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I Have So Many Friends
02:41
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Everybody likes you when you’re down and you’re feeling blue
And everybody likes you when your tears are not yet dry
I have so many friends I have so many friends
I have so many friends I have so many friends
I have so many friends I have so many friends
I have so many friends I have so many friends
People are so wise when there’s someone else is pain
They give such good advice, they should learn from what they’re saying
I have so many friends I have so many friends
I have so many friends I have so many friends
I have so many friends I have so many friends
I have so many friends I have so many friends
When your heart is broken they’ll open up to you
They’ll tell you all their secrets, so many things you never knew
You never really know what’s going on inside
You never really know what’s going on inside
You never really know what’s going on inside
You never really know what’s going on inside
You never really know what’s going on inside
You never really know what’s going on inside
You never really know what’s going on inside
You never really know what’s going on inside
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Beautiful Monday
03:41
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Beautiful morning, beautiful day
Beautiful people on a beautiful train
All going to work now so dutifully
Beautiful Monday, beautiful me
Beautiful airplane on a beautiful cloud
Beautiful children making a beautiful sound
All going to school now, it’s a jubilee
Beautiful Monday, beautiful me
Everybody look at me, take another look at me
I’m beautiful
Everyone be good to me, do the things you should to me
I’m beautiful
Weekend is over, yeah we had a good time
The world’s on our shoulders and we’re gonna be fine
All hoping that one day we’ll truly be free
Beautiful Monday
Everybody look at me, take another look at me
I’m beautiful
Everyone be good to me, do the things you should to me
I’m beautiful
And I only wanna make a difference, I do
Yeah we’re all gonna make a difference, it’s true
Yeah I only wanna make a difference
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3. |
All The World Is Waiting
03:33
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You wouldn’t know there was a war
If you didn’t read the papers
Love or hate the Emperor
He’s still a great man
Never seen such pretty gowns
Another general’s in town tonight
All the world, all the world is waiting
All the world, all the world is waiting
Carriage slides across the snow
In the moonlight
And you’re only going home
Just to say goodbye
Your parents never change
They only show their age when you leave
All the world, all the world is waiting
All the world, all the world is waiting
Life is good on the road
You never know were it goes
You never know were it leads
Life is good
All the world, all the world is waiting
All the world, all the world is waiting
The world is waiting for you
For you
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4. |
Building A Road
03:24
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They're building a road
From the moon to the sun
Then they'll build another road
When that road is done
They're working so hard
But they've only just begun
Building that road
From the moon to the sun
And everybody (everybody) everybody wants to succeed
And everybody (everybody) everybody longs to be free
And everybody (everybody) everybody's looking for love
So they're building a road from the moon to the sun
Yes they're building a road from the moon to the sun
I'll sing them a song
From the side of the hill
And they'll sing along
I know that they will
It once was a dream
But now it's gonna be real
Cause they're building that road
With concrete and steel
And everybody (everybody) everybody wants to succeed
And everybody (everybody) everybody longs to be free
And everybody (everybody) everybody's looking for love
So they're building a road from the moon to the sun
Yes they're building a road from the moon to the sun
We're building a road
From the moon to the sun
Then we'll build another road
When that road is done
We're working so hard
But we've only just begun
Building that road
From the moon to the sun
And everybody (everybody) everybody wants to succeed
And everybody (everybody) everybody longs to be free
And everybody (everybody) everybody's looking for love
So we're building a road from the moon to the sun
Yes we're building a road
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She’s looking for something I can’t give
I’m drinking, I’m thinking this ain’t no way to live
I’m hanging I’m hanging on
I’m hanging just hanging on
Hanging on the drop edge
Hanging on the drop edge of yonder
She’s somewhere, I’m nowhere, I’m inside out
I wonder why I care, just gotta ride it out
I’m hanging I’m hanging on
I’m hanging just hanging on
Hanging on the drop edge
Hanging on the drop edge of yonder
She wants, she taunts me, she burns me up
I’m leaving this evening, I don’t know where I’ll stop
I’m hanging I’m hanging on
I’m hanging just hanging on
Hanging on the drop edge
Hanging on the drop edge
Hanging on the drop edge of yonder
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Bulletproof
05:12
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Lies are lonely, lies are sad
Lies can sometimes make you mad
We must always tell the truth
My heart is bulletproof
It ended with love, it started with lust
The more you love, the less you trust
But you can’t hurt me with the truth
My heart is bulletproof
We must never fear betrayal
If you fall out of love it don't mean that you've failed
So if your love has reached its end
There's no reason to pretend
You've got nothing to hide from me
My heart is yours but my mind's still free
There's no respect in telling lies
Please don't patronize
We must never fear betrayal
If you fall out of love it don't mean that you've failed
So if your love has reached its end
There's no reason to pretend
The first to fall is the first to stand
The last to fall, the hardest to land
Still I beg you tell the truth
My heart is bulletproof
My heart is bulletproof
My heart is bulletproof
My heart is bulletproof
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A Senator's daughter now living abroad
She damaged her liver, still she drinks when she's bored
A Communist actor who plays violin
Fire burns in his eyes though his hair's getting thin
A yoga instructor returned from the East
A Polish conductor, a Birmingham priest
MUMMY'S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS
MUMMY'S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS
There's the lodger upstairs, an anorexic nurse
She says she's much better but she's looking much worse
And the tragic young wife of a millionaire
She spent all his money cos he had an affair
There's only one person on whom they depend
She lives in my house so the fun never ends
Cos MUMMY'S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS
MUMMY’S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS
And everyone knows when Daddy comes home
They all run away like the plague
He offers them Scotch, they say "Good Heavens! Gosh!
