Elvis Costello

Photographs of fancy tricks to get your kicks at sixty-six He thinks of all the lips that he licks And all the girls that he's going to fix She gave a little flirt, gave herself a little cuddle But there's no place here for the mini-skirt waddle Capital p...

Oh, I used to be disgusted And now I try to be amused But since their wings have got rusted Y'know the angels wanna wear my red shoes But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain That's when I knew that I could not refuse And I won't get any older No...

If dust could only talk What would we hear it say? before it's brushed aside Just as it's swept away It's just the evidence It's of no consequence It's only flesh and bone Why don't you leave it alone? If dust could only gather into lines of chalk Around a s...

You turn to the sinister when you get the boot Slidin' down the banister in your Sunday suit Lyin' on a slag heap of blankets and magazines She's only thirty-five goin' on seventeen You'd better roll over and go to sleep if you don't come clean And in every h...

When nobody knows she puts on secret clothes And lies in the meadow with her hands tied behind her back I won't refuse if you know how to use it Just stop playing that ugly drug music CHORUS: Thirteen steps lead down Thirteen steps lead down There's commoners...

15 Petals One for every year I spent with you Jewels and precious metals will never do I love you twisted And I love you straight I'd write it down but I can't concentrate Words won't obey they do as they please And all I am left with are these... 15 Petals...

WHAT IS YOUR DESTINY? THE POLICE WOMAN SAID....(20% amnesia) The word that she wanted was destination I'm afraid (20% amnesia) This is your future boy, this is your fate (20% amnesia) And you're obsolete and they can't afford to educate you (20% amnesia) In h...

Bells are chiming for victory There's a page back in history 45 They came back to the world that they fought for Didn't turn out just like they thought 45 Here is a song to sing to do the measuring What do you lose, what do you gain, what do you win? Nine ye...

Five gears in reverse For girls looking at the big lift Somebody send out for the night nurse Please don’t stick me on the late shift If you don’t know by now Nobody’s gonna tell you If you don’t know by now The shock will probably kill you But if your patien...

The snitch, the snoop, the tattletale lead a threadbare up the stairs Adieu, my little ballyhoo, you broke my heart in two And now I haunt the bars and scent those trite affairs She went home to gather her comb and caught him unawares And there was her man en...

You can read right through a book of matches But that won't make you smart You can laugh in the face of watches But time will only break your heart Kings reign beneath umbrellas Hide pennies down in cellars And money pours down and yet No everyone gets soakin...

Oh, I just don't know where to begin Love doesn't wait forever It's now or never But she keeps 'em hangin' on You said you're so alone She says she can't go home without a chaperon Accidents will happen They only hit and run You used to be a victim now you're...

In an anonymous rendezvous Where the forbidden lovers repair They're burning down another damn candle They're melting the tables and chairs Beneath them applause from the balcony Whenever they accomplished making love Other times they thought they heard laugh...

You did it 'cause you wanted Alibi, alibi And you took it Cause you need it Alibi, alibi But if I've done something wrong there's no "ifs and buts" 'Cause I love you just as much as I hate your guts Alibi, alibi, alibi... And you don't need anybody Alibi, al...

Oh it's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl. And with the way you look I understand that you were not impressed. But I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress. I'm not going to get too sentimental like those other sticky va...

"I'm trouble," she said. Spread out on the floor of her father's house Her promise was almost undone Under her tongue, dissolving her responsibilities To finally deny everyone with unflattering comparison All grown up And you don't care anymore And you hate a...

1-2-3, 2-2-3 The twitching impulses to speak your mind I'll lend you my microscope and maybe you will find it Is it in that ugly place that's just behind your face Where you keep my picture still despite the fact That you had me replaced Say "Goodbye" Baby c...

Mistreat me darling, and I might just disappear Upon freighter running dark out of Algiers Put tiny grains in children tears While taking twenty five percent Of all the flashbulbs and mementos From the mechanized divisions rolling over your frontiers I saw my...

It's at times such as this she'd be tempted to spit If she wasn't so ladylike She imagines how she might have lived back when legends and history collide So she looks to her prince finding he's so charmingly slumped at her side Those days are recalled on...

Almost doing things we used to do There's a girl here and she's almost you Almost all the things that your eyes once promised I see in hers too Now your eyes are red from crying Almost blue Flirting with this disaster became me It named me as the fool w...

Here she comes with her almost ideal eyes And her flawless skin and her petulant pout The memory of such a long blond alibi Still makes me want to shout out loud and clear When you clear your head my dear You can't come out here in those stolen clothes Tel...

Outside in New Orleans, the heat was almost frightening But my hotel room as usual was freezing and unkind On TV, they prosecute anyone who's exciting So I put on my overcoat and went down to find In Revlon and Crimpelene, they captured my heart To the s...

You're a fine one, oh yes you are You're a fine one just like me And we're friends now, oh wouldn't you say? We've been friends now, oh haven't we? Stay at home tonight if you know what's good for you I can't say more it would be telling For if you don't what...

Hey fellow with a million smackers And nervous indigestion Rich fellow, eats milk and crackers I'll ask you one question You silly so and so With all your dough Are you havin' any fun? What y'gettin' out o' livin'? What good is what you've got If you're not h...

(Sha, la, la, la...) It's not the way you look that touched my heart. It's not the way you kissed me, baby, that tears me apart. Many, many nights I tried. I sit alone at home and I cried over you. What can I do? I can't help myself, cause baby, it's you. You...

Bama Lama Bama Loo Gotta girl named Lucinda They call her the great pretender Gotta girl named Lucinda They call her the great pretender And when she talks She says a Bama Lama Loo Bama Lama Bama Loo Bama Lama Bama Loo Bama Lama Bama Loo Bama Lama Bama Loo We...

Lucy Grace can't show her face down in the North End Road For in Bellgravia Rumours have been whispered and suggestions have been made Did you sell your friends out when the heat got too intense? You say you need the danger, but it's only a pretence You say...

Every day is so wonderful And suddenly, it's hard to breathe Now and then, I get insecure From all the pain, I'm so ashamed I am beautiful no matter what they say Words can't bring me down I am beautiful in every single way Yes, words can't bring me down So d...

I am starting to function In the usual way Everything is so provocative Very very, temporary I shall walk (I shall walk) Out of this place (out of this place) I shall walk Out on you 'Cause you go silly If she's willing Trying so hard to be like the big boys...

Sheep to the slaughter oh I thought this must be love All your sons and daughters in a strangle hold with a kid glove She's got eyes like saucers oh you think she's a dish She is the blue chip that belongs to the big fish Chorus: But it's easier to say "I lov...

Everyone is busy with the regular routine The sniper just takes his aim Everyone is window shopping, no one is amazed Even if he hit you, you'd still think it's just a graze You go to a movie, you go to a show You think that you're living, you don't really kno...

I was looking at the black and white world It seemed so exciting If you'd only put me back to back with that girl When the night's inviting With just a little lighting There'll never be days like that again When I was just a boy and men were men You never go f...

Vain boys are gonna have to swallow their pride this time So let the punishment fit the crime It's under the table Under your skin Into the cable Is this the death of the glory you're in? Chorus: Black sails in the sunset White noise going yakety-yak All the...

Once upon a time, I had a little money. Government burglars took it long before I could mail it to you. Still, you are the only one. Now I can't let it slip away. So if the man with the ticker tape, he tries to take it, well this is what I'm gonna say....

I feel like a boy with a problem I can't believe what we've forgotten And I even slapped your face and made you cry It's the last thing I want to do Pull the curtains on me and you Pull the carpet from under love Pull out like young lovers do You swore you w...

Alone in the crowd Simply taking up space You would never admit to tears Till they're rolling down your face One day, love, long from now Maybe you'll leave that we Live in bright blue times Alone in the dark There's a voice in your head You would never admi...

I hold you in my arms There's a band playing What are those words whispered, baby Just as you turn away? Well, I saw you last night Out on the edge of town I wanna read your mind and know Just what I got in this new thing I found So tell me what I see W...

He thought he was the King of America Where they pour Coca Cola just like vintage wine Now I try hard not to become hysterical But I'm not sure if I am laughing or crying I wish that I could push a button And talk in the past and not the present tense And wat...

If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding, I'll call it my wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains If I am drifti...

No one looks in this place for motive or any hope But for the dead shot of an amber glass, the blue light of a votive Rain obscured the window as the pain was dulled by the grains Absolved by spoons in flames and fear in time dissolving It's not for the faint...

She says what has her daddy done That you want him to be punished When she woke up one day to find That he was starting to vanish But if you hope to hear voices You know you should not be listening Push the vigilant lips Make a slice of her face Said the scand...

So you think that you have seen her When you're lying in between her And you tell me that you don't care Busy bodies getting nowhere Ev'rybody's getting meaner Busy bodies Caught in the concertina You check her outline Break her regulations You watch her leg...

Old man sunshine, listen you Never tell me dreams come true Just try it and I'll start a riot Beatrix Fairfax, don't you dare Ever tell me she will care I'm certain it's the final curtain I never want to hear from any cheerful Pollyannas Who tell you fate prov...

Everyday seem like Sunday It must be something that I have done I saw you dancing in the peep-show That every episode is leading me on I'm just another fool that you've got to humor Can't say I love you when it's just a rumor But if none of your dreams come...

Can you be true? Can this possibly be real? I knew quite suddenly Do you sense how I feel? I long to hear you Whisper my name Till you tell me "My Darling, you may be my man." There will be days when you must go from my sight There may be nights when clouds...

We were waltzin' together to a dreamy melody When they called out "Change partners" And you waltzed away from me Now my arms feel so empty as I gaze around the floor And I'll keep on changing partners Till I hold you once more Though we danced for one m...

Men made out of monkeys Men made into mice Happy days are here again And all the drinks half price A girl with a trick and a man with a calling Trying to make a living out of your downfalling TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING out of anything at all Didn't they teach yo...

Oh well, I feel so loose tonight, I might fall to pieces So be prepared to sweep me out the door And I might be horizontal by the time the music ceases So I think I'll get acquainted with the floor Oh, I was trying to get away from the things that I alway...

She throws back her hair [hands] and she shows you her mouth The breath that I waste trying to ruin your life Beauty's on a budget but you take it on the chin 'Cause you have to do your duty taking orders from the kingpin You've got a chemistry class I want a...

With their cardboard hands by their sides Here's a naked man and lady And they're yours to cut out and keep So you can dress them up maybe They don't know just who they are Or who they're supposed to be You can make them happy or sad Or assume their identity...

