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On Your Knees, Cowboy
02:13
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ON YOUR KNEES COWBOY
Take the express to the coast to the hotel by the sea
The hotel by the sea
The sky is grey
Curtain falls from high ceiling to floor
The person you were is beating on the door
This performance can’t go on much more
Chorus:
On your knees, cowboy
You’re going to rue the day you ever laid eyes on me
You’re going to want me more and more
I’m looking back down a street lined with poplars
Through the stations of abandoned days
The early evening runs
The early evening sun
The early evening runs
The early evening sun
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22 DIFFERENT KINDS OF FISH
22 different kinds of fish
Boiling on the fire, about to overflow
Who knows, who knows
Which way this thing will go?
Chorus:
Familiar things seen from close to
Familiar things…
The night is young, it’s underage
Though I’m well-thumbed
I’m trembling as I turn the page
Familiar things seen from close to
Familiar things…a whole new world
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SALMAN RUSHDI's PERSONAL HI-FI
(instrumental)
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Professional Help
01:48
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PROFESSIONAL HELP
Out on the road again
From service station to service station
Getting wild with some friends
Chorus:
There’s a winged beast circling the car
Maybe I should seek professional help
If we get stopped, Michael
It’s 15-20 years minimum
But that’s the least of our fears
Your expertise – what’s that when it’s at home?
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Hey Postie!
02:53
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HEY POSTIE!
Waiting for the postman’s heavy footfall
Wondering when he is going to call
Bring me love, bring me hate
But bring it through that gate
Chorus:
Hey postie, have you got something for me?
Hey postie, hey there postie
Perhaps my model-maker’s magazines
Hey postie, hey there postie
If I had a life, a dog, a beach
Instead of this infernal itch
Bring me love, bring me hate
Tsk, you’re 20 minutes late
Chorus:
Hey postie, have you got something for me?
Hey postie, hey there postie
Perhaps my model-maker’s magazines
Hey postie, hey there postie
Perhaps some junk mail, perhaps my telephone bill
Which I hope will not be too substantial
Hey postie, hey postie
Hey postie, hey postie
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6. |
Tariq
05:27
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TARIQ
(instrumental)
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7. |
Nobody's Happy
02:06
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NOBODY's HAPPY
Nobody’s happy with the way things are
I’m gonna change my life, I’m gonna change my car
Nobody’s happy with the way things are
Nobody’s happy with the way things are
I’m gonna change my change, I’m gonna change my colour
Nobody’s happy with the way things are
She’s coming home on Tuesday with a sack brimful of useless things
Nobody’s happy with the way things are
I’m gonna change my life, I’m gonna change my lover
Nobody’s happy with the way things are
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THE MAN WHO WAVES AT PASSING TRAINS
Honey it’s me
Sugar it’s me
Honey it’s me they want to see
So get out of my way
I must be moving on
What made you think you were important anyway?
Chorus:
Waiting for the train to come
Never been so far from home
Will I turn tail?
Your taste appals
Teenage kitsch just oozing from the walls
And when the tide
Of booze subsides
I’m high and dry and naked to the wind
Chorus:
Waiting for the train to come
Never been so far from home
I’m the one who waves at passing trains
Well? Wave back then….
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Jimmy Neighbour
01:56
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JIMMY NEIGHBOUR
Jimmy Neighbour what’s become of you?
Seventies pop idol and a style guru
Are you married to an aerobics instructress,
Or a photographic model,
Or selling life insurance like Wyndham Evans?
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SHIMMERING DESERT
Can you survive the cold water shock of the new day?
Splash- splash- splashing on your window pane
The surf of the city traffic
A thousand miles away at the heart of the shimmering desert
Your baby murmurs in her sleep
Your name or another’s
She stokes the fires of the sun
That bakes the concrete cake of mud
Stretching out between us
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Sandra's Mystery Plant
02:48
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SANDRA's MYSTERY PLANT
Just look what I have found
I’m going to take it home and brush it down
This refugee that I pulled from the ruins
It’s irresistible
Compulsion not conviction could do me untold harm
This refugee that I pulled from the ruins
I’m so close that I can…
Just look what I have found
I’m going to take it home and brush it down
This refugee that I pulled from the ruins
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12. |
Mr. Popularity
01:51
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MR. POPULARITY
People come and go
There’s a couple in the room below
But I don’t interfere, I just live here
The walls are thin. I’m living in
Strange houses in other people’s trousers
I’m his and hers and yours
What’s for breakfast? Not more sentiment I hope,
I couldn’t take much more of that. Remember who you’re talking to…
More slamming doors than a Whitehall farce. I think I’ll pass
On the bedroom scene
For me and you read Terry and June
People come and go
There’s a couple in the room below
But I don’t interfere, I just live here
I’m Mr Popularity.
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THE HEPBURNS Wales, UK
The Hepburns are a Welsh indie band from Llanelli, South-West Wales. They have recorded thirteen albums, two EPs, one single and three BBC sessions. 'Electric Lliedi Land' was released in September 2020, followed by a cover version of Vic Godard's 'I'll Find Out Over Time'. They also contributed to three Corona Underground Projects. A new album feat. Estella Rosa is due for release in Oct. 2021. ... more
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