Unreleased Songs

The Proclaimers Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.King of the Road

Lyricist:Roger Miller

Trailer for sale or rent
Rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes

Ah but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys a eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road

Third boxcar, midnight train
Destination Bangor, Maine
Old worn out suit and shoes
I don't pay no union dues

I smoke old stogies I have found
Short but not too big around
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road

I know every engineer on every train
All of the children and all of their names
Every handout in every town
And every lock that ain't locked when no-one's around
I sing

Trailers for sale or rent
Roms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes

Ah but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys a eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road

Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes

Ah but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road

Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets


2.What Do You Do

Lyricist:Reid Charles Stobo, Reid Craig Morris

Yes, I know you're right
I see it in your fierce eyes
But me I've never thought straight
Since the day I had the first doubt

Yes, I know you're right
And I'll back you to a point pal
But I'll never be constrained
By another man's ideas now

I spent too long on this road
Looking for the answers
But poverty and failure
Aren't what I'm after

I painted, 'Fight' on factories
But they closed the factory down pal
I want to find out where the heart's gone
Gonna find out where the nerves gone

What do you do
When democracy fails you?
What do you do
When the rest can't see it's true?

Pat votes the Scots way
Just like her mother
But south always takes all
Just like her brother

The next time she might vote
So might the others
But times running out pal
'Cause they're giving up in numbers

What do you do
When democracy's all through?
What do you do
When minority means you?


3.Letter from America (Band Version)

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?

Ive 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.


4.Letter From America - Acoustic Version

Lyricist:Charles Reid, Craig Reid

When you go will you send back
A letter from America?
Take a look up the rail track
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 inure
Lewis no more
Skye no more

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


5.Throw the 'R' Away

Lyricist:Charles Reid, Craig Reid

I've been so sad
Since you said my accent was bad
He's worn a frown
This Caledonian clown

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 I threw the 'R' away

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 I threw the 'R' away

You say that if I wanna get ahead
The language I use should be left for dead
It doesn't please your ear
And though you tell it like a leg-pull
It seems you're 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

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 I threw the 'R' away

You say that if I want to get ahead
The language I use should be left for dead
It doesn't please your ear
And though you tell it like a leg-pull
I think you're still full of john bull
You just refuse to hear

He's been so sad
Since you said his accent was bad
He's worn a frown
This Caledonian clown

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 I threw the 'R' away
Flattened all the vowels and I threw the 'R' away
Flattened all the vowels and I threw the 'R' away


6.The Part That Really Matters

Lyricist:Charles Stobo Reid, Craig Morris Reid

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

The A B C of heart
The A B C of heart
The A B C of heart


And I confess that all I've learnt
Has been learnt a million times
With every empty heart
That ever felt a song come home

Felt a song come home
Felt a song come home
Felt a song come home

But I'd he happy
When next, I ask the time
If I find I've wasted none of mine
Listening while you wasted all of yours

You wasted all of yours
Wasted all of yours
Wasted all of yours

You wasted all of yours
You wasted all of yours
You wasted all of yours
You wasted all of yours

But don't get me wrong
'Cause I don't mind you shouting
I just think your style excludes
The part that really matters

Don't get me wrong
'Cause I don't mind you shouting
I just think your style excludes your heart


7.(I'm Gonna) Burn Your Playhouse Down

Lyricist:George Jones, Lester Blackwell

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
And I've had it from the start
You're giving me the run around

Well, if you play with fire
It's sure to burn, known this all of my life
Go on, be on your way, I've had my say
Well, honey, I'm through with you for life

You'll find there's one in every yard
And I'm getting mighty tired
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
And I've had it from the start
You're giving me the run around

Well, don't pretend that this is the end
'Cause this time we're really through
While you were runnin' 'round, burning up the town
Well, I set my trap for you

I've got an achin' in my heart
Arson on my mind
I'm gonna burn your playhouse down


8.Im Gonna Be

Proclaimers
Miscellaneous
Im Gonna Be
'I'm gonna be (500 miles)'
by The Proclaimers
from Sunshine on Leith

When I wake up yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When I go out yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
If I get drunk yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And if I haver yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you
But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door
When I'm working yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
And when the money comes in for the work I'll do
I'll pass almost every penny on to you
When I come home yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I grow old well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you
When I'm lonely yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you
When I'm dreaming yes I know I'm gonna dream
Dream about the time when I'm with you


9.I'm Gonna Be

Proclaimers
Miscellaneous
I'm Gonna Be
When I wake up well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When I go out yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you

If I get drunk well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And if I haver yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door

When I'm working yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
And when the money comes in for the work I'll do
I'll pass almost every penny on to you

When I come home oh I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I grow old well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door

na na na, na na na
na na na, na na na
lika lika lika lika lika la
na na na, na na na
na na na, na na na
lika lika lika lika lika la

When I'm lonely well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man whose lonely without you
And when I'm dreaming well I know I'm gonna dream
I'm gonna dream about the time when I'm with you

When I go out well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
and when I come home yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home with you
I'm gonna be the man whose coming home with you.

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door

na na na, na na na
na na na, na na na
lika lika lika lika lika la
na na na, na na na
na na na, na na na
lika lika lika lika lika la
na na na, na na na
na na na, na na na
lika lika lika lika lika la
na na na, na na na
na na na, na na na
lika lika lika lika lika la

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your do-o-or


10.THIS IS THE STORY

PROCLAIMERS
OVER AND DONE WITH
THIS IS THE STORY
THIS IS THE STORY OF OUR FIRST TEACHER
SHETLAND MADE HER JUMPERS
AND THE DEVIL MADE HER FEATURES
THREW UP HER HNDS WHEN MY MUM SAID OUR NAMES
EMBROIDERED ALL HER STORIES WITH SLANDEROUS CLAIMS

(CHORUS)
ITS OVER AND DONE WITH
.......

