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Ray Davies

Ray Davies's

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Working Man's Café cover

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She's got a heart of gold.

She's got a hold on me.

She's got all expenses paid.

She's got ducks, ducks on the wall, (2)

She's got ducks, ducks on the wall.

She's got everything. (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13)

She's got the best of both worlds

She's happy now her baby's coming home again.

She's impaled, in Holloway jail.

She's in perpetual midnight,

She's just a substitute

She's just sitting by the telephone, like a yo-yo.

She's left so soon

She's livin' in a world of her own.

She's not around

She's out of view

She's really got it made.

She's Rita Hayworth or Doris Day,

She's so darling, all the fellas do agree,

She's the lady of my dreams.

She's thinking to herself,

She's walkin' on the surrey with the fringe on top,

She always said that it would never ever work out

She always smiled even when she felt low.

She can't afford the time or the fare

She can't see me staring at her

She can't see my motivation (2)

She couldn't act much but she put on a show.

She couldn't stand the boredom

She didn't cover up or try to conceal,

She didn't cover up the inside,

She didn't know whether she should get angry or not bat an eye

She didn't learn it at high school or from a glossy magazine

She didn't say, she didn't ask, she just went.

She feeds the ducks, looks at the flowers.

She got a heart of gold.

She got all the angles,

She had a hug like a vice (2)

She had a timeless glow, she was the image of youth

She had nothing to hide, she put it all out to show.

She had some pile-drivin' kisses (2)

She had to be a young executive

She helps him wipe

She is by my side

She is free from harm

She is gone and now there's no one else to love

She is gone and now there's no one else to take her place

She is gone and now there's no one left (2)

She is gone, (2)

She is mine forever, now,

She is sorry, she just had to break the chains.

She is the sweetest girl I know. (2) (3)

She just decided to go out and make it alone.

She just decided to go out and make it solo.

She just went, (2)

She kissed me on the cheek and I moaned (2) (3)

She knows they get away with things she never could,

She left a message after the tone,

She left him lying on Skid Row

She let's the music dictate the way that she feels.

She lives in a house that's near decay,

She looked alright,

She looked like skin and bone.

She looked outta sight.

She looked so corporate and clean

She looks at you twice and your heart skips a beat

She looks like a prima donna

She looks like skin and bone

She looks so weak and fragile that's why she tried to be so hard

She makes my heart start a-bumping and a-jumping

She never sees the day,

She picked me up and sat me on her knee

She really couldn't call up her mother

She said "Better stop, my husband's"

She said don't you leave me alone (2) (3)

She said get down that labour exchange,

She said I could do with a rest

She said that I'm not her kind

She said, "man, there's really something wrong with you."

She says a change is as good as a rest

She says it helps their relationship

She says, Baby take me out for a dance

She should have been made of iron or steel,

She showed it all on the outside,

She shuts out the day,

She sings along with all the saddest songs,

She squeezes once or twice and I moan (2)

She thinks you're in some kind of movie.

She threw away her dirty dishes just to be free again

She took all her pretty coloured clothes,

She took half the money that was earned in some far distant land

She tried to make the swinging city scene,

She used to be so cuddly,

She used to be so fat,

She walked up to me and she asked me to dance

She walks to work but she's still in a daze,

She was a lady when she went in,

She was a lady, when she went in,

She was always a rover,

She was just beginning to excel,

She was just succeeding in the city,

She was sick and tired of country life.

She was so jealous of her sister (2) (3) (4)

She was talking to another guy

She was there at the beginning, she's still out there today

She was young and ever so pretty,

She wastes her life away,

She wears it when she's cleaning the windows

She wears it when she's scrubbing the stairs

She wears the trousers and smokes the pipe

She weighed just about sixteen stone

She went and took the rap for him,

She wore her Sunday hat so she'd impress me,

She would always cook dinner on Thanksgiving Day

She would be ready but she'd always make him wait.

Shepherds of the Nation. (2)

Shepherds of the Nations.

