John Martyn - Mad Dog Days [compilation] (2004) by John Martyn (보컬) on maniadb.com

Well the man upstairs always lends an ear
To the man downstairs, even though he doesn't care
The man up the spiral staircase would love to sympathise
With the man downstairs and the same old phrase

Big Muff, can't you see I've had enough?
God knows you're trying to kill me
Big Muff, get away with your powder puff
Lord knows you're killing me

It's like an allergy with no apology
It saps my energy and denies my integrity
Big Muff, get away with your powder puff
Lord knows you're killing me

Good Lord knows you're stifling me
Good Lord knows you're trying to kill me

Well the man upstairs has learned it from the wife
But the man downstairs has got trouble in his life
The man upstairs don't notice what is wrong
Every time he sees his neighbour singing that same old song

Big Muff, get away with your powder puff
Lord knows you're trying to kill me
Big Muff, get away with your terrible stuff
God knows you're killing me

This thing is dangerous
I tell you it's serious
No need to be envious
It's bigger than both of us

Big Muff, can't you see I had enough
Lord knows you're trying to kill me

Well, the man downstairs has moved away for good
Like the man upstairs always knew he would
The man downstairs has moved and gone away
And a girl upstairs every night can hear him say

Big Muff, get away with your powder puff
Lord knows you're killing me
Big Muff, can't you see I had enough
God knows you're stifling me

It's like an allergy
With no apology
It saps my energy
Most contemporaneously.

Big Muff, can't you see that I've had enough
God knows you're stifling me
God knows you're stifling me
Oh Lord knows you're trying to kill me

Here a fine line, there a fine line
Oh what a time we had
Here a strange place, and there a strange face
Doesn't it make you sad
I will call up my friends and say
Come on over, make my night or my day
And talk about who's the finest folk in town.

There a day's grace, here a night's space
Oh what a lovely rhyme
Take it from me, there is no disgrace
In having yourself a time
I will call up my friends and say
Come on over and make my day
And talk about the love that I know is in us all.

Making the bread, going mad in the head
I know when I'm going too far
I want to get back, want to take up the slack
Get where the good times are
But I will call up all my friends and will say
I will say: Come on over make my night or my day
And we'll talk about who's the finest folk in town.

Here a fine line, there a fine wine
Oh what a time we had
Here a strange place, there a strange face
Didn't it make me sad
I will call up my friends and say
Now come on over and make my day
And tell me about the love that's in us all.
That's in us all

There's just no way to say how much I love you,
You never made me cry
And that's just fine.
Only got my fear,
To put above you;
You know we all get scared from time to time.

Love me with your head and heart;
Love me from the place it starts.
Love me from your head and heart;
Love me like a child.

There's just no way to play the things I'm feeling;
No way to tell you all the things you mean.
Everyday I only feel like stealing,
Away to where I know I can be clean.

Love me with your head and heart;
Love me from the place it starts.
Love me from your head and heart;
Love me when I'm wild.

Laying down the ways to say I need you,
Scared of looking tall and feeling small.
Running through the days I have beside you,
Scared of being wrong and that's it all.

Love me with your head and heart;
Love with your very self.
Love me with your head and heart;
Love me like a child.

There's just no way to say how much I love you,
You never made me cry
And that's just fine.
Only got my fate,
A bird above you;
You know we all get scared from time to time.

Love me with your head and heart;
Love me from the very start.
Love me with your head and heart;
Love me like a child.

Walking down the road
With no blade in your hand
Johnny you're too bad, that's what they say
Walking down the road
With a blade in your waist
Oh Johnny you're too bad, Johnny you're too bad
With your blade come flicking, You're licking, and sticking
Too bad
With your running, and shooting,looting and tooting
You're too bad.

Cos one of these days
You're going to make your woman cry
Ooh, Johnny too bad
One of these days
You're going to make your woman cry
Cos Johnny, you're so bad
Ooh, That's what they tell me about you
With you licking and sticking
Switchblade a picking
Too bad
With you're looting, your're shooting, looting, your tooting
You're too bad
That's what they say about you.

