Ocean Colour Scene

When I'm waiting standing on the corner
And it's coming 40 past the hour
In the midnight lonely freezing hour
With my insides churning in the gutter
And I'm waiting 40 past midnight
Catching rain the soda light
Won't you come & call me to your window
Please don't leave me waiting on the corner
We could have the best time
If you lighten up your life
With my pockets holey in the inside
With my bus ride rolling in the gutter
But if you would only light your lamp light
Then I would be here than any other
Well I'm waiting 40 past midnight
Catching cold in the pouring rain
Won't you come & take me to your door
So I can take myself home again
When I'm waiting standing on the corner
And the soda light begins to flicker
And it's getting 40 past the hour
And I think I won't see what I figure
Well I'm waiting freezing on the inside
Staring up at your window pane
If you won't come see me this evening
I can see myself here again

You told so many lies
Your tongue is black with fireflies
But you spit them out and pretend you're sneezing
And every word is such a joke
With so many pasts you'd be ninety years old
Don't you wonder why the room keeps on leaving

Hey, hey - what's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would never need it
Hey, hey - what's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would ever believe it

It's just a thought and nothing more
That all your thoughts and moves are taught
And memorised each night before your sleeping
And every word is such a joke
Strung from neon masts flying flags you hope
Will win you friends and give your life some meaning

(Repeat chorus)

You told so many lies
Your tongue is stained with alibis
You've been around the world and found it pleasing
And every word is such a joke
With so many pasts you'd be a hundred years old
Don't you wonder why the room keeps on leaving

(Repeat chorus)

Your dream make up is cracked and wearing thin
your eyes are on your chin
it's getting hard for you
But to make up is only make-believe
and we don't need a scene like this

Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers
Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers

Your eyes closed and dreamed of places
that you and I would go
it's getting hard for me
To love you, like I used to
I don't believe "hello"
Do you?

Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers
Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers

No-one promised this when I was a kid
When my days were filled with carousels
Fairground rides and cockleshells
Kicking pebbles on a beach
When time couldn't reach me
And tears were just a memory left to be learned

Now days catch me without an overcoat
Five o'clock shoes full of snow
All rained out, nowhere to go

Memories are sure to find you
No matter how fast you run
Gonna catch up with you

Charlie Brown says
Oh this winter sure sure gets me down
When there ain't no friends around

I went down to Chelsea Walk
Where the sun doesn't shine at all
And I went looking for something for me
But I came back with nothing at all
Except an old man who could not see
But he said that he knew God
Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk

Now I've been down to Chelsea Walk
Where the sun just refuses to shine
And I ran back to my little room
And I jumped straight into a bottle of wine
You know I'll be alright for just a day
But tomorrow I must wake
Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk

Old man I must be on my way
Don't you worry I'm just scared for those who pray
In Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk

Chelsea Walk...

Cool cool water where I rest my head
You keep me running to a single bed
Yellow moon rising on the riverboat wild
You keep me running like a child

Yellow moon rising on the riverboat wild
You keep me running like a child

Bobby don't know
He's got a funny way of seeing situations
Call him on the phone
And ain't it funny but he never seems to come home

Bobby don't know
He's got a funny way of seeing situations
Call him on the phone
Ain't it strange that he never seems to go home

(Repeat first verse)

Got a good reason
for taking the easy way out
Got a good reason
for taking the easy way out now
She was a day tripper
One way driver, yeah
It took me so long to find out
and I found out

Tried to please her
She only played one night stand
Tried to please her
She only played one night stand, now
She was a day tripper
Sunday driver, yeah
It took me so long to find out
and I found out

Got a good reason
for taking the easy way out
Got a good reason
for taking the easy way out now
She was a day tripper
Sunday driver, yeah
It took me so long to find out
and I found out

The brilliance of my fleeting mind
Chimes like voices in foreign cars
It chimes in time - takes me where I'm going
Alone my fleeting mind is knowing
Believe it when I pin it down
And that's not hard to forget
With my hands upon my knees
You will steal from my fleeting mind
Remember all our words
They are just smoke rings in the rain:
That's just a poem in brilliant places
But poets, they are too grim
They steal like party thieves
From crowded rooms
To rhyme their homes with better places
The brilliance of their minds
Will seek with never knowing
Alone my fleeting mind is knowing
Believe it when I pin it down
And that's not hard to forget
With my thought like sifting leaves
I believe in my fleeting mind

