Edgar Broughton Band

What d’you wanna do boy? Well, I don’t really know D’you wanna go back to school, kid? Er……not really! Well, d’you wanna go to work, boy? Uh-uh! D’you wanna dig potatoes, son? No Siree! What d’you wanna do, boy? D’you wanna go to war, boy? Ooh, yes pl...

Oh what do you want, oh what do you want Oh I told you once, oh I told you once You go at school, you think that it's cool Learnin' to read and write, now do we learn to fight Oh what do you want, oh what do you want They think they know what it's all ab...

I’m out in the desert, the desert’s in here with me To be here I came back, back is no place to be The moon she serves to soothe me, the sun waits to remove me To another place I’m a pool in a stream, the sea is where I’m going to Something tells me why I...

The planet’s in a bad bad way – oh yeah, oh yeah The planet’s in a bad bad way – oh yeah, oh yeah The planet’s in a bad bad way – oh yeah, oh yeah And I’m sitting here counting the days – oh yeah, oh yeah Judge, call me a liar! Judge, call me a liar! Col...

Chilly morning momma, no-one noticed me Waiting at the airport pretending I was free Chilly morning momma, chilly morning me I took off my clothes for you – you smiled Deep down inside – I cried Chilly morning momma, your daddy thinks you’re loose Your...

CRY………………………………….DON’T YOU I got off a train about midday into a yellow taxi cab The station was deserted, the taxi driver said ‘Where you want to go the Bar, Hotel, looking for a place to go?’ I saw no-one who knew me, nor no-one did I know I went down...

Him Who Ed, him? Yeah, he’s only got us up here to make a fool of us you know. It’s either that, you know, or it’s sort of, like he thinks, that’ll be groovy, you know. Look at that bloke over there. Pig, bloody pig, see him? There you are, that’s it, that...

Thought I hear a raindrop fall Trickle down beneath And the raindrop was a stream And the stream was a river Ready, ready, ready, ready, to the sea And the sea met the sky And you know, you know, you know The sky had no end, no end, no end, no end, no e...

I could fall down Would you stand me up It’s not enough for you to say you love me Who’s the lad who’d kill his dad For the sake of the right to belong To the new confusion I don’t believe it Don’t even know which day it is Do you trust in a world th...

Oh why is it some of the animals sleep in the winter Are they born in the spring? Everyone thought it was us You said you were into some beautiful things Double agents can never win They never know which bag they’re in Another man can pay the rent And...

The air was thick like honey Looking from the room The room had open windows To let the springtime through Evening stood by watching At the side of summer's promise The flowers in her garden Were the envy of her friends How far are we from dying Is...

Oh my love, what are we going to do? I can’t believe that the hour is due That my whole life here with you is through Now they wanna put is in a fifteen-storey view and I can’t stand it. But don’t you worry, I’ll think of something If there’s anything I...

(Demonic laugh) Citadels with signals the rain cries on the lire A bear crawls down below me across [??????????????] The circle spinning madly as they put her to the fire Evil, Evil, our blackest night Some folk burn, the men cry, ‘take the way down to t...

(a) EXHIBITS FROM A NEW MUSEUM A five year old child is playing beads with a thinker, beads with a thinker if you please. A five year old child is playing beads with a thinker, beads with a thinker if you please. The minister of data feels like getting hi...

(a) FACE FROM A WINDOW We could sell you from every available window But I wonder if that’s where you want to be. We could take it from every conceivable angle If you’ll only dangle for me The people wanna see you bleed They wanna know what you need T...

What if the babies went on strike For a better life to be born in All of the lights would go out that night You wouldn’t be saying good morning What if the thing that holds that together Decided to change its mind You wouldn’t care who your neighbour wa...

Who is the man living on the earth Doin' what he did, diggin' in the dirt Where is the woman, livin' by her self Savin' up her guilt for somebody else? Freedom (freedom) First the send a boy to a university Somebody protested 'It should've been me!' T...

Well I see you where we had come to share And closed our bodies into one woman – Mother – cannon-fodder are the stars Of a sky long gone. There’s a jovial land of army girls, Singing out on the street, A child of ours is done to dust, As often as ladie...

Well my brother had a princess She was dressed in mirrors and the image of a boy-child shone in everyone Done a lot of roads, crossed a lot of bridges, Sitting on a ferry ‘til the daylight’s gone Oh-ma hey-ma life on the road, Gotta get it on! They dan...

Well I love your cupid low babe, And the danger in your eyes Every politician and working man Gonna get a rise Get a rise, get a rise Colour TV before your eyes, Gonna kiss the baby’s pram, Put a tiger in your tank, But I’ll survive! Lady, sitting i...

So many lies, contradictions Raging in our lives By the window, when you’re not near me I settle down and cry I settle down and cry We’re all searching for shelter We’re all riding helter skelter Down a tunnel without light Down a tunnel without light...

