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Land Of Lost Content
04:55
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LAND OF LOST CONTENT
Midnight shatters on the town. The turning of the year.
The past is in the gutter, the future in the air.
A hammer cracks the midnight bell, another year is spent.
Such times as these will never please this Land of Lost Content.
Such times as these will never please this Land of Lost Content.
Bankers built the scaffold. The Papers twist the rope.
The chimes cry out for midnight when we resurrect our hopes.
Their song deceives - Will they reprieve all those who will repent?
Oh No. Such hopes will never free this Land of Lost Content.
Oh No. Such hopes will never free this Land of Lost Content.
Echoes of our voices raised rattle around the town.
Choices that we never made unite to bring us down.
Now will we stand with cap in hand? Accept what we resent?
Such lies as these will never ease this Land of Lost Content.
Such lies as these will never ease this Land of Lost Content.
Church bells swinging in the breeze. Another year is gone.
The congregation of a nation joining in one song.
Bodies torn and broken but spirits never bent.
Such ghosts as these will never leave this Land of Lost Content.
Such ghosts as these will never leave this Land of Lost Content.
To silent chimes of morning sleepers will awake.
Who could say on New Years Day the Freedom Bell would break?
We used to say we'd find a way and never once relent.
We prayed that we would never see this Land of Lost Content.
Midnight shatters on the town the turning of the year.
The past is in the gutter, the future’s in the air.
A hammer cracks the midnight bell. Another year is spent.
Such times as these will never please this Land of Lost Content.
We used to say we'd find a way and never once relent.
Wake from the dream. We will redeem this Land of Lost Content…
Wake from the dream. We will redeem this Land of Lost Content…
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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SUNNY BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY
One wet wild and windy Monday
Cleethorpes clinging to a clapped out coast.
Big brash bingo, House of Fun .
Day trippers running through the rain like ghosts.
Pacamac old man back on the pier
Bank Holiday Monday year after year
Wet socks jukebox jackpots top of the pops
This is the music he can hear, when he says ...
Brenda I loved you girl
I wouldn't have changed it for the world
The tide is out the wind is still
Brenda I love you still
but it'll be a
Sunny Bank Holiday Monday in Cleethorpes
And the trains will be running on time like they used to do and then
Buddy Holly will be singing live at the Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes
Before she sees him cry again…
Helter Skelter, belt for the shelter far along the ‘Fitties’
where the sea birds call.
Picture postcards long ago our lovers leaning on the North Sea wall.
Effing and blinding, laying down the law
Shouldn't have looked at what the Butler saw.
Cold wind blowing, Brenda going
Tears are flowing from the night before
When he said...
Brenda I loved you girl
I wouldn't have changed it for the world
The tide is out the wind is still
Brenda I love you still
but it'll be a
Sunny Bank Holiday Monday in Cleethorpes
And the trains will be running on time like they used to do and then
Buddy Holly will be singing live at the Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes
Before she sees him cry again…
Roller coaster buttered toast and tea in a cafe on the colonnade.
Old man shapes his name in the rain-drops
steamed up window of the big arcade.
Dog eared letter Brenda has sent. A generous gesture but a bad idea.
Brenda's hand touched him on the shoulder.
Must have been raining for 40 years
Brenda I loved you girl
I wouldn't have changed it for the world
The tide is out the wind is still
Brenda I love you still
but it'll be a
Sunny Bank Holiday Monday in Cleethorpes
And the trains will be running on time like they used to do and then
Buddy Holly will be singing live at the Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes
Before she sees him cry again…
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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3. |
We Tell Stories
03:33
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WE TELL STORIES
We tell stories to each other. To while away the days
We tell stories to each other. To keep the nights at bay
About life and death. And love and hate. As much as we recall
We tell stories to each other. And that is all
So spin me another one just like the other one
Spin me and show me the writing on the wall
We are dancers, romancers, answering the call
We tell stories to each other
And that is all.
We tell stories to each other. Exploring histories.
We tell stories to each other. Adoring mysteries.
We shine a light into the darkness. Shadows dance and fall
We tell stories to each other. And that is all.
