I'm on my way from misery to happiness today I'm on my way from misery to happiness today I'm on my way to what I want from this world And years from now you'll make it to the next world And everything that you receive up yonder Is what you gave to me the day I wandered
I took a right, I took a right turning yesterday I took a right, I took a right turning yesterday I took the road that brought me to your home town I took the bus to streets that I could walk down I walked the streets to find the one I'd looked for I climbed the stair that led me to your front door
[Chorus] And now that I don't want for anything I'd have Al Jolson sing "I"m sitting on top of the world."
I'll do my best, I'll do my best to do the best I can I'll do my best, I'll do my best to do the best I can To keep my heart from jumping through my mouth dear To keep the past, the past and not the present To try and learn when you teach me a lesson
We've been, going together Too long to be vague When there's something to say If it's not now, then it's never So I'll say it straight out 'Cos I have no doubt, no doubt
Let's get married I love you and I want to stay with you Let's get married Have kids and grow old and grey with you Let's get married Hold hands, walk in the park You can get a cat as long as it barks
We know, other people Who drifted apart Who broke each others hearts But we ain't other people So we'll do things our way We're gonna be O.K. We're gonna be more than O.K.
Let's get married We're ready for tying the knot Let's get married Set the seal on the feelings we've got Let's get married We can make each other happy or we can make each other blue Yeah, it's just a piece of paper but it says "I Love You" For the good times For the days when we can do no wrong For the moments when we think we can't go on For the family For the lives of the children that we've planned Let's get married C'mon darlin', please take my hand
And I'll be the one Who's by your side I'll be the one Still taking pride When we're old if they ask me "How do you define succes?" I'll say, You meet a woman You fall in love You ask her and She says "Yes"
Let's get married I love and I want to stay with you Let's get married Have kids and grow old and grey with you Let's get married Hold hands when we walk in the park All right you can get a cat just as lang as it barks For the good times For the days when we can do no wrong For the bad times For the moments when we think we can't go on For the family For the lives of the children that we've planned Let's get married C'mon darlin', please take my hand
The life that I've been living From the day I first drew breath Has been my way of forgetting I'm on the journey to my death You make my soul rise up You make my eyes to see When I place my faith in you And I lose my belief in me
The less I believe in me The more I believe in thee The less I believe in me The more I believe in thee
I don't believe in beads or crystals Instant karma or mother earth I don't believe that what I think Makes any difference to what I'm worth I don't believe in reincarnation I'm not coming back as a flower I don't bow my head to kings or priests 'Cos I believe in your higher power
The less I believe in me The more I believe in thee The less I believe in me The more I believe in thee
Oh you've given me a plan That I don't understand 'Cos I've wandered over half the world But I've remained an ignorant man One thing That I know Is when the final bell tolls Human love won't be enough Good deeds can't save my soul
Well I'm not afraid of dying But I am afraid of you Because you hear me when I'm lying And you see the things I do So the hands go round the clock As the light goes from the room And I can't help thinking to myself I'm going to find out much to soon
Oh you've given me a plan That I don't understand 'Cos I've wandered over half the world But I've remained a ignorant man One thing that I know Is when the final bell tolls Human love won't be enough Good deeds can't save my soul I believe etc. etc......
What makes you cry? 'Cos I haven't seen any water In the corners of your eyes For a day, or a week Or a month, or a year Haven't seen much of you Since you left me my dear
Can't you see that I'm hurting How I'm falling apart Don't you care about my drinking Or my poor lonely heart I thought you liked football You didn't mind those videos And my dog didn't mean To ruin your clothes (he can't help it)
Now you won't take my phone calls You sent my letters back You're paying for a lawyer To stab me in the back Then I saw you on the street You looked happy, that's a fact I'm impressed - it's a hell of an act
Angel - admit it, admit it Darlin' - admit it, admit it Your love for me didn't die It's just sleepin'
Now I hope you can hear me Wherever you are In a cheap hotel room Or the back seat of a car I make up those situations I don't know if they're true But I'll tell you, for now, they'll do
Angel - admit it, admit it Darlin' - admit it, admit it Your love for me didn't die It's just sleepin' And it wakes every night To your weeping'
I've got to follow the money Gotta go to work Gotta make a living Till my body hurts Gotta bite my lip Gotta wreck my health Gotta break my back For my share of wealth
I've gotta the follow money Gotta earn my pay I spent everything I earned yesterday Gotta find the cash 'Cos it won't find me So I can feed myself And my family
When I left school I was bummin' around I'd smoke and drink and let my mind wander I'd roll out of bed about twelve o'clock I can't do that any longer
I've gotta folow the money Gotta go to work Gotta make a living Till my body hurts Gotta bite my lip Gotta wreck my health Gotta break my back For my share of wealth
Now I need to toil 'cos it's good for my soul I feel clean when I'm working You drop all the mystical celtic bull 'Cos that stuff's just jerking
I'm not saying that I work like my dad I know I don't work like my mum But I'm made of the same stuff and I'm six feet tall Gimme the tools I'll get the job done
Gotta follow the money Gotta go to work Gotta make a living Till my body hurts Gotta bit my lip Gotta break my back For my share of wealth I've gotta follow the money Gotta earn my pay I spent everything I earned yesterday Gotta find the cash 'Cos it won't find me So I can feed myself And my family Feed myself and my family That's why
I'm working I'm working I'm working I'm working I'm working I'm working now
These arms of mine They are lonely Lonely and feeling blue
These arms of mine They are yearning Yearning from wanting you And if you Would let them hold you How grateful I will be
