have the hope that when it's time For me to come her way That she'll be there to show me around Whenever comes that day Her love was life and happiness And in her steps I trace The way to live a better life In some fantastic place, some fantastic place. |
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As much as I love you
As much as I care I just can't pretend that The problem's not there We know all the boundaries From where we both stand Our life has been happy Without any plan But now I feel sorrow As friendship turns stale Our love's still on track but Without a third rail The moon has come up now The sun has gone down A million or more times Since you've been around Our life still goes on but It won't be the same As when we're together Love only knows pain With words that are tender Our love will prevail But can our love go on Without a third rail White clouds appear like cotton wool The wind bends trees to bow As we farewell this love of ours Like some old sacred cow As sure as heaven's above us And hell is down below Without a third rail to drive us We'll have no place to go There's a lump in my throat I'm choked as I say Our love has reached twilight Let's call it a day We kiss on the platform The doors slowly close Like theatre curtains Pulled after the show We both know it's over And somehow we've failed Love's going in circles Without a third rail |
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Brain engages mouth
Mouth expresses thoughts Of how we shared those fun fair rides Beneath the darkness of the night Time can crowd the head Like a sardine can The summer that began to blur Has put us on the calendar This summer there won't be a cloud in the sky I'm so made up I feel I could take off and fly This summer we've pulled all the sheets off the bed I'm so happy I can't get you out of my head This summer I am so in love with you Mornings pass us by As curtains hide the sun Nights we spent out of control Like two flags wrapped around a pole I see the helter skelter lights And hear the music in the breeze And when we're skimming stones tonight It feels so good that you're with me This summer there won't be a cloud in the sky I'm so made up I feel I could take off and fly This summer we've pulled all the sheets off the bed I'm so happy I can't get you out of my head There's no reason to ever feel lonely again This summer I am so in love with you |
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When I was crowned a mummy's boy by friends I didn't like
I made a meal of trips to school upon my father's bike I used to sit between his legs, perched on a piece of wood If it ever rained on us, I'd slip beneath his hood And at home the radio was on From Julie Andrews to Jerry Garcia Life was all fun and games I was out of my head and underneath my bed Playing with electric trains At home the stereo was on My head was filled with rock I played a willow cricket bat guitar And soloed round the clock My records stacked up in a pile Collected from the charts And Top of the Pops Kneeling with torchlight shining Before me in my bed My eyeballs stuck in readers wives Pubic hairs proudly counted everyday Manhood took me slowly Out into the milky way I chased the girls and made them cry My hair grew down my back The passing of my teenage years Were spent down in the sack I played guitar and formed a band I puked up all night long As people came to sit and stare While I raced through my songs The sound of music passed by me Just like the Grateful Dead |
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You're no Dame, I'm no Duke Somehow love is a fluke We've survived thick and thin Taking knocks on the chin In the eyes of the sad We may be barking mad But the truth has been ceased We are like chalk and cheese You wind me up and I drive you mad It's a fact of life, it goes hand in hand And I know that look, it's read like a book And I realize I don't care what the world has to say You should know that I love you I love you I love you today When the boat starts to rock Then my ears start to block All the words that you say Through the night, through the day Where there's muck there is brass And the storm soon will pass Then it's back to the norm All the cold turns to warm Sometimes I think life crawls like a snail And all of our dreams become the wind in your sails Without wealth it's true, who cares what you do And I realize I can feel the eyes behind us as we walk I can see the ears that listen when we talk SINGLE VERSION WARNING: These lyrics are unconfirmed and may be inaccurate. They represent the best attempt at deciphering the song we have yet to see. You're no work of art But then nor am I Together in the frame We're here you and I In this happy home Life is set in stone That can melt like ice I don't care what the world has to say You should know that I love you I love you today We can't agree The boat starts to rock I complain when it rains And you when it's hot What was black is white What was day is night And what is is not I can feel the eyes behind us as we walk I can see the ears that listen when we talk |
