The Hollies - Moving Finger (2004) by The Hollies (보컬) on maniadb.com

(Clarke / Hicks / Nash)
Give her a hand 'cos she gave a good show
Her makeup was right for the occasion
She did what she had to do, she said what she had to say
She played her part to perfection

She's so empty inside, lies to herself and the public
She's so empty inside, lies to herself and the public
acclaim's not the same
such a shame

The star of the show she was true to herself
and everything went as reported
Rumours about herself came along
That's when it all got distorted

chorus

What a good show she gave
Happy to go on the stage
Was she to know it would change
Can she go on feeling strange

chorus

(Hicks)
She goes away for a couple of days
So you phone a few number you fancy a change
You say you'll miss her but deep down inside
There are thoughts of another girl waiting somewhere for you

She's been away for a couple of days
The affairs weren't so good so you're mending your ways
You realise that there's nobody else who can do what she does for you
You tell yourself don't be a fool
Don't let her go chase as hard as you can
Or you'll be the loser
Swallow your pride you can still be a man
She'll never refuse you

She deserved to be loved, she wants to love you
If you went away you know she'd be true, yes you do.

Baby I was lonely, still love you only, but I was a bad boy
Know you couldn't see me, thought you'd never leave me, so I was bad boy
Even though I'm trying, there is no denying I am just a bad boy
Met a little baby, thought she was a lady, still I was a bad boy

She gives me everything a girl's supposed to do
She gives me everything still I can't be true
She gives me everything, she gives me everything

Going off to different places
All I see is different faces
I love them all but not like you

She deserves to be loved, she wants to love you
If you went away you know she'd be true, yes you do.

She deserves to be loved - Yes she does, you know she does
She deserves to be loved - Even if she goes away
She deserves to be loved - No one else can take her place
She deserves to be loved - You'll be the loser if you let her go
She deserves to be loved - She gives you everything a girl's supposed to do
She deserves to be loved - You love them all but she's the one for you
She deserves to be loved - Yes she does, you know she does
She deserves to be loved - Even if she goes away
She deserves to be loved - No one else can take her place

(Hicks)
Well there's them that do and them that don't
Them that will and them that won't
I've been trying to get you for a long time
For a long time

When our eyes meet at each different place
How I got to know your face
Think that I have loved you for a long time
For a long time

Lady please I'm not a man of many words you see
If you lie with me, you won't sleep
Lady please if in the future there's some other man
I will understand and I won't weep

As our bodies fill my lonely room
A room that once was filled with gloom
Know that I will love you for a long time
For a long time
For a long time

chorus

As the morning sun lights up our bed
You are there to stroke my head
Know I'm going to love you for a long time
For a long time

Lady please
Lady please
Lady please

(Hicks)
She looks from side to side
The tear drops fill her eyes
As once again she hears the sound of shouting
turns to the window pane
Funny there's rain again
Inside her head she hears the sound of shouting

They are fighting again
All she feels is cold and pain
She don't know whose side to take
Mother's or Father's
She can't know that soon they'll part
That they broke each other's heart
They are breaking up, but she don't understand it

She leaves the room in fright
Each time they start to fight
She runs up to her bed
But there's no sleeping
Clings to her teddy bear
But even teddy bear can't stop her weeping

Little girl dry your eyes
Your Ma and Pa one day will put you wise
Little girl don't you cry
You'll understand what happened by and by

verse 2

(Clarke / Sylvester)
Man in a room, can't you see what you did
Pick yourself off the floor, it don't suit you, don't be blind

One lonely with four walls closing in
It's a room without any door
You've been on your own since she told you to go
I'm telling you why and what for

You're a man without a heart
Just a lonely man without a heart

Man can't you see what you did to yourself
Thinking it was so big at the time
I could have told you but I wasn't there
You shout her the wrong kind of line

chorus

Pick yourself off the floor
It don't suit you to be in that frame of mind
Try to be more like a man with respect
Get on the right track, don't be blind

chorus

verse 2

chorus

verse 1

(Clarke / Sylvester)
Isn't it nice to be someone
Someone you've dreamed that you are
Isn't it such a nice feeling
The feeling you've wished upon a star

You have slipped down a rainbow
Discovered your own pot of gold
You are living your wildest dream
Use them you'll never grow old

Just like Cinderella
But your clock will never strike twelve
You have something to envy
That everyone wants for themselves

You have slipped down a rainbow
Discovered your own pot of gold
Chasing moonbeams and catching the wind
and living stories you've been told

verse 2

Isn't it nice to be somewhere
In places you've dreamed that you've seen
Isn't it such a nice feeling
being where you've never been

verse 1

(Hicks)
Just like a top the world goes spinning round
Nobody knows what's going on I've found
Even from Jerusalem to old Japan
Nobody seems to have a definite, definite plan

