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| 3:26 | 
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There's only one way of life
And that's your own My father when I was younger Took me up on to the hill That looked down on the city smog Above the factory spill He said this is where I come When I want to be free Well he never was in his lifetime But these words stuck with me I ran from all of this And I climbed that highest hill And looked down on my life Beneath the factory spill I looked down onto my life As the family disgrace Then to all my friends on the starting line Their wages off to chase And all my friends and all their jobs And all the bloody waste CHORUS I grew up, learned to love and laugh Circled A's on the underpass But the noise we thought would never stop Died a death as the punks grew up And we choked on our dreams We wrestled with our fears Running through the heartless streets Chasing our ideas And the problems of the world Won't be solved by this guitar And they won't stop coming either By the life I've had so far And the bright lights of my home town Won't be getting any dimmer Though their calling has receded now Like some old distant singer And they don't seem so appealing To the eyes of this poor sinner CHORUS |
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| 2. |
| 4:05 |
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What a beautiful day (hey hey)
I'm the king of all time And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind It was on the fifth of November, when time it went back Some say that that's impossible, but you and I we never looked back And wasn't it incredible, so beautiful and above all Just to see the fuse get lit this time To light a real bonfire, for all time And what a beautiful day (hey hey) I'm the king of all time And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind I was drinking in my night club It felt good to be back When Hepburn said I love you And Flynn said, make mine a double jack Was then we planned the revolution To make things better for all time And when Guevara said that's crazy And ordered up a bottle of wine What a beautiful day (hey hey) What a beautiful day (it's a beuatiful day) I'm the king of all time And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind And what a beautiful day (hey hey) I'm the king of all time (it's a beautiful day) And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind In there on the big screen, every night I've seen The way all things could be For me, for me, for me, for me The news broke after midnight, That we pulled the temples down without a sound But the generals they were hiding out The ministers, Well! They'd all gone to ground Wealth re-distribution, became the new solution So I got a paper bag, but you got the one with all the holes And what a beautiful day (hey hey) What a beautiful day (it's a beautiful day) I'm the king of all time And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind (What a beautiful day) What a beautiful day I'm the king of all time (it's a beautiful day) And nothing is impossible In my all powerful mind Oh yea, nothing is impossibe In my all powerful mind That's because nothing is impossible In my own powerful mind |
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| 3. |
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| 4:06 |
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| 5. |
| 4:29 |
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There's a young boy in the queue
Not much else for him to do He's had a drink, he's had a few Down the pub on Hope Street Dear old lady you're looking thin Got a shopping bag with your life in Your old man's going through the bins So it goes on Hope Street Rain on me come pouring down Clean the dirt of this old town Tell the sun to come around And show his face on Hope Street There's a fight right down the street The betting shop has got him beat Blew his money for the week on a horse called Hope Street No old faces out today Someone took them all away Cleaning up or so they say The dirty face of Hope Street Everyday I look at you Dressed up in your ties of blue Saying there's not much you can do To help the kids on Hope Street They don't seem to even care That it was you that put them there You seem to think they like it there Hanging out on Hope Street |
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| 3:05 |
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Belaruse no longer feels the sun
But it's under the skin of everyone Belaruse forgotten by the blind That is until the next time Remember all your yesterdays In the deep blue Before the world came And rested there on you And if the sun and moon Were both to doubt Sure enough they'd both go out When you can't walk in your field Feel water in your hands You've been touched by the doubt of man Remember all your yesterdays In the deep blue Before the world came And rested there on you Remember all your yesterdays In the deep blue Before the world came And rested there on you |
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| 7. |
| 4:07 |
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Amid the Sound and Lights
On a table with friends Everybody's fine They're all drinking wine, yeah Was there you fell in love In a crowded room Not for the first But for the thousandth time, yeah So you Celebrate, you celebrate you celebrate your Love With a little house Just made for two With all the lovely things You can buy brand new You gonna settle down Just the both of you You gonna be a good soul From now on, yea And when the sap first rose Back in the day You thought you'd play it smart The trail of broken hearts, yeah You said they won't find you They won't find you They won't find you Just living in a box for two But now you Celebrate, you celebrate you celebrate your love With a little house Just made for two With all the lovely things You can buy brand new You gonna settle down Just the both of you So when you catch an eye And your dancing heart Starts telling you the lies You're doing it to survive What else could hurt So much it makes you cry Yes, you Celebrate, you celebrate you celebrate your love With a little house Just made for two With all the lovely things You can buy brand new You gonna settle down Just the both of you You gonna be a good soul From now on, yeah |
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| 8. |
| 5:35 |
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Here she comes - the great Leveller
King and serfs bow before her If you feel her eyes on you - run She'll come and put her arms around you You lie and say she hasn't found you You'll run to her she's there to greet you Are you lost to us forever Tied in lust strapped in leather Is the cost way beyond you Do you love her more than you love yourself CHORUS Is it just too real Is it just too real Too cold too clear for you to feel Is it just too real Is it just too real Too cold too clear for you to feel Am I far in the distance Am I the cure or a symptom Should I go when you tell me to Can you tell I've never loved her Because my life is for another Who's up and down But will take me there I don't claim to understand her But hand in hand I am with her Bright and clear and with a future You can come and join us if you dare CHORUS Is it just too real Is it just too real Too cold too clear for you to feel Is it just too real Is it just too real Too cold too clear for you to feel I look - Then you don't see I talk - Then you don't hear I walk then you will crawl low You've got to let her go I sing - But you can't speak I laugh - But you can't smile l love - But you lie low Got to let her go ..... |
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| 3:18 |
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| 10. |
| 4:03 |
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I never thought I'd see the day
