The Liberty of Norton Folgate de Madness

Listado de Canciones

1. We Are London3:39

   Letra

   Na, na, na, na, na, na, na Na, na, na, na, na, na, na From Regent's Park mosque on to Baker Street Down to the Cross where all the pipesmoke neat To Somerstown where somethings never stop The Roundhouse, The Marathon Bar and Camden Lock You can make it your own hell or heaven Live as you please Can we make it if we all live together As one big family? Down to Chinatown for duck and rice Along Old Compton Street, the boys are nice On Carnaby you still can get the threads If you wanna be a mod, a punk, a ted or a suedehead You can make it your own hell or heaven Live as you please Can we make it if we all live together As one big family? Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, we are London Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, London's talking Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, we are London Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, London walking In all the nightclubs, strip joints and the bars From it's poorest paid to it's highest stars The poets, plumbers, painters, spreads and sparks From it's inner city to it's furthest parts You can make it your own hell or heaven Live as you please Can we make it if we all live together As one big family? Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, we are London Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, London's talking Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, we are London Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, London walking Na, na, na, na, na, na, na Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
2. Forever Young4:36

   Letra

   There was a time when I was younger And all the nights and days were long And everyday just getting stronger Like a sunflower in the sun, in the sun Well Mr. Moon is counting backwards Make the waters ebb and flow And all the things we could and should have done But them old regrets, well they'll come and go, just come and go So stay forever young Don't you do what I have done Oh, stay forever young Before paradise lost and innocence gone See the freshness of your young face Like a candle in the gloom In the brightness in your smiling eyes They're lighting up the room, the whole room So stay forever young Don't you do what I have done Oh, stay forever young Before paradise lost and innocence gone So stay forever young Don't you do what I have done Oh, stay forever young Before paradise lost and innocence gone Before paradise lost and innocence gone So stay forever young Don't you do what I have done Oh, stay forever young Before paradise lost and innocence gone So stay forever young Don't you do what I have done Oh, stay forever young Before paradise lost and innocence gone Before paradise lost and innocence gone
3. Dust Devil3:44

   Letra

   Spy the little whizzkid, yeah she's streets ahead On top of the daybreak and the last one to bed Keeps her gizmo under her pillow Little dust devil whipping up a storm Paving the way for dropouts She's equanimous to the norm Come early evening, well she's banging off the ceiling And I said, "Come down, I am missing you If these little fingers could paint you into my picture" I said, "Come down, I am missing you If these little fingers could draw you into my picture" Holds the toilet seat around her neck Writes the landlord out another open cheque Come the daybreak, well she's a self-made And I said, "Come down, I am missing you If these little fingers could paint you into my picture" And I said, "Come down, I am missing you If these little fingers could draw you into my picture They surely would" And I said, "Come down, I am missing you If these little fingers could paint you into my picture" And I said, "Come down, I am missing you If these little fingers could draw you into my picture" I said, "Come down, I am missing you If these little fingers could paint you into my picture" I said, "Come down, I am missing you If these little fingers could draw you into my picture They surely would"
4. The Liberty of Norton Folgate10:11

