Choose the track to display lyrics.
Mama, Mama, Mama, where d’you learn that tune?
Mama, Mama, Mama, where d’you learn that tune?
There’s a lie told all over the land
There’s a lie told all over the land
Down at the Mission
Everything is free
And nobody cares for money
Down at the Mission
Sister, Sister, don’t your heart feel good
Sister, Sister, I think you’re made out of wood
When you hear the lie told all over the land
Read about your lie all over the land
Down at the Mission
Everything is free
And nobody cares for money
Down at the Mission
Outside the Mission
Nothing is for free
But we can buy pardons to heaven
Outside the Mission
Brother, Brother, Brother, you can trust in me
Brother, Brother, put your trust in Jesus
Help me spread the lie all over the lie
Shout it out loud - the lie of the land
Down at the Mission
Everything is free
And nobody cares for money
Down at the Mission
Outside the Mission
Nothing is for free
But we can buy pardons to heaven
Outside the Mission
I put my trust in you
What did you do?
Looking like a born again
Living like a heretic
Listening to Arthur Lee records
Making all your friends feel so guilty
about their cynicism
And the rest of their generation
Not even the government are going to stop you now
But are you ready to be heartbroken?
Are you ready to be heartbroken?
Pumped up full of vitamins
On account of all the seriousness
You say you're so happy now
you can hardly stand
Lean over on the bookcase
If you really want to get straight
Read Norman Mailer
Or get a new tailor
Are you ready to be heartbroken?
Are you ready to be heartbroken?
Are you ready to bleed?
What would it take
What would it take to wipe that smile off of your face?
Are you ready to be..
Are you ready to bleed?
Early in the morning just by the break of day
That's when my Patience went away
She took her bags but she left all her clothes
She took her keys and left me out in the cold
Wearing a plastic coat
And the pressures of life
Through lack of Patience
I get the pressures of love
Patience is a girl that I hate to love the way I do.. but I do
She wakes me up in the morning through screaming in my dreams
She took her bags but she left all her clothes
She took her keys and left me out in the cold
All because of Patience
I get the pressures of life
Through lack of Patience
I get the pressures of love
She beat me up and left me out in the pouring rain
Without no keys without no reason to go back again
She left me empty-handed she left me empty-hearted
Not no money not nothing but the blues
All because of Patience
I get the pressures of life
Through lack of Patience
I get the pressures of love
She said the one thing that she needs is happiness
I don't believe that she's happy until she sees that I'm in distress
No.. All because of Patience
I get the pressures of life
Through lack of Patience
I get the pressures of love
...and I swoon
I will not love a second time
But if I do well what’s the crime?
I will be punished in good time
She will be someone’s if not mine
And I will eat my words
As soon as she eats hers
And I will fall from greater heights
And you will fall for me despite
I will be king for just one shout
We know that’s never been in doubt
And you will eat my words
As soon as I eat hers
You’re wasting my time
Ask well what’s the crime?
I swear I’ll fall one thousand times
I’ll be James King for just one shout
You know that’s never been in doubt
And if we fall a second time
You know it’s me who laughs this time
And I will eat my words
As soon as she eats hers
And there will be abundance of light
When the angels witness me swallow my pride
She crossed herself as she put on her things
She has promised once before not to live this way
If she don't calm down she will burn herself out
Like a forest fire well doesn't that make you smile
If you don't slow down I swear that I'll come round
and mess up your place let's go for a spin
They say we shouldn't even know each other
and that we'll be undone
Don't it make you smile like a forest fire
I believe in love.. I'll believe in anything
That's going to get me what I want and get me off my knees
And then we'll burn your house down
Don't it feel so good?
There's a forest fire every time we get together
We're going to pick you up - put you down
rip you up and spin you round
Just like we said we would
Because we're a forest fire
Believe we be - We'll tear this place down
If we get caught in this wind then we could burn the ocean
If we get caught in this scene we're going to be undone
It's just a simple metaphor it's for a burning love
Don't it make you smile like a forest fire?
I choose my friends only far too well
I'm up on the pavement they're all down in the cellar
with their government grants and my IQ
They brought me down to size academia blues
Louise is a girl I know her well
She's up on the pavement yes she's a weather girl
And I'm staying up here so I may be undone
She's inappropriate but then she's much more fun and
When she smiles my way
My eyes go out in vain
She's got perfect skin
Shame on you you've got no sense of grace Shame on me just in case I might
Come to a conclusion other than that which is absolutely necessary
and that's perfect skin
Louise is the girl with the perfect skin
She says turn on the light otherwise it can't be seen
She's got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin
And she's sexually enlightened by Cosmopolitan and
When she smiles my way
My eyes go out in vain
for her perfect skin
Yeah that's perfect skin
She takes me down to the basement to look at her slides
of her family life pretty weird at times
At the age of ten she looked like Greta Garbo and I loved her then
But how was she to know that
When she smiles my way
My eyes go out in vain
She's got perfect skin
Up eight flights of stairs to a basement flat
Pretty confused huh being shipped around like that?
