Тексты песен «Richard Thompson»

In this dirty old part of the city where the sun refuse to shine People tell me there ain't no use in trying Now, my girl, you're so young and pretty And one thing I know is true, You'll be dead before your time is due,...

A man is like a rusty wheel On a rusty cart He sings his song as he rattles along and then he falls apart. And we'll sing hallelujah At the turning of the year And we work all day in the old fashioned way 'Till the...

She womanly lay like the lay of the land The land around Wheely Down And every curve was a high, high hill To hang above the town >From Holland they came to make their maps And they had made her well For the rivers...

When I am laid, am laid in earth, may my wrongs create No trouble, no trouble in, in thy breast. When I am laid, am laid in earth, may my wrongs create No trouble, no trouble in, in thy breast. Remember me, remember me,...

Dirty people take what's mine I can leave them all behind They can never cross that line When I get to the border Sawbones standing at the door Waiting 'till I hit the floor He won't find me anymore When I get to the...

When the spell is broken When the spell is broken How you ever gonna keep her now You can't cry if you don't know how When the spell is broken When the spell is broken All the joy is gone from her face Welcome back to...

All he ever wanted to do was harm All he ever wanted to be was cruel At 12 years old Fate marked his brow And he said, I have a mission now But we laughed at his clothes And the blackheads round his nose When We Were...

Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving But how can they know it's time for them to go? Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming I have no thought of time For who knows where the time goes? Who knows...

When you were helpless, before you knew He gave you shelter until you grew He kept you secret, then he gave you a name You drank from a river, you slept in the hay You grew up running, into the wind You grew up...

All your bitterness and lies sting like tears in my eyes And a thousand lovesick tunes Won't wash away the wounds from my mind You've been seen around, you're a new sensation You got a better deal and you took his...

Wishing that I could see you every day Wishing that I could steal your heart away Dreaming of the time I can hold you tight Wishing that the time would come tonight I been hopin' all along things would turn out right If...

This cruel country has driven me down Teased me and lied, teased me and lied I've only sad stories to tell to this town My dreams are withered and died Once I was bending the tops of the trees Kind words in my ear kind...

I stepped on the dance floor feeling very cool I thought I saw an angel sitting on a stool I just couldn't tell, you'll think I'm a fool If she was a woman or a man She was the kind of woman that a man could crave From...

I found your picture in a corporal's pocket His cold fingers still pressed it to his chest Sniper's bullet took his eyes and his breath away Now he lies out in the forest with the rest You looked shy in your...

I must leave this tainted place Of slow and hidden pain By all and any means All the past I shall erase And never look again On child's memories If you'll have me, truly have me Word Unspoken, Sight Unseen I'm new-born...

G.I. Joe put your gun away The sun is setting on another day Why don't you leave me alone Yankee Go Home They're burning effigies out in the street Man the lifeboats, sound the retreat Pentagon's on the Phone Yankee Go...

Yellow bird, yellow bird, up high in banana tree. Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me. Did your lady friend leave your nest again? That is very sad, makes me feel so bad. You can fly away, in the sky away. You're...

I saw your old flame Walking down the street She's back in town again She's looking out for you She says you used her And you were indiscreet It really wounded her When you bid adieu Do you mean she still cares Do you...

She came down the stairs in her cocktail dress She fell on her food like a lioness There was ringing in my ears like an SOS She said, "You dream too much If you think I've a thing for you You dream too much, it's going...

Wondering and waiting, my back agaist the wall Not a word that passed between us comes to recall Just you shadow at the window as you pass on down the hall You never wanted me and never knew me at all I haven't any...