status quo

Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo (1968)

Black Veils Of Melancholoy

( Rossi)

If I see you hiding in the night by a peppercorn tree

The tree it moves, lets me see what I wanna see

A poison gaze of your mind is all that's worrying me.

The pictures that I see are seen by no-one else but me

To cause the night to be in sight, a little point of me

I imagine nearly anything I want to see.

Black veils of melancholy falling on me

Black veils keep shadowing my mind

Black veils that make my mind seem small




I see you with my eyes closed getting closer and closer to me

I open my eye up and you're not there

It's all in my mind






Black veils that make my mind seem smallWhen The Mind Is Not Live

(Parfitt/Rossi)

When my mind is not live I see you there before me

Every night in my mind your face flies by me

Then the morning light comes to bring reality

But my dream lingers on a little while for me

Then I wake to see a world full of misery

Lots of people rushing by, never know what they wanna be

Soon the day draws to it's end and pretty soon I'll be

Back with you in my mind because I want to see

When my mind is not live I see you there before me

Every night in my mind your face flies by me

Ice In The Sun

(Wilde/Scott)

I'm not a little boy, I've lived alone and never loved so more

But when she touches me I'm on the way, I'm underneath the floor

Like ice in the sun I melt away

Whenever she comes I melt away

Like in in the sun I melt away

I sit down in a chair and read a book as if I couldn't there

But she is in a room and I must look I see her everywhere




She opens up her eyes as if to speak

She looks at me and I am weak

Her eyes they seem much bigger than before

I cannot think anymore







Elizabeth Dreams

(Wilde/Scott)

Elizabeth dreams of the day when the way

That I looked at her made her feel she was real

Elizabeth dreams of the time she was mine

When she didn't need any more, she was sure

She was sure

Out of sight, by candlelight

And sea green, and see green horses

I said she's out of sight by candlelight ??

And fairy, fairy stories

Elizabeth is not what she seems

Elizabeth dreams, Elizabeth dreams

Elizabeth dreams, holding fast through the past

When a morning was something new, flowers grew

Elizabeth dreams but it's late and she's waited too long

And tomorrow goes, now she knows

Now she knows

Out of sight by candlelight

And sea green, and sea green horses

I said she's out of sight, by candlelight

And fairy, fairy stories

Elizabeth is not what she seems


Elizabeth dreams


Elizabeth dreamsGenleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe

(Young)

Hey Joe

Would you please lend me your ear?

I've got to know if everything's all right.

Hey Joe, have you seen my baby here?

Oh we used to share a table every night.

Hey Joe, she's the only girl who's ever

Meant anything at all

If I lose her I lose all

Joe, if you've seen her won't you say,

Or point in the direction she did go.

Every night, under the light of the moon

Under a table we'd choose, she'd take off her shoes

And rub her feet against mine

Joe, have you seen my baby here?

Oh we used to share a table every night.

Hey Joe, she's the only girl who's ever

Meant anything at all

If I lose her I lose all

Joe, if you've seen her won't you say,

Or point in the direction she did go.

Every night, under the light of the moon

Under a table we'd choose, she'd take off her shoes

And rub her feet against mine

Joe, would you please lend me your ear?

I've got to know if everything's all right.

Hey Joe, have you seen my baby here?

Oh we used to share a table every night

Paradise Flats

(Wilde/Scott)

She was sold at the paradise flats

Tell me, what d'you think of that?

No goodbye, just a pat on the back

Well I know she's made her mind up

That she don't need me around

I'm trying just to see what you're trying to do to me

Your trying to screw me down

Right through the ground oh yeah

In paradise flats there's rooms for hire,

No-one cares who you are

You won't come back, it's too late now

You've been seen too much

I know what you are

You won't come back, no you won't come back

Well I know she's made her mind up

That she don't need me around

Oh I'm trying just to see what you're trying to do to me

Your trying to screw me down

Right through the ground oh yeah

Technicolor Dreams

(King)

I see your face at the dawn of the day, gold as the sun begins to shine

I see your face now at the end of the day, purple shadows dancing in your eyes.

Technicolour dreams are all I see

Technicolour dreams of you and me

I see your shadow tripping through a silver glade, tiptoeing over crimson sand

Luring me onwards into a sea of jade, leading me gently by the hand



If I could escape through the windows of my mind

I would fly to your magic mountain land

There we would stay 'til the world had passed away

With a love only we could understand



I see your face at the dawn of the day, gold as the sun begins to shine

I see your face now at the end of the day, purple shadows dancing in your eyes.

Spicks And Specks

(Gibb)

Where is the sun that shone on my head

The sun in my life, it is dead, it is dead

Where is the light that would stay in my street

And where are the friends I could meet, I could meet

Where are the girls I left far behind

The spicks and the specks of the girls on my mind







Where is the girl I have loved all along

The girl that I love, she is gone, she is gone

All of my life I've tossed with the day

The spicks and the specks of my life gone away

All of my life I've tossed with the day

The spicks and the specks of my life gone away



Sheila

(Roe)

Sweet little Sheila, you'll know her if you see her

Blue eyes and a ponytail

Cheeks are rosy, she looks a little mosey

Man, this little girl is fine

Never knew a girl like little Sheila

Her name drives me insane

Sweet little girl, that's my little Sheila


Me and Sheila go for a ride

Feel funny inside

Then little Sheila whispers in my ear

I love you Sheila dear

Sheila said she loves me, she said she'd never leave me

True love that will never die

We're so doggone happy, just being around together


Never knew a girl like little Sheila

Her name drives me insane

Sweet little girl, that's my little Sheila


Me and Sheila go for a ride

Feel funny inside

Then little Sheila whispers in my ear

Oh-oh-oh-oh

I love you Sheila dear

Sheila said she loves me, she said she'd never leave me

True love that will never die

We're so doggone happy just being aorund together


Man this little girl is fine

Yeah, this little girl is fine

Sunny Cellophane Skies

(Lancaster)

Looking up to the cloud above my head

Your face concealed by purple mist that feels like lead

It slowly clears and at last my eyes are filled

Sunny cellophane skies

Silver writing my eyes

Bright sunny cellophane skies

I like the way you make me feel

Sensations I thought were unreal

Now you're life has gone

in this world I don't belong

Words are all I own

Now you're gone I'm all alone











Green Tambourine

(Leka/Pinz)

Drop your silver in my tambourine

Help a poor man fill a little dream

Give me pennies, I'll take anything

Now listen while I play my green tambourine

Watch the jingle-jangles start to chime

Reflections of the music that was mine

When I toss a coin you'll hear it sing


Rub-a-dub before I walk away

Anytime you want, I'll gladly play

Money feeds my music machine


Listen while I play my green tambourinePictures Of Matchstick Men

( Rossi )

When I look up to the skies

I see your eyes a funny kind of yellow

I rush home to bed I soak my head

I see your face underneath my pillow

I wake next morning, tired, still yawning

See your face come peeping through my window

Pictures of matchstick men and you

Mirages of matchstick men and you

All I ever see is them and you

Windows echo your reflection

When I look in their direction now

When will this haunting stop?

