The Name Above The Title

John Wesley Harding The Name Above The Title Lyrics
1.The World(And All Its Problems)

I was holding up a cigarette and trying to find my mouth
Tyring hard to look so cool like any other ticket tout
People sipping on each other's blood, they're all out for the
count
Talking turkey all around me, what are they all on about?

It's the world and all its problems
The world and all its problems
The world and all its problems

I'm walking out it's past midnight, so i stay in the light
Please stop breathing on my shoulder, he's just trying to start
a fight
He says 'what was that you called me?' and something says i
might
Just try to reason with him, where's the beaten track tonight?

(chorus)

Jesus gandhi's on a limb out where good guys don't go
Telling all these parables that everybody knows
And no-one wants to hear them cos he tells them all so slow
You can catch him on the news when he becomes a superhero

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I'm sitting on your sofa
Thinking about how things rhyme
How i wish you'd plug the dansette in
And turn it up just one more time
One more time

Everybody wants all the truth but it's easier to lie
Me i love this girl called ruth, we had to say goodbye
I loved her so much sometimes that it made me wanna die
And i'd hate her so much sometimes and we knew the reason why

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2.50/50 Split

There are so many sides to every story
And this is mine
A dirty pair of hands sometimes has to come clean
And now is the time
I just couldn't see love's great defection
Now it's flourishing in one dimension
Love went over the wall
Was it pushed or did it fall?

The official story was a 60/40 split
Cut with a knife
But now that i'm ghostwriting your autobiography
This ought to be your life
You wouldn't have to be a great detective
To see the things you do to me are self-reflexive
They bounce right back from me
Cos i'm a human trampoline

Seem now, it's so hard to take
Heart to hearts that were heart for heart's sake
Now cupid only watches darts
Love is just the sum of its parts

Together we were a perfect circle
I think that we should get back again
I'll hold you close and we'll roll all the way
Down to lover's lane
We're just two sides of a vulgar fraction
Waiting for a little love interaction
When the borderline will fall
Without you i mean half of nothing at all

Looking back it seems like fake
Heart to hearts that were heart for hearts sake
I should have known right from the start
I want you know, i want the fake
I learnt the laws and found it's just give and take
(you give and i take)
I've got the guts, i will restart
And love is only the sum of its parts
Love is the sum of its parts
Yes it is.