1.Born In A Storm
That hurricane day
Will soon pass away
And someone will sweep
All the jetsam back into the bay
And you'll come
Like you always did
And knock on my door
Like the big bad wind
Born in a storm
Is that the only excuse you can give
Born in a storm
Is that all you're going to live
2.Raintown
It's a rain-dirt-town-job hurts, but it don't pay
All these calls they're making me and driving you insane
Don't you see don't you understand
Waiting for the phone to ring to make me all i am
You're in the suburbs waiting for somewhere to go
I'm down here working on some dumb show
In a raintown raintown rain down
On all those tired eyes and tears and frowns
In a raintown raintown rain down
On all those days you're not around
It takes a big hearted girl from the north country you can tell
How you payed those bills and went through heaven and hell
And you you cried and you travelled and you spat but you never
asked
Well how long how long how long is this pain
You're on for three minutes trying hard to say 'hello'
I'm down here working on some dumb show
In a raintown raintown rain down
On all those tired eyes and tears and frowns
In a raintown raintown rain down
On all those days you're not around
Sitting at home listening to your radio
Listening for your old friend talking on some dumb show
In a raintown raintown rain down
On all those tired eyes and tears and frowns
In a raintown raintown rain down
On all those days you're not around
3.Ragman
Offered her a roof
The rain had made it shine
Offered her a song
Wasn't really mine
I showed her all my things
She offered me belongings
She thought i was a ragman
She offered me possessions
I tied them in a knot
Wrapped it in a note
Kept it in my pocket
I showed her all my things
She offered me belongings
She thought i was a ragman
I came to her too soon
She should have had a ragdoll
And wound up with a ragman
Wing and kites and wedding rings
All these charms i said i'd bring
I showed her all my things
She offered me belongings
She thought i was a ragman
Baby you're a rich man
Lost in a small world
Looking for a ragdoll
Wound up with a ragman
With a ragman
Ragman
4.He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now
There's a shadow on his photograph
On tinian'45
Smiling like a college boy
Who's glad to be alive
But now he owns a factory
And a store in los alamos
A wife called beverly
Sells second hand ford motors
He may have taken pictures
Been caught in albuquerque
Flown in 'great artiste'
On a mushroom cloud
Now he may be a senator
Or a general or a turn key
But i know he looks like spencer tracy now
And he cries all night
And he cries all night
And he cries all night
And he cries all night
And he may have been with oppenheimer
Shaken einsteins hand
Said 'did we have to drop the bomb'
5.Loaded
You sing, you walk, you talk, you care about nothing
Sometimes you feel that life has treated you wrong
I've got a feeling you know what the score is baby
But it's hard when you're sitting here surrounded by friends
I've got a love that i'll cling on to
And i'll stay there stay there till the end
'cause one thing i know is
I have found an answer i don't think you don't care
Just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
And things are different from there
I have found an answer i don't think you don't care
Just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
And things are different from there
You walk and you talk
And you sing and you shout
And you justify about anything
And you rant and you rave and you hope and you say nothing
And you eat and you drink and you dress and you live as if
No one else did baby
No one else like you lives out in this world
I've got a love that i'll cling on to
And i'll stay there stay there till the end
'cause one thing i know is
I have found an answer i don't think you don't care
Just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
And things are different from there
I have found an answer i don't think you don't care
Just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
I have found an answer i don't think you don't care
Just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
And things are different from there
I have found an answer i don't think you don't care
Just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
And things are different from there
6.When Will You(Make My Telephone Ring)
Pale blue eyes
Same old house no ties
A little bit older but not so
Worldly wise
That i can't see
Your light's on me
Making me regretfully say
The wonder of it all was you
And underneath it all it wasn't true
I want you in everything
In everything
In anything i do
When will you make my phone ring
And tell me i can't give you anything
Anything at all now
Tiny steps
From ruthless legs
When you've been walking so long
Now don't you rest
From disharmony
From disunity
From anything that isn't you and me
The wonder of it all was you
And underneath it all it wasn't true
I want you in everything
In everything
In anything i do
When will you make my phone ring
And tell me i can't give you anything
Anything at all now
Tired of chasing old dreams
Tired of wasting days
Tired of waking mornings
Just to wait for you till late
Tired of searching high
Tired of getting low
Tired of listening hard
Just to wait for you to know that
I want you in everything
In everything
In anything i do
When will you make my phone ring
And tell me i can't give you anything
Anything at all now
7.Chocolate Girl
Alan doesn't understand her
He only thinks in numbers
He only drinks in restaurants
Where the girls are fully covered