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I knew that I had drunk too much
I had passed my drink degree I climbed into my rented car I was happy as could be Then I pulled out of the driveway And the lights began to blur Within a mile the car was stopped By a police officer - she said "Did you see the light was red? Did you see the light at all?" Then I fell into her open arm And that's all that I recall I knew that I had danced before But it never made the news Surprised to find my two left feet In John Travolta's shoes I hogged the space around a girl I found so full of verve Then I moved in slowly for the kill And watched her body swerve, She said "did you know I'm not impressed With the way you dance at all" Then I fell into her open arms And that's all that I recall Blacked out and wasted I had to be persuaded With my view a little jaded That I was about to go Down like a domino I knew that I had said too much But tact was not my way Tears were on her bottom lip She had nothing more to say except "Did you know this love we have has made me feel so small" then I fell into her open arms and that's all that I recall |
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I've come across the desert
To greet you with a smile My camel looks so tired It's hardly worth my while To tell you of my travels Across the golden East I see your preparations Invite me first to feast Take me I'm yours Because dreams are made of this Forever there'll be A heaven in your... The Indians send signals From the rocks above the pass The cowboys take positions In the bushes and the grass The squaw is with the Corporal She is tied against the tree She doesn't mind the language It's the beating she don't need She lets loose all the horses When the Corporal is asleep And he wakes to find the fire's dead And arrows in his hats And Davy Crockett rides around And says it's cool for cats (Cool for cats...) I never thought it would happen With me and the girl from Clapham Out on a windy common That night I ain't forgotten When she dealt out the rations With some or other passions I said you are a lady Perhaps she said I may be Left my ring by the soap Now is that love? You cleaned me out you could say broke Now is that love? The better better better it gets The more these girls forget That that is love But behind the Chalet My holiday's complete And I feel like William Tell Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet Pulling mussels from a shell The case was pulled from under the bed She made a call to a sympathetic friend And made arrangements The door was closed there was a note I couldn't be bothered Maybe I'll choke No more engagements With where have you beens And faraway frowns Trying to be good By not being 'round And here in the bar The piano man's found Another nail for my heart If you ever change your mind Which you do from time to time Never chew a pickle With a little slap and tickle You have to throw the stone To get the pool to ripple Sunlight on the lino Woke me with a shake I looked around to find her but she'd gone Goodbye Girl |
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She's ahead of her time and she's never lazy
But something changed your mind and she could drive you crazy Volunteers for winter coats and summer clothes that shine Volunteers for magazines I read them all the time But that's all right Do do do do do do do do do do - do do do do do do da da da Down the runway Do do do do do do do do do do - do do do do do do do She's so ugly Tidy work never suffers when you stage your abuse Cocktails in the evening when you're completely nude Models at the motor show and I dribble at the thought Models looking like lobsters, convertibles and sports |
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Talking to demons that fly through the room
When I'm home late and she's gone out of tune No more excuses, I'm being locked out The key to her heart will never be found I can't get close to the one that I love I try to reason but that's not enough It was all right then Love was there in a friend Cold nights on sofas, the birds sing all night Their song my story which sums up my life The life I'm losing, the love I'll regret No sheets, no pillows to make up by bed Upon the toilet I think very hard Love's in the tune of my spanish guitar And we're together now Harmony's been found And the spanish guitar can play Strum, strum, strumming away She's the guitar that went out of tune But now she's in love with you In love with you In love with you |
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She's interested in me