Well I used to be a listener - there was nothing left to get
About what you are and what you haven't been yet
and some of them like to tell a story that is long and old
and couch it in indifference and the wine
that they were sold to get away
Well someone's got to tell them that its not deserved,
rehearsed or written down by playwrights over time
just picking up on a nerve.
And some of them got a difference that they reserve for you
Well I like them all but I don't trust any of them
well shouldn't you, just get away
Well I used to think my freedom was a lot of things I'd give,
demanding on my time but I had so much time to give,
and I used to think that everything was a knee in what you are.
But finding out the truth that hurts
so I never went that far
I always get away
Well it comes down to the fact that I'm now different from the past,
demanding all my ideals its just trying to make them last,
and some of the things that you say they're ringing home so true,
I hang my head out of the door and I follow you,
yes I follow you and get away

I feel a love that's so hard to bear
Won't you come kiss me and take this despair
Let the morning time dapple its light in your hair
Like warm running water in snow

But I fear a love of jealousy and pain
Lost in the race 'tween the foolish and vain
Come the morning time whistle and take you away
Where the sun always burns in the Winter

Oh... Here in my heart
Oh... Here in my heart

And I know that all I'm saying is wrong
Etched in the night-time and rhymed in a song
Come tomorrow I'll lighten up and drink to the ones
Who love without asking for loving

Don't forsake me, the morning time plays at the children's door
If you leave me then what would I tell them you're leaving for

(Repeat first verse)

Shirley was a lady whose teeth were made of gold
She danced before the music and everything it told

Huckleberry Grove
Where the music plays into tomorrow night
Huckleberry Grove
Only fools would need to argue or to fight

Shirley had eight children and each of them were told
You got joy for singing burning in your soul

Huckleberry Grove
Where the idiots can't ease you of your mind
Huckleberry Grove
Take a free train, leave your luggage far behind

Oh she sings shangri-la
Oh she sings shangri-la

Shirley was a lady who mostly stayed at home
But she went out dancing down Huckleberry Grove

Huckleberry Grove
Where the music plays into tomorrow night
Huckleberry Grove
You'll be groovin' on the best days of your life
Huckleberry Grove
Where the music's guaranteed to blow your mind
Huckleberry Grove
Leave your luggage, get a free train, get behind

Oh she sings shangri-la
Oh she sings shangri-la

I'm gonna take a walk by the lemonade lake
Let my feet get wet and the grass in my face
Rolling up in the summertime setting ablaze
Throwing stones and laughing on the way home
lah, lah, lah, lah...

I'm on a night-time hunting on the horn of a car
But the brakes seem stuck on a winter song
Scattered back, slip around and I'm mouthing a glass
Harbour lights remind you of another song

I never knew my daytime slipping away
Too many seeds to sow and I can't look at my face
I need a sound to make me jump around on my toes
I need a song, I need a love song

Im not one to judge that much
And anyway I just wanna get high on you
But thirteen year old girls in hotels on the other side of the world
Seems a little much for me

Yeah, I wanna stay alive with you...

But they look you in the eye
And anyway theyll always slip a smile at you
But thirteen year old girls in rat-holes on the other side of the world
Theyre gonna lie to you

Yeah, I wanna stay alive with you...

Free-runs in a town where the boys and girls are settling down for the night
To make up and make eyes at you

Yeah, I wanna stay alive with you

Who is that upon the stairs
acting like he don't know where
and who is laying down all the cards
and giving me the wrong things to say
and like a wheel on the table
He's a Cain to my Abel: Oh.....it's my shadow
A confessor to my dreams casting ribbons round my feet
Oh.....into my day
It's my shadow
Making eyes until the sun lights the daytime as she comes
Oh..... into my day
Happy in the time when I would have been there to see you
Happy in the time when I would have been there at all
Happy when the night is gone and I believe you
Happy when the night is gone and I need a call
Who is chasing in the wind all the letters never sent
and who is dusting down the stars and giving me the wrong moves to make.
And like a wheel on the table, he's a Cain to my Abel
dancing upon the floor, its my shadow
making eyes until the sun blinds the daytime as she comes
Oh.....into my day
Its my shadow
Like a willow to my stream casting heaven round my feet
Oh.....into my day.
When you find that things are getting wild is that
the hardest smile that you can ever feel.
Paralysed until the sun lights the daytime as she comes.
And if my shadow comes a creeping
Then I'll always find me sleeping in the sun.

