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Black Cat, Dark Horse
02:50
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There was a time / we were together
It's not a crime / or great endeavour
But you will never ever find another lover baby like me
I never sought / someone to turn to
Butterfly caught / so let’s continue
‘cos you will never ever find another lover baby like me
The merry dance Nureyev ignores
Half a chance
Black cat, dark horse
Got two ideas / you got two blisters
Pony careers / or ‘The Three Sisters’
Well you will never ever find another lover baby like me
The merry dance Nureyev ignores
Half a chance
Black cat, dark horse
It is my fire / that you are burning
Was my desire that has kept me learning
And you will never ever find another lover baby like me
No you will never ever find another lover baby like me
(Robert Lloyd / Peter Byrchmore / Janet Beveridge-Bean)
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2. |
Heavy Reckonings
03:54
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My harrowed heart was made to wander
for dales that lesser lovers spurned
But at the end of each meander
I'd find that to the start returned
I've failed to keep my mind contented
with all the ground rules fate presented
And now I find myself aware
of heavy reckonings to bear
These journeys, far from my intention
were so much further than they seemed
I was not always damned to dream
a country of my own invention
Whenever places haunt or heart
the soldier in me just deserts
For those whose secrets might be soothing
my silence comes as no surprise
For I've been waiting to say something
so long my tongue is black with flies
I've tried to keep the home fires burning
but my nature's less discerning
You'd think a downcast soul is mine,
but I'm an outcast by design.
These journeys far from my intention
are so much further than they seem
I was not always damned to dream
a country of my own invention.
And now I find myself aware
of heavy reckonings to bear.
(James Elkington)
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3. |
Wake Up Baby
03:34
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Wake up baby, before it’s too late
Wake up baby, it’s time to celebrate
There’s nothing here for me, so I won’t hesitate
Life’s for me babe, I won’t live it second rate
Wake up baby, wake up without a sound
Wake up baby, get off the merry go round
I’ll be in love but I swear I won’t be a clown
That’s all there is to that, I’m gonna leave this lonesome town
Wake up baby, don’t hold your head so high
Wake up baby, and focus your eyes
You think you think, but to me you look hypnotized
I’m leaving now babe, I wish you well goodbye
There’s nothing here for me, goodbye babe
There’s nothing here for me, goodbye babe
You know there’s nothing here for me
(Dion DiMucci)
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4. |
Sweet Georgia Black
04:31
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Well how come it is I get so impressed?
However it is, I wish you all the best
As the things go right for you and I walk away
Sweet Georgia Black I bid you good day
Well how come it is everything looks so sweet?
It’s easy to understand, it’s what attracted me
Well I say, Sweet Georgia Black I wish you good day
Imagine if you had none of this at all
Well I would still love you, you might even hear my call
But now I won’t be there when the next teardrop falls
Sweet Georgia Black I’ll be nowhere at all
Well I planned my days just to fit you in
And I might get to see you if you were doing nothing
Well that’s tough but Sweet Georgia Black it’s not good enough
My two ways of wanting for you are starting to fight
I don’t know if it’s you or me I’m thinking of every night
I guess there is nothing wrong with being a memory
& although you are it takes nothing from what you mean to me
And so for the final time, in verse at least,
Go on and be happy & I hope you succeed
And everything goes right for you as I walk away
Sweet Georgia Black I hope you have a nice day
But I won’t let this moment get turned in to a trap
And if you are ever without then I won’t turn my back
Here I’ll stand, with the words that I have written torn up in my hands
(Robert Lloyd)
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5. |
Eggs And Bacon
04:10
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Many days have passed since then
But I still recall the moment when
Despite the crack in my pretences
You helped me stumble to my senses
& now the emphasis has shifted
Remember feeling bitter n twisted?
But you were there when I felt vacant
My jungle juice, my eggs & bacon
I’ll clean the scum from around your bath
Go arse over elbow just to make you laugh
Come lowly land or come high water
Impotent son or pregnant daughter
Come overflow or empty stomach
Some kind of naught, some kind of summit
For all the space you give to me
When you take, please take my energy
& as & when trouble hits town
Bet your bottom darlin’, I won’t take it lying down
& when it shows it’s no’s n not’s
We’ll show we come as a job lot
No stone unturned, no sheets to wash
No second hand on the violent watch
There are no things we feel need proving
We get out of it without moving
Come lowly land or come high water
Impotent son or pregnant daughter
Come overflow or empty stomach
Some kind of naught, some kind of summit
(Robert Lloyd / Mark Tibenham)
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6. |
Arc Of A Smile
03:37
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A dialect for two
born from a gesture
shot across the room
A gun was played
our fates were doomed
on the arc of smile
The ground it spun
the moon hung
with grace of a song
Over a river and
what was to come
on the arc of a smile
A quiver of arrows was slung
from the first to first to the last I succumb
on the arc of a smile
On the edges of space, we conjure
while a wounded orchestra sways
for you and I a melody made
on the arc of a smile
(Janet Beveridge-Bean)
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7. |
Take A Giant Step
02:17
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Though you've played at love and lost
And sorrow's turned your heart to frost
I will melt your heart again.
