Nik Kershaw

Fifteen minutes, that's all you get One quarter hour, to get it all together That's nine hundred seconds to make your bed Fifteen minutes to show the world You think you're something, that's what it's like The one and only, the centre of attention You're on y...

I do believe that you believe most everything you’ve told me Incredibly, you’d guarantee the crock of shit you sold me You still deny a single lie has ever passed from your lips You play the game, say I’m to blame. I must be paranoid I must be paranoid...

Your lips are sealed, your mouth is dry Your tongue is well and truly tied And so you bottle up inside The feeling you've got She's your moon, she's your sun She could even be the one Best regret the things you've done Than those you have not Don't h...

Ain't no stopping this thing he's chasing Ain't no stopping this runaway train he's on He's wishing his wishes and missing his station It's there one t minute, and the next it's gone, gone, gone Keeps on betting on winning this race Don't see it looking h...

And my cup is full, and my luck is in And my face is set in a stupid grin And it's happy hour and the world is smiling Every thunder cloud has a silver lining Bad day you're having No way you'll let me be Cos it's the good life I'm living Hard time you...

Billy is a new man, he does the best he can to figure out what it's about and what thehell he's meant to be. He does the right thing when expected, nuff respect , once in a while he likes a smoke and a joke, just as long as it's P.C. And he thinks that he crie...

Now keep this to yourself but My love plays games with me I don't mean gin or monopoly Strings me along like some pet animal or other Why do I play her game When she can't even remember my name Wish I could whistle like the "Big Sleep's" famous lover...

Can’t shake the monkey on my back Can’t lose my luggage in the friendly skies Can’t tell the good guys from the bad Can’t hear the music for the background noise Wish I was born yesterday Born yesterday I would be naked in every sense I would be blissf...

What's the matter with your face? What's the matter with the way you talk? What you doing with that spoon? You should be eating with a knife and fork Take a look at your body Take a look at the state of play You've had your fun and now it's time to pay...

You’ve got to laugh though it’s not funny You’ve got to laugh, or you would surely cry Can’t buy a chance for love or money Can’t get arrested however hard you try Your heart is numb, you’ve screamed and shouted Banged on the door relentlessly They shou...

Gone fishing for compliments On Hollywood and Vine I'd come to you party But I haven't finished mine Talk to the doctor He turns acid into wine, 'cause I am an angel In the city of angels Nothing cuts too deep Yes I am an angel In the city of ange...

You may never get to wander Along the corridors of power Where the files tell your story Beneath the bell that keeps it's secret by the hour We wanna know what's it's got to say. We know what you're doing We know what you've got We know how you got it...

High above the push and shove I float without a sound Paradise found I can see a lilac field A blue and crimson sky How lucky am I And sunlight makes it alright Makes me shine I watch you watching Miss you Doing fine But even though the view is o...

I am a man with things to say Got the real thing here without a doubt My aim is true, I'm on my way And I know what life is all about I'll be around One day Gunslung civilians I'll be around We'll play Cowboys and Indians I'll be around and around...

Cold and lonely, tired and bored Just like the day before Missing out on life's reward Of that you an be sure So bring on the dancing girls Take off the cold night and the sad day Bring on the dancing girls Take off the twilight and the skies so grey...

She has office girl hair that she wears in a bun And her confident air doesn’t fool anyone With her curious walk neither clumsy or svelte And a mouth where the bravest of butter would never dare melt But her dangerous eyes could get you in trouble Could...

Let him be me Let him be me I am a yes-man i stay in line I do what they tell me I am theirs but I'm still mine I do what they tell me I do what they say Taking orders as they come I do what they tell me Always silent, never dumb I do what they tel...

He's the wasp in the jam, he's the dad at the party The trash in the beauty spot He's the cloud in the sky, he's the fly in the ointment The nail in the parking lot Let's give the man a hug then put him out to grass Feel sorry for the bug, the one that's...

Your mind can play tricks Makes you what you want to be Just like superheroes You saw them on tv Coast to coast, wall to wall Got to go, duty calls Here i am Superman, lois lane Saved the world, back again Here i am In my old, red saloon I'm a knight in shin...

Mr K comes out to play Inquisitive as ever He'd like to know a bunch of things He thinks you're pretty clever The height of Cyd Charisse The probability of chance The capital of Turkey And the President of France So Don't ask me, got no genius to m...

