Тексты песен «Richard Thompson»

An iron maiden stole my heart away-o black day Her siren songs seemed to call to me-o destiny She spat her thrash metal lyrics right into my mind The stage thundered and the Smoke bombs made me blind She sang, Hello,...

One thing always leads to another In life and love they say. You got too close and now That boy's gonna make you rue the day. You grab his ankles when he flies, Catch him when he falls. Here's the thing to say to him...

This house is dark and shuttered Luck has gone out the door No daytime will shine In this empty room no more Bad news is all the wind can carry I heard a sound one morning I bowed my head to weep I heard a man dig my...

Got a bank vault in heaven, got my name on the door Every day I get richer, add a little bit more Come you tellers and lenders and lend me some more Got a bank vault in heaven and it's mine for evermore And the angels...

As I walked out on a midsummer's morning For to view the fields and to take the air Down by the banks of the sweet primroses There I beheld a most ?love lie? fair Three short steps, I stepped up to her Not knowing her...

Bathsheba smiles She smiles and veins turn to ice She smiles and heads bow down She works the room Air-kisses every victim twice She spreads her joy around Do you close your eyes to see miracles Do you raise your face...

I'm beating my retreat Back home to you I'm beating my retreat Back home to you I'm burning all my bridges I'm burning all my bridges I'm burning all my bridges I'm running back home to you I'm trailing my colours Back...

I'm beating my retreat Back home to you I'm beating my retreat Back home to you I'm burning all my bridges I'm burning all my bridges I'm burning all my bridges I'm running back home to you I'm trailing my colours Back...

I was nineteen when I came to town They called it the Summer of Love They were burning babies, burning flags The hawks against the doves I took a job in the steamie Down on Cauldrum Street And I fell in love with a...

Kind soul, kind soul, pennies for my begging bowl London stones, hard and cold When you're up in the morning early Here's my babes to catch your eye Sick they are, no wonder why Hard heart, you pass me by Up in the...

All of my life I feed the big chimney Coke and ore, I pour it in Food for the hungry mouth of the monster Got to keep the production rolling Black ore, brown ore and Santander Pour that Blue Billy onto the bell...

Like a bird on the wire, Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. Like a worm on a hook, Like a knight from some old fashioned book I have saved all my ribbons for thee. If i, if I have been...

It's in the evening after dark when the blackleg miner creeps to work, With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt, There goes the blackleg miner. Well, he grabs his duds and down he goes, To hew the coal that lies below,...

As A cam in by Huntly Toun Ae mornin for tae fee A fell in wi Bogie o Cairnie An wi him A did agree For tae caa his twa best horses Or cairt or harrow or plou Or dae onything about fairm wark A very weil cud do Auld...

If she knew what I see while I'm watching Would she know where to smile, what to say When she leaves from her book to be with me Where's her mind as she stands while I play She left behind names in the pages And the...

Well I'm a poor boy from Wabash, they call me oil trash I've rubber-necked and rousted around And every damn job the boss he says "Hoss, It ain't worth pumping from the ground" So I come here to Boomtown doing just...

There's riders in this county They're taking heads for bounty Wake up Corinne, they come to ride us down Sweetness we have tasted The time to move is wasted They're riding like a hurricane through this town We've been...

Well I bought me a horse with a broken leg They said that she never could win Only fit for a bullet, they said She'll be coming out of a tin So I took her home, I fed her on hay I tied her up with a sling Well, she...

Oh you speak the words locked in my breast But it's late for me, let an old man rest One more black and tan on the barricade To keep me safe from loving When I close my eyes, close my eyes To the cold flame of the...

I got sinister things waiting for you in my rattle bag Egyptian rings, and the dust of kings, and the tooth of a hag The bones of Keats, the tongues of cheats, and a mad dog's eye And I'm going to make you love me and...