How did it get so late?"
When I come home from school I can never be sure
Who'll be telling their secrets collapsed on the floor
Or out in the garden finishing their tea
Mummy is smiling as she notices me
"Do you remember Heidi and Sven?"
I shake my head and she smiles once again
Cos MUMMY'S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS
MUMMY'S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS
MUMMY’S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS
MUMMY'S GOT STRANGE FRIENDS
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I waited patiently for June
But it seems it's come too soon
Looking back I now remember
I miss the cold days of December
The winter months she went away
I wrote sad letters every day
Still I never lost my temper
I miss the cold days of December
April, May, June, July
Children play, grown-ups cry
Since she came back through my door
I'm much more lonely than before
I try my best, still I offend her
I miss the cold days of December
April, May, June, July
Children play, grown-ups cry
They say the grass is never green
I know exactly what they mean
June, July, August, September
I miss the cold days of December
I miss the cold days of December
I miss the cold days
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9. |
It Is Time
03:46
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When your heart is cold, when you're feeling old
When your whole life's a joke which you've already told
When you've done your tour, when there's nothing more
When you've seen, heard and swallowed it all before
When the world is dreary, when you're world-weary
When it's been so long since you've been teary-eyed
When you're just depressed, always unimpressed
When it's second nature now to be dissatisfied
It is time, It is time, It is time
When all your friends are so bourgeois
But you don't complain because that's who and what you are
When it's dinners and lunches, fundraising brunches
When you're so civilized you've learned how to pull your punches
And the avant-garde, you now speak of it rudely
So instead you have long conversations about inconsequential movies
When you take the train to work and everything's the same
When you push, shove, push, shove and kick till you're back on the train again
It is time, It is time, It is time
When you sense the night in broad daylight
When you still know what's wrong but you no longer know what's right
When you're just resigned, made up your mind
That it's not kind to be cruel but it's cruel to be kind
And the horrible news that you're not so clever
You're learning it now though you know you've known it forever
When you finally give up and you stop ignoring
That you've turned into your father who turned into his father before him
It is time, It is time, It is time, It is time, It is time
Time to have children
It’s time to have children
It’s time to have children
It is time
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She's not the girl next door
She got me once before
Sixteen and heaven sent
She seemed so innocent
She wears her Grandma's clothes
She's not like other girls
Old records on her bed
And cobwebs in her head
DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH LAURA INGRAHAM
DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH LAURA INGRAHAM
She doesn't know the rules
She mustn't go to school
She says it's not good for her health
So her Daddy teaches her himself
DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH LAURA INGRAHAM
DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH LAURA INGRAHAM
You know the vicar's boy
He had his life destroyed last year
No, he's never been the same
Since he first called out her name
DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH LAURA INGRAHAM
DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH LAURA INGRAHAM
DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH LAURA INGRAHAM
DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH LAURA INGRAHAM
I saw her yesterday
I should have run away
But she combed my hair with her fingertips
So I said a prayer, then I kissed her lips
She’ll hurt you
She’ll hurt you
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In The Pouring Rain
04:00
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Well, the fog's coming down
And the moon is a blur
And you want something to eat
So you're wandering the streets
In the pouring rain
And your friends are all there
With a girl on each arm
Laughing, smoking cigarettes
And you’re all soaking wet
In the pouring rain
And everyone is smiling everyone is beautiful
And there's a silver lining, silver lining in your soul
And everything is shining everything is beautiful
All the policemen are drunk
Though the night's just begun
The whole city's gonna drown
And the wind'll blow you down
In the pouring rain
And everyone is smiling everyone is beautiful
And there's a silver lining, silver lining in your soul
And everything is shining everything is beautiful
And the girl at your side
Holds your umbrella high
She's got everything you need
And her kisses are so sweet
In the pouring rain
And everyone is smiling everyone is beautiful
And there's a silver lining, silver lining in your soul
And everything is shining everything is beautiful
In the pouring rain
