Midnight Shift

Show Me
I'm Doing Fine
Here Comes Love
Remind Me
Tyrannies of Fun
Open Cages
Baby Blue
With a Reason
Mr Zak
Bottle of Red Wine
Midnight Shift
San Michelle

Show Me

Show Me – A bright new day, in early April or May
Show Me - An autumn moon, with winter coming too soon

I know a place where instinct clings
To each desire that love brings
I know a place where reason ends
In every moment love sends

Show Me – The capital ‘I’, that knows a truth from a lie
Show Me – The Sunday walk, where we got twisted by talk

There is a point where wisdom starts
Losing the contest with the heart
There is a point where impulse rides
All of the fears that love hides

Show me, your cool side
I’ll show you a phantom at your yuletide
So good, if you feel warm too
We could make a summer that last all year through

Show me an alphabet
Show me something to forget
Show me a calendar
Show me something to remember
Show me a miracle
Show me something natural
Show me the metaphysical
Show me something physical

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I’m doing fine

Now here is a scar I got in the war
And it hurts
Whenever you get a little too close

So, keep your distance
Don’t try to break my resistance

Or, I’m letting you
Our little game is suddenly through
And I’m warning you
Don’t need no man to pity me
Because I’m doing fine

Now here is someone who won’t go away
And it hurts
Whenever he thinks what happened to him

Tries to keep his battered pride
Thinks, that to him I should be tied

He just can’t accept
That I left him and not the reverse
And if that’s the case
The he’s alone and that’s too bad
Because I’m doing fine

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Here Comes Love

Along comes love
When you least expect it
Don’t worry ‘bout your head
Let your heart direct it
At work, at play, or out with friends
It’s all changed for you
When that loneliness ends

Here it comes that loving feeling
Here it comes that special thing
Ride a crest across the ocean
Fly upon a swallow’s wing

Away goes love
When you least expect it
Try to understand
But your heart’s rejected
Lost in another
Now you’re on your own
The more involved for you
The more alone

There is goes that loving feeling
There is goes that special thing
Clouds are grey across the ocean
Swallow has a broken wing

There it goes, there it goes now, love…..

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Remind Me

If you ever see me again
Tell me what I once said
I’m bound to forget

And, if you ever see me again
Remind me of those little things
I might have said

So, so long, ago
I don’t really know

If you ever see me again
Tell me what I once said
I’m bound to forget

And, if you ever see me again
Remind me of those little things
I might have once have said

So, so long, ago
I don’t really know

If you ever see me again
Tell me what I once said
I’m bound to forget
I’m bound to forget
I will forget

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Tyrannies of Fun

Here is a line, or two
From New York
Been such a lot to do

We’ve had a lot of laughs,
Out every night
Been up the Empire State, too

Tyrannies of fun, to me
Are quite oppressive

Taken some photographs
In Washington Square
Paul’s’ bought a hat that’s blue

Dance music radio
Everywhere
Nothing that’s got a good tune

Tyrannies of fun, to me
Are quite oppressive

People take taxicabs
They never walk
More than a block, or two

They never stop to think
About what they do
Crazy, exciting, but true

Tyrannies of fun, to me
Are quite oppressive

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Open Cages

Thought I could share you
But I was wrong
We didn’t want to
Want to belong
So we experimented
It was fun while it lasted
But now you’re gone
Now you’re gone and I can’t look back
I didn’t know we could kill it like this
I remember the first show
When you start me out with your black eyes

Tantrums don’t help now
No one to hear
If I should sulk or
Bust into tears
Shapes in darkroom
Are so frightening
I run to serenade you
If only I could sing
So I throw stones at your balcony
Haunt you with the swan song of a wild banshee

Being wanted by so many
Made me feel ten feet tall
Now I stand in a corner
Stare at the wall

Through many countries we’d walk together and apart
Concealing our jealousies, splintering our hearts
We just used to stray
Now you’ve gone away
Open cages

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Baby Blue

Baby, baby blue
These are the times I think of you
Maybe, maybe true
That you love me and I love you

Standing in the corner
Walking in the park
Sweating in a sauna
Alone, in the dark

Baby, baby blue
To meet just once would be pure bliss
Maybe, maybe true
That you don’t know that I exist

On good or bad days
Both near and far
Shopping at Safeways
Driving in my car

Baby, baby blue
This love has got a teenage feel
Maybe, maybe true
My view of you is a bit unreal

Watching the adverts
With the radio on
Ironing my shirts
When my cold has gone

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With a reason

With a reason
I could reach the seashore from the island
You and me are trying anyway

With a reason
Shaky bank is safe to build a bridge on
You and me are trying anyway

Everybody says that a change is coming
Everybody says that a change is coming

With a reason
Sun and moon would circle out of season
You and me are trying anyway

With a reason cat and mouse agree they are just teasing
You and me are trying anyway

Everybody says that a change is coming
Everybody says that a change is coming

With a reason
Work excuse is something to believe in
You and me are trying anyway

With a reason
Thinnest cloth would stop the strongest bleeding
You and me are trying anyway

Everybody says that a change is coming
Everybody says that a change is coming

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Mr Zak

Oh, Mr Zak is back
He’s walked a hundred miles
In the driving rain
Through a northern town

No one has heard him say
What he’s come here for
Why he looks around
On his holiday

Mr Zak is back

Mr Zak has a thousand eyes
He is an enemy
He looks a bit like you
And a bit like me

He wears a heavy coat
Has a subtle grin
It is the middle of his life
And he’s very thin

I see a lie in his mouth
That is tight, like a knot
And all through the years
He has the vision
Of a have-not

It is a miracle
Of our society
The he can carry on
With such a dark velocity

Mr Zak is back

Mr Zak says he knows
About the shape of things
About a sudden cry
And the beat of wings

Mr Zak says he knows
When a story ends
About the birth of world
And the death of a friend

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Bottle of Red Wine

Pass me that bottle of red wine
I’ll drink it here, in the sunshine
Pavements seem empty this evening
Still too warm to start thinking where should eat tonight

Looking across the piazza
A bell tower next to a white church
Manchester seems far away now
Still too warm to start thinking where we should go from here

Olive trees grow on the hillside
I didn’t know I would stay here
I had a train in the morning
Still too young to look at a smile and know if you care

Once in a while I look up
I see you looking too

Oh, don’t say anything that might spoil how I feel
Oh, don’t say anything that might cause me to go
Oh, don’t say please

Oh, don’t thin that you know what I want out of this
Oh, don’t think that you know why I came here with you
Oh, don’t say please

Pass me that bottle of red wine
I’ll drink it here in the sunshine
Pavements seem empty this evening
Still too young to start thinking where we should go from here

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Midnight Shift

I’m just a working girl
Just making a living
When the city’s waking up
I’m going home

Working the midnight shift
All my friends have gone out
They’ve all gone out dancing
They’re having fun

Working the midnight shift
For that extra little something
Things that are out of my reach
I need so bad

Seems that I’m always leaving
When the others arrive
My body still carries on
But I’m dying inside

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San Michelle

The next year, I returned to San Michelle
But, Marie had gone
And with her, my childhood

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