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Some girls used to kiss and run
Never knew what they had done
Some girls always wasted time
Keep you hanging on the line
Some loved horses and always stayed at home
But the stainsby girls loved the rolling stones

Now some had games that you had to play
Making rules along the way
Strange attractions newly found
Pride and passion kicked around
Some girls stole your heart
Like most girls do
But a stainsby girls could break it in two

And i fell in love, i fell in love
I fell in love with a stainsby girl

Deepest water stainsby blue
Names and faces fade away
Memories here to stay

And i fell in love, i fell in love
I fell in love with a stainsby girl

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I'm driving home for christmas
I can't wait to see those faces
I'm driving home for christmas
Yea i'm moving down that line
And it's been so long
But i will be there
I sing this song
To pass the time away
Driving in my car
Christmas

Gonna take some time
Top to toe in tailbacks
Got red lights on the run
But soon there'll be a freeway
My feet on holy ground

So i sing for you
Though you can't hear me
When i get trough
And feel you near me
Driving in my car
Driving home for christmas
With a thousand memories

I take look at the driver next to me
He's just the same
Just the same

Top to toe in tailbacks
Got red lights on the run
Driving home for christmas, yea
Get my feet on holy ground

So i sing for you
Though you can't hear me
When i get trough
And feel you near me
Driving in my car
Christmas
Driving in my car
Driving home for christmas

Instrumental

Now he wanted to fly all those big aeroplanes
Trans-continental and back home again
But his brain, it was grounded
His head could not cope
No qualifications, no reasons for hope

They told him the right way to fasten his tie
Beat him for laughing and never said why
They left his for dead when the results came through
And still never asked what he wanted to do

No qualifications so late in the day
We've screwed you up, well, now you make your own way

Now to label your trousers and label your shoes
If you don't wear nothing then label that too

No qualifications, you are the time born
If you wanna succeed you better get some qualifications
So late in the day
We've screwed you up, well, now you make your own way

Burlington zephyrs
And kenworths that pass in the night
Deltics and steamers and f88's in full flight
Old train take me back again
To the one that i love
Deltics

Instrumental

I can't run
In your eyes there's no place left to hide
You've seen my every mystery just show itself and die
So i will fly before you
And all is all to see

Take my hand, understand, there're no more foolish dreams
So many things we just can't share
Are standing in between
So i will fly before you
And all is all to see

I will always want you near in the shallow lights of day
No-one else will share my nights is all that i can say
And i will always want you
But i will always fly like a seabird

And i will always love you
But i will always fly

Deep inside the burning histories
All along this lonesome road
The wheels that turn upon what used to be
In passioned memories, overload
The truckhouse standing on the freeway
A neon ambush in the sun
The ides of dogma way down in the subway
It's so hard to tell who's on the run
The hell-hound blizzards of uncertainties
Are the only things that are coming through

And i just want to be with you
There's not a lot i can do
Just keep coming through
Be with you
The smile that burned down those old rusting gates
Those eyes that danced into my soul
And all along this life-long motorway
Bad news upon the radio
The nervous fingers on the safety-catch
Decide the fates to of you and me
Stuck in the middle of this whole shooting match
Man this sure ain't no place to be

The good guys sent to save
The good and free
All scratch their heads and looked confused
And i just want to be with you

Oh getaway and don't come back
Who do you think you're fooling with lies like that?
You have dreams that set the rain on fire
Burning with a cheap desire
And it's plain as grey that what you say
Have meanings of their own
My love, she don't need diamonds

My love's more than a sweet dream
And she don't need diamonds
She shakes her hip to the tambourine
And she don't need diamonds
If you can't love me for nothing
They you can't love me at all
And it's plain as grey that what you say
Have meanings of their own

We all got to dance, take a chance?
But babe you should have stayed at home
My love, my love, she don't need diamonds