She stood spot lit in a plain print dress Came howling out of the wilderness There beat a cunning and murderous heart Beneath that calm exterior You know my name, you don't know my mind Don't doubt my eyes, they betray the past And I've already forgotten Much...

Payday's coming and we wash it away Clean money, clean money Payday's coming and we wash it away Clean money, clean money That's what I want to do I want to spend it on you Checking on a checkmate Classing out a classmate So beautiful and fortunate He hates t...

She'll fix you with an iron cross And cover you up with petals And hang you up with some amber beads And four or five precious metals And in that black flamingo chair You'll sit among her trophies And pray to be abandoned Till you don't know what hope i...

Tears on your blackmail Written to ransom A point of the fingernail Says that he's handsome [Chorus:] Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk Clowntime is over A voice in the shadow...

With a handful of backhanders and a bevy of beauty You're going off limits Going off duty Going off the rails Going off with booty They tell tales of fiction found on all the criminal types Lead to a higher ranking man or a face with thin red stripes T...

Yesterday's coal train came to rest in the bitter cutting And as the signals took an age to change it was easy pickings So you go to the movies where they smash it up You want to feel your heart pumping it makes you feel good All through the karaoke girls were...

Come away, come away, death And in sad cyprus let me be laid Fie away, fie away, breath I am slain by a fair cruel maid My shroud of white stuck all with you O prepare it My part of death no one so true Did share it Come away, come away, death Not a flower, n...

I saw a girl who'd found her consolation She said, "One day my Prince of Peace will come." Above her head a portrait of her father The wilted favour that he gave her still fastened to the frame "They've got his bones and everything he owns I've got his name."...

I thought I would go to the sea and shrink down very tiny And slide inside the telephone wire that runs under the briny Till I found there is a way of crawling to the U.S.A. You had better not go too far There's one way out, there's only one way Leave your mo...

I'm crazy, crazy for feeling so lonely I'm crazy crazy for feeling so blue I knew that you'd love me as long as you wanted And then some day you'd leave me for somebody new Worry, why do I let myself worry Wondering what in the world did I do I'm crazy for th...

Everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down They say you only live to see the lights of town I wasted my time when I would try, try, try 'Cause when the lights have lost their glow, you'll cry, cry, cry Soon your sugar-daddies will all be gone And you...

There is a button and there's a switch There is a needle and there's a dial There is a lever I want to lift And still you treat me like I'm a child Daddy can I turn this? Daddy can I turn this? Will it be very dangerous? Or will it taste nice? You wash your h...

Did anybody notice, over marmalade and eggs In between the princess' legs What with wars and floods and beggars Not to mention stocks and shares Well, if you have a moment to spare Can you write and reassure me that I have seen That they're constructing a time...

Thank you for the days Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me I'm thinking of the days I won't forget a single day believe me I bless the light I bless the light that shines on you believe me And though you're gone You're with me every singl...

Dear sweet filthy world, my wife Or whoever reads this I think that I've lived too long With all of my promise unfulfilled But there is a veil drawn over all of that I know you'll probably say "Spare us the melodrama." "I don't know how he chose The pills or...

One day you're going to have to face The deep dark truthful mirror And it's going to tell you things that I still Love you too much to say The sky was just a purple bruise The ground was iron And you fell all around the town Until you looked the same The sam...

Deep dead blue Deep dead blue Deep dead blue that nightly shades I'm lost in deep dead blue Deep dead blue Beyond the deep dead blue 

"Abel was able," so Vivian said Her shoulders flung forward Her lips in a purse She talks like the beauty that she never was Of the fabulous wild nights that she never has In a certain light he looked like Elvis In a certain way he feels like Jesus Everyone d...

In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub, bar and grill Standing in the fiberglass ruins watching time stand still All your troubles you confess to another faceless, backless dress Schnapps, chianti, porter and ouzo Pernod, vodka, sambuca--I love you so Deportee...

Please put your rings on a diff'rent finger if you meet me tonight 'Cause I can't stand those suspicious glances 'Cause I know the things they're saying are right They're saying why don't you straighten up And see what you've got to lose Put it all down to fa...

I recall the good old days But thankfully, they've gone Now the ponies all are broken nags That stumble as they groan And throw the jockeys from their throne When there are pitches left to dodge And lions left to tame But it's nothing but a dirty rotten shame...

Sugar cube drop into a yellow cup What makes the world just waking up Revolve? Dissolve Who knows where on earth it's going to stop? I can't hear you 'cos we're breaking up Dissolve And the stones in the track make work for the mechanic The birds all fly from...

Burn the midnight lamp Down until the dawn I'll keep watch Until I'm sure you're coming home Shadows play And flicker on the bedroom wall They turn into a bad dream overnight Something could be terribly wrong Don't be careless love Don't be careless love Don'...

Well, I got a gal that's sweet to me She just ain't what she used to be Just a little high headed That's plain to see Don't get above your raisin' Stay down to earth with me Now lookee here gal don't you high hat me I ain't forgot what you used to be When yo...

Baby can you understand me now Sometimes I feel a little mad Don't you know that no one alive can always be an angel When things go wrong I seem to be mad I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord please don't let me be misunderstood Baby som...

Down among the wines and spirits Where a man gets what he merits Once he was written in letters of nine feet tall Now he finds how far he's fallen Since he set his mind on her completely Oh well, I guess that you mustn't have seen him lately Walking around wi...

Everything seems so tranquil Home movies with no subtitles Don't you wish you knew what they were sayin' When the film keeps playin', playin' ? Oh, he's Doctor Luther's assistant He'll close in when he seems so distant Doctor Luther's assistant He'll get on t...

I sat in a motel room with the doctor Just before we were supposed to sing He said regarding this guardian wing This black and clipped misshapen thing Hobbling on from claw to ring Hung upside down and cawing Pecking at carrion of the fallen Battalion Thawing...

Hey everybody I'm a talking to you I ain't telling you jealous It's just the natural truth Oh oh oh I got the Eisenhower Blues Thinking about me and you and what on earth are we gonna do? My money's gone, the fun is gone The way things look I can't be here lo...

I feel for you, you little horror Safe at your mother's breast No lucky break for you around the corner 'Cause your father is a bully And he thinks that you're a pest And your sister she's no better than a whore. Life seems so rosy in the cradle, But I'll be...

I spy through the "Spirit of Curiosity" All the scandals of each vain monstrosity I gossip and I pry and I insinuate If the failure is great, then it tends to fascinate A tornado dropped a funnel cloud with twenty tons of rain Though she had the attention spa...

I can't believe the things I've seen I wonder bout some things I've heard Everybody's crying mercy When they don't know the meaning of the word A bad enough situation Is sure enough getting worse Everybody's crying justice Just as long as there's business fir...

Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better WHEN YOU FIND STRANGE HANDS IN YOUR SWEATER When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote I'm a man on a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyd...

I marvel at the wonder of it in our souless age Fast flow the tears upon the page Don't be alarmed, I am her friend Will I be excused if I presume As it's more than disappointment that we share You share the same sorry life, the families fight That unhappy bl...

All the leaves are turning yellow, red and brown Soon they'll be scattered as they tumble down Although they may be swept up so invitingly I never did what I was told I trampled though the amber and the burnished gold But now I clearly see how cruel the young...

Figure hanging on a leather band Cog consults the watch he cups in his hand Bejeweled movement measures lost and vanished time Pray for the boy who makes his bed in cold earth and quicklime So stay the hands, arrest the time Till I am captured by your touch B...

Here she comes, you better watch your step She's going to break your heart in two, it's true It's not hard to realize, just look into her false colored eyes She builds you up to just put you down, what a clown 'Cause everybody knows (she's a femme fatale) The...

I remember that dance On the roof of my car When St. Lucy's mad torch Took away our best bar Say we drank And we prayed Some just sat like a choir Came the smoke In the night Came the heat Came the fire Ember glow lagered ash I was pissed as a fart Stricken...

That all could gather That we could marry Still Faces absent That she could see this As if time hovered That he'd caress him That jars and lads and Carol Ann were Shouts from brilliant corners Word 'n tears confused Sparks long sky bound Long sky bound Had I...

Now you've heard our refrain And this story must end 'Cause the stars can't stay up They can only descend Say we drank And we prayed Some just sit like a choir Came the smoke In the night Came the heat Came the fire Timber tender Tender will you remember Gri...

When Sunday morning dandruff turns out to be confetti And the cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty The girl in your dreams would have you up on an under age charge And the man of the moment is the lifer at large Chorus: If you've got...

Maybe you'll recognize in time Maybe one day you will discover All the pain that lies behind You and your unfortunate love Somebody might be more Unsuitable and strange With eyes that offer everything That are capable of danger My mind turns over lies you to...

I don't know what I would do If this letter should fall into Other hands than it should pass through For other eyes He said, "It was nothing, it's over and done." But the rotten worm was burrowing still It's spirit invades me bleeding me white For other repli...

Oh, a TV went off like three day old milk That shook this town down better than most And it always was less of an idea and more of a boast Oh, you're burning in the bloom of life Till you're powder in the grave Or you're pounding In the counter begging for mo...

Oh it's not easy to resist temptation Walking around looking like a figment of somebody else's imagination Taking ev'ry word she says just like an open invitation But the power of persuasion is no match for anticipation Chorus: Like a finger running down a se...

Oh, well, now you're the girl I'm simply mad about. Oh yes, I'm really glad it's been me. Oh yeah. I hope that you've been getting ready, 'Cause I'm gonna ask you to go steady with me. I got two eyes that happened by ya, And when they saw you, they said they k...

Like a full force gale I was lifted up again I was lifted up again by the Lord No matter where I roam I will find my way back home I will always return to the Lord In the gentle evening breeze By the whispering shady trees I will find my sanctuary in the Lor...

Georgie grew to hate her name It sounded like a tiny man And the one she had said "I can't see you But I'll call you whenever I can" Sometimes the phone would ring, when she was half-asleep A voice would drag her down with its suggestions Though she often fel...

At last I've awakened to see what you've done. All I can do is pack up and run. Now I know the rules. Find yourself another fool. You said that you loved me. I was yours to command. Your kind of loving, my heart couldn't stand. You played me for a fool. Find y...

I'm packing up my memories And I'm gonna move all out of your heart I'm turning in my keys And I'm gonna move all out of your heart 'Cause there ain't room enough for two In dreams that were made for me and you I'm telling you, it's getting mighty crowded Too...

