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<blockquote data-quote="Floyd" data-source="post: 719" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong>So Far Away</strong></p><p>Here I am again in this mean old town</p><p>And you're so far away from me</p><p>And where are you when the sun goes down</p><p>You're so far away from me</p><p></p><p>So far away from me</p><p>So far I just can't see</p><p>So far away from me</p><p>You're so far away from me</p><p></p><p>I'm tired of being in love and being all alone</p><p>When you're so far away from me</p><p>I'm tired of making out on the telephone</p><p>And you're so far away from me</p><p></p><p>So far away from me</p><p>So far I just can't see</p><p>So far away from me</p><p></p><p>I get so tired when I have to explain</p><p>When you're so far away from me</p><p>See you're been in the sun and I've been in the rain</p><p></p><p>So far away from me</p><p>So far I just can't see</p><p>So far away from me</p><p>You're so far away from me</p><p><strong>Money For Nothing</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Look at them yo-yo's</p><p>That's the way you do it</p><p>Play the banjo on the MTV</p><p>That ain't workin' that's the way to do it</p><p>Money for nothin' chicks for free</p><p>That ain't working that's the way to do it</p><p>Lemme tell ya them guy's ain't dumb</p><p>Maybe get a blister on you little singer</p><p>May get a buster on you thumb.</p><p></p><p>We gotta install microwave ovens</p><p>Custom kitchen deliveries</p><p>We gotta move these refrigerators</p><p>We gotta move these colour TV's</p><p></p><p>See that little faggot with the tutu</p><p>Yeah buddy that's his own heir and the earrings</p><p>That little faggot's got his own jet airplane</p><p>That little faggot he's a millionaire</p><p></p><p>We gotta install microwave ovens</p><p>Custom kitchen deliveries</p><p>We gotta move these refrigerators</p><p>We gotta move these colour TV's</p><p></p><p>I should learned to play the guitar</p><p>I should learned to play them drums</p><p>Look at that she got it stickin' in the camera</p><p>Man we could have some sun</p><p>And he's up there makin' Hawaiian noises</p><p>Bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee</p><p>That ain't workin' that's the way ya do it</p><p>Money for nothin' chicks for free</p><p></p><p>We gotta install microwave ovens</p><p>Custom kitchen deliveries</p><p>We gotta move these refrigerators</p><p>We gotta move these colour TV's</p><p></p><p>Look at them yo-yo's</p><p>That's the way you do it</p><p>Play the banjo on the MTV</p><p>That ain't workin' that's the way ya do it</p><p>Money for nothin' chicks for free</p><p><strong>Walk Of Life</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies</p><p>Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say</p><p>Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta a Woman</p><p>Down in the tunnels, trying to make it play</p><p>He got the action, he got the motion</p><p></p><p>Yeah the boy can play</p><p>Dedication devotion</p><p>Turning all the night time into the day</p><p>He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman</p><p>He do the song about the knife</p><p>He do the walk he do the walk of life</p><p></p><p>Here comes Johnny and he'll tell you the story</p><p>Hand me down my walkin' shoes</p><p>Here comes Johnny with the power and the glory</p><p>Back beat the talkin' blues</p><p></p><p>Yeah the boy can play</p><p>Dedication devotion</p><p>Turning all the night time into the day</p><p>He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman</p><p>He do the song about the knife</p><p>He do the walk he do the walk of life</p><p></p><p>Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies</p><p>Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say</p><p>Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta a Woman</p><p>Down in the tunnels, trying to make it play</p><p>He got the action, he got the motion</p><p></p><p>And after all the violence and double talk</p><p>There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife</p><p>You do the walk, you do the walk of life.