Tangled dream and endless highways
Bang the drum in a foreign land
Sometimes i wonder what i'm chasing
When all i need is the touch of your hand
I've got no fixed abode out of own
Babe it gets so cold
Without your love i'm just a stone
And we all laugh and the jokes get wilder
Staying up, staying out
Drinking till you fade away in to the morning
And the strangest cold eats deeper still
Without you sweet kiss i'm gone forever
Without your touch i've no control
Without your love i'm just a looser
Without your love i'm just a stone

Set my sails out on a sunny day
Pretty soon i was on my way
Though what for sure it was
I could not say

Two thousand reasons
Maybe more
Eight hundred chances on faraway shores
Searching for something
Searching for more
Deep down inside me burning
Reasons for the learning

Now you can pick up reasons so easily
Where you've been and where you've got to be
And when the truth don't show you'll always see
Lots of reasons

And pretty soon you've got a heavy load
Dragging those reasons down an endless road
I got to thinking and i got to see
So many reasons coming at me

The one that leaves you high and dry
He says you still owe him, there's a reason why
He'll leave you crying till the tears run dry
He's the one, always the one with all the reasons
So many reasons the come and they go
The reasons for them i'll never know
I've seen so many, they've come and they've gone
I've turned all mine in and i'm happy with one

So don't talk of friendship, do it to me
Make me an offer and make it for free
Don't give me reasons 'cos i wrote that song
I only want love now so i'll just take the one

All summer long we were happy we were one
We didn't think of an ending to our play
All summer long nights of wine, days of song
It couldn't last, our ageing sun had to go
I will always remember you

Watching the waves in the wind
The beach dogs hiding from the rain
Suddenly my colours have turned to grey
Will i ever see your face again

And all winter long i will walk my lonely road
Waiting for you and your return
I will always remember you

I see you laughing up at me, and i can't hide
What it is that you can see
I guess that's why
I'm holding out my love for you
And when you turn it around
In different ways
The answers turn around and fly away

I see you laughing up at me
And i can't hide
What it is that you can see
I guess that's why
I'm holding out my love for you

A lifelong history
Of trust in vain
I lead the fools' parade
Out in the rain

I see you laughing up at me
'cos you don't seem to care
But oh how happy i can be
When you are there

That's why i'm holding out
My love for you

Standing in the half light, wondering if you can
There stands the priest of sinners, consolation in his hands
Though he prays he won't need it, he keeps it by his side
Waiting for the face up and the answer in her eyes
All while the music's playing a backdrop serenade
There's only one point of view
To be doing the things, things that lovers should do

Disco-queens in dancestep, moving face to face
All tangled up in neon don't think it's some disgrace
The blue western denim, the east coats razor edge
The european fashion, the leathers and re-threads
All while the music's playing a backdrop serenade
There's only one point of view
To be doing the things, things that lovers should do

Sometimes i think i go insane
So what's a boy supposed to do
Working just to pay my way
But baby when the day is through
Just wanna have a good time
Hey! i've got my shoe, shoes shined
I'm gonna dance, dance, dance

Walking down the city street
They don't like the kind of stuff i play
But feel that bass beneath your feet
Man don't take my only life away
Just wanna have a good time
Hey! i've got my shoe, shoes shined
I'm gonna dance, dance, dance
I'm scared when i wake up sometimes it gets so fast
I want it high and higher but it never lasts
And all i have starts friday night with my first drink
Don't tell me, don't say anything, don't wanna think
Just wanna dance

I'm a boat without an ocean
I'm a boat without a wave
I'm a sail without a strong wind
And i want someone to save, to save me

Teach me to dance

I'm a car without a driver
I'm a plane without a wing
I see you standing by my doorway
But i don't know how to let you in

Teach me to dance

I've been watching too much tv
I can't feel myself no more
I'm tired of all those macho movies
That ain't what this life is for

I don't want to hurt nobody
Just laughing, that's how i wanna be
'cos when that brick goes through that window
It don't make nobody free

Teach me to dance

Smile
You don't have to spend your days in clouds
Hiding from the sun
Take a look around and see
It's not that easy for anyone

Smile
You don't have to put that kind of stuff
On a friend like me
Or anybody else you see
So come on and smile