You keep your pretty girls
Chained inside the dungeon
And diamonds and pearls
You keep them a'coming
Give them all of your affection
You keep your naughty boys
Locked inside the kitchen
And when they make a noise
A swish of your hand keeps them
Screaming out for your affection
I don't know the why's or wherefores
I don't what's wrong or right
I just know at night
You give them all of your affection
You keep your servants down
Swinging from the gallows
And when they come round
Oh you smile and you say hello
Give them all of your affection
You give them all of your affection
You give them all of your affection

Well hello my old friend
You know I've been away
I'm not asking for much
But please remember my name
You've been lining your pockets
For no other reason
Than to buy up the things
That I gave without reasonable pay
Well I wondered through fortune
And I flirted with fame
But we never got the money
We always gave it away
Old benchmark on the park
He got lost on the world
But he doesn't seem
To know about any of it at all
He said - all the things that I wanted
You know I had to pay and pay
And so I say

Summer death, slow step
Walk behind the mother of the thirteen year old brown-eyed boy
Attitudes, attitudes
Sloganized by middle boots
The men who slogged the brown-eyed boy

And it's the end of everything that you've been told about
Decency, honesty
And it's the end of holding back and breaking bones and building bombs
And hanging witch-hunts conducted by men of such opinion

Summer death, slow step
Walk behind the mother of the thirteen year old brown-eyed boy
Attitudes, attitudes
Sloganized by middle boots
The men who slogged the brown-eyed boy

And it's the end of building roads to load the dead to someone else's field
And it's the end of falling back on breaking backs and aching handshakes
And playing fields conducted by men of such opinion

But the fathers crossed you boys
I fire so heaven knows it only righteous folk
But righteous taste hold the keys to sitting grace
To conduct and to proclaim decisions made of such opinions

And it's the time of summer days
When children sing about the killing fields
Winter melts the snow and knees will crack on rock
And the iron on earth beneath the dearth bequeathed
Mailshots by men of such opinion

I've got Mona Lisa eyes
I can stare through all your lies

Maybe they will come tomorrow
Maybe they will come tomorrow
Maybe they will come tomorrow
But it's only another day away

Look down on everything in sight
Look down on everything and say goodbye
And it's only another day away

I've got Mona Lisa Eyes
I've got Mona Lisa Eyes
I've got Mona Lisa Eyes
And it's only another day away
Day away...

No I never knew you
We both went to different schools
Me so scared of the rules
You chasing all the girls

But it seems to me
We never grew up we just got ourselves free
Inventing what we could be
To buy all their curls

Get up and dance
Get up and smile
Get up and drink to the days
Ones that are gone in the shortest while

She was just eighteen she collapsed
And they took her away
She didn?t make it for more than an hour
Then she was gone

What do you say?
When someone?s been taken that way
Before they?ve had a day to fly in the sun

Get up and dance
Get up and smile
Get up and drink to the days
Ones that are gone in the shortest while

Get up and dance
Get up and smile
Get up and drink to the days
Ones who are gone in the shortest while

I?ll sing my sorrow
I?ll sing my sorrow
I?ll sing my sorrow
I?ll sing my sorrow

No I never knew you
We both ended up as different fools
Me so scared of the rules
You chasing all the girls

But it seems to me
We never grew up we just got ourselves free
Inventing what we could be
To buy all their curls

Get up and dance
Get up and smile
Get up and drink to the days
Ones that are gone in the shortest while

Get up and dance
Get up and smile
Get up and drink to the days
Ones who are gone in the shortest while

I?ll sing my sorrow

When you're starting to choke take some pills with your coke
It's inspirational
When you're life is a mess light one more cigarette
It's so logical

Well it's something your mother can't abide
But it's something that i freely prescribe
Take yourself for a ride
It never felt so good
As the night that you and i played Robin Hood
Stealing from the backrooms of our minds
Remembering a time when we were five
A time i thought we'd left behind

When you're starting to cry
I'll come and sit by my side
And I will love you so
When the nightmares come
I will try to be fun, even though;
I'm so scared you know