Gigi Am I a fool without a mind? Or have I nearly been too blind to realize Oh, Gigi While you've been growing up before my eyes Gigi You're not all that funny or quick little girl I knew No, overnight there's been a breathless change in you Oh, Gigi While y...

There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder Thought I heard you mention my name, can't you talk any louder? Don't come any closer, don't come any nearer My vision of you can't get any clearer Oh, i just want to hear girls talk I got a lo...

Well, enter Madam X Painted in a shocking pink spangled dress Her teeth are perfect but her mouth is loose Rubbing their hands together She persuades them that it's better to confess Which unpleasant fate they'd like to choose Every step might be your last Mo...

Sunday is gloomy, my hours are slumberless Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless Little white flowers will never awaken you Not when the black coach of sorrow has taken you Angels have no thought of ever returning you Would they be angry if I thought...

Now I have nothing So God give me strength 'Cause I'm weak in her wake And if I'm strong I might still break And I don't have anything to share That I won't throw away into the air That song is sung out This bell is rung out She was the light that I'd bless S...

I wish you'd known me when I was alive, I was a funny feller The crowd would hoot and holler for more I wore a drunk's red nose for applause Oh yes I was a comical priest "With a joke for the flock and a hand up your fleece" Drooling the drink and the l...

They say that today makes up for what yesterday lacked And it must be some old day and that is a fact Can’t talk to nobody, don’t know just how they’ll react Weigh the silver and gold Be precise and exact How can today make up for yesterday For it we br...

can hardly bear the sight of lipstick on the cigarettes there in the ashtray Lyin' cold the way you left 'em, but at least your lips caressed them while you packed Or the lip-print on a half-filled cup of coffee that you poured and didn't drink But at least yo...

Mother, Father, I'm here in the zoo I can't come home 'cause I've grown up too soon I got my sentence I got my command They said they'd make me major if I met all their demands I could be a corp'ral into corp'ral punishment Or the gen'ral manager of a large e...

There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen Who comes into my house every night. And she takes all the red, yellow, orange and green And she turns them into black and white. But you tease, and you flirt And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt...

No, don't ask me to apologise. I won't ask you to forgive me.� If I'm gonna go down, you're gonna come with me You say 'Why don't you be a man about it, like they do in the grown-up movies?' But when it comes to the other way around, you say you just wanna us...

He selects the plainest face From a spiteful row of girls Elegant insulted women A flaw of cultured pearls He drops a name or two She fails to catch At last he's met his match Unspoiled and unaffected, he wants her so much She puts up half-hearted resistance...

I got the picture that you gave to me And it's signed with love, just like it used to be The only thing different, the only thing new I got the picture, he's got you I got the records that we used to share And they still sound the same, as when you were here...

We used to call it Sin City now it's gone way past that. Painting the town and then burning it down. And even that's old hat. Now there' a choir of angles and the fall of Rome singing "Ave Maria" or "Home Sweet Home" Chorus: It's just a heathen town I hear on...

Her lips are sweet Her legs are big Her looks can make you Dance the jig Her touch is so soft Her heart is so warm What knocks me out Is your hidden charms Her voice is so soft Her love is so true I think about her That's all I do She's weak and wanton In my...

I'm sorry to say that you don't know me I'm sad in ways you never understood Each time I try to tell the ugly truth You always let it pass you by You said I 'd never tell you a lie Just because I could Did you really think I was a bad man? You always sa...

Some things you never get used to Even though you're feeling like another man There's nothing that he can do for you To shut me away as you walk through Lovers laughing in their amateur hour Holding hands in the corridors of power Even though I'm with somebody...

Come into this house and stop that yakity yak 'Cause your sugar-daddy don't want no talkin' back You keep on babblin', talkin' 'bout this and that I got news for ya baby, you ain't nothin' but an alley cat Turn off the waterworks baby, they don't move me no m...

Who do you see when you turn your eyes down? Who do you see when I'm not seeing you? The news is out all over town and all these girls Are taking turns at being you Chorus: Well, well, well You'd better make up your mind Honey, are you straight or are yo...

Five miles out of London on the Western Avenue Must have been a wonder when it was brand new Talkin' 'bout the splendour of the Hoover factory I know that you'd agree if you had seen it too It's not a matter of life or death But what is, what is ? It doesn't m...

Siren is bending, the radio humming Sun is breaking through and the storm is coming The score is obscure, the melody fractured It went by my window, refused to be captured I hope that I wake up in time Good King Neptune came flipping up my street He was a sa...

Is this is not a pretty tale? Is this not a riddle? A bow shoots arrows through the air A bow drags notes from a fiddle But who is the beau of poor girl's dreams? That a king may send to battle Is this not a pretty tale? Is this not a riddle? If red i...

I was hell-bent on destroying my powers of concentration While you were living like a saint And all the time the very one you trusted was washing off Somebody else's paint Now you've got yourself a brand new occupation Every fleeting thought is a pearl And be...

I know I've just gotta get out of this place I can't stand any more of that mechanical grace Though you say it's only industrial squeeze It looks like luxury and feels like a disease Oh give it to me, give it to me I don't want to know much about much Give it...

The man in the corner of this picture has a sinister purpose In the teeming Temple of the Railroad Kings He's planting a trashy paperback book for accidental purchase Containing all the secrets of life and other useless things But I can't bring myself to look...

Thank you for the flowers I threw them on the fire And I burned the photographs that you had enclosed God they were ugly children So you're the little bastard of that brother of mine Trying to trick a poor old woman Till I almost had a weakness Last week Cous...

I've been around the world in a plane I've settled revolutions in Spain But lately I'm so down hearted Cause I can't get started with you When I sell kisses in a bazaar The girls line up from near and from far I dig the fourth dimension But I get no attention...

I'm the living result I'm a man who's been hurt a little too much And I've tasted the bitterness of my own tears Sadness is all my lonely heart can feel I can't stand up for falling down I can't stand up for falling down Simple though love is Still it confus...

but it's easier every time sleep my darling, don't you cry there's too many towns that I never have met and there's too many people to find I sleep in a van or outside the summer sun in my eyes sleep my darling, don't you cry I never want to go home again, ag...

I dreamed of my old lover last night I wonder if I spoke out loud And if by chance my husband overheard He put my face back in the crowd His eyes were clear and gentle then He kissed the troubles from my brow I long to fall to sleep again And I wonder how he...

Well, there's a difference in the way that you kissed me And there's a sadness in your eyes that you can't hide Why do you tremble when I hold you? I wonder if you feel the same I felt the chill, before the winter came But it's easy to say that I won't give i...

It's easy to do, it's not so easy to say I was talking to you when you took my tongue away I hear a melody and I feel so ashamed I got nothing you'd need and you're so hard to blame I hear a melody, I hear a melody I hear a melody and you're so hard to blame...

I lost you, I lost you You slipped from your costume Like an actress in this tragedy You're just an apparition in this haunting mystery I fear that you've passed over me And there's nothing I can do because I lost you Just like a rich man who is careles...

girl I stand accused people say I love you yeah, I stand accused oh but what can I do you belong to some other guy hope I never have to testify if loving you is a big crime I've been guilty a long time girl I stand accused with no more than a chance yeah I st...

I thought I'd write to Juliet For she would understand And when someone is already dead They can no longer let you down Instead I find myself talking to you As my oldest friend Tell me how I can advise someone That I don't even know to welcome death For I re...

I once held her In my arms She said she would always stay But I was cruel And I treated her like a fool I threw it all away Once I had mountains In the palm of my hand And rivers to drink through everyday But I must have been mad I never knew what I had Until...

Sometimes I try so hard to resist You say you will and I say you won't Sometimes I think that you don't exist And sometimes you don't Pinch me 'cause I don't believe it Kiss me 'cause it feels like a hit I turn around and you're not there Why must it always b...

Why must I be so lonely? When so many people pass me by I've been waiting for oh so long now And yet I'm unable to answer why I can't be made to give up now Can you find room for me in your heart somehow? I wanna be loved I just wanna be loved I guess I'm a v...

Oh my baby baby I love you more than I can tell I don't think I can live without you And I know that I never will Oh my baby baby I want you so it scares me to death I can't say anymore than "I love you" Everything else is a waste of breath I want you...

Close your eyes, make a wish And blow out the candlelight For tonight is just your night We're gonna celebrate, All through the night Pour the wine, light the fire Girl your wish is my command I submit to your demands I will do anything, Girl you need only as...

I hate these flaming curtains they're not the color of your hair I hate these strip lights they're not so undoing as your stare I hate the buttons on your shirt when all I wanna do is tear I hate this bloody big bed of mine when you're not here [Chorus:] Well...

Yes it's still lonely having Just her picture here with me And I know I just can't stand it anymore I'm gonna leave right now And go back where I ought to be Goin' home to the girl that I adore Well it's so very hard to have To leave the one you love And you g...

Hail to the taxis They go where I go Farewell the newspapers that know more than I know Flung under a street-lamp still burning at dawn I'm in the mood again I walk the damp streets rather than slumber Along the fine windows of shameless and plunder But none...

You're upstairs with the boyfriend while i'm left her to listen i hear you calling his name, i hear teh stutter of ignition i could hear you whispering as i crept by your door so you found some other joker who would please you more i'm not angry i'm not angry...

You may be sweet and nice That won't keep you warm at night 'Cause I'm the one who taught you how To do the things you're doing now He may feel all your charms He may hold you in his arms But I'm the one who let you in I was right beside you then Once upon a...

The night we met The night that I won't forget You've seen what I've been waiting for But baby, I've been wrong before You held me tight And everything seemed just right I couldn't ask for more But baby, I've been wrong before She used to smile at me And hol...

So you're trying to make connection, you heard whispers in the hall She'll be out again this evening, when you come around to call So, you dodge the lady-killer, who came creepin' 'cross the floor Then you caught up in a whirlwind, you got blown right out the...

How long do I have to wait? Before I can tell you the things I've been wanting to say How long must I hesitate? I know it makes sense but it's hard for me to stay away But if this is how it has to be Maybe it's just a feeling That I could name But I'd probabl...

Everyone agreed that she looked delightful Except for her sister, who was hateful and spiteful Blushing bright red from her head to her feet But rushing into her bridal suite The imperial bedroom, the regal boudoir This casual acquaintance led to an intimate...

You can take a powder You can take a drink You can keep the shrink And the kitchen sink Write my name in heaven in invisible ink I just woke up from dreaming, I think You can take me over You can give me a lip You can take me under You can give me the slip Ta...