I dropped a word in the water It finally fell into the sea A voice in the sand Held out a hand With these words written just for me What is a woman really for? The people were calling Get up on the wall Hey you there do the talking Are you ready to...

I’ll take you in you’ve no place to go Who broke you in is what I’d like to know I’ll give you this if it’s what you need I’ll tell you who gave it all up for me She’s lying at one with the smell of my bed I love that little hole in the back of her head...

Granma, Granma, Is it really true that the sky is blue and you keep your teeth inside a jar? Grandson, Grandson, I’m old up front and way behind but I ain’t blind, I ain’t blind Granma, Granma, What’s the use if I can’t deduce who or how the hell you are?...

Macarthy’s in our country Sending home the spies They’re beating up a prisoner In the midst of his surprise Up there in the docklands They’re fighting for their rights Homes fit for heroes, deposits not returned The grocer at the rudder Has closed sho...

If I came into your city Hung up on a game Would you give me your assistance Though you didn't know my name Though you didn't know my name Though you didn't know my pain Would you give me your assistance Though you didn't know my name I woke up in a...

Sell me more cried the lady Her wares all hanging down I’m not a landlord or a tenant In the house of turnabout My pride is flat my body fat My part played on this floor Pay for me to play And hang your tears next to mine One with hope might move in h...

(a) HURRICANE MAN The broken hearted pilot is lost in wheeling wings. Gone forever brothers. Smashed to smithereens. The little cap green and black the doctor said was soft. You wonder how many humans you might need to really get you off. Thirty years h...

I believed in you. You believed in me? We said no more war, What’s there worth fighting for? I got mad, really bad Did you hear about Soledad? I got mad, really bad Did you hear about Soledad? If they take me I’ll take ten for one. 

Are you going to anywhere With living insects in your hair? Hums the sky with D.D.T Broken mutants hit the street. I want to lie in a cool dark room Don’t want to die in a cool dark room With ivy filling the windows. Low in a dark park two crystal lov...

It’s getting darker and starts to rain The lone lieutenant cold and grey Lies in a hole for Christmas Day He fed his fear on bully beef Smell pass on so do the years Are you ready for the storm Look at the old brown rag-doll Lying by the Berlin Wall Sh...

My lady woke me up and said there’s someone at the door Handing out communiqué there won’t be many more He told us who the masters are from his own point of view Jesus please be good to us or we’ll all be on the news. Oh yeah! All right (x2) I’m sick of...

I don’t believe in the movies John Wayne has done it again The good guy gets it on The leading lady cries, she always does But she don’t know why The credits roll, bye-bye So, my love, do you wanna be free? Oh no, my love, I guess you’re a lot like me....

Here’s a bit of truth Charlie came round last night Doesn’t give a damn for me or you, Doesn’t care much for life. Oh lady life, what we gonna do? Children born in a young sea, Let the water shape thee. Oh lady blues, ain’t it hard? I didn’t think...

Are you ready? Here comes the love gang BANG! Look out, they’re about, We had peace, we had war, We been rich, we been poor, Who can rely on you? Who can rely on you? Are you happy? Doing hat you’re doing, saying what you’re saying? Come on, I mean...

Oh I hear the sirens calling There’s the rain and they can’t stem the falling Come away she fled before you Where the winds blow only for you I guess I’m number one I hear her body calling As the rain came gently falling Let me tell you it’s no blade, o...

If you think it’s easy The madmen are checking To see if you’re home God help the church And the people it’s hurt Like sheep in a fold I am the madhatter And I’m getting fatter If you’d like to know I stood in the queue To do what I do With nowhere...

He was set down on the planet Out of a warm, wet woman Keep ‘em comin’, keep them children comin’ Keep ‘em rollin’ Keep ‘em wheelin’, don’t ask how he’s feelin’ Afraid that he might tell ya Afraid that he might smell ya He was raised in the country Afo...

What made us think of you? We could not know What made us laugh about tomorrow? What was it that you said? I did not hear Although your voice was very clear What made us live your life? I think I know What made us die about tomorrow? 

With Neptune singing in the wind With rocks that stood and [faced that scene] I saw the sunset on the grass Flitting beneath the sea of glass Darkness was his epitaph La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la All at once from blue to black The co...

Officer Dan Do what you can To patch up your life Get back with your wife Give up your badge Get together with Madge For she will turn you on Ahon Ahon Ahon Ahon on on on Officer Dan You don’t have a plan You just have to think And stop being a fink...

You say you’re gonna kick out school today I’d really like to see you try You seem to have forgotten how the master threw shit in your eye Oh you crazy boy! They’re gonna laugh at you All those crazy things you say and do The money sang deep in his pant...

