Hugh Cornwell

Golden brown, texture like sun
Lays me down, with my mind she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown, with golden brown

Every time just like the last
On her ship tied to the mast
To distant lands
Takes both my hands
Never a frown with golden brown

Golden brown, finer temptress
Through the ages she's heading west
From far away
Stays for a day
Never a frown with golden brown

(instrumental)

Never a frown (Never a frown)
With golden brown (With golden brown)
Never a frown (Never a frown)
With golden brown (With golden brown)

Never a frown (Never a frown)
With golden brown (With golden brown)
Never a frown (Never a frown)
With golden brown (With golden brown

Woke up on a good day
And the world was wonderful
A midnight summer dream had me in its spell

I dreamt about an old man
Sat and watched the rain all night
He couldn't sleep a wink as all the drops fell

He told me of the beauty
Hidden in our foreheads
He told me of the ugliness
We show instead

And when we put a foot wrong do we learn
From all the pain
A midnight summer dream as he watched the rain

Then at midnight he poured another drink
And bent my ear
After midnight we sat up half the night
Or maybe more
And he began to tell me what it was all for

I woke up in an armchair
He had gone I don't know where
Left me there to sit and look at the rain

Don't remember much at all
But his words were echoing
A midnight summer dream and then wake again

Maybe I'll never find him
Maybe he's gone forever
Maybe I'll have to sit here
Watching the weather

One thing's pretty certain helped me
Make it in the night
Showed me somewhere else between wrong and right

And at midnight if you can't sleep
Then I can bend your ear
After midnight we'll sit up half the night
Or maybe more
And I'll begin to tell you what it is all for

Wake up on a good day
And the world feels wonderful
Midnight summer dream has me in its spell.

I knew she was a feline
She moved with ease and grace
Her green eyes they held mystery
No emotion on her face
She speaks her lips are kissing
The air around her face
I don't always understand her
But I love her air and grace
The European female she is here
The European female's here
We'll be together for a thousnd years
And do you really fear
That you might fall
I saw her in the Strasse
And in the Rue as well
Pursued her in the high street
She had me in her spell

Big girl in the red dress
She's just trying to impress us
And she's got the barley fever
But she doesn't make a sound
She's just hanging around
She's just hanging around

Down the court road early
With the Hustlers big and burly
There's a million of 'em selling
And the buyers can be found
They're just hanging around
They're just hanging around

[CHORUS:]
Christ he told his mother
Christ he told her not to bother
Cos he's alright in the city
Cos he's high above the ground
He's just hanging around (hanging around)
He's just hanging around (hanging around)
He's just hanging around (hanging around)
He's just hanging around (hanging around)

One of 'em comes over
Got a monkey on his shoulder
And the monkey's getting grinner
But his eyes are on the ground
He's just hanging around
He's just hanging around

I'm moving to a coleheme
With the leather all around me
And the sweat is getting steamy
But their eyes are on the ground
They're just hanging around
They're just hanging around

[CHORUS 2x]

He's just hanging around (hanging around)
He's just hanging around

Little lady
With Dingwall's bullshit
You're so stupid
Foetid brainwaves
Little lady
What really happens
When you see mirrors
You get the shivers

Ah!

Making love to
The Mersey Tunnel
With a sausage, have you ever been to Liverpool?
Please don't talk much
It burns my ears
Tonight you've talked for a thousand years

Plastic's real when you're real sick
Plastic's real when you're real sick
Plastic's real when you're real sick
Plastic's real when you're real sick
Plastic's real when you're real sick
Plastic's real when you're real sick
Plastic's real when you're real sick
Plastic's real when you're real sick

Tell me what you've got to look so pleased about
Tell me what you've got to look so pleased about

Oh London Lady
Why did you lay me?
Your head is crowded
With the names you've hounded
The lines around your
Eyes they show me
You realize the party's over London Lady
Party's over London Lady

Tell me what you've got to look so pleased about
Tell me what you've got to look so pleased about

