1. _ R
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2. _ The Bug
Well it's a strange old game - you learn it slow
One step forward and it's back to go
You're standing on the throttle
You're standing on the brakes
In the groove 'til you make a mistake
Sometimes you're the windshield
Sometimes you're the bug
Sometimes it all comes together baby
Sometimes you're a fool in love
Sometimes you're the louisville slugger
Sometimes you're the ball
Sometimes it all comes together baby
Sometimes you're going lose it all
You gotta know happy - you gotta know glad
Because you're gonna know lonely
And you're gonna know bad
When you're rippin' and a ridin' and you're coming on strong
You start slippin' and a slidin' and it all goes wrong, because
Sometimes you're the windshield
Sometimes you're the bug
Sometimes it all comes together baby
Sometimes you're a fool in love
Sometimes you're the louisville slugger baby
Sometimes you're the ball
Sometimes it all comes together baby
Sometimes you're going lose it all
One day you got the glory
One day you got none
One day you're a diamond
And then you're a stone
Everything can change
In the blink of an eye
So let the good times roll
Before we say goodbye, because
Sometimes you're the windshield
Sometimes you're the bug
Sometimes it all comes together baby
Sometimes you're a fool in love
Sometimes you're the louisville slugger baby
Sometimes you're the ball
Sometimes it all comes together baby
Sometimes you're going lose it all
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3. _ Skateaway
I seen a girl on a one way corridor
Stealing down a wrong way street
For all the world like an urban toreador
She had wheels on on her feet
Well the cars do the usual dances
Same old cruise and the kerbside crawl
But the rollergirl she's taking chances
They just love to see her take them all
No fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
In her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
Hallelujah here she comes queen rollerball
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4. _ Speedway To Nazareth
after two thousand came two thousand and one
To be the new champions we were there for to run
From springtime in arizona 'til the fall in monterey
And the raceways were the battlefields and we fought
'em all the way
Was at phoenix in the morning i had a wake-up call
She went around without a warning put me in the wall
I drove long beach, california with three cracked vertebrae
And we went on to indianapolis, indiana in may
Well the brickyard's there to crucify anyone who will not learn
I climbed a mountain to qualify i went flat through the turns
But i was down in the might-have beens an old pal good as died
And i sat down in gasoline alley and i cried
Well we were in at the kill again on the milwaukee mile
And in june up in michigan we were robbed at belle isle
Then it was on to portland, oregon for the g. i. joe
And i'd blown off almost everyone when my motor let go
New england, ontario we died in the dirt
Those walls from mid-ohio to toronto they hurt
So we came to road america where we burned up the lake
But at the speedway at nazareth i made no mistake
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5. _ Secondary Waltz
Well now the school christmas party is coming
Ain't doing rugby no more
Mcintyre teaching us waltzing
Out on the gymnasium floor
Nobody battered or bleeding
Nobody's tattered and torn
Mcintyre's dim, loud in the gym
Well, we've only got a little (...)
We've only got a little (...)
And it's you, you, you're a disgrace
Mcintyre tore us apart
We dance with ourselves, when the (...) find their space
Waltzing with fear in our hearts
Waltzing with fear in our hearts,
On the big final manoeuvre, all of our heads are a whirl
Getting much closer to the deep thing
This time we'll do it with girls
In the arena the ladies are waiting
A twelve year old girl for a bride
The matches were fixed, somehow we mixed
And the fat girl got left on the side
The fat girl got left on the side.
And it's you, you, you're a disgrace
Mcintyre tore us apart
We dance with ourselves, when the (...) find their space
Waltzing with fear in our hearts
Waltzing with fear in our hearts
It's the secondary waltz
Well you come to my right, and i am under the light
See that my footwork is false
Don't count me out, the start of the bow
I'm just doing secondary waltz
Doing secondary waltz
And it's the secondary waltz
Yeah, it's the secondary waltz
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6. _ Sultans Of Swing
(mark knopfler)
You get a shiver in the dark
It's raining in the park but meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing dixie double four time
You feel alright when you hear that music ring
You step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Too much competition too many other places
But not too many horns can make that sound
Way on downsouth way on downsouth london town
You check out guitar george he knows all the chords
Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing
And an old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing
And harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
He's got a daytime job he's doing alright
He can play honky tonk just like anything
Saving it up for friday night
With the sultans with the sultans of swing
And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band
It ain't what they call rock and roll
And the sultans played creole
And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
'thank you goodnight now it's time to go home'
And he makes it fast with one more thing
'we are the sultans of swing'
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7. _ Storybook Love
Come my love i'll tell you a tale
Of a boy and girl and their love story
And how he loved her oh so much
And all the charms she did possess
Now this did happen once upon a time
When things were not so complex
How he worshipped the ground she walked
And when he looked in her eyes he became obsessed
My love is like a storybook story
But it's as real as the feelings i feel
My love is like a storybook story
But it's as real as the feelings i feel
It's as real as the feelings i feel
This love was stronger than the powers so dark
A prince could have within his keeping
His spells to weave and steal a heart
Within her breast but only sleeping
My love is like a storybook story
But it's as real as the feelings i feel
My love is like a storybook story
But it's as real as the feelings i feel
It's as real as the feelings i feel
Now he said, "don't you know i love you oh so much
And lay my heart at the foot of your dress?"
