1. |
Best of You
03:58
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I’’m only eighteen and I work in a bar I’m learning to smoke and play guitar
I’ve got a degree in la la la la la
There’s some over thirty seem old and uncertain
While others are happy to have gotten this far
Car share house share car
Well there you are
Yeah, I’m rushing around with my head in a cloud
How do you do?
I’m gonna make it all come true
Ah, look out kid I know where you are but
That’s when they take the best of you
I feel fine and the future's mine
Well you know it is
Or at least it's mine to loose
Didn’t you have that too?
Ah come on you know you did
Ah you’re rushing around with you’re feet off the ground
And you’re gonna make a dream come true?
Ah look out kid I know you are but
That’s when they take the best of you
Yeah they take the best of you
Yeah I’m sliding around
And who knows
Anything goes
I might do a protest or two
Ah look out kid I know how you feel
I know the deal
But that’s when they take the best of you
No no no no no
This cant be true
Yes it is
Ah they take the best of you
Yeah they take the best of you
No no no no no
This cant be true
‘Fraid it is
They take the best of you
No no no no no
No no no no no
This can't be true
No no no no no
No no no no no
This cant be true
They take the best of you
When you’re sleeping
When you’re not looking
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2. |
Secondary Modern Man
04:01
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Young lives, striped ties, break time come get knocked down straight back up
Always something more to learn and see fuelled by intellectual curiosity
Cos I needed to know exactly what was happening
I wanted to know so’s I could make a plan
I needed it bad now I’m a secondary modern man
With just enough to make an impression
Just enough like a line in the sand
Just enough for a secondary modern man
A bird in the hand worth three in the bush
Well one on the floor and two in the shrub
Now I’ve even forgotten what I didn’t know
It's easy come but it's easier to go
And I needed to learn about creatures and kingdoms
I wanted to suss politics and faith
I needed it bad but all they ever really gave was
Just enough lucid conversation just enough clarity
Just enough yeah always just enough for me
I couldn’t think of anything better to do
When my baby said "well why don’t you just rock n roll you?"
Oh just enough
Give us a shot of sincerity cos when you look down your nose we bare our teeth
Just enough dangle of a promise
Just enough charged battery
Just enough temptation and fruit on the tree
Just enough to keep me at the coalface
Just enough to tie me to the lathe
Just enough to keep me fed and afraid oh God help us
Just enough to recognise my background
Not quite the American dream
Just enough was always just enough for me
Yeah just enough to make an impression
Just enough like a line in the sand
Just enough now I’m a secondary modern man
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3. |
Surrender Shuffle
03:13
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Justify justify means justify the end
Get away with anything, live to tell the tale
You can even hit on me I will not defend
It’s the green not the principle
That swings it in the end
In the end you’lll grow to believe it
And then you’ll be strong and free
Justify means justify justify the end
You can reach infinity
Call everyone your friend
Don’t feel nothing feel like running
Feel like getting out
Been so long on the treadmill
Crowded out by doubt
All the martyred handwringers
Practitioners of sound
Really don’t care ‘bout me
And wish that I’d check out
Of their lives that used to be so ordered
Like their wives so fragrant, neat, and trim
Box of air ain't really like the bbc
Just another illusion made flesh for she and he
I have never been the same since what they did to me
There’s a cold case on the file lets open it and see
What it is
oh that they hold against me
What they have
but don’t want me to see
Justify means justify means justify the end
Get away with anything and rise another day
Justify means justify means justify the end
Re-write history keep the mystery
Tell them you’re for sale
Justify means justify, justify the end
Surrender shuffle on the double live to tell the tale
Justify means justify, justify the end
Surrender shuffle on the double live to tell the tale
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4. |
Don't Mention the War
03:47
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Hey baby don’t you mention the war
Hey don’t talk about no more
Yeah it was a real hard time
And it's not too far down the line at all
So don’t bring it up no more
Hey, don’t you want our seed to grow?
Well we’ve both done stuff I know
I can't sift it out
The good the bad nor the fall out no more
Just don’t mention the war
Yeah it was a real hard time
And not too far down the line at all
But don’t bring it up no more
Yeah see your light down low
I can see that, that distant glow
Ah such a welcome sight
Leading straight to you’re door
Just don’t mention the war
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5. |
Gonna Need a License
03:19
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Even in a drought it rains on me
I want coffee and get served tea
Optimism’s a fallacy
I get freaked out constantly
Hey you, sacrifice
Hey you, get back in line
Hey you, sacrifices
if we make any more we’re gonna need a license
If I was a priest it’d be part of the job but I’m a neo-lazy slob
Curtains drawn, TV on
Afternoon ‘n spliff lit up
Ah hey, you sacrifices
Hey you, we’re gonna whip your hide
Hey you, sacrifices?