Your face it just won't leave me alone


Mirages of matchstick men and you

All I ever see is them and you

You in the sky, you with this guy

you make men cry, you lie

You in the sky, you with this guy

you make men cry, you lie

Pictures of matchstick men and


Pictures of matchstick men ....Spare Parts (1969)Face Without A Soul

(Rossi/Parfitt)

She's a face without a soul

This lady's heart is gold



Though her hands are cool they'll burn

You may kiss her but you'll have to take your turn

In her life you're just another bird in the sky

When she says you must be ready to fly

Ready to fly, up and fly away





This lady has no love

Herself, perhaps, is who she puts above

Everything, and of course, everyone

Knows this lady thinks she's number one

Number one, yes the only one





She's gonna fall on her face someday

Find other men for her games to play

I'm gonna make sure everyone knows

What she is trying to do



She's a face without a soul ...

You're Just What I Was Looking For Today

(Goffin/King)

Hey little woman

Youre just what I was lookin for today

I needed someone

And youre just what I was lookin for today

Good things seem to happen to you

When you just happen to

Run across them in life

But if you wait too long you know that

When you turn around you

Find you have lost them in life

The sun may have to shine

But the visions in my eyes were painted grey

Now listen silver lining

Youre just what I was lookin for today

We could drift away together

Where you and I could be alone

Nothing that is real applies

neath the nothing matter skies

We could drift away and build a world of our own

Hey little woman

Youre just what I was lookin for todayAre You Growing Tired Of My Love

(Anthony King)

You never seem, seem to have the time to listen to what I say

How can I know just what goes on in your mind if you always walk away

So what's the good, what's the good of trying

And hanging around you begging for your love

When it seems there's someone else in your dreams

And I can't be sure of you anymore

Are you growing tired of my love?

Have you had too much of my love?


Where is the love you once gave me?

And when we meet, things are not the same now, you always hurry away

And all the friends that once you used to share with me are ignored now, and you're bored now

I guess we are through, but still I go on hoping

Because you never put it into words

Can't you see you should be honest with me

And I've got to find what is in your mind













Antique Angelique

(Lancaster/Young)

There's a grandfather clock in the corner

With a smile on it's face

Chairs and tables, expensive labels

Velvet curtains and lace

Every day when I go in there

I will buy a thing or two

But money can't buy everything

'Cos what I really want is you

Oh, Antique Angelique, you mean more to me

Than everything I have



Now my house is an empty garden

And the shop is so bare

All these things that I bought mean nothing

'Cos Angelique is still there

It's too late now to forget her

She means far too much to ignore

Now I'm haunted with memories

That I just can't stand anymore





Take back the table, the velvet and lace

The chairs, and the clock with the smile on it's face

Take them all and stand them where they were before

Antique Angelique, you mean more to me


Oh, Antique Angelique, close the door, and now

You're everything I have

Antique Angelique, you mean more to me


Antique Angelique......

So Ends Another Life

(Lancaster)

In a world of education there's no time for compassion

Life's a fire, never ending, bringing pain and then befriending

And like a fire that burns no light

And drifts to heaven, so ends another life

Is there time to care, it's only fair that life goes on

And on and on and on 'til in the end you can't go on

So ends another life to let this world go on

Don't cry for pity my friend, you never gave none

There's a hunter with his gun pointing upwards to the sun

Thinks a bird can feel no pain, if it can it won't again

And like a fire that burns no light

And drifts to heaven, so ends another life

Is there time to care, it's only fair that life goes on

And on and on and on 'til in the end you can't go on






Don't cry for pity my friend .....

Poor Old Man

(Rossi/Parfitt)

He is in his room, men will be there soon

They come to smash the heaven he has known

Now he's sure to know soon that he must go

This backstreet dream he has to leave behind

Oh, what a shame, oh what a shame

He's a poor old man, poor old man

Poor old man, can we help you?

Things are at their worst, what should he do first?

He must wonder, no one wants to know

He must spread his wings, pack away his things

A sack is all he needs for all he owns

Tears they blind his eyes, tears blind his eyes

He's a poor old man, poor old man

Poor old man, can we help you at all?

Poor old man, poor old man


Poor old man, poor old man


Mister Mind Detector

(King)

Hey Mr. Mind Detector

Use your power to find what's going on

Hey Mr. Mind Detetctor

Gonna blow my mind before too long

Gotta find a way to learn infinity

Gotta find a way to make you save my sanity

Look into my mind an you will

Find a world of magic mystical

Images of endless beauty

Hypnotising, motorising shadows

Gotta find a way to let her know I'm here

Gotta find a way to make her want to have me near

Hey Mr. Mind Detector

Use your power to find what's going on

Hey Mr. Mind Detetctor

Gonna blow my mind before too long

Gotta find a way to learn infinity

Gotta find a way to make you save my sanity

Clown

(Young/Lancaster/Nixon)

Now don't you feel sorry, oh no, for me now

There's no need to worry about a clown

She played it cool made me a fool

Now all over town they call me the clown

And I really thought she loved me, but now, I know

And I still can't believe, it just goes to show



I'm a clown, and they're laughing

I'm a clown, I got nothing

I'm a clown, and they're laughing at me


I'm a clown, I've got nothing


Now don't you feel sorry, oh no, for me now

There's no need to worry about a clown




I'm a clown, I got nothing



I'm a clown, I've got nothing



I'm a clown, I got nothing.....

Velvet Curtains

(King)

Velvet curtains draw the show to a close

Our scene is over and the whole world knows

Velvet curtains shut the light from my mind

I leave the stage, put my memories behind

How it started with a passing word

How you answered and I liked what I heard

Wasn't long before we fell in love

And we thought we'd never part





How I started to depend on you

How you tried to be dependable too

But you found it hard to change your ways

And you merely broke my heart

Pretty soon I knew it had to end

Still I fool myself and try to pretend

But what's the good if there's another guy

And he's playing the leading part?






Our scene is over and the whole world knows....

Little Miss Nothing

(Rossi/Parfitt)

People all around they look at you, and I have seen them sneer

But they don't realise how much I need you, so let me make it very clear

That you won't have to worry just 'cos your clothes are torn

Your windows they need cleaning and the weeds are growing high

But Little Miss Nothing I won't pass you by

You have no daddy to tell your troubles to, but don't you worry I'll share

them with you

We won't worry about the stormy weather, if you have troubles we'll share

them together

Your house is nearly falling, but I'll change all that for you

Your windows they need cleaning and the weeds are growing high

But Little Miss Nothing I won't pass you by

Now I will clean your windows, cut the weeds from high to low

I will mend your rooftops, and the taps again will flow

But Little Miss Nothing I won't let you go

When I Awake

(Lancaster/Young)

There's an emerald sky

Silver birds flying by

Purple trees all around

Velvet grass on the ground

Then I see a face, of the girl who's calling me

And love is in my eyes for this girl was just a dream

When I awake she is gone

And I return to reality


Because it's just a dream, a fantasy

Then the morning light

Slowly flows into night

And I close my eyes

And reality dies

Again I see the face of the girl who's calling me

And now she's in my arms but this love can never be





Again I see the face of the girl who's calling me

And now she's in my arms but this love can never be





When I awake.......