Should always go to sleep at night,

Should feel happy, should feel glad.

Should she go or stay or should she try to get a trial separation

Shout out, ring the bells (2)

Shout out, tell the world I'm in love (2)

Show a little bit of emotion (2)

Show a little bit of real emotion

Show compassion and self-righteousness and be honest above all

Show me a man who says he can live without bread

Show me an upright respected man

Show me who I am? I know who I am you upstart! How dare you intrude.

Show us a man who'll be our Saviour and will lead us.

Show us a man who'll understand us, guide us and lead us. (2)

Show what they're all about

Shows us the warning signs

Shut your face!

Shut your mouth,

Sick and tired of living on loans,

Side benefits like prioroty seating at football matches. And I thought

Side by side they marched together fighting so their children

Side by side with petty crime

Sign on the dotted line.

Silly boy ya' self-destroyer. (2)

Silly boy ya' self-destroyer. Silly boy ya' self-destroyer

Silly boy you got so much to live for

Simple rules and simple plans,

Since I can't remember when.

Since I last set eyes on the church with the steeple

Since I went away from home

Since my girl left me behind

Since you've been gone, end of the season

Since you've joined the upper classes,

Since you tried to change your life,

Since you went away

Sincerity don't stand a chance. (2)

Sing me a song or two,

Sing Mr. Songbird, (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12)

Singapore to Hong Kong

Singers come and go, (2)

Single bars and gay cafés

Sipping at my ice cold beer,

Sipping at my soda, (2) (3) (4)

Sipping at my tea,

Sit back in your old rocking chair (2)

Sit in the open sunlight.

Sittin' round feeling persecuted and abused

Sitting alone on my hotel

Sitting by a gasfire in a drafty bedsit

Sitting by my stereo all alone

Sitting by the riverside with you.

Sitting by the sea,

Sitting by the swimming pool

Sitting in a big chair

Sitting in my hotel room, thinking about the countryside and sunny days in June.

Sitting in my hotel, hiding from the dramas of this great big world,

Sitting in my hotel, looking at the world outside.

Sitting in my hotel, looking through the window at the people in the street,

Sitting in that prison cell.

Sitting in the midday sun. (2) (3)

Sitting on my sofa. (2) (3) (4)

Situations vacant

Skyscrapers reaching up to the clouds,

Sleazy town, gets me down, want some peace and quiet.

Sleazy, Sleazy Town

Sleeping rough and living day to day

Slow dancing in a disco,

Slow up and stop all my running 'round,

Slower, faster, crawl out through the door

Slowly disappear.

Slum kids never get a break, they've got to fight their way up.

Smile a smile and sing a song, another night has been and gone.

Smile and turn the other cheek

Smile away all your sadness, put your trust in me. (2)

Smiles at the children as he watches them play

Smiling with anticipation

Smith, you were my next door neighbour

So a second- hand car spiv was what I became.

So add it up, oh

So all I ever get is a definite maybe.

So all that I can offer are a lot of bad debts

So alone. (2) (3)

So aloof, so superior, (2)

So appreciate what you got

So at least we understand each other

So autobiographical

So automatic control is just spinning us round

So be a good friend

So be grateful and take all

So come on now (baby come on now) (2) (3)

So content because they got a harry rag (2)

So directly applied.

So do up your overcoat tight

So do we go our own way

So don't be so depressive

So don't double-cross me or my hoods will dissect you

So don't give up the day job, in case it all goes wrong.

So don't judge him harshly because he's just a slum kid.

So don't live in agony (2)

So don't pretend to be a new man

So don't put me down because I've done well,

So don't shoot me for saying mine (2) (3)

So don't think I'm tight if I don't buy a round

So don't throw it away

So don't you believe all you read in the headlines

So don't you cry.

So end this war and live our lives

So far Papa, I got nothin' to say (2)

So far Papa, I got nothin' to say, OK

So for Papa, I got nothin' to say

So forgive my lack of confidence and total low esteem

So get out of your easy chairs, we've got a lot to do out there

So have a good day today because it could be your last,

So he bought a motorbike instead.