Walking down the road
You're going to hear a voice say
Come, Johnny, where you're going to run to
Come that sweet day
You be walking down the road
You'might hear a voice say
Come, Johnny, where you're going to run to
Come that sweet day
You might run to the rock for rescue
You'll find no rock, you'll find no rock there
Run to the rock for rescue
There will be no rock, be no rock at all.

Walking down the road
With a blade in your waist
Johnny you're too bad, Johnny you're too bad
Walking down the road
With a blade in your, with a blade your waist
You're too bad Johnny, too bad Johnny, too bad Johnny
With your blade a picking, switchblade licking
Too bad
With your licking and sticking, blade come picking
Too bad, that's what they say about you
With your blade come licking, licking, sticking
That's what they say about you
Licking, sticking, too bad.

Johnny go walking
Ooh, Johnny go talking
Johnny go walking
Johnny go talking
Johnny go walking now
Johnny go talking
Johnny go walking out
Johnny go walking
Johnny go walking out

Time after time, I held it,
Just to watch it die.
Line after line, I loved it,
Just to watch it cry.

Bless the weather that brought you to me,
Curse the storm that takes you away.
Bless the weather that brought you to me,
Curse the storm that takes you home.

Wave after wave, I watched it,
Just to watch it turn.
Day after day, I cooled it,
Just to watch it burn.

Bless the weather that brought you to me,
Curse the storm that takes you home.
Bless the weather that brought you to me,
Curse the storm that takes you away.

Pain after pain I stood in,
Just to see how it would feel.
Rain after rain I stood in,
Just to make it real.

Bless the weather that brought you to me,
Curse the day you go away.
Bless the weather that brought you to me,
Curse the storm that takes you away.

Time after time, I held it,
Just to watch it die.
Line after line, I held it,
Just to watch it cry.

Bless the weather that brought you to me,
Curse the storm that takes you away.
Bless the weather that brought you to me,
Curse the storm that takes you away.

You sit in your room, pretending to cry
Oh you seem so unwilling to try
Say what you're selling is just a lie
And know that your price is far too high.

Every night and every day
I show you my picture, you just throw the frame away
With all that you think you've got little to say
I can't look at your face any more.

Oh the mad dog days
I say oh they're just mad dog days
In them mad dog days
I don't care if it's true
Between me and you
Can't see it through
Please, let me say goodbye.

I never get used to you
Oh no never, could never get used to you
I never get used to you
I never get used to you.

You don't see my dream, I don't see your romance
You make me feel like a dancer, but you don't care to dance
You see me hit the bottle, you hit the sack
I go ratbag racing on the flat of my back.

In these mad dog days
I call them mad dog days
I know them mad dog days
I don't care if it's true
Between me and you
Can't see it through
Oh please, let me say goodbye.

I never get used to you
Oh I never get used to you
Ooh, I never get used to you
I never, never, never, never get used to you.

Cos you, you keep sitting in your lonely little room
You never, never, never come out at all
You, you keep sitting in your little darkened room
You're unwilling to try
Pretending to cry
You're telling a lie
Oh please, just say goodbye.

I never get used to you
I don't want to get used to you
I never get used to you
I never, never, no, could never get used to you.

Ah lord I never get used to you
With your crying
I never get used to you
Stop crying, and lying
Oh I never get used to you
You know, could never get used to you

If I ever took another woman
I was in my need for you
If I ever took another woman
I was bleeding for you
Every day is another day to fly
And every day is another way to cry.

I get so low in this life I'm leading
I can't tell right from wrong
I get so deep in this book I'm reading
I don't know the facts from a song
But every day is another day to cry
And every day is another way to fly.

If I ever took another woman
I was screaming for you
If I ever took another woman
I was dreaming of you
And I won't beg, but I will have to try
To stop you if you tried to say goodbye.

