Sandi Thom

Caught in the gridlock nose to tail across all lanes
Smog nearly chocking me as the car horns go insane
Patiently waiting to get their old jobs backs
Carrying the human race proudly on their backs

How easily forgotten,
How easily we're led
How hard the path is trodden
From when horsepower meant what it said

I've got a hundred horses hidden in between my wheels
But i can't put my foot down and jumped the fences in the field
Patiently waiting to get their old jobs back

How easily forgotten,
How easily we're led
How hard the path is trodden
From when horsepower meant what it said

And if we're keeping up with progress why am i standing still
Maybe we should take a walk and talk to the horses on the hill

How easily forgotten,
How easily we're led
How hard the path is trodden
From when horsepower meant what it said

How hard the path is trodden
From when horsepower meant what it said

Chorus:
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air
I was born too late and to a world that doesn't care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

When the head of state didn't play guitar,
Not everybody drove a car,
When music really mattered and when radio was king,
When accountants didn't have control
And the media couldn't buy your soul
And computers were still scary and we didn’t know everything

Chorus

When popstars still remained a myth
And ignorance could still be bliss
And when God Saved the Queen she turned a whiter shade of pale
When my mom and dad were in their teens
and anarchy was still a dream
and the only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail

Chorus

When record shops were still on top
and vinyl was all that they stocked

and the super info highway was still drifting out in space
kids were wearing hand me downs,
and playing games meant kick arounds
and footballers still had long hair and dirt across their face

Chorus

I was born too late to a world that doesn't care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

Sometimes I see her down by the river
The water dances on her skin
She can captivate to hit the ice
But she never lets you in
In the dark she lingers
Like a tear without a soul

And I what a lonely girl
Trying to find her way
In this mixed up messed up world
And I see so many faces just like her
So many broken hearts in the world
And I what a lonely what a lonely girl

He said lately she's been watching the weather
The weather doesn't know what to do
?cause sometimes when its cold outside
That's when she?s feeling blue
But I see through her sadness deep into her soul
All she's wants to have is someone she can love to make whole

And I what a lonely girl
Trying to find her way
In this mixed up messed up world
And I see so many faces just like her
So many broken hearts in the world
And I what a lonely what a lonely girl

Isn't it regrettable?
Oh isn't it regrettable
She finds her love and then she lets it go
And I see so many faces just like her
So many broken hearts in the world
And I what a lonely what a lonely day

And I what a lonely girl
Trying to find her way
In this mixed up messed up world
And I see so many faces just like her
So many broken hearts in the world
And I what a lonely what a lonely girl

And I what a lonely what a lonely girl

A simple scent of summer stole my heart for the last dance
The smell of two-stroke petrol from a motorbike we used to have
Those playing fields of cut grass you know high school left me kind of blue
Now with every sweet summer breeze I'll be thinking of you

[Chorus]
Now I'm waiting for the sunset borderline
Every suns gotta set with time
But I'll remember those moments for evermore
As the days where nothing had changed at all.

Found a long lost picture of the car we used to run
Cotton candy colored paintwork looked so faded in the sun
And that 6 o clock sunrise you always used to drive me to
Guess that long lost picture will always have me thinking, have me thinking of
you

[Chorus]

So for every little sad sweet love song that's ever sung, I'll be thinking
And for every lost summers day that ever been and gone, I'll be thinking
I wonder if your gonna be the tear that follows me,
Until that sun is set I guess I'll always be

[Chorus]

Turned into the radio flicking through the stations one by one
Tried to listen through the rain while
Humming those melodies alone
I remember how you told me Lennon and McCartney
Always pulled you through

Some things are meant to be the way they're gonna be
'Cos you can't stop time or change history
Sometimes all you saw were the things you wanted to see
if you be lookin for the answer you would have to go to me
'Cos now you've only got a moment boy
To get it right to get it right to get it right to get it right

So if you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh if you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now

Some things in this life, they just pass you by
But they're gone forever in the blink of an eye
This time you gotta do what you always had to do
So open up your heart and show me that you're true
'Cos now you've only got a moment boy
To get it right to get it right to get it right to get it right

'Cos if you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh If you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh If you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh If you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now

Just now the minutes keep ticking past
So if you think that our love's gonna last
'Cos now you've only got a moment boy
To get it right to get it right to get it right to get it right

So if you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh If you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh If you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh If you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
If you take me now
If you take me now
Yes take me now
If you take me now
So take me now

I'm just skimming stones against the lake
While my dreams pass me by
I've never known what to make of life
But I guess I'm willing to try

Sometimes it's better sometimes it's worse
Sometimes it heals sometimes it hurts....

So hail to the morning wherever it dawns down on me
It's now that I get to thinking
Some castles lie way beneath the sea.

