1. |
Estuary Boys
03:23
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There's a yellow moon idling
at the end of my street
Hanging around
Tarnished old crown over the town
On a Friday in the summer
when the sun has gone down
And there's a sound;
Estuary boys, making a noise
And there's Paco Rabanne
In the back of the van
Levis and Lois
Estuary boys
Saturdays are glittery stars
All reflected in cars
Cos Heaven employs estuary boys
Take a team to Thailand
or a week in Berlin
Give 'em a spin
Bevvies and gin
You'll be well-in.
They be circling the suburbs
on the day they return
Spend as they earn
And what do we learn?
Money to burn
And there's Paco Rabanne
In the back of the van
Levis and Lois
Estuary boys
Saturdays are glittery stars
All reflected in cars
Cos Heaven employs estuary boys
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2. |
Penny Novelette
03:20
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He was a throwback to some much earlier time
Dressed like his dad's dad had done,
when still in his prime
Out on his boneshaker
Taking down the orders for a hipster baker
He was an old-fashioned boy.
Now, there was a girl on his rounds –
He spoke to her most days
She lived with her mum,
Some retired singer; set in her ways
There on her doorstep
In houndstooth check,
she really looked quite retro.
This was no ordinary girl.
Then, out on the chalk down
When spring warmed the small town
He suddenly summoned up the sum
of what he wanted to say
He said "Ah Sally, let's marry
It wouldn't have to be exactly
Meghan and Harry
Just you and me and the moon."
(and she said….. 'soon')
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3. |
Goodnite Andromeda
03:26
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Goodnight Andromeda
See you on some starry night
When the lights go on and
the world turns round again
Crashed in the Twilight Zone
Now I'm using a psychic phone
You can call me when my ghost
gets home tonight.
Lost my heart to a flaming star
(oh yeah, oh yeah)
Weren't related but now we are
Where's that Einstein when
you need him? Aahhhh
When the lights go on
and the world turns round again
And how are you now my dear?
There is nothing to keep me here
When the lights come on
and the world turns round again
There's nothing I’d rather do
Than return to the sea with you
As we disappear in the green
and blue like rain.
Lost my heart to a flaming star
(oh yeah, oh yeah)
Weren't related but now we are
Where's that Einstein when
you need him. Aahhhh
When the lights go on
and the world turns round again
So Goodnight Andromeda
See you on some starry night
When the lights go on and
the world turns round again
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4. |
Decline and Fall
03:39
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Smoky days that bring you back to me
Standing by the sea
The night we lost a day
And that was then but this is nearly now
If you will allow…
The time went astray
And I wish I'd had a picture
But its not like we're a fixture
And I can't erase the memory
of the day
Never found out much about you
If I have to live without you
I'll leave you with one thing
I have to say.
But I can wait.
Yeah I can wait.
I will wait for your call
Or my decline and fall
I can wait, yeah I can wait
I will wait for you.
And suddenly the world turns upside down
The beggar wears the crown
And runs off with the Queen
But just as soon, the cameras
move away
Another misty day
An ending never seen...
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5. |
Every Time I Go Up
03:35
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I was not blind,
I only needed help to see
I lost my mind
But for a minute I was free
There was no prison cell that could hold me
There were no rules to tie me down
No freezing common-sense to enfold me
Or bring me round
And everytime I go up, I come down
Yeah everytime I go up I come down
Walk out your door
Before the daylight disappears
Your palace floor is gonna wait
a thousand years.
There is no turnaround
No way round it
No easy way to turn back time
And if there was a way
No one found it
And it's not mine.
And everytime I go up, I come down
Yeah everytime I go up I come down
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6. |
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Up with the birds and the Amazon van
Checking the gas shares in Azabaijan
Nothing he does isn't there in his plan of the day
On with radio, the top of the hour
News is 'the knowledge' and knowledge is power
Singing like Sting in the shower, with Bachelor Grey
It's down to the station and onto a train
Overheads down over Romford again
Gazing at some distant church in the rain
as you do. Being you.
But then, time is still money and money is time
Art should be pretty and poems should rhyme
Long as they do, you'll be fine with Bachelor Grey
Maybe in summer he'll take a breather
Taking his ease with some E's in Ibiza
Nice to breath a more rarified ether with him
'Sunny Jim'
Then he's back on the plane, with that tell-tale glow
Standstill Airport will twinkle below
Mind on promotion and ready to go the next day
Home to his minimal Barbican flat
Plastic begonia and hologram cat
Council tax bill on the mat for Bachelor Grey
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7. |
Goodguy Sun
03:20
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Goodguy Sun, now that the summer has run
They can look back and say
they cherished every day
And we had such fun
Goodguy Sun – here before we had begun
You were there for the whole affair
Till the best man had won
The spinners shimmy down, and in the working town
August comes with her make-up run
She's such a blowzy dame and she forgets your name
When the day is done
Goodguy Sun – gunslinger slow on the draw
But now the breeze is cool, the shops say 'Back To School'
Then the clock strikes four
Goodguy Sun – here before we had begun
You were there for the whole affair
Till the best man had won
The showers kiss the dust, the leaves begin to rust
They catch the light at the end of day
A single blackbird sings and now September rings
to say she's on her way.