THIS SI THE STORY OF LOSING MY VIRGINITY
I HELD MY BREATH AND THE BED HELD A TRINITY
PEOPLE I'M MAKING NO CLAIMS TO A MYSTERY
BUT SOME TIMES IT SEEMS 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


11.Sweet Little Girls

Lyricist:Reid Charlie, Craig Reid

Sweet little girls cut a swathe through this world
Using skills that they get from their mothers
Sweet little girls might like ribbons and curls
But they most like to torture their brothers

And sweet little girls love their friends
'Till it hurts or until they can find them another

Watch their lips, they make a circle like
'Coo coo coo coo'
But the words their saying softly are
Cruel cruel cruel

Sweet little girls cut a swathe through this world
Using skills that they get from their mothers

Watch their lips, they make a circle like
'Coo coo coo coo'
But the words their saying softly are
Cruel cruel cruel

Yeah sweet little girls cut a swathe through this world
Using skills that they get from their mothers
Using skills that they get from their mothers
Using skills that they get from their


12.A Land Fit for Zeros

Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

Hold hands with the person to your right
Hold hands and try to look sincere-o
Tell them, though you don't know their name
That you still can feel their pain
Yeah, you still can feel their pain

We'll sing Jerusalem, now boys
As we build a land fit for zeros
It's all that I can do to stop
Fake tears from welling up
Fake tears from welling up

If you thought this was your country
You can just forget it, you're too old
You're too poor, you're too posh
You'll never get in here wearing that my dear

Don't smoke, don't smack, don't eat red meat
This is a tolerant land fit for zeros
And if you're lost just hear my call
Mediocrity is all, mediocrity is all

If you thought this was your country
You can just forget it, you're too old
You're too poor, you're too posh
You'll never get in here wearing that my dear

The past is all forgotten now
This is a young, modern land fit for zeros
And if we fight, it's only when we're guaranteed to win
And should you, just stray, just hear my call
Mediocrity is all, mediocrity is all


13.How Many Times

Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

Well, it takes a long time to find the right woman
The best one there is not the best you can do
It takes a long time to find the right woman
Some men never do

I spent half my life lying to girls
Who were looking for love where it didn't exist
The rest of the time, I was worrying myself
About what it was that I'd missed

How many times
I don't know, I don't know
How many times
I don't know but when it happened my heart started to go

I didn't trust you from the moment I saw you
I didn't trust you and I know it was right
But my head and my heart, have been fighting a battle
And my heart started winning last night

How many times
I don't know, I don't know
How many times
I don't know but when it happened my heart started to go

Well, I'm bored by pain and I'm tired of sorrow
Give me the word and I'll leave here tomorrow
I don't give a damn about anything else
The rest of the world can go and hang themselves


14.That's When He Told Her

Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

Streetlight
Yellow in the room
Lifting out our futures from the gloom
Same song
In the street below
Football song that everybody knows

That's when he told her
That he loved her
And he'd love her all his life

That's when he told her
That he loved her
And he'd love her all his life

Bright lights
Five years down the lane
Point to where the just born babies cry
He knows now
They are joined for good
Life could never break them
Nothing could

That's when he told her
That he loved her
And he'd love her all his life

That's when he told her
That he loved her
And he'd love her all his life

30 Years pass like a sonic boom
Sunlight floods into a different room
They both know they're saying goodbye too soon
But there's no more time

That's when he told her
That he loved her
And he'd love her all his life

That's when he told her
That he meant it when he
Said he loved her
And he'd love her all his life


15.Scotland's Story

Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

Michael McGrory from west Donegal
You came to Glasgow with nothing at all
You fought the landlord then the Africa Korps
When you came to Glasgow with nothing at all

Abraham Caplan from Vilnius you came
You were heading for New York but Leith's where you've stayed
You built a great business that benefits all
Since you came to this land with nothing at all

In Scotland's story I read that they came
The Gael and the Pict, the Angle and Dane
But so did the Irishman, Jew and Ukraine
They're all Scotland's Story and they're all worth the same

Joseph D'Angelo dreams of the days
When Italian kids in the Grass market played
Burned out his shop when the boys went to war
But Auld Joe's a big man and he forgave all

In Scotland's story I'm told that they came
The Gael and the Pict, the Angle and Dane
But where's all the Chinese and Indian names?
They're in my lands story and they're all worth the same

Christina McKay, I learned of your name
How you traveled south from Delny one day
You raised a whole family in one room they say
And the X on the line stands in place of your name

So in the old story I'll bet that I came
From Gael and Pict and Angle and Dane
And a poor migrant girl who could not write her name
It's a common old story but it's mine just the same

All through the story the immigrants came
The Gael and the Pict, the Angle and Dane
From Pakistan, England and from the Ukraine
We're all Scotland's story and we're all worth the same

Your Scotland's story is worth just the same


16.When You're in Love

Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

When you're in love
You don't know much about it
Not in your mind, romantic love
Rots the brain, no doubt about it
You're out of your mind
You're out of your mind

Seeing things like your heart with wings
Then you hear violin strings playing
Feel all the things that you feel you should
You would lie, you would kill, you would die
At least that's what you're saying
The worst thing is that you really would

When you're in love
You don't know much about it
Not in your mind, romantic love
Rots the brain, no doubt about it
You're out of your mind
You're out of your mind

Six thousand million people in the world
And you say there's just one
The only one, and you must be together
And if they love you the pain is so sweet
And it just gets better and better and if they don't
You want them more than ever

When you're in love
You don't know much about it
Not in your mind, romantic love
Rots the brain, no doubt about it
You're out of your mind
You're out of your mind


17.She Arouses Me So

Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

Well, it's 2 oh 1 and she's saying she's done
But I need another go 'coz she arouses me so
She arouses me so

Yeah, it's 3 oh 4 and we're lying on the floor
But I need another go 'coz she arouses me so
She arouses me so, she arouses me so

What's the point of sleepin'
Instead of keepin'
Doin' it anyhow?
Forget about tomorrow
Until tomorrow
Let's stay here and now

Yeah it's 4 - 19 and it doesn't seem keen
But she needs another go and she arouses me so
She arouses me so

Do do dit dit
Do do dit dit etc. etc.

What's the point of sleepin'
Instead of keepin'
Doin' it anyhow?
Forget about tomorrow
Until tomorrow
Let's stay here and now

Yeah, it's 6 oh 8 and we're already late
But we need another go and she arouses me so
She arouses me so

She arouses me so
She arouses me so, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
She arouses me so

She arouses, really arouses
She arouses
Yeah, she arouses me so


18.Everybody's a Victim

Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

Everybody's a victim
Seems we're going that way
Everybody's a victim
We're becoming like the U.S.A.