You always said that it would be such a long summer
And now its here and I can break the ice on this cold water

Sometimes it's better sometimes it's worse
Sometimes it heals sometimes it hurts....

So hail to the morning wherever it dawns down on me
It's now that I get to thinking
Some castles lie way beneath the sea.

So hail to the morning wherever it dawns down on me
It's now that I get to thinking that life's a mystery
So long live the moonlight wherever it shines down on me
With the strength to part the ocean

You'll take me on a journey
And be there till the end
It won't be an uphill struggle
On you I can depend

You promised me a dream home
With roses round the door
You'll cover me in diamonds
There's nothing I want more
And
You'll be strong
And you'll turn me on
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
You'll be true and be faithful too
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
What if I'm right?

'cos if the rain starts falling
You'll protect me with your coat
And you'll always tape the football
And let me watch my soap

You'll always be as handsome
And your weight will never gain
And when I give birth to our children
I will feel no pain
And
You'll bring me flowers
And you'll bring the showers
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
You'll say I'm thin and bring the washing in
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
What if I'm right?

You'll always keep the magic
The tender love and care
And when you need to change the light bulb
You wont hand me the chair
And when we're tired of the city
And we find a country home
You'll sell your vinyl records
And go get us a loan

You'll be my sympathetic lover
And won't steal the covers
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
You won't forsake me
Your mother won't hate me
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
You'll be strong
And you'll turn me on
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
You'll be true
And be faithful too
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?

Some of us are
reaching for stardust
Some of us are
digging for gold
But it won't mean a lot
on a mountaintop
When the wind reaches
out for your soul
Some of us stand
in the spotlight
Waiting for a round
of applause
When the people go home
and you're left all alone
To face the sadness
behind closed doors
I don't want the sun
don't want you to run
Don't want superman
don't need wonderland
Just want you to love me
Some of us want silver linings
To be the belle of the ball
Going down in a blaze of glory
The story means nothing at all
I don't want the sun
don't want you to run
Don't want superman
don't need wonderland
Just want you to love me
I don't want the stars
or venus or mars
Don't want superman
don't need wonderland
Just want you to love me
just want you to love me
Don't want superman
don't need wonderland
Just want you to love me

Walter the war hero he's there from opening till time, time, time
There's Mary the housewife who's slumped at the bar drinkin' wine, wine, wine

They get Kylie on a wednesday, the Stones on a friday, bob to the Beatles on a saturday night
He's Dylan on a monday and Bowie on a sunday, does Beegees on a thursday as high as a kite

And they call him the human jukebox, he plays second-hand rock n' roll
And they call him the human jukebox, yet only he's healing hearts with his soul

Skyvers with fivers shine up their shoes for the show, show, show
and they all sing along to the songs till it's time please to go, go, go

They get Kylie on a wednesday, the Stones on a friday, bob to the Beatles on a saturday night
He's Dylan on a monday and Bowie on a sunday, does Elton on a thursday if you lend him your tights

And they call him the human jukebox, he plays second-hand rock n' roll
And they call him the human jukebox, yet only he's healing hearts with his soul

They're karaoke kings for the evening, it's their only real shining time, and if you ever stop believin', and the real world gets you down

Go see the human jukebox, he plays second-hand rock n' roll
Yeah they call him the human jukebox, yet only he's healing hearts with his soul

Yeah they call him the human jukebox, he plays second-hand rock n' roll
Yeah they call him the human jukebox, yet only he's healing hearts with his soul

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Written By BROWN, IAN/THOM, SANDI
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Roller skates and bumblebees
Holding hands and grazing knees
Dressing up and falling down
Paul and mike are coming round

Being good to stay up late
Forget to shut the garden gate
Built a house up in a tree
Been making plans since I was three

Time catches everyone
And the world goes round the sun
And the memory lives on in my heart
Going back to the start

Skiving french and stealing mars
Hanging out in rosie's bar
Getting changed straight after school
Smoking fags and playing pool

Rainbow coming over me
But I like graham connelly
Getting caught in someone's car
This time kid you've gone too far

Time catches everyone
And the world goes round the sun
But the memory lives on in my heart
Going back to the start
Forever forever forever

Up and down to liverpool
Learning lines to play the fool
Hanging out at hannah's bar
Got too drunk to drive the car

Even though I'd love to stay
It's time to work not to time to play
And even though you're now for me
Soon you'll be a memory

Time catches everyone
And the world goes round the sun
And the memory lives on in my heart
Time catches everyone
And the world goes round the sun
And the memory lives on in my heart
Going back to the start
Forever forever forever