Rain comes falling down on everyone
Teardrops running from the sky
Too many nights are spent unspoken
Oh, dry your eyes

Smile
Cos you don't have to spend your days in clouds
Hiding from the sun
Take a look around and see
It's not that easy
Take a look around and smile

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It don't look good,
It don't look great
You know what's going down you really gonna hate
This is the moment, you know the score
This is what your enemies have waited for

You're going down
And everybody knows, that's the way it goes

Take a look, there ain't no doubt about it
You're in real bad shape
Everything that you don't need
Is waiting at your garden gate
So take a smile, take a woe
You got the rest of your life to wonder why and how
Save that for later, you're far too busy now

Because
You're going down
And everybody knows
That's the way it goes

Touch‚ d'amour
Yours is a sunny day
Of this i'm sure
Blowing my clouds away

I just don't know what this could do to me
I only want it to be
Touch‚ d'amour
Touch‚ d'amour
Sailing around the room like never before
Could never have come too soon
I want this dance to last forever
For it to last forever more
Touch‚ d'amour

Sierra, sierra
Tell me where is this place you are from
You speak of a land
Filled with warm sea and sand
And the ladies who lie in the sun

Sierra, sierra
Your distant lights fading away
Crossing those stars to the music and bars
Sierra, is it just like you say ?
Sheep counting never worked well
Since the day that i fell
For your ****** dreams
Of a thousand this world's so *******
And i'm pulsed to the wind
At the sight of the song and the sea
Strange cigarettes
Clothes so warm and so wet
You can see through so quite easily
Sierra, sierra

Sierra, sierra,
Please tell me you'll stay
Sierra, sierra,
Till night turns to day
I got so many dreams they can never run dry
My bedroom's becoming a crates on the sky
Filled with dancing tequilas and chickens on spits
White-shirted waiters and girls with big tails
Love in the night in the ways of moonlight
Sierra, please tell me it fits

I could have stood to watch you walk away
And put it down to your uncertain ways
Or maybe baby you've had a change of heart
Maybe wanna make a brand new start
Crazy though what i say may seem
I could have learned to mend these broken dreams
You could have pushed i would have gently fell
I could have played the graceful one so well
What's that you say
You were gonna leave me anyway
Any fool can see, see what you've done to me
When your love turns to lies

The actor played the part of sweet desire
And tiptoed out upon the highest wire
The truth to tell upon a rope too thin
And so the fall of treachery begins
But oh to see the starlet's smiling face
So eagerly awaits to take the place
I tried to fall in a clean and graceful way
You could have said i would have given way

And i see him smile the way that i smiled
And i hear him laugh the way that i did
But i hear him screaming and i hear him cry
And i see him falling
When your love turns to lies

What's that you say
You were gonna leave me anyway
Any fool can see, see what you've done to me
When your love turns to lies

Morning light meet the day
Nervous eyes look both ways
And it just won't matter, spring or fall
There's bread to win and shots to call
And there ain't nobody out there
Just a wild uncertainty
It's in your stride but it ain't no fun
Sometimes i feel just like a hired gun
I feel just like a hired gun
Always on the run

And how it started, well you can't recall
Did someone push you, did someone stall
Whatever the reasons there was lots to learn
To get home safely and not get burned
And it's all so cold and empty
As you watch the setting sun
You've picked up every dirty trick
Just to keep yourself always on the run
And i feel just like a hired gun
Always on the run

I dream of comfort and friendship long
But i can't trust you or anyone
The scars still hurt me and i don't let them heal
Each one's a lesson, each one's a shield
And i may even love you dearly
And i loathe what i have to do
You see i've picked up every dirty trick
In my fear of you
'cos you make me feel just like a hired gun
Always on the run

You can go your own way
You can go your own way
It doesn't matter what the others say
'cos you can go your own way
You can go your own way

You've got a ring on your finger
A chain around your heart and your soul
Searching for an answer
Looking for your own control

Walk away from the leader
Walk away form the books
Walk away from the tv
Take a long hard look
And you can go your own way