   Letra

   This is the story of the Liberty of Norton Folgate Old Jack Norris, the musical shrimp and the cadging ramble A little bit of this, would you like a bit of that? But in weather like this, you should wear a coat, a nice warm hat A needle and thread, the hand stitches of time The cattling Lavinski versus Jackie Burke Bobbing and weaving an invisible line So step for step and both light on our feet We'll travel many a long, dim, silent street Would you like a bit of this or a little bit of that, missus? A little bit of what you like does you no harm, you know that The perpetual steady echo of the passing beat A continual dark river of people In their transience and in its permanence But when the streetlamp fills the gutter with gold So many priceless items bought and sold So step for step and both light on our feet We'll travel many a long, dim, silent street together Once 'round Arnold Circus, up through Petticoat Lane Past The Well of Shadows and once back round again Arm in arm with an abstracted air To where the people stared at the upstairs windows Because we are living like kings and these days will last forever 'Cause sailors from Africa, China and the Archipelago of Malay Jump ship ragged and penniless into Shadwell's Tiger Bay The Welsh and Irish Wagtails, mothers of midnight The music hall carousal is spilling out into bonfire light Sending half crazed shadows, giants dancing up the brick wall Of Mr.Truman's beer factory waving bottles ten feet tall Whether one calls it Spitalfields, Whitechapel Tower Hamlets or Bangle Town We're all dancing in the moonlight We're all on borrowed ground Oh, I'm just walking down to, I'm just floating down through Won't you come with me to the Liberty of Norton Folgate? But wait, what's that? Dan Leno and a Limehouse Golem Purposefully walking nowhere Oh, I'm happy just floating about, have a banana On a Sunday afternoon The stall holders all call and shout to no-one in particular Avoiding people you know You're just basking in your own company The Technicolor worlds going by But you're the lead in your own movie 'Cause in the Liberty of Norton Folgate walking wild and free In your second hand coat, happy just to float In this little taste of liberty A part of everything you see They're coming left or right Trying to flog you stuff you don't need or want And a smiling chap takes your hand And drags you in his uncle's restaurant There's a Chinese man trying hard to flog you moody DVDs You know you've seen the film It's black and white, it's got no sound And a man's head pops up and down right across you wide screen TV Only a fiver Alright two for eight quid 'Cause in the Liberty of Norton Folgate walking wild and free In your second hand coat, happy just to float In this little piece of liberty You're a part of everything you see 'Cause it's steady old fellows, pickpockets Dandies, extortioners and night wanderers The feeble, the ghastly Upon whom death had placed a very sure hand Some in shreds and patches Reeling inarticulate full of noisy and inordinate vivacity Which jars discordantly upon the ear And it gives an aching sensation to both pair of eyeballs In the beginning I'd the fear of the immigrant In the beginning was the fear of the immigrant He's made his way down to the dark riverside In the beginning was the fear of the immigrant In the beginning was the fear of the immigrant He made his home there by the dark riverside He made his home there down by the riverside They made their homes there down by the riverside The city sprang from the dark river Thames They made their home there down by the riverside They made their homes there down by the riverside The city sprang up from the dark mud of the Thames I say it again 'Cause in the Liberty of Norton Folgate walking wild and free And in your second hand coat, happy just to float In this little taste of liberty 'Cause you're a part of everything you see Yes, you're a part of everything you see With a little bit of this and a little bit of that A little bit of what you like does you no harm and you know that
5. Sugar & Spice
6. Clerkenwell Polka4:20

   Letra

   I request that the best of our minds Be impressed to repent of their crimes For the truth is there all for to see What can be said in defense of man's tyranny? To declare too content of the view That to conform to the norm is what you do If you live wracked in anger and in shame The only road you'll find is that hard road, my friend I concur to defer to the sound Of discontent when it's meant by the crowd If in fairness is how you see it end The only road you'll walk is that hard road, my friend And the papers they were printing they did sell In Clerkenwell there were presses turning And the emigrates they boarded ships and sailed They could not fail to bring passions burning Why deny that the lie that is sent Makes you live work and die for some rent If you're happy then to leave it up to them The only road you'll know is that hard road, my friend We resent the intent of the few Who do conspire to acquire what's our due If you don't know your rights and defend The only road you'll go is that hard road, my friend If you fall and you crawl towards debt And the sum it is more than what was lent If you can't keep your eyes on the change The only road you'll walk is that bloody road, my friend
7. Bingo4:08

   Letra

   Oh, drawn by a multitude of different factors What make this town my home And God save the piss head and thespian actor Relieved of everything they own But look at me now, I'm curled up like a fat cat Kicked into hell and back So I throw in the towel to a bouquet of laughter I'm rolling along the ground Oh, this town Cartwheels, tripping out of control again Oh, this town Balancing, falling off into no man's land And Old Mother Redcap She pours out her heart but of all the tales she tells The Kentiston Cobbler Winks over my shoulder and bids me a fond farewell But be forewarned in Camden Town Over and over and out Oh, this town Cartwheels, tripping out of control again Oh, this town I'm balancing, I'm falling off into no man's land Oh, this clown Who expects, yeah nothing from a nothing so Just leave me to drown In the tears of a very happy old man Oh, this town Cartwheels, tripping out of control again Oh, this town I'm balancing, I'm falling off into no man's land Oh, this old clown Who expects, yeah, nothing from a nothing so Just leave me to drown In the tears of bingo
8. Rainbows3:21

   Letra

   Petulant elbows, tiny kicking feet I've been waiting for this moment, I'm on a roll I've spent infinity counting silent sheep I don't need no more sleep, no, I'm all ready to go I think today is gonna be my birthday So I'm taking in the air as if it were my last I've got nothing to lose, I've got nothing to gain So just like where I'm coming from There's only one place to go There's only one place to aim I'm sliding down rainbows Out into the wild uncultivated child I'm taking in the sideshow Where angels heaven sent prepare us for the main event Now I'm gatecrashing into your scene Like it or lump it I'm with the team No invitation, pupil dilation A little bit pissed but hey, it's only a dream I ain't got nothing to lose, I ain't got nothing to gain So just like where I'm coming from There's only one place to go There's only one place to aim I'm sliding down rainbows Out into the wild uncultivated child I'm taking in the sideshow Where angels heaven sent prepare us for the main event I'm sliding down rainbows Out into the wild uncultivated child I'm taking in the sideshow Where angels heaven sent prepare us for the main event I feel today it could be my birthday So I'm taking in the air as if it was my last I ain't got nothing to lose, I ain't got nothing to gain So just like where I'm coming from There's only one place to go There's only one place to aim, oh I'm sliding down rainbows Out into the wild uncultivated child I'm taking in the sideshow Where angels heaven sent prepare us for the main event I'm sliding down rainbows Out into the wild uncultivated child
9. That Close4:10

