- Merry Monks
Merry monks are shallow as the waters of the fordSing a spiritual sancteum that covens of the lordDream away the darkening day that never was seen beforeWould you bring me solace when all our love is goneWill there be...
- Optical Illusion
In my darkest hour just before the dawnThere's no sound from the empty streetBut sleep won't seem to come to meAll your words in my headLinger on and onThey've come to steal my time awayTill the night is goneI must be...
- Marion The Chatelaine
When the great collector found herShe was just a girlShe rang a chord inside himAnd he stole her to the centre of his worldMany wished they could be in her shoesBut she surely did know how to have the bluesHe tried to...
- Anniversary
This is the day you disappearedYour hand was steady and I know that your mind was clearYou left a note up on the shelfSaying "I would rather be anyone but myself"You took a simple ride across the Great DivideYou left...
- Blue September
Looking out across the empty streetsWondering where did all the people go One by one, they're waking from their sleep Now they don't seem to need you any moreLong ago, it seems to me, I had a dream What becomes of...
- Antarctica
Long before I ever sawThe frost upon your faceI was haunted by your beautyAnd it drew me to this placeI felt the chill of mysteryWith one foot on your shoreAnd then and there resolved to goWhere no man had beforeMaybe...
- Not The One
It's the kind of grey November day that washes away reflectionsIn the eyes of hotel portersAnd the latticed wooden benches by the sea contain no travellersOr Irish lady authorsAnd the girl in the raincoat walks the...
- A Man For All Seasons
What if you reached the age of reasonOnly to find there was no reprieveWould you still be a man for all seasons?Or would you just have to leaveWe measure our days outIn steps of uncertaintyNot turning to see how we've...
- Time Passages
- Where Are They Now?
I sent my crack divisions through the early morning mistWhen they fell on your positions you were powerless to resistEncircling and probing for the weakness in your linesBy night you were surrounded and your territory...
- Mondo Sinistro
I take my troubles on a Friday nightTo the heart of the bistroAmong the shadows and the low low lightsI can find a release-oMy favorite waitress will be here tonightI love the way she wears those fish-net tightsShe's...
- Swallow Wind
Look out, look out, Phoenix criedMy time must be at handI'm feeling cold and I don't know whyThe ground moves where I standAll the lies she gave to meIn words that twist and bendNow the only place for me is down in...
- Lori Don't Do Right Now
Lori, don't go right nowNow that you've come this farLori, you don't know howClose you really areThere's nothing you can't doIt's up to you to let it goPut the past behindOut of sight and out of mindLori, you're never...
- Necromancer
Oh the sweet addiction Of forbidden fruitOh the strange afflictionThat has taken rootOh the hidden cancerCancer of the soulOh the necromancerInside us allI have never seen this many People gathered in one place...
- Josephine Baker
I was watching TV late last nightAnd a scene transported meLong gone figures came back to lifeIn a documentaryThough I saw them dance for joyI was sad I missed that showIf I had a time machineI know just where I'd goI...
- Lindy Comes To Town
Lindy flew his plane across the dark AtlanticPut her down near Paris and the crowds went franticThey raced across the field, to touch the wings and wheelsAnd reach inside the cockpit just to see if he was realBack in...
- Black Hill
Hey, won't you come look at the sunrisePeeping up into the blue skiesWashing away the morning chillThat hangs like a cloak over Black Hill
- Valentina Way
Find another lover tomorrowGo find another lover todayYou've been so long on lonely streetThat you're surely falling into decayIt's time to reconstruct yourselfTime to test the water againWell it's sad to seeIt's a...
- Trespasser
When I first saw your trespasserHe wandered uninvited to your doorHe seemed to know his way aroundAlthough I'd never seen his face beforePausing for a moment underneath your window ledgeHe turned around to see the...
- What's Going On
First time I saw you, you were Mr. NaturalYou seemed so diffident, you hardly spoke at allNow you come to me and you've got green streaks in your hairYou walk like Greta Garbo, but you talk like Yogi BearSo tell me...
- Gina In The Kings Road
Gina in the King's Road, 1968Blonde hair and eyeshadow, I hyperventilatePurple leather mini, legs up to thereDon't you cast aspersions on my naugahyde affairAnd she can make you believeYou're feeling almost sincereAnd...
