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Down to the Waterline
Water of Love
Setting Me Up
Six Blade Knife
Southbound Again
Sultans of Swing
In the Gallery
Wild West End
Lions
Down to the Waterline
Sweet surrender on the quayside You remember we used to run and hide In the shadow of
the cargoes I take you one time And we're counting all the numbers down to the waterline
Near misses on the dogleap stairways French kisses in the darkened doorways A foghorn
blowing out wild and cold A policeman shines a light upon my shoulder Up comes a coaster
fast and silent in the night Over my shoulder all you can see are the pilot lights No
money in our jackets and our jeans are torn Your hands are cold but your lips are warm She
can see him on the jetty where they used to go She can feel him in the places where the
sailors go When she's walking by the river and the railway line She can still hear him
whisper Let's go down to the waterline
Water of Love
High and dry in the long hot day Lost and lonely in every way Got the flats all around
me sky up above I need a little water of love I've been too long lonely and my heart feels
pain Crying out for some soothing rain I believe I have taken enough I need a little water
of love Water of love deep in the ground No water here to be found Some day baby when the
river runs free It'll carry that water of love to me There's a bird up in a tree sitting
up high Waiting for me to die If I don't get some water soon I'll be dead and gone in the
afternoon Once I had a woman I could call my own Once I had a woman now my woman is gone
Once there was a river now there's a stone You know it's evil when you're living alone
Setting Me Up
You say I'm the greatest bound for glory Well the word is out and I learned I got the
latest side of the story You're pulling out before you get burned Well your hands are
squeezing me down to the bone I never saw you breaking no law Stands to reason I've got to
leave you alone What you take me for You're setting me up to put me down You're making me
out to be your clown You're just setting me up to put me down You better give it up Quit
your messing around You think I care about your reaction You think I don't understand All
you wanted was a piece of the action Now you talk about another man
Six Blade Knife
Your six blade knife can do anything for you Anything you want it to One blade for
breaking my heart One blade for tearing me apart Your six blade knife-do anything for you
You can take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin When you come up from behind
and lay it down cold on my skin Took a stone from my soul when I was lame Just so you
could make me tame You take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin I'd like to
be free of it now - I don't want it no more I'd like to be free of it now - you know I
don't want it no more Everybody got a knife it can be just what they want it to be A
needle a wife or something that you just can't see You know it keeps you strong Yes and
it'll do me wrong Your six blade knife - do anything for you
Southbound Again
Southbound again I don't know if I'm going or leaving home Boy got to be moving Seems
like the boy is bound to roam Southbound again got no money I've got no place to go That
woman's with her lover boy Never want to see her face no more Every single time I roll
across the rolling River Tyne I get the same old feeling Every time I'm moving down the
line Southbound again last night I felt like crying Right now I'm sick of living But I'm
going to keep on trying
Sultans of Swing
You get a shiver in the dark It's been raining in the park but meantime South of the
river you stop and you hold everything A band is blowing Dixie double four time You feel
all right when you hear that music ring You step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down Too much competition too many other
places But not too many horns can make that sound Way on downsouth way on downsouth London
town You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords Mind he's strictly rhythm he
doesn't want to make it cry or sing And an old guitar is all he can afford When he gets up
under the lights to play his thing And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
He's got a daytime job he's doing alright He can play honky tonk just like anything Saving
it up for Friday night With the Sultans with the Sultans of Swing And a crowd of young
boys they're fooling around in the corner Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies
and their platform soles They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band It ain't
what they call rock and roll And the Sultans played Creole And then the man he steps right
up to the microphone And says at last just as the time bell rings 'Thank you goodnight now
it's time to go home' and he makes it fast with one more thing 'We are the Sultans of
Swing'
In the Gallery
Harry made a bareback rider proud and free upon a horse And a fine coalminer for the
NCB that was A fallen angel and Jesus on the cross A skating ballerina you should have
seen her do the skater's waltz Some people have got to paint and draw Harry had to work in
clay and stone Like the waves coming to the shore It was in his blood and in his bones
Ignored by all the trendy boys in London and in Leeds He might as well have been making
toys or strings of beads He could not be in the gallery And then you get an artist says he
doesn't want to paint at all He takes an empty canvas and sticks it on the wall The birds
of a feather all the phonies and all of the fakes While the dealers they get together And
they decide who gets the breaks And who's going to be in the gallery No lies he wouldn't
compromise No junk no bits of string And all the lies we subsidise That just don't mean a
thing I've got to say he passed away in obscurity And now all the vultures are coming down
from the tree So he's going to be in the gallery
Wild West End
Stepping out to Angellucci's for my coffee beans Checking out the movies and the
magazines Waitress she watches me crossing from the Barocco Bar I'm getting a pickup for
my steel guitar I saw you walking out Shaftesbury Avenue Excuse me for talking I wanna
marry you This is the seventh heaven street to me Don't be so proud You're just another
angel in the crowd And I'm walking in he wild west end Walking with your wild best friend
And my conductress on the number nineteen She was a honey Pink toenails and hands all
dirty with money Greasy hair easy smile Made me feel nineteen for a while Amd wI went down
to Chinatown In the backroom it's a man's world All the money go down Duck inside the
doorway gotta duck to eat Right now feels alright now You and me we can't beat And a gogo
dancing girl yes I saw her The deejay he say here's Mandy for ya I feel alright to see her
But she's paid to do that stuff She's dancing high I move on by The close ups can get
rough When you're walking in the wild west end
Lions
Red sun go down way over dirty town Starling are sweeping around crazy shoals A girl
is there high heeling across the square Wind blows around in her hair and the flags upon
the poles Waiting in the crowd to cross at the light She looks around to find a face she
can like. Church bell clinging on trying to get a crowd for Evensong Nobody cares to
depend upon the chime it plays They're all in the station praying for trains Cogregations
late again It's getting darker all the time these flagpole days Drunk old soldier he gives
her a fright He's crazy lion howling for a fight. Strap hanging gunshot sound Doors
slamming on the overground Starlings are tough but the lions are made of stone Her evening
paper is horror torn But there's hope later for Capricorns Her lucky stars give her just
enough to get home Then she's reading about a swing to the right But she's thinking about
a stranger in the night I'm thinking about the lions tonight What happened to the lions.
Once Upon a Time in the West
News
Where do you think you're going?
Communique
Lady Writer
Anger of Mercy
Portobello Belle
Single Handed Sailor
Follow Me Home
Once Upon a Time in the West
Some people get a cheap laugh breaking up the speed limit Scaring the pedestrians for
a minute Crossing up progress driving on the grass Leaving just enough for room to pass
Sunday driver never took a test Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west Yes, it's no use
saying that you don't know nothing It's still gonna get you if don't do something Sitting
on a fence that's a dangerous course Oh, you could even catch a bullet from the
peace-keeping force Even the hero gets a bullet in the chest Oh yeah, once upon a time in
the west Mother Mary your children are slaughtered Some of you mothers ought to lock up
your daughters Who's protecting the innocenti Heap big trouble in the land of plenty Tell
me how we're gonna do what's best You guess once upon a time in the west Once upon a time
in the west...
