Deacon Blue

Down On The flag stones The accordians And sweet trumpets rise Rusty memories Of sin and doubting Mingle in around The Queen Street Traffic noise Would that all the love in the world Watch me Through the night You know The preacher All he preach...

You don't have to be grateful For all the world's ills There's plenty of people Never seen the white cliffs of Dover So come on, come on Come on, come on, come on A is for astronaut E is for everything So come on, come on Come on, come on, come on A...

In a windy street in a bitter morning a seagull flies into a fire of blazing sun in the minutes after midnight when humans let go only cat and litter move without fear Undiscovered Kingdom Underneath an awful stern above dark dock water and anchor hangs woun...

A cautious smile under the western sky Would curl upwardslike the wild sea A special friend knowing all the ways of love Would talk his way back inside a tiny second Don't promise good intention One in a thousand (maybe even me) Don't know there...

All over the world The wild wild wind Rips through the mighty words We kept ourselves warm with And all over this love Has never been stronger All Jericho`s walls They gently fall I`ve been waiting for a golden Bright milleniun Waking early for the...

There is something almost right There is something that really talks to me There is something wrong but almost good There is something that nearly terrifies There is something more we can talk about Maybe there is something we can change If there are wa...

Always another time Getting lost in a different dream Star crossed and never scared to name it He once was a roving man Now he wears his wedding band Never times to waste not being together Maybe there's a million years A thousand leagues of fallen tea...

I'm getting into space man everything is going up and no one is going down where I'm going And I'm getting better at knowing what's outside looking in Cause I never saw what was coming round and I could never get my feet off of the ground Gonna be...

I hear the music coming out of your radio Are you there with another girl instead of me I hear your laughter and there's something I've got to know Are you there with another girl instead of me Well, I'm standing on your doorstep and I don't know what to do S...

Where would I be,Would I be standing right here We've had such a cruel death would we be as good as to remember a life Would you never live the way that you did would your birth be enough Was it just someones hard labour,A few days struggle then oblivion...

Every day they write the headlines Talking diamonds talking steel Don't talk things that, folk don't know Talk about money and stuff thats real Back here in beanoland the bubble is bursting All things get busted, some things get builded Old ladies write...

Seven lonely days in a fifty ton lorry I know you made me what I am And I fall to pieces Johnny Cash in black singin' Undertand your man from St. Quentin crossing to Tarbert to Gigha Oh lonesome me howled box car willie Coming out of Tobermory to the s...

Send me down my future From your wheel of fire Let me only fly On your wings of desire What happened to that ride On your chariot of gold It had only lasted minutes From the centuries you hold What happened to the reign The reign of love? Where have...

There was a night As purple as this With a love so close We longed to be missed Summer `89 And everything stood Sure and free and there To be finished I long to be there As bright as the sky At Bethlehem`s gate September again You come so quick...

Bigger than a ball of fire Wider than the western sky That’s the way that you describe The height and depth of our desire Bigger than the night That got me into this We’re still confused – oh yeah When we get it, it’s gonna be bigger than dynamite Bri...

Take me over again,That's alright on the waysSee me shine when I swim,Blue Horse There's a mountain ahead,We can lie and get some rest We'll brush the tail and we'll dress,Blue horse We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home We'll go home...Soon..We'll go home...

that hurricane day will soon pass away and someone will sweep all the jetsam back into the bay and you'll come like you always did and knock on my door like the big bad wind born in a storm is that the only excuse you can give born in a storm is t...

There’s no direction and no way through There is no reason to pay back what is true Never owned intentions, never know no way back Never know no way back But I know you’re only asking And I know you might just care You only ring my number For the answe...

They painted us up and shouted us down they wanted us to be just a face in the crowd and all the time they never saw the people we are in a world of fast cars every time you pass you try not to laugh at me you don't want to love me out sympathy I gu...

Stay with me now I feel like you're slipping away there's a song in the air that no-one is singing today there are places to go but somehow I feel we should stay And the checkout girls sing a a song for the world that goes round and round and the anthem of th...

alan doesn't understand her he only thinks in numbers he only drinks in restaurants where the girls are fully covered and he can't trust his yearnings and he doesn't like pretending his tempers stretched so much by work his heart needs gentle rending...