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Written By HUGH CORNWELL, DAVID GREENFIELD, BRIAN DUFFY, JEAN JACQUES BURNEL
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There's a man holding onto a baby and it's screaming out your name
There's one or two uptight women on this brand new plane
Been held up in the frost in Moscow and I'm getting out fast
Been deiced from my tail to my mast
Five miles high and heading for you x 2

It seems that the longer you go for the crazier I get
it always seems to happen and I've not been wrong yet
My tank is overfull and my course has been set
It's what you could call a maiden flight with no safety net
Five miles high and heading for you x 2

I'm up front surrounded by the chinese eyes
But I'm holding out until I feel the thunder thighs
First thing I get to do when I get to see to your lively mind
Is get upstairs in the hirise horse race and I'll be betting blind
Five miles high x 3

Heading for you

Getting more exotic every minute that we fly east
Feeling kinda seasick at the very least
There's lots of water flowed by since you've been gone
There ain't no-one to touch you know where you belong
Five miles high and heading for you x 2

When we met I thought that you'd take off and try to fly
Then a man with giant lips began to catch your eye
You were caught on a hook
It was straight from a book

Didn't listen to advice and started telling tales
On the runway low on gas your engine starts to fail
If you tried you could win
Extra time take a spin

Hot head I hear you're coming through
Your ears are burning that's nothing new
Hot head you're wearing no parachute!

Knowing one or two up in the blue prepared me good
First of all my favourite pilot in my neighbourhood
Still in flight with her man
Riding high understand

Hot head I hear you're coming through
Your ears are burning that's nothing new
Hot head you're wearing no parachute!

A dirty broom an empty room you'll never find a better tomb
The passing of a lasting chill a night a day and time stands still
The walls just stand their stories cold they watch a history unfold
The sink is dry the fat don't fry and still the reasons pass you by
When will the troubled soul descend and make amends?
When will some laughter come alive?
And walk inside walk inside walk inside
A house of sorrow is a halfway house
A house of sorrow is a halfway house

The doors don't shut the pipes just froze the roof is cracked without a cause
You feel the sadness everywhere you hear a creaking on the stair
And just to liven up your day the spirit walks decides to stay
She wakes inside your living room and suffocates you with her gloom
When will the troubled soul descend and make amends?
When will some laughter come alive
And walk inside
A house of sorrow is a halfway house
A house of sorrow is a halfway house

Keeping out of trouble
Moving on the double
Got a feeling that this tunnels got an ending soon
Feel like I've been hanging on a lead balloon

Standing to attention
Sitting by the engine
Got to get a uniform to go with the good news
Better even buy some brand new shoes
I just got off a long gone dead train

I've been seeing double
Slipping in the rubble
Got a ticket left to use and I'm not wasting it
I like life and I like tasting it
I just got off a long gone dead train
I just got off a long gone dead train

Sometimes you're gonna have to get lost
Sometimes the dice are already tossed
Don't worry there's no hurry
Somedays there's some love to be found
Some nights you gotta sleep on the ground
Don't worry there's no hurry
I just got off a long gone dead train
I just got off a long gone dead train
I just got off a long gone dead train

Find a little lady
Someone who says maybe
Get some loving for yourself and get it right away
Just make sure you suffer no delay
I just got off a long gone dead train

In the middle of the day
When things don't go your way
And when life starts to bite
And it don't turn out right
And your top is spinning round
Far along the open ground
Then you have to hang on tight
Or you'll be blown from sight
How does it feel
How does it feel
How does it feel
It takes nerves of steel

In the middle of the night
If the stars ain't bright
And you wonder till the dawn
Why you feel so forlorn
And you know that you are lost
You never count the cost
Of all the mistakes you made
And all the games you played
How does it feel
How does it feel
How does it feel
It takes nerves of steel

