The (Almost) Complete Lyrics part1

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1975 (inedite 1989)

Instrumental

90's blues (1992)

Well I look out of my window

I see the morning cold and grey

I look out of my window

I see the morning cold and grey

I told you so many years ago

They're all gonna end up, end up this way

Well the fat man took my money

And the daughter won't give it back

The fat man took my money

Sons and daughters won't give it back

Put my family out on the street

Put my marriage on the rack

Well they steal your water

And if you want some you got to pay

The greenies point their fingers

The people know better they don't listen what they say

They live in fear and frustration

Oh their crappy lives why should they give a toss anyway

Nineties blues

Nineties blues

Nineties blues

Ace of hearts (1984)

Could this be true

Could this be me

The one who kept himself so high and free

Caught up in the highest game of all

And all my defences tumble and fall

Only the ace of hearts can save now

I wake in early hours and call your name

It's your face I see pressed up against my window pane

And suddenly I realise

As the tears start to fall like rain from the sky

Only the ace of hearts can save me now

Said only the ace of hearts can save me now

Ace of hearts tell me what's this game we're playing

Ace of hearts it's all down to you

I'm lost, lost like a child in a strange dream

Open your doors and pull me

Pull me trough

And I'm flying like the wind in the dead of night

Flying so high searching for those landing lights

I've never been this high before

But darling all I need is your love more and more

And only the ace of hearts can save me now

All summer long (1985)

All summer long we were happy we were one

We didn't think of an ending to our play

All summer long nights of wine, days of song

It couldn't last, our ageing sun had to go

I will always remember you

Watching the waves in the wind

The beach dogs hiding from the rain

Suddenly my colours have turned to grey

Will I ever see your face again

And all winter long I will walk my lonely road

Waiting for you and your return

I will always remember you

And when she smiles (inedite 1985)

Instrumental

And you my love (1991)

I do not sleep tonight

I may not ever

The sins of the past have come

See how they sit down together

Outside my window

Outside my door

And I know the reason they've all come here for

You my love

My sweet, sweet love

Is what it's all because of

Surrender is easy

I know you do me no harm

But your innocence haunts me

The most fatal of charms

Oh I must have done some wrong

On a dark and distant day

For I know full and well tonight

This is how that I must pay

And you my love

My sweet, sweet love

Is what it's all because of

You my love

My sweet, sweet love

Is what it's all because of

Auberge (1991)

On the hard fast train

On the road to gain

Something gets right through to your telling bone

There's a sudden itch

An electric twitch

Sometimes I swear this body's got a mind of it's own

This is the naked truth

This is the light

There's only one place left to go

Auberge

You meet the silent type

On a windy trail

With a shiny cloak and an unseen silver dagger

You can talk till you ache

Give yourself one more break

You can tell by the look on his face that it just doesn't matter

This is the naked truth

This is the light

There's only one place left to go

Auberge

Give me a weekend

Give me a day

Don't like what I'm seeing though I hear what you say

Think with a dagger

And you'll die on your knees

Begging for mercy

Singing please mister please

This is the naked truth

This is the light

There's only one place left to go

Auberge

Auf immer und ewig (1986)

No sunny day, no sky of blue

Just a pale moon on the wings of the wind

No diamond rings, no pretty dreams

Two people caught in chains of each other

And there was no other way

This was how it was to be

The flame will haunt you constantly

There'll never be a day

Auf immer und ewig?

Auf immer und ewig?

Because of you (1978)

I used to hang my head down low

Never knowing which way I was going

My life was getting close to the edge

And I knew that it was showing

Because of you

I can stand and hold my head up high

Because of you

I feel free and yet I don't know why

Each morning is a spring time song

With the sun up in the sky

The sadness that is on your face

Helped me to realise

I owe each day I have to you

And I'll pay you back some day

You're reading me like a book

But I really would like to say

Because of you

I can stand and hold my head up high

Because of you

I feel free and yet I don't know why

Yes I do, it's you

And I'll pay you back some day

Because of you

I have finally found my way

Between the devil and the deep blue sea (1993)

Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Everywhere I turn it's got a hold on me

Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Everywhere I run it won't let me be

Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea

Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Can somebody somebody somebody help me please

Between the thunder and the driving rain

Could I ever be, be the same again

Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea

Holding on

Waiting for some good luck to come

Come my way, set me free

It's that old boy himself and he always knew

Sooner or later

If you don't say what's true you'll end in chains

And you'll always be

Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea

Black dog (1992)

Black dog barking in the cold grey light

He pulls the chain and he pulls it tight

This ain't no lonesome wail that boy ain't faking

He bites the steel and he claws the ground

He pulls again and he spins around

His eyes are raging and his burning lungs are steaming

He wanna walk in the sun

Feel love like anyone

No one knows that black dog better than I

I said no one knows that black dog better than I

When I see his running I can see me

Teeth in the collar and he's tearing it free

Spit out the leather and the cold studs that kept you from singing

Run till you're bleeding run till you're hot

till the memory of all this you've long since forgot

Run till forever till the bells of your freedom are ringing

He wanna walk in the sun

Feel love like anyone

No one knows that black dog better than I

I said no one knows that black dog better than I

Bless them all (1986)

Instrumental

Bombollini (1984)

Sing a song of love to me

Sing out, sing out

She's the one who made me free

Sing out, sing out

'Cos she made me smile

And she made me love

Oh she made me laugh

And she made me dance

Bombo!

Little pearl inside the shell

Come out, come out

From deep down in my wishing well

Sing out, sing out

'Cos you made me smile

And you made me love

And you made me laugh

And you made me dance

Bombo!

Boom boom (1992)

Take a look what's be going on behind me

I swear to God this ain't no making of my own

That stupid cupid arrow

Lost for years and never found me

Now she's dancing on my history

And she drives the dagger home

'Cos when I see that angel walking past my window

When I see that angel walking past my door

I know what this tired old heart's been waiting, waiting for

Boom boom

Boom boom

And I can't win

There ain't no us denying

So many years of experience

Tell me it's so

That stupid cupid arrow

Lost for years and never found me

Now she's dancing on my history

And she drives the dagger home

'Cos when I see that angel walking past my window

When I see that angel walking past my door

I know what this tired old heart's been waiting, waiting for

Boom boom

Boom boom

Bows and bangles (1978)

Born and raised in wilderness

Of suburban shops and schools

How she tried and tried to be satisfied

With a job on the typing pool

She hated the smell of carbon paper

The office so smoky and dry

How she longed for the day she would make her get away

And say her last goodbye

Bows and bangles on her fingers

And silver bells on her toes

That lady has music where she wonders

That lady has music where she goes

Married a guy with prospects

And so became his wife

And that my friend is the end of the story

'Cos that was the rest of his life

She could have been a movie star

She could have made the scene

Right or wrong she still hangs on

Each night to her favourite dream

Bows and bangles on her fingers

And silver bells on her toes

That lady has music where she wonders

That lady has music where she goes

Candles (1983)

Faith for reasons still unknown

Like 'Bleak House fog' seems everywhere

The truth has frozen into stone

And hope lies freezing in the midnight air

Though dark our days may seem

This is a different dream

Their freedom light don't shine at all

So I will light a candle for you

Keep it burning in the night

And pray that you are all right

I will light a candle for you

Little candle burning bright

When school yard heroes disappeared

The little girl, she stands alone

Oh I believe you if you say

A prayer can help to get her home

So I will light a candle for you

Keep it burning in the night

And pray that you are all right

I will light a candle for you

Little candle burning bright

Cenotaph / Letter from Amsterdam (1979)

Snow hard up against my doorway

And it's falling twice as fast

Funny I was just thinking of you my friend

How long you were gonna last

Driving those blizzards cross Europe

Snow chains on you back

64 feet of mobile thunder, leaving a ten wheel track

It's good to hear from you, go easy when you can

My day is better for your letter from Amsterdam

I stand alone by the Cenotaph

Where the unknown soldier lies

And it's somewhere out there that you are

This freedom angel died

To save us from depression

Today I look around, boys our age and younger

I fear we let them down

It's good to hear from you, go easy when you can

My day is better for your letter from Amsterdam

The town square's disappearing

It drifts up to my knees

Midnight silence deafening

And my feet begin to freeze

Is it because we don't remember?

We cannot understand?

But me and the unknown soldier

Got your letter from Amsterdam

Chisel hill (1985)

Misty eyes on a misty day

Come across a place like this along your way

You walk straight in to that sweet and tender trap

And you know you're lost and found

And there ain't no going back

Spend the rest of your days playing all the hardest games

Just to get back to that place again

And memories oh how they stick to you

You know there ain't a thing, not a single thing you can do

On Chisel hill

I've been ten thousand miles from this place and seen it I swear

I've woke up happy thinking that I was there

It's the place I love, it's where I wanna be

And I won't give up until I get to see

A little something in there to call my own

Pass the time of day and head off home

The evening shadows on the dry stone walls

The night draws in and the ale house calls

And happy I will be

When the road goes no further than what I see

When past here it's nowhere to go

And I ain't gonna give up until I get see

Those angel eyes looking up at me

The prince of peace and time is standing still

On Chisel hill

Crack that mould (1986)

You got to break the back of the mould you were made in

Crack the shell, that's how it's got to be

Nothing for certain, ain't no way of knowing

Only believe in things that you see

Flow with the river, run with the tide

Mix with your brother, 'cos he's right by your side

Crack that mould

Little pretty chicken you can't stay in there forever

Now there ain't no such thing as only one kind of weather

You got to bend, learn, take the rough with the smooth

Understand everything

Crack that mould

Now there ain't no such thing as only one kind of weather

Pick up them shoes, go running down that road

You know that precondition is such a heavy load

You got to live love, put down that written word

Crack that mould

Now there ain't no such thing as only one kind of weather

Curse of the traveller (1987)

On the restless road to nowhere

There's no certain peace it seems

Desire to keep on moving

till the river of dreams

Is it just because someone told you

Is it just because you found

Old freedom feels uneasy when duty is around

When allegiance asks the questions

Old freedom twists and turns

And chokes on codes of honour

On the sword of no return

And it's the curse of the traveller

The curse of the traveller

Got a hold of me

And it won't let you be

And in sleepless nights

You'll call her name

And feel loneliness cold to the bone

And when the daylight breaks

This old tired heart aches

To be such a long way, such a long way from home

And you long for the harbourlights

But you'll never be free

Of the craving for refuge

And the call of the sea

Always wanting to sell up

But always needing to buy

So till the road leads to somewhere

And that river runs dry

It's the curse of the traveller

Ain't gonna let you be

The curse of the traveller

And it sure got a hold of me

Dance! (don't think) (1979)

Sometimes I think I go insane

So what's a boy supposed to do

Working just to pay my way

But baby when the day is through

Just wanna have a good time

Hey! I've got my shoe, shoes shined

I'm gonna dance, dance, dance

Walking down the city street

They don't like the kind of stuff I play

But feel that bass beneath your feet

Man don't take my only life away

Just wanna have a good time

Hey! I've got my shoe, shoes shined

I'm gonna dance, dance, dance

I'm scared when I wake up sometimes it gets so fast

I want it high and higher but it never lasts

And all I have starts Friday night with my first drink

Don't tell me, don't say anything, don't wanna think

Just wanna dance

Dancing girls (1980)

It's all become a fantasy

She sits and reads about Tiffany's

I moan all day about the state of the world

And the sun beats down

Her book if full of pastel shades

Filigree Femmes in lusts of jade

While all around the bullets flew

And the sun beats down

Oh heavy heart, as deep as the endless sea

A thought for every fish, why don't you let them be

Your book's so frivol, but I'm tired of mine

Show me some

Make me laugh and make me sing

Dancing girls

Make me laugh and make me sing

Dancing girls

So many years but nothing's changed

We curse the fire but we still feed it's flames

My cards repeating the same sad song

Why don't you put them down?