So he don t care

So he gave up his diet and sat in a tree,

So he learned how to fly.

So he left the job where he'd been all his life

So he made me, baby

So head off in the car and follow the stars

So here's to what the future brings,

So I'll live out my life on the road.

So I'll make these sacrifices and I'll take it like a star

So I'm giving up all of my expensive tastes.

So I'm going to play it your way,

So I'm just sitting in the midday sun (2)

So I'm no better than the animals sitting in their cages

So I'm smiling through all the insanity

So I'm surviving through the insecurity

So I'm throwing away my stage suit and I'm packing away my guitar,

So I've got to be cruel to be kind.

So I booked my seat

So I can scare all the kids down the street

So I fell on my arse, now I'm feeling the pain

So I gotta get the first plane home

So I know what you're going through

So I packed my bags and flew across the sea all on my local paper.

So I put the shutter up forlornly

So I ran, yes I ran, yes I ran to a foreign land

So I saved all my money

So I sweep them in my sack.

So I turn off the living room light.

So I worked my way up to be a second-hand car spiv,

So if I can't have you to myself, (2)

So if you're young and if you're healthy (2)

So if you waiting for nothing,

So immaculately dressed when he walks

So it's hard to believe

So it better be a good one.

So join together save the Fatherland.

So keen to leave your old home town

So keep a straight bat at all times, let the Bible be your guide

So keep keep smilin' till then

So keep old Satan in your sights and play the straight and narrow line

So keep smilin' till then

So keep surviving

So let's all drink to the death of a clown

So let all the anger pass me by

So let it go right over my head (2)

So let the bells ring loud and clear (2) (3)

So let the sun shine bright

So let the tears pass you by

So little compassion, so icy cool.

So live every moment and hold me so tight

So lonely on this island ever since she set me free.

So long, so long (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

So look out, look out, look out, look out.

So look out, look out, look out.

So make the verses rhyme and all the pieces fit

So many holes in my life still to mend,

So much confusion headed my way.

So much despair, (2) (3)

So much to aim for, so much to try for

So much wealth and property

So people of the nation unite. (2)

So put a shine on your shoes (2)

So put a shine on your shoes,

So shake me with your artificial hand.

So she don't care (2)

So she don't care, she don't care, she don't care, she don't care

So she ran 'round the house with her curlers on

So she runs for the Greyhound

So sodomites beware.

So step aside, unless your dumb,

So take a drive with me (2) (3)

So take a drive with me, take a drive with me

So take a good look around

So take the pills and drink your tea

So take your umbrella just in case.

So that Hollywood can make it into another "B" movie

so the only way I could SLY my way into the band

So the people are afraid.

So the system that fed you and bred you can throw you away,

So they're always popping out there

So they're keeping us advised

So they all went on strike and

So they all went to war and said

So they put on a heavy front and hope that no one else

So they put on all the heaviness

So they sent me down factory to be a workin' man

So they take it, shake it

So throw away those false eyelashes and,

So tired (2) (3) (4) (5)

So tired, tired of livin', tired of livin' this motorway livin'. (2) (3)

So to keep his little mama satisfied (2)

So today better be a good day,

So today has got to be a good day,

So today is gonna be a good day,

So together we'll all go insane on this looney balloon.

So vote for me brothers

So we'll put you on hold for a while

So we're all animals, too

So we're waiting for the flood

So we might as well just learn to live together

So we must dig inside, and crawl outside ourselves

so we started making music of our own

So we walk away (2)

So what are we still fighting for?

So when I took my baby home (2)

So why don't you come

So will you catch me now I'm falling (2) (3)

So will you come back to me Sweet Lady Genevieve. (2)

So wipe your nose and dry your eyes,

So won't someone help me to break up this crown

So won't you come in from the cold and the pouring rain

So workers of the nation unite,

So workers of the nation unite.