- Indian Summer
Indian summer, the shops are shuttered and the crowds are goneThe souvenir sellers are moving onLike summer loversIndian summerThe earth is cracked beneath the midday sunYou've dragged your shadow round these streets...
- Trains
In the sapling years of the post war worldIn an English market townI do believe we travelled in schoolboy blueThe cap upon the crownBooks on kneeOur faces pressed against the dusty railway carriage panesAs all our...
- Out In The Snow
I walked out in the snowAnd left no mark upon the ground I trodThe sky, heavy and lowThe exhalation of an Arctic godAnd I heard words meant for no oneIn the air,words out of nowhereAnd I saw all at once at my...
- Belsize Blues
Well the roof started leaking, and the stairs were squeakingThere was water running down the wallsSo we took down the carpet, scrubbed down the parquetAnd the drains overflowed in the hallIn the pub across the street...
- The Palace Of Versailles
The wands of smoke are risingFrom the walls of the BastilleAnd through the streets of ParisRuns a sense of the unrealThe Kings have all departedThere servants are nowhereWe burned out their mansionsIn the name of...
- News From Spain
I have heard the news from SpainNow you say you've mamy things yet to be learningAnd you don't know if or when you'll be returningIt depends on howEverything works outIf it can somehowIn CarvajalAnd I have heard the...
- The Gypsy And The Rose
Torn between the Gypsy and the RoseI was led on I supposeFor the Gypsy was always out of reachI crossed her palm with silver just to knowWhat the future had to holdBut she only turned her back on meThe Gypsy said no...
- In Red Square
It's a shame about Stalin, the curator saidHe really was one of the bestJust look at the detail on that headToo bad to melt him down with the restBut since they wrote him out of the history booksNobody gives him a...
- Rocks In The Ocean
On a night just like this, in a place far awayHe met with a giri in the springAnd something about him just turned her aroundAs though she were caught on a stringAnd being so young they held on to each otherTo see what...
- Night Train To Munich
Meet me at the station underneath the clockCarry an umbrella, no need to talkThe man in the homburg, hiding in the fogWill be watchingGet yourself a ticket, go through the gateAt seven forty-five precisely, don't be...
- Next Time
He heard the clatter of her heels in the streetThe clock said half-past threeHe lay there waiting in the dark to hearThe scraping of the front-door keyHe wouldn't say to her"Don't want to know where you were"She...
- Princess Olivia
I never was one for talkI keep things to myselfLet everyone ramble onWhen people get to reminiscingI'll always be the one to listenBut now I need to find those missing words.I love Princess OliviaCan't speak, I slip...
- Constantinople
Across the western worldThe fights are going downThe gypsy armies of the eveningHave lit their fires acrossThe nether side of townThey will not pass this way againSo here in the nightLeave your home it's time for...
- Peter On The White Sea
When I took my boat out to the White SeaI had no care in the worldNot a cloud disturbed the skyI was dreaming only of how it might beThen dark fell into the dayAnd the wind began to risePeter on the White SeaGreen...
- Pandora
Pandora comes todayAs she dazzles and she dancesYou find hope and lose yourself againShe never stays the sameShe changes moods like summer thunderStill you look for sunlight through the rain.And when she laughs you...
- French Laundry
King Louie never had it so goodHe lived like royalty shouldHe was winin', dinin'Taking in the French laundry"No revolution's gonna keep me awake."Marie said "Just let them eat cake"I'm going winin', dinin'Taking in...
- House Of Clocks
I once had a qilded clockConstructed in la Belle EpoqueThe hour hand broke, now it won't turn backSo long, so long, so longI once had a sundial tooBut green and wild my garden grewThe undergrowth obscured the viewSo...
- Delia's Gone
Delia's goneAnd the days they run so slowHere in the islandsDelia's goneIt's the only thing you knowHere in the silenceFine rain combs the sandThe first breath of winter across the landTry but you won't understandHow...
- Beacon Street
When your little world has fallen apartYou'll be living on Beacon StreetIn a flat above a laundryIt's warm and forgiving on Beacon StreetHundreds of paperback novels adorning your shelvesPiles of CDs that are eager to...