We play these parlour games We play at make believe When we get to the part I say that I'm going to leave Everybody loves a happy ending But we don't even try We go straight past pretending To the part where everybody loves to cry Indoor fireworks Can still...

The bats are in the belfry The dew is on the moor Where are the arms that held me And pledged her love before And pledged her love before [Chorus:] It's such a sad old feeling The fields are soft and green It's memories that I'm stealing But you're innocent w...

Now that you set everybody free What are you going to do about me? Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown I'd rather go back to the sweet underground Where I can tell the time by the colour of my skin And I know my neighbour 'cause he's the on...

Why do I do, just as you say Why must I just, give you your way Why do I sigh, why don't I try to forget It must have been, that something lovers call fate Kept me saying: "I have to wait" I saw them all, just couldn't fall 'til we met It had to be you,...

I see you walk with him I see you talk to him It tears me up, oh, it tears me up And I can't stop crying Oh, baby, I can't stop crying I see you kiss his lips And squeeze his fingertips It tears me up, oh, baby, it tears me up And there's nothing I can do abo...

When we first met I didn't know what to do My old love lines were all worn out on you And the world walked 'round at my mouth They lit me up and they snuffed me out And I was everybody's boy But soon that thrill just fades To be the love of one true heart Or...

Sister 4 and brothers 3 Hanging off the family tree Practising for getting old Do you want your fortune told? They're looking for you high and low Now there's nowhere for you to go So you'll just have to come out and face the music Jacksons, Monk and Rowe Lo...

Third-Class ticket in his pocket Punching out the shadows underneath the sockets Tweed coat turned up against the fog Slow coaches rolling o'er the moor Between the very memory And approaches of war Stale bread curling on a luncheon counter Loose change lone...

The children sit upon the stairs High above a valley of tears Don't let them see you crying that way oh no Oh no Joe Porterhouse Is not gone forever He'll be back another day Don't let them see you crying that way Chorus Please don't wake him let him sleep I...

The accused will rise to be torn in two Guilty of nothing but loving you This is the judgment And I'm willing to plead How you don't want me Hoping this torment will cease Will I be released There'll be lies, there'll be tears A jury of your peers With a pit...

Everybody's talking like they can't sit down And looking like they can't stand up It must be the lastest style And they've seen a lot of things that you never see Back on the mile up to the hanging tree Some people can't keep their fingers clean Just clicking...

Layin' about, lyin' in bed Maybe it was something that I thought I'd said With the tempo of today and the temptation of tomorrow I don't know if I could give you anything but sorrow They stay alive this late on Radio Five But the pen that I write with won't te...

I'm just about glad that I knew you once And it was more than just a passing acquaintance I'm just about glad that it was a memory That doesn't need constant maintenance There are a few things that I regret But nothing that I need to forget For all of the cour...

Kinder Murder Here in the bar, the boys like to have fun There's a wager lost and an argument won There's a stone-washed damsel on a junk food run It's a kinder murder There's a ladder to heaven from a battered stiletto Spitting out the words tha...

Cheap cut satin and bad perfume Showtime is almost here Teased up by a strip cartoon Laughing up your sleeve Sniggering in your beer He'd seen the bottom of a lot of glasses But he'd never seen love so near He'd seen love get so expensive But he'd never seen l...

She had her mind made up just like her face She painted in the lines and shadows She shaded color in that would express The lonely mood that follows Love, short and painful and tidy lies in self-defense She just told a thing or two to the King of Confidence Y...

I had forgotten all about 'The Case Of The Three Pins' THEY SAID I MUST BE CRACKED Until the brown paper parcel landed on my welcome mat Even the pretty secretaries who wouldn't even Let me HANG MY HAT All recognize my handwriting And return to sender as a mat...

There'll never be a spring so perfect again We'll never see a yellow so rich The grass will never be quite as green And there'll never be a kiss like your kiss There will never be a summer so complete We'll never see a palette like this Berries will never tas...

Hush my little one don't cry so You know your Daddy's bound to go They took his pride They took his voice Don't upset him now, don't make a noise They said "You're lucky son you've still got a choice" Last boat leaving Don't waste your tears It's not a...

You better leave my kitten all alone You better leave my kitten all alone Well I tell you big bad bulldog Well, you better leave her alone Don't you know My kitten isn't dead Don't you know My kitten isn't dead So get your hands off of her Cause I'm her lovin...

calling mister oswalkd with the swastika tatoo there is a vacancy waiting in the english voodoo varving 'v' for vandal on the guilty boy's head when he's had enough maybe you can take him to bed to teach him he's alive 'fore he wishes he was dead turn up the...

Here's a thought to dwell upon, Daddy's girl is almost gone Now there's just a vain princess 'her ruthlessness' Tearing up the nursery Stars more used to glittering Pictured in the guttering Faces caught about to laugh Torn in half Slipping through your finger...

Bentley said to Craig "Let him have it Chris" They still don't know today just what he meant by this Craig fired the pistol, but was too young to swing So the police took Bentley and the very next thing Let him dangle Let him dangle Bentley had surrendered, h...

I wasn't very indiscreet and yet That is a notion that I might as well forget Friends look at me these days with fond surprise But when I start to speak they roll their eyes Let me tell you about her Hush now, I've said too much There's something indescribabl...

Hear what I say See what I do Believe me now I'm all over you All over you I know a place A CERTAIN VERY TENDER SPOT TO HAVE AND TO HOLD TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT Listening to the sad song that the radio plays Have we come this fa-fa-fa to find a soul cliche Let th...

You could have a great career, And you should; Yes you should. Only one thing stops you dear: You're too good; Way too good! If you want a future, darlin', Why don't you get a past? 'Cause that fateful moment's comin' at last... We're all alone, no chaperone...

Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please And if things don't change soon, he will. For man has invented his doom, First step was touching the moon. Now, there's a woman on my block, She just sit there as the night grows still. She s...

Shall I wear a buttonhole to jog your memory? So you'll recall the promise That I swore you made to me when we were younger You look sorry for yourself but what about? I'm some idea you're not without a doubt So you can put away that tongue I don't know...

You left the motor running. But I know you're so attractive. Getting in some sharp practice. You better not do anything reckless. But everybody is going through the motions. Everybody is going through the motions. Are you really only going through the motions...

Don't say you love me when it's just a rumour Don't say a word if there is any doubt. Sometimes I think that love is just a tumour; you've got to cut it out. You say you're sorry for the things that you've done. You say you're sorry but you know you don't mea...

Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes just the same There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same An...

You can take a powder, you can take a drink You can keep the shrink and the kitchen sink You can write my name in heaven in invisible ink Just leave a feeling when there's no time to think Little goody two shoes is here to clinch You can miss by a mile or you...

In Chocolate Town all the trains are painted brown On the silver paper of the wrapper There's a dapper little man And he wears a wax moustache That he twists with nicotine fingers As he drops his cigarette ash And someone comes and sweeps it up A...

Little triggers that you pull with your tongue. Little triggers. I don't wanna be hung up, strung up, when you don't call up. Little sniggers on your lips. Little triggers in your grip. Little triggers. My hand on your hip. Thinkin' all about those censored...

I don't like those other guys looking at your curves I don't like you walking round with physical jerks Everything they say and do is getting on my nerves Soon the will be lucky to be picking up the perks 'Cause when they pull the shutters down and throw up i...

Outside my window Not long before sleep arrives They come with their sirens And they sweep away all the boys Busy draining the joy from their lives They never said their prayers out loud And while I'm dreaming There's a passing motor car That broadcasts a pop...

Before Lord God made the sea and the land, He held all the stars in the palm of his hand. And they ran through his fingers like grains of sand, And one little star fell alone. Then the Lord God hunted through the wide night air For the little dark star in the...

The tears of a lonely man are hidden within As he moves from one woman to the next, his spirit grows thin When he falls in love with one, it’s hard but it’s true But it’s oh so much harder when that woman is you The leaves on the trees shake when the stor...

1, 2 A-1, 2, 3, 4 It's going 'round the town It's going 'round the town It's going 'round the town You're so lovable It's going 'round the town It's going 'round the town It's going 'round the town You're so lovable My baby gave me notice to quit I just can...

When the only sound on the empty street Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet That belong to a lonesome cop I open shop When the moon so long has been gazing down On the wayward ways of a wayward town That a smile becomes a smirk I go to work Love for sale App...

You won't take my love for tender You can put your money where your mouth is But you're so unsure I could be a miser or a big spender But you might get much more than you bargained for Check in on a checkmate Grassing on a classmate So beautiful and fortunate...

I've looked at it every way I can From under and above And every chance I've had My love went mad Love went mad love went mad You you feel like I feel? Do you have a heart? DO YOU HAVE A HEART OF IRON AND STEEL? Are you a man now you wear a man's hat? Are you...

I won't walk with my head bowed (Be on) Beyond caution where lovers walk My love walks where three's a crowd Beyond caution where lovers walk Lovers walk, lovers scramble Beyond caution where the lovers walk Lovers step, shuffle and gamble Beyond caution wher...

I have always needed somebody, girl But I close the doors to keep out the world But for you I would be here all alone Locked in a photograph All of the clocks have run down Lover beware We'll be the lovers that never were I hang patiently on every word you s...

Dressed up like a dog's dinner Butter wouldn't melt in your mouth If this is a dog's life Then you're the cat's claws They hire out your sons And hire out your daughters The man from abroad says he's already bought her And now you look like a lover but you're...

Five in the morning, she would fix my lunch Put it in a paper sack Where I’m headed, I always appreciate it But I’d rather stay married to my hack I move like the breeze, and the birds and the bees That I’ve never been known to look back I got fifteen w...

Now there's newsprint all over your face Well maybe that's why I can read you like a book Just when I thought I was getting my taste to bite I go and lose my appetite Look at the man that you'd call uncle They'd like to sink their teeth into you For the pride...

You never asked me what I wanted. You only asked me why. I never thought that so much trouble was restin' on my reply, I could say it was the nights when I was lonely and you were the only one who'd come. I could tell you that I like your sensitivity, when you...

She came dancing right before my eyes She said she'd came to warn me Before it dawned on me I went walking on the blank hillside Where the sunset falls Where the sunset dies She gave me love, she told me lies That most mischievous ghost She was in disg...

All the children testified that Miss Macbeth wore a fishbone slide in her cobweb tresses Her eyes were black like first foot coal, clutched as white as chalk-dust Her fingers sweated india-ink and poison-pen letters There is a hungry hanging tree, just below y...

She said, "Come in, my dear, You're looking tired tonight Your bath is drawn, let me loosen your tie And fix you your usual drink" He settles back Takes a magazine Kicks off his shoes As he studies the form Of every appealing soubrette But where are the flow...

