Caravan

Hey hey, A.A. man!
Hey hey, A.A. man!
Hey hey, A.A. man!
Hey hey, A.A. man!

Out on the motorway, clocking up the miles
My coupe's running roughly, steaming over
Got thirty miles to go to the next services
I ain't a-gonna make it, yes so this is

You won't believe the state my engine's in
I'm leaking oil and reckon I won't make it up the hill
I should have checked my fanbelt too
There's a burning smell, and now I'm pulling over to the side

Hey hey, A.A. man!
Hey hey, A.A. man!
Hey hey, A.A. man! ? get to me as fast as you can

It's now well past four and pissing down with rain
Where's my member's handbook, Patricia darling!
The wheels are well locked up, I'm going for the phone
They ain't had the very man to fix it

Operator, put me through to breakdown
I'm down the road, in my little red Marina in the rain
Connect me through to Information
I'm pumped right out and I've fifteen miles to walk home in the wet

Hey hey, A.A. man! ? get to me as fast as you can
Hey hey, A.A. man! ? ------- up the jerrycan

Operator, put me through to breakdown
I'm down the road, in my little red Marina in the rain
Connect me to Auto Information
I'm pumped right out and I've fifteen miles to walk home in the wet

Maybe I don't know what is going on ? but I know for sure
You gotta do what you feel is alright when you never have the thought
It may not cost you a penny, but it all adds up to a crying shame
When you count the cost of a heart that's lost and you're home again

You awake with thea morning light, don't wanna face it at all
What a way to begin in your day when your head feels like a saw
You slip your head back on the pillow, floating away in a trance
Only takes 'bout a moment or two when you could find yourself in France

"All aboard!" ? you can hear them calling out
As you're falling and really trying to shout
"Wait for me, I don't wanna stay 'round here!"
While your heart is out on the quayside
You're still in bed on the floor
You're searching hard for excuses
But you've heard it all, you've heard it all before

Seems like an hour or so later, you're waiting to climb on a train
Wanna go where the living is slow, and never back again
You know that in only a moment, your heart will be lost in a glance
Never sure, now they're closing the door and now you'll never get the chance

"All aboard!" ? you can hear them calling out
As you're falling and really trying to shout
"Wait for me, I don't wanna stay 'round here!"
While your heart is lost at the station
You're still in bed on the floor
You're searching hard for excuses
But you've heard them all, you've heard them all before

It may not cost you a penny, but it all lines up to the same
When you count the cost of the heart that's lost
You find yourself, you find you're home again
Home again, hu-huh...

You talk of all the many things that you have
And you smile from day to day
But no one has ever seen any of these
And those smiles just fade away
Someone keeps shouting out 'I want to know'
Well I can't help singing this song
When they tell me that the devil is a gentleman too
I know I can't go wrong

I have to slip away today
I've been invited down to stay
Yes I feel my going down

They say that eight fishes call men in the sea
And use man-made for the bait
And shoots all the people that fly in the sky
That chance on his estate
That feeds on salmon, that just has to be seen
And none but he can do
They tell me this and they tell me that
And tell me this is always, always something new

You'd better believe it's so
I made up my mind to go
A whole world waits for you

I'll sit with my head thrust down on your knees
And smile for you again
And you won't have to worry about anything now
I'll be halfway there by ten
It only takes a moment to decide on the move
It all seems so absurd
Still I know that the devil is a gentleman too
Who never keeps his word

I made up my mind to go
You'd better believe it's so
A whole world waits for me

With a song on my mind I'm thinking of you
Through the dreams of a million eyes I'll stand still with you
And wait till I find the world that you're searching for
A cloud-coloured blind has entered my eyes
And everything's going a slight shade of purple
But me, I don't mind
Today is my day
I'm living the life that I choose
I've found a way…

I can see a noser
Sit there all alone
And dream I'm sitting here

While magic fires the moon
I turn around my mind
And bid farewell to fear

Swimming through a wish
That I know I'm in a dream
I'm changing the music by ear

I'll have to leave behind
To re-ensure them in
And wanting oh so clear

Deep inside of time
I catch my breath to find
I've got so far to go

Howlin' through the trees
A cry which is my ears
I turn around and go

Following the dream
Is not the easiest thing
Out of the shadows I see

And blackened till the moon
A magic creature moves
And says belongs to me

With a song on my mind I'm thinking of you
Through the dreams of a million eyes I'll stand still with you
And wait till I find the world that you're searching for
A cloud-coloured blind has entered my eyes
And everything's going a slight shade of purple
But me, I don't mind
Today is my day
I'm living the life that I choose
I've found a way…

I can see a noser
Sit there all alone
And dream I'm sitting here

While magic fires the moon
I turn around my mind
And bid farewell to fear

Swimming through a wish
That I know I'm in a dream
I'm changing the music by ear

I'll have to leave behind
To re-ensure them in
And wanting oh so clear

Deep inside of time
I catch my breath to find
I've got so far to go

Howlin' through the trees
A cry which is my ears
I turn around and go

Following the dream
Is not the easiest thing
Out of the shadows I see

And blackened till the moon
A magic creature moves
And says belongs to me

Wish that I could be you
Don't you wish to wish that, too?
Wish that I could be you...

