Don't whisper love and dream of wedding bells Don't do all the talking, let love speak up itself Let love speak up itself So wehn you feel a little tatty and un...

Well sitting in a bar alone where no-one knows your name Is like laying in a graveyard wide awake You're scared that if you cough or yawn you might wake up the ...

Don't whisper love and dream of wedding bells Don't do all the talking, let love speak up itself Let love speak up itself So wehn you feel a little tatty and un...

When was the last time you felt so happy You had to give yourself a good pinch When did you ever fail one of life's highs Without using stepladder or winch That...

(Heaton/Rotheray) Your lying lips don't cry don't cry Keep telling me you're forever You're forever, you're forever

(Heaton/Rotheray) You can't write a novel from a briefcase You can write a poem from a trench You can dream a dream from A to B But you can't catch a bus from ...

Sailin' away on the crest of a wave It's like magic Rollin' and ridin' and slippin' & slidin' It's magic And you, and your sweet desire, You took me, higher an...

(ELO) Sailin' away on the crest of a wave It's like magic Rollin' and ridin' and slippin' and slidin' It's magic Chorus And you, and your sweet desire, You to...

{male voice Solitude has only existed since overspill demanded a view Finding a space has only been around since the invention of the bustling queue Forcing ev...

Look what I found in my beer A couple of dancing ladies and a ticket out of here Look what I've found in my beer A start to being lonely and an end to my career...

(heaton/rotheray) I'm losing things That's what old-fashioned love brings Lost the key to the house The feeling in my mouth I'm losing things I'm forgetting t...

Your wife's got beautiful skin Shame it's not round her body no more It just came away in my hands As I asked her up to dance Just cut her out of your scrapbook...

Ooh you care, you really, really care >From the first 12" I made to the colour of my underwear Ooh you know, you really, really know Inside, outside in, from he...

(Cecil and Linda Womak) Love wars, Love wars Love wars, Love wars Absence makes the heart grow fonder but its taking me under since you're not here Its bette...

(T Jans) Originally performed by Etta James If you could hear me now The one who said that she'd rather roam The one who said she'd rather be alone If you cou...

From Northenden to Partington it's rain From Altrincham to Chadderton it's rain From Moss Side to Swinton hardly Spain It's a picture postcard of wish they neve...

That grand facade will finally diminish When he breaks your heart from start to finish SIsters dream of isles in paradise That ain't no use when the captain's j...

Jack confides in Catherine That he's filing for divorce Catherine gives her promise To keep it secret but of course As soon as backs are turned in soaps They're...

Vagabonds don't fall in love They just wheel and they deal So if I turn a funny colour when you kiss me I can't help the way that I feel Hooligans don't fall i...

They say always use a condom, I say always use a whip They say be careful where you come at night, I just shoot straight trom the hip When it comes to loves gre...

Vagabonds don't fall in love They just wheel and they deal So if I turn a funny colour when you kiss me I can't help the way that I feel Hooligans don't fall in...

They could be fat or could be thin They could be black, they could be white Tell me who's knocking at the knocking shop door tonight Not much a girl can do but...

(M Greaves) I was always told that time could heal And change the way the broken-hearted feel Now I know it's not true For I'm sad and blue And I'm sure missin...

Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. Your so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause your lonely the have blamed you? For that Mona Lisa str...

(Heaton/Rotheray) Here he comes - Mother's Pride With the first ever satchel she bought him swinging by his side Here he comes Mother's Pride With a headful of...

A winning smile of gleaming teeth WO on his handkerchief He does a handstand for his fans Have you seen those beautiful hands? Marching to the sound of drums L...

(heaton/rotheray) This is my life and this is how it reads For every chapter, a thousand memories A murder, a mystery where everybody bleeds A fantasy, a thril...

(M Greaves) I work in the steel mills Where the sun never shines The pounding of hammers is all mine And I've sailed this wide ocean For money and cod So far ...

There he stood, gun in hand At the door, the day she chose to leave Half of him stood comforting The other half that couldn't quite believe Believe that she had...

I wasn't sure if it was Marx or Hitler that was in this year I hadn't been to Brighton for a while so it wasn't too clear So imagine my surprise when I opened m...

Old Red eyes is back Red from the night before the night before Walked into the wrong bar walked into a door Old Red's in town And sitting late at night he does...

Like a toupee on a fading fame, Final whistle in a losing game, Thick lipstick on a five year old girl, Makes you think that's it's a plastic world Plastic worl...

(heaton/rotheray) I once had a friend who i loved from my heart But i went on and left her 'fore i'd made a start Now i'm moaning the blues like the rest of th...

