Mind the Gap
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| the album | the songs |
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| Stop that Monkey | Lyrics | Listen |
| Mystery of Life | Lyrics | |
| Japanese Flag | Lyrics | Listen |
| George Washington | Lyrics | |
| Kick out of You | ||
| Only Dance | Lyrics | |
| Only Life | Lyrics | |
| Does She? | Lyrics | |
| Bapbapdoowap | Lyrics | |
| Nowhere Song | Lyrics | |
| Don't Call Me | Lyrics |
1. I cried alone at night
Cried so many tears
I made my clothes shrink at least one size
And left alone I tried
To make you disappear
But I could only put you in disguise
Ooh - falling for you
Was such a disgrace
That I ever let you have my number
Take your pretty face
Far enough away to mend my blunder
I won't let you take me under
I'll get over you - over you
2. I used to see your face in every pretty thing
I saw inside a fashion magazine
But now I sit and wonder
How I very nearly had a
Narrower than narrow escape
Ooh - I'm just passing through
A smile on my face
I don't need to stretch to see tomorrow
Finding my space
Where I don't need to beg, to fee me
You're outside my head, believe me
Cos I'm over you - over you
How does it feel
When you look in my direction
A little unreal?
Now you're a total disconnection
1. I've been sitting here for so long
Taking all the pain
Tearing at my heart
How could a love that started so strong
Turn around
And break us apart
You won't believe me but I swear I tried
To stop the hurt that's building up inside
Now what you don't want to listen to
Is what I'm asking you, but
Ch: God only knows
How much I want you
Back again
But I can't walk the road
Where all the bridges are in flames
So it goes
Let me go - wave and softly
Set me free
(Set me free)
2. I don't want to make you lonely
Crying through the night
With nobody there
But you don't touch me any more
Than you touch the phone
Or your book or your cigarette
You won't believe me but I swear it's true
There wasn't anyone, nobody but you
But I've got to look into the mirror too
That's why I'm asking you, but Ch
You won't believe me but I swear I tried
To stop the hurt that's building up inside
Now what you don't want to listen to
Is what I'm asking you, but
Ch
Just another guy
Waking up to another bad trade off
Between the sheets and a better life
What kinda fool am I
Trying to guess what I'm so afraid of
When I've got me on my side
My true love story's turning into a fable
I think I might skip the end
Turn my head and that table
Ch 1:
Hey you, little boy blue
Were you trying to break my heart now?
[Yeah yeah yeah yeah]
Oh, you, wanna touch and go
For a little ride
Think you've got everything
Well I just can't see anything
That I'd ever ever ever wanna buy
Just another day
Just another day paid off
My investment's doing fine
Now I've stripped away
Everything I thought I was made of
I've got something inside
Don't need pretending when I sit at the table
I've got my happy ending
Just me and my fable
Oh - no doubt about it
Oh - I can live without it
Oh - don't need an answer
Cos there isn't any question in my mind
Ch 2:
Hey you, little boy blue
Here's a little head start now
Oh, look at them go for a little ride
Said you've got everything
But you're just some bad medicine
I'm not taking
Just to keep me alive
1. I look at strangers
Strangers look at me
And I look back and wonder
What's in them
But not in me
I'm in danger
You said that you knew me
So I opened up
But could you see inside of me?
Or hear my prayer
Or touch me there
Or clean the window to my heart?
I'm bleeding - somebody heal me
I'm screaming - somebody hear me out
Hear me out, hear me out
2. People smiling
I wonder if they'd smile
If someone took away their love
And all their love had died?