The monkey speaks his mind And three monkeys sat in a coconut tree Discussing things as they are said to be Said one to other now listen, you two "There's a certain rumor that just can't be true That man descended from our noble race Why, the very idea is a b...

Moods for moderns (x4) I get hit looking for a miss I never thought that it would come to this Moods for moderns (x4) Though we may never be the same again I am so proud that you've been taken in vain What if none of your dreams come true? I can never run...

Somewhere in the distance I can hear "Who Shot Sam?" This is my conviction, that I am an innocent man Though you say I'm unkind I'm being as nice as I can Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches I struck lucky with motel matches Falling for you without a s...

This town belongs to you and your tricks of confidence All the pavements for miles around are littered with your footprints Now every girl I get close to seems to be wearing your perfume And the clock strikes the letters of your name Both midnight and noon Bu...

What is it that brings you to this part of town Curiosity, conscience or fate I know it's not love Cause I once gave you love And all you showed me was the gate I got a feeling you've come back To just rub it in And to really put me in my place You've alread...

When I was away I needed you so And now coming I'm home to stay I won't wake in the night and reach for you And turn on the light and to my dismay You're not there You're never around Or is it me? It's so hard to see I flick off the switch And stare in dark A...

My brave, my brave, my brave face I've been living in style Unaccustomed as I am To the luxury life I've been hitting the town And it didn't hit back I've been doing the rounds Unaccustomed as I am To the time on my hands Now I don't have to tell anybody When...

She says nobody wants to believe You're the same as everyone. What makes me unique? My dark life There was a kink in the world Sent that statue tumbling An invitation east So we can watch it all crumbling She came off like light and so softly she spoke: "You...

As the last light glimmers And the evening hours dim Maybe I'm too proud to utter it out loud Even though my flame burns blue As the night's descending Once again I find I'll Tarry and pretend, my confidential friend Will suddenly appear in view All my might...

My funny valentine, sweet comic valentine You make me smile with my heart Your looks are laughable, unphotographable But you're my favourite work of art Is your figure less than Greek ? Is your mouth a little weak ? When you open it to speak Are you smart ? Do...

This is a calling card Maybe it will be a farewell note The poison fountain pen now requires the antidote But if I avert your gaze And I should become a shrinking flower Just punch me on the arm This could be our finest hour 'Til now this was my view But I'm...

She attracts dark rumours Travels in blue and other humours Each time she walks in the room Brings in much more than you'd assume Ooo, I looked in her eyes and out through that window I fell She's My Lovely Jezebel She neglects you and then ransacks you so ve...

She was smitten from the first By a curious fellow She said I love the way you talk And with a a flounce she announces I love the way that you pronounce it: "Marshmallow" So she liked to sing along To her favourite song From the year that she was born She ha...

My science fiction twin Is doing better than expected He captured a little blonde trophy wife Who's really very well connected And when he calls home with his alibi She says "Is this really necessary?" But she knows that a man can't be a man Unless he's punish...

I must say that I don't care Hold my head up in the air Even tell my friends I'm glad that you don't call But when the day is through My heartaches start anew And that's when I miss you most of all And my arms keep reaching for you And my eyes keep searchin...

Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill He jumped out the window 'cause he couldn't sit still Juliet was waiting with a safety net He said, "Don't bury me 'cause I'm not dead yet" Why don't you tell me 'bout the mystery dance? I wanna know about the mystery...

Runnin' pell-mell and harum-scarum Runnin' as hot as they do or dare Stick out your tongue and drink down all the venom Off Cut-Throat Cuthbert and Millicent St.Cy From the real old Macau To the new False Americas In the liberated territories Unusual suspects...

I may do things you don't understand But remember I'm only doing the best I can Every little thing I do I'm trying to get closer to you Nearer, nearer... I'm sorry if I seem a little bit stubborn sometimes I hope I'm not being a nuisance to you I know you sa...

You're sending me tulips mistaken for lilies You give me your lip after punching me silly You turned my head till it rolled down the brain drain If I had any sense now I wouldn't want it back again New Amsterdam it's become much too much Till I have the posse...

Bad lovers face to face in the morning Shy apologies and polite regrets Slow dances that left no warning of Outraged glances and indiscreet yawning Good manners and bad breath get you nowhere Even presidents have newspaper lovers Ministers go crawling under co...

I would send out for assistance but there's someone on the signal wire And the corporation logo is flashing on and off in the sky They're putting all your names in the forbidden book I know what they're doing but I don't want to look You think they're so dumb...

I don't wanna kiss you. I don't wanna touch. I don't wanna see you 'cause I don't miss you that much. I'm not a telephone junkie. I told you that we were just good friends. But when I hold you like I hold that bakelite in my hands, there's no action, there's...

Oh I know that she has mad a fool of him, like girls have done so many nights before, time and time again. Life is so strange. I don't know why, but somebody, somebody has to cry. There's gonna be no dancing when they get home. No dancing, there's gonna be no...

O, mistress mine Where are you roaming? O, stay and hear Your true love's coming That can save both high and low Trip no further pretty sweeting Journeys end in lovers meeting Every wise man's son doth know Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh Trip no further pretty sweeting J...

The ink is running, the words are taught I'm sitting helpless with my paper and charts I had to follow my passion Oh well I don't get paid that much for all I deserve To waste a sentence or shatter my nerves I had to follow my passion Oh well Sometimes I lon...

Don't start that talking I could talk all night my mind was sleep walking While I'm putting the world to rights Call careers information Have you got yourself an occupation ? Oliver's Army is here to stay Oliver's Army are on their way And I would rather be an...

Raining slapping on the window pane An hour or more of teeming Storm punching like a hurricane That tore him out of dreaming Air screaming through the slightest gap Rattling between the frame and the sill Drapes hanging from the final act When I had you still...

Born in the middle of a second big baby boom Those noisy boys just might have spoken up too soon Now I'm looking for a little girl, I wonder where she's gone Big money for families having more than one Opportunity, opportunity This is your big opportunity The...

This is the place where I made my best mistakes This is the place even angels don't understand I've seen the disappointment in her face And the collection of engagement rings on her right hand She sits alone apart from the crowd In a white dress she wears lik...

She's a feline tormentor, not any vaudeville wife But with a drunk-town lament he leads her a miserable life But when he's full of that beer-champagne She pads, paws, pads, paws and claws And if he should wake up in some terrible dive And he don't know if he'...

They say you're nothing but a party girl Just like a million more all over the world I know I shouldn't be raising my hopes so high But I have seen the hungry look in their eyes They'd settle for anything in disguise of love Seen the party girls look me over S...

Stop thief, you're gonna come to grief If you don't take a little more care You're gonna get more than the family plan From this one shoestring affair I may be crazy but I can't contemplate Being trapped between the doctor and the magistrate One of these days...

Let's go out on the town tonight My pockets are heavy with loot And get drunk and blasted (And loud in your dress of blue) I've been living from hand to mouth It must be three or four weeks And I can tell you one thing Jack You listen when your stomach speaks...

Out of the aeroplane stepped Chamberlain with a condemned man's stare But we all cheered wildly, a photograph was taken, as he waved a piece of paper in the air Now the Disco Machine lives in Munich and we are all friends And I slip on my Italian dancing shoes...

They talked to the sister, the father and the mother With a microphone in one hand and a chequebook in the other AND THE CAMERA NOSES IN TO THE TEARS ON HER FACE The tears on her face The tears on her face You can put them back together with your paper and pas...

If I got on my knees and I pleaded with you Not to go but to stay in my arms Would you walk out the door Like you did once before This time be different Please stay don't go If I call out your name like a prayer Would you leave me alone with my tears Knowing...

You know that once upon a time I didn't need you so It would have been so easy then For me to turn and go But now there's no leavin' you I know that for a fact I'm at the point of no return And for me there'll be no turning back I told myself you'd always be...

Cut loose in a nightmare, cast off in my dreams If home is anywhere that I can hang my hat Then it's coming apart at the seams My luck is hanging upside down I try to hold on tight But money's rolling out of town And love slips right out of sight And these bo...

The poisoned rose That you gave to me It left me half alive And half in ecstasy But if half of your love Is all I can win Give me just a fraction But no more medicine The poisoned rose On a Valentine card That you take straight to the part That you call my j...

She lives on pony street And they should scatter flowers at her feet But when they come calling I think it's appalling They're sober and they're polite They're deeply respectful when I would expect them To keep her out all night That little martinet Will get...

If there's anything that you want If there's anything that you need There's no need to be evasive Money talks and it's persuasive Possession Now you're sending me your best wishes Signed with love and vicious kisses You lack lust, you're so lacklustre Is that...

You push me when I'm falling And then you put me down I guess I missed my calling I should have been a clown How much more How much more can I stand You're pouring water On a drowning man You put me on the right track And then you put me down You stab me in...

I ask you nicely Get my face slapped under wraps What's going on precisely Is there something wrong perhaps? Surprise, surprise (surprise, surprise) It's more like a booby trap than a booby prize Civil disobedience from a soldier with a dirty rifle You're lo...

Can Mary fry some fish, mama I'm as hungry as can be Oh lord, how I wish, mama You could stop the baby cryin' 'Cause my head is killing me I saw my ex again last night mama She was at the dance at Miller's store She was with that Jackie White mama I killed th...

I've been on tenterhooks ending in dirty looks, list'ning to the Muzak, thinking 'bout this 'n' that. She said that's that. I don't wanna chitter-chat. Turn it down a little bit or turn it down flat. Pump it up when you don't really need it. Pump it up until...

Put away forbidden playthings Amusements and distractions And dismantle the contraption And carry it away In time as beauty dissolves into glamour It slips from your heart and falls under the hammer Put away forbidden playthings Put away forbidden playthings...

Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness Have you ever seen the like of this mankind? If a boy or girl is cute, we simply shoot to starry heights Any maybe, any might But always so capricious In the face of wonder we're suspicious And though we cam...

Be of good cheer, it's all in His plan He's walking with us and He speaks through every man But I have this notion, call it my fear That I will die alone and even He won't be there But when I feel that way I thirst and I want to shout it Trust me, Lord, to be...

I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial Doing anything my radio advised With every one of those late night stations Playing songs bringing tears to my eyes I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver When the switch broke 'cause it's old They'...

Signal fading, listen to what I'm saying Testing, testing This better be worth all of the breath I'm wasting Maintaining radio silence from now on Barricaded in the talk radio station Hostage taken The red "On Air" light shines on Something cheaper that passe...