Everybody's a victim
Seems we're going that way
Everybody's a victim
We're becoming like the U.S.A.

I demand recompense for sitting on the fence
Throughout my adult life
You've got to put my parents in jail
For raising me in Fife

It doesn't matter what I do
You have to say it's alright
And I need you to send somebody around
To tuck me in at night
Because

Everybody's a victim
Seems we're going that way
Everybody's a victim
We're becoming like the U.S.A.

Well, it's not my fault that I'm positive
I just stuck a needle in my arm
And nobody told me that sixty a day
Would do me any harm

My liver's shriveling like a leaf
But it's not the whiskey that do's it
Call me irresponsible
And I'm really going to lose it
Because

Everybody's a victim
Seems we're going that way
Everybody's a victim
We're becoming like the U.S.A.

Wear a ribbon for this, hug a stranger for that
Light a candle to the dead
And soon you'll forget that you ever had
A brain inside our head

We value everythin' the same
We turn it into farce
So we don't know a crisis
'Til it kicks us up the arse
Because

Everybody's a victim
Seems we're going that way
Everybody's a victim
We're becoming like the U.S.A.

Everybody's a victim
Seems we're going that way
Everybody's a victim
We're becoming like the U.S.A.

Everybody's a victim
Seems we're going that way
Everybody's a victim
We're becoming like the U.S.A.


19.Don't Give It to Me

Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

Your life is full of misery
Well take something for it
Or try to ignore it, don't give it to me
You trapped me in this corner
You're breathing it over me
Next stop's the Royal Infirmary

The room's started spinning
I'm finding it hard to breath
I think I'll have to leave, I need some air
That little black cloud
That follows you everywhere's
Floating my way and it's raining despair

Now I'm not immune to misery myself
But it's just a bore in somebody else
If you weren't allowed to talk of yourself
You would have nothing to say

Your life is full of misery
Well take something for it
Or try to ignore it, don't give it to me

Your life is full of misery
Well take something for it
Or try to ignore it, don't give it to me
You trapped me in this corner
You're breathing it over me
Next stop's the Royal Infirmary

Now I'm not immune to misery myself
But it's just a bore in somebody else
If you weren't allowed to talk of yourself
You would have nothing to say


20.Heaven Right Now

Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

She's everything
A married man
Should look for in a girl
She's married too
But not to you
And that's part of the thrill

She's the one who makes you feel alright
Her alibi's your alibi - it's watertight

She's old enough
To know of love
And know that this is not
But young enough
To not be willing
To settle for what she's got

She's the one who makes you feel alright
Her alibi's your alibi - it's watertight

And if you get caught
You're going to hell
But it's heaven right now

She's the one who makes you feel alright
Her alibi's your alibi - it's watertight

She's everything
A married man
Should look for in a girl
She's married too
But not to you
And that's part of the thrill

She's the one who makes you feel alright
Her alibi's your alibi - it's watertight

She's the one who makes you feel alright
Her alibi's your alibi - it's watertight

Oh, and you're going to hell
But it's heaven right now


21.Act of Remembrance

Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

Arms of steel, hair of gold
Royal blue eyes with a rebel soul
You scared me, you still do
But I loved you more than you ever knew

This is my act of remembrance, ooh
My act of remembrance, ooh, ooh

The doctor's face said the time had come
I stood up and began to run
My boy's voice called your name
You roared back and the silence came

This is my act of remembrance, ooh
My act of remembrance, ooh, ooh

Drove my car to your street
Hoped a ghost I would meet
Well, that ghost, he's moved on, yeah
But his anger, Dad is it gone?
Is the pain gone, is it all gone?

This is my act of remembrance, ooh
My act of remembrance, ooh, ooh

This is my act of remembrance
Oh yeah, oh yeah


22.There's a Touch

Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

There's a touch upon my lips left by memory's fingertips
I still hear her voice when there's no sound
There's a touch upon my skin left when she went back to him
All the rest has gone she's not around

When I saw her first it was lust my friend
Thought it would burn then it would end
But I lost my old philosophy now I believed in love
Well the months went by and my love grew strong
Thought she felt the same but I was wrong
She held my old philosophy now I'm destroyed by love

There's a touch upon my lips left by memory's fingertips
I still hear her voice when there's no sound
There's a touch upon my skin left when she went back to him
All the rest has gone she's not around

Well I still believed that I would win 'cos I was a better man
than him
She held the new philosophy now she believed in love
But the love she felt was not for me said she would have to set
me free
Now I know there's no philosophy that can't be destroyed by love

There's a touch upon my lips left by memory's fingertips
I still hear her voice when there's no sound
There's a touch upon my skin left when she went back to him
All the rest has gone she's not around

Da da da da
Da da da da
Da da da da
...


23.One Too Many

Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

I think I had one too many
I know I had one too many
I think I had one too many is all

I'm trying hard
But I can't remember, how I got home
Don't recall any streets I roamed
Can't remember at all

I think I had one too many
It must have been the one too many
I think I had one too many is all

To my disgrace
All I recall is my daddy's face
And how I wished
That I could see him again

I think I had one too many
I know I had one too many
I think I had one too many is all

To my disgrace
All I recall is my daddy's face
And how I wished
That I could see him again

I think I had one too many
I know I had one too many
I think I had one too many is all
I think I had one too many is all, is all


24.Harness Pain

Lyricist:Charles Stobo Reid, Craig Morris Reid

You need to harness pain
To raise yourself up again
You need to harness pain
And tell the truth about love

You need to break your heart
Before you can really start
You need to break your heart
And tell the truth about love

Then you need to set a goal
That you can't reach
Then you have to attack
Defenses you can't breach

Then you need to lose
And lose and lose again
If you want to hold the flame
You harness pain, you harness pain

You need to take your doubts
And spread them all about
You need to face your doubts
To tell the truth about love

You know the cliché's wrong
Hatred is just as strong
You know it's just as strong
Just as strong as love

So you need to take your hate
And doubt and fear
Distill them through your word
'Til they run clear

'Til they run right through your heart
Like Highland rain
If you want to hold the flame
You harness pain, you harness pain

Do you want to be the best
Or be well known?
Do you want to repeat lines
Or write your own?

