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So Lonely Someone To Talk To Someone To Watch Over Me* Something The Boy said Spirits In The Material World Spread A Little Happiness* Stolen Car Straight To My Heart Strange Fruit* Synchronicity 1 Synchronicity 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- So Lonely Well someone told me yesterday That when you throw your love away You act as if you don't care You look as if you're going somewhere But I just can't convince myself I couldn't live with no one else And I can only play that part And sit and nurse my broken heart So lonely So lonely So lonely So lonely Now no one's knocked upon my door For a thousand years or more All made up and nowhere to go Welcome to this one man show Just take a seat they're always free No surprise no mystery In this theatre that I call my soul I always play the starring role So lonely So lonely So lonely So lonely Lonely, I'm so lonely I feel so alone I feel low I feel so Feel so low I feel low, low I feel low, low, low I feel low, low, low I feel low, low, low I feel low, low, low I feel low, low, low Low, I feel low I feel low I feel low I feel so lonely I feel so lonely I feel so lonely, lonely, lonely, lone Lonely, lone I feel so alone, yeah So lonely --------------------------------------------------------------------- Someone to Talk to Though it's me that's on fire not this cigarette And what do I care if she leaves me alone If I need somebody I'll pick up the phone I'll put on my good face, clean up the flat I'm starting all over, good bye to all that Put on some music and pour out a drink I'll go back to bed and I'll try not to think Someone to talk to She was a person I just couldn't see And I tried to make her what she couldn't be I tried and I tried, but of course in the end I drove her crazy and right 'round the bend Now it's too much to just sit here and cry I can't be seen with a tear in my eye Why am I standing right next to the phone When I kept on saying I must be alone Someone to talk to I love you, why didn't I say that before I guess that it's safe now, she's walked through the door It's hard when you know that you've got to go on Feeling so weak and pretending your strong I didn't see her, I only felt me And one day I'll learn just which part of me bleeds Now that she's gone I know she was great But I fucked it up and now it's too late Someone to talk to.......... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Someone To Watch Over Me There's a saying old says that love is blind Still we're often told, "Seek and you shall find" So I'm going to seek a certain girl I've had in mind Looking everywhere, haven't found her yet She's the big affair I cannot forget Only girl I ever think of with regret I'd like to add her initial to my monogram Tell me, where is the shepherddes for this lost lamb? There's a somebody I'm longing to see I hope that she turns out to be Someone who'll watch over me I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood I know I could always be good Someone who'll watch over me Although I may not be the man some Girls think of as handsome To her heart I carry the key Won't you tell her please to put on some speed Follow my lead, oh, how I need Someone who'll watch over me There's a somebody I'm longing to see I hope that she turns out to be Someone to watch over me I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood I know I could always be good To one who'll watch over me Although I may not be the man some Girls think of as handsome To her heart I carry the key Won't you tell her please to put on some speed Follow my lead, oh, how I need Someone to watch over me --------------------------------------------------------------------- Something the Boy Said When we set out on this journey There were no doubts in our minds We set our eyes to the distance We would find what we would find We took courage from our numbers What we sought we did not fear Sometimes we'd glimpse a shadow falling The shadow would disappear But our thoughts kept returning To something the boy said As we turned to go He said you'll never see our faces again You'll be food for a carrion crow Every step we took today Our thoughts would always stray From the wind on the moor so wild To the words of the captain's child Something the boy said In the circles we made with our fires We talked of the pale afternoon The clouds were like dark riders Flying on the face of the moon We spoke our fears to the captain And asked what his son could know For we would never have marched so far To be food for a crow Every step we took today Our thoughts would always stray From the wind on the moor so wild To the words of the captain's child Something the boy said When I awoke this morning The sun's eye was red as blood The stench of burning corpses Faces in the mud Am I dead or am I living? I'm too afraid to care, I'm too afraid to know I'm too afraid to look behind me At the feast of the crow We spoke our fears to the captain And asked what his son could know For we would never have marched so far To be food for a crow --------------------------------------------------------------------- Spirits in the Material World There is no political solution To our troubled evolution Have no faith in constitution There is no bloody revolution We are spirits in the material world Our so-called leaders speak With words they try to jail you The subjugate the meek But it's the rhetoric of failure We are spirits in the material world Where does the answer lie? Living from day to day If it's something we can't buy There must be another way We are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world --------------------------------------------------------------------- Spread a Little Happiness Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry Spread a little happiness as you go by Please try What's the use of worrying and feeling blue When days are long keep on smiling through Spread a little happiness till dreams come true Surely you'll be wise to make the best of every blues day Don't you realize you'll find next Monday or next Tuesday Your golden shoes day Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry Spread a little happiness as you go by I've got a creed for every need So easy that it must succeed I'll set it down for you to read So please, take heed Keep out the gloom Let in the sun That's my advice for everyon It's only once we pass this way So day by day Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry Spread a little happiness as you go by Please try What's the use of worrying and feeling blue When days are long