You and I are victims of a love That lost a lot in the translation When I think of all the time that I spent Sitting on the edge of your bed in anticipation Of ...

When I was young I told my mum I'm going to walk on the Moon someday Armstrong and Aldrin spoke to me From Houston and Cape Kennedy And I watched the Eagle land...

Rome never looks where she treads Always her heavy hooves fall On our stomachs, our hearts and our heads And rome never hears when we bawl Her sentries pass on...

I've always been impressed with a girl Who could sing for her supper and get breakfast as well That's the way I am heaven help me He said we don't like peace ca...

It's aginst th' law to walk, it's aginst th' law to talk It's aginst th' law to loaf, it's aginst th' law to work It's aginst th' law to read, it's aginst th' l...

Gonna tell all you fascists, you may be surprised People all over this world are getting organized You're bound to lose, you fascists are bound to lose People ...

Sometimes I think I'm gonna lose my mind But it don't look like I ever do I loved so many people everywhere I went Some too much, others not enough I don't kno...

At my window sad and lonely, Oft times do I think of thee Sad and lonely and I wonder Do you ever think of me? Every day is sad and lonely Every night is sad a...

I would rather not go Back to the old house I would rather not go Back to the old house Too many memories, bad memories Too many memories there When you cycle...

I was a miner I was a docker I was a railway man Between the wars I raised a family In times of austerity With sweat at the foundry Between the wars I paid the...

The birds are singing in your eyes this day Sweet flowers blossom in your smile The wind and sun are in the words you say Where might your lonesome lover be? B...

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon england's mountains green? And was the holy lamb of god On england's pleasant pastures seen? And did the countenanc...

CHORUS: I will cross this body of water If you promise me you won't try this at home You're where you want to be Where am I I'm up a tree I had a hurt attack R...

Crowds gather 'round kneeling At the feet of common thieves Hungry for the word but God Would never speak through such as these Such as these Who offer healing...

I ought to leave enough hot water For your morning bath, but I'd not thought I hate to hear you talk that way But I can't bring myself to say I'm sorry The past...

Let?s have christ for president Let us have him for our king Cast your vote for the carpenter That you call the nazarene The only way we can ever beat These cr...

Blue velvet America Half glimpsed in the headlights between the trees Who punctured the beauty And invited monsters such as these The pig faced boy the corrupte...

The party that became so powerful by sinking Foreign boats Is dreaming up new promises because promises Win votes And being resolute in conference with the Ad m...

Everyone knows That there's no place like home But I'm just seeking refuge In a world full of storms Washed up on a distant shore Can't go home anymore The na...

Sometimes I think about Saturday's child And all about the time We were running wild I've been searching For the dolphins in the sea And sometimes I wonder Do ...

Eisler on the go, eisler on the move Brother is on the vinegar truck And i don't know what i'll do I don't know what i'll do, I don't know what i'll do Eisler'...

Everybody likes you babe but me I guess that proves how stupid I can be Your father thinks it's swell, your mum hears wedding bells, Our friends all say we make...

Dig in boys for an extended stay Those were the final orders to come down that day Waiting to be saved in the Philippines You'll wait forever for the young Mari...

Whisper under my breath, say a little prayer Same as I do every time, I step into the sun's bright glare I am just a farm boy, lived up on the hill Wanted to ge...

She said "do these seats fold down" I said "if you pull that handle" All the time she?d been waiting for Something with a little more And all her mates on the n...

Another day dawns grey, it's enough to make me spit But we go on our way, just putting up with it And when I try to make my feelings known to you You sound like...

Thank you, kindly for thinking of me If I'm not smiling, I'm just thinking Glad and sorry, happy or sad When all is done and spoken You're up or I'm down Can ...

He's got the bonhomie of a game show host And his handshake is so limp it's like meeting a ghost His apologies are tired cos he uses them a lot His excuses are ...

God's footballer hears the voices of angles Above the choir at Molyneaux God's footballer stands on the doorstep And brings the Good News of the Kingdom to come...

God's footballer hears the voices of angels Above the choir at Molineux God's footballer stands on the doorstep And brings the Good News of the Kingdom to come ...

Shirley, it's quite exciting to be sleeping here in this new room Shirley, you're my reason to get out of bed before noon Shirley, you know when we sat out on t...

I can see the kitchen light From the road where I park my bike But it's dark there as it often is these days And the gloomy living room Really needs a dust and ...

