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1. _ The Boy Wonders
Words and music by roddy frame
I brought you some francs from my travelling chest
You'll spare me the thanks 'til you know i'm the best
So come hogmonay when love comes in slurs
Resolutions i'll make and you can label them 'hers'
We threw our hands up high we, nearly touched the sky,
We clicked our heels and spat and swore
We'd never let it die
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All those boy wonders
Sold their medals when they saw this train
Now this boy wonders
When he'll feel the fall of honest rain
I came from high land where the hopefuls have to hesitate
Now this boy wonders
Why the words were never worth the wait
I'm waiting, waiting.
In pastel paper pink over grey
We wrap, wrap, wrap and chuck, chuck away
The poor excuse they peddle as their prose.
Dry your tears, tie your tongue and you're never sixteen
And i'll give you a glimpse of the hard and the clean
And my travelling chest will be open to you
And boy will you learn that you haven't a clue
I even asked my best friend but he could not explain
It hit me when i left him
I felt the rain and called it genius,
Called it genius.
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2. _ Down The Dip
Words and music by roddy frame
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I put all the love and beauty
In the spirit of the night
And i'm holding my ticket tight.
Stupidity and suffering
Are on that ticket, too
And i'm going down the dip with you.
I swear i'm touched but then i'm tired
Everyone who tries to tie me.
'cause i seem to realize
That my cup overflows.
And then i tumble down and take your hand
And no one even knows.
With the broken backs
And the pack of macks
Sayin' that's the way it goes.
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'cause i been facin' all the red
Me, i'm chasin' all the orange.
And while the bourgeois breed
All you need is greed
And that quiet remembrance day.
I'm gonna pull that chain
'til the heavens rain
And i see them wash away.
'cause i've bound myself to virtue
But i'm bound to be amused.
If it's less than this
You know i can't approve.
I've been hangin' with the hollow men
Who never got the groove
And i'm going down the dip with you.
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3. _ Haywire
Words and music by roddy frame
The moment's here
Hold it and we'll keep it clear
Just like a crush
I wonder when i feel your rush
Losing nothing but pride
I got game enough to go for a ride
And i'm riding like a buoy on a wave
Yes i'm searching for the one on a wave
But i'm cold as i'm wet
'cos i know it's no one i've ever met
So i'm leaving all my lessons today
Yes i'm throwing all my lessons away
'cos it's one half open
It's one half shut
Like a life, like a knife
But the world wouldn't cut
It's like one mouth open
One mouth shut
A kiss i could miss
Like a kick in the gut
I just get haywire
Haywire
Par for the course
We've had it till i just got hoarse
From night down to day
It doesn't change with what i say
Ooh confidence why did you desert me then
When i could've kicked i snuggled up to think again
But i'm still on the make
When you give i have to take take take
And i'm riding like a buoy on a wave
And i'm learning all my lessons today
So let that voice be untamed
Let it cry and let some names be named
We'll be wired with the force of a wave
We'll be leaving with the force of a wave
It's like
"but how can i help it, if they break then they break
When my hands are untied they're entitled to shake"
It's like
I look to leicester's left-it-lad
And the sickness was singing and the song it was sad
It should be haywire
Haywire
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4. _ Queen's Tattoos
Words and music by roddy frame
Here come a million johnny yens again
Hard pushed, hard bitten, that's a show
They've got their tickets and they're spying out
For somewhere safe where they can go
Like a big black train they're coming through
Singing hey
We do the queen's tattoos
Singing hey
We do the queen's tattoos
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You must have seen our scene
We've been on the news
Singing hey
We do the queen's tattoos
That kind of love gets all the biggest kicks
From martin fry and mills and boone
But it's got no guts
It's got no big kicks
My love and i will kill it soon
You gotta melt your guns
They're playing our tune
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My love and i will kill it soon
You gotta melt your guns
They're playing our tune
Singing hey
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5. _ Pillar To Post
Words and music by roddy frame
So you appear and say how i've grown
And fill me up with faces i've known.
In this light they're far from divine
I'll save them up and spend them when i have time.
The salted taste of all your tears and woes
Sent me in haste my melancholy rose
Those tasteless lips were closed
You watched me come, you'll see me go.
Once i was happy in happy extremes
Packing my bags for the path of the free
From pillar to post i am driven it seems
These bitter tokens are worthless to me
Just like june the curtains are closed
The ghost of shame he sits here and sighs
I'll love the flames like i've loved the cold
I'll learn to love the life of the "could i, could i, could i"
So i don't cross my fingers any more
You looked for rags and found them at your door
How could you ask for more
Than everything you've heard before?
Once i was happy in happy extremes
Packing my bags for the path of the free
From pillar to post i am driven it seems
These bitter tokens are worthless to me
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6. _ Oblivious
Words and music by roddy frame
From the mountain tops down to the sunny street,
A different drum is playing a different kind of beat.
It's like a mystery that never ends.
I see you crying and i want to kill your friends.
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I hear your footsteps in the street,
It won't be long before we meet,
It's obvious.
Just count me in and count me out and
I'll be waiting for the shout,
Oblivious...
Met mo and she's okay, said no-one really changed,
Got different badges but they wear them just the same.
But down by the ballroom i recognized that flaming fountain
In those kindered caring eyes.
Chorus
I hope it haunts me 'til i'm hopeless,
I hope it hits you when you go,
And sometimes on the edge of sleeping
It rises up to let me know it's not so deep,
I'm not so slow.
Chorus
They're calling all the shots, they'll call and say they phoned,
They'll call us lonely when we're really just alone.
And like a funny film, it's kinda cute
They've bought the bullets and there's no-one left to shoot.
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7. _ Back On Board
Heard it said it's a stupid thing, everything that i follow through.
