Álbum Punch the Clock de Elvis Costello - Canciones

Punch the Clock

Disco 1

  1. Let Them All TalkVer letra 3:06

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    letra de Let Them All Talk

    Hear what I say
    See what I do
    Believe me now, I'm all over you
    All over you
    I know a place (I know a place)
    A certain very tender spot
    To have and to hold
    To have and have not

    Listening to the sad songs that the radio plays
    Have we come this fa-fa-fa to find a soul cliche

    Let them talk, let them talk, let them all talk
    Let them all talk, let them talk, let them all talk
    Let them all talk, let them talk, let them all talk
    Let them all talk, let them talk, let them all talk

    Oh yeah we're killing time
    Just to keep you clocking on
    These are the best years of your life
    Now they're here and gone

    Do the world a service
    And you could do yourself a favour
    Whose tongue now is tasting last week's flavour
    Our day will come (our day will come)
    When you have squandered all your youth
    To have and to hold
    A stranger to the truth

    Listening to the sad songs that the radio plays
    Have we come this fa-fa-fa to find a soul cliche

  2. Everyday I Write The BookVer letra 3:54

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    letra de Everyday I Write The Book

    Don't tell me you don't know what love is
    When you're old enough to know better
    When you find strange hands in your sweater
    When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote
    I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions

    And i'm giving you a longing look
    Everyday, everyday, everyday i write the book

    Chapter one we didn't really get along
    Chapter two i think i fell in love with you
    You said you'd stand by me in the middle of chapter three
    But you were up to your old tricks in chapters four, five and six

    The way you walk
    The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh
    In four or five paragraphs
    All your compliments and your cutting remarks
    Are captured here in my quotation marks

    Don't tell me you don't know the difference
    Between a lover and a fighter
    With my pen and my electric typewriter
    Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal
    I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel

  3. The Greatest ThingVer letra 3:04

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    letra de The Greatest Thing

    Everyone stopped when she walked into the room
    Isn't this the greatest thing?
    Everyone own up, but nobody could touch her
    Isn't this the greatest thing?
    Punch the clock keep boxing clever
    You'll be young enough for ever
    Isn't this the greatest thing?
    Isn't this the greatest thing?

    I heard some new confection
    Said we can't afford to feel affection
    And it's the lastest thing
    In and out of matrimony
    Never once removed the Sony
    'Cos it's a status thing
    So girls like that above described
    Are not to be so easily bribed
    With a white frock and a ring

    Punch the clock and in time you'll get pulled apart
    If you're married on paper and not in your heart
    But I won't be told that life with the one you love is sordid
    Just because some authority says you can't afford it
    Since nights were long and days were olden
    Woman to man has been beholden
    But since then times have been changing
    She sends back his tribute of a rose
    And says this ring is better suited for the nose
    He's always fingering

    I punch the clock and it's ok
    I know a girl who takes my breath away
    And it's the greatest
    And it's the greatest thing

  4. The Element Within HerVer letra 2:52

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    letra de The Element Within Her

    It's the element within her
    Something under her skin
    That is shining out through the face of the girl
    Two sapphires and couple of rows of pearls
    It's just a part of it
    Like your fine tresses
    You know what my guess is
    La la la la la la la la la la la

    He was a playboy
    Could charm the birds right out of the trees
    Now he says 'what do i do with these?'
    La la la la la la la la la la la

    This love in my heart
    Let no-one set asunder
    Sometimes i wonder
    La la la la la la la la la la la

    But back in the bedroom
    With her electric heater
    I say 'are you cold?'
    She says 'no, but you are la'

  5. Love Went MadVer letra 3:12

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    letra de Love Went Mad

    I've looked at it every way i can
    From under and above
    And every chance i've had
    My love went mad
    Love went mad love went mad
    You you feel like i feel?
    Do you have a heart?
    Do you have a heart of iron and steel?