In the middle of your life
When you're staring at the knife
And you're near the cutting edge
Close enough to make a wedge
But you know it ain't enough
Even though you hate the stuff
It's a sweet and bitter pill
But after all it's only real
How does it feel
How does it feel
How does it feel
It takes nerves of steel

I'm gonna try and steal a car
Drive it off with you somewhere afar
I'll start a fire deep inside
Find a place where we can hide
And as life flashes by
You want to know the reasons why
I'll be there with words to take you higher
One burning desire

I'm gonna try to be a light
Set the world on fire day and night
We start an education here
The signs look good no need to fear
The other people come and go
Why play the scenes they only know
I'll be here to help you walk the wire
One burning desire one burning desire

One burning desire x 4

I want to get inside your head
Find your ma and pa and what got said
And as we get familiar too
Find every scar and small tattoo
And as we start to play the game
I'll confess and take the blame
But you're the one who poured fuel on the fire
One burning desire one burning desire one burning desire

One burning desire x 4

If I could have just one more wish
It would be for a fillet of fish
You wouldn't have to take out the bones
You could even serve it up on it's own
I call it snapper
I call it snapper

It doesn't come in just one size
The taste you just don't realise
I prefer it to wellhung game
Cos game always ends up smelling the same
I call it snapper
I call it snapper

Take me all over the world
Cafes bars restaurants the dishes unfurl
If I could be tempted by one sweet little thing
I'd have to admit that snapper is king snapper is king or queen

So my friend just eat your fill
Cos eating can turn into a thrill
You know meat can go off so fast
That's why I maintain right up to the last
Just give me snapper just give me snapper

Take me all over the world
Cafes bars restaurants the dishes unfurl
If I could be tempted by one sweet little thing
I'd have to admit that snapper is king snapper is king or queen

One step forwards two steps backwards
That's the dance I want to learn
if I could master it and put a little style in it
I'll have some fun when it's my turn

Gable and Monroe in the garden
In the desert getting well
Eli and Thelma in the DC
It wasn't easy you can tell

It's just a step away
Please will you show us how to live
It's just a step away
When you got nothing left to give

Seven horses not enough to
Even fill the tank with gas
Monty's outside he wasn't inside
But he knows all things must pass
Bucking broncos we're all cowboys
Hanging from another age
Getting sauced that's just how the film goes
It's gotta be better than a wage

It's just a step away
Please will you show us how to live
It's just a step away
When you got nothing left to give

Too Many Teardrops For One Heart To Be Crying
Too Many Teardrops For One Heart To Carry On
You're Way On Top Now Since You Left Me
You're Always Laughing Way Down At Me
But Watch Out Now I'm Gonna Get Down
And We'll Be Together For Just A Little While
And Then I'm Gonna Put You Way Down Here
And You'll Start Crying 96 Tears
Cry You're Gonna Cry

And When The Sun Comes Up I'll Be On Top
You'll Be Right Down There Looking Up
I'm Gonna Get You But I Know Now

You're Gonna Cry 96 Tears
You're Gonna Cry 96 Tears

You're Gonna Cry 96 Tears
You're Gonna Cry 96 Tears
You're Gonna Cry Cry Cry Cry Now
You're Gonna Cry Cry Cry Cry Now
Too Many Teardrops
All Night Long
Too Many Teardrops
Cry Cry Cry Cry Now
You're Gonna Cry Cry Cry Cry Now
96 Tears
All Night Long Now
You're Gonna Cry Cry Cry Cry Now
96 Tears
Cry Cry Cry Now
96 Tears
Cry Cry Cry Now
96 Tears
You're Gonna Cry 96 Tears
You're Gonna Cry 96 Tears
You're Gonna Cry Cry Cry Cry Now...

I'm not content to be with you in the day-time

Girl
I want to be with you all of the time.
The only time I feel alright is by your side.

Girl
I want to be with you all of the time

All day and all of the night
all day and all of the night

All day and all of the night.

I believe that you and me last forever

Oh yeah
all day and night-time yours
leave me never!
The only time I teel alright is by your side.