</p><p><strong>Your Latest Trick</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>All the late night bargains have been struck</p><p>Between the satin beans and their bells</p><p>And prehistoric garbage trucks</p><p>Have the city to themselves</p><p>Echoes and the roars dinosaurs</p><p>They're all doing the monster mash</p><p>And most of the taxis and the whores</p><p>Are only taking calls for cash</p><p></p><p>I don't know how it happened</p><p>It all took please so quick</p><p>But all I can do is hand it to you</p><p>And your latest trick</p><p></p><p>My door was standing open</p><p>Security was laid back and lax</p><p>But it was only my heart got broken</p><p>You must have had a pass key made out of wax</p><p>You played robbery with insolence</p><p>And I played the blues in twelve bars on Lover's Lane</p><p>And you never did have the intelligence to use</p><p>The twelve keys hanging off my chain</p><p></p><p>I don't know how it happened</p><p>It all took please so quick</p><p>But all I can do is hand it to you</p><p>And your latest trick</p><p></p><p>Now it's past last call far alchohol</p><p>Past recall has been here and gone</p><p>The landlord sinally paid us all</p><p>The satin jazzmen have put away their horns</p><p>And we're standing outside of these wonderlands</p><p>Looking so bereaved and so bereft</p><p>Like a bowery bum when he finally understands</p><p>The bottle's empty and there's nothing left</p><p></p><p>I don't know how it happened</p><p>It all took please so quick</p><p>But all I can do is hand it to you</p><p>And your latest trick</p><p><strong>Why Worry?</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Baby I see this world has made you sad</p><p>Some people can be bad</p><p>The things they do, the thing they say</p><p>But baby I'll wipe away those bitter tears</p><p>I'll chase away those restless jears</p><p>That turn your blue skies into grey</p><p></p><p>Why worry, there should be laughter after pain</p><p>There should be sunshine after rain</p><p>There things has always been the some</p><p>So why worry now</p><p></p><p>Baby when I'm down I turn to you</p><p>And you make sense of what I do</p><p>I know it isn't hard to say</p><p>Bat baby just when this world seems mean</p><p>Our love comes shining red and gold and cold</p><p>And all the rest is by the way</p><p></p><p>Why worry, there should be laughter after pain</p><p>There should be sunshine after rain</p><p>There things has always been the some</p><p>So why worry now</p><p><strong>Ride Across The River</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm a soldier of freedom in the army of man</p><p>We are the chosen we're the partisan</p><p>The cause it is noble and the cause it is just</p><p>We are ready to pay with our lives if we must</p><p></p><p>Gonna ride across the river deep and wide</p><p>Ride across the river to the other side</p><p></p><p>I'm soldier of the fortune, I'm a dog of war</p><p>And we don't give a damn who the killing is for</p><p>It's the same old story with a different name</p><p>Death or Glory, it's the killing game</p><p></p><p>Gonna ride across the river deep and wide</p><p>Ride across the river to the other side</p><p></p><p>Nothing can stop them as the day follows the night</p><p>Right becomes wrong, the left becomes the right</p><p>And they sing as they march with their flags unfurled</p><p>Today in the mountains, tomorrow the world</p><p></p><p>Gonna ride across the river deep and wide</p><p>Ride across the river to the other side</p><p><strong>The Man's Too Strong</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm just an ageing drummer boy</p><p>And in the wars I used to play</p><p>And I've called the tune</p><p>To many a tortune session</p><p>Now they say I am war criminal</p><p>And I'm fading away</p><p>So father please hear my confession</p><p></p><p>I have legalized robbery</p><p>Galled belief</p><p>I have run with the money</p><p>And hid like a thief</p><p>I have rewritten history</p><p>With my armies and my crooks</p><p>Invented memories</p><p>I did burn all the books And I can still hear his laughter</p><p>I can still hear his song</p><p>The man's too big</p><p>The man's too strong</p><p></p><p>Well I have tried to be meek</p><p>And I have tried to be mild</p><p>But I spat like a woman</p><p>And sulked like a child</p><p>I have lived behind walls</p><p>That have made me alone</p><p>Striven for pease</p><p>Which I never have knows</p><p>And I can still hear his laughter</p><p>and I can still hear his song</p><p>The man's too big</p><p>The man's to strong</p><p><strong>One World</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Can't find no sleives from my records</p><p>Can't get no socks for my shoes</p><p>Can't get no fancy notes on by blue guitar</p><p>Can't get no antidote for blues</p><p></p><p>Can't find the reasons for your actions</p><p>And I don't much like the reasoning you use</p><p>Somehow your motives are impure</p><p>Or somehow I can't find the cure</p><p>Can't find no antidote for blues</p><p></p><p>They say it's mostly vanity</p><p>That writes the plays we act</p><p>They tell me that's what everybody knows</p><p>There's no such thing as sanity</p><p>And that's the sanest fact</p><p>That's