    Are you a man now you wear a man's hat?
    Are you a man now or are you a rat?
    You go to church quiet as a mouse
    You're a big cheese now in the workhouse
    With these vulgar fractions of the treble clef
    I wish you luck with a capital 'f'
    A self-made mug is hard to break
    A silent partner in someone else's mistake

    Every day goes by without a hitch
    You feel the urge becoming an itch
    The boys in blue are hard to catch
    They're busy turning piccadilly
    Into brands hatch
    But with your fingers in your ears
    Feeling bright as a button
    Thinking 'thank god there'll be no more
    Lamb dressed as mutton'
    Playing family favourites on a tissue and a comb
    Dying a thousand deaths
    In the safety of your own home

  6. ShipbuildingVer letra 4:54

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    letra de Shipbuilding

    Is it worth it?
    A new winter coat and shoes for the wife
    And a bicycle on the boy's birthday
    It's just a rumour that was spread around town
    By the women and children
    Soon we'll be shipbuilding
    Well I ask you
    The boy said
    Dad they're going to take me to task, but I'll be back by Christmas

    It's just a rumour that was spread around town
    Somebody said that someone got filled in
    For saying that people get killed in
    The result of this shipbuilding
    With all the will in the world
    Diving for dear life
    When we could be diving for pearls
    It's just a rumour that was spread around town
    A telegram or a picture postcard

    Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
    And notifying the next of kin
    Once again
    It's all we're skilled in
    We will be shipbuilding
    With all the will in the world
    Diving for dear life
    When we could be diving for pearls

  7. TKO (Boxing Day)Ver letra 3:28

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    letra de TKO (Boxing Day)

    You can run all you like from the classroom or the cot
    From a great big man or a tiny tot
    But from this day everyday will be boxing day
    Don't need your indecision let there be no doubt
    Don't need you permission i can count you out

    Tko

    They put the numb into number they put the cut into cutie
    They put the slum into slumber and the boot into beauty
    But from this day everyday will be boxing day
    It's a fight to the finish let there be no doubt
    As the seconds turn into minutes i can count you out

    Tko

    You need a back to break or a back to stab
    Now your birthday suit looks dull and drab
    But from this day everyday will be boxing day
    Now you don't look so glamorous
    Whenever i feel so amorous
    I can count you out

    Tko

  8. Charm SchoolVer letra 3:55

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    letra de Charm School

    Men made out of monkeys
    Men made into mice
    Happy days are here again
    And all the drinks half price
    A girl with a trick and a man with a calling

    Trying to make a living out of your downfalling
    Trying to make a living out of anything at all
    Didn't they teach you anything except how to be cruel
    In that charm school

    You and i as lovers
    Were nothing but a farce
    Trying to make a silk purse
    Out of a sow's arse
    Saying 'why don't you watch me'
    Hardly speaking sotto voce

    I've got a notion
    I've got an angle
    Take your dreams and promises
    And put them through the mangle
    They say it's hell to finance too
    And i just want to romance you

    In this perpetual nightclub
    I'll be yours eternal
    Though the hours are long
    And the noise infernal
    Just one shameful act or sometimes two
    We make believe we're making do

  9. The Invisible ManVer letra 3:04

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    letra de The Invisible Man

    I was committed to life and then commuted to the outskirts
    With all the love in the world
    Living for thirty minutes at a time with a break in the middle for adverts
    But it's a wonderful world within these cinema walls
    Where a shower of affection becomes niagara falls
    And you wish she could step down from the screen to your seat in the stalls

    But if stars are only painted on the ceiling above
    Then who can you turn to and who do you love
    I want to get out while i still can
    I want to be like harry houdini
    Now i'm the invisible man

    My head is spinning round faster and faster
    Here i stand on the edge of disaster
    I'm shattered like a piece of crystal porcelain or alabaster
    Crowds surround loudspeakers hanging from the lampposts
    Listening to the murder mystery
    Meanwhile someone's hiding in the classroom
    Forging books of history
    Never mind there's a good film showing tonight
    Where they hang everyone everybody who can read and write
    Oh that could never happen here but then again it might

  10. Mouth AlmightyVer letra 3:05

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    letra de Mouth Almighty

    This town belongs to you and your tricks of confidence
    All the pavements for miles around are littered with your footprints
    Now every girl I get close to seems to be wearing your perfume
    And the clock strikes the letters of your name
    Both midnight and noon
    But I used to shoot my mouth off
    Till you'd had enough of me
    Once or twice nightly
    I know I've got my faults
    And among them I CAN'T CONTROL MY TONGUE
    But if you didn't believe me
    Why did you have to leave me
    With my mouth almighty

    Mouth almighty that's what I've got
    Mouth almighty telling you what's what
    Mouth almighty
    I wish I'd never opened my mouth almighty

    So i thew away the rose and held onto the thorn
    Crawling round with my crooner cufflinks and my calling card cologne
    But the realization of being replaced starts to tell tales across my face
    Without a soul to talk to or a hair out of place

