Álbum: Goodbye Cruel World

Listado de Canciones

Disco 1

1. The Only Flame In Town4:01

   Letra

   I know a girl got my mind in a mess I never heard her say goodnight and God bless She's not the only flame in town And when we're alone we never quarrel I'm miles away now here's the moral She's not the only flame in town She's not the only flame in town She's got to stop thinking that I'm carrying this torch around He struck a match and it lit up her face We should have struck a match girl To burn down the whole place Now you're not the only flame in town But you blew hot and cold Turned my heart to a cinder And with each passing day You'd be less tender and more tinder Now you're not the only flame in town She's not the only flame in town She's got to stop thinking that I'm carrying this torch around Thought I saw your face in the fire But it's so hard to remember Even an inferno can cool down to an ember Now you're not the only flame You're not the only flame You're not the only flame in town
2. Home Truth3:13

   Letra

   I hung up the phone tonight Just as you said I love you Once this would have been coincidence Now these things start to bother me You still close your eyes when I kiss you And I close mine too But we didn't open them again Quite as wide as we should This is where the home truth ends This is where the home truth ends Does your touch feel the same as it should do Or is it someone quite similar Who killed me with kindness last night Now do I look at all familiar? But none of these things seem to matter Since we've grown apart I'd put back the pieces of what's shattered But I don't know where to start This is where the home truth ends This is where the home truth ends This is where the home truth ends And I feel like a clown It's tearing me up It's tearing me down You say which are the lies that you tell me Well where do I begin? So I turn on the TV again And the world comes crashing in Is it my shirt or my toothpaste That is whiter than white? Is it the lies that I tell you Or the lies that I might? This is where the home truth ends This is where the home truth ends Chorus
3. Room With No Number4:13

   Letra

   Picture a hotel room Clothes scattered across the floor Covers pulled back from the pillow A sign hung on the door Two lovers locked up tight Through the endless days and nights Hiding something they can't show Something no-one must know Chorus: There's a room without a number While the sign outside says there's No vacancy as you take your key They smile at you so understandingly She cried out in the night Woke the porter from his sleep He grinned slyly to himself As he went to fetch his keys Look what love has brought them to This terrible nightmare His or hers he could not tell As they were sleeping there Chorus And I wish he could be The man he was before he was me A girl arrived at first light And enquired if they'd been seen And why the numbers ran from twelve Missing out thirteen And they said oh my darling Put it down to superstition Try to avoid a scandal And don't arouse suspicion They re-arranged the furniture They even papered over the door There's a room without a number While the sign outside says there's no vacancy as you take your key They smile just so so you know Chorus
4. Inch By Inch2:29

   Letra

   You can take a powder You can take a drink You can keep the shrink And the kitchen sink Write my name in heaven in invisible ink I just woke up from dreaming, I think You can take me over You can give me a lip You can take me under You can give me the slip Take off everything or tear me off a strip Like a lady in the chamber And another in the clip Chorus: Don't move a muscle baby Don't even flinch You can miss me by a mile Or just inch by inch Inch by inch Inch by inch Inch by inch You can pull me up again Inch by inch Inch by inch As pulses race I long to see that look upon your face You can take me outside You can take me apart You can take me upstairs You can take me to heart You made me love you when You thought you were so smart Don't try to stop me when You told me to start Chorus
5. Worthless Thing3:03

   Letra

   How many times can you jump out of the cupboard Before someone gets suspicious or someone gets discovered You can live forever in a split second of fame Come on down the price is right what's your name While a crocodile makes good shoes and a dog may change his coat I can't change what's written on your face tonight and I quote Chorus: Oh I wish you could see Quite how much you could mean to me You worthless thing If you were ten feet taller and almost handsome I might pay this king's ransom You worthless thing They commit blue murder along Union Avenue Then they sell you souvenir matches Nightclubs full of grave robbers from Memphis, Tennessee And Las Vegas body snatchers And he's carrying a warning can't you see how his eyes glint Keep your bloody hands off my life your affectionate fingerprint Chorus All the cars and pills and girls who tore his shirt to tatters Do you know how tall he was 'cos that is all that really matters? Do you know his mother's last name do you think that he's divine? You've seen the film you've read the book you're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine Bored out of your tiny mind while life is twice as large They'll cut her down to size on television She's available and beautiful, but with more time to devote They're going to take this cable now and stick it down your throat So this is an obituary which should be right and fitting For every clockwork cat and conceivable kitten Chorus
6. Love Field3:34

   Letra

   You lie so unfolded In a love field With your contempt for any modesty In a love field In a love field In a love field You yield with your lips still sealed In a love field Lost in a sea of imaginary women Everything you'd want from the dawn to the dimming Breath comes sharp and heart beats faster In a love field Cold ground for a pillow Under a blanket of stars In a love field In a love field In a love field Headlights that startled This embrace of hours In a love field In a crooked house Where things can be arranged You think you're different from the rest But you don't see how you've changed Under an archway On a road of white linen In a love field Feel the anxious rhythm of a functional stranger In a love field In a love field In a love field She's so tense but it's never mentioned In a love field
7. I Wanna Be Loved4:47