Help me get my feet
back to solid ground
Cause were walking
to the devils beat
And it's trying
to bring us down
Well the devil's get us
rolling a 6 sided dice
And it's burning up the oils
and melting down the ice
And the bank tills are ringing
to the tune of war
Do you ever wonder
what it is were fighting for
Oh it don't feel so good
when the sun don't shine
Oh we gotta leave this place
leave it all behind
Oh before I loose my head
and I loose my mind
Help me get my feet
back to solid ground
Cos were walking
to the devils beat
And it's trying
to bring us down
Oh sweet mother nature's
such a lonely girl
What's she gonna do
when we sell the world
Time will only tell
if the prophecy's true
Has the devil got the beat
or has the beat got you
Oh it don't feel so good
when the sun don't shine
Oh we gotta leave this place
leave it all behind
Oh before I loose my head
and I loose my mind
Help me get my feet
back to solid ground
Cause were walking
to the devils beat
And it's trying
to bring us down
Come on and help me get
my feet back to solid ground
Cause were walking
to the devils beat
And it's trying
to bring us down
Oh it don't feel so good
when the sun don't shine
Oh we gotta leave this place
leave it all behind
Oh before I loose my head
and I loose my mind
Help me get my feet
back to solid ground
Cause were walking
to the devils beat
And it's trying to
bring us down

I wake up to the dawn I'm a stranger in my bed
With one eye on the circle sun I raise my weary head
I pick up my bags and bones and take one square step to the door
And with another twist of fate I'm heading of to foreign shores

And the daylight turns to dark but I still got colour in my cheeks
Got a pocket full of remedies and a world beneath my feet
I don't need a ring of gold or silver buckles on my shoes
I got the shoeshine rhythm in my soul baby that's what gets me through

And I keep on rolling by I keep on riding high
Ye up and down around and away we go
Cos I don't need to know what's coming round the bend
I'm gonna keep my shape no matter what shape I'm in

And the beating of the drum is like the beating of my heart
Cos every day gets harder baby since we've been apart
You can tie me in a knot or bind me up in chains
I got a little piece of heaven baby and that's what keeps me sane

And I keep on rolling by I keep on riding high
Ye up and down around and away we go
Cos I don't need to know what's coming round the bend
I'm gonna keep my shape no matter what shape I'm in

But its 6 in the morning and my minds in a daze
And I'm thinking of you I'm thinking of you and it's getting me through

And I keep on rolling by I keep on riding high
Ye up and down around and away we go
Cos I don't need to know what's coming round the bend
I'm gonna keep my shape no matter what shape I'm in

And I keep on rolling by I keep on riding high
Ye up and down around and away we go
Cos I don't need to know what's coming round the bend
Imp gonna keep my shape no matter what shape I'm in

And I keep on rolling by I keep on riding high
Ye up and down around and away we go
Cos I don't need to know what's coming round the bend
I'm gonna keep my shape no matter what shape I'm in
I'm gonna keep my shape no matter what shape I'm in
I'm gonna keep my shape no matter what shape I'm in.

Just before I tell you standing in the rain
I would have loved you like no other babe
But a poet needs his pain
And sometimes life can be so cruel
It will pick you up and drop you down again

So if you try to love me darling please refrain
I'm still searching for the pieces
Someone else once took away
You know I used to love with all my heart
But how the times they can change.

Oh my baby's been calling and I want you to know
I'm not letting him down I'm just letting him go
Oh I never wanted to be apart
But I still don't know if I'm a wounded heart.

I've seen a lot of heartache and I've walked a lonely road
They say the darkest times before the dawn
But the rooster hasn't crowed
And when you wake up in the morning
Oh my darling I'll be gone

Oh my baby's been calling and I want you to know
I'm not letting him down I'm just letting him go
Oh I never wanted to be apart
But I still don't know if I'm a wounded heart
No I still don't know if I'm a wounded heart.

So many fools fall in love
And it's a crying game
It's a crying shame
That I'm not a fool in love
But I know what I'm feeling
And my heart is still healing

Oh my baby's been calling and I want you to know
I'm not letting him down I'm just letting him go
Oh I never wanted to be apart
But I still don't know if I'm a wounded heart
No I still don't know if I'm a wounded heart.

She's saving all her money trying to get ahead
All the luck in the world wont keep the baby fed
And the boss is on her back and it's getting her down
She's waiting for the one she loves to come around

He's building for the future while everybody sleeps
Filling in the cracks on these lonely streets
She says don't you worry honey it will be okay
One of these days were gonna fly away and he said:

There's only one Saturday night in every week
Sundays for recovering five days for discovering
Were all walking down the same street
You know there's only one Saturday night in every week.