He was lying in the half light Of Christmas and Glasgow Thinking and talking Talking to St Enoch about Christmas and Glasgow Drinking and talking And the sweet smell Of the Kelvin Hall Circus And the sweet smell lingered Of her perfume and kisses H...

you're tired and you say you're angry you're thankful for this blessed rain and you think you'd know but your old friends have to tell you again your books taught you all you know your tastes and patterns and your tv shows but you can never follow where...

This is the way we walk This is how we walk At closing time These are the songs we sing These are our songs At closing time And in the clear Of this sweet moonshine We`ll walk back To where we started On our own again This is my favourite time Drin...

There`s gonna be trouble from the start When you break somebody`s heart You hope the damage does them good Like it does you You put a rock around my heart And you know the killing part Is sunday morning When nothing rolled away Cold Easter It rained...

I will love you when the morning is ascending I will love you when the moon is riding high I will love you when we only have pretending When our home becomes a cover from the sky Well my eyes have seen the dust and then the ashes And the lowland and white sky...

You take comfort from your window you take refuge in the sky you can't bare to see the ocean falling, falling If your over there i'm over here if your over there i'm over here Met you on the street on tuesday stood like statues in the snow pushed y...

15 books in Different covers Winter comes in Many colours Kids toys broken glasses Elvis live in Vegas He's still turning All the worthless things We're paying in Pounds of sugar Here it comes Blankets from the Social fund Snooker balls and Spani...

Let's sing a song for all the workmen Working on the carpark down by here Wrecking through the tombstones and the granite Cutting through the bone here Sweeping all the dust here Crunching all the dirt down Lifting it up and putting it down For once th...

there's a man i meet walks up our street he's a worker for the council has been twenty years and he takes no lip off nobody and litter off the gutter puts it in a bag and never seems to mutter and he packs his lunch in a "sunblest" bag the children cal...

I think the whole world should look good That's important to me Everyone should look good And when they die they should die with their boots on And their hearts on fire When I die they'll cry I'll have candy and chocolate whirls And party gowns framing...

Tomorrows a holiday and we will be high all day Singing and playing shows and going as far as the country bus goes And the bands will be swinging as high as the swing boat goes And the trees will be swaying and the boats will be heading out to the sea Hey...

Billy can you see the light? can you feel the sun waiting to shine on you? Oh Billy here comes the night here comes the walls ready to fall on you So don't look back thats all right don't look back until the morning light Don't look back to hear the...

When you walk across the earth,Do the horses hear you first And lift their heads as if concerned,That something has occurred To this world.............To this world You waved me from your car,You looked so changed I couldn't wave back Life past in a blur...

I could almost weep If I could only take your hand we're so close to sleep And so far from deliverance Once in every lifetime Love comes down Even higher ground Would not make you stumble Even higher ground Would not make you fall Even higher ground...

I go to work And I get in early Lying to myself I need to be there I pass the church And all the hurly burly Of all the people as they walk without a care How I'd love to tell them of how I get so happy Maybe now's not the time But when's it going to b...

Faifley had a black cloud around it There was nobody there and someone had stole the chimneys Fifteen dogs ran up the street Looking for the Hepatitis Hospital And a cat with a bread poultice was singing shangalang backwards The Sunday Mail says Woodys i...

Little baby don`t just slip away Without fight or push or Saying anything This is all you really Get to say And the only thing you Listen in to There are people to see There are places to go There are things to believe in To believe in So you live...

On the night that Maxton died I fell over The Clyde was full of old tyres The wind nearly pulled my Breeches off And Ann Kelly She kissed my mouth Fellow hoodlums and Engineers The Union`s south And we`re all here I`m going up Buchanan Street With...

Fergus sings the Blues In bars of twelve or less I`m a stranger To the land To this wilderness All Things are possible But happen less and less This Is my country These Are my reasons `Cause I look In the mirror And it throws Back the question And I whisper in...