If I ever took another woman
I was trying for you
If I ever took another woman
I was crying for you
Cause every day is another day to cry
And every day is another way to fly.

No little boy left, no little boy left
No little boy...

If you kissed the sun right out of the sky for me
And if you told me all the lies that I deserve
And if you laid all night in the rain for me

Well, I couldn't love you more
Just couldn't love you more
I couldn't love you more

And if you loved me till my eyes gave no more shine for you
If you walked beside me all the long way home
If you wasted all of your time on me

Well, I couldn't love you more
Just couldn't love you more
I couldn't love you more
Just couldn't love you more

And if you gave me all the things I'd never ask of you
And if you showed me all the ways you have to cry
And if you lay all night in the rain for me

I couldn't love you more
Just couldn't love you more
Just couldn't love you more

Just let me love you tonight
Forget about tomorrow
Oh darling, won't you hold me tight?
And never let me go.

And dry those eyes
No tears, no sorrow
Cling to me with all your might
And never let me go.

A million times, or more
We said we'd never part
But lately, I find
I'm a stranger in your heart.

Ah, give me the right
In summer or in spring time
To tell the world that you were mine
And never let me go.

Just let me love you tonight
Forget about tomorrow
Oh darling, please hold me tight
And never let me go.

And never let me go
And never let me go

One day without you
And I feel just like I'm somebody else
One day without you
And there's a fear there might be somebody else.

You know that I'd like to keep you
Keep you to myself, and by my side
You know I'd like to keep you
Just like I know it's wrong to try
Just like my babies were born to cry
Every bird that sings is born to fly.

One day without you
And I feel just like some lost ship at sea
One day without you
And every friend I meet seems strange to me.

You know that I'd like to keep you
Keep you to myself, by my side
You know that I like to keep you
Just like I know it's wrong to try
Just like my babies were born to cry
Every bird that sings is born to fly.

One day without you
I feel a hole just where my heart should be
One day without you
And I feel just how sad my life could be.

You know I'd like to keep you
Keep you to myself, keep you by my side
You know I like to keep you
Just like I know it's wrong to try
Just like my babies were born to cry
Every bird that sings deserves to fly...

Love... love... love... it's love...
Love... it is love...

Love... love...
It can't be no...
There can't be no mistake
It must, it must be love...

Is it love, is this love, love...
Is that love, that's love, love, love...
It must be, it has got to be
Love...

I'd rather be the devil
Than I would be my woman's man
Yes, I'd rather be the devil
Than I would be my woman's man
'Cause nothing but the devil
Knows my baby
Nothing but the devil
Knows my baby
Nothing but the devil
Knows my baby's mind

Well, I lay down last night
And I was trying to take my rest
Yes I lay down last night
I was trying to take my rest
But my mind starts a-rambling
Like the wild geese in the
My mind starts a-rambling
Like the wild geese in the
My mind starts a-rambling
Like the wild geese in the west

Yes the woman I love
Oh, she's evil all the time
Yeah, the woman I love
Oh, she's evil all the time
Studied so much evil
Just to have it on
So much evil
Just to have it on
So much evil
Just to have it on her mind

The woman that I love
Stole her from my best friend
The woman I love
I stole her from my best friend
But I know he'll get lucky
Steal her back
I know he'll get lucky
Try to steal her back
I know he'll get lucky
Steal her back again

There's a man in the station and a train in the rain
There's a face in the mirror that's showing the strain
There's a woman in the dark that's standing apart
There's a love in the man and it's breaking his heart
But it's alright, I'm catching the next train home
The next train home.

There's one more circle I'm dying to try
There's a piece of my head and it's asking me why
There's a piece of my heart that's dying to fly
There's a baby in a woman that's waiting to cry
But it's alright, I'm catching the next train home
The next train home.

There's got to be a way for a lazy face
To get off and start loving the human race
There's just got to be a way for a crazy face
Get out from under this paper chase
But it's alright, I'm catching the next train home
The next train home.