So you could start up again (2)

So you go your way, I go mine.

So you headed down south (2)

So you headed down south left another home town

So you kill just as you see fit.

So you make small talk to help pass the time

So you pace around, do the zombie crawl

So you shouldn't take it to heart.

So you take it up to a music man just to see what he will say

So you think that you've got ambition

So you thought it should end (2)

So, come on, give us a smile

Soap operas full of vanity

Sobbin' sobbin' sobbing

Social collapse, moral corruption.

Socialists preach of a promised land,

Society's built on concrete and money

Society is crumbling but the media's obsessed with boobs, bums,

Soft, white dreams with sugar coated outside

Sold me out, (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

Sold me out. (2) (3)

Soldiers die but the lies go on,

Solo, solo, (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

Solo, solo, solo, solo, solo. (2)

Some are survivors, some are debris

Some mother's son ain't coming home today

Some mother's son is lying dead

Some mother's son lies in a field (2) (3)

Some mothers memory remains

Some mothers son ain't got no grave

Some people call it junk, but he don't care,

Some people do it every day of their lives.

some people say it blows your mind

Some people say it makes you old

Some people say it sends you blind

Some people say it sends you deaf

Some people say that life is a game, well if this is so

Some punks wanna ride and they see my car

Some that you recognise, some that you've hardly even heard of, (2)

Some that you recognise, some that you've hardly even heard of.

Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain. (2) (3)

Somebody's gonna get back to you

Somebody cut this scene,

Somebody gotta get up and shout

Somebody gotta give us some clout

Somebody help this poor man.

Somebody loves you don't you know it

Somebody loves you, don't ya know it

Somebody said it's hit the bay

Somebody said you had a minor nervous breakdown.

Somebody stole my automobile

Somebody stole my car (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12)

Somebody tells me that you've been taken off the air.

Somebody you might meet

Somehow don't seem to matter very much anymore.

Somehow I'll get your message through

Somehow I'm gonna find ya, track you down.

Somehow I can't hide the pain,

Somehow she's gotta get through every day

Somehow the people fight back, even the future looks black.

Somehow they're gonna work it all out.

Somehow they've got to survive

Somehow we gotta stay close.

Somehow we lost communication (2) (3)

Somehow we lost communication,

Somehow you feel that the world's been passin' you by.

Somehow you never could quite fit in

Someone has killed some mother's son today

Someone help me, tell me truly. (2)

Someone is trying to be so brave

Someone to help me through

Something apocalyptic

Something better beginning (2) (3) (4)

Something I can pray to

Something inside snapped

Sometime I get suicidal

Sometimes I get used to it and I forget that it's around.

Sometimes I hate the road,

Sometimes I think I'm gonna better myself,

Sometimes I think I won't make it,

Sometimes I think that sun ain't never coming out,

Sometimes I wanna be a picture director,

Sometimes I wish I could just drift away (2) (3)

Sometimes I wished I'd stayed at home

Sometimes so loud, to the early morning

Sometimes that's how it seems.

Sometimes we were lucky if we even got paid

Somewhere in outer space it's far away and I like it that way

Somewhere someone is crying

Son your record's just got to Number One.

Soon I'll be just one of the commuters

Soon the sun is going to shine

Soon they all reckon she'll be pushing up the grass

Soon we'll be together all the time

Soon you'll be happy with a packet of fags

Sorry mister, we're all sold out.

Sorry mister, you're all wiped up,

Sounds to me like you come from London Town

Spend my time just drinking wine while looking at the view.

Spent last winter playing in the sand

Spiders' webs and black cats

Spinning out of control crashing into the stars.

Spoke to or acknowledged me.

Spread the news, scandalize

Spreading my arms to the open wide.

Stainless steel kitchen sink,

Stand before your maker, it will make or break you

Stand up, stand up (2) (3) (4)

Standing around with all the egotists

Standing at the bottom of the stairs.

