Everything But Love

You know we gotta keep this quiet
You know we gotta play this cool
Now I don’t want to start a riot
Don’t wanna be anyone’s fool
Kiss me once, kiss me twice
And I’ll be gone before you open your eyes
I will give you everything but love

I’ll meet you at the railroad station
At a secret rendezvous
Give you a little bit of information
Then we’ll go and have a drink or two
Then finally we’ll get back to your flat
You’ll kick off your shoes and I'll keep on my hat
And I will give you every thing but love

I’ll give you pearls, I’ll give you rings
I’ll give you money, that kind of thing
I’ll be your friend when you’re down and out
I’ll give you a call - I’ll give you sex
I’ll give you breakfast in bed
And I will give you everything but love

Got your number in my paper
I’m a kinda tabloid man
I just want a listening female
Who’ll pretend that she understands
I tell you lies, you give them back
Please turn away when I begin to crack
Cos I can give you anything but love


I’ll give you pearls, I’ll give you rings
I’ll give you money, that kind of thing
I’ll be your friend when you’re down and out
I’ll give you a call - I’ll give you sex
I will give you breakfast in bed
And I will give you everything but love


I’ll give you pearls, I’ll give you rings
I’ll give you money, that kind of thing
I’ll be your friend when you’re down and out
I’ll give you a call - I’ll give you sex
I will give you your breakfast in bed
And I can give you everything but love, but love
I will give you everything but love, love, love
I will give you everything but love baby
That’s the only thing I ain’t got nothing of baby
I will give you everything, everything, everything ….


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Days Like These



Why should I work
Why should I work so hard
Who am I working for
I feel like running away
As they knock on my door
Why should I work
Why should I work so hard
Who am I tryin’ to please
I am locked in this chain
And I can’t get no relief
No relief
Days like these
Make me want to give in
Days like these
How can I ever win
Days like these
I am only a man
Days like these
Doing the best I can
What can I do
What can I say
Oh no
When will they ever learn
How can I carry on
Spending more that I earn
Got no money to burn
Days like these
Make me want to give in
Days like these
How can I ever win
Days like these
I am only a man
Days like these
Trying to do the best I can

Any way you want that way
Don’t say you’re going to walk out on me
Now your taking every p
Know what you get is what you see
What you get is me
Days like these
I’m just trying to survive
Days like these
I’m just staying alive
Days like these
I am only a man
Trying to do the best I can

Why should I work so hard
Who am I working for
I think I’m gonna run away
Why should I work
Why should I work
Why should I work


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Double Love

In this new situation
I seem very shaky
And that’s not the usual way I am
When I’m under pressure
And you are responsible for my reaction
I’m so substantially more
Than the man I was previously
One into two gives you a double love
One into two gives you double share

I was solidly single
I cherished my independence
And I don’t share very easily
The darkest secrets in me
And you are responsible for my reaction
I’m so substantially more
Than the man I was previously
One into two gives you a double love
One into two gives you a double share

Oh ! You are responsible for my reaction
I’m so substantially more
Than the man I was previously
One into two gives you a double love
One into two gives you a double share
One into two gives you a double love
One into two gives you a double share


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Fool's In Love

Telephone’s engaged again
Each beep beep gives me a pain
Here I’m standing in the rain,
People think I am insane
I never thought that I’d be caught
But my tap dancing’s come to nought
Oh no ne'er the sun will cure
The way I feel, it can’t be real.
My dog looks at me kinda sad
He thinks his master’s just been had
But what he doesn’t get it seems
The orange has begun to peel
In all the world confusion reigns
My circuit's fused, I’ve lost my mind
A handy man can’t help me out
I’ve lost my mind and it’s on the line
This fool’s in love, fool’s in love
This fool’s in love, fool’s in love

Big Ben sounds of thirteen chimes
The swallow’s left for sunnier climes
England still expects a guy
To cross the 't's and dot the 'i'
This fool’s in love
This fool’s in love
This fool’s in love
This fool’s in love

The weaker sex has me undone
I’m in the web that she has spun
Like Icharus towards the sun
I’m standing with a smoking gun
I would pay a captain’s wage
To buy the knowledge of the sage
It’s said a girl can shake the world
It is so plain that does occur
This fool’s in love
This fool’s in love
This fool’s in love
This fool’s in love
This fool's in love
Fool's in love
Fool's in love
Fool's in love.


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Changes

Everyone is going through changes
And no-one knows what’s going on
And everybody changes places
But the world still carries on
Love must always change to sorrow
And everyone must play the game
It’s here today and gone tomorrow
But the world goes on the same

Everyone is going through changes
No-one knows what’s going on
And everybody changes places
But the world still carries on
Now love must always change to sorrow
And everyone must play the game
Because it’s here today and gone tomorrow
But the world goes on the same

Everyone is going through changes
No-one knows what’s going on
And everybody changes places
But the world still carries on
Now love must always change to sorrow
And everyone must play the game
Because it’s here today and gone tomorrow
But the world goes on the same

Everyone is going through changes
But the world still carries on.



