1. |
Faces in the Dark
03:43
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Black night and blue light
Make nervous rainbow
Coke spoon and stage fright
Might make the pain go
I know I trusted
Too many con men
I readjusted
My judgement on them
These faces in the dark
Line up and listen
To the linnet and the lark
They pay for their intrusion
Into someone’s blue confusion
Till the dogs of disillusion bark
Sound check and run through
The same old routine
One two and one two
Where the hell have you been
I’m seeing demons
Ghosts from the wild wood
I hear their screaming
They filled my childhood
These faces in the dark
Line up and listen
To the linnet and the lark
They pay for their intrusion
Into someone’s blue confusion
Till the dogs of disillusion bark
One more please one more
My weakness tears me
I do the encore
This passion scares me
I’m feeling white hot
They say they love me
Can I provide what’s
Expected of me
These faces in the dark
Line up and listen
To the linnet and the lark
They pay for their intrusion
Into someone’s blue confusion
Till the dogs of disillusion bark
Faces in the dark
Faces in the dark
Faces in the dark…
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2. |
News Travels Fast
02:22
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News travels fast
When you’re sleeping with your dealer
Word gets around
When you make it with your man
Boys find out
Girls find out
One bad move and the world finds out
News travels fast
When you’re sleeping with your dealer
Word gets around
When you make it with your man
Straights find out
Gays find out
Lose all your friends when they find out
When you lie down with shit
It’s a shame isn’t it
What is this
Who can get an equal measure
When you’re mixing pleasure with
Business
News travels fast
When you’re sleeping with your dealer
Word gets around
When you make it with your man
If he goes down
The fee goes down
We bring the land fit for heroes down
News travels fast
News travels fast
News travels fast…
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3. |
One For the Money
04:54
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I’ve been through scenes like this
Seen it all before
Some people look for love
While others go to war
There’s the ones who’d like to eat you
Say they’re desperate to meet you
Those who must defeat you
To get what they’re looking for
You need power like a flower needs the rain
You need danger like a hobo needs a train
In springtime the sun will melt the snow
This is one for the money
Now go man go
Strange kind of business this
Do I need it
Strange kind of creature this
Kills those who feed it
There’s the people who can do it
The walking dead who blew it
And those who just go through it
Cos some guy like you agreed it
You need power like a shower needs a cloud
You need lovin’ like a loner needs a crowd
Me? That’s for me to know
This is one for the money
Now go man go
I think of Janis now
I think of Elvis too
And every life that’s ruined by the likes of you
There’s the ones who never made it
When the DJ never played it
The trust that you betrayed it was the best that you could do
You had power but your hour may be past
You’re owing but your time is going fast
It’s time to close this one man show
This is one for the money
Now go man go
This is one for the money
Now go man go…
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4. |
Vancouver Tuesday
04:10
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Oh love the gloves are off again
Time for take off who knows when
It’s like a kid’s game but the scale’s bigger
I know they judge me on the sales figures
I smoke a cigarette
I’ll make the quota yet
I hope we’re gonna get along
Maybe I’ll see you
Vancouver Tuesday
If my plan lands on the runway
And if I find you
What will you say
If I see you
Vancouver Tuesday
Flight time the night time lights they shine
Rain on the runway on my mind
I wish I’d never read that last letter
Maybe I’ll sleep and then I’ll feel better
I’ll take another drink
I’ll watch the ocean shrink
I’ll work out what I think is wrong
Maybe I’ll see you
Vancouver Tuesday
If my plan lands on the runway
And if I find you
What will you say
If I see you
Vancouver Tuesday
The lights are up again
It was better in the dark
They’re telling me sell yen
And there’s pressure on the mark
And the dollar’s down
The dollar’s down
The dollar’s down
Delay below us we must wait
Memo to me I must get straight
I find it hard to walk a straight line
As we cross another date line
I’m drunk on altitude
Brandy and airline food
They say my attitude is wrong
Maybe I’ll see you
Vancouver Tuesday
If my plane lands on the runway
And if I find you
What will you say
If I see you
Vancouver Tuesday
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5. |
Out in the Rain