Tonight is young, as young as she needs to be

There's room for love, as much as there needs to be

Show me a drink, show me a smile

Show me some

Make me laugh and make me sing

Dancing girls

Make me laugh and make me sing

Dancing girls

Dancing shoes (inedite 1985)

Could have been a long hot summer night

When all the stars were shining bright

Against the blue

Could have been that famous decade scene

Top hats and tails, spinning 'round the room

And all I remember is not wanting the music to end

And all I remember is feeling a need that I could not hide

Don't take away those dancing shoes

Don't take away those dancing shoes

Don't take away that boy's dancing shoes

And ever since that very night

I found me a guiding light, light the way

To turn off the music is to turn off the light in my soul

So just let it shine mister

One more time for me and my babe

Don't take away those dancing shoes

Without the rhythm you got the blues

Don't take away those dancing shoes

Don't take away that boy's dancing shoes

Dancing with Charlie (1978)

Charlie was a loser till that sunny day

No-one saw him leaving as he sailed away

Treated like a sinner, no-one gave a damn

Till Charlie threw two sixes

Now he's got them in his hand

Now they're waiting in line to go dancing with Charlie

They wanna be seen dancing with Charlie

No-one seems to know how

No-one seems to care

Doesn't really matter just as long as you are there

Party in the moonlight, free drinks at the bar

You can bet what's in your pocket that Charlie won't be far

Now they're waiting in line to go dancing with Charlie

They wanna be seen dancing with Charlie

Charlie bought a jet plane, Charlie rides the sky

Friends appear from nowhere, Charlie gets them high

Big D was a gambler with everything to lose

Charlie didn't have anything

So he didn't have to choose

And they're waiting in line to go dancing with Charlie

They wanna be seen dancing with Charlie

And they're standing in line to go dancing with Charlie

They wanna be seen dancing with Charlie

Danielle's breakfast (1987)

Instrumental

Daytona (1989)

Diamond dream when the sun don't shine

I close my eyes to see

Twelve wild horses in silver chains

Calling out to me

Oh Daytona

Shine your light on me

Oh Daytona

Shine your light on me

Now she ain't easy so you take good care

Or she will scream down on your lust

She can please you like no other

Or she can leave you eating dust

Oh Daytona

Shine your light on me

Burning passion heat my day

Let me sit inside your wonder

Cloudless daydream, oh dance of dances

To have tamed the sound of thunder

Oh Daytona

Shine your light on me

Oh Daytona

Shine your light on me

Deep water (1983)

All change on then merry go line

Everybody looking for a sign

Jumping up and down when the switch goes on

Nobody knows where it's coming from

I'm here watching, keeping well away

Oh I'm gonna live it in my own way

Singing no mister, not me

I'm staying here with guys on free

In deep water

I see a captain on a distant shore

He's got a dream, he wants to make it law

He's got my number, he's got a plan

He try to get you any way he can

Wants to own everything he sees

While I'm here, well he ain't with me

Singing no mister, no way

I got my own deep water

Deep, deep water

Deltics (1979)

Burlington Zephyrs

and Kenworths that pass in the night

Deltics and Steamers and F88's in full flight

Old train take me back again

To the one that I love

Deltics

Diamonds (1979)

Oh getaway and don't come back

Who do you think you're fooling with lies like that?

You have dreams that set the rain on fire

Burning with a cheap desire

And it's plain as grey that what you say

Have meanings of their own

My love, she don't need diamonds

My love's more than a sweet dream

And she don't need diamonds

She shakes her hip to the tambourine

And she don't need diamonds

If you can't love me for nothing

They you can't love me at all

And it's plain as grey that what you say

Have meanings of their own

We all got to dance, take a chance?

But babe you should have stayed at home

My love, my love, she don't need diamonds

Distant summers (1980)

Sweet serenade, in your shade

May I rest

Just for a while, won't stay long

I'll do my best

To help you help me to find some friends

That I have lost

Who lie in lands where memories

And dreams are lost

The breeze that blew around her hair that day

The timeless dress that flowed in endless sway

I almost touched her shoulder, she almost turned to face me

A thousand distant summers... away

Do it for your love (1981)

Each single day I get up and make my way

And it all comes into view

It's like a part in a play

You can turn it around in so many different ways

But it's still the part you play

And so to you I dedicate

This role they have handed me

And I will do it for your love

Down in the street you can win or lose

To that crazy beat

But you'll never change the tune

'Cos the tune is the song

And song is the game of life, we just come and go

But we can laugh and we can bend

Together though, me and you

So I will do it for your love

Look around, see that you see

There's no sense in being so blue

Now I've got to have a reason for seeing this out

Other than seeing it through

So I will do it for your love

Donahue's broken wheel (1987)

Instrumental

Don't want your best friend (1979)

She's got her independence in a hard fast way

She's got me chasing shadows with everything I try to say

Some say she's far too quick, some say she's slow to learn

But all I know is she gave me love that left afterburn

And its fire feeds me I'm hungry still

So baby listen now, I'm at your will

But I'm not a flower on your windowsill

Don't want your best friend

Don't need a Godsend

Don't want your new trends

I want you

She's got a silver sabre with a diamond shine

It's not an ego-trip just her frightened way

To keep you blind

Shadow dancing, nowhere fast

You got to meet me half way

Girl if it's gonna last

I remember that first night

I dream of it still

I want that feeling and I want that thrill

I've always loved you and I always will

Take me home

Do you still dream? (1981)

Do you still dream of summer nights

The endless roads between the distant lights

Do you still find yourself

On strange and long highways

Drifting into unknown phase

Do you still dream of summer days

The sunlight dancing on white rolling waves

The everlasting taste of innocent desire

The atom splitting of its fire

Do you still dream?

Do you see that tunnel showing any sign of light

Does fear still wake you in the night

Do you still dream?

Driving home (inedite 1985)

I'm driving home for Christmas

I can't wait to see those faces

I'm driving home for Christmas

Yea I'm moving down that line

And it's been so long

But I will be there

I sing this song

To pass the time away

Driving in my car

Christmas

Gonna take some time

Top to toe in tailbacks

Got red lights on the run

But soon there'll be a freeway

My feet on holy ground

So I sing for you

Though you can't hear me

When I get trough

And feel you near me

Driving in my car

Driving home for Christmas

With a thousand memories

I take look at the driver next to me

He's just the same

Just the same

Top to toe in tailbacks

Got red lights on the run

Driving home for Christmas, yea

Get my feet on holy ground

So I sing for you

Though you can't hear me

When I get trough

And feel you near me

Driving in my car

Christmas

Driving in my car

Driving home for Christmas

Driving home for Christmas (1988)

I'm driving home for Christmas

Oh, I can't wait to see those faces

I'm driving home for Christmas, yea

Well I'm moving down that line

And it's been so long

But I will be there

I sing this song

To pass the time away

Driving in my car

Driving home for Christmas

It's gonna take some time

But I'll get there

Top to toe in tailbacks

Oh, I got red lights on the run

But soon there'll be a freeway

Get my feet on holy ground

So I sing for you

Though you can't hear me

When I get trough

And feel you near me

I am driving home for Christmas

Driving home for Christmas

With a thousand memories

I take look at the driver next to me

He's just the same

Just the same

Top to toe in tailbacks

Oh, I got red lights on the run

I'm driving home for Christmas, yea

Get my feet on holy ground

So I sing for you

Though you can't hear me

When I get trough

And feel you near me

Driving in my car

Driving home for Christmas

Driving home for Christmas

With a thousand memories

Espresso logic (1993)

If you don't listen what the people say

The people gonna have to take their own way

You got to give the people what they need

And only then will they begin to see

There's a world that we don't know

There's a world we never see

Espresso

I don't need this trouble, I don't need the grief

I don't need to feel this pressure down on me

Every day there's something we don't really need

Stop, think, walk away and let it be

Stop, think, walk away and let it be

Espresso

There's a world that we don't know

There's a world we never see

Espresso

Every beat of my heart (1981)

The daylight breaks, a picture show of endless takes

And the music's coming through on the radio

And I take my place, reluctantly I join the race

It's not my fight, just trying to stay on my feet

But oh there's one thing that gets to me

It's that little girl she puts me down so easily

In total absurd I'm saying these words

With every beat of my heart, I will love you

With every song, with every breath that you take

I'll give you the moon and the sun, you're the only one

Pleading love with every beat of my heart

With every beat of my heart, I will love you

With every song, with every breath that you take

I'll give you the moon and the sun, you're the only one

Pleading love with every beat of my heart

Pleading love with every beat of my heart

Every second counts (1991)

Every second counts

That's what he says

Every second counts

Every single day

All through the night time

And all through the day time

Can't let your world pass through and in to my way

Every second counts

He can't slow down

Every second counts

See his spin around

He's chasing his shadow

He's racing the wind

He tells us to follow

Where the ice is so thin

I hope you're holding on

I hope you're holding on

'Cos every second counts

Every time I see you smile (1980)

Sat out a card game in a motel room

Don't let the muzak drive you crazy late at night

They tell me it's all part of the deal I'm in

Well I close my eyes, put memory into sight

Every time I see you smile

Now the lady tabs your case, leaves you thinking

An hour or so: I hope she's right on time

And you dream away your touchdown destination

Now single file and put yourself back in line

But oh, every time I see you smile

Now this old world don't give much for choosing

You can spend a lifetime driving yourself wild

But I can take its punches laughing - don't mind losing

Just as long as I get to see you smile every once in a while

Fires of spring (1978)

She's back real late yet she don't seem to care

She hangs around outside in late night air

Burning tears upon a smiling face

And she's caught in the fires of spring

The ice of loneliness you've known so long

For good or not seems to have been and gone

Your Phoenix flies you high on crazy wings

And you're caught in the fires of spring

You've been before but never been so fast

Your only hope is that it's gonna last

You know the pain and yet you love it's sting

And you're caught in the fires of spring

Fool (if you think it's over)(1978)

A dying flame, you're free again

Who could love and do that to you

All dressed in black, he won't be coming back

Save your tears, you've got years and years

The pains of seventeen's

Unreal they're only dreams

Save your crying for the day

Fool if you think it's over

'Cos you said goodbye

Fool if you think it's over

I'll tell you why

New born eyes always cry with pain

At the first look at the morning sun

You're a fool if you think it's over

It's just begun

Miss teenage dream, such a tragic scene

he knocked your crown and ran away

First wound of pride and how you cried and cried

But save your tears you've got years and years

Fool if you think it's over

'Cos you said goodbye

Fool if you think it's over

I'll tell you why

New born eyes always cry with pain

At the first look at the morning sun

You're a fool if you think it's over

It's just begun

I'll buy your first good wine

We'll have a real good time

Save your crying for the day

That may not come but anyone

Who had to pay would laugh at you and say

Fool if you think it's over

'Cos you said goodbye

Fool if you think it's over

I'll tell you why

Footprints in the snow (inedite 1991)

I love, I love, oh, I still love you

Can't wait to see the firelight in your eyes

That's why I wait for your footsteps in the snow

I dream each night that I will wake to find you

sleeping deep and still down by my side

That's why I wait for your footprints in the snow

Time after time

Year after year

Forever

I will love you

In deepest winter, darkest hours you'll find me

At midnight silence, tremble at the glow

That's why I wait for your footprints in the snow

Footsteps in the snow (inedite 1988)

Instrumental

For ever and ever (1980)

Don't ask me how long baby it's gonna take

I don't know honey, just give it a break

Love don't happen to you overnight

You got to feed it, leave it

Give it some light

Oh love, true love

When it looks like you're winning

Get it right on tee

And the stars shine so brightly

Just for you and me

For ever and ever babe

Is that what it takes?

For ever and ever babe

Is that when it stays for you and me?

With every ray of sunshine sugar

There's little bit of rain

You got to take the bad times with the good times

'Cos no love's the same

Oh love, true love

When it looks like you're winning

Get it right on tee

And the stars shine so brightly

Just for you and me

For ever and ever babe

Is that what it takes?

For ever and ever babe

That's when it stays

When you've found your star love will know just who you are

For ever and ever she'll stay

For ever and ever babe

Is that what it takes?

For ever and ever babe

Is that when it stays?

