Graham Parker

The jug heads hit the city from every country round the globe The ships pulled in the drinks were free the ticker tape came out in rolls I was sitting in a bar watching this on TV To me it looked like a failure but they called it victory BRIDGE 1 Well if...

Well it might get rough in this world for you It won't get any easier I'll tell you true There's hard knocks road blocks coming thru You gotta grow up tough but keep your head on too But sometimes you're gonna need a helping hand Don't worry about it kid...

I once read the story of somebody's life I had a few moments to spare He was a good man who lived with his wife With the usual kids in his hair There was happiness a lot of weirdness And a sprinkle of tragedy I pulled it by chance from a second hand bin Bu...

I was born by a river In a little tent, and o just like this river I've been running ever since It's been a long long time coming, but I know A change is gonna come, oh yes it is It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die, I don't know what's up there b...

Ooh ooohh, Ooh oooh, ooh oooh Ooh ooohh, Ooh oooh, ooh oooh When you put your arms around me, the doctor has to operate We get so stuck on each other we just can't separate, too late It's a miracle a minute, it's a miracle a minute, baby It's a miracle...

I'll see you when the leaves are falling All being well And when our hearts are all but stalling All being well I'll hold you in my arms and tell you That nothing can break this spell I'll see you when the road stops winding All being well I'll see y...

Full steam ahead come what may You get the world that you make they say Chop up the wood and bale hay Now that it's almost Thanksgiving Day The kids come and go with their things We sit and polish our wedding rings The forecast snow on the way Just in...

She likes it in this line of work But it doesn't matter Whatever happens seems to work But it doesn't matter The grass is always greener The grass is always greener There's something lacking in his life But he can't define it Three kids two cars a ho...

Well i might seem ambiguous But i don't want to cause a fuss I just want my bread buttered on both sides Someone spread this virus All around the world till it got to us And now we just sit back and let things slide So i'm not getting up till i hear the...

CHORUS And it shook me, it shook me up, it shook me up, yeah I remember the way you looked when we first met There are some things in this world you can't forget You were standing underneath the light I lost my heart, It felt all right And it shook me, a...

This is our first year, no-one else but us here And even with the darkness all around us We look into each other's eyes and understand Why true love is in such demand I've got a gift wrapped, we have got a course mapped And everything I've wanted since I...

You're always kidding me something's happening but it isn't true You're getting rid of me you know exactly what I'm trying to Oh baby I am drained of colour I can't go anywhere You just left me in another grey area You say you're loving me but it's nothin...

I walk along a lonely path Spotlight in my eye Try to make the people laugh Instead of cry I hang myself out on the edge For the world to see Let them know this funny guy Is really me And anything for a good time I've always taken that path Anythin...

You stop in the old cafe where you used to play pinball And look for the air-raid shelter but it's gone and the cafe seems so small and all the gardens that had trees and stolen apples now have small businesses flourishing in cinder blocks Then they will...

E B E Don't seem to be no break in the line don't seem to be no break boys E They ruined my vision screwed up my eyes B E I'll tell you what I'm gonna do boys A E I'm going back to schooldays I'm going back to schooldays B E I'm going back to schoolda...

Come and pick up your baggage it's cluttering up my head There always seems to be a catch to everything you've ever said There always seems to be a lock a belt or a buckle or a key The world is filling up with stuff I can't even see It's like a mountain o...

Ci vil is ation Has come a long way Out of the mud where chitinous bugs Eat each other all day Now we're in the clouds working overtime for our pay Countin' the numbers and being the bugs that eat each other today Sitting in an office in a publishing h...

It's gone beyond a joke, it's gone beyond a laughing matter We had a flag out in the wind, now it's reduced to just a tatter I get the feeling it's all getting out of control I want to be back where we can feel with our real senses ooooh I want to be back...

Better listen to me, You better stay blind and you better not see You think it feels alright but you don't have to lie awake all night Fumble with the money and fumble with the keys Somebody has to end up on his knees Go to a funeral dressed in pink Stop...

Oooh la la la la la la la la bop bop bop (twice) I look at a news cast being broadcast and try to connect with the events in front of my eyes But I can't see any further than the bills on the table or my kids first Halloween disguise ooooh Then I driv...