03:55
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There’s somebody on our block
Who used to be a ballerina
Now she’s an office cleaner
On the days she isn’t sick
The ticking of the clock has shocked
The people who have seen her
But to see an old and lonely lady
Walking with a stick
After bed and board
I can just afford
An ordinary pain
So I, I never go out in the rain
You can see them on the stairways
Feel their anger shake the ceiling
The plaster peeling
Makes the rivers turn and wind
And I sold all my shares the bears
The banned insider dealing
Gave the freedom of The City
To the foolish and the blind
Can a hollow laugh for a photograph
Go halfway to explain
Why I, I never go out in the rain
Through April parades
And the rains that they bring
Through penny arcades
To the hurry by Spring
I’ve lived like a stranger
And felt like an enemy
Praying for peace
In this downtown Gethsemane
Waiting for you, waiting for you
From the road up to the rooftops
Every window tells a story
The man next door he
Does his face up like a clown
Some can live so dangerous they
Go for death or glory
Others they’re so careful
And they’re always breaking down
Church bells ringing
Children sing
Lovers swinging down the lane
Me I, I never go out in the rain
I never go out in the rain
I never go out in the rain…
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6. |
Last Year's Jubilee
03:10
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After last year’s jubilee
I watched the sky turn grey
Come on clouds I’d pray
Pull a cover over me
The city with its sweet excesses
Dulls the edge of loneliness’s blade
And midnight proves the stupid moves I made
After last year’s jubilee
The line has flattened out and how
Life is ordinary now
And it’ll take some breaking free
And I’ve been offered new advances
That would in different circumstances hold
One welcome crumb
I’d come in from the cold
And I don’t agree with the theory
That love is blind
Love knows its own mind
Knows where it’s going
And I suspect when ships get wrecked on the ocean roar
It’s maybe caused by more
Than the north wind blowing
After last year’s jubilee
Sorrow opened up my eyes
And it came as no surprise
To anyone but me
And as I taste this bitter glass
Cast an eye on my past history
And sing the blues for the fool I used to be
After last year’s jubilee
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7. |
Hello the Settin' Sun
03:10
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When you started slipping did you change your mind
Did you realise too late what you had done
Did you see your life go by
Like a movie in your eyes
You waved all your goodbyes
And said hello the setting sun
Nothing’s ever easy like it seemed to be
In those early days when we were young
Everything was free
Like a three four played in C
You lost your harmony
And said hello the setting sun
I’ve been crying today over someone I barely knew
Our lives were bound together nonetheless
Did you talk in your sleep
Were your feelings too deep
Were you drowning in a well of loneliness
I pray the endless river will release you
From the journey you have just begun
When you reach that journey’s end
I hope you find a friend
Who’ll take you by the hand
And say hello the setting sun
When you reach that journey’s end
I hope you find a friend
Who’ll take you by the hand
And say hello the setting sun
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8. |
Diamonds in Her Eyes
02:54
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Go up to Montana
For two days or three
The Copacabana
Can do without me
We can dance in the moonlight
And sing to the skies
Me and the lady
With diamonds in her eyes
The boys in the pool hall
Say lonely’s a crime
They know you can fool all
The people some time
If you don’t understand it
Then don’t criticise
I’m in the love with the lady
With diamonds in her eyes
In love with the lady
With diamonds in her eyes
We can go back to nature
And live in the woods
I know how you hate your
Material goods
We can get off the freeway
Where a bald eagle flies
Me and the lady
With the diamonds in her eyes
I’m in the love with the lady
With diamonds in her eyes
In love with the lady
With diamonds in her eyes
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9. |
The Dragon Lady's Dream
03:28
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In the dragon lady’s dreams
No one ever asks why
No one ever says no
And just by saying so
She turns truth to a lie
In the dragon lady’s dream
There’s no reason to doubt
A sense of destiny true
With no need to be blue
Or for doing without
See a magic castle near an ice blue lake
Made for a princess and a prince
For a two time loser and priceless fake
Who’ve never been heard of since
In the dragon lady’s dream
She scans the starlight for signs