  11. King Of ThievesVer letra 3:45

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    letra de King Of Thieves

    I had forgotten all about 'the case of the three pins'
    They said i must be cracked
    Until the brown paper parcel landed on my welcome mat
    Even the pretty secretaries who wouldn't even
    Let me hang my hat
    All recognize my handwriting
    And return to sender as a matter of fact

    If i were you i'd change my name again
    They don't care what they do to you believe me
    This is the coronation of the king of thieves
    His occupation is the king of thieves
    He can steal more than you can save
    You can take him on, but you're not that brave

    I'll tell your fortune in a minute or two
    I might even tell you what comes next
    The moguls want a human sacrifice
    And look at that girl, young hungry and perplexed
    They took away the best years of her life
    Ah but it's all in good fun
    And if you kept you nose clean
    You can laugh now at the caring things they've done

    I'll write this story down, but you'll never guess the
    Final twist
    Blow the whistle on the whole design
    As they find my name on that fatal mailing list
    I hear the clatter of a typewriter
    Another rookie eating up the reams
    I think it's time to place my feet under the desk
    And put my mark on another man's dreams
    This is the coronation of the king of thieves
    And look at that girl
    Look at that girl
    Look at that girl

  12. Pills And SoapVer letra 3:42

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    letra de Pills And Soap

    They talked to the sister, the father and the mother
    With a microphone in one hand and a chequebook in the other
    And the camera noses in to the tears on her face
    The tears on her face
    The tears on her face
    You can put them back together with your paper and paste
    But you can't put them back together
    You can't put them back together

    What would you say?
    What would you do?
    Children and animals two by two
    Give me the needle
    Give me the rope
    We're going to melt them down for pills and soap
    Give me the needle
    Give me the rope
    We're going to melt them down for pills and soap

    Four and twenty crowbars, jemmy your desire
    Out of the frying pan into the fire
    The king is in the counting house
    Some folk have all the luck
    And all we get are pictures of lord and lady muck
    They come from lovely people with a hard line in hypocrisy
    There are ashtrays of emotion for the fag ends of the aristocracy

    The sugar coated pill is getting bitterer still
    You think your country needs you but you know it never will
    So pack up your troubles in a stolen handbag
    Don't dilly dally boys rally round the flag
    Give us your daily bread in individual slices
    And something in the daily rag to cancel any crisis

  13. The World And His WifeVer letra 3:25

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    letra de The World And His Wife

    The family circle gather round from very far and near
    To pass around the same remarks they passed away last year
    The little girl you dangle on your knee without mishap
    Stirs something in your memory
    And something in your lap

    But it's a living
    This is the life
    For the world and his wife
    The world and his wife

    The kissing cousins slip outside to cuddle and confess
    She says sweet nothing at all it's much more of a mess
    The conversation melts like chocolate down their open jaws
    As the juniper berry slips down just like last night's drawers

    To tell the truth our mum ran off with someone else's father
    Went for two weeks' holiday in taramasalata
    Daddy went out with the rubbish and he kept on walking
    Between mum and the walls
    God only knows who does the talking

    But later on in the evening through the tears and fol de rol
    Come the sentimental feelings for the lure of vitriol
    Longing thoughts go hankering for the old home overseas
    With a blindfold and a national anthem
    Sung in different keys

Disco 2

  1. Everyday I Write The BookVer letra 3:54

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    letra de Everyday I Write The Book

    Don't tell me you don't know what love is
    When you're old enough to know better
    When you find strange hands in your sweater
    When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote
    I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions

    And i'm giving you a longing look
    Everyday, everyday, everyday i write the book

    Chapter one we didn't really get along
    Chapter two i think i fell in love with you
    You said you'd stand by me in the middle of chapter three
    But you were up to your old tricks in chapters four, five and six

    The way you walk
    The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh
    In four or five paragraphs
    All your compliments and your cutting remarks
    Are captured here in my quotation marks

    Don't tell me you don't know the difference
    Between a lover and a fighter
    With my pen and my electric typewriter
    Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal
    I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel

  2. Baby Pictures
  3. Heathen TownVer letra

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    letra de Heathen Town

    We used to call it Sin City
    now it's gone way past that.
    Painting the town
    and then burning it down.
    And even that's old hat.
    Now there' a choir of angles
    and the fall of Rome
    singing "Ave Maria"
    or "Home Sweet Home"

    Chorus:
    It's just a heathen town
    I hear only evil
    as my tongue is tightened.
    I used to be god-fearing
    now I'm so frightened
    'cause the devil will drag you under
    by the sharp tailfin
    of your checquered cab (?)
    Now I can't sit down,
    I'm going overboard
    in this heathen town.