Standing at the corner waiting watching time go by

Standing at the end of the horizon

Standing by the elevator

Standing by the empty mine

Standing in that line

Standing in the middle of nowhere,

Standing on an island

Standing underneath the light show,

Standing underneath the neon sign. (2)

Stands by the window, looks at the sky.

Staring up at me from the front row

Stark naked in the artificial light.

Starr takes some blood out of my arm

Stars would shine no more

Starstruck on me. (2) (3)

Start a new craze, permanent waves

Start to confess it.

Started off this morning as usual,

Started off with nothing, started off just you and me,

Started out a long time ago - phobia

Started playing blues in a coffee bar

State of confusion (whooooh).

State of confusion I'm in.

Stately homes for the Lords

Stay away from carbohydrates (2)

Stay cool, just carry on

Stayed away too long but now I've found,

Sticking out like a zit knickers all in a twist.

Still hitchin' rides and lookin' for a place to go

Still I'm optimistic, my trust has not been betrayed

Still I can smile at what I find

Still I can smile at what I see

Still I dream of the Black Hills that I ain't never seen.

Still I love the dusk, the dawn, between times

Still no offence, no more hard feelings left on silly sentiment

Still no points for my merrymen,

Still searching, still searching, just like a rolling stone

Still searching, still searching, still lookin', all alone

Still searching, still searching, still searching

Still searching, still workin', still lookin' (2)

Still we blindly trust in the divine

Still you looked for the evidence

Still, he went out with a bang and so he is not forgotten

Still, you shouldn't be broken hearted

Stole our dreams and told us tales

Stood in line but the counter was closed.

Stop it, stop it

Stop the music.

Stop this emotional rift, you need a psychological lift now

Stop while I've still got emotions

Stop your dreaming and your idle wishing

Stop! Hold on. Stay in control

Streets full of tenement blocks, rat infested filth and squalor.

Strikes again, fear of fire and being buried alive

Stripped of our clothes and all the things we own

Stuck in solitary

Stuck in the office from nine until five

Style, I mean (2)

Success walks hand in hand with failure

Such a change from that cold, bitter scam

Such creatures of little faith (2)

Sucking my thumb by the old oak tree.

Suddenly I feel alive

Suffocation, open spaces

Summer's gone, so alone.

Summer's gone. (2) (3) (4)

Summer birds aren't singing

Sunday afternoon can't last forever,

Sunday afternoon there's something special

Sunlight and the city is barely awake (2)

Sunny rain, shine my way (2)

Sunset over the high-rise,

Superman Superman I want to be like Superman (2)

Superman Superman I want to fly like Superman (2)

Superman Superman wish I could fly like Superman (2) (3) (4)

Superstar psycho, from a killer to a hero,

Sure as the nose on my face (2)

Sure beats selling cars second-hand.

Sure makes me think

Surely there must be a way (2)

Surely there must be a way to open all the doors,

Surprise, surprise

surviving surviving in a world that's making us confused

Suzy's separated, living with her ma

Suzy and Johnny were happy

Swallowed my pride,

Sweat blood to earn a buck.

Sweet and innocent holiday,

Swing your partner to the left, swing he back to the right.

Sylvilla looked into her mirror

Sylvilla looked into the wardrobe

Symbolize all what you did to me

Symbols of economic cruelty

Symbols of perversion and insanity

Symbols of social immorality

- T -

T.V. cameras moving in.

Tabloids daily titillate

Take a crash course diet do your daily exercises

Take a deep breath

Take a look and see if you like it, (2)

Take a look at your overseas neighbor

Take a look at your wigwam

Take a look into my eyes

Take a sip of misty water. (2)

Take another look, what you got - phobia

Take granny's stand-by potion

Take me (2) (3) (4)

Take me back to those Black Hills,

Take me in your arms.

Take me where real animals are playing

Take off your head phones

Take the cash, bag the prize

Take the culture right to the Third World

Take the money 'cause it's just another tourist

Take the money, make the music pay

Take what you want, why wait a lifetime?

