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(heaton/rotheray)
There's a boy with a brace across his teeth
White socks, tattooed underneath
Bus tickets crunched up in his palm
Stood there he's spinning a yarn

There's a girl with a plastic pair of shoes
Two eyes permanently bruised
Can't find the time to be alarmed
Just stood spinning a yarn

Just take your time
It'll work out fine
It'll do no harm
To spin your yarn

You do english
I'll do sums
You break fingers
I'll break thumbs
You play dads
And i'll play mums
You play glockenspiel
And i'll play drums

My name is derek from the den
I deal in shillings and in pence
I'll get you any deal you like
Ten sweets for a mountain bike you like

My name is mandy from the yard
I deal in crazy tarot cards
I'll tell you what the future brings
One cat and a dog that sings

You do english
I'll do sums
You break fingers
I'll break thumbs
You play dads
And i'll play mums
You play glockenspiel
And i'll play drums

Just take your time
It'll work out fine
It'll do no harm
To spin your yarn

You do english
I'll do sums
You break fingers
I'll break thumbs
You play dads
And i'll play mums
You play glockenspiel
And i'll play drums

(heaton/rotheray)
Through ugly pints and sunday breath
Sit men whose stare is cold as death
Through wide lapels and glued up eyes
Through made up kids and made up wives
Sitting in the heart of them
Is a man who's not like other men
Don't you know just who i am
A nod, a wink, i am the domino man.

And if you pull a double one
I'll pack my bags and i'll be gone
If you pull a three and four
I'm flying off to singapore
Where women dance and tigers roar
I'm lying on a distant shore
I'm living life just as as i can
A nod, a wink, another drink i am the domino man.

Through a twenty deep screen of humourists
Through slavering jaws and angry fists
Through tales of mishap and the clickety-clack
Is fully paid member of the brother of the tap

Through heavy smoke and idle bets
Through heaving lungs and heavy debts
Sits a man who knows he can
A nod, a wink, i am the domino man

And if you pull a two and a six
I'll pack my bags and take that risk
And if you pull a four and five
They'll never take this man alive
I'll go far east and i'll survive
The market streets i'll duck and dive
I'm living life as fast as i can
A nod, a wink, another drink i am the domino man

And when he's off to sail the seven seas
He just stay indoors or hides up trees
He's been to places that you've never seen
But his mind is blank and his passport's clean

But if you pull a two and a six
I'll pack my bags and take that risk
And if you pull a four and five
They'll never take this man alive
I'll go far east and i'll survive
The market street i'll duck and dive
I'm living life just as fast as i can
A nod, a wink, another drink, i am the domino man

(heaton/rotheray)
I was handed down the looks of a man with a broken nose
That's the way our family was i suppose
But at least you gave me deeply profound
As we lay and chatted late upon the cricket ground

You didn't have to love me
Where others got rid
You didn't have to treat me like a very good friend
But i'm glad that you did

One thing i never said to you
And one thing i never can
Amongst the false applause and the deafening cheers
I'm your no. 1 fan
I'm your no. 1 fan

I'm the richly blessed daughter of a mother with tattooed arms
That's the way my family life, life was charmed
But at least it gave me mental grace
And a thought at the pit of my mind and a smile on my face

You didn't have to listen
To a word that i'd said
You didn't have to tell me all those silly old jokes
For every tear that i shed
Every tear that i shed

Cos one thing i never said to you
And one thing i never can
Amongst the false applause and the deafening cheers
I'm your no. 1 fan
I'm your no. 1 fan

I was handed down a bike with a crooked old wheel
But i rode it on a million lanes the way that you made me feel
But at least we thought about it so long and hard
As we sat upon our mother in the graveyard

And you don't have to listen
To a word in this song
Your picture hangs the same and in the same old place
Even though that you've gone
Even though that you've gone

Cos one thing i never said to you
And one thing i never can
Amongst the false applause and the deafening cheers
I'm your no. 1 fan
I'm your no. 1 fan
Yes i am
I'm your no. 1 fan

(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 sunbed tan

And you thought you'd found your own little look
How i misjudged, how i mistook
And you thought you'd found the style of your hair
I guess tonight i'll take, i'll take these troubles to
The rocking chair

So i'll take these high-heeled shoes
And yes i'll take these traditional views
I'll take this deep despair
Of a 30 year old square, to the rocking chair

Here i sit, here i sit
Looking for a warming smile in a house of cold wit
Here i stand, here i stand
Torn between the balding drunk and no man's land

And they'll tell you when you've reached your peak
Where the wolf-whistle rung there's a deafening shriek
Blowing kisses into thin air
I guess tonight i'll take, i'll take these troubles to
The rocking chair

So i'll take this awkward stance
And i'll take this sexless dance
I'll take this deep despair of a 30 year old square
To the rocking chair

Am i skinny? a shade too fat?
Mmmm...my friend the cat knows all about that
Am i happy?
(here i sit, here i sit)
Just a little sad
(looking for a warming smile in a house of cold wit)
Mmmm...my friend the cat knows all about that
Am i skinny?
(here i walk, here i walk)
A shade too fat?
(looking for an angel's wings in the den of the hawk)
My friend the cat knows all about that

(heaton/rotheray)
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 doesn't make a sound
Just adding to the wrinkles on his deathly frown

They're only red from all the tears that i should've shed
They're only red from all the women that i could've wed
So when you look into these eyes i hope you realise
They could never be blue
They could never be blue
They could never be blue
They could never be blue

Listen up old red
You never listened to a word the doctor said
He told you if you drank another you'd be dead

Old red eyes is back
His shoulders ache all over and his brain is sore
He pours a drink and listens to his body thaw

They're only red from all the thoughts unused inside my head
They're only red from all the things i could have done instead
So when you look into these eyes i hope you realise
They could never be blue
They could never be blue
They could never be blue
They could never be blue

Blue is a street without an end
Red is the colour of my hell
Blue is a greeting from a friend
Red is the colour of farewell

Old red he died
And every single landlord in the district cried
An empty bottle of whisky laying by his side
A lazy little tear running from each eye
They could never be blue
They could never be blue
They could never be blue
They could never be blue

(heaton/rotheray)
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 misunderstood
A warden in a pool of blood
The palace laugh and so they should

Across the world in every coup a thousand guns without a clue
If only all the people knew, they've got their sight set up on you

Every war is always cursed
With "just who do you shoot at first?"
Think real hard and think sandhurst
Take an officer he's the worst

Governments will rise and fall but royalty's still there
Don't worry if it's queen or duke try scything down the pair
And if you class the palace staff as devil's advocator
Just put them in an incubator and we'll deal with them later

Just a little bit later

We'll deal with you later

Just put them in an incubator and we'll deal with them later
Just throw them to the alligators and we'll deal with them later

So be wary of the liquidator
Cos we'll deal with you later
Just put them in a liquidator
And we'll deal with you later

We'll deal with you later.