Freeway (1986)

She throws her hair into the February breeze

She hears it singing through the branches of the trees

A song of something you know so well

And she's still looking for a freeway

She hears the sound of distant planes across the sky

She catches fleeting glimpse of fading red tail lights

Into tomorrow she gently sleeps

And she's still dreaming of a freeway

Far away, there's a piece of luck somewhere

Shining like a star in the night

Dream on lady, till the early morning light

Takes your dream to be free away

Friends across the water (1980)

Instrumental

From love to love (inedite 1983)

Well if you want me then just take my hand

And if you don't, I will understand

It's just a call from deep within my soul

The burning question, I have got to know

Take a message from love to love

Take it down, from love to love

Girl it's you I'm thinking of

I'll send this letter from love to love

And if I ask you will you take this dance

Please don't think you're taking some big chance

It's just a fire and it burns for you

You know there's one thing that you've got to do

Take a message from love to love

Take it down, from love to love

Girl it's you I'm thinking of

I'll send this letter from love to love

I'll share your secrets on a rainy day

'Cos if you'll have me then we'll be away

Oh there's a fire and it burns for you

You know there's one thing that you've got to do

Take a message from love to love

Take it down, from love to love

Girl it's you I'm thinking of

I'll send this letter from love to love

Giverny (1986)

Deep inside these old dusty walls

There's a sacred heart, I'd know this garden anywhere

She was warm, she was deep summertime

She was love itself and she was standing there

Standing close, so close to me

I closed my eyes and I could see

Giverny

And in this strange and holy place

I looked for love and found it everywhere

It was what you saw she came to see

Because of you she was standing there

Giverny

Books may burn and rain may fall

But what is here I know will last forever more

Colours change, there are no defines

She was love itself and I thank you for giving me

Giverny

God's great banana skin (1992)

Go down my road running just as fast as I can

Nobody knows which is the better way

But when that man in the sky points his finger at you

Don't you ever think no-one's better than you

God's great banana skin

Don't you laugh at nobody

You'll let the bad luck in

God's great banana skin

It's the way that it gets you

With every day good luck comes in the strangest of ways

Just keep your head down don't listen what your ego will say

'Cos when that man in the sky points his finger at you

Don't you ever think no-one's better than you

God's great banana skin

Don't you laugh at nobody

You'll let the bad luck in

God's great banana skin

It's the way that it gets you

God's great banana skin

God's great banana skin

When that man in the sky points his finger at you

Don't you ever think no-one's better than you

Don't you ever think no-one's better than you

God's great banana skin

Gonna get you

God's great banana skin

Gone fishing (1991)

I'm gone fishing

I got me a line

Nothing I do is gonna make the difference

So I'm taking the time

And you ain't never gonna be happy

Anyhow, anyway

So I'm gone fishing

And I'm going today

I'm gone fishing

Sounds crazy I know

I know nothing about fishing

But just watch me go

And when the time has come

I will look back and see

Peace on the shoreline

That could have been me

You can waste a whole lifetime

Trying to be

What you think is expected of you

But you'll never be free

May as well go fishing

Gonna buy a hat (1987)

She talks like thunder

She really lets you know

She keep changing the rules

And leave you nowhere to go

She bore you rigid with the party line

She's so far left she's gonna get left behind

He wants six pretty white spots on each side of the dice

He wants it all to be equal but he needs to throw twice

Now there's a guy in the corner with a smiling gaze

He turns to me and says

I'm gonna buy a hat

'Cos I think it's gonna rain

Got caught out coming here

Ain't gonna get caught again

I'm gonna buy a big one

Like that Mr Gorbachov

And when it's raining all this crap

Oh my hat will keep it off

Now take a look at all them leaders

Desperation in their eyes

The tight faces smiles that cannot hide it

They know no more than you or I

So I'm gonna buy a hat

'Cos here they come again

And when the start to blah-blah

It's you and me that gets the rain

Goodbye little Columbus (1981)

The plane is waiting, you must to go

'Goodbye I'm gonna miss you'

And all the things you say at a leaving

Ah just turn your head and walk away

Goodbye little Columbus

Goodbye, I'll see you one day

Goodbye little Columbus

Travelling, just travelling

That certain moment, the final call

And that desperate search for 'C'est la vie'

Oh what you'd give to hear of a slight delay

Ah just turn your head and walk away

Walk away, just walk away

Goodbye little Columbus

Goodbye, I'll see you one day

Goodbye little Columbus

Travelling, just travelling

You've made up your mind

And you've got to go

Good news (1980)

He's watching the girls on the dance floor

He's watching the light in her hair

He's praying that love's gonna come soon

There's a sweet smell of hope in the air

Just another boy from a steel town

With the flash of the mill in his eye

He don't move for hip cool or fashion

But he knows where the deepest one lies

And he'd love to be warm

And he'd love to love you

So give him some good news

All the cards on the table

But don't look that man in the eye

Say a prayer for the dealer

And kiss your old life goodbye

Go to church light a candle

But don't lose your head for God's sake

Why is my heart beating faster

Oh why do my hands start to shake

'Cos he'd love to be warm

And he'd love to love you

So give him some good news

Guitar street (1981)

There's a crazy sense of duty

As he licks between his fingers

Wipes the ketchup from his face and hands

There's a strong determination

That his teachers never witnessed

Never close enough to understand

He's like a bull just bred for fighting

He don't deliver nothing

Outside the only thing that he knows

School report just says he's lazy

His brother says he's crazy

But take a look 'cos there he goes

Through the avenues of fashion

To the palaces of dreams

All the way down Guitar Street

To some guitars are hot-rods

All along the quest for macho

To others a would-be ticket out of town

For Joe a six-string sten gun

In the 'Panto-revolution'

And Stevie's all just strictly sound

He's like a bull just bred for fighting

He don't deliver nothing

Outside the only thing that he knows

School report just says he's lazy

His brother says he's crazy

But anyway take a look 'cos there he goes

Through the avenues of fashion

To the palaces of dreams

All the way down Guitar Street

Heaven (1991)

I see a turning wheel

On a dusty track

Caught in the void and empty space

In between there and back

And the paradise of going somewhere

That's still so far away

Happy, boy you bet I am

Holding on to this smile for just as long as I can

Heaven

It's all bright in front

And it's all dark behind

Living for the now that's in between the bridges and the signs

And getting there is still a long long way to go

While the others dream

This is all I officially need to know

Happy, boy you bet I am

Holding on to this smile for just as long as I can

Heaven

Hello friend (1986)

Hello friend, where you been so long?

Time goes by, so easy it sleeps away

Just like a shadow at the end of the day

Hello friend, how are things for you these days?

Some guy from way-back-when, he mentioned your name

Did he ever get back to you?

Ah, you know I told him to

Sometimes I turn and I swear I hear you call

And I often wonder how we lost what we knew

Seems it gone in the wind, washed away in the rain

And the years go by and by

The bridges you burned, long sinced turned into ashes

When there were no reasons, now the river runs dry

Seems it gone in the wind, washed away in the rain

And the years go by and by

Where you been so long

He should know better (inedite 1989)

Have you heard the news

That is going round

He should know better

Have you heard the news

That boy's got dust for brains

After all this time

After all this time

Now things, oh, can never be the same

He should know better

Always straight, always cool

Endless style, nobody's fool

And always with the grace and superb manner

How he danced around the snakes

Left them spinning in his way

And stepped straight on the yellow skin banana

He should know better

In the early hours of day

The black night

He makes his way

Regretfully into the morning fog

Just one silly small mistake

Now all his bones their gonna break

To the curse and laughing smile

Of the little green frog

He should know better

Hey you (1983)

I'm stood out with my brother

On a tree lined avenue

I see the sweetest little creature

Coming into my view

And I say to myself, I say man I'm gonna get me some

Of that bright little angel

That shines like the morning sun

Well my brother steps in, faster that light

And he sweet talks this angel, clean out of sight

I say hey you, you with that look in your eye

Hey you, you with that look in your eye

Well she moves like a river

From her head down to her toes

It's less a way of walking

More a total flow

And I say to myself, I wonder

I wonder if she knows

What she's doing to me and my brother

From our heads down to our toes

Well he's up there on the corner now

He's playing up that Romeo like only he know how

I say hey you, you with that look in your eye

Hey you, you with that look in your eye

Hey you, you that make the stars shine

Hey you, you with that look in your eye

Hired gun (1985)

Morning light meet the day

Nervous eyes look both ways

And it just won't matter, spring or fall

There's bread to win and shots to call

And there ain't nobody out there

Just a wild uncertainty

It's in your stride but it ain't no fun

Sometimes I feel just like a hired gun

I feel just like a hired gun

Always on the run

And how it started, well you can't recall

Did someone push you, did someone stall

Whatever the reasons there was lots to learn

To get home safely and not get burned

And it's all so cold and empty

As you watch the setting sun

You've picked up every dirty trick

Just to keep yourself always on the run

And I feel just like a hired gun

Always on the run

I dream of comfort and friendship long

But I can't trust you or anyone

The scars still hurt me and I don't let them heal

Each one's a lesson, each one's a shield

And I may even love you dearly

And I loathe what I have to do

You see I've picked up every dirty trick

In my fear of you

'Cos you make me feel just like a hired gun

Always on the run

Holding out (1984)

I see you laughing up at me, and I can't hide

What it is that you can see

I guess that's why

I'm holding out my love for you

And when you turn it around

In different ways

The answers turn around and fly away

I see you laughing up at me

And I can't hide

What it is that you can see

I guess that's why

I'm holding out my love for you

A lifelong history

Of trust in vain

I lead the fools' parade

Out in the rain

I see you laughing up at me

'Cos you don't seem to care

But oh how happy I can be

When you are there

That's why I'm holding out

My love for you

I ain't the fool (1992)

I may look like a stranger with nothing to say

Silent in the corner while you're talking away

Your theories are endless, your lips never sleep

No time for reflection, there's no tongue in your cheek

Oh no, I ain't fool here

Oh no, I ain't fool here

The muscles in your mouth must be stronger than steel

You can talk till forever but ain't got no feel

Your scull must be empty, your brain cells run dry

Calling everybody

Learning nothing till the day that you die

Oh no, I ain't fool here

Oh no, I ain't fool here

I can hear your heartbeat (1983)

In the silence of the side street

In the whisper of the night

From the darkness of the empty hours

To the early morning light

From the hustle down on main street

With all it's lights so bright

To the trucker on the highway

Pressing through the night

I can hear you heartbeat

I can hear you heartbeat

Girl, the sound of you is so sweet

I'm in a European disco

And it's thumping up the beat

There's a jukebox in a cafe‚

Where the younger ones can meet

We got freezing Coca-Cola

We got anything you want

I'm moving on that back beat

Girl, but it's you that sings the song

'Cos I can hear you heartbeat

I can hear you heartbeat

The sound of you is so sweet

And I'm sailing on your wind song

Oh, I can feel the summer breeze

You've got me walking on my tiptoes

You've got me standing on my knees

From the mills way down in Pittsburgh

To the clubs of gay Paris

No matter where I roam, girl,

You can always get to me

And I still hear your heartbeat

Yea I still hear your heartbeat

Girl, the sound of you is so sweet,

to me

* From the screaming desolation

* Of the English northern coast

* That's where I met my darling

* That's where we made the most

* Made the most of what we got

* We made the most of what we got

And I still hear your heartbeat

Yea I still hear your heartbeat

Girl, the sound of you is so sweet,

to me

(Marked part only live in Montreaux 1986)

I can hear your heartbeat (1988)

I can't dance to that (1987)

Now there's no storyline

Just a real good time

And I don't want to seem to be mistaken

But there's a tale to tell

On this road to hell

It's in between the lines the case I'm making

Oh, lord, look my way

Save me from these crazy things I see

I don't know what's going on round here these days

But I can't dance to that

Oh, I can't dance to that

So let me dance to this

'Cos I can't dance to that

If you'll excuse me please

You see I got to go

And take myself before I'm past redemption

A voice is calling out

As if I didn't know

This wretched road is paved with good intentions

All the way

Down this Judas track

I know it so well

And I ain't going back

I don't know what happened to the good time songs

But I can't dance to that

Oh, I can't dance to that

So let me dance to this

'Cos I can't dance to that

Tell me what you know

Take away these chains

What stood in front of me it looks so pretty

But I can't dance to a cold machine

Oh, lord, and every drummer you know just what I mean

Oh, I can't dance to that

So let me dance to this

I don't care anymore (1987)

I don't care anymore

All the things I hear you say

Don't care anymore

You're always lying anyway

Got a sweet little girl

And it's such a sunny day

I heard it all before

Gonna hear it some more

But you must understand one thing

I don't care anymore

I got a sweet little girl

And it's such a sunny day

I heard it all before

Gonna hear it some more

I don't care

I don't care anymore

I don't know what it is but I love it (1984)

Could it be just that I'm crazy

Could it be the way I feel this time of year

When a certain situation seems to bring the best out of me

I don't care

When she's standing close beside me

Something turns inside me

Brings my senses to the point of no return

And I don't know what it is but I love

And I don't know what it is but I want it to stay

And I love it

And it seems to be around me

Even though no-one can see

They seem to care

When a certain situation seems to bring the best out of me

I don't care

When she's standing close beside me

Something turns inside me

Brings my senses to the point of no return

And I don't know what it is but I love

And I don't know what it is but I want it to stay

And I love it

If anybody asks you (inedite 1986)

Instrumental

If you choose to go (1981)