Seems we climbed so high now we're down so low
Strikes me the moral of this song must be there never has been one.
Given the choice I think I’d lose my voice
Sell my soul, go to Mexico
Yes, and live in sin, live on mescaline
Yes, out to lunch
But in this mundane life I stuck me in
I always do what I should
And I stick in the mud
When I could be kicking the dust off my shoes
In dreary old Soho
Given the rope I think I’d lose all hope
Failing to cope, all these failings
And still I fuel my dreams
On these cappuccinos and woe
For the state I’m in
This is a confession
If you like
This is a confession
If that’s what you want
Is that what you want?
As she pulled him from the wreckage
And the blood ran down her dress
She said you should be so ambitious
You try to do everything to fast
She said - is this what you want?
Is this what you want?
I don’t know what this love thing is
I don’t know what day it is
But I know a place just off Leicester Square
Could you meet me there?
I could fall in love in the afternoon
If you be there, too
This is a confession
I was cleaning out the ashtrays
I was easily impressed
Understanding Matthew’s cigarettes
Eating up the garbage
All the pills and all the glamour of it all
Swallowed it all
Matthew’s in the garden sowing seeds of discontent
And he’s working for that magazine again
I’m out in the world just trying to meet my payments girl
And this is not 1957
So why do you want to walk like that?
You keep you hands out of my pockets
And keep your head out of my hat
So you’re pissed again on mystique
I suppose you’ll never learn
And you’re looking old my little angry young man
Do you see that I’m not selling anything
What you need
Least of all what you’re looking for
I believe in Joycie, you’re still trying to dig up Jack
Look at you with your razor in your pocket
Well, what do you plan to do with that?
You with your morbid fascinations
Get your head out of my hat
I believe in Joycie, Borsalino, baby, you’re still trying to dig up Jack
You with your razor in your pocket
Well, what do you plan to do with that?
You with your morbid fascinations
Get your head out of my hat
No, this is not 1957
So why do you want to walk like that?
You with your morbid fascinations
Keep your head out of my hat
Let’s not talk it over
Let’s get it over with
Sell the kids
And split the money
Ha! funny I don’t think
Or should we drag it out?
What’s left to fight about?
How you cry?
Where do find the tears?
Put on your black
Sunglasses go better with the tears
Give me back
My love letters
If you must
What should I do with them?
I won’t love a Jane again
Or should I cry?
How you cry?
Where do find the tears?
You win
And you get what want
No strings
To drag you down
And we all have a price
So don’t apologise
And don’t look back
How you cry?
Where do find the tears?
Your head’s spinning
Yes, it’s moving to the country
Gone fishing in a house made out of wood
And you should know better by now
Boy
You burn, burn, burn
Still your heart beats affectation
You say - if not now, if not now
If not now, when?
Does it feel like borrowed time you’re wasting
Does it feel like all conspire to breaking you down?
You like to think you’re a solitary animal
You tell yourself lies
Doesn’t it seem like your old wants never get
Never get wise?
Your head’s too heavy for your goddam narrow shoulders
Your world’s getting bigger as your eyesight’s getting worse
And there’s no idiot board for you
You can’t stand still
Is it what you’re not or what you’re taking
You mutter and spit, mutter and
Mutter and spit
Does it feel like borrowed time you’re wasting
Wasting as you are tween stations
As your train passes you by?
You like to think you’re a solitary animal
You never think twice
Doesn’t it seem like your old wants never get
Never get wise?
Papa’s OK, Yeah, Mama’s OK, Yeah,
Bailing you out
You like to think you’re a solitary animal
Hey, that’s alright
What are you going to do?
Who are you going to be?
What are you going to say?
Where are you going to go?
What are you going to do when you get there?
Who are you going to be when you wake up in the morning?
Tell me, if not now, if not now,
If not now when?
Does it feel like borrowed time you’re wasting
Hey, as you are tween stations
As your train passes you by
You like to think you’re a solitary animal
You tell yourself lies
Doesn’t it seem like your old wants never get
Never get wise?
Papa’s OK, Yeah, Papa’s OK, Yeah,
Bailing you out
You like to think you’re a solitary animal
You suffer alright
You suffer alright
What else to do on days like these?
Oh, Mother you have ruined me
I’m not the one you wanted, anyway
Another dry day
I’ll never get me through
Is the last thing that I needed
To stop the world from spinning
So carry me up the river
Carry me up the road
Carry me back to Birmingham
Not heavy, I can’t make it on my own
What else to do on days like these?
Lock me away and lose the key
I’m trouble T.R.O.U.B.L.E.
And I’m not the one you want
I’m the last thing that you need
You’re trying not to hurt me
I’m trying not to bleed
So carry me up the river
Carry me up the road
Carry me back to Birmingham
Not heavy, I can’t make it on my own
Woke up a stranger
In a stranger’s bed
Could not remember with my empty head
I left her sleeping
I left her hoping to forget
Without a will
Without a worry
Hell, I never touch a drop
Won’t you carry me up the road?
Another dry day
Is the last thing that I needed
And you’ll never make a man...
Not out of me
So carry me up the river...
Carry me up the road
I can’t make it on my own
Life begins at thirty
So I have been told
I can easily believe it
The way i'm getting on
Yes I'm getting on
You hang around backstreet bars
For what you wish you knew
You say give me something cheap
Something i won't want to keep
Love's not everything
I was just hoping you might stay
Hell, it's hard to say
I was hoping you might stick around
Until the morning
You've heard it all before, kid
I'll say it all again
and I'm going to live a lush life
An ask for nothing much life
Love's not everything
I was just hoping you might stay
Hell, it's hard to say
I was hoping you might stick around
If you were doing nothing
Fool for love..
I was just hoping you might stay
But it's not easy to say
Hey, you doing nothing?
Fool for love..
And it's not only the lonely
Not only the lonely
Fall for love.
Jennifer we can't go wrong let's put it in writing
Jennifer we can't go wrong let's do it right now
Maybe you were a little hasty
But they say love is blind
Now her name's on you
Jennifer in blue
Did you ever have a bad dream wake up and it not stop?
Did you ever feel for a girl for a time and then stop?
Well it's written there in blue
With a heart and arrow through
Her name on you
Jennifer in blue
Oh, forever you said that's forever you said
Forever
and forever she said that's forever she said
Forever..
But you change with the weather
And this is the rain
Hey Rusty
It's a long time
Remember
It's like yesterday
Stealing cigarettes
And laughing as they chased us
Down the boulevards
Then I got a job
White collar
Turn coat
And you just spun around and walked
Said we wouldn't meet again
Hey Rusty don't hang up
I feel so young
Hey Rusty don't hang up
because we're still young
I just need one friend
She said hey
Don't take it so bad
She said hey
It wasn't so much
We just ran out of gas
Or something like that
That's when I
I crashed my car
Not by chance
And not out of love
Then i walked out of that job
You should've seen their faces
Hey Rusty don't hang up
I just need one friend
And we're not finished yet
No way
Hey Rusty
I changed my mind
What d'you say we start again
No, I mean it this time
Stealing cigarettes
And laughing as they chase us
Down the boulevards
It’s always raining in St Petersburg
This damp will be the death of me
I left my raincoat with my Romany
Gypsy cards say that
There isn’t any justice in this world
As far as I have seen
No more or less than we deserve
Hell, I’ve no desire to be free
We’re always steaming in the singles bars
Bells are ringing ain’t it great to be alive?
And watch me turning prematurely grey
Oh, the money’s killing me
But there’s a reason for this drinking
You see the poison tastes so sweet
And it beats the hell out of thinking
All good christians agree
I’ve been walking circles
Foot nailed to the floor
Everyone’s complaining
I just lock my doors
I do believe I’ve seen it all
It’s always raining when you’re drying out
This damp will be the death of me
And everybody loves you when you’re down and out
Oh, the money’s killing me
There isn’t any justice in this world
That’s more or less than we deserve
I’ve no desire to be free
I’ll be whistling Dixie
Rocks tied to my feet
Everyone’s compaining
Noone’s losing sleep
This town will be the death of me
Pretty boys and pretty girls
Everyone a saint
Everyone’s complaining
Noone’s losing sleep
This town will be the death of me
Johnny stumbles Johnny falls
under slogans
off the wall
he sees where's the sense
he says call me mister Malcontent
A waste of space and alcohol
drinking rain and eating soil
and slogans off the wall
cannot express himself at all
Cut off my nose despite my face
And I will not more longer wait
Or should I laugh or should I cry
Or should I part my hair behind?
Or should I laugh or should I cry
As I become all I despise?
Jennifer we can't go wrong let's put it in writing
Jennifer we can't go wrong let's do it right now
Maybe you were a little hasty
But they say love is blind
Now her name's on you
Jennifer in blue
Did you ever have a bad dream wake up and it not stop?
Did you ever feel for a girl for a time and then stop?
Well it's written there in blue
With a heart and arrow through
Her name on you
Jennifer in blue
Oh, forever you said that's forever you said
Forever
and forever she said that's forever she said
Forever..
But you change with the weather
And this is the rain
Hey Rusty
It's a long time
Remember
It's like yesterday
Stealing cigarettes
And laughing as they chased us
Down the boulevards
Then I got a job
White collar
Turn coat
And you just spun around and walked
Said we wouldn't meet again
Hey Rusty don't hang up
I feel so young
Hey Rusty don't hang up
because we're still young
I just need one friend
She said hey
Don't take it so bad
She said hey
It wasn't so much
We just ran out of gas
Or something like that
That's when I
I crashed my car
Not by chance
And not out of love
Then i walked out of that job
You should've seen their faces
Hey Rusty don't hang up
I just need one friend
And we're not finished yet
No way
Hey Rusty
I changed my mind
What d'you say we start again
No, I mean it this time
Stealing cigarettes
And laughing as they chase us
Down the boulevards