These arms of mine The are burning Burning from wanting you These arms of mine The are wanting Wanting to hold you
And if you Just let them hold you How grateful I will be How grateful I will be C'mon c'mon bady Just be my woman Just be my lover I need someone Somebody to hold me tight And I need Your warm, warm loving arms Around me tonight
Just let me hold you Just let me hold you Let my arms hold you Just let them hold you Please let me hold you Just let me hold you C'mon let me hold you Just let me hold you Please let me hold you Just let me hold you
You make it sound easy You say just hold your hand out don't you You just hold your hand out don't you That hope never leaves you 'Cos a light shines on that helps you to steer Makes everything clear (Well it might) Well it might in your world (but it doesn't) But it doesn't in mine (I've been stumbling) I've been stumbling in the dark for years And the light just made me blind
You say it lights every pathway Shows me how to live life For the rest of my days For the rest of my days (But I can't) But I can't put my faith in (Your words) Your words and demands (I believe) I believe in God alright It's folk like you I just can't stand
You don't have to try and scare me To reinforce my faith sir 'Cos I know that one day I'll stand before my maker
(And it I'm found) And if I'm found wanting (When my case) When my case is heard (It'll be) It'll be by the author Not some interpreter of his words
You make it sound easy You say just hold your hand out don't you You just hold your hand out don't you That hope never leaves you 'Cos a light shines on that helps you to steer Makes everything clear (Well it might) Well it might in your world (but it doesn't) But it doesn't in mine (I've been stumbling) I've been stumbling in the dark for years And the light just made me blind Yeah the light just made me blind
Yesterday arrived too quickly Caught me right off guard My defence moved in too slowly Missed it by a yard I'd just settled down With a bottle of gin So I moved on to whiskey And it hit me again Memories were raining punches Down on my head Knocked me into the past so quickly They almost raised the dead So I dranks some more booze And it helped me to sleep Where I dreamed of my youth And the secrets I keep
Oh, history is a friend of mine She comes over to my place And we have a good time But the memories She sometimes brings with her Get out of line They're out of line
*Show me things I don't want to see (Wanna see, wanna see, wanna see) Remind me of who I thought I was gonna be (Gonna be, gonna be, gonna be) Take me places I used to go (Used to go, used to go) A long, long, long time ago
When I woke i remembered nothing Suppose that's just as well And although my head was aching I could hear a bell So I put on some clothes And I reached my front door When I pulled it white open She joined me once more
Oh, history is a friend of mine She comes over to my place And we have a good time But the memories She sometimes brings with her Get out of line They're out of line
From birth to five, you're learning From five to ten, you're playing By the time you're fifteen You're never wrong But then you turn around And it's all gone, your childhood
Now daddy knows what he's saying You're in my arms and I'm praying That I'll be given the strength and time To make yours just as happy as mine Your childhood
Every morning Your crying ends my sleep I kid on I'm angry But it's not a feeling I can keep There's no light outside I don't care 'cos I know it's true That in our house The sun shines out of you You've got your mother's looks Your're a beautiful little girl You'll break boys hearts All over this world Then one day you'll walk out the door And I know you'll break mine You'll break mine
From birth to five, you're learning From five to ten, you're playing By the time you're fifteen you're never wrong But then you turn around and it's all gone Your childhood
So you're trying to talk Any day now you'll walk You'll be running around Make me act like a clown 'Cos I live and I breathe For my little girl Our little girl The most important thing is this whole wide world Now daddy know what he's saying Your in my arms and I'm praying That I'll be given the strength an time To make yours just as happy as mine Your childhood
You're a grown woman Good at what you do I'm happy as hell When I'm alone whit you As you stroke my body And soothe my brow With everything That the law will allow I pray "Don't turn out like your mother"
Im a grown man Over 21 I've got an ugly face But I have a lot of fun So if spill a glass Or break a dish I hear your voice And I make this wish Please "Don't turn out like your mother"
Don't turn out Don't turn out Don't turn out like your mother I couldn't stand it And I'll be damned if I'm gonna live with another
So many woman Give you so much Civilized ways And a gentle touch A different perspective That's as bright as a button But then you wake up one morning And it all counts for nothing Cos she's turned into her mother
Don't turn out Don't turn out Don't turn out like your mother I couldn't stand it And I'll be damned if I'm gonna live with another
It's not the way she looks It's not the food she cooks Her kind of indignation Don't cause me trepidation But to live with a woman like this Would take a masochist Or someone who could get and could stay permanently pissed
You're a grown woman Good at what you do I'm happy as hell When I'm alone with you As you stroke my body And soothe my brow With everything That the law will allow
Im a grown man Over 21 I've got an ugly face But I have a lot of fun So if spill a glass Or break a dish Don't get on to me Like some haranguing witch
Don't turn out like your mother Don't turn out Don't turn out Don't turn out like your mother I couldn't stand it And I'll be damned if I'm gonna live with another
It's not her looks Or the way she cooks That wakes me up in a cold sweat It's just the knowledge That if it happened I couldn't drink enough to forget
I'm on my way from misery to happiness today I'm on my way from misery to happiness today I'm on my way to what I want from this world And years from now you'll make it to the next world And everything that you receive up yonder Is what you gave to me the day I wandered
I took a right, I took a right turning yesterday I took a right, I took a right turning yesterday I took the road that brought me to your home town I took the bus to streets that I could walk down I walked the streets to find the one I'd looked for I climbed the stair that led me to your front door
[Chorus] And now that I don't want for anything I'd have Al Jolson sing "I"m sitting on top of the world."