keep on smiling through Spread a little happiness till dreams come true Surely you'll be wise to make the best of every blues day Don't you realize you'll find next Monday or next Tuesday Your golden shoes day Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry Spread a little happiness as you go by (whistling solo) Surely you'll be wise to make the best of every blues day Don't you realize you'll find next Monday or next Tuesday Your golden shoes day Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry Spread a little happiness as you go by --------------------------------------------------------------------- Stolen Car Late at night in summer heat. Expensive car, empty street There's a wire in my jacket. This is my trade It only takes a moment, don't be afraid I can hotwire an ignition like some kind of star I'm just a poor boy in a rich man's car So I whisper to the engine, flick on the lights And we drive into the night Oh the smell of the leather always excites my imagination And I picture myself in this different situation I'm a company director, two kids and a wife I get the feeling that there's more to this one's life There's some kind of complication, he tells her he's alone Spends the night with his lover, there's a trace of her cologne And the words of his mistress, as she whispers them so near Start ringing in my ear Please take me dancing tonight I've been all on my own You promised one day we could its, what you said on the phone I'm just a prisoner of love always hid form the light Take me dancing, please take me dancing tonight I imagine his wife, she don't look nothing like a fool She picks the kids up form some private school She remembers what he told her, he was late and worked alone But there's more than a suspicion in this lingering cologne And the kid's just won't be quiet and she runs a traffic light And she drives into the night Please take me dancing tonight I've been all on my own You promised one day we could it's what you said on the phone I'm just a prisoner of love always hid from the light Take me dancing, please take me dancing tonight So here am I in a stolen car at a traffic light They go form red to green and so I just drive into the night Please take me dancing tonight I've been all on my own You promised one day we could it's what you said on the phone I'm just a prisoner of love always hid from the light Take me dancing, please take me dancing tonight --------------------------------------------------------------------- Straight To My Heart Well in a hundred years from now They will attempt to tell us how A scientific means to bliss Will supersede the human kiss A sub atomic chain Will maybe galvanize the brain A biochemic trance Will eliminate romance But why ever should we care When there are arrows in the air Formed by lovers' ancient art That go straight to my heart A future sugar coated pill Would give our lovers time to kill I think they're working far too much For the redundancy of touch But what will make me yours Are a million deadly spores Formed by lovers' ancient art That go straight to my heart Come into my door Be the light of my life Come into my door You'll never have to sweep the floor Come into my door Be the light of my life Come into my door Come and be my wife I'll be true To no one but you If it's a future world we fear We have tomorrow's seeds right here For you can hold them in your hand Or let them fall into the sand But if our love is pure The only thing of which we're sure Then you can play your part And go straight to my heart If I should seek immunity And love you with impunity Then the only thing to do Is for me to pledge myself to you But they only dealt one card So for me it is not hard You're the bright star in my chart You go straight to my heart Come into my door Be the light of my life Come into my door You'll never have to sweep the floor Come into my door Be the light of my life Come into my door Come and be my wife I'll be true To no one but you --------------------------------------------------------------------- Strange Fruit Southern trees bear Strange Fruits Blood on the leaves, bloot at the roots Black (belly's) body's swingin' in the southern reek Strange fruit hangin from the popular tree. Past star will sing from the gallon south bullgeing eyes and a twisted mouth Send up magnolia, sweet and fresh And the sudden smell of burning flesh. Here is the fruit for the crows to pluck Ror (but) the rain to gather for the wind to suck Ror the sun to rot for the tree to drop Here is the strange and bitter crop. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Synchronicity I With one breath, with one flow You will know Synchronicity A sleep trance, a dream dance, A shared romance, Synchronicity A connecting principle, Linked to the invisible Almost imperceptible Something inexpressible. Science insusceptible Logic so inflexible Causally connectable Yet nothing is invincible If we share this nightmare Then we can dream Spiritus mundi If you act, as you think, The missing link, Synchronicity We know you, they know me Extrasensory Synchronicity A star fall, a phone call, It joins all, Synchronicity It's so deep, it's so wide Your inside Synchronicity Effect without a cause Sub-atomic laws, scientific pause Synchronicity......... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Synchronicity II Another suburban family morning Grandmother screaming at the wall We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies We can't hear anything at all Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration But we know all her suicides are fake, Daddy only stares into the distance There's only so much more that he can take Many miles away something crawls from the slime at the Bottom of a dark Scottish lake Another industrial ugly morning The factory belches filth into the sky He walks unhindered through the picket lines today, He doesn't think to wonder why The secretaries pout and preen like cheap tarts in a red light street, But all he ever thinks to do is watch, And every single meeting with his so-called superior Is a humiliating kick in the crotch Many miles away something crawls to the surface of a dark Scottish lake Another working day has ended Only the rush hour hell to face Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes Contestants in a suicidal race Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance He knows that something somewhere has to break He sees the family home now looming in the headlights The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake Many miles away... 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