News
He sticks to his guns He take the road as it comes It take the shine off his shoes He
says it's a shame You know it may be a game Ah, but I won't play to lose He's burning the
grass He take up a glass He swallow it neat He crosses the floor He open the door He take
a sniff of the street And she tell him that he's crazy She's a-saying listen baby I'm your
wife She tell him that he's crazy For gambling a-with his life But he climbs on his horse
You know he feel no remorse He just kicks it alive His motor is fine He take it over the
line Until he's ready to dive And she tell him that he's crazy Yes she's saying listen
baby I'm your wife Yeah She tell him that he's crazy For gambling with his life He sticks
to his guns He take the road as it comes It take the shine off his shoes He says it's a
shame You know it may be a game Ah but I won't play to lose He sticks to his guns He take
the road as it comes It take the shine off his shoes He's too fast to stop He take it over
the top He make a line in the news
Where Do You Think You're Going?
Where do you think you're going? Don't you know it's dark outside? Where do you think
you're going? Don't you care about my pride? Where do you think you're going? I think that
you don't know You got no way of knowing There's really no place you can go I understand
your changes Long before you reach the door I know where you think you're going you I know
what you came here for And now I'm sick of joking You know I like you to be free Where do
you think you're going? I think you better go with me girl You say there is no reason But
you still find cause to doubt me If you ain't with me girl You're gonna be without me
Where do you think you're going? Don't you know it's dark outside? Where do you think
you're going? Don't you care about my pride? And now I'm sick of joking You know I like
you to be free So where do you think you're going? I think you better go with me girl
Communique
They wanna get a statement for Jesus' sake It's like a talking to the wall He's
incommunicado no comment to make He's saying nothing at all But in the communique you know
he's gonna come clean Think what he say Say what he means Maybe on Monday he got something
to say Communication Communique Communique Maybe he could talk about the tricks of the
trade Maybe he could talk about himself Maybe he could talk about the money that he made
Maybe he'd be saying something else But in the communique you know he's gonna come clean
Think what he say, Say what he means Maybe on Monday he got something to say Communication
Communique Communique And now the rumors are flying Speculation rising Say that he's been
trying someone else's wife Somebody at the airport Somebody on the phone Says he's at the
station and he's coming on the noon Then we get the story a serious breeze And a
photograph taken in the hall You don't have to worry with the previous release Right now,
he's saying nothing at all But in the communique you know he's gonna come clean Think what
he say Say what he means Maybe on Monday he got something to say Communication Communique
Communique
Lady Writer
Lady writer on the TV Talk about the Virgin Mary Reminded me of you Expectation left
to come up to yeah Lady writer on the TV She had another quality The way you used to look
And I know you never read a book Just the way that her hair fell down around her face And
I recall my fall from grace Another time, another place Lady writer on the TV She had all
the brains and the beauty The pictures does not fit You'd talk to me when you felt like it
Just the way that her hair fell down around her face And I recall my fall from grace
Another time another place Yes and your rich old man, You know he'd a call her a dead
ringer You got the same command Plus your mother was a Jazz singer Just the way that her
hair fell down around her face And I recall my fall from grace Another time another place
Lady writer on the TV She knew all about a history You couldn't hardly write your name I
think I want it just the same as the ... Lady writer on the TV Talking about the Virgin
Mary You know I'm talking about you and me And the lady writer on the TV Talking about the
Virgin Mary Yeah you know I'm talking about you and me And the lady writer on the TV
Angel Of Mercy
Well there's a Peter Pan moon shepherd's delight I got to dragon at noon, yes and I
won the fight Now I want my reward in heaven tonight, just like you promised Angel of
Mercy, you'll come to no harm Angel of Mercy, there's no need for alarm The knight in his
armor wants a night in your arms You know he's honest Angel of Mercy, angel delight, give
me my reward in heaven tonight And if I give up my sword, won't you give me the right
Sweet angel Well now it's too late for talking we can talk later on Let the saxophone play
us till the chorus of dawn And all I need is a little oblivion, you don't need protection
Well now here come the moonlight down on your bed Angel of mercy let your heart rule your
head I don't want your money, I want you instead Don't need rejection yeah Angel of Mercy,
angel delight, give me my reward in heaven tonight And if I give up my sword, won't you
give me the right Angel of Mercy give me heaven tonight Well if you cross your heart And
spit and swear upon the grave of your mother You got to get into it, you gotta tell me
that I'm more than a lover Yeah Angel of Mercy angel delight Give me my reward in heaven
tonight And if I give up my sword, won't you give me the right Angel of Mercy give me
heaven tonight Yeah Angel of Mercy, angel delight Give me my reward in heaven tonight And
if I give up my sword, won't you give me the right Angel of Mercy give me heaven tonight
Yeah Angel of Mercy angel delight Give me my reward in heaven tonight And if I give up my
sword, won't you give me the right Angel of Mercy give me heaven tonight
Portobello Belle
Bella donna's on the high street Her breasts upon the off beat And the stalls are just
the side shows Victoriana's old clothes And yes her Jeans are tight now She gonna travel
light now She's gonna tear up all her roots now She got a turn up for the boots now Yeah
she thinks she's tough She ain't no English rose But the blind singer He's seen enough and
he knows Yes and he do a song About a long gone Irish girl But I got one for you
Portobello Belle She sees a man upon his back there Escaping from a sack there And
Belladonna lingers Her gloves they got no fingers Yeah, the blind man he's singing Irish
He gets his money in a tin dish Just a corner serenader Upon a time he could have made
her, made her Yeah, she thinks she's tough She ain't no English rose Ah, but the blind
singer He's seen enough and he knows Yeas and do a song About a long gone Irish girl Ah
but I got one for you Portobello Belle Yes and these barrow boys are hawking And a
parakeet is squawking Upon a truck there is a rhino She get the crying of a wino And then
she get the reggae rumble Bella donna's in the jungle But she is no garden flower There is
no distress in the tower Oh, bella donna walks Bella donna taking a stroll She don't care
about your window box Or your button hole Yes and she sing a song about a long gone Irish
girl But I got one for you Portobello Belle
Single Handed Sailor
Two in the morning, dry-dock town The rivers rolls away in the night Little gypsy moth
she's all tied down She quiver in the wind and the light Yeah and a sailing ship just held
down in chains From the lazy days of sail She's just lying there in silent pain He lean on
the turist rail A mother and her baby and the college of war In the concrete graves You
never wanna fight against the river law Nobody rules the waves Yeah and on a night when
the lazy wind is a-wailing Around the Cutty Sark Single handed sailor goes sailing Sailing
away in the dark He's upon the bridge on the self same night The mariner of dry dock land
Two in the morning, but there is one green light And a man on the barge of sand She's
gonna slip away below him Away from the things he's done But he just shouts "Hey man,
what do you call this thing?" He could have said "Pride of London" On a
night when the lazy wind is a-wailing Around the Cutty Sark Yeah the single handed sailor
goes sailing Sailing away in the dark
Follow Me Home
Oh well the sun go down Celebration in the town tonight All day long They been
slaughtering upon the stone Share out the meat Yeah, you really like to eat Come on woman,
come follow me home Well, the priest he cries Virgins ascending to the skies tonight All
day long I have passed my time alone And when the church bell rung I stayed out on the
tower In a dying sun Now come on woman, come follow me home Well I don't need no priest
But I love all of the people Yes I share the feast So drink up my wine Yes and the song in
my bones I know the way I can see by the moonlight Clear as the day Now come on woman,
come follow me home
Tunnel of Love
Romeo and Juliet
Skateaway
Expresso Love
Hand in Hand
Solid Rock
Les Boys
Tunnel of Love
getting crazy on the waltzers but it's the life that I choose sing about the sixblade
sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo and I been riding on a ghost train where
the cars they scream and slam and I don't know where I'll be tonight but I'd always tell