Hoodoo voodoo, seven twenty one two Haystacka hostacka, a b c High poker, low poker, ninety nine a zero Sidewalk, streetcar, dance a goofy dance Blackbirdy, bl...

I?m a porter and a night clerk at the old hot rod hotel I clean and scrub the lobby down and thirty one rooms as well I wax and shine their boots and shoes, I b...

You see a rainbow I see a dark cloud You see your new friends And I see a bad crowd I almost killed you Nearly killed you Almost killed you with my love I'll ...

What was that bang? it was the next big thing Exploding over our heads And soon the next generation Will emerge from behind the bike sheds What are we going to ...

If you want to make the weather Then you have to take the blame If sometimes dark clouds fill the sky And it starts to rain, folks complain And though your hea...

Walking out together All along the shore Arm in arm beneath the cliffs that tower above us We hear the breakers roar Here we found each other Here we made our ...

It says here that the unions will never learn It says here that the economy is on the upturn And it says here we should be proud That we are free And our free p...

With the money from her accident She bought herself a mobile home So at least she could get some enjoyment Out of being alone No one could say that she was left...

I hate the arsehole I become Everytime I'm with you You know you've got me on the run But let me make it clear to you It's taken two fools such as we To make lo...

Blues eyes fighting the grey eyes fighting the tears Armed to the teeth for a war of words Reaching all the years I advanced across a poppy field I saw the glea...

The love of a woman A fear of the phone A secret message to a happy home I?ve never been so scared I never knew you cared Love gets dangerous Love gets dangero...

Take the M for me and the Y for you Out of family and it all falls through We've got to love each other every day Instead of hoping it might stay that way Now,...

I hate you, When I see you on the street, Acting hard, thinking on your feet, Treating me like some piece of meat I forgive you, the things you do, forgive me ...

If you're lonely, I will call If you're poorly, I will send poetry I love you I am the milkman of human kindness I will leave an extra pint If you're sleeping...

The Reverend Mother went and got me a drink She came back and said to me "Well what do you think?" I said "I've made myself a fool For the naughtiest girl in sc...

I put on my raincoat to make it rain And sure enough the skies opened up again I dreamed of you as I walked to the shops You were dancing with the wallies on To...

Mr Love & Justice, please, tell me what am I to do Everything you told me, I found out none of it was true I'm looking for some answers to these problems I face...

It?s bad timing and me We find a lot of things out this way And there?s you A little black cloud in a dress The temptation To take the precious things we have a...

My flying saucer where can you be Since that sad night that you sailed away from me? My flying saucer I pray this night You will sail back before the day gets b...

When you walk without ease On these very streets where You were raised I had a really bad dream It lasted 20 years, 7 months and 27 days And all of that time ...

Oh nicaragua nicaraguita The most beautiful flower dearest to my heart The hero and martyr diriangen Died for you Nicaraguita Oh nicaragua you are even sweeter ...

I went out drinking with Thomas Paine He said that all revolutions are not the same They are as different as the cultures That gave them birth For no one idea C...

It's just a northern industrial town The front doors of the houses open into the streets There's no room for front gardens, just a two-up, two-down In a norther...

The policemen broke my door down Dragged me from my bed I asked them what was happening They just ignored the words I said They waved their guns in my face Kep...

One by one the teardrops fall as I write to you One by one my words come falling on the page One by one my dreams are fading in the twilight One by one my schem...

You don't need my Christmas cards You already have my heart This has been a holiday romance Right from the very start For we know how to spend the time Who car...

There is power in a factory, power in the land Power in the hands of a worker But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand There is power in a Union...

With my qualifications With my qualifications I could get me a job walking a dog Chopping a log, cleaning a bog With my qualifications With my qualifications ...

Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves: Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds: You laughed as I covered y...

Richard belongs to jayne And jayne belongs to yesterday How can I go on When every alpha particle hides a neon nucleus Neil belongs to love And love belongs to...

I stood before the judge that day As he refused me bail And I knew that I would spend my time Awaiting trial in jail I said there is no justice As they led me o...

There are soldiers marching on the common today They were there again this evening They paced up and down like sea birds on the ground Before the storm clouds g...

Scholarship is the enemy of romance Where does that leave me? alone in the rain again What happened to the weekend I planned with you? We didn?t even get upstai...

Who can guess the secret of the sea? Who can guess the secret of the sea? If you can guess the secret of my love for you We can both know the secret of the sea ...

