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I am a man
I am what I am I am a man I am a man I do what I can I am alive I'm alive! I'm alive! Cause What You See is what you get Yeah my friend, we haven't started yet One small step for a man One giant leap for mankind You've gotta let it go You've gotta let it be No, you cannot hide from the devil in me You've gotta let it go If you're gonna find Some kind of peace of mind I am a man I am what I am I am a man I am a strange I do what I can I am man I am a man Wouldn't be nothing without A-my woman I live and breathe I am what I am I am alive I'm alive! I'm alive! Cause What You See is what you get Yes my friend we haven't started yet One small step for a man One giant leap for mankind You've gotta let it go You've gotta let it be No you cannot hide from the devil in me Let it go You've gotta let it be You cannot hide from the devil in me If you're gonna find Some kind of peace of mind I am a man Ooh, I am what I am I am a man I am a man Oh, I do what I can I am alive I am a man Yep, I am what I am I am a man I am a man I do what I can I am alive I'm alive! I'm alive, alive, alive oh! Alive, alive oh! I am a man I am what I am I am a man |
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Sometimes alone I feel so strange
Like every little thing's just out of range Breathing in the cold night air It's four am, there's no one there The rain is falling on my head Running down my back as cold as lead Then I fall off the night bus going home I'm stumbling, staggering alone Just like a tomcat in the rain Under the moon we're all the same Dirty old river rolling by Black taxi rain falls driven When I was younger I didn't need no one Those days are long gone So tired of being alone, out there on my own Call me back, ask me to stay Yeah, I'm so tired of being used In the street, dazed and confused Let me in, yeah, and ask me to stay Sometimes alone I feel so strange Like every little thing's just out of range Breathing in the cold blue air It's four am there's no one there The time I have left on my hands Is slipping through my fingers like sand Like sand When I was younger, it seems so long ago It didn't need no one I don't know Why I sometimes get so low I don't know Why I sometimes get so low Let's stay together |
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Straight Banana
I ain't never ever seen such a straight banana One man's ceiling is another man's floor Someone help me find this door It's not where it was before I should know I'm not too sure If that's just the way it goes Permission to come aboard your boat I've got a rusty nine bob note If I ever fall from grace I know you will take my place Cause that's just the way it goes I'm sorry we can't stay too long ashore We've really gotta go Straight banana We'll sail together Through stormy weather We'll sail off together Now I'm recognising people I've never met Will I ever pay back this enormous debt No questions asked, no deeds returned Faded photos that wouldn't burn That's just the way it goes Lovely cherry red victoriana I've never seen such a straight banana Look me up oh look me down Take my hand I'll show you 'roung All the places that I know |
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People look through him like he just isn't there
Looking so busy but he's going nowhere Just like the pigeons in Trafalgar Square He disappears in the air Blowing along the streets of this lucky town Just like an old paper bag that never comes down Underneath the arches he dreams his dreams away Of laughter and love You can't see him at all Can't see him at all Can't see him at all The invisible man strikes again But I don't know his name Life can be so cruel To a lost and lonely old fool The invisible man The king of the road and the lord of the rain Master of everything that's gone down the drain Noble indifference, an abstracted air In the wind and the rain You can't see him at all Can't see him at all Can't see him at all The invisible man strikes again But I don't know his name Life can be so cruel To a lost and lonely old fool The invisible man He comes, he goes He smiles because he knows About you, about me What it is to be free He ducks, he dives He's had more than nine lives He's here, he's there Depending how the wind blows The invisible man strikes again But I don't know his name Life can be so cruel When you're a lost and lonely old fool The invisible man |
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I'll meet in the French House, we'll bump into my mum
She'll be wearing orange kaftan, his flys will be undone We're driking pink champagne, although it's going through the roof And we'll scatter words to and fro across the truth That we're all as sad as sadness, we're all as high as kites On our way to madness, on a Soho ladies night We'll sing songs of longing, I'll smoke a huge cigar I'll take you in my arms and sing Moving away from the French House like a drunken steam train Red light, blue light, orange light, green Down the middle of the street with an abstracted air Wearing perfume du carbon monoxide Past doors full of winos in the learing London lights On our way to Madame Jo Jo's on a Soho ladies night Now we've come this far there's no going back Take me in your arms and sing No one can stop my birds from singing, no one can stop my bells from ringing No one can keep the scenes from shifting, no one can stop my sand from drifting No one can stop my boat from rocking, no can make the scenes less shocking No one can keep the world from spinning, take me in your arms and sing No one can stop my birds from singing, no one can stop my bells from ringing No one can keep the scenes from shifting, no one can stop my sand from drifting No one can stop my boat from rocking, no can make the scenes less shocking No one can keep the world from spinning, no one can stop this girl from singing |