I'm interested in her But there's a distance Each morning as she walks Our eyes exchange a thought Our hearts, an interest I've seen her at the club Expanding with the funk She looks so brilliant She sticks close to her friends And when the music ends She is the Indian I'd like to meet the Elephant Girl I feel we know each other so well From eyes that meet the love they seek Interested to get close to you Interested to get close to you I'm interested to meet The girl that looks at me I will be trying Her colour unlike mine Her hair the plaited vine I will be climbing My leg is always pulled By friends who really would But say they wouldn't The joke's against my heart Immediately she's barred Their hearts are wooden I'd like to meet the Elephant Girl I feel we know each other so well From eyes that meet the love they seek Interested to get close to you Interested to get close to you I'm interested in her She's interested in me Her distance shortens She walks towards the light I walk towards the lines That seem important I'm counting up to ten By five she's gone again Into the distance I'll try again to nudge my Courage for the love/look Without resistance I'd like to meet the Elephant Girl I feel we know each other so well From eyes that meet the love they seek Interested to get close to you Interested to get close to you |
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There at the altar I held up my head
The sun shone through the stained glass I thought of Jesus I thought of my friends The angels played on their harps Me in my suit which doesn't fit now Touched by the greatest feeling All of my family standing around Outside the bells were peeling Everyone happy but none more than me The ring upon her finger How the memory lingers Outside the cameras caught every kiss All covered in confetti Little old ladies looking on as if They had been made of jelly Along came the cars the ceremony through And off to the reception Where everyone stands in pink and blue A life long odd collection When wedding bells chime I think of the day When me and my When me and my bride Were given away The memory is vivid and strong But if I had a magic wand Would things have been the same Would I be nervous again? |
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Pacing through the flickering light
A velvet patch upon his eye His pacing creaks the floorboards loose As he tailors his thoughts for the truth around truths But his butler keeps eyes through a hole in the door What the butler don't see ain't a lot that's for sure Francesca lays across the couch They fight with words from mouth to mouth And then with handfuls of her flesh See how the zipper broke off of her dress Strangling her neck with his hands in her gloves The port and the brandy mix cocktails of love The porch light, the torchlight The frosted morning lawn The cloak of daylight has finally been drawn On the tale of what the butler saw He kept his world all to himself And locked it tight inside his belt But she preferred his belt undone She bathed in his fortune but never his fun He cracked on a mixture of opera and drink The butler still fetches and carries for him The butler dragged down to the lake Francesca's body in a cape No private eye was gonna trace this The old man was shaking, his marbles were missed The shadows and footprints and flickering lights The butler's up late with a cold in his eye The porch light the torchlight the frosted morning lawn The cloak of daylight has finally been drawn On the tale of what the butler saw |
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She left her school for the factory
From pocket money to a salary, From a pac-a-mac to a compact case And every morning she inspects her face. She discovers pulling pints in pubs That the good looks will never cover up for Her dumbness in taking the stock Sees her reflection in a butcher's shop. She finds it all quite rare That her meat's all vanity fair. She has her eyes on medallion men Who get her home on the dot at ten, She combs her hair when she gets excused The deal she wants always ends up screwed. Paints her nails on the bathroom scales Gargles her breath like a landed whale, Her beauty is as deep as her skin Keeps her eyebrows in a tobacco tin. She poses foot on the chair Coconut shy but vanity fair. In her vanity case her compact case In her compact case her eyes, Not bad for a sister But her vanity's fair and her sense of humour's dry. She comes home late with another screw loose She swears to have had just a pineapple juice, Falls asleep fully clothed in her bed With her makeup remover by her head. And she might not be all there But her dream's all vanity fair. |
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Mary and Joseph drove into town
Searching for a place to stay The moon was up, and his foot was down A miracle was on its way They tried the hotels, the motels, the bed-and-breakfast Locals, but no one seemed to have any room Better find a double room soon! So where would Christmas be without Mary and Joseph Morecambe and Wise Laurel and Hardy Cracker surprise Lights on the pine tree And more aftershave And not forgetting Jesus, who was born on Christmas Day They found a place with a neon light "TV", "Pool", and "Vacancies" The man on the desk didn't hear them right When the two of them booked for three They watched the TV And deeply, she felt a punching neatly And the heavens delivered this way And it happened on Christmas Day Christmas Da-ay Christmas Da-ay So where would Christmas be without Mary and Joseph Morecambe and Wise Laurel and Hardy