My head is spinning and my legs are weak Goose step dancing, can't hear myself speak Hope in the eyes of the ugly girls That settle for the lies of the last chancers When slow motion drunks pick wallflower dancers You come here looking for the ride to glory G...

I'm cutting up her pure white dress That I dyed red That I dyed red I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets What time erases and memory mocks I'll send them over the ocean foam Right into those gentle European homes The slave ship "Blessing" slipped from Live...

Oh i used to be disgusted And now i try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, You know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes. But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain, That's when i knew that i could not refuse. And i won't get any ol...

It's hurting me It's hurting me This doubt is hurting me So remove this doubt From my heart little girl And let me live my life Knowing you care Remove this doubt From my mind little girl And let me breathe again Feeling my love is shared Each time we meet Y...

Love is a burning thing And it makes a fiery ring Bound by wild desire I fell into a ring of fire I fell into a burning ring of fire I went down, down, down And the flames went higher And it burns, burns, burns The ring of fire The ring of fire I fell into a...

She can roll her shoulder, she can roll her ass Ain't no doubt about it, she's a gamely lass Jerking with her elbow, clever with her knees When she move it over, does the best to please Diction very bad, friction double rich Brazen little hussy, rock 'n' roll...

The chains from the bridle and the reins fell from my hands The engines are idle and the ship sails on dry land I stood there stupefied, I thought I recognized Walking down Rocking Horse Road, getting lost Shot through Vaseline, he picks up the paper from the...

Is anyone there I can talk to? Give us a sign if you're with me Can't you see that I'm dying to hear you? Everyone else has lost interest And I'm all alone in this dream house Though you're gone, I don't feel like crying Romeo is calling you! Knock once or t...

Picture a hotel room Clothes scattered across the floor Covers pulled back from the pillow A sign hung on the door Two lovers locked up tight Through the endless days and nights Hiding something they can't show Something no-one must know Chorus There's a room...

They say they're running out of angels They say I'm running out of time Oh you don't have to be lucky It is easier than trying, now they're bringing down a Hammer on anything that sells I suppose you're a winner Because they're running out of angels And all t...

Sure you haven't got the wrong number Sure it's me you want to talk to tonight Everyone in town's got your number Everyone in town's got you pegged just right Is that why you got in touch with me? I guess you must be running out of fools Even when you left m...

To all the girls that awake to escape in the morning You want to leave him without even a warning, a trace, or a calling card Sad about girls who know perfectly well why he's so sad about this girl He's so mad about this girl tonight So understanding--oh, she...

Look who's back in town Ain't nobody but Sally Sue Brown All you boys better run for cover If you don't want to be a broken-hearted lover See her in that real tight skirt She's got what it takes just to make you hurt Don't be fooled by her big brown eyes She'...

She looked like she learned to dance from a series of still pictures She's madly excited now, she throws her hands up like a tulip She looks like an illustration of a cocktail party Where cartoon bubbles burst in the air, champagne rolls off her tongue Lik...

Well I recall his parting words Must I accept his fate Or take myself far from this place I thought I heard a black bell toll A little bird did sing Man has no choice When he wants everything We'll rise above the scarlet tide That trickles down through the mo...

This must be the place Second place in the human race Down in the basement Now I know what he meant Secondary modern But there won't be a problem till the girls go home This is the hand that you never shook You never gave me the chance that I took Secondary m...

You say you don't desire me, she's only a hired hand, now you are tired of me. Expensive care is meaningless, feeling nothing and caring less. Cut off at the pass, she knows where you were headed, she wants double-time or a temporary wedding. And the lucky gir...

Senior service Junior dissatisfaction It's a breath you took too late It's a death that's worse than fate Senior service Junior dissatisfaction� Though it may be second hand It's by no means second rate I want your neck I want the seat that you sit at I want...

I fear, my dear We've forgotten the things strangers do If we could look back To the terrible thrill that we knew Am I imagining a world without you? Must we be shamed into love? What can I say? Will you pardon my stupid embrace? Sometimes I'm desperate W...

I see those newly weds Their eyes wide and believing They bill and coo at the mention of Chez Nous Appearances can be deceiving It's just a door and a window Four walls and a roof But a home of your own would be shatterproof A door and a window Four walls and...

She May be the face I can't forget. A trace of pleasure or regret May be my treasure or the price I have to pay. She may be the song that summer sings. May be the chill that autumn brings. May be a hundred different things Within the measure of a d...

She handed me a mirror That she had gazed upon The glass still held an image The glass still held an image But it was of a man I turned from the reflection To see who it might be Is that poor vanity quite how she pictures me? She handed me a mirror Rather tha...

She could be no good, I'm telling you Gather round boys for a tale that is tragic and true On the Mississippi riverboat, "Magnolia" No one onboard was smelling too sweet That precious one must have been stamping her feet Dictating demands all well and fine A f...

Went to see the captain, strangest I could find Laid my proposition down, laid it on the line I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels But I would slave to learn a way to sink your ship of fools Ship of fools on a cruel sea Ship of fools, sail...

Is it worth it? A new winter coat and shoes for the wife And a bicycle on the boy's birthday It's just a rumour that was spread around town By the women and children Soon we'll be shipbuilding....... Well I ask you The boy said "Dad they're going to take me to...

This love of mine is packed with stepping stone These shoes are made for walking in reverse In the dead of night, you tiptoe out and leave me all alone Putting on your satin slip-ons and your sultry French cologne. She's wearing shoes without heels. She's wal...

How does it feel now you've been undressed by a man with a mind like the gutter press So disappointed to find it's no big sin Lying skin to skin Chorus: Shot with his own gun Now dad is keeping mum Shot with his own gun Now somebody has to pay for the one w...

I got loaded last night on a bottle of gin And I had a fight with my best girlfriend When I'm drinkin' I am nobody's friend So please baby wait for me until they let me out again I know the same thing has happened before And each time it happens, I hate it mo...

I see by the papers that He came from the old religion but possessed no magic skill Descending from machinery, he left nothing from his will Thank you for not helping me out For not treating me like a fool If you didn’t lay me on a cold mattress at night...

The soldier asked my name and did I come here very often Well I thought that he was asking me to dance In my holey coat and hat and him in his red bonnet We'd have made a lovely couple but we never had the chance And now you say that you've got to go Well if...

Through the sleepless nights I cry for you And wonder who Is kissing you Oh, these sleepless nights Will brake my heart in two Somehow, through the day I don't give in I hide the tears That wait within Oh, these sleepless nights Will break my heart again W...

Smile though your heart is aching Smile even though it's breaking When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by If you smile through your fear and sorrow Smile and maybe tomorrow You'll see the sun come shining through for you ~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ Light up your fa...

Now everybody's breakin' up somebody else's home, before somebody else starts breaking up their own. I get you in my dreams. You should hear the things you say. I's not that it's so much fun, but it's safer that way. Sneaky feeling, sneaky feelings, you can't...

Here lies the powder and perfume The pretty clothes are scattered 'round the room And it's so like Candy Here lies the lipstick and the face The coloured tablets keep it all in place And it's so like Candy So like Candy CHORUS What did I do to make her go Wh...

Do. Do do do do do. So young, we've discovered. Got them so confused. Don't mind putting the time in. It's shocking. That's what they all say now when we're walking hand in hand As one, you and I. Ooh yeah, ooh yeah, you said it's timed out We've got them han...

Poor head Can hardly move my lips for speaking I said So, what is this thing I cannot explain? I'd blame all the things I feel but can't quite place Perhaps they're written on my face Someone took the words away Why don't you speak up and say what you mean? S...

Hang my head and shut my eyes What kind of justice is this? Fool I was, I thought that you fought fire with fire Got to be more than just a soul for hire Speaking for myself I wouldn't take the fame, the fees, the glory For whoring in the practice of the law...

You like coffee and you like tea Much more than you like me And everybody says watch out yeah For the sour milk-cow blues You like your coffee just a little too sweet Without your sugar life is incomplete And everybody says watch out yeah For the sour milk-cow...

Oh, it was such a sparkling day That I should be singing its praises Just to catch my senses as they slip away But my sentences and phrases Are about as worthless as wonder can be And there are words that I could say Perhaps I lack the sense of occasion...

Speak darkly, my angel Or do I have to plead? The sweetness has gone out of it And all that's left is bitter, barren greed A needy lover With her almost vanished liar Entangled as the gloom Is strangled by the clinging brier That ventures out to gather in the...

The spell that you cast Seems to be wearing off fast (The spell that you cast) Come back baby, cos I don't think I can last (The spell that you cast) And I wonder whether You got some other kind of lover That you like to please Better than me I don't think I c...

I want a girl to make a mess To do no wrong she must confess And then perhaps hitch up her dress 'Cos when the flashbulbs explode She's such a sensitive soul... I want a girl who is helpless and frail Who won't pull on my ponytail I want a girl who has no pas...

I knew of two sisters whose name it was Christmas And one was named Dawn of course, the other one was named Eve I wonder if they grew up hating the season Of the good will that lasts till the Feast of St. Stephen For that is the time to eat, drink and be merr...

I'm going to make you even fear the dream you dream So don't even think about it don't make a wish You think that I don't see you as you trawl those young weak fish Hooked on those poor wonders, 'til they want you alone Though they can't tell a cuckoo-clock fr...

The stamping ground, The stamping ground. All your old gang Still hang around. Coming in with the same blokes, Going home with the same jokes, If you ever go missing I know where you'll be found : The stamping ground. The big fella on the front door knows your...

Tempest blows up from a squall Past the Cape of Bad Conscience into the Gulf of the Cauldron Roars over the coastline to batter and flatten Exposing the roots like in the dyed hair of slattern The scrapper and mauler in a rope ring this small Outside the wind...

Step inside love, let me find you a place Where all the cares of the day Will be carried away By the smile on your face We are together now and forever Come what may Step inside love and stay Step inside love Step inside love Step inside love I want you to st...

People talkin', tryin' to break us up Why don't they let us be Sticks and stones may break my bones But talk don't bother me (No) People talkin', tryin' to break us up When they know that I love you so So I don't care what the people might say I'm neve...

Still These few lines I'll devote To a marvelous girl covered up with my coat Pull it up to your chin I'll hold you until the day will begin Still Lying in the shadows this new flame will cast Upon everything we carry from the past You were made of every lov...

Do you love him Or is it still too soon to know? When I think back a couple of days Before I found you in his spell Was there a warning? What can I say Should I look away It's still too soon to know Are you sorry Or is it still to soon to know? It didn't take...