He's a bonefide rebel searching for a cause
But real life got him and now he's getting bored
Cos he barely makes a living picking up stuff
But all he really wants to do is kick up the dust
She spends her days talking on the phone
Trying to sell you something you don't wanna own
She's dreaming of a break from the daily grind
Cos the mans got her working over time and they say..

There's only one Saturday night in every week
Sundays for recovering five days for discovering
Were all walking down the same street
You know there's only one Saturday night in every week.

Why wont the world stop spinning around
Why can't I find my feet when I'm falling down?

There's only one Saturday night in every week
Sundays for recovering five days for discovering
Were all walking down the same street
You know there's only one Saturday night in every week.
You know there's only one Saturday night in every week.
You know there's only one Saturday night in every week.

For every lovers kiss
For every child that laughs
And every moment missed
For every dream I've cast
And every flower that blooms
It keeps reminding me
That your heart is just a beatbox
For the song of your life

And for every time I fell
Every time you picked me up
And when I wasn't well
You gave me the healing cup
Just like a magic spell
It captivates my soul
That your heart is just a beatbox
For the song of your life

Cos it aint wrong it aint right
It's in your darkest hour
It's in your brightest light
Its in the wind its on the tide
And there's a choir of angels singing
Somewhere out of sight.

So for every fathers kiss
For every bridge we build
And every mother's wish
For all the blood we've spilled
And every clock that chimes
It constantly reminds
That your heart is just a beatbox
For the song of your life

Cos it aint wrong it aint right
It's in your darkest hour
It's in your brightest light
Its in the wind its on the tide
And there's a choir of angels singing
Somewhere out of sight.

So for every star that shines
For every journey made
And every song that rhymes
On every peace crusade
And every clock that chimes
It constantly reminds..

That your heart is just a beatbox
For the song of your life
Ye your heart is just a beatbox
For the song of your life
Ye your heart is just a beatbox
For the song of your life

When I first set my eyes on you
You were born in black and white
Full of good intentions
You never played me any hype
You didn't want to take my money
You didn't want to take my soul
Just a little black box
Built in the days of rock 'n' roll.

So come on and hook me up
And help me get my kicks
Come on and tune me in to channel 66
You got to turn me on to my TV
Cos I get out of control
If you don't remote control me.

You turned a rainbow full of colour
Into a pocket full of gold
You advertise and evangelise
And your stories getting old
You took away my innocence
And you tell me to live in fear
Well baby ill start panicking
When the end is getting near.

So come on and hook me up
And help me get my kicks
Come on and tune me in to channel 66
You got to turn me on to my TV
Cos I get out of control
If you don't remote control me.

Out out out of control
There's a million souls out of control
Out out of control
There's a million souls out of control
Out out out of control
There's a million souls out of control
Out out of control
There's a million souls out of control

Well you cheat on me with politics
And you dance around the war
You turn me onto big brother
And I'm at every lottery draw
You know I hate you more than ever
But you're still in every room
Oh well I guess your telling me
To consume and to consume

So come on and hook me up
And help me get my kicks
Come on and tune me in to channel 66
You got to turn me on to my TV
Cos I get out of control
If you don't remote control me
Cos I get out of control
If you don't remote control me
Cos I get out of control
If you don't remote control me.

There's an empy seat on the train today that makes its way up to the town
There a letter found on an office desk that's finally come to his senses.
He's tired of commuting tired of computing tired of sitting on fences.

He really needs some help he wants to find himself
And he ways that money don't metter
And there's more to life than doing what's right
He's going down down down Success's ladder
He's going down down down Success's ladder

He wants to do something for his children's children something to rememver him by.
And nobody wishes they spent more time at work when they finally lay down to die.
And he's downsized and analysed his last bottom line no linger will he be hard hearted.
He's going to paint puictures of the Isle of Skye intil the undersigned is departed.

He really needs some help he wants to find himself
And he ways that money don't metter
And there's more to life than doing what's right
He's going down down down Success's ladder
He's going down down down Success's ladder

So the years went by and Julian was forgot and one day his tea boy made it to the boss
And to brighten his wall he hung pictures sometimes one of them the Isle of Skye strangely insigned

He really needs some help he wants to find himself
And he ways that money don't metter
And there's more to life than doing what's right
He's going down down down Success's ladder
He's going down down down Success's ladder

I used to see a ballerina staring back at me
A beauty queen a singing star was all I longed to be
I'd dress up in my mother's clothes and dance the days away
When nothing was torn and tattered broken or frayed.

I used to see an astronaut flying through the clouds
And in that look of innocence nothing brought you down
And everything was possible in the frame of a mirror
And every dream was coming true when you wished it down the river.

But they don't make mirrors like they used to
Cos they tell me the truth that I'm living truth
No they don't make mirrors like they used to
Cos when I look in one now I see everything's changed somehow.