Do you want to follow paths
Or blaze a trail?
When you try to succeed
You mostly fail

And you're gonna lose
And lose and lose again
If you want to hold the flame
You harness pain, you harness pain


25.In Recognition

Lyricist:Charles Stobo Reid, Craig Morris Reid

In recognition of a hundred million album sales
In recognition of your popularity
You take your gaudy prize
From people you said you despise
You wear your self-respect upon your bended knee

In spite of all your claims
It looks like you're just the same
As every other clown who likes to put the crown
Before or after their name

In recognition of your service to the working class
In recognition of your party loyalty
You get an ermine robe
And you declare when you are probed
You only took it so the missus would be pleased

In spite of all your claims
It looks like you're just the same
As every other clown who likes to put the crown
Before or after their names

Oh vanity
It gets them one by one
Cat, religion, monarchy
But only in tale, fairly frail

In recognition of your bravery up on the stage
In recognition of your bankability
You get to wait in lines
With soldiers crippled by land mines
And you think it's the Yanks that don't get irony

In spite of all your claims
It looks like you're just the same
As every other clown who likes to put the crown
Before or after their name

In spite of all your claims
It looks like you're just the same
As every other clown who likes to put the crown
Before or after their name

Their name
Their name
Their name


26.Whole Wide World

Lyricist:Eric Goulden

When I was a young boy
My mama said to me
There's only one girl in the world for you
But she probably lives in Tahiti

I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just to find her

Or maybe she's in the Bahamas
Where the Caribbean sea is blue
Weeping in a tropical moonlit night
Because nobody's told her 'bout you

I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just to find her
I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just find out where they hide her

I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just to find her

Why am I hanging around in the rain out here
Trying to pick up a girl
Why are my eyes filling up with these lonely tears
When there's girls all over the world

Well, is she lying on a tropical beach somewhere
Underneath the tropical sun?
Pining away in a heatwave there
Hoping that I won't be long

I should be lying on that sun soaked beach with her
Caressing her warm brown skin
And then in a year or maybe not quite
We'll be sharing the same next of of kin

I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just to find her
I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just find out where they hide her

I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just to find her
I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just find out where they hide her


27.S-O-R-R-Y

Lyricist:Charles Stobo Reid, Craig Morris Reid

Your prose is elegant
As you demonstrate contempt, it's true
And the targets you attack
Mostly deserve a whack from you

Yes, you're entertaining
You fill up the page
Fill it up with your rage

But now there's a doubt
Over the wisdom you hand out in spades
Please tell us which you think
Is the country we should next help invade

What a bloody carnage
You cheered us into
And the others like you

You never wore a uniform
â~Less it was a uniform
Of a school or youth organization

But from watching others do
What they would never do
Holds a sad fascination

And now I'm reminded by feelings so strong
Of Bernie Taupin's lyric to Sir Elton's song
Can you say the hardest word?

'Cause you demand apologies
From public figures on their knees
As you invite them to say, 'So long'

So let's hear your rendition
Of words of contrition
For getting it so wrong

Would you like to say something?
Would you like to say sorry? Sorry
Sorry, that's S-O-R-R-Y


28.The Lover's Face

Lyricist:Charles Stobo Reid, Craig Morris Reid

She's shackled to the night
Bonded to a darker place
Searching for the lover's face
That haunts her

Listening to the sounds
Of a city as it moves around
Hoping that on sacred ground
She'll find him

And the lover who lurks in the shadows
Cut this hole through her soul
So the children she's leaving tomorrow
Can never be told

Yes, this lover who lurks in the shadows
Cut this hole through her soul
And the children she's leaving tomorrow
Can never be told

She's shackled to the night
Bonded to a darker place
Searching for the lover's face
That haunts her
Searching for the lover's face
That haunts her


29.New Religion

Lyricist:Charles Stobo Reid, Craig Morris Reid

Evidence of a new religion
I'll spare you the details
Effluent from a bloated business
With replica shirt sales

Two for the kids, one for the wife
Indicating a stunted life
Didn't know gullibility was so rife?
Well, you do know now

Evidence of a new religion
Some hippie with a gripe
Strikes a blow with his census form
By summoning Star Wars tripe

Here's a thing that I'd love to say
Lynndie England walks free today
If she'll only agree to play
With every Jedi Knight

An' lo, my faith it was honed
We can't be alone
Don't say we're alone

Give me ancestry that's inbred
Give me wit that's completely dead
Give me a zip for the back of my head
I wanna join in too

Evidence of a new religion
Meeting a human need
Fertilizer for the brain
Feeding the weakest seeds

Feeding the weakest seeds
Feeding the weakest seeds
Feeding the weakest seeds


30.If There's A God

Lyricist:Charles Stobo Reid, Craig Morris Reid

If there's a God
Where does He go to
When disease and hunger
Knock on the door?

And if there's a God
How does He decide
That she'll be born rich
But he'll be born poor?

I don't know
Can you tell me? Oh
Can you tell me? Oh

If there's a God
Why does He let
People die slowly
Wracked by pain?

And if there's a God
Who blesses with children
Why does He steal
Some back again?

I don't know
Can you tell me? Oh
Can you tell me? Oh

If there's a God
Why is He letting
Violence and murder
Be done in His name?

But if there's no God
Why am I lying
Here in the dark
Saying his name?