    Starts as an a flirtation
    and ends up as an expensive habit.
    With one eye on her place (??)
    and that's his prison
    And the other on a girl
    dressed as a rabbit.
    Now you can live forever
    in your fits and starts
    The only stake you cannot raise
    Is the one driven through your heart.

    Chorus

    The people all said sit down,
    Sit down you're rocking the boat.
    The people all said sit down,
    Sit down you're rocking the boat.
    'cause the devil will drag you under
    by the sharp lapels of your checkered coat.
    Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down,
    sit down you're rocking the boat.

  4. The Flirting KindVer letra

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    letra de The Flirting Kind

    She used to be the flirting kind
    But the boy loved her anyway
    He made up his mind
    She said, What's a girl to do to be content?
    Use your imagination
    Time to experiment
    Make love like a punishment
    So they call her the flirting kind
    The flirting kind

    You better stop
    Stop your running round
    I got everything I wanted
    I could make up for lost ground

    With the flirting kind
    The flirting kind
    Your love is best
    But I'll leave like the rest
    The flirting kind
    The flirting kind

    They say that her fate is sealed
    But she's much too beautiful to ever yield
    She says, What's a girl to do to be content?
    Use your imagination
    Time to experiment
    Make love like a punishment
    So they call her the flirting kind
    The flirting kind

    She's crying in her sleep
    For a man tone deaf
    So is a man all over
    He's all over, all over town

    With the flirting kind
    The flirting kind
    Your love is best
    But I'll leave like the rest
    The flirting kind
    The flirting kind

  5. Walking On Thin IceVer letra

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    letra de Walking On Thin Ice

    Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price.
    I'm throwing the dice in the air.
    Why must we learn it the hard way
    And play the game of life with our hearts?

    I gave you my life, you gave me your life.
    Like a gush of wind in my hair.
    Why do we forget what's been said
    And play the game of life with our hearts?

    I may cry someday. A kiss will dry whichever way.
    And when my heart returns to ashes, it will be just a story.
    It will be just a story.

    And you go and try to walk across the lake
    Crossed it with winter and all of this is ice
    A terrible thing to do. They say the lake is as thick as the ocean.
    I wonder if she knew?

  6. Big Sister's Clothes/Stand Down Margaret
  7. Danger Zone
  8. Seconds Of PleasureVer letra

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    letra de Seconds Of Pleasure

    You say you don't desire me,
    she's only a hired hand,
    now you are tired of me.
    Expensive care is meaningless,
    feeling nothing and caring less.
    Cut off at the pass,
    she knows where you were headed,
    she wants double-time or a temporary wedding.
    And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure,
    though she? with forty-five years
    for seconds of pleasure.
    I thought I knew you too well,
    now I find the man is a mystery,
    and the promises you made
    are really only ancient history.
    Everyday goes by without a hitch,
    you say the urge becomes an itch.
    You say that I'm no go for you, that's rich,
    or am I being bitchy?
    And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure,
    though she forty-five years
    for seconds of pleasure.
    And the hands on the clock move so precisley,
    You say you only kissed her once or twice.
    You didn't do it for love, you didn't even do it with stealth.
    I can't help you now,
    I can't help myself.
    Commited to life and then commuted to the outskirts.
    I was living for thirty minutes at a time
    with a break in the middle for adverts.
    You treat me like a piece of human furniture.
    You say when? you sad soul,
    if you can look all that you like,
    but I won't let you touch and poke.
    And the lucky girl leads a life of leisure,
    though she ? forty-five years
    for seconds of pleasure.