I wouldn't if I were you Thank God we're no My finger shoots straight and true That shows a lot Just try it on if you dare So tough so free My shoulder has chips to spare Save one for me Whenever these bars close before me I'll tear them down With...

Whenever I want some company Whenever I need a song to play Whenever my love is sitting by me And when I can't find the words to say I let the drums do the talking When I can do with some conversation Whenever I'm deep in sorrow or pain When I'm in ne...

Hold me up, I'm falling over Got the jackal at my door Got a chip upon my shoulder But I still come back for more Call me up, I'm feeling lonely Got the radio up loud With my comfortable position With my cottage in the clouds Easy we come, easy we g...

I told my tale with some words From Jail and a bible vow But fear and fury were my judge and Jury so her I am now There was a letter A hundred letters I wrote a letter It said "Hi! Mr President I hope You're fit and strong" And I hope you'll give me...

Enjoy the ride The Bumpy ride I hope that luck Is on your side I hope your arms Are open wide I hope you all Enjoy the ride Enjoy the dance The crazy dance I hope you get To take your chance i hope you wear Your funky pants I hope you dare Enjo...

They found me lost in space, nowhere to go With the stakes so high and my resistance so low They said "follow us, follow us today We are truth, we are the way." "Young man" they said "Your search is through You can trust in us, we'll look after you We w...

If you wrote a book with a page for each memory And put it in hardback for people to buy The critics would laugh, yeah they'd call it ridiculous And sit around waiting for Porky to fly The truth is stranger than fiction And I must believe what I see But the t...

I can feel this body moving, it's like I'm going for a ride It's on automatic pilot, nothing going on inside Yeah I dress it in Versace and I feed it a la carte But there's no fire in its belly, there's no passion in its heart Oooh find me a stranger Oooh fin...

It's dark in there and you're quite unaware That the cracks on the ceiling are mocking you Your airless bag, your dust in a shaft of light And you think you might Yeah you might stay there all day Heh heh Get up, get on your feet Get up, don't go back...

God bless this happy home God bless the hugs and kisses Keep us all safe and warm Keep us in ignorant bliss Heaven help old Joseph Bloggs in his cardboard box Reaching out his hand for a piece of me Heaven give his dog a bone, leave my conscience well alone T...

Wind blows on me Here comes my golden days It's the vital state I'm in I see the lights The lights that mesmerize this young boy to dream on Dying to go Impatient to show The powers I possess I hunger for success I find myself invincible Collectin...

I think I'll call the whole thing off A joke's a joke, it isn't funny anymore Enough's enough Now I forget what I was fighting for I played the game I lost I even took the blame I lost I think I'll change my name To lost I'll never be the same anymor...

Look at you glowing all shiny and fresh Standing alone looking over the edge It's a long way down I wish I could give you a bullet proof skink I wish I could show you the world that you're in But I can't You wouldn't understand So there's not a lot I ca...

I thumb the pages one by one What if a little bit rubs off on me Soak up the pictures til I'm gone Dreams for the dreamers, food for fantasy Yey, I'm hanging by the pool And I'm looking like a fool But I don't mind Easy life Hello world, looking good...

They meet in a cafe, it's love at first sight They sit there the whole day, they talk there the whole day They're gonna get married, they're tying the not They're giving it everything, yeah all that they've got How sad we were to hear your news How much...

Closing in on empty spaces Winners laugh too soon A paper world with paper faces Beneath a paper moon There's a man, a real pacesetter Coming after me And after him there's someone better and After him there's me He'll offer you a cigarette He'll of...

That’s the limit, that’s enough Time somebody called your bluff You over educated thug Degrees in looking down your nose And supercilious repose Plus a Phd in smug Wind your neck in, shut your gob You’re just a bully and a snob You’re just a loud, pre...

forty winks in the lobby make mine a G&T then to my favourite hobby searching for an enemy here in your paper houses stretching for miles and miles old men in stripey trousers rule the world with plastic smiles good or bad, like it or not it's the only o...

Talk tougher than James Cagney Act smarter than Charlie Chan Love longer than Valentino Or you never will be a man I saw him down at the drive-in Saturday A forty five to blow away anyone who happens to disagree With such panache and style, he wins the...