Well it's something your mother can't abide
But it's something that i freely prescribe
Take yourself for a ride
It never felt so good
As the night that you and i played Robin Hood
Stealing from the backrooms of our minds
Stealing from a time when we were five
A time i thought we'd left behind
Stealing from the backrooms of our minds
Stealing from a time when we were five
A time i thought we'd left behind

When you're starting to choke take some pills with your coke
It's hysterical

So sad, so sad
So sad, so sad
I didn't want to love you
And you do want nothing at all
So sad, so sad
So sad, so sad

There's a cold break in my dream
Keeps turning round everything you've said
It's so naked in my brain
Makes it hard to be by myself

So sad, so sad
So sad, so sad
I didn't want to love you
And you do want nothing at all
So sad, so sad
So sad, so sad

And I didn't want to love you
And I'm feeling the pain
Stop watching the best things we loved in our life
Was the wind and the sails
And I needed to try for you
That's lost on the night
And it's found in the beautiful storm in your eyes
And it's making you cry
So sad, it's so sad

So sad, so sad
So sad, so sad
I didn't want to love you
And you do nothing at all
It's so sad, so sad
So sad, so sad, so sad, so sad

Saturday Afternoon
The sunshine pours like wine
Through your window

But I know golden June
Can turn an empty grey
Against your window

And I feel like I?m on the outside
Of a circle

If I walk by the trees
I?ll catch the falling leaves
If the wind blows

But I know all this means is
Whiling on the hours
Watching sideshows

And I feel like I?m on the outside
Of a circle

Will I turn my coat to the rain
I don?t know
But I?m going somewhere I can warm my bones

Fare you well I?ll carry me away
And sing to those I know
Upon their birthdays

And I won?t feel like I?m on the outside
Of a circle

Saturday Afternoon
The sunshine pours like wine
Through your window

But I know golden June
Can turn an empty grey
Against your window

And I feel like I?m on the outside
Of a circle

If I walk by the trees
I?ll catch the falling leaves
If the wind blows

But I know all this means is
Whiling on the hours
Watching sideshows

And I feel like I?m on the outside
Of a circle

Will I turn my coat to the rain
I don?t know
But I?m going somewhere I can warm my bones

Fare you well I?ll carry me away
And sing to those I know
Upon their birthdays

And I won?t feel like I?m on the outside
Of a circle

And the clock struck fifteen hours ago; it is shining
And the man who is wasting on the wall
Looks a lot like Jesus
And a little bit resembling
the man in the mirror in the hall

And I rose-trayed sailors
And you still shining
And I'm till waiting to got
And I lied for sailors
And I lied for certain
And I lied to everyone I know

Oh I'd believe in God and I'd believe in loving
but I don't speak to anyone who knows
And I need four 50's and three yellow lemons
And someone to take me home

And I'd forgotten the one who was sailing
on the water down beside where you don't go
And it's strange to tell
that the one who is shining
is someone I forgot I used to know

And the clock struck fifteen hours ago

I never saw it as the start
It's more a change of heart
Rapping on the windows, whistling down the chimney pots
Blowing off the dust in the room where i forgot
Yeah i laid my plans in solid rock
Stepping through the door like a troubadour whiling just an hour away
Looking at the trees on the roadside feeling it's a brighter day

You and i should ride the coast
And wind up in our favourite coats just miles away
Roll a number, write another song like
Jimmy heard the day he caught the train

He sipped another rum and coke and told a dirty joke
Walking like groucho sucking on a number 10
Rolling on the floor with the cigarette burns walked in
Yeah i miss the crush and i'm home again
Stepping through the door with the night in store whiling just an hour away,
Looking at the trees and the star-bright feeling it's a brighter day

Repeat chorus

You and i should ride the tracks
And find ourselves just wading through tomorrow
But you and i when we're coming down
We're only getting back
You know i feel the sorrow

When you find that things are getting wild
Don't you want days like these...
Don't you need days like these...

