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Red Day On Blue Street (Banks/Kershaw)
They're kissing babies and telling me lies They're taking over my television They're making noises that sound so wise Trying to influence my decision Rituals old fashioned With speeches so proud and passionate Hope reigns, fears rule I may be crazy but I'm not such a fool No such fool Red day on blue street And this world promises everything Old shoes on new feet again Nothing changes Red day on blue street Here comes a man with a face so sincere Here comes another with power on his mind Both with a want for a word in my ear Both with a message of hope for my kind Heads of this nation Fight lies with misinformation and This gives, that takes One or the other for the difference it makes None at all Red day on blue street And this world promises everything Old shoes on new feet again Nothing changes Red day on blue street We are the chosen ones You have asked us to serve you We deserve you It's going the way that we said it would We say that you never had it so good No one's a loser who plays our game The difference is clear, we just changed our name Nobody knows that it's just the same Red day on blue street Or how about Blue day on red street It doesn't matter, it really doesn't It doesn't matter, it really doesn't Somebody showing me the magical way Somebody waving the key to my chains They must believe I was born yesterday They must believe I've got sand for my brains Members historical Woo me with words rhetorical Blood runs, mud flies Can't see a thing for the wool in my eyes In my eyes Red day on blue street And this world promises everything Old shoes on new feet again Nothing changes Red day on blue street This world promises everything Old shoes on new feet again Nothing changes Red day on blue street...
Angel Face (Banks)
Are you ready for the rest of your life Does your comforter provide Are you ready to remain evermore in your world of ice All your feelings all locked inside Are you a woman or just a mannequin Does your heart beat like the rest Do you ever feel like joining in with the human race Or are you happier outside? But now you're gone you've broke the spell I've got no memories just a photograph I've got the best there is of you You're just a devil with a pretty angel face You've made your choice and that's ok It never would have worked out anyway I've got the best there is of you You're just a devil with a pretty angel face Will you be ready in your later life When your looks are on the wane and you're thinking of the ones and the scores that you left behind As they come to haunt your mind And when the twilight moment comes at last and you have to face that nobody's there to care But now you're gone you've broke the spell I've got no memories just a photograph I've got the best there is of you You're just a devil with a pretty angel face You've made your choice and that's ok It never would have worked out anyway I've got the best there is of you You're just a devil with a pretty angel face Pretty angel face...
The Gift (Banks)
The door is opening there's a glimmer of light Keep on pushing it will give tonight And I don't care if it takes me long It really doesn't matter if its right or wrong The fires are burning and its warm inside my soul As we wander down the road The gift is mine tonight Don't care if the mood won't last And I don't care if it goes slow or fast The stage is set, the timing's right Let me lead you to the light A chance is all there's ever gonna be It's here let's take a hold The gift is mine tonight - tonight The magic look is in your eye The power to move and satisfy And the promise that you bring to me Lifts me up and sets me free. I've thought of how it could be in the future everyday I've thought of all the good things in the past Everyday, everynight. I shouted at the sky but the sky was deaf I looked into the ashes but the heat had all left I never dreamed that it could be this way again The magic look is in your eye The power to move and satisfy And the promise that you bring to me Lifts me up and sets me free. And I don't care if the cost is great Stop and think about it, it's too late The sails are set, the tide has turned Time to go explore the world The winds are blowing but its warm inside my soul As we turn and leave the shore The gift is mine tonight The magic look is in your eye The power to move and satisfy And the promise that you bring to me Lifts me up and sets me free. The magic look is in your eye The power to move and satisfy And the promise that you bring to me Lifts me up and sets me free...
