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Hey Hey Mrs.M
Every letter that you write is a gem
It’s a job to know just where to start
When I’m looking at a work of art
And I read the words that you say
Oh I’m just blown away
Hey Hey Mrs.M
In the hashtags of mice and men
If I sing my song on the radio
And the lights go out well who’s to know
If the words I sang were all true
I sang them just for you
All the best, yours faithfully
Please address your correspondence back to me
Hey Hey Mrs.M
Can you read me that last bit again
Is there just us two to mourn the fact
That the Beatles won’t be coming back
Oh but it’s okay to dream
And it’s all right to fall in love
And to tread those grapes and to drink that cup
And to take your mojo and lift it up
And wipe those brain cells clean
All the best, yours faithfully
Please address your correspondence back to me
And please stay in touch and be sure to
Let me know what’s bubbling free
Hey Mrs.M it was a shock to discover
My face on the magazine cover
The insider secrets revealed
Stories I’ve cooked and the spuds I’ve peeled
Down in the kitchen with you
When the sky was blue, and perfectly brand new
Oh somebody bright go and turn up the light
on the hilltop today
Chantelle, Chantelle
I can hear those wheels speak
I can’t stop tapping my feet
Rock and roll never felt so right
And I’m Riding on the Dockland Light
As day turns into night
I’m heading into the smoke on the Dockland Light
Riding on the Dockland Light
To see my baby tonight
Heading to the smoke on the Dockland Light
I could not make the express
So I jumped on the next best
I hope that driver’s got a big green light
Now I’m Riding on the Dockland Light
As day turns into night
Head into the smoke on the Dockland Light
I got something to tell her
I got something to say
It’s been with me every minute of the day
So I’m riding on the Dockland Light
To see my baby tonight
I’m heading into the smoke on the Dockland Light
Meet me at seven, Platform One
Outside of the old Shangai Blue
We’ve got some catching up to do
Me and you
Chantelle, Chantelle
When you see a face across a crowded room
and suddenly you step out of the gloom
So your heart begins a-racing off the scale
til you’re flying like a rooster in a gale
Love’s gonna get you
It’s as certain as the day
Love’s gonna lock you up and throw the key away
Love’s gonna get you
Love’s gonna win
Love’s gonna put you in a sentimental spin, Yeh
Romeo and Juliet
You’re flying high but don’t forget
It’s only real until the curtain falls
Ah the music stops and out pops a word
And you hope it did not sound too absurd
When I asked would she like to take a ride
I think she said yes, I’ll see you outside
Love’s gonna get you
it’s as certain as the day
Love’s gonna lock you up and throw the key away
Love’s gonna get you
Love’s gonna win
Love’s gonna put you in a sentimental spin, Yeh
Love’s gonna get you, Love’s gonna get you
I watch the setting sun
And now the day is done
If it’s okay with you
I want to stay with you
I’ve been so all alone
My paths are overgrown
If it’s okay with you
I’d like to stay with you
If I could find the words to tell you in a better way
I’d speak of starry skies and orchestra’s that play
but now I just can’t hide
The way I feel inside
If it’s okay with you
I want to stay with you
And now the girl selling post cards
has put her things away
She’s got a new face on
and she’s skipping down the road
While I watch that setting sun
Now that the day is done
If it’s okay with you
I want to stay with you
People go, places stay
I saw it all today
The city streets look the same
But you were nowhere in the frame
As people passed along the way
Making like it was another day
I turned around and you had gone
Without a bye or leave or I’ll see you later on
And it feels like the Laws of Motion
are going wrong
People go, places stay
Only yesterday
You were there full of fun
Playing country on
A Fender Tele with a broken string
Making music out of everything
I turned around and you were gone
Without a chorus or a roll upon the drum
And it seems to me the Laws of Motion
are poking fun
Oh how I’d love to see you standing at my door
Oh I’d love to see you standing there
Nobody gets to stay in one place anymore
Always on the go Always on the go
Just gotta be somewhere else
Just gotta be somewhere else today
Always gotta be somewhere else
Always gotta be somewhere so far away
Why d’you have to go so very far away
People go, places stay
The Laws of Motion say
It takes a lot of energy
Just to lift your head and see
The sun rise high upon a broken land
When there’s nobody to understand
I closed my eyes and you were gone
And suddenly a shadow passed across the sun
And now it’s like the Laws of Motion
have come undone
People go, places stay
The Laws of Motion say
When you think about the things that happen to you
Things that happen to you everyday
When you don’t feel like singing hallelujah
But you get on up and sing it anyway
When a rich man is coming by to sue ya
And there aint another penny you can pay
You really don’t feel like singing hallelujah
But you get right up and sing it anyway
Yeh you get right up and sing it
Just stand your ground and bring it
You may even have wing it
Oh but you sing it anyway
All the crumby things that happen to you
The hurtful things that people say
The jibes and cusses go right through ya
And you don’t know how to look the other way
Just get on up and sing it
You gotta grit your teeth and bring it
You may just have wing it
Oh But you sing it anyway
So many things that happen to you
That happen to you every single day
When you don’t feel like singing hallelujah
But you get right up and sing it anyway
I’m gonna get me right on up
I’m gonna sing it to you anyway
Well Sodom said Gomorrah
We’ll be this way tomorrah
And we’ll get ’em when they least expect us to
And Shakespeare and that old geezer
Who did the Mona Lisa
Yeh they’ll wonder why they ever bothered to
They’ll be pointing at the sky
Mouthing words they cannot speak
Climbing out of windows
Running naked in the street
In the street
Banging on a doorbell
Is Kafka and Orwell
Like two old ragamuffins on the run
With faces long and peevy
They’re realizing really now
They should have let it go at chapter one
But now the secrets out
Like the Scotsman and his kllt
We’re in a universe
Where Rome was never built
Never built
Kafka and Orwell this is your song
We did it for you and for everyone
Who’s got eyes to see what’s been going on
O yeh
Kafka and Orwell yesterday’s gone
I look around the future has come
And it’s true you were right
I was wrong
Yes it’s true you were right all along
Lets all hold hands
Try and contact the living
Kafka and Orwell this is your song
We did it for you and for everyone
Who’s got eyes to see what’s been going on
O yeh
Kafka and Orwell it’s sad but true
We really don’t want to blame it on you
Oh but you were the first to picture the view
You drew it so well when nobody knew
What the future would be, how the story would run
You said it loud, you said it long
Now it’s true, you were right
I was wrong
Yes it’s true you were right all along
It’s the Crime of the Century
In front of everyone
Right in the mid-day sun
And I believed every word said to me
Bout how was done
Who’s hand was on the gun
Oh I believed it, I did
For a long long time.
Ooh those men in grey,
They shut that door and locked that truth away
Ooh they cast a wicked spell,
A story told by demons from the darkest part of hell
They killed him then, they’re killing him again
Every Time that word goes out
They killed him then, they’re killing him again
And it makes me cry, it makes me shout
They killed him then, they’re killing him again
Now they’ve left us here on a sea of doubt
So many years and a million words
But still the question’s hot
What can you do when the strings get pulled
By someone at the top
What can you do but hang on
Ring that bell, bang that drum
Hold on to what is true
Don’t let it get to you,
Wait for the morning to come
It was the Crime of the Century
In front of everyone
Right in the mid-day sun
And I believed every word said to me
Bout how was done, who’s hand was on the gun
Yes I believed it, I did
For the longest time.