Fourteen years on a steam-pack sonny trying to get the kit off my back Pushing Shanghai to Liverpool sonny Pissing in the wind and the flag You're kipping out in the railway station Now you've left the navy behind You're hoping just to ride Fourteen y...

The freedom train is coming, can't you hear the whistle blowing Its time get your ticket and get on board Its time for all the people to take this freedom ride Get it together and work for freedom side by side I'm gonna ride on the freedom train I ain't gonna...

There was ice and broken pavements on the hill tower And the light was falling from the infirmary And the last of the dogs was barking At the steps from gentle teardrops and me And I asked about her sister and her mother And her uncle Tom serving on the...

I've been dancing round your grave Cos' I'm always much to scared Hope you've longed to say I never liked the way you dressed Or the cheap ways you impressed It gets better now your dead Thats O.K. I'm not afraid Not afraid what anyone says now I ca...

I think I'm goin' back to the things I learned so well in my youth I think I'm returning to those days when I was young enough to know the truth Now there are no games to only pass the time No more electric trains, no more trees to climb But thinking young...

Well the choirs were singing and the candles they were burning And the lantern girls and alter boys were crossed and cleaned And my baby and me watched the prayers go higher and higher As we sadly, slowly, surely took our leave We're crying now We we're...

Now everyone's singing How baby's in black She got Holy Rocker Mad Dog he called Ronnie Say here come old flat top Come moving up slowly And she got a smile I can feel in my hip pocket And I cry, I cry, I cry Yes I sigh Well it's a big big dream Bu...

Good evening Philadelphia I can`t believe what I just said I got up again Like a monkey And I raged right through the set We went outside Into an autumn wind Running scared from the crowd Headed out for an all night cafe Where the waitresses got off...

You were a good man Jamsie Everone loves you Now you`re gone And the seagulls over Where you lie Sing your final song I`m walking back Away from here To see where you belong Here`s the church And here`s the work And here`s where shows were at the f...

There`s no sleep inside Their dreams are broke and inspired All the times you try to Scream Houses dark indoors And blinds are pulled and closed Everything that needed Change And there`s nothing wise Or twice as good as nice You save it all inside...

there's a shadow on his photograph on tinian'45 smiling like a college boy who's glad to be alive but now he owns a factory and a store in los alamos a wife called beverly sells second hand ford motors he may have taken pictures been caught in albuqu...

The garden of eden The ancient of days The wild dreams that wake us The life before death The mocking red sun The night that will come In my darkness and solitude Everything will come and i'll know it's true I'll hear on the wind I'll hear on the win...

Here's singer here's singer heres' singer give it out Here's singer heres singer here's singer give out again Given love given life given faith what would it be He's bitter he's bitter thats why he's a star to you and me He loved the last I lo...

Had a band once Bass and drums I sang and played piano Craig played guitar Always knew the tunes had the records made tapes kept dates Never fell over once Once when we were in the car Listening back smiling we felt surrounded by stars Hey Craig d...

Hippy girl Please don't change a thing Change isn't everything And dreaming is something - hippy girl There's a curse in this world That money brings And a big idea That fame is everything You're far and away now Richer than kings and queens You kno...

There's me and daddy out at Lunan Bay Now looking dandy stepping out Saturday I can still see the buses Lined up to take the dancing home That's me on the stairs suitcase in hand Kidding on but knowing that one day he planned To leave all that behind A...

All the people in all the world Will look for something that will keep it turning Everyone's got to keep the will Every boy every girl I'm no different why the other day I saw death like an ocean that could wash us away The only comfort that I got was t...

She walked her down to the long,wet grass Then she slipped out of her raincoat She held her softly till the wind had passed Then she put her down so slowly Underneath a cotton white sky The water splashed the blanket Then she pulled her hands away And...

Walking on broken stones And listening to a foreign radio I never knew where you'd gone I only knew where you're going I sing about you Cause nothing's the same without you I know what the truth is And what your excuse is Are you getting on where you...