The kid's left home, the kid's got a kid of her own Don't knock that door, don't knock it, nobody's home The mystery sign, turn off and follow it blind The interstate is jammed and crammed with exhaust mist It only leads to somewhere you'll never miss You...

We'd follow the sound Of the dirt tracking bikes Into the sunset Into the sunset Or the wings of a painted lady butterfly That escaped the net Escaped the net Or the cry of a long lost bird That defied identification You could hear it from the Air...

I don't feel comfortable Inside my own skin It doesn't keep things in I never get a kick from vodka or gin Bring me a heart again I got some courage And I got a brain Straw man though I may be But long ago I felt My empathy wane Bring me a heart aga...

It's not surprising That you have all those wounds They're advertising The things that you've been through It's tantalizing To psychoanalyze We're all downsizing What we do with our lives There's not enough money In this whole world To pay for a bre...

Joe Camel was a friend of mine He had a fine line in seduction But the monkeys pulled Joe off the billboard sign Somewhere near Clapham Junction Now all the little children had no pied piper There was no one left to follow So they all lived together in a wh...

That bullet of redemption Didn't strike me well Others are left bleeding Other people fell That little sphere of metal Keeps barreling along Spinning round the chamber And triggering this song You know it never quite got rid of you I keep seeing you...

The night falls dark around me, and the dogs bark out a curse A bad dreams twist inside me and I scream for a doctor or a nurse But I'm just dyin' for morning, watch the sun rise like a pearl Just to feel the breath of your life as your smile lights up the...

Call me your doctor if you want, I'll get the cure out To be administered before sleep Call out the thing you really want And I'll be there I'll make a housecall I'll find the problem's root No matter how deep CHORUS Call me your doctor Call me your d...

I was playing with words no-one could understand a thing They'd never get the drift of it Waste my time on the absurd static that just seems to cling I just got rid of it, now I can't waste a minute Can't send a minute Can't waste a minute of your timel...

doo doo etc She opens up and pulls you in, dabs a napkin on your chin She's like an ornament on a hood, does the mambo like a piece of wood Taking you under, taking you under, for the duration The creamy liquid of your heart the vital substance that was...

Now that you're back in town You look around at everything Well, it could be anywhere on earth Tryin' to count your change Inside the Asian store But you can't figure what it's worth And she stands there like a specter On the corner of the street And...

She said she just wanted a friend And then she'd be good Something to play with now again And give lots of food We've got a yard that's big enough She says he's like a dream But they've got us running round in circles Like a pair of clowns it seems CHORU...

You look like you been here before One or two many times You look like you made a business deal That crossed too many lines You look like you been marked for life And given up for dead You look like you got someone else's Hair growing out of your head...

Hello, Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me Is there anyone home? Come on now I hear you're feeling down I can ease your pain And get you on your feet again Relax I'll need some information first Just the basic facts Can you show me where i...

What does it take to shut your cruel, cruel lips How could I have mistaken the kiss for a kiss? Of all the things you said to me, of all things to let slip Oh, what does it take to shut your cruel, cruel lips? How did you finally break my heart, heart, he...

Take me for what I'm worth though it may not amount to much Take me from this abyss and put me back in touch Though I have strayed from you though I have fallen from grace I am back on higher ground up from that lonely place CHORUS Cos I have found t...

Can you hear me? Baby can you hear me? Who do you think I'm talking to? Is there anyone else near me? Precious things come in my path Like new clothes for me to try on In the end they make me laugh In the beginning they are something to rely on I'm...

Cupid draw back your bow And let your arrow go Straight to my lover's heart for me, for me - Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me Now - I don't mean to bother you but I'm in distress There's danger of me loosing...

We wake up every morning Rush downstairs to the car Jump inside it with mummy Her eyes are shining like stars The sun's like something that God sent The air's as fresh as our clothes We're going to the golden arches Our life's so perfect it glows And every...

When I ask you for a light You don't turn the lights out When I'm looking for a fight You don't punch my lights out Sometimes they say Love is invincible I wouldn't go as far as to say that One thing I know One thing is certain honey We're not dancing fo...

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...

Your guardian angels are looking down on you As they fold your wings and collect your things And lift you into the blue Your guardian angels they can't just fly away They're going to stay on Earth their job to do The task is not too great When the...

