Straighten your collar and smile‘Cause you’ve never been lazy‘Cause you in a styleCall the shots every day Soul DriverDon’t hurryIt’s my timingIt’s not your worryAnd I’m taking my timeAnd laying my rootsSince I’ve been so far away You’re such a practical manYou work so hard for your livingYou make me understandThat it’s all in the […]
Is she coming home, I’ll leave the light on But through times and space she’ll go If she’s coming home she won’t tell me And I wonder if I should know Wonder if I should feel something Wonder if I should know But it’s dark in here Tip-toe softly do not wake herAs she sleeps […]
All the people under broken homes Don’t wanna fight no moreAll the people nursing shattered bonesDon’t wanna fight no moreBut there’s no profit in peaceSo we’ve gotta fight some more And all those who are in foreign landsDon’t wanna fight no moreAnd all those who lost their feet or handsDon’t wanna fight no moreBut there’s […]
I don’t want to be another big star Picking at your cars Stealing at your clothes Finding out what you don’t know You don’t know I don’t want to be your big star Picking your calls; saying I don’t know I don’t want to be your suitor Lacking at your feet Trying to love the […]
You’re a southern manYou’re a northern soulYou’re a west-enderYou got eastern soulBut you’re no-one at all You’re a rich manYou’re a poor manYou’re a this manThen you’re that manBut you’re no-one at all You’re a liarYou’re a winnerAnd expert and a beginnerBut you’re no-one at all When the wind blowsThat’s when you knowThat your nose […]
I feel a love that’s so hard to bear Won’t you come kiss me and take this despair Let the morning time dapple its light in your hair Like warm running water in snow But I fear a love of jealousy and pain Lost in the race ‘tween the foolish and vain Come the morning […]
If anyone rises at 6.31And fakes all day thatThey’re having their funThey never did get it right Since they got it so low To anyone drinking the morning awayThe afternoon will prove a mistakeThey never will get it rightNow they’ve got it so low And we laugh and we drinkAnd we teach ourselves not to […]
I’m going away to see my ownAnd tread my earthI’ve got no ordinary gainBy to set my worthI get enough and I get too lateAnd if I fall down on the roadThen I won’t get grazed I cannot let you take my timeOr till my earthYou’ve had enough of life to seeThat it shakes my […]
Your dream make-up is cracked and wearing thin Your eyes are on your chin It’s getting hard for you But to make up is only make-believe And we don’t need a scene like this Whatever happened to the Beautiful LosersWhatever happened to the Beautiful Losers Your eyes closed and dreamed of places that you and […]
Charlie Brown says No-one promised this when I was a kid When my days were filled with carousels Fairground rides and cockleshells Kicking pebbles on a beach When time couldn’t reach me And tears were just a memory left to be learned Now days catch me without an overcoat Five o’clock shoes full of snow […]