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Here's the simple story of a boy
Who didn't know how to enjoy his life Too busy running down the street Running just following his feet As a younger bristling boy Bursting through the world Night time obsessions Like all the boys and girls Twisting turn of left and right Body soul and mind Searching through dry autumn leaves For things he cannot find Oh girl, you've got me in a whirl Oh girl, girl, you've got me in a whirl Who started hanging round with plastic faces Who started hanging round in unromantic places Who pretty soon thought he'd really lost his mind And when it's gone it's pretty hard to find Oh girl, you've got me in a whirl Oh girl, girl, you've got me in a whirl Falling right out of the sky Never thought you could get so high Nothing is as it seems, to the girl, to the girl with the dream To the girl with the dream Oh girl, you've got me in a whirl Oh girl, girl, you've got me in a whirl Oh girl, oh girl, you've got me in a whirl |
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There's people in here with faces like fish
People what never leave Some of them are funny, they'll spend all your money My friend there'll be no reprieve A night so cold and black, never coming back Fell in the river, fell in the river Well in a ball of flame one eyed jack fell down Beside the space invaders Amongst that night in Chinatown Machette weilding raiders A night so cold and black, I'm never coming back Fell in the river, fell in the river Ladies and gentlemen, oh I'm so glad that you could come too The greatest show on earth, yes it's a vicious cabaret You've all got your part to play The greatest show on earth, yes it's a lovely sunny day You've all got your part to play The lights go down on this lucky town Yes, it's living for the city The stars come out in the their twinkling lights Hey this place almost looks pretty A night so cold and black, never coming back Fell in the river Ladies and gentlemen Oh, I'm so glad that you could come to The greatest show on earth, it's a vicious cabaret You've all got your part to play The greatest show on earth, it's a lovely sunny day You've all got your part to play |
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Pushing his pen across the page
To nowhere in particular He's dreaming of his holidays His stomach's perpendicular He tried to keep his keep fit interest But the summer's nearly here The only exercise he really gets is when he's lifting beer Our man is feeling rather wonderful Lying somewhere comfortable His feet up in the air...oh Our man is sipping drinks incredible Eating all that's edible He hasn't got a care His day's spent pushing money round But he's not got a lot of his own His wife lives on the other side of town And all his kids are fully grown Would the enormous coporation Lose much more than it's pride? If he was to take an early pension With a little on the side Our man is feeling rather wonderful Lying somewhere comfortable A-bathing on his yacht...oh Our man is drinking drinks exotica Dreaming of Uttoxeter I think not He's fanning himself with fivers And drinking blue lagoons He's watching erotic scuba divers While the band plays calypso tunes Our man is feeling rather wonderful Lying somewhere comfortable His feet up in the air...oh And he smiles because there's no Extradition there...oh Our man is feeling rather wonderful |
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To burst into the land of dreams
Push me down those blue moon beams Among you and not, it seems, on drifting sand I'd woken up but only half awake Where my aching bones won't say Always there but never stay, on drifting sand Wake me, shake me, tell me I'm alive Take it easy give me no surprise Among you adn not it seems on drifting sand I'll be a raggedy king with a rusty crown My queen Cleopatra when the sun goes down Always there but never stay on drifting sand We'll burst right through the land of dreams Scattering those cold, cold blue moonbeams Always there but never stay on drifting sands Shadows on the ceiling, rocks in my bed The moon on my shoulder, stars in my head Find me a hat, I'll talk through it, lend me your ear I'll talk to it Show me the door I'll walk through it, to the land of drifting sand Wake me, shake me, tell me I'm alive Rock me gently give me no surprise Among you and we're not it seems on drifting sand |
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Three neon pyramids above the door
The sign says closed it depends who for On the tables in the their brown suede shoes While the band plays the rhythm of a mutant blues Undergroud oasis blue lagoon Dancing the slowly slow beneath a 40 watt moon Can you do the slowly slow When your head won't start and your legs won't go Shuffling round on their brown suede feet While the band start blowing and turning up the heat Feeling alright, feeling alright Just another quiet Saturday night Well in comes the guy with the metal head Drinks are served and filled with dread Up come the lady with the big pink hair Buy him a drink and pull him up a chair If you don't fit in you fit in here Says the lady with the candyfloss hair The loudmouthed guy in the Turkish fez No one listens to a word he says Except the man with the metal head Who stands up slowly eyes full of hatred The end up rolling in the sand Into the plastic palm trees around the band The air is filled with flying chairs And the screams of the lady with the big pink hair The band plays on in a higher key To get above the noise of the revelry Feeling alright, feeling alright Just another quiet Saturday night If you don't fit in you fit in here If you don't fit in you fit in here If you don't fit in you fit in here |
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