1.It Was Always So Easy (To Find An Unhappy Woman)
I drove through the park
And I searched all the bars
Where I made out with love
Too many times
It was always so easy to find and unhappy woman
Till I started looking for mine
Some beer drinking devil is holding my angel
And I know what he'll do if he's my kind
It was always so easy to find an unhappy woman
Till I started looking for mine
The note on the door
Said I warned you before
What I'd do if you cheated
One more time.
It was always so easy to find and unhappy woman
Till I started looking for mine
Some beer drinking devil is holding my angel
And I know what he'll do if he's my kind
It was always so easy to find an unhappy woman
Till I started looking for mine
2.Wages Of Sin
I woke at four this morning
I couldn't sleep another wink
I need to do something
I had too long to sit and thing
And I hope
Hope and pray
That the wages of sin
Aren't paid today.
I've led an average life
I've told the truth and I have lied
But I need a few more years
To help build up the credit side
So I hope
Hope and pray
That the wages of sin
Aren't paid today.
Yeah I hope
Hope and pray
That the wages of sin
Aren't paid today.
3.I Know (Reprise)
No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while there's men
Willing to fight in them
No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while there's patriotism,
Not while there's patriotism,
No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while there's some saying
That this is the last one,
No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while religious nuts
Are willing to spill their guts
4.On Causewayside
Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid
Did they build this tenement with stone from Fife?
Does it have a memory of an earlier life?
Before it was transported to be cut with pride
And built up to let look down on Causewayside
At the edge of the pavement there stands a girl
Of no more than three years in this world
Looking up at her mother with sheer delight
For a moment on Causewayside
The rats in the sewer and the autumn sky
Stand still for a moment and so do I
As we touch the eternal then the cold wind sighed
And blowed away down Causewayside
5.Three More Days
Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid
Three more days and then I'll see
The people who depend on me
Three more days and I'm home
Not long now till I step inside
The place where we all reside
Three more days and I'm home
And life's rolled on and on
The whole time I've been gone
I walked around today feeling right
I dreamed about each one of them last night
Three more days and I'm home
And life's rolled on and on
The whole time I've been gone
When I close my eyes I can see
The faces of my family
Three more days and I'm home
Everything that I hold dear
Lies five thousand miles from here
Three more days and I'm home
Three more days and I'm home, home
6.Free Market
Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid
Your heart's just missed another beat
The ground's still moving 'neath your feet
Your mouth is dry, your eyes are sore
There is nothing certain anymore
You thought that history was dead
Well, it's just whacked you on the head
It took your money and you're right
It's coming back to take your pride
Golden days are just a memory
But that's all right 'cause the market is still free
The market's free
Survival of the fittest is a swizz
Law of the jungle's what it is
I hope you still think it's okay
Now it's you who are the prey
Golden days are just a memory
But that's all right 'cause the market is still free
The market's free
Free marketeers were on a roll
Rolling in silver and in gold
But then the markets grew too cold
So they held out the begging bowl
Golden days are just a memory
But that's all right 'cause the market is still free
The market's free
Golden days are just a memory
But that's all right 'cause the market is still free
The market's free
You thought that history was dead
You thought that history was dead
7.Like A Flame
Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid
I heard the rain
As it skipped and rolled down the pane
Sleep was almost here
But I stirred from not having you near
We were apart
For the first time since you'd claimed my heart
I said your name
And I knew we would burn like a flame
Now twenty years have gone
And I know how much I've done you wrong
I caused you pain
And I know that things can't be the same
But my love has a name
And it's yours and it burns like a flame
8.Just Look Now
Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid
Wait a moment, yeah have a cigarette
We can stand out here on the pavement
There's a young man near with the same idea
And a half drunk beer as payment
But we turned his offer down
Give him a light and watch him frown
As he waves his way back round into the crowd
Many years ago that was us, I know
When they said this place was dying
But just look now, look all around
If you squint you'd swear it was thriving
Now it's we who are in decline
Like the old shipyards and mines
We outlived the time that's long past away
I thought we'd change things
But we never changed a thing
We never changed a thing
There's a girl, there's another
That one looks familiar
I think I knew her mother
Wait a moment, yeah have a cigarette
They let us stand out here on the pavement
Just look now, look all around
Now that's what I call entertainment
I thought we'd change things
But we never changed a thing
We never changed a thing
9.I Know
Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid
You'd lay your life down for this country
Lay it down for fools like me
I know, I know, I know you would
You'd make the ultimate sacrifice
Lose yourself on a throw of the dice
I know, I know, I know you would
'Cause the line you come from stretches back
In an unbroken chain other countries lack
Every single corner of the world
Has seen our banners being unfurled
You've won and lost and battled on