Girl
I want to be with you all of the time

All day and all of the night
all day and all of the night.

I believe that you and me last forever
. . .
Girl
I want to be with you all of the time
. . .

How many times have you woken up and prayed for the rain?
How many times have you seen the papers apportion the blame?
Who gets to say, who gets the work and gets to play?
I was always told at school, everybody should get the same

How many times have you been told, if you don't ask you don't get?
How many liars have taken your money, your mother said you shouldn't bet?
Who has the fun, is it always the man with the gun?
Someone must have told him, if you work too hard you can sweat

There's always the sun
There's always the sun
Always, always, always the sun

How many times have the weathermen told you stories that made you laugh?
Y'know it's not unlike the politician and the leaders when they do things by half
Who gets the job, of pushing the knob
That sort of responsibility you draw straws for, if you're mad enough

There's always the sun
There's always the sun
Always, always, always the sun

In this place I call home
There's a place where I'm alone
To speak with you now you're gone
Now the autumn has come

In this place I call home
Even though the leaves have gone
I can speak with you now
And the winter will come

All the words that could have been said
And the ghosts we thought we'd carefully laid
To rest have returned
In this place I call hoome

There's a time when I'm alone
To speak with you now you're gone
What will the spring bring along
All the words that could have been said

And the ghosts we thought we'd carefully laid to rest
Carefully laid to rest
Carefully laid to rest have returned
In this place I call home

There's a place where I'm a lone
To speak with you now you're gone
And the summer's also gone

Got the chance of a real good time
If you're by yourself, don't hesitate
Spent too long on a wooden fence
If you want to come don't have to wait
If you want to come don't hesitate
Let me get to taste your honey child

[Chorus]
Let's celebrate
Let's celebrate
Let's celebrate
Let's celebrate
Let's celebrate

Wave a flag or sing a song
When you come along let's celebrate
Climb aboard the fun mobile

There's plenty of room on the tailgate
There's plenty of room on the tailgate
Let me get to taste your honey child

[Chorus]

Look for honey round the world
Find it in some special girl
Maybe one maybe eight
Makes no odds let's celebrate

Take some time and run around
Love the world or run it down
Trouble is it's getting late
Come with me let's celebrate
Let me get to taste your honey child

The city blues they strike again
Another worker drops his pen
He wants to be done
And out on the run

Away from her curse, he'd swap all his worth
To be a man of the earth
For 2 or 3 weeks of the year
An Easter Bunny brings Christmas cheer

He's out of his head and toasting the dead
And feeling much worse, he'd swap all his worth
To be a man of the earth
To swap all his worth

To be a man of the earth
Words become the man if only he could write a sonnet
He'd place his life upon it to be a man of the earth
A man of the earth, he'd swap all his worth

To be a man of the earth
The wife and kids are already there
They're polishing his wicker chair it's looking so bleak
At the end of the week he'll be needing a nurse

He'd swap all his worth to be a man of the earth
A man of the earth
Words become the man if only he could write a sonnet
He'd place his life upon it to be a man of the earth

A man of the earth, he'd swap all his worth
To be a man of the earth
A man of the earth

It's not that easy
Never to look back
The years distort the lies
We take for fact
I had a black shirt
But I wasn't one
All my loving is not enough for that
I had a black shirt
But I wasn't one
I had black thoughts
But now they're undone
Thoughts are eaasy
And they're all I have
All my loving is not enough for that
All my loving is not enough for that
How could I think it was ever like this
The truth's the truth but did it ever exist
I tell myself, well never again
Never to look back
'Cos it's never the same
Never to look back
Thoughts are easy,
But they're all I have
Life's not easy
If all you do is fight
The truth is changed by
The memories we have
All my loving is not enough for that
All my loving is not enough for that
How could I think it was ever like this
The truth's the truth but did it ever exist
I tell myself, well never again
Never to look back
'Cos it's never the same
Never to look back