I've had relations with girls from many nations I've made passes at women of all classes And just because you're gay I won't turn you away If you stick around I...

Why do my thoughts loom so large on me? It seem to stay for day after day Won't disappear, I've tried every way But she smiled sweetly She smiled sweetly She s...

What is that sound Where is it coming from All around What are you running from Something you don't understand Something you cannot command Chorus: That's how ...

Cakewalked down the gangplank full of greenbacks and Annapolis shoes From Jersey and Memphis the home of the brave and the home of the blues With voices like ho...

This old town is filled with sin, it will swallow you in If you've got some money to burn, take it home right away You've got three years to pay, but Satan is w...

Sing our songs of freedom And we sing our songs of peace We sing about sweet harmony For to make the fighting cease Let's sing one song for the folks tonight T...

Do you know what love is? Love is when you willingly Place someone else's priorities Above your own Do you know what lust is? Lust is when you actively Force y...

Thinking back now, I suppose you were just stating your views What was it all for For the weather or the battle of agincourt And the times that we all hoped wou...

All winter long while I was locked in my room Your face at the window and my hair on the floor I was thinking of you All winter long while I was locked in my ro...

Sugardaddy took me to wonderland Gave me so many presents I could not stand To see you I really couldn't stand to see you Sugardaddy took me far away On a holid...

From: Ron McBay Here's the lyrics to "Sulk" (only available on the ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN promo CD) The words are pretty bitter, but the melody is joyous ...

Take down the Union Jack, it clashes with the sunset And put it in the attic with the emperors old clothes When did it fall apart? Sometime in the 80s When the ...

[Translated from the Russian by Peter Tempest] Sorry to bother you, Citizen taxman! No thanks Don't worry I'd rather stand I've come to see you on a delicate m...

Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers Leave the light on at the top of the stairs Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky A tree taps on the window pane Tha...

What will you do when the war is over, tender comrade When we lay down our weary guns When we return home to our wives and families And look into the eyes of ou...

A police car, a screaming siren Pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete A baby wailing, a stray dog howling The screech of brakes and lamplight blinking That's ...

Strange as it may seem, I once had my football dreams But I was always the last one, the last to get chosen When my classmates picked their teams I guess that ...

At night the Baby Brotherhood and the Inter City Crew Fill ttheir pockets up with calling cards And paint their faces red white and blue They go out seeking dif...

I wish that I could remember the first moment that we met If only I could remember that sweet moment when we met If I knew then that i Would spend the rest of m...

Father mows the lawn and Mother peels the potatos Grandma lays the table alone And adjusts a photograph of the unknown soldier In this Holy of Holies,the Home A...

When he drops you off, I will not say Who was that who so quickly drove away The things you?ve done and the places you?ve been When I open the door for you I wi...

I understand your needing And wanting is no crime But I can't help feeling That you and your mother are just wasting your time Choosing Saturdays in Summer I da...

The fear of a daughter can run high In the mind of a father to be For something is growing inside But we don?t talk about it, do we In the long empty passionle...

My friend said she could see no way ahead And I was probably better off without you She said to face up to the fact that you weren't coming back And she could m...

Between Marx and marzipan in the dictionary there was Mary Between the deep blue sea and the devil that was me If ever anyone could help me with my obsession wi...

When I was young I told my mum I'm going to walk on the Moon someday Armstrong and Aldrin spoke to me From Houston and Cape Kennedy And I watched the Eagle land...

A rainy afternoon Spent in the warmest room She lay before me and said Yes it's true that I have seen some naked men As she made for the door Leaving me on the ...

In 1649 To St George's Hill, A ragged band they called the Diggers Came to show the people's will They defied the landlords They defied the laws They were the d...

There is power in a factory,power in the land Power in the hand of the worker But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand There is power in a Union...

Sandra met raymond at the race relations Much to the dismay of her family and friends The love that we have is so important The time that it takes to make a ba...

Up in the morning and out to school Mother says there'll be no work next year Qualifications once the Golden Rule Are now just pieces of paper Just because you...

People say I'm the life of the party 'Cause I tell a joke or two Although I might be laughing loud and hearty Deep inside I'm blue So take a good look at my fa...

He's already been inside me And he really didn't say And I really didn't ask him I just hoped and prayed He's already been inside me And I really don't feel we...

I'm going upfield, way up on the hillside I'm going higher than I've ever been before That's where you'll find me, over the horizon Wading in the river, reachin...