She said, "don't you know that these storybook loves
Always have a happy ending?"
Then he swooped her up just like in the books
And on his stallion they rode away
My love is like a storybook story
But it's as real as the feelings i feel
My love is like a storybook story
But it's as real as the feelings i feel
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8. _ Setting Me Up
You say i'm the greatest bound for glory
Well the word is out and i learned
I got the latest side of the story
You're pulling out before you get burned
Well your hands are squeezing me down to the bone
I never saw you breaking no law
Stands to reason i've got to leave you alone
What you taking me for
You're setting me up to put me down
You're making me out to be your clown
You're just setting me up to put me down
You better give it up
Quit your messing around
You think i care about your reaction
You think i don't understand
All you wanted was a piece of the action
Now you talk about another man
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9. _ Ticket To Heaven
I can see what you're looking to find
In the smile on my face
In my peace of mind
In my state of grace
I send what i can
To the man from the ministry
He's a part of heaven's plan
And he talks to me
Now i send what i can to the man
With the diamond ring
He's a part of heaven's plan
And he sure can sing
Now it's all i can afford
But the lord has sent me eternity
It's to save the little children
In a poor country
I got my ticket to heaven
And everlasting life
I got a ride all the way to paradise
I got my ticket to heaven
And everlasting life
All the way to paradise
Now there's nothing left for luxuries
Nothing left to pay my heating bill
But the good lord will provide
I know he will
So send what you can
To the man with the diamond ring
They're tuning in across the land
To hear him sing
I got my ticket to heaven
And everlasting life
I got a ride all the way to paradise
I got my ticket to heaven
And everlasting life
All the way to paradise
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10. _ So Far Away
Here i am again in this mean old town
And you're so far away from me
And where are you when the sun goes down
You're so far away from me
So far away from me
So far i just can't see
So far away from me
You're so far away from me
I'm tired of being in love and being all alone
When you're so far away from me
I'm tired of making out on the telephone
And you're so far away from me
So far away from me
So far i just can't see
So far away from me
You're so far away from me
I get so tired when i have to explain
When you're so far away from me
See you've been in the sun and i've been in the rain
And you're so far away from me
So far away from me
So far i just can't see
So far away from me
You're so far away from me
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11. _ Single Handed Sailor
Two in the morning dry-dock town
The river rolls away in the night
Little gypsy moth she's all tied down
She quiver in the wind and the light
Yeah and a sailing ship is just held down in chains
From the lazy days of sail
She's just a lying there in silent pain
He lean on the tourist rail
A mother and her baby and the college of war
In the concrete graves
You never wanna fight against the river law
Nobody rules the waves
Yeah and on a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
Around the cutty sark
The single handed sailor goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
He's upon the bridge on the self same night
The mariner of dry dock land
Two in the morning but there's one green light
And a man on a barge of sand
She's a gonna slip away below him
Away from the things he's done
But he just shouts 'hey man what you call this thing'
He could have said 'pride of london'
On a night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
Around the cutty sark
Yeah the single handed sailor goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
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12. _ Solid Rock
Well take a look at that
I made a castle in the sand
Saying this is where it's at you know
Couldn't understand now
If i realised that the chances were slim
How come i'm so surprised when the tide rolled in
I wanna live on solid rock
I'm gonna live on solid rock
I wanna give i don't wanna be blocked
I'm gonna live on solid rock
Well i'm sick of potential
I'm sick of vanity now
I'm sticking to essential reality now
I don't know what's worse
Try to make a silk purse
Living an illusion living in confusion
Well a house of cards
Was never built for shock
You could blow it down in any kind of weather
Now two solid rocks two solid blocks
You know they're gonna stick
Yeah they're gonna stick together
Because the heart that you break
That's the one that you rely on
The bed that you make
That's the one you gotta lie on
When you point your finger cos your plan fell through
You got three more fingers pointing back at you
I wanna live on solid rock
I'm gonna live on solid rock
I wanna give i don't wanna be blocked
I'm gonna live on solid rock
I'm solid rock now
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13. _ Two Young Lovers
It was the last day of summer
It was the first of a new romance
He walked into her on the corner
She said, i don't dance
He said, baby let me teach you
She said, o.k., when?
