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Honey Berlin
03:08
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I'm addicted to her like I'm allergic to gin
Honey Berlin, Honey Berlin
Don't mess, she'll turn your flesh to gin
Honey Berlin, Honey Berlin
If I get beckoned in today
She'd shed my skin without delay
Little hans - he don't stand a chance
With lieselotte but he gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta
And I'm that far gone in
With Miss Honey Berlin
Who's that waiting by the Brandenburg Gate?
For Honey Berlin, Honey Berlin
Take a Reichstag fire to break your date
With Honey Berlin, Honey Berlin
But she don't want to know
Just asks you where the soldiers go
She knows that lieselotte, she don't have a chance
With sweet Mathilda, she invites her to dance
Pretty soon, her eyes will with sin
That's the way I feel about miss honey berlin
And I'm not the only one…
In many a small room, many a tall tale
Of Honey Berlin, Honey Berlin
I've even heard it said she was born female
Honey Berlin, Honey Berlin
It's true, she's looking good
Like only a natural woman could
The air force sergeant, he gets out of the tube
Still feelin' naked as he enters the club
He learned a thing or two while earning each stripe
Wrapped round her finger, now she's smoking his pipe
I wish I was her type - Honey Berlin
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I looked so hard to find my role
From Henry Robb to the Oriole
I looked so hard to find my place
I licked the decals off your suitcase
Kiss me and give me a rush release
Want you with me when i paint my mantelpiece
Followed foxes, watched their tails
Tied with torches to a shop called Scayles
Where I listened to John Frum's radio
Can I speak to Andy? Oh, let it go
Kiss me and give me a rush release
Want you with me when i paint my mantelpiece
If I couldn't surprise you with a fabulous dish
I'd paint the eyes afresh on yesterday's fish
I finally found the tools of my trade
I found them at Bruce's but they got mislaid
Kiss me, girl, deliver a rush release
Want you with me when i paint my mantelpiece
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Obelisk
02:15
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Hey, hey, we’re like an obelisk
Gonna tow this thing at our own risk
An obelisk on a choppy sea
I tow you then you tow me
Hey, hey, we’re like an obelisk
Awkward on the ocean - and the wind is brisk
Awkward on the ocean and the water’s full of holes
I tow you then we switch roles
Yeah, yeah, we’re like an obelisk
Lookin’ for security or just someone we wanna frisk
Obelisk by air and sea
I tow you and you tow me
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Edinburgh City Control
03:04
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Edinburgh City Control, civil defence, GPO - Fairmilehead
Edinburgh City Control - building right over hole
Watch where you tread
Understand your journey, man
Understand your journey, man
A million miles a day, a million miles away
Edinburgh City had planned to operate sirens by hand
How intense
Hickory Dickory Dock - it says 8:45 on the clock
Is that when it ends?
I guess it all depends
Understand, etc
It’s a long road that we’re going through
And every day I want to be with you, girl, oh, girl
Understand, etc
Edinburgh City Control -
Funny old maps on the wall
Abandoned, forgotten or dead
I can’t get it out of my head
That’s what my head’s for - always keeping score
Understand, etc
Hickory Dickory dock -
Uhuru kissed Kirk and kissed Spock,
At least in my dreams
A man in his dreams when he sees
A bunker emerge through the trees
He knows what it means
When taken to extremes
Understand, etc
It’s a long road, etc
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Redpath
02:30
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When I looked in the mirror
All I’d see looking back at me
Was a lady painted by Gustav Klimt
Sometimes I can be heard to see
So I thought that I better awaken (up to now)
To the road not taken (up to now)
My Edinburgh home
Might as well be Ancient Rome
So I thought that I’d take the red path
On a distant hill
With a bridge and a stream till my senses were filled
by the Redpath watercolour and no other
A Protestant looks at Catholic
And finds a world of magic
In Brussels, Bruges, Florence and Siena
Magic flowed through her and coloured her like henna
Still life revealed
More than a poppy field
Soften the blow from the exterior
Soften the blow from the interior
Everybody must awaken (up to now)
Somewhere on the road not taken (up to now)
And see the magic in things
And the magic painting brings
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Textbook Textbook
03:05
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The way you broke my heart – textbook
You tore the book apart – next book – will it be the same?