I'll do my best, I'll do my best to do the best I can I'll do my best, I'll do my best to do the best I can To keep my heart from jumping through my mouth dear To keep the past, the past and not the present To try and learn when you teach me a lesson
I've been so sad Since you said my accent was bad He's worn a frown This Caledonia clown I'm just going to have to learn to hesitate To make sure my words
On your Saxen ears don't grate But I wouldn't know a single word to say If I flattened all the vowels And threw the 'are' away
You say that if I want to get ahead The language I use should he left for dead It doesn't please your ears
And though you tell it like a leg pull I think your still full of John Bull You just refuse to bear
Some days I stand On your green and pleasant land Now dare I show face When my diction is such a disgrace
Oh what can I do To be understood by you Perhaps for some money I could talk like a bee dripping honey.
This is the story of our first teacher Shetland made her jumpers And the devil made her features Threw up her bands when my mum said our names Embroidered all her stories with slanderous claims It's over and done with
This is the story of losing my virginity I held my breath and the bed held a trinity People I'm making no claims to a mystery But sometimes it seems like My sex life's all history I'm not saying these events didn't Touch our lives in any way But, ah, they didn't make the impression That some people say
This is the story of watching a man dying The subjects unpopular But I don't feel like lying When I think of it now I acted like a sinner I just washed my bands Then I went for my dinner.
When the inspiration Is above my station Thoughts are iqeienchoiy And I let them pass I tend to view this nation Through the condensation
On a dirty glass When the singer solemn Was a honnie laddie When she brushed his hair With a watered comb Then he could have wandered And he could have shown ye Seven hit is like home If misty eyes can witness Love and affection
Why does the heart still resist What the hell is wrong with you? I've got eyes of misty blue All the things I want to do Are all I ever wanted to
As the ladik grew And he looked around him At the thugs and rapists In their stolen suits Louder beat the rhythm
Of his bloody heart Telling him to shoot Thoughtless competition Like a home-made prison Made him fix his vision On a certain fate What's the use in winning All the worlds creation If you won't create.
I've got an achin' in my heart Arson on my mind I'm gonna burn your playhouse down I've got a badly broken heart I've bad it from the start You're giving me the run around Now if you play with fire It's a-sure to burn I've beard this all of my life Go on, be on your way, I've bad my say Well honey, I'm through with you for life You'll find I'm there's one in every yard I'm getting mighty tired I'm gonna burn your playhouse down Now don't pretend that this is the end 'Cause this time we're really through While you were runflin' 'round Burning up the town I was settin' a trap for you I've got an achin' in my heart Arson on my mind I'm gonna burn your playhouse down.
When you go will you send back A letter from America? Take a look up the railtrack From Miami to Canada Broke off from my work the other day I spent the evening thinking about All the blood that flowed away Across the ocean to the second chance I wonder how it got on when it reached the promised land?
When you go will you send back A letter from America? Take a look up the railtrack From Miami to Canada
I've looked at the ocean Tried hard to imagine The way you felt the day you sailed From Wester Ross to Nova Scotia We should have held you We should have told you But you know our sense of timing We always wait too long
When you go will you send back A letter from America? Take a look up the railtrack From Miami to Canada
Lochaber no more Sutherland no more Lewis no more Skye no more (3x)
I wonder my blood Will you ever return To help us kick the life back To a dying mutual friend Do we not love her? I think we all claim we love her Do we have to roam the world To prove how much it hurts?
When you go will you send back A letter from America? Take a look up the railtrack From Miami to Canada
Bathgate no more Linwood no more Methil no more Irvine no more. (3x)
Bathgate no more Linwood no more Methil no more Lochaber no more.