I used to love the boy next door he loved me from afar
With his ripped up jeans his long died hair and his battered old guitar
He never did make Kurt Cobain he's happy with his babies
I guess love stood the test of time cos he still drives me crazy.

But they don't make mirrors like they used to
Cos they tell me the truth that I'm living truth
No they don't make mirrors like they used to
Cos when I look in one now I see everything's changed somehow

Nothings the same and it all gets re-arranged
As you go where life will lead you too
And the books always open the circle is un-broken
And they don't make mirrors like they used too

No they don't make mirrors like they used to
Cos they tell me the truth that I'm living truth
They don't make mirrors like they used to
Cos when I look in one now I see everything's changed somehow
When I look in one now I see everything's changed somehow

I remember Sundays at the Harbour Bar
Drinking cider wishing on a cheap guitar
Playing songs from the sixties and the seventies
Fleetwood Mac the Eagles and the Bee Gees
And we would dazzle and dance under the moonlight
Love up the bar and drink until the moonlight
You were all rebels you were all stars
You put the music in everybody's hearts

It was such a long time ago
But I never want t let that go
When I close my eyes
I still remember
I still remember those times.

Send a message all over the world
I really want you to know
That people are falling in love
To the music on the radio
And I wouldn't be all that I am
So understand
I want the world to know that you put music in my soul.

I remember Sundays in the freezing barn
Huddled round heater trying to keep everybody
Warm
We were just rebels we were just stars
Trying to put the music in everybody's hearts

It was such a long time ago
But I never want t let that go
When I close my eyes
I still remember
I still remember those times.

Send a message all over the world
I really want you to know
That people are falling in love
To the music on the radio
And I wouldn't be all that I am
So understand
I want the world to know that you put music in my soul

Street lights ablaze and the air is so dry
There's a cat in my bucket smoke covers the sky
And the sound of the traffic keeps me from my dreams
Like one million soldiers just shuffled their feet

The heat of the night is one that I can't escape
So I listen to the underground rumble and shake
There's something so beautiful being alive
When your young wild and free
And just trying to survive.

So hold me I believe every word that you told me
And every last line that you sold me
I'll love you for the rest of my life
Take me turn me around and you'll make me
Follow the footsteps you gave me
In the Pink and the Lily tonight.

Freedoms a luxury taken in vain
It's hard to find justice and fight for a change
Cos there's so many people that cannot be heard
Their thoughts and their feelings just kicked to the curb

I may not be old and I may not be wise
But I call upon those with a chance in this life
Climb to the rooftops and open your eyes
Cos your young wild and free and just trying to survive.

So hold me I believe every word that you told me
And every last line that you sold me
I'll love you for the rest of my life
Take me turn me around and you'll make me
Follow the footsteps you gave me
In the Pink and the Lily tonight.
Follow the footsteps you gave me
In the Pink and the Lily tonight.
Follow the footsteps you gave me
In the Pink and the Lily tonight.

There are six and a half billion souls
I believe to be breathing you can love them you can leave them
They're walking and talking up ad down all around this world
There are six and a half billion dreams
From london to new york, noew york to bejing
Every man every woman every boy and every girl

There are six and a half billion beliefs
But in the end were the same underneath
Every different shape or size
If youre strong or if your wise
Its all beautiful
There are six and a half billion lives
Some are laughing some are crying
Some are living some are dying if your small or ten feet tall
If your strange if your weird your wonderful

I'm a human being
I'm a living loving breathing
I'm not a dumb machine
I'm a walking talking dreaming
And I don't know what it means
But I know what I believe in
I believe in love and I love being a human being

There are six and a half billion songs
Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder and the Rolling Stones
If your straight or if your drunk
If your hippy or a punk
Get musical
There are six and a half billion hearts
Some are keeping it together some are falling apart
Some are good some are bad
Happy and sad
They're loveable

I'm a human being
I'm a living loving breathing
I'm not a dumb machine
I'm a walking talking dreaming
And I don't know what it means
But I know what I believe in
I believe in love and I love being a human being

There are six and a half billion minds
Thinking and inventing and changing times
Making up the grades and turning the pages in history
There are six and a half billion pairs of feet
Walking to the sound of the drummers beat
They go hop skip an jump thumping in time
Sing 1,2,3......

I'm a human being
I'm a living loving breathing
I'm not a dumb machine
I'm a walking talking dreaming
And I don't know what it means
But I know what I believe in
I believe in love and I love being a human being.