I never saw it as the start
It's more a change of heart
Rapping on the windows, whistling down the chimney pots
Blowing off the dust in the room where i forgot
Yeah i laid my plans in solid rock
Stepping through the door like a troubadour whiling just an hour away
Looking at the trees on the roadside feeling it's a brighter day

You and i should ride the coast
And wind up in our favourite coats just miles away
Roll a number, write another song like
Jimmy heard the day he caught the train

He sipped another rum and coke and told a dirty joke
Walking like groucho sucking on a number 10
Rolling on the floor with the cigarette burns walked in
Yeah i miss the crush and i'm home again
Stepping through the door with the night in store whiling just an hour away,
Looking at the trees and the star-bright feeling it's a brighter day

Repeat chorus

You and i should ride the tracks
And find ourselves just wading through tomorrow
But you and i when we're coming down
We're only getting back
You know i feel the sorrow

When you find that things are getting wild
Don't you want days like these...
Don't you need days like these...

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)





Lay down your head & look to your window
Where do you go when it’s not where you’re going
And how do you see when the light isn’t shining
Where you could be if you worked out the timing
And how does it feel when the world comes
on so real & true
And how do you do the things you do to you
If I were a king & you were a lady
What would I sing to say what I’m saying
And would you believe the verses left open
My heart on my sleeve the rhyming all broken
And how does it feel when the world
comes back so real & true
And how do you do the things you do to you
to moonn6pence from shootingstar
Sell me a river and I’ll skate away
to the downstream where I did play
So easy minded like a hill on the skyline
tripped up and blinded getting lost on the sidelines
And how does it feel
when each word comes back so real & true
And how do you do the things you do to you oh..
how do you do the things you do to you
The Downstream

I see double up ahead
Where the riverboat swayed beneath the sun
Is where the river runs red
Like a King who stalks the wings and shoots a dove
And frees an eagle instead
It's more or less the same as the things that you said

I see trouble up the road
Like the things you found in love are by the way
And like to cheat on your soul
Like the best and worst of thoughts that lose control
Before you lie on your bed

It's more or less the same as the things that you said
Anyway for all the things you know tell me why does the river not flow
Anyway for all the things you said tell me why does the river run red
Anyway for all the things you've seen tell me when will the river run green
And anyway for all the things you know tell me why does the river not flow

It's more or less the things you fail to say in your way that's your trouble
Like a King who stalks the wings and shoots the moon and the stars
And his double
It's more or less the same as the things that you said
I see trouble up ahead
Where the river boat swayed beneath the sun
Is where the river runs red
I see double - that's my trouble

For all of her diction; her self medication
She fell down and dented her nose
And laughed at the coroners
Desperately warning her
Watch now the way that it goes
And she knows...

She's living at the top of the world

In need of salvation she spoke to her mother
Who died in the service of king
What is the meaning of wallflowers receiving a glance
It would mean everything
And she thinks...

She's living at the top of the world

Three minutes later she looked in the mirror
And cracked half a smile at her toes
And she knows, she knows...

She's living at the top of the world

Where do you go
Buttoned in your favourite coat
Stepping out to a different world
When you might be home late

And where are you now
Staring at your favourite box
The one with the travellers cross
On the road past the gate

But if you find yourself standing on the corner
While your thinking of a different world
Then you might see me waiting on the corner
Staring through you in a different world

But if I could swim
Then I?d go out and find my boat
Sail away to my favourite coast
And let you all in

And if I could do, all the things you?re asking for
Then maybe I?d find your door
And bring it home to you
But if you find yourself standing on the corner
While your thinking of a different world
Then you might see me waiting on the corner
Staring through you in a different world

So where do we go
Like two Christopher?s in the snow
Yeah we?re blind but we want to know
Just to say I love you

And all of our lives
We?ll sail through the suns and moons
To sing our Travellers Tunes
Just to say I love you

But if you find yourself standing on the corner
While your thinking of a different world
Then you might see me waiting on the corner
Staring through you in a different world

And if I could hold you
Where would you belong
And if I could listen
To half the words you say
Would your pathway glisten
And help you on your way

Oh you?ve got it bad
But you never should expect cover
Oh you?ve got it so bad
Worse than any other

If I was in your shoes
Would it be the same
Would you sit in silence
While I dish out the blame

And if the world was laughing
Would you close your ears
There is no creed of chanting
To make the world more clear

If I brought you flowers
Would you watch them grow
Springtime is for certain
To follow on the snow

Oh you?ve got it bad
But you never should expect cover
Oh you?ve got it so bad
Worse than any other

Oh you?ve got it bad
But you never should expect cover
Oh you?ve got it so so bad
Worse than any other

And if I could hold you
Where would you belong
And if I could listen
To half the words you say
Would your pathway glisten
And help you on your way