I was blinded
Staring at a smile
That tried to kill me
But leave me alive
Without a prayer
No one to touch me there
Or clean the window to my heart
I'm bleeding - somebody heal me
I'm screaming - somebody hear me out
Hear me out, hear me out
Break: People around me
No one takes my hand
My thoughts surround me
My only friends
The party's going on
But it's all inside my head
I'm bleeding - somebody heal me
I'm screaming - I'm screaming
Out, screaming out
Screaming
I'm screaming - someone believe me
I'm screaming - somebody lead me out
Lead me out, lead me out
1. Our love is broken, the lines are down
Words all spoken, the fire's out
My heart's stopped weeping, but your heart is crying so loud
Ch:
I don't know why you can't take it like a man
Although I tried, I can't get you to understand
It's killing you, but you'll see
There's more to life than me
Though you feel you can't go on
I don't know why
2. Keep my picture you held from the start
Keep hold of the memories now we're apart
Hold me forever and ever alone in the arms of your heart
Ch
Believe me, you're killing me
How long did you think I could last
Believe me, you're giving me
A future that's only a part of the past
[You're killing me!]
Ch
I found a situation
So last night I let my life go
Now my friends say maybe
I must be kinda crazy
Getting that close
But it's hopeless
So all I've got to say is
Take me apart
But don't tango on my heart
I walk around in a daydream
It's unreal
I can talk but I can't hear what I say
I just keep playing
The song they kept on playing
When I held you close
And I knew
Oh I knew you would
Take me apart
Maybe tango on my heart
Don't stop killing me now
Let me wrap myself
Around your finger now
When I shut my eyes
It gets me high
Of all the girls and all the lives
And you walked in to mine
And I'm flying, flying, flying
Take me apart
Don't tango on my heart
Don't bring me down
Just spin me round and round
and round and round and
Take me apart
Just tango on my heart
Take me to town
Let me go down for the third time while you
Tango on my
Tango on my
Tango on my heart
etc
1. Whiter than white
Coming down the mountain
She could smile the whitest smile
And gather people round
All I can do
Is turn a deeper shade of blue
But I would give my life
If you would bounce that
Smile to me and back to you
Ch.1
Don't ask me if I ski in Aspen
I'm an ordinary guy
I don't think I could take you there
This summer I'll be back in Akron
Under ordinary skies
And I'll be thinking of you there
2. Whiter than white
The colour of surrender
She won't wear tonight
As she folds in my arms
All I wanted to do
Was climb the highest mountain
That's all I was asking you
But if we can't go down that mountain
I won't stand in line again
Ch.1
In my mind I see reflections
An echo of another life
Was it love
Or just a trick of light
In your eyes?
Ch.2
Don't ask me if I ski in Aspen
It's another kind of world - I don't think I could take you there
This summer I'll be taking asprin
Or some other kinda girl - pretending I could really care
She left me shaking there in Aspen
God, I almost touched the sky - as I was coming up for air
I should have known she wasn't asking
For an ordinary guy - so I guess I won't see you there
1. The city shined that night on me and that special girl
You know, the kind you're always dreaming of
Tall and young, well a little younger than me and that's what this song is all
about
I said hey, waiter bring me my wine
But he brought some spirit I hadn't drunk since 69
All the same I said here's looking at you kid
But it tasted strange and made me scratch my head and think
Now how was I to know, how could I see
That it's not just a feeling coming over me
Ch 1:
Garcon, garcon - my drink tastes funny now there's something wrong
Garcon, garcon - where's this spirit coming from?
Garcon, garcon - monsieur it's that lady there
Where?!
Garcon - that's no lady that's my
2. I knew that turned down smile and those steely eyes
And that chewing sound as she said
If sadder that sad, really sad, was a place then you'd live there
And left me wondering if I'd ever have more sense
Than I've got hair on my head
And how sometimes things just fall into your lap
But me, it was my dinner instead
And I watched the young girl fly
As I cleaned up all the food on my fly
Ch 2:
Garcon, garcon - my shirt's all stained and my baby's all gone
Garcon, garcon - hey can you tell me what went wrong
Garcon, garcon - monsieur but you've got this song
Garcon, garcon - well since you put it that way...
