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All I Want (Is Everything) (Hewerdine / Smith)
I need some violence, I need some love,
Need the kind of stuff they're making movies of
I need a spark but not a fire
One foot on the ground and one foot on the wire
I need some money I need some more
Need the kind of love I've never seen before
I need the truth I'll take a lie
Fall down with laughing with a tear in my eye
All I want is everything
All I want is everything and everything is all I want
All I want is everything and everything is all I want
I need someone to talk to that won't talk back
Someone to let the wind blow just like the coat on my back
I want to see the world and the corners four
But I ain't about to leave my front door
I need some advice but I know what I'm after
I want all my tears mixed with my laughter
I need the truth but not a lie
I want my cake mixed in with my pie
All I want is everything
All I want is everything and everything is all I want
All I want is everything and everything is all I want
Need to say my prayers in the fires of hell
Kneeling `fore the altar of the never-do-well
I need you, need you, oh baby need you
I need you, need you, oh baby need you
All I want is everything and everything is all I want
All I want is everything and everything is all I want.
Under The Darkest Moon (Hewerdine / Smith)
You don't know me
But I am following you
I'm your shadow
Oh under the darkest moon
The brightest streetlight
I still won't fade away
`Cos I'm your shadow
Oh under the darkest moon
Under the darkest moon
The lights of London
Are burning with your lies
As you grow older
Do not be surprised
I'll be following you
`Cos I'm your shadow
Oh under the darkest moon
Under the darkest moon
I'm the promise that you never kept
I'm the tears that you never wept
But if you ever choose to run around
Cast your eyes down to the ground
I'll be your shadow
Under the darkest moon
You don't know me
I am following you.
Reminds Me (A Little Of You) (Hewerdine / Smith)
Staring into my coffee
I swear I see your face
A little cream a little sugar
Stirred up to suit my taste
Well is it you or the coffee
That's keeping me awake?
I'm gonna fill my cup
Drink it up start my day
`Cos it always makes me kinda blue
It always reminds me a little of you
There's a park across from my place
There's a statue over there
We used to go there a walkin'
But now it's more than I can bear
How can I walk there all alone?
Past those statues made of stone
`Cos it always makes me kinda blue
It always reminds me a little of you
Love's no deeper than a coffee cup
What do you want from me
Now that you drunk it up?
It always makes me kinda blue
It always reminds me a little of you.
South By Southwest (Hewerdine / Smith)
Mister porter takes my bags
Got my ticket got my tags
I'm leaving
Put me on a big runway
There's nothing here to make me stay
I'm leaving
I'm going south by southwest
Where the world knows me best
South by southwest this time
These streets don't know my name
I walked them looking for fame
And I'm leaving
Never seen such a lonely sight
Broadway when they turn out the light
I'm leaving
Went looking for the free world
That much I know
I never knew how far I'd go
End of the world or the earth around
I was searching I found it in my home town.
These Chains (Hewerdine / Smith)
Way too long I've been a fool
Now I know your kind is cruel
All I got from you oh these chains
You never ever learnt the golden rule
That's one story that you missed in school
Way too long I've been a fool
Oh for these chains
Can't get out of bed, feet are made of lead
Nothing is going to change
Until you cut me loose, these chains
Oh these chains
I can hear the money talking
One of these days you're gonna find me walking
Hope you're happy wrapped up in these chains.
First Chill Of Winter (Hewerdine / Smith)
I believe, I believe, I just felt the first chill of winter
Was it me, was it you who let the cold in here?
Somebody pull down the window, somebody pull down the shade
There's a cold wind blowin' it's got me knowin'
The first frost is headed this way
I believe, I believe, I just felt the first chill of winter
Was it me, was it you who let the cold in here?
Somebody pull down the window, somebody pull down the shade
There's a cold wind blowin' it's got me knowin'
The first frost is headed this way
Show me, show which way the wind blows
Tell me tell me how you know
I believe.
Out Of This World (Hewerdine / Smith)
Pretty boy blue come blow your horn
Been down twice, three's a charm
If there's an angel up above
Bring her back to my arms
Jack be nimble Jack be quick
Teach me how to turn that trick
Let me learn the lesson well
To catch a falling star
Out of this world she sends me out of this world
Out of this world she sends me out of this world
Wells were made for wishin'
And a dollar bill was meant to blow
A pretty face was made for missin'
So I'll tell you where my money will go
One there was a crooked man
He walked a crooked mile
I'd walk from here to eternity
Just to see her smile
And wells were made for wishing on
My money's all been spent
And if you ever ask me where
I'll tell you where the money went.
Love Is A Strange Hotel (Hewerdine / Smith)
Now the bride showed up
The groom did not
She was dressed in lace
To tie that knot
Tears were flowin' from the champagne well
Guess nobody told her that love is a strange hotel
Now her daddy got drunk
I think the preacher did too
And her mummy ran off
With Uncle Lou
The choir was singing those blues so well
You see everybody knows that love is a strange hotel
You see the walls are cracked
The pain is thin
And you can't turn back, no
Once you've checked in
The whole town laughing at the ringing of the bell
You see everybody knows that love is a strange hotel
I don't want to live a lie anymore
I don't want to go through that once again
You can take your flowers your wedding cake
Leave them out in the rain
Now I'm across the street
The bus is due
I could never be
The best man for you
You'll be the blushing bride until
You find out that love is a strange
Everybody knows that love is a strange hotel
Love is a strange hotel.