- Somewhere In England 1915
On the platform of an old railway station I enter a dreamAnd a couple are saying good-bye through the noise and the steamBut it's just "Brief Encounter" my mind is trying to rerunAnd I wait for the poignant finale but...
- Elvaston Place
Elvaston PlaceA run-down basement in South Ken Hiding your faceBehind the railings in the rainStony steps to a small grey herdOf dustbins blinking in the sunlightOur yesterday livesCrouched by the firesideIn Elvaston...
- League Of Notions
I'm here sitting in the wreck of EuropeWith a map of EuropeSpread out in a hall of VersaillesAnd every single nationality and principalityhave come for a piece of the pieI'm sitting in the wreck of EuropeWith a map of...
- Gethsemene Again
In Gloucester Cathedral, on Saturday nightI came to your flower show, blown like a kiteAnd I stood by the tombstones, and gazed at the lightsOn the altarAnd the horse-faced old ladies and tweedy-toned menOf county...
- Anna
Anna, turns out the lightSits down aloneThe echo of his foot on the stairTurning to stoneNo, he didn't take very muchJust your flesh from the boneIt's gonna be hard for a whileTrying to get byOn your own
- Angel Of Mercy
Every eveningYou come around here in your cloak of liesHalf-believing I sit and listen as you offer up the prizePick up your smileJust go faithless friendThere is no pleasure waiting here for youPick up your smileJust...
- Merlin's Time
And I think of you now as a dream that I had long agoIn a kingdom lost in time.And in the forests of evening the archer is bending a bow,And I see you bring him bread and wine.Down the ligneous years the invaders have...
- Post World War II Blues
I was a post-war baby in a small Scots townI was three years old when we moved down southHard times written in my mother's looksWith her widow's pension and her ration booksAneurin Bevan took the miners' causeThe the...
- King Of Portugal
Dreamed I was the King of PortugalIn a big four poster bedNoble tapestries from wall to wallAnd a crown upon my headBells ring and servants bringThe jewels and the robesFor the night to beginWould you love me...
- Russians And Americans
So here we stand at the edge of 1984Bracing ourselves once againFor the storm approaching as those Who long before huddled in caves from the rainThe enemy's face is so hard to seeSometimes it seems that I see him in...
- Mixed Blessing
She never learned her lessonShe had to have it allIt was a real mixed blessingI don't believe she sawShe liked to keep them guessingSometime later onShe'd gather her possessions and be goneWhen the night comes...
- Mr. Lear
How pleasant to know Mr. LearHow pleasant to know at the end of the day he's nearWith a portfolio that daily features diverse creaturesYou open the book and it's trueThe world is a lot more mysterious than we...
- Terminal Eyes
Cut glass porcupine sailing on the SerpentineFingers on the skyline pulling down the black blindsTerminal eyes at the edge of the nightRivulet of dark wine moving in a straight lineSumdging out the stop signs, running...
- Life Between The Wars
Paul Gervaise picks up the HeraldAnd sees the face of Zelda FitzgeraldShe's part of the sceneOf life between the warsThe tropic sun is sticky and warmAnd it bakes the head of Somerset MaughamWho is writing a sceneOf...
- Genie On A Tabletop
I went floating down the street one dayWith a song playing in my mindHopping and bopping like a ricochetBad news was hard to findThere was a hint of syncopationComing from the sidewalk and the streetThere was a glint...
- Mona Lisa Talking
This is the Mona Lisa talkingOut on the street where love goes walkingInto the shadows that can't hide youHere is a voice that speaks inside youGo home, pretty baby, go on home, pretty babyYou will go home to the one...
- Joe The Georgian
Now I've got my paymentFor the service that I gaveThey've given me my ticketTo this place beyond the graveI suppose it's kind of funnyI suppose it's kind of sadThinking back on all the times we hadBut it's kind of hot...
- The World Goes To Riyadh
In a camel's eye far in a distant landThe sun comes up on sands of endless desertsSee tomorrow run by hand in hand with yesterdayWhere once the time hung still foreverIn the wink of an eye the veils are drawnAnd...
- Almost Lucy
Lucy worked a different club every dayAnd though she put her mind to itHer heart was never in itShe stayed around just long enough to get paidShe won't pass the time with youShe can't stay a minuteAnd all these...