(Kilvington / Greaves) He picks up the pieces Of long gone days Of old fashioned people And old fashioned ways He picks up the pieces Where nothing remains And...

She's a Perfect 10 But she wears a 12 Baby, keep a little 2 for me She could be sweet 16 Bustin' out of the seams It's still love in first degree When he's at m...

(Heaton/Rotheray) Here comes Pockets His trousers hold a thousand deadly sins The maddest things we ever found in bins He clutches them and looks at you and gr...

You request pollard and you get pollard You ask for pollard and you get pollard You plead for pollard and you get pollard You get down for pollard and you get p...

(Heaton/Rotheray) 'I fought hard in the Second World War' You hear them shout No good bragging about the Afrika Korps It was Beadle's About They dressed you u...

Is it Cologne with it's great cathedral? Milan with it's glamour and it's pace? London with it's river and it's bridges? Lisbon with it's beauty and it's grace?...

(heaton/rotheray) Line one is the time That you, you first stayed over at mine And we drank our first bottle of wine And we cried Line two we're away And we b...

Line One is the time That you, you first stayed over at mine And we drank our first bottle of wine And we cried Line Two we're away And we both, we both had no...

You're kind of pretty you can cover in make-up Cover in perfume too Moonlight, mud fight, any kinda sunlight Still comes shining through Stuff it with cakes, s...

All the secrets we have shared Have moved to a couple better paired So if he impales himself on javelin or spike I will try my best to be the perfect lookalike ...

(Rufus Wainwright) Where is my master, the Rebel Prince, Who will shut all these windows? It's these windows all around me, It's these windows who are telling ...

I hope your new man's good for you in bed Better than this whisky-drinking slo A weekend in Vienna, a boat trip on the Med I hope you've found the right man for...

Line One is the time That you, you first stayed over at mine And we drank our first bottle of wine And we cried Line Two we're away And we both, we both had now...

And the woman tug their hair Like they're trying to prove it won't fall out And all the men are gargoyles Dipped long in Irish stout The whole place is pickled ...

Imagine sailing solo around the world Only to find you've missed a continent out And as your happy turns choppy and tidal wave swirls You're wondering why there...

I should've kept my eyes shut But I had to go amd peep But when you saw what I saw Well, it's hard just to roll back to sleep I would've kept my eyes shut But I...

And the woman tug their hair Like they're trying to prove it won't fall out And all the men are gargoyles Dipped long in Irish stout The whole place is pickled ...

Do not think of me alive do not think of me as dead Get that thought right out of your head Fifty times you told me so to satisfy I must grow but all you did wa...

The perfect love song it has now words it only has death threats And you can tell a classic ballad by how threatening it gets So if you walk into your house and...

Song For Whoever I love you from the bottom, of my pencil case I love you in the songs, I write and sing Love you because, you put me in my rightful place And I...

If there's space out there enough for the moon Surely your little heart can make some room If there's room in the hemisphere for so many stars There's surely a ...

Speak to me, speak to me Speak to me, speak to me Tell me all about the way you feel, speak to me, speak to me Tell me all the things I want to know Tell me all...

I meant every word I said But only said half the words I meant There's a load more where they came from I suppose will get left unsent Like conversation started...

(Stylistics) If I could I'd like to be, a great big movie star Overnight sensation, drive a big expensive car I would buy you everything your little heart desi...

Why don't you sing 'I need you baby'? 'Cause it rhymes with crazy and it rhymes with maybe It rhymes with lady and much much more And it doesn't rhyme with the ...

If it ain't an epic Don't dust it If it ain't an epic Don't cry for it If it ain't perfect girl Don't leave this world If he ain't got style on it Don't bust i...

(heaton/rotheray) Sadness has filled a lonely place Before that there was just a hole At least now there's sadness on my face My lower lip has finally found it...

(Heaton/Rotheray) Sadness has filled a lonely place Before that there was just a hole At least now there's sadness on my face My lower lip has finally found it...

Tears have rolled down many good cheek So when it comes down to your turn Don't be afraid of admitting you're weak Cause these are tears that you earn Stranger...

We've come a long way from the cave What, you started to shave? Now we know just how to behave Since chivalry decided to bathe And as the skirts we wore were i...

Woman goes to heaven, it's not important when 'Cause as soon as she arrives God has to send her down again 'You've got an extra five years to clean up after men...

If I walk like a fool, I've walked like that since school But maybe it's the lure of the sea Who knows the effect, that whisky could've had on me It could've be...

Little seas can be big seas To the wrong or long of sights But the Mediterranean Looks like aspirin tonight The Doctor told me the chemist He had nothing for m...

There was a pool table there at the wedding That most of the men stood and played Whilst the women danced in their melancholy Till the last record started to fa...