So spin me another one just like the other one
Spin me and show me the writing on the wall
We are dancers, romancers, answering the call
We tell stories to each other
And that is all.
We tell stories to each other. That people want to hear
The Devils and the Angel’s. Dancing in our hair.
We tell stories to each other of reason and of rhyme.
Happy ever after. Once upon a time…
So spin me another one just like the other one
So spin me another one just like the other one
Spin me and show me the writing on the wall
We are dancers, romancers, answering the call
We tell stories to each other
And that is all.
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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4. |
Shut Up At The Back
02:44
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SHUT UP AT THE BACK
Unaccustomed as I am,
Mr Speaker I’d just like to say
Can you hear me at the back?
Can you see me in the house today? OK!
I’m not very good at talking in public.
I haven’t got much to say
Didn’t know I’d have to speak
when I came here today
I’m not very good at talking to people
still I’ll give it a try
Let me start with my conclusion,
I will summarise… so
Shut up at the back will you.
Shut up at the front
Shut up yourself. No you shut up.
I won’t! You will! I won’t!
In the face of lies and rumours
let me clarify quite truthfully…
I made this rumour up myself
and frankly that’s quite good enough for me.
And just to save myself some trouble
I made myself some notes
Didn’t do me too much good
it’s in my other coat.
Can’t remember what I’ve written.
Wait! I tell a lie!
Let me start with my conclusion.
I will summarise… So…
You shut up! No you shut up!
And shut up everyone else
Shut up you lot. Who me? No, him!
No! You shut up your self…
Order! Order! Order!
We’re matching down through history.
Marching out of sight.
We’re right left right left right left right left
right left right left right.
What do we want? Don’t Know!
When do we want it? Don’t know!
Are we downhearted????........
Oh my god I’ve screwed it up
I really feel I’m getting in a state
Still before I knock it on the head
there’s several points that I would like to make.
One is really fundamental,
two is juxtaposed,
three is absolutely crucial,
four is well you know.
Five is really very simple,
I can’t remember six.
Seven and eight are both the same
I think you got the gist.
Shut up at the back will you.
Shut up at the front
Shut up yourself. No you shut up.
I won’t! You will! I won’t!... And…
You shut up! No you shut up!
And shut up everyone else
Shut up you lot. Who me? No, him!
No! You shut up your self…
Shut up shut up and you shut up.
And shut up you and you
And you shut up and you shut up.
And you can shut up too
Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
Shut up and don’t you tell
me to shut up, and you shut up.
And you shut up as well!
I want to organize, organize!
Get them, get them! Right between the eyes.
Between the eyes.
Order! Order! Order!
Unaccustomed as I am,
Mr Speaker I’d just like to say
Can you hear me at the back?
Can you see me in the house today? OK!
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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5. |
There They Go Again
03:20
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THERE THEY GO AGAIN
You could spend your life in desperation
Scared out of your brain
Never too sure if they’ve done it before
Now they’re doing it again.
All those broken promises
Driving you insane
When you think you can win
They take it all away again
Sometimes it’s a gamble
Sometimes it’s a game
Another face another place
The winner is just the same
The dealers face is shaded
You never see their eyes
You always pay your money
You never take the prize
You can read with practice
You can learn to write
You can take instructions
Sign away your life
The long words confuse you
The short words don’t explain
The trick is in the smaller print
It says you lose again
They tell you that it’s common sense
And so you wait your turn
With all those broken promises
There’s two laws you will learn
The first law says the second law
We’ll be your golden rule
The second law says the first Law is
Never never never true…
So look out
There they go again. There they go again
There they go again. There they go again.
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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6. |
The Criminal
03:32
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THE CRIMINAL
Yesterday she was a Bank Managers Daughter.
Protesting at St Paul's
At least until they caught her.
A Bailiff grabbed her by the arm,
She didn’t want to contradict
She said young man take off your hand
He said right that’s it you’re nicked. And she said
Oh Gor Blimey it’s a fair cop Guv,
Got me bang to rights .
