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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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