Still It Takes Me By Surprise (Banks)
It can be strange In the world we live in So many things are not how they appear We sit and talk Of what it doesn't matter The meaning of the words we use hides behind the sound Yet still it takes me by surprise How the feeling overtakes me and fills my mind With thoughts which even now I can't control How simple words and gestures make the world seem right No matter what they say No matter what they say It's hard to believe That once we met as strangers Not knowing of the life that we would share You lead me on Through new ways unfamiliar Or down a road we travelled many times before Yet still it takes me by surprise How the feeling overtakes me and fills my mind With thoughts which even now I can't control How simple words and gestures make the world seem right No matter what they say No matter what they say The years go by Older yet no wiser Our hearts and minds remain as they once were And after all the time That we have been together So many times we must have been this way before Yet still it takes me by surprise How the feeling overtakes me and fills my mind With thoughts which even now I can't control How simple words and gestures Make the world seem right No matter what they say No matter what they say
Hero For An Hour (Banks)
I was walking along at the end of the day I was walking along when it began to rain and by the edge of the path was a suitable tree I decided to wait there patiently Then a scream cut through the air and a voice spoke much too near "Little girl you're on your own You're so scared and far from home" I knew what I was meant to do I should go to the young girl's aid Act like a man be a hero strong and brave I pictured myself front page news Headline story hero for an hour But my natural nature got the better of me I took to my heels and I fled so fast That only when I was miles away Did I catch my breath and slow down To a walk and then to rest Front page news Headline story Front page news Headline story Well I was walking along when it came to me That maybe I'd acted to hastily and that the thing to do was to go on back To be of help yes be the hero of the the hour So I retraced my steps in the gathering gloom Till I thought I was back where I started from I searched and looked but I couldn't find I was very relieved if you know what I mean And then I heard a voice behind I was rooted to the spot "Little man you're on your own You're so scared and far from home" You take me for a fool I know to return to the lion's den I felt lost and confused and about to be misused I felt the time had come to do what I do best Time to do the thing that I do better than the rest I let my natural nature get the better of me I took to my heels and I fled so fast That only when I was miles away Did I catch my breath and slow down to a walk and then to rest Front page news Headline story Front page news Headline story...
I Wanna Change The Score (Banks/Kershaw)
I wanna be in another place Some other body and someone else's face Don't wanna be in here I need a space I can disappear I wanna play me a different part Another feeling in someone else's heart Don't wanna cry out loud Don't wanna show you I'm too damn proud. You can change the words you say Stop the things you do Throw away your yesterdays You'll still be stuck with you But don't be sad Get a hold upon yourself before you get too far No matter what you have to learn to live with who you are. I wanna live in a different time Another reason in someone else's mind I wanna change the score I don't wanna be me no more I wanna play in a different game Another player in someone else's name Don't wanna be the fool Don't wanna show you I can lose my cool You can stop the world you're on Change the song you sing Choose defection, wrong direction That won't change a thing But that's so good No time to wish your life away, follow your star Be glad of what you have my friend, be glad of who you are. I wanna be like a different man I wanna set me free if I can. I wanna be in another place Some other body and someone else's face Don't wanna be in here I need a space I can disappear I wanna play me a different part (different part) Another feeling in someone else's heart Don't wanna cry out loud Don't wanna show you I'm too damn proud. I wanna live in a different time (different time) Another reason in someone else's mind I wanna change the score I don't wanna be me no more I wanna play in a different game Another player in someone else's name Don't wanna be the fool Don't wanna show you I can lose my cool
Water Out Of Wine (Banks)
In the dark it seems so easy now If you could just remember how the problem can be solved The sun comes up lightening the sky But everyday is the same Doubts return and the answers desert you Fragments fall around you All shot down in flames Suddenly now you know that it can never be the same All of the hopes and dreams and promises You made have upped and gone Bringing boredom out of wonder, water out of wine, oh By the fire cheered up by the flames Watching people on the TV Thinking I can do the same The sun goes down darkening the sky Leave things undecided Lest the thinking cause you pain So everyday is the same You know what to do, just how eludes you Fragments fall around you All shot down in flames Suddenly now you know that it can never be the same All of the hopes and dreams and promises You made have upped and gone Bringing boredom out of wonder, water out of wine, oh Look into the glass Can you still recall That bundle of potential That you were when you were young The sun comes up brightening the sky The sun goes down darkening the sky So everyday is the same Till the day when the dreaming is over Fragments fall around you All shot down in flames Suddenly now you know that it can never be the same All of the hopes and dreams and promises You made have upped and gone Bringing boredom out of wonder, water out of wine, oh