I’ve been fitted up like a kipper
Bound over to keep the peace tonight
I’ll have mother tattooed on me arm
And have my hair cut short
Now I am a criminal though minimal I fit the bill
A criminal and I’ve been caught
Yesterday she thought the protesters were scruffy
But now on second thoughts she doesn’t feel so stuffy
Section this and section that
the criminal justice, public order act
She may be guilty as charged
but her world has been enlarged
She’s a criminal and that’s a fact. And she says
Oh Gor Blimey it’s a fair cop Guv.
Got me bang to rights
I’m up in front of the beak tomorrow
Stone me don’t I look a sight
Send me off to a rotting hulk
without a second thought
Now I am a gangster a thankless prankster
A criminal I’ve been caught. She says
Yesterday I was as innocent as a tree is
That’s all changed because where I want to be is
On the steps in the open air
and now they accuse me
of disrupting, intimidating and obstructing
a lawful activity
Now she says
Oh Gor Blimey it’s a fair cop Guv
Got me bang to rights
I’m in the frame. They know my little game
I’m stitched up good and tight
Send me down for a stretch or two or three or four or more
Today I am a terrorist. I’ll tell you this they slap your wrist.
A criminal and I’ve been caught
And so she came to be involved in conversation
About democracy in a wealth divided nation.
Staring at the Stock Exchange
She felt the penny drop.
‘They took our taxes now in fact
Its them who should be stopped’… And she says
Oh Gor Blimey it’s a fair cop
we’ve got them bang to rights!!!!
I’ll break the law as I did before for what I think is right
I’ve been bound over to keep the peace and I suppose I ought
I’m a hooligan. I’d do it all again. I’m one of them I am
A criminal and I’ve been caught.
Now I am a gangster a thankless prankster
A criminal I’ve been caught
Today I am a terrorist. I’ll tell you this they slap your wrist.
A criminal and I’ve been caught
A Pinko and an anarchist, a rampant anti capitalist
criminal and I’ve been caught!...Take me away…
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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7. |
Can't Breathe
03:27
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CAN’T BREATHE
Caravans and lorries with trailers
Hold-ups and horns and hooting all day
Traffic jams and motorway failures
Still can’t find a way
Can’t breathe, can’t run from here or stay
So obvious it takes your breath away
CFCs and my inhaler
Petrol fumes and noise
A hole in the sky. The air is failing
All the girls and boys
Can’t breathe, Can’t run around and play
So obvious it takes your breath away
Global warming, ozone depletion
Cars that breathe pollution.
Killing the trees beyond all reason
Still no solution
Can’t breathe. Can’t run around all day
So obvious it takes your breath away
Hold your breath and count to 10
Hold your breath all day
Frightened to death to start breathing again
The games we play.
Can’t breathe. Can’t stay round here or leave.
So obvious…
Can’t breathe…
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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WHO’S HOLDING ON TO THE ROPE
I’ve been shaky since this morning
Cause I had a dream last night
There was you on a double-decker bus
jumping over motorbikes
Hold on I’m coming
Hold on I’ll be there
Hold on I’ll come running to you
Hold on hold on my dear…
Overhead the stars were shining
Lighting up your name
I really thought we were going up in the world
Where you just coming down in flames?
Hold on…
Is this a happy ending?
Or just one more broken hope
I see Houdini has just disappeared
So who’s holding on to the rope.
Hold on…
Now the hero is in pieces
The comic is in strips
Another cliff-hanger ending
Dangling by your fingertips
Hold on…
I’ve been shaky since this morning
Cause I had a dream last night
There was you on a double Decker bus
Jumping over motorbikes
Look out!
Hold on I’m coming
Hold on I’ll be there
Hold on I’ll come running to you
Hold on hold on my dear…
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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9. |
Look In The Mirror
02:13
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LOOK IN THE MIRROR
Look in the mirror, Look in the mirror
Who’s that stood there
standing there stood there
Looking at me?
Look at me shadow, look at me shadow.
I’m not half the man I used to be.