Nothing At All

(Lynes/Young/Lancaster)

There's a man sitting in a concrete room

In a place full of emptiness and gloom

With his head in his hands he's far away

It's a long time ago since yesterday

And now his hands, now his hands start to fall

In his world of nothing at all



As a boy he had made so many friends

Now they're gone loneliness just never ends

And in that cold concrete room he trials the day

Yes, the price of a life is hard to pay





Close your eyes, there's nothing more to see

Close your eyes and thank the world you're free

There's a man sitting in a concrete room

In a place full of emptiness and gloom

With his head in his hands he's far away

It's a long time ago since yesterday

And now his hands catch the tears that start to fall


And now his hands catch the tears that start to fall


And now his hands, like the tears start to fall


Yes, now his hands, like the tears start to fall






Yes, now his hands.....

Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon (1970)Spinning Wheel Blues

(Rossi/Young)

Well, I spent my money on the spinning wheel last night

Well, I spent my money on the spinning wheel last night

Well, red twenty-seven didn't do me right

Well, I went in smiling but I came out feeling down

Well, I went in smiling but I came out feeling down

Well, now that I'm a poor man, I got no frends around

I went high up that lonesome, high up that lonesome hill

I went high up that lonesome, high up that lonesome hill

I need a whole lotta money so I can pay my bills

Well, the spinning wheel blues have made me pack up my bags and go

Well, the spinning wheel blues have made me pack up my bags and go

I had to leave my home town, 'cos they don't want me no more

Daughter

(Lancaster)

You and I can see what's going wrong

We know we don't like it going wrong

Daughter can you have sons for yourself

Daughter can you have some for yourself

All your whiskered friends their wings and life

Who knows what 'o' ever reason why



Listen to the sounds of lowry pride

Seen her in the truth within her life



Everything

(Rossi/Parfitt)

My eyes can see, my hands can feel

My ears can hear, my eyes can see

They can see everything, everything

A bird that flies, a bird that dies

And who knows why? But with my eyes

I can see everything, everything

And now the dawn is breaking

I see the dawn is breaking

And life seems very good to me

I see your face is smiling

Your bed looks warm, inviting

I feel your hand walk over me

I climb in bed beside you

The past is not behind you

You feel a little pain inside

And now our heads are whirring

It's done, there's no returning

You feel the little pain - it dies

My eyes can see, my hands can feel

My ears can hear, my eyes can see

They can see everything, everything

A bird that flies, a bird that dies

And who knows why? But with my eyes

I can see everything, everything

And who knows what it all means?

Shy Fly

(Rossi/Young)

Come let me take you, said tiger to the fly

You'll never make me, said fly, I'm rather shy

I'm gonna get you, said tiger with a glare

His eyes were a shining, but fly she was aware

Shy fly keep on smiling, yes, keep on smiling every day

Shy fly keep on smiling, gonna keep on smiling every day

Shy fly keep on smiling, you're gonna keep on smiling every day

Miss Fly and Tiger turn each other on

But teasing and back-biting makes loving much more fun

Fly gets him together, and Tiger thinks he's won

But Fly, she keeps on smiling, he's not the only one

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

Shy fly keep on smiling, and keep on smiling every day

Shy fly keep on smiling, well you keep on smiling every day



Shy fly keep on smiling, you're gonna keep on smiling every day


Shy fly keep on smiling...

Spring, Summer and Wednesdays

(Rossi/Young)

i can't leave, but i won't stay here

if i stay, i still won't be here

i am the grass upon which she lays

april spring summer and wednesdays

i am the hand which feeds her always

iam the bed upon which she plays

nah, na na nah, na na nah-ah

nah, na na nah, na na nah





i am the feathers in her pillow

anywhere i hide, she knows, i know

i am the sunshine through her window

anywhere i go, she goes, we go







i am the grass upon which she lays

april spring summer and wednesdays

i am the hand which feeds her always

iam the bed upon which she plays





All night long

Junior's Wailing

( White / Pugh )

Love me baby, love me when I'm down

I said love me baby, love me when I'm down

Yeah you gotta love me baby

'cos there's no use hanging around

I said put your arms around me like a sunbeam round the sun

I said put your arms around me like a sunbeam round the sun

Yeah, you gotta love me woman

'cos my life has just begun


Oh, love, love me baby, love me when I'm down

Yeah you gotta love me baby


Put your arms around me like a sunbeam round the sun

I said, put your arms around me like a sunbeam round the sun

You gotta love me woman

'cos my life has just begun


Oh, love, love, love me baby, love me when I'm down

You gotta love me baby

'cos there's no use hanging around, around, around, yeah



Oh you gotta love me baby


Lakky Lady

(Rossi/Parfitt)

Ah well, I've got a woman and I love, love her so

She is big, fat and lazy but I want you all to know

That I love her and I need that woman so

She is my little lady and I'm glad that you all know

When she wakes in the morning and her figure tells no lies

My eyesight is broken when the light shines on her tights

But I love her and I need that woman so

Oh how can I tell you what I'd do if she should go

And I love her and I need that woman so

Oh well how can I tell you what I'd do if she should go

Ah well she is so lazy, how she moves I'll never know

She was so different eleven years ago

But I love her and I need that woman so

She's a big lakky lady but I love that woman so

Need Your Love

(Rossi/Young)

I need your love every day

I need your love, need your love every day

I need your love, need your love, need your love


I, I need your love

I, I see your love

And now I'm here to take it

I'm glad I've had your love

It's not the greatest love

But it's alright with me, alright with me




I need your love, need your love, need your love

My nights were getting longer

My dreams were getting old

I wasn't getting younger

My bed was getting cold

But it's all far behind me

I'm a really satisfied man

My nights were getting longer

My dreams were getting old

I wasn't getting younger

My bed was getting cold

But it's all far behind me

I'm a really satisfied man

I, I need your love

I, I see your love

And now I'm here to take it

I'm glad I've had your love

It's not the greatest love

But it's alright for me, alright for me

Lazy Poker Blues

(Green/Adams)

Me and my baby don't do nothing but laze around all day long

Me and my baby don't do nothing but laze around all day long

Yeah, when I'm with my baby

Lazy pokin' going on

She put some coal on the fire so I can keep my poker hot



Lazy pokin' going on




Lazy pokin' going

Is It Really Me? / Gotta Go Home

(Lancaster)

Baby, the feeling that you give to me

Maybe I'm thinking your so good to me

Is it really, really me?


Baby, the feeling, I can't stand the joy

Spare me some feeling if I wake up a boy



Baby, I'm feeling like a fire, I am

Am I still teething or could I be a man?

Is it? Is it?



I gotta get along 'cos it's a long, long ride now

I've been away too long, I gotta get on home now

I'm getting far too old to know my dream of fortune

But the time is flowing now, I know what I must do

I gotta go home, I gotta go home

I gotta go home to ease my mind



I gotta get along 'cos it's a long, long ride now

I've been away too long, I gotta get on home now

I'm getting far too old to know my dream of fortune

But the time is flowing now, I know what I must do





Dog Of Two Head (1971)

Umleitung

( Lancaster / Lynes )

(Lancaster/Lynes)

I don't need you mama, I just need your love

I'm here for loving so take it while I'm good enough

I just need your love

Seems I've waited longer than I've ever done

My mind is getting evil and my body's numb

Woman can I come?