Twisted shards of metal Silhouetted against the sky The dust may never settle But those clouds keep rolling by Ignorance and folly are the order of the day But nothing lasts forever It might seem that way It might seem that way But there's a brand new...

I wonder what you are thinkin' under the rooftops there pullin' tangles from your hair I wonder if the water you're drinkin' comes from a purer stream The one where sunlight gleams Things round here don't get any clearer Stuff that once seemed in...

I had my day in the sun Then it rained every day Every day was no fun But things are looking up of late Now I got my head on straight I had my week in the news But now I'm old news now I'm not the news they choose But things are looking up of late Si...

I ain't stopping fingers keep bopping Swing band rocking from the street to the bar West coast's dated music's overrated Here it on the radio in every car Chorus The heat in harlem the heat in harlem, yep The heat in harlem the heat in harlem And the...

Let's talk about a criminal procedure Throw out the idea of illegal seizure Put a rope around somebody's neck Let's hold some bastard up for example Take his blood and a urine sample Feed him garbage and make him pick up the check Chorus Well, here it...

The saddest animal in this zoo Is not the lion the tiger or The pink-ass baboon It's not the giant centipede or The vampire bat Not the black mambo or the feral cat Yeah there's one creature Much worse of course Yeah the baddest one he is the high hors...

As long as you give me my pay You'll get your moneys worth I'll be there 8 hours a day I won't hide and I won't shirk I got a way with a hammer and a nail A dovetail and a tongue and groove Put up a wall in half a day Guarantee it'll never move CHORUS...

There was smoke up to my eyeballs Poison burned my throat But i said i'd keep on going When everyone said don't With my bony-chested t-shirt Some stolen guitar licks Navigating by dead reckoning In 1976 And when the mighty chains of darkness...

I don't know what's behind that veil I ask questions to no avail I don't know why there's empty shelves Empty books and silent bells I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know why it's not enough To feel moments of mighty lo...

Ohh-oh-oh-oh, let me tell you now, uh-huh, uh-uh-uh When I had you to myself I didn't want you around Those pretty faces always make me stand up in a crowd Someone picked you from the bunch, and that was all it took And now it's much too late for me to ta...

I dreamed I was someone special In another life They gave me my fifteen minutes Then they pulled the knife It was just another deal It was just another reel On a tape that keeps on turning In the dark in another world CHORUS I thought I was right I was...

Two young girls were swept down the culverts in the rain St. Petersburg was flooded again I reached my hand out for them but I watched them slip away And I had to get up to Jacksonville that day I don't need anyone to remind me I don't get the big picture...

I'm not a page in history not something that bold I'm not the greatest mystery that was ever told I may not be who you wanna spend a whole life with alone I'm not that fascinating with features carved like stone But I'll tell you everything before you run...

I hear the whole East Coast is socked in By a strong Northeaster's And it doesn't look like it's gonna end real soon You've been stuck up there in the mountains While I been swannin' around the West Coast But I'll swear I'm gonna make it back there soon,...

I'm in a trailer with some white trash. They're drinkin' beer and smokin' grass There's a dumb chick with peroxide hair. She's got Axl Rose tattooed on her ass They're holding me up like a trophy in a hall Like a deer skin or a bear's head they bought f...

I got my dunce's cap and cardboard sword And I'm droolin' as you talk to me You say I should be in a mental ward But That might seem like home to me Cos I don't get it I don't understand And I think love's overrated Why can't a woman be more like a man...

Speak to me baby across this room I never noticed silence like this before Cry for me baby I'm empty too If I could pull myself up off the floor Sometimes you play around and I don't know what your game is Sometimes it hurts so bad I don't know where t...

It's my party but I won't cry It's my funeral but I won't die It's my fiction but I won't lie It's my party but I won't cry I don't have the power to be superman And I don't have the smarts to understand Why you walked out and Left me for another man...

Just like a man, flexing his muscle and not really usin' it Just like a fool, making her suffer And stuffing her feelings with cotton wool Well, forgive him, forgive him Just like a man, carrying a picture but seeing in the negative Just like a fool, all...

I took off my mask that night and bared my teeth in your face You saw something else living under my skin the wolf with no thought of disgrace I know I know some things you must never confess I drop to the ground like a bird hit by gunshot Just like herma...

