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Some girls used to kiss and run
Never knew what they had done
Some girls always wasted time
Keep you hanging on the line
Some loved horses and always stayed at home
But the stainsby girls loved the rolling stones

Now some had games that you had to play
Making rules along the way
Strange attractions newly found
Pride and passion kicked around
Some girls stole your heart
Like most girls do
But a stainsby girls could break it in two

And i fell in love, i fell in love
I fell in love with a stainsby girl

Deepest water stainsby blue
Names and faces fade away
Memories here to stay

And i fell in love, i fell in love
I fell in love with a stainsby girl

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I'm driving home for christmas
I can't wait to see those faces
I'm driving home for christmas
Yea i'm moving down that line
And it's been so long
But i will be there
I sing this song
To pass the time away
Driving in my car
Christmas

Gonna take some time
Top to toe in tailbacks
Got red lights on the run
But soon there'll be a freeway
My feet on holy ground

So i sing for you
Though you can't hear me
When i get trough
And feel you near me
Driving in my car
Driving home for christmas
With a thousand memories

I take look at the driver next to me
He's just the same
Just the same

Top to toe in tailbacks
Got red lights on the run
Driving home for christmas, yea
Get my feet on holy ground

So i sing for you
Though you can't hear me
When i get trough
And feel you near me
Driving in my car
Christmas
Driving in my car
Driving home for christmas

I go to work in a bubble
I got everything i need
I get so high on no trouble
It's a great feeling, being free

I say a prayer at thanksgiving
I bless the night and the day
I look up to the sky with a smile on my face
And i praise the lord of the new way

The sweetest sound i ever knew
Was the sound of reason falling
Like the summer rain
And the truth washed the pain away
New way

I don't watch tv anymore
Don't need to see it now we all know the score
And all the politicians know what they're there for
It's a new way
New way

Now he wanted to fly all those big aeroplanes
Trans-continental and back home again
But his brain, it was grounded
His head could not cope
No qualifications, no reasons for hope

They told him the right way to fasten his tie
Beat him for laughing and never said why
They left his for dead when the results came through
And still never asked what he wanted to do

No qualifications so late in the day
We've screwed you up, well, now you make your own way

Now to label your trousers and label your shoes
If you don't wear nothing then label that too

No qualifications, you are the time born
If you wanna succeed you better get some qualifications
So late in the day
We've screwed you up, well, now you make your own way

Instrumental

So you say that you are tired
And you wanna make a deal
The way the see you turn
Well that's not the way you feel
Well i got news for you sunshine
You may not understand
You're living in a poker game
And you've already shown your hand

So if you can't stand up
You'd better learn how to fall
One thing is for certain
Ain't no way out of here at all
'cos we're winning
Now we've ironed out the edges
That your mother may have loved
Or someone you may have wanted
But you're now too way above

'cos you're shining like a razor
And we're all waiting just for you
We took you up on what you said
Now let's see what you can do

And if you can't stand up
You'd better learn how to fall
One thing is for certain
Ain't no way out of here at all
'cos we're winning

I can't run
In your eyes there's no place left to hide
You've seen my every mystery just show itself and die
So i will fly before you
And all is all to see

Take my hand, understand, there're no more foolish dreams
So many things we just can't share
Are standing in between
So i will fly before you
And all is all to see

I will always want you near in the shallow lights of day
No-one else will share my nights is all that i can say
And i will always want you
But i will always fly like a seabird

And i will always love you
But i will always fly

In the morning she brings music
Takes the dark clouds from my eyes
Gives me something to hang on to
When the cold wind fills the skies
And you ask me do i love her
Yes i do!

You tell me she could leave me
This love could make me cry
All i know is i want it
And i feel it deep inside
So just ask me do i love her
Yes i do!

Tomorrow is tomorrow
I just know about today

In this great big world
Would it be too much to see
Little joy come my way
So just ask me do i love her
Yes i do!

