Electric Landlady

(kirsty maccoll)

Darling
While the firelight is low
I'm disappearing
Like the last day of the snow
And really, it's better this way
We both know it's over
And we'll never pass this way again

Sunshine and the desert call to me
And you know moonshine
Makes you blind so you can't see at all
But whatever you feel
It may not be real
And baby we'll never pass this way again

I'm not the only love you'll ever know
Look to your stars above and wish it so
Let me go

Darling
If i stay too long you'll tire of me
'cos darling, that's the way we are designed to be
So, hard as it is to say
We had the night and we had our day
We'll never pass this way again

(kirsty maccoll/mark e.nevin)

When i was just a child
My folks would drive me wild
They'd spy upon my every move
Until it drove me to despair
They told me what to wear
They told me not to cut my hair
But that's all over now
I had to tell them anyhow

It's my affair
Where i go and what i do
It's my affair oh yeah
It's my affair
It's up to me and not to you
It's my affair

That's the way i want to keep it
I kissed the boy in secret
Thrilled me to the very core
I couldn't stop i wanted more and
I didn't hear the door and
They caught me on the floor
With my affair

And when we first got wed
We used to stay in bed
All day and night all night and day
We bedded half our lives away
But that's all over now
We move in higher circles
Chomping through the upper crust
I couldn't see you for the dust
And then you met that girl
Who left you with your money spent
And now it's no concern of yours
If i sleep with the president

It's my affair
And if i don't come home tonight
It's my affair alright
It's my affair
Who i see is up to me
It's my affair

That's how i want to keep it
I kiss the boys in secret
Hiding in the parking lot
Is just as far as i have got but
If the phone should ring and
There's no one there
Then it's my affair

Eso es asunto de ella
Donde va y lo que hace

Well it's all over now
You've seen the last of me
And i don't have to put up with you
Giving me the third degree
So you go on your way
And don't come sneaking round the back door
Trying to get yourself back in
Where you're not wanted anymore
It's my affair
Shoodoloowapbob
Shoodoloowap
It's my affair oh yeah
It's my affair
Who i see is up to me
It's my affair

That's how i want to keep it
I kiss the boys in secret
Making eyes at perfect strangers
I know that it could be dangerous
So if the phone should ring and
There's no one there then it's my affair

Donde va y lo que hace

Si yo vivo mi vida
Feliz y contenta
A nadie eso le importa

Donde va y lo que hace

Si mi queda afuera toda la noche
Es asunto mio

Donde va y lo que hace

Es que sufr

(kirsty maccoll/marshall crenshaw)

I'm nearly sober
And i can see the truth
I'm not immune to the sorrow that you put me through
All i ever wanted
Was a little more respect from you

I used to love you
But now i feel abused
I was a fool to be blind to the things you do
All i ever wanted
Was a little more respect from you

I'll never understand
The habits of a man out on the town
And where he hangs around

Now you think it over
Decide what to do
I couldn't fall for your story if i wanted to
All i ever wanted
Was a little more respect from you

I tried to make you see
That you were losing me but every day
You still went out to play

And now i'll say for the last time
You had the chance
And i won't dance for you baby like you want me to
All i ever wanted
Was a little more respect from you

All i ever wanted was a little more respect

(kirsty maccoll/pete glenister)

All it took was the time it takes
To smoke a cigarette or jam on the brakes
I nearly had it in my hands and now it's gone
Am i complaining 'bout by luck again?
Well it seems to me i was the one
Stood moaning in the morning sun
And now it doesn't matter much wherever i may roam
I keep feeling, feeling my way home

Now you see me, now you don't
You say you will but i know you won't
You nearly had me in your hands but now i'm gone
But not complaining 'bout my life again
No siree, and what i've got belongs to me entirely
I look left and i look right and i cross this road alone
'cos i'm feeling my way
I may go up, i may go down but wherever i may roam
I keep feeling my way home

Shall i explain away my life again?
Well it seems to me it's too far gone
To wonder where it all went wrong
I get up and i get down but i get there on my own
And i'm feeling my way
I look left and i look right and i cross this road alone
'cos i'm feeling my way home

(kirsty maccoll)

Maybe it's imaginary, i'd like to know
What's the world coming to and where will it go?
The hole in the sky where the sunshine gets in
It dries up the land as it mucks up your skin
And i don't know why, who will reveal?
Maybe it's imaginary, maybe it's real
We wash all the food and we peel off the skin
But what is the point if it's poisoned within?
Now i don't know why we say ok
Maybe it's imaginary, hope it's not too late
And when in the summer we go to the sea
The things floating by aren't what we want to see
And i'd change it all if i had one wish
I'd never go swimming with those nuclear fish
Maybe those imaginary rivers run dry
But if it's true then i'd like to know why
I don't know much but i'd like to know why

(kirsty maccoll/johnny marr)
Walking down madison - i swear i never had a gun
No i never shot no-one - i was only having fun
Walking down madison - swear i never had a gun
I was philosophizing some
Checking out the bums

See you give 'em your nickels, your pennies and dimes
But you can't give 'em hope in these mercenary times, oh no
And you feel real guilty about the coat on your back
And the sandwich you had, oh no

From an uptown apartment to a knife on the a train
It's not that far
From the sharks in the penthouse to the rats in the basement
It's not that far
To the bag lady frozen asleep in the park
Oh no it's not that far
Would you like to see some more?
I can show you if you'd like to

Walking down madison - i swear i never had a gun
No i never shot no-one - wouldn't do it just for fun
Walking down madison - trying to keep my head screwed on
I was philosophizing some
Checking out the nuns

When you get to the corner don't look at those freaks
Keep your head down low and stay quick on your feet, oh yeah
The beaming boy from harlem with the airforce coat
The ones who died
The ones who tried
The ones that sit and gloat

From an uptown apartment to a knife on the a train
It's not that far
From the sharks in the penthouse to the rats in the basement
It's not that far
To the bag lady frozen asleep on the church steps
It's not that far
Would you like to see some more?
I can show you if you'd like to

Within every city and town there's a madison
Frozen lives for whom nothing's happening
Hungry children is a mother's dilemma
Dumpster diving to feed her baby emma
So you walk on by like it doesn't affect you
The held out hand that you pay no respect to
Nickels and dimes won't even buy your guilt
Another wino burnt to death in his quilt
It's a cardboard city, newspaper metropolis
The system can't cope or keep on top of this
The authorities come as you're not for display
Do they solve the problem no they move him away
They're in a vicious circle of no fixed abode
The social won't pay 'em the money they're owed
When you've got no money you can't pay rent
Hypothermia kills 'cos the system is bent

From an uptown apartment to a knife on the a train
It's not that far
From the sharks in the penthouse to the rats in the basement
It's not that far
To the bag lady frozen asleep in the park
Oh no it's not that far
Would you like to see some more?
I can show you if you'd like to

From an uptown apartment to a knife on the a train
It's not that far
From the sharks in the penthouse to the rats in the basement
It's not that far
To the bag lady frozen asleep on the church steps
It's not that far
Would you like to see some more?
I can show you if you'd like to

In the subway sits a vacuous man
His grip on life is a bent tin can
It's a holy shrine where he burns his light
It makes things easy and removes his plight
For an hour or two but he can't escape
They're all penned in with government tape
There are good samaritans who bring the soup
The sally army with their bibles and boots
You can see yourself as it's not too far
One short trip you don't who they are
Till the night comes then it all comes back
Like the smell of patchouli and the armies of rats
It's a shame to be human it's a human shame
It seems we've forgotten we're one and the same