you where I am in a screaming ring of faces I seen her standing in the light she had a
ticket for the races just like me she was a victim of the night I put a hand upon the
lever said let it rock and let it roll I had the one arm bandit fever there was an arrow
through my heart and my soul and the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above and
I'm just high on the world come on and take a low ride with me girl on the tunnel of love
it's just the danger when you're riding at your own risk she said you are the perfect
stranger she said baby let's keep it like this it's just a cake walk twisting baby step
right up and say hey mister give me two give me two cos any two can play and the big wheel
keep on turning neon burning up above and I'm just high on the world come on and take a
low ride with me girl on the tunnel of love well it's been money for muscle another
whirligig money for muscle and another girl I dig another hustle just to make it big and
rockaway rockaway and girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did like the
spanish city to me when we were kids oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always
did like the spanish city to me when we were kids she took off a silver locket she said
remember me by this she put her hand in my pocket I got a keepsake and a kiss and in the
roar of the dust and diesel I stood and watched her walk away I could have caught up with
her easy enough but something must have made me stay and the big wheel keep on turning
neon burning up above and I'm just high on the world come on and take a low ride with me
girl on the tunnel of love and now I'm searching through these carousels and the carnival
arcades searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades in any shooting gallery where
promises are made to rockaway rockaway from cullercoats and whitley bay out to rockaway
and girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did like the spanish city to me when we
were kids girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did like the spanish city to me
when we were kids
Romeo and Juliet
a lovestruck romeo sings the streets a serenade laying everybody low with a lovesong
that he made finds a streetlight steps out of the shade says something like you and me
babe how about it? juliet says hey it's romeo you nearly gave me a heart attack he's
underneath the window she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back you shoudn't come around
here singing up at people like that anyway what you gonna do about it? juliet the dice
were loaded from the start and I bet and you exploded in my heart and I forget I forget
the movie song when you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong juliet? come up
on different streets they both were streets of shame both dirty both mean yes and the
dream was just the same and I dream your dream for you and now your dream is real how can
you look at me as I was just another one of your deals? well you can fall for chains of
silver you can fall for chains of gold you can fall for pretty strangers and the promises
they hold you promised me everything you promised me thick and thin now you just say oh
romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him juliet when we made love you used to
cry you said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die there's a place for
us you know the movie song when you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong? I
can't do the talk like the talk on the tv and I can't do a love song like the way its
meant to be I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you can't do anything except be
in love with you and all I do is miss you and the way we used to be all I do is keep the
beat the bad company all I do is kiss you through the bars of Orion julie I'd do the stars
with you any time juliet when we made love you used to cry you said I love you like the
stars above Ill love you till I die there's a place for us you know the movie song when
you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong? a lovestruck romeo sings the
streets a serenade laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made finds a convenient
streetlight steps out of the shade says something like you and me babe how about it?
Skateaway
I seen a girl on a one way corridor stealing down a wrong way street for all the world
like an urban toreador she had wheels on on her feet well the cars do the usual dances
same old cruise and the kerbside crawl but the rollergirl she's taking chances they just
love to see her take them all no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd in
her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud hallelujah here she comes queen
rollerball enchante what can I say don't care at all you know she used to have to wait
around she used to be the lonely one but now that she can skate around town she's the only
one no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd in her ears the phones are
tight and the music's playing loud she gets rock n roll a rock n roll station and a rock n
roll dream she's making movies on location she don't know what it means but the music make
her wanna be the story and the story was whatever was the song what it was rollergirl
don't worry d.j. play the movies all night long she tortures taxi drivers just for fun she
like to read their lips says toro toro taxi see ya tomorrow my son I swear she let a big
truck grease her hip she got her own world in the city you can't intrude on her she got
her own world in the city cos the city's benn so rude to her no fears alone at night she's
sailing through the crowd in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
she gets rock n roll a rock n roll station and a rock n roll dream she's making movies on
location she don't know what it means but the music make her wanna be the story and the
story was whatever was the song what it was rollergirl don't worry d.j. play the movies
all night long come slippin and slidin life's roller ball slippin and a slidin skateaway
that's all shala shalay hey hey skateaway she's going sining shala shalay hey hey
skateaway
Expresso Love
she gets the sun in the daytime perfume in the dusk and she comes out in the night
time with the honeysuckle musk because she smells just like a rose and she tastes just
like a peach she got me walking where the wildlife goes I'd do anything to reach her and
she was made in heaven heaven's in the world is this just expresso love you know i'm crazy
for the girl she call me just to talk she's my lover, she's a friend of mine she says hey
mister you wanna take a walk in the wild west end sometime and i get trouble with my
breathing she says boys don't know anything but i know what i want i want everything well
i feel so good cos i feel so good and i feel so good cos it feels so right i was made to
go with my girl like a saxophone was made to go with the night and she can raise one
eyebrow put her hand on my hip and i close one eye now sweat on her tip and i surrender to
the fever she love me so tender i got to believe her love? expresso love's alright i don't
want no sugar in it thank you very much all wired up on it all fired up on it expresso
touch hey maestro expresso it's just another one just like the other one hey maestro
expresso is this another one just like the other one
Hand in Hand
the sky is crying the streets are full of tears rain come down wash away my tears and
all this writing on the wall oh i can read between the lines rain come down forgive this
dirty town rain come down and give this dirty town a drink of water a drink of wine if i
been hard on you i never chose to be i never wanted no one else i tried my best to be
somebody you'd be close to hand in hand like lovers are supposed to as you'd sleep i'd
think my heart would break in two i'd kiss your cheek i'd stop myself from waking you but
in the dark you'd speak my name you'd say baby what's wrong? oh here i am baby i'm coming
back for more i'm like a wave that's got to roll into the shore yes and if my love's in
vain how come my love is so strong? now you and me go parallel together and apart and you
keep the perfect distance and it's tearing at my heart did you never feel the distance you
never tried to cross no line now it's another dirty river and another dirty scar and i
don't know who's kissing you and i don't know where you are so far from home don't you
think of me sometime sky is crying see the streets are full of tears rain coming down to
wash away my fears and all this writing on the wall oh i can read between the lines
Solid Rock
well take a look at that i made a castle in the sand saying this is where it's you
know couldn't understand now if i realised that the chances were slim how come i'm so
surprised when the tide rolled in i wanna live on solid rock i'm gonna live on solid rock
i wanna give i don't wanna be blocked i'm gonna live on solid rock well i'm sick of
potential i'm sick of vanity now i'm sticking to essential reality now i don't know what's
worse try to make a silk purse living an illusion living in confusion well a house of
cards was never built for shock you could blow it down in any kind of weather now two