Deep inside the burning histories
All along this lonesome road
The wheels that turn upon what used to be
In passioned memories, overload
The truckhouse standing on the freeway
A neon ambush in the sun
The ides of dogma way down in the subway
It's so hard to tell who's on the run
The hell-hound blizzards of uncertainties
Are the only things that are coming through

And i just want to be with you
There's not a lot i can do
Just keep coming through
Be with you
The smile that burned down those old rusting gates
Those eyes that danced into my soul
And all along this life-long motorway
Bad news upon the radio
The nervous fingers on the safety-catch
Decide the fates to of you and me
Stuck in the middle of this whole shooting match
Man this sure ain't no place to be

The good guys sent to save
The good and free
All scratch their heads and looked confused
And i just want to be with you

Tangled dream and endless highways
Bang the drum in a foreign land
Sometimes i wonder what i'm chasing
When all i need is the touch of your hand
I've got no fixed abode out of own
Babe it gets so cold
Without your love i'm just a stone
And we all laugh and the jokes get wilder
Staying up, staying out
Drinking till you fade away in to the morning
And the strangest cold eats deeper still
Without you sweet kiss i'm gone forever
Without your touch i've no control
Without your love i'm just a looser
Without your love i'm just a stone

Set my sails out on a sunny day
Pretty soon i was on my way
Though what for sure it was
I could not say

Two thousand reasons
Maybe more
Eight hundred chances on faraway shores
Searching for something
Searching for more
Deep down inside me burning
Reasons for the learning

Now you can pick up reasons so easily
Where you've been and where you've got to be
And when the truth don't show you'll always see
Lots of reasons

And pretty soon you've got a heavy load
Dragging those reasons down an endless road
I got to thinking and i got to see
So many reasons coming at me

The one that leaves you high and dry
He says you still owe him, there's a reason why
He'll leave you crying till the tears run dry
He's the one, always the one with all the reasons
So many reasons the come and they go
The reasons for them i'll never know
I've seen so many, they've come and they've gone
I've turned all mine in and i'm happy with one

So don't talk of friendship, do it to me
Make me an offer and make it for free
Don't give me reasons 'cos i wrote that song
I only want love now so i'll just take the one

Sweet, sweet september
Sweet, sweet and true
I'll always, i'll always remember you
Sweet, sweet september blue
Always remember you

And i can't fight it
And i can't choose
The more she wins me
The less i lose

Sweet, sweet september
Sweet, sweet and true
I'll always, i'll always remember you
Sweet september blue

All summer long we were happy we were one
We didn't think of an ending to our play
All summer long nights of wine, days of song
It couldn't last, our ageing sun had to go
I will always remember you

Watching the waves in the wind
The beach dogs hiding from the rain
Suddenly my colours have turned to grey
Will i ever see your face again

And all winter long i will walk my lonely road
Waiting for you and your return
I will always remember you

I see you laughing up at me, and i can't hide
What it is that you can see
I guess that's why
I'm holding out my love for you
And when you turn it around
In different ways
The answers turn around and fly away

I see you laughing up at me
And i can't hide
What it is that you can see
I guess that's why
I'm holding out my love for you

A lifelong history
Of trust in vain
I lead the fools' parade
Out in the rain

I see you laughing up at me
'cos you don't seem to care
But oh how happy i can be
When you are there

That's why i'm holding out
My love for you

Sometimes i think i go insane
So what's a boy supposed to do
Working just to pay my way
But baby when the day is through
Just wanna have a good time
Hey! i've got my shoe, shoes shined
I'm gonna dance, dance, dance

Walking down the city street
They don't like the kind of stuff i play
But feel that bass beneath your feet
Man don't take my only life away
Just wanna have a good time
Hey! i've got my shoe, shoes shined
I'm gonna dance, dance, dance
I'm scared when i wake up sometimes it gets so fast
I want it high and higher but it never lasts
And all i have starts friday night with my first drink
Don't tell me, don't say anything, don't wanna think
Just wanna dance

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Smile
You don't have to spend your days in clouds
Hiding from the sun
Take a look around and see
It's not that easy for anyone