   Letra

   Why must I be so lonely? When so many people pass me by I've been waiting for oh so long now And yet I'm unable to answer why I can't be made to give up now Can you find room for me in your heart somehow? I wanna be loved I just wanna be loved I guess I'm a victim of loneliness But why should this be my destiny? A foolish man for a lot of my life Shouldn't there be someone Someone for me? I hope and I pray some happy day That I'll be around to hear you say I wanna be loved I just wanna be loved
8. The Comedians2:35

   Letra

   I sat there alone upon the ferris wheel A pastel-colored carriage in the air I thought you'd leave me dangling for a minute or two A silly twist upon a childish dare Below I saw you whisper to another man Who held the lever that could bring me down He stopped the world from turning at your command It's always something cruel when left to drown I can hardly hear the music from the carousel The wind picks up, the carriage starts to sway And one by one the lights go out, it's closing time I see you take his hand and walk away Walk away They say that you are always the last to know They say that all that glitters is not gold It's not just that you're never coming back to me It's the bitter way that I was told. I can hardly hear the music from the carousel The wind picks up, the carriage starts to sway And one by one the lights go out, it's closing time I see you take his hand and walk away Walk away
9. Joe Porterhouse3:29

   Letra

   The children sit upon the stairs High above a valley of tears Don't let them see you crying that way oh no Oh no Joe Porterhouse Is not gone forever He'll be back another day Don't let them see you crying that way Chorus: Please don't wake him let him sleep It's a moment she can keep Like an old bus ticket or a photograph Resting on the mantlepiece While for the wicked there is no peace She says it's not his time to go Why we were nearly lovers years ago Now what is left for me Among the broken branches of the family tree Heart like an anchor Arms like cable He stood all alone on an iron turntable Don't let them see you crying that way oh no The sun beats down It's cracking the flags Boys who should know better Are stamping out fags Don't let them see you laughing that way Chorus Oh no Joe Porterhouse Is not gone forever He'll be back another day Don't let them see you crying that way
10. Sour Milk-Cow Blues2:50

    Letra

    You like coffee and you like tea Much more than you like me And everybody says watch out yeah For the sour milk-cow blues You like your coffee just a little too sweet Without your sugar life is incomplete And everybody says watch out yeah For the sour milk-cow blues I think about you everyday Something about you is not the same Something about the things you say Sounds like a different woman with a different name Sour milk-cow blues You wear a different size and style of shoe I think that someone must be poisoning you To replace you with a living double Get out of my life right now and save them all of the trouble They changed your complexion and your personality Somebody's putting ideas in your head They took the girl of my dreams and left you here instead Sour milk-cow blues You take your place in this parade of pleas You dial a number and they offer relief All alone with just your own device They give you something and it isn't advice To break the hearts of a million listeners Start out as lovers and you end up as prisoners Somebody's suffering from the things that you do Somebody's suffering but you're glad it isn't you Put your fingertips up to the screen Repeat after me, wake at the count of three Now I don't know which is worse What they're doing to you or what you're doing to me Sour milk-cow blues
11. The Great Unknown3:00

    Letra

    They took old Danny Boy for a ride From the arms of his bride to be Threw him into the murky waters By the dog biscuit factory Quick dry the tears and stifle cheers As he sinks just like a stone Footprints set in sentimental cement Now burden down his bones Lest we forget Here lies the Great unknown My my my Delilah Who's the butcher that you harbour Take the rich man to the cleaners And the strong man to the barber From her face down to her torso Sort of gruesome only more so Hooks and eyes, fingers and thumbs Ladies and gentlemen here she comes The Great unknown Where shall we sing At a wedding or a wake Whose name shall we cherish And for whose sake Now this year's cannon fodder Tell the future general's jokes They were keeping the home fires burning As we slipped out for a smoke Though the VIP's sang "Wooden Heart" The band played "Hearts of Oak" Chorus And here comes the day I shall perish all alone Say here lies the Great unknown
12. The Deportees Club2:54

    Letra

    In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub, bar and grill Standing in the fibreglass ruins watching time stand still All your troubles you confess to another faceless backless dress Schnapps chianti porter and ouzo Pernod vodka sambuca I love you so Deportee Tatty beauty talking in riddles Rome burns down everybody's on the fiddle Two thousand dollars for wife and some class A thousand years drowned in a chaser glass How I wish that she was mine I could have been a King in Six Eight Time Schnapps chianti porter and ouzo Pernod vodka sambuca I love you so Deportee It's a brittle charm but she's had enough Still she wrote her number on his paper cuff You don't know where to start or where to stop All this pillow talk is nothing more than talking shop When I came here tonight my pockets were overflowing They took my return ticket without me even knowing I pray to the saints and all the martyrs For the secret life of Frank Sinatra But none of these things have come to pass In America the law is a piece of ass I'm a deportee
13. Peace In Our Time4:08

