1.A Thousand Trees
standing at the bus stop with my shopping
in my hands when i'm overhearing elder
ladies as the rumours start to fly you can
hear them in the school yard scrap yard
chip shop phone box in the pool hall at
the shoe stall every corner turned around
it started with a school girl who was
running running home to her mam and
dad told them she was playing in the
change room of her local football side they
said tell us again so she told them again
they said tell us the truth they found it hard
to believe cause he taught our steve he
even trained me taught uncle john who's
father of three
but it only takes one tree to make
a thousand matches
only takes one match to burn
a thousand trees
you see it in the class room in the
swimming pool where the matchstick men
are made at the scouts hall at the football
where the wise we trust are paid they all
honour his name he did a lot for the game
he got his name knocked up above the
sports ground gates but now they are
ripping them down stamping the ground
picture gathers dust behind the bar in the
lounge it takes one tree to make
a thousand matches
only takes one match to burn
a thousand trees
wake up and smell the rain shake up he's
back to stay he hasn't been on a holiday
his growing seeds don't believe why he's
been away in the school yard change room
playing fields bathroom phone box office
blocks corner turned around they keep
doubting the flame tossing the blame got
his name knocked up above the sports
ground gates but now they're
ripping them down stamping the ground
picture gathers dust in the bar in the
lounge it takes one tree to make
a thousand matches
it only takes one match to burn
a thousand trees
2.Last Of The Big Time Drinkers
ten minutes flat after that day at the factory i'm drinking like
a dog in the sun i don't
need to eat or sleep awink at the weekend just rot my guts and i
can't wait for my
next drink the first is gonna sink i'm the last of the big time
drinkers i take pride in
my work i'm the last of the big time drinkers the beer don't
taste the same with out
my name painted on my glass i don't live to work i work to live
and live at the
weekend and maybe spend a week in the sun i come home wet the
bed throw my
sheets out the window and sunday morning comes and i can't wait
for my next
drink the first one is gonna sink i'm the last of the big time
drinkers i take pride in my
work i'm the last of the big time drinkers the beer don't taste
the same with out my
name painted on my glass
and i can't wait for my next drink the first one
it's gonna sink i'm the last of the big time drinkers i take
pride in my
work i'm the last of the big time drinkers just give me hops or
the
slops i'm the last of the big time drinkers
i take pride in my work i'm the last of the big time drinkers
3.Same Size Feet
a week's too long not to ring re colours her hair and waits for
him no cat
against dog just head over heals sex twice a date best time in
years oh
no why hasn't he phoned she has to wait until he's on his own
lying and
denying so no body knows i'll tell her this week is what he
tells her to
keep her on loan he'll buy her one
day
sex drives oral highs cheated wives and spies cream cakes coffee
dates
floral gifts goodbye passed away for the day had a change of
kind sex
changes too mundane for the average mind oh no she just can't
see
where he is or where he's been looked prim and straight like
she's
always been all that she saved for went missing again she could
be
wrong it looks like the words got around they found a body in
the lake
maybe it wasn't really his name same colour same weight same
size
feet it's the not knowing that kills you oh no the clocks
stopped slow
everytime you're on your own ya' hide from the spies so nobody
knows
scratch through the pages of the lazy days news for a clue still
looking for
4.Traffic
we all face the same way still it takes all day take a look to
my left pick out
the worst and the best she paints her lip greasy and thick
another mirror stare and
she's going where
another office affair to kill an unborn scare
talk dirty to the priest
makes them human at least
is she running away
to start a brand new day
or she going home
why's she driving alone is anyone going anywhere
everyone's gotta be somewhereshe got a body in the boot
or just bags full of food
those are models legs but are they womens are they mens
she shouts down the phone missed a payment on the loan she gotta
be above the rest
keeping up with the best is anyone going anywhere
everyone's gotta be somewhere
wait tables for a crook wrote a hard back book you teach kids
how to read
sell your body on the street a nurse without a job another
uptown snob
but have i got you wrong
one look and you were gone is anyone going anywhere
everyone gotta
be somewhere
5.Too Many Sandwiches
shopping spree for the family tree
haven't seen your family tree in quite
