Our carpets are worn and all our curtains torn But the mood carries on, and on and on beyond, till it's gone It seems like five thousand years have come and gon...

5705 City Boy Five seven o five But there's no reply Five seven o five Got myself just one more dime But will the operator hold the line When my ears keep tel...

Tell me it's wrong for a man to want to be Much better known and twice as big as World War Three I've been on my knees, a transition is easy to see Cause Ambiti...

Unfamiliar doorway, crazy figures on the floor Faces in the hallway staring daggers through the wall I was at the party but I wished I'd never been The stranger...

(Rev-On) it's a big, black highway (Rev-On) they can say I did it my way (C'mon Rev-On) I got a monster beneath me (Rev it along) Gonna smash me to smithereens ...

Ambition took care of him right to the end Ambition, his mother, his wife and a friend And the end came easy So the news ran loose, and they called out his name...

Hey, there's no-one to blame I feel the same way too Clouds in luly, stormy weather for you and 1 We were caught in the rain, so very wet again Stuck in a jam,...

(Mason, Thomas) There's a gunsight between my eyes Oh, the jungle's so full of surprises Looking round for my friends to arrive Maybe they stayed at home To sta...

There's a place I go, not far from New Mexico, Where we party all night, Soon as I came from the city, it was bar room brawls and lazy nights, Why should I figh...

(Mason, Thomas) I woke up with rocks in my head As I pulled on my shoes with my feet still in bed Ooh, it was a lost weekend Got to the table screaming, "Never ...

The sheets are untidy, it's twelve o'clock and the bed's unmade I scratch my face 'cause I forgot to shave I hide from the milkman when his feet reach my step; ...

He fell out of the ocean, a sailor sighting land Smiles and sun-tan lotion we laid him on the sand He breathed a sigh or two and smiled To see what he had come ...

Good God, she's deadly delicious, camper than a holiday Front page, in every issue, tighter than a one act play Don't look, without your glasses, she'll turn yo...

Dear Jean, Dear Jean Can I appeal to your better nature? I'm not the boy I was a week or two ago I lost my head halfway through your lecture, I blew a fuse but ...

Dear Jean, Dear Jean Can I appeal to your better nature? I'm not the boy I was a week or two ago I lost my head halfway through your lecture, I blew a fuse but ...

Do you think that we could risk an evening at the Ritz! Another shabby hotel room would really blitz my ego Why must we meet like this! Sharing illicit kisses Y...

(Chorus) Do what you do, do well, Do what you do, do well Well some time before I came of age Someone stopped me once to say, If you don't get on with what yo...

(Mason, Thomas, Slamer, Ward) There's a fly on the wall, he must have seen it all Buzzing around my head, the angry words that you said And when he flies out th...

The grass is overgrowing on the garden rail And crickets call a chorus I rememberwell, Calling me, that old familiar thunder Writing letters I always meant to s...

The first thing I saw was the sun on your skin Dew on the doorstep, the milk to take in to the house A mouse running rafters, the cat running after, to catch hi...

(Mason, Thomas) Down on the pampas they've got trouble on the campus Where the students are revolting and the businessmen are mean They've got plans for the Pre...

He's not the type of guy that you'd recognise There's nothing to suggest that he's a prize winner His only claim to fame is a plaque above his bed says he's a g...

Honeymooners, she was a dying breed Honeymooners, I married a female lead Palm court crooners Here more to her taste, But I was a three time loser with an ordin...

I'm on, I'm on, I'm on Oooh yeah I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on I'm on, I'm on, I'm on [Lupe Fiasco:] Yeah, glitterati, big bodies and tall swings Devil on me...

Bright young woman came running from home With her life in her hands 'cause they gave her such a bad time Just a part-time lover and a full-time wife With her h...

Just as London got up and New York got to bed I was climbing the walls with a bomb in my head No time to change it (There was) No time to change it No time to c...

Just as London got up and New York got to bed I was climbing the walls with a bomb in my head No time to change it (There was) No time to change it No time to c...

Win or lose, pick and choose You put your money in the slot Hold and wait, hesitate The name of the game is to have and have not You don't know you lost till yo...

Laying low, hiding out in Mexico Talking to friends through the eye of a video Scared to loose, surrounded by fools, you're wanting lust to shout it out, but th...

Who was it called this romance! The fool with feathers in his head A river to be sold down, the book that we both read An empty lounge in some hotel A fighter's...

They tell me he's a menace to man, this boy of mine They say they're gonna take him away, make him tow the line Don't take him away, Don't take him away A hand...

They tell me he's a menace to man, this boy of mine They say they're gonna take him away, make him tow the line Don't take him away, Don't take him away A ha...