Did you hear about Kansas About an old Kansas boy Livin’ on the river In an old black Molloy n’ buying raw red gum n’ making raw red wine crazy as a stallion choked on a lariat line Got a belly like a boiler Got a head like a whale n’ when he moths yu...

is for the one who makes and takes you everywhere is for the loser and the one who keeps the prize is for the earth and sea we fly through the air is for the teacher if he only had time is for the children everywhere is for the father and the seed to come aliv...

All I want is a piece of my own A lot of land and some sticks To build a home Don't mind the dust And the cactus he don't kill In the morning I will drink my fill Big black eagle heavy in the sky I will teach my children The white dove she don't figh...

I laid on a poppy It laid on me A lot of thinking And did it all for free I thought of you….. I thought of you I wanted to swim in the river But I saw what they had done All the fish are dying in there and we ain’t got no sun I thought of you….. I...

A)The Psychopath I planted my sugar in the dark hills where we walked as a boy of thirteen. Trapped on briars in the dark mills trying to bury that woman. Hid in a wood, tried to be good, was hidden by a friendly tree. My dream, my dream, you should have...

The promise was a word – the word was fine Fine became a line – too fine to take it easy Easy was food – food was warm Warm became a weapon behind a locked door – with the cold turned on Then the word was a lie Turned Yellow – Fell down – Turned brown – T...

Sitting, laughing at the mindless humanoids croaking in their swarm. While recalling Omar Khayyam. How we changed in the holy sun high on holding hands. The pilot crashed with Rupert Brooke they blew together fast on other levels. He spoke, softly, opened by t...

It sends me reeling fast wheels and dealing But I’ll grow strong somehow So if we please you smile from the darkness You’re all we need for now Rock ‘n roll won’t save your soul Rock ‘n roll turns the plastic into gold So if you leave us we will be hel...

I went to see you mother She said that’s quite alright For you to take me in upon This coming Friday night We started drinking coffee She moved onto wine I’d rather have your mommy anytime – Pretty lady don’t you let it upset ya, It’s just that my sig...

Sister Angela What are they doing to you, my love? We could get you out – of there Sister Angela What are they saying to you, my comrade? They can’t let you go – love George. 

I’m so full of fear I’m afraid you won’t hear Me quietly breaking down Someone threw a bomb Now they’re all gone But nobody got hurt I’m afraid you won’t hear me I’m afraid you won’t hear Someone threw a bomb Now they’re all gone But nobody got hu...

My love is the wind as I trace down the highway The sun was as red as the blood of young wantons I’m lost and alone like a lamb in the night Why can we only speak down the wires? The desert was calling me back from the graveyard Tears on car windows like...

She lay in the dust began to die Wondering how long it would take her The scorpion drooled winked his eye Wondered if he could make her The pain was right twice as nice She realised she was in labour Life was a fight with men and mice Mind how you talk...

A) Hello mother, are you there Would it be all right to turn on the light though I’m over sixteen And another thing, everything you taught me has been washed away in the flood I dreamed and that ain’t all There’s a moth on the wall, says his name is “MOTH” w...

I was looking through her greasy draws to see what I could find I found the Ten Commandments stamped on her backside Her phone rang from her husband to show her that he cares I hope she told him how she was but didn’t tell him where Look at all the world...

I CLOSE MY EYES – BLACK LIGHT. I’m reaching out for anyone, Far across a void, Somewhere in the parish A beggar on a pile drops his sour bottle And it cracks into a smile Look at the man, ain’t it sad, I’ll give you bread if you give up your land Look...

There’s no vibrations – but wait Out of the night crept the words that had been lying behind the dusty doors And things that should be there, anywhere, as long as long as the cigarette smoke Curls up not down from the ashtray, soon be day. Negative - Nega...

What happened to their share? You took it away They bin living on welfare You took it away There’s people dying of hunger You took it away But you’re still playing the warmonger You can’t get away You can’t think you’re really gonna get away The peop...

I got things on my mind Growin’ wings on my time And my life’s flyin’ by and changin’ Might I see you by and by Just the once before we all die Though Heaven is gonna be a sight for eyes It’s derangin’ And I’m getting restless in this room The things...

When I first heard the news I was thinking of you And the words that were spoken Were bent and untrue It was a seemingly tragic affair at the end And just when we all were about to pretend I saw through his eyes as the sentence he spoke He stood up his...

A long time ago it seems so now A man who knew how said Do just as you’re told, you’re not very old I can make or break you son – That’s how I began My mother is concerned, all my bridges burned from totin’ this guitar When she’s displeased you can hear...

My mother voted Tory Daddy votd Red Now they all want me to be liberal But we're all dropping out instead No you won't get my vote You ain't got a hope I know what's already mine I'll take what I want And keep what I have It's time to draw the line!...

I'm crying out in desparation I'm tired of my frustration Deep and warm all around me And my mystery, she does confound me Stars may shine all around me So why can't somebody love me? Sweet Diana, fire my bow Make her see, then she will know Oh, sweet...