1. You are fire, I am water
But I could never put you out
And you could turn me into mist
And would disappear no doubt
In stories of wonder
And the world you turn around
I could feel I'm drowning
If that's what it's all about
But you give me vision
So let me give you my sound
And let us turn our minds on
Looking at amazing you
Are you listing, I'm amazing too
And maybe I'm falling
I'm falling
I'm falling
Ch:
Deeper and deeper inside you
I'm not ever coming out
You're the fire in my life
You are the difference, no doubt
Between living and dying
Living and dying inside
2. You've got a room with pictures
That could take my breath away
I've got a room with candles
We can't blow out
Cos we're breathless just the same
And this song is your secret something
No one can sell or buy
Leave the golden dragons on display
You've got a wooden horse to ride
Cos you told me I've got you
But you don't know how
Don't know how I got through
But now the layers are all down
Now we're looking from the inside out
To where you say "you got me"
And I've got you
And I'm falling
I'm falling Ch
3. You are fire, I am water
But I will never put you out
And you won't turn me into mist
And I won't disappear, no doubt
1. I got to thinking
Just the other day
If Camden and the flat we shared
Looks different today
I still smile when I hear
That bed still squeaking in my ear
The beer stains on the wall
And all tomorrow's parties
You liked dancing - I liked to play
Reabok-a-rebop saxophone
Tramp and Jo Jo's Jazz Cafe
Meet new people at the disco
Love on the green
Two hearts beating on the step machine
And life rolled into one day - and
Ch 1: Everyone's your friend
All around the City
And Everything is beautiful
When you're young and pretty
The streets are paved with diamonds
And there's just so much to do
But the best thing about London Town
Is me and you
2. We crossed the river
(Now) you don't dance anymore
And I can't play while I'm away
We got loaded - you got bored
We got a house - it's so nice
To SW your money -
So why did you go?
But life's a gas - and if you ask
What are you doing Sunday (I say)
One and one - can be fun
(Look out - there's a monster coming)
And I can't touch my toes
I've forgotten how this song goes
And there's a saxaphone
At the bottom of the River Wandle
Ch 2: But everyone's my friend
Everyone's my buddy
They're riding in my car
They're trying to help me spend my money
And I could buy a diamond
Hold it up so I could see
That the best thing around London Town
Is me and me
3. I got to thinking
Just the other day
If I'd learnt to dance
Would it be different today?
Cos it's raining, it's pouring
God I hate this weather
Put me on the bus
To where the dance goes on forever
CH 3: And everyone's your friend
All around the City
Everything is beautiful
And we're still young and pretty
The streets are paved with diamonds
And there's just so much to do
And the best thing about London Town's
Still me and you
Sally took my last words into the night
Leaving my emotions stopped in the half-light
Stopped in the half-light, Sally's there shining bright
I should've known you never hold hands with a jewel
She'll take you for a fool
As she marches another boy, fast toy
All around the pool that I'm crying into
Thought we were strangers in love
Perfect strangers
Trying to arrange for a love
To invade us
All around the world
People say the word
Falling for the girl
And coming out and saying it first
I could feel the moment slip out of my hands
People tell me Sally's started living in London now
I can feel my fingers touch the dial
Trying to touch that smile
And bring it back somehow
People say she cut a dash standing in the hall
Walking to the door on the arm of an American boy with a new toy
And a big American car
She was a stranger to love
Perfect stranger
Just re-arranging for love
To evade her
All around the world
People say their love is true
But I just found a girl
Who couldn't say it too
Just another nearly-made-it filed away
All around the world
People say the word
Falling for the girl
And coming out and saying it first
All around the world
People tell me Sally's damn good now
And in another world
I made it come true
Hey listen up, stand to attention
The father's a bad mother of invention
Worse than detention, badder than Latin declension
Here to talk and walk you to the bridge
Across my g-g-generation
Makes yours look like a s-s sad relation
You want me to tune to a station that plays that jam
Take a brain scan, I'm the scam, I'm the Royal scam
You can't even spread jam
Cos I've got the bread, man, in fact I even own the bread van
So go ahead, talk about your new skank, handbag, punk, funk, Jamaican skunk
And that 2 beat groove
I could play the Stairway to Heaven solo when you were two!
