OF ALL THE LOST FOLLOWERS
Toulouse/Herbage
I confide in you when I sleep
I converse with you when I wake
I'm standing outside at your front door
But I've never really seen your face
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When I've laid the table out for two
I call you from the stairs
You never answer, you never come
Because you're never there
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Of all the lost followers
I'm following after you
I'm coming after you
I'm looking after you
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Above my bed hanging on the wall
There's an empty frame just waiting
Until I'm able to shoot you close range
Without my camera shaking
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I'll hold your hand again tonight
When there's nowhere left to hide
And I know there's nothing left between us
But the warmth I feel beside
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Of all the lost followers
I'm following after you
I'm coming after you
I'm looking after you
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Of all the lost followers
I'm following after you
I'm looking after you
I'm lusting after you
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I'm following after you....
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JUST PRETEND
Toulouse/Herbage
From where I sit I see it all
Temptation arises fear
The thoughts I thought were modified
Breath heavy in my ear
Lips afire, legs astride
Picture in my dreams
Kick me when I'm going down
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My aim was is to please
Hunt in packs out on your own
In the cover darkness lent
Your looking for someone to love
Just proof to show your friends
So finally I stood in your way
And offered nothing at all
But the experience of the price you pay
Was that just duty call?
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Just pretend you tread the ground
No man has trodden before
Just pretend it never happened
If your flesh begins to crawl
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Wear what you will, dressed to kill
But you never wear it well
Laugh aloud when you're in the crowd
The ideal is to compel
Time heals all evils, leaves no scars
And there's no compromise
But I insist you take the risk
Instead you take the rise
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Act your part and play your games
In your search of knowledge and wealth
The hand that dealt below the belt
Now keeps itself to itself
Pay dearly for your pleasure
It's all counted in the cost
If I'm on my feet or on my knees
It's your shoulders that carry the cross
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Just pretend you tread the ground
No man has trodden before
Just pretend it never happened
If your flesh begins to crawl
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Just pretend you tread the ground
No man has trodden before...
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ROMANY BLOOD
Toulouse/Lordan/Herbage/Taylor/Mizon
The horse that licks you plate clean
And pulls your caravan
I can envy that horse
Like I envy fellow man
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I watch your face come alive
In the firelight
Framed in long hair
Black, Black, Black, Black
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I held the red rose
That bore the thorn
That pierced my skin
Until blood was drawn
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I wish I could protect you
But the flames hold me back
Sometimes you play guitar and sing of challenge
Bravery and truth
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I have the courage to slay a man
But I can't sit next to you
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I held the red rose
That bore the thorn
That pierced my skin
Until blood was drawn
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I WANT
Toulouse/Herbage
Oh God I want Christmas all year 'round
I want a swimming pool I don't want to drown
I want a lot of money but I don't wanna pay taxes
Unless it's just a penny in the pound
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I want a mini cooper, immune to endorsements
I want a place in the country and a penthouse apartment
I want a yacht to sail, I want a pass on British rail
Guaranteed with my own compartment
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I'm not begging, but I'm asking
I'm not giving, but I'm receiving
I'm not taking but if you're listening
This is everything I've been wanting
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I want to be happy for the rest of my life
I want to die but not by the knife
I want to sleep all afternoon
I want to rise at night with the moon
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I want a daughter without the wife
I want Marilyn Monroe
Painted by Warhol
Reincarnated Jean Harlow
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I want the style of De Niro
I want to get out of this place
I want to see your face
Until then Amen, I gotta go
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I'm not begging, but I'm asking
I'm not giving, but I'm receiving
I'm not taking but if you're listening
This is everything I've been wanting
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FIGHTING IRISH
Toulouse/Herbage
It takes all sorts, it takes all kinds
It takes time and I've taken sides
I've got friends who've made enemies
Those who wave banners on bended knee
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Those who only see what's visible
Have both eyes closed and stand in the middle
Hand raised laughing to take the pledge
Hiding under the active edge
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Fighting Irish to be heard
Fighting Irish wrong word
Fighting Irish shout it loud
Fighting Irish stand proud
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I wouldn't be seen dead in a Paisley shirt
Or held at point blank range with my face in the dirt
I can sympathise but offer no solution
They can kill the revolutionary they can't kill the revolution
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I can only listen if you want me to hear
I can live in peace while you live in fear
The bridge is burnt, the water's in the way
But I'll see your side of town come judgement day
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Fighting Irish to be heard
Fighting Irish wrong word
Fighting Irish shout it loud
Fighting Irish stand proud
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IS VIC THERE?
Toulouse/Herbage
The night is young, the mood is mellow
And there's music in my ears
Say, is Vic there?
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I hear ringing in the air
So I answer the phone
A voice comes over clear
Say, is Vic there?