solid rocks two solid blocks you know they're gonna stick yeah they're gonna stick
together because the heart that you break that's the one that you rely on the bed that you
make that's the one you gotta lie on when you point your finger cos your plan fell through
you got three more fingers pointing back at you i wanna live on solid rock i'm gonna live
on solid rock i wanna give i don't wanna be blocked i'm gonna live on solid rock i'm solid
rock now
Les Boys
les boys do cabaret les boys are glad to be gay they're not afraid now disco bar in
germany les boys are glad to be upon parade now les boys got leather straps les boys got
ss caps but they got no gun now get dressed up get a little risque got to do a little s
& m these days it's all in fun now les boys come on again for the high class whores
and the businessmen who drive in their mercedes benz to a disco bar in old munchen they
get the jokes that the d.j. makes they get nervous and they make mistakes they're bad for
business some tourists take a photograph les boys don't get one lough he says they're
useless late at night when they've gone away les boys dream of jean genet high heel shoes
and a black berret and the posters on the wall that say les boys do cabaret les boys are
glad to be gay
Telegraph Road
Private Investigations
Industrial Disease
Love Over Gold
It Never Rains
Telegraph Road
A long time ago came a man on a track walking thirty miles with a pack on his back and
he put down his load where he thought it was the best made a home in the wilderness he
built a cabin and a winter store and he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore and
the other travellers came riding down the track and they never went further, no, they
never went back then came the churches then came the schools then came the lawyers then
came the rules then came the trains and the trucks with their loads and the dirty old
track was the telegraph road Then came the mines - then came the ore then there was the
hard times then there was a war telegraph sang a song about the world outside telegraph
road got so deep and so wide like a rolling river. . . And my radio says tonight it's
gonna freeze people driving home from the factories there's six lanes of traffic three
lanes moving slow. . . I used to like to go to work but they shut it down I got a right to
go to work but there's no work here to be found yes and they say we're gonna have to pay
what's owed we're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed and the birds up on
the wires and the telegraph poles they can always fly away from this rain and this cold
you can hear them singing out their telegraph code all the way down the telegraph road You
know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights when life was just a bet on a race
between the lights you had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair now you
act a little colder like you don't seem to care but believe in me baby and I'll take you
away from out of this darkness and into the day from these rivers of headlights these
rivers of rain from the anger that lives on the streets with these names 'cos I've run
every red light on memory lane I've seen desperation explode into flames and I don't want
to see it again. . . >From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed all the way
down the telegraph road
Private Investigations
It's a mystery to me - the game commences for the usual fee - plus expenses
confidential information - contained in a diary this is my investigation - not a public
inquiry I go checking out the reports - digging up the dirt you get to meet all sorts in
this line of work treachery and treason - there's always an excuse for it and when I find
the reason I still can't get used to it And what have you got at the end of the day? what
have you got to take away? a bottle of whisky and a new set of lies blinds on the windows
and a pain behind the eyes Scarred for life - no compensation private investigations
Industrial Disease
Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control somebody threw a spanner and they
threw him in the hole there's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town somebody
blew the whistle and the walls came down there's a meeting in the boardroom they're trying
to trace the smell there's leaking in the washroom there's a sneak in personnel somewhere
in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze 'goodness me could this be Industrial
Disease? The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post they're refusing to be
pacified it's him they blame the most the watchdog's got rabies the foreman's got fleas
and everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease there's panic on the switchboard tongues
are ties in knots some come out in sympathy some come out in spots some blame the
management some the employees and everybody knows it's the Industrial Disease The work
force is disgusted downs tools and walks innocence is injured experience just talks
everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees that these are 'classic symptoms of a monetary
squeeze' on ITV and BBC they talk about the curse philosophy is useless theology is worse
history boils over there's an economics freeze sociologists invent words that mean
'Industrial Disease' Doctor Parkinson declared 'I'm not surprised to see you here you've
got smokers cough from smoking, brewer's droop from drinking beer I don't know how you
came to get the Betty Davis knees but worst of all young man you've got Industrial
Disease' he wrote me a prescription he said 'you are depressed but I'm glad you came to
see me to get this off your chest come back and see me later - next patient please send in
another victim of Industrial Disease' I go down to Speaker's Corner I'm thunderstruck they
got free speech, tourists, police in trucks two men say they're Jesus one of them must be
wrong there's a protest singer singing a protest song - he says 'they wanna have a war to
keep us on our knees they wanna have a war to keep their factories they wanna have a war
to stop us buying Japanese they wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease they're
pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind they wanna sap your energy incarcerate
your mind they give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three two weeks in Espana and
Sunday striptease' meanwhile the first Jesus says 'I'd cure it soon abolish monday
mornings and friday afternoons' the other one's on a hunger strike he's dying by degrees
how come Jesus gets Industrial Disease
Love Over Gold
You walk out on the high wire you're a dancer on thin ice you pay no heed to the
danger and less to advice your footsteps are forbidden but with a knowledge of your sin
you throw your love to all the strangers and caution to the wind And you go dancing
through doorways just to see what you will find leaving nothing to interfere with the
crazy balance of your mind and when you finally reappear at the place where you came in
you've thrown your love to all the strangers and caution to the wind It takes love over
gold and mind over matter to do what you do that you must when the things that you hold
can fall and be shattered or run through your fingers like dust
It Never Rains
I hear the Seven Deadly Sins and the Terrible Twins came to call on you the bigger
they are babe the harder they fall on you and you you're always the same you persevere on
the same old pleasure ground oh and it never rains around here it just comes pouring down
You had no more volunteers so you got profiteers for to help you out with friends like
that babe good friends you had to do without and now they've taken the chains and the
gears from off your merry-go-round oh and it never rains around here it just comes pouring
down And your new Romeo was just a gigolo when he let you down see the faster they are
babe the faster they get out of town leaving make up stains and the tears of a clown yes
and it never rains around here it just comes pouring down Oh you were just a roller
coaster memory I don't know why I was even passing through I saw you making a date with
Destiny when he came around here asking after you in the shadow of the Wheel of Fortune
you're busy trying to clear your name you say 'I may be guilty yeah that may be true but
I'd be lying if I said I was to blame see we could have been major contenders we never got
no money no breaks' you've got a list of all the major offenders you got a list of all
their major mistakes and he's just standing on the shadows yes and you smile that come-on
smile oh I can still hear you say as clear as the day 'I'd like to make it worth your
while' Ah but it's a sad reminder when your organ grinder has to come to you for the rent
and all you've got to give him is the use of your side-show tent yes and that's all that
remains of the years spent doing to rounds and it never rains around here well it just
comes pouring down Now you know what they say about beggars you can't complain about the
rules you know what they say about beggars you know who's the first to blame his tools you
never gave a damn about who you pick up and leave lying bleeding on the ground you screw