I don't know
Can you tell me? Oh
Can you tell me? Oh

I don't know
Can you tell me? Oh
Can you tell me? Oh


31.Calendar On The Wall

Lyricist:Charles Stobo Reid, Craig Morris Reid

Days, no need to count their number
No need to keep a record
Like the calendar on the wall

Days, devoid of all ambition
Sitting in the kitchen
With the calendar on the wall

These are the happy days of boredom
They excite me through and through

Days, when I don't mind admitting
How much I hate the kitten
On the calendar on the wall

These are the happy days of boredom
They excite me through and through

Oh days, no need to count their number
No need to keep a record
Like the calendar on the wall
No need to keep a record
Like the calendar on the wall


32.Blood Lying On Snow

Lyricist:Charles Stobo Reid, Craig Morris Reid

You've lost your tan from a few months ago
Now that red dress looks like blood lying on snow
I feel my pulse start to increase the flow
On this cold winter's night with such beauty on show

You don't like winter, you're a summer girl
Sun burnt and barefoot, your body unfurls
But I can see you're a Celtic princess
And in pale Northern Lights, you're at your very best

My goodness, well, how do you do?
It's taken generations of lucky breeding
To make you, to make you

In my life's challenge, you must be first prize
I can see gold in the light of your eyes
My honest soul, it just yearns to be free
And I'm sure it would happen if you lie with me

My goodness, well, how do you do?
It's taken generations of lucky Britons
To make you, they made you

You've lost your tan from a few months ago
Now that red dress looks like blood lying on snow
I feel my pulse start to increase the flow
On this cold winter's night with such beauty on show
On this cold winter's night with such beauty on show
On this cold winter's night with such beauty on show


33.The Long Haul

Lyricist:Charles Stobo Reid, Craig Morris Reid

The threat, they say
Comes from countries ending in '-an'
Where the family name is Khan
And they all read the Koran

The answer, they say
Is to bomb them all to dust
Then in fifty years they just
Might be able to see things our way

We're not barbarians
Like we were way back when
We've learned from history
So we're going round again

I miss the days
When the threat to our position
Didn't come from some religion
But from godless communism

We're not barbarians
Like we were way back when
We've learned from history
So we get to go round, get to go round
Get to go round, get to go round again

Tell your sons
Not to bother with football
Get a backpack on and crawl
We're in this for the long haul

Tell your sons
Not to bother with football
Get a backpack on and crawl
We're in this for the long haul


34.Life With You

Lyricist:Charles Stobo Reid, Craig Morris Reid

When I was a younger man
When I was a silly boy
I didn't need a thing
I was strong as anything
I viewed solitude as a joy

But since I met you I'm distraught
You wandered in and now I'm caught
I never thought I would see
Someone so truly good
Someone who's so everything I'm not

I want to spend my life with you
Don't want to live all alone
I can't conceive of the years left to me
Without you in our home

But what if, what if, what if, what
If it's not perfect then it's not
But every care I take
Nothing I won't forsake

Every time I think about you
I think I can't live without you
I tell you something
I am nothing without you

I want to spend my life with you
Don't want to live all alone
I can't conceive of the years left to me
Without you in our home

I want to spend my life with you
Don't want to live all alone
I can't conceive of the years left to me
Without you in our home

Without you in our home


35.No One Left To Blame

Lyricist:Charles Stobo Reid, Craig Morris Reid

You're a modern individual
With a mind that's strong and free
And it got you what you wanted
From the day you came to be

But when you got what you wanted
It could never quench your thirst
So you blamed the ones around you
For not warning you first

But now the ones around you
Are going and of no use
'Cause as the last one vanishes
She takes the last excuse

There's no one left to blame
You're the cause of your pain

Love made you forget it
Love of every hue
A mother's love, a father's love
A lover's love, a child's love

But it came back again
And you felt like you'd lived through
An almighty deception
Designed just for you

But the almighty deception
Gives while you just take
It's living all around you
While you're holding its wake

There's no one left to blame
You're the cause of your pain

You blamed it on the market
For burdening you with wealth
You blamed it on the whiskey
As if it poured itself

Dive into the mystic
So you don't have to think
Find another suspect
Find another shrink

There's no one left to blame
You're the cause of your pain
There's no one left to blame

There's no mystery
Not even the one that you see

There's no mystery
Not even the one that you see

There's no mystery
Not even the one that you see


36.500 Miles

Lyricist:Charles Stobo Reid, Craig Morris Reid

When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When I go out, yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you

If I get drunk, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And if I haver, yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

When I'm working, yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
And when the money comes in for the work I'll do
I'll pass almost every penny on to you

When I come home, oh I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I grow old, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

When I'm lonely, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man whose lonely without you
And when I'm dreaming, well I know I'm gonna dream
I'm gonna dream about the time when I'm with you

When I go out, yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
And when I come home, yes I know I'm gonna be,
I'm gonna, be the man who comes back home with you
I'm gonna be the man who's coming home with you

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door


37.Get Ready

Lyricist:William Robinson

I never met a girl who made me feel
The way that you do, you're alright
Whenever I'm asked who makes my dreams real
I tell 'em you do, you're out of sight

So fee, fi, fo, fum
Look out baby, 'cause here I come

I'm bringing you a love that's true
So get ready, get ready
I'm gonna try to make you love me too
So get ready, get ready, here I come

Get ready, 'cause here I come
I'm on my way
Get ready, 'cause here I come

If you wanna play hide and seek with love
Let me remind you, it's alright
The lovin' you're gonna miss
And the time it takes to find you, it's out of sight

So fiddley dee, fiddley dum
Look out baby, 'cause here I come

I'm bringing you a love that's true
So get ready, get ready
I'm gonna try to make you love me too
So get ready, get ready, here I come

Get ready, 'cause here I come
I'm on my way
Get ready, 'cause here I come

If all my friends should want you too
I'll understand it, be alright
I hope I get to you before they do
The way I planned it, be out of sight

So twiddley dee, twiddley dum
Look out baby, 'cause here I come

I'm bringing you a love that's true
So get ready, get ready
I'm gonna try to make you love me too
So get ready, get ready, here I come

Get ready, 'cause here I come
I'm on my way
Get ready, 'cause here I come
Here I come

Get ready, 'cause here I come
You wanna stay here
Get ready, 'cause here I come
I'm on my way

Get ready, 'cause here I come
Here I come
Get ready, 'cause here I come
Here I come

Get ready, 'cause here I come
Here I come
Get ready, 'cause here I come


38.It Was Always So Easy

Lyricist:Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

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 an 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 an 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
Said, it was always so easy to find an unhappy woman
Till I started looking for mine


39.There's No Doubt

Lyricist:Reid Charles Stobo, Reid Craig Morris

There's no doubt about it now
Youth has gone
It shines upon some other brow
Not this one
Lends its air of carelessness

To another manly breast
Dolling out its confidence
To the bright and to the dense
There's no doubt about it now
Youth has gone

