1.Throw The 'r' Away
the proclaimers - throw the 'r' away
I've been so sad
Since you said my accent was bad
He's worn a frown
This caledonian clown
Some days i stand
On your green and pleasant land
How dare i show face
When my diction is such a disgrace
I'm just going to have to learn to hesitate
To make sure my words
On your saxon ears don't grate
But i wouldn't know a single word to say
If i flattened all the vowels
And threw the 'r' away
You say that if i want to get ahead
The language i use should he left for dead
It doesn't please your ear
And though you tell it like a leg pull
I think your still full of john bull
You just refuse to hear
Oh what can i do
To be understood by you
Perhaps for some money
I could talk like a bee dripping honey.
2.Over And Done With
this is the story of our first teacher
Shetland made her jumpers
And the devil made her features
Threw up her hands when my mum said our names
Embroidered all her stories with slanderous claims
It's over and done with
This is the story of losing my virginity
I held my breath and the bed held a trinity
People i'm making no claims to no mystery
But sometimes it feel like
My sex lifes all history
I'm not saying these events didn't
Touch our lives in any way
But, ah, they didn't make the impression
That some people say
This is the story of watching a man dying
The subjects unpopular
But i don't feel like lying
When i think of it now i acted like a sinner
I just washed my hands
Then i went for my dinner.
3.Misty Blue
When the inspiration is above my station
Thoughts are iqeienchoiy and i let them pass
I tend to view this nation
Through the condensation
On a dirty glass
When the singer solemn was a honnie laddie
When she brushed his hair with a watered comb
Then he could have dandered
And he could have shown ye
Seven hitis like home
If misty eyes can witness love and affection
Why does the heart still resist
What the hell is wrong with you？
I've got eyes of misty blue
All the things i want to do
Are all i ever wanted to
As the laddic grew and he looked aroung him
At the thugs and rapists in their stolen suits
Louder beat the rhythm of his bloody heart
Telling him to shoot
Thoughtless competition
Like a home-made prison
Made him fix his vision
On a certain fate
What's the use in winning all the worlds creation
If you won't create.
4.Trying To Get To The Part That Really Matters
Don't get me wrong
Don't mind you shouting
Just think your style excludes
The part that really matters
Just grow tired
Of empty minds mouthing
English language courses
While they struggle with the a b c of heart
And i confess
That all i've learnt
Has been learnt a million times
By every empty heart
That ever felt a song come home
But i'd he happy
When next i ask the time
11 i find i've wasted none of mine
Listening while you wasted all of yours.
5.I'm Gonna Burn Your Playhouse Down
I've got an achin' in my heart
Arson on my mind
I'm gonna burn your playhouse down
I've got a badly broken heart
I've bad it from the start
You're giving me the run around
Now if you play with fire
It's a-sure to burn
I've beard this all of my life
Go on, be on your way, i've bad my say
Well honey, i'm through with you for life
You'll find i'm there's one in every yard
I'm getting mighty tired
I'm gonna burn your playhouse down
Now don't pretend that this is the end
'cause this time we're really through
While you were runflin' 'round
Burning up the town
I was settin' a trap for you
I've got an achin' in my heart
Arson on my mind
I'm gonna burn your playhouse down.
6.Letter From America
when you go will you send back
A letter from america？
Take a look up the railtrack
From miami to canada
Broke off from my work the other day
I spent the evening thinking about
All the blood that flowed away
Across the ocean to the second chance
I wonder how it got on when it reached the promised land？
I've looked at the ocean
Tried hard to imagine
The way you felt the day you sailed
From wester ross to nova scotia
We should have held you
We should have told you
But you know our sense of timing
We always wait too long
Lochaber no more
Sutherland no more
Lewis no more
Skye no more...... etc
I wonder my blood
Will you ever return
To help us kick the life back
To a dying mutual friend
Do we not love her？
Do we not say we love her？
Do we have to roam the world
To prove how much it hurts？
Bathgate no more
Linwood no more
Methil no more
Irvine no more.
7.Sky Takes The Soul
It could be tomorrow, or it could be today
When the sky takes the soul
The earth takes the clay
I sometimes wonder why i pray
When my spirit drives away
With a faith and a bit of luck
And a half-tonne bomb in the back of a truck
Feel the towel it's wet with sorrow
From the tears we'll shed tomorrow
Don't bring flowers, take a chance
On some graves you should dance
It its tomorrow, or if its today
I don't say it will be, i just say it may
When i'm on my knees
To the gates i'll stumble
And plead my case
In a style thats humble.
8.It Broke My Heart
Saw a man who was fifty-one
He bad married daughters and a single son
And he's lost his job as this years begun
And it broke my heart
Saw his wife who was fifty-two
She said she was sure they could make it through
That her single wage would just have to do
And it broke my heart
Talked about it with the family now
What began in sadness ended up a row
All the guys with the clever mouths
They were saying we should move south
Saw the son who's been gone two weeks
And he's down already with a job to seek
And he's in kings cross and theres no-one speaking
And it broke my heart.
9.The First Attack
Since i started being impressed
By the things that move me all the treasures that i missed
Came back to stand around me
And as i curse the wasted time
I lift my head to say
Thank you god you gave the strength
That helped me walk away
All the fear and anger
Still stays within my heart
And i cant recall the last time
I imagined they'd depart
But this is what i'm going to do
When they force me to doubt
I'll ask for what i know remains
To help me sing them out
As rays of sun shine through the clouds
To heat the soaking ground
So when we come to sing the shouts
We'll burn the theatres down
Let every disbelieving sneer
That looked me in the back
Turn, come towards us, and feel the first attack.
10.Make My Heart Fly
Please don't go rushing by
Stay and make my heart fly
Please don't go rushing by
Stay and make my heart fly
'cos i never seem to notice time
When you're with me
You can tell it to the birds
I'll tell the bees
I can't do any more
To got inside your door
I can't do any more
Please let me inside your door.
11.Beautiful Truth
Beautiful beautiful beautiful truth
Dont leave because i can't see you
Voy know the hours that i passed without you
Every heartbeat that i chose to flout you
And how i felt no shame
I know this problem is of my own making
I know you're giving here and i'm not taking
But please dont leave this place
Oon,g let me complicate what you made simple
By looking fancy or sounding boastful
Please bring me down
Arid now that i have said what's on my mind
And its obvious that i am blind
Please say you'll stay
Spin me round
Bring me down
He my sound
But don't leave.
12.The Joyful Kilmarnock Blues
I'm not going to talk about doubts and confusion
On a night when i can see with my eyes shut
I'd never been to ayrshire
I hitched down one saturday
Sixty miles to kilmarnock
To see hibernian play
The day was bright and sunny
But the game i won't relay
And there was no kilmarnock bunnet
To make me want to stay
But i'm not going to talk about it
On a night when i can see with my eyes shut
When i started walking at wishaw
My eyes obscured my vision
After five miles on my way
I began to learn to listen
I walked through the country
I walked through the town
I held my head up
And i didn't look down
The question doesn't matter
The answer's always 'aye'
The best view of all
Is where the land meets the sky.
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