When you became what you've become It's easy now just to look away And leave your conscience on the run Spend so much time not looking for answers Someone else's to blame As long as you don't take the drop To you it's all the same Blood, sweat and tears Really don't matter Just the things that you do In this garden Some time I like to get away Chase a thought and fly The people here will never change They're too scared to look outside Community spirit neighbourhood watch Curtains twitching all the time Got to have a look at what next door's got Cos your credit's on the line The other day I saw a fox He was running for his life His eyes were wide but his mind was shut To the redcoat's bugle calls But when he got home his path was blocked By some 'sportman's' clever guise And if this how far your culture's got Then I deny it The crackdown starts The law descends and the nightmare starts again Though they tighten the security net There's always one who gets away ... |
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| 11. |
| 4:42 |
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When you're standing by the roadside
And it's a long way to go Ah, to carry me to carry me, carry me, carry me, friend Oh, to carry me Together in this mad land far from truest of hands well I'll carry you if you'll carry me, carry me, carry me, friend Oh, carry me And we'll petrol Bomb the state we'll blow away the hate But we'll do it in our minds If we can take the time we'll build ourselves a road from what we know each take our part and now's the time to start Oh yea take Oh it must be Oh it must be Oh it must be But Jane's taking Heroin and Paul is getting pissed Steve is getting stoned to fucked to fight Sarah's on the Acid and Sean has blown his mind someone's busy hiding to fucked to fight Yea, Some have found religion and some have run away and some they formed a party to find a way Yea, some joined the system some just look away and some just bite their backsides to find a way And there is a way ... Yes, there is a way ... Yes, there is a way ... When you're standing by the roadside and it's a long way to go Well I'll carry you if you'll carry me, carry me, carry me, friend well I'll carry you |
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| 12. |
| 3:20 |
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He thought he was as drunk as can be
New white skinny rebel was he Because he knew what mattered It's all in a clatter of the bands he's seen His words of wisdom would shock Whether he meant them or not He'd save the world All the boys and the girls But another single's all he'd be That's sad That's right Another night Of someone else's fantasy He thought he was cool with his tunes He practised the knack in his room And in the evening he'd DJ With the slider at eight plus Believing that at his feet we swoom Now he's always there in the queue While down on the dance floor it's you And when he starts playing He's up there playing You don't notice that they're not his tunes He thought he could measure the world Because he loved the flag when unfurled First he's a lawyer, excellent debator You should have heard the mud he hurled Now you've seen his face on TV Leading parliamentary When he makes decisions That meet your derision He reminds us all that we're free |
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| 3:55 |
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Julie was a lonely girl
She said she was born that way She always felt that way She left home at age sixteen Got a job that's what you're supposed to do That's what you've got to do She fell in love and settled down In a council place there on the edge of town She'd feel alone in a crowded room Cry when she heard a happy tune It would be nice to holiday Till they took her job away They just took her life away And doing nothing isn't fun When you've nothing from witch to run Nowhere left to run She'd visit the social every day Every time be turned away Every time be turned away A hundred stairs to her new room Over glass and blackened spoons Children grow old so soon Past the kids who gather there Pain masked by narcotic stares But no one really cares Her dreams were cut up and bled dry A million voices in her cry Julie waits, her world is her window And Julie hates, just what she doesn't know And Julie hates, she hates the world below But Julie loves, She loves too much to know |
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| 14. |
| 3:38 |
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Well this is murder
Yea, On the dog train When all the brakes have failed And I'm going down hill And if you see me wave Yea, I'm only saying bye bye There's not a single tear Here in my eyes La, La, La .......... And if you've heard this before Yea, I'm gonna say it again But life was easier when I didn't have a clue Because this is murder I'm getting dog tired Let's make the world brand new How about you La, La, La .......... (I love this, I love life)...... |
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| 3:32 |
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It's warm by the river, the weir keeps us cleen
The woodsmoke and cigarettes are all that we need Marking the dirt with twigs and simple words spoke Kicking the dust so we can just Dance the dance that plays with fire Play guitar and play inspired You said you would leave not ever Underneath the sky forever It's cool by the sea when the pavement is hot We take a walk down there to see what we've got An old man collecting fifty beautiful words Cleaning the beach so that he can teach us to CHORUS It's cool by the pane glass on the high street we played But there's always a penny in the music we made So far from home, with no means of return Burning the bridge, so we always CHORUS We're so far from home No need to return There's so much that we have though And so much we have learned |
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| 2:50 |
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Do you fancy a drink,
Just the one, To clear your head, We won't be long. It's a beautiful day, To waste away, There's plenty of time, For another one. You know you shouldn't do it, But see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. Make mine a short, I'm getting there, But where that is, I couldn't care. There must be something I havn't tried, Perhaps that bottle before my eyes. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. Through the haze, The sun goes down, It's getting late, Let's hit the town. Call some friends, To paint it red, And feed the animal, In your head. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. They throw you out, You hit the night, You go to a club, You feel alright. You get a pill, You take just half, Then take the rest of it, For a laugh. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. Across the floor, You think you see, The one in your dreams, Your fantasy. But that last drink, Has made you blind, You need the bar, But it's hard to find. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. There's a brand new game, You want to try, You line them up, And it's the first to die. You think you've won, But it's time to leave, And back to your's, For a cup of tea. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. When you find your keys, And you all fall in, You spend an hour, In search of skins. When all seems lost, And it's looking grim, You find the bottle, Of Christmas gin. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. The rest is blank, And that's the worst, An empty head, For an empty purse. You had a laugh, So you think, But in the morning, You just stink. You know you shouldn't do it, But you see no reason why, So you blow your mind, Yeah, yeah, Uh-ha. So you fancy a drink, Just the one, To clear your head, We won't be long. |
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