Put on your coat, put on your hat Say goodbye to your welcome mat Forget your bag, forget yourself Forget the lines you knew so well So brace yourself and open up the door Because it's everybody for themselves Well, here we go, yeah here we go You can...

Got a badge upon my chest I'm a cut above the rest So I Can tell you what to do Got my regimental hat Got my "By The Good Book" chat So I Can tell you where to go I've a job to do and I'm telling you I intend to do it well It's easy when you know...

Permanent wave Temporary laughter Morality's soul Living happy ever after Never see the end Never in a million years And never be afraid Cos even when my head says this is all there is I believe there'll be another time L.A.B.A.T.Y.D. All our bo...

Ten thirty on a Monday morning, I go With no particular worry or care Down Santa Monica Boulevard, real slow Just to see if that lady's still there I don't know if I should But maybe I could ask her something I wonder 'bout the place she calls her home...

Even though I think of you Life goes on I keep your photpgraph in my attaché Your eyes seem to follow me from day to day I make the curtains sing and dance in my room I'm sure I see your smile and smell your sweet perfume And Sometimes you face is in...

Sitting alone, the comfort zone Your feet up on a Sunday morning The same skin that you were born in Who’d of thought it could stretch so far There’s nothing wrong, the football’s on A warm beer and a chicken sandwich Growing old, fat, gaseous and rich...

I feel like breaking this silence It's so loud, it's so loud Just me and these four walls And my MTV So I close my eyes And I open my heart And I find myself Lost in you I've had enough of this cold night It's so long, yeah too long Only you can make...

Just another stupid white man He was unemployed and rich An expert drunken driver With a most alarming itch He was belly deep in cronies They laughed at all his jokes There were sycophants and phonies And a lot of daddy's folks He was Loud, proud, c...

You can have it if you want, it's on a plate With southern fries and a salad dressed Or, better still, undressed And she'll come microwaved and hot Loving all the things you've got And you will be everything you're not When she's around And she'll be made in...

Another cat amongst the pigeons Another spanner in the scheme of things I don't know why it shakes them up so much They're so out of touch with me. It isn't easy finding something new The bible bashers beat you black and blue Fire and brimstone raining down o...

I thought I heard a lover's sigh It wasn't very loud It came as I was passing by Somebody else's cloud The curtains were the finest lace And when the night winds blew I saw the dew upon her face And other places too Nodbody knows what you do to me...

Hello baby, I have got a shoulder here to cry upon How could he ever leave you to hurt the way you do I’m telling you that he is not worth a single tear of yours He is not deserving of an angel such as you Oh you beautiful thing Oh you wonderful, marvel...

I don’t want this silence breaking Though who do I think I’ll be waking Footsteps of mine on hallowed ground 17 ghosts follow me around But they’re not so good at talking They just keep on walking Rattling their chains as they go They won’t be leaving m...

It's a funny old world You can laugh in a funny old world Slip and sliding, duck and diving Open wide and let it in On a road some place Live your life on a road some place Pack your dreams and a needle and thread Leave yourself like an unmade bed One...

I catch my breath, ready for the race to come No prizes call, contest is my opium Since you can never be sure When they're keeping the score You must always be ready to run I tense myself Waiting for the starting gun No time for fun Because I work...

Sitting here feeding all these numbers into my machine A number for every little thing I see I execute and they come dancing in Dresses black and green I recognise the number shining out at me Telling me One world, one love, one reason why One hope, o...

I take each breath As if it is my first I hold it there so deep inside me Until I'm 'bout to burst I speak each word as if it is your name I move my lips and taste the moment But still it sounds the same Your hand moves and so does mine Our eyes meet...

Do you see that metal man building your car? That's progress! When you don't know who the real ones are That's progress! I'd like to watch TV tonight But I've got to paint my windows white If the blues don't get you, then the valium might That's progres...

Just one look at those baby brown eyes And all is understood Ain’t no stopping you falling inside And staying there for good She won’t go doing those terrible things Like messing with your heart Pushing your buttons and pulling your strings Sure that’s...

Black vinyl man with black plasticised imagination More fodder for the new lost generation I got a question to send you to the nearest closet Why can't you let us do it like JONI does it There you go again, giving it your very best Trying so hard to make it so...