I turn my head to the sunrise
I set my back to the wind
I said goodbye to days of sorrow
I’ve been there once, don’t wanna go again
I place my feet on the highway
I fixed my gaze down the line
I saw the sign that said no entry
Better turn around, better change your mind
I pressed down hard on the pedal
I grabbed the wheel extra tight
And to the soundtrack of a mad max movie
Drove through the darkness and on into the light
I set my mouth on to silent
and my heart to the love of life
Reached out my hand and took the antidote
before the poison had a chance to really bite
And It’s a whole, it’s a whole new feeling
The view from the ceiling
So very revealing, all the past is concealing
Oh when you open your eyes it’s the end time skies and all humanity cries,
No more lies, No more lies
No more lies, No more lies
No more lies, No more lies
Words go out from every rooftop
Lofty memes to touch the skies
Systems are beeping, red lights are flashing
No more lies, No more lies
No more lies, No more lies
No more lies, No more lies
No more lies, No more lies
I saw the wheels as they came off
The chariots ground to a stop
The President said ‘Let me off
I’ve got to get away’
And if he had one last thought
Before the angel drew his sword
It would be nice to hold the fort
For just one more day
But Old Father Time, he’s deaf dumb and blind
He likes doing things in his own way
And after the fact, I’m caught in a trap,
I’m taking the rap
It’s a bad day
Out here in Wonderland
Nobody understands
What happened to the plans we made
Here in this Wonderland
Jesus is contraband
Nobody hears you when you pray
Own nothing; Be happy
You’ll Own nothing, and you’ll be happy
I saw the cloud as it came down
I watched it touch the ground
Making the strangest sound a man ever heard
Somewhere inside the smoke
The ancient dragon woke
The earth fell silent as he spoke the magic word
Welcome to Wonderland
It’s been a long time planned
Step up and shake a hand today
Your friendly poltergeist
will bring you good advice
No mention of the price to pay
Out here in Wonderland
Nobody understands
What happened to the plans we made
Out here in Wonderland
Jesus is contraband
Nobody hears you when you pray
Own nothing; Be happy
You’ll Own nothing, and you’ll be happy
It is the first day of forever
The last day of never
Better hold on tight
All along the City borders
The pleasure Captain’s daughters
Are looking for a fight
On the Titanic everybody’s unawares
Down on the one side of the deck is he who dares
Sand on the other side is he who stands and stares
And he who says he cares
But when I lay my head down to sleep tonight
When I say my prayers to the Lord
There’s a world outside full of grief tonight
But I’ve got a place where I can be
It’s my bolthole of sanity
So when I lay my head down to sleep tonight
When I say my prayers to the Lord
I will make no deal with defeat tonight
Even though things are so dark
I’ve got a truck load of hope in my heart
So it’s the first day of forever
The last day of never
No way to put it nice
Ah now everything is shaking
There’s no more mistaking
What is wrong and what is right
Children are setting up their pieces on the floor
Down on their hands and knees in Harry Potter Hall
They’re playin’ Robin Hood with laser guns and more
They’re keeping score
So when I lay my head down to sleep tonight
When I say my prayers to the Lord
Though the world we’ve left them
Looks so bleak tonight
I don’t despair cos down in my soul
I can hear drums of glory on the roll
When I lay my head down to sleep tonight
And I say my prayers to the Lord
I can feel the ground move
Underneath my feet tonight
As I’m listening to crazy talk
And the wheels of this juggernaut
They keep grinding and churning
Like bad dreams returning
Klaatu Barada Nikkto Gort
They’ll still be p’rading their things
Til the Fat Lady sings
Oh I do hope her song is short
And in the commotion
I’ll be bobbin’ on an ocean
A wide angle beautiful thought
It is the First Day of Forever
It is the First Day of Forever
It is the First Day of Forever
I remember the day when the Angel came
In late September light
And he spoke to a man by the name of Stan
On the edge of a nuclear night
He told him not to do just what
The programme said to do
As klaxons roared on the big war board
And generals shouted too
But the Angel calm took him by the arm
And whispered soft and clear
Don’t act in haste for what you face
Is not how it appears
He told him not to do just what
The programme said he should do
As klaxons roared on the big war board
And generals – they were all shouting too
And with voices raised and eyes ablaze
The atmosphere was thick
And every man came a-pressing on Stan
To push that button quick
But the angel said – no don’t be led
There’s things that they can’t see
That soon must show the facts
And so a hero you will be
Well the minutes passed and the sweat ran fast
But one thing is crystal clear
That the truth came through
And Stan did too
Cos we are all still here
And of that race through time and space
To save humanity
You can check the peace was kept
In Nineteen Eighty Three
And remember the day when the Angel came
In late September light
When he spoke to a man by the name of Stan
On the edge of a nuclear night
On the edge of a nuclear night
SIGNZ
CD & digital, 25 March 2022.
Signz is enlisting rock n roll not only to the call of fun, but also to the call of defending freedoms fast ebbing away under the gravity of encroaching insanity. Wearing the mask of a court jester, Dave gets to say a couple of things which hopefully you can connect with (some more obvious than others).
‘TIN EYE’ (track 5) is written about TNI – The Trusted News Initiative, a conspiracy of protocols initiated by the BBC in 2020 to manipulate and censor news information to align with the given political orthodoxy.
TNI partners include: AP, Reuters, Washington Post, Facebook, Google,Twitter, Financial Times etc.
‘CROSSING JORDAN’ (track 7): One of the great thinkers of our time – Jordan Peterson, inspired me, nay egged me, to this, my soft insurrection against new normals!
Everytime I look up,
I catch you looking down
Is it cos I live on the other side of town
Or is as I suspect that I do things differently
The truth is I can’t help it
I’m just dancing to be free
Yeh I’m Dancing, Dancing,
DANCING TO A DIFFERENT DRUM
I’m Dancing to a different drum so don’t get too upset
if you look from your balcony and see me out of step
Well I’m trying to be nice, I doing the best I can
But there’s no point talking
when you just don’t understand
that I’m Dancing, Dancing,
DANCING TO A DIFFERENT DRUM
Nothing at all like Ginger Rogers,
Nothing at all like Fred Astaire
Nothing on earth like the Mama Mia
Nothing on earth like the Dancing Bear
Have you seen the Queen of egg-nog
Making eyes at the Duke of pink
Well she aint the Mona Lisa
O but he’s the missing link
Everybody thinks I’m crazy, but I aint such a dope
To stand upon a soap box selling someone else’s soap
I am very very sorry if I step upon your toes
Oh but when you dance so close to me
my sense of rhythm goes
I’m just Dancing, Dancing,
DANCING TO A DIFFERENT DRUM
What’s going on in our world
You couldn’t make it up
Seems like the news man isn’t happy til I’m scared
Just as soon as one disaster has gone
he’s got another one prepared
You couldn’t make it up.
