SONG LYRICS:
BOHO IN SOHO
She's an artist y'know
at a strip joint in Soho
When she's not on the go
paints pictures this boho
And the pictures that she paints
are not of angels or saints
but of herself in the nude
She's a narcistic kind of dude
Rarely seen with a man
on her walls do they hang
Exotic lady from Japan
erotic as any white woman
And etc
Some say that's she's cheap
Big money's paid to take a peek
She's etc
And etc
GONE UP IN SMOKE
Your friends talk about you
as if you are still there
They don't want to admit
you've gone into thin air
They talk about the good times
though the good times were rare
It is no joke
You went up in smoke
It is no joke
You went up in smoke
Looking up into the sun
turns vampires into dust
You died with rings round your eyes
You were a gothic-must
Your lips red as the poppies
and poppies were your lust
It is no etc
You looked into the sun
while already too far gone
You were bound to fall apart
after that stake through your heart
Your friends etc
It is no etc
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LOVEROOT
Bewitched by your beauty
give my nose a tweak
You'll awake me from my dreaming
but also hear me shriek
You make hearts beat strong
and you make knees go weak
I am no vegetable
and I am no fruit
I'm a human being
who's like a mandrake root
You've gotten your hands dirty
You drew me out a hole
You're a stunner to the eyes
and a tonic to the soul
This is May Day lady
There's dancing round the pole
I am etc
Bewitched etc
I am etc (twice)
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RUSTY RIVER
Rusty river
River red
Poisonous serpent
blue sea for a head
Rusty river
Rusty river
Rusty river
Rusty river
Rusty river
birds have fled
Poisonous serpent
the fish are dead
Rusty river etc
Repeat all
DOCKSIDE DAISY
Don't step on the concrete-cracks
when down at the dirty docks
while waiting for pretty-girl Daisy
who has for a hand a hook
No don't step on the concrete-cracks
You just never know your luck
Lie with Dockside Daisy
and all the flowers push up
The poor girl is also dumb
She speaks with four fingers and a thumb
Yes the pretty-girl cannot talk
but she has a most- telling walk
No etc
Repeat 1st verse
No etc (twice)
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GREEN FAIRY
Ever since we first began
special beverages has brewed man
Here's a toast to the Bohemian
I've got a green fairy in my hand
Green fairy with my head you play
Green fairy you fly me away
You're the drink they tried ban
in the days of the Victorian
Loved by Oscar and his band
Ah yes you're really Wildean
Green fairy etc (twice)
Ever since etc
Green fairy etc (twice)
CRYPTIC CLUE
There are good times
and there are bad times
That's the way it's got to be
Not everything runs smooth
when you're in loving company
I'm puzzled by you
Cross words get through
I guess that love's a cryptic clue
There are bad times
and there are good times
That's just the way things are
Not everything runs smooth
beneath love's morning and evening star
I'm etc (twice)
Repeat 1st verse
I'm etc (twice)
TWISTS AND TURNS
Men just take her for a ride
or take her for a would-be suicide
Nobody takes her for a bride
She comes in turns
She comes in twists
She bares her soul
and cuts her wrists
Ah yes you come to grieve
when you wear your heart upon your sleeve
"Nobody wants me" she will cry
"Nobody loves me, I want to die"
One day we all shall, say I
She comes etc
Men just etc
She comes etc
GREY JANE
Jane Gray
she came round today
Under a cloud she came
Poor grey Jane
She married too young
She married too fast
Too fast to think
Too young to last
She'll kill herself
or so she says
She'll end her marriage
and all her days
Jane etc
He is living only
for the late-nights
His girl on his arm
'neath the city lights
At home in the morn
he just sits dumb
She married too fast
She married too young
Jane etc (twice)
Repeat 1st verse
Jane etc (twice)
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WHISKEY PRIESTS
Newcastle Keith
and the Hexam beasts
Rolling drunk
are the whiskey priests
Keith is a poet
His pals are musicians
He writes for them
he's not in the band
But that's not a pen
It's Irish whiskey in his hand
Newcastle Keith etc
Yes he writes for them
he's not in the band
He is their poet
you will understand
But that's not a pen
It's Irish whiskey in his hand
Newcastle Keith etc (twice)
(No word - instrumental break)
Newcastle Keith etc (twice)
DIRTY BUCKET SONG
He tripped and fell
when he struck it
He tripped and fell