Down here on Herne Bay Front, the weather's not too good
There's not a lot of crumpet, and the fish and chips are greasy
My mates and I are working days and sometimes nights
Sixteen-track recording, though our tiny hands are frozen

Down here on Herne Bay front, the summer season's gone
But the 'Bingo' is still open, and there's always roller-skating
But if you feel weak, a drive down to the 'Dolphin' for a wee drink
A touch of old 'Peculiar' helps me think

Down here at Herne Bay Front, on promenades 'stroll-on'
While the kids stop space invaders, fishermen in 'waders' hunt ragworms
Down here on Herne Bay Front, there's eels and liquor pies
In 'The Sunset' in the morning, four cups of tea they're pouring

Here in Herne Bay
The bed and breakfast ladies are out all day
The slickest thing is oil out in 'The Bay'
Back to Herne Bay front

Above 'Rancheros' caff, back to Herne Bay front
It's not Hotel California, only electric bar-fires warm you
Down here on Herne Bay Front, the 'Rangoon' has closed down
Curry and chips right out the question, topless girls give indigestion

Here in Herne Bay
In the 'Divers Arms' you'll find them all on display
Even traffics wardens drink there ? hip hip hooray!
Back to front Herne Bay

'Twas with no surprise I could feel his eyes
A-comin' straight through the back of my head
So I took my flight by the pale moonlight
No instinct to guide me, I fled
"If I catch you still with my wife I'll kill you, boy"
That's what he told me before
I didn't pay no heed cause she said I'd need
So I kept going back there for more

Look out behind you, all right
If you don't leave it alone
He's gonna hound you all night
Said slow down boy and they'll carry you home

There could be no way I was going to stay
With a man like that on my heel
He was six foot four and could eat a door
And his fists were like great blocks of steel
But his wife was rude and it seemed so good
To have fun while he was away
While he lived in hope of the sale of soap
Like the cat and the mouse we would play

Look out behind you, all right
If you don't leave it alone
He's gonna hound you all night
Said slow down boy and they'll carry you home

It was late that night when he came inside
I could see through the glass by the door
For his key had stuck and I praised my luck
As I dived from the bed to the floor
When I heard him yell like a bat from hell
I was out enough down the road
Twas with no surprise I could feel his eyes
And imagine the gun that he'd load

Right up behind me all right
Cos I couldn't leave it alone
He will hound me all night
Said, slow down boy and they'll carry you home

Better by some, better by far
Better to have tried than never
Back of a bus, seat of a car
Than never to have tried at all
Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong
Maybe I'm a fool about you
Can tell there's no way I'm gonna stay
With then what else was so long

Oh, what I wanna do is just lay down with you tonight
Set 'em up boy, wanna make love tonight

Easily come, easily go
Easy to believe in nothing
Set 'em up fast, take 'em down slow
Give it down and have a ball
You can buy gin, you can by hymn
And you can buy the world around you
But you can get roughed, and you can get fluffed
If you'd have no love at all

Oh, what I wanna do is just a lay down with you tonight
Set 'em up boy, wanna make love tonight

Oh, I got a love and I just want to let it grow
Oh, a gift from above, tellin' me, tellin' me to let it show

Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong
Maybe I'm a fool about you
Maybe I'll fight, maybe I've flung it
all around for too long
Bet you I will be lovin' you still
Well it's often bad around you
You and I must take it on trust
We're gonna carry on...