No no not in a month of Sundays,
Not even if your name was Shakespeare
Not if you racked your brains,
sweated blood out of your veins
No not if you tried and tried again
I take a walk down Memory lane
Looks so pretty but it sure has changed
Folks walk by in fancy dress,
Wearing a mask for Sunday best
Monday to Sunday, I’m feeling roasted
Monday to Sunday, evenly toasted
Monday to Sunday, keep me posted now
What’s going on in our world
You couldn’t make it up
You couldn’t make it up
Some things used to be sacred, now they are not
Some people were worshipped, Oh but they got shot
All the world’s trying still to get to the top
And nobody knows where it’s all gonna stop
A carpet of fear rolled in from the east
And found a new way of stealing my peace
It came with an army of liars and cheats
And they’re all riding high on the back of the beast
Only the Rain knows the way back to the sun
Only the Rain holds the rainbow
Only a heart beats to destiny’s drum
and though heartaches will come
pretty soon they’ll be gone
Only the Rain knows the way back home
Some things are hidden way down deep
I can’t even find them until I’m asleep
and then in the morning those stairs look so steep
And the sky is so high and my coffee so weak
Only the Rain knows the way back to the sun
Only the Rain holds the rainbow
Only a heart beats to destiny’s drum
and though heartaches will come
pretty soon they’ll be gone
So Let those rainclouds come and wash my tears away
Only the Rain knows the way back to the sun
Only the Rain holds the rainbow
Only the Rain knows the way back home
Thought I had seen the ending of the story
Thought I had seen the writing on the wall
Thought I was in the land of hope and glory
Thought I was in the same place as before
But there’s Fire down below
Oh You say it’s not so
But this is no time to be hanging around
Watching the red light glow
Oh This thing’s gonna blow
As sure as the sun rises in the east
And SATURN HAS RINGS
The mice are running faster on the treadmill now
And as the camera passes they say cheese
Got to put tomorrow on the schedule now
Got to keep Big Brother pleased
Now there’s Fire down below
Oh You say it’s not so
But this is no time to be hanging around
Watching the red light glow
Bro Somebody must know
The earth has a moon and it’s beautiful
And SATURN HAS RINGS
Tin Eye can I trust you,
can I leave it to you? (What have I got to do)
Tin Eye can I trust you,
will you tell me what’s true (Tell me what’s new)
Now I’m sitting down tell me a story
Please don’t make it sad & don’t let it bore me
Tell me my friend, does this tale ever end
Or does it just go on and on
like the drip of a tap or the rat-a-tat tat of a gun
TinEye can I trust you?
I’d like to think that I could (I’d like to think I could).
TinEye can I trust you?
Is your credit all good? (Is it good)
Look me in the eye and tell me what’s happening
Don’t leave the bits out if they’re not flattering
Tell me my friend where’s it all gonna end
Or does it just go on and on
Like a whirlwind that blows round and round
back to where it come from
My split screen life is at your beck and call
You read your lines off pat and I’ve heard them all
I’m eating what you’re feeding me,
I’m going where you’re leading me
it’s rocking horse manure to me
and solid state insanity
TinEye can I trust you?
So long, looking the other way
So long, hearing what people say
I hear them say It’s all right.
Don’t go making WAVES
(Don’t go making your waves)
So long singing a lullaby
So long keeping your powder dry
You hear them cry It’s all right.
Don’t go making WAVES
(Don’t go making your waves)
So long, taking it lying down
So long, looking for higher ground
You hear the sound It’s all right.
Don’t go making WAVES
(Don’t go making your waves)
You don’t have to think about it
If you don’t like it, I’m not gonna shout it,
There’s no need to fight it, no no, no.
You can get a refund from Scott-Morgan and Co
You don’t have to think about it if you don’t like it, no no.
You don’t have to say who you are
You could be a star, a guy or a dame
Or a synthetic brain with no body hey hey hey
You can self-identify in any old way
You don’t have to say who you are
Now you can go far yes please go today
You don’t have to have right and wrong
You can say it’s a fiction, a big contradiction
Some kind of affliction – so please don’t come too close
If you want to kiss me put your lips in the post
You don’t have to have right and wrong
Well it used to be strong but now it’s just toast
It‘s a long way to England
It‘s a long way to England
Nobody hears me when I scream,
Nobody knows the fix I’m in
Thought I could make it to the end of the dream
but look at me now
I’m STUCK INSIDE THIS MACHINE
you know what I mean, it’s no place to dream
it looks like my life is going
from the absurd to the obscene
cos baby I’m STUCK INSIDE A MACHINE
Help me if you can, if you can, can you help me
Help me if you can, if you can, can you help me
Help me if you can, if you can, can you help me
I’m smiling but the fact is
I’m STUCK INSIDE A MACHINE
I’ve tried everything I know, but nothing will work
These knobs don’t do anything, not on Planet Earth
And now my hopes are shot,
I see myself for what I’m not
I might look the part, I might scratch the spot
But underneath the truth is
I’m STUCK INSIDE A MACHINE
Working so hard I get nothing to show it
Pouring my heart like a ragtime poet
Hoping to God I don’t mess up and blow it
I’m still smiling but now I’m freezing at the roadside waiting for a breakdown truck
To come and pull me out of this rut
I’m so tired, trying to figure the right button to press
I’m so wired, just gotta get myself out of this mess
But nobody hears me when I scream
I’m trapped inside a groundhog scene
Maybe it’s just my bad dream
Or maybe it’s really true
and I’m STUCK INSIDE A MACHINE.
We’ve all gone down to the CITY ON THE PLAIN
To bang that drum and wear that ball and chain
Wave that flag, ride that train
Wrap my logic up in cellophane
Oh don’t it go like the tree tops swaying to and fro
It could be this, it could be that, I don’t know
Black is white and Jack is Jill
That’s okay just take the pill
It’s gonna be fine; it’s party time
Cancel all my history
Now Critical Race theory
Is the new paradigm; it’s a party line
Oh don’t it go like the tree tops swaying to and fro
It could be this, it could be that, nobody know
C’mon down sing the blues
Rock my cradle gently with fake news
No rules to play the game
Everybody’s riding on the train
To the CITY ON THE PLAIN
Now we’ve all gone down to the CITY ON THE PLAIN
Yes we’ve all gone down to the CITY ON THE PLAIN
Oh don’t you know, have you heard
There are words that can’t be spoke
Can’t be read, can’t be said, cos they aint woke
C’mon down sing the blues
Rock my cradle gently with fake news
No rules to play the game
Everybody’s riding on the train
To the CITY ON THE PLAIN
and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Gen 13.12-13
Travellers from Canton
What’s been going on?
Yes we heard the gunfire from on top of the hill
and we wondered are you living still?
and we wondered are you safe?
Travellers from Canton
What’s been going on?
stories are flying in the digital blue
and we don’t know who to listen to
don’t know who we can believe
All the world is growing up in Canton
All the world is blowing up in Canton
Travellers from Canton
What’s been going on?
Yes we heard the gunfire from on top of the hill
and we wondered are you living still?
and we wondered are you safe?
We heard it on the Xinhua
we saw it on the screens
Yes we read the report in the government press
and it spoke about the ugliness
and it spoke as if today…
All the world is growing up in Canton
All the world is blowing up in Canton
The future’s not what it used to be
Only sure of uncertainty
I guess this is how life is gonna be
from here, here on in.