Must be a peaceful way for us to go
Even the simplest of man must know
The situation's getting worse and worse
One day the bubble's gonna burst

But don't be frightened lady
We will never let them take your boy to war
No don't be frightened lady
We will never ever go to war no more

Why don't they finish it all
We are only people and we're terribly small
Why don't they finish it all
Do they think that people don't mean nothing, nothing at all

chorus

Students are marching now in every land
They won't be shifted just like grains of sand
If we don't get together pretty soon
We'll do the same thing on the moon

(Clarke / Sylvester)
Perfect lady housewife
Her totally detached
sepulchre is painted white
its gentique suite unscratched
A veritable show case
It shines like a new pin
Everything is in its place
And there's a place for everything

A, B, C, D. That's the way it's gotta be
1, 2, 3, 4. Count them up and know the score

Foot upon the parquet
Makes her awfully vexed
Onset of vile anarchy
Oh Lord, whatever next
Messiness is no excuse
It's showing no respect
Random factor introduced
Just goes and spoils the whole effect

chorus

Efficient official
His patience overtaxed
Don't these people know that rules
Can never be relaxed
He could be humanised
You would never imagine
Everyone is categorised
And there's a place for everything

chorus

Oh woman get your head out of curlers,
time to get your butt out of bed!
Get down your hats and your baggage my child,
going back home - getting back to the homestead.

I'm-a gonna heat me some water,
put a shine upon my shoes.
Telephone my mac keep the room above Joe's,
'cause we're coming back, coming back to the homestead.
Ev'rything is packed gettin' back to the homestead.
This time, this time we'll stay - baby.

I know that we could have made it,
we had ideas in our heads.
And I wish somehow we could have saved it,
but we're Gasoline Alley bred.
Yet the years havn't really been wasted,
and I know it in my head.
We did good for the life that we tasted,
'cause we're Gasoline Alley -
Gasoline Alley bred!

Woman did you really believe it,
I did ev'rything a man could do.
Breakin' my back just to make us a dime.
That don't mean a thing when noone wants to know you.
Oh, woman I know how you're feeling,
I've seen the hurt upon your face.
How many times do you think that I've cried,
knowin' ev'ry day your heart was gettin' broken,
holdin' back your pride 'till you were nearly chocking;
oooh - let's get away - baby.

I know that we could have made it,
we had ideas in our heads.
And I wish somehow we could have saved it
but we're Gasoline Alley bred.
Yet the years havn't really been wasted
and I know it in my head.
we did good for the life that we tasted,
'cause we're Gasoline Alley -
Gasoline Alley bred!
(Gasoline alley...)

Gasoline Alley bred!
(Gasoline alley...)

Gasoline Alley bred!
(Gasoline alley...)

Gasoline Alley bred!

(Clarke)
Why, why ignore me
And keep me out all of the time
Do you think I don't love you
It's only in your mind

You don't give me your reason
You don't explain all your ways
It must be the change of the season
That's all I can say

Was it something that I said
That made you stop loving me
I only want for the best
Not to see you in my life
Makes me so unimportant
I can't live with myself

Gone, gone is tomorrow
I'm only living for today
I never thought you'd ever leave me
Now you have gone away.

(Clarke / Sylvester)
Do you find it hard to tell me
To tell that you really love me
'Cos I find it hard to tell you
To tell you that I really love you

And I know what's in your heart
In your mind, in your body, and your soul
But it's easy when we whisper
Not letting people know.

We wanna shout it out loud
But we can't let people know
We wanna shout it out loud
But our love is not for show

chorus

I've got something you've got nothing
a child, a home of my own
It's so hard for me to break it
I can't break it, I can't make it on my own

chorus x2

Stoned all the time on dandelion wine
What else can I do
I've been this way everyday
now that we're through

Do I love you
You can bet your life that I do-do-do
Do I love you
I would drink my wine from your sh-sh-shoe

Stoned all the time on dandelion wine
It's all down to on you


I've been this way everyday
thinking of you

chorus x2

Stoned all the time on dandelion wine
What else can I do
I've been this way everyday
now that we're through

repeat

Mad Professor Blyth is working on his pet invention
to dematerialise himself into the fourth dimension
He's got his mind set on illusion
to find the secrets of diffusion
Conclusion: he disappeared

Tried it on his cat one grey night when it was foggy
Never got it back Oh what happened to his Moggy
He's got his mind set on illusion
to find the secrets of diffusion
Conclusion: he's disappeared

All the kids around about his neighbourhood
used to laugh at him and call him names
Silly old bat freaky four-eyes


sort of things they used to shout
He can't hear them now

He's disappeared

Colleagues at the lab
they all thought that he was crazy
Don't know where he's at
His formulas to them are hazy

He had his mind set on illusion
He found the secrets of diffusion
Conclusion: he's disappeared