So, what I wanna do is just a lay down with you tonight
Set 'em up boy, wanna make love tonight

After all, your day is done and the nighttime's calmed you
Till the dawn comes again and the sunlight warms you
There is a light in the fire, reflected in your eyes
So with the warmth of desire that comes out of the glow
Shining on your face above, making shadows on the wall
Baby I know, baby I know

No disgrace can cause a shadow to rest on your face
But Heaven knows where it comes and where it all goes
But there is a bright shiny day waiting to be called
If you've the will, there's a way to brighten up your life
Oh, silver lining calling me, keep my head above
Baby I know, baby I know

Don't cry, don't sigh, don't spend your life off the wall
Living a love with a sad face won't do no good, won't do no good at all
Someday, some way, somebody'll open your eyes
Then you'll be like a sunshine, when the dawning comes and you'll be never surprised

Feel the glow, reaching out in through my window
For when you smile, it touches me somewhere deep down inside
For you are a bright shiny day come to take me back
I got a will, you're the way, you brighten up my life
With a smile, you called at me with a message from above
Baby I know, baby I know

From the forest down below
Came a voice that cried "no"
Something seemed nearly dead
Making me feel so cold
Even the trees seemed to fear
There was something unreal
Couldn't see very far
And the sky had gone dark

So we ran, yeah, as fast as we can
Only thought to get away
On and on we didn't know where we'd gone
If it was night or day
"Come back", I can hear a voice call
I can feel it pulling me down
In my head it felt like something had said
You better slow down
But I tried so hard not to make a sound
Feeling better I turned round
And coming up behind me I could see...

Like shadows in the trees
They came creeping unknown
Keeping close through the ground
I can feel them tramp on
Saw the music they knew
We were somewhere close by
They began to crowd us in
Sinkin' deeper in pain

Cecil runs a mill in the garden
Cecil Rons!
So we all go to wee in the garden
Cecil Rons!
So we all go to wee in the garden

Oh, what a beautiful scene!
Playing underneath my tree
Oh, what a beautiful scene I see!
Oh, what a beautiful scene!
Playing underneath my tree
Oh, what a beautiful scene I see!

Cecil runs a mill in the garden
Cecil Rons!
So we all go to wee in the garden
Cecil Rons!
So we all go to wee in the garden

Oh, what a beautiful scene!
Playing underneath my tree
Oh, what a beautiful scene I see!
Oh, what a beautiful scene!
Playing underneath my tree
Oh, what a beautiful scene I see!

Clear blue sky
Like a angel's eye
That clear blue sky
It makes me sigh ? sigh

When I think of all my daydreams
When I think of all my fears
All my fears

Just as pure as glue
Like an angel's eye
When I come too
Beneath that clear blue sky ? sky

For you I would change the day
Wrap it up and take it all away
Give the night to the morning
Let it ride on into the sky

You know you just came to see
Not what was right, but what was wrong with me
And I got strength from your feeling
When you smiled you'd pass me on by

Come on back, come on back
Lord knows I got a lack
Only when you come, you know that we'll be one
So come... back

With you, all the world would be
So small that you could hardly see
The amount of confusion
Leading all who'll pass life on by

Some time when you're feeling low
We can take the time to get up and go
From this world to another
By balloon I'll take you there, so...

Come on back, come on back
Lord knows I got a lack
Only when you come, you know that we'll be one
So come... back

For you I would change the day
Wrap it up and take it all away
Give the night to the morning
Let it ride on into the sky

You know you just came to see
Not what was right, but what was wrong with me
And I got strength from your feeling
When you smiled you'd pass me on by

Come on back, come on back
Lord knows I got a lack
Only when you come, you know that we'll be one
So come... back

With you, all the world would be
So small that you could hardly see
The amount of confusion
Leading all who'll pass life on by

Some time when you're feeling low
We can take the time to get up and go
From this world to another
By balloon I'll take you there, so...

Come on back, come on back
Lord knows I got a lack
Only when you come, you know that we'll be one
So come... back

Saw you at the corner of me eye on second day
Wondered what I'd done wrong but I stayed there anyway
Saw you in the classroom and I saw you in the street
Knew your name and knew your face and landed on me feet

Oh, we was dancing!
Oh, was romancing!
Oh, we was dancing!
Oh, couldn't chance it

You were going out with someone I called me best friend
Tried to look him in the eye, it's useless to pretend
Saw you in the classroom and I saw you in the street
Knew your name and knew your face and landed on me feet

My friend Ferdinand will, if he can
Cross that bridge to a little girl's skirt
Hands on which he's a terrible flirt
Says it's good, tells me that I should
Copy him as much as I can
Ride into a dock with only one hand
"I know you gotta be kiddin' me
No man could ever do that and get away"

My, my, my, my, Ferdinand
Oh, you're telling lies again, Ferdinand

Copin' lay one day
Said to me 'Boy, hey!
Did you hear what is coming from there?'
She was pointing at Ferdinand's hand
In walks Ferdinand's room
Made she cries and beating her chest
I know I got what it takes, but boy!
You really got the rest
"Oh, no, you gotta be kiddin' me!
No more, it's just what I need to fade away"

My, my, my, my, Ferdinand
Oh, you're still a one-man hand, Ferdinand