Oh you?ve got it bad
But you never should expect cover
Oh you?ve got it so bad
Worse than any other

If I was in your shoes
Would it be the same
Would you sit in silence
While I dish out the blame

And if the world was laughing
Would you close your ears
There is no creed of chanting
To make the world more clear

If I brought you flowers
Would you watch them grow
Springtime is for certain
To follow on the snow

Oh you?ve got it bad
But you never should expect cover
Oh you?ve got it so bad
Worse than any other

Oh you?ve got it bad
But you never should expect cover
Oh you?ve got it so so bad
Worse than any other

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)




100 mile high city
Falling to the floor
Everybody’s in it
Falling to the floor

Will I ever find some peace of mind
Ever in the world

Baby he’s a crying
On his mother’s knee
Bankers they’re a lying
Dealt us to our knees

Will we ever find some peace of mind
Ever please

Take us to the doctor
But the doctor makes mistakes
Take us to the lawyers
But the lawyers over-paid
Take you anywhere
Where you can show your face to the world

100 mile high city
Falling to the floor
Everybody’s in it
Falling to the floor

Will I ever find some peace of mind again
Ever in the world

Baby he’s a screaming
Papers they’re agreeing
I can see no reason
Should be screaming treason
Will we ever find no peace of mind
Ever in the world

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)




I fell in love on the street again
It’s a love that is wrong
Tramp the floor with my feet again
I’ve been walking so long

Can anyone really tell you
Does anyone really know
I fell in love on the street again
You can guess they said no

Time runs out of time
A time to walk a time to run
But I ran out of time
Love on the street is no fun

I roamed between a hundred hotel rooms
A hundred numbers on the doors
I sang a song with the bedroom queens
I sang in tune with them all






to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)

Harry don뭪 fly ?not like he used to
All the games he used to play
Are broken on the playground floor and useless
Harry don뭪 smile ?not like he used to
All the laughs have gone away
They haunt the playboy bar where we used to go
But Harry Kidnap뭩 cool
But Harry Kidnap뭩 cool
He wrote all the rules
We뭠l get by like we used to
When he used to run the show
He will smile and look youthful
Such a shame he had to go
Say a prayer for the boxers
For the builders to a man
Sing a song for the dreamers
For the fathers and sons
He played his hand ?just like he used to
Just the same the king you played
Is beaten by the ace of spades ?he뭩 ruthless
Harry won뭪 cry ?when you are crying
All the tales like peeling bells
Will tell of nights when racehorses are flying home

Down town breaks the morning sun
The day's begun
you're on your way now
Don't give a stupid thought
The answer that it don't deserve
now Don't hang your hat on words
That are absurd but so beguiling
What you need's not far away
It's on your face so keep on smiling
It's just a little bit of love you
need Just a little bit more
But you're so hard to please
Shut behind your door
But hey I'm not stupid
I'm just in love
Night lights call the moths to flight
To play and fight the day is
breaking Out on the choking roads
The busy droves are money making
Don't make a cross to bear
The weight of which needs too
much timing What you need is
in your hands It's on your
face so keep on trying
It's just a little bit of love
you need Just a little bit more
But you're so hard to please
Shut behind your door
But hey I'm not stupid
I'm just in love
And all of the time
Your face looks fine
But I know you're not
You hide away Your own mistakes
But you know they're not
And they shout out loud
It's just a little bit of love
you need Just a little bit more
But you're so hard to please
Shut behind your door
But hey I'm not stupid
I'm just in love
But hey I'm not stupid
I'm just in love

I can’t hold on to one thought
Long enough to take you and me away
Magic carpet day
I can’t hold on for too long
Keeping all my memories at bay
Magic carpet day
Hold on for dear life
The world looks small from this height
Careening through our magic carpet day
The world won’t shake you
Knock you down and break you
Steering through these magic carpet days
I can’t back off and be quiet
But I’d never leave you standing in the rain
Magic carpet day
My arms will always hold you
And lay you tired to rest from a brand new day
Magic carpet day