  9. The Town Where Time Stood Still
  10. The World And His WifeVer letra 3:25

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    letra de The World And His Wife

    The family circle gather round from very far and near
    To pass around the same remarks they passed away last year
    The little girl you dangle on your knee without mishap
    Stirs something in your memory
    And something in your lap

    But it's a living
    This is the life
    For the world and his wife
    The world and his wife

    The kissing cousins slip outside to cuddle and confess
    She says sweet nothing at all it's much more of a mess
    The conversation melts like chocolate down their open jaws
    As the juniper berry slips down just like last night's drawers

    To tell the truth our mum ran off with someone else's father
    Went for two weeks' holiday in taramasalata
    Daddy went out with the rubbish and he kept on walking
    Between mum and the walls
    God only knows who does the talking

    But later on in the evening through the tears and fol de rol
    Come the sentimental feelings for the lure of vitriol
    Longing thoughts go hankering for the old home overseas
    With a blindfold and a national anthem
    Sung in different keys

  11. ShatterproofVer letra

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    letra de Shatterproof

    I see those newlyweds, their eyes wide and believing
    They bill and coo at the mention of Chez Nous
    Appearances can be deceiving
    It's just a door and a window
    Four walls and a roof
    But a home of your own would be shatterproof
    A door and a window
    Four walls and a roof
    But a home of your own would be shatterproof

    We papered over all the cracks and painted a cat's lick and a promise
    The landlord was a man of few words, and most of them were ominous

    It's just a door and a window
    Four walls and a roof
    But a home of your own would be shatterproof
    A door and a window
    Four walls and a roof
    But a home of your own would be shatterproof

    It was nothing really to write home about
    Then one day it all appears too much
    Here comes my little hammer and its shatterproof touch

    He said, "Be practical,
    These are most unreasonable demands.
    Forget about the broken spectacles and the damage to your hand."

    It's just a door and a window
    Four walls and a roof
    And the doctors say I'm almost shatterproof

  12. Heathen TownVer letra

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    letra de Heathen Town

    We used to call it Sin City
    now it's gone way past that.
    Painting the town
    and then burning it down.
    And even that's old hat.
    Now there' a choir of angles
    and the fall of Rome
    singing "Ave Maria"
    or "Home Sweet Home"

    Chorus:
    It's just a heathen town
    I hear only evil
    as my tongue is tightened.
    I used to be god-fearing
    now I'm so frightened
    'cause the devil will drag you under
    by the sharp tailfin
    of your checquered cab (?)
    Now I can't sit down,
    I'm going overboard
    in this heathen town.

    Starts as an a flirtation
    and ends up as an expensive habit.
    With one eye on her place (??)
    and that's his prison
    And the other on a girl
    dressed as a rabbit.
    Now you can live forever
    in your fits and starts
    The only stake you cannot raise
    Is the one driven through your heart.

    Chorus

    The people all said sit down,
    Sit down you're rocking the boat.
    The people all said sit down,
    Sit down you're rocking the boat.
    'cause the devil will drag you under
    by the sharp lapels of your checkered coat.
    Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down,
    sit down you're rocking the boat.

  13. The Flirting KindVer letra

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    letra de The Flirting Kind

    She used to be the flirting kind
    But the boy loved her anyway
    He made up his mind
    She said, What's a girl to do to be content?
    Use your imagination
    Time to experiment
    Make love like a punishment
    So they call her the flirting kind
    The flirting kind

    You better stop
    Stop your running round
    I got everything I wanted
    I could make up for lost ground

    With the flirting kind
    The flirting kind
    Your love is best
    But I'll leave like the rest
    The flirting kind
    The flirting kind

    They say that her fate is sealed
    But she's much too beautiful to ever yield
    She says, What's a girl to do to be content?
    Use your imagination
    Time to experiment
    Make love like a punishment
    So they call her the flirting kind
    The flirting kind

    She's crying in her sleep
    For a man tone deaf
    So is a man all over
    He's all over, all over town

    With the flirting kind
    The flirting kind
    Your love is best
    But I'll leave like the rest
    The flirting kind
    The flirting kind

  14. Let Them All TalkVer letra 3:06

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    letra de Let Them All Talk

    Hear what I say
    See what I do
    Believe me now, I'm all over you
    All over you
    I know a place (I know a place)
    A certain very tender spot
    To have and to hold
    To have and have not

    Listening to the sad songs that the radio plays
    Have we come this fa-fa-fa to find a soul cliche

    Let them talk, let them talk, let them all talk
    Let them all talk, let them talk, let them all talk
    Let them all talk, let them talk, let them all talk
    Let them all talk, let them talk, let them all talk

    Oh yeah we're killing time
    Just to keep you clocking on
    These are the best years of your life
    Now they're here and gone

    Do the world a service
    And you could do yourself a favour
    Whose tongue now is tasting last week's flavour
    Our day will come (our day will come)
    When you have squandered all your youth
    To have and to hold
    A stranger to the truth