There's a street outside my window

There's a light outside my door

There's a road straight through this old town

There's a boat on every shore

There's a promise down that freeway

But there is no guarantee

There are dreams on every ocean

There are storms on every sea

If you choose to go

Now I've been out upon that ocean

Sometimes further that before

Sometimes not even past my waistline

And I screamed at what I saw

Many times along that freeway

Returning sometimes beat

There are dreams on every ocean

There are storms on every sea

If you choose to go

Plenty of places, plenty of things to see

Plenty of faces, plenty of ways to be

If you choose to go

If you were me (duet with Elton John) (1993)

If you were me

And I was you

If you had to play my part out

What would you do

Two crazy stories,

Two different views

If you were me

And I was you

If you were me

And I was you

What kind of crazy things

Would I have to do

Who likes to party

Who stays at home

If you were me

And I was you

Never like strangers

Though never the same

Two circus side-shows

And laughter in the rain

You stay with the full moon

You search for the stars

Thank God it's heaven

Here we both are

If you were me

And I was you

If you had to play my part out

What would you do

Two crazy stories,

Two different views

If you were me, if you were me

If you were me and I was you

I just wanna be with you (1989)

I just wanna be with you

No matter what they say

Just wanna be with you

Every night and every day

Cold nights, dark days

I wanna be with you

I just wanna be with you

Till the final curtain falls

Just wanna be with you

Then know nothing at all

Cold nights, dark days

I wanna be with you

Wanna be with you

I know there's a price to pay

For doing what we do

But I just wanna be with you

Just wanna be with you

Don't wanna hold you down

Whatever that you do

Shine on, sweet angel

'Cos I just wanna be with you

I wanna be with you

I'm ready (1992)

I got my red shoes on

Got my red gloves too

Made my decision

Gonna see this one through

Too late, I can't stop now

Open the door, I'll get through somehow

Deep in my darkest night

I always had a star that shone so bright

Star of hope, shine on me

I can take what comes my way

Whatever goes down, whatever they say

Star of hope shine on me

'Cos I'm ready

Oh I'm ready

Deep in my darkest night

I always had a star that shone so bright

Star of hope, shine on me

I can take what comes my way

Whatever goes down, whatever they say

Star of hope shine on me

'Cos I'm ready

Oh I'm ready

I'm taking the day out (inedite 1988)

I'm taking the day out

I'm slipping away

I know what you're thinking

But please not today

Tell me tomorrow or never at all

'Cos I know so maybe I'll give you a call

I'm taking the day out

yea taking the day out

Tell me tomorrow or never at all

I know what you're after

I'll give you a call

I'm taking the day out

yea taking the day out

I saw you coming (inedite 1992)

I saw you coming

With that poison in your hand

Now you're acting kind of funny

Like you don't seem to understand

Stop complaining

You've been caught fair and square

I saw you coming

I was guarding you that day

I saw you coming

Golden rule, you disobeyed

You were too busy showing off

How you gave yourself away

Stop complaining

You've been caught fair and square

I saw you coming

I was guarding you that day

I saw you coming

I thought I was going to lose you (inedite 1993)

I thought that I was going to lose you

Just for a moment you looked like slipping away

And my only thought was to come with you

There was no other reason to stay

Now I'm sinking in a river of happy returns

Though I'm tired I can do nothing but sigh

For the greatest relief I'm so thankful

As I gaze at your coming-back smile

Lord, I thought I was going to lose you

Yes, I thought I was going to lose you

It's all gone (1986)

A careless heart ain't no good to no-one

I was going back my friends to see

Of what became of my childhood daydreams

Of all the things that used to be

To my surprise I stood alone

I walked a river of a waking dream

My father say 'Know what you're thinking'

I guess this old town seen better days

It's all gone

Ain't nothing for you here now

Sail on

You talk of change, something better

Cutting down that big old tree

There's flesh and blood in there somewhere

But no matter what you just don't seem to see

I walk your chambers, your empty halls

I see you talking behind the doors

My father say 'Know what you're thinking'

I guess this old town seen better days

It's all gone

Ain't nothing for you here now

Sail on

I'm sailing on, I'm running faster

Than I ever run before

My father say 'Know what you're thinking'

I guess this old town seen better days

Sail on

Johnny needs a fast car (1993)

Johnny needs a fast car

Johnny needs it bad

Johnny always do the best whatever Johnny has

Johnny needs a fast one

Johnny needs it now

You got to give him something to let him show you how

Johnny needs a fast car

Johnny needs a fast car

Johnny needs a break

Johnny don't need good luck

'Cos Johnny never fakes

He'll always make it look good

You'll always see him smile

Give Johnny a few inches and he'll give you back a mile

Johnny needs a fast car

Johnny needs a fast car

Tears upon the broken bones of luck that never went his way

Bless this one you'll know him by his smile

Jordan 191 (inedite 1993)

Instrumental

Josephine (1985)

There's rain on my window

But I'm thinking of you

Tears on my pillow

But I will come through

Josephine, I'll send you all my love

And every single step I take

I take for you

Josephine

There's a storm on my radar

But I can still fly

And you are the reason

The blue in my sky

Josephine

A life without meaning

I was walking away

In the coldest of winters

Night becomes day

Josephine, I'll send you all my love

And every single step I take

I take for you

Josephine

Josie's tune (1987)

Instrumental

Joys of Christmas (1987)

I see all the tough guys still not 25

Dying on their feet

Coughing, honking, cadging cigarettes

And still out on the street

Well, they got no money, nowhere to go

Fathers of 2, 3 maybe 4, what are they gonna do

Jimmy got a busted mouth in a fight last night

He says he's OK

Going down to the workies club (that's a laugh)

To buy something strong and take the pain away

Joys of Christmas

Joys of Christmas

Northern style

Flashing Christmas light of police blue

Go spinning down the street

Women try to drag the men from pubs

Into the stores

And work hands in empty pockets deep

We stand outside the neon ice and wish ourselves the best

He says he's OK, out of work and fighting

Is all he's ever known

And laughs and says I worry too much anyway

Joys of Christmas

Joys of Christmas

Northern style

Let's drink to the likes of Jim

Before we all go insane

And please don't ask me why

It'll take too long to explain

Joys of Christmas

Julia (1993)

Eyes so bright, so big and wide

Make you feel so strange

Somewhere deep inside

It's the face of an angel

Soul of the devil may care

How I'd love to know

What goes on in there

She needs your love

She needs it every day

But speak of love

See her laugh and run away

Julia, which way will you go

Julia, I wanna know

Julia, only the moon and stars

Julia, know just where you are

Julia

See the dance that needs no alibi

Oh you don't need to dream

When you know you can fly

She needs your love

She needs it every day

But speak of love

See her laugh and run away

Julia, which way will you go

Julia, I wanna know

Julia, only the moon and stars

Julia, know just where you are

Julia

Just one of those days (1978)

Cold red sunsets that freeze the rainbows out

Standing here in the rain

I've been thinking how, how much happier

I have been since you came

Staring down at the sidewalk shining

Satin winds floating down

Change the crystals on ladies faces

I think I'll stick around

Laden gutters, flowing over

Hit the streets and explode

Young girls laughing and make up streaming

Go running down the road

I've been thinking and too much drinking

And things I just don't dare to say

It's still raining but who's complaining

It's just one of those days

Just passing through (1986)

Soldiers of fortune lost in the wind

No destinations and nothing to win

Keep your head above the water, you get dirty and mean

Scrubbing forever and you never come clean

A life that is easy, a dream that comes true

Flowers for someone but they sure ain't for me

Your room's filled with soft light, safe and secure

Mine is the dark night and nothing's for sure

We're just passing trough

A life that is easy, a dream to be free

Flowers for someone but they sure ain't for you

And they sure ain't for me

We're just passing trough

Just want to be with you (1981)

Deep inside the burning histories

All along this lonesome road

The wheels that turn upon what used to be

In passioned memories, overload

The truckhouse standing on the freeway

A neon ambush in the sun

The ides of dogma way down in the subway

It's so hard to tell who's on the run

The hell-hound blizzards of uncertainties

Are the only things that are coming through

And I just want to be with you

There's not a lot I can do

Just keep coming through

Be with you

The smile that burned down those old rusting gates

Those eyes that danced into my soul

And all along this life-long motorway

Bad news upon the radio

The nervous fingers on the safety-catch

Decide the fates to of you and me

Stuck in the middle of this whole shooting match

Man this sure ain't no place to be

The good guys sent to save

The good and free

All scratch their heads and looked confused

And I just want to be with you

Let it loose (1983)

There's no sense in waiting

So lets make a start

I got a poisoned finger

On a broken heart

Don't have time for reasons

Or feel inclined to quiz

The past is over

That's just the way it is

Start it up

Start it up

And let it loose on me

Let it loose on me

We could sit forever

Or we could take all night

Of the whys and where fores

Of the wrongs and rights

Crazy situation, anyhow

Turning on frustration

So tell me why not now

Let it loose on me

Start it up

Start it up

And let it loose on me

Let it loose on me

Let's dance (1987)

When you sing of the joy only love can bring

Heaven knows it's in my heart and my soul

Caught in a world full of tears

So many bad times and fears

So while there's a chance and you're near

Let's dance

Let's dance

There's a world far away from the one we see

There's a dream I will never let go

One thing is certainly true

This moment's for me and for you

So while there's not a thing that we can do

Let's dance

Let's dance

Light of hope (1986)

This is the garden that I know

Ten thousand summers wait me here

You lead and I will follow

Your heart is mine tomorrow

Into your womb I fade away

And while she laughs

Your pride is turning into snow

And melting on the face of this light of hope

Shine on, light of hope

Light of hope

And while she laughs

Your pride is turning into snow

And dancing on the graves of what you thought you used to know

And in this garden I will burn my callous robes

And forever love my darling

Light of hope

Little blonde plaits (1986)

Sweet September, I remember

Eyes of August deepest blue

While the lazy town was sleeping

Strangest love that I ever knew

Feel the wind blow, see the shadows

Kiss the breeze of a sudden shore

Of my life's loves and fascinations

The only one who left me wanting more

Little blonde plaits

Drink to you love, drink to me love

Sun burned feet on a dusty track

Evening waves that turned in twilight

Caught forever those little blonde plaits

Looking for a rainbow (1989)

Well we come down to the valley

Yea we're looking for the honey

I see a rainbow

I say that's the land of milk and honey

Me and my cousin

Me and my brother

My little sister too

Come looking for a rainbow

Yea we're looking for a rainbow

Well we come down to the valley

Got our babies in our arms

Yea we're Maggie's little children

And we're looking for Maggie's farm

Me and my cousin

Me and my brother

My little sister too

Come looking for a rainbow

Yea we're looking for a rainbow

Well we come down to the valley

We ain't far away no more

You can't leave us dying this time

'Cos we're all around your door

Me and my cousin

Me and my brother

My little sister too

Come looking for a rainbow

Yea we're looking for a rainbow

Looking for the summer (1991)

Look deep inside the April face

A change is clearly taking place

Looking for the summer

The eyes take on a certain gaze

And leave behind the springtime days

Go looking for the summer

This ain't no game of kiss and tell

The implications how you know so well

Go looking for the summer

The time has come and they must go

To play the passion out that haunts you so

Looking for the summer

Remember love how it was the same

We scratched and hurt each others growing pains

We were looking for the summer

And still I stand this very day

With a burning wish to fly away

I'm still looking, looking for the summer

Love's strange ways (1983)

When passion shines her blinding light on you

You know my friend there's nothing that you can really do

Just follow on behind her veil of deepest purple haze

Down, to love's strange ways

Drowning in a laughter as you go

Intoxicating laughter that spins you high and low

Dangerous times are these, but oh so wonderfully new

Laugh along you fool, can't you they're laughing at you

Lost in the haze

Of love's strange ways

Ain't it funny how it turns

When it's all over, nothing's learned

Just a passion and a fool

And a memory that burns

And that's what you get

When you play with love's strange ways

Love turns to lies (1985)

I could have stood to watch you walk away

And put it down to your uncertain ways

Or maybe baby you've had a change of heart

Maybe wanna make a brand new start

Crazy though what I say may seem

I could have learned to mend these broken dreams

You could have pushed I would have gently fell

I could have played the graceful one so well

What's that you say

You were gonna leave me anyway

Any fool can see, see what you've done to me

When your love turns to lies

The actor played the part of sweet desire

And tiptoed out upon the highest wire

The truth to tell upon a rope too thin

And so the fall of treachery begins

But oh to see the starlet's smiling face

So eagerly awaits to take the place

I tried to fall in a clean and graceful way

You could have said I would have given way

And I see him smile the way that I smiled

And I hear him laugh the way that I did

But I hear him screaming and I hear him cry

And I see him falling

When your love turns to lies

What's that you say

You were gonna leave me anyway

Any fool can see, see what you've done to me

When your love turns to lies

Loving you (1981)