Take you in my arms.

Taken in by the lights, (2)

Taken on a holiday when you were just three,

Taking out a larger loan

Taking the place of the big red sun as it slowly sets.

Talking the voodoo talk (2) (3)

Tax break said we're gonna shoot on location

Tax saving benefits that grow at maturity

Taxi light shines so bright

Tea and toasted, buttered currant buns

Tea in the morning, tea in the evening, tea at supper time,

Tea knows no segregation, no class nor pedigree

Tea time still ain't the same without my Donna

Tea time won't be the same without my Donna

Tea when the weather's fine,

Teacher, teach me about nuclear physics

Teacher, teach me how to read and write,

Tears of joy to hide the sorrow,

Television. Well I'll be in the public bar, minding my own business.

Tell it to the people all across the land,

Tell me now if you want me to stay.

Tell me now, what are we supposed to do? (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

Tell me what to dream (2)

Tell me who can I turn to, just who can I believe?

Tell me who I have to kill.

Tell me, brother what's the plan?

Tell the National Guard

Tell the preacher at the missionary

Tell the talk show on the TV

Tell the winos in the old man bar

Tell the world that we finally did it,

Tell the world we finally did it.

Tell your story, it's your call

Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty.

Ten bedrooms and a swimming pool,

Tension choking up blocking my circulation.

Terrorist bombers on the left,

Terry meets Julie, Waterloo Station

Than (what)/(what those scientists now and) is revealed on/in the x-ray (2) (3)

Than a rich man scared of losing all he's got.

Than all of this waste and killing time

Than all of those violent bitter men.

Than just sit here in the sand (Drawing pictures in the sand)

Than the wayward lass that her sister had been

Than to be a slave of a lathe,

Than what we realize

Thank God I can go back to normal again.

Thank heaven for this holiday, (2)

Thank heaven for this holiday, holiday,

Thank the day when that primitive man

Thank you for the days, (2) (3)

Thank you goodnight.

Thank you sir for the millions of words

Thanks to all the mathematicians

That's all she wrote (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

That's enough (2) (3)

That's how they did it when I was just a kid,

That's how you get the maximum use.

That's if I only could.

That's if you've got the dough

That's life in the big city

That's life in the metropolis

That's no excuse to just give in to a sad and lonely heart.

That's part of a city that is generally referred to as London

That's quite a cut on the side of your head.

That's the explanation of the U.K. Jive.

That's the folks, yeah, the folks back home

That's the risk that they take, so don't hesitate, then so unexpectedly

That's the road

That's the way that a true love grows. (2)

That's the word of the year

That's the zombie in you manifesting itself

That's until you scratch the animal inside

That's what I'll do,

That's what the poet said

That's what the wise men say (2)

That's what you came for, that's what you pay for.

That's what you came for, that's what your paying for.

That's what you want, that's what they need,

That's where the big bands used to come and play.

That's where we used to meet each day

That's why I'm asking you.

That's why I get scared of emotional ties

That's why I remain yours truly, confused N10 (2) (3)

That's why I remain yours truly, confused N10.

That's why you're looking out and I'm looking in

That all of my bills will be paid some day

That doesn't matter. I want you to act normally. I want you to treat me as if I were Norman. I am going to sacrifice my normal flamboyant life style and become ordinary, boring little Norman for a few days.

That doesn't really care

That good fortune would smile my way

That got us into this situation.

That have gotta be analyzed

That house is so big that it reaches right up to the clouds

That I've been there before.

That I've finally made the grade

That I am someone,

That I have all the answers to the questions that you ask

That I have never seen.

That I know I'll never use.

That I think that I'm finally breakin

That I used to walk with you

That it requires a killer's touch.

That keeps stoppin' me, touchin' ya, watchin' ya, lovin' ya

That life in the metropolis

That love can do funny things

That made you lose your mind,

That makes it seem that he's from outer space

That money buys everything

That must make you feel relieved

That never grows old or gets long in the tooth

That no one's ever seen.

