Sultans of swing
You get a shiver in the dark  It's raining in the park but meantime  South of the river you stop and you hold everything  A band is blowing Dixie double four time  You feel alright when you hear that music ring  You step inside but you don't see too many faces  Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down  Too much competition too many places  But not too many horns can make that sound  Way on downsouth way on downsouth London town  You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords  Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing  And an old guitar is all he can afford  When he gets up under the lights to play his thing  And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene  He's got a daytime job he's doing alright  He can play honky tonk just like anything  Saving the Sultans with the Sultans of Swing  And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner  Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles  The don't give a damm about any trumpet playing band  It ain't whet they call rock and roll  And the Sultans played Creole  And then the man he steps right up to the microphone  And says at last just as the time bell rings  'Thank you goodnight now it's time to go home'  and he makes it fast whith one more thing  'We are the Sultans of Swing'
Down to the waterline
Sweet surrender on the quayside  You remember we used to run and ride  In the shadow of cargoes I take you one time  And we're counting all the numbers down to the waterline  Near misses on the dogleap stairways  French kisses in the darkened doorways  A foghorn blowingout wild and cold  A policeman shines a light upon my shoulder  Up comes a coaster fast and silent in the night  Over my shoulder all you can see are the pilot lights  No money on our jackets and our jeans are torn  Your hands are cold but your lips are warm  She can see him on the jetty where they used to go  She can feel him in the places where the sailors go  When she's walking by the river and the railway line  She can still hear him whisper  Let's go down to the waterline
Portobello belle - Live
Bella donna's on the high street  Her breasts upon the off beat  And the stalls are just the side shows  Victoriana's old clothes  And yes her jeans are tight now  She gotta travel light now  She's gotta tear up all her roots now  She got a turn up for the boots now  Yeah she thinks she's tough  She ain't no english rose  But the blind singer  He's seen enough and he knows  Yes and he do a song  About a long gone irish girl  Ah but I got one for you Portobello Belle  She sees a man upon his back there  Escaping from a sack there  And bella donna lingers  Her gloves they got no fingers  Yeah, the blind man singing irish  He get his money in a tin dish  Just a corner serenader  Upon a time he could have made her, made her  Yeah, she thinks she's tough  She ain't no english rose  Ah, but the blind singer  He's seen enough and he knows  Yes and do a song  About a long gone Irish girl  Ah but I got one for you Portobello Belle  Yes and the barrow boys are hawking  And a Parakeet is squawking  Upon a truck there is a rhino  She get the crying of a wino  And then she hear the reggae rumble  Bella donna's in the jungle  But she is no garden flower  There is no distress in the tower  Oh, bella donna walks  Bella donna taking a stroll  But she don't care about your window box  Or your button hole  Yes and she sing a song about a long gone Irish girl  Ah but I got one for you Portobello Belle
Twisting by the pool (remix)
We're going on a holiday now  Gonna take a villa, a small chalet  On the Costa del Magnifico  Where the cost of living is so low  Yeah, we're gonna be so neat  Dance to the Eurobeat  Yeah, we're gonna be so cool  Twisting by the pool  Sitting in a small cafe now  Swing, swing, swinging to the cabaret  You wanna see a movie, take in a show now  Meet new people at the disco  Yeah, we're gonna be so neat  Dance to the Eurobeat  Yeah, we're gonna be so cool  Twisting by the pool  And we can still get information  Reading all the information  And you're never gonna be out of reach  There's a call-box on the beach  Mmm, you're gonna so cute  Sunglasses and bathing suit  Be the baby of my dreams  Like the ladies in the magazines  Yeah, we're gonna be so neat  Dance to the Eurobeat  Oh, yeah, we're gonna be so cool  Twisting by the pool  I'm a twisting fool  Just twisting yeah, twisting  Twisting by the pool
Tunnel of love
Getting crazy on the waltzers but it's the life that I choose  Sing about the sixblade sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo  And I been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream and slam  And I don'r know where I'll be tonight but I'd always tell you where I am  In a screaming ring of faces I seen her standing in the light  She had a ticket for the races just like me she was a victim of the night  I put my hand upon the lever said let it rock and let it roll  I had the one arm bandit fever there was an arrow through my heart and soul  And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above  And I'm just high on the world  Come on and take a low ride with me girl  On the tunnel of love  It's just the danger when you're riding at your own risk  She said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let's keep it like this  It's just a cakewalk twisting baby step right up and say  Hey mister give me two give me two cos any two can play  And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above  And I'm just high on the world  Come on and take a low ride with me girl  On the tunnel of love  Well it's been money for muscle another whirlgig  Money for muscle another girl I dig  Another hustle just to make it big  And rockaway rockaway  And girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did  Like the spanish city to me when we were kids  Oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did  Like the spanish city to me when we were kids  She took off a silver locket she said remember me by this  She put her hand in my pocket I got a keepsake and a kiss  And in the roar of dust and diesel I stood and watched her walk away  I could have cought up with her easy enough but something must have made me  stay  And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above  And I'm just high on the world  Come on and take a low ride with me girl  On the tunnel of love  And now I'm searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades  Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades  In any shooting gallery where promises ar made  To rockaway rockaway from Cullercoasts and Whitley bay out to rockaway  And girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did  Like the spanish city to me when we were kids  Oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did  Like the spanish city to me when we were kids
Romeo and Juliet
A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade  Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made  Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade  Says something like you and me babe how about it?  Juliet says hey it's Romeo you nearly gimme me a heart attack  He's underneath the window she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back  You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that  Anyway what you gonna do about it?  Juliet the dice were loaded from the start  And I bet and you exploded in my heart  And I forget I forget the movie song  When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?  Come up on different streets they booth were streets of shame  Both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same  And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real  How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?  When you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold  You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold  You promised med everything you promised me thick and thin  Now you just say oh Romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him  Juliet when we made love you used to cry  You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die  There's a place for us you know the movie song  When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?  I can't do the talk like they talk on tv  And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be  I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you  I can't do anything except be in love with you  And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be  All I do is keep the beat and bad company  All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme  Julie I'd do the stars with you any time  Juliet when we made love you used to cry  You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die  There's a place for us you know the movie song  When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?  A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade  Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made  Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade  Says something like you and me babe how about it?