a while too many sandwiches
and wine sherry stains down your
best mans
tie what a speech the band arrives
the granny's cry
singer's
tongues in the
bar maids
mouth what a voice
grandpa
drunk a drop or two his head's still
sunk in the portaloo what a man
you bought a sequin dress for your
chichen breast the disco's late and
he's overpaid tonight you got a
diamond ring and the man who
sings the man who sings made
love to the barmaid twice and that's
just tonight the blue rinsed hairs lift
up the chairs the band's too loud
they're off down stairs what a noise
the bride and groom dance their
dance the singer mimes there's still
a chance the bar maid
smiles
6.Goldfish Bowl
the same long faces in the workman's hall caramel crisp counts
his birds cliff chip's lines up his dominoes kingfisher lead
singer
calms his nerves
i'm drinking sinking swimming drowning working smirking learning
burning sleeping thieving cheating beating i'm eating i'm deep
in a
goldfish bowl it's sink or swim
the hall down town just burns to the ground my boxing ring
turned to ash
red head ginger bread sells tickets at the door stella sleep
walks in the sand
i'm drinking sinking swimming drowning working smirking learning
burning
sleeping thieving cheating beating i'm eating i'm deep in a
goldfish bowl it's sink
or swim they're looking in
hard up outta luck time to ride the village bike a bike been
used ten times or
more grape vine here's the wife lays down her royal flush
i think i've lost another wife
7.More Life In A Tramps Vest
i get camping eyes in the final hour last minute shoppers
picking cauliflower the fuss they
make you'd swear they were buying a car always moan moan it's
not so cheap cheaper still
cheaper still down the street i lose my rag and tell them take
your bag and shop down there
closing down closing down another road one way system steals the
show
mac the knife swigs a can and sings the day away
there's more life in a tramps vest flower man sits down in the
street surrounded by stock he
bought back last week bring back the ladies wearing lipstick on
their teeth
make up we make up a crappy joke sit back relax and have a smoke
mac the knife swigs a can and sings the day away
there's more life in a tramps vest
8.Not Up To You
salt grips the road awaits his lift again street orange glow
shades the odds against one
more sip a shoe a miss a shaving nick one extra kiss who's to
know whatever not up
to me not up to you swings don't swing the parks been dead for
years how do you
know the last swing weren't your last for good hard book on
freaks fresh summer
peach creased magazine sugar chocolate treat who's to know
whatever not up
to me not up to you the street's so long where she lost her
pocket purse kept the last
picture of the man she committed first cracked windscreen rain
french murder play
junk take away tired street parades who's to know whatever
whatever not up to me
not up to you
not up to anything we do
9.Check My Eyelids For Holes
i gotta lose weight i swallow honey is my stand up show still
that funny
am i back for good i said that i said that i would be she's down
waist low trying to make
me happy
because i like watching you it's time i tried tried to check my
check my eye lids
check for holes
two weeks late i gotta test for babies shop take is falling low
i'm not going back back to the
factory's because i like what i do it's time i tried tried to
check my check my eye lids
check for holes
10.Local Boy In The Photograph
there's no mistake i smell that smell it's that time of year
again i can taste the air clocks go back railway track
something blocks the line again and the train runs late for the
first time pebble beach we're
underneath a pier just been painted redwhere i hear the news for
the first time
and all the friends lay down the flowers sit on the banks and
drink for hours talk of the way they saw him last
local boy in the photograph he'll always be twenty three yet the
train runs on and on past the place they
found his clothing
11.Looks Like Chaplin
i feel the wash close down the street yet chaplin walks feet
nine fifteen
and i hear them call his name and i see him turn away they take
him in
and clean him up they take him in and strip him down dry his
skin and feed him wine
and i hear them call his name and i see him turn away asks to
use the phone yet he
lives alone he lives alone there's no one home to phone sits
alone home alone calls
his hone his own wife is still unknown
12.Billy Daveys Daughter
i never knew her name
i only knew her fame
she lived near my town
another goldfish to drown
well i just past the bridge
that parts us from them the bridge
that she used again and again again
i remember when they found her
billy davey's daughter the word gets around
billy davey's second daughter threw herself
to dirty water billy's left with nothing but a
dreamhe dreams
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