Cracker surprise Lights on the pine tree And more aftershave But not forgetting Jesus, who was born on Christmas Day Mary and Joseph were so surprised With admirers around the crib There was something in their son's eyes That magnetically took one in Like a Messiah and a fire Like the tread around a tyre That grip all roads To faults you made And it happened on Christmas Day Christmas Da-ay Christmas Da-ay So where would Christmas be without Mary and Joseph Morecambe and Wise Laurel and Hardy Cracker surprise Lights on the pine tree And more aftershave But not forgetting Jesus, who was born on (Christmas Day) Not forgetting Jesus, who was born on (Christmas Day) Not forgetting Jesus, who was born on (Christmas Day) Not forgetting Jesus, who was born on (Christmas Day) And not forgetting Jesus, who was born on (Christmas Day) Not forgetting Jesus, who was born on (Christmas Day) And not forgetting Jesus, who was born on (Christmas Day) Not forgetting Jesus, who was born on (Christmas) |
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Supermarket lights burn in the darkness
The chilly winter nights bring the scarves from the drawer A crowd starts to gather on paving stone squares Teeth start to chatter as the staff leave the store And daughters meet mothers and fathers meet sons It's too dark to walk home without anyone The shopping precinct's closed, it's like a graveyard The chain falls through the spokes as I unlock my bike I cycle to the pub where I meet with my friends And I know that it's love as she pours me my pint And strangers meet strangers and friends share their lives I look at her again and feel butterflies I pull the pillow to my side And I imagine it is her As I slip into the night, I know what I prefer But I hope and I pray that one day she will say That's it's true I can't live without loving you Now there's no one around I push the bike home The rain's a lovely sound as it runs down the path There's our lights in the road, they amber the night And there's nobody home, so I soak in the bath And bubbles meet bubbles as they become one I think about the world and what I have done I pull the pillow to my side And I imagine it is her As I slip into the night, I know what I prefer But I hope and I pray that one day she will say That's it's true I can't live without loving you Supermarket lights burn in the darkness |
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I've come across the desert
To greet you with a smile My camel looks so tired It's hardly worth my while To tell you of my travels Across the golden East I see your preparations Invite me first to feast Take me I'm yours Because dreams are made of this Forever there'll be A heaven in your kiss Amusing belly dancers Distract me from my wine Across Tibetian mountains Are memories of mine I've stood some ghostly moments With natives in the hills Recorded here on paper My chills and thrills and spills It's really been some welcome You never seem to change A grape to tempt your leisure Romantic gestures strange My eagle flies tomorrow It's a game I treasure dear To seek the helpless future My love at last I'm here |
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The Indians send signals from the rocks above the pass;
The cowboys take position in the bushes and the grass. The squaw is with the corporal ?she is tied against a tree. She doesn?t mind the language; it?s the beatings she don?t need. She lets loose all the horses when the corporal is asleep, And he wakes to find the fire?s dead and an arrow?s in his ass, And Davy Crockett rides around and says it?s cool for cats. It?s cool for cats. Cool for cats... The Sweeney's doing ninety ?cause they?ve got the word to go. They get a gang of villans in a shed out by Heathrowe. They?re countin?out the fivers when the handcuffs lock again. In and out in one swift with the numbers on their names. It?s funny how the misses always looks the bleedin?same. And meanwhile, at the station, there?s a couple?a likely lads, Who swear like how?s-your-father, and they?re very cool for cats. They?re cool for cats. <Cool for cats...> To change the mood a little, I?ve been posing ?round the pub. I see in my reflection: I?m looking slightly rough. I fancy this; I fancy that. I want a piece of flesh. I give a little muscle and I spend a little cash But all I get is bitter and a nasty little rash. And by the time I?m sober, I?ve forgotten what I?ve had. And everybody tells me that it?s cool to be a cat. Cool for cats. Cool for cats... Shape up at the disco when I think I?ve got her pulled. I ask her lots of questions as she hangs on to the wall. I kiss her for the first time and then I take her home. I?m invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone. She likes to go to discos, but she?s never on her own. I said, ?I?ll see you later,?and I give her some old chat, But it?s not like that on the T.V. ?when it?s cool for cats, It?s cool for ca-a-a-ats. Cool for cats... |
