Тексты песен «Strawbs»

I'm never one for fighting, but I'm about to make a stand There's no sense in retreating when you're standing on dry land Our life has been a turmoil, a stormy night at sea The low of deep depression to the high of...

As for the help you called for Nobody seemed to answer The difference in man is no more Than being a priest or dancer. .... You really don't know what they're after They cling to the things that they see best And drown...

Listen to my story, I've got something I must say All about a new experience That came to me today. Well I don't want your sudden changes, I don't need your New York zoo, But I want some understanding 'Cause I think...

Speak only with your voices And not the sword Listen to your leaders And the words of the Lord. Shake hands with your brothers Has been my theme For I have had a dream. While fury gathers around you Provoking you to...

I have seen the midnight sun shining I saw you fly away smiling The dark night sheds no light It merely serves a warning I pray for one single ray of hope Oh midnight sun. I have seen the midnight sun shining Watched...

Sunday morning with the New York Times The sun is shining in my penthouse suite My lady love laid down some lines They reach from Culver Beach to Easy Street Before the mirror you apply your cream Cosmetic secrets of...

Take my hand, I'll show you how to fly We will cross the valley road, the river rolling by Open fields, high cascading streams We will climb the mountainside, a multitude of dreams. I wake up to your morning glory Say...

My friend Peter was not that old A generous man with a heart of gold They took his money, they took his home They wouldn't leave my friend Peter alone. My friend Peter's mother, boy she was a bitch All she ever gave...

I see myself reborn In every generation I look to children For my source and my salvation And I will build my house of rock On their foundation stone. I can see the new beginning The universal loser winning I can hear...

There's blood in the dust Where the city's heart beats The children play games That they take from the streets How can you teach when you've so much to learn May you turn In your grave New world. There is hate in your...

Hold me tight We've got a way to go tonight We tore ourselves apart In spite of all the promises we made. Name your price But take a note of my advice Don't ever make a sacrifice Without a chance of being paid. No...

If the school bell had rung Would it have rung a death knell? Now the dark day has gone And there isn't any bell In the flower of their youth How were they to know? And now there's so few left And not all the flowers...

My gate is swinging open My fence is broken down My window's staring blindly Greets the callers with a frown And I need a place to hide away When I am feeling blue. Nothing else will do, babe Nothing else will do...

Summer's gone come chill October days We will stroll through russet trees Through the fallen leaves of oak and sycamore That carpet earth through harsh December freeze. Fireworks and children with eyes that sparkle...

I leave you with your head buried in the pillow Oh so sleepy, oh so sleepy As twisted as a knot, as tangled as a wire Burning like a coal on the open fire Oh so sleepy, oh so sleepy. I talk to you in riddles of the...

She leaned forward in the lamplight In her eyes an amber glow She was promising the earth And yet somehow saying no We talked of pleasant summer days Kew Gardens, Hampton Court The jewellers where we bought The ring...

The scarecrow stood with its head held high Admiring the view from the hill The waterfall scattered its glistening jewels As the heron stood gracefully still It seemed I looked without seeing I failed to grasp what I...

Empty glasses on the table Rows of bottles without labels No-one drinks with friends no more Look to yourself and that's for sure. Pull up all the roots I'm growing I'm on my way Don't know quite just where I'm going...

The fragile gentle butterfly with multi-coloured wings Settles on the toadstools in the midst of fairy rings Midsummer sounds of tinkle bells as sweet Titania sings. Or am I dreaming Or am I dreaming? And I will have...

I walked in the city at midday It was empty and bare I looked in the mirror at midnight There was nobody there You had become the very breath that I breathed You were all I desired, my will to succeed But now I know how...