Out of my mind, I can't get you
Out of my mind, I can't get you
I'll tell you somethng, I feel hung over today
I'll tell you something, this head just won't go away

But when you smile, my day gets brighter
And in a while, my head's gone away
Out of my mind, I can't get you
Out of my mind, I can't get you

Let me tell you something, I'm high from talking to you
I'll tell you something, your smell works better than glue
And when you smile, I see the colours
And in a while, there's a world brand new

Out of my mind, out of my mind
Out of my mind, I can't get you
I'll tell you something, I got to see you today
I'll tell you something, nothing can get in our way

And when you smile, I see the sunrise
And in a while, out of things to say
Out of my mind, I can't get you

Your earthquake hit when I was living so peacefully
My mind was busy I had something to do
My world was planned and I was living so tranquilly
You turned me round just like a whirlpool

[Chorus]
Someone like you (makes me dizzy)
Someone like you
Someone like you (drives me crazy)
Someone like you

Your hurricane was blowing like there was no today
I was asleep alone with nothing to do
My roof was raised as I was snoring so comfortably
You shooke me up just like a twister

[Chorus]

Alone at night I lie without any air
Then you arrive and always take me somewhere
What else can you do?

[Chorus]

Alone at night I lie without any air
Then you arrive and always take me somewhere
What else can you do?
Someone like you

You get a taste it ain't enough
To eat your fill you need the stuff
You think you're there about to land
But is the trip just what you planned

You're falling, yes you're falling
For the sweet smell of success
You're gambling like everyone
Who cares who wins you're having fun

And you'll be back another day
You think you'll win next time you play
You're falling, yes you're falling
For the sweet smell of success

You check your hand you're looking good
You see a paath within the wood
She beckons you what can you do
But follow her to somewhere new

You're falling, yes you're falling
You're falling, yes you're falling
For the sweet smell of success

Too many teardrops falling make a final blow
Over the years for love are there any left for now
Just when I need some soothing water
None of my tears are left around
Night and day they take so long
Tears would was the hurting away
CHORUS
Too many teardrops
Too many teardrops
Too many teardrops make a lake where a man can drown
Too many teardrops find their way onto the ground
Just when I thought the sun was shining
Need some more tears there's none around
Night and day they take so long
Tears would wash the huring away
But they're gone, from now on
But they're gone, from now on
CHORUS

Hey man, I like your beard
And I like the way you serve that beer
I like the way your daughter smiles at me
Hey mister, could I have just one more beer

I got two big balls
A cap and a bat
And I play with them all the time
I got a million things I'd rather do

If only you say you'll stay mine
If only you say you'll stay mine
If only you say you'll stay mine
Yea, this is the place where I live

And the place where I love
Hey mamselle, fill me up baby
I like the way you give me gas
Tell me

Who is the man with the double-barrelled gun?
(My daddy)
I think I better move on fast
I got a big black car

A dog and a cat
And I play with them all of the time
I got a million things I'd rather do
If only you say you'll stay mine

If only you say you'll stay mine
If only you say you'll stay mine
Yea, this is the place where I live
And the place where I love

The way the old church spire stabs the clouds
And when the old folks say
I'll have another drink to see me
Through the day, thank you J.J.

Yea, this is the place where I live
And the place where I love
Hey, Mrs. be

Life Was Good For A Short While
Hot Sweet Nights Days That Were Fine
Spent Many Hours Just Looking At You
Heart Stopped Beating For A Moment Or Two
Long Black Veil Now You Are Mine

Sun Went Down Never To Rise
Lost In Tears Filling My Eyes
Saw My Love Trampled Deep In The Dirt
Overwhelmed By The Bitterest Hurt
Long Black Veil Now You Are Mine

I've Lately Felt A Stirring
Of Ghosts Around My Mind
And I'm Frightened Of The Things That I Might Find
The Veil Of Black That Claimed You
And Took You From My Sight
Has Marched Across The Sands Of Time Tonight