My head was swimming in a Bangkok joint You got paint on your coat like an arrow point I followed where it led as if pulled by a bow Fired into the night deep and slow to where I'll never know The hotel was dark as we made our arrival Waiting breathless...

She walks through the field, walks in the heat through the field see see She swings with her arm, but can what she catches be real see see And when you look into her eyes, you see what you want see see When everything was undone, every field was open n...

People call and ask how we're doing in the L shaped room They understand how different it is in this profession They all fall for all our excuses that we'll see them soon CHORUS You tell me that you love me, I tell you that I love you And I don't have to...

Chorus Last stop is nowhere That's where i'm bound Last stop is nowhere That's where i'll be found I know we're leavin' On different trains With the same baggage But different aims You're headini eastbound I'm headiw west You keep on sayin' That i...

I used to think that it all stopped happening by the time you reached twenty one They said there's nothing like the first love you get boy They were wrong, oh so wrong, they hung on and hung on, to their dream, I know CHORUS Life gets better yeah Whene...

Understanding Understanding (twice) When I get mad I'm really a drag, tear down walls start losing my rag Like a bunch of cats tied up in a bag, how come I make your tail wag CHORUS You're little miss understanding yeah You're little miss understanding...

My long stem rose won't sit on the mantelpiece she's not disposed to being one of a dozen she's a living thing that's bound to get tired 

We work through the rituals and cover our poisonous tracks Making good use of weaknesses, horoscopes, rumours and facts Inspired by the needles and pins and the pains in the heart With no control over the chemistry that brings us then tears us apart Now we...

I was right there near the goal In the information flow Where strange things come and go From despair to ecstatic glow Where the flesh meets the dust But there's nothing there to trust Where the rhythms pulse and bind Where the human heart takes...

I can take those riff raff and get them out of your hair Clean up your doorstep and polish your chair I could move your house slightly to the left Squeeze you till you're breathless then breathe you full of breath I can give the Zulu's a point to t...

You know your mamma's good lookin' you're gonna eat a lot of her cookin' Sweet potato pie and green jello oh oh oh yeah Your daddy might not be rich but he ain't hangin' with the wicked witch So stick out your tongue and give it a go oh oh oh yeah Chorus...

There are more questions than answers Pictures in my mind that will not show There are more questions than answers And the more I find out the less I know Yeah, the more I find out the less I know I've asked the question time and time again Why is there...

Mr. tender is something I'm not I pulled too tight when we tied the knot Surrender is something I can't, I can't let go and I rave and I rant But I resolve to solve this problem and be the one you need And one day you'll see you will call me "mr tender" M...

One day there'll be a museum of stupidity Where we can hang ourselves and throw away the key Along with the attitudes of the PMRC And this bullshit drug war full of hypocrisy The banning of 2 Live Crew They'll probably put 2 Live Crew in there, too A mus...

(alright, let's do the museum piece!) Gather dust, an undercrust in cleveland Everybody bows down to them No one looks and says "hey, screw them, Who cares what they did? let's kill a new band" Well I don't wanna be a museum piece Please don't let me b...

When the world's asleep And there's no one in your arms Raindrops hit the window Like distant alarms You don't have to worry Hey girl don't you cry My love beats adversity baby Eats it alive And I got a real human soul Don't tell me that I'm wrong I...

I come from a nation of shopkeepers Window cleaners, turf accountants and book keepers I run through the station where the road sweepers Clean the debris, sweep the tickets near the rail sleepers And as usual I'm running late But it can wait It's not im...

You have always struck a chord in me One that resonates within like ancient chemistry You have always rung the bell my love Taken it upon yourself to lift my spirits high above When I work you know it's just my job Something that I do to pass the time Be...

Every street is a crowded place every crowd is too much to face Every shoulder is something hard don't want to lean on Every day we are running out our caps to catch in the pouring rain Feel the loneliness and the doubt I have to shout for Hey no more exc...

I am a lucky man that's what I think I might come close to the edge but I never sink And I notice that vulnerable look in your eyes tonight And in the desert that passes for my heart, Sweet rain is falling tonight You're my oasis, You're my Oasis, Oasis B...

Hey ay ay ay etc You get a lot of girl singers obsessed with Aretha You get a lot of little swingers wishin' they could be her Some of those sisters can rock and roll All God's children gotta little bit of soul But not that much no no no not that much...

