Auntie Jean

Here is the story of another girl
Not one of the big ones in the world
You wouldn't know it if you saw it on a bright day
It was a pearl that you could've loved
It was a pearl that you could've cherished
But when the time came all you did was look away ... now

Chorus:
Have you met my Auntie Jean
Are you simple, or very clean
Do you still believe in the big machine
Is there no reprieve from the big machine

I didn't mean to make you upset
I didn't mean to ruin your day
Sometimes I really don't know why I say the things I say

So that's the story of another pearl
Not one of the big ones you see around the world
Do you know what I mean
Do you what I am saying?

(chorus)

Where is a story that I wanna hear
The one where I am the biggest hero
Why won't it, why can't it
Why didn't you make it all come true...now?

(chorus 2x)

Please Miss Lolita, don't make me burn my eyes
Please Miss Lolita, don't make me burn my eyes
I've been standing at the stage door
Waiting on my prize
So please Miss Lolita, don't make me burn my eyes

I've waited such a long time
I've waited such a long time, Please

Don't send me back to the cheap seats

Please Mistress Bacon, don't sell me to you son
Please Mistress Bacon, don't sell me to you son
He's been hanging 'round the cat flap
Waiting for someone
So please Mistress Bacon, don't sell me to you son

I wait such a long time
I wait such a long time, Please

Don't send me out for a bite to eat

Please

Please Mr. Policeman, don't tell me to move along
I've been waiting for years just to hear my song

I've waited such a long time
I've waited such a long time, Please

Don't send me back to the city streets

Crack in Smile

How much can you ever give away?
Everything
How much can you really say?
Just say something
Is it best to be alone or in a league of nations Do it yourself, keep it at home or listen to left luggage accusations How big can you make it? It's such a little thing I know you can't forsake it To you it's everything... Now
Something in your eyes
Is calling out loud to the sky and the clouds and the sea
Hanging by a thread
The hopes of a life spent crawling and scraping nowhere
Well, you better not smile
'Cause I think that your face, it will crack


How many times can you look away
from the very thing?
How many times do you think that you can say
the same old things?
You wish upon a star...well
you will wish on anything
Yes wishing on a tinsel covered star
hanging by a fraying string...Now
Something has to break
How can you believe when they've forced you to thieve from yourself
something in your smile
you know you're amazing but so self-effacing...Yes
Well, you better not smile
'cause I think that your face, it will crack

I'm not gonna argue with you anymore
because it makes me wild
I'm not going to argue with you anymore
becasue you're like a little child
You'll say just you wait
I'll get you back...Just you wait
You know that you can't get away with that
Just you wait
This is civilized
You can't get away with that
Just you wait
I'll get you back

Something in your smile
was calling out loud to the sky and the clouds and the sea
Something in your face
You know you're amazing, at least you're not crazy...Yes
Well, what's it to you if this is the truth

Swings and Roundabouts

Six o'clock, it's nearly dark kicking leaves up in the park my hands in pockets by the green wishing that my nails were clean I lean my back against a tree a black bird sits and stares at me reflected in his dark black eye the legacy of all my lies... now chorus: upstairs in the house tonight I'm coming down to see you I won't stay in, you won't come out what are we gonna do about it upstairs in the house tonight I'm coming down to see you I won't stay in you won't come out little bit swings and roundabouts now ten o'clock, I'm drinking beer I don't know why I come in here well it's could outside, yes that's true and I don't really have much else to do there's someone standing at my arm I think he means to do some harm 'cause he says he used to be a hero staring down into his beer... oh chorus: now first... number one can anybody really ever know someone two, three why is everybody talking about me four, five is it just for this that we strive six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven two figures together add up to eleven chorus: listen to me laughing, mary

She Don't Know

I bought you a car now you can drive way out of the city it's got overdrive I bought you a piano now you can play forget about your problems or the world today chorus: so I ask you for advice looks very nice but she don't know I can't sleep at night she's waiting by the light, yea she don't know know know I bought you a book now you can read... yes get the experience without have to bleed I bought you a plane now you can fly way way up in the clouds in a clear blue sky (repeat chorus)