Woman can I come to you?

'Cos I need your love

Yes I need your love

I don't need you mama, I just need your love

I'm here for loving so take it while I'm good enough

I just need your love

Seems I've waited longer than I've ever done

My mind is getting evil and my body's numb

Woman can I come?

Woman can I come to you?

'Cos I need your love

Yes I need your love

Nanana

( Rossi/Young )

Writing songs that I think sound so strange

Writing words that I feel I should change

It's all right if they sound just like other songs

My guitar strums along just the same

If this song's underlined with my name

Nanana na nana na na na na na na

Nanana na nana na na na na na



Playing games that I think may be wrong

Making sounds that can go on and on

It's all right if you stay right on to the end

If my song could've been just a bore

Then I hope you may come back for more






Nanana na nana na na na na na...

Somethings Going On In My Head

( Lancaster )

Something youre saying now

Disturbing the way I feel

I dont know what youre about

I only know the way that I feel

Im holding it here in my mind

So please dont be unkind

Dont talk just let me unwind

Cos somethings going on in my head Yeah, somethings going on in my head

And Im not quite sure what you said

I can see the rain outside

Its falling on everything

Its making such a noise out there

But my ears they dont hear a thing

Im trying to get it over to you

Just what I want you to do

Dont know what Im going through

Cos somethings going on in my head

Yeah, somethings going on in my head


Something youre saying now

Disturbing the way I feel

I dont know what youre about

I only know the way I feel

Im holding it here in my mind

So please dont be unkind

Dont talk just let me unwind

Cos somethings going on in my head Yeah,

somethings going on in my head


Mean Girl

( Rossi/Young )

Now I'm a sad one, and she was a bad one

A mean, mean girl

I never had one as greedy as that one

A mean, mean girl

Mean, mean, mean, mean girl

I guess she's not the kind that I was looking for


She said I was the first but there were many more

She was a big one, a met-at-a-gig once

A mean, mean girl

I felt a sick one, she was a quick one

A mean, mean girl





Now I'm a sad one, and she was a bad one

A mean, mean girl

I never had one as greedy as that one

A mean, mean girl





She was a big one, a met-at-a-gig once

A mean, mean girl

I felt a sick one, she was a quick one

A mean, mean girl





Gerdundula

( Manston / James )

Love it seems I just can't find


Seems that I'm the one love

The one love left behind

I've searched it just won't come my way

I've searched it just won't come my way

It's love that I want now

So what more can I say

Women seem to pass me by

Women seem to pass me by

If I could find the reason

I'd know the answer why



Seems that I'm the one love

The one love left behind

Railroad

( Rossi / Young )

Railroad she left me standing on a line

Railroad she's really leaving me this time

Leaving on the midnight train

Leaving never gonna come back again

I'm living alone

A place of my own

A bed a chair and one back door

Something went wrong

With the words to my song

And now she ain't around no more

It was something she said

As she laid on my bed

Six or seven hours ago

I guess I was wrong

I really didn't think she would go

Railroad she left me standing on a line

Railroad she's really leaving me this time

Leaving on the midnight train

Leaving never gonna come back again

Her face was always smiling

Guess she was always laughing at me

I said her face was always smiling

Guess she was always laughing at me

If I'd realised

I'd be less suprised

To find that she was laughing at me

Someone's Learning

( Lancaster )

All around an open fire, no-ones got a name

The flame is getting higher and higher, nothing's quite the same

But someone's learning, the fire keeps burning

Someone's learning, the fire keeps burning

In the night three children died, now, all were under five

That's alright, God's on our side, now, our religious right

And someone&'s learning, someone's learning

The world keeps turning, and someone's learning

Someone made a big mistake, now, that will never do

Show him what we think about it, read it in the news

And someone's learning, someone's learning

The world keeps turning, and someone's learning

Piledriver (1972)

Don't Waste My Time

( Rossi / Young )

You spend my money

You drink my best red wine

You think it's funny

To see me all the time

Sitting with my head hanging down

Treating me just like a clown

You spend my money

But come on honey don't waste my time

When you get older

You'll see what you have done

You hung on my shoulder

And loved me just for fun

But some day when I'm older too

I'm gonna come and make fool out of you

You spend my money

And honey

You sure did waste my time

You spend my money

You drink my best red wine

You think it's funny

To see me all the time

Sitting with my head hanging down

Treating me like a clown

You spend my money

Come on honey don't waste my time

Oh Baby

(Rossi/Parfitt)

Oh baby, why don't you come home?

Oh baby, don't you leave me alone

Oh baby, been away for far too long

When you get home, gonna sing you this song

They're gonna know 'cos you've treating me wrong


Oh baby, why don't you come home?

Oh baby, don't you leave me alone


When you get home, gonna sing you this song

They're gonna know 'cos you've treating me wrong


A Year

( Lancaster / Frost )

Standing by the wayside, begging for a ride

I been waiting so long, a year has gone

Look at all the people, strangers every one

I've been looking so long, a year has gone

You were all I lived for, I guess my life is through

I've been living so long, I can't go on

Lonely Sunday morning, rest in peace, my love

You been sleeping so long, a year has gone

How could I ever start to tell you

The end is almost here?

The song of love is ringing in my ears

Playing loud, playing clear

The song will never change

The memory will always be so near

Standing by the wayside, begging for a ride

I been waiting so long, a year has gone

Unspoken Words

(Rossi/Young)

If I could only share with you

Once more the fruits of yesterday

Could I forget unspoken words?

The change in colours of your way

I can still see you standing there

Clutching my hand and begging not to go

Don't hide the tears, I'm crying too

It doesn't matter too much, no

I'll always be with you by your side

Watching over you, feeling every pain

Hold your head high, think of me there

I'll still be with you once again

I'll always be with you by your side

Watching over you, feeling every pain

Hold your head high, think of me there

I'll still be with you once again

Big Fat Mama

( Rossi / Parfitt )

Say you need me, say you need me

Tell me that you want my love

Say you will be mine and I am yours

You think that you're way above me

I'm telling you that I can see

All those things that you might wanna be

I am yours tonight

You be mine tonight

You keep telling me you're not having me

I'm telling you that I can see

All the things that you might wanna be

Say you need me, say you need me

Tell me that you want my love

Say will be mine and I am yours

I am yours tonight

You be mine tonight

I got a big fat Mama

With a big fat boy

Really thinks she's something else

But I love that woman

Like fish loves the water

And there is nobody else

I'm gonna tell you woman better do as you're told

If you don't, I'm gonna bringing you down

I've got a big fat Mama

And there's no one else around

I said say you need me

Come on and say you need me


Say you need me

Come on and say you need me


Paper Plane

( Rossi / Young )