Smile
You don't have to put that kind of stuff
On a friend like me
Or anybody else you see
So come on and smile

Rain comes falling down on everyone
Teardrops running from the sky
Too many nights are spent unspoken
Oh, dry your eyes

Smile
Cos you don't have to spend your days in clouds
Hiding from the sun
Take a look around and see
It's not that easy
Take a look around and smile

And now the day is over
And the shadows start to grow
The sun has done us well today
In flaming crimson he explodes
And bursts of million colours
That spill across the sky
I turn and look at you love
And i know the reason why
Such a long time
Like good wine
Getting better every day
Now you know, i'll never go
So you'll always stay

And our love will keep on shining
Through the wind and the rain
And when the day is over
Our love will shine again
And as the years fly over
I'm feeling younger every day
The love that you have given me
Is more than i can say

Shine, shine, shine

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It don't look good,
It don't look great
You know what's going down you really gonna hate
This is the moment, you know the score
This is what your enemies have waited for

You're going down
And everybody knows, that's the way it goes

Take a look, there ain't no doubt about it
You're in real bad shape
Everything that you don't need
Is waiting at your garden gate
So take a smile, take a woe
You got the rest of your life to wonder why and how
Save that for later, you're far too busy now

Because
You're going down
And everybody knows
That's the way it goes

When the time comes around
I want you to know
You can count on me
When it all comes down
You'll know where i'll be
Standing right next to you
'cos i'll be true to you
I'll be true to you

When the days grow dark
And the winds grow cold
I'll still be with you
I'm tried and i'm tested
And i won't let you down
You can count on me
Because i'll be true to you
I'll be true to you

This love that i've found
It flows like a river
And it's all for you
The streets of this town
Speak only one name
And that name is you

So when the time comes around
I want you to know
You can count on me
When it all comes down
You'll know where i'll be
Standing right next to you
Because i'll be true to you
I'll be true to you

Sierra, sierra
Tell me where is this place you are from
You speak of a land
Filled with warm sea and sand
And the ladies who lie in the sun

Sierra, sierra
Your distant lights fading away
Crossing those stars to the music and bars
Sierra, is it just like you say ?
Sheep counting never worked well
Since the day that i fell
For your ****** dreams
Of a thousand this world's so *******
And i'm pulsed to the wind
At the sight of the song and the sea
Strange cigarettes
Clothes so warm and so wet
You can see through so quite easily
Sierra, sierra

Sierra, sierra,
Please tell me you'll stay
Sierra, sierra,
Till night turns to day
I got so many dreams they can never run dry
My bedroom's becoming a crates on the sky
Filled with dancing tequilas and chickens on spits
White-shirted waiters and girls with big tails
Love in the night in the ways of moonlight
Sierra, please tell me it fits

I could have stood to watch you walk away
And put it down to your uncertain ways
Or maybe baby you've had a change of heart
Maybe wanna make a brand new start
Crazy though what i say may seem
I could have learned to mend these broken dreams
You could have pushed i would have gently fell
I could have played the graceful one so well
What's that you say
You were gonna leave me anyway
Any fool can see, see what you've done to me
When your love turns to lies

The actor played the part of sweet desire
And tiptoed out upon the highest wire
The truth to tell upon a rope too thin
And so the fall of treachery begins
But oh to see the starlet's smiling face
So eagerly awaits to take the place
I tried to fall in a clean and graceful way
You could have said i would have given way

And i see him smile the way that i smiled
And i hear him laugh the way that i did
But i hear him screaming and i hear him cry
And i see him falling
When your love turns to lies

What's that you say
You were gonna leave me anyway
Any fool can see, see what you've done to me
When your love turns to lies

I'm taking the day out
I'm slipping away
I know what you're thinking
But please not today

Tell me tomorrow or never at all
'cos i know so maybe i'll give you a call

I'm taking the day out
Yea taking the day out

Tell me tomorrow or never at all
I know what you're after
I'll give you a call
I'm taking the day out
Yea taking the day out