Evidence (Hewerdine / Smith)
White roses, when I always sent you red
Everyone supposes the name on the card is mine
Late night phone calls, whispered voices in another room
But when I answer all I get is silence on the line
And there's your evidence, there's your evidence
When we go dancing your eyes are always on the floor
Then I ask you `Who are you waiting for?'
I was only joking but here comes the punch line right across the floor
If he breaks in we won't be dancing anymore
And there's your evidence and there's your evidence
There's your evidence
Even now you say it's impossible
I don't mind this waiting'til midnight
Or that your kisses are cold
I don't mind being left behind
I just wish I'd been told
Instead of all your evidence, there's your evidence
Look at all your evidence
Even now you say it's impossible
There's your evidence, there's your evidence
How can you say that it's impossible?
Oil On The Water (Hewerdine / Smith)
Oil on the water
Flames across the sea
It's everywhere it's all around
Covers you and me
Down below the surface
Underneath the blue
Gonna swim with all my might
Just to get away from you
And all this oil on the water
Oil on the water
And now I kissed you once and I kissed you twice
But I could not stop at that
`Cos your kisses are like heroin
Oh the monkey on my back
Wind it is a howling and the waves are the horse's white
Two ships blown off-course we collided in the night
Now there's this oil on the water
Oil on the water, oil on the water, oil on the water
On this troubled sea
Sailors you and me
Oil on the water
Oh the sea is full of flames
And it might burn out by morning
Oh but it might not just the same
`Cos the higher tide is turning
Right before my eyes
Something is burning
And now I realise it's just this oil on the water
Oil on the water, oil on the water, oil on the water
On this stormy sea
We're sailors you and me
Oil on the water.
Tell Me Why (Hewerdine / Smith)
Build a wall around Berlin
Try to keep the world outside
From Threadneedle to Wall Street
They're just cutting up pieces of the pie
Just take a look around
See what we have done
Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why
Hang your head and cry
Look out any window
Just watch the sun go down
With a smokestack for a paintbrush
We're talking green and red and yellow and purple and blue and brown
Just take a deeper breath
Hear the time bomb ticking away
Come sit down to dinner
Oh put your toys away
Poor baby you must be hungry
And what you don't want you can just throw it away
The sins of our fathers
Its children must pay
Who, What, Where And Why? (Hewerdine / Smith)
Waited up too many nights in a row
Watching Brando on the late, late show
Just to see you come a strollin' in
Smelling of cigarettes, bourbon and gin
And I only want to know one thing
All I want to know is tell me who what where and why?
'Cos like the mirror shattered on this floor
You broke me into a thousand pieces maybe more
Hard to see the future hard to make these plans
'Cos when I look down I see the picture of a shattered man
And I only want to know one thing
All I want to know is tell me who what where and why?
Standing in the shadows last night?
What do you see when you look in his eyes?
Where does he take you when you turn out the light?
And why, why, why, why, why?
Pack up my records pack up my clothes
Gonna throw 'em in a box
Take them down that road
'Cos you blew through me like a gust of that dust bowl wind
It's time for this tango to come to an end
And I only want to know one thing
All I want to know is tell me who what where and why?
What do you see in the shadows at night?
Who what where and why?
What do you see when you look in his eyes?
Who what where and why?
Where does he take you when you turn out those lights?
Who what where and why?
Baby why do you have to go run off and do it again tonight?
Who what where and why?
A Town Called Blue (Hewerdine / Smith)
I was born and I'll die in a town called Blue
The streets are paved with memories
Borrowed from the truth
I'll go out walking
Seeing shadows of youth
I was born in a town called Blue
So baby get out your needle and thread
Try to sew up the hole in my head
'Cos I am too smart too late too much too soon
So baby get out your needle and thread
Try to sew up the hole in my head
'Cos I am too smart too late too much too soon
Born in a town, born in a town
Born in a town called Blue.
My Doreen (Hewerdine / Smith)
Well now look o' here yonder comes a' my Doreen
She's cooler than a big 'ole bowl o' ice cream
She's a Mardi Gras Madonna in a low cut dress
Mama was a waitress and her daddy was a mess
She's the cat's pajamas dressing through the night
She's mine mine mine mine
She's my Doreen
Man, Doreen she's my little kissing cousin
Fast asleep going ten to the dozen
She's a platinum blonde with red nail polish
That little girl never dreamed about college
Doreen's sharper than a fresh shoeshine
She's mine mine mine mine
She's my Doreen
Yeah she's my Doreen
My Doreen
Told Doreen I'd pick her up about eight
She said buddy better not be late
I was five minutes early she was long gone
She's about as subtle as a neutron bomb
She's the bee's knees ahead of her time
She's mine mine mine mine
She's my Doreen
My Doreen
Yeah she's mine mine mine mine
Yeah she's mine mine mine mine
She's my Doreen.
With thanks to John Gaskell
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