Riding on a big white butterfly

I turned my back away towards the sky

I closed my eyes to look for something

Saw myself as really nothing

Then I realised my butterfly

Wasn't really up there with me

We all make mistakes, forgive me

Would you like to ride my butterfly

Riding on a long blue paperplane

Getting seasick, sorry once again

Landing strip is getting nearer

Hope the foglifts, make it clearer

Then I realised my paperplane

Wasn't really up there with me

We all make mistakes, forgive me

Would you like to ride my paperplane

Riding in a three grand Deutche car

A to B is often very far

Home is near, but such a long way

Legs and heads all feel the wrong way

Then I realised my Deutche car

Is only there to get me somewhere

Even so I really do care

Would you like to ride my Deutche car

All The Reasons

(Parfitt/Lancaster)

When I find myself in trouble and I need someone to lean on

I only have to call and you're right there by my side

When I can't see all the reasons why you have to be so far away

I wonder if your love is really here to stay

And I can't help my feelings and I can't hide my love for you

And I'll always believe in all the things that you want me to

When you're telling me not to worry 'cos you're being there won't be long

I only live in hope that you just can't be wrong

Because I can't help my feelings and I can't hide my love for you


And I can't help my feelings and I can't hide my love for you


Roadhouse Blues

(Doors)

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel


Yeah, we're going to the roadhouse

We're gonna have a real good time

Yeah, the back of the Roadhouse they got someone to love

Yeah, the back of the Roadhouse they got someone to love

That's sort of people like to go down slow

Let it roll, baby, roll, let it roll, baby, roll

Let it roll, baby, roll, let it roll, all night long



Yeah, we're going to the roadhouse

We're gonna have a real good time

In the back of the Roadhouse they got someone to love

At the back of the Roadhouse they got someone to love

That's sort of people like to go down slow


Let it roll, baby, roll, let it roll, all night long

You gotta roll, roll, roll

You gotta ease my soul, all right


You gotta jump up and get me baby

I know you want me baby


You gotta ease my soul, all right

I shoulda made you, I shoulda made you

Give up your vows, give up your vows

Save my city, save my city

Right now, oh baby, baby I woke up this morning,

I got myself a beer

I woke up this morning, and I got myself a beer

The future's uncertain, and the end is always near


Let it roll, baby, roll, let it roll

All night long

Hello (1973)Roll Over Lay Down

( Parfitt / Rossi / Lancaster / Young / Coghlan )

When I got home that night early one morning

Seeing the note written in ink pinned to the door

Taking a drink cool from the fridge from the table

I drank a toast you were the most the night before

Roll over lay down and let me in

Roll over it's a long way where I've been


Roll over lay down

When I get home tomorrow night after this morning

Show me the care you showed in the note the night before

Maybe I won't take a drink from the table

Reckon I'll lay me straight down the floor




Roll over lay down

When I get home tomorrow night after this morning

Show me the care you showed in the note the night before

Maybe I won't take a drink from the table

Reckon I'll lay me straight down the floor




Roll over lay down

Claudie

( Rossi / Young )

It's so long since I sang songs to you

I forget all the words I once knew

I could look back

But I can't waste the time

Did it matter

They sometimes didn't rhyme

It's so long since I sang songs for you

It's so long since you smile just for me

Now your smile's just an old use to be

Does it matter

That I can take the time

Would you rather

I write you one more line

Can my songs once again be for you

Claudie made a fool out of me

Made me find another place to be

I've been living alone

In a house that wasn't my home

With Claudie is the place I want to be

When I left did you think of me crying

Did you care that I felt I was dying

I pretended

That I don't give a damn

All along

I've know what I really am

I'm a fool little Claudie just for you

Claudie made a fool out of me

Made me find another place to be

I've been living alone

In a house that wasn't my home

With Claudie is the place I want to be

Reason For Living

( Rossi / Parfitt )

I felt in need of some loving

So I sat down on a wall

I tried to find a reason for living

But I couldn't find a reason at all

So I owned up to my maker

And I started to say a prayer

I waited for an answer

But there wasn't anybody there

I thought there should have been someone

But I wasn't quite sure who

It finished me to find there was no-one

That I could take my troubles to

So I knelt down by my bedside


It was when I asked for nothing

I could feel that there was somebody there

I'm looking still, but it's easy

'cos I know which way to go

It doesn't matter how long it takes me

'cos there's someone there to help me who knows

All the things that I am after

All the loving that I want to share

It's so hard but I don't mind

'cos there really is somebody there

I felt in need of some loving

So I sat down on a wall

I tried to find a reason for living

But I couldn't find a reason at all

So I owned up to my maker


I waited for an answer

But there wasn't anybody there

Blue Eyed Lady

( Lancaster / Parfitt )

Little Blue eyed lady

How come you're all alone

I've been asking

No one seems to know

To whom do you belong


The band are really moving

Everyone is grooving around

Little lady

You're still sitting down

Excuse me if you will


The party's nearly over

Your eyes still read the same

Are you looking

For one who never came

Are you a passing cloud

Or a new found baby

Little new found baby

How come you're all alone

I've been asking

No one seems to know

Are you a passing cloud


Caroline

( Rossi / Young )

If you want to turn me onto

Anything you really want to

Turn me onto your love sweet love

If the night-time is the right time

Anytime of yours is my time

We can find time for love sweet love

Come on sweet Caroline

You're my sweet Caroline

You know I want to take you

I've really got to make you


Take my hand together we can rock-n-roll

When I'm thinking of you sleeping

I'm at home alone and weeping

Are you keeping your love sweet love

Do you still care when I'm not there

Do you really wish I was there

Can I come there for love sweet love


You're my sweet Caroline

You know I want to take you

I've really got to make you


Take my hand together we can rock-n-roll

Softer Ride

( Lancaster / Parfitt )

I ain't gonna work

I ain't gonna work no more

Stay in bed

Til' I'm satisfied

And let my head

Take a softer ride

I ain't gonna work


I ain't gonna work


Find me a schack

Where it's cool inside

Turn my back

On the cold outside

I ain't gonna work


I could go back

To the job I had

But the same old thing

Only drives me mad, so

I ain't gonna work


Never again

Will I have to be..down

I ain't gonna work


Stay in bed

Til' I'm satisfied

And let my head

Take a softer ride

I ain't gonna work


And It's Better Now

( Rossi / Young )

Riding along on the words of a song in my head

Thinking all day of the thoughts in my mind never said

I have needed a friend, over and over again

Everyone sings of a God they have known

Now I have a God of my own

And it's better now, been a long, long time

And it's better now that the words can rhyme

Gotta have something to sing about, everyone must have a song

Now I got something to sing about, everyone's singing my song



Dreaming away, never wishing to be anyone

Never a question or reason to find right or wrong

When I looked at the end, over and over again

Riding along on the words of a song

Thinking my time had all gone

And it's better now, been a long, long time

And it's better now that the words can rhyme





Forty-Five Hundred Times

( Rossi / Parfitt )