T.V. Man

Wake up, switch on I eat my breakfast and the picture goes wrong give it a slap, give it a jog I better hurry or I'll miss the epilogue ride high without a saddle down the rapids on a boat without a paddle I am the scourge of the high seas just you watch'em running when they hear about me chorus: one two three... hail t.v. watching dirty harry made a man of me here I stand, t.v. man I've got all the angels eating out of my hand... I got the good, bad and ugly traits but even dirty harry was allowed to make mistakes... knock, knock, there's someone at the door I can't imagine, I can't imagine I can't imagine what they come around here for... could be the rent... or h.p. whatever it is they gonna bleed me I've got no money... nothing to borrow just you go away now, don't come back tomorrow chorus: it's so hot here under the sun just him and me and a couple of six guns I look at him he looks at me out comes the guns who will it be...

Can You Believe It

Here is a young man who lives around the corner
He has solutions to everything
And if you ask him he can tell you what your problem is
Of course you'll never understand him

Chorus:
Can you believe it?
Can you believe it?
Can you believe it?

Refrain 1:
Dancing in his bedroom
Waiting for the film crew
Takes pity on the world
They don't understand like he do

Refrain 2:
He's always telling stories
Trying to wax lyrical
He never likes to think of things as... physical

He saw a film about an intellectual visionary
A man who could inspire, A man who could change
He went to town to buy himself a dictionary
He held a meeting but nobody came

(chorus)

(refrain 1)

(refrain 2)

(refrain 1)

(refrain 2)

Can you believe it? (5x)

Rainy Day

Rainy day come my way I don't think I'll go out I think I'll stay like it or not you got what you got and when you look at yourself you can see that it's not a lot all the trees stand silent now reaching up to heaven with the dead man's bones they feel like stone and the blood is cold and when the wind blows you can hear them moan chorus: what a day to get away you can't see the shit on the city streets now come down look around all the ugly ducks are swans oh yes, I've seen all the things we've made I've seen sunlight and the shade I tell you now that I would trade it all for just one rainy day I saw the figure of an old man wagging his hand like a metronome he was bitten by the teeth of the wind so he wrapped up the wound and he went off home chorus: heard the sound of the ships at sea calling to each other for a sense of direction I thought they sounded a bit like me when I sing a certain way with a certain inflection (chorus)

Barrowlands

Walking through the barrowlands I heard and felt the wind was it the cold breath of history the soldier's last gasp, his last sin walking through the barrowlands a field of crows took flight or were they dark familiars ministers of night chorus: when it gets dark when it gets cold when the mist comes on down when you feel old when there's no more talk you will believe bones can walk walking through the barrowlands I heard the distant guns or was it the dreadful barrowbrook about his dismal fun walking through the barrowlands I turned towards the spire or was it once the highest height to which all men could aspire... yes chorus: when there's no more talk you will believe bones can walk

Lindy's Party

Cold Streets, grey town
Early morning, no one around

Let's steal milk from a closed door
We won't drink it
But that's not what we do it for
Walking around like a runaway kite
These are the days of eternal nights

Say you were laughing at something
When I saw you first time
Such a model, what an actress
I must confess
I never thought that you'd be who you are, do what you do now

Cold streets, grey town
It's bound to get or bring you down

Chorus:
Lindy's party...Lindy's party
We talk about Doharty
Lindy's party

Hey you...Where you been lately
Nothing-ing around in stately style
Well your crew have changed
But they still hang on every word
They worship just the same

They worship just the same
Now you tell me I don't live in the real world
Say I will never understand
Well your hair's still red
You still got the same hands
Who told you you were a country girl
Who told you you were a country girl
Well I know who it was

Say why do you look like you're in pain
Why have your hands become how strange

Cold streets, grey town
It's bound to get or bring you down

But I remember the way you used to use your eyes
I remember your eyes and your thighs and
The jet black tights you wore underneath your long blue shirt
You bought secondhand to keep you dry on rainy nights
So who told you you were a country girl
Who told you you were a country girl
Star-crossed lovers headed for disaster
You took a lifetime on the morning after

(chorus x2)

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