I love, i love, oh, i still love you
Can't wait to see the firelight in your eyes
That's why i wait for your footsteps in the snow

I dream each night that i will wake to find you
Sleeping deep and still down by my side
That's why i wait for your footprints in the snow

Time after time
Year after year
Forever
I will love you

In deepest winter, darkest hours you'll find me
At midnight silence, tremble at the glow
That's why i wait for your footprints in the snow

I saw you coming
With that poison in your hand
Now you're acting kind of funny
Like you don't seem to understand

Stop complaining
You've been caught fair and square
I saw you coming
I was guarding you that day

I saw you coming
Golden rule, you disobeyed
You were too busy showing off
How you gave yourself away

Stop complaining
You've been caught fair and square
I saw you coming
I was guarding you that day
I saw you coming

You can go your own way
You can go your own way
It doesn't matter what the others say
'cos you can go your own way
You can go your own way

You've got a ring on your finger
A chain around your heart and your soul
Searching for an answer
Looking for your own control

Walk away from the leader
Walk away form the books
Walk away from the tv
Take a long hard look
And you can go your own way

Could it be just that i'm crazy
Could it be the way i feel this time of year
When a certain situation seems to bring the best out of me
I don't care

When she's standing close beside me
Something turns inside me
Brings my senses to the point of no return

And i don't know what it is but i love
And i don't know what it is but i want it to stay
And i love it

And it seems to be around me
Even though no-one can see
They seem to care
When a certain situation seems to bring the best out of me
I don't care

When she's standing close beside me
Something turns inside me
Brings my senses to the point of no return

And i don't know what it is but i love
And i don't know what it is but i want it to stay
And i love it

I can see him now, standing on a street corner
Pastel shades and a candy stripe parallel
Good time love, oh that i'd been much older
Go messing with the boys from the incrowd
But all i could do was wish them farewell

What's that strange music
What's that fully rhythm
They call it blue beat, but you can call it young love
You can call it tamla dream
Down at your local motown machine
I need to be loved
Down at your twisted wheel

And i can see that little stage
All the hands up in the air
Bombers and blues gonna see us through
Got my new lime suit mohair
With a single vent sixteen inch
Got my two-stroke wheels outside
We only need the high numbers now
And anything on stateside
Down at your twisted wheel

Snow hard up against my doorway
And it's falling twice as fast
Funny i was just thinking of you my friend
How long you were gonna last
Driving those blizzards cross europe
Snow chains on you back
64 feet of mobile thunder, leaving a ten wheel track

It's good to hear from you, go easy when you can
My day is better for your letter from amsterdam

I stand alone by the cenotaph
Where the unknown soldier lies
And it's somewhere out there that you are
This freedom angel died
To save us from depression
Today i look around, boys our age and younger
I fear we let them down

It's good to hear from you, go easy when you can
My day is better for your letter from amsterdam

The town square's disappearing
It drifts up to my knees
Midnight silence deafening
And my feet begin to freeze
Is it because we don't remember?
We cannot understand?
But me and the unknown soldier
Got your letter from amsterdam

I'm driving home for christmas
Oh, i can't wait to see those faces
I'm driving home for christmas, yea
Well i'm moving down that line
And it's been so long
But i will be there
I sing this song
To pass the time away
Driving in my car
Driving home for christmas

It's gonna take some time
But i'll get there
Top to toe in tailbacks
Oh, i got red lights on the run
But soon there'll be a freeway
Get my feet on holy ground

So i sing for you
Though you can't hear me
When i get trough
And feel you near me
I am driving home for christmas
Driving home for christmas
With a thousand memories

I take look at the driver next to me
He's just the same
Just the same

Top to toe in tailbacks
Oh, i got red lights on the run
I'm driving home for christmas, yea
Get my feet on holy ground
So i sing for you
Though you can't hear me
When i get trough
And feel you near me
Driving in my car
Driving home for christmas
Driving home for christmas
With a thousand memories