people over on the way up because you thought that you were never coming down and he takes
you out in Vaudeville Valley with his hand up smothering your screams and he screws you
down in Tin Pan Alley in the city of a billion dreams
So Far Away
Money for Nothing
Walk of Life
Your Latest Trick
Why Worry
Ride Across the River
The Man's too Strong
One World
Brothers in Arms
So Far Away
Here I am again in this mean old town And you're so far away from me And where are you
when the sun goes down You're so far away from me So far away from me So far I just can't
see So far away from me You're so far away from me I'm tired of being in love and being
all alone When you're so far away from me I'm tired of making out on the telephone And
you're so far away from me So far away from me So far I just can't see So far away from me
You're so far away from me I get so tired when I have to explain When you're so far away
from me See you been in the sun and I've been in the rain And you're so far away from me
So far away from me So far I just can't see So far away from me You're so far away from me
Money for Nothing
Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it You play the guitar on the MTV That
ain't workin' that's the way you do it Money for nothin' and chicks for free Now that
ain't workin' that's the way you do it Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb Maybe get a
blister on your little finger Maybe get a blister on your thumb We gotta install microwave
ovens Custom kitchen deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these
colour TV's See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup Yeah buddy that's his
own hair That little faggot got his own jet airplane That little faggot he's a millionaire
We gotta install microwave ovens Custom kitchens deliveries We gotta move these
refrigerators We gotta move these colour TV's I shoulda learned to play the guitar I
shoulda learned to play them drums Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera
Man we could have some fun And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises? Bangin' on the
bongoes like a chimpanzee That ain't workin' that's the way you do it Get your money for
nothin' get your chicks for free We gotta install microwave ovens Custom kitchen
deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these colour TV's, Lord Now
that ain't workin' that's the way you do it You play the guitar on the MTV That ain't
workin' that's the way you do it Money for nothin' and your chicks for free Money for
nothin' and chicks for free
Walk of Life
Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say Here comes
Johnny singing I Gotta Woman Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay He got the action,
he got the motion Yeah, the boy can play Dedication devotion Turning all the night time
into the day He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman He do the song about the knife He
do the walk, he do the walk of life Here comes Johnny and he'll tell you the story Hand me
down my walkin' shoes Here come Johnny with the power and the glory Backbeat the talkin'
blues He got the action, he got the motion Yeah, the boy can play Dedication devotion
Turning all the night time into the day He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman He do
the song about the knife He do the walk, he do the walk of life Here comes Johnny singing
oldies, goldies Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman
Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay He got the action, he got the motion Yeah the
boy can play Decidation devotion Turning all the night time into the day And after all the
violence and double talk There's just a song in the trouble and the strife You do the
walk, you do the walk of life
Your Latest Trick
All the late night bargains have been struck Between the satin beaus and their belles
And prehistoric garbage trucks Have the city to themselves Echoes roars dinosaurs They're
all doing the monster mash And most of the taxis and the whores Are only taking calls for
cash I don't know how it happened It all took place so quick But all I can do is hand it
to you And your latest trick My door was standing open Security was laid back and lax But
it was only my heart got broken You must have had a pass key made out of wax You played
robbery with insolence And I played the blues in twelve bars down Lover's Lane And you
never did have the inteligence to use The twelve keys hanging off my chain I don't know
how it happened It all took place so quick But all I can do is hand it to you And your
latest trick Now it's past last call for alcohol Past recall has been here and gone The
landlord finally paid us all The satin jazzmen have put away their horns And we're
standing outside of this wonderland Looking so bereaved and so bereft Like a Bowery bum
when he finally understands The bottle's empty and there's nothing left I don't know how
it happened It was faster than the eye could flick But not all I can do is hand it to you
And your latest trick
Why Worry
Baby I see this world has made you sad Some people can be bad The things they do, the
things they say But baby I'll wipe away those bitter tears I'll chase away those restless
fears That turn your blue skies into grey Why worry, there should be laughter after the
pain There should be sunshine after rain These things have always been the same So why
worry now Baby when I get down I turn to you And you make sense of what I do I know it
isn't hard to say But baby just when this world seems mean and cold Our love comes shining
red and gold And all the rest is by the way Why worry, there should be laughter after pain
There should be sunshine after rain These things have always been the same So why worry
now
Ride Across the River
I'm a soldier of freedom in the army of man We are the chosen, we're the partisan The
cause it is noble and the cause it is just We are ready to pay with our lives if we must
Gonna ride across the river deep and wide Ride across the river to the other side I'm a
soldier of fortune, I'm a dog of war And we don't give a damn who the killing is for It's
the same old story with a different name Death or glory, it's the killing game Gonna ride
across the river deep and wide Ride across the river to the other side Nothing gonna stop
them as the day follows the night Right becomes wrong, the left becomes the right And they
sing as they march with their flags unfurled Today in the mountains, tomorrow the world
Gonna ride across the river deep and wide Ride across the river to the other side
The Man's too Strong
I'm just and ageing drummer boy And in the wars I used to play And I've called the
tune To many a torture session Now they say I am a war criminal And I'm fading away Father
please hear my confession I have legalised robbery Called it a belief I have run with the
money And hid like a theif I have re-written history With my armies and my crooks Invented
memories I did burn all the books And I can still hear his laughter And I can still hear
his song The man's too big The man's too strong Well I have tried to be meek And I have
tried to be mild But I spat like a woman And sulked like a child I have lived behind walls
That have made me alone Striven for peace Which I have never known And I can still hear
his laughter And I can still hear his song The man's too big The man's too strong Well the
sun rose on the courtyard And they all did hear him say 'You always were a Judas But I got
you anyway You may have got your silver But I swear upon my life Your sister gave me
diamonds And I gave them to your wife' Oh father please help me For I have done wrong The
man's too big The man's too strong
One World
Can't find no sleeves for my records Can't get no laces for my shoes Can't get no
fancy notes On my blue guitar Can't get no antidote for blues Can't find the reasons for
your actions Or I don't much like the reasoning you use Somehow your motives are impure Or
somehow I can't find the cure Can't find no antidote for blues They say it's mostly vanity
That writes the plays we act They tell me that's what everybody knows There's no such
thing as sanity And that's the sanest fact That's the way the story goes Can't get no
remedy on my TV There's nothing but the same old news They can't find a way to be One
world in harmony Can't get no antidote for blues
Brothers in Arms
These mist covered mountains Are a home now for me But my home is the lowlands And
always will be Some day you'll return to Your valleys and your farms And you'll no longer
burn To be brothers in arm Through these fields of destruction Baptism of fire I've
watched all your suffering As the battles raged higher And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm You did not desert me My brothers in arms There's so many different
worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones Now
the sun's gone to hell And the moon's riding high Let me bid you farewell Every man has to
die But it's written in the starlight And every line on your palm We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
Sultans of Swing
Down to the Waterline
Portobello Belle
Romeo and Juliet
Where do you Think You're Going?