the way the story goes</p><p></p><p>Can't get no remedy on my TV</p><p>There's nothing but the same old news</p><p>They can't find a way to be</p><p>One world in harmony</p><p>Can't get no antidote for blues</p><p><strong>Brothers In Arms</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>These mist covered mountains</p><p>Are home now for me</p><p>But my home is the lowland</p><p>And always will be</p><p>Some day you'll return to</p><p>Your valleys and your farms</p><p>And you'll no longer burn</p><p>To be brothers in arms</p><p></p><p>Through these fields of destruction</p><p>Baptisms of fire</p><p>I've watched all your suffering</p><p>As the battles raged higher</p><p>Though they did hurt me</p><p>In the fear and alarm</p><p>You did not desert me</p><p>My brothers in arms</p><p></p><p>There's so many different worlds</p><p>So many different suns</p><p>And we have just one world</p><p>But we live in different ones</p><p></p><p>Now the Sun's gone to Hell</p><p>And the Moon's riding high</p><p>Let me bid you farewell</p><p>Every man has to die</p><p>But it's written in the starlight</p><p>And every line on your palm</p><p>We're fools to make war</p><p>On our brothers in arms</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Floyd, post: 719, member: 1"] [B]So Far Away[/B] Here I am again in this mean old town And you're so far away from me And where are you when the sun goes down You're so far away from me So far away from me So far I just can't see So far away from me You're so far away from me I'm tired of being in love and being all alone When you're so far away from me I'm tired of making out on the telephone And you're so far away from me So far away from me So far I just can't see So far away from me I get so tired when I have to explain When you're so far away from me See you're been in the sun and I've been in the rain So far away from me So far I just can't see So far away from me You're so far away from me [B]Money For Nothing[/B] Look at them yo-yo's That's the way you do it Play the banjo on the MTV That ain't workin' that's the way to do it Money for nothin' chicks for free That ain't working that's the way to do it Lemme tell ya them guy's ain't dumb Maybe get a blister on you little singer May get a buster on you thumb. We gotta install microwave ovens Custom kitchen deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these colour TV's See that little faggot with the tutu Yeah buddy that's his own heir and the earrings That little faggot's got his own jet airplane That little faggot he's a millionaire We gotta install microwave ovens Custom kitchen deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these colour TV's I should learned to play the guitar I should learned to play them drums Look at that she got it stickin' in the camera Man we could have some sun And he's up there makin' Hawaiian noises Bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee That ain't workin' that's the way ya do it Money for nothin' chicks for free We gotta install microwave ovens Custom kitchen deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these colour TV's Look at them yo-yo's That's the way you do it Play the banjo on the MTV That ain't workin' that's the way ya do it Money for nothin' chicks for free [B]Walk Of Life[/B] Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta a Woman Down in the tunnels, trying to make it play He got the action, he got the motion Yeah the boy can play Dedication devotion Turning all the night time into the day He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman He do the song about the knife He do the walk he do the walk of life Here comes Johnny and he'll tell you the story Hand me down my walkin' shoes Here comes Johnny with the power and the glory Back beat the talkin' blues Yeah the boy can play Dedication devotion Turning all the night time into the day He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman He do the song about the knife He do the walk he do the walk of life Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta a Woman Down in the tunnels, trying to make it play He got the action, he got the motion And after all the violence and double talk There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife You do the walk, you do the walk of life. [B]Your Latest Trick[/B] All the late night bargains have been struck Between the satin beans and their bells And prehistoric garbage trucks Have the city to themselves Echoes and the roars dinosaurs They're all doing the monster mash And most of the taxis and the whores Are only taking calls for cash I don't know how it happened It all took please so quick But all I can