The night was black with thunder

The streets were wet with rain

Another day goes under

A little bourbon will take the strain

And I'm waiting for my take-home French fries

She smiled and said 'take me away'

We always laughed but I think she means it

But I'm dreaming my life away

Loving you

Loving you the way that I do

The weekend cars are leaving

In a spray of wind and sound

The bar-talk, make believing

And the drinks go easy down

It's back to the all-night take-away

She says 'Here comes the man of my dreams'

We always laugh but I think she means it

And I'm spending my time

Just loving you

Loving you the way that I do

Loving you again (1987)

It's been so long now since we first met

But the time and place I will never forget

Darling, never

Trough good and bad we stood the tested time

You say I'm yours and darling you're still mine

Forever

So smile for me

'Cos it's there for all to see

After all this time

Through the rain and tears

After all this time

After all these years

I'm only loving you again

And I'll keep holding on girl I won't let go

I want you near me where ever I go

Please say, forever

And I give thanks for what you've given me

And in my heart girl there'll always be

A light

That shines through the darkest night

After all this time

Through the rain and tears

After all this time

After all these years

I'm only loving you again

So smile for me

'Cos it's there for all to see

After all this time

Through the rain and tears

After all this time

After all these years

I'm only loving you again

Through the rain and tears

till the sun dries up the sea

till the rivers they run dry

I'm gonna be loving you again

Lucky day (1986)

A little bit of daylight shine on your pillow

Come through your window pane

Speak of the morning, hope is eternal

Better to look at it this way

This could be my lucky day

A glass filled with crystals, six million rainbows

Gifted to see with children's eyes

Always a small chance shooting that rainbow

Bless this dawn with sweet surprise

This could be my lucky day

No inhibitions, naive forever

Better looking up than looking down

Don't try to beat it, twist and defeat it

Leave those kind of complications never to be found

This could be my lucky day

Melancholy (inedite 1993)

Instrumental

Midnight blue (1983)

I got my money

I got it here in my hand

OK let me tell you

This is how we stand

I've waited so long

Good things, never too late

So don't take no chances

Leave nothing to faith

I wanna walk tall in midnight blue

Look good, oh so good

Step out in midnight blue

Midnight blue

I watch the razors with their class and their style

Dressed to kill, man

Their lives is just one great big smile

And oh I wanna be there

When they dish that stuff out

Cool and collected

Man that's what it's all about

So gimme, gimme, gimme

I want midnight blue

I love midnight blue

I'm gonna step out in midnight blue

So gimme, gimme, gimme midnight blue

Midnight blue

I walk tall in midnight blue

Look good, oh so good

In midnight blue

Miles is a cigarette (1992)

The weak and hazy shades of winter sun

Come shining through

Lifting fog from the trees and a gentle warm breeze

Send it up in to the blue

Blue sky and you come creeping through my soul

Goodbye our love's smoking too

And the sound of those Italian engines

Is much more the sound of you

Miles was a cigarette smoky and long

Gonna miss what I never had

Now that cigarette is gone

New way (1993)

I go to work in a bubble

I got everything I need

I get so high on no trouble

It's a great feeling, being free

I say a prayer at thanksgiving

I bless the night and the day

I look up to the sky with a smile on my face

And I praise the lord of the new way

The sweetest sound I ever knew

Was the sound of reason falling

Like the summer rain

And the truth washed the pain away

New way

I don't watch TV anymore

Don't need to see it now we all know the score

And all the politicians know what they're there for

It's a new way

New way

No qualifications (1979)

Now he wanted to fly all those big aeroplanes

Trans-continental and back home again

But his brain, it was grounded

His head could not cope

No qualifications, no reasons for hope

They told him the right way to fasten his tie

Beat him for laughing and never said why

They left his for dead when the results came through

And still never asked what he wanted to do

No qualifications so late in the day

We've screwed you up, well, now you make your own way

Now to label your trousers and label your shoes

If you don't wear nothing then label that too

No qualifications, you are the time born

If you wanna succeed you better get some qualifications

So late in the day

We've screwed you up, well, now you make your own way

Nothing's happening by the sea (1983)

Salty river

Falls asleep in the bay

Always gets there

Never early, never late

Nothing's happening

Nothing's happening by the sea

White waves tumble down

And gently roll back into blue

On wooden seats outside the bar

The couples make their rendezvous

Nothing's happening

Nothing's happening by the sea

The trouble has been found

There's too far ups and too many downs

I found a level that feels just right

There's no mistaking where I'm going tonight

Nothing's happening

Nothing's happening by the sea

Nothing to fear (1992)

I feel your heat in dusty whispers

The wind is cold around your moon

It's getting hard to keep our distance

I know your time is coming soon

Don't point your dream on my horizon

Don't take your rose too far from home

Please don't forget we're not each other

Each soul has black thorns of his own

I see you dancing

Your song is clear

You've got to show me, got to show me

There's nothing to fear

Nothing to fear

I have my loved ones you have yours

So let us gaze upon the feast

In God's own name let's eat together

In God's own name please come in peace

See how our children play together

While you and me we stand alone

I know we'll never be each other

If I leave you leave me alone

I see you dancing

Your song is clear

You've got to show me, got to show me

There's nothing to fear

Nothing to fear

No work today (1980)

Instrumental

One fine day (inedite 1993)

She's standing by the waterside, she's waiting for her man

On the evening wind, she hears the whistle blow

It's coming from the factory, she hears it every day

Her soft cheeks flush, he's on his way

They're going where the sun is shining

They're going for that silver lining

They're gonna work and make it pay

And she say 'mmm, well, one fine day

Spread those wings, fly away'

Now I don't lie, no, cold wind and rain

Gonna sail away one fine day

Now hope, it springs eternally

At least that's what they say

Boy, it gets hard to feel that way

When he sees his little darling hide

The tear with a smile

he say 'come here baby, now don't you cry'

One golden rule (1985)

There's a heart in the middle of somewhere tonight

Screaming for reasons or just a way out

I put the shirt off my back on a wager that says

There's one every night from my old school yard days

I hear you say one golden rule

One golden rule

There's been times I've been stood in the wind and the rain

Freezing and busted and tricked out of luck

And I cursed my teachers for all of their reading

What we needed most can't be found in them books

One golden rule

Now they teach you to swim but they don't speak of the danger

Tell you the truth but they never say why

Put you on ice that is thin and tell you it's winter

Without one golden rule the truth is a lie

One golden rule

One sweet tender touch (1981)

Heartbeat, way down on Cove Street

Playing to lady luck, awaiting that tender touch

Fantasy is the trick of the dance you see

Hiding that need for love and wanting you close to me

Oh that one sweet and tender touch

That's what I'm missing and need so much

One sweet and tender touch

Bright light

Pretty colours that shine on all through the night

I don't need them, not half as much

As I'm wanting your tender touch

And loneliness makes the strongest heart a wilderness

That's wilder than you see, is wanting you close to me

For that one sweet and tender touch

That's what I'm missing and need so much

One sweet and tender touch

Only with you (1980)

I was down, nowhere bound

Needed love, any love

Something new, breezy and bashful but true

Changing my whole point of view

Suddenly someone, a midnight romancer

A Romeo dancer in blue

But only with you

Only with you

No more rain, no more chains

No more cold lonely sleepless nights

Laughing eyes, wider than midsummer skies

Crazy but don't ask me why

Suddenly someone, a midnight romancer

A Romeo dancer in blue

But only with you

Only with you

Once a Lone Star rider who danced in super cool

Now a Romeo, it's true

But only with you

Only with you

On the beach (1986)

Between the eyes of love I call your name

Behind the guarded walls I used to go

Upon a summer wind there's a certain melody

Takes me back to the place that I know

Down on the beach

The secrets of the summer I will keep

The sands of time will blow a mystery

No-one but you and I

Underneath that moonlit sky

Take me back to the place that I know

On the beach

Forever in my dreams my heart will be

Hanging on to this sweet memory

A day of strange desire

And a night that burned like fire

Take me back to the place that I know

On the beach

Out of the darkness (1983)

There's an empty street in an empty town

There's an old boutique selling ageing gowns

Some words on the walls that were written

By the light of the moon so bright

Can you hear me, can you her me tonight

Take me out of this darkness and in to the morning light

The rain that falls doesn't make me cry

And the wind that blows cannot hurt my eyes

But the things that I see when I turn on TV

Make me wanna lie down and die

Can you hear me, can you her me tonight

Take me out of this darkness and in to the morning light

Can you hear me

Take me out of this darkness and in to the morning light

Que sera (1987)

There's a feathered cloud in an open sky

And the pale-tailed moon goes sailing by

This old engine housing's streaked with rain

And we're pushing down on them chains again

Friend we're like the wind that blows

Like the sea we come and go

And I'm not trying to tell you

How I think that it should be

I know deep down inside

We are yearning to be free

And you're only gonna think of No 1

So what am I to say

No matter what you do

We're always hurting anyway

Forever our hearts will be

Always running for what we see

By the strings of this old guitar

I swear, Que sera

And you're rolling down old runway ten

And the present becomes the past and then

Rotating through the driving rain

And you're way above those clouds again

And I'm not trying to tell you

How I think that it should be

I know deep down inside

We are yearning to be free

And you're only gonna think of No 1

So what am I to say

No matter what you do

We're always hurting anyway

Forever our hearts will be

Always running for what we see

By the strings of this old guitar

I swear, Que sera

Raincoat and a rose (1979)

Rain, tears of joy, tears of pain

Is this really me

Standing here at the station

The card said I mustn't be late

I've never been late

I've never really had the chance

Years and years and not even wanting a second chance

'Look for a raincoat and a rose'

I hope no one sees, they'll laugh I know

He was always like that, yes it always showed

Did I do something wrong to have to pay

In many more ways than one

Rainy day, what do I say

How simple it's all become

Love is for fools and fools have no grace

Damn them while you can

Out here on the fence is such a lonely place

I wish I was foolish now

The greatest of pain is never really knowing

Maybe today I'll find out this way

The way that I'm going

Reasons (1984)

Set my sails out on a sunny day

Pretty soon I was on my way

Though what for sure it was

I could not say

Two thousand reasons

Maybe more

Eight hundred chances on faraway shores

Searching for something

Searching for more

Deep down inside me burning

Reasons for the learning

Now you can pick up reasons so easily

Where you've been and where you've got to be

And when the truth don't show you'll always see

Lots of reasons

And pretty soon you've got a heavy load

Dragging those reasons down an endless road

I got to thinking and I got to see

So many reasons coming at me

The one that leaves you high and dry

He says you still owe him, there's a reason why

He'll leave you crying till the tears run dry

He's the one, always the one with all the reasons

So many reasons the come and they go

The reasons for them I'll never know

I've seen so many, they've come and they've gone

I've turned all mine in and I'm happy with one

So don't talk of friendship, do it to me

Make me an offer and make it for free

Don't give me reasons 'cos I wrote that song

I only want love now so I'll just take the one

Red (1993)

Put your hand in the paintbox and choose

Which one says the most about you

I would have to pick the deepest shade

The saddest shade of blue

But red is colour I'd choose

Red is colour I'd choose

I set my soul long ago and far away

Oh it's written down so deep it can never fade away

Though so many years have come and gone

Through my life one thing has stayed

An eternal light that shines clean through the grey

Red is colour I'd choose

Deepest red on a sky of deepest blue

It don't matter now if I should win

If I should win or lose

'Cos red is colour I'd choose

If I waste my time away waiting just for you

I don't care what others say

'Cos baby I just love, love what you do

Red is colour I'd choose

Deepest red on a sky of deepest blue

It don't matter now if I should win

If I should win or lose

'Cos red is colour I'd choose

Red shoes (1991)

I was born a beggar

With the garbage round my feet

The devil lived in every hole

And every corner of the street

When misery is all there is

You got nothing to lose

So come on and buy me

Come on and buy me

Some red, red, red shoes

Don't tell me what I do is wrong

Don't preach 'cos you don't know

'Cos I was left without a chance

Such a long time ago

And anything is better

Than being cut and bruised

So come on and buy me

Some red, red, red shoes

Don't tell me what I do is wrong

Don't preach 'cos you don't know

'Cos I was left without a chance

Such a long time ago

And anything is better

Than being battered and bruised

So come on and buy me

Some red, red, red shoes

Ruby blue (inedite 1994)

Sleep well tonight

You've done well today

Sleep well tonight

Let your body drift away

See your dreams

Coming true

Step out of the grey

And in to the new

Sleep well tonight

Sleep well tonight

Ruby blue

Ruby blue

Runaway (1981)

Sitting at the crossways

Trying to keep my cool with the traffic lights

I've been up and down this line so any times

Girl, it's never right

Me and this machine keep the crazy urban dream

Locked in overflow

Sometimes I swear I could spin these old wheels

Just let it go

Runaway

Is it something that you hear

Coming through the waves on the radio

Or something that you see gently taps your memory

And shoots you down

Those hometown thoughts, school yard dreams and yesterdays

Moving in I just put my head down and drift away

And we're moving up and down, in and out of town

We're all searching for that piece of higher ground

somewhere...