Another Murder Of A Day (Banks/Fish)
She dreams china white behind her eyes of china blue Her future wrapped in velvet and her memories wrapped in warm cotton wool And the coffee grounds are burying the hours that she killed in another murder of a day Her patience starts to crumble like a rock that turns to sand and time breaks down to seconds when you're waiting, waiting on a man, waiting on a man She's checking out the doorway while she's checking out the guy Whose drunk imagination is climbing up the ladder of her silk clad thigh And the cigarettes are burning up the hours that she killed in another murder of a day Her patience starts to crumble like a rock that turns to sand and time breaks down to seconds when you're waiting, waiting on a man, waiting on a man, waiting on a man It seems so long since yesterday The time goes by so slow When you're waiting on a man, waiting on a man to show She shivers in a cold sweat that she's trying to ignore, As she wraps her shaking fingers round the loose change by the phone, She needs him more than she'll admit and more than others need to know, She hopes the knots that tie her stomach are only butterflies, The time goes by so slow When you're waiting on a man, waiting on a man to show. She prays that no one pays attention As she punches out the call, As she fumbles with the number That the panic still doesn't show, She prays the lights stay green all night She prays the traffic doesn't slow, And that the knots that tie her stomach are only butterflies, Only butterflies, fly by every day While you're waiting on a man, waiting on a man to show There he stands behind the door, She reaches for her coat to go, And she wanders away in a dream She wanders away to a dream She threads her way home through the neon washed alleyways She flirts with the shadows and skirts round the victims Of a night that'll sleep through the day that casts out its refugees and throws out its debris, She turns the key in a lock to a fairytale world that she guards with her ghosts of faithful familiars who attend to her shrine in the patchwork cathedral observing the ritual with silent compassion and prayers On the candlelit edges of a tightening circle She arranges the photographs faded and yellowing The memories left of her friends and her family Respectfully turned to the wall She turns up the sound on a second hand radio and drowns out the noise of the world that she lives in Her conscience her witness her life is her courtroom And the man she left waiting is waiting to murder a day
Back To Back (Banks)
He's not the only one To think that things are going wrong and all around is only second best. Time was when all was fair and we built solid castles in the air He said that back to back in time's the way to go Better in my day I hear everybody say but then they'll still be saying it tomorrow It's so hard to take it When your time is over Yes it's hard to take it When you try to remember Better in my day, in my way, can't you see Better in my way, here to-day, don't you see I remember well he said, When great men led the way instead Of manicure and media-hugging style But I don't know what to do From now on we'll always lose He said that back to back in time's the way to go Better in my day I hear everybody say but then they'll still be saying it tomorrow It's so hard to take it When your time is over Yes it's hard to take it When you try to remember Better in my day, in my way, can't you see Better in my way, here to-day, don't you see He's not the only one To think that things are going wrong And all around is only second best But I don't know what to do From now on we'll always lose He said that back to back in time's the way to go The only way to go Try to remember Oh better in my day, better in my way...
The Final Curtain (Banks)
It's been fun but the time has come To bring down the final curtain move along Time to face what you know in your heart That the world keeps on turning you've lost your part It is never ending Take a look if you're not sure at the millions gone before It's been hard when the going is rough Or you're many thousand miles away from home To believe that it's all worthwhile That it makes the slightest difference in the end And it gets harder Will you stay until you're pushed Or will the day dawn when you're on your own You look around There's only empty rows of chairs Where once your fairweather friends Hung on every word that you said Its been fun but the moment is near To write down the final chapter turn the page To be free from the power and the lure That has pushed from behind and led you on It is never ending Take a look if you're not sure at the millions gone before It's been fun but the time has come To bring down the final curtain move along Time to face what you know in your heart That the world keeps on turning you've lost your part It's been hard when the going is rough Or you're many thousand miles away from home To believe that it's all worthwhile That it makes the slightest difference in the end