Two souls beside the ocean At the mercy of its tide One warm and tender moment Two souls beside the ocean At the mercy of its tide One warm and tender moment One cold December night There sat beneath the bright stars How were we to understand Our l...

Babylon Bob just can’t get a job can’t pay his way Sick of this junk can’t wait for a punk to make his day Pokemon Pete young man in the street wants to be heard Secondhand Sue gets mad wouldn’t you if you were her They wanna rock the rock of ages They w...

Make it plastic make it pay Use it up and throw away Make another just the same, more or less Burn our time down to size Send it up into the skies Hide the evidence with lies, what a mess But we've just come from a meeting And we're sure you'd like t...

Runaway, Runaway, Runaway from me I can't believe I did that Runaway, Runaway, Runaway from me I can't believe I did that I didn't think it through I made you cry Now I could die I'd run if I were you Not like you didn't warn me I've had my secon...

Neon glistens and shadows wave Who knows whether we're stupid or brave And they say we are Oh we are Running scared No use in fighting in the name of pride When there probably isn't any place to hide And the two of us Two of us Running scared They...

In the turquoise inner space The giants live with grace At peace with peace At peace with God and men Their spirits rise and fall Much greater than us all They trust too much To see their bitter end Never in a million years, they say It could never...

I would go to hell in a hat If you asked me to, my love It might be a good thing at that For me I would catch the breeze from the trees And the stars from up above I'd go round the world on my knees For you Shame on you, shame on you Oh what does a...

Look at her, she meets your eye She makes you laugh until you cry She makes you want to go and get her Don’t be stupid, that’s so sad You’re old enough to be her dad You’re old enough to know much better There’s an angel over there Bet you’d like to st...

With an air of independence She walks into your domain You are captured by her beauty You can feel her taking aim And the way she lets her hair down Sets a pounding in your head But you get the strangest feeling That she wouldn't care if you were dead...

I took an hundred and ten pictures of you Put them all around me and wondered what to do Like a temple in memory, a shrine in your name To days I don't remember, to nights I can't reclaim I took a part of my life, about eighteen years long Pulled it all to pie...

He's run his course. he's run his race The years are etched upon his face What was his name? What was his name? The scores are in, the bets are off He's had his fill, he's had enough A cryin' shame A cryin' shame If I ever get like that If I ever ge...

You're putting on your brave face, packing up your bag Plucking up the courage you didn't know you had The Demons and the doubters are fighting in your head But they'll go quiet when you knock 'em dead So long my old friend Hope we get to laugh again So...

I thought I heard a sigh, As you waved the world goodbye, While the snow lies o'er the meadows like a shroud. And it's so quiet, so quiet, Even the silence is too loud. So different yesterday, When you laughed the night away, Who knew that all the time...

Sear of faces Rolling on the big wave Wish that I could dive right in Shiny faces, Glowing in the light rays Smiling at me, sink or swim I put my words upon their lips I put my body at their finger tips And It feels like somebody loves you, somebody understand...

Sometimes when I wake at night I feel like nothing on earth could ever hurt me Sometimes when I'm on my mind I feel like nothing I say could ever deserve me I'm stood on the tip of my own tongue I'm caught in the space between the concept and the executi...

Drink the good stuff down in one Call for another, have yourself some fun Here's to the good life, drink it down Stick around The morning after, playing dead Don't see the black clouds gather overhead Consequences raining down Stick around You might just lear...

Hot one, everybody's got one Everybody else but you, Must have, better than the riff-raff, Better than the judges too, Tiny, little black and shiny, Couldn't live a day without, New one, better than the old one, Better throw the old one out, Help me,...

Jasmine and sandalwood, I smell the incense burning I was the faithless one, but you've got this worm turning And now I do believe I open up and breath you into me I'd like to drink from you, worship the ground you walk on Be yours in our communion Take...

Rise and greet the great pretender He's hungry for your crown Do you want it? Do you want my place? You can take my place Do you want it? Do you want my place? You can take my place Heart of gold and mind of putty They made me up they'll make you...

There's a wholeness in the half light Of a new night when the day is done And her soft skin has a warm glow And I do know I'm the lucky one In a small boat on a calm sea I can only look in awe At the grey cliffs and the seal pup As it swims up to the s...

I got two strong arms Blessings of Babylon Time to carry on and try For sins and false alarms So to America the brave Wise men save Near a tree by a river There's a hole in the ground Where an old man of Aran Goes around and around And his mind is a beacon In...

