- 1000 Umbrellas
One thousand umbrellas
Upturned couldn't catch all the rain
That drained out of my head
When you said we were
Over and over I cried
'Til I floated downstream
To a town they call
Misery oh oh misery
- 1980-01-22-Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI
01. Beatown
02. Real By Reel
03. When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty
04. Life Begins at the Hop
05. The Rhythm
06. Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!)
07. Roads Girdle the Globe
08. Ten Feet Tall
- Across This Antheap
Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers,
Nurses, queens and drones.
Wish they'd leave my head tonight,
Let me rest my bones.
(Ziggedy zig zag just look at 'em. Ziggedy zag, hey hey)
A billion feet sound just like a billion drums.
- Complicated Game
I ask myself should I put my finger to the left, no
I ask myself should I put my finger to the right, no
It doesn't really matter where I put my finger
Someone else will come along and move it
And it's always been the same
It's just a complicated game
It's just a complicated game
- Cynical Days
Another year's gone by
The world's grown older
Sometimes I heave a sigh
People grow colder
Every day I do my best to show
I can make it in this world I know
But all the bad thoughts that people bring
- Dear God
Dear god,
Hope you got the letter,
And I pray you can make it better down here.
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer,
But all the people that you made in your image,
See them starving on their feet,
'cause they don't get enough to eat
- Don't Lose Your Temper
Don't lose your temper
Don't lose your temper
Don't lose your temper
'Cause I love you when you're wild
Don't lose your temper
Don't lose your temper
Don't lose your temper
- Earn Enough For Us
Songwriters: PARTRIDGE, ANDY
I've been praying all the week through
At home, at work and on the bus
I've been praying I can keep you
And to earn enough for us
I can take humiliation
- Holly Up On Poppy
Holly up on Poppy
Canter never stop
She has escaped from the world
Where they bake beautiful girls
Holly up on Poppy
Trotting to the top
She talks and banners unfurl
Their secrets crayoned in swirls
- I'm the Man Who Murdered Love
Chorus:
I'm the man who murdered love
Yeah! What do you think to that?
I'm the man who murdered love
Yeah! What do you think to that?
He was begging on his bended knee
For me to put him from his misery
- Im The Man Who Murdered Love
Chorus:
I'm the man who murdered love
Yeah! What do you think to that?
I'm the man who murdered love
Yeah! What do you think to that?
He was begging on his bended knee
For me to put him from his misery
- King For A Day
Everyone's creeping up to the money god,
Putting tongues where they didn't ought to be
On stepping stones of human hearts and souls,
Into the land of "nothing for free"
Well the way that we're living,
Is all take and no giving,
There's nothing to believe in,
The loudest mouth will hail the new found way,
- Making Plans For Nigel
We're only making plans for Nigel
We only want what's best for him
We're only making plans for Nigel
Nigel just needs this helping hand
And if young Nigel says he's happy
He must be happy
He must be happy in his work
We're only making plans for Nigel
- Mermaid Smiled
из пруда ясных ксилофонов,
из пещер памяти
я вижу детей в сердце,
тех детей, которыми мы когда-то были.
рождённых вспенившейся стайкой морских коньков,
трубящих мелодию раковин
сквозь вены на своих руках,
трубящих песню столь же новыю, как народившаяся луна,
- Real By Reel
"Real By Reel"
In this secret time, invading on our privacy
Unknowing we mime, we play for the ministry
They can film you in bed
Or when you take a bath
They can tape every cry
They can tape every laugh
- Runaways
Oh run a, oh run a, oh runaway
Oh run a, oh run a, oh runaway
(Please come home)
Oh run a, oh run a, oh runaway
(Please come home)
Daddy hit you in a temper
But he's sorry now
- Say It
Open up your heart
Say the things you want to say
Maybe a delicate subject
But say it anyway
Say it very soon
When you take your tea and toast
Don't leave the house without saying
- Science Friction
I look out of my window at night
I see the stars and I'm filled with fright
I have a feeling someone's looking
It ain't the aliens at the foot of my bed
It's more the aliens inside my head
I have a feeling something's cooking
Science friction burns my fingers
Electricity still lingers
- Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her
It's raining on the beach
She inches close but out of reach
The waves look painted on
Seagulls screaming
The sea is warship gray
It whispers "Fool!" then slides away
Black coastline slumbers on
- Senses Working Overtime
Hey hey
The clouds are whey
There’s straw for the donkeys and the innocents
Can all sleep safely, all sleep safely
My, my the sun is pie
There’s fodder for the cannons and the guilty ones
Can all sleep safely, all sleep safely
- Spiral
Spiral, torn from the tone arm
Waking up the track
Dormant in the black valley of the vinyl
Spiral, dug by the diamond
Running it around, turn it into sound
Entering my spinal
Got to play all my favourite 45's
Stacked way up high
- Stupidly Happy
Im stupidly happy
Everythings fine
Im stupidly happy
My heart pumping wine
Im stupidly happy
With idiot grin
Im stupidly happy
It's surely a sin
- That's Really Super, Supergirl
I can't hold you down
If you want to fly
Can't you see I'm all broke up inside
Well just you use your two X Ray eyes
Hurt like Kryptonite
Put me on my knees
Now that I've found out just what you're doing
- The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead
eter Pumpkinhead came to town
Spreading wisdom and cash around
Fed the starving and housed the poor
Showed the vatican what gold's for
But he made too many enemies
Of the people who would keep us on our knees
Hooray for Peter Pumpkin
Who'll pray for Peter Pumpkinhead?
- The Disappointed
The disappointed
All shuffle round in circles
Their placards look the same
With a picture and a name
Of the ones who broke their hearts
The disappointed
All congregate at my house
- The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
The man who sailed around his soul
From East to West, from pole to pole
With ego as his drunken Captain
Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold
The man who walked across his heart
Who took no compass, guide or chart
To rope and tar his blood congealed
- The Meeting Place
Meet you in the secret place
Scuffling in the dirt I wait
Whistle will blow, whistle will blow,
Share a joke the laugh's on me
But when I get you on your own we'll see
Someone might hear, someone might hear
You're a working girl now
You've got money of your own
- Then She Appeared
Then she appeared, apple venus on a half open shell
Then she appeared, the first photograph on Fox Talbots gel
I was a little frightened
Flying with my senses heightened
Cherubim cheered
Then she appeared
Then she appeared, as the giggling crew of Marie Celeste
Then she appeared, pale Atlantis rising out of the west
- Towers of London
Towers of London
when they had built you
did you watch over the men who fell
Towers of London
when they had built you
Victoria's gem found in somebody's hell
Pavements of gold leading to the underground
- When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty
When you're near me I have difficulty respirating
When you're near me I have difficulty concentrating
When you're near me I have difficulty standing upright
When you're near me I have difficulty sleeping at night
I used to stand proud like a sphinx
In a noble immovable state
Then your heart nailed me under a jinx