There's nobody on the end of my line

I'm in time but somebody's missing

Maybe I can find a hand for my hand

If I find a well for my wishing

Be my friend, be my friend

It gets lonely on a table for two

Laughing on your own can be no fun

Even people that are talking to you

Remind you that you're really with no-one


Take me over like a thing from the past

Lots of people wishing they'd been there

No-one knowing just how long it would last

But I'm sitting still here in my chair


Forty-five hundred times I told you how much I care

Forty-five hundred times I told you how much I care

Problems halved are the problems that we can share

White lies in our eyes, together not really there

Forty-five hundred times I told you you can lean on me

Forty-five hundred times I told you you can lean on me

Though it's taken a long time for you to see

Where we're at is the right place for us to be

I sure want to stay here, it sure feels fine

I feel I could be here a long long time

Now that I've made it, I don't want to fade it

Now that I've made it with you

We came a long way, a slow way too

Up from the down way and back to you

Now that I've made it I don't want to fade it

Quo (1974)

Now that I've made it with you

Backwater

( Parfitt / Lancaster )

Down at Backwater junction

Rolling down the line

In the dark early morning

I heard the one-forty-nine

I was walking down the highway

Needed somewhere to go

A lady laid beside me

And she invited me home

She led me cold, tired and hungry

Down the backwater road

In a house on the corner

looking over the track

I woke up with a fever

And a pain in my back

She was lying there beside me

My fever started to grow

Had a funny feeling

But the lady said no

The lover needs a doctor

Down the Backwater Road

Whatcha' lookin' for

Whatcha' lookin' for

Lady do you know whatcha' lookin' for

Was I wrong to play along

Lady was I right or lady was I wrong

Backwater doctor

You've got me breathing in time

It's ten-thirty in the morning

And I'm feeling alright

I went back to my lady

But I wasn't to know

Lady left this morning

And she's not coming home

I was cold when she left me

Down the Backwater RoadJust Take Me


I am just a poor man, got nowhere to go

All my leaves have fallen, left me all alone

If I was a rich man, if I was a king

I would give you all I have, give you everything

If you'd just take me, just take me now

If you'd just take me

Never seen my daddy, died when I was two

Mama did the best she could, taught me all she knew

Said that love was everything, tears came to her eyes

Never knew the meaning, now I realise

Love is all you need, all you need now

If you just take me

I'm trying hard to get you, I'm not the only one

Never had a big car, but I'm not on the run

If love has got a meaning see it in my eyes

If you see the beginning, then you'd realise

Love is all you need, all you need now

If you just take me

I am just a poor man, got nowhere to go

All my leaves have fallen, left me all alone

If I was a rich man, if I was a king

I would give you all I have, give you everything

If you'd just take me, just take me now

If you'd just take me

Just take me

Just take me now

Won't you just take me

Just take me

Just take me now

Won't you just take me

Break The Rules

( Rossi / Young / Parfitt / Lancaster / Coghlan )

Spent a long, long evening

In a low down honky-tonk bar

Pulled a low down lady

With a long black honky-tonk car

I asked no questions

I got no lies

A one off winner

I didn't want any ties

And I knew it wasn't right

Well, everybody has to sometimes break the rules

Took me down on the highway

Doing too many miles an hour

By the way she motored

Thought we might have made the Eiffel Tower

She stopped the motor

By her own front door

I knew she'd done it

So many times before

But I was off of the floor

But, everybody has to sometimes break the rules

I woke up next moring

Feeling kind of up and down

'Cos I did not know

If I was in or out of the town

Then I saw the face

From the night before

My purse was empty

Lying there on the floor

But like I told you before

That, everybody has to sometimes break the rules

I spend a low down evening

Sitting high on a honky-tonk stool

And I spent my money

Like a low down honky-tonk fool

But everybody has to sometimes break the rules

Well, everybody has to sometimes break the rules

Yes, everybody has to sometimes break the rules

Drifting Away


You can't see what you mean to me

I just can't get you out of my head

You move me more than I've ever been

Like a wild supersonic jet

But I can see your love drifting away

And I don't want your love d-d-d-drifting away

I got told by a friend of mine

That you don't want me anymore

Now my friend's got a broken nose

Sure and I got a broken jaw

So don't push me around, throw me away

And I don't want your love d-d-d-drifting away

Don't you know what I'm living for

Don't you know what I'm trying to say

Don't try to shove me outta that door

'Cos you're mine and it's staying that way

I'm giving you my love just throw it away

But I can see your love d-d-d-drifting away

Oh drifting away you got me drifting away

Oh drifting away

Don't Think It Matters


Maybe I'm right, or maybe I'm wrong

I got to go on anyway

I'm finding it hard to try and play the right card

And woman you're getting in my way

Oh, you don't think it matters at all

No, you don't think it matters at all


I'm working all night, you know I'm working all night

Trying to get something out of my head

I live for the day when everybody will say

It's better than all of the rest




Maybe I'm right, or maybe I'm wrong

I just do the best that I can

I been working all night, yeah I work through the night

Woman can't you understand




Fine Fine Fine

( Rossi / Young )

I never knew of heartache

'til I messed with you

I sure do sitting here

And feeling all the pain

I just can't sleep now

'cos I'm hoping that you'll keep

Another heartache for my heart again

My mama taught me

How to read from the good book

My papa taught me

How to win and lose a game

They went down smiling

'cos they left me all they had

Plus another heartache for my heart again

But now it's fine, fine, fine

'cos you're with me all the time

There to care and share the things I do

And now it's fine, fine, fine


Everywhere and even nowhere too

I use to make the late nights

On a cheap weekend

But all the women there were

Just a crying shame

I heard them saying

That they didn't think I'd stop

For another heartache for my heart again

But now it's fine, fine, fine


There to care and share the things I do

And now it's fine, fine, fine


Everywhere and even nowhere too

Lonely Man


Lonely man upon the shore

What on earth are you looking for?

You're protection is quite clear

And you're never really near

Will you ever find what you are looking for?

Seeing others on the shelf

Only thinking of yourself

Will you ever start to learn?

Will your pockets ever burn?


Look at the sky, why do you cry?

What do you see? Your misery

Look at the sky, why do you cry?

What do you see? Your misery

Lonely man, you're on your own

Find someone to take you home

A friend is what you need

Would you mind if it was me?

Maybe then you'll find what you are looking for


Slow Train

( Rossi / Young )

I can't afford a ticket on an old Dakota airplane

I gotta jump a ride on a cattle-trucking slow train

I guess it doesn't matter

As long as I can get my head down in the sun

I wrote a rockin' song, gonna sing it at the station

I'll finish all the words when I reach my destination



Hey mama, please now don't you fret none

Don't worry, but please don't you forget

Hey mama, please don't get upset none

I gotta leave to find me something better

Hey mama, things gonna work out fine now

Believe me, no need for you to write

Hey mama, things gonna work out fine now

I gotta friend who said that she'd invite me

I came here in the morning and I crept out in the middle of night

I gave nobody warning I was leaving and I felt it was right

Now I'm off again, it sure is feeling all right

Got a feeling that I'm leaving with a ticket and I won't jump a ride

It's no good you believing that my leaving was a wrong, it was right

Now I'm off again, it sure is feeling all right

I can't afford a ticket on an old Dakota airplane

I gotta jump a ride on a cattle-trucking slow train



I wrote a rockin' song, gonna sing it at the station

I'll finish all the words when I reach my destination







On The Level (1975)

Little Lady

( Parfitt )

Well I saw my little lady

Walking down the street

And I asked her Where you going to

Well I saw my little lady


She said she'd found somebody new

Found myself all alone

Ain't no fun on your own

Now I'm like a rolling stone

So I made another lady

And so many more

Didn't really know wich way to go

So I made another lady

And so many more

But no-one did I get to know

Found myself all alone


Now I'm like a rolling stone

Then I saw my little lady


Didn't know where she was going to

So I told my little lady


Now you know what I've been going through

Found herself all alone


Living like a rolling stone

I was like a rolling

I was like a rolling stone

Most Of The Time

(Rossi/Young)

Walking alone, a street with no phone

Could I be younger most of the time?