I break a heart in a thousand places, she makes a slur against other races He rejects all of the unpretty faces, sticks them full of knives I take a shot at birds flying south, he takes the gun barrel into his mouth, She takes a rope and ties up the house,...

A man smokes and a dog stretches A woman works and a kid kvetches I'm ridin' on a road that stretches Over the border to America Over the border to America I got nothin' but lonesome time A backyard and a religious shrine There must be something better...

From China to Chinatown New York to Tokyo Upstate to down Island From here to there From the backyard to the wide wide open spaces From the steel mills to the wind in your hair From the claustrophobic beat of my heart to the openness of your smile...

Nothing can be further removed, not everybody wants to be soothed ooooh they're out there now in their padded cells and armchairs Waiting for the nervous twitch that signals fear Hooked up to a cardiogram set up so it cuts out when you cry or laugh Worked...

Well, you may think I'm foolish For the foolish things I do You may wonder how come I love you When you get on my nerves like you do Well, baby, you know you bug me There ain't no secret 'bout that Come on over here and hug me Baby, I'll spill the facts...

Stuff comes down from the golden triangle on ferries from denmark to helsingborg The band strikes up but they're out of time on synthesiser and washboard Wooden tulips grow by the roadside made in a factory in jonjoping Fake glass baubles hang in the statio...

I can feel it in the air I can smell you everywhere I don't know if you're receptive so l will play the love detective Cos when the bees buzz in the apple blossoms they don't think about their fate Wake up now don't hibernate the birds are singin' o...

How can you take the crown from the queen of compromise? How can you figure out where her allegiance lies? How can you be on both sides when you don't know her agenda? How can you be on both sides when you don't know where they end up? How can you look int...

I can still feel your teethmarks in my neck your footprints on my back And the gris gris you sprinkled in my bed is starting to make me crack I can still hear your twang ringing in my ears, your perfume I still smell You bought it way down below the mason...

Everybody just looks ugly now information don't compute I draw a blank every time I think The football crowd is going to give me a boot Chorus And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead It don't matter what they say You've got to use your own hea...

There is more than one of me So many I lose count But sometimes that's the fun of me That's what I'm all about But I'll be there for you And you know that that's true I just can't guarantee Which one of me it's going to be so See things my way (Come...

In this suburb of Babylon, they don't like to wait They kill the messenger 'cos the message was late Kill the child starving at the gate Predicting the rain of the state See Willy fly by, in the by and by In the never you mind, in the wait and see In th...

Can you crawl out of the darkness of that dungeon where you're hangin' Can you dismantle the cross you've had to bear Can you prize the lid right open on all that fancy footwork and set fire to the shoes you've had to wear Just because the mud's there does...

I'm not selling molasses I'm not pushing tea I don't appeal to the masses and they don't appeal to me I'm not peddling fiction I'm not packaging youth I've got a predilection for the truth BRIDGE #1 I can't stand it any longer I can't suffer any more foo...

She never let me down. That's one thing I can say for sure I had her wrapped around my finger. Then I cut the cord And when the night comes on and another day draws to an end There's a world of difference between lovers and friends She never let me down w...

She wants so many things you can't give to her She wants so many things you don't have much She wants so many things you can't deliver to her She wants so many things all at once Like a brick wall that'll keep her from crumbling And a camouflage jacket...

They took their kids in their teenage years Fitted them out with combat gear, Filled their hearts with mortal fear and sent them away Some came home their pants in creases Some came home in bits and pieces The president made a lot of speeches and went fis...

The world was stripped of beauty baby By the working man He was told it was his duty baby Again and again and again They took the slaves from Africa baby Along with sugar sacks To build the British Empire baby And break everybody's back CHORUS Hey hey sl...

While that snowgun blasts into The future from the past It blasts that phony snow that Looks like cake mix down below From my vantage here Up on this mountain ski lift chair I can see a lot but it's Not always crystal clear On my own On Belleayre Mou...

I dunno why you love me baby I dunno why you care I'm losin'my memory I'm losin'my hair I lost my car keys around here somewhere I'm part of the furniture I'm stuck to that chair So i dunno why you love me baby I dunno why you care Socks'n'sandals tha...