There's a man in the station and a train in the rain
There's a face in the mirror that's showing the strain
There's a woman in the dark, that's standing apart
There's a love in the man that's breaking his heart
But it's alright, I'm catching the next train home
The next train home.

My baby girl
She's the sweetest in the whole wide world
She wears her hair way up in a curl
Just to show she's my very own baby girl.

She says: Daddy will you sing for me
Daddy try to swing for me
Daddy play your strings for me
She says: Daddy don't you cry for me
Daddy will you fly for me
Daddy will you try for me.

My little Miss Wisp
She makes my heart feel tight like a fist
A number one girl in most every way
When she pulls my strings, you've got to give her her say.

She says: Daddy will you sing for me
Daddy try to swing for me
Daddy play your strings for me
She says: Daddy don't you cry for me
Daddy will you fly for me
Daddy go and try for me.

My tiny dream
She makes me feel like a cat with her cream
She shines and bubbles like the clearest of streams
She makes me know it's not as bad as it sometimes seems.

She says: Daddy will you sing for me
Daddy try to swing for me
Daddy play your strings for me
She says: Daddy don't you cry for me
Daddy will you fly for me
Daddy go and try for me.

My baby girl
She's just my baby girl

If I can't be a happy man, I won't be no one at all
If I can't be just who I am, I won't let you come to call
I was all right before I walked through the door
I was all right outside, but inside I had to cry.

Low today and high tomorrow, I see that it's real
One man's meat's another man's sorrow, do you know how it feels
To be dead drunk on the floor
To get up and ask for more?
To be lying in the dark crying.

If I can't be a peaceful man, I will be who I can
If I can't get everything I want, I'll just get what I can
I was alright before I walked out the door
I was alright inside
But outside I had to look again, again, again...

A love
Love again
A love supreme, divine
Anyway that you want it to be
Love - Its love, its love
Love! Love! Love!
A love supreme, a love supreme
A love supreme, a love supreme

Make no mistake,
Make no mistake, its love
Make no mistake, its love
Make no mistake, its love...

Divine it's love, it's fine, its wine, its time, its love
Love! Love! Love...
Make no mistake, its love
Make no mistake, its love

Make no mistake, its love
It's love... It's love... love...

I'm going away to leave you
Going to leave you in disgrace
Nothing in my favour
Got the wind in my face
I'm going home
Hey, hey, hey, over the hill
Over the hill
Hey, hey, hey, over the hill

Can't get enough of sweet cocaine
Get enough of Mary Jane
Going back to where I come from
Going to roll 'em back home again
Over the hill
Hey, hey, hey, over the hill
Over the hill
Hey, hey, hey, over the hill

I've been worried about my babies
Been worried about my wife
There's just one place for a man to be
When he's worried about his life
I'm going home
Hey, hey, hey, over the hill
Over the hill
Hey, hey, hey, over the hill

Well, I'm going away to leave you
Going to leave you in disgrace
I got nothing in my favour
The rain in my face
I'm going home
Hey, hey, hey, over the hill
Over the hill
Hey, hey, hey, over the hill

Over the hill
Hey, hey, hey, over the hill
Over the hill
Hey, hey, hey, over the hill

Mister jelly roll baker,
Can I please be your slave?
When Gabriel blows his horn,
I'm going to rise from my grave.
Oh yeah, sweet jelly roll;
You bake the best jelly roll in town.
You're the only man that bakes jelly,
And you keep your temper down.

They say: Can I place an order for three weeks ahead?
I'd rather have your jelly than my home-baked bread.
'Cause I'm just crazy about you jelly,
I'm so wild about your jelly roll.
You're the only man that bakes jelly
And you keep it in your soul.

You can take all my women,
You kan sure keep them all:
I got a brand new secret,
That you can't catch on to at all:
I'm a jelly roll baker,
I bake the best jelly roll in town.
I'm the only man that bakes jelly
And I keep my temper down.