Remember the feeling as a child
When you woke up and morning smiled
It's time you felt like you did then.
There's just no percentage in remembering the past
It's time you learned to live again at last.
Come with me, leave yesterday behind
And take a giant step outside your mind.
You stare at me in disbelief
You say for you there's no relief
But I swear I'll prove you wrong.
Don't stay in your lonely room
Just staring back in silent gloom.
That's not where you belong
Come with me I'll take you where the taste of life is green
And everyday holds wonders to be seen.
Come with me, leave yesterday behind
And take a giant step outside your mind.
(Gerry Goffin / Carole King)
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The lie is upon and speaking its worst
A lie is a lie, I cannot deny
Still, I cried when I first heard its cancerous curse
Again you'll despair clairvoyants declare!
Failed words and venomous vows
They rose me up once but bury me now
The True Lover's Knot and The Lie
Each lie is a bloodhound dismembering hares
Long before long, the lie was your song
Now they join me in chorus like dog Jordanaires
Now sing it with me and set yourself free with...
Failed words and venomous vows
I'd swear on my life but I never knew how
The True Lover's Knot and The Lie
Caverns of courage it takes to tell truth so they say
But deceptionists practice an art that is older than time
Time cannot stop me from getting my way
Those above board, be put to the sword
Now dishonesty shadows the shortening day
Volumes of curse, verse after verse of
Failed words and venomous vows
they rose me up once but bury me know
Failed words and venomous vows
I'd swear on my life but I've never known how
The True Lover's Knot and The Lie
(Janet Beveridge-Bean / James Elkington)
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9. |
Tears Like Stars
03:27
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In the dead of night
In some distant land
In these troubled times
We're in unsafe hands
In the way you move
In the days of old
In the corner of the waiting room
In winter when it's cold
Tears like stars must fall
Hearts like stones must sink
Grief like dawn must break
In the way you move
In the days of old
In a corner of the waiting room
In winter when it's cold
Tears like stars must fall
Hearts like stones must sink
Grief like dawn must break
In a dungeon deep
In the space between the walls
In some dreamless sleep
In the words of the prophet
In the belly of a whale
In the backstreets of my brain
In the morning when we wake
In the thoughts I can't explain
Tears like stars must fall
Hearts like stones must sink
Grief like dawn must break
In the wee wee hours
In the backseat of your car
In your bones and in your blood
In the moment
Tears like stars must fall
Hearts like stones must sink
Grief like dawn must break
(Jon Langford)
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10. |
One Shot
02:53
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11. |
Black Country
06:58
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And lo! on the fifth of the sixth
born to be stiffed by the ethics and quarrels
that loathed to see him resting on his laurels
he said, "fuck your morals"
Was his own man for bad or worst
An also-ran spawn of the cursed by sick fate
And finding love a test would surely dictate
that he would pick hate
And time would prove a weapon
His crime would be to breath the air
He would stain the sheets of the Black Country
And in good stead for later life
he made the bed, his future wife was cooking
a soon come life for them, as she was looking
at the rucking
A class mates ears in either hand
on to the tears he did expand with spittle
The spite inside the phlegm was uncommittal,
so pre-marital
And the pome it had been tasted
'Twas the homophobic, racist flirt
that she would wed in the Black Country
Into the snare of wilted flowers
she rushed to share her youthful hours with learning
that tolerance and reason are for burning
and he's not for turning
And once upon ago the sex
would pretend not to know the hex of violence
The days it would plot treason drunk on silence,
a potent alliance
And a thorn he'd always carry
and still born is what she asked to be
Got divorced from hope in the Black Country
Her sell by date it came and went
Stood at the gate of heaven, bent on boredom,
the born and bred qualifier for whoredom,
he got the chore done
He'd borrow cash and grass his pals
and scratch his rash and ever shall be a user
The empathetic liars down the boozer
they love a loser
But overpriced is such a friendship
and they thank Christ he drank himself to death
He was a boil on the arse of the Black Country
And the despair that had been suffered
offered no prayer for the belated death
of that ugly child from the Black Country
No, they'll mourn him not in the Black Country
(Robert Lloyd / Peter Byrchmore)
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