From the first moment I open my eyes every morning
Until I lay down my head back to sleep in the evening
God is hidden in mysteries
That’s the place where his magic lives
Who’s to say that He don’t exist
And look, look all around now
In every sight, every sound
There’s a message waiting to be found
I turn my back to the distraction machine
Facebook and Twitter they begin to scream
Look at me! –
I know just where you’ve been
And where you’re going to
and what you’re going to do
I know everything to know about you
I’m Watching the Signs
just Watching the Signs
can’t stop Watching the Signs
Watching the Signs
Oh standing at my door
The keepers of tomorrow say I can have it all
Oh just give a little more today
Don’t come knocking my door
You’re not welcome no more
you’re not one of us, you’re not on the bus
You’re not playing ball
You’re not wearing a mask
I bet you’re not even vaxed!
You’re not one of us, you’re not on the bus
You’ve not got a pass
Show me your squiggle and you can come in
If you aint got a squiggle, it aint no riddle
You can’t hang around with me and my next of kin,
No no no no
If you aint had the jab
Your credit is bad
You’re not one of us, you’re not on the bus
You aint in our bag
MADE IN BRITAIN
CD & digital, 08 October 2020.
Made in Britain.
Yeh I’m made in Britain
And I’m made for sitting
And I’m made for standing up
Yeh I’m made in Britain
And I’m made like flippin ‘eck
Aint that enough!
Yeh I’m made in Britain
And the words don’t fit
into this melody
But don’t get frittin they’ll get re-written
When I’ve had my cup of tea
Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh
Yeh I’m made in Britain
And the rain is spitting
down upon my head
and I’m either going to Heathrow
or I’m going back to bed
Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh
Yeh I’m made in Britain
And I’m made for sitting
And I’m made for standing up
Yeh I’m made in Britain
And I’m made like flippin ‘eck
Aint that enough!
Love is just a melody
A sunset over the sea
In its own special category
Nothing else compares
When my baby comes around
There’s no other show in town
I’m looking at her thinking how
Nothing else compares
When my baby calls my name
It does something up in my brain
And I got no words to explain
But nothing else compares
I guess it’s called destiny
It was always you and me
It’s so obvious to see
Nothing else compares
Love is like a holiday
From every grey and dark thought in your head
Turn around to see the other side instead
She loves me, she lovely
Love is just a melody
A sunset over the sea
In its own special category
Nothing else compares
Love is like a holiday
From every grey and dark cloud in the sky
Open up the door
Let the bluebird fly
Starry Lady
dreaming away
There goes another dream
And another day without you
I’m here on a stairway of blue
that’s not even real
Amazed at the things I’ve seen
And the way I feel about you
Starry Lady
Starry Lady
Starry Lady
Are the stars out tonight where you are
Love is a piece of eternity
a beautiful thought
it flies where the spirit leads
though it was never taught how to
Starry Lady
Starry Lady
Starry Lady
Are the stars out tonight where you are
Starry Lady
dreaming away
There goes another dream
And another day without you
Something’s calling me on
Over this big ocean
Some kinda homing beacon
Or just a powerful emotion
Ah
I wonder what I’m gonna do
When I get to the wall
And I stand at the door
And I turn the key
And I realise it’s me
‘cause nobody else can see
The truth of it all
Something’s calling me on
Over this big ocean
Some kinda homing beacon
Or just a powerful emotion
Ah
I wonder what I’m gonna do
I wonder what I’m gonna do
Somebody told me you’d be there
(waiting for me at the water’s side)
I knew in my heart of hearts
we’d have this time to share
Something’s calling me on
Over this big ocean
Some kinda homing beacon
Or just a powerful emotion
Ah
02 Oct 19 Carmathen
Big man standing there
trying to outstare us
We aint moving anywhere
Baby you can’t scare us
In the darkness …
No light shines
No bell chimes
No dog whines
No light is seen no sound is heard
Not a flicker not a word
In the darkness
I’m Lovin on you – just Lovin on you
the days are few but they’re all brand new
and I’m Lovin on you
I’m Lovin on you, just Lovin on you
a dog with a chew, a kid at the zoo
I’m lovin on you
Somebody is speaking like a flower by the way
I can smell their fragrance but I can’t hear a word they say
Cos I’m Lovin on you – all that I do
You’re my cutchy-coo, and beautiful too
I’m Lovin on you
I’m Lovin on you, I love what you do
You’re my cutchy-coo And I’m Lovin on you
All I do, just Lovin on you
the days are few, but they’re all brand new
and I’m Lovin on you
Like a bird in the blue, a sail boat too
a dog with a chew, a kid at the zoo
I’m Lovin on you
There’s trouble on the tele, Fire on the wind
and even the Caped Crusader now is trying to do us in
but I’m Lovin on you – just Lovin on you
what a to do, you’re my cutchy-coo
and I’m Lovin on you
I’m Lovin on you, can’t stop Lovin on you, I’m just Lovin on you
Like a bird in the blue, a sail boat too
a dog with a chew, a kid at the zoo
I’m Lovin on you
Like a dog with a chew, a kid at the zoo
I’m Lovin on you
There’s a day called today
It’s a day like no other
When you open your eyes
And the world is brand new
Don’t even think for a moment you can
turn back the hands of the dial
Nobody’s seen this day
Nobody’s been this way
Now it’s a day called today
and the past has no part it can play
now it’s a time to stand
with whatever’s in your hand
Time to get up and step out
of the footprints in yesterday’s sand
There’s a day called today,
it’s like no other before it
and all you can do
is hold on to love
What will become of the plans that we made
Only tomorrow can say
No eye has seen this day
Nobody’s been this way
Now it’s a day called today
and the past has no part it can play
yes it’s a time to stand
with whatever’s in your hand
Time to get up and step out
of the footprints in yesterday’s sand
She was only a girl in a red dress
She was only a girl in a crowd
But when it come to romance
she was wearing the pants
Yeah she knew how to lay the law down
Go–getter Lady,
Go–getter Lady
I remember the first time I saw her
So perfectly cute standing there
she turned on her light,
it was love at first sight
But it all went downhill from there
Go–getter Lady,
Go–getter Lady
Go–getter Lady
It’s Strange, what love does to the brain
It drives a man insane
but what can you do
when she’s turning that screw again
No, don’t let the feeling show
nobody needs to know
you’re under the thumb but still you just can’t let go
Now she stands on the street with a clipboard
telling the folk going by
Just how terrible she
has been treated by me
oh and here’s the petition to sign
Go–getter Lady
Go–getter Lady
Go–getter Lady (out to go get a man)
Go–getter Lady (out to go get a man)
It’s good to see you after all this long time
It’s nice to know that life’s treating you fine
How it all comes flooding back
As we sit and chew the fat
You and me, no mystery
There was a time when we were flying free
Out on a roll, cheeky and bold
Pulling the stops out for that pot of gold
We took our chances and we pushed out the boat
We burned the bridges and we filled in the moat
Like we were dancing in a whirl
Me and you against the world
Back to back, just knowing that
You’d always be around to take the slack
We played to win, sink or swim
To catch the moment when the wave comes in
Come a little bit closer to the heat of the flame
I hear you call out my name
Stand a little bit nearer to the edge of the cliff
I keep on wondering if
I suppose I should have read between the lines
I was a fool not to notice the signs
The truth was oh so bittersweet
The blood ran to my feet
When I knew that it was true
Your cheating ways told me a tale on you
And from that day, I turned to Grey
No doctor’s pill could take the pain away
Oh I turn to Grey, I turn to Grey
I thought it would never end
You’d always be my best friend
I’m turning to grey
I’m turning to grey
So here we are in Eden beneath a painted sky
with grassy slopes and mountain goats
and elephants that fly
Oh and Cindy’s on the cell phone
calling up the Prez.