- Love Chronicles
can remember the first girl that I did loveIt was StephanieIn kindergarten arithmetic classes she used toSit next to meI'd pass her sticky sweets under the tableWhere the teacher couldn't seeAlthough she wouldn't...
- Amsterdam
Oh I just came back from HaarlemOn the very last day of AutumnMade it through the customs, took the bus into townThe flat looked cold and emptyThe chairs unused and dustyJust a few old letters and papers lying...
- Song On The Radio
I was making my way through the wastelandThe road into town passes throughI was changing the radio stationsWith my mind on youOh your friends call you "Lily Paloma"But that's not the way that you areIt's too much of a...
- The Night That The Band Got The Wine
The earthquake hit at6 19 with a joltPeople went running for the doorwaysAnd for the next half minute it shookUp on the 17th floor the sommelier wasopening thewineHe knew the great hotel was solidly builtStill it must...
- Timeless Skies
While travelling northwardsOn a back country laneI came on the villageWhere first I grewAnd stopped to climb upThe hill once againLooking down from the tracksTo the grey slate roofsI watched the village movingAs the...
- You Don't Even Know Me
All right you saw me in the "International Times"You've got my picture in your bookYou tell your friends not to call at weekend,And now you wear that far-off lookAll right you stole your mother's best sheetsAnd put...
- Sampan
The sun is high, looking out I seeThe emptiness beyond the jettySeagulls raining like confettiOn the WaterSea and sky come together inA hazy kiss out on the oceanEurope seems a foreign notionHardly thought ofAnd would...
- You Should Have Listened To Al
She said "Don't you think we're going downhill?And I would hate it to be run-of-the mill"Oh love me or leave me but please don't deceive meFor if you do, I'll know, believe meI want you to know I don't want you to go...
- Electric Los Angeles Sunset
Shots split the night, a bullet lodged in his brainHe must have died instantly, he felt no painA crowd quickly gathered to the feast of the gunWaiting for the ambulance and cops to comeHm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmmSirens...
- Life In Dark Water
Oh come away from the day, here I stayLiving on the bottom of the seaDown metal snake corridors steely greyEngines hum for nobody but meNo sound comes from the sea above meNo messages crackles through the radio...
- In The Dark
They said "God Bless the Prince of WalesLet let us hope that he prevails."The souvenirs provide detailsOf distant monarchyMoving through the human tideWith the Princess at his sideTribesmen cheer and gaze wide-eyedAt...
- Katherine Of Oregon
When I get even more old than I am nowI'll have a house overlooking the waterI'll read all the books that I never got 'round toAnd pile my suitcases up in the cornerThe lights of the city they blink off and on...
- My Enemies Have Sweet Voices
was in a bar called ParadiseWhen the fiddler from the bandAsked me "Why do you stand there crying?"I answered him: "Musician, this may come as a surpriseI was trying to split the differenceAnd it split before my...
- The Coldest Winter In Memory
The coldest winter in memory was 1709The sea froze off the coast of France all along the Neptune lineBy the lost town of Dunwich the shore was washed awayThey say you hear the church bells still as they toll beneath...
- The Candidate
Inside the lonely buildingSits the candidateHis speech is typed and readyThe hundred-dollar platesSit on deserted tablesBeneath fluorescent lightBut no one comes to hear himNo cheers disturb the nightSo where are all...
- Three Mules
Three mules came over a hillThey were dragging a cartCreaking, it seemed to be falling apartLaden with millions of dreams It weighed more than they thoughtThey never noticed the wheels getting caughtThey pulled on,...
- Here In Angola
can't deal with all this undergrowth talkIt just trips my feet and tangles up my thoughtsYou're trying to sell me your new faithTell me why you'd do itAnd your hands are clenchedAnd you're talking lowWith your eyes...
- Jackdaw
I'm running awayOn a day like todayNothing you sayCould cause me to stayJackdaw (jackdaw)Leaving by your back doorShould be gone by nowShould be gone by nowShould be gone by nowDon't try to followJust leave it...
- Sirens Of Titan
I was drawn by the sirens of TitanCarried along by their callSeeking for a way to enlightenSearching for the sense of it allLike a kiss on the wind I was thrown to the starsCaptured and ordered in the army of...