Never got to our god, you see. abandoned with the taste of the new.
And everytime that whistle blows i'm stranded in my shoes.
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Get me back on board, pull me up with grace
Get me back on board, let me be embraced.
'cos even after all those words i want you for my own.
Touch me when the sun comes up and tell me that we're home.
We'll take a train to the graves again
That we can learn the value of life.
Kick the snow with our shoe-heels, shivers give me a smile in the night.
Hey, honest to goodness girl,
I'd kiss you with the lips of the lord.
But to be honest to goodness, i feel i have to wait for the word.
And everytime that whistle blows, i'm stranded in my shoes.
Chorus
'cos i'm always, always trying to be the archetypal free.
The strangest something went to sleep, i buckled at the knees.
So here we go, digging through those dustbins, giving things new names.
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8. _ Release
Words and music by roddy frame
Silver shone the rooftops, i heard the words 'you will',
And realized that in your eyes, the force of love could kill.
So go and get your wages, get what you deserve,
When hope held out of its hands today, you laughed and turned and fled.
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Release, 'cos i wanted the world, and all i could get to
Was a gun or a girl.
Release, now i've thrown them away
I'm here and i'm hungry and i hope i can stay.
The loch is overflowing, the sun has shed its light
And all that's left to warm your breast's the wine we stole tonight.
Bottle merchants both of us, overdosed on keats, we smashed them all
And watched them fall like magic in the streets.
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Standing in our new boots, we've lost the urge to hide,
We left it with the souvenirs that forced us to decide.
How we'd storm the palace, meet me at the gates,
There's plenty bread and water here for anyone who waits.
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But you can't remember where you squandered your hope
A fistful of dollars and a fistful of dope,
With your hands in your hair and your hair in your face,
You'd better summon your soul because we're leaving this place,
With a red, red flag for a souvenir.
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9. _ We Could Send Letters
Words and music by roddy frame
You said you're free, for me that says it all.
You're free to push me and i'm free to fall.
So if we weaken we can call it stress,
You've got my trust i've got your home address.
And now the only chance that we could take,
Is the chance that someone else won't make it all come true.
We're making tracks, they show our touch and go,
And now it's touch and come and you should know.
But then four years won't mean that much to me,
When i've been smothered by the sympathy you bleed.
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Just close your eyes again
Until these things get better
You're never far away
But we could send letters.
While you were gone i reached another town,
They couldn't help me but they showed me round,
And now i've seen what you can't understand,
I'd try to lead you but i'd crush your hand.
Because the people in the village know, it doesn't matter
Where you choose to go the end's the same.
I found some blood i wasn't meant to find
I found some feelings that we'd left behind
But then some blood won't mean that much to me
When i've been smothered by the sympathy you bleed.
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10. _ The Bugle Sounds Again
Words and music by roddy frame
Still, so, here we go, nighthawk calls again,
Meeting after midnight like we do
Flesh bared, never scared, know their kind too well.
"grab that gretsch before the truth hits town",
You whispered to me as they fell.
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And when i'm safe and sound with nothing left to send,
The bugle sounds again.
The cards are on the table now and every other cliche
Somehow fits me like a glove.
You know that i'd be loathe to call it love.
For strength will come to tower above
The things that i have learned to love
And just as i'm about to say 'amen',
The bugle sounds again.
The vampires made a killing, filled their pockets up with shillings
Saying 'someone has to pay' and you were still in hiding
Singing 'come and cry beside me' so i ran away.
And when i'm safe and sound with nothing left to send,
The bugle sounds again.
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11. _ Orchid Girl
Words and music by roddy frame
What do you mean by beauty lain
I hope you know the consequences
'cos beauty wounds will make us strong
With truth we'll test our old defenses
And all my friends will make amends
They're green and grey and gold and groovy
And reconciled they'll shake and smile
Smile at me as though they knew me
And judge this world through jaundiced eyes
They're sold too soon and none too wise
Their big blue god is in the sky
Orchid girl don't spend your money
They asked me what the meek would get
Pictured me afraid to answer
I told them that when thought's entombed
Then love will show it's root in cancer
The sweet disorder in your eye
Has drawn me here through graves and gardens
I'm going in you're going in here are your smokes
Your jokes you're getting soaked i'm angry and my
Fists are pocketed
We'll judge this world through jaundiced eyes
We're sold too soon and none too wise
The big blue god is in the sky
He takes the blame and never cries
But orchid girl you'd make my day
You'd blow their cloud of crap away
If you would just refuse to pay
Orchid girl you'd make my day
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12. _ Walk Out To Winter
Words and music by roddy frame
We met in the summer and walked 'til the fall
And breathless we talked, it was tongues.
Despite what they'll say, it wasn't youth, we hit the truth
Faces of strummer that fell from your wall
And was left were they hung
So sweet and bitter, they're what we found
So drink them down and
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Walk out to winter, swear i'll be there.
Chill will wake you, high and dry
You'll wonder why.
Walk out to winter, swear i'll be there.
Chance is buried just below the blinding snow.
You burn in the breadline and ribbons and all
So walk to winter
You won't be late, you always wait
This generation, the walk to wall
But i'm not angry, get your gear
Get out of here and
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13. _ Lost Outside The Tunnel
Words and music by roddy frame
I laughed until it got too dark.
Somewhere else her voice will bark.
Someone else will be involved.
Someone stronger still.
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I'm lost here by myself, and lost outside myself
But we were not to blame, we're not the same.
I get up to get back down,
People's voices seem to drown me out
When i am in two minds.
Who could hide a love so blind?
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I cared for you in our one dream,
A one way rush to what i'd seen.
A desert free from threats, mundane,
A tunnel for our love.
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