And telling him she’s struggling
to understand a single word he says
Dee was playing guitar as the sun went down
And in the dark moon and stars
were dancing all around
Oh and Cindy’s talking money
like Texas people do
colouring the future in
a greener shade of philanthropic blue
When I get back to the rest of the world
and I hang up my hat and I tell what I’ve heard
Under a brand new sky I’m gonna feel it again
I’ll Climb up that grassy slope but baby until then
Oh and Cindy’s in the kitchen
cooking up a storm
Wrestling with a giant squid
that’s climbing up the drainpipe headed home
All these things are happening out at Cindy’s Place
It’s Sunday night, I’m feeling like
the smile upon her face
Oh and Cindy’s playing catch-up
running down the years.
Going back along the track
And picking up the laughter and the tears
SEVEN
CD & digital, 07 July 2019
Seven
There are seven wonders of the world, seven colours of the rainbow, seven seas and seven continents, seven days in a week, seven notes in a scale, seven deadly sins, seven virtues (yes and seven inches on an old 45rpm record!).
As numbers go, seven has a swish pedigree. Need I say more..?
Things could be better, Things could be much worse
I could get what I want I could get what I deserve
Well I could be a superstar –
This could be my number one
Or I could be selling matchsticks to a second city son
when THE WHEEL turns around
There’s faces at my window, voices at my door
I give them what they want
but they keep coming for more
It’s all so obvious, so plain to anyone
they don’t want meet my daddy
they just want to have some fun /meet his son
when THE WHEEL turns around
I stood before the people so perfectly alone
Just me and my guitar And this megaphone
I spoke to them with passion, with not a shred of doubt
Oh but the wind was from the North then
now it’s from the south
and THE WHEEL turns around
Well I turn on the tele, to catch up with the news
I could understand it if I wasn’t so confused.
But it doesn’t really matter, if what they say is right
Well I’ll be on the balcony
and you’ll be on your bike
when THE WHEEL turns around
Drive on to Moscow
Moscow be my friend
on you must go
you must go to the end
The year is Eighteen Twelve my General
Can you save yourself my General?
Can you look me in the eye
be prepared to stand or die
if your want to be
my General…
Drive on to Moscow
Moscow be my friend
on you must go
you must go to the end
Now it’s Nineteen Forty Two my General
Can I rely on you, my General?
Can you look me in the eye
be prepared to stand or die
if your want to be
my General…
Drive on to Moscow
Moscow be my friend
on you must go
you must go to the end
Tanya, we are a dark people
Tanya, we are a dark people
Tanya,
The world is very small
You’ll never work it all out
Your dreams are in the sky
Like empty years they cry out,
Tanya!
When you’re sad and you feel you can’t go on
Look and see how far you’ve come
Understanding who you are
And remembering the star you are to me
Tanya
The days are very strange
so full of dangers and doubt
But through the twists and turns
the candle never burns out
Oh Tanya!
There’s a whole lot of places you can see
A lot of people you can be
Understanding who you are
And remembering the star you are to me
When you’re sad and you feel you can’t go on
Look and see how far you’ve come
Understanding who you are
And remembering the star you are to me
and from the darkest day
there’ll come a better way
for you and your dream Tanya.
Where tears meet the river,
where the rubber meets the road
I sit meditating on the good times we have know’d
while Romeo and Juliet pass by inside the fog
Peter turns to Jesus,
and says ‘boy it’s gonna be a slog’
But Don’t Leave me now
I’ve got so much on the burner,
so much I have to say
But every time that elephant is standing in the way
So I grit my teeth, I hold my peace,
I put my tongue into my cheek
I close my eyes, I count my sheep at the ending of the day
Don’t Leave me now
There was pride, there was passion.
There was Bogey and Bacall
I squinted through a keyhole and I tiptoed down a hall
And I listened through a stethoscope
and I heard the rushing wind
I looked inside a universe where Judas never sinned
But Don’t Leave me now
– whatever you do
Do I, or do I not cast a shadow on this wall?
Is that the headless highwayman skiing down that waterfall
oh no, it’s just tomorrow playing for time
there’s gold down in the valley and a piece of it is mine
So Don’t Leave me now
I’m Lovin on you – just Lovin on you
the days are few but they’re all
Ring-a-ling-a-ling goes the bell
that ring-a-ling-a-ling I know so well
The deal is on the table
the map is on the wall
We made our plans, we shook our hands
now we’re waiting for your call
But it’s Long time coming,
Coming to me
He who picks a winner picks the strongest
He who laughs the last laughs the longest
When you call me from your private jet
flying coast to coast
‘The meat is in the oven babe
and the cheque is in the post’
Oh but it’s Long time coming
Coming to me
Something in the smells and bells don’t sit right
when you say we got to do the deal at midnight
it’s One, Two, Three and Four
I did it once, I can’t do it no more
So let it rock, Let it roll
My ship is on the way
Oh but it’s Long time coming
Coming to me
I’m Lovin on you
Red Rose she tip toes,
She hums-ahs, she yes no’s
she bakes pies, she housewives,
she bow ties, she tells lies
But she knows all there is to know about dying slow
does Red Rose
Well she writes plays, she acts parts
she’s a Lord Protector, she’s a Bachelor of arts
And she collects men like a connoisseur
And she hates them who love here
And I knows all there is to know about dying slow
for Red Rose
Red Rose,
cold as winter snows
and warm as the first light of spring
She knows
which way the river flows
But makes like she don’t know a thing.
Well she’s the only virgin outside paradise
She’s the only one who’s not been sacrificed
She’s a stone cathedral, she’s a patron saint
And she’s a Red Cross Parcel for those who aint
cos she knows all there is to know about dying slow
does Red Rose
Standing here at the gates
Face to face
hoping this scene is a dream
but I know it aint
cos they ask me why – why is it a secret?
But it aint no secret, no no no no no no.
It was writ, it was read, it was spoken, it was said
hung high upon a notice board and underlined in red
Here at the Gates of eternity
Watching the people go by
my oh my
With faces like flint,
there’s no telling what they think
but they ask me why? – why is it a secret?
But it aint no secret, no no no no no no.
It was writ, it was read, it was spoken, it was said
and high upon a notice board it’s underlined in red
Here at the Gates of eternity
With the Butcher the baker and candlestick maker
The Kings and Queens, movers and shakers
mothers and lovers and givers and takers
and all of them looking at me!