In the pouring rain
In the pouring rain
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12. |
Road To Beijing
07:19
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Walking down the road to Beijing
Big city, dark red cloud
Left my home this Sunday morning
Nobody’s gonna help me now
All my life I been a good man
Read the words of Chairman Mao
Never caused any trouble
But noboby’s gonna help me now
I don’t like the men from Shanghai
Gonna tear my old house down
They tell me I got thirty days and
Nobody’s gonna help you now
Don’t know where they get their money
They’re gonna build a brand new town
This used to be farming country
Nobody gonna help us now
Walking down the road to Beijing
Big city, dark red cloud
All my life I been a kind man
Nobody’s gonna help me now
Gonna see a man from the Party
Gonna tell him what’s going down
My wife says I’m old and foolish
Nobody’s gonna help you now
Cowboys on their motorcycles
Hair as long as Genghis Khan
They laugh at me and the clothes I’m wearing
Nobody gonna help me now
I hate them all and their easy women
I curse them all and I’ve made a vow
When I get home I swear I’ll kill them
Nobody’s gonna help them now
Walking down the road to Beijing
Big city, dark red cloud
Gonna see a man from the Party
But nobody’s gonna help me now
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13. |
One Day, My Love
04:05
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One day we’ll see the sky again
It’s waiting there behind the rain
One day, my love
One day, my love
I'm offering a guarantee
You’re suffering cos you can’t see
The way, my love
Stay, my love
We’ve come too far to turn back now
It’s only just a drifting cloud
You say it’s been there all along
You didn’t see when it was gone
I loved you then I love you still
I’m holding on, I hope you will
All those times you’ve pulled me through
This time I’m pulling you
Even when the light is gone
Even then the fight can still be won
One day the truth will bloom again
We’ll make juice from the sugar cane
One day, my love
One day, my love
Our enemies are all around
They’ll never feel the love we’ve found
No way, my love
Don’t stray, my love
We’ve come too far to turn back now
It’s only just a drifting cloud
Remember how we used to be
It isn’t just a memory
I loved you then I love you still
I’m holding on, I hope you will
I’m putting all my faith in you
Deep down you want me to
Yeah the flame will always burn
And one day the tide will surely turn
One day we’ll see the sky again
It’s waiting there behind the rain
One day, my love
One day, my love
One day the truth will bloom again
We’ll make juice from the sugar cane
One day, my love
One day, my love
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14. |
That's What I Like
02:43
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Girls with glasses and ten dollar arses
That's what I like
Big ol' fat ones, yellow and black ones
That's what I like
Ladies from Boston with college degrees
Swimmers and gymnasts with knobbly knees
Working class mothers and rich divorcees
That's what I like
Fun ones with dimples, young ones with pimples
That's what I like
Sly ones and strippers, shy ones in slippers
That's what I like
Farmer's daughters, engineers wives
Girls who throw parties, girls who throw knives
Spinsters who've made the most of their lives
That's what I like
But only just to look
Darling, I promise on the book
Born again Christians who read Solzhenitsyn
That's what I like
Brunettes, redheads, feminists, deadheads
That's what I like
Girls who've been thirty for twenty five years
Some they talk dirty, so cover your ears
Ladies who ride you like charioteers
That's what I like
But only just to look
Darling, I promise on the book
Vegetarians hooked on vitamins
Arabs, Jews, senior citizens
Russians, Turks, Tutsis, Hutus
Busty girls from Tonga in tutus
Is it so strange?
Is it so wrong?
I'm not ashamed to sing this song
Cos that's what I like
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15. |
Road Song
04:27
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When the race is won
And there’s nowhere left to run
I’ll be coming home
When everything makes sense
And you're out out of cigarettes
I’ll be coming home
I’ll be coming home
Very very very very very very very soon
January, February, March, April, May or June
Lean your elbows on the window sill
Smell the roses and the daffodils
Been so long I hope you want me still
I love you, darling, and I always will
I love you, darling, and I always will
When the light begins to fade
And the truth has been proclaimed
I’ll be coming home
When all the treasure has been found
The engine, it’s gonna turn around
I’ll be coming home
I’ll be coming home
Very very very very very very very soon
January, February, March, April, May or June
Lean your elbows on the window sill
Smell the roses and the daffodils
Been so long I hope you want me still
I love you, darling, and I always will
I love you, darling, and I always will
Very very very very very very very soon
I’ll be coming home
Very very very very very very very soon
I’ll be coming home
Very very very very very very very soon
I’ll be coming home
Very very very very very very very soon...
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