Walk of Life
Private Investigations
Money for Nothing
Tunnel of Love
Brothers in Arms
Sultans of Swing
You get a shiver in the dark It's been raining in the park but meantime South of the
river you stop and you hold everything A band is blowing Dixie double four time You feel
all right when you hear that music ring You step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down Too much competition too many other
places But not too many horns can make that sound Way on downsouth way on downsouth London
town You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords Mind he's strictly rhythm he
doesn't want to make it cry or sing And an old guitar is all he can afford When he gets up
under the lights to play his thing And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
He's got a daytime job he's doing alright He can play honky tonk just like anything Saving
it up for Friday night With the Sultans with the Sultans of Swing Amd a crowd of young
boys they're fooling around in the corner Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies
and their platform soles They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band It ain't
what they call rock and roll And the Sultans played Creole And then the man he steps right
up to the microphone And says at last just as the time bell rings 'Thank you goodnight now
it's time to go home' and he makes it fast with one more thing 'We are the Sultans of
Swing'
Down to the Waterline
Sweet surrender on the quayside You remember we used to run and hide In the shadow of
the cargoes I take you one at a time And we're counting all the numbers down to the
waterline Near misses on the dogleap stairways French kisses in the darkened doorways A
foghorn blowing out wild and cold A policeman shines a light upon my shoulder Up comes a
coaster fast and silent in the night Over my shoulder all you can see are the pilot lights
No money in our jackets and our jeans are torn Your hands are cold but your lips are warm
She can see him on the jetty where they used to go She can feel him in the places where
the sailors go When she's walking by the river and the railway line She can still hear him
whisper Let's go down to the waterline
Portobello Belle
Bella donna's on the highstreet Her breasts upon the off beat And the stalls are just
the side shows Victoriano's old clothes And yes her jeans are tight now She got to travel
light now She got to turn up all her roots now She got to turn up for the boots now She
thinks she's tough She ain't no English rose But the blind singer He's seen enough and he
knows Do a song about a long gone Irish girl But I got one for you Portobello Belle She
sees a man upon his back there Escaping from a sack there And Bella donna lingers Her
gloves aint got no fingers The blind man says he Irish He gets his money in a tin dish
Just a corner serinader Upon a time he could of made her She thinks she's tough She ain't
no English rose But the blind singer He's seen enough and he knows Do a song about a long
gone Irish girl But I got one for you Portobello Belle This time a pair a boys are hawking
And the paraket is squawking Upon a truck there is a wino She get the crying off the wino
And then she here the raggy rumble Bella donna is in the jungle But she is no garden
flower There is no distress in the tower Bella donna walks Bella donna taking a stroll She
don't care about your window box or your button hole Sing a song about a long gone Irish
girl But I got one for you Portobello Belle
Romeo and Juliet
a lovestruck romeo sings a streetsuss serenade laying everybody low with a lovesong
that he made finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade says something like you
and me babe how about it? juliet says hey it's romeo you nearly gimme a heart attack he's
underneath the window she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back you shoudn't come around
here singing up at people like that anyway what you gonna do about it? juliet the dice
were loaded from the start and i bet and you exploded in my heart and i forget i forget
the movie song when you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong juliet? come up
on different streets they both were streets of shame both dirty both mean yes and the
dream was just the same and i dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real how
can you look at me as i was just another one of your deals? when you can fall for chains
of silver you can fall for chains of gold you can fall for pretty strangers and the
promises they hold you promised me everything you promised me thick and thin now you just
say oh romeo yeah you know i used to have a scene with him juliet when we made love you
used to cry you said i love you like the stars above i'll love you till i die there's a
place for us you know the movie song when you gonna realize it was just that the time was
wrong? i can't do the talk like they talking on the tv and i can't do a love song like the
way its meant to be i can't do everything but i'd do anything for you i can't do anything
except be in love with you and all i do is miss you and the way we used to be all i do is
keep the beat and bad company all i do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme julie i'd
do the stars with you any time juliet when we made love you used to cry you said i love
you like the stars above i'll love you till i die there's a place for us you know the
movie song when you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong? a lovestruck romeo
sings a streetsuss serenade laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made finds a
convenient streetlight steps out of the shade says something like you and me babe how
about it?
Where do you Think You're Going?