I’m bigger than that, I’m not that fat
I don’t look like that as matter of fact
But Look in the mirror. Look in the mirror
Who’s that stood there standing there stood there
Looking at me, Looking at me…
I’m thinner than that I don’t talk like that
I’m not like that as a matter of fact
But Look in the mirror, Look in the mirror
Who’s that stood there standing there stood there
Looking at me, Looking at me…
Look at this picture it’s ridiculous
Not one bit fits it’s obvious
That can’t be me….
Look at me wife now, look at me life now
Been so good so far so what’s the matter with me?
Listen to that voice it’s not my voice
I wouldn’t sound like that if I had a choice.
But Look in the mirror Look in the mirror
Who’s that stood there standing there stood there
Looking at me, Looking at me
I’m taller than that, I’m not that fat
I don’t look like that as a matter of fact
I’m thinner than that, I don’t talk like that
I’m not like that and that’s a fact….
But Look in the mirror, Look in the mirror
Who’s that stood there standing there stood there
Looking at me, Looking at me…
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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10. |
See Those Trousers
03:45
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SEE THOSE TROUSERS
See those trousers over there. I know my trousers hate me.
Both my feet stuck in one leg I'm falling to the floor.
Have you seen my shoes and socks I know they try to bait me.
I can hear them laughing, I can't take it anymore.
Oh God that shirt! How I hate that bloody shirt!
It's got me in an arm lock and the bastard really hurts.
Sometimes I think I've had enough. That little button on the cuff
Is trying to send me insane. I know their little game.
But they will not get the best of me, today I will get dressed we'll see
my pants pulled up in victory today I will get dressed!
But last night I dreamed that I danced in the moonlight.
And my clothes they were dancing, they were dancing with me
And we flew around the room as we danced in the moonlight.
Then we tangled and tripped and I fell to my knees.
Calm down everybody this is nothing I can't handle.
Have you never seen a grown man strangled by a vest?
Now I've lost my underpants somewhere in the tangle.
Hurl myself up on the bed I need to take a rest.
My socks they are sadistic, and I must be masochistic.
And of all the stupid things I've ever risked I think this takes the biscuit.
But last night I dreamed that I danced in the moonlight.
And my clothes they were dancing, they were dancing with me
And we flew around the room as we danced in the moonlight.
Then we tangled and tripped and I fell to my knees.
Cornered by a cardigan, jostled by a jumper
Turned over by my trousers, I have wrestled with a vest
I've been hit by a hat and assaulted by an overcoat
Jumped on by a jacket and abused by all the rest.
I've been up-ended by my underpants and tickled by a t-shirt
tortured by a bow-tie, I've been booted by a shoe.
I've been battered by a button I've been wounded by a Wellington
Trampled by a tracksuit I've been zapped by my zip too.
I arrange my clothes upon a chair . It might be me that sitting there!
I tell them that I feel abused. I tell them that they stand accused
I tell them that it's bound to mention cruelty by clothes in the Geneva Convention.
Has anybody ever taken tight to the European court of human rights?
But last night I dreamed that I danced in the moonlight.
And my clothes they were dancing, they were dancing with me
And we flew around the room as we danced in the moonlight.
Then we tangled and tripped and I fell to my knees.
No that's just silly! Count to 10! Breath in calm down, now start again…
See those trousers over there I know my trousers hate me!
Both my feet stuck in one leg, I'm hopping round the room …
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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11. |
Who Would Have Thought
03:15
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WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?
Same kind of conversation day after day
How can she listen to what he can never say?
Same kind of conversation time and again
How can she understand what he can’t explain.
And who would have thought they’d know where to begin?
He can’t get out. She can’t get in.
Who would have thought they’d have so much to say?
She stands and screams. He walks away.
Same kind of conversation week after week.
She tries to listen he tries to speak.
Same kind of conversation same old regret.
He can’t remember what she can’t forget.
And who would have thought they would still try to guess
What she can’t hold in and he can’t express?
Who would have thought they’d have so much to say?
She stands and screams. He walks away.
Same kind of conversation year after year.
He sings a song of love that she can never hear.
Same kind of conversation. Some kind of violence.