He said, how can i reach you baby
I'd really like to see you again
He picked her up on a friday night
He took her for a bite to eat
His heart was beating and his hands were shaking
She thought he was sweet
And he stood on her shoes on the dance floor
Well, they were doing it cheek to cheek
And he walked her home and he kissed her
He was walking on air all week
Well, they couldn't stand to be apart
They couldn't leave one another alone
Her mama used to say, it's getting late sweetheart
It's time that boy went home
And upstairs papa kissed mama
And she gave him a sweet caress
He said, here's to the two young lovers
Let's wish 'em every happiness
It was the last day of summer
They came walking home hand in hand
They went and told her mama
They showed her the wedding band
Mama cried and poured the wine
Papa just said god bless
Now, here's to the two young lovers
Let's wish 'em every happiness
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14. _ Vic And Ray
A dirty motor with london plates
Sitting in the gutter outside your silent gates
Vic and ray, vic and ray
Vic and ray, vic and ray
Come to daddy baby, what is it worth
Come to daddy, the scum of the crying earth
Vic and ray, vic and ray
Vic and ray, vic and ray
Laughing at each other's pain
They run the heater in the morning rain
This'll pay the rent around the world
Wanna buy a picture of a girl
Christmas morning, there they are
Two rent boys wishing on a shining star
Vic and ray, vic and ray
Vic and ray, vic and ray
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15. _ Telegraph Road
A long time ago came a man on a track
Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
He made a home in the wilderness
He built a cabin and a winter store
And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
And the other travellers came riding down the track
And they never went further and they never went back
Then came the churches then came the schools
Then came the lawyers then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the telegraph road
Then came the mines - then came the ore
Then there was the hard times then there was a war
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
Like a rolling river
And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
People driving home from the factories
There's six lanes of traffic
Three lanes moving slow
I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found
Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed
We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
All the way down the telegraph road
You know i'd sooner forget but i remember those nights
When life was just a bet on a race between the lights
You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair
Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care
But believe in me baby and i'll take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day
From these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
'cos i've run every red light on memory lane
I've seen desperation explode into flames
And i don't wanna see it again
From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed
All the way down the telegraph road
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16. _ The Man's Too Strong
I'm just an ageing drummer boy
And in the wars i used to play
And i've called the tune
To many a torture session
Now they say i am a war criminal
And i'm fading away
Father please hear my confession
I have legalised robbery
Called it belief
I have run with the money
And hid like a thief
I have re-written history
With my armies and my crooks
Invented memories
I did burn all the books
And i can still hear his laughter
And i can still hear his song
The man's too big
The man's too strong
Well i have tried to be meek
And i have tried to be mild
But i spat like a woman
And sulked like a child
I have lived behind walls
That have made me alone
Striven for peace
Which i never have known
And i can still hear his laughter
And i can still hear his song
The man's too big
The man's too strong
Well the sun rose on the courtyard
And they all did hear him say
'you always were a judas
But i got you anyway
You may have got your silver
But i swear upon my life
Your sister gave me diamonds
And i gave them to your wife'
Oh father please help me
For i have done wrong
The man's too big
The man's too strong
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17. _ Six Blade Knife
Your six blade knife can do anything for you
Anything you want it to
One blade for breaking my heart
One blade for tearing me apart
Your six blade knife - do anything for you
You can take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin
When you come up from behind and lay it down cold on my skin
Took a stone from my soul when i was lame
Just so you could make me tame
You take away my mind like you take away the top of a tin
I'd like to be free of it now - i don't want it no more
I'd like to be free of it now - you know i don't want it no more
Everybody got a knife it can be just what they want it to be
A needle a wife or something that you just can't see
You know it keeps you strong
Yes and it'll do me wrong
Your six blade knife - do anything for you
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18. _ Southbound Again
Southbound again i don't know if i'm going or leaving home
Boy got to be moving
Seems like the boy is bound to roam
Southbound again got no money i've got no place to go
That woman's with her lover boy
Never want to see her face no more
Every single time i roll across the rolling river tyne
I get the same old feeling
Every time i'm moving down the line
Southbound again last night i felt like crying
Right now i'm sick of living
But i'm going to keep on trying
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19. _ Twisting By The Pool
We're going on a holiday now
Gonna take a villa, a small chalet
On the costa del magnifico
Where the cost of living is so low
Yeah, we're gonna be so neat
Dance to the eurobeat
Yeah, we're gonna be so cool
Twisting by the pool
Sitting in a small cafe now
Swing, swing, swingin to the cabaret
You wanna see a movie, take in a show now
Meet new people at the disco
Yeah, we're gonna be so neat
Dance to the eurobeat
Yeah, we're gonna be so cool
Twisting by the pool