I'm the only man that bakes jelly and I keep my temper down;
I'm the only man that bakes jelly and I keep my temper down..

[Live versions have this second verse]

I was locked up for murder in the first degree;
Judge's wife sent down and said: 'Let that boy go free,
He's my jelly roll baker,
Bakes the best jelly roll in town.
He's the only man that bakes jelly
That keeps his temper down.'

Well I cannot be your lover
And I will not be your friend
Well, I know you say you need me
But I have no time to spend
We could talk like this for hours
I just end up getting bored
'Cause no one needs a dealer
Just the day before a score

Let me in, let me in
Let me in, sweet darling, let me in, let me in
Let me in, let me in
Let me in, sweet darling, let me in, let me in

Do you think that you could leave me?
'Could you leave and go away just for a little while?
Do you think that I could leave you?
Could I leave and go away just for a change of style?

Well they tell me that they dig my shit
So I sell it to them cheap
But they bring the scales and check the deal
Are you scared that I might cheat?
Well, you're just a spit and polish
On a fat man's shiny shoe
And I think I hate them for it
And I think they hate me too

Let me in, let me in
Let me in, sweet darling, let me in, let me in
Let me in, let me in
Let me in, sweet darling, let me in, let me in

Well, you spend your whole life moanin' down
A telephone for bread
You can't get to sleep for tryin'
To remember what you said
You come around most any time
And sell me what you can
What you see is what you get
Catch me if you can

Let me in, let me in
Let me in, sweet darling, let me in, let me in
Let me in, let me in
Let me in, sweet darling, let me in, let me in

Do you think that you could leave me?
'Could you leave and go away just for a little while?
Do you think that I could leave you?
Would I leave and go away just for a change of style?

Well, I cannot be your lover
And I will not be your friend
Well, I know you say you need me
But I have no time to spend
We could talk like this for hours
I just end up getting bored
No one needs a dealer
Just the day before a score

Let me in,
Let me in, let me in
Let me in, let me in
Let me in, let me in
Let me in, let me in

One day our laughter comes flowing with the rain
And on the very next day, our sorrow sees us crying again
But darling: you can discover the lover in me
I can discover the lover in thee
Together we can roll and tumble until the cow come home.

Sometimes our story's just too beautiful to tell
Like the bells on a Sunday, blues on a Monday, go together well
But darling: you can discover the lover in me
I can discover the lover in thee
Together we can rock and roll until the cow come home.

Sometimes, some kind of sadness shows upon your face
Sometimes, some kind of madness tries to take my place
But darling: you can discover the lover in me
And I can discover the lover in thee
Together we can rock and roll until the cow come home.

One day our laughter comes flowing with the rain
And on the very next day our laughter sees us crying again
But darling: you can discover the lover in me
And I can discover the lover in thee
I can discover the lover in thee
You can discover the lover in me
Together we can rock and roll until the cow come home

This tune was composed by Spencer the Rover
As valiant a man as ever left home
And he had been much reduced
Which caused great confusion
And that was the reason he started to roam.

In Yorkshire near Rotherham, he had been on the ramble
Weary of travelling, he sat down to rest
By the foot of yon' mountain
Lays a clear flowing fountain
With bread and cold water he himself did refresh.

With the night fast approaching, to the woods he resorted
With wood, vine and ivy his bed for to make
But he dreamt about sighing
Lamenting and crying
Go home to your family and rambling forsake.

Twas the fifth day of November, I've reason to remember
When first he arrived home to his family and friends
And they did stand so astounded
Surprised and dumbfounded
To see such a stranger once more in their sight.

And his children come around him with their prittle prattling stories
With their prittle prattling stories to drive care away
And he's as happy as those
As have thousands of riches
Contented he'll remain and not ramble away.

This tune was composed by Spencer the Rover
As valiant a man as ever left home
And he had been much reduced
And caused great confusion
And that was the reason he started to roam