when he kicked the bucket
But she keeps him young
Yeah she keeps him young
This is the dirty bucket song
The dirty old sod
was caught on the hop
with a girl who is
known for her slop
But she etc (twice)
He fell for her
He fell for her
He tripped etc
But she etc (twice)
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DIRTY BIRD
I am like a songbird
here in your bush
Joyous in my song
as is the thrush
Oh my love your leaves
are so very lush
Call me a dirty bird
singing my song off key
Call me a dirty word
though the tune's in harmony
I'm like a songbird
and you sing with me
We are as two thrushes
singing merrily
Or maybe I'm a wagtail
I ask you jokingly
Call me etc
Repeat 1st verse
Call me etc (twice)
PINK FOREVER
Let us unite
both you and me
From these four walls
set ourselves free
Try to transcend
our mere mortality
Let us bond together
in a pink forever
Let us bond together
in a pink forever
Let us unite
both me and you
From these four walls
try to break on through
doing as we do
what lovers do
Let us bond etc
In the pink
In the pink
Pink pink forever
In the pink
In the pink
Pink pink forever
Repeat 1st verse
Let us bond etc
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SONG LYRICS:
SUPERSONIC
Off to another country
the band is bound
New gigs to play
guitars and drums to pound
Break all the barriers
and the barrier of sound
Supersonic, supersonic
Music is the real tonic
The state of the earth is chronic
Just why are we upon it?
Off to another world
inside their own heads
the kids will be calling
for a music that threads
the rock joint together
with the loose young fans' legs
Supersonic etc
Repeat 1st verse
Supersonic etc
STONE THE CROWS
Stone the crows
is she not slick
They queue with roses
like outside the Old Vic
She's a treat
and she's the trick
She's no Lilly Langtrey
but oscars are due
Oh what a performer
just go ask the queue
Stone the crows
is she not sweet
Put an oscar in her hand
cast roses at her feet
She's up on a pedestal
no more walks the street
She's no etc
Stone the crows
Stone the crows
Give her an oscar
Cast your single-rose
Repeat 1st verse
She's no etc
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KESTREL BOY
He didn't like school
oh no not he
Wanted to be a kestrel
flying free
Wanted to be a kestrel
flying free
Looking out the window
I wanted to enjoy
the world of nature
like the kestrel boy
To roll on a hillside
To climb a tree
School was a prison
for Kes and me
He didn't etc
Staring from the window
not at my maths books
the teacher giving
cold calculated looks
Billy Blake's schoolboy
must have been I
seeking green grass
and the blue sky
He didn't etc
Looking out etc
He didn't etc
YARDBIRD
Saw a train passing by
ran after it the hobo guy
and ran after the train hard
the hobo guy out the engine yard
An eagle hovers in the sun
It's a golden crucifix
He's not looking for martyrdom
just a ride to pheonix
Run along the lengthy rail
Catch the wagon at the tail
Along the lengthy rail go run
You're a tail-end too you bum
An eagle etc
Let smoke from the engine roll
Pheonix or Memphis your soul
is like an Egyptian on a camel trail
that never ends with the holy grail
An eagle etc
Saw a train etc
An eagle etc
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FLEURS DU MAL (FLOWERS OF EVIL #2)
Don't wanna cut up rough
but your wind-pipes full of puff
Careful what you say you'll choke it
Go put that in your pipe and smoke it
Fleurs du mal
Flowers of evil
Fleurs du mal
Flowers of evil
Don't wanna come down tough
but you're talking weedy stuff
It's a bad habit, I'll provoke it
Go put that in your pipe and smoke it
Fleurs etc
Repeat 1st verse
Fleurs etc
DAVY JONES'S SISTER
I took a dive
into the deep
Swim or drown
Laugh or weep
Love is pricey
and life is cheap
Diseased oysters
make the pearls
No pearl of wisdom
was that girl
I took a chance
I should-a known
that the girl
was no precious stone
She was the sister
of Davy Jones
Diseased etc
Repeat 1st verse
Diseased etc (twice)
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TRUST YOU TO BE DISLOYAL
I was never really your king
You were never really my queen
We were pretenders to the throne
A fantasy more than a dream
Trust you to be disloyal
yet act as if you're royal
when you are much less
in that too transparent dress
What you had worn for me
you wear less of for him
You're no more my fake queen
I'm no more your fake king
Trust etc
I was etc
Trust etc
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