Doing her wrong, taking so long

Should I do all things in my own time?

May I be wiser, yes, than most men will ever be?

May I be younger most of the time

Most of the time, most of the time


May I be wiser, yes, than most men will ever be?

May I be younger most of the time






I Saw The Light

( Rossi / Young )

You made me love you

Now I can't say goodbye

You're way above me

But I'll never know why

And when I turn left

And then you turn right

And you say you're right

And yo're wrong

I know you're wrong

I saw the light in you

Wasn't much that I could do

I saw the light in you

I saw the light

You made me like you

No like you I am

I'm trying to stay me

But I don't know if I can

When I say it's black

And you say it's white

And I say it's black

And you're wrong

I known you're wrong

Keep standing on a platform

Watching all the trains go past

Keep on trying to catch one

But you know they're much to fast

Never seem to make it

But I know the reason why

I need to need to need to

Need to get away

Over And Done

( Lancaster )

I really didn't wanna break it

You know I'm sorry it's over and done

I really thought we would have made it

But now it's gone

Can you look into my eyes and tell me

That there's nothing wrong

I know you know it's not the same

It's not the same old song

It's over and over and over

I told you

It's over and done

None of us are getting younger

But we all want to be a millionaire

And when you stop to think about it

It seems unfair

But if you never stop to think at all

You'd never be aware

And never understand the meaning

Of the love we shared

I'ts over and over I told you

I'ts over

It's only fair

Oh it's over and over

I told you

I'ts over and done

It's no good trying to make it better

You know it's doesn't feel the right to do

Everything we shared together

Would break in two

Can you hear what I've been trying to say

I wouldn't do you wrong

We've got to get it over now and learn

To carry on

I'ts over and over and over

I told you

It's over and done

I'ts over and over and over

I told you

It's over and done

Oh it's over and over

I told you

It's over and done

Nightride

( Parfitt / Young )

Dreaming, going on a night ride

Hoping, it's gonna be the right ride

Feeling so well

I'm in tune cant' you tell

That I'm grooving

Can't you tell I'm in tune

And I'm moving so much closer to you

Leaning, hoping for a straight line

Meaning, hoping for the right rhyme

I'm in tune to the room

'Cos my head just went Boom

And I'm moving





You, you, you, you, you move me




Scheming, thinking of the right place

Beaming, laughing at my own face

We've got a long way to go

'Cos you make like you're so dissaproving

But can't you tell I'm in tune








You......

Down Down

( Rossi / Young )

Get down deeper and down

Down down deeper and down



I want all the world to see

To see you're laughing

And you're laughing at me

I can take it all from you

Again again again again again again again

Deeper and down





I have all the ways you see

To keep you guessing

Stop your messing with me

You'll be back to find your way


Deeper and down




Get down





I have found out you see

I know what you're doing

What you`re doing to me

I'll keep on and say to you


Deeper and down




Get down

Broken Man

( Lancaster )

Sitting by a broken window

Up in a back room swallowing wine

Gazing down a backstreet garden

With my bed chair table and wine

Looks like I'm going no where but no where's where I am

Guess I'll always be a backstreet broken man

Oooh broken man, oh yeah, broken man

Calling out my name and number

As I was walking out of my cell

Louie gave me back my wallet

He nearly dropped my picture of Nell

Drinking gets you nowhere but nowhere's where I am


Oooh broken man, oh yeah, backstreet broken man

Early on a Sunday morning

As I was walking on down the lane

Someone said, I beg your pardon

And I was sure I knew her name

She was going somewhere but nowhere's where I ran


Oooh that's where I am

Guess I'm gonna stay a backstreet broken man

What To Do

( Rossi / Young )

I found her in a nowhere and I lost her

And I found her and I lost her in a way

She told me of a life, of a great life

Of a fun life but a dumb life in a way

We took off to a somewhere, it was fun there

All along there but we left there in a way

I didn't know just what to do


I didn't know just what to do to do

We started talkin easy 'bout the sleazy

And the easy things that people do

I told her of a life, of a strange one

Pre-arranged one that I dreamt of anyway




I found her in a nowhere, and I lost her

And I found her and I lost her in a way

I told her of a life, of a strange one

Pre-arranged one that I dreamt of anyway




Where I Am

(Parfitt)

Let me know, let me see

What is this thing that is constantly happening to me, yeah

'Cos when you hold me tight, oh how it feels so right

Yeah and I know where I am

If I should cry, let me cry

My tears are crying a lullaby

'Cos when I hold you tight, oh how it feels so right

Yeah and I know where I am

Changes in me, learning to be

Everything that I just silently wanted to see

'Cos when I'm all alone, everything that I own

Lets me know where I am

Give to me what you can

I'll give you all I command

Bye Bye Johnny

( Berry )

Well she drew out all her money from the Southern trust

And put her little boy aboard a greyhound bus

Leaving Louisianna for the golden west

Down came the tears from her happiness

Her own little son, named Johnny B. Goode

Was gonna make some motion pictures out in Hollywood

I said Bye Bye Bye Bye


I said Bye Bye Johnny Bye Bye Johnny B. Goode

She remembered making money out from gathering crops

Buying Johnny's guitar at a broker shop

As long as he would play it by the railroad side

And wouldn't get in trouble she'll be satisfied

Never thought there'd ever come a day like this

When she got to give her son a goodbye kiss




Well she finally got the letter she was dreaming of

Johnny wrote and told her he had fell in love

As soon as he was married he would bring her back

And build a mansion for them by the railroad track

Every time they heard a locomotiv roar

They'd be standing, a waiting by the kitchen door


I said Bye Bye Bye Bye Bye












I said Bye Bye Bye Bye Bye


Blue For You (1976)Is There A Better Way

( Lancaster / Rossi )

Is there a better way


Is there a better way ahead

Or just another day

There's got to be a way

To make a better day

I'm gonna find away


You're never gonna be the one to hold me down

You're never gonna be the one to hold me down

There never was a better way with you around

No matter what I do

Do what you got to do

But do it now because the the time

Is running out on you

You've got to find a way


You've got to live and learn

To fight another day

I'm never gonna be the one who put you down

I'm never gonna be the one who put you down

You never know there may be someone in the crowd

There may be someone in the crowd



Is there a better way ahead

Or just another day

Maybe you'll never know

A better way to go

I've got a feeling

You don't really want to know

I'll never let you be the one to hold me down



There never was a better way




There never was a better way

Mad About The Boy

( Rossi / Young )