That Rosemary Rose,

That running a multi-million corporation

That s the only way it's going to be,

That she'll never show

That she knew no sin and did no wrong,

That she lost all the friends that she had,

That the dives and the dens

That the other just couldn't survive.

That the world's just passing us by

That the world was wrong

That they've frightened all their friends away.

That they wanna keep trapped inside

That throne of kings, that sceptred isle set in a silver sea

That turns into a river estuary that eventually opens to the sea

That two girls are too many, three's a crowd and four you're dead.

That was the end of my holiday,

That was the start of it (2)

That was the start of my holiday romance. (2)

That we'd be looking through a dustbin for a dog-end to drag,

That we're slowly driftin' apart.

That we called our home (2)

That we know they'll never keep. (2)

That wine and women have affected my brain.

That you're sitting here with me tonight

That you've gone out of town

That you've handed me down and you've told me to learn

That you can keep the smile on my face. (2)

That you can lift the tears from my eyes.

That you can while you're there.

That you don't need a high I.Q.

that you need no one to guide you

That you shouldn't be sad

That you want me to be.

The '80s are here, I know cuz I'm staring right at them

The affected and deranged,

The air is running out, the computer's gone down.

The alarm goes off and then the house starts to rock.

The answer comes with repetition,

The answers out there somewhere on the dial.

The apple of your father's eye,

The aristocrats and bureaucrats

The art school babe quotes William Blake and she rolls a joint

The atmosphere is stifled with aggression

The attendance was sparse so they put on a fight

The band had started to play

The barrier we cross

The battles, the fights, the bruises and bites,

The bed and breakfasts and the greasy spoons

The best in town,

The bigger the ego, the bigger the fall

The bills are rising sky high,

The boppers and the jivers,

The borough surveyor's used compulsory purchase to acquire my domaine,

The Brill Cream boys with D.A.s,

The bruises show,

The burglars have ransacked all the houses in the street

The C.I.D. were hot on his trail,

The casualties who did too many lines

The cheers of the winners

The cherished things are perishing

The church, the clock, the steeple. (2)

The city's in debt, up past its ears

The city's like a sauna bath, stinks like a drain.

The city can't cope and the cops don't care

The city ladies were bawdy and bold.

The city lights start shining at the end of the day,

The city slickers built the great illusion

The city streets are full of hate,

The coffee tastes weak and the cakes taste stale

The competition is getting tighter and tighter

The cost is high, but it's not the only price you ultimately pay

The dagger's in, now twist the knife

The Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan

The day he came out of the wardrobe

The day he played at the Albert Hall.

The day it came was a sacred day (2)

The day it came was a sacred day.

The day that I've seen everything I promise to return

The day that we are born

The day they knocked down the Pally (2)

The days go by and you wish you were a different guy,

The deeds are in my pocket,

The demon stretched its crinkled hand

The Devil takes the weak in spirit and so we must always be courageous

The difference between joy and pain

The dollar sign said expand

The eagle spread its mighty wings

The elves and gnomes were hunched in fear

The ending is closer so why hesitate,

The ending is near, (2)

The ending is near, and it's not far away.

The environmental pressures got me down,

The establishment is winning,

The fact of it is nobody gives any more.

The feelings we show

The first night I've missed for a couple of years,

The first time I fell out of love, it knocked me through the floor.

The first time that I saw you (2)

The first time that I saw you, you were modestly waiting for a bus

The first time we fall in love,

The first time we fall in love. (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

The floods of tears I've wept thinking of you,

The floosie made him spend his dole

The forecast says heavy weather,

The full moon's still up there,

The future is here and it's ours to dictate,

The future is here, and it won't go away.

The future waits for me and you,

The gas bills and the water rates, and payments on the car

The good times and the friends I used to know.

The gutter's full of other people's lives

The headlines cry out from the papers,

The headlines said that Diana is dead.