Have you heard the news
That is going round
He should know better

Have you heard the news
That boy's got dust for brains

After all this time
After all this time
Now things, oh, can never be the same

He should know better
Always straight, always cool
Endless style, nobody's fool
And always with the grace and superb manner

How he danced around the snakes
Left them spinning in his way
And stepped straight on the yellow skin banana

He should know better

In the early hours of day
The black night
He makes his way
Regretfully into the morning fog

Just one silly small mistake
Now all his bones their gonna break
To the curse and laughing smile
Of the little green frog

He should know better

Oh how i'd love it girl, just you and me
Take the day and fly
But oh this job, it's got the best of me
Tell you why, tell you why

Somebody above is in a desperate state
Some kind of urgency, the kind that won't wait
I say tomorrow, he say today
And the man in my head well he tell me no way
Keep working
I got eight little fingers and only two thumbs
Will you leave me in peace while i get the work done
Can't you see i'm working
Oh, oh i'm working on it
Oh, oh i'm working on it

Well they're coming from above me
And they're coming from below
Yea they're in there right behind me
Everywhere that i go
And my buddy, he's screaming down the telephone line
He say gimme, gimme, gimme
I say i ain't got the time
Oh, oh can't you see i'm working on it
Oh, oh i'm working on it
Yea, yea, oh tell 'em

How i'd love it girl, just you and me
Take the day and fly
But oh, this job it's got the best of me
Tell you why

Well they're coming from above me
And they're coming from below
Yea they're in there right behind me
Everywhere that i go
My buddy, he's screaming down the telephone line
He say gimme, gimme, gimme
I say i ain't got the time
Oh, oh can't you see i'm working on it
Oh, oh i'm working on it
Oh, oh i'm working
Oh, oh can't you see i'm working on it

Could it be just that i'm crazy
Could it be the way i feel this time of year
When a certain situation seems to bring the best out of me
I don't care

When she's standing close beside me
Something turns inside me
Brings my senses to the point of no return

And i don't know what it is but i love
And i don't know what it is but i want it to stay
And i love it

And it seems to be around me
Even though no-one can see
They seem to care
When a certain situation seems to bring the best out of me
I don't care

When she's standing close beside me
Something turns inside me
Brings my senses to the point of no return

And i don't know what it is but i love
And i don't know what it is but i want it to stay
And i love it

Instrumental

Well if you want me then just take my hand
And if you don't, i will understand
It's just a call from deep within my soul
The burning question, i have got to know

Take a message from love to love
Take it down, from love to love
Girl it's you i'm thinking of
I'll send this letter from love to love
And if i ask you will you take this dance
Please don't think you're taking some big chance
It's just a fire and it burns for you
You know there's one thing that you've got to do

Take a message from love to love
Take it down, from love to love
Girl it's you i'm thinking of
I'll send this letter from love to love

I'll share your secrets on a rainy day
'cos if you'll have me then we'll be away
Oh there's a fire and it burns for you
You know there's one thing that you've got to do

Take a message from love to love
Take it down, from love to love
Girl it's you i'm thinking of
I'll send this letter from love to love

I'm driving home for christmas
Oh, i can't wait to see those faces
I'm driving home for christmas, yea
Well i'm moving down that line
And it's been so long
But i will be there
I sing this song
To pass the time away
Driving in my car
Driving home for christmas

It's gonna take some time
But i'll get there
Top to toe in tailbacks
Oh, i got red lights on the run
But soon there'll be a freeway
Get my feet on holy ground

So i sing for you
Though you can't hear me
When i get trough
And feel you near me
I am driving home for christmas
Driving home for christmas
With a thousand memories

I take look at the driver next to me
He's just the same
Just the same

Top to toe in tailbacks
Oh, i got red lights on the run
I'm driving home for christmas, yea
Get my feet on holy ground
So i sing for you
Though you can't hear me
When i get trough
And feel you near me
Driving in my car
Driving home for christmas
Driving home for christmas
With a thousand memories