I heard the wild dogs scream in the midnight Just like a knife in my heart I felt so empty like someone fixed me Only to take me apart The mighty ocean dried up before me The trees went bare before my eyes The wicked daylight the curse of hindsight The...

When I was a boy I never felt The weight I'm feeling I had a crowd around me And that was that I'd get on the bus and go to the Ata every weekend And feel the ultraviolet show the fluff up on my collar yeah They'd play Otis Redding Sam and Dave and Wil...

I got to break this armour, cutting off all the feeling (don't wear it) It's like a melodrama, everybody's scene stealing (just bear it) It's always the same old number, they never let you out of school (it's nothing) Well I gotta gun that's loaded, I want...

Hurricanes are howlin' up the florida coast Leaving the beach towns dead as a ghost 24 inches of rain in a matter of days The governor says that it's god's will That's what he says Mudslides are runnin' down the hill to the town Knocking the telegraph po...

Have you seen her run through the wild things Dropping behind her the child's things that she'll no longer need Scattering like seeds they are discarded then Nothing can give them a life again they're comfort only when she bleeds Chorus 1 And strong wind...

The dreams and hopes of men are powered by addiction And who am I to say that this is an affliction When everybody gets suckered in and lives their lives like fiction Writing their own stories of success They say they want you for your colourful evocation...

I believe every man has a chance to make good I'm convinced that this is so Equal opportunity for the king or the hood And everybody knows CHORUS Sugar gives you energy Sugar gives you energy Sugar gives you energy Sugar gives you energy I believed I co...

When they come to take you down When they bring that wagon around When they come to call on you And drag your poor body down Just one thing I ask of you Just one thing for me Please forget you knew my name My darlin' Sugaree Shake it, shake it Sugare...

My daddy took me to see it When I was no more than ten They just finished painting the metal and Then they'd have to start all over again And i'm still standing there On that suspension bridge With the wind blowing through my head And the daredev...

We're comin' in our big ships Big guns blazin' bibles in our hands Comin' from a cold place To lead those natives by the hand Back to back to back to back to Back to the promised land Now this is called fire This is called brimstone Do you understand...

You have to do your best to come up to par, from straight off the production line like a car, Till everything you put on is a put-on, and you don't know who's face you're gazing upon Could be anyone you're sending out there tonight, is it any wonder all...

Buster turned round to me And said hey kid you must be joking You got an attitude You think you're funny but you're choking hey hey Back every word that comes out of your mouth (Ten girls ago) You thought you had something to laugh about But it was just a...

You can brace yourself for it but never ignore it away got to go stop There are hints of forgiveness You can stand as your witness but they will let you drop And they don't even see the betrayal That you trip on the light rail And you feel you owe to...

You got 24 bears to a minute Not much substance in it Twice every hour they spin it If you guess who it is you win it Ah everybody’s going to a Go Go Video is on at the City Sweet talking black girls in it Some little creep from England Thinks That he...

It's not right the way that you deal with her She's not something you handle like cash To be undressed like Sunday's leftovers To be picked on Monday And Tuesday in the trash That's where she ends up It's not right the way that you don't listen She's...

I live near Hollywood out in the Canyon It's a good life if you're winnin' it's a killer if you're not My wife up and left last night, couldn't stand another fight The studio boss fired me, my future's been shot by The Three Martini Lunch Things will get...

What were they thinking When they dug that hole And bulldozed that town down Wall by wall Laying the asphalt and Diverting that rolling river So there'd be water for us all I got some photographs I don't know if they're us or not Ah but my me...

The way your fingers trace a pattern down my spine The way your eyes dissolve and lock up tight with mine The sweetness of your skin takes my love and pulls me in All the memories that begin and end with you then fly back once again And the rest is not a m...

Someday we will cross a bridge, someday we will see That I can lean on you and you can put your weight on me And every man will get a chance to be what a man wants to be And every woman will look at her child and know that he's growing up free The sun is...

There's a ghost in my house The ghost of your memories The ghost of the love you took from me Well, our love used to be Only shadows from the past I see Time can't seem to erase The vision of your smiling face Though you found someone new I can't get...

They took the girl with the famous eyebrows and plucked them out They made her shadow disappear in the mirror And called it a shadow of doubt Then they wanted us to pay up front For the privilege of watching this go down Then they painted her eyebrows bac...