How many wrinkles in a pickle How many hairs in a head How many waves in the ocean How many crumbs in bed But last but not least, but baby most of all Why do I mmmumble everytime you call Because you're strange to me baby Oh, you're good to me mama Well, I ad...

This never was one of the great romances But I thought you'd always have those young girl's eyes But now they look in tired and bitter glances At the ghost of a man who walks 'round in my disguise I get the feeling that I don't belong here But there's no welc...

There's a hand on a wire that leads to my mouth I can hear you knocking but I'm not coming out Don't want to be a puppet or a ventriloquist 'Cause there's no ventilation on a critical list Fingers creeping up my spine are not mine to resist Strict time Chorus...

We used to go out walkin' hand in hand You told me all the big things you had planned It wasn't long till all your dreams came true Success put me in second place with you You have no time to love me anymore Since fame & fortune knocked upon our door I sp...

Well, there's an old man's fantasy Put in a young girl's mouth Like cheap pink lipstick Smeared on her wedding dress Will you look what you've done to her Will you look at this disgrace Well, it's all over Your suffering face If we were chrome, we would be ru...

While Nat King Cole sings "Welcome To My World" You request some song you hate, you sentimental fool And it's the force of habit If it moves then you fuck it If it doesn't move you stab it And I thought I heard "The Working Man's Blues" He went out to work th...

She wears a wedding ring her sister lent To throw them off the scent Just let them guess, it's what they expect Who in the world has bitten her neck? She's discovered wearing last night's dress The carnal and cunning, she couldn't express Who do you think she'...

It's not very far from Sulphur to Sugarcane Everywhere I travel the pretty girls call my name I give them a squeeze and they shoot me a wink I buy their hard-headed husbands a long cool drink You better come up smelling sweet 'cos you're a long time stinking I...

Sunday's Best Times are tough for English babies Send the army and the navy Beat up strangers who talk funny Take their greasy foreign money Skin shop, red leather, hot line Be prepared for the engaged sign Bridal books, engagement rings And other wicked littl...

Do you remember how to say please? You've had your own way for such a long time Your lash is sweet now, I dry your cheek You think I'm powerless when you weep You may have something, I don't deny You look too beautiful when you cry If I seem unconcerned Perha...

Sweet dreams of you, every night I go through I should hate you girl the whole night through Instead I'm having sweet dreams all about you You don't love me it's plain I should have known you'd never share my name Why can't I forget you girl, start loving som...

Sweet pear, sweet pear Those who say they love you would never dare I'll watch out for you I'll always be there In the hour of your distress, you need not fear In all the world there's only one true love And finding it's hard enough I bless whatever's in the...

You're a swine and I'm saying that's an insult to the pig In the foul furrow that you dig Why don't you lay your head down? In that unconsecrated ground Well, was she your mother? Or was she your bride To defile and to blister To gnaw at her side Is this the...

My dear impulsive darling I suspect my letter got to you too late And it's really just a silly fragment of paper But it means so much to those who wait All the suffering days and nights Till I dare dream again There you suddenly stand and I'll be damned If yo...

I tried in vain to drive myself insane I talk to myself but I don't listen I found out what I was missing I miss talking in the dark Without you, I'm not conversational Without the sense of the occasional Without you, I miss talking in the dark When the barki...

Hear silver trumpets will trill in Arabic streets of Seville Oranges roll in the gutter And you pick them up And peel back the skin To the red fruit within But the flavor is... Tart And the flavor is... Tart Is it something you crave? And you say that you onl...

Who dries your eyes when you cry real tears? Who knows or cares what an imitation is? Only you do You can paint his nails Make him wear high heels Why waste time altering the hemline? Or do you? Tear off your own head Tear off your own head It's a doll revolu...

I know the name on the tip of your tongue And I know that accusing look Everybody knows I've been so wrong That's the problem and here's the hook Tears before bedtime There'll be trouble tonight I don't want to talk about it anymore I don't want to have anoth...

I feel such sorrow, I feel such shame I know I won't arrive on time Before whatever out there is gone What can I do, that day is done It's just a promise that I made I said I'd walk in her parade Hot scalding tears I thought would flow Still in my heart they'...

Well, you're standing on the corner flagging all the girls you see Now do like EC and let those ladies be You know that's wrong, man, you know that's wrong Boy, you better get control - that's how you got killed before That girl you just met who got a big guy...

I have a friend She's just a friend I tried to comfort and defend I gave her what you might call advice But nothing like that comes without a price The rumour was a cruel surprise And she dissolved before my eyes I offered my hand and hers and mine entwined I...

We're all going on a summer holiday Vigilante's coming out to follow me. Heard somebody say they're out to collar me. Anybody wanna swallow me? It takes two to tumble. It takes two to tango. Speak up; don't mumble if you're in the combo. On the beat, on the...

Well I had a little feeling to have a big night And woke up feeling small and not so brave and not quite right I had to face the who am I and where is she and what did I do But worst of all I had to face the big light 'Cause the big light came through my wind...

Summertime withers as the sun descends He wants to kiss you. Will you condescend? Before you wake and find a chill within your bones Under a fine canopy of lover's dust and humourous bones Banish all dismay Extinguish every sorrow Eternity stinks, my darling...

I'm walking down Times Square in the Electric Daylight The sailors on shore leave stand out in their perfect white. I'm up here with my spying glass at the window of the world For better or for worse - it's a perverse universe, my love. Now I know, I should...

I sat there alone upon the ferris wheel A pastel-colored carriage in the air I thought you'd leave me dangling for a little while A silly twist upon a childish dare Below I saw you whisper to another man Who held the lever that could bring me down He stopped t...

Life isn't a game won or tied Lost by either side Then some people's idea Of the straight and narrow didn't appeal to me If you were my life's companion As it seems you may turn out to be I'm contemplating How I hope I'll find you waiting At the very end of t...

The Demo of "DEPORTEE" has essentially the same lyrics as this earlier version of the song In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub, bar and grill Standing in the fibreglass ruins watching time stand still All your troubles you confess to another faceless backless dr...

It's the element within her Something under her skin That is shining out through the face of the girl Two sapphires and couple of rows of pearls It's just a part of it Like your fine tresses You know what my guess is La la la la la la la la la la la He was a...

I should open with a kiss For if you're reading this You must have opened up your case And found this letter where I placed it In between the silk and lace There were other clues Like your walking shoes But I still refused to believe That you were meant to be...

She used to be the flirting kind But the boy loved her anyway He made up his mind She said, What's a girl to do to be content? Use your imagination Time to experiment Make love like a punishment So they call her the flirting kind The flirting kind You better...

They took old Danny Boy for a ride From the arms of his bride to be Threw him into the murky waters By the dog biscuit factory Quick dry the tears and stifle cheers As he sinks just like a stone Footprints set in sentimental cement Now burden down his bones Le...

EVERYONE STOPPED WHEN SHE WALKED INTO THE ROOM Isn't this the greatest thing Everyone own up but nobody could touch her Isn't this the greatest thing PUNCH THE CLOCK keep boxing clever You'll be young enough for ever Isn't this the greatest thing Isn't this TH...

Trying to be too bad Trying to talk too tough Trying to jack the lad You'd think he'd had enough But he's not the man you'd think that he can be I just don't know why you can't see That he is only the imposter That he is only the imposter You've never been th...

I WAS COMMITTED TO LIFE AND THEN COMMUTED TO THE OUTSKIRTS With all the love in the world Living for thirty minutes at a time with a break in the middle for adverts But it's a wonderful world within these cinema walls WHERE A SHOWER OF AFFECTION BECOMES NIAGAR...

Beneath the turquoise pools and emerald jewels There lie the broken spines of seven ships The skulls of careless fools and coins of gold Pour from the banks that proffer puckered lips I am the king of all of you The timid land The unknown sea And all that lies...

Care of St. Ignatus House, Willoughby Drive Parrametta, New South Wales This fifth day of July In the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Five Why must I always apologize Everytime that I sit down to write Through my own fault I may find You're no l...

There's a part of this feeling That I just cannot kill But the name of this thing is not love And I can't take a potion And I won't take a pill So it tortures me still But the name of this thing is not love Then you start entertaining Such a terrible thought...

Oh, the night before Larry was stretched Well the boys they all paid him a visit A bit in their sacks too they fetched For they sweated their duds till they ris' it For Larry was always the lad When a boy was condemned to the Squeezer Would fence all the...

Everybody knows you been steppin' on my toes And I'm gettin pretty tired of it Keep steppin' outta line and messin' with my mind If you had any sense, you'd quit But ever since you were just a little bitty girl Since I was the only man in this whole world Now...

I know a girl got my mind in a mess I never heard her say goodnight and God bless She's not the only flame in town And when we're alone we never quarrel I'm miles away now here's the moral She's not the only flame in town She's not the only flame in town She...

The sun struggles up another beautiful day And I felt glad in my own suspicious way Despite the contradiction and confusion Felt tragic without reason There's malice and there's magic in every season CHORUS From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf The...

It's a chilly Florentine evening Two men in evening hats Telling tales of the underground and Fishing for Reds Policemen armed with Uzis Stand guard but they don't speak Ain't seen no Michaeangelo He'll be here next week. The girl in the shoes With the crystal...

I wore my finest suit of clothes The sharpest thorn defending the rose Hot as a pistol, keen as a blade The sharpest thorn upon parade And it's the same most every year Ghosts of the dear departed are near We raise our glasses and we cheer Should old acquaint...

The very thought of you And I forget to do The little ordinary things That everyone ought to do I'm livin' in a kind of daydream I'm happy as a king And foolish though it may seem to me That's everything The mere idea of you The longing here for you You'll nev...

The family circle gather round from very far and near To pass around the same remarks they passed away last year The little girl you dangle on your knee without mishap STIRS SOMETHING IN YOUR MEMORY AND SOMETHING IN YOUR LAP But it's a living This is the life...

And when I told them how beautiful you are They didn't believe me, they didn't believe me Your lips, your eyes, your cheeks, your hair Are in a class beyond compare The most beautiful girl that one could see And when I tell them And I'm certainly going to t...

If today the sun should set on all my hopes and cares There is one who's smiling face the gods would see For she'll walk along beside me up the golden stairs Oh, they'll never, never take her love from me What a fool I was to go and break the trust she ga...

This is hell, this is hell I am sorry to tell you It never gets better or worse But you get used to it after a spell For heaven is hell in reverse The bruiser spun a hula hoop As all the barmen preen and pout The neon "i" of nightclub flickers on and off And...