Goodguy Sun
Goodguy Sun
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8. |
Broken Dreams For Boys
02:40
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Let's ride out in an early September gale
We can catch the summer cloud-fleet
before they sail
Where the rosehips and hawthorn
Wait in the grey light before dawn
In the Bumper Book of Broken Dreams
for Boys
As lights come on in a terrace seen through rain
The buddleia flowers brush the passing train
Where Edwardiana meets the Major Arcana
In The Bumper Book of Broken Dreams for Boys
(She enjoys)
The Bumper Book of Broken Dreams for Boys
Standing at a party
Looking all pale and arty
Deep in discussion
Smoking Sobranie Black Russian
Let's walk through the town on an autumn afternoon
When the sun goes down like a Portuguese doubloon.
The season is turning
And all the bonfires are burning
In The Bumper Book of Broken Dreams for Boys
(She enjoys)
The Bumper Book of Broken Dreams
for Boys
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9. |
A Latchkey Girl
04:09
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Down the stairs to the foggy river
Where the sails of the ships would shiver
in the days when the old tea clippers
sailed.
Here she'd wait for her long-gone daddy.
Few quid left in an old tin caddy
on the mantlepiece.
If her mum was running late.
Then, round the shop with
her best friend, Cerys
Up the top of Kohima Terrace
Where Mrs Khan sold
Indian ice cream
"Be indoors by nightfall.
Skinny chips and trifle."
Cos nothing stifles the dreams
of a latch-key girl
"Now don't wander far, Our Elaine
Not now the nights have drawn in
Past Halloween."
The wind calls their names
in the lane
Back of the houses
Of the boys and girls
who courted in the alley.
Better days than…..these.
better days than these."
"There'll be work soon."
say the boys in bars.
"It's all to do with these electric cars."
And when the vaccine comes,
they say we're gonna be okay.
When ships come back
to the empty dock
You can wait down there
in your nice new frock.
Because you never know,
your dad might get home anyday.
Then, round the shop with
her best friend Cerys
Up the top of Kohima Terrace
Where Mrs Khan sold
Indian ice cream
"Be indoors by nightfall
Skinny chips and trifle."
And nothing stifles the dreams
of a latch-key girl
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10. |
Golden Lion of the Sun
03:06
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When the night comes along
Like an old desert song
And the birds have all gone
from the sky
The remains of the day
brush the pale milky way
Like the train of a bride
going by
When you smoke your regret
like a last cigarette
With the words that you said
grainy blue
You will walk down that lane
To a place of no pain
Where the one that you loved
waits for you
Secret looks in passage ways
Kites aloft on windy days
Kisses stolen in cafes
Hearts that danced a pollonaise
When the autumn was ablaze
And the golden lion was the sun
But the night came along
Like an old desert song
And the birds have all gone
from the sky
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11. |
The Flowers of December
04:27
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First frost.
Look out the window pane
See the pale gold sun beckon me down the lane
Where the fields lie still under sugar dust
And the season turns again
There -- look up the river
Here comes a whooper swan
Where the reeds all quiver, now that the geese have gone
And I promised you I would get there soon
As you light the fire in the afternoon
And the night hangs shrouds on the misty moon
But the things that I remember
Are the flowers of December…
Are the flowers of December…
And I kept this place in my heart for you
Like a secret room of the things you do
It's a great escape from the human zoo
But the things that I remember
Are the flowers of December
The flowers of December
How long I've felt this way
How long we've been apart
How much I missed your kiss
But the things that I remember
Are the flowers of December
The flowers of December
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12. |
Statues
03:05
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Now you dare to ask your rulers
what they meant?
It's a paper chase of flaming
discontent
But the spokesmen are not speaking
And the stories are still leaking
Someone wants to know where all
the money went.
So a virus brings a planet to its knees
Mummy can I get down from this
table please?
I must hit those streets and running
Since a change is surely coming
I can hear the sound of protest
on the breeze.
Statues will tumble
And fortunes must crumble
There may be a rumble today
I must hit these streets and running
Since a change is surely coming
I can hear the sound of protest
on the breeze.
Some may favour gold and silver
over freedom
Till the sun sets on their plastic
demi Eden
You can stand there and pretend you're
deaf and dumb
And delude yourself the time will
never come
When the aeroplanes cease flying
And we stop the poor from dying
And the world is dancing to a different drum
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13. |
At Dunwich
03:01
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So we stood on the shingle
in October light
The soul of the siren and me
And a churchbell rang
Underneath the sea
So we went back inside
And I asked how she felt
And she said that she feared
she might fall
And the light came in,
to an empty hall.
Then the dragon-tongue waves
met the marram-grass shore
And they rose and they fell
on the dunes,
And the wind remembered
medieval moons.
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14. |
Lions and Wild Roses
02:45
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The Cleaners From Venus Wivenhoe, UK
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