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There's A Thousand More Untold Stories

by Roy Møller

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1.
Long Island 02:54
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Love - has been acting crazy Love - has left me very hazy It's where? Right there on the stair Love - it used to be a virtue Love - then I found that it could hurt you Still I'm gonna get my share Refrain: Understand your journey man Understand your journey man A million miles a day A million miles away It's a long road that we're going through And every day I want to be with you girl - oh, girl Love - bridges spanning empty track Love - you know they're hungry, want it back - the lifted line Love - come on, the water's rushing Love - come on, the drains are gushing This has got to be our time (refrain) Long island… (love - I'm biting the linoleum Love - till patches of petroleum Shine on the morning road)
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I'll Just Be a Second 03:09
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I will only be a second One you would have reckoned Would fly by, colours run like tie-dye I want to put some space Between hi and goodbye It’s crazy I know but I try Chorus: Hold it, baby, I’m comin’ I’m just gonna be a second, yeah We left the calendar running, honey But time expands when you take my hand We walk through forests Trees are rooting for us, yeah I will only be a second, Not long since time beckoned me in Aw, come along, Jim Could you handle being a sneeze In the infinite breeze? Can’t you offer me a more Permanent position, please? (Chorus) Well, I’ll be a freshly placed bet I don’t know the odds quite yet Groceries and trainers All my dreams are on retainers Defecting deputies are in the news Allegences are temporary views Chorus: Hold it, etc We walk through hedges Walkin’ window ledges, yeah.
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I Would Hate For It Not to Be Amazing 03:45
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Look into your eyes What god am I praising? I would hate for it not to be an amazing thing It's already been done and every feather weighs a ton It's already been tried And everyone who tried it died Don't let my tongue get hung up on the phrasing I would hate for it not to be amazing Battled become cattle softly grazing I would hate for it not to have amazing grace It's already been found - everyone who found it drowned It's already kinda passe Has everyone passed away? Don't let me drown while you are blazing I would hate for it not to be amazing All your sweet epiphanies in sudden shades of light Played against your difficulties, struggles in the night Ev'ry nerve jangled, ev'ry thought tangled - what you gonna do? Think I better check right into Belle View Suddenly the whole damn room is phasing I would hate for it not to be amazing I know what I'm doing I'm trying you on for size There's a light bulb I'm unscrewing where the moth of sloth it flies I can feel my hopes are raising I would hate for you not to be amazing
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Upside Town 03:11
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Downtown the gentle bossa nova It's long gone from fashion Downtown the thumpasaurus rhythm is full on - it's crashing Lapped on the track by an also-ran Trapped in the back of an unmarked van Forget our troubles and cares the best way we can Chorus: Going upside town for a clearer view - me and you and Petula too – going upside town get a better view Builders in a 1930s photo in mid-air Manhattan On a girder – not for a million gilders would I go there like a madman Bar-rooms bring aboard supplies Wipe the weekend from my eyes I’m getting worse with women and I don’t dig guys (Chorus) Lapped on the track by an also ran trapped in the back of an unmarked van We'll forget our troubles and cares the best way we can We should be going (Chorus)
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My Ever Accumulating Losses 03:12
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Don't talk me up to your bosses Don't talk me up to yourself I’m not trying to be pretty I’m just looking out for myself You’re just the start of my ever-accumulating losses You talk me up to your spaceman That’s not the place for me to go Why don’t you try a little harder Try hard to let me go It's just a part of my ever-accumulating losses My golden age of childhood Trying hard to look good Pubescent girls were so rude Even to my face Some times were good, some times were bad Sometimes I was done, sometimes I was had You can always lose what you ain't ever had That's just the start of my ever accumulating losses You’re just a part of my ever-accumulating losses
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In a Meeting (Factory version) 03:12
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Don’t call me, I’m in a meeting But it’s not one where I’ll get bored Please don’t phone me – no-one can own me I’m in a meeting with the Lord Don’t disturb me, I’m in a meeting Not to get me a medal or fall on my sword Don’t call me, I’m giving all of me To my meeting with the Lord Middle: I don’t want no chat show All I want is love today I know I won’t let that go All I need is strength to pray There’s so much to shudder at and savour Let my meeting go with one accord If I lose my rudder and I waver Let me back into my meeting with the Lord (I’m in a meeting with the Lord) X 2 Radio Brooklyn reminds you Go to the church of your choice Let his voice be your reward And you’ll all enjoy a meeting with the Lord (middle) (I’m in meeting with the lord) (Do your duty, play with your mind
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Hidden Realms (Crooner version) 03:59
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Here’s those hidden realms I’ve always known Through these hidden realms The breeze has always blown Secret breeze has always blown But the secret silence is still In the hour of not quite rain There’s a hammerin’ around the town You don’t hear again Building ships in secret they must be Building ships for a specialist navy Building ships that someday might save me From those hidden realms How they tease When I’m under the elms or some other trees Roots and branches Cranes in the shipyard sun Hear the roar of the terrace like a town caressed by a tongue in its ear Hungry hounds surround hangers Where they hammer out those planes That enjoy a more than four dimensional range Can they fly me over ev’rything that’s strange? I’m in a place where shadows are circling round In a place with shadows swooping down To where they’re building special ships now You must see Silver ships for a secretive navy And if I learn to live they might save me From those hidden realms I almost know From those hidden realms This seed is sown Just beyond the facade There's a whole other world to be had If you’re going mad won’t you go along with me To where they’re building vessels, they must be Building ships for a specialist navy To brush the lips of those lost on the sea Of hidden realms