The ringmaster looked a bit pasty and down Dying as he was to get out of town The lions and the tigers had gnawed at his feet But the lion tamer's whip hurt much more than their teeth The Giovanni Sisters performed in a sweat Someone cut holes in the saf...

If I could bring the sky A little closer to the ground And make the world turn round A little slower If I could prize the lid off of This weight that holds me down And understand her heart And really know her And if our love were cold and dead I'd cu...

I don't understand telepathy, but I am thinking of you I am going to get my feelings across the gulf that divides me and you Cos when the doors get locked and the windows are shuttered The oaths get broken and the curses are muttered And every emotion's c...

You used to swing your big ole breasts around town For every man to get a good look You used to hang your lingerie upside down Out in the sun to cook But when that twister rolled through Kentucky And ripped up our trailer park I saw your big butt flyin'...

Run and beat the shadow Run and beat the shadow Of the quickly setting sun All the tides in the ocean Couldn't pull it back The eclipse had already begun And it turned inside you With a grind of gears Like the blast from a point blank gun All the shif...

That crazy shirt you wear It's gettin'thin near threadbare That ribbon in your hair Made outta lace and it's bound to tear Those ice-blue jeans you got With the hole in the back And the sunflower swatch People are startin'to stare God knows what's goin...

The jug heads hit the city from every country round the globe The ships pulled in the drinks were free the ticker tape came out in rolls I was sitting in a bar watching this on TV To me it looked like a failure but they called it victory BRIDGE 1 Well if...

All the dirt's lying under the carpet He swallowed a drink and then checked her heartbeat Her wedding gown has been burned to ashes Fanned by the flutter of her false lashes One last chance to kiss again She looked so good he looked so sane Not forever...

Hey, can you tell me What everybody plans to do Hey, can you tell me Where's everybody's going to They're out there on the street They must be elite They got shoes I can't afford on their Quick fast feet They have modified irises Behind opaque lens...

Weeping statues Elvis sightings Visitations man struck by lightning Everyday someone gets a sign It rips apart the fabric of their daily lives Is It fear of flying that Keeps us rooted to the ground Everyone is trying to stay trapped and gagged and bound...

Country has drawbacks The mud and the rain The ticks and the bugs And the rugged terrain You gotta deal with people Who are almost insane Folks who operate with Only part of their brain You left me in the wilderness And ran back to town You just co...

When I was King I was not really the man I am now I was like anyone sitting on a throne made out of china When I was king I had already abdicated Already melted my crown down to sell as scrap But they'd run the first run of stamps People had cashed in the...

What you don't know can't hurt you What you can't see can't get in the way You turn out the light, things get clearer I know there'll be a night when you can't find the switch I'm half awake, I can't come to My hands start to shake As you're shaking me...

If I had the slightest clue as to what you are and what's inside you I would know exactly what to do and be worthy of your love If a flower bloomed in the frozen wastes and the moon had a smiling face and the stars had not a hint of grace I'd be worthy of...

I've broken your glass, called someone a dirty name Made a nuisance of myself in front of friends I've dug my own grave, please don't let me lie in it Instead let's bury everything that caused us pain Chorus Speak to me now, speak to me darling You're n...

There's a man in my suitcase, a woman in your clothes Skeletons inside us that dance on hot coals Cannibals are outside following our trail All our information comes from junk mail Don't leave it among us, don't let it loose in the crowd Don't let it rei...

Took her to a party and danced with the host Took her to a restaurant and treat her like a ghost Took her to a movie and looked at another screen Paid for entertainment she'd already seen I get so hungry, I'm eating my heart out Oooh I felt it go empty I...

As you wash your hair and bathe in Perrier As you hit the bank machine at night Drinking money for tomorrow's flight As you count your loss or bet on a black horse Sit behind the wheel of a black Porsche Use your leather organiser with your name embossed...

You hit the spot send a heatwave through my brain Another shot of an antidote for pain When I get the fear gets down to the bone When you're near I don't feel alone You hit the spot everybody makes me cringe It's worth a shot I'd rather burn than singe...

This room got really weird It changed before my eyes And then I grew this beard A really cheap disguise That chandelier that fell It wasn't there before And now I have to pick The pieces from the floor You're not where you think you are You're not wh...