Graham Parker piosenki

The sun has a solar flare The earth just tilted on its axis The demon lies in his lair And licks at the Goddess Abraxas Volcanoes long, long dormant Send up plumes of gas An India and Pakistan Start talking trash In these dark days, dark Let's walk...

The party may wind down the bottles are strewn and broken The games are all played out like useless tokens The videos are scattered their messages have screened and clattered Discussing the actors as if they mattered they mattered And I'm not gaining any...

Don't let your head hang down like that As if there was something on the ground Something you are looking for You already found Whatever it is you're aiming at Whatever distance you must cross Not as far as you think it is Not as far as you thought it w...

I knew Virginia once She was a pretty girl She walked in the wild fields and swam the wild streams I took her out one day to the Civil War battlefield way down in Manassas where I told her my dreams CHORUS But now it's Disney's America a long way from an...

Now don't get bent out of shape, don't start tearing out your hair One a sweet little angel, that stuff's nowhere When the bombs go off on Oxford Street and the kids beat up old people It's just a soundtrack for your life it's just everyday evil Bu...

The Zulus are rising from their shanty towns The Injuns are launching a counter attack The funeral pyre's burning as I strike a match And everything goes up in smoke again, oh Durban Poison, oh oh oh oh, Durban Poison Durban Poison, oh oh oh oh, Durban P...

His cultural importance Hasn't been determined yet Or whether he's a candidate To join the jet set They locked him up in pentonville to make him fall But he came out standing straight and tall They tried to steal his socks but he hung on to them They we...

Another schoolgirl disappears She's the twenty-third one this year They're gonna search on the river bank And in the disused water tank But everything goes (don't worry) don't worry baby Everything'll work out fine But everything goes (don't worry) dadd...

Let's go down to the fairground Go down side by side Let's remember what life was like When life was a wild ride Let's go down to the fairground Before it's up and gone Get your tight blue jeans out And try to get 'em on Let's go down to the fairgroun...

The dark hand will call you out of nowhere it seems The black cloud will bust apart shattering your dreams They all put up barricades blank you out at first Then they'll get to you to get to me who'll know what's worse I say Fear not baby fear not Fear no...

The sky might be massive up above but it is not as blue as love The stars might shine brightly in the night but that is not the only light No that is not the only light illuminating us tonight Come out of the bitter wind Tomorrow is bound to bring t...

As you look into an invisible landscape And the waves of time part behind your back As your life crumbles and turns into fiction And the end of it becomes a fact The ghosts of children will run in your garden And play with an imaginary ball You wil...

She's got everything she needs and it isn't you A cosmetic arsenal a bucket of glue Signs on her back that say Keep on the grass Powerful liquor in a hip flask Coins from the commonwealth Doubloons from the sea A knife in her boot heel A Bonsai tree...

I've been drinking strychnine and I've dined on plastic combs Celebrities removed my teeth and made me clean their homes I've seen operations that would chill you to the bones I've been charged with homicide for killing garden gnomes Lethal spirochaetes o...

The mona lisa's sister doesn't smile She tried to pose but only for a while Leonardo sent her home since then she has lived alone With her few belongings and a copy of a painting of herself unhappy She is going to burn it when she's ready Get started, s...

As the twilight was returning And the sun began to fall I walked down to the beachfront And watched the whitecaps roll A flare exploded over the ocean an orange tear Then I saw at the corner of my eye The girl at the end of the pier She stood and stare...

The girl isn't ready (twice) The girl isn't ready is what her mother says We just put her toys away it seems like yesterday She has seen something better through the window She will reach for it even though she doesn't know if she's Chorus Ready, the g...

As the twilight was returning and the sun began to fall I walked down to the beach front and watched the whitecaps roll A flare exploded over the ocean. an orange tear Then I saw at the corner of my eye the girl at the end of the pier She stood and stared...

I got a real wooden heart girl, sometimes it's hard to ignite it I must have water for blood girl, but don't cut me out or write me off You turn stone into flesh baby and I almost get human Yeah and it's always the best baby, I hear your heart pitter patte...

In a distant street a distant beat Repeats machine gun like In a forest grows a sweet fruit Filled with poison In a clear blue sky a plane bursts into flames High above us In an office blind machines blink out data In a rush Whatever they say they say It...