There's no doubt about it now
I love you
Much deeper after all the years
We've lived through
Romance is just an old idea

When you've reached your middle years
But love is something to behold
As the old idea unfolds
There's no doubt about it now
I love you

Though age and love rest in my mind
There's something else that I can't find
No I just can't find, no just can't find

There's no doubt about it now
I can't find a reason for existence
In my mind
I feel there must be something else

But maybe I just fool myself
I want to know the God you know
But he never seems to show
There's no doubt about it now
I don't know


40.Everyday I Try

Lyricist:Charles Reid, Craig Reid

Hey, everyday I try not to lie
But I lie and you're the reason why
Everyday I try not to see
That you're my favorite female company
Everyday I try to regret
The way that I feel but I can't do it yet

Everyday I try not to lie
Everyday I try not to lie
Everyday I try and everyday I fail

Everyday I try to respect
All the things that all night I reject
Everyday I kid myself on
That today's the day when I'll be strong
Everyday the truth closes in
And I know for sure that I can never win

Everyday I try not to lie
Everyday I try not to lie
Everyday I try and everyday I fail

Well, the people all agree
That the truth will set you free
And they tell you to love it

Till the truth has them in chains
And a lie would cause less pain
Then you know you can shove it
Shove it

Everyday I try to regret
The way that I feel but I can't do it yet

Everyday I try not to lie
Everyday I try not to lie
Everyday I try and everyday I fail
Everyday I try and everyday I fail


41.Hate My Love

Lyricist:Reid Charles Stobo, Reid Craig Morris

I like the smell of petrol
I love the taste of booze
But I hate my love for you
Yeah I hate my love for you

I like Johnny Cash
Singing 'A Boy Named Sue'
But I hate my love for you
Yeah I hate my love for you

You're worse that drink
You're worse than crack
For you they should bring hanging back
And I should be the one to string you up

I hate the sound of cliche
As it begins to call
But I hate my love for you
Most of all

Hate my love for you
Hate my love for you

I'd tell your ma, I'd tell your pa
But you don't come from Arkansas
And I can't send you back where you belong

I like the way you're standing
In just your high heeled shoes
But I hate my love for you
Yeah I hate my love my love for you

I hate my love for you
Yeah, I hate my love for you


42.Five O'clock World

Lyricist:Allen Reynolds

Up ev'ry morning just to keep a job
I gotta fight my way through the hustling mob
Sounds of the city pounding in my brain
While another day goes down the drain

But it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows
No one owns a piece of my time
And there's a five o'clock me inside my clothes
Thinking that the world looks fine, yeah, adalee

Trading my time for the pay I get
Living on the money that I ain't made yet
Gotta keep goin' gotta make my way
But I live for the end of the day

'Cause it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows
No one owns a piece of my time
And there's a long haired girl who waits, I know
To ease my troubled mind, yeah, adalee

In the shelter of her arms ev'rything's okay
She talks and the world goes slipping away
And I know the reason I can still go on
When ev'ry other reason is gone

In my five o'clock world, she waits for me
Nothing else matters at all
'Cause ev'ry time my baby smiles at me
I know that it's all worthwhile, yeah


43.Twenty Flight Rock

Lyricist:Eddie Cochran, Ned Fairchild

1, 2, a 1, 2, 3, 4
Oh, I've got a girl with a record machine
When it comes to rockin' she's a queen

Love to dance on a Saturday night
All alone, I can hold her tight
But she lives on a twentieth floor up town
The elevator's broken down

So I climbed one, two flight, three flight, four
Five, six, seven flight, about eight flight more
On the twelfth, I started to drag
By the fifteenth floor, I'm ready to sag
Get to the top but I'm too tired to rock

She called me up on the telephone
She said, 'C'mon over 'cause I'm all alone'
I said, 'Baby, you're mighty sweet
But I'm in the bed with a-achin' feet'

This went on for a couple of days
(But I)
But I couldn't stay away

So I claimed two, three, four
Five, six, seven flight, about eight flight more
On the twelfth, I'm starting to drag
By the fifteenth floor I ready to sag
Get to the top but I'm too tired to rock

Sent to Glasgow for repairs
'Til it's fixed I'm using the stairs
I hope they hurry up before it's too late
Because I don't want my baby too much to wait
All this climbin' is gettin' me down
You'll find my corpse draped over the rail

But I climbed two, three, four
Five, six, seven flight, about eight flight more
On the twelfth, I'm starting to drag
By the fifteenth floor I ready to sag
Get to the top but I'm too tired to rock

Yeah, I climbed two, three, four
Five, six, seven flight, about eight flight more
On the twelfth, I'm starting to drag
By the fifteenth floor I ready to sag
Get to the top but I'm too tired

Get to the top but I'm too tired
Get to the top but I'm too tired to rock


44.Long Black Veil

Lyricist:Danny Dill, Marijohn Wilkin

Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene but they all agreed
The slayer who ran looked a lot like me

The judge said, 'Son, what is your alibi?
If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die'
I spoke not a word though it meant my life
For I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife

She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me

The scaffold stood high, eternity neared
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan
In a long black veil she cries on my bones

She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me

Nobody knows but me


45.Better Days

Lyricist:Reid Charles Stobo, Reid Craig Morris

Maybe if I just think out loud tonight
Then I'll know what to do
Five years all felt the same and then it changed
And I was loving you, better days for sure

Mary, our love still can bring violins
And roses to my mind
But I swear I haven't missed a moment of the life
I've left behind, it's just a fading sound

So be with me while decades turn us older
We've both much love that lasts a whole life through
We could live in Fife or out in Texas
Anywhere, as long as I'm with you

Last year it seemed the things we've worked for
Were all gonna come to pass
One hit proclaimed that Mrs. Reid's boys
Would finally pay some tax, thank the Lord for that

Now I'll admit I wasn't too impressed love
Events compound the doubts I've had before
The only struggle worth it is in the music
The other stuff can't interest me at all

Mary, we've got to see America
I need to ride those trains
This year we're going to take a jet plane there
No matter what it takes for the music's sake


46.They Really Do

Lyricist:Reid Charles Stobo, Reid Craig Morris

They're thinking of ye
The folks who love ye
Believe when they declare
They really do care

