Raintown

There's a man i meet walks up our street
He's a worker for the council
Has been twenty years
And he takes no lip off nobody
And litter off the gutter
Puts it in a bag
And never seems to mutter
And he packs his lunch in a "sunblest" bag
The children call him "bogie"
He never lets on
But i know 'cause he once told me
He let me know a secret about the money in his kitty
He's gonna buy a dinghy
Gonna call her dignity

And i'll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
I'll be on my holidays
They'll be doing their rounds
They'll ask me how i got her i'll say "i saved my money"
They'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity

And i'm telling this story
In a faraway scene
Sipping down raki
And reading maynard keynes
And i'm thinking about home and all that means
And a place in the winter for dignity
And i'll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
I'll be on my holidays
They'll be doing their rounds
They'll ask me how i got her i'll say "i saved my money"
They'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity

And i'm thinking about home
And i'm thinking about faith
And i'm thinking about work
And i'm thinking about how good it would be
To be here some day

On a ship called dignity
A ship called dignity
That ship

You sing, you walk, you talk, you care about nothing
Sometimes you feel that life has treated you wrong
I've got a feeling you know what the score is baby
But it's hard when you're sitting here surrounded by friends

I've got a love that i'll cling on to
And i'll stay there stay there till the end
'cause one thing i know is

I have found an answer i don't think you don't care
Just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
And things are different from there
I have found an answer i don't think you don't care
Just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
And things are different from there

You walk and you talk
And you sing and you shout
And you justify about anything
And you rant and you rave and you hope and you say nothing
And you eat and you drink and you dress and you live as if
No one else did baby
No one else like you lives out in this world

I've got a love that i'll cling on to
And i'll stay there stay there till the end
'cause one thing i know is

I have found an answer i don't think you don't care
Just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
And things are different from there
I have found an answer i don't think you don't care
Just you laugh 'cause you're loaded

I have found an answer i don't think you don't care
Just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
And things are different from there
I have found an answer i don't think you don't care
Just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
And things are different from there

Alan doesn't understand her
He only thinks in numbers
He only drinks in restaurants
Where the girls are fully covered

And he can't trust his yearnings
And he doesn't like pretending
His tempers stretched so much by work
His heart needs gentle rending

He calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
She knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
And wrapped in bits of silver

Alan doesn't understand this
He says he's only human
So he still lights up with old flames
As if to try and prove it

And he doesn't like emotion
He's not certain of their ardour
If pouting causes so much fun
Then breaking hearts is harder

He calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
She knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
And wrapped in bits of silver

Alan doesn't understand her
He thinks its getting harder
So he spends the night with old friends
Underneath the covers

And he talks about the chocolate girl
And how he thinks she melts when he touches her
And that she knows she's the cocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
And wrapped in bits of silver

He calls her the chocolate girl
'cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
She knows she's the chocolate girl
'cause she's broken up and swallowed
And wrapped in bits of silver

There's a shadow on his photograph
On tinian'45
Smiling like a college boy
Who's glad to be alive
But now he owns a factory
And a store in los alamos
A wife called beverly
Sells second hand ford motors

He may have taken pictures
Been caught in albuquerque
Flown in "great artiste"
On a mushroom cloud
Now he may be a senator
Or a general or a turn key
But i know he looks like spencer tracy now

And he cries all night
And he cries all night
And he cries all night
And he cries all night

And he may have been with oppenheimer
Shaken einsteins hand
Said "did we have to drop the bomb"

(r.ross, j.prime)

You know the agony of seeing it all slip away
Well maybe noe you'd be happy just to talk it out straight
Slipping away
About the danger of believing in plans in hand
About the role that you have in this delecate plan
Slipping away

Let's talk it out now
Let's name them one by one

Love's great fears
Can't you see them burn
Twist and turn as you walk and learn
Love's great fears
Can't you see them burn
Twist and turn as you walk and learn

You know danger of believing that the summer's gone
And with the fading light the feeling that love is falling
Slipping away
If you believe in the dangers that you suppose
You think it can tumble down none of us knows
It's all slipping away

Let's talk it out now
Let's name them one by one

Love's great fears
Can't you see them burn
Twist and turn as you walk and learn
Love's great fears
Can't you see them burn
Twist and turn as you walk and learn