Mad Not Mad

When I considered how my life is spent
They cry but I know that everything is heaven sent
But why do people lie when all they want is truth at their tables

The sky is looking very blue today
It's so fine I'd agree with every word you say
About it it must be said it doesn't mean much at all

Time you make changes
Time you'll add ages
Time is walking with you by your side

There's no reason that we should complain
In the night everybody looks the same
It's so sad but we don't seem to be going forward at all

(Time)
(Time)
Time

Time you make changes
Time you'll add ages
Time is walking with you by your side

Time you make changes
Time you'll add ages
Time is walking with you by your side

(Come on time)

Time you make changes
Time you'll add ages
Time is walking with you by your side

Time gentlemen please
Time
Time

I'll be your promotional copy in this here number one band
Take your business beyond your furthest dreams sounds
Sounds great sounds really grand but wait
Let us hurry now time is catching up
And it looks like the music hall race has caught me up

But I'll compete (yeah yeah)
For all that it's worth
I'll compete (with the rest of the pack)
For all that it's worth
I'll compete (on the beat)
For all that it's worth
I'll compete (with a full deck)
For all that I'm worth

I'll be your popswop, come floppy disc, race you along the upper deck
Retrieve from you my with-held treasure,
Then watch you sink with you sunken rotting wreck,
Let us hurry now, time is running out,
Let's not forget time is money said the business man to his faithful scout.

But I'll compete (in the national press)
For all that it's worth
I'll compete (with the back chat)
For all that it's worth
I'll compete (on the beat)
For all that it's worth
I'll compete (international)
For all that it's worth

We must hurry now time is closing in
And I'm getting no younger in fact
I'm five years closer to my pension scheme

But I'll compete (yeah yeah)
For all that it's worth
I'll compete (for the ratings)
For all that it's worth
I'll compete (on the beat)
For all that it's worth
I'll compete (with the rest of the pack)
For all that I'm worth

C-c-c-c-compete
C-c-c-c-compete

Every morning at the break of dawn
Sleeping deeply next to me
To every evening as the sun goes down
Together we stay, together we'll stay

Chorus:

Nobody else to bring you down
Nobody else to be around
This time you're free
Nobody else to draw you away
Nobody else to take you away
This time just you and me

I'm so pleased that you waited for me
And i thought of you oh so much
It could fill an eternity
Her big sad eyes that stare
Nobody else going to bring you down
Nobody else to be around
This time you're free

Where i come from
Nobody knows
And where i'm going
Everything goes

(we'll meet again)

Nobody else to blow you away
Nobody else to take you away
This time just you and me

I've searched about everywhere
But i still can't find her
Events that cease at my memory
I still can't picture

Mother of mercy, sister of mary
Please help me (to find her)
Is there something you should tell me
Please hear me (to find her)

Nobody else going to bring you down
Nobody else to be around
This time you're free

Nobody else to blow you away
Nobody else to take you away
This time just you and me

Mother of mercy, sister of mary
Please help me (to find her)
Is there something you should tell me
Please hear me (to find her)

Nobody else going to bring you down
Nobody else to be around
This time you're free

Woohoo woohoo woohoo

Here comes an honest looking man
With his round face and his fat hands
See the news, there he is
With the answers to the last quiz

I can never know what i then knew
In a million years
I can never know what i used to
In a million tears

Turn it on we will see
Everything today
Me and you will lose
Our marbles on the way

I'll remember you forever
'til the day i'm dead
I'll remember us together
And the things we've said

I'll spare a penny for my thoughts
And try to work out what i just bought
Let me think, let me think
Left swimming in an ice rink

Woohoo woohoo

I don't want to hear what someone has to say
I'll just write it down and throw it all away
I could never know what i then knew
In a million years
I could never know what i used to
In a million tears

Woohoo woohoo

I'll remember you forever
'til the day i'm dead
I'll remember us together
And the things we've said
I could never know what i then knew
In a million years
I could never know what i used to
In a million tears
In a million tears
In a million tears
In a million tears
In a million tears

An insolent speck of youth
Being taken for a walk
So tightly by the ear
That he can hardly talk

Yesterday's men hang to today
To sing in the old-fashioned way
It must get better in the long run
Has to get better in the long run

A metropolitan marathon
Has been held today
But who you need to catch
Will be coming the other way

Yesterday's men hang to today
To sing in any old way
It must get better in the long run
Has to get better in the long run

Because when you're told to start
How far can you go
When your race is won
And you already know
Because when you're told to stop
How far will you go
When your race is run
And you already know

Yesterday's men hang to today,
To sing in any old way,
It must get better in the long run
Has to get better in the long run
Will it get better in the long run
Will we be here in the long run

Yesterday's men hang to today,
To sing in any old way,
It must get better in the long run
Has to get better in the long run
Will it get better in the long run
Will we be here in the long run

Do, do, do, hang on in the long run.

An insolent speck of youth
Being taken for a walk
So tightly by the ear
That he can hardly talk

Yesterday's men hang to today
To sing in the old-fashioned way
It must get better in the long run
Has to get better in the long run

A metropolitan marathon
Has been held today
But who you need to catch
Will be coming the other way

Yesterday's men hang to today
To sing in any old way
It must get better in the long run
Has to get better in the long run

Because when you're told to start
How far can you go
When your race is won
And you already know
Because when you're told to stop
How far will you go
When your race is run
And you already know

Yesterday's men hang to today,
To sing in any old way,
It must get better in the long run
Has to get better in the long run
Will it get better in the long run
Will we be here in the long run

Yesterday's men hang to today,
To sing in any old way,
It must get better in the long run
Has to get better in the long run
Will it get better in the long run
Will we be here in the long run

Do, do, do, hang on in the long run.

Now i see tears you can't hide

Carry the world on your back
Heavy weights tear you apart
Now i see tears you can't hide

Feel in a rage can't speak up for yourself
All that you try to do it's no good anyway
Now i see tears you can't hide

No use saying it's a crime
Voices surround me but they lie, lie

Hold out your hand together make your stand
You may be alone you may feel scared inside
Now i see tears you can't hide

No use saying it's a crime
Voices surround me but they lie, lie
(just hit me with your saxophone, lee)

Now i see tears you can't hide
Now i see tears you can't hide
Now i see tears you can't
Tears you can't tears you can't hide

The government have announced
That London Bridge is to be closed
Under the full moon of May the third
All the light houses and seaside roads
No I never heard I never read in the news

Come on tell me, who's this for ?
Lighting the questions and
Burning the boats one by one
Burning the boats one by one by

Tap, tap, tap, birds that sing,
Telephone calls that do not ring,
One, two, three, what's the time ?
Who's that hanging off my line ?
I know that nothing lasts for ever
And I'm just waiting for the sun to set
Blowing dust from my loud hailer, on the roof.

Come on tell me, who's this for ?
Lighting the questions and
Burning the boats one by one
Burning the boats one by one
Burning the boats one by one by

The ministry of co-operation
Are washed and hanging on the line
There's a million burning questions
To set the Thames alight
Now I've joined an exclusive club
Just by being more than poor
I saw the deputy chairman, on the floor.

Come on tell me, who's this for ?
Lighting the questions and
Burning the boats one by one
Burning the boats one by one
Burning the boats one by one by

Burning the boats one by one
Burning the boats.