Runaway

Seabird (1979)

I can't run

In your eyes there's no place left to hide

You've seen my every mystery just show itself and die

So I will fly before you

And all is all to see

Take my hand, understand, there're no more foolish dreams

So many things we just can't share

Are standing in between

So I will fly before you

And all is all to see

I will always want you near in the shallow lights of day

No-one else will share my nights is all that I can say

And I will always want you

But I will always fly like a seabird

And I will always love you

But I will always fly

September blue (1985)

Sweet, sweet September

Sweet, sweet and true

I'll always, I'll always remember you

Sweet, sweet September blue

Always remember you

And I can't fight it

And I can't choose

The more she wins me

The less I lose

Sweet, sweet September

Sweet, sweet and true

I'll always, I'll always remember you

Sweet September blue

September blue (1987)

Your head spins round on a Monday

And the daylight's in your eyes

How you laughed and cursed tomorrow

Now he's standing by your side

You touched the stars at midnight

The whole world seem to shout 'Hello'

Now your throat is tired and heavy

And only one can go

I'll be all right though I may cry

The tears that flow they always dry

It's just that I would rather be with you now

And every time I see that star

I will say a prayer for you

Now and forever September blue

I'll be all right though I may cry

The tears that flow they always dry

It's just that I would rather be with you now

And every time I see that star

I will say a prayer for you

Now and forever September blue

'Cos I'll always love you

September blue

Se sequi (inedite 1988)

Instrumental

Set me free (1991)

Wake up

See the morning light

This is you

This is today

You try so hard to get it right

Can't help thinking somewhere you've lost your way

When was the last time

You saw a smile?

There's a scream on every silent face you see

They're singing set me free

I got a friend who burns like a fire

Says there's only thing you'll ever know

It's out there somewhere

Way past the sunset line

Way out on the open road

And me I'm always looking down

Down that road out of town

Each morning and night you can see me

I'm singing set me free

Set me free

Goodnight Auberge

I leave you now

You must sleep while I work the day

till I return

To dream of you

Through the night

And that free, freeway

Shamrock diaries (1985)

In waves of people you can lose your feet

You've got to stay hard, to the ground

It gets so easy now to lose your way

When you're ever outward bound

A church bell ringing in the fading light

Stops you dead like a cold steel wall

The ghost of yesteryears is toughing you

And as sure as God you'll fall

And I see me and I see you

I see it all just like it used to be

And all the reasons why it started out

Hit you hard with every bell

The choir practice in the empty hall

Is a sound that you know so well

Like something lost inside your overcoat

You find it later, by mistake

You lost it all a thousand years ago

And you pray it's not too late

And I see me and I see you

I see it all just like it used to be

And I see me and I see you

I see it all just like a diary

Now I remember everything

Yea I remember how it used to be

With every note that choirboy sings

And I see me and I see you

I see it all just like it used to be

She closed her eyes (1993)

She closed her eyes

And let the walls of her prison fall away

The walls that ached with a timeless wait

They had become her walls of this modern TV life

She closed her eyes

And let them fall away

And in her dreams she is standing by an ocean

She is gazing out to sea

She can remember with just a fleeting glimpse

That she was once free

So long ago now, so long it was as if it had never been

Was it a holiday

She thinks it could have been, ah yes, Italy

And he closes his eyes

And he is gone far away

Gone from all the confusion

Gone from all the pain

He can easily see what a pointless waste

His modern life has become

Chasing the gravy grain

Chasing the dollar

Chasing the clock

Chasing his male friends

Chasing the boss

Chasing as it was everything

It was nothing

Only the sound of his own breathing was all he had

At the end of the day

And reasons to wonder, reasons to cry

Too late for this selfish sinner who never asked why

She gave it away (1979)

She gave away all her love

No reason to keep it

She'd saved it for only one

But he didn't need it

And downtown the midnight circus

Hypnotised like a spinning top

Offering dreams, like the gloss magazines

She had so much to give so she gave it away

And all of the loves you've known

There must have been someone

Who gave you that starry night

And whose gonna point the finger

Only those who never known

She lost and she cried, the tears run dry

She had so much to give so she gave it away

Mary was like you and I

She remembers how she lay with him

But to the world she's just a drunken cheap trick

Red light side kick, an angel downtown

The priest calls her Wednesdays

And shows her a wooden cross

He tells of the love he's found

She thinks of the one she lost

And downtown the midnight circus

Hypnotised like a spinning top

So easy to choose when there's nothing to lose

She had so much to give so she gave it away

She's gonna change everything (inedite 1992)

There's a light shining on her window

There's a great big guess breathing on her door

Shame it's taken all this time

All these years to find out

She's gonna change everything

I spend so much time sitting in shadows

I feel naked to the bone but I don't care, any more

Shame it's taken all this time

All these years to find out

She's gonna change everything

Oh everybody can't you see

What that angel's done to me

I'm hopelessly in bits

Hanging on to what I think I used to be

Somebody help me please

See this fool way down on his knees

She's gonna change everything you see in me

She's gonna change everything

Shine, shine, shine (1984)

And now the day is over

And the shadows start to grow

The sun has done us well today

In flaming crimson he explodes

And bursts of million colours

That spill across the sky

I turn and look at you love

And I know the reason why

Such a long time

Like good wine

Getting better every day

Now you know, I'll never go

So you'll always stay

And our love will keep on shining

Through the wind and the rain

And when the day is over

Our love will shine again

And as the years fly over

I'm feeling younger every day

The love that you have given me

Is more than I can say

Shine, shine, shine

Sierra, Sierra (inedite 1980)

Sierra, Sierra

Tell me where is this place you are from

You speak of a land

Filled with warm sea and sand

And the ladies who lie in the sun

Sierra, Sierra

Your distant lights fading away

Crossing those stars to the music and bars

Sierra, is it just like you say ?

Sheep counting never worked well

Since the day that I fell

For your ****** dreams

Of a thousand this world's so *******

And I'm pulsed to the wind

At the sight of the song and the sea

Strange cigarettes

Clothes so warm and so wet

You can see through so quite easily

Sierra, Sierra

Sierra, Sierra,

Please tell me you'll stay

Sierra, Sierra,

Till night turns to day

I got so many dreams they can never run dry

My bedroom's becoming a crates on the sky

Filled with dancing tequilas and chickens on spits

White-shirted waiters and girls with big tails

Love in the night in the ways of moonlight

Sierra, please tell me it fits

Since I don't see you anymore (1983)

The gas-lamp flickers in the night

And jingle-jangles in the wind

The pool-hall cowboys play and play

'Cos pool-hall hot shots don't go home

And a lonely breeze sends shivers

From a distant shore

Since I don't see you anymore

The morning curtains gently sway

A gap throws light across the room

You curse that noisy radio

Even when you turn it down

It tells us bad news of a distant war

And I don't see you anymore

Since I didn't see you

Since I didn't see you

Since I don't see you anymore

No me da un bledo si senor

Since I don't see you anymore

I've always got time for one more

Since I don't see you anymore

And a lonely breeze sends shivers

From a distant shore

And the tears fall faster now love

Much more than before

Since I don't see you anymore

Sing a song of love to me (1991)

Sing a song of love to me

As the shadows start to grow

And I won't be sad and lonely

Anymore

'Cos if you sing a song of love to me

I will always find a smile

That will warm my cold, cold heart

Just for a while

Songs of love I know so well

Yea, I've seen some days and had some times

Lucky boy I can hear you say

You think my sun does nothing but shine

Sing a song of love to me

One more time before you go

And I won't be sad and lonely

No, I won't be sad and lonely

Anymore

Six up (inedite 1991)

Instrumental

Smile (inedite 1983)

Smile

You don't have to spend your days in clouds

Hiding from the sun

Take a look around and see

It's not that easy for anyone

Smile

You don't have to put that kind of stuff

On a friend like me

Or anybody else you see

So come on and smile

Rain comes falling down on everyone

Teardrops running from the sky

Too many nights are spent unspoken

Oh, dry your eyes

Smile

Cos you don't have to spend your days in clouds

Hiding from the sun

Take a look around and see

It's not that easy

Take a look around and smile

Soft top, hard shoulder (1992)

Soft top, hard shoulder

See me running down that line

I can't stop too much older now

Let it run in overtime

Run till it breaks up

Overheats and explodes

Pick up what's left of me

Leave the rest of it way down that road

Soft top, hard shoulder

Soft top, hard shoulder

Step in to the flame

Blue centre, so much colder

Won't be the same again

I'm gonna run till it breaks up

Overheats and explodes

Pick up what's left of me

Leave the rest of it way down that road

Soft top, hard shoulder

Soup of the day (1993)

Well she thinks she's looking so cool

She thinks she's great but she's just a fool

What awful lack of class makes this kind behave this way

I look and only think of one thing to say

Soup, she's just soup

Soup of the day

She's thin around the waistline

Thin around the brain

You see this type so many times

Time and time again

How could they really think

They'd be treated in any other way

Everybody's looking and everybody say

Soup, she's just soup

Soup of the day

Well you'd think they'd know better

That behaving in this way

They think they're being clever

But I really have to say

You'd better think it over

You'll regret it one fine day

When the circus party's over

And you were just soup of the day

She's just soup

Soup of the day

Stainsby girls (1985)

Some girls used to kiss and run

Never knew what they had done

Some girls always wasted time

Keep you hanging on the line

Some loved horses and always stayed at home

But the Stainsby girls loved the Rolling Stones

Now some had games that you had to play

Making rules along the way

Strange attractions newly found

Pride and passion kicked around

Some girls stole your heart

Like most girls do

But a Stainsby girls could break it in two

And I fell in love, I fell in love

I fell in love with a Stainsby girl

Deepest water Stainsby blue

Names and faces fade away

Memories here to stay

And I fell in love, I fell in love

I fell in love with a Stainsby girl

Standing in your doorway (1978)

There'll be no moon tonight

And the stars won' t light the sky

There are women on the streets

But there's no loving in their eyes

Feeling weary, tired and wishing

I was standing in your doorway now

There'll be dancing flames

Something better cooking slow, perfume heavy

And all the lanterns turned down slow

Oh that lucky, oh that lucky man

Who's standing in your doorway now

I'm a wandering man, you'll never tie me down

Lifelong sailor, but how I wish I was homeward bound

At this moment, tired and wishing

I was standing at your doorway now

Steel river (1985)

I was born and raised on steel river

I see it all like it was yesterday

The ships and bridges they were all delivered

From Sydney harbour to the Cisco bay

And I met my love down on steel river

We served our dreams and spent our childhood days

In rainy streets we'd kiss away the shivers

And hide from fear inside the latest craze

Dancing to Motown

Making love with Carole King record playing

And oh how I loved you

Say goodbye steel river

Ten thousand bombers hit the steel river

And many died to keep her running free

And she survived but now she's gone forever

Her burning heart is just a memory

And I ran away from life on steel river

Luck or not I gladly took the break

The odds were low the chances nearly zero

A chance it was I had to take

Say goodbye steel river

They say that salmon swim in steel river

They say it's good to see them back again

I know it hurts to see what really happened

I know one salmon ain't no good to them

They were born and raised to serve their steel mother

It was they taught and all they ever knew

And they believed that she would keep their children

Even though not a single word was true

Say goodbye steel river

Stick it (1980)

Stone (1985)

Tangled dream and endless highways

Bang the drum in a foreign land

Sometimes I wonder what I'm chasing

When all I need is the touch of your hand

I've got no fixed abode out of own

Babe it gets so cold

Without your love I'm just a stone

And we all laugh and the jokes get wilder

Staying up, staying out

Drinking till you fade away in to the morning

And the strangest cold eats deeper still

Without you sweet kiss I'm gone forever

Without your touch I've no control

Without your love I'm just a looser

Without your love I'm just a stone

Stop (1993)

Gone too far

Gone too long

Messed it up completely

Till everything is wrong

Stop, start over, start again

Too many pieces

Too much to chew

How can you ever win

When you're so scared to loose

You better stop, start over, start again

Stop, start over, start again

Walk away

See what it looks like from here

If you stay you will only drown

If a mass of fear

You need to sleep

You need a break

You got to find out before it's to late

Stop, start again

You better stop, start over, start again

Summer love (1993)

Once there was a summer love

Long ago and far away

The autumn whispers to the falling leaves

Summer love can't stay

This was their place, this was where

Just for one moment, without cares

Two lovers dreaming of how the world should be

Please bring back my summer love to me

Did you have to go, did I have to stay

Did you have to go, away

Now it's all gone, but who can forget

Summer love, sweet summer love

I see your shadow everywhere

I feel your smile though you're not there

A kiss for every star in the sky way above

You'll always be my one and only summer love

Sunrise (inedite 1985)

There's something 'bout it, that feels so good

From way down deep inside

And now I know this heart ain't made of wood

I feel the heat and I can't hide

I was lonely, I was lost somewhere

Suddenly I come alive

I will cross the stormy clouds tonight

And you'll be in my sunrise

I watch you dance, I watch you turn around

and leave them spinning in the air

And how they'd love to pin you down

You don't even know they're there

You don't care, no you never will

Tears of laughter in your eyes

I will sleep a thousand dreams tonight

And you'll be in my sunrise

They try to see, they want it straight and clean

But it only goes to show

The more they read, the more they try to learn

The more they miss, the less they know

You don't care, no you never will

Tears of laughter in your eyes

I will sleep a thousand dreams tonight

And you'll be in my sunrise

Sweet kiss (1980)

I lie awake, late at night

I just don't seem to sleep at all

Got so high, don't I know why

Said man I got that Moon-dog call

Stepping out into the street

Gonna dance till my legs fall off

Mister policeman say "what's wrong with you

Why you behaving this way?"