She whips him with her words. He binds her with his silence.
Who would have thought there’d be wounds left to feel?
What cannot be hurt cannot be healed.
Who would have thought they’d have so much to say
She stands and screams. He walks away.
Sometimes at midnight they sheltered from the storm.
With whiskey and whispers they kept each other warm.
Two lovers in a bottle safe from the squall.
A painless concoction of sex and alcohol.
And who would have thought they’d wake up in the end
No longer lovers and not really friends?
And who would have thought they’d have so much to say?
She stands and screams he walks away.
And who would have thought there’d be dreams left to dream
She walks away. He starts to scream…
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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12. |
Prisoner Of The Heart
04:06
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PRISONER OF THE HEART
One day you’re flying, high as a kite, free as a month of Sundays.
One day you're trying with all your might, but that's only one day.
An arrow flies from who knows where and stabs you like a dart.
Falling like a star you are a prisoner of the heart.
Another prisoner of the heart…
Digging your heels in, standing your ground, draw a circle around you.
Here's a feeling, what's that sound? The heart, the heart has found you.
Stand still it throws you in the air on a chain of silver parts.
and as it draws you in you are a prisoner of the heart.
Another prisoner of the heart…
You build a big house, sand and straw, the prison of your choosing.
Paint a Red Cross on the door. Safety in illusion.
A wind blows in from who knows where and tears the house apart.
Before you even start you are a prisoner of the heart.
Another prisoner of the heart.
Falling like a star you are a prisoner of the heart you are .
Falling like a star you are a prisoner of the heart.
There is no flame inside your heart just bridges that you're burning.
There is one game, play the part with no thought of returning.
We live and learn. We take a turn, and then the journey starts.
As you depart you learn you are a prisoner of the heart
Another prisoner of the heart...
Falling like a star you are a prisoner of the heart you are .
Falling like a star you are a prisoner of the heart you are
Falling like a star you are a prisoner of the heart you are .
Falling like a star you are a prisoner of the heart…
Sing songs of freedom, songs of love, songs as you are leaving.
A song of pleading to heaven above. Songs of self-deceiving.
The heart, the heart, will play its part, but never let you free.
And just like me you'll always be a prisoner of the heart
another prisoner of the heart…
One day you're flying high as a kite free is a month of Sundays.
One day you're flying high as a kite free as a month of Sundays...
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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NEVER GUNNAR 'AVE ANOTHER/FIT ME LIKE A GLOVE
Johnny Smith from Huddersfield woke up an clapped his hands.
The second time he'd been in love and both times with a man.
At twenty eight and single he was glad to be gay.
Then Johnny Smith from Huddersfield got his head kicked in one day
He said
I'm never gunnna have another love in me life
I'm never gunnna have another love
I'm never gunnna have another love in me life
I'm never gunnna have another love
Billy Brown in Hospital opened up his eyes.
The second time he felt this bad and he have to realise came to realise.
Somerthing in his blood was getting out of hand
And since his friends all disappeared he tried to understand
He said
I'm never gunnna have another love in me life
I'm never gunnna have another love
I'm never gunnna have another love in me life
I'm never gunnna have another love
Johnny's head had healed in hospital, it was the last day he’d be there
And Johnny heard what Billy said and spun round in his chair
He said we're all the same what's in a name. Billy it's OK.
And Billy said drop dead. You're not straight and I'm not gay!
He said
I'm never gunnna have another love in me life
I'm never gunnna have another love
I'm never gunnna have another love in me life
I'm never gunnna have another love
Johnny came to visit Billy every other day
and Billy said he must be mad as well as being gay.
Entangled in a private web a friendship now begins.
It's a tender and a private thought
but we can listen in...
If we're not cut out for family. Not cut out for love
Not cut out for the moonlight under the stars above
And though we may not have the time to say
the things I've been dreaming of
Still I can hold you in my heart. You fit me like a glove.
You fit me like a glove you know. You fit me like a glove
And I can hold you in my heart. You fit me like a glove.
So will you hold me in the palm of your hand
or throw me in the air like a dove.
