Shirley was a lady, his teeth were made of gold.
She danced before the music,
and everything it told.
Huckleberry Grove...
Where the music plays into tomorrow night.
Huckleberry Grove...
Only fools would need to walk you out to fight.

Shirley had eight children
and each of them was told:
"You got joy for singing,
burning in your soul."

Huckleberry Grove...
Where the idiots can't tease you up your mind.
Huckleberry Grove...
Take a free train leave your luggage far behind.

Oh she sings Shangri La
Oh she sings Shangri La
 

The Day We Caught The Train

I never saw it as the start its more a change of heart
Rapping on the windows, whistling down the chimney pot
blowing off the dust in the room where I forgot I laid my plans in solid rock

Stepping through the door like a troubadour whiling just an hour away,
looking at the trees on the roadside feeling its a holiday.
You and I should ride the coast and wind up in our favourite coats just miles away.

Roll a number write another song like Jimmy heard the day he caught the train.
He sipped another rum and coke and told a dirty joke
Walking like Groucho sucking on a number 10
Rolling on the floor with the cigarette burns walked in
I'll miss the crush and I'm home again.
Stepping through the door with the night in store whiling just an hour away,
step into the sky in the starbright feeling its a brighter day.

You and I should ride the tracks and find ourselves just wading through tomorrow
and you and I when we're coming down we're only getting back
and you know I feel no sorrow.
When you find that things are getting wild don't you need days like these.

Mrs Jones

What are you going to do Mrs Jones
Are you going to chase the pain away Mrs Jones
or leave it sitting there waiting outside your door
Hoping to find the things you hoped would tell you more
about the dreams that slip away

What are you going to do Mrs Jones
Are you going to face the bills to pay Mrs Jones
or leave them sitting there waiting outside your door
Hoping to find the things you hoped would tell you more
about the dreams that seem to slip away

It's not as if Mr Jones could help in anyway
It's not as if Mr Jones the bills that he could pay
 

Top Of The World

For all of her diction; her self medication
she fell down and dented her nose
And laughed at the coroners
desperately warning her-watch now the that it goes
And she knows

She's living at the Top Of The World

In need of salvation she spoke to her mother
who died in the service of king
What is the meaning of wallflowers receiving
And she thinks

She's Living at the Top Of The World

Three minutes later she looked in the mirror
And cracked half a smile at her toes
And she knows....

She's Living at the Top Of The World
 

Here In My Heart

I feel a love that's so hard to bear
Won't you come and kiss me and take this despair
Let the morning time dapple its light in your hair
Like warm running water in snow

But I feel a love of jealousy and pain
Lost in the race "tween the foolish and vain"
Come the morning time whistle to take you away
Where the sun always burns in the Winter

Oh...Here in my Heart
Oh...Here in my Heart

And I know that all I’m saying is wrong
etched in the night - time and rhymed in a song
Come tomorrow I'll lighten-up and drink to the ones
Who love without asking for loving

Don't forsake me
the morning time plays at the children's doors
If you leave me
then what would I tell them your leaving for?

I feel a love that’s so hard to bear
won't you come and kiss me and take this despair
Let the morning time dapple its light in your hair
Like warm running water in the snow
 

I Wanna Stay Alive With you

I'm not one to judge that much
and anyway I just wanna get high on you
but thirteen year old girls
in hotels on the other side of the world
seems a little much for me

I wanna stay alive with you
I wanna stay alive with you

And they'll look you in the eye
and anyway they'll always slip a smile at you
but thirteen year old girls
in rat holes on the other side of the world
they wouldn't lie to you

I wanna stay alive with you
I wanna stay alive with you

And free runs in to town
where the boys and girls are setting down for the night
to make up and make eyes at you

I wanna stay alive with you
I wanna stay alive with you
 

Robin Hood

When you're starting to choke
take some pills will your coke,
it's inspirational.

When your life is a mess,
light one more cigarette,
it's so logical.

Well it's something your mother can't abide.
Well it's something that I freely prescibe.