You could be a writer, fisherman or fighter You could be the jewel in the crown You could be a leader, doctor or a diva You could be the talk of this town You could be designer, major or a miner You could be a game show host You could drive you race-car,...

I see the tears run down her face Unhappy in her happy place What it is I think I know She's trying hard to let him go She goes These tears are all I have Are all I have to remind me These sweet tears are all I have Are all I have Falling gently the...

I have always tried to paint someone else's picture of me
 But I never fit the frame, never fit the frame
 So I hid inside myself, fooling everyone around me
 And I never had a name, never had a name 
Now I know 
I don't have to be someone I'm not 
An...

Anything we say Would just be a big cliche Not a word I can think of Could ever be big enough Well, if I were Superman, this would be my cue But I'm Joe Nobody and there's not a thing That I can do It's at times like these I wish I could Get on my kne...

Shades of all shades Every shade and size Promised parties in the air Danced before her eyes But where did love go And where were you On the day they turned violet to blue Friends of all friends Friends that came and went Some did care and some did...

There are walls to keep the stranger out And doors that open wide Over here, over here Open spaces for a silent shout A place for you to hide Over here Over here that feeling fills my head And smiles as I take time to bed And I hear someone calling...

You've had it all and you wanted more You've had nothing and you wanted for nothing You take a look through the open door See it all going on out there Time goes by, time goes by And if you didn't laugh you could almost cry What do you think of it so far? Do...

What if it hasn't gone the way you planned Life isn't as grand, as everyone else's There go the neighbours in their four by four It's bigger than yours, it's bigger than Elvis God knows, that's the way that it goes What it is, what it is not the way tha...

I read it in the papers It must be true It said "Girl Gives Birth to Alien Boy" But do we see a photo of this bundle of joy – no, no I saw another headline It knocked me flat It said "Dinosaur Found Alive Today" It's easy when you're talking the rheto...

Halfway to paradise Or so it seems that way Same as anyone The same as any other day We seek eternity In all the things we buy Not top priority But it sure figures very high Who steals the real world Fooling us all as he goes And who gets to heave...

He made a record it made him famous yes it made him a star. The life and soul of the party he rocks he shocks You never know where you are with him. He got no sense but he got money He got no sense but he got overnight success Exceed excess exceed exc...

On the top of an office block Sits a man of business, a man of means He's got in trays and ashtrays He is up to his neck in computers and tragedy queens Undermining his overdraft with lunches with the president He got indecision and indigestion And he...

I got it bad You don't know how bad I got it You got it easy You don't know when you got it good It's getting harder Just keeping life and soul together I'm sick of fighting Even though i know i should The cold is biting Through each and every nerve and fibre...

We're wounded but walking, dumbstruck but talking still And I don't think we've made it, don't think we ever will We're radio rental, so accidental too And I don't think we've made it don't care if we ever do Smashed in, crashed out Spun around, messed a...

There we were, living on our island in the sun Life was so easy, there was plenty for everyone 'Long came a white man who saw the milk and honey Now we're making do while he's making all the money Oh no, not Wounded Knee Another wheel stops rolling Oh...

All cried out and all used up You’re as thirsty as hell But someone stole your loving cup And stopped ringing your bell Draw the curtains, lock your door And stay in to get out of it And love won’t bother you no more No, no, no, But I say Yeah, yeah,...

You feel like you are A face in the crowd Just one of a million You should be so proud So happy to be A shape in the sand A drop in the ocean And a tourist in Wonderland Shed me a tear Blow me a kiss Show me some human stuff With a heart beat here...

Off to face the world again Past the bathroom mirror Ignorance is bliss, they say Couldn't be much clearer Imagining what might have been Thinking it could still be All the lost years in between Still a sucker for a dream You might be an oil tycoon...

It's a pleasure and an honour And I really wouldn't wanna get the words wrong I could make it easy With a poem or a cheesy little love song But I like to play it cool I wouldn't wanna look a fool I wouldn't wanna be a stalker or a freak But we've got a...

Make a joke about it Make me feel all right Paint bright colours over it Paint it out of sight Change around some numbers 'Til it all makes sense Put it down, put it down to experience The rain is coming down, the wind is blowing The cold is biting, still yo...