WORK IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD (CILLA BLACK )

 

Loving you is driving me crazy

People say that you were born lazy

'Cause you say that

Work Is A Four-Letter Word

So change your life

There is so much I know

That you can do

Come and see ...

Wide-awake

And take all of this love

That is waiting for you

If you stay

I'll stay right beside you

And my love

May help to remind you

To forget that

Work Is A Four-Letter Word

I don't need

A house that's a showplace

I just feel

That we're going no place

While you say that

Work Is A Four-Letter Word

So change your life

There is so much I know

You can do

Come and see ...

Wide-awake

And take all of this love

That is waiting for you

If you stay

I'll stay right beside you

And my love

Might help to remind you

To forget that

Work Is A Four-Letter Word

Oh ...

I don't need

A house that's a showplace

I just feel

That we're going no place

While you say that

Work Is A Four-Letter Word

So change your life

There is so much I know

That you can do

Please come and see ...

Wide-awake

And take all of this love

That is waiting for you

 

 

 

WHAT'S THE WORLD? (JAMES)

 

"Um ... this song was written by ... erm, erm ..."

What would you sell ?

Loose glasses and suit

Heart and soul

Won't wear out

That's not enough !

I wonder what's inside

Fish fillet knife

Can cut

Right through my eye ...

I'm looking for some words

To call my own

Worn-out phrases

And a hand-me-down

They'll knock me

Under where I stand

Sad on his back

In a corned beef pan

Going under

You can feel them pulling me down

To the rust inside ...

This is the way ...

Franken-star is born

Bits and pieces

Others have worn

All held together by a management glue

Too much glue

Watch the stars turn blue

Turn blue

Turn blue

Turn blue

Turn blue

I'm going under

You can feel them pulling me down

To the halls of rust

Eeh ...

I, I, I, I, I ...

Thankyou ...

 

 

 

 

SUMMER NIGHTS (MARIANNE FAITHFUL)

 

Winter's almost gone,

Oh how I've waited so long

For summer nights.

When there's magic in the air

And I don't have a care,

All that matters to me

Is that you are here

On summer nights.

There's a little café

Where we can hear music play.

They keep the lights turned down low

It's a place where lovers go.

There you'll hold me tight and say

Our love will always be this way

On summer nights.

At the end of the day

We can go down to the bay

And together hand in hand

We will walk along the sand

On summer nights.

In our little café

We'll dance the night away

And we know our love will be

Always true eternally.

And when the moon begins to shine

I can see that you are mine

On summer nights.

On summer nights.

On summer nights.

 

 

 

THE SHA LA LA SONG (MARIANNE FAITHFUL)

 

At last it's over,

I knew I could not hold him,

His love for freedom

Was far too strong.

But though he's gone now

My life is just beginning,

I'll soon forget him,

I'll soon forget him,

I must forget him, Lord!

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,

There's a brand new day beginning.

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,

There's a brand new love that waits for me.

Will I remember,

Will I still hear him whisper ?

Will I still feel his

Lips on mine ?

In dreams I see him,

Perhaps he'll stay forever

And all I'm wishing

And all I'm hoping

And all my longing, too.

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,

There's a brand new day beginning.

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,

There's a brand new love that waits for me.

He made me happy

And though I suffered, too,

There's no mistaking

Our love was true.

But such a sweet love

Just wasn't meant to be

And it's all over

Yes, it's all over,

And now it's done I'll start anew.

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,

There's a brand new day beginning.

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,

There's a brand new love beginning.

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,

There's a brand new day beginning.

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la,

There's a brand new love beginning.

 

 

 

I KEEP MINE HIDDEN (SMITHS)

 

Hate, love and war

Force emotions to the fore

But not for me, of course

Of course

I keep mine hidden

Oh ...

I keep mine hidden

But it's so easy for you

Because you let yours flail

Into public view

Oh, oh ...

Yellow and green

A stumbling block

I'm a twenty-digit combination to unlock

With a past where to be 'touched'

Meant to be 'mental'

Ooh, I keep mine hidden

The lies are so easy for you

Because you let yours slide

Into public view

Oh ...

Use your loaf!

 

 

 

JEANE (SMITHS)

 

Jeane

The low-life has lost its appeal

And I'm tired of walking these streets

To a room with a cupboard bare

Jeane

I'm not sure what happiness means

But I look in your eyes

And I know

That it isn't there

We tried, we failed

We tried, and we failed

We tried and we failed

We tried and we failed

We tried

Jeane

There's ice on the sink where we bathe

So how can you call this a home

When you know it's a grave ?

But you still hold a greedy grace

As you tidy the place

But it'll never be clean

Jeane

We tried, we failed

We tried, and we failed

We tried and we failed

We tried and we failed

We tried

Oh ...

Cash on the nail

It's just a fairytale

Oh ...

And I don't believe in magic anymore

Jeane

But I think you know

I really think you know

Oh ...

I think you know the truth

Jeane

Oh ...

No heavenly choir

Not for me and not for you

Because I think that you know

I really think you know

I think you know the truth

Oh ...

Jeane

That we tried, and we failed

That we tried, and we failed

We tried and we failed

We tried and we failed

Oh ...

Oh ...

Jeane

 

 

 

WHAT DO YOU SEE IN HIM? (SMITHS)

 

Oh, the nights are too long

When the questions are long

I tried, but I will never understand

What Do You See In Him ?

What Do You See In Him ?

Oh ...

She's the lifeblood of me

As you walk hand in hand

And I try, and I try, and I try

But I will never understand

Oh, What Do You See In Him ?

I ask myself :-

What Do You See In Him ?

Oh ...

But she will plague you and I will be glad

Yes, she will plague you and I will be glad

Oh ...

Oh ...

 

 

 

WONDERFUL WOMAN (SMITHS)

 

Here her head, she lay

Until she'd rise and say :

"I'm starved of mirth;

Let's go and trip a dwarf"

Oh, what to be done with her ?

Oh, what to be done with her ?

Oh ...

Ice water for blood

With neither heart or spine

And then just

To pass time; let us go and rob the blind

What to be done with her ?

I ask myself :

What to be said of her ?

Oh ...

But when she calls me, I do not walk, I run

Oh, when she calls, I do not walk, I run

Oh ...

Oh ...

Oh ...

 

 

MARIE’S THE NAME (HIS LATEST FLAME)

Very old friend

Came by today

As he was telling everyone in town

Of all the love that he'd just found

And Marie's the name (of his latest flame)

Talked and talked

And I heard him say

That she had the longest blackest hair

Prettiest green eyes anywhere

And Marie's the name (of his latest flame)

 

 

 

TAKE ME BACK TO DEAR OLD BLIGHTY

Take me back to dear old blighty

Put me on a train to London town

Take me everywhere

Drop me anywhere

Liverpool, Leads or Birmingham

Cause I don’t care...