I'll wrap my wings all around your heart
You fit me like a glove
You fit me like a glove you know. You fit me like a glove
(But I'm never gunnna have another love in me life!
never gunnna have another love)
…No. You fit me like a glove… …You fit me like a glove…
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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14. |
When This Party's Over
03:57
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WHEN THIS PARTY’S OVER
You laughed at me and even though you’re gone
The memory of the things you said goes on and on and on.
I loved you more than I loved myself.
I’d like to say I’ll wait for you, but I want someone better too…
And when this party’s over, you wont go to Heaven
You’ll just fade away. I’ll be tripping over myself
Just to get away…
You picked me up I can’t remember when
I took a fall, I took it all, and how I loved you then
But then I knew you long before I knew myself
And as I fell I told myself
One day You’ll get yours as well
And when this party’s over, you won’t go to Heaven
You’ll just fade away. I’ll be tripping over myself
Just to get away…
You looked at me the way you used to do
The way you used to think I used to sit and look at you
Oh then I hated you more then I hate myself
All the time you had in mind I looked like someone else. Well Really!
And when this party’s over, you won’t go to Heaven
You’ll just fade away. I’ll be tripping over myself
Just to get away…
You swore at me you spat into my face
And all the love I held inside I felt it go to waste.
Oh but I needed you much more than I need myself.
You had your fun and though you’re gone the laughter just goes on and on…
And when this party’s over, you won’t go to Heaven
You’ll just fade away. I’ll be tripping over myself
Just to get away…
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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15. |
When We Stand Up
03:58
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WHEN WE STAND UP
You you you and me me me
Not so far apart
You can be what you want to be
What you are in your heart
Your book and my book
Open like a door
You can do what you want to do
We’ve never done before
When we stand up.
Your bright light and my bright light
Burning the shadow’s down
Your voice and my voice
What a lovely lovely sound
All your toys and all my toys
Together here on the ground
You can choose choose choose
What you want to do
And we’ll never look down.
When we stand up.
You can say say say what you want to say
Nobody writes your lines
Go and Play play play where you want to play
And keep dancing all the time
Your eyes and my eyes ever open wide
Just look what they’ve been doing to you
You take a look. A look outside
When we stand up.
When we stand up.
Stand up, up, and be yourself
Stand up.
Stand up up and be yourself
Get down and get down off the shelf
Stand up
Stand up up and be yourself
Stand up stand up with everybody else.
When we stand up.
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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16. |
Lullaby
03:16
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LULLABY
Songs of red and songs of blue
Songs for every dream.
Some were old and some were true.
We've sung the old songs so many times.
We've sung them line by line
But tonight we'll sing a lullaby
tonight we'll sing a lullaby
tonight we'll sing a lullaby
And then we'll go to sleep
We sang the songs at heavens door.
Songs of peace and songs of war.
Who knows what we're singing for
But we sang every song we knew
Songs of red and songs of blue.
But tonight we'll sing a lullaby
tonight we'll sing a lullaby
tonight we'll sing a lullaby
And then we'll go to sleep
Songs came first and songs came last.
Songs of lovely futures past.
Tonight the light is fading fast.
Lock the door and come inside
Tonight tonight we'll run and hide
And tonight we'll sing a lullaby
tonight we'll sing a lullaby
tonight we'll sing a lullaby
And then we'll go to sleep
Songs of red and songs of blue
Songs for every dream.
Some were old and some were true.
We've sung the old songs so many times.
We've sung them line by line...
Now quiet love you'll hear the song
the room will sing when we are gone
Now quiet love you'll hear the song
the room will sing
the room will sing
the room will sing when we are gone...
JIM WOODLAND (c)
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Jim Woodland UK
Hit & Run Street Theatre in the 1980's, Punk Band Red Rinse in the 90's, Fabulous Salami Brothers, Songwriter for Mikron
Theatre and Blaize for 20 years, performing solo, and with the Anti-Capitalist Roadshow.
Political, social, emotional songs and plays. Watch this space. Latest collection here and back catalogue to follow. Welcome to Band Camp and on we go...
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