We make any more we’re going to need a license
Monopoly all rights reserved
You keep silent you keep you’re job
I’m the swirling mass of society
So much to say but I’ll keep it brief
Whereas you’re Mama
Whereas you’re Mama
Whereas you’re Mama
Whereas you’re Mama
Whereas you’re Mama gone?
Ah now why’s it always the ones who don’t?
Who set the rules that make the most?
Not like poor old David Stubbs who aint been paid for a single book
Hey you, sacrifices
Hey you, keep on trying
Hey you, sacrifices
if we make any more we’re gonna need a license
I’m the last one here
The last redoubt
I’m still standing
I can't get out
Look out now
Hey you, sacrifice
Hey, what you talking about?
Hey you, sacrifices
we make any more we’re gonna need a license
Hey you, sacrifices
What you talking about
Hey you, sacrifices?
If we make any more we’re gonna need a license
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6. |
Peace March
03:58
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Meet me by the marble statue gates where we will be safe
We can catch up later with something to eat
I know a place
But I don’t wanna walk in your peace march again
No I don’t wanna walk in your peace march again
Again...Again
Hear what I say
You’re so full of virtue you can’t walk
it's complicated
Believing things to set your conscience straight
But only pretending
I dont need to show my credentials to the gathering
No, I don’t want my face in no Guardian
Hear what I say
Again...Again...Again
It's all just play
I don’t wanna show my credentials to the gathering
I don’t wanna walk in youre peace march again
No I don’t wanna hold a sign saying "look at me”
I don’t wanna walk in your peace march again
A bottle of wine to loosen the anarchy
you’re sure is inside me
But I don’t want a place in your peace march again
No I don’t wanna hold a sign saying “look at me"
Oh I don’t wanna stop the city from working
I don’t wanna walk in your peace march again
No, I don’t want a place in your peace march again
I don’t wanna walk in your peace march again
Again...Again...Again
Hear what I say
Where's your daddy?
Where's your four by four?
Bet you didn’t walk
But Colin and Lorraine both gotta catch the train
Got a mortgage and don’t notice their lives
Got a mortgage and don’t notice their lives slipping away
I don’t wanna walk in your peace march again
Again...Again...Again
Hear what I say
Again...Again...Again
Hear what I say
I don’t want a view from your peace march again
Until I choose
Until I choose
Yeah, until I choose
Until I choose
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7. |
Can't Just Give it Away
04:34
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I’ve got a woman I can spend my time with most of the day
most of the day
I know someone I can spend my head with all day
Yeah, most of the day
When she get here
I don’t feel frightened
I don’t feel hungry
I feel enlightened
I feel ok
Not the least uptight
And every day
Ain't just survival
Oh oh can’t just give it away
Oh oh can’t just give it away
I’ll regret it if I did some day
I got a woman I can roll the dice with all day
All day
I got a woman I can spin the wheel with
All ways all ways
When she get here I don’t feel frightened
I don’t feel hungry
I feel enlightened
I feel ok
Not the least uptight
And every day
Aint just survival
Ah oh can’t just give it away
Ah oh can’t just give it away
Ah huh can’t just give it away
I’ll regret it if I did some day
I know someone I can fly like a bird with all day
Yeah all day
I know someone to celebrate with most of the day
Yeah, all of the day
When she get here
I don’t feel frightened
I feel ok
Not the least uptight
I don’t feel married
I got no rival
And every day ain't just survival
Ah oh can’t just give it away
I’ll regret it if I did some day
I’ll regret it if I did some day
Ah oh can’t just give it away
I’ll regret it if I did some day
I’ve got a woman I’ve found my song with
most of the day
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8. |
Lunch on the Moon
04:49
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Hello little dreamers you’ve woken up
Now you drink from a political cup
Tasting the truth as you sup
But I’m still here
still watching you move
I think what you want is lunch on the moon
Yeah, lunch on the moon
Lunch on the moon
We all want lunch on the moon
And why don’t we sing this song forever?
Lunch on the moon
Yeah, lunch on the moon
Well we all want lunch on the moon
Yeah, grass is blue and the earth is a cone
You want revolution from you’re comfort zone
huh?