The way you shot me down - textbook
You tore my high hopes from their skyhook
Chorus:
Textbook, textbook – that’s the way to go
There’s no point in walking through the show
Not having you round will be hell
But you put me down so well
Textbook, textbook – that’s the way to go
It’s not you, it’s me – textbook
Phraseology – textbook
Though I've heard it before
You treat me like trash
But with such sweet panache – like a lightning flash
(chorus)
Drastic solution, classic execution
You’re as good and bad as the Marquis de Sade
To think we once had it all – we generated heat
My overcoat is out your hall – I’m on the street
(Chorus)
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Street Oblique
03:02
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Please forget the things I read
Baby, they’re just chicken feed
Ev’rything I try to sing
Is hidden shades of frank & bing
I could never dance through space
For fear I might untie a lace
Baby, when I speak
It’s from a street oblique – but I love you
Please forget these dismal hills
Deposit rain on window sills
Ev’rything I try to play
Sounds like it’s about to pray
I could never dance through life
For fear I might land on a knife
Baby, when I write
I hold the pen too tight – but I love you
I would try to steal the wine
That makes the trains run on time
Baby, when I speak
It’s from a street oblique – but I love you
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Where I Am Is Here
03:09
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I love the mossy stone, I love that stone right here
Echoes of the lead and gold spread the story here
Light bulb bare but let's share the time that tears on barbed wire
There's high heaven at the end of a spire
Whatever is doing - where I am is here
Whatever is brewing – where I am is here
Whatever is doing - where I am is here
The Zoopark, dock dark, Humber hubcap hemisphere
Bank notes on the beach, out of reach Leith disappear
Cylindrical and spherical – postbox points due west
There’s an inkwell hole in my desk
Whatever is doing -where I am is here
Whatever is brewing – where I am is here
Whatever is doing - where I am is here
Princes Street pristine in ’55 – full colour clear
Foggy Forth in ’64 – misty Old Chain Pier
To the May Island we will sail
As shrubbery sprouts from eternal shale
Feed back to me, babe, feed back to me
Margaret saw the hair of drinking men was stone
Margaret saw Dunedin's streets snow blown
Margaret saw the shifting sands of time
Dropped by diggers in the road
That followed code along the shoreline
Margaret saw the steam from the teaspoon rise
Margaret saw it all with beautiful eyes
How the bravest boat afloat is the honest one
Margaret saw – I want to see her in the sunshine
I want to see her in the sun
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Vincent
02:10
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(Hear it, Vincent, with both ears) x2
Hated by your friends who kinda like you
On a starry night, the world’s all right
For somebody, Vincent, like you
It’s messed up too
Hear it, Vincent, the note I played
Like a sad outrider on a lonesome motorcade
Grey waves clip against your ship
Let your thoughts unspool
Reverberating round your head
Like voices in a swimming pool
Hear it, Vincent, with both ears
Hear it, Vincent, with both ears
Whistles blew, crows flew, I think they knew
On a starry night the world’s all right
For somebody, Vincent, like you
(The world’s all right for you) x4
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One Domino
03:10
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Come on like you ought to be
King of the crown
One domino and the whole damn deal goes down
You sit at a table for two as guests
Study your food like a game of chess
Come on like you ought to be king of the crown
One domino and the whole damn deal goes down
You’re so full of yourself out in space
You’re so thin on the ground it’s a total disgrace
For harpsichords collapsing in disarray
When one domino gets taken away
Mussolini was sprung by Hitler in a glider
Didn’t bring much fun in the long run to either one
Thought they could spin the world around
But the world turned to zero
And the whole damn deal went down
And the world is goin’ on
The way it did the day that you and I were born) X 2
We’re in the lap of the gods
Even though the gods may be frauds
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Roy Møller Dunbar, UK
British-Canadian pop artist.
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