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Skywriting (The Bible)
I can't help looking at you
you look so perfectly sad
with your hands in your pockets
and mine on your shoulders
You've been talking to them again
and what they do is explain and explain
all it takes is getting older
And we haven't got a penny in the world I know
but if you won't tell then I won't tell
And on a better day
skywriting
we'll put a little away
skywriting
I remember when I was young
how once I wanted to scream and shout
I opened my mouth and nothing came out
And we haven't got a penny in the world I know
but if you won't tell then I won't tell
And on a better day
skywriting
we'll put a little away
for when its raining
and on a better day
skywriting
we'll put a little away
and say
goodbye...
Honey Be Good (The Bible)
To the girl with the gun
I leave my loneliness
to the boy in your arms
I leave you
when you go and you must
my tongue will turn to dust
and goodbye won't mean a thing
On a day like today
I'll believe anything you say
Who'll be there when your heart hits the ground?
Now that I'm not around
Be good
and if you can't be good
be good at being bad like every girl should
honey be good
Now that I stay at home
listening to the Temptations
singing "I wish it would rain"
On a day like today
I'll believe anything you say
Who'll be there when your heart hits the ground?
Now that I'm not around
Be good
and if you can't be good
be good at being bad like every girl should
honey be good
Now that I'm not around
Skeleton Crew (The Bible)
You're one of the few
I'm one of the skeleton crew
getting by while you're getting through
I'm nothing new
One of the skeleton crew
Did I embarrass you I didn't mean to
Through the bars of the pouring rain
It must be strange to see me again
at times like these I could wish myself dead
I know I've lost any grace that I might have had
Want to know what I do
I'm one of the skeleton crew
Always there just behind you
nothing new
one of the skeleton crew
you want me to go I will if you ask me
You always said it could be done
you moved to London I stayed at home
don't ask me again I'm too ashamed
you're far too busy and nothing's changed
I swear nothing's changed
You're one of the few
I'm one of the skeleton crew
goodbye it was nice to have met you...
November Brides (The Bible)
I know where you're going
I can tell where you have been
You've been picking up scraps on Hasting Street
trying to make ends meet
and you can always tell when winter comes
it goes right through your insides
your eyes are full of icicles
and the aisles
November brides
Is this what you wanted?
Is this how it's done?
In a little shop downstairs you lose
the last of what made you young
and you can always tell when it's over
you don't call them laugh lines anymore
yes you can always tell when it's over
November brides
You've said your piece now
what more can I say?
You've said your piece now
I just hope there's someone there
to pick up the bouquet
I know that you're trying
and you're doing the best that you can
she keeps her heart in the bottom drawer
and you're the barometer man
and we all got sunk by a floating voter
and a world with its head in its hands
from the gods down to the gallery we see
November brides...
Cigarette Girls (The Bible)
One too many dockside kisses
too few ships coming in
make a threat into a promise
make her start when you begin
And how you love to watch them burn
cigarette girls
Forgotten faces lipstick traces
who needs friends when you've got eyes
broken homes from crooked houses
crocodile tears and alligator smiles
And how you love to watch them burn
cigarette girls
I've been watching I've been seeing how it's done
it's an ugly ugly world where everybody loves a cigarette girl
It breaks my heart to hear them talking
they say "I hope I live before I get old"
all that sadness all of it man-made
all that glitter that isn't gold
And how you love to watch them burn
cigarette girls...
White Feathers (The Bible)
Send me white feathers
for me to wear
and everyone will see
what becomes of me
it's fair it's not fair
why I must stay civilian
and after the ice games
on whose shoulders will you ride?
Not all of us who fall are pushed
and some of us are falling freely
Send me white feathers
remind me again
I've nothing to lose
and nothing to win
it's mine then it's not mine
and so I'll keep myself to myself
it's over in minutes
and it's with you for years
Not all of us who fall are pushed
and some of us are falling freely
A cause for everyone
a sight for all to see
when it's closer to midnight
further and further and further and further
Not all of us who fall are pushed
and some of us are falling freely
Send me white feathers
for me to wear
and everyone will see
Send me white feathers...
Crystal Palace (The Bible)
When I first saw you standing there
just like The Beatles
the darling of the paparazzi
so history tells
so I don't get to get around
like I used to
what if I am not getting around
I'll get used to
Oh my, here I am cap in hand again
To live in a crystal palace
everyone will see what we have done
no stones are every thrown
and everyone will see what we have done
A kind of living
a kind of slipping away
And then you turned to me on the big wheel
and said marry me
I closed my eyes threw my head back and said
what comes next?
Oh, I'm willing to live and learn
oh perhaps I was born that way
Oh my my, here I am cap in hand again
To live in a crystal palace
everyone will see what we have done
no stones are every thrown
and everyone will see what we have done
A kind of living
A kind of loving
a kind of slipping away
The Wishing Game (The Bible)
Sorry if I seem a little distant
I've got things on my mind
if I come to you without an answer
will I be left behind?
And do we learn to lose the wishing game
Killing every hour god sends me
I won't fight anymore
something in a smile the slightest movement
I knew I would never have yours
and so we learn to lose the wishing game
I'm tired now and you don't look the same
when you rose goes by another name
you've lost the wishing game
And so we learn to lose again and again
the wishing game
sorry if I seem a little distant
I've got things on my mind
Red Hollywood (The Bible)
Don't think I've ever been so ashamed
you brought these ugly thoughts
into our home
now I find I'm behind enemy lines
The he tells her
how he wants her
and he's going to be good
he's going to be
yes he's going to be good
But how can he be good
when all the flags are coming down
in red Hollywood
in red Hollywood?
I've been crying
I've been crying all night...
Tiny Lights (The Bible)
Mad affairs
Girls in green who dazzle you
all these things he'll never know
tell again
how easy it was going to be
right down to changing the key
Someone's loving someone
down among those tiny lights
have they all come out in sympathy
for you and me
Tiny lights
She wears white
on her one big day
says I do then turns around
and out there as it's raining
I see myself come splashing down
Someone's loving someone
down among those tiny lights
have they all come out in sympathy
for you and me
Tiny Lights
She's thinking of things that she must do
re-inventing a whole life story for you
he's thinking of things that can't be right
down among those
Tiny lights...
Blue Shoes Stepping (The Bible)
Now I see you spending time
with silent types who never lose
their sergeant's stripes
blue shoes stepping out just in time
When I see you
standing there in all your glory
let it be a different story
blue shoes stepping out just in time
All those things you never said
can you hear them now?
all those words you never used
can you hear them now?
Blue shoes stepping
out in time
just in time
Stepping out just in time...
Up In Smoke (The Bible)
A younger brother elder sister
who really thought that no one missed her
And London is an ugly town
and why anyone should settle down there
I don't know
Up in smoke
did we come so far to go
up in smoke?
For every day you spend alone
you find only the truth comes home
For everything that you've been told
you find these streets are paved with cold
Up in smoke
did we come so far to go
up in smoke...
With thanks to Dr Phil Mason
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