And if the omens are good
She’ll tell you you should
Be unlearning your lines
See a magic castle near an ice blue lake
Made for a princess and a prince
For a two time loser and priceless fake
Who’ve never been heard of since
In the dragon lady’s dream
All is done more or less
With the ghost of a chance
That the devil may dance
Hear him answering yes
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10. |
Read My Mind
03:12
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When I was ten I
Liked things just so
Could I be untidy
The answer is no
Can planets be paper
Can glue stick a star
Stay in playing
Acoustic guitar
Read my mind and you will find
The secrets lying here behind
The mask that never slips
Don’t ask don’t read my lips
Read my mind
Old Einstein
Sums he did
Needed no job
That ugly clumsy kid
Could add up no prob
Read my mind and you will find
The secrets lying here behind
The mask that never slips
Don’t ask don’t read my lips
Read my mind
Hosannas are rising
Banners proclaim
Voices are breaking
You’re taking the blame
Read my mind and you will find
The secrets lying here behind
The mask that never slips
Don’t ask don’t read my lips
Read my mind
Read my mind
Read my mind…
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11. |
Waitin' On
03:59
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The shoeshine and the bell hop know
The song I’m singing and the boat I row
They found out years ago
Now me I’m getting wise
The two timer with his golden rings
The jealous lover and the pains they bring
The ones who’d give anything
To take the sadness from my eyes
They come walking in this restaurant
Snap their fingers tell you what they want
Can’t get a duchess or a debutante
To come each time they call
They tell me I was born to serve
Me I’m living on a learning curve
High wire walker who’s lost his nerve
Wants me to break his fall
And I see the sky and I wanna fly
And I don’t see why my chance is gone
This table’s not the only thing I’m waitin’ on
The shoeshine and the bell hop see
The downside through history
Been going on for centuries
Just waiting in the line
The cleaner and the motel maid
Know who’s paying when the bill’s been paid
Who’s losing and who’s made the grade
Now me I’m getting mine
And I see the sky and I wanna fly
And I don’t see why my chance is gone
This table’s not the only thing I’m waitin’ on
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12. |
Don't Be Different
06:22
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You who are standing at the door
With a flower in your hand
You a survivor of the war
Where your mother and her man
Fought a bitter battle for your soul
You with your leaking liquid eyes
And the treasure you call skin
You the pretender to the prize
You may never ever win
Are allergic to the lies they told
And you ask me
What can I do
Where can I fit
How can I move
And I tell you
Don’t be different
Don’t be strange
Don’t be unusual
Try to change
If you comply
If you conform too
Maybe they’ll warm to
Your way out style
Don’t be different
Don’t be different
We with our standards and our laws
Are waiting now in fear
We with our first and second flaws
And a focus on career
Having fought a losing cause
See the conqueror draw near control
And you ask me
What can I do
Where can I fit
How can I move
And I tell you
Don’t be different
Don’t be strange
Don’t be unusual
Try to change
If you find the latest fun thing
Is not the done thing
Then change your mind
Don’t be different
Don’t be different
You with your conscience and your grace
Are threatening to break
You with your innocence and face
Who can terrify the fake
Who as the cup is placed
Try to stop you taking hold
And you ask me
What can I do
Where can I fit
How can I move
And I tell you
You’ll pay a price
If you don’t heed this advice
Be different
Be strange
Be unusual
Never change
Would you deny
The greatest moment
If the status quo meant
You should turn it down
Be different
Be strange
Be unusual
Never change
Would you deny the greatest moment
If the status quo meant
You should turn it down
Be different
Please be different
Go on be different
For me be different
Please be different
Be different
You must be different
Be different
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Pete Scott Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Pete Scott (1948-2023) was a singer-songwriter from Newcastle upon Tyne.
He released many
albums throughout his career, including "Don't Panic" and "Jimmy the Moonlight" on Rubber Records in the 1970s and, more recently, the self-released albums "Why Sing Goodbye Songs", "Songs to Sing & Jokes to Tell", and "Sweet Dreams of Contentment"
Known for folk rock in the 70s and comedy more recently.
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