I can't help thinking about me

Remember when we used to go to church on Sundays
I lay awake at night, terrified of school on Mondays
Oh, but it's too late now
I wish I was a child again
I wish I felt secure again

I can't help thinking about me

As I pass a recreation ground
I remember my friends, always been found and I can't

I can't help thinking about me

Now I leave them all in the never-never land
The station seems so cold, the ticket's in my hand
My girl calls my name "Hi Dave
Drop in, see you around, come back
If you're this way again"
Oh, I'm on my own
I've got a long way to go
I hope I make it on my own

I can't help thinking about me

Ching A Ling

While walking on Red Roosters Lawn
A char-faced man I'd spy
He blew into his handkerchief
And stuttered as he sighed
I wish I'd play the doodah horn
The doodah horn is fine
I'd sell my house and ferny coach
To make this daydream mine

Doodah doo, doodah

Whilst flying through an azure cloud
A crystal girl I'd spy
She kissed the blue bird's honey tongue
And stuttered as she sighed
I wish to sing the Ching-A-Ling song
Ching-A-Ling song is fine
I'd give my jewels and caviar
To make this daydream mine

Ching A Ling

While stepping through a heaven's eye
Two lover souls we spied
They wished the cloud boys sang to me
A cheerful happy cry
We love to play our love-strong hearts
No better do we know
No gifts of money do we give
For love is all we own

Columbine

Columbine, my prayer design
I see you see me standing on my own
Is it you that I'm walking through?
Should I retrace my point of view?
I'm left in clouded dreams of finding who?
Not columbine

Just in case you're my disguise
I found yourself to my surprise
I'm on the ground
And it's Harlequin who picks me up
And catches you
Who banishes me
For finding who you are

Conversation Piece

I took this walk to ease my mind
To find out what's gnawing at me
Wouldn't think, to look at me
that I've spent a lot of time in education
It all seems so long ago
I'm a thinker, not a talker
I've no-one to talk to, anyway

I can't see the road
for the rain in my eyes

I live above the grocers store
owned by an Austrian
He often calls me down to eat
And he jokes about his broken English
tries to be a friend to me
But for all my years of reading conversation
I stand without a word to say

I can't see the bridge
for the rain in my eyes

And the world is full of life
Full of folk who don't know me
And they walk in twos or threes or more
While the light that shines above the grocer's store
investigates my face so rudely
And my essays lying scattered on the floor
Fulfill their needs just by being there
And my hands shake, my head hurts
my voice sticks inside my throat
I'm invisible and dumb
no-one will recall me

And I can't see the water
through the tears in my ey-y-yes

Crystal Japan

Instrumental

Dancing in the Street

Okay, talk to you
South America, Australia, France, Germany, UK, Africa

Calling out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat
Summer's here and the time is right
For dancing in the streets
They're dancing in Chicago
Down in New Orleans
In New York City

All we need is music, sweet music
There'll be music everywhere
They'll be swinging, swaying, records playing,
Dancing in the street

It doesn't matter what you wear, just as long as you are there
So come on, every guy, grab a girl, everywhere, around the world
They'll be dancing, dancing in the street

It's an invitation across the nation, a chance for folks to meet
They'll be laughing and singing, music swinging
Dancing in the street

Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore in DC now
Don't forget the motor city
On the streets of Brazil
Back in the USSR
No matter where you are

All we need is music, sweet music
There'll be music everywhere
They'll be swinging, swaying, records playing
Dancing in the street

It doesn't matter what you wear
Just as long as you are there
So come on every guy, grab a girl, everywhere, around the world
They'll be dancing, dancing in the streets

Way down in L.A., everyday
Dancing in the streets
Cross in China too
Me and you
Dancing in the street

Don't you know
They'll be dancing
Dancing in the street

Did You Ever Have a Dream

Did you ever have a dream or two
Where the hero is a guy named you
And the things he does are just too much
Does he fly like Mr. Superman, speak Chinese, French and Dutch?
And did you ever have a dream or two?

Have you ever woken up one day
With the feeling that you'd been away?
If the girl that you dreamed of last night
Had the same dream, in the very same scene
With the very same boy, hold tight

It's a very special knowledge that you've got, my friend
You can travel anywhere with anyone you care
It's a very special knowledge that you've got, my friend
You can walk around in New York while you sleep in Penge

I will travel round the world one night
On the magic wings of astral flight
If you've got the secret, tell me do
Have you ever had a dream or two?
Have you ever had a dream or two?

Do Anything You Say

Two by two, they go walking by
Hand in hand, they watch me cry
Two by two, hand in hand

Lonely nights, I dream you're there
Morning sun and you're gone
Lonely nights, morning sun

Maybe I'll do anything you say
Maybe I'll do anything you say
Maybe I'll do anything you say
Do anything you say, do anything

One desire I ask of you
Please be mine, please be mine
One desire, please be mine

Thousand years and I'll return
You'll be mine, you'll be mine
Thousand years, you'll be mine

Maybe I'll do anything you say
Maybe I'll do anything you say
Maybe I'll do anything you say
Do anything you say, do anything

Two by two they're walking by
Hand in hand, they watch me cry
Two by two, hand in hand

Maybe I'll do anything you say
Maybe I'll do anything you say
Maybe I'll do anything you say
Do anything you say, do anything

Maybe I'll do anything you say
Maybe I'll do anything you say
Maybe I'll do anything you say
Do anything you say, do anything you say

Footstompin'

Everybody young and old
Learns how to rock 'n roll
Listen to something new
Everybody sure can do

CHORUS:
Footstompin', footstompin', footstompin', footstompin'
footstompin', footstompin', footstompin'
Footstompin'
All of the time

Even just the other day
Taught it to my sister May
Red haired Mr Blue sure can do that stomping too

CHORUS

Wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate
Well she can shimmy like a jelly on a plate
All the girls are I can do it
I can do it yeah

Everybody in the neighbourhood
Knows I can shimmy, shimmy good
I won't be an angel so I ought to be
East going west, I go the west

Meet me at the dance hall
We're going to have a ball
Show cure all you want
Forlorn
Reborn

CHORUS

Footstompin'
All of the time

Fun

Back into the funhouse
Music is sublime
See the lady's spinning
She'll show me

We all lie in the funhouse
No one is your friend
No one loves a loser
We love you

In the funhouse
In the funhouse
In the funhouse
In the funhouse
In the funhouse
In the funhouse
We'll show you
Really good time

We all lie in the funhouse
Girls wag their pain
No one sleeps in the funhouse
They'll show you
Fun fun fun fun
Fun fun fun fun
We'll show you
Fun fun fun fun
Fun fun fun fun
In the funhouse
In the funhouse
In the funhouse
We'll show you
Really good time

Back into the funhouse
My dreamdogs have arrived
My summer turns to fall
And I'll miss you
We'll show you
She'll show me
We'll show you
She'll show me
Really good time
Really good time

In the funhouse