Born to entertain us back in 1925
So beautiful and strong enough to bring their dreams alive
Always thought it would last forever
And be the greatest thing they'd ever seen
With a heart like Judy Garland
And a the soul of Jimmy Dean

And while the world was growing
He was so gone with the wind
That the future they were building
Didn't have a room for him
And now the buildings scrape the skyline
And the stars no longer shine
Cause nothing lasts forever in the changing times

Oh so long and fare thee well
A thousand stories he could tell
Brick by brick they pulled him down
The last picture house in town

The crowds grew smaller though the years
While the candy girls left town
The projector slowly gathered dust
While the house came tumbling down

And at the final curtain calling
He knew a golden age had passed
Cause the lights had finally fallen
And the dreams they didn't last
Cause now the buildings scrape the skyline
And the stars no longer shine
Cause nothing lasts forever in the changing times

Oh so long and fare thee well
A thousand stories he could tell
Brick by brick they pulled him down
The last picture house in town

Gene Kelly went singing for the last time in the rain
And one more kiss with Betty Davies before the final frame
And as the lights inside the ticket box go fading away
It was the last movie the picture house would play

Oh so long and fare thee well
A thousand stories he could tell
But brick by brick they pulled him down
The last picture house in town.

Would you lie would you lie lie lie in these lonely arms of mine
I wanna try I will try try try for this love one more time
Don't wanna lose you to the stars
I wish I'd told you from the start
Not to listen to my ungrateful heart.

Baby give me one more chance
And I will shoot down the moon for you
Darling you're my sweet romance
There's nothing that I wouldn't do.

So when you cry when you cry cry cry let me shoulder your tears
I'm gonna try I will try try try to hold on through the years
Don't wanna loose you to the stars
I wish I'd told you from the start
Not to listen to my ungrateful heart.

Baby, give me one more chance
And I will shoot down the moon for you
Darling, give me one last dance
And maybe our love can be true.

Would you lie would you lie lie lie in these lonely arms of mine
I wanna try I will try try try for this love one more time
Don't wanna loose you to the stars
And it's tearing me apart
Cos you listened to my ungrateful heart
You listened to my ungrateful heart
Oh you listened to my ungrateful heart.

Caught in the gridlock nose to tail across all lanes
Smog nearly chocking me as the car horns go insane
Patiently waiting to get their old jobs backs
Carrying the human race proudly on their backs

How easily forgotten,
How easily we're led
How hard the path is trodden
From when horsepower meant what it said

I've got a hundred horses hidden in between my wheels
But i can't put my foot down and jumped the fences in the field
Patiently waiting to get their old jobs back

How easily forgotten,
How easily we're led
How hard the path is trodden
From when horsepower meant what it said

And if we're keeping up with progress why am i standing still
Maybe we should take a walk and talk to the horses on the hill

How easily forgotten,
How easily we're led
How hard the path is trodden
From when horsepower meant what it said

How hard the path is trodden
From when horsepower meant what it said

Chorus:
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air
I was born too late and to a world that doesn't care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

When the head of state didn't play guitar,
Not everybody drove a car,
When music really mattered and when radio was king,
When accountants didn't have control
And the media couldn't buy your soul
And computers were still scary and we didn’t know everything

Chorus

When popstars still remained a myth
And ignorance could still be bliss
And when God Saved the Queen she turned a whiter shade of pale
When my mom and dad were in their teens
and anarchy was still a dream
and the only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail

Chorus

When record shops were still on top
and vinyl was all that they stocked

and the super info highway was still drifting out in space
kids were wearing hand me downs,
and playing games meant kick arounds
and footballers still had long hair and dirt across their face

Chorus

I was born too late to a world that doesn't care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

Sometimes I see her down by the river
The water dances on her skin
She can captivate you with her eyes
But she never lets you in
In the dark she lingers
Like a tear without a soul

And I what a lonely girl
Trying to find her way
In this mixed up messed up world
And I see so many faces just like her
So many broken hearts in the world
And I what a lonely what a lonely girl

He said lately she's been watching the weather
The weather doesn't know what to do
'cause sometimes when its cold outside
That's when she's feeling blue
But I see through her sadness deep within her soul
All she's wants to have is someone she can love to make whole

And I what a lonely girl
Trying to find her way
In this mixed up messed up world
And I see so many faces just like her
So many broken hearts in the world
And I what a lonely what a lonely girl

Isn't it regrettable'
Oh isn't it regrettable
She finds sweet love and then she lets it go
And I see so many faces just like her
So many broken hearts in the world
And I what a lonely what a lonely day

And I what a lonely girl
Trying to find her way
In this mixed up messed up world
And I see so many faces just like her
So many broken hearts in the world
And I what a lonely what a lonely girl

And I what a lonely what a lonely girl

A simple scent of summer stole my heart for the last dance
The smell of two-stroke petrol from a motorbike we used to have
Those playing fields of cut grass you know high school left me kind of blue
Now with every sweet summer breeze I'll be thinking of you

Now I'm waiting for the sunset borderline
Every suns gotta set with time
But I'll remember those moments for evermore
As the days where nothing had changed at all.

Found a long lost picture of the car we used to run
Cotton candy coloured paintwork looked so faded in the sun
And that 6 o clock sunrise you always used to drive me to
Guess that long lost picture will always have me thinking, have me thinking of you

Now I'm waiting for the sunset borderline
Every suns gotta set with time
But I'll remember those moments for evermore
As the days where nothing had changed at all.

So for every little sad sweet love song that's ever sung, I'll be thinking
And for every lost summers day that ever been and gone, I'll be thinking
I wonder if your gonna be the tear that follows me,
Until that sun is set I guess I'll always be

Waiting for the sunset borderline
Every suns gotta set with time
But I'll remember those moments for evermore
As the days where nothing had changed at all.

Turned into the radio flicking through the stations one by one
Tried to listen through the rain while
Humming those melodies alone
I remember how you told me lennon & mccartney
Always pulled you through
So as the music fades out I'll be thinking, I'll be thinking of you

Some things are meant to be the way they're gonna be
'Cos you can't stop time or change history
Sometimes all you saw were the things you wanted to see
if you be lookin for the answer you would have to go to me
'Cos now you've only got a moment boy
To get it right to get it right to get it right to get it right

So if you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh if you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now

Some things in this life, they just pass you by
But they're gone forever in the blink of an eye
This time you gotta do what you always had to do
So open up your heart and show me that you're true
'Cos now you've only got a moment boy
To get it right to get it right to get it right to get it right

'Cos if you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh If you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh If you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh If you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now

Just now the minutes keep ticking past
So if you think that our love's gonna last
'Cos now you've only got a moment boy
To get it right to get it right to get it right to get it right

So if you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh If you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh If you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
Oh If you really wanted me you'd show me how
'Cos I'm your little remedy if you take me now
If you take me now
If you take me now
Yes take me now
If you take me now
So take me now

I'm just skimming stones against the lake
While my dreams pass me by
I've never known what to make of life
But I guess I'm willing to try

Sometimes it's better sometimes it's worse
Sometimes it heals sometimes it hurts....

So hail to the morning wherever it dawns down on me
It's now that I get to thinking
Some castles lie way beneath the sea.

You always said that it would be such a long summer
And now its here and I can break the ice on this cold water

Sometimes it's better sometimes it's worse
Sometimes it heals sometimes it hurts....

So hail to the morning wherever it dawns down on me
It's now that I get to thinking
Some castles lie way beneath the sea.

So hail to the morning wherever it dawns down on me
It's now that I get to thinking that life's a mystery
So long live the moonlight wherever it shines down on me
With the strength to part the ocean

You'll take me on a journey
And be there till the end
It won't be an uphill struggle
On you I can depend

You promised me a dream home
With roses round the door
You'll cover me in diamonds
There's nothing I want more
And
You'll be strong
And you'll turn me on
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
You'll be true and be faithful too
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
What if I'm right?

'cos if the rain starts falling
You'll protect me with your coat
And you'll always tape the football
And let me watch my soap

You'll always be as handsome
And your weight will never gain
And when I give birth to our children
I will feel no pain
And
You'll bring me flowers
And you'll bring the showers
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
You'll say I'm thin and bring the washing in
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
What if I'm right?

You'll always keep the magic
The tender love and care
And when you need to change the light bulb
You wont hand me the chair
And when we're tired of the city
And we find a country home
You'll sell your vinyl records
And go get us a loan

You'll be my sympathetic lover
And won't steal the covers
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
You won't forsake me
Your mother won't hate me
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
You'll be strong
And you'll turn me on
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?
You'll be true
And be faithful too
But I've got my doubts and what if I'm right?

Some of us are
reaching for stardust
Some of us are
digging for gold
But it won't mean a lot
on a mountaintop
When the wind reaches
out for your soul
Some of us stand
in the spotlight
Waiting for a round
of applause
When the people go home
and you're left all alone
To face the sadness
behind closed doors
I don't want the sun
don't want you to run
Don't want superman
don't need wonderland
Just want you to love me
Some of us want silver linings
To be the belle of the ball
Going down in a blaze of glory
The story means nothing at all
I don't want the sun
don't want you to run
Don't want superman
don't need wonderland
Just want you to love me
I don't want the stars
or venus or mars
Don't want superman
don't need wonderland
Just want you to love me
just want you to love me
Don't want superman
don't need wonderland
Just want you to love me

Walter the war hero he's there from opening till time, time, time
There's Mary the housewife who's slumped at the bar drinkin' wine, wine, wine

They get Kylie on a wednesday, the Stones on a friday, bob to the Beatles on a saturday night
He's Dylan on a monday and Bowie on a sunday, does Beegees on a thursday as high as a kite

And they call him the human jukebox, he plays second-hand rock n' roll
And they call him the human jukebox, yet only he's healing hearts with his soul

Skyvers with fivers shine up their shoes for the show, show, show
and they all sing along to the songs till it's time please to go, go, go

They get Kylie on a wednesday, the Stones on a friday, bob to the Beatles on a saturday night
He's Dylan on a monday and Bowie on a sunday, does Elton on a thursday if you lend him your tights

And they call him the human jukebox, he plays second-hand rock n' roll
And they call him the human jukebox, yet only he's healing hearts with his soul

They're karaoke kings for the evening, it's their only real shining time, and if you ever stop believin', and the real world gets you down

Go see the human jukebox, he plays second-hand rock n' roll
Yeah they call him the human jukebox, yet only he's healing hearts with his soul

Yeah they call him the human jukebox, he plays second-hand rock n' roll
Yeah they call him the human jukebox, yet only he's healing hearts with his soul

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Roller skates and bumblebees
Holding hands and grazing knees
Dressing up and falling down
Paul and mike are coming round

Being good to stay up late
Forget to shut the garden gate
Built a house up in a tree
Been making plans since I was three

Time catches everyone
And the world goes round the sun
And the memory lives on in my heart
Going back to the start

Skiving french and stealing mars
Hanging out in rosie's bar
Getting changed straight after school
Smoking fags and playing pool

Rainbow coming over me
But I like graham connelly
Getting caught in someone's car
This time kid you've gone too far

Time catches everyone
And the world goes round the sun
But the memory lives on in my heart
Going back to the start
Forever forever forever

Up and down to liverpool
Learning lines to play the fool
Hanging out at hannah's bar
Got too drunk to drive the car

Even though I'd love to stay
It's time to work not to time to play
And even though you're now for me
Soon you'll be a memory

Time catches everyone
And the world goes round the sun
And the memory lives on in my heart
Time catches everyone
And the world goes round the sun
And the memory lives on in my heart
Going back to the start
Forever forever forever

Help me get my feet back to solid ground
Cos were walking to the devils beat
And it's trying to bring us down.

Well the devils get us rolling a 6-sided dice
And it's burning up the oils and melting down the ice
And the bank tills are ringing to the tune of war
Do you ever wonder what it is were fighting for?

Oh it dont's feel so good when the sun don't shine
Oh we gotta leave this place leave it all behind
Oh before I loose my head and I loose my mind

Help me get my feet back to solid ground
Cos were walking to the devils beat
And it's trying to bring us down.

Oh~ Sweet mother nature's such a lonely girl
What's she gonna do when we selll the world
Time will only tell if the prophecies true
Has the devil got the beat or has the beat got you.

Oh it dont's feel so good when the sun don't shine
Oh we gotta leave this place leave it all behind
Oh before I loose my head and I loose my mind

Help me get my feet back to solid ground
Cos were walking to the devils beat
And it's trying to bring us down
Come on and help me get my feet back to solid ground
Cos were walking to the devils beat
And it's trying to bring us down

Oh it dont's feel so good when the sun don't shine
Oh we gotta leave this place leave it all behind
Oh before I loose my head and I loose my mind

Help me get my feet back to solid ground
Cos were walking to the devils beat
And it's trying to bring us down

Help me get my feet back to solid ground
Cos were walking to the devils beat
And it's trying to bring us down.

Well the devils get us rolling a 6-sided dice
And it's burning up the oils and melting down the ice
And the bank tills are ringing to the tune of war
Do you ever wonder what it is were fighting for?

Oh it dont's feel so good when the sun don't shine
Oh we gotta leave this place leave it all behind
Oh before I loose my head and I loose my mind

Help me get my feet back to solid ground
Cos were walking to the devils beat
And it's trying to bring us down.

Oh~ Sweet mother nature's such a lonely girl
What's she gonna do when we selll the world
Time will only tell if the prophecies true
Has the devil got the beat or has the beat got you.

Oh it dont's feel so good when the sun don't shine
Oh we gotta leave this place leave it all behind
Oh before I loose my head and I loose my mind

Help me get my feet back to solid ground
Cos were walking to the devils beat
And it's trying to bring us down
Come on and help me get my feet back to solid ground
Cos were walking to the devils beat
And it's trying to bring us down

Oh it dont's feel so good when the sun don't shine
Oh we gotta leave this place leave it all behind
Oh before I loose my head and I loose my mind

Help me get my feet back to solid ground
Cos were walking to the devils beat
And it's trying to bring us down