The opening of a new book A singular wave crashing The opening of a new book Sat on your chuff knowing nothing The opening of a new book A ticket on a train fro...

(HeatonRotheray) She'd brought along the oranges He'd brought the tea They'd both brought along a sick-bag just in case The plate of chicken sandwiches Were lov...

Love takes time we all agree And time's not the easist to cheat The water changes one degree When will the shiver of this river turn to sea ? The river does no ...

(Heaton/Rotheray) Here I walk, here I walk Looking for an angel's wings in the den of the hawk Here I am, here I am With a choice between an also ran and a su...

If euro replaces the pound It's still likely to be shiny and round Rich may switch the way they feel rich but not the man who's alive or the man who has drowned...

If Euro replaces the pound, It's still likely to be shiny and round Rich may switch the way they feel rich But not the man who's alive, and the man who's drowne...

Daddy was the local drunk Mommy was the loosest girl in town Brother just some two-bit punk Rode his Harley D into the ground Distant friends and relatives Eac...

When you're too old for the swings You tend to choose the slide And they never seem to warn you The slide's your final ride And when you're at the top of it And...

Ginger Elvis Presley looked a fraction sad Roaming the whole town from bin to bin Well living on the streets wasn't all that bad Where no-one seemed to know tha...

This table has four sturdy legs And a heart of very near wild oak When others would have screamed out loud my friend This one never even spoke I've been sat upo...

There's a bench in every park dedicated to Those who sat there once but didn't make it through There are names carved deep in bark on every tree By those who sp...

(Heaton / Rotheray) Always alone when thinking hard Always alone when after dark I used to wear black I used to wear black all the time I used to wear black I ...

it was '96 in south carolina, thats the place and not the goddam year i was sittin on the porch out at bobbys place, just tuggin on a lukewarm beer there i was ...

(The Zombies) The warmth of your love's Like the warmth from the sun And this will be our year Took a long time to come Don't let go of my hand Now the darkne...

Verse one, he was pissed, an excuse that you probably missed 'Cause his smile and his grace made your skirt ride high Verse two, still drunk and his breath mos...

(Ben E King) Let's not fight it anymore Unpack the bags and close the door I'll never leave you, no no Though you lied right from the start I can't convince my...

(heaton/rotheray) She'd brought along the oranges He'd brought the tea They'd both brought along a sick-bag just in case The plate of chicken sandwiches Were ...

When we met I got wet Just waiting for the chance To dance at your feet And wipe your wooden seat Chorus: Trevor, you're bizarre I wish that you could tell Tre...

This reign of plastic That replaced the reign of gold Couldn't have known that you Would feel so undersold If love was built on hindsight Then you surely would ...

(Willie Nelson) VERSE 1 Valentine Won't you be my valentine And introduce your heart to mine And be my valentine VERSE 2 Summertime We could run and play like...

And I think that I wish I was virgin And I smile and I think of you And my first, very first entry Clumsy and romantic My special mix in you Clumsy like the fir...

There's no more little secrets we haven't yet disclosed We bore the living daylights of anyone too close And all our cards at Christmas are written to us both C...

There's no more little secrets we haven't yet disclosed We bore the living daylights of anyone too close And all our cards at Christmas are written to us both C...

Revolutions come and go but we'll just have to wait The time is nigh to sit and plot exactly who you hate Sirens in the neighbourhood The gun must be misunderst...

There's no more little secrets we haven't yet disclosed We bore the living daylights of anyone too close And all our cards at Christmas are written to us both C...

(The Dramatics) Some people are made of plastic You know some people are made of wood Some people have hearts of stone You know some people are up to no good ...

Queueing with the old folk There's and old man with a wicked smile Not through smug politeness He's doing it in style No savings book or flannel slacks No "Pard...

You'll know when romance is dead Your make up in a toolbox somewhere in the shed His face is unshaven, the grass overgrown From the she'd to the bed is a web yo...

White teeth, white teeth Talent is rugged determination Skill is a little more dull Genius buggers straight conversation Makes sure that it's ass is full So g...

Who's gonna tell the orange They're actually brown Who's gonna mop up for grey When they've painted the town It's the news that everyone dreads That we're no lo...

(M Greaves) You're so near We could touch You're so sad You cry too much You're so warm To hold on to We don't do The things we want to We can fly to the moon...

One day I'm loaded, next day I'm broke Spent all my money on whisky and coke Riding high 'till the rock hot the spoke It's like window shopping for blinds Spent...

(H Nilsson) I spend the night in a chair Thinking she'll be there but she never comes I wake up and wipe the sleep from my eyes Then I rise to spend another da...