Where do you think you're going
Where d'ya think you're going  Don't you know it's dark outside  Where d'ya think you're going  Don't you care about my pride  Where d'ya think you're going  I think a you don't know  You got no way of knowing  I understand your changes  A-long before you reach the door  I know what you came her for  And now I'm sick of joking  You know I like you to be free  A-where d'ya think ya going  I think you better go with me girl  You say there is no reason  But you still find cause to doubt me  If you ain't with me girl  You're gonna be without me  Where d'ya think you're going  Don't you know it's dark outside  Where d'ya think you're going  I wish I didn't care about my pride  And now I'm sick of joking  You know I like you to be free  A-where d'ya think ya going  I think you better go with me girl
Walk of life
Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies  Be-Bop-A-Lua, Baby What I Say  Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman  Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay  He got the action, he got the motion  Yeah, the boy can play  Dedication devotion  Turning all the night time into the day  He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman  He do the song about the knife  He do the walk, he do the walk of life  Here comes Johnny and he'll tell you the story  Hand me down my walkin' shoes  Here come Johnny with the power and the glory  Backbeat the talkin' blues  He got the action, he got the motion  Yeah, the boy can play  Dedication devotion  Turning all the night time into the day  He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman  He do the song about the knife  He do the walk, he do the walk of life  Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies  Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say  Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman  Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay  He got the action, he got the motion  Yeah the boy can play  Decidation devotion  Turning all the night time into the day  And after all the violence and double talk  There's just a song in the trouble and the strife  You do the walk, you do the walk of life
Private Investigations

It's a mystery to me - the game commences  For the usual fee - plus expences  Confidential information - it's in a diary  This is my investigation - it's not a public inquiry  I go checking out the reports - digging up the dirt  You get to meet all sorts in this line of work  Treachery an reason - there's always an excuse for it  And when I find the reason I still get used to it  And what have you got at the end of the day?  What have you got to take away?  A bottle of whisky and a new set of lies  Blinds on the window and a pain behind the eyes  Scarred for life - no compensation  private investigation
Telegraph road - Live
A long time ago came a man on a track  Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back  And he put down his load where he thought it was the best  He made a home in the wilderness  he built a cabin and a winter store  And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore  And the other travellers came riding down the track  And they never went further and they never went back  Then came the churches then came the schools  Then came the lawyers and the came the rules  The came the trains and the trucks with their loads  And the dirty old track was the telegraph road  Then came the mines - then came the ore  Then there was the hard times then there was a war  Telegraph sang a song about the world outside  Telegraph road got so deep and so wide  Like a rolling river...  And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze  People driving home from the factories  There's six lanes of traffic  Three lanes moving slow...  I used to like to go to work but they shut it down  I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found  Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed  We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed  And the birds up on the wires and the telepraph poles  They can always fly away from this rain and this cold  You can hear them singing out their telegraph code  All the way down the telegraph road  You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights  When life was just a bet on a race between the lights  You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair  Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care...  But believe in me baby and I'll take you away  From out of this darkness and into the day  From these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain  From the anger that lives on the streets with these names  'cos I've run every red light on memory lane  I've seen desperation explode into flames  And I don't wanna see it again...  From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed  All the way down the telegraph road
Money for nothing
Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it  You play the guitar on the MTV  That ain't workin' that's the way you do it  Money for nothin' and chicks for free  Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it  Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb  Maybe get a blister on your little finger  Maybe get a blister on your thumb  We gotta install microwave ovens  Custom kitchen deliveries  We gotta move these refrigerators  We gotta move these colour TV's  See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup  Yeah buddy that's his own hair  That little faggot got his own jet airplane  That little faggot he's a millionaire  We gotta install microwave ovesns  Custom kitchens deliveries  We gotta move these refrigerators  We gotta move these colour TV's  I shoulda learned to play the guitar  I shoulda learned to play them drums  Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera  Man we could have some fun  And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises?  Bangin' on the bongoes like a chimpanzee  That ain't workin' that's the way you do it  Get your money for nothin' get your chicks for free  We gotta install microwave ovens  Custom kitchen deliveries  We gotta move these refrigerators  We gotta move these colour TV's, Lord  Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it  You play the guitar on the MTV  That ain't workin' that's the way you do it  Money for nothin' and your chicks for free  Money for nothin' and chicks for free
Brothers in arms
These mist covered mountains  Are a home now for me  But my home is the lowlands  And always will be  Some day you'll return to  Your valleys and your farms  And you'll no longer burn  To be brothers in arm  Through these fields of destruction  Baptism of fire  I've watched all your suffering  As the battles raged higher  And though they did hurt me so bad  In the fear and alarm  You did not desert me  My brothers in arms  There's so many different worlds  So many different suns  And we have just one world  But we live in different ones  Now the sun's gone to hell  And the moon's riding high  Let me bid you farewell  Every man has to die  But it's written in the starlight  And every line on your palm  We're fools to make war  On our brothers in arms