I was right and you were wrong girl Nothing lasts forever Inside every one of us There`s only so long I believe the longest day girl The lovely light of May girl If asked if I could ever leave I never saw a change But I will What I say What I do...

Outside the world The wind is howling Through the broken trees And the moon is shining As the river meets the sea And I will see you tomorrow Calm and bright in tender light And my heart will be racing Like your wakening eyes Inside my room the curtai...

What do you get when you fall in love A girl with a pin to burst your bubble That's what you get for all your trouble I'll never fall in love again I'll never fall in love again What do you get when you kiss a girl You get enough germs to catch pneumoni...

I'm sure Buddy would know but I can't ask him what picture you'd go to given the choice of things things not being as they are now i'm sure Buddy would know if I could phone him, up Where is he now where is he now is he with you with you is he with...

I've been making such a fool of me Drinking more than the Irish sea Even my old friends say I never should be Talking on the last bus telling all the folks Of things we did together all on our own Talking on the last bus telling all the folks Of things...

Take my wings and take my hands Put a weight round Where I stand And bind these ropes around my feet If they`re not tied I can`t concede To never chase around the stars Always the shadow Of where you are Only I`m as silent As the sun And as faithfu...

We went as we know how As far as the wind and the sky would allow Waking from sleep Alive to the noise we came After the turn of the year With only the sky as a silver seer Of anything restively turning And slowly beginning Now even the weatherman's...

Under the braw city night And under the warm summer light The evening begins The day's been lightened with song As glad as the winter is long And so we begin As far as the stars are from here We'll travel together my dear Wherever lovers may go We'll...

You can do what you want to do You can say what you want to say You can think what you think you want It doesn't matter anyway It's not funny anymore It's not funny anymore Play what you want to play Hear what you want to hear Don't worry about the r...

You come Awake And lie in a bed Of fevered state You rise Again And open a curtain To find only night Coming in The dream Comes back Your up on the stage now Slumped collapsed Everything is blurred The people come They come at you all at once...

Here`s the pictures I promised to send You see the airbase Where we were sent Now the winter Has started to descend Your loving son was sent here I got your letter From Boise Idaho To James Joyce Soles To James Joyce Soles I went down at midnight T...

Would the rain, the frozen rain Be as cold upon your forehead As the tears that plough your beaten face again Would the rain Could your hands, your grubby hands Pull your coat around your shoulder Steel yourself against the weather of the day Could you...

I have an old friend So the story goes He never calls without saying hello He`s got a good job So the story goes He says it`s it`s funny to see you look so low I said I`m on top of the hill Looking down at the Kings of the Western World I went out and...

Lily love that`s a Beautiful name Your precious gifts are not the same Since they faded away The song so distant But it still rings true your Beautiful hands were rudely used To make things pay Every minute of every day You don`t get angry `bout wha...

I could be king you could be queen I'd give you all the flowers that are evergreen but now ther are no flowers to be seen in little India Memory fades time slips away who saw it happen? who has to pay? no-one in little India 

In this country dreams don't sleep Hands stay open wide as the streets in your pocket Under your shoes these golden roads keep telling you Find out fast, Find out hard, Your little Lincoln, Little Ford Want to walk tall As the buildings go mountain top...

you sigh, you walk, you talk, you care about nothing sometimes you feel that life has treated you wrong i've got a feeling you know what the score is baby but it's hard when you're sitting here surrounded by friends i've got a love that i'll cling on to...

I was midnight walking And daytime talking You can see the best in me I know I got distracted You were broken hearted But I still tried to follow where you'd go And every time you wish me peace Or take a joke with perfect ease Or hear my doubts with s...

You're taking down the signs Now the time has come and the cleansing's coming You're turning down the lights In this cruel light symbols mean nothing You're taking down the signs Turning round your eyes From dreams that seem so bright Flying hope like...

I'm looking for my own lone ranger Don't want to follow yours anymore Don't want to be the lonely Tonto in the picture Staring out across horizons like before You've got to have your own lone ranger Somebody riding out just for you Cause the nights grow...

cold dawn won't comfort you cold coffee won't see you through cold sheets won't heal your heart your frozen fingers of your name so tarred i know so rarely that things come your way your ways are tender and your paths are straight your mind's not lived in the...

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars Any heart not tough nor strong enough To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain Love is like a cloud holds a lot of rain Love hurts, ooh, ooh, love hurts I'm young I know but even so I know a thing or two I learnt...

Whatever I call you`s your name You`ll get on with it just the same Sometimes you`ll blame me And think that love is hard Your lover`ll break your heart Make you make a brand new start He`ll say that nothing`ll touch him You`ll think that love is hard...

Early in the evening there's a sun in the sky everybody's happy but there's a tear in your eye the times I never wondered the times I never knew I'd live them all again if I could live them all for you And when the walls are broken and when they're on...

you know the agony of seeing it all slip away well maybe noe you'd be happy just to talk it out straight slipping away about the danger of believing in plans in hand about the role that you have in this delecate plan slipping away let's talk it out now...

Spread you wings for New Orleans Kentucky bluebird fly away And take a Message to Michael, message to Michael He sings each night in some cafe In search to find wealth and fame I hear Michael has gone and changed his name Its a year since he was here...

I have come five thousand miles and tried to find the ways to b e happy Travelled through the setting sun I hear those blue lights come I come gladly Jesus weeps does no-one sleep here anymore? Just a dime and a half and I'm in oblivion (oh I'll be sure)...

Church bells go ringing for you and I This bright sky is singing for you and I All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye Oh my America my new found land Oh my America my new found land Church be...

The only one with a party dress That could fall in blue waves upon the floor And step the country waltz that I'd seen her dance On her front lawn of her house all alone She lies still beside me with the t.v. on I see her mummy look so sad Turn down the...

God of warm words And good things God of change God of broken chains And rusty rails in sidings God of the saints And nearly departed Come down and love the living Before they go Tell us a joke... My girl going to town She dresses down She still...

Watching old friends Do better things Without any strings Get you again Hmmn...........Hmmn......... People abroad Say come make it yours Do it to them Before they do it to you I'm not sure.....I'm not sure..... My only tie...........My only tie.....

When they come on television To tell about their loss And the camera finds them beaten up by grief Do you wonder that they get up every morning And sometimes don't believe? When you see their eyes reminded Of another day not shared With a child who nev...

I had the dream once Of all I would have been If I'd been loved first Just only might have been I'd have been so generous And so much less mean About your chosen one It might have been me But All the mail left in the hallway All the photographs you...

Everything's got easier since you've been around Everything's got easier since you've been around If you're thinking of looking at setting me free Be sure and tell me baby, so I can see Cause you can charm the birds down from that old oak tree Someday I...

Oh the line goes on and on Forty years And far beyond Oh the line that working line Stretches from Where the world began Cause we were on the line Yes we were on the line And now we stand together On the line We stand on the line So you'd better n...

Water Tiny at first then bigger And it flowed right down From the highest hill And it grew and it joined The battling burn And it flowed right through To where we are now Standing Beside a cool cool stream It`s hard to imagine The great and terrible...

poorly - you're more than poorly jimmy more than that worse than that this is a case of photographs smudged and dropped and laughed at here's some things that came in post letters never sent but wrote shelves of books not opened browsed in and bored yo...

Everything gets broken And pushed aside Sympathy will be spoken Even faith will die I've got a thing about wheels Everything returning I've got a thing about wheels I've got a thing about wheels Love , Love , Love only love remains Where we are sta...

Way out there in the wilderness Of love and pain Under the gentle arches we rode The silver streets Couldn`t see a difference between gold or Wooden cross Could never see where we`re falling Came in to love Then hounded by love Hounded by the very th...

i now describe my country as if to strangers this train is full of songs of local winners and the wind surrounds the towers and the flags they are blowing and the bunting and the distance stretches over our sound and when he teases the children he ca...

I got something and I know it's true Cause I know you're out there We all want somebody like you Cause we all know that you're out there Animal boys and earthen girls Are meeting out there All the friends made in the world Are waiting out there I got...