- Laughing Into 1939
Party hat and satin dressSilver paper curled in her long black hairTapping one small elegant shoe in timeOh, the way she plays with themSmile at one, then dance with anotherPretty soon they're forming up a lineAnd...
- Nostradamus
In the east the wind is blowing the boats across the seaAnd their sails will fill the morning and their cries ring out to meOh, the more it changes, the more it stays the sameAnd the hand just re-arranges the players...
- Immelman Turn
I always was the reckless kind, I do what I must doI put the danger out of mind, and go onI joined the barnstorm fliers back in 1922And above those dusty farms , we put a shw onFly, fly to the western skyWhere the fog...
- Samuel, Oh How You've Changed
Most of the better bredWoollen toys have gone to bedAnd the teddy bear is a-sleeping in the cupboardAnd the wooden soldiers allAnd the rubber bouncing ballAre list'ning to the tales of mother HubbardBut the fairy...
- Soho (Needless To Say)
Rainstorm, brainstorm, faces in the maelstromHuddle by the puddles in the shadows where the drains runHot dogs, wet clogs clicking up the sidewalkDisappearing into the booze shopRainbow queues stand down by the news...
- How Does It Happen
Oh, kid you're in a terrible stateYou better pick yourself up before it gets too lateYou're into phyiscal fitness and emotional fatnessYou think you're an actress, you act like a mattressHow does it happen?How does it...
- Paint By Number
When all the help in the world won't get you byWhen all the friends that you lean on let you down,You'll wonder whyI see you there with your painting boxAnd your oils and brushes and your artist's smocksWhat'll you do...
- Night Meeting
It was a night meetingSomewhere in a troubled landThey came with no greetingLeft without a shaken handNearby the town sleepingWas unaware of what was doneNo need for watchkeepingThey'll be gone before the sunYou may...
- A Sense Of Deja Vu
Looking back on my diaryI seem to get a sense of deja vuAnd all these different things I'm going through Seems that after all I've been through beforeFaded days of my memoryPaper dreams of things I didn't doThree...
- Bear Farmers Of Birnam
The bear farmers of BirnamGo out every nightCreep up on their harvest slowlyThey got claw marks through and throughThey lose an arm or twoNo, it's not a job for everybodyThe bear farmers of BirnamGo out every...
- Ghostly Horses Of The Plains
We opened the doorTo see the coming of the trainsAcross this land of plentyWe suddenly sawThe ghostly horses of the plainsTheir saddles emptyStruck to stone beneath the moonThese figures still remainSteal your chances...
- License To Steal
He walks into the roomHe's got a briefcase like a bombA smile on both facesAnd he calls it aplombHe wants a bite of your appleHands you back the peelHe's fresh out of law schoolHe's got a license to stealWhen he...
- End Of The Day
And in the evening when the day goes downShe leaves the bright house lightsStands and watches with her coat pulled aroundAt torches light the western skiesSometimes she thinks she knows him just too wellOther times...
- Night Rolls In
Night rolls inGone is the windFireflies dancing in your eyesNow you're holy againOh night rolls inOh night rolls inIt's like a dream of a long time agoA footprint lost in the snowThat covers the ground where we...
- Age Of Rhythm
Today I feel like Dorothy ParkerToday I've got the critical eyeI paint my world just a little bit darkerDon't even have to tryEveryone seems a little bit desperateOh so witty, but over the edgeI don't know why they...
- Feel Like
I feel as volatile as the weatherOver fields of Scottish heatherThe night before Hallowe'enYou know I feel likeA catamaran in summerThe beat of a reggae drummerThe flag of a brigantineThis is the day whenAll of my...
- Class Of '58
Old jazz guys being interviewedThirty years beyond their primeWith memories of road showsFrom the Golden Age of SwingtimeThe piano player strikes a chordLeans forward on his stoolAnd through they've all seen better...
- The Last Day Of June 1934
The morning is humming, it's a quarter past nineI should be working down in the vinesBut I'm lying here with a good friend of mineWatching the sun in her hairI pick the grapes from the hills to the seaThe fields of...
- Real And Unreal
Did you ever have the feelingYou're the only person living in the worldAnd people that you seeAre one-dimensional and never there at allEven just the commonplaceWarm familiar greetings are a lieTheir voices and their...