She never has to worry

And she never has to try

She's never in a hurry

And I know the reason why

She's got her Daddie's

And her fingers in some pies

She makes a double of a trouble with her lies

She says, Oh I'm mad about the boy



She's always late to meet me

And she always has to go

To make another entry

At another coolie show

She is a dirty little lady

But I know

She only has to say the chorus and I go


She says, Oh-oh-oh I'm mad about the boy


Don't tell me your troubles

I've got troubles that would make you scream and shout


I've got troubles I will tell you all about

No I don't take a drink

No I won't take a drink

But I sure take some ups and some downs

She makes me so weary

She picks me up to put me down


I've got troubles that would make you scream and shout


I've got troubles I will tell you all about

No I don't take a drink

No I won't take a drink

But I sure take some ups and some downs

You makes me so weary

You pick it up and put me down

You never have to worry

And you never have to try

You're never in a hurry

And I know the reason why

You got your Daddie's

And your fingers in some pies

You makes a double of a trouble with your lies

You say, Oh I'm mad about the boy

You say, Oh-oh-oh I'm mad about the boy

You say, Oh I'm mad about the boy

Ring Of A Change

( Rossi / Young )

I look back and I open my eyes

I hear the words like they should be heard

And it feels like a ring of a bell echoing through me

I look back and its never the same

And that's the way it ought to be

What I feel is the sound of a change echoing through me

Move into the light

Come on into the light

Move into the light

I'll see you in the light alright

I think on and I think of today

And what today is gonna be for us

Will we find all the peace that is there and needs to taken

I think on and think its a must

That we slow down for just a while

And I think there's an ounce of a change echoing through me

Move into the light


Move into the light


I look back and I think of a song

I change the words around to make a rhyme

But the song is the same and the change is echoing through me

I look back and its never the same

I leave the song that it use to be

But I know there's a ring of a change echoing through me

Move into the light


Move into the light


Blue For You

( Lancaster )

When I get old and find the time

I'll paint a picture about my life

I'll paint it blue for you, I'll paint it blue for you

You gave me love, a love so strong

I treated you so bad, I treated you wrong

Now I want to show, I feel so low, I'm blue for you

When I was younger I tried so hard

To find a good woman and give her my love

I found a woman sweet as can be, I found a woman for me

I didn't know I had the world

I was still looking for ways to your love

Now that I know, I feel so low, I'm blue for you

Cheatin' and lyin', I played around

Livin' and dyin', you stood your ground

Cheatin' and lyin', you knew so well

There's no good denying, you know me too well

When I'm alone I realise

Your eyes were smilin' but deep inside

I saw the blue in you, everything blue for you

You gave me love, a love so strong

I treated you so bad, I treated you wrong

Now I want to show, I feel so low, I'm blue for you

Feel so low, I'm blue for you

I feel so low I'm blue for you

Rain

( Parfitt )

How can I see what I'm leaving for

How can I give what I gave before

How can you tell me that you want me to stay

How can I stay when I'm trying to say

That I can live without the rain

Yes I can live without the rain

How can I feel what I'm trying to feel

How can move when I'm heel to heel

You're always shouting about the doubt in my eye

But I can't answer 'cos my eyes are so dry

Now I can live without the rain


I can live without the rain

That's falling on my head

Rain that's falling on my head

Rain that's falling

Rain that's falling

Rain that's falling on my head

I started thinking back to you know when

I'd like to send a line but then again

How can I write you when there ain't no light

I'm feeling thight tonight and that's alright

Now I can live without the rain


Rolling Home

( Lancaster / Rossi )

Me and my lady love the way you're movin'

Me and my lady love

All night long you've got us up and groovin'

Reelin' and rollin' along

Saturday night you made it alright

And everyone liked your reelin' and rollin' along

Me and my lady love the way you're rollin' home

Late last night my motor broke a rotor

Broken down by the road

Even though I need it I just had to leave it

Head down to the show

There in the crowd my lady I found

Movin' around reelin' and rollin' along


Don't you ever lose it don't you ever blues it

Don't you ever change your way

People try to ban you don't they understand you

Don't you think that's a shame

I was alone no where to go

Now I've a love and a lady to take me along




That's A Fact

( Rossi / Young )

Sitting in a cornfield

Looking at the cob

Thinking of a long line

Waiting for a job

And I'm alone and that's a fact

I'm alone and that's a fact

Sitting in a full car

someone at the wheel

Going to a new stop

I wonder if it's real



I need to maybe talk to you

Said I need to and said I need you

I need to I need to be with you

I said I need to I gotta see you

Sitting at a new stop

Didn't get the job

Couldn't find a long line

Took another drop


So I'm alone and that's a fact

Sitting at a new stop

Didn't get the job

Couldn't find a long line

Took another drop




Ease Your Mind

(Lancaster)

I'm gonna ease your mind, I'm gonna write a line

And write a letter to you

I'm gonna let you know that I'll be coming home

And make it better with you

I sang a sad lullaby

I left you all alone to cry

Well I need you, oh my

Just to sing a lullaby

It won't be very long before I right my wrongs

And make it better with you.

It's such a crying shame I had to break away

To find the same old road

But now I'm getting wise, and I've realised

That that's the way that it goes

So put a smile upon your face

Let me know I've found my place

We've got no time to waste

'Cos all the time for heaven's late.

Now don't you be afraid, it's gonna be the same

I'll make it better with you

I'm gonna ease your mind, I'm gonna write a line

And write a letter to you

I'm gonna sign my name and send it straight away

And I'll be following through

I sang a sad lullaby

I left you all alone to cry

Well I need you, oh my

Just to sing a lullaby

It won't be very long before I right my wrongs

And make it better with you

Mystery Song

( Parfitt / Young )

I see that look on your face



The boys know what you're giving

You give the boys such a lot of fun

And by the way that you make a living

You've got the boys all on the run

S.T's showing, you really got me going

Maybe you can give me a price

I wanna try it, yeh I wanna buy it

Tell me would you treat me nice

Oh my legs are shaking

Oh my heart is breaking

I'm just feeling like a boy

Now I just can't slow down

Gotta get in go down

Have my share of pride and joy

Now I've got your name and number

I like to look upon your face

And now you know that I wanna take you

Give me the time you can name the place

Call me honey, you can take my money

Maybe we can make a deal

I really mean it, gotta get between it

Do you know the way I feel

Oh I'm feeling kinda

Like I've gotta find

A way to make you understand

Oh I know you're lying

And your love I'm buying

Oh I'm feeling like a man

The boys know what you're giving

You give the boys such a lot of fun

And by the way that you make a living

You've got the boys all on the run

S.T's showing, really got them going

You can even say the price

They'll wanna try it, even wanna buy it

If you really treat them nice

But I'd rather take you

Show that I can make you

Good enough for just one man

Oh I'm feeling kinda

Like I've gotta find

A way to make you understand

All Over The World (1977)Hard Time

( Rossi / Parfitt )

Asked my girl what she wanted from me

She said ev'rything that I can see

I said baby what d'you thing of me

And she said nothing at all

So I sit here waiting patiently

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