You want lunch on the moon
You wanna change the world
Well, good luck with that
You’ve got no idea but you’re full of it
You don’t know nothing
You just suck it up
And the grass is blue, yeah, the earth is a cone
You want revolution from you’re comfort zone
You want, you want lunch on the moon
We all want
Lunch on the moon
Lunch on the moon
Lunch on the moon
We all want
Lunch on the moon
Pie in the sky
We all want
We all want
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9. |
Keep on the Track
03:51
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Sometimes it makes no difference
You’ve got nothing or you have it all
You’ll wake up one cold morning
Blocking up the hall
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Cos it all comes round
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Cos it all comes round
Sometimes it makes no difference
Where the four winds blow
Stars shatter when they fall, don’t they?
That’s all you need to know
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Cos it all comes round
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Cos it all come round
As the door opens
Let another one close
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Cos it all comes round
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Cos it all comes round
Sometimes it makes no difference
If you’ve signed in blood
A lifetime lived together
Then a hole where your best friend stood
Round and round and round we go
And yeah it all comes round
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Understand it all comes round
Round and round and round you go
No matter who you are
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Keep on the track
Cos it all comes round
Sometimes it makes no difference
Where the four winds blow
Stars shatter when they fall
don’t they?
That’s all you need to know
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10. |
Gone Gone Gone
06:52
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All that’s sacred all that’s good
All that learning from the neighbourhood
Blazing rows solid vows
Count for nothing now
Rip your heart out
Cover your face
Sell your car
Trade your place
Don’t sing no more
Don't roll the drum
Wake up lonely if you want
Yeah, leave the lights on in the day
Might as well cos it's gone away
Gone gone gone
Yeah, it's gone gone gone
The party's over
Bread's gone stale
Pockets are empty
Even nature's failed
Lord gimmie protection
From the dusty haze
In the year without days
No one to follow or repair the roof
You know I might be the living
The living proof
Of twilight child raised like a god
Well we all were really
Those who’d never had it so good
Yeah, the party's over
gone for good
Yeah, gone gone gone
Gone gone gone
And I wish I’d never loved no one but you you you
Yeah you you you
Yeah I wish I’d never loved no one but you but you
Yeah you
What about faith?
Gone
What about family?
Gone
What about trust?
Gone
What about knowledge?
Gone
What about opinion?
Gone
Speaking without fear?
Gone
What about The Beatles?
Ah, you needed more than love
But it's gone gone gone
Yeah, gone gone gone
And I wish I’d never loved no one but you but you but you
Yeah I wish I’d never loved no one but you but you but you
Gone gone gone
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11. |
One Shot of Happiness
04:26
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I’m living on cliché
It's like the junk food blues
Somebody’s parking
Is spoiling my view
But as long as they’re happy well that’s ok
As long as they’re happy well that’s ok
As long as they’re happy
We get one shot of physical
One shot of spiritual
One shot of happiness
Before they come and take us away
It's all in the air
Yeah, all in contention
Billy Bragg is gonna give us direction
as long as he's happy that’s ok
As long as he's happy that’s ok
cos we get
One shot of spiritual
One shot of physical
One shot of happiness
Before they come and take us away
Are you happy?
Are you happy?
Are you happy?
Are you happy?
Oh yeah……yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ah na na na na na
how about you?
We get one shot of spiritual
One shot of physical
One shot of happiness
Before they come and take us away
Runaway father
Had to let them go
Couldn’t believe no more in a happy home
Politician out on campaign
Doesn’t really believe a word he says
But as long as he's happy
Well, that’s ok
Well, that’s ok
As long as he's happy
cos we get
One shot of spiritual
One shot of physical
One shot of happiness
Before they come and take us away
We get
One shot
One shot
Before they come and take us away
Take us away
Take us away
One shot of happiness
One shot of happiness
One shot of happiness
Just a one shot of happiness
One shot of happiness
Before they come and take us away
One shot of happiness
Before they come and take us away
One shot of happiness
One shot of happiness
One shot of happiness
One shot of happiness
One shot of happiness
One shot of
Happiness
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12. |
If Had Yesterday
04:53
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If I had yesterday we’d have more time to play
but I am fifty eight years away from you
I’m gonna set you up to make your own and catch the wind that will take you where it's good to be
Though you can always say ”je parle francais"
I learned it long ago
someone taught me what he knew
Just as time fades and stories become real
Life stays the same but with a different feel
Now you’ll appreciate old things as well as new things
Strength to carry burden cos nothing is for certain
I’l watch over you for all eternity
that much I guarantee
You see a light? It may be me
If I had yesterday we'd have more time to play
but the candle burns just one way
Oh, if I had yesterday
That’s it for today
lets put those things away
that was a real good game, disputed penalties
Such a sunny day
look it’s such a sunny day
Such a sunny day
in underrated autumn
Such a sunny day, such a sunny day
How many did you see?
You know those swans on the water
If I had yesterday we'd have more time to play
but I am fifty eight years away from you
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