Here at the Gates of eternity
When the trumpet sounds
It’ll be time to close the door
Meet me inside the city wall
And Lookout on the Horizon
Lookout over the sea
Only yesterday
I caught the news as it came through
I couldn’t believe they could be so cruel
And Lookout on the Horizon
Lookout over the sea
Say, do you know
If there’s a place we can go?
Say, do you know
Say, can you see
An end to all this agony?
Say, can you see
Stand on the wall and look for the light
And yell if you see it,
yell if you see it!
yell if you see it!
yell if you see it!
Is it over now
Can we begin to mend our ways
Could we in time believe it pays?
And Lookout on the Horizon
Lookout over the sea
BUBBLES
CD & digital, 01 January 2017.
‘THE ROCKFORD BUBBLE’ (track 4) is a spoken piece written and performed by Alan Piano Smith (aka Professor Throovest). It introduces the song which follows ‘MISTRESS CAROLINE’,
I’ve been living on easy far too long
And the ravens sent to feed me have all gone
And every time I see the sunset
I can hear you call my name
So I’ve made up my mind
I think that it’s time
I’ve got to get myself a seat on a plane
I was saying to life give me a break
Crying so hard like a child in the dark
Keeping everyone awake
Now I’m through with all that moping
All that walking in the rain
Will be history
When it’s just you and me
I’ve got to get myself a seat on a plane
ON A PLANE
I’m flying out across the blue
ON A PLANE
I’m coming home, back home to you
I’ve been searching -in red green and blue
But you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see
When it aint working for you
Or that only your sweet loving
Can make it work again
I’m scared of the drop
But ready or not
I’m gonna get myself A seat on a plane
Yeh I’m gonna get myself A seat on a plane
ON A PLANE
I’m flying out across the blue
ON A PLANE
I’m coming home, back home to you
Iris
Iris, I have a message for you
Iris, I have a message for you
And in the language of the day
I would love you if I may
I would give you my today, my tonight
So please don’t say you won’t accept
or I’ll have to take the next
and stand loser for the rest of my life
Iris, I have a message for you
Iris, I have a message for you
And in the language of the hour
I would friend you with a flower
I’d describe it to you how I feel I should
cos this confusion is my brain
and my attachment to the same
is as helpless as the grain to the wood
Iris, I have a message for you
Iris, I have a message for you
Hold your lamp up high
There’s a loner passing by
and he’s caught in your glow
he’s got nowhere else to go
every flower that you grow
just blows his mind
Iris
Iris, I have a message for you (yeh you!)
Iris, I have a message for you (yeh you!)
I can hear the telephones are ringing
and somebody is banging on my door
but I can’t face the message that they’re bringing
can’t take it any more
I just got to hide away
Like a squirrel in a dark place
it’s my Black Dog Day
I don’t think that I can take it,
can’t find the treasure in my clay
don’t know if I’m going to make it –
through this Black Dog Day
The life insurance man he knows my number
He’s pestering me every single day
he’s watching every ladder I walk under
but what’s he going to say
When he finds out it’s for real
There’s a monkey in the engine
And a penguin at the wheel
And they talk to one another
like they’re in a Shakespeare play
like it’s Hamlet and his mother
in ‘A Black Dog Day’
Now it’s a sorry situation –
but only yesterday
I had it all together
and let it all slip away
Now I don’t think that I can shake it,
please let me just fade away
I don’t want to have to fake it,
through this Black Dog Day
Thank you very much
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are gathered here for the reading of the final will and testament of one, Lord Rockford Moses, whereby his Lordship has instructed me to tell you as follows:
That I, Lord Rockford Moses, being of sound mind, do hereby bequeath my entire estate to one:
Caroline, Mistress.
(Got your attention didn’t it?)
– to have, to hold, to spend, luxuriate, squander or disperse in any and all ways she thinks fit.
Terra firma, ad hoc, de facto Magna Carta, pro rata Procol Harum, ad nauseum, Habeus Corpus, omnibus, terminus – Persona non grata
et Status Quo.
by Alan Smith aka Arthur C Throovest
Lord Rockford Moses
being of sound mind
Left everything to Mistress Caroline
Stepped in his time machine
and disappeared from view
leaving the argument for me and you
And he wished he could be here
But he’s done the best he can
Yes he wished he could be here
and he hopes you’ll understand
that I, Rockford Moses
being of sound mind
Leave everything to Mistress Caroline
The five thousand acres
And all the precious works of art
wine in the cellar and the tigers in the park
And he says it’s okay
You can give it all away
I don’t care what you do
But just be careful what you say about my…
Sweet love child Mistress Caroline
She was my friend
she love me when I was alone without a dime
Sweet love child Mistress Caroline
She scratched my back she lit my fag,
she chilled my wine, she done me fine
Love her til the end of time
Love her til the end of time
Well all right, so I’m being foolish
Well all right let people know
About the dreams and wishes you wish
In the night when lights are low
Well all right, well all right
We’ll live and love with all our might
Well all right – well all right
Our lifetime of love will be all right
Well, all right, so I’m going steady
It’s all right when people say
That those foolish kids can’t be ready
For the love that comes their way
Well all right, well all right
We will live and love with all our might
Well all right, well all right
Our lifetime of love will be all right
Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, Joe Mauldin, Norman Petty
© Peermusic Publishing
The Queen, the Prince and the Dish
Came together on a day like this
crossing over boundaries
Suddenly the hand of fate
Has thrown them together on a date
Welded into time and space
Far be it for me to forget the good times
Far be it for me to stand in the rain
The Queen turned to the Prince and said I know you
but who’s that snazzy dresser over there?
He said ma’am that’s the dish and he’s famous
for disappearing in thin air, disappearing in thin air
The Queen, the Prince and the Dish
came together in a way like this
crashing in to memories
Now for hopings sake
I’m hoping that the news is fake
but hearts that hope are hearts that ache
Far be it for me to forget the good times
Far be it for me to stand in the rain
Wild horses couldn’t keep him at the Maypole
and places to the west and to the east
mothers, sons and daughters searched for him
from the greatest to the least, the greatest to the least
The Queen, the Prince and the Dish
Came together on a day like this
shattering my certainties
Once upon a time the earth was flat
you loved me and that was that
but now is now and now I see
A subtle change in scenery, when you look at me
And I know it in my knower, something isn’t right
I feel it in my feeler, I puff it in my pipe
I run the movie backwards to the bit that makes me blue
Where you boil the hero in your verbal stew
Well it don’t taste good and it aint a pretty view
and I know it like I know it in my knower
Yeh I know it like I know it in my knower
Here inside these four walls
I sing my song to no applause
Searching for the smile upon your face
as my ship sinks without a trace, and nobody escapes!