Talking; one way is an interrogation, Make it two ways, you've got a conversation But three ways makes for a controntahon Ain't that rich? Because the odd numbe...

(Mason, Slamer, Ward) A man could die of thirst First to the bar and the last to get served Landlord laughs You can't get the staff these days Guess who should ...

(Mason, Thomas) Lying here beside myself with joy I am too much for my mirror Mama said she wished me dead Called me bad, too bad I fell in love as a boy Opened...

(Slamer, Ward) I got excited So I decided I couldn't hide it Oooh I guess it's time to confess That you still light me up Like a cigarette I had to see you I ha...

(Slamer, Ward) I got excited So I decided I couldn't hide it Oooh I guess it's time to confess That you still light me up Like a cigarette I had to see you I ha...

Turning pages glancing through the classified The whole night's sleep was in my eyes Spilling coffee on my shoes, I noticed you Saw it all in black and white: "...

The doctor said that a week in bed would certainly do the trick But I knew from the start that it wasn't my heart, it was my head that was making me sick Well I...

It's one after two, still glued to the tube and I'm missing you One night by the phone, two rings and you're gone and I' m back here sleeping alone CHORUS Why s...

Well it's another rainy night, here in my hometown, And the rain beats down on the stone surround Of the prison grounds Well you can raise a smile but lower you...

Moonlight Oh in the Moonlight Eyes bright Waiting for daylight Please, don't fight, everything's so right High lights Sweet golden goodnights But there y...

There's been a lot of talk about you momma About your shady, entertaining ways How late at night, providing bedside drama Is helping you to sleep more in the da...

There's been a lot of talk about you momma About your shady, entertaining ways How late at night, providing bedside drama Is helping you to sleep more in the da...

(Mason, Thomas) Speechless I wish there were something to say I drank too much of you And now you've gone to my head I'm laughing like a fool You leave me Speec...

Can I interest youin a lychee nut Through your decadent yearning they say Rome is still burning There's a perfect view when your eyes are shut Please ignore the...

Got myself a secret in a briefcase Desperation rendezvous and don't be late Mata Hari maiden, milky silky stocking Freezen' war lolly, going iron curtain shoppi...

In the summer of '63, it was so damn hot you could hardly breathe Kicking dust in the mission square, trace of perfume in the air Whatever happened to the cale...

No No golden mile Or flashing cameras, the ritzy style Just just scrap book smiles There's no need to hurry, when all she has is time She, she, she, she's goin...

(Slamer, Broughton, Mason) (The patient): Oh Doctor, Doctor, soothe my aching knee Higher, higher if you please I'm sure my temperature's running so low I coul...

The day the Earth caught fire We stood outside the world was laughing And in the city square They cast umbrellas to the sky The sun above my head was burning gr...

The scant applause and bar room bores had left him crying But in his dreams, they kissed him clean, he heard them sighing Woke up to a woman's touch and lying b...

I heard that you get tougher with every reel The kids say you got fingers made of steel They say your belt gets blacker by the hour I know you like your victims...

Desperate Dan was a solitary man, a loner He had a girl but I guess he'd just outgrown her It's hard to dig but he made his big decision Became the man who ate ...

I had words with Rudy down on the lot He couldn't help me out, it seems he forgot What my name was, he was one of my many shoulders Growing cold nothing to cry ...

(Mason, Thomas, Freise-Green) Distant voice calling station-to-station Sounding lonely like a prison cell We embrace for the final celebration But we break at t...

(Mason, Broughton) A kindly word for friends and strangers almost anyone she meets A lonely house at the end of the road full of silly memories And when the ...

Applying her make-up and wanting to wake up, She slips into something tight With rouge on her Ace, lipstick in place She dresses to Ace the light: Humming a tun...

Too hot but not too hot to care I'm sitting pretty by my Frigidaire And it's good to breathe the midnight air One more mosquito bite before we get (before we ge...

(MasonThomasSlamer) I saw him selling scenes from illegal dreams The dude with an eye for a dime Michael, my disciple Then there was John the faithless one He w...

I'm so happy lying here, reclining in this easy chair, Wond'rin' what the hell could go wrong My mind's confused, my body tired, I wonder if I'm still alive, Ha...

(Mason , Slamer, Ward) Leave my keys in the door Throw my bills on the floor A note by the bed was all that se said You couldn't stay, your leaving me Take th...

Around the singles bar, playing parlour games Marriane plays kiss and run and waves her welcomes again She's way out after dark, painted for the part, to steal ...

(Mason , Slamer, Ward) Leave my keys in the door Throw my bills on the floor A note by the bed was all that se said You couldn't stay, your leaving me Take the ...