    Listening to the sad songs that the radio plays
    Have we come this fa-fa-fa to find a soul cliche

  15. King Of ThievesVer letra 3:45

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    letra de King Of Thieves

    I had forgotten all about 'the case of the three pins'
    They said i must be cracked
    Until the brown paper parcel landed on my welcome mat
    Even the pretty secretaries who wouldn't even
    Let me hang my hat
    All recognize my handwriting
    And return to sender as a matter of fact

    If i were you i'd change my name again
    They don't care what they do to you believe me
    This is the coronation of the king of thieves
    His occupation is the king of thieves
    He can steal more than you can save
    You can take him on, but you're not that brave

    I'll tell your fortune in a minute or two
    I might even tell you what comes next
    The moguls want a human sacrifice
    And look at that girl, young hungry and perplexed
    They took away the best years of her life
    Ah but it's all in good fun
    And if you kept you nose clean
    You can laugh now at the caring things they've done

    I'll write this story down, but you'll never guess the
    Final twist
    Blow the whistle on the whole design
    As they find my name on that fatal mailing list
    I hear the clatter of a typewriter
    Another rookie eating up the reams
    I think it's time to place my feet under the desk
    And put my mark on another man's dreams
    This is the coronation of the king of thieves
    And look at that girl
    Look at that girl
    Look at that girl

  16. The Invisible ManVer letra 3:04

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    letra de The Invisible Man

    I was committed to life and then commuted to the outskirts
    With all the love in the world
    Living for thirty minutes at a time with a break in the middle for adverts
    But it's a wonderful world within these cinema walls
    Where a shower of affection becomes niagara falls
    And you wish she could step down from the screen to your seat in the stalls

    But if stars are only painted on the ceiling above
    Then who can you turn to and who do you love
    I want to get out while i still can
    I want to be like harry houdini
    Now i'm the invisible man

    My head is spinning round faster and faster
    Here i stand on the edge of disaster
    I'm shattered like a piece of crystal porcelain or alabaster
    Crowds surround loudspeakers hanging from the lampposts
    Listening to the murder mystery
    Meanwhile someone's hiding in the classroom
    Forging books of history
    Never mind there's a good film showing tonight
    Where they hang everyone everybody who can read and write
    Oh that could never happen here but then again it might

  17. The Element Within HerVer letra 2:52

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    It's the element within her
    Something under her skin
    That is shining out through the face of the girl
    Two sapphires and couple of rows of pearls
    It's just a part of it
    Like your fine tresses
    You know what my guess is
    La la la la la la la la la la la

    He was a playboy
    Could charm the birds right out of the trees
    Now he says 'what do i do with these?'
    La la la la la la la la la la la

    This love in my heart
    Let no-one set asunder
    Sometimes i wonder
    La la la la la la la la la la la

    But back in the bedroom
    With her electric heater
    I say 'are you cold?'
    She says 'no, but you are la'

  18. Love Went MadVer letra 3:12

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    I've looked at it every way i can
    From under and above
    And every chance i've had
    My love went mad
    Love went mad love went mad
    You you feel like i feel?
    Do you have a heart?
    Do you have a heart of iron and steel?

    Are you a man now you wear a man's hat?
    Are you a man now or are you a rat?
    You go to church quiet as a mouse
    You're a big cheese now in the workhouse
    With these vulgar fractions of the treble clef
    I wish you luck with a capital 'f'
    A self-made mug is hard to break
    A silent partner in someone else's mistake

    Every day goes by without a hitch
    You feel the urge becoming an itch
    The boys in blue are hard to catch
    They're busy turning piccadilly
    Into brands hatch
    But with your fingers in your ears
    Feeling bright as a button
    Thinking 'thank god there'll be no more
    Lamb dressed as mutton'
    Playing family favourites on a tissue and a comb
    Dying a thousand deaths
    In the safety of your own home

  19. The Greatest ThingVer letra 3:04

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    Everyone stopped when she walked into the room
    Isn't this the greatest thing?
    Everyone own up, but nobody could touch her
    Isn't this the greatest thing?
    Punch the clock keep boxing clever
    You'll be young enough for ever
    Isn't this the greatest thing?
    Isn't this the greatest thing?