Don't send any money! Fate has no price Ignore at your peril this splendid advice An invaluable link in an infinite chain An offer like this will just not come again You wish you had women to charm and bewitch Power of life and death over the rich Young girl...

I write in hopes that by the time you get this letter We may live to see a change for the better Or are we so devoted to these wretched selfish motives When the cold facts and figures all add up They cannot contradict this sad burlesque This sad burlesque Wit...

That Charlie Sedarka was a-playing the piano like he was pawing a dirty book He bit a hole in his big bottom lip and gave his very best little boy look It was a song with a topical verse which I'm afraid he then proceeded to sing Something about the moody doom...

See her picture in a thousand places 'cause she's this year's girl. You think you all own little pieces of this year's girl. Forget your fancy manners, forget your English grammar, 'cause you don't really give a damn about this year's girl. Still you're hopin...

Muscle baby won't let go Weekend baby won't say no Is she an active beauty ? I should say so Wooden bones and pretty lashes� Iodine for your baby's gashes Little tombs for your baby's ashes If something goes wrong Tiny steps almost real Tiny fingers you almo...

She was counting out the window of the outbound train All the poles of the telegraph And the rock-a-bye rhythm in the song of the rails Couldn't make the sweeper laugh Down down down so deep Down down drowning in his sleep Tommy's coming home again And a haw...

Tonight the bottle let me down It let your memory come around The one true friend I thought I'd found Tonight the bottle let me down I've always had a bottle I could turn to And lately I've been turnin' every day But the wine don't take effect the way it used...

There may be a break in the road The future looks drab and dreary But if you were here with me, dear I'd spin you a line that's far from cheer There's always some scribe Who's taken the bribe Describing some Gentleman Jim Who says he's in love with a beautiful...

I can tell somewhere there's someone you love more than me Someone you love more than me And it hurts to say it that you have a right to be free I know that's the way it should be Oh but I'm too far gone Too far gone I know I've loved you too much for too lon...

I made my selection from the lonely hit parade In the town where time stood still I was feeling very little pain Until some joker played "Almost Persuaded" Now every girl I see Looks so much prettier to me My faithfulness has faded And their looks established...

I saw a newspaper picture from the political campaign A woman was kissing a child, who was obviously in pain She spills with compassion, as that young child's face in her hands she grips Can you imagine all that greed and avarice coming down on that child's...

Just you know why Why you and I Will by and by Know true love ways Sometimes we'll sigh Sometimes we'll cry And you know why Just you and I know true love ways Throughout the days Our true love ways Will bring us joys to share With those who really care Som...

You've been taught that this won't do They put me in the picture but the film turned blue A glimpse of you, Turning The Town Red. A head full of brand new words and a mouth full of shocks You're a big boy now, with a face to stop clocks. Turning the Town Red....

You say you don't desire me You only tire me Now you'll hire me Expensive care is meaningless Feeling nothing and caring less Cut off at the pass She knows where you're headed She wants double time Or a temporary wedding Chorus: And the lucky girl leads a lif...

Twenty five fingers baby I love your nails I love your touch I love to touch you baby It never fails to kill me Some say gimme five But I'll give you ten You could make it twenty But you're holding out again Think it over think it over baby Well think it ove...

Why are we racing to be so old? I'm up late pacing the floor I won't be told You have your reservations I'm bought and sold I'll face the music I'll face the facts Even when we walk in polka dots and chequer slacks Bowing and squawking Running after titbits...

Upon a veil of midnight blue There hung a crescent moon To light the view But I don't whisper the words When the moment arose I wonder how he knows You say your tongue is tied Your words escape and hide But he's so patient and kind He's prepared to read your m...

Is it all in that pretty little head of yours? What goes on in that place in the dark? Well, I used to know a girl And I could have sworn That her name was Veronica Well, she used to have a carefree mind of her own And a delicate look in her eye These days, I...

The man from the television crawled into the train. I wonder who he's gonna stick it in this time. Everyone was looking for a little entertainment, so they'll probably pull his hands off when they find out his name. And then they shut down the power all along...

Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with our hearts? I gave you my life, you gave me your life. Like a gush of wind in my hair. Why do we forget what's been s...

Don't say a word Don't say anything Don't say a word I'm not even listening I read in the paper about their escape They're just two bit of kids from a bunch of sour grapes You better watch your step Watch who's knocking on your front door Now you know that th...

nice girls, not one with the defect cellophane, shrink-wrapped so correct red dogs under illegal legs she looks so good that he gets down and begs she is watching the detectives "oooh he's so cute!" she is watching the detectvies when they shoot, shoot, shoot...

Take off your shoes, hang up your wings Stack up the chairs, roll up the rug Savor the things that sobriety brings Drain in the last from a jug But when I hit the bottle, there's no tellin' what I'll do 'Cause something deep inside me wants to turn you black...

We oughta be ashamed We oughta be ashamed We use and abuse such a wonderful name See the blooming of the flowers When the spring first appears Hear the crying of the baby In its first tender years Watch the flight of the robin When he knows winter's through...

The movies save on conversation And the TV saves on sight We met in a head-on collision So I would say our chances would be slight You can lead and I will follow See us dancing cheek to cheek You'll remember me tomorrow But you won't give a damn by Wednesday W...

Weird nightmare You haunt my every dream Weird nightmare Tell me what's your scheme? Can it be that you're a part Of a lonely broken heart? Weird nightmare Why must you torment me? Weird nightmare Pain and misery In a heart that's loved and lost Take away the...

Now that your picture's in the paper being rhythmically admired and you can have anyone that you have ever desired, all you gotta tell me now is why, why, why, why. Welcome to the workin' week. Oh I know it don't thrill you, I hope it don't kill you. Welcome...

You appeared when I was lost in reverie If this is not a dream, it's my mistake And now I lie in wait for dawn to break I'm fairly sure I'm wide awake Pardon me, if I seem distant and strange Just tell me when did I stop dreaming? Let me get this straight Did...

Every single time It becomes too much There's nothing I can say Or I can touch But the glory is, as it comes passing through, I know I will be there When green eyes turn blue It's the same for me Time appears to teach There is nothing quite beyond our reach W...

I exit through the spotlight glare I stepped out into thin air Into a perfume so rarefied "Here comes the bride" Not quite aside, they snide, "she's number four" "There's number three just by the door" Those in the know, don't even flatter her, they go...

All the words you say to me Have music in them All the sorrows and the joys like magnetism And a selfish boy looks through a prism And says what is But never asks what isn't But a voice contains many precious things It laughs And then it sings And all the l...

White knuckles came down to put the frighteners on I believe she's the one that he's got his heart set on It doesn't matter if your face doesn't fit There's no charge for changing it Oooh ooh What are you doing You see right through him You don't have to take...

The hunted look, the haunted grace The empty laugh that you cultivate You fall into that false embrace And kiss the air about her face Who do you think you are? The tres bon mots you almost quote From your quiver of literary darts A thousand or so tuneless vi...

We may seem happy like everything's alright But from the outside looking in Everything's uptight But deep down inside we're covering up the pain It's an old thing It's a soul thing But it's a real thing Pray tell what's gonna happen to brother Who's gonna hel...

Why don't you love me like you used to do? How come you treat me like a worn out shoe? My hair is still curly and my eyes are still blue Why don't you love me like you used to do? Ain't had no lovin' like a-huggin' and a-kissin' in a long, long while We don't...

Why is Daddy not here? Are you crying? Why? Does he still love me? Will you take care of me? If you both love me so Why don't you love each other? Mummy's gone missing Daddy's on fire Daddy's on fire Daddy's on fire 

This cruel old country has driven me down Teased me and lied, teased me and lied I've only sad stories to tell to this town My dreams have withered and died Once I was bending the tops of the trees Kind thoughts in my head, kind voices to hear Then I took up...

How many times can you jump out of the cupboard Before someone gets suspicious or someone gets discovered You can live forever in a split second of fame Come on down the price is right what's your name While a crocodile makes good shoes and a dog may change hi...

What are you girls gonna tell your mother? I don't want to hear another word about young lovers or hiding your boyfriend in the cupboard. She's been to see the doctor, so you hope that she recovers. You act dumb. You say you're so numb. You say you don't come...

The homecoming fanfare is echoing still Now tapping on tables and sensing a chill Poor families expecting a loved one's return Only son and some charlatan specter, oh, when will they learn? You hung the moon from a gallows in the sky Choked out the light in h...

See how the elements obey? Eyes are blue Skies are grey Nothing I do can make you stay I'm glad it will rain today You left me standing alone Although I thought that we could not be parted But if I'd only known That this would be the last loving remark You le...

There is a place Underneath the staircase Where I keep the evidence Of what once would offer peace In a deep blue velvet box filled with joy and pride Should I pick the locks? Should I peek inside? Can I stand the sight of those happy days? Should I strike a...

Take your tiny feet out of your mother's shoes Or there is going to be a terrible scene It's not just the lipstick drawn on crooked When they find how wicked we are How wicked we have been How I've been tempted How you tripped at every step You tripped at eve...

You turned to me And all at once I knew I was betrayed My eyes met yours just down the darkened path Where both of us had strayed Nothing good can come out of this I know it may not be But just then you turned to me And I thought for a moment Like the fool t...

She makes me go so wrong (yeah, you kept me away, you know you did) I've loved her oh, so long (so why don't you come right out and say it, stupid? ) She makes me do things I don't want to do I don't know why I should be telling you I know that you want her to...

You need protection from the physical art of conversation Though the fist is mightier than the lip, it adds the aggravation Bridge and Chorus: I got the password I got persuasion A proposition for invasion of your privacy Give yourself away and find the fake...

I've seen love go by my door It's never been this close before Never been so easy or so slow. Been shooting in the dark too long When somethin's not right it's wrong Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go. Dragon clouds so high above I've only known careless...

Here I stand with head in hand, Turn my face to the wall. If she's gone I can't go on, Feeling two foot small. Ev'rywhere people stare, Each and ev'ry day. I can see them laugh at me, And I hear them say. Hey, you've got hide your love away. Hey, you've got...

You tell me you married an angel She's made heaven out of your home You say there couldn't be rainbows in heaven 'Cause she's brought you happiness that you've never known You may hate me for what I've to tell you But you'll thank me for setting you right Whi...

I see you laughin' Right in my face I guess I'm gonna have to Put you in your place Because if silence was golden You couldn't raise a dime Because your mind is on vacation And your mouth is working overtime You're quoting figures And dropping names You're t...