Punch the Clock es un álbum de Elvis Costello, publicado en 1983. El disco incluye 39 canciones, entre ellas «Let Them All Talk», «Everyday I Write The Book», «The Greatest Thing» y «The Element Within Her».
Sobre el álbum
El álbum Punch the Clock, de 1983, es la incursión de Elvis Costello & The Attractions en el sonido del pop de sintetizadores y la new wave más comercial. En este trabajo, la banda se apoya en una producción muy característica de los años 80, con un uso prominente de teclados y, por primera vez, de una sección de vientos. De hecho, es uno de sus discos más accesibles y con un sonido más pulido.
La producción, a cargo de Clive Langer y Alan Winstanley, es brillante y está perfectamente orientada a la radio. El álbum contiene varios sencillos de éxito, como el pegadizo "Everyday I Write the Book".
El álbum también incluye una de sus canciones políticas más importantes y conmovedoras: "Shipbuilding". Esta balada, con una letra sobre la Guerra de las Malvinas y una inolvidable melodía de trompeta a cargo de la leyenda del jazz Chet Baker, es una gran obra de la canción protesta.
'Punch the Clock' es un trabajo de pop de alta calidad que, aunque a menudo criticado por su sonido ochentero, contiene algunas de las mejores canciones de su autor y demuestra su increíble versatilidad.
Listado de Canciones
Disco 1
- Let Them All Talk3:06
Letra
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 - Everyday I Write The Book3:54
Letra
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 - The Greatest Thing3:04
Letra
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 - The Element Within Her2:52
Letra
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' - Love Went Mad3:12
Letra
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 - Shipbuilding4:54
Letra
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 - TKO (Boxing Day)3:28
Letra
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 - Charm School3:55
Letra
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 - The Invisible Man3:04
Letra
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 - Mouth Almighty3:05
Letra
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 - King Of Thieves3:45
Letra
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 - Pills And Soap3:42
Letra
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 - The World And His Wife3:25
Letra
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
- Everyday I Write The Book3:54
Letra
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 - Baby Pictures
- Heathen Town
Letra
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. - The Flirting Kind
Letra
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 - Walking On Thin Ice
Letra
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? - Big Sister's Clothes/Stand Down Margaret
- Danger Zone
- Seconds Of Pleasure
Letra
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. - The Town Where Time Stood Still
- The World And His Wife3:25
Letra
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 - Shatterproof
Letra
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 - Heathen Town
Letra
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. - The Flirting Kind
Letra
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 - Let Them All Talk3:06
Letra
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 - King Of Thieves3:45
Letra
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 - The Invisible Man3:04
Letra
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 - The Element Within Her2:52
Letra
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' - Love Went Mad3:12
Letra
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 - The Greatest Thing3:04
Letra
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 - Mouth Almighty3:05
Letra
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 - Charm School3:55
Letra
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 - Possession
Letra
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 - Secondary Modern
Letra
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... - The Bells
- Watch Your Step
Letra
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 - Back Stabbers/King Horse