Though you're demanding
They're understanding
No need for angst to come
They're captured by your charm

Arms sweat, teeth grind
You haven't met for a long, long time
But if they should chance to see you
They'll recall how much they need you

They're thinking of ye
The folks who love ye
Believe when they declare
They really do care


47.Redeemed

Lyricist:Reid Charles Stobo, Reid Craig Morris

Night has passed away
But I've lived to see another day
And I'm glad that I'm around
Yesterday was bad
Don't think I've ever felt so sad

But it left without a sound
The sun came rising up
And it drove away the darkness
The morning air is clean
I'm redeemed, I'm redeemed

Found the strength I lacked
To shake this burden from my back
Between the hours of four and five
And as I fell asleep
I heard the traffic in the street

And felt the joy of being alive
I don't trust myself
So I trust myself to reason
But I feel what it means
I'm redeemed, I'm redeemed

The sun came rising up
And it drove away the darkness
The morning air is clean
I'm redeemed, I'm redeemed

I don't trust myself
So I trust myself to reason
But I feel what it means
I'm redeemed, I'm redeemed


48.Leaving Home

Lyricist:Charles Reid, Craig Reid

East Coast trains run slow
And Edinburgh seems cold
For eighteen year old's freedom

But Leith feels like New York
All the cars and talk
Moving down the walk all day

So I'm lying in this hotel
Hearing sirens and drunken fights
But I paid cash to the angels
Guarding me tonight

So I'm lying in this hotel
Hearing sirens and drunken fights
And I paid cash to the angel
Guarding me tonight

Dundee's on my own
Cry when I come home
Have to carry on somehow

Leith could be New York
All the cars and talk
Moving down the walk all day


49.Restless Soul

Lyricist:Charles Reid, Craig Reid

Drift away let tomorrow have today
While your dreams take tomorrow
They don't fail, even when you fail
Restless soul

It drove you on 25 years ago
It'll drive you tomorrow
It can't stop it'll drive you till you drop
Restless soul

You're always looking for
A place your mind can rest
It's not there, it's not there

You feel like there's a curse
Putting you to the test
But you've been blessed

You're always looking for
A place your mind can rest
It's not there, it's not there

You feel like there's a curse
Putting you to the test
But you've been blessed

So drift away let tomorrow have today
While your dreams take tomorrow
They don't fail even when you fail
Restless soul


50.Not Ever

Lyricist:Charles Reid, Craig Reid

Pretty girl, don't you waste a word
For I can't love you, not ever

Take this afternoon, recall our sexual mood
But, I'm not loving you, not ever

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

See that southern sky
Drifting past the lights
It won't touch you or I, not ever

Ooh, yeah, ooh, ooh


51.I'm Gone

Lyricist:Reid Charles Stobo, Reid Craig Morris

I'm out of my mind on John Barleycorn
He's such a physician, his fingers are warm
Of my inhibitions, I have been shorn
And I'm gone, gone, gone

All of my fear and most of my pain
Ran hand in hand to catch the last train
From Waverley station and while I remain
I'm still gone, gone, gone

Ah whiskey head
You're mine to take to bed
Ah whiskey head

Young women and men, please, listen to me
They tell you that drinking can't set you free
Well here I am standing and I disagree
'Cause I'm gone, gone, gone

I'm out of my mind on John Barleycorn
He's such a physician, his fingers are warm
Of my inhibitions, I have been shorn
And I'm gone, gone gone

Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, aah


52.Turning Away

Lyricist:Charles Reid, Craig Reid

My jokes don't work any more
I must have told you that one before
'Cause you're turning away
Turning away, turning away

You come and go as you please
I don't make you weak at the knees
And you're turning away
Turning away, turning away

Some love affairs build a love
That lasts for a lifetime
Some love affairs fire a hate
That never burns out

This love affair is dead
Because you are indifferent
You won't say it
But I am left in no doubt

You used to say what you meant
But now you ooze contempt
When you're turning away
Turning away, turning away

Some love affairs build a love
That lasts for a lifetime
And some love affairs fire a hate
That never burns out

This love affair is dead
Because you are indifferent
You won't say it
But I am left in no doubt

That my jokes don't work any more
I must have told you that one before
'Cause you're turning away
Turning away, turning away

Turning away, turning, turning away
Turning away, turning, turning away
Turning away, turning away, turning away
Turning away, turning away, turning away

Turning away, turning away, turning away
Turning away, turning away, turning away
Turning away, turning away, right


53.One More Down

Lyricist:Charles Reid, Craig Reid

Spent the morning, unaware
Spent the daytime, didn't care
Spent the evening drawing breath
Spent the nighttime fearing death

One more down, some more to go
Then I'll know or I won't know
If all the songs I hear you sing
Are everything or anything

Saw a picture I didn't know
Of a football game played 50 years ago
You see the jersey's being worn so proud
But look behind them, look up at the crowd

A sea of heads pointing right up to the sky
Some of them are still with us and some of them have died
I think the one's who've left are still with us as well
'Cause I can hear them when the voices start to swell

One more down some more to go
Then I'll know or I won't know
If all the songs I hear you sing
Are everything or anything

Well, I hear you, I don't see you
Well, I hear you, I don't see you
But it won't be long till I'm gone
And then I'll know if my ears or eyes are wrong

Spent the morning, unaware
Spend the daytime, didn't care
Spent the evening drawing breath
Spent the nighttime fearing death

One more down some more to go
Then I'll know or I won't know
If all the songs I hear you sing
Are everything or anything

One more down some more to go
Then I'll know or I won't know
If all the songs I hear you sing
Are everything or anything

Hey
Hey
Hey
...


54.When Love Struck You Down

Lyricist:Charles Reid, Craig Reid

So, you're back on top again
Proving everybody wrong
But I recall the days
When you didn't seem so strong

When love struck you down
You felt like you were bound to die
From all the pain inside
When love struck you down

When they were handing out the brains
You were at the head of the queue
But once she got inside your heart
They were no use to you

When love struck you down
No one else was fooled
Fear and madness ruled
When love struck you down

You weren't there, when she was everywhere
Her face, her name
But no matter what you said
She never the felt the same

When love struck you down
Ohh, how hard you prayed
God didn't come to your aid
When love struck you down

When love struck you down
You felt like you were bound to die
From all the pain inside
When love struck you down

When love struck you down
No one else was fooled
Fear and madness ruled
When love struck you down


55.D.I.Y.