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I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham Out on a windy common That night I ain’t forgotten When she dealt out the rations With some or other passions I said you are a lady Perhaps she said I may be We moved into a basement With thoughts of our engagement We stayed in by the telly Although the room was smelly We spent our time just kissing The Railway Arms we’re missing But love had got us hooked up And all our time it took up I got a job with Stanley He said I’d come in handy And started me on Monday So I had a bath on Sunday I worked eleven hours And bought the girl some flowers She said she’d seen a doctor And nothing now could stop her I worked all through the winter The weather brass and bitter I put away a tenner Each week to make her better And when the time was ready We had to sell the telly Late evenings by the fire With little kicks inside her This morning at 4:50 I took her rather nifty Down to an incubator Where thirty minutes later She gave birth to a daughter Within a year a walker She looked just like her mother If there could be another And now she’s two years older Her mother’s with a soldier She left me when my drinking Became a proper stinging The devil came and took me From bar to street to bookie No more nights by the telly No more nights nappies smelling Alone here in the kitchen I feel there’s something missing I’d beg for some forgiveness But begging’s not my business And she won’t write a letter Although I always tell her And so it’s my assumption I’m really up the junction |
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The case was pulled from under the bed
She made a call to a sympathetic friend And made arrangements The door was closed there was a note I couldn't be bothered maybe I'll choke No more engagements With where have you beens And faraway frowns Trying to be good By not being round And here in the bar The pianoman's found Another nail in my heart That stupid old bug That kills only love I want to be good Is that not enough So play me the song That makes it so tough Another nail for my heart Then play me the song That makes it so tough Another nail for my heart I had excuses those little boy lies Then she computed by watching my eyes And told me firmly She couldn't stand it I'm bad on the heart She dropped her makeup and I found the bar Now it concerns me I've had a bad time Now love has resigned I've been such a fool I've loved and goodbyed So here in the bar The pianoman's found Another nail for my heart And here in the bar The pianoman's found Another nail for my heart |
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They do it down on Camber Sands, they do it at Waikiki
Lazing about the beach all day, at night the crickets creepy Squinting faces at the sky, a Harold Robbins paperback Surfers drop their boards and dry, and everybody wants a hack But behind the chalet, my holiday's complete And I feel like William Tell Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet Pulling mussels from a shell Pulling mussels from a shell Shrinking in the sea so cold, topless ladies look away A he-man in a sudden shower shelters from the rain You wish you had a motorboat to pose around the harbor bar And when the sun goes off to bed, you hook it up behind the car But behind the chalet, my holiday's complete And I feel like William Tell Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet Pulling mussels from a shell Pulling mussels from a shell Two fat ladies window shop, something for the mantelpiece In for bingo, all the nines, a panda for sweet little niece Coach drivers stand about, looking at a local map About the boy, he's gone away, down to next door's caravan But behind the chalet, my holiday's complete And I feel like William Tell Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet Pulling mussels from a shell Pulling mussels from a shell But behind the chalet, my holiday's complete And I feel like William Tell Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet Pulling mussels from a shell Pulling mussels from a shell |
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You've left my ring by the soap,
Now is that love? You cleaned me out you could say broke, Now is that love? The better better better it gets The more these girls forget That that is love. You won't get dressed you walk about, Now is that, is that A teasing glance has pushed me out, Now is that, is that The tougher tougher tougher it gets The more my lips frequent Now that is love. Beat me up with your letters, your walk out notes, Funny how you still find me right here at home. Legs up with a book and a drink, Now is that love that's making you think. You've called my bluff I'm not so hot, Now is that love My assets froze while yours have dropped, Now is that, is that It's the cupid cupid cupid disguise That more or less survived Now that is love. ... Beat me up with your letters, your walk out notes, Funny how you still find me right here at home. Legs up with a book and a drink, Now is that love that's making you think. You've made my bed the finger points Now is that, is that love The more you more you more you cool down The easier love is found Now that is love. |