I said I'm hung on her sweet kiss

My mama told me that the day would come

So I don't need no alibi

The judge looked down with a pointed frown

And said "boy you got to explain why"

Out on the street, late at night

Dancing like a crazy fool

Laughing and singing, what's wrong with you?

Why you behaving this way?

I said I'm hung on her sweet kiss

And all the boys they're gonna laugh

And all the girls gonna talk in class

But I don't care, there's just no way

I'm gonna let this feeling fade away

I said I'm hung on her sweet kiss

Teach me to dance (inedite 1991)

I'm a boat without an ocean

I'm a boat without a wave

I'm a sail without a strong wind

And I want someone to save, to save me

Teach me to dance

I'm a car without a driver

I'm a plane without a wing

I see you standing by my doorway

But I don't know how to let you in

Teach me to dance

I've been watching too much TV

I can't feel myself no more

I'm tired of all those macho movies

That ain't what this life is for

I don't want to hurt nobody

Just laughing, that's how I wanna be

'Cos when that brick goes through that window

It don't make nobody free

Teach me to dance

Tell me there's a heaven (1989)

The little girl she said to me

What are these things that I can see

Each night when I come home from school

And mama calls me in for tea

Oh every night a baby dies

And every night a mama cries

What makes those men do what they do

To make that person black and blue

Grandpa says their happy now

They sit with God in paradise

With angels' wings and still somehow

It makes me feel like ice

Tell me there's a heaven

Tell me that it's true

Tell me there's a reason

Why I'm seeing what I do

Tell me there's a heaven

Where all those people go

Tell me they're all happy now

Papa tell me that it's so

So do I tell her that it's true

That there's a place for me and you

Where hungry children smile and say

We wouldn't have no other way

That every painful crack of bones

Is a step along the way

Every wrong done is a game plan

To that great and joyful day

And I'm looking at the father and the son

And I'm looking at the mother and the daughter

And I'm watching them in tears of pain

And I'm watching them suffer

Don't tell that little girl

Tell me

Tell me there's a heaven

Tell me that it's true

Tell me there's a reason

Why I'm seeing what I do

Tell me there's a heaven

Where all those people go

Tell me they're all happy now

Papa tell me that it's so

Tennis (1980)

In the morning madness and the stabbing light

She pours the coffee and she says

"What was wrong with you last night?"

"Dreams, just dreams my love, we're half asleep"

But the headline's on tennis

So it seems, everything's all right

There's a girl from the Midwest, with a pretty face

Scratched where it itched, they said it was a disgrace

"I don't wanna go to work today

Wanna stay at home and watch that girl play"

Do you like tennis?

Yes I do

There are people in boats in the middle of the sea

Crying and dying like Jews

Do you like tennis?

Freedom is the man with the red grenade

She ran out of gas, got beat and raped

Do you like tennis?

Well do you like tennis?

Yes I do

Texas (1983)

Catch a sight of long lost summers

Catch a dream inside your hands

Take me where that lady comes from

Take me to that far off distant land

Rain comes pouring past my window

Turns my sky from blue to grey

I ain't never been to Texas

But I sure gonna meet that lady

One fine day

When Texas smiles around my bedroom

Who could ever turn her down

Tears of joy roll down my pillow

While cold north winds are blowing all around me

But I don't care, my dream is westbound

Far across that sky so grey

I ain't never been to Texas

But I sure gonna meet that lady

One fine day

She's my little Texas

My little Texas

Texas (1989)

Warm winds blowing

Heating blue sky

And a road that goes forever

Been thinking 'bout it lately

Been watching some TV

Been looking all around me

At what has come to be

Been talking to my neighbour

And he agrees with me

It's all gone crazy

Well my wife returns from taking

My little girl to school

She's got beads of perspiration

As she tries to keep her cool

She says That mess it don't get no better

There's gonna come a day

Someone's gonna get killed out there

And I turn to her and say Texas

She says What?

I said Texas

She says What?

They've got big long road out there

Warm winds blowing

Heating blue sky

And a road that goes forever

I'm going to Texas

We got to get out of here

We got to get out of here

Well I got a little brother

Several meters high

Yea his built just like a quarterback

And he swears he'll testify

he says he's been to Texas

And that's the only place to be

Big stakes, big girls, no trouble there

That's the place for me

I'm going to Texas

I'm going to Texas

Watch me walking

Watch me walking

That girl of mine (1987)

There's a time and place everywhere I go

Where the river meets the sea

Somewhere between the gates of dreams

And the turning of the key

There's a cutting edge there's a real fine line

And it's caught in come and go

And you're leaving what you thought you knew

To what you've come to know

When the twilight turns at the end of day

And the angels kiss the moon

There's a diamond sun everywhere she goes

And there ain't no other way

I'm gonna dream tonight

By that pale moonlight

till the morning comes my way

I'm walking tall

And I'm walking fine

And I'm up there

With that girl of mine

And I'm standing in the twilight now

Yeah I'm standing by her side

Oh I'm gazing in that gate of dreams

Underneath that midnight sky

'Cos there's a diamond sun everywhere she goes

And there ain't no other way

I'm gonna dream tonight

By that pale moonlight

till the morning comes my way

I'm walking tall

And I'm walking fine

And I'm up there

With that girl of mine

That's the way it goes (inedite 1993)

It don't look good,

it don't look great

You know what's going down you really gonna hate

This is the moment, you know the score

This is what your enemies have waited for

You're going down

and everybody knows, that's the way it goes

Take a look, there ain't no doubt about it

you're in real bad shape

Everything that you don't need

is waiting at your garden gate

So take a smile, take a woe

You got the rest of your life to wonder why and how

Save that for later, you're far too busy now

Because

You're going down

And everybody knows

That's the way it goes

That's what they always say (1989)

At the first bell of the day

They rise up from where they lay

And look down with the promise in their hands

A promise to get out

This ain't what it's all about

There's always lots of reasons for their plans

When that golden sun shines through

There's always one more thing to do

Just one more stab into the wishing well

That's what they always say

I'm getting out

That's what they always say

Ain't that just what they always say

That's what they always say

Just one more little thing left in my way

That's what they always say

Ain't that just what they always say

I'm getting out, I'm holding on

I'm hanging in, the time is wrong

And every morning brings another reason

A piece of cake, no lion share

Just one more dice and you'll be there

That golden bridge is just around the bend

That's what they always say

I'm getting out

That's what they always say

Ain't that just what they always say

That's what they always say

Just one more little thing left in my way

That's what they always say

Ain't that just what they always say

Tomorrow is another day

The money junkie fades away

That golden bridge is just around the bend

That's what they always say

I'm getting out

That's what they always say

Ain't that just what they always say

That's what they always say

Just one more little thing left in my way

That's what they always say

Ain't that just what they always say

The closer you get (1978)

Street lights start to come on

I know that it's time

Stop what you're doing

Meet those drinking friends of mine

First lady call me on the telephone

She said 'Get out and die young but I'm staying at home'

Now I believe in love, I believe that it's true

Know I'm defenceless when I look into blue

Sleepy eyes down an angel's face

Don't worry honey no-one's gonna take your place

The closer you get, the better you look

Throw me a line

'Cos the closer you get, the more that I see

We'll sure have a good time

I know what you're thinking, well how do I feel?

We'll there's no rules in my book

Except the closer you get, the better you look

Keep one foot in the showroom, one out of sight

Girl I've had some close ones but I'm doing all right

Gold on her fingers don't mean a thing

He'll do his best to hear that sweet lady sing

Now I got the time if you got the place

We've got the know how and you got the face

We got the power, we got no shame

Come over baby, I sure do wanna light your flame

'Cos the closer you get, the better you look

Throw me a line

The closer you get, the more that I see

We'll sure have a good time

I know what you're thinking, well how do I feel?

We'll there's no rules in my book

Except the closer you get, the better you look

Theme from The Pantile Journals (inedite 1991)

Instrumental

The mention of your name (1991)

Time goes by

And every single tear

It must have well run dry

And the lonely nights

Become a strange accepted way

And the years go past

Just like the old song says

The pain with time has healed

It could not last

But oh a friend

Like a fool mentions your name

Sunny days, drunken nights

You smile and say It's all right

But oh the cold, cold rain

At the mention of your name

Forgive me please

If I shrug my shoulders

When I put my friends at ease

As I get older

It's not that I don't feel colder than before

Oh I've become so good at hiding

What I feel without confiding

It's still the same

At the mention of your name

There she goes (1992)

There she goes, the one that I love

The one I've been waiting for

The one I've been dreaming of

There she goes, but she'll never be mine

Wasted all of my chances

Run clean out of time

There she goes with the wind in her hair

And a smile on her face

She doesn't know what I'd give just for one moment

To be in his place

Anyway

Take a look, there she goes

Take a look, there she goes

There she goes with the wind in her hair

And a smile on her face

She doesn't know what I'd give just for one moment

To be in his place

Anyway

Take a look, there she goes

Take a look, there she goes

The road to hell (part 1) (1989)

Stood still on a highway

I saw a woman

By the side of the road

With a face that I knew like my own

Reflected in my window

Well she walked up to my quarterlight

And she bent down real slow

A fearful pressure paralysed me in my shadow

She said 'son what are you doing here

My fear for you has turned me in my grave'

I said 'mama I come to the valley of the rich

Myself to sell'

She said 'son this is the road to hell'

On your journey cross the wilderness

From the desert to the well

You have strayed upon the motorway to hell

The road to hell (part 2) (1989)

Well I'm standing by the river

But the water doesn't flow

It boils with every poison you can think of

And I'm underneath the streetlight

But the light of joy I know

Scared beyond belief way down in the shadows

And the perverted fear of violence

Chokes the smile on every face

And common sense is ringing out the bell

This ain't no technological breakdown

Oh no, this is the road to hell

And all the roads jam up with credit

And there's nothing you can do

It's all just pieces of paper flying away from you

Oh look out world, take a good look

What comes down here

You must learn this lesson fast and learn it well

This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway

Oh no, this is the road

Said this is the road

This is the road to hell

The things lovers should do (1979)

Standing in the half light, wondering if you can

There stands the priest of sinners, consolation in his hands

Though he prays he won't need it, he keeps it by his side

Waiting for the face up and the answer in her eyes

All while the music's playing a backdrop serenade

There's only one point of view

To be doing the things, things that lovers should do

Disco-queens in dancestep, moving face to face

All tangled up in neon don't think it's some disgrace

The blue western denim, the East Coats razor edge

The European fashion, the leathers and re-threads

All while the music's playing a backdrop serenade

There's only one point of view

To be doing the things, things that lovers should do

The Van Stomp/Glasgow horizon (inedite 1993)

Instrumental

Three angels (1978)