There comes a time in everybody`s dream When the stage is lighted and the Words appear And in the blackness That it seems A tiny little realisation Begins And in my number 57 dream I`m standing at the window Of the world And suddenly the World beg...

There are words that will make you Make you angry,happy all at once All at once everything changes Changes over the whole wide world This is not the worst thing Its not the only thing Its not the real thing Its just a pimp talking, its just a pimp talk...

Plastic shoes Empty in the hall Well, I gathered the news That you'd gone after all Whats left is this: And from what I can recall Theres something I've missed And I have seen it all You caught me drawn in the Bathroom mirror And said I looked a lit...

Please remember Please remember you`ll know why This is nowhere This is nowhere then you die We`ll maybe not like it We`ll maybe not like it When we die We`ll maybe not like it We`ll maybe not like it When we die So I could promise you rain But it...

Walk the hill, slowly down Get all of Saturday's news From the back of the Grampian end All Fife's kingdom is in view The pitch it looks like Blackpool Sound and light and tangerine When Andy Dickson's treatment time comes The Dens reserve game can be...

You`re so young And you know so much Heaven help us all From the tales you tell You`re so old And innocent as hell How I love your questions You Queen of the New Year Oh you`re so young And you know so much And my mind`s not made up About the way forward And n...

Under a dark storm coming They found the car out in the lake A crowd had gathered on the shoreline Two tons of black on steel plate They put some chains all around it And a hoist up on the pier Hung above the surface like a prize catch Wriggling till th...

I can't go with you And I can't let you go You can't be with me So I won't let it show I don't want you to know So I'll just have to let you go I'm going to love you so much better You'll forget the error of my ways I'm sending you the good I wished I...

offered her a roof the rain had made it shine offered her a song wasn't really mine i showed her all my things she offered me belongings she thought i was a ragman she offered me possessions i tied them in a knot wrapped it in a note kept it in my...

it's a rain-dirt-town-job hurts, but it don't pay all these calls they're making me and driving you insane don't you see don't you understand waiting for the phone to ring to make me all i am you're in the suburbs waiting for somewhere to go i'm down here...

(Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo...) 'Cause I'd tear out the pages That I've got in these books Just to find you some words Just to get some reward And I'll show you all the photographs That I ever got took And I'll play you old 45s That now mean nothing to me A...

Silver rails And western tails Can take you there But they'll leave you cold When loves grows old Changing points Will spin you west And leave the darkest hours That you know best All gone The rodeo boy Is so much heat And so much noise Ooh ooh o...

I take off my glasses and I pull on my shirt I call up my friends on my long ,long list I said I've got a reason just to get to the coast I'll stand on the streets where all the books were wrote I remember words That ran around my head And made no sense...

Don`t be afraid to let the rain come in Don`t be frightened for your skin The heart`s as open as it`s Ever been It doesn`t beat Or break or cry There`s only earth And grass and sky Now you stretch beneath the Beating sun Within the minute of all ti...

The first thing Sharon I ever learned Never trust a man with confiidence again The next thing sharon I'd over heard The fact he's seeing you again is no coincidence Cos' Sharon he wants you And I know he lied When he says he wants you to be his bride T...

he saw her trying on his old clothes he watched herstretch and pull and tear he said you're impatient as the wind your laugh is strong and right and scaredshe was the sad loved girl of the neighbourhood he was the man that put happy over good she was the...

I will find a way To get to you some day. Oh, but I, babe, I'm so afraid I'll fall, yeah. Now can't you hear me call? Shake some action's what I need To let me bust out at full speed. I'm sure that's all you need To make it all right. It's taken me so long T...

down in the streets they're walking and kissing all he sees is the lights in her her eyes she feels his hand and smells his warm breath looking up all she sees is the night sky he saw her standing there alone she saw him walking the whole town behind him...

Forty men in a paper boat No plan to hand just tearing a hole To get the water out Got together on a phone-in show Oh how we love that talk radio No one else say's it like that Here we are now a-singing songs We all know where it all went wrong We're g...