    Letra

    Out of the aeroplane stepped Chamberlain with a condemned man's stare But we all cheered wildly, a photograph was taken, As he waved a piece of paper in the air Now the Disco Machine lives in Munich and we are all friends And I slip on my Italian dancing shoes as the evening descends And the bells take their toll once again in victory chime And we can thank God that we've finally got Peace in our time There's a man going round taking names no Matter who you claim to be As innocent as babies, a mad dog with rabies, you're still a part of some conspiracy Meanwhile there's a light over the ocean burning brighter than the sun And a man sits alone in a bar and says "Oh God, what have we done?" Chorus They're lighting a bonfire upon every hilltop in the land Just another tiny island invaded when he's got the whole world in his hands And the Heavyweight Champion fights in the International Propaganda Star Wars There's already one spaceman in the White House what do you want another one for? Chorus

Disco 2

1. The Only Flame In Town4:01

   Letra

   I know a girl got my mind in a mess I never heard her say goodnight and God bless She's not the only flame in town And when we're alone we never quarrel I'm miles away now here's the moral She's not the only flame in town She's not the only flame in town She's got to stop thinking that I'm carrying this torch around He struck a match and it lit up her face We should have struck a match girl To burn down the whole place Now you're not the only flame in town But you blew hot and cold Turned my heart to a cinder And with each passing day You'd be less tender and more tinder Now you're not the only flame in town She's not the only flame in town She's got to stop thinking that I'm carrying this torch around Thought I saw your face in the fire But it's so hard to remember Even an inferno can cool down to an ember Now you're not the only flame You're not the only flame You're not the only flame in town
2. Young Boy Blues (Demo)
3. Turning The Town Red

   Letra

   You've been taught that this won't do They put me in the picture but the film turned blue A glimpse of you, Turning The Town Red. A head full of brand new words and a mouth full of shocks You're a big boy now, with a face to stop clocks. Turning the Town Red. (2x) You made your bed, and now you better dream in it. The word that you once whispered, now you're screamin' it. Days drip down like bad wallpaper. Pictures plastered on the ivy creeper between your old toy soldiers and your mother's sleepers. Turning the Town Red. (2x) You made your bed, you better face the consequence. A black pool opened at my feet into a dream sequence. Turning the Town Red. Aah. (x4) You know I heard her call my name Least, I think that's what she said. Surely I'm the correlation that's gonna cause her shame So, what's she doing in my bed? Turning the Town Red. Aah. (Repeat.)
4. I Hope You're Happy Now
5. Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)
6. Get Yourself Another Fool

   Letra

   At last I've awakened to see what you've done. All I can do is pack up and run. Now I know the rules. Find yourself another fool. You said that you loved me. I was yours to command. Your kind of loving, my heart couldn't stand. You played me for a fool. Find yourself another fool. And now, now that we're through, you say you wished you'd be true. Oh, but deep down in my heart, I know our love could never grow. And now, now that we're through, you say you wished you'd be true. Oh, but deep down in my heart, I know our love will never grow. At last I've awakened to see what you've done. All I can do is pack up and run. Now I know the rules. Find yourself another fool. Now I know the rules. Find yourself another fool.
7. Baby It's You
8. I Wanna Be Loved (Demo)
9. The Great Unknown (Demo)
10. She Loves The Jerk (Demo)
11. Turning The Town Red (Demo)
12. Peace In Our Time (Demo)
13. Withered And Died

    Letra

    This cruel old country has driven me down, teased me and lied. I've only sad stories to tell to this town My dreams have withered and died. Once I was bending the tops of the trees, Kind thoughts in my head, kind voices to hear. Then I took up with a girl from the West. They'd run and hide, they'd run and hide. Count one to ten and she's gone like the rest. My dreams have withered and died. If I was a butterfly, lived for a day, I could be free just blowing away. Silver moon sailor and silver moonshine On the water so wide, water so wide, Slip from the bed of a good friend of mine My dreams have withered and died. Once I was bending the tops of the trees Kind thoughts in my head, kind voices to hear. This cruel country has driven me down, teased me and lied. Teased me and lied. I've only sad stories to tell to this town. My dreams have withered and died. (3x)
14. The Comedians (Demo)
15. Inch By Inch (Demo)
16. Mystery Voice (Demo)
17. Joe Porterhouse (Demo)
18. The Town Where Time Stood Still (Demo)
19. Blue Murder On Union Avenue (Demo)
20. Home Truth (Demo)
21. The Only Flame In Town (En Vivo)
22. Worthless Thing (En Vivo)
23. Sleepless Nights (En Vivo)
24. What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend
25. Motel Matches (En Vivo)
26. Love Field (En Vivo)