Now I'm supposed to be fazed, dazed and outraged
With all the cussing and fussing
From that M&M chap
Well I can say shit, ass, dick and balls too
You f***ing twat
So don't take the piss and diss me
Show me some respect and miss me
Tell me you need to be young and black to rap?
Well, I'm nearly 50 and fat so screw that!
Ch: Hey all the young dudes
Living my life over
Boogaloo dudes
We're only rock and rollers
2. Hey, used to be I was a sex machine too
Before you turned me into the not-so-lean money machine that feeds you
Hay maker to the piss-takers, easy A-grading
Sex and tex-mexed, disaffected, injected, pre-selected and perfected
You gotta new record - I broke it
Gotta new pipe - I smoked it
Got wood - I solid-oaked it
So tell me when you can buy what you can afford like me
Don't need to drive a Ford like me
Walk, talk and pork the sword like me
Play off 24 like me
And don't try to appease my heebie jeebies
With the Micky D's freebies and MTV's
Wake up please and smell the coffee, read the tea leaves
Ch: Hey all the young dudes
I'm watching you
Living my life over
Boogaloo dudes
Me and you
We're all just rock and rollers
Break: Hey you all telling me this, telling me that
Telling me cramming a lot of words
Into a sentence is where it's at
Can't make up my mind if it's you talking
Or I'm at the race track
And what's that about lyrical gansters
People called Biggy and Tupac
What's that - 4 cans short of a 6 pack?
And something about female dogs getting smacked?
Well I don't need to call myself a nigger
To be bigger than Biggy or get jiggy jiggy
With an ass and shaky titties
Can Biggy take you to the bridge?
Can Biggy take you to the bridge?
3. I see you watching Ozzy on the MTV
I see you watching Ozzy on the MTV
You want money for nothing but chicks and nothing come free
And Ozzy doesn't bite bats no more and try to kill himself
And Alice's dead babies have grown up
Just like you - taking things off my shelf
And me, I don't smoke, I only mow grass
Row fast, blow my abs out
Wrestling with my jeans trying to get my ass out
Buying from the catalogues
Watching travelogues
Going to Prague and Tallin with my friends to check the candy floss
It's my birthday, it's my birthday
Don't want a hug or "love you daddy" on a mug
I wanna Harley
I wanna Harley
I wanna fit inside the pants I used to wear
When I went to parties
I'm the balls of the dog
But you can't admit it
If it's too hard to swallow
Spit it
You want me to fill - your bucket
You can't get a girl - get lucky
You think I'm a complete - muppet
You want more money - f**k it
Gordon Brown, what have you done
I thought I was living in England
Throughout the land
You built castles of sand
All falling down
Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown, here is the catch
Golden Rule: it has to be paid back
Hospital cuts
For the knives in our guts
You only frown
Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown, fine looking mess
Lost my job, now you lost my address
Pension is gone, like all the non-doms
Trousers are down, Gordon Brown
Gordon, my life's on tick
Your hospitals make me sick
Our houses are worth jack sh*t
Gordon, why don't you quit right now?
Gordon the cupboard's bare
Gordon the kids don't care
Life can be so unfair
Tell that to the boys out there
Gordon the path you tread
It's making you look half dead
But Gordon don't be upset
You did your best
You did your best, Gordon
Gordon Brown!
Come on England
Hands up high with a glint in your eye
And give it all for England
It can't be long now
We'll get on kicks like '66
Bend it - like Beckham
Strike it - like Owen
Win it all and live forever
One-nil, Two-nil, Three-nil, Four-nil, Five,
Keeping England's dream alive
Come on England
Come on England
It's your moment,
Give us everything
We are the best
So, forget all the rest
We're all singing,
Come on England
Listen, can you hear?
Score one more, you'll hear us roar
And give our all for England
Cross it - like Gerrard
Lob it - like Lampard
Win it all and live forever...