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She wants to give up love for good
She kicks the fence and splits the wood, She cries her eyes out in the rain She swears aloud and so again, She feels messed around. She takes her coat off as it pours The passing daytime she ignores, Sits with a problem on a bench And with her heel she digs a trench, She feels messed around. She rips her skirt and tears her dress Climbing over his garden fence, Mud on her mourning as tears still fall She's in no mood for his love at all, She feels messed around Her door won't shut, her match won't light, The bulb went out, her skirts too tight, She feels messed around. The words don't match, her heart won't heal, The phone won't pip, her fruit won't peel, She feels messed around. She left herself open for him all the time But always kept off of his cloud, All the king's horses and all the king's men Have come to mess her around. |
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I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste,
a flannel for my face Pajamas, a hairbrush, new shoes and a case I said to my reflection let's get out of this place Past the church and the steeple, the landry on nthe hill Billboards and the buildings, memorials of it still Keep calling and calling But forget it all, I know I will Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered What's been going on, Now that you have gone, There's no other. Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted by but the truth is discovered. I'm at the carpark, the airport, the baggage carousel The people keep on crowding. I'm wishing I was well. I saidit's no ocassion, it's no story I can tell. At my beside empty pocket, a foot without a sock Your body gets mech closer, I fumble the clock Alarmed bythe seduction, I wish that it would stop. (repeat chorus) I bought anovel, some perfume, a fortune all for you. But it's not my conscience that hates to be untrue I asked of my reflection thee me what isthere to do (repeat chorus) |
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There's a stain on my notebook
Where your coffee cup was And there's ash in the pages Now I've got myself lost I was writing to tell you That my feelings tonight Are a stain on my notebook That rings your goodbye With the way that you left me I can hardly contain The hurt and the anger And the joy of the pain Now knowing I am single They'll be fire in my eyes And a stain on my notebook For a new love tonight From the lips without passion To the lips with a kiss There's nothing of your love That I'll ever miss The stain on my notebook Remain all that's left Of the memory of late nights And coffee in bed Now she's gone And I'm back on the beat A stain on my notebook Says nothing to me Now she's gone And I'm out with a friend With lips full of passion And coffee in bed |
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Angela can't make it to the phone If you care to leave your name and number She'll give you a ring when she is home Every time I called her I got the message I listened to the voice coming down the line I couldn't speak to a tape recording I redialed it a number of times 853-5937 Angela can't make it to the phone If you care to leave your name and number Please speak clearly after the tone She'll give you a ring when she gets home I rang her this morning so very early The same old message coming down the phone I should go and see if her house is empty Maybe she's poorly perhaps she's not home She's in Mill Hill I'm in Bermondsey It's the end of the earth on the northern line It makes it so hard for me to see The one that I love but can never find. I called up a close friend who lives right by her I got the message he was out too I was suspicious, are they together I've got to find out that this isn't true |
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Off to the airport to check in the bags
Proud of my suntan and good times I've had Laying on beaches and writing out cards Back to the humdrum and bashing out cars Into the aircraft I look for my seat A nervous tension builds inside me Onto the runway I pretend I'm elsewhere In minutes we're flying through the hot evening air Down there toy town the twinkle of lights The long white beaches of holiday time Suddenly someone has pulled out a gun His shout for attention has everyone stunned Hands on our heads there's a new kind of fear We're over the barrel with the hits of the year Held up to ransom assured we'll be safe The yellow ribbon comes out again How many gods can there be in one sky All so important and all so involved Here on a trigger a disciple of fear As we wait without knowing if we're hits of the year |
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It all went wrong when I grew jealous