Take yourself for a ride,
it never felt so good,
just like the night you and I played Robin Hood.
Stealing from the backrooms of your mind,
remembering the time when we would find,
time I thought we'd left behind.

Chelsea Walk
I went down to Chelsea Walk
Where the sun doesn't shine at all
And I went looking for something for me
But I came back with nothing at all
Except an old man who could not see
But he said that he knew God
In Chelsea Walk
On Chelsea Walk

Now I've been down to Chelsea Walk
Where the sun just refuses to shine
And I ran back to my little room
And I jumped straight into a bottle of wine
You know I'll be alright for just a day
But tomorrow I must wake
In Chelsea Walk
On Chelsea Walk

Old man I must be on my way
Don't you worry I'm just scared for those who pray
In Chelsea Walk
On Chelsea Walk

Outside Of A Circle

Saturday afternoon the sunshine pours like wine through your window
But I know golden June can turn an empty grey against your window
And I feel like I'm on the outside of a circle-
If I walk by the trees I'll catch the falling leaves if the wind blows
But I know all this means is whiling on the hours watching side-shows
Will I turn my coat to the rain I don't know
But I'm going somewhere I can warm my bones
Fare you well I'll carry me away
and sing for those I know upon their birthdays.

The Clock Struck 15 Hours Ago

And the clock struck fifteen hours ago; it is shining
And the man who is wasting on the wall
Looks a lot like Jesus
And a little bit resembling
the man in the mirror in the hall

And I rose-trayed sailors
And you still shining
And I'm till waiting to got
And I lied for sailors
And I lied for certain
And I lied to everyone I know

Oh I'd believe in God and I'd believe in loving
but I don't speak to anyone who knows
And I need four 50's and three yellow lemons
And someone to take me home

And I'd forgotten the one who was sailing
on the water down beside where you don't go
And it's strange to tell
that the one who is shining
is someone I forgot I used to know

And the clock struck fifteen hours ago

Alibis
You told so many lies
your tongue is black with fireflies
but you spit them out and pretend you're sneezing
And every word is such a joke
with so many pasts you'd be ninety years old
Don't you wonder why the room keeps on leaving

Hey, Hey - what's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would never need it
Hey Hey - what's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would ever believe it

It's just a thought and nothing more
that all your thoughts and moves are taught
and memorised each night before your sleeping
And every word is such a joke
strung form neon masts flying flags you hope
will win you friends and give your life some meaning

Hey, Hey - what's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would ever need it
Hey, Hey - what's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would ever believe it

You told so many lies
your tongue is stained with Alibis
You've been around the world and found it pleasing
And every word is such a joke
with so many pasts you'd be a hundred years old
Don't you wonder why the room keeps on leaving

Hey,Hey - what's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would ever need it
Hey, Hey - What's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would even believe

Chicken Bones & Stones

Cool Cool Water
Cool cool water where I rest my head
Keeps me running to a single bed
Yellow moon rising on the riverboat wild
You keep me running like a child

Yellow moon rising on the riverboat wild
You keep me running like a child

Bobby don't know
He's got a funny way of seeing situations
You call him on the phone
but ain't it funny how he never seems to get home

Charlie Brown Says
Charlie Brown Says -
No-one promised this when I was a kid
When my days were filled with carousels
fairground rides and cockleshells
Kicking pebbles on a beach
When time couldn't reach me
And tears were just a  memory left to be?

Now days catch me without an overcoat
Five o'clock shoes full of snow
All rained out nowhere to go

Memories are sure to find you
No matter how fast you run
Gonna catch up with you

Charlie Brown Says -
Oh this winter sure sure gets me down
When there ain't no friends around

Day Tripper

Beautiful Losers
Your dream make up is cracked and wearing thin
your eyes are on your chin
it's getting hard for you
But to make up is only make-believe
and we don't need a scene like this

Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers
Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers

Your eyes closed and dreamed of places
that you and I would go
it's getting hard for me
To love you, like I used to
I don't believe "hello"
Do you?

Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers
Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers