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Wake Up Sleepyheads
00:44
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Wake up sleepy heads
I won’t pretend you want to start the day
Wake up out of bed
It only goes to show what you won’t say
Some days, left for dead
Daylight trying to steal away your golden slumbers
Wake up sleepy heads
It’s time to go, it’s time to steal away, away, away
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Here in the town of opportunities
waiting for the money to trickle from the city
My hair is long, and my suit is all wrong, yeah I know it’s not pretty
here in the town of opportunities
Looking to the future, the age of computers,
A home from home,
at Job that works phones
For the man in the city
Growing up quickly.
Turning tricks in a game you can’t fix
For a boy who looks sickly
Here in the town of opportunities
Of milk and honey, and easy money
Make believe in this town you can’t leave
no it’s all or nothing
All for nothing
Dumbing down for the press to repress all the time
Here in the town of opportunities
Sad dust glories, and fairy stories
Satanic mills, like the ships we don’t build
They don’t sail us gently
Here in the town of opportunities
options shrinking, the ship is sinking
Jumping guns and Myxolydian runs
From the sense of violence
The sound of silence
Empires fail with a sting in the tail
And some drums
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3. |
Mean Vincent
00:57
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Here in the wake of heavy industry
Strikers are stricken, the miners are forgiven
A heavy heart for a town that not part of a chance at ambition
Waking in a moment now of clarity
to know your place with the the stone cold Tories
assets stripped, and the market has slipped
on a trail of destruction
and false instruction
Laying bare the your betters don’t care anymore
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5. |
The Axe
01:10
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6. |
Hello Monday!
02:26
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Hello Monday,
Were you waiting for me long
Is the weekend really dead and gone
Hello Monday
Now I’m home at last
Hello Monday
Wipe the sleep out of my eye
Thanks your lucky stars, I don’t know why
Maybe one day
If I’m home at last
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We could have a month of Sundays
You could telephone a friend
We could live tonight
Till the girls say when
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Maybe one day
Settle down and sink a few
In a smokey room with out a view
Striking matches
Call the fire brigade
Do the monkey
Turn a black sheep to a goat
Burning pages never question why.
All the answers
When I’m high & dry
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We could have a month of Sundays
You could telephone a friend
We could live tonight
Till the girls say when (guitar lead)
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One at a time,
One at a time
Never show your hand in anger
You could have a change of plan
Throw down the jams till the girls say when
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Hello Monday,
Were you waiting for me long
Is the weekend really dead and gone
Hello Monday
Yes I’m home at last
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We could have a month of Sundays
You could telephone a friend
You could leave tonight
When the girls say when
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7. |
Keep It Simple, Stupid
03:13
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Sit down,
Tell me a story I don’t want to hear
tears on my shoulder when you are near
Let down
Tell me a heartache that you always feared
Like in the movies as strings appeared
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Let’s keep it simple, stupid
Let us come with no strings attached
I’m gonna keep it pretty stupid
That’s enough, of a love for me
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So long,
wait til the morning when we’ll both be gone
talking of heartbreaks and favourite songs
Slow down
Look in the middle distance, there you stood
staring at us like I knew you would
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Let’s keep it simple, stupid
Let us come with no strings attached
I’m gonna keep it pretty stupid
That’s enough, of a love for me
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Let’s keep it simple, stupid
Let us come with no strings attached
Let’s keep it simple, stupid
Let us come with no strings attached
I’m gonna keep it pretty stupid
That’s enough, of a love for me
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8. |
Heaven It Can Wait
02:38
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We’ll have none of that talk round here
a cold hard truth that you never wanna hear that they Better Keep both friends and enemies near
We’ll have none of that talk round here
It’s a four letter word
It’s an onomatopoeia
It’s a warning whispererd in your ear
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God knows, how heaven it could wait so long
God knows how heaven it could take so long
And on and on and on
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We’ll have none of that talk right now
IIt’s all ‘what about them’ when you tell your truth to power
That’s is how they always win at the final hour
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God knows, how heaven it could wait so long
God knows how heaven it could take so long
And on and on and on
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I will remember everything
I wrote it down for you
I will remember peace at last, the symbol plain
Of human right and human gain
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God knows, how heaven it could wait so long
God knows how heaven it could take so long
And on and on and on
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9. |
Singing Kawai
00:38
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10. |
Sixteen Houses
01:55
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Clocks punch the poor
Sell door to door
16 houses to go and
I’m off to knock one more
False starts in need
Right hearts exceed
16 houses to go and a
Family to feed
So I’m running the numbers down
Running the numbers down
16 Houses to go
Wouldn’t you like to know
Pristine houses for show
But a darker side of town
Now I’m running the numbers down
Running the numbers down
Listening stations begin
Track where I’ve been
16 house to go and
And I know they’re tuning in
Still I’m running the numbers down
Running the numbers down
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11. |
Will It Be Enough?
02:04
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Will it be enough
When I fall in love
When I fall in love
Will it be enough
When I fall in love
Some times the
Hard times not enough
Sometimes the words aren’t there at all
Hard times , the writing’s on the wall
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Baby love
Does it break your heart
Does your engine start for a
Baby love
Maybe not
Sometimes the
Hardlines all you got
Sidelined to take what you can get
rewind.forgive and to forget
To forget, to forget, to forget etc
Forget what you been told
Forget what you been told
I tell you now
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Is it good enough
Does it change your plan
Does he understand
Is he good enough
Does it change your plans
Headstands themselves don’t fall in love
Sometimes the words aren’t there at all
hard-lines you have to read them all
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When I fall in love
Will it be enough
Will it be enough
When I fall in love
When I fall in love
Some times the
Hard times not enough
Sidelined to take what you can get
rewind, forgive and to forget
Baby love, baby love, baby love baby love
Forget what you been told
Forget what you been told
Or maybe not
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12. |
Walking The Dog
01:05
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13. |
Don't Get Sentimental
03:28
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She writes him ‘with regret’
Forgive and to forget
How Everything was different
She’s dotting all the eyes
And whiting out the lies
Now Everything sounds different
She wasn’t meant to see
He wasn’t meant to be
Another mr nice guy
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But Don’t get sentimental
Cold hearts treat you gentle
As they never fall apart
Don’t let misty eyes
Distract you from the prize
More fool
You if you let them start
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She never would have guessed
As they had seconds left
That Every one was different
The waiting starts to show
In Faces that she knows
No more mister nice guy
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They tell me heartbreak is an art
And everyones a critic now
They all play their part
But Don’t get sentimental
Cold hearts treat you gentle
As they never fall apart
Don’t let misty eyes
Distract you from the prize
More fool
You if you let them start
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Don’t get sentimental
Cold hearts treat you gentle
Breaking accidentally
Cold hearts treat you gently
Don’t get sentimental
Cold hearts treat you gentle
Breaking accidentally
Cold hearts treat you gently
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14. |
Closing Time
04:44
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Every time I think we’ve hit below the line, the bottom line
is Maybe it’s too late, I think it’s closing time, it’s closing time
Every time I sink below the feeling fine, the final line
says Every time you wake I think it’s closing time, it’s closing time
I never noticed when the sun came up
I never noticed I was loosing touch
It never entered my mind
It’s closing time
The final notice landed red and wrong
The final act has left us dead and gone
We’ve reached the curtain line
It’s closing time
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15. |
Boom and Bust
03:01
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Boom and bust, and turn to dust
Crash and burn and we loss adjust
I wanna know right now
I gotta know right now
Is it a Means to an end
Let’s not pretend
I’m ready to go
Boom & bust, it seems we must
Separate from this wanderlust
We wanna go right now
We gotta know right now
When will it offer return
Money to burn
I’m ready to go
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ROGER:(Boom or bust, and turn to dust)
ROGER: (Boom or bust, and return to dust)
You’re gotta
Talk to the hand
Stick to the plan
I’m ready to go
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Crash and burn, when will you learn
boom and bust is what the markets trust
They wanna know right now
They gotta know right now
Markets will turn
money to burn
I’m ready to go
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(Boom or bust, and turn to dust)
(Boom or bust, and return to dust)
You’re gotta
Talk to the hand
Stick to the holding plan god damn
I’m ready to go
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ROGER:(Boom or bust, and turn to dust)
ROGER:(Boom or bust, and turn to dust)
ROGER: (Boom or bust, and return to dust)
Don’t wanna
Talk to the hand
Or work for the man
I’m ready to go
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16. |
Man Overboard
01:21
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to absent friends, then home at last
to raise a glass once more till it’s a
Man over board
Man overboard to the sea
With absent minds we drifted along
With Valentines and songs for a
Man overboard,
Man he was bored you could see
He looked at me, I didn’t look back,
He’s building bivouacs for a
Man overboard,
Man overboard was that me
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Here in a marriage of convenience,
Clocks are ticking, their hands keep gripping
Not letting go to the status quo
But the standards are slipping
Here in the face of adversity
The empty shell of the boys from the country
Cold hard truths that their youth has been used by the man in the city
Making his money
Nothing to lose from the life in the woods he will choose
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18. |
Maybe Marimbas
00:48
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19. |
Step Into The Motorcar
02:48
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Step into the motorcar
Step into the blue
I’m driving a motorcar
I’m riding the tube
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I’ve got to getaway from the city,
harvest moon again
I’ve got a layaway
On a plan to not to remain
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Step into the motorcar
Get out of my lane
I’m riding this vehicle
I’m leaving again
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I’ve got to get away with the summer
Sunshine after rain
you’ve got to get upside to the
Sunny side again
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you’ve got to be some kind of astronaut
Turning circles tighten
This seems to be some kind of afterthought
Burning candles brighten
Brings me back to earth
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Step out of the motorcar
Step into the room
Fly over the handlebars
I’m over the moon
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This might just make my day in the city
Half this time again
You’ve got to takeaway from what’s missing
To explain
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I’ve got a hand upon the astrolabe
Vicious cycles tighten
You seem to stand beside the palisades
Titan’s stars can frighten
Brings me back to earth
I’ve got to be some kind of astronaut
Turning circles tighten
Bring me back to earth
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20. |
Manifesto Man
01:21
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21. |
Leave It To The City
04:07
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Nice dinner and I hold her hand
Last supper and a leaving plan
Tonight, last orders for the son man tonight
I’m leaving to be left alone
No money or a telephone tonight
No worries cos I’m Leaving home
Tonight, I’m leaping to the great unknown
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Leave it to the city where they don’t understand
Leave it to the city this is out of my hands
Leave it to the city now I know where I stand,
A last supper and a leaving plan
Leave it to the city and the overkill
Leave it to the city and your sleeping pills
Leaving from the city to the fat of the land
A last supper and a leaving plan tonight
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No money for the Holy Ghost
No rumours of a coast to coast tonight
No answer cos you know I could be right
No exit coming into sight
No contact from a satellite tonight
No worries it will be alright,
Last orders then I leave tonight
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Leave it to the city where they don’t understand
Leave it to the city this is out of my hands
Leave it to the city now I know where I stand,
A last supper and a leaving plan
Leave it to the city and the overkill
Leave it to the city and your sleeping pills
Leaving from the city for the fat of the land
A last supper and a leaving plan tonight
Leave it to the city and the sinking id
Leave it to the city and we’ll go off grid
Leave it to the city and the son of sam
A last supper and a leaving plan
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22. |
Little Sister Moon
03:06
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Little sister, Little sister
Starting to fall
So I Answer the call
For little sister moon
Little sister, little sister,
Lost in the past
And tied to the mast
For little sister moon
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So i will walk the scenic route
To see you through and
back along the darkest track
Out among the bivouacs
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Little sister, Little sister,
Run to the wall
If the Hammer will fall
On little sister moon
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So I will walk the scenic route
To see you through and
back along the darkest track
Out among the bivouacs
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23. |
So Long, Sleepyheads
00:30
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So long, sleepy heads
It’s time to go, it’s time to steal away, away, away
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Nick Frater Croydon, UK
Croydon based songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist.
Specialising in 60s/70s inspired power-pop.
Making them like that anymore!
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