She looked so far away when she stood at our door she sat frightened and frozen and covered her eyes But when you hide no-one knows you deep inside but when you cry we can love you like a child She started to tell me what I tried to ignore she acte...

Driving through the frocess in the snow two lines of trees consent to let us go it tells a story of long ago another love that won't let go ....it told me Something about Ireland something I should know something about Ireland something makes me want to go S...

You take a man who's on his last life A simple soul nobody knows him What does it matter if he lives or dies Or a woman who's lost everything Her only son, hoped for, not living Is there anybody listening? This is the picture that should be starring lo...

By the light of the waning moon Under a blueblack sky They talked the slow way home Of years passed closely by They caught only a casual look From strangers with things to do Only a loveless heart Could feel anything less than sure That they`re still...

There's a million reads that I'd not taken till you caught me with my eyes closed looking over my shoulder to see whats behind me I didn't see the promised land I fell back into your arms (its hard when you don't know) I was so suprised by the joy (it...

For Oscar Marzaroli 1933 - 1988 Take me to the place where your heart hurts most Lead me through the dark world gates down there Where all the ghosts of sorrow and pain And fear and despair stay hiding And we'll walk right through to our own way, our own...

I hope one day all the waters will clear I want to see them rolled away I hope one day all the stones and the secrets I want to see them blown away, so get in love Call me joy ,call me will ,call me anything Call me hopeful I've got that brilliant feeli...

The day that Jackie jumped the jail The day that Jackie jumped the jail There was a big explosion just as he got off the motorway And thirty thousand fireworks took the piss out of Princes Street Gardens So he drove up to the Budgie for a livener See the...

Is there a wolf in the house Or a scapegoat or a man who's never scared Is there anyone that can show me a photograph Is there a friend of Billy Bear Because he's as tough as railings and built like a hill His head's a gentle slope for the good to fall o...

See me see places See me see news See me see punters See me see you See Dundee nothing like it See Paris its all trees See Dundee nothing like it See me i'll let you see The further north you go The rain comes harder down i'm told The people seem s...

Its dark in the car we're deep in the garden of england its dark in the car they're all asleep but you and me there's time to talk we're only on holiday and I think you said this to me The germans are out today they won the war you know I didn't look...

All, all those waves And that old sun Shining So drive Drive to the coast And let the water Surround you I was standing by the shore Pulled by the deepest blue Aching for the allure Of the hipster boys And the hipster girls Shining Friends, who...

The look of love Is in your eye The look your smile can't disguise The look of love Is saying so much more Than just words could ever say And what my heart has heard Well it , takes my breath away I can hardly wait to hold you Feel my arms around you How lo...

The lovers baby They walk through the earth And nothing at all now Is going to change what it`s worth They`re lovers baby And everyone knows That only lovers girl Follow where love goes You can feed me darling You can keep me even But I don`t preten...

What to wear? How to go? Do we take the train? Or take your car? Are you innocent Of everything? Didn’t know you And yet, you showed me We took the road, any road, every road out of here Forgot the past, cut the strands, made a path, took a stand Ch...

The river is wide The river is wide The river is as broad and white as satan's smile The soul of man can never hide The river is wide The river is wide The river is calm The river is calm The river's as safe as a babe asleep in a mamma's arms The sou...

My friend David told me The heart beats like a dream Down there at the railway station The Lights are turning green That little black-robed Franciscan priest Struts down to ??????????? Tips his hat at all the North Americans And dreams the dream of the...

one day all of us will work we'll stand outside this orchard and we'll talk when all is said all is done we'll still be thinking about home they say that love might be the very thing if only it could be and making love is more than anything and all the...

I don't want to have to want you Taunt you or haunt you I don't want risk you Just to kiss you then miss you I don't want to have to leave you home I don't want to spend the night alone But I'll keep myself hanging on The songs you played as the night...

Oh the rush hour is over And the night has been trying To drive us and chase us away But we`re lovely and drunk now And our laugh dosen`t Rattle or fray And the friday folk Are coming round Let the wildness Have its way Oh sweet autumn With your dar...