Whether the cause was right or wrong
God knows what you do to the enemy
'Cause you scare the living hell out of me
He'd lay his life down for his country
He'd like to kill fools like me
I know, I know, I know he would
He'd make the ultimate sacrifice
Blow himself to paradise
I know, I know, I know he would
And the line he comes from stretches back
In an unbroken chain other countries lack
In the farthest corners of the world
Where he's watched our banners being unfurled
He's won and lost and battled on
Whether his cause was right or wrong
He's this generation's enemy
And he scares the living hell out of me
No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while there's men willing to fight in them
No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while there's patriotism, not while there's patriotism
No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while there's some saying that this is the last one
No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while religious nuts are willing to spill their guts
And the line we come from stretches back
In an unbroken chain no country lacks
To the darkest corner of a cave
Where there's a weapon made to stave
Or gouge or choke or cut and kill
In a hundred years we'll be fighting still
I know, I know, I know, I know we will
10.Love Can Move Mountains
Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid
A cynical mind won't help you through the night
And it can't hold you up when you're too tired to fight
Where you didn't have the strength to look after yourself
You find all that you need for somebody else
But love can move mountains
Love can move mountains
Love can move mountains, yes it can
Love can move mountains
That impossible task you're thinking of
Is one you can complete when you're driven by love
And the strength that you find won't go slipping away
Once it enters your soul it's reborn every day
Love can move mountains
Love can move mountains
Love can move mountains, yes it can
So if you're lucky enough to live
To see love come your way
Be thankful every day that it stays
Oh that it stays
A cynical mind won't help you through the night
And it can't hold you up when you're too tired to fight
But love can move mountains
Love can move mountains
Love can move mountains, yes it can
Love can move mountains
Love can move mountains, yes it can
Love can move mountains
Love can move mountains
Love can move mountains
11.Shadows Fall
Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid
Shadows fall on our lives
So quickly, my friend
We feel warmth and see light
Then darkness descends
Shadows fall without warning
And we stumble around
Shadows fall without pity
And there's no peace to be found
Shadows fall on our lives
So slowly, my friend
We see them coming for miles
But our happiness we don't defend
Shadows fall where we let them
As neglect turns to regret
Shadows fall, do you never get them?
Ah, you haven't lived long enough yet
Shadows fall on our loved ones
When we're not to blame
And we can't see any reason
Why they're carrying all that pain
Shadows fall right on them
While there's light to their left and to their right
So we try to help them step over
But all they see is darkest night
Shadows fall without warning
And we stumble around
Shadows fall without pity
And there's no peace to be found
Shadows fall
Shadows fall
12.Sing All Our Cares Away
Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid
Mary loves the grouse
Hides the bottles 'round the house
She watches chat shows and the soaps
Brokenhearted but she copes
Michael's out of work
Feels he's sinking in the murk
He's unshaven and a mess
Finds it hard some days to dress
Stevie smashed the delf
'Cause he can't express himself
He's consumed by rage
Like his father at his age
Rita's little child
Has a lovely little smile
But this means nothing to her father
Because he's never even seen her
And we sing, sing all our cares away
And we live to fight another day
Joey's off the gear
He's been clean for half a year
He gets bored out of his mind
But he's trying to toe the line
Maggie's in a chair
'Twas joyriding put her there
She puts the kettle on the boil
And she's always got a smile
And we sing, sing all our cares away
And we live to fight another day
Yeah, we sing, sing all our cares away
And we live to love another day
We grow strong from it all
We grow strong or we fall
We grow strong from it all
We grow strong or we fall
And we sing all our cares away
13.Notes & Rhymes
Lyricist:Charles Reid, Craig Reid
Well, I'm happy now, don't need a drink to toast to our health
Now the sun is out and the rain is falling somewhere else
There is misery somewhere but I don't know and I don't care
Since you took it from my shoulders
I love rock and roll, it took my hand and it touched my soul
You do that as well, you know, you know, you know yourself
But you beat notes and rhymes any day, any time
When you walk in a room you bring in joy and dispel gloom
Your sunny side makes my smile a mile wide
Your charisma is profound, true love follows you around
And lays its head upon your shoulder
I love rock and roll, it took my hand and it touched my soul
You do that as well, you know, you know, you know yourself
But you beat notes and rhymes any day, any time
I wonder why it's no good without you like there's some mystery
When I know the only cure for heartache
Is a woman that I long to see standing right in front of me
If we lived a million lives I would love you every time
And be right there by your shoulder
I love rock and roll, it took my hand and it touched my soul
You do that as well, you know, you know, you know yourself
But you beat notes and rhymes any day, any time
I love rock and roll, it took my hand and it touched my soul
You do that as well, you know, you know, you know yourself
But you beat notes and rhymes any day, any time
You beat notes and rhymes any day, any time
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