- Strange Girl
You're a strange girl, you come from a strange familyYou're a strange girl, I don't understand your vanityYour mother's taking pills all day, she's looking to escapeYour uncle's in the County Jail for statutory...
- Turning It Into Water
I used to have a secret cellarWhere I kept the sweetest of my wineNow it seems that I've been too longHanging on the vineAnd now she's turning it into waterNever be the same againShe's turning it into waterAll my wine...
- Red Toupee
Catalina on a fishing boatWe call it Henry CisnerosWe got no money but we stay afloatThe jellyfishes don't scare usYou're telling everybody life's a ballToo many pleasures to mentionYou do a cartwheel in the shopping...
- Midnight Rocks
You say with best intentionLet's throw away conventionSet sail across the waterTo find the tides of fortuneI say please understand itDon't let our love be strandedUpon the midnight rocksUpon the midnight rocksYou say...
- Hipposong
I was surrounded by a large hippopotamusAnd nine of its friends who declared quite a lot of usAre feeling rather blueAnd we don't know what to doI turned away but the large hippopotamusSaid that his pit of despair...
- Rain Barrel
I'm hiding in a rain barrel inside these consul wallsThis shaft of light is so narrow I can't see much at allOutside I hear the feet runningAnd voices all aroundFootsoldiers with their guns comingI can't make a...
- Zero She Flies
She's a mollusk,a seamstress,a princess, a priestess, a negress, she knows her positionShe's a swallow, a willow, a cello, a pillow, a bow and also a physicianShe takes your eyes and mends your headShe draws the wine...
- Rumours Of War
We met on the beach amid rumours of warYour head in your hand, what you saw you won't sayAs the newspapers blew in the windI can see you're one of that kindWho carry round a time bomb in their mind, no one knowsWhen...
- Swiss Cottage Manouvers
On a Christmas cake day one Friday in AugustIn a bookshop in Charing Cross RoadI first set eyes on a girl and at once I did knowShe had eyes like a poet and hair like a rainbowReflecting the lights that did glowAnd...
- My Egyptian Couch
Now here's a book full of photographsThat my ancestors made some generations agoThey're wearing the lastest clothes in a nautical wayThe Suez Canal close behind is frozen in timeThe deck crews star out of a mimeAnd...
- Helen And Cassandra
According to the myths and legendsAt the fringes of our memoryParis stole the queen of SpartaAnd carried her across the seaAs they fled, he never dreamtThat he held the world in his gripHelen, the face that launched a...
- Fields Of France
His flying jacket still has her perfumeMemories of the nightPlay across his mindHigh above the fields of FranceA single biplane in a clear blue sky1917, no enemy was seenHigh above the fields of FranceOh she looks But...
- Year Of The Cat
On a morning from a Bogart movieIn a country where they turn back timeYou go strolling through the crowd like Peter LorreContemplating a crimeShe comes out of the sun in a silk dress runningLike a watercolour in the...
- Modern Times
Hello old friend, what a strange coincidence to find youIt's been fifteen years since we last met, but I still recognised youSo call the barman over here, and let us fill our glassesAnd drink a toast to olden times...
- Willie The King
Old man Bodey sits on his own by the side of the barDrinking slowly, resting the boots that he's carried so farOnce was a gambler, 5-card poker rambler,That the wise men knew as a slippery dealAnd the kids called...
- Last Days Of The Century
When the cock crowsAnd the wind blowsAnd the primrose of dawnIs at your windowsMoving through the deepYou chase dreams across your sleepScarecrows, waiting at your doorIn the last days of the centuryLeaning from your...
- Accident On 3rd St.
Linda was killed last Saturday about fifteen blocks from where she livesIn a car crash, people gathered around the graveside friends and relatives dressed in blackPreacher mumblin' how she's bound to go to HeavenThe...
- Candy Came Back
Candy came back to amazing acclaimSaying if this is love give me more of the sameThe people were waiting in crowds for the sight Of her face in the car driving into the nightAnd she says they gotta have someone I...
- Blow Your Mansion Down
There's a sign in the distance In the hollywood hillsAnd it's calling the faithful to comeAnd you know that they willSee the pied piper standing up in the limousine shineSaying here is your ticket just go to the end...