do is hand it to you And your latest trick My door was standing open Security was laid back and lax But it was only my heart got broken You must have had a pass key made out of wax You played robbery with insolence And I played the blues in twelve bars on Lover's Lane And you never did have the intelligence to use The twelve keys hanging off my chain I don't know how it happened It all took please so quick But all I can do is hand it to you And your latest trick Now it's past last call far alchohol Past recall has been here and gone The landlord sinally paid us all The satin jazzmen have put away their horns And we're standing outside of these wonderlands Looking so bereaved and so bereft Like a bowery bum when he finally understands The bottle's empty and there's nothing left I don't know how it happened It all took please so quick But all I can do is hand it to you And your latest trick [B]Why Worry?[/B] Baby I see this world has made you sad Some people can be bad The things they do, the thing they say But baby I'll wipe away those bitter tears I'll chase away those restless jears That turn your blue skies into grey Why worry, there should be laughter after pain There should be sunshine after rain There things has always been the some So why worry now Baby when I'm down I turn to you And you make sense of what I do I know it isn't hard to say Bat baby just when this world seems mean Our love comes shining red and gold and cold And all the rest is by the way Why worry, there should be laughter after pain There should be sunshine after rain There things has always been the some So why worry now [B]Ride Across The River[/B] I'm a soldier of freedom in the army of man We are the chosen we're the partisan The cause it is noble and the cause it is just We are ready to pay with our lives if we must Gonna ride across the river deep and wide Ride across the river to the other side I'm soldier of the fortune, I'm a dog of war And we don't give a damn who the killing is for It's the same old story with a different name Death or Glory, it's the killing game Gonna ride across the river deep and wide Ride across the river to the other side Nothing can stop them as the day follows the night Right becomes wrong, the left becomes the right And they sing as they march with their flags unfurled Today in the mountains, tomorrow the world Gonna ride across the river deep and wide Ride across the river to the other side [B]The Man's Too Strong[/B] I'm just an ageing drummer boy And in the wars I used to play And I've called the tune To many a tortune session Now they say I am war criminal And I'm fading away So father please hear my confession I have legalized robbery Galled belief I have run with the money And hid like a thief I have rewritten history With my armies and my crooks Invented memories I did burn all the books And I can still hear his laughter I can still hear his song The man's too big The man's too strong Well I have tried to be meek And I have tried to be mild But I spat like a woman And sulked like a child I have lived behind walls That have made me alone Striven for pease Which I never have knows And I can still hear his laughter and I can still hear his song The man's too big The man's to strong [B]One World[/B] Can't find no sleives from my records Can't get no socks for my shoes Can't get no fancy notes on by blue guitar Can't get no antidote for blues Can't find the reasons for your actions And I don't much like the reasoning you use Somehow your motives are impure Or somehow I can't find the cure Can't find no antidote for blues They say it's mostly vanity That writes the plays we act They tell me that's what everybody knows There's no such thing as sanity And that's the sanest fact That's the way the story goes Can't get no remedy on my TV There's nothing but the same old news They can't find a way to be One world in harmony Can't get no antidote for blues [B]Brothers In Arms[/B] These mist covered mountains Are home now for me But my home is the lowland And always will be Some day you'll return to Your valleys and your farms And you'll no longer burn To be brothers in arms Through these fields of destruction Baptisms of fire I've watched all your suffering As the battles raged higher Though they did hurt me In the fear and alarm You did not desert me My brothers in arms There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones Now the Sun's gone to Hell And the Moon's riding high Let me bid you farewell Every man has to die But it's written in the starlight And every line on your palm We're fools to make war On our brothers in arms [/QUOTE]
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