    I heard some new confection
    Said we can't afford to feel affection
    And it's the lastest thing
    In and out of matrimony
    Never once removed the Sony
    'Cos it's a status thing
    So girls like that above described
    Are not to be so easily bribed
    With a white frock and a ring

    Punch the clock and in time you'll get pulled apart
    If you're married on paper and not in your heart
    But I won't be told that life with the one you love is sordid
    Just because some authority says you can't afford it
    Since nights were long and days were olden
    Woman to man has been beholden
    But since then times have been changing
    She sends back his tribute of a rose
    And says this ring is better suited for the nose
    He's always fingering

    I punch the clock and it's ok
    I know a girl who takes my breath away
    And it's the greatest
    And it's the greatest thing

  20. Mouth AlmightyVer letra 3:05

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    This town belongs to you and your tricks of confidence
    All the pavements for miles around are littered with your footprints
    Now every girl I get close to seems to be wearing your perfume
    And the clock strikes the letters of your name
    Both midnight and noon
    But I used to shoot my mouth off
    Till you'd had enough of me
    Once or twice nightly
    I know I've got my faults
    And among them I CAN'T CONTROL MY TONGUE
    But if you didn't believe me
    Why did you have to leave me
    With my mouth almighty

    Mouth almighty that's what I've got
    Mouth almighty telling you what's what
    Mouth almighty
    I wish I'd never opened my mouth almighty

    So i thew away the rose and held onto the thorn
    Crawling round with my crooner cufflinks and my calling card cologne
    But the realization of being replaced starts to tell tales across my face
    Without a soul to talk to or a hair out of place

  21. Charm SchoolVer letra 3:55

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    Men made out of monkeys
    Men made into mice
    Happy days are here again
    And all the drinks half price
    A girl with a trick and a man with a calling

    Trying to make a living out of your downfalling
    Trying to make a living out of anything at all
    Didn't they teach you anything except how to be cruel
    In that charm school

    You and i as lovers
    Were nothing but a farce
    Trying to make a silk purse
    Out of a sow's arse
    Saying 'why don't you watch me'
    Hardly speaking sotto voce

    I've got a notion
    I've got an angle
    Take your dreams and promises
    And put them through the mangle
    They say it's hell to finance too
    And i just want to romance you

    In this perpetual nightclub
    I'll be yours eternal
    Though the hours are long
    And the noise infernal
    Just one shameful act or sometimes two
    We make believe we're making do

  22. PossessionVer letra

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    If there's anything that you want
    If there's anything that you need
    There's no need to be evasive
    Money talks and it's persuasive
    Possession

    Now you're sending me your best wishes
    Signed with love and vicious kisses
    You lack lust, you're so lacklustre
    Is that all the strength you can muster
    Possession

    Even when we are out of touch
    Now I know that I've seen too much
    Seen too much

    So I see us lying back to back
    My case is closed my case is packed
    I'll get out before the violence
    Or the tears or the silence
    Possession

  23. Secondary ModernVer letra

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    This must be the place
    Second place in the human race
    Down in the basement
    Now I know what he meant
    Secondary modern
    But there must be a problem till the girls go home

    This is the hand that you never shook
    You never gave me the chance that I took
    Secondary modern
    But there won't be a problem till the girls go home

    Is it out of the question
    Between you and me
    Is it pleasure or business
    Or a packet of three?

    Nobody makes me sad like you
    Now my whole world goes from blue to blue
    Secondary modern
    But there won't be a problem till the girls go home...

  24. The Bells
  25. Watch Your StepVer letra

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    Don't say a word
    Don't say anything
    Don't say a word
    I'm not even listening
    I read in the paper about their escape
    They're just two bit of kids from a bunch of sour grapes
    You better watch your step

    Watch who's knocking on your front door
    Now you know that they're watching
    What are you waiting for?
    Think you're young and original
    Get out before...
    They get to watch your step

    Ev'ry day is full of fun
    And family spies
    They're making heroes out of fall guys
    They say it's good for business
    From Singapore to Widnes
    You better watch your step

    Broken noses hung up on the wall
    Back slapping drinkers cheer the heavy weight brawl
    So punch drunk they don't understand at all
    You better watch your step

    Ev'ry night
    Go out full of carnal(carnival) desires
    End up in the closing time choirs

    When you're kicking in the car chrome
    And you're drinking down the Eau de Cologne
    And you're spitting out the Kodachrome
    You better watch your step

    Bye
    I send you all my regards
    You're so tough
    You're so hard
    Listen to the hammers falling in the breaker's yard
    You better watch your step
    You better watch your step
    Ooh, watch your step

  26. Back Stabbers/King Horse

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