- Bad Reputation
You've got a bad reputationAll over the streetThere's some indicationYou've been indiscreetOh I know you can turn on the charmWhen you feel so inclinedWhatever I doI can't get you out of my mindIt's a sad situationI'm...
- I'm Falling
It's Sunday afternoon and it's raining,I m fallingColour sections, pastel blue, an empty church, a movie queueAnd I'm fallingWatching you moving aroundTaking the timeTo get a proper lookIt seems as though I've never...
- Running Man
Before the phone hits the receiverYou're halfway to the doorThe voice said 'get out while you can,There's just 1O minutes, nothing more'Time only for the essentialsBetter gather them and runThe false name inside the...
- If It Doesn't Come Naturally
Nothing that's forced can ever be rightIf it doesn't come naturally, leave itThat's what she said as she turned out the lightAnd we bent our backs as slaves of the nightShe lowered her guard and showed me the scarsShe...
- Small Fruit Song
Said the apple to the orange:"Oh I wanted you to comeClose to me and kiss me to the coreThen you might know me like no other orangeHas ever done before"
- Carol
Sometimes it seems unimaginableThat you were ever any other wayWith your white rose face and your orphan clothesEmbroidered jeans and silver chainsYou're a well known face in all the hang-out placesWhere the lost...
- Franklin's Table
Dinner with Ben Franklin on Friday night The invitation readOf course I wrote and thanked himI wouldn't miss it for the world I saidHis table is so well keptHe plays the glass harmonicaAnd talks of wind and kitesThe...
- Cafe Society
Late at nightWhen reality's failing and nothing is prevailing but the windI come to youOut of sightLike a fugitive trailing across a barren land, you let me inYou always doMy reason is caught by a sudden gustOf...
- Night Of The 4th Of May
And the days they flew byAnd the leaves fell from the treesAnd many times you came aroundAnd many times you slept with meAnd every time that we made loveYou wrote it down in your diaryLady of ladiesBut I would always...
- Manuscript
Prince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights down lowSilently sifting through papers sealed with a crownAdmiral Lord Fisher is writing to Churchill, calling for more DreadnoughtsThe houses in ***ney are...
- Apple Cider Re-Constitution
When we came to the station all the trains were rustyThe doors were open and the windows broken inThere was grass in all the cracks and the air hung mustyThe travel posters were flapping in the windSo we moved through...
- Don't Forget Me
The sun is going down across the great unknownLights come on inside the towers made of stoneA muffled drum plays out of sight and all aloneSummer is overThe city lies awake and breathes electric airThe sailor in the...
- Murmansk Run/Ellis Island
Your father sailed on the Murmansk runTo guide the flocks of the ships home one by oneGrey beneath the Arctic sunOr the glow of Northern LightsI see you have his photographHis eyes are watching for dangers fore or...
- The Dark And Rolling Sea
Oh you slipped away from the harbour sideIn the morning bright and clearAnd your sails were filled with the rising windAnd you laughed for all to hearBut you never glanced at the ragged danceOf your lovers on the...
- On The Border
The fishing boats go out across the evening waterSmuggling guns and arms across the Spanish borderThe wind whips up the waves so loudThe ghost moon sails among the cloudsTurns the rifles into silver on the borderOn my...
- Royal Courtship
I sent my majordomo to your amanuensisTo ascertain your feelings, and strip away pretensesAnd then a few days later, you sent back your vizierAnd though he spoke quite courtesouslyHis meaning wasn't clearNot to my...
- Warren Harding
I'm leaving my home in Europe behindHeading out for a new state of mindNew York town is calling to meDollar an hour from the companyWarren Gameliel HardingAlone in the White House, watching the sunCome up on the...
- Songs Out Of Clay
"Oh I know that you are an artist" she said"For you make your songs out of clayYou carry the dust on your hands and your faceYou never quite brushed it awayYou were trying to chisel a perfect truthWhen the instrument...
- One That Got Away
I came upon two strangers on a black and white TVIn a hotel room called nowhere, in the dead of half-past threeTheir eyes met across the captain's tableBoth trying to resist, but just weren't ableThe one that got...
- Old Admirals
I can well recall the first time I ever put to seaIt was on the old 'Calcutta' in 1853I was just a lad of fourteen years, a midshipman to beTo make my way in sailing ships of the Royal NavyBy the time that I was...