Where do you think you're going Don't you know it's dark outside Where do you think
you're going Don't you care about my pride Where do you think you're going I think you
don't know You got no way of knowing You got no place to go I understand your changes How
long before you reach the door I know where you think you're going I know what you came
here for And now I'm sick of joking You know I like you to be free Where do you think
you're going I think you'd better go with me, girl You say there is no reason But you
still find cause to doubt me When you ain't with me girl You're gonna be without me Where
do you think you're going Don't you know it's dark outside Where do you think you're going
Don't you care about my pride And now I'm sick of joking You know I like you to be free
Where do you think you're going I think you'd better go with me, girl
Walk of Life
Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies Be-Bop-A-Lua, Baby What I Say Here comes
Johnny singing I Gotta Woman Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay He got the action,
he got the motion Yeah, the boy can play Dedication devotion Turning all the night time
into the day He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman He do the song about the knife He
do the walk, he do the walk of life Here comes Johnny and he'll tell you the story Hand me
down mu walkin' shoes Here come Johnny with the power and the glory Backbeat the talkin'
blues He got the action, he got the motion Yeah, the boy can play Dedication devotion
Turning all the night time into the day He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman He do
the song about the knife He do the walk, he do the walk of life Here comes Johnny singing
oldies, goldies Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman
Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay He got the action, he got the motion Yeah the
boy can play Decidation devotion Turning all the night time into the day And after all the
violence and double talk There's just a song in the trouble and the strife You do the
walk, you do the walk of life
Private Investigations
It's a mystery to me - the game commences for the usual fee - plus expenses
confidential information - it's not a public inquiry I go checking out the reports -
digging up the dirt you get to meet all sorts in this line of work treachery and treason -
there's always an excuse for it and when I find the reason I still can't get used to it
And what have you got at the end of the day? what have you got to take away? a bottle of
whisky and a new set of lies blinds on the windows and a pain behind the eyes Scarred for
life - nocompensation private investigations
Money for Nothing
Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it You play the guitar on the MTV That
ain't workin' that's the way you do it Money for nothin' and chicks for free Now that
ain't workin' that's the way you do it Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb Maybe get a
blister on your little finger Maybe get a blister on your thumb We gotta install microwave
ovens Custom kitchen deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these
colour TV's See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup Yeah buddy that's his
own hair That little faggot got his own jet airplane That little faggot he's a millionaire
We gotta install microwave ovesns Custom kitchens deliveries We gotta move these
refrigerators We gotta move these colour TV's I shoulda learned to play the guitar I
shoulda learned to play them drums Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera
Man we could have some fun And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises? Bangin' on the
bongoes like a chimpanzee That ain't workin' that's the way you do it Get your money for
nothin' get your chicks for free We gotta install microwave ovens Custom kitchen
deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these colour TV's, Lord Now
that ain't workin' that's the way you do it You play the guitar on the MTV That ain't
workin' that's the way you do it Money for nothin' and your chicks for free Money for
nothin' and chicks for free
Tunnel of Love
getting crazy on the waltzers but it's the life that i choose sing about the sixblade
sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo and i been riding on a ghost train where
the cars they scream and slam and i don't know where i'll be tonight but i'd always tell
you where i am in a screaming ring of faces i seen her standing in the light she had a
ticket for the races just like me she was a victim of the night i put a hand upon the
lever said let it rock and let it roll i had the one arm bandit fever there was an arrow
through my heart and my soul and the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above and
i'm just high on the world come on and take a low ride with me girl on the tunnel of love
it's just the danger when you're riding at your own risk she said you are the perfect
stranger she said baby let's keep it like this it's just a cake walk twisting baby step
right up and say hey mister give me two give me two cos any two can play and the big wheel
keep on turning neon burning up above and i'm just high on the world come on and take a
low ride with me girl on the tunnel of love well it's been money for muscle another
whirligig money for muscle and another girl i dig another hustle just to make it big and
rockaway rockaway and girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did like the
spanish city to me when we were kids oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always
did like the spanish city to me when we were kids she took off a silver locket she said
remember me by this she put her hand in my pocket i got a keepsake and a kiss and in the
roar of the dust and diesel i stood and watched her walk away i could have caught up with
her easy enough but something must have made me stay and the big wheel keep on turning
neon burning up above and i'm just high on the world come on and take a low ride with me
girl on the tunnel of love and now i'm searching through these carousels and the carnival
arcades searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades in any shooting gallery where
promises are made to rockaway rockaway from cullercoats and whitley bay out to rockaway
and girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did like the spanish city to me when we
were kids girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did like the spanish city to me
when we were kids
Brothers in Arms
These mist covered mountains Are a home now for me But my home is the lowlands And
always will be Some day you'll return to Your valleys and your farms And you'll no longer
burn To be brothers in arm Through these fields of destruction Baptism of fire I've
watched all your suffering As the battles raged higher And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm You did not desert me My brothers in arms There's so many different
worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones Now
the sun's gone to hell And the moon's riding high Let me bid you farewell Every man has to
die But it's written in the starlight And every line on your palm We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
Calling Elvis
On Every Street
When it Comes to You
Fade to Black
The Bug
You and Your Friend
Heavy Fuel
Iron Hand
Ticket To Heaven
My Parties
Planet of New Orleans
How Long
Calling Elvis
calling elvis - is anybody home calling elvis - I'm here all alone did he leave the
building or can he come to the phone calling elvis - I'm here all alone well tell him I
was calling just to wish him well let me leave my number - heartbreak hotel oh love me
tender - baby dob't be cruel return to sender - treat me like a fool calling elvis - is
anybody home calling elvis - I'm here all alone did he leave the building or can he come
to the phone calling elvis - I'm here all alone why don't you go get him - I'm his biggest
fan you gotta tell him - he's still the man long distance baby - so far from home don't
you think maybe you could put him on well tell him I was calling just to wish him well let
me leave my number - heartbreak hotel oh love me tender - baby dob't be cruel return to
sender - treat me like a fool calling elvis - is anybody home calling elvis - I'm here all
alone did he leave the building or can he come to the phone calling elvis - I'm here all
alone
On Every Street
there's gotta be a record of you some place you gotta be on somebody's books the
lowdown - a picture of your face your injured looks the sacred and profane the pleasure
and the pain somewhere your fingerprints remain concrete and it's your face I'm looking
for on every street a ladykiller - regulation tattoo silver spurs on his heels says - what
can I tell you as I'm standing next to you she threw herself under my wheels oh it's a
dangerous road and a hazardous load and the fireworks over liberty expode in the heat and
it's your face I'm looking for on every street a three-chord symphony crashes into space