   Letra

   Ready for love, we were so close it was scary We were that close I couldn't tell you Ready for love, we were that close to getting it right Crashing and burning Remember them summer days When we took whatever came our way And get away, hey but not too far We take a spin 'round in your rusty old car 'Cause no one else could know What we've done and seen No one else could see It's all a hazy dream Remember them summer days When we took whatever came our way And get away, yeah but not too far We take a spin 'round in your broken down car Slipping and sliding Skidding on the surface Skidding on the surface With the brakes jammed down Slow motion, sliding head-on And then we were that close Remember them summer days When we took whatever came our way And get away, hey but not too far We take a spin 'round in your rusty old car We were so close it was scary We were that close I couldn't tell you Ready for love, ready for love Remember them summer days When we took whatever came our way And get away, yeah but not too far We take a spin 'round in your broken down car Ready for love, remember them summer days When we took whatever came our way And get away, yeah but not too far
10. MK II

    Letra

    There's a Mark II parked on the cobbles Of a Chelsea Mews and out of the shadows Steps a figure, silver mohair bright Into the moonshine out into the night And in the darkness one stray moonbeam Creeps through the curtains on the unmade bed She stares at the ceiling, just an empty feeling He starts the Jaguar and drives away And no one breathes a word 'Cause even breathing can be heard Right through the silver screen They've made inquiries, they'll make it easy But she won't answer 'cause she's not really there He throws his gloves out the open window He lights a cigarette and drives away He starts the Jaguar and drives away
11. Idiot Child3:19

    Letra

    Although he had past history The mischief has soon passed A spunky little kid from North West 5 Longed for the mystery to last Free as the wind Wild as a march hare With oh so much to learn Careful that you don't get burned The boy who wouldn't grow up Chasing his own tail The boy who couldn't grow up An outing on bail Oh, idiot child clutching to life Always made to grow up, always told to shut up Idiot child clutching to life Always destined to fail, always ending up in jail Oh, behold the gherkin men With their military stance did shout Mark my words Mrs. Hutchinson We'll sort this laddie out The parent teachers association Secretly fixed a date A giant swoop is authorized To sign and seal his fate Oh, sent away for a year and a day He was taken so orderly And drilled into his delicate shell To behave normally Oh, idiot child clutching to life The boy who never grew up, always told to shut up Idiot child clutching onto life Always destined to fail, always ending up in jail Somethings are so predictable ain't they Somethings just never change, look around Most animals are trained at an early age But some of us just never lay down Idiot child just clutching to life The boy who never grew up, always made to shut up Idiot child clutching to life Always destined to fail, always ending up in jail Idiot child clutching to life The boy who never grew up, always told to shut up Idiot child clutching onto life Always destined to fail, always ending up in jail Always ending up in jail, always destined to fail
12. On The Town4:32

    Letra

    Oh, it's early in the morning It's raining and the streetlights Streaming through my windows Casting shadows on the ceiling The room is oh so empty Stand against the wall The clock is ticking loudly It's deafening in this quiet room Oh, how long have I been waiting? What am I to say? Inside I don't want to stay Oh, 'cause I've been on the town Sick and tired of your frown I can hear you in the hallway It's not unusual you're there everyday Only now the hour's so late Every minute I've had to wait Has been an eternity But now you're back again with me The clock says five fifteen Oh, won't you tell me where you've been? Won't you tell me where you've been? What am I to say? Inside I don't want to stay Oh, 'cause I've been on the town Sick and tired of your frown And if I met another guy Who could not say I would not lie? I saw you in the morning It was just like every other day You kissed me on the cheek I said, "Here comes another week" You glanced out of the window And I asked you where your thoughts go "I'm just tired I guess", you said And turned away your head You just turned away your head What am I to say? Inside I don't want to stay Oh, 'cause I've been on the town Sick and tired of your frown What am I to say? I could not stand another day Oh, I wish that you could see That it's all over for me And if I met another guy Who could not say I would not lie 'Cause I've been on the town I've been on the town 'Cause I've been on the town I've been on the town I've been on the town I've been on the town I've been on the town I've been on the town I've been on the town On the town I've been on the town