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GOING LEFT-RIGHT
Toulouse/Taylor/Herbage
Mercy mercy mercy
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And I saw you under the disco lights
And I saw you poised in your disco stance
And I saw you out on the disco floor
And I saw you move to your disco dance
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Going Left Right, Left Right, Left Right, Left Right
Left Right, Left Right, Left Right, Left Right...
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And I saw you up at the disco bar
And I saw you leaving the disco zone
And I saw you move in for the disco kill
And I saw you leave the disco on your own
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Going Left Right, Left Right, Left Right, Left Right
Left Right Left Right, Left Right, Left Right...
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And I saw you dressed in your army greens
And I saw you marching with the army losers
And I saw you at ease in the army ranks
Out of the army out on manoeuvres
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Going Left Right, Left Right, Left Right, Left Right
Left Right, Left Right, Left Right, Left Right.....
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AGE CONCERN
Toulouse/Lordan
I can laugh in your face
But I can't trace a smile
You go to great lengths
What I could cover in a mile
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I like to do, what I want, when I want to
You just do as your told
You got high blood pressure
While I'm left out in the cold
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You try so hard
And fail so badly
I grin and bare it
You accept it gladly
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You worry about retirement
But that's the least of my fears
You think you're young at heart
But I'm younger in years
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I can waste your time, anytime
If you've got any to lend
You keep to the straight and narrow
While I drive you 'round the bend
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You try so hard
And fail so badly
I grin and bare it
You accept it gladly
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I can walk past your window any time that I like
You're sleeping all morning afternoon and night
Dreaming of the memories of your old boy clan
One living example of immobilised man....
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SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND TESCO'S
Toulouse/Lordan
Ground floor...
Nitrogen, oxygen and green green grass
All things bright and beautiful
Going up
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First floor
Sunny days, holidays, scotch on the rocks
Hollywood Babylon and yesterday's papers
Going up
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Second floor...
Going Up
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Third floor
Call ups and fall outs,
Pistols rifles and ammunition
Barbed wire fencing
Going up
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Fourth floor
Concrete bunkers or golden gates,
Brand new testaments for White House tapes
Sorry, no access without permission
Going up
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Fifth floor
Take it away....
Going down
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE BLUES
Toulouse/Lordan/Herbage
When I woke up tonight I took a pill
The last one I possessed, at least until
Before my morning cigarette I take a pill
And when I feel lacklustre, I take another pill
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To keep me slim line to keep me fit and strong
So I look good in a tee shirt, all night long
And so come the daybreak I got too much to lose
So I'm asking you up there, I'm asking you up there…
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What, whatever,
Whatever happened to the blues
Whatever happened to the blues
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If it rains when I'm wearing sunglasses,
I take a pill
Stay home and wait 'till ten PM at least until
I can walk the streets in deserted circles
Small talking with my friends, the ones who sell me on the cheap
Amphetamines...
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Till at the end of the night, ill at ease
Thinking aloud to myself, about the life I lead
About the life I choose
So for the sake of change, so for the sake of change, so for the sake of change...
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What, whatever,
Whatever happened to the blues
Whatever happened to the blues
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ODE TO KOLN (THE STENCH OF WAR)
Toulouse/Herbage
Through these gates the marble limits
Through these gates total awareness
Wonder aqua where the skyline plummets
Through these gates, loss of consciousness
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Through these gates plans are made
Dedicated to the lost direction
Through these gates they mark your grave
Blue eyes witness your dissection
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You'll receive the call
Where the bell tolls the final mass
Through these gates the stench of war
Through these gates I want to pass
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Through these gates the marble limits
Through these gates total awareness
Wonder aqua where the skyline plummets
Through these gates, loss of consciousness
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Through these gates you pass just once
Through these gates you don't belong
Race to ruination, European front
Through these gates commit no wrong
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You'll receive the call
Where the bell tolls the final mass
Through these gates the stench of war
Through these gates I want to pass
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What good is sitting all alone by yourself
Come is a cabaret my friend
Come to the cabaret
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You'll receive the call
Where the bell tolls the final mass
Through these gates the stench of war
Through these gates I want to pass
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CLAP NOW
Toulouse/Lordan/Herbage
Take a bow, clap now
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For whom we are about to deceive
The more the merrier the less to please
All rounded up and labelled sheep
God rest their souls and their minds he'll keep
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Do you really need to rise to the occasion?
Give them all a standing ovation
You've paid the price, in time to see
Hurricane Carter versus Mohammed Ali
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Take a bow, clap now
Take a bow, clap now
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Displayed before your eyes, as comedy
Safe and harmless bring the whole family
Over the moon to take what's being given
Put lights in their eyes and they'll call it living
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A night on the tiles at the talk of the town
A buzz in the air and an ear to the ground
A tout with tickets and they'll come in droves to see
Keith Moon, Sid Vicious and Brian Jones
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Take a bow, clap now...
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