And we can still get information
Reading all about inflation
And you're never gonna be out of reach
There's a call-box on the beach
Mmm, you're gonna look so cute
Sunglasses and bathing suites
Be the baby of my dreams
Like the ladies in the magazine
Yeah, we're gonna be so neat
Dance to the eurobeat
Yeah, we're gonna be so cool
Twisting by the pool
I'm a twisting fool
Just twisting, yeah twisting
Twisting by the pool
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20. _ The Next Time I'm In Town
Now it's been something seeing you again
In this time we've had to spend
You've been so good to be around
I thank you for that special thrill
Keep me going on until
The next time i'm in town
Though i won't be back here for a while
Or hear your laughter, see you smile
And i'll remember what went down
I can't tell you how or when
But i'll be seeing you again
The next time i'm in town
Now the faces and the places range
'cross the bridge of time and change
Once again i'm homeward bound
There's one thing i promise you
And that's another rendez-vous
The next time i'm in town
Now it's been something seeing you again
And in this time we've had to spend
You've been so good to be around
And i thank you for that special thrill
Keep me goin' on until
The next time i'm in town
'til the next time i'm in town
'til the next time i'm in town
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21. _ Tunnel Of Love
Getting crazy on the waltzers but it's the life that i choose
Sing about the sixblade sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo
And i been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream and slam
And i don't know where i'll be tonight but i'd always tell you where i am
In a screaming ring of faces i seen her standing in the light
She had a ticket for the races just like me she was a victim of the night
I put my hand upon the lever said let it rock and let it roll
I had the one arm bandit fever there was an arrow through my heart and my soul
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
And i'm just high on the world
Come on and take a low ride with me girl
On the tunnel of love
It's just the danger when you're riding at your own risk
She said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let's keep it like this
It's just a cakewalk twisting baby step right up and say
Hey mister give me two give me two cos any two can play
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
And i'm just high on the world
Come on and take a low ride with me girl
On the tunnel of love
Well it's been money for muscle another whirligig
Money for muscle another girl i dig
Another hustle just to make it big
And rockaway rockaway
And girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the spanish city to me when we were kids
Oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the spanish city to me when we were kids
She took off a silver locket she said remember me by this
She put her hand in my pocket i got a keepsake and a kiss
And in the roar of dust and diesel i stood and watched her walk away
I could have caught up with her easy enough but something must have made me stay
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
And i'm just high on the world
Come on and take a low ride with me girl
On the tunnel of love
And now i'm searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades
Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades
In any shooting gallery where promises are made
To rockaway rockaway from cullercoats and whitley bay out to rockaway
And girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did
Like the spanish city to me when we were kids
Girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did
Like the spanish city to me when we were kids
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22. _ The Way It Always Starts
It gets so dark before the dawn
That's when it gets to me
Before the city symphony of taxi horns
That's the way it always starts,
Sitting here and waiting on the beating of my heart.
Last night i thought i heard my name
Well it was too dark to see, but it had to be,
The voice was just the same
That's the way it always starts,
Sitting here and waiting on the beating of my heart.
So tell me why should it have to be this way
Why can't it be all right,
Why can't i sleep at night?
Why should it have to be this way?
Why must there be this price to pay?
Now all the streets are dark and bare,
Oh, if you can live in this town,
And stick around, you can live anywhere
That's the way it always starts,
Sitting here and waiting on the beating of my heart.
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23. _ Tall Order Baby
Well gimme a little loving in the morning
I want a little loving (...)
But you want to get your loving in the evening
When i want to get some loving in the day
I tell her that i'm working in the morning
I tell her that i gotta get my rest
She tells me she's a-working on her loving
And she tells me that my loving is the best
Well it's a tall order baby
And it's a tall order now
Well it's a tall order baby
But we gotta get our loving somehow
Well i don't want to go to sleep on you baby
I don't want to go to sleep on you now
But if i'm going to go to sleep on you baby
Well i'm gonna do it any how
Well don't you turn your back on me darling
Don't you know i'd like to stay up and play
But if i turn my back on you darling
You're going to do it some other way
Well it's a tall order baby
And it's a tall order now
Well it's a tall order baby
But we gotta get our loving somehow
It's a tall order baby
Well it's a tall order now
Well it's a tall order baby
But we gotta get our loving somehow
Well i don't want to go to sleep on you baby
I don't want to go to sleep on you now
But if i'm going to go to sleep on you baby
Well i'm gonna do it any how
Well don't you turn your back on me darling
Don't you know i'd like to stay up and play
But if i turn my back on you darling
You're going to do it some other way
Well it's a tall order baby
And it's a tall order now
Well it's a tall order baby
But we gotta get our loving somehow
Well it's a tall order baby
And it's a tall order now
Well it's a tall order baby
But we gotta get our loving somehow
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