the moon is hanging upside down I don't know why it is I'm still on the case it's a
ravenous town and you still refuse to be traced seems to me such a waste and every victory
has a taste that's bittersweet and it's your face I'm looking for on every street
When it Comes to You
if we can't get along we oughta be apart and I'm wondering where'd you get that cold,
cold heart set me free - sign my release I'm tired of being the villain of the peace you
been giving me a bad time tell me what I'd do how come I always get a hard time honey when
it comes to you sayin' things that you didn't have to how come I always get a hard time
honey when it comes to you you only get one life - this I know I wanna get my licks in now
before I go the fire of love is dead and cold I gotta satisfy the hunger in my soul and
you been giving me a bad time tell me what I'd do how come I always get a hard time honey
when it comes to you sayin' things that you didn't have to how come I always get a hard
time honey when it comes to you
Fade to Black
I wonder where you are tonight you're probably on the rampage somewhere you have been
known to take delight in gettin' in somebody's hair and you always had the knack fade to
black I bet you already made a pass I see a darkened room somewhere you run your finger
round the rim of his glass run your fingers through his hair they scratch across his back
fade to black well maybe it's all for the best but I wish I'd never been lassooed maybe
it's some kind of test I wish I'd never been tattooed or been to hell and back fade to
black
The Bug
well it's a strange old game - you learn it slow one step forward and it's back to go
you're standing on the throttle you're standing on the breaks in the groove 'til you make
a mistake sometimes you're the windshield sometimes you're the bug sometimes it all comes
together baby sometimes you're a fool in love sometimes you're the louisville slugger
sometimes you're the ball sometimes it all comes together baby sometimes you're going to
lose it all you gotta know happy - you gotta know glad because you're gonna know lonely
and you're gonna know bad when you're rippin' and a ridin' and you're coming on strong you
start slippin' and slidin' and it all goes wrong because sometimes you're the windshield
sometimes you're the bug sometimes it all comes together baby sometimes you're a fool in
love sometimes you're the louisville slugger baby sometimes you're the ball sometimes it
all comes together baby sometimes you're going to lose it all one day you got the glory
one day you got none one day you're a diamond and then you're a stone everything can
change in the blink of an eye so let the good times roll before we say goodbye, because
sometimes you're the windshield sometimes you're the bug sometimes it all comes together
baby sometimes you're a fool in love sometimes you're the louisville slugger baby
sometimes you're the ball sometimes it all comes together baby sometimes you're going to
lose it all
You and Your Friend
will you and your friend come around are you and your friend gonna get on down will
you and your friend come around or are you and your friend gonna let me down if you talk
to one another I'm a hungry man let me know one way or the other so I can make my plans
will you and your friend come around are you and your friend gonna get on down will you
and your friend come around or are you and your friend gonna let me down I relive the
situation still see in in my mind you got my imagination working overtime
Heavy Fuel
last time I was sober, man I felt bad worst hangover that I ever had it took six
hamburgers and scotch all night nicotine for breakfast just to put me right 'cos if you
wanna run cool if you wanna run cool if you wanna run cool, you got to run on heavy, heavy
fuel my life makes perfect sense lust and food and violence sex and money are my major
kicks get me in a fight I like dirty tricks 'cos if you wanna run cool yes if you wanna
run cool, you got to run on heavy, heavy fuel my chick loves a man who's strong the things
she'll do to turn me on I love the babes, don't get me wrong hey, that's why I wrote this
song I don't care if my liver is hanging by a thread don't care if my doctor says I ought
to be dead when my ugly big car won't climb this hill I'll write a suicide note on a
hundred dollar bill 'cos if you wanna run cool if you wanna run cool yes if you wanna run
cool, you got to run on heavy, heavy fuel
Iron Hand
with all the clarity of dream the sky so blue, the grass so green the rank and file
and the navy blue the deep and strong, the straight and true the blue line they got the
given sign the belts and boots marched forward in time the wood and the leather the club
and shield swept like a wave across the battlefield now with all the clarity of dream the
blood so red, the grass so green the gleam of spur on the chestnut flank the cavalry did
burst upon the ranks oh the iron will and the iron hand in england's green and pleasant
land no music for the shameful scene that night they said it had even shocked the queen
well alas we've seen it all before knights in armour, days for yore the same old fears and
the same old crimes we haven't changed since ancient times
Ticket to Heaven
I can see what you're looking to find in the smile on my face in my peace of mind in
my state of grace I send what I can to the man from the ministry he's a part of heaven's
plan and he talks to me now I send what I can to the man with the diamond ring he's a part
of heaven's plan and he sure can sing now it's all I can afford but the lord has sent me
eternity it's to save the little children in a poor country I got my ticket to heaven and
everlasting life I got a ride all the way to paradise I got my ticket to heaven and
everlasting life all the way to paradise now there's nothing left for luxuries nothing
left to pay my heating bill but the good lord will provide I know he will so send what you
can to the man with the diamond ring they're tuning in across the land to hear him sing I
got my ticket to heaven and everlasting life I got a ride all the way to paradise I got my
ticket to heaven and everlasting life all the way to paradise
My Parties
well this is my back yard - my back gate I hate to start my parties late here's the
party cart - ain't that great? that ain't the best part baby - just wait that a genuine
weathervane - it moves with the breeze portable hammok baby - who needs trees it's casual
entertaining - we aim to please at my parties check out the shingles - it's brand new
excuse me while I mingle - hi, how are you hey everybody - let me give you a toast this
one's for me - the host with the most it's getting a trifle colder - step inside my home
that's a brass toilet tissue holder with its own telephone that's a musical doorbell - it
don't ring, I ain't kiddin' it plays america the beautiful and tie a yellow ribbon boy,
this punch is a trip - it's o.k. in my book here, take a sip - maybe a little heavy on the
fruit ah, here comes the dip - you may kiss the cook let me show you honey - it's easy -
look you take a fork and spike 'em - say, did you try these? so glad you like 'em - the
secret's in the cheese it's casual entertaining - we aim to please at my parties now don't
talk to me about the polar bear don't talk to me about the ozone layer ain't much of
anything these days, even the air they're running out of rhinos - what do I care? let's
hear it for the dolphin - let's hear it for the trees ain't running out of nothing in my
deep freeze it's casual entertaining - we aim to please at my parties
The Planet of New Orleans
standin' in the corner of toulouse and dauphine waitin' on marie-ondine I'm tryin' to
place a tune under a louisiana moonbeam on the planet of new orleans in a bar they call
the saturn and in her eyes of green and somethin' that she said in a dream inside of my
suit I got my mojo root and a true love figurine for the planet of new orleans new orleans
- the other planet with other life upon it and everythin' that's shakin' in between if you
should ever land upon it you better know what's on it the planet of new orleans now I'm
tryin' to find my way through the rain and the steam I'm lookin' straight ahead through
the screen and then I heard her say somethin' in the limousine 'bout taking a ride across
the planet of new orleans if she was an ace and I was just a jack and the cards were never
seen we could have been the king and the queen but she took me back to her courtyard where
magnolia perfume screams behind the gates and the granite of the planet of new orleans
How Long
how long, how long baby how long has it been how long you gonna keep me wondering how
long before you see stallin' me was wrong - how long how long, how long you gonna keep
slappin' my hands away how long you gonna keep my love at bay how long before you're sure
my love is strong - how long how long, how long you gonna keep tellin' me you like me fine
how long until I'm gonna make you mine how long before you wake up and find a good man
gone - how long
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