Тексты песен «John Wesley Harding»


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John Wesley Harding - Cathy's New Clown

Sometimes when you get mystic I have to leave the room Another accident statistic While the big bass drum goes boom There's an apocalypse now on station road If there's a nuclear winter, at least it'll snow Your talk...

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John Wesley Harding - Come Gather Round

Come gather 'round and listen If you can get that near If not, we'll use a microphone So that all poor souls can hear And hold hands in a circle Or stare bored straight ahead Rejoice in your rebellion Or wish you were...

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John Wesley Harding - Congratulations

You always surprise me with the way you use your eyes I mean the way you see things differently from me And I'm green with envy how you see a glass half full When its just one gulp away from empty I'm pleased you think...

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John Wesley Harding - Cupid And Psycho

As I was out walking one night in the park Cupid was out on the town in the dark And I couldn't resist as I saw him walk by So I asked him why he had a tear in his eye He said "I'm an outlaw but my hands are clean And...

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John Wesley Harding - Dark Dark Heart

In an office two miles underground They can't tell night from day Secretaries typing errors of judgement In eternally full in-trays Phones ring in, get put on hold Well I'm just waiting for my nails to dry I was coming...

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John Wesley Harding - Dead Centre Of Town

Lord I swear the perfume you wear Was made out of turnip greens And every time I kiss you girl It tastes like pork and beans Even though you're wearin' them Citified high heels I can tell by your giant step You been...

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John Wesley Harding - Dead On Arrival

They gave me doses of dioxide Started coughing constantly Nursed inside my wounded pride Poisoned arrow in my knee Then they stood around my bed Said I was getting on famously A faceless man in a TV van Reprogrammed my...

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John Wesley Harding - Driving In The Rain

With all your vice and volume the whole of last week The plastic pretenders to paradise speak Of your fictions of triumph and legends of pain The sense that you'd left you'd be back once again There's a glint in your...

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John Wesley Harding - Eating Each Other's Babies

She flares up, they start to fight A chemical reaction late into the night Once they're out of love, now they're outta sight That's alright When silence reigns, it's strange weather Why do you have to leave me for a man...

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John Wesley Harding - Election Night

I met you on election night As we cried over our beers Nothing you could do would cheer me up We broke up later that year How come you and I aren't winners? Why weren't we born the other side? And it's raining It's...

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John Wesley Harding - Election Night (Another Version)

I met you on Election Night As we cried over our beer Nothing you could do would cheer me up We broke up later that year How come you and I aren't winners? Why weren't we born the other side? And it's raining And It's...

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John Wesley Harding - Elvis Has Just Left The Building

In this house, there are many many mansions And a tower in desperate need of a spire And a million little churches for all denominations Better get good advice, if you're a first time buyer The ghosts around here, well,...

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John Wesley Harding - Famous Man

Mother, last night I shot a famous man His music, his life, I was his greatest fan Mother, I'm sorry for all the things that I did I've been hiding it all of my life, shoulda?'ve kept it still hid Should've kept it...

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John Wesley Harding - Gentleman's Dream

Juliet said to the night air 'wherefore art thou romeo? ' He was beneath the balcony Hearing a word he didn't know Romeo said to juliet What does 'wherefore' mean? Juliet said 'why? We're only a gentleman's dream' Snow...

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John Wesley Harding - Get Back Down

I know you think that you are perfect So fred astaire, so joan of arc I see the light that shines around you And leaves you standing in the dark 'cos you're in debt up to your eyeballs You've no idea how much thing cost...

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John Wesley Harding - God Lives Upstairs

There was this man Who lived on the seashore The house with the steel door You passed it on the way to where you are He stares at the sand From his bedroom window Shakes as the wind blows Through the passing tail-fins...

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John Wesley Harding - Handful Of Sand

Darling, when you sit up and stare all night I get the feeling that something ain't right My heart starts to beat on my drum-tight skin I just wanna kick it in I know you start weeping when you think that I'm sleeping I...

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John Wesley Harding - Hard

Inside your machine I hear a whirring Cogs and flywheels getting into gear Was this was time to tell you're secrets Softly so that only I could hear Strange to be this close and never touching Moves me far away from...

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John Wesley Harding - Headful Of Something

We can wear the social fabric Put on the make-up of society We can champion the underdog Be proud that we're not another cog In the Blue Machinery In the Blue Machinery We all wanna do those things But what's the point...

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John Wesley Harding - Heart Without A Home

I went from door to door From town to town To find somewhere To lay myself down Somewhere to call my own I am out on the street The lengths I've gone To hear myself Keep on beating on Instead of this dialing tone...