Lyricist:Charles Reid, Craig Reid

Warmongers, kill yourselves
Demonstrate the power of the product that you're trying to sell
Gun wavers, shoot yourselves
Make a big hole in your head with a shiny shell

What's wrong with that kind of vision?
What's wrong with that kind of world?
If I suffered less from indecision
I'd stand on that platform myself

Chicken hawks, there's a cell
Down in hell, where you may fight as well

If I may paraphrase John Lennon
Why fill this world with more pain and fear?
To every budding Mark Chapman
I offer these words, most sincere

Warmongers, kill yourselves
Demonstrate the power of the product that you're trying to sell
Gun wavers, shoot yourselves
Make a big hole in your head with a shiny shell

C'mon and do it yourself, do it yourself, do it yourself, do it
yourself
Do it yourself, do it yourself, do it yourself, do it yourself
C'mon and do it yourself, do it yourself, do it yourself, do it
yourself
Do it yourself, do it yourself, do it yourself, do it yourself

Ohh, ohh, do it yourself, do it yourself, do it yourself, do it
yourself
Do it yourself, do it yourself, do it yourself, do it yourself


56.Ghost Of Love

Lyricist:Reid Charles Stobo, Reid Craig Morris

When you look in my eyes
You know that I'm gonna lie
But you look in my eyes
For the ghost of love that died

And when you see him you should believe him
He won't deceive you, he's never leavin'
I used to feel the way he's feelin'

Before I fell for you
I thought love was just a rage
But we left the book of love
Signed in blood on every page

They say it makes you feel so alive
But that's the biggest of all the lies
For every sting, part of you dies

So look into my eyes
For the ghost of love that died

I don't believe in second chance
'Coz that's not love, that's just romance
And I know the endin' well in advance

So look into my eyes
For the ghost of love that died


57.Lady Luck

Lyricist:Reid Charles Stobo, Reid Craig Morris

I got some bills this morning
They tumbled through the door
I counted every penny but
The bills still came to more

And printed in the paper
For Pisces it did say
'If you would just be bolder
Then this might be your day'

It said, 'Lady Luck apologizes
For the way she's been behavin'
And she promises she'll change'

'If you don't want to know her, she'll understand
But if you'd like to take her hand
She could be back at your command'

So I ran round the corner
The bookies there I entered
Put ten quid on a mare
From a stud in Kildare

But though the jockey beat her
In Belgium they will eat her
The tannoy began to rip
As I tore up the slip

It said, 'Lady Luck apologizes
For the way she's been behavin'
And she promises she'll change'

'If you don't want to know her, she'll understand
But if you'd like to take her hand
She could be back at your command'

I met a girl this evening
And I began to think
That I might get her drunk
But she matched me drink for drink

So when she drew the curtains
I felt success was certain
But as she kicked me out
She spoke in the third person

Lady Luck apologizes
For the way she's been behavin'
And she promises she'll change

If you don't want to know her, she'll understand
But if you'd like to take her hand
She could be back at your command

Lady Luck apologizes
For the way she's been behavin'
And she promises she'll change

If you don't want to know her, she'll understand
But if you'd like to take her hand
She could be back at your command


58.Now And Then

Lyricist:Reid Charles Stobo, Reid Craig Morris

Lately, I've been forgetting
To keep your memory everyday
It's so long, since last time I saw you
And sometimes the present gets in the way

But now and then, you just walk right in
Ask me how it's been since you've been still
And if I cry, you just smile and sigh
I never said goodbye, I never will

Lately things have been so good
I wish that you could be here to see
The beauty of all your grandchildren
By your children, your legacy

But now and then, you just walk right in
Ask me how it's been since you've been still
And if I cry, you just smile and sigh
I never said goodbye, I never will

Lately, I've been forgetting
To keep your memory everyday


59.She's Brighter

But she's brighter than them, she's brighter than them
She spells her words like a poet
She's brighter than them, she's brighter than them

All the men I knew would agree
She's the finest thing you'll see
But they don't really know it
'Cause I'm righter than them, I'm righter than them
I'm righter, righter

Right there in her demeanor
You can feel her soul coming over in waves
Dirtier and cleaner than the kind of souls that she

What's the matter with this girl?
She could clean the whole wide world
'Cause she's brighter than me, she's brighter than me
She's brighter, brighter

Watch that face, look at her eyes
She was born to shape the dawn at the sunrise
Watch her face, look at those eyes
She was born to shape the dawn at the sunrise

But she's brighter than them, she's brighter than them
She spells her words like a poet
She's brighter than them, much brighter than them

All the men I know would agree
She's the finest thing you'll see
But they don't really know it
'Cause I'm righter than them, I'm righter than them
She's brighter, brighter


60.Throw the 'R' Away

Lyricist:Charles Reid, Craig Reid

I've been so sad
Since you said my accent was bad
He's worn a frown
This Caledonian clown

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 I threw the 'R' away

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 I threw the 'R' away

You say that if I wanna get ahead
The language I use should be left for dead
It doesn't please your ear
And though you tell it like a leg-pull
It seems you're 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

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 I threw the 'R' away

You say that if I want to get ahead
The language I use should be left for dead
It doesn't please your ear
And though you tell it like a leg-pull
I think you're still full of john bull
You just refuse to hear

He's been so sad
Since you said his accent was bad
He's worn a frown
This Caledonian clown

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 I threw the 'R' away
Flattened all the vowels and I threw the 'R' away
Flattened all the vowels and I threw the 'R' away


61.I Want To Be A Christian

Proclaimers
Hit The Highway
I Want To Be A Christian
(Sullivan Pugh)

Lord, I want to be a Christian
In my heart
In my heart
Lord, I want to be a Christian
In my heart

Lord, I want to be a Christian
In my heart
In my heart
Lord, I want to be a Christian
In my heart

In my heart
In my heart
Lord, I want to be a Christian
In my heart