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Graceland (Hewerdine / Shepherd)
Would I give you money?
I don't know
the free-est things in life are best
and so, put me to the test
now...
And when I die
will you build the Taj Mahal?
wear black every day of your life?
I doubt it
You will never see Graceland...
All my wanting, all my waiting, all my working
all my wickedness
for all my yearning, inside I'm shutting down
You will never see Graceland...
So what am I doing
without you?
Love at second sight would see me through
but not this time
You will never see Graceland...
All my wanting, all my waiting, all my working
all my wickedness
for all my yearning, all my yearning, all my yearning
You will never see Graceland...
Glorybound (Hewerdine / Shepherd)
I said your name in a prayer last night
though I knew it wouldn't be heard
Honest I will
I will be good
But you creep round the house
without a sound
hold out your arms and I'm glorybound
bound for glory I'm glorybound
You took the weight of the world today
you look so skinny
are you OK?
And how will I know
and what will I find
when I creep round the house
without a sound?
Hold out your arms and I'm glorybound
bound for glory I'm glorybound
and I say oh yeah
bound for glory I'm glorybound
Some people are wild about you
some people are wilder still
I know that I will fall for that line again
again and again
again and again
And how will I know
and what will I find
when I creep round the house
without a sound?
Hold out your arms
hold out your arms
hold out your arms and I'm glorybound
and I say oh yeah
bound for glory I'm glorybound
Now you've seen the best of me
come on and take the rest of me...
Coming Of Age (Hewerdine / Shepherd / Larcombe / MacColl)
For your sins you've been waiting
and how will you know when life has come?
Will there be sparks that fly
or dribs and drabs?
Will you be a happy one?
I'm going to say I'm going to do
all the things that I've been meaning to
so if I get all wound up
just thinking about it
bring me down to earth again
There's gonna be changes
in a lonely place
she wears it like badges
all over her face all over her face
Oh the coming of age
the changing of everything
you've been watching the world again
I know you've been praying
for the coming of age
the changing of everything
I know you'll be leaving
with the coming of age
Five weeks later I'm a changed man
you wouldn't know me if you saw my face
so if I get to busy thinking
all about myself
remind me who I am again
again
There's gonna be changes
in a lonely place
she wears it like badges
all over her face all over her face
Oh the coming of age
the changing of everything
you've been watching the world again
I know you've been praying
for the coming of age
the changing of everything
I know you'll be leaving
with the coming of age
with the coming of...
Bubblehead (Hewerdine)
Every night he says a prayer for you
he wouldn't hurt a fly
she looked like Marilyn Monroe
in the Seven Year Itch, oh my
And I know that he loves you
cos I've heard him talk about you
what were you expecting anyway
this is a past imperfect world
You wanted a saint
but you gave him a martyr
right now I could shake you honey
I always thought that you were smarter
Hey bubblehead
don't you know what's good for you?...
The Slow Drag Down (Hewerdine / Shepherd / Larcombe / MacColl)
It's a slow drag down
a wishing well full of money
and a girl with frown lines
such a slow drag down
a weekend away from home
within sight of town and
now you feel you've been taken in
by a textbook case and tears, tears
but she knows she's been taken in
by the lamest of excuses
and a third honeymoon
Oh isn't it strange how
two memories change things around
on the slow drag down?
And do I forgive you?
I have nothing to forgive
And do I forgive you?
I have nothing left to forgive with
to forgive with
Such a slow drag down
this time you know
it's really forever
such a long hard slow drag down
A weekend away from home
within spitting distance
Oh isn't it strange how
two memories change things around
on the slow drag down?
Just one more day now...
Eureka (Hewerdine / Shepherd / Larcombe / MacColl)
What made me into
a bad dream believer?
What made these delta
blues turn omega?
Have I been missing
what I'm not knowing?
Have I been thinking
that you are the one?
And I found out
a little bit late but
better late than never
Eureka
I found out
a little bit late
but better late than never
Stuck in a goldmine
without a shovel
let's start the digging
and at the double
When I get older
will I be wiser?
Will I be thinking
that you are the one?
And I found out
a little bit late but
better late than never
Eureka
I found out
a little bit late
but better late than never
Some people they just don't see
oh no they just don't understand...
The Golden Mile (Hewerdine / Shepherd / Larcombe / MacColl)
Sometimes only sometimes
I remember why I came here
well, you look me up and down
and call me Mr Lucky
Is it getting on your nerves
living off mine?
While I see how rich I get
on the golden mile
the golden mile
Well there's three little words
that I never use
but if I ever came to use them
I'd use them for you
And then we'd see how rich we get
on the golden mile
the golden mile
I'm telling you all my secrets
so that they will be heard
I said I'm telling you all my secrets
so that they will be heard
And then we'll see how rich we get
on the golden mile
we'll see how rich we get
on the golden mile
Mayday (Hewerdine / Shepherd / Larcombe / MacColl)
I can be your fiery fingers
when the Mayday comes
you can stop my hands from shaking
when the Mayday comes
and you could tell me anything
but how am I meant to know
when the Mayday comes?
And I would be there
whenever you need me to be there
And I would be there
whenever you need me to be there
when the Mayday comes
I begin to lose my grip
when I act my age
shut me up with cabin fever
and put me on a wage
and if I tell you everything
pretend you didn't hear
we could lose ourselves in numbers
now that Mayday's near
No open way
no hand to play
no need to stay
when the Mayday comes
And I would be there
whenever you need me to be there
And I would be there
whenever you need me to be there
when the Mayday comes
when the Mayday comes
I'll come...
Electric Money (Hewerdine / Shepherd / Larcombe / MacColl)
I can see you in five years' time
just the same getting by
electric money and a long lifeline
have you no fight at all?
And in a seaside town
out of season shutters down
you should be living all you round
have you no faith at all?
And it's getting hard to tell
it's getting hard to tell
when someone has to go from here
alone alone
You make the bed
then make the best
you know when you've been beaten
these little things are sent to try
try try again
photo-fits of long lost friends
what would you really give him out of ten?
Have you no choice at all?
And it's getting hard to tell
it's getting hard to tell
when someone has to go from here
alone alone
And it's getting hard to tell
it's getting hard to tell
when someone has to go from here
alone alone
Abraham, Martin And John (D. Holler)
The Will To Love (Hewerdine / Shepherd / Larcombe / MacColl)
Been on this train for an hour now
and the sky doesn't seem to have moved
there's a cloud up there in the shape of a rose
and I suddenly remembered how I met you
there's a girl sitting over from me
with a passport and a magazine
she's wearing a coat a little large for her
and I know how it feels to be lonely
to lose the will to love
And on that first afternoon
when you threw your shadow across my room
even then I think I knew
someone somewhere was waiting
but oh those last days
oh those last days
I might not have been there at all
I could have walked right through the wall
and lost the will to love
By the time that you wake up
we will be worlds apart
me with my faith in names and wheels
you with your magnet for a heart
but oh those first days
oh those first days
a four line good-bye letter
oh you can do better than that
you still have the will to love...
I'm So Lonesome (I Could Cry) (Williams)
Motherless Child (Trad. Arr. Hewerdine / MacColl)
On Broadway (Mann / Weill / Lieber / Stoller)
With thanks to Dr Phil Mason
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