There’s a pixie in my bedroom and I can’t put out the light
I just know its going to get me at the bottom of the night
so I’m staring at the ceiling, practicing my lines
I used to be Romeo but now I’m Frankenstein
I know it in my knower, I knew it all the time
Don’t I know it like I know it in my knower
Yeh I know it like I know it in my knower
it don’t matter what you say, I know it in my knower
You can cut it any way, I know it in my knower
Yeh I know it in my knower, when all is said and done
No I aint going to fight and I aint going to run
so I pay the man my penny, and I make me my wish
and the ship sails on to the edge of the abyss
and I know it in my knower on a night like this
Yes I know it like I know it in my knower
Don’t I know it like I know it in my knower
yes it’s a time to stand
with whatever’s in your hand
Time to get up and step out
of the footprints in yesterday’s sand
Gibraltar Farm
Violette came
She walked in its long green grass and left on an aeroplane
With all that she had
One summer’s night
Riding the clouds of England and France in the fading light
Oh and every night I heard her calling out
Across the wires
Oh I’m out on that long and lonely road I chose
And nobody in England knows but you, you, you
Oh let me go where the tears don’t flow
Oh let me stay where there is no war today
Gibraltar Farm
Violette knew
Every turn and glance of the dangerous dance that she had to do
With all that she had
She did it so well
With a fire in her heart
She played out the part til the curtain fell
Oh and every night I hear her calling out
Across the wires
Oh I’m out on a long and lonely road tonight
And nobody can see my light but you, you, you
Oh let me go where the tears don’t flow
Oh let me stay where there is no war today
Are you ready to climb up the ladder
Are you ready to see
What the view is like from up on the balcony?
Are you ready to step up to the wire
Spead your feathers and fly
Are you ready to climb to the top of the sky?
Nothing in the old, the oldie fashioned kind of way
Nothing too big-time this isn’t Broadway
Everybody got a new way of talking
Everybody got a word
Are you ready to run with the message you heard
Everybody got a piece of the puzzle
Just the one little jot
Are you ready to fly with the baggage you got
Nothing in the olde-oldie fashioned kind of way
Nothing too big-time this isn’t Broadway
Give me a break, I’ve got a deadline to make
We’ve gotta dance the night away
Are you ready to climb up the ladder
see the view from the top
don’t bother going up if you’re scared of the drop
Nothing in the old, the oldie fashioned kind of way
Nothing too big-time this isn’t Broadway
I was down in the boondocks
on the Edinburgh Road
banging on the door to the Mother Lode
when Ceilidh Al, as bold as brass
was coming down the mountain
on his Whisky Poet glass
And I‘m under the Big Brown Sky
watching the changes fly
and hearing them call out my name
as the wind and the rain go by
They talk up a future in poetic rhyme
standing on the parapet of Auld Lang Syne
feelings run high and faces are red
everybody’s shouting out but not a word is said
And I‘m under the Big Brown Sky
watching the changes fly
and hearing them call out my name
as the wind and the rain go by
So take a cup of kindness, hang it on the wall
don’t let nobody touch it no, no one at all
There’s only so much water can go under the bridge
before I get a molecule to pass down to my kid
under the Big Brown Sky
watching the changes fly
and hearing them call out my name
as the wind and the rain go by
Ceilidh light, don’t leave me lone tonight
Ceilidh light, come keep me warm tonight
Ceilidh light, I need you by my side
ACROSS THE DIVIDE
CD & digital, 2013.
May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be in your back
May that storm never reach you
And may your lover give you loving back
May you walk and not be weary
May you run and not faint
May you soar like the eagle
May you be who you are, not who you ain’t
Take me to your Captain, allow me to explain
All these good vibrations are doing in my brain
It should have been so easy but it seems so hard
When every ship that passes tries to break my heart
And the road comes to meet me
And the wind is in my face
And it’s sure to defeat me
If I don’t put that devil in his place
I think I got the message, Loud and clear
I got pictures in my head and music in my ear
And all I’ve got to do is plug in to the Son
This little benediction is for everyone
May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be in your back
May that storm never reach you
And may your lover give you loving back
Up with the lark
Down to the park
And across the highway
I’ll be making my hay
On a Normal Day
Working the line
Saving a dime
For a weekend away
In the month of May
On a Normal Day
You can see them as they go
Cheerio! Cheerio
It’s the only thing they know
Cheerio!
Work like a slave
Live in a daze
And the years slip away
And the month of May
Was a Normal Day
You can see them as they go
Cheerio! Cheerio
It’s the only thing they know
Cheerio!
Work like a slave
Live in a daze
And the years slip away
And the month of May
Was a Normal Day
They said it could not be
Not me and you, not you and me
Who do you think you are
To dream so big, to reach so far
Yeh Love is a Mission Impossible
An ocean of fire uncrossable
Yeh and I heard every word that they said to me
And that Mission Impossible prophecy
But only tomorrow knows
The message on my pad
Said spread your wings, don’t look back
Take what you have and go
And if it’s love well tell her so
Yeh Love is a Mission Impossible
An ocean of fire uncrossable
Yeh and I heard every word that they said to me
And that Mission Impossible prophecy
Yeh Love is a Mission Impossible
Only a Mission Impossible
But only tomorrow knows
Only tomorrow knows
Yeh Love is a Mission Impossible
A runaway train unstoppable
Yeh Love is a Mission Impossible
An ocean of fire uncrossable
Love is a Mission Impossible
Only a Mission Impossible
Yeh Love is a Mission Impossible
Only a Mission Impossible
Yeh Love is a Mission Impossible
Love is a Mission Impossible
Well Delilah came on the phone & said
‘Boy, d’you wanna take me home?’
and Samson, he said ‘Babe you know I do,’
‘but there’s things to be worked out,
there’s my ma who is without,
and she must be informed that we are two’
Well Delilah said ‘I have no grouse,
and besides I’ve seen your house
and I like it, it has all my due respect.
But to me you now must come,
and what’s to do must now be done
– together, so as to get the best effect.’
Well Samson he said ‘Bye’, then looked me in the eye
and said ‘Friend, I’m in need of counselling.’
And I said ‘Oh Sam you must not go’,
and he said ‘but friend, how do you know?’
and I said ‘Ah yes, I was on the extension, listening in.’
And he said ‘Ah yes that is so,
but your advice I must forgo,
for my love she will not wait for evermore.’
and with a parting glance,
he shook hands and said ‘Thanks,
God bless you friend’, and walked out of the door.
Many months were then to pass
before I was led to ask
off a weary warrior from the South:
‘What news of battles won,
of Kings & Queens undone,
what secrets do you keep within your mouth?’
He said ‘It is not well, for many gods have fell
and many more are waiting yet to fall.
And the sun will not long set
before Elijah himself has met
that most feared mortal of them all.’
‘For the one of whom I speak,
is now prisoner to the weak
as we are all prisoners to fate.
And Queen Delilah has decreed
she cannot intercede
in matters preferential to the state.’
Well I was sore afraid, for the soldier had portrayed
a vision of my one and only friend.
And so I made all haste, unto the city gates
thereby to put my torment at an end.
And once inside the city walls, and in the royal halls,
I gazed upon the scene with disbelief.
For there in that princely castle
sat a rogue and a rascal,
a vagabond, a liar, and a thief.
And I looked at each in turn,
and bade them all confirm
that Samson of Judea dwelt within.
And they answered with a laugh,
and bid me follow aft
to the Arena, where the show would soon begin.
Well the Arena it was bubbling,
all the senators were juggling
for a seat that would lend pleasure to their view.
Then a mighty horn was sounded,
and all outbound flights were grounded,
as Delilah made her entrance dressed in blue
She cast aside her robes, and the multitude arose
enraptured by the beauty of her skin.