And he can't trust his yearnings
And he doesn't like pretending
His tempers stretched so much by work
His heart needs gentle rending
He calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
She knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
And wrapped in bits of silver
Alan doesn't understand this
He says he's only human
So he still lights up with old flames
As if to try and prove it
And he doesn't like emotion
He's not certain of their ardour
If pouting causes so much fun
Then breaking hearts is harder
He calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
She knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
And wrapped in bits of silver
Alan doesn't understand her
He thinks its getting harder
So he spends the night with old friends
Underneath the covers
And he talks about the chocolate girl
And how he thinks she melts when he touches her
And that she knows she's the cocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
And wrapped in bits of silver
He calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
She knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
And wrapped in bits of silver
8.Dignity
There's a man i meet walks up our street
He's a worker for the council
Has been twenty years
And he takes no lip off nobody
And litter off the gutter
Puts it in a bag
And never seems to mutter
And he packs his lunch in a 'sunblest' bag
The children call him 'bogie'
He never lets on
But i know 'cause he once told me
He let me know a secret about the money in his kitty
He's gonna buy a dinghy
Gonna call her dignity
And i'll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
I'll be on my holidays
They'll be doing their rounds
They'll ask me how i got her i'll say 'i saved my money'
They'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity
And i'm telling this story
In a faraway scene
Sipping down raki
And reading maynard keynes
And i'm thinking about home and all that means
And a place in the winter for dignity
And i'll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
I'll be on my holidays
They'll be doing their rounds
They'll ask me how i got her i'll say 'i saved my money'
They'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity
And i'm thinking about home
And i'm thinking about faith
And i'm thinking about work
And i'm thinking about how good it would be
To be here some day
On a ship called dignity
A ship called dignity
That ship
9.The Very Thing
One day all of us will work
We'll stand outside this orchard and we'll talk
When all is said all is done
We'll still be thinking about home
They say that love might be the very thing
If only it could be
And making love is more than anything
And all these thing like buildings
And faces
And memories
And places
Don't count for anything
I'll gladly draw the lines of duty
Watching summer turn to gold
She's not content with responsibility
She wants to have and then to hold
They say that love might be the very thing
If only it could be
And making love is more than anything
And all these thing like buildings
And faces
And memories
And places
Don't count for anything
One day all of us will work
One day all of us will work
One day all of us will work
10.Love's Great Fears
(r.ross, j.prime)
You know the agony of seeing it all slip away
Well maybe noe you'd be happy just to talk it out straight
Slipping away
About the danger of believing in plans in hand
About the role that you have in this delecate plan
Slipping away
Let's talk it out now
Let's name them one by one
Love's great fears
Can't you see them burn
Twist and turn as you walk and learn
Love's great fears
Can't you see them burn
Twist and turn as you walk and learn
You know danger of believing that the summer's gone
And with the fading light the feeling that love is falling
Slipping away
If you believe in the dangers that you suppose
You think it can tumble down none of us knows
It's all slipping away
Let's talk it out now
Let's name them one by one
Love's great fears
Can't you see them burn
Twist and turn as you walk and learn
Love's great fears
Can't you see them burn
Twist and turn as you walk and learn
11.Town To Be Blamed
Close your eyes and go to sleep
From the howling howling over these streets
People stare 'cause you're so mad
That wild wild spark that innocent laugh
But baby that's this town
It won't happen next time
Yeah baby that's this town
Lovers on love downs
It's this town to be blamed
At the top of the block there's a church
At the top of the tower there's the clock
And it rings and it sighs
'cause there's no time for all these lies
But baby that's this town
It won't happen next time
Yeah baby that's this town
Lovers on love downs
It's this town to be blamed
Baby take a walk round to my house
Throw off these tired eyes and tears and these frowns
Take that lane so narrow and deep and walk those regrets that
fill your sleep
You say your sleep is nakedb and your dreams are clothed
But what about your footsteps
Who sees them go
Who lets you know about these things
Who's gonna say the things we think
So take your keys and pack your bags
But leave your books and leave your maps
'cause baby that's this town
It won't happen next time
Yeah baby that's this town
It won't happen next time
Yeah baby that's this town
It won't happen next time
Sure baby that's this town
Lovers on love downs
It's this town to be blamed
It's this town to be blamed
Work work work
Rain rain rain
Home home home
Again again again
Work work work
Rain rain rain
Home home home
Again again again
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