It’s so nice in Mrs Maylie’s house
I’d spend my life in Mrs Maylie’s house
Count my time counting the moon
I’d spend my life in Mrs Maylie’s house
It’s so nice in Mrs Maylie’s house
I’d spend my life in Mrs Maylie’s house
Count my time counting the moon
It’s so nice in Mrs Maylie’s house
Well good morning Mrs Maylie
It’s so nice to wake in sunshine
Spent my short life in prison
Was my birth that was my first crime
I’d like to pick some flowers
And arrange them around your room
And I love to spend the hours
‘Fore they’re snatched away too soon
Well I love it in the country
And loath the London mire
And there’s no one who’s been kinder
In my wretched little life
Oh good morning Mrs Maylie
And your daughter seems so nice
An open heart’s my saviour
And my trusting is my vice

I aint a cowboy no more
I know what you're thinking, guess you heard it before
I get so tired yet can't sleep
Or maybe I'm there this could all be a dream
I wish you didn't get hung up so easily,
When you're bound to fall apart, you always fall apart at the seams
I'm so worn, I'm so torn, tossed aside like an old pair of jeans

I aint a cowboy no more
You won't hear my spurs clinck down the hall
I learnt the trade off the street
I hold my head up everytime time that we meet
I wish you didn't get hung up so easily
When you're bound to fall apart, you always fall apart at the seams
I'm so worn, I'm so torn, tossed aside like an old pair of jeans

Well I got no choice
You know you just take me over
Well you'll never see me dyin'
Or ever stop me tryin'
God willin' always keep me flyin'...high

I aint a cowboy no more
I know what you're thinking, guess you heard it before
I learnt the trade off the street
I hold my head up everytime that we meet
I wish you didn't get hung up so easily
When you're bound to fall apart, you always fall apart at the seams
I'm so worn, I'm so torn, tossed aside like an old pair of jeans

Yeah, like an old pair of jeans
Yeah, like an old pair of jeans
Yeah, like an old pair of jeans
Like an old pair of jeans

Low, Low, Low, Low
Low, Low, Low, Low
(Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah)
Standing by the Post Office
Tryin' to send a letter to my wife
(Didn't see it coming round)
The crazy politicians
Tried to lower the street signs and lights
Head lights, head lights
Low, Low, Low, Low
Low, Low, Low, Low
(Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah)
These days it doesn't seem fair
What, like right now?
Standing by the Post Office
Tryin' to send a letter to my best friend
I care, I care, I care, I care
Closing all the street signs
Closing the white's of eyes, a mean mile
(You didn't see it coming, yeh)
Standing by the Post Office
Tryin' to send a letter to my good friend
(Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah)
Banker's closing all the banks
And the street signs aren't working
Their all bust now
Low, Low, Low, Low, Low
I've got the arse now
We didn't see it coming
We've got the arse now

I’ll meet you at the Gate House
But I can’t be late you see
I’m going to Rockfield
Are you going to Rockfield

I want to make some sounds there
Out there in the open air
I’m going to Rockfield
Are you going to Rockfield

Stop all the shouting
Stop all the screaming
Demanding phone calls ringing
I can’t hear me bleeding
I can’t hear what you’re saying
When everyone is talking
I can’t see the line between
The sky and the tightrope walker
I’m going to Rockfield

It’s a cold blue hello Monday morning
And your clock strikes a blow and a warning
‘Cos you’re only at the weekend living
And your wife and friends are unforgiving
There’s a cut in your face off your shaving
In the mirror in the sea a man is waving
He’s remarkably like you so he’s worth saving
And your wife and your friends do all the blaming
I don’t go for that
My name is Saturday
I’m the girl in the car/drunk afternoon
I’m the drink at the bar
I’m plenty
I don’t go for that
My name is Saturday
I am dressed for the night
I’m the radio on
I’m twenty

Don’t you know about the bogey man
He will come and take you by the hand
Take you from this pleasant land and away
Don’t you know about the sandman
Comes at night and takes you by the hand
Takes you from your Bedford land and away
Sing Children Sing
Come into the light right now
And sing
Don’t you know about the child catcher
Throw you in a cage much faster
Than your slowly changing childhood days have gone away
Don’t you know about the ogre man
He will come and take you by the hand
He will eat you just where you stand
And you’re gone away
So sing children sing
Come into the light right now
And sing
Have you heard about Uncle Sam
He will always make a stand
Come and free you and take command
And then stay
Have you heard about his best friend
Winning smile and curly hair
And like a best friend he’s always there
And he will stay
So sing children sing
Come into the light right now
And sing