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My Skyscrapers (swing version) 02:18
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I said hi, I don't like to get too high I don't like to step on the other guy's sky, baby all right My skyscrapers are not built so high So please don't look up in the sky Hello, I don't like to get too low But if you go diving with Jacques Cousteau, baby all right My skyscrapers might make themselves known to you My skyscrapers might come into view They don't scrape no sky of blue They're not there to be seen What we can do is watch them through The windows of the sea of green I don't like to get too high I don't like to step on the other guy's sky, baby all right My skyscrapers make you come alive But my skyscrapers mean you've gotta dive They don't scrape no sky of blue They're not there to be seen What we can do is watch them through The windows of the sea of green Chase Manhattan but you'll never catch me And the Royal Canadian Mounted Police can duck down I'm higher than you've ever been but low Might scyscrapers wanna say hello
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Pop Music Bores (Company version) 03:03
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Winston Churchill, he himself is Never known to have loved Elvis Play a song for Desmond Tutu he might tap a Beatle boot to He might like to Twist & Shout it I don’t know, somehow I doubt it Chorus: Pop music bores, pop music bores Pop music bores better people than me Pop music bores, pop music bores Pop music bores better people than me Out of Africa to Asia We all know Mother Teresa When she hear E.L.O. now She say “Hey, I gotta go now” (Slow down) She was saintly, superhuman (Hold on) Didn’t dig Sweet Talkin’ Woman cos... (Chorus) It don’t make you a little Hitler Banning jazz with your little trigger But if my pop song makes you snigger, don’t think that you’re better than me (Chorus) If you can’t walk on water perhaps then you ain’t got a Lot to tell ‘bout what I ought to do, what I should listen to (Chorus) x3
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One Way Round the Circle 02:43
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One way around, just one way around x 4 One way round for you to go Just one way round that you should know Just one way around to find it is hard Finding a station in your own backyard Chorus: You got one way round the circle To get there in one stop The other way round the circle Is a hundred pick ups and a hundred drops One way round, just one way round x 4 Her hair was bobbed, my hair was cropped I fell for her as a hanged man dropped Through a trap door at 8am The world was much more innocent then Just one way round where you gotta go Just one way around where you gotta know One way round, you could write a fat book Some many stories everywhere you look Chorus: One way round the circle To get there in one stop The other way round the circle Is a million pick ups and a million drops Call the transport cops One way round the circle To get there in one stop The other way round the circle Is a thousand pick ups and drops
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These Things I Do (early mix) 02:52
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I use words but I don’t use speech I use sun but I don’t use beach I use drink but I refuse drugs I run baths but I don’t need plugs I use wheels but I don’t burn tyres I use matches but I don’t light fires These things I do – now how about Chorus: You and me knitted together Like a jumper in summer, A hole in the weather A car that starts without a key A stream that never meets the sea Na na na na na, na na na na na Leave the station, you can guarantee that you’ll hit a tunnel , you can see That it’s one for the money, none for the show – When I arrive it’s time to go Time to go for another try – I used to care but I don’t know why These things I do – now how about one, Now how about two, how about (Chorus)
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So You Want What I Want 02:36
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So you want what I want - ride ahead Or what we say might wind up dead I trusted you - you turn away Can't you glue the words to say together So you want what I want - ride on through Is that really hard to do? All I hear is early birds Seems you steer clear of the words I don't know what I want I want I leave it to fate I'm changing my mind - hope I get a good rate I'm claiming assistance from the state The benefit's hindsight - it's always paid late Do you want what I want - ride ahead, etc
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Faith in the Face of It All 04:11
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You have faith in the face of it all My world don’t have very far to fall All zeroes and one – look out, world, I’m done But you tell me you believe in a special he If he or she exists at all, would they believe in me? Cos all I see is a brick wall But you say you have faith in the face of it all (someday I can’t keep running away) x 2 If God was man, then why can’t man Invent the god he needs Judge him not by what is said, judge him by his deeds Don’t God play hard to get? And you’ve not answered this question yet Where is he in tragedy and in disaster? Still I hear your words of praise Songs of joy and laughter And faith in the face of it all Hey – I can’t keep running away Someday I can’t keep running away You think you’ve got a certain slot In the show that goes beyond Though the fishing failed And the train derailed God is like james bond With a licence to kill us all Will you transcend matter? At the pearly gates they’ll designate me Persona non grata You have faith in the face of it all My world don’t have very fall to fall Just zeroes and ones – look out, world, i’m done God just don’t play ball But you have faith in the face of it all I fasten my buckle with the silver snake It’s another school day, and I’m wide awake We have moved forward decades now I just can’t get my head around Having faith in the face of it all So I face that old brick wall You have faith in the face of it all

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The 2016 CD, released by The Beautiful Music (beauty 028), is available at thebeautifulmusic.com/the-bands/roy-moller. This remastered edition includes extra tracks Including two stand alone download singles for stereogram Recordings. Artwork by Jamie Nordstrand. Special thanks to Wally Salem.

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released June 1, 2016

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