I didn't realize my strength Could take the life of one so precious Together we were known as good friends Did you ever read the words That said love would end I read them tonight Mistakes I can't defend I didn't stop to think And I upset her I said good night tonight the last time forever I think of her tonight She keeps me from my sleep but what can I do With all of these memories I used to be so shy And hide my temper I've said good night tonight the last time forever It all went wrong when I grew jealous I didn't realize my strength Could take the life of one so precious Together we were known as good friends Did you ever read the words That say I love you I read them tonight But what good can they do I regret what I have done It wasn't clever I've said good night tonight the last time forever (x3) |
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I feel like I'm pounding on a big door No one can hear me knocking I feel like I'm falling flat to the floor No one can catch me from falling The hourglass has no more grains of sand My watched has stopped no more turning hands The crew have abandoned the ship The lights are on but no one is in Chorus: Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown I feel like I'm calling on a telephone No one can hear the ringing I feel like I'm running up a steep hill No one can stop me from running The hourglass has no more grains of sand My watched has stopped no more turning hands The little hand shakes its fist The face is hanging out on a spring Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown The hourglass has no more grains of sand Little red grains of sand My watched has stopped no more turning hands Little green neon hands Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown Takeittothebridge throwitoverboard Seeifitcanswim backuptotheshore Noonesinthehouse everyoneisout Allthelightsareonandtheblindsaredown Feel like I'm calling back to the shore No one can hear me calling I feel like I'm falling flat to the floor No one can catch me from falling |
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Trust me to open my mouth now everybody knows
Trust me now I've let you down I'm a big mouth I suppose This was our secret our meetings were so discreet I promised to keep it from the ears out on the street This was our secret we were having an affair I couldn't keep it now the secret's everywhere Trust me to open my mouth now everybody knows Trust me now I've let you down I'm a big mouth I suppose One cup runneth over loosening a jaw Trust me to open my mouth it's not a secret anymore We had a secret what a terrible thing to do I couldn't see it I was so in love So in love with you Trust me to open my mouth now everybody knows Trust me now I've let you down I'm a big mouth I suppose I need a gobstopper to keep my trap shut Should have kept my nose clean Why's it me that gets the bad luck? Trust me to open my mouth now everybody knows Trust me now I've let you down I'm a big mouth I suppose (Repeat to fade) |
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I spent too much money, I looked far too glad Now I have so little of what I once had I had too many parties I had too much time I got so lazy and fell well behind Now the summer is over I can count the cost Footprints on the beaches are now Footprints in the frost The summer is over I can count the cost Footprints on the beaches are now footprints in the frost We did so much damage deep in our insides The party's over it's going home time The cathedral is empty, no one's at home Winter's approaching paradise postponed Now the summer is over I can count the cost Footprints on the beaches are now footprints in the frost, The rain won't stop falling and the people look lost Footprints on the beaches are now footprints in the frost. I rang lots of numbers and walked many miles I watched the Flintstones and I turned my dial To a brand new station where the beat comes in Now it's all over the winter begins The summer is over I can count the cost Footprints on the beaches are now footprints in the frost People with umbrellas disappear in the fog Footprints on the beaches are now footprints in the frost |
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If it's love
That would really explain it How I feel like I'm covered in wool If it's love Then it's really exciting My diary's become very full If it's love does it matter If I'm thin or I'm fatter If it's love then it feels like I've won the pools If it's love Then it needs some devotion And I feel like I'm walking on air If it's love Then I feel like I'm floating Through my world without knowing who's there If it's love someone slap me Is this me that's so happy If it's love then I'm laughing like I don't care If it's love then my teeth are clean for a change If it's love then that's why I'm feeling so strange If it's love Then I need it forever Like the beats that keep time in my heart If it's love Then I fall like a feather I'm an egg in the teeth of a shark If it's love I'm inspired I'm up late, I'm not tired If it's love my world is about to spark If it's love then my teeth are clean for a change If it's love then that's why I'm feeling so strange If it's love love love love love love If it's love love love love love love If it's love love love love love love If it's love love love love love love |
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