And they spent themselves a-grinning
’til Delilah, she stopped spinning and said
‘Let Samson from the dungeon be brought in!’
And I cried ‘Oh Sam, what has gone wrong?
and he said ‘Friend, it’s a long long story –
and time is of the essence it is true.’
‘But to cut the story short, young Delilah is a fraud,
yeh and her parents – they are both unmarried too’.
Then with a fearful cry, he looked blindly to the sky
and bade the Lord one dying wish to grant.
Then he whispered to my ear –
‘God speed you quickly far from here,
for the coming of Jehovah is at hand’.
Then the sky was rent in twain,
with great boulders did it rain.
As I watched from off a hill in Galillee…
And with tears in my eye, I bid that life bye-bye
and walked away into eternity…
So friends remember this,
when you’re lost inside your bliss,
A true love can be captured but never bought.
So don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched,
cos if the cock and hen aint matched….
All the pleasures of the roost will come to nought!
Don’t you know, can’t you see
I’m good to go. I’m tax paid, I’m Duty Free
I can’t wear this ball and chain no more
I got better things to do than listen to this sorry talk
Ring the bell, break the glass
Shout the news: Have you heard the war is past
I can’t wear this ball and chain no more, no more
I got better things to do than listen to your sorry talk
So Bye bye baby
I can’t wear this ball and chain no more
I got better things to do than listen to this sorry talk
So if I capture every moment
If I squeeze it till it’s dry
If I chew the best, if I spit out the rest
If I shout it to the sky
Rise and shine, shake your head
Now’s the time to get a hold
of what the message said
So Bye bye baby
I can’t wear this ball and chain no more, no more
I got better things to do than listen to the sorry talk
I can’t wear this ball and chain no more, no more
I got better things to do than listen to the sorry talk
You’ve made your bed now you must lie in it
Maybe you’ll cry in it, Maybe so will I
You gave your word and now you’ve broken it
Should not have spoken it
Should have let it lie
Cold City, send me a hope
Just want somebody to believe in
Cold City, keep me afloat
Just need somebody to believe in
You said you’d wait, but now it’s so late
Think I’ll just go and get myself another date
You’ve made your bed now you must lie in it
Maybe you’ll cry in it, Maybe so will I
Cold City, mix me a hope
Need somebody to believe in
Cold City, life is a joke
With nobody to believe in
Now it’s so late, it’s pointless to wait
Think I’ll just go and get myself another date
You’ve made your bed now you must lie in it
Maybe you’ll cry in it, Maybe so will I
You made a promise now you’ve broken it
Should not have spoken it
You know it was a lie
Cold City, send me a hope
Just want somebody to believe in
Cold City, keep me afloat
Just need somebody to believe in
Cold City, mix me a hope
Need somebody to believe in
Cold City, keep me afloat
Just want somebody, just want somebody
Just want somebody to believe in
In that old cotton town
When the evening came down
There were men with no love in their heart
For no one or no thing
Only a tear could they bring
Cos I hear the people sing
They’re a comin’ – Don’t let them in
They’re a comin’ – No not again
They’re a comin’ –
Don’t let them do what they did to our kin
Not a dime was he worth
Just the salt of the earth
He believed that a man has to fight
If he wants to be free
And that’s what he wanted to be
When he said this to me
They’re a comin’ – Don’t let them in
They’re a comin’ – No not again
They’re a comin’ –
Don’t let them do what they did to our kin
Oh my pretty one, who’s gonna hold you tonight?
Oh my pretty one, who’s gonna fight your fight?
I was born I was raised
In them Shanty Town ways
And I knew there were some things
That could not be spoken about
And some things of which I’ve no doubt
Cos I heard the people shout
They’re a comin’ – Don’t let them in
They’re a comin’ – No not again
They’re a comin’ –
Don’t let them do what they did to our kin
Someone’s raking my coals
Someone’s stirring my pot
Someone’s spinning my reputation
Round like a top
And I sniff the air and I know just where
My laser stare should drop
Hey Hey
Robin’s at home tonight
Robin’s alone tonight
And she’s writing crazy stories on my wall
When the curtains are drawn
And she’s got nothing to do
Just to live in a fantasy
With me there in it too
And she plays the part of a bleeding heart
All red and black and blue
Hey Hey
Robin’s at home tonight
Robin’s alone tonight
And she’s writing crazy stories on my wall
She never should have said it
And I wished I’d never read it
And she’s really gonna get it
If she doesn’t make an edit real soon
Can’t you see, it’s such a waste
I wish you’d come and say it to my face
There’s a face at my window
There’s a knock at my door
It’s Robin singing,
Robin bringing tweets galore
And I don’t know why I feel so shy
I guess it’s just because
Hey Hey
Robin’s at home tonight
Robin’s alone tonight
And she’s writing crazy stories on my wall
She says I’m only a cog
In a wheel, in a job
I don’t know what I want to be
‘Cept that I want to be free
And with an air of detachment
A well-to-do accent and all
She wrapped her life into a ball
And out of her bundle
The laws of the jungle
Came wearily tumbling down, down, down
She says the world is a hard place
It’s built upon heartache and pain
And one of the rules of the game
Is don’t let nobody up-front
You just take what you want while you can
Virtue be damned
People like that I just can’t understand
Post War Baby
Haunts me daily
I’m thinking that maybe
Your love can do anything in the world
And soon a professional rip-off
A tip-off she granted to me
I listened so expectantly
But she said I’m only a cog
In a wheel, in a job
I don’t know what I want to be
‘Cept that I want to be free
Next door but one
where you are what you say you are
Next door but one there’s a Girl in a Jaguar
A really high class dame
Makes all the rest look lame
Tells everyone the rain
never falls on the roof of a Jaguar
Next door but one
where you are what you say you are
It’s got all the latest gear
A bedroom in the rear
With rotating Chandeliers
She says she’s on TV
A personality
Ah but she aint fooling me
Cos I know that she works in a coffee bar
Six nights a week when she don’t have her daddy’s car
Next door but one
where you are what you say you are
Next door but one there’s a Girl in a Jaguar
Next door but one
where you are what you say you are
What you say you are
What you say you are
What you say you are
Hush now the night is falling
Nobody knows
Who’s going to be standing here
when the third bell tolls
High in the Captain’s tower
I see them counting their loot
Laughing at who looks the best
wearing the parachute
And they know what train I’m on
And they know which side of paradise I’m from
Off in the drunken distance
A lifetime away
I see your lips move but I can’t hear what you say
Across the divide
I shouted but no one answered
Just look straight ahead
I guess they can’t stop to speak ’til the sky turns red
And they know what train you’re on
And they know which side of paradise you’re from
Summers coming early, and you’re sat on your thumb
C’mon, c’mon, c’mon
Summers coming early; get your wedding dress on
C’mon, c’mon, c’mon
See now who holds the candle
Who knows the way
Back to the lights that twinkle
on the far side of this bay
I look out across the divide
But what’s there to see
Only the ruins now of how it used to be
When they know what train you’re on
And they know which side of paradise you’re from
Is it raining tonight, across the divide
Yes it’s raining tonight, across the divide