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LOVER THIEF
02:44
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When I saw you lover/thief, you took me by surprise
And when you fell in love with me, I looked into your eyes
Tell me true you lover, are you just a thief?
Tell me true you lover, don’t you lie to me.
And then I found out lover/thief, that you been makin’ night flights
Steppin’ down to Venice town, jazzin’ in the night lights
Tell me now you lover, aren’t you just a thief?
Tell me now you lover, what have you done to me.
Well in the evenin’ lover/thief, and in the daylight hours
May darkness be your only friend, in darkness is your power
Aren’t you just a thief?
Don’t you lie to me.
Devil take you lover/thief
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DOOR INTO THE WORLD
02:38
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The radio has songs, and the songs always play
And I live my life on Elavil, mixing night and day
The man across the alley watches shadows on a screen
And I watch him when he goes outside, and I know he watches me.
Hypnotized in the morning, paralyzed at night
The radio is my door into the world.
My connexion runs from the sea to the sea
And I know if I reach far enough someone will reach for me
Waiting by a radio, waiting just like me
She knows the song is all there is, and all there will ever be.
Hypnotized in the morning, paralyzed at night
The radio is my door into the world.
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YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE
02:47
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You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know, dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away
You told me once, dear, you really loved me
And no one else could come between.
But now you've left me and love another;
Now I see you just in dreams.
The other night dear, as I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms
But when I awoke, dear, I was mistaken
So I hung my head and I cried.
And when the angels come to take me
I’ll remember my love & pain
And if we fly over you as we’re leaving
My lonely tears will fall as your rain
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DO THE MUSSOLINI
02:56
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“This is Mystery Radio” that’s what it said
On a random station in the middle of the night.
We were takin’ the Studebaker down to Baytown
My baby and me staring out at the cold headlights.
I reached for the dial but Marilyn stopped my hand
“Let’s listen to this for a little while”
And listen we did as the black highway pitched
White lines like bones for mile after mile.
It was a dance show
On Mystery Radio
From somewhere down in Southern Italy
Ten million watts
A ghostly hot spot
Introducing a new dance called the Mussolini.
Stand up straight that’s right arch your back
Smile real broad fold your arms across your chest
Act real confident like you were the President
And use Ethiopia as your footrest.
Do the Mussolini
Nod your big bald head and grin like a loon
Do the Mussolini
If he was in your place you know he’d do you.
This was something new like nothing ever heard
On normal radio they play Tom Petty tunes
Some late night distortion of the time/space ozone
We couldn’t help but dance to the fascist goon.
“Turn it off!” I shouted as the car went off the road
It was a radio virus controlling our minds
I turned it off myself and brought the car to a halt
The Studebaker’s nose pushed up against a Burma Shave sign.
Commies are Red —Nazis think brown’s a winner —Il Duce likes blackshirts —They make him look thinner —
Burma Shave.
And then later that night we finally made it home
I was so glad to be in bed with my sweetie,
But later I awoke, she was pounding on my chest
Saying “Get up and get down with the Mussolini!”
It was a radio virus
Mussolini.
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SHE AND THE SEA
02:39
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My name is of no consequence, I come from TumbridgeWells
I never strayed too far from home my story brief to tell
A sub-assistant’s helper I’ve worked for years and years
It hollowed out my life till I wonder why I’m here
On any given weekday I spend my night at Mom’s
A pub in Teignmouth Beach, its real name is Mother’s Son.
I raise a pint, I watch the team, I listen to the lads
Tell how they onetime had the prize, the best a man can have
Between my work and Mother’s Son I stop to watch the sea
I clear the misty windscreen and search the ragged beach
I never fail to spot her as She cuts into the surf
She gently strokes the water for an hour then returns
Funny how it all works out when dreams become more real
Than Life itself, I live for sleep when love will be revealed.
As constant as the waves themselves She swims the darkling bay
I’ll take that vision home tonight for comfort as I lay
She’ll meet me like She always does, we’ll swim into the dawn
And morning finds her gone again as life goes on and on.
Funny how it all works out when dreams become more real
Than Life itself, I live for sleep when love will be revealed.
Dreams become more real
Love will be revealed.
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YOUR EYES
03:03
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Light as the daybreaks
You smile just as you wake
Another chance to play in the sun
When I look in your eyes I fall into a pool of light
Dive into the sea of Life
Your eyes, your eyes
When you sleep I’m stranded here,
By and by, you’ll reappear
A lifetime to celebrate
A ship with love at its wake
A last chance to Marvel what we’ve done
And we’ll crest the ocean waves
Sail into the endless rays
Never be alone again
Your eyes, your eyes
When I sleep you drift away
By and by, we’ll meet again.
Your eyes
Your eyes
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GABRIEL
02:25
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Gabriel
With days so dark
Wonder if Springtime will ever come to me
I found a photograph we were on a stretch of beach
The rush of surf the salty breeze, days when we were free
Gabriel
Angel boy
I never knew until you flew away from me
You left an open book and underlined a phrase
A twinkling of an eye, trumpet sounds, end of days
Wings brighter than the star, Gabriel
Wings brighter than the star, Gabriel
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SILENT WAVES
02:31
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SILENT WAVES
Wild-eyed the man rode his bike to the end of the pier
Looking ‘round but the clouds were all coming too near
Took a pack from his jacket, the smoke hung in the air
Then the smoke & the clouds & the dark was everywhere.
When the leaves & the trees & the people all fall down
And the sound of waves unheard as they echo through the town
The man from the news-stand was gone from his corner next day
The news was gone too & the teevee had nothin’ to say
Frozen in attitudes the light was as bright as the black
Nobody noticed, but the “Time of the Season” was back
When the leaves & the trees & the people all fall down
And the sound of waves unheard as they echo through the town
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