Nine dollars, two cents

No money, no rent

8759 that's the number

Be on time

Bring something, don't care

Whatever, be there

Good woman, good loving, good feeling

Three angels

Eight castles, wants nine

Unhappy all the time

Gold headlights, can't see

Sure could help him, feel free

Five aces, no calls

Easy action on the walls

One burning, two custom, all waiting

Three angels

Burns, Hofner, white flats

All together feeding back

No mixer, no lights

Good fixer, be all right

Dream wishing, downtown

In the windows, locked sound

One burning, two custom, all waiting

Three angels

Three little green candles (1994)

Instrumental

Too much pride (1992)

Say good morning this is your lucky day

Most of your problems they're gonna slip away

Oh I'm gonna help you, I can show you the way

So give me so time my friend and hear what I say

You got too much pride, too much pride

Drive yourself crazy, you got too much pride

Take a look at the downside anyway that you choose

Out here on the upside you ain't got nothing to lose

Oh I'm gonna help you, I can show you the way

So give me some time my friend and hear what I say

You got too much pride, too much pride

Drive yourself crazy, you got too much pride

Too much pride it will drive you wild

It will burn your soul, cut you deep inside

Drag you down, get in your way

So take a look my friend listen what I say

You got too much pride, too much pride

Drive yourself crazy, you got too much pride

Touché D'amour (1984)

Touché D'amour

Yours is a sunny day

Of this I'm sure

Blowing my clouds away

I just don't know what this could do to me

I only want it to be

Touché D'amour

Touché D'amour

Sailing around the room like never before

Could never have come too soon

I want this dance to last forever

For it to last forever more

Touché D'amour

True to you (inedite 1991)

When the time comes around

I want you to know

You can count on me

When it all comes down

You'll know where I'll be

Standing right next to you

'Cos I'll be true to you

I'll be true to you

When the days grow dark

And the winds grow cold

I'll still be with you

I'm tried and I'm tested

And I won't let you down

You can count on me

Because I'll be true to you

I'll be true to you

This love that I've found

It flows like a river

And it's all for you

The streets of this town

Speak only one name

And that name is you

So when the time comes around

I want you to know

You can count on me

When it all comes down

You'll know where I'll be

Standing right next to you

Because I'll be true to you

I'll be true to you

Twisted wheel (1979)

I can see him now, standing on a street corner

Pastel shades and a candy stripe parallel

Good time love, oh that I'd been much older

Go messing with the boys from the incrowd

But all I could do was wish them farewell

What's that strange music

What's that fully rhythm

They call it Blue Beat, but you can call it young love

You can call it tamla dream

Down at your local Motown machine

I need to be loved

Down at your Twisted Wheel

And I can see that little stage

All the hands up in the air

Bombers and blues gonna see us through

Got my new lime suit mohair

With a single vent sixteen inch

Got my two-stroke wheels outside

We only need the High Numbers now

And anything on stateside

Down at your Twisted Wheel

Two roads (1986)

Ain't it funny how you never can tell

It always seems to hit you when it's going so well

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

Now it's lawyers-at-midnight and the learning begins

Let's take a walk outside in the morning sun

Here ain't working out no battles to be won

Oh darling take a look at you and me

We both love our freedom and we'll always be

Two roads

You can wait a lifetime for the hammer to fall

Some folks get lucky they don't see it at all

We were bound to drift away from the very first day one

Two different journeys and neither was wrong

Let's take a walk outside in the morning sun

Here ain't working out no battles to be won

Oh darling take a look at you and me

We both love our freedom and we'll always be

Two roads

Two different lifetimes we just happened to meet

Traded some good times on the corner of the street

We were no more than strangers attracted to one

And the same sense of freedom but we'll always be on

Two roads

We don't have problem (inedite 1993)

We don't have problem

If we let each other be

If both of us can understand

What is good for you, may not be for me

If we give each other lots of space

If I tiptoe by your door

Then we don't have a problem anymore

We don't have problem, any fool can see

I could never be like you

Why should you wanna be like me

What's so hip in doing what the leader always says

When we don't have a problem, anyway

If you make trouble

It will get you in the end

Why trade pain with somebody when

We don't have a problem

What's so hip in doing what the leader always says

When we don't have a problem, anyway

Whatever happened to Benny Santini? (1978)

They say his chances could not have been better

All the promise of a July sun in the morning sky

Laughing at the peering faces

From the windows of a limousine

Caviar with the A & R and still only in his teens

So whatever happened?

I can see him now, his face lit up in neon

One hand up in the air as he turns towards the crowd

His songs of silver arrows they tried to roll into gold

With diamond tips from painted lips

Designed and ready to be sold

They say he could not fall of

They say he could not fail

The wealth and fame would fire his flame

Just as soon as his ship set sail

So whatever happened?

Whatever happened to Benny Santini?

Whatever happened to the guy on the wall?

Where did he go to if he could not fall of

They tell you they don't know

They don't know at all

When you know your love has died (1981)

Me, I'm just running wild

Can't give you the advice you need this time

You say of her, you can't decide

And yet you sit and watch her cry

Friend you're like the wind that blows

Like the sea you come and go

I'm not trying to tell you

How I think that it should be

'Cos I know deep down inside

That you're yearning to be free

And you're only gonna think of No 1.

So what am I to say

No matter what you do you're gonna hurt her anyway

When you know that your love has died

And you know how you feel inside

You've got to face up and show

What you're feeling when you know

Your parting words will be so untrue

Just as long as it don't come down on you

And you're scared to lay it on the line

Just in case you change your mind

I'm not trying to tell you

How I think that it should be

'Cos I know deep down inside

That you're yearning to be free

And you're only gonna think of No 1.

So what am I to say

No matter what you do you're gonna hurt her anyway

When you know that your love has died

And you know how you feel inside

You've got to face up and show

What you're feeling when you know

Windy town (1987)

Driving home from the highland line

We done some gigs on the Clyde and the Tyne

They flew us in from a Hamburg strip

The taste of Dusseldorf still on our lips

And on the bus there is a friend of mine

We go way back to the scene of the crime

We sit up front and share a cigarette

And try to remember what we tried to forget

He say "Do you remember?"

He say "Do you recall?"

I say yeah I remember, oh, I remember it all

Every time that cold wind blows

Every time I hear that sound

Late night trains shunting down by the river

I remember windy town

We come so far and we move so fast

Making hay see it all go past

Round the world and round again

Up and down on that gravy train

but every time that cold wind blows

Every time I hear that sound

The east coast cross winds on the cold wet stone

I remember windy town

The freezing corners and the empty streets

The burning passion and the cold wet feet

Three tricky miles home every night

Dodging from the shadows underneath those amber light

No car for kissing and nowhere to go

Except inside each other and I loved you so

I held your face as you shivered in the rain

Girl I'll always love you and I'll love you again

Oh everytime, everytime

Every time that cold wind blows

Every time I hear that sound

Late night trains shunting down by the river

I remember windy town

Every time that cold wind blows

Every time I hear that sound

The east coast cross winds on the cold wet stone

I remember windy town

Winning (1984)

So you say that you are tired

And you wanna make a deal

The way the see you turn

Well that's not the way you feel

Well I got news for you sunshine

You may not understand

You're living in a poker game

And you've already shown your hand

So if you can't stand up

You'd better learn how to fall

One thing is for certain

Ain't no way out of here at all

'Cos we're winning

Now we've ironed out the edges

That your mother may have loved

Or someone you may have wanted

But you're now too way above

'Cos you're shining like a razor

And we're all waiting just for you

We took you up on what you said

Now let's see what you can do

And if you can't stand up

You'd better learn how to fall

One thing is for certain

Ain't no way out of here at all

'Cos we're winning

Winter song (1991)

It's a cold, cold feeling

On a real lazy wind

That blows all the way trough you

And the autumn begins

How it cuts like a sabre

How it chills to the bone

You've got cold feet and fingers

And you're thinking of home

If I put my arms around you

Take you in from the storm

From your autumn through winter

Darling I'll keep you warm

My overcoat's empty

Deep, wide and long

I got room for you darling

till your winter, till your winter has gone

Wired to the moon (1984)

Sleep tonight little girl

Go right in through

No-one can wake you now

You're falling through your dreams

Sliding down every beam

'Cos you don't know how

Don't know how to hurt

Don't know how to lie

You just don't know how to do it

You couldn't if you tried

'Cos you're wired to the moon

You innocent light

Will be shadows too soon

Sleep little angel

Stay wired to the moon

Faraway in the night

I saw my mother

She was looking at you

She said to me "My son

Don't you wake that little girl

Though I know you're wanting to

'Cos you're wanting to laugh

And you're wanting to play

Leave her in sweet dreams

She may lose them one day

Keep her wired to the moon"

Like a girl I once knew

She was once happy too

Sleep little angel

Stay wired to the moon

Working on it (1988)

Oh how I'd love it girl, just you and me

Take the day and fly

But oh this job, it's got the best of me

Tell you why, tell you why

Somebody above is in a desperate state

Some kind of urgency, the kind that won't wait

I say tomorrow, he say today

And the man in my head well he tell me no way

Keep working

I got eight little fingers and only two thumbs

Will you leave me in peace while I get the work done

Can't you see I'm working

Oh, oh I'm working on it

Oh, oh I'm working on it

Well they're coming from above me

And they're coming from below

Yea they're in there right behind me

Everywhere that I go

And my buddy, he's screaming down the telephone line

He say gimme, gimme, gimme

I say I ain't got the time

Oh, oh can't you see I'm working on it

Oh, oh I'm working on it

Yea, yea, oh tell 'em

How I'd love it girl, just you and me

Take the day and fly

But oh, this job it's got the best of me

Tell you why

Well they're coming from above me

And they're coming from below

Yea they're in there right behind me

Everywhere that I go

My buddy, he's screaming down the telephone line

He say gimme, gimme, gimme

I say I ain't got the time

Oh, oh can't you see I'm working on it

Oh, oh I'm working on it

Oh, oh I'm working

Oh, oh can't you see I'm working on it

Yes I do (inedite 1987)

In the morning she brings music

Takes the dark clouds from my eyes

Gives me something to hang on to

When the cold wind fills the skies

And you ask me do I love her

Yes I do!

You tell me she could leave me

This love could make me cry

All I know is I want it

And I feel it deep inside

So just ask me do I love her

Yes I do!

Tomorrow is tomorrow

I just know about today

In this great big world

Would it be too much to see

Little joy come my way

So just ask me do I love her

Yes I do!

You can go your own way (1994)

You can go your own way

You can go your own way

It doesn't matter what the others say

'Cos you can go your own way

You can go your own way

You've got a ring on your finger

A chain around your heart and your soul

Searching for an answer

Looking for your own control

Walk away from the leader

Walk away form the books

Walk away from the TV

Take a long hard look

And you can go your own way

You must be evil (1989)

I come home from work

I see my little girl

She's crying on the floor

She's been watching that TV

This ain't late no, this ain't even dinner time

To show them things on that screen

What's wrong with you

You must be evil

Oh I know why you do it

You're just looking for sensation

You got a hold of something

You tell us that it's news

You don't have to show that stuff

Can't you show us some respect

You can tell us we don't need to see it

We don't need those cheap effects

You must be evil

You must be evil

I wish you were here

You don't have to show that stuff

You ain't fooling no-one

You made my little girl cry

I wish you were here

We all know why you do it

Sometimes you even slow it down

You're giving out some bad ideas here

I can't believe that you don't realise

You must be evil

You're not a number (1991)

You can feel your nerve endings

They've been dead before today

You can feel them rising

Feel them rising all the way

You've got grease on your fingers

oil on your face

Happy completely chasing the pace

Happy to find out even this late

You're not a number

There's a new sense of freedom

Come banging on your door

Deep down inside you

You've seem it all somewhere before

Somewhere in the past

Somewhere in a dream

It's got you completely

And you know what it means

Happy to find out even this late

You're not a number

There's a new sense of freedom

Come banging on your door

Deep down inside you

You've seem it all somewhere before

You've got grease on your fingers

oil on your face

Happy completely chasing the pace

Happy to find out even this late

You're not a number

Your warm and tender love (1989)

I was lost in the deep and darkest night

No direction, not a single hope in sight

When I saw a fire burning brightly through

The storm that raged above

In the shadows of your warm and tender love

I was a stranger to the land and life around

In constant danger, being hurt by what I found

And of hurting what I treasured most

Foolish eagle never dove

Till I fell upon your warm and tender love

In the shadows of your warm and tender love

Now I gaze in peace at the lonely sky

That is raging high above

Safe in the shadows of your warm and tender, tender love

In the shadows of your warm and tender love