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(Heaton/Rotheray) Don't whisper love and dream of wedding bells Don't do all the talking, let love speak up itself Let love speak up itself So when you feel a little tatty and unhappy with your face Let it breathe into ...
(B. Holiday / A. Herzog) Those that's got shall get Those that's not shall lose So the bible said and it still is true Mama may have Papa may have But God bless the child that's got his own That's got his own Well the ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) Queuing with the old folk There's and old man with a wicked smile Not through smug politeness He's doing it in style No savings book or flannel slacks No "Pardon" when I heard them ask Just ...
I love you from the bottom, of my pencil case I love you in the songs, I write and sing Love you because, you put me in my rightful place And I love the PRS cheques, that you bring Cheap, never cheap I'll sing you ...
Little seas can be big seas To the wrong or long of sights But the Mediterranean Looks like aspirin tonight The Doctor told me the chemist He had nothing for my plights But the Mediterranean Looks like aspirin tonight This ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) No one wrote a song for me Just instrumental not too long As sure as sure could ever be You'd only get the lyrics wrong No solo Chet Baker ever played lowered me slowly to my grave The prose that Keats ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) It doesn't take a mathematician To add a simple sum Either you are simply beautiful Or I am simply dumb Dumb, dumb, dumb It doesn't take Robert The Bruce To see the web you've spun Either you are simply ...
(M. Greaves) No piece of sky For you Jimmy lad They always blame him They knew Jimmy was bad His own fault entirely To die without sound That's how it is One staring at the ground And he wears his isolation As a widow wears ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) Ooh you care, you really, really care From the first 12" I made to the colour of my underwear Ooh you know, you really, really know Inside, outside in, from head to toe But where were you in the ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) Eyes to take you dancing mouth to leave your wife Legs to run away with and you wonder why? Heart that makes you bypass every other girl Smile that keeps you grinning at the madness of this world ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) Old Red eyes is back Red from the night before the night before Walked into the wrong bar walked into a door Old Red's in town And sitting late at night he doesn't make a sound Just adding to the wrinkles ...
it was '96 in south carolina, thats the place and not the goddam year sittin on the porch out at bobbys place, just tuggin on a lukewarm beer. and there i was peepin like an old sidewinder, just an inch or so above the ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) If I walk like a fool, I've walked like that since school But maybe it's the lure of the sea Who knows the effect, that whisky could've had on me It could've been the lure of the sea 'Cause leather ...
(The Dramatics) Some people are made of plastic. You know some people are made of wood. Some people have hearts of stone. You know some people are up to no good. But baby I'm for real, I'm as real as real can get. If what ...
(Gibb / Gibb / Gibb) I started a joke Which started the whole world crying Oh had I only seen That the joke was on me And I started to cry Which started the whole world laughing Oh had I only known That the joke was on ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) I should've kept my eyes shut But I had to go and peep But when you saw what I saw Well, it's hard just to roll back to sleep I would've kept my eyes shut But I thought I heard you scream And I've ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) Only buy this if you're lonely Only listen if you're blue If you are married and you are happy This song is not to do with you If you're listening at your work place Feeling small amongst the men ...
I've seen these people described as mad But find men kissing too odd Say all their friends are gay when in fact They gave a man in tight vest a quick nod And all those threats if you keep kissing They're gonna go report ...
Water the plants, feed the cat Leave that door key under the mat I'm your number one from now on Set the code, close the door You don’t live there anymore I'm your number one from now on Nothing grows so quickly as the ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) There's no more little secrets we haven't yet disclosed We bore the living daylights of anyone too close And all our cards at Christmas are written to us both Count them up who's got the most? Said ...
(Heaton / Rotheray) Always alone when thinking hard Always alone when after dark I used to wear black I used to wear black all the time I used to wear black I used to wear black all the time Celebrating my result With my ...
Your wife's got beautiful skin Shame it's not round her body no more It just came away in my hands As I asked her up to dance Just cut her out of your scrapbook If she ever made it in And if there's any old photos of her ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) Vagabonds don't fall in love They just wheel and they deal So if I turn a funny colour when you kiss me I can't help the way that I feel Hooligans don't fall in love They just break up others lives ...
All the secrets we have shared Have moved to a couple better paired So if he impales himself on javelin or spike I will try my best to be the perfect lookalike And if he wants to be smart And enter a property quiz Every ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) Revolutions come and go but we'll just have to wait The time is nigh to sit and plot exactly who you hate Sirens in the neighbourhood The gun must be misunderstood A warden in a pool of blood The palace ...
Think of you with pipe and slippers Think of her in bed Laying there just watching telly Think of me instead I'll never grow so old and flabby That could never be Don't marry her,fuck me And your love life shines like ...
(Rufus Wainwright) Where is my master, the Rebel Prince, Who will shut all these windows? It's these windows all around me, It's these windows who are telling me To rid my dirty mind of all of its preciousness. Where is ...
You request pollard and you get pollard You ask for pollard and you get pollard You plead for pollard and you get pollard You get down for pollard and you get pollard You get down for pollard and you get pollard You get down ...
When was the last time you felt so happy You had to give yourself a good pinch When did you ever fail one of life's highs Without using stepladder or winch That's why the lifeless crave the past 'Cause when they're flogged, ...
(L. Rene / O. Rene) I gave my heart to you, The one that I trusted You brought it back to me, Broken and busted I sold my heart to the Junkman And I'll never fall in love again You took my heart Because you thought You ...
He was just a social drinker but social every night He enjoyed a pint or two or three or four She was just a silent thinker, silent every night He'd enjoy the thought of killing her before Well he was very rarely drunk ...
If you could pull yourself away from that mess Surely if you could pack a punch then you can pack a dress 'Cause hot on the trail of self pity is wilderness Like hot on the heels of heartbreak is happiness It's an upward ...
Head over heels is fine Unless you're in stilettos Love knows no boundaries Unless your in one of love's ghettos Love climb every mountain high But some of us are stuck in a cell All you need is love love love And a bloody ...
(F. Andree / W. Schundt / G. Khan ) Stars shining bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper I love you Birds singing in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me Say nighty-night and kiss me Just hold me tight and ...
Well I always knew you'd take the crutches and not the skis 1 always knew you'd take the stilts and then your knees When God gave you the sky I knew you'd take the trees Son you've grown those chicken wings You just can't ...
There he stood, gun in hand At the door, the day she chose to leave Half of him stood comforting The other half that couldn’t quite believe Believe that she had left him Believe that she had found another love Believe that ...
(Blue Oyster Cult) All our times have come Here but now they're gone Seasons don't fear the reaper Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain We can be like they are Come on baby... Don't fear the Reaper Baby take my hand... ...
Daddy was the local drunk Mommy was the loosest girl in town Brother just some two-bit punk Rode his Harley D into the ground Distant friends and relatives Each of them a problem they would share From the in-laws to the ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) When you're too old for the swings You tend to choose the slide And they never seem to warn you The slide's your final ride And when you're at the top of it And you cannot see the end Either don't let go ...
(Heaton/Rotheray) With a face like a crab's bus ticket And skin like a llama's door mat He was always gonna struggle Nature had seen to that He dreamt of those old-fashioned movies Where Bogart gets the dame But a lorry ...