Lead voc:Choir: So maybe you`re standing In some foreign town You`ve walked for miles Till the heat slows you down And your jeans and your curls Are bleached And split And your money and your anger Are all used up Maybe I`m sorry About the light in...

I wrote this once before Long before the summer You were then a student And we were dark as angels We were in the east Working to the west The west was looking south And the south she had no pity But last night I dreamed And you were always In it Th...

You're unchanging I'm unchangeable That's a difference We have to recognise Some folks never row Their ways seem like paradise But inside we all know That this is the life You're the greatest Thing I've ever seen You make my eyes bleed And others t...

Down by the beach road Crawling through the undergrowth Stand by the railing And look along Put your ear to the ground Listen for a while Till all the tracks start Humming and buzzing Then the roar comes And it's louder than the drums Cause it's tons...

I could be the lover you want me to be I could be the queen of the Northern sea Make you all the money you'd ever need Drive you in car that could take you far So that I could do without you I could do without you Tomorrow they say it's the end of the...

close your eyes and go to sleep from the howling howling over these streets people stare 'cause you're so mad that wild wild spark that innocent laugh but baby that's this town it won't happen next time yeah baby that's this town lovers on love downs...

You`ve got a lot of Tings to say about the Big world and the High skies so you Walk a little in a Long mile to be Sure your eyes can see the Right sights I see a Pale girl in a Blue room with a Pink dress and a Wide smile I see a Pale girl in a B...

Hold my hand in your hand let my thoughts be your thought I want to find the fire upon my face To the centre to the heart retreat ,retreat they said within the core the voice replied I will folow I will follow I will follow Vision on Mind games ,...

there we stood and there we left outside the flashing neon sign with the smell of cheap cigars and the hope of sweet perfume and his heart it was reeling with the thrill of it all all to do and only hours he said all this is all yours you can have it...

The stars and satellites Are quiet over the hills tonight And the cats' eyes and white lines Are heading out for miles The frost on the embankment Keeps my feet on the road But the tunes and beers Are walking us back home And we stopped any travellers...

There are waves and waves of sorrow still to come And you'll watch and wait and lie beneath each one When the last things gone and broken you'll never even know But another place will open and you'll begin again No sorrows like sorrow and pain Just gifts...

You`re in a car A pale blue car Under some sky Some northern sky The radio`s on Some music`s playing Fingers are moving And your lips are singing I`m a fool I`m a fool For even thinking That`s what you are Still on the road That`s where I see you...

You always saw the best in me Even when you knew the worst in me Always something I forgot to say You took a while to say what others said Even when I walked away We all know When sinners fall So what`s the point In a wind drowned call I`m just a sin...

Pale blue eyes, the same old house no ties A little bit older but not so worldly wise That I can't see your lights on me Making me regretfully say The wonder of it all was you And underneath it all it wasn't true I want you in everything I everything a...

When you were young and your heart was free I'd run and meet you and rush to see Just over the wall where the clouds roll by And age and chance and tears were far away Oh if heaven wouldn't see Light lovers so distantly Then look today at this love so f...

All my worries All my care Is held in check For you not there Evening comes And darkness falls We sit round And curtain out The black night There is a time Away From here Seasons pass So quickly come And steal the days Your work has done Th...

Here's a cry for every lie you tried but didn't know I saw And a sigh for every poor man,and woman and child that you ignore Here's some wounded sailors from fighting your war overseas Good God almighty Its pulling me down on my knees But if you don't kno...

your constant heart beats like the road it cuts through the rain and clears the snow and in our summer we take it slow letting the wind die in the hollow your constant heart now that the leaves are strewn on your constant path your feet won't stumble f...

Send me back all the thing she ever wrote Tell me secrets of her days when she was young Show me nights when she laughed So innocent I`ll be happy Waiting till they come Love the people that she smiled upon Walk with me in streets Where she once stood...

I wouldn't want to be you Mostly not even near you When you're gone they will curse you And raise the tide against you I no longer care now For what you said was fair now I just don't go there now I just don't go Maybe there's a way not to make it hurt Maybe...