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Liberty

When you are at school you are never taught the real thing
Teachers leave their class and quietly they sing
Alas experience and all the pain is real
All men hate their fellow man and here they come
Over Westminster Bridge they’re running
In the rooms of the crown when they have discussion
In the White House the telephone line is humming
All the oil that they need isn’t forthcoming
Wise men asleep in their ivory tower
Yes this fantasy called liberty
When in reality we’re never free
That’s the irony of liberty
When in reality we’re never free

Back in the school yard they are fighting for their ball
What started out in fun has ended in a brawl
The biggest brute begins to put his big boot in
When they start the fight begins
And by the left are the troops of St Ivor’s Barracks
By the right all the barmen are centre targets
While the men with the gold are forever smiling
Pretty girls unaware carry on the fighting
Secret remorse on the dissident mob

Oh this fantasy called liberty
When in reality we’re never free
That’s the irony of liberty
When in reality you lied to me

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
If the bomb doesn’t get you
Then the government must
They lock away their secrets
And tell you what they like
If you say you don’t believe them
They’re very quick to strike
They say you’re giving bullets
For the army side to use
So don’t say a word no other excuse

This fantasy called liberty
When in reality we’re never free
That’s the irony of liberty
When in reality you lied to me
You lied to me
This fantasy of liberty
When in reality
You lied to me

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Say It Isn’t True
By Jackson Browne

In the still of the night
Lying in the darkness
I listen to my heart
Say it isn’t true
In the quiet and the dark
The movements of my love
And the breathing of our children
Say it isn’t true

In the streets and the village
The people live their lives
And the jobs they do for a living
Say it isn’t true

When you think of all the people
in the cities of the world
That could vanish in a moment
Say it isn’t true

Say it isn’t true x 4


Well I’m alive in the city
In the countries of the world
I want to go on living
I want to see my life unfurl
And when you think of all the achievements
And the brilliance of these times
We must find a higher purpose
And a better use of mind

Say it isn’t true x 4 and x4 again


In the still of the night
Lying in he darkness
I listen to my heart
Say it isn’t true
And in the quiet and the dark
And the movements of my wife
And the breathing of our children
Say it isn’t true x 5

When I’m alive in the city
In the countries of the world
And I want to go on living
I want to see my life unfurl
And if you think of all the genius
In the brilliance of these times
We must find a higher purpose
And a better peace of mind
Say it isn’t true x 4


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Mania Urbania

Well the truth is tough to face
when you've always lived a lie
And the whole damned human race
seems determined to go overboard
and destroy the world somehow
And just because they're tired and bored
they all ignore the cause of their fate

Oh, (if) they're coming after me, they won't get far
I'm gonna lock myself inside of my car
They might get you but they won't get me
I'm sitting in my castle and I've thrown away the key
You may well laugh but soon you're gonna cry
'cos everybody catches it by and by
It's Mania Urbania

You claim to build a life
and then they try to tear it down
You suffer all the strife
They tell you the world******
the taxman's at your door
They try to make you so afraid
you're overworked and underfed

Oh, (if) they're coming after me, they won't get far
I'm gonna lock myself inside of my car
They might get you but they won't get me
I'm sitting in my castle and I've thrown away the key
You may well laugh but soon you're gonna cry
'cos everybody catches it by and by
It's Mania Urbania

(The man drops) but they'll drive him to drink
They're always suspicious if you say what you think
They'll tap all you telephones and open all your mail
You try to protest and they'll throw you in jail
They talk about freedom and personal (proceeds)
The only time you see them is when they're on TV
It's Mania Urbania

Oh, (if) they're coming after me, they won't get far
I'm gonna lock myself inside of my car
They might get you but they won't get me
I'm sitting in my castle and I've thrown away the key
You may well laugh but soon you're gonna cry
'cos everybody catches it by and by
It's Mania Urbania (x 2)

(And then I'm unable to hear the rest.....)

So if anybody can add to these lyrics or/and correct them, it would be nice! - It's one of my favourites from Liberty! )

Bad Dream

We’re in the middle of a bad dream
Nothing’s going right with me
We’re in the middle of a bad dream
Now what’s gonna to happen to my girl
It’s the same old simple story
You break if you ? ?
We’re in the middle of a bad dream
I think I’m doin’ me in
This simple man is not simple no more
This simple man can reach out his door
Without the bullets and the bombs goin’ flyin’
We’ve done the tears and the ? cryin’
We’re in the middle of a bad deam
Nothing’s going right with the world
We’re in the middle of a bad dream
What’s gonna happen to my girl
Now they’re coming in from the east
And they’re dying out in the west
East is east, west is west
Which one Lord, which one’s the best
I’m in the middle of a bad dream
Nothin’s alright with the world
I’m in the middle of a bad dream
What’s gonna happen to my girl...

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can't hear the rest - anybody help?