BRIGHTON ROCK

 

Happy little day Jimmy went away

Met his little Jenny on a public holiday

A happy pair they made so decorously laid

'Neath the gay illuminations all along the promenade

It's so good to know there's still a little magic in the air

I'll weave my spell

Jenny will you stay tarry with me pray

Nothing 'ere need come between us

Tell me love what do you say?

Oh no I must away to my mum in disarray

If my mother should discover how I spent my holiday

It would be of small avail to talk of magic in the air

I'll say farewell

Oh rock of ages do not crumble

Love is breathing still

Oh lady moon shine down

A little people magic if you will

 

Jenny pines away writes a letter ev'ry day

We must ever be together

Nothing can my love erase

Oh no I'm compromised

I must apologize if my lady should discover

How I spent my holidays

Oh oh oh oh

 

KILLER QUEEN

 

She keeps Moet and Chandon in her pretty cabinet '

Let them eat cake' she says

Just like Marie Antoinette

A built in remedy for Khrushchev and Kennedy

And anytime an invitation you can decline

Caviar and cigarettes well versed in etiquette

Extr'ordinarily nice

She's a killer queen gunpowder gelatine

Dynamite with a lazer beam

Guaranteed to blow your mind

Recommended at the price

Insatiable an appetite wanna try?

To avoid complications

She never kept the same address

In conversation she spoke just like a baroness

Met a man from China went down to GeishaMinah

Then again incidentally if you're that way inclined (she's a killer queen)

Perfume came naturally from Paris (naturally)

For cars she couldn't care less

Fastidious and precise

She's a killer queen gunpowder gelatine

Dynamite with a lazer beam

Guaranteed to blow your mind

Recommended at the price

Insatiable an appetite wanna try?

 

Drop of a hat she's as willing as a playful as a pussy cat

Then momentarily out of action

Temporarily out of gas

To absolutely drive you wild - wild

She's out to get you

She's a killer queen gunpowder gelatine

Dynamite with a lazer beam

Guaranteed to blow your mind

Recommended at the price

Insatiable an appetite wanna try?

 

Wanna try

 

TENEMENT FUNSTER

 

My new purple shoes

Bin amazin' the people next door

And my rock'n'roll forty fives

Bin enragin' the folks on the lower floor

I got a way with the girls on my block

Try my best to be a real individual

And when we go down to smokies and rock

They line up like it's some kind of ritual

Oh give me a good guitar

And you can say that my hair's a disgrace

Or just find me an open car

I'll make the speed of light outa this place

 

I like the good things in life

But most of the best things ain't free

It's the same situation just cuts like a knife

When you're young and you're poor and you're crazy

Young and you're crazy...

 

Oh give me a good guitar

And you can say that my hair's a disgrace

Or just find me an open car

I'll make the speed of light outa this place

 

FLICK OF THE WRIST

 

Dislocate your spine if you don't sign

He says I'll have you seeing double

Mesmerize you when he's tongue tied

Simply with those eyes ooh

Synchronize your minds and see

The beast within him rise

Don't look back don't look back

It's a rip off

Flick of the wrist and you're dead baby

Blow him a kiss and you're mad

Flick of the wrist he'll eat your heart out

A dig in the ribs and then a kick in the head

He's taken an arm and taken a leg

All this time honey baby you've been had

Intoxicate your brain with what I'm sayin'

If not you'll lie in knee deep trouble

Prostitute yourself he says

Castrate your human pride ooh

Sacrifice your leisure days

Let me squeeze you 'till you've dried

Don't look back don't look back

It's a rip off

 

Work my fingers to my bones

I scream with pain I still make no impression

Seduce you with his money make machine

Cross collateralise big time money money

Reduce you to a muzak fake machine

Then the last goodbye

Flick of the wrist and you're dead baby

Blow him a kiss and you're mad

Flick of the wrist he'll eat your heart out

A dig in the ribs and then a kick in the head

He's taken an arm and taken a leg

All this time honey baby you've been had

 

LILY OF THE VALLEY

 

I am forever searching high and low

But why does ev'ryone tell me no

Neptune of the seas an answer for me please

The lily of the valley doesn't know

I lie in wait with open eyes

I carry on thru' stormy skies

I follow ev'ry course my kingdom for a horse

But each time I grow old

Serpent of the Nile relieve me for a while

And cast me from your spell and let me go

Messenger from seven seas has flown

To tell the king of Rhye he's lost his throne

Wars will never cease

Is there time enough for peace?

The lily of the valley doesn't know

 

NOW I'M HERE

 

Here I stand (here I stand..)

Look around around around around (Around around around around..)

But you won't see me (you won't see me..)

Now I'm here (now I'm here..)

Now I'm there (now I'm there..)

I'm just a just a new man

Yes you made me live again

 

A baby I was when you took my hand

And the light of the night burned bright

And the people all stared didn't understand

But you knew my name on sight

Whatever came of you and me?

America's new bride to be

Don't worry baby

I'm safe and sound

Down in the dungeon just

Peaches and me

Don't I love her so?

Yes she made me live again

Yeah!

A thin moon me in the smoke screen sky

Where the beams of your love light chase

Don't move don't speak don't feel no pain

With the rain running down my face

Your matches still light up the sky

And many a tear lives on in my eye

Down in the city just Hoople and me

Don't I love him so don't I love him so? so

 

Whatever comes of you and me

I love to leave my memories with you

Now I'm here (now I'm here.)

Think I'll stay around around around (Around around around around..)

Down in the city just you and me (Down in the city just you and me..)

 

Don't I love you so?

 

Go Go Go Little Queenie

 

IN THE LAP OF THE GODS

 

Ah ah ah ah ah

Ah ah ah

Leave it in the lap of the gods

Ah ah ah

 

I live my life for you

Think all my thoughts with you and only you

Anything you ask I do for you

I touch your lips with mine

But in the end I leave it to the lords

Leave it in the lap of the gods

What more can I do?

Leave it in the lap of the gods

I leave it to you

Leave it in the lap of the gods

Leave it in the lap of the gods

I want you to

Leave it in the lap of the gods

Leave it in the lap of the gods

Leave it in the lap of the gods

Lap of the gods

Lap of the gods

Lap of the gods

Lap of the gods

Lap of the gods

Lap of the gods

Lap of the gods

 

STONE COLD CRAZY

 

Sleeping very soundly on a Saturday morning

I was dreaming I was Al Capone

There's a rumour going round

Gotta clear outa town

I'm smelling like a dry fish bone

Here come the law gonna break down the door

Gonna carry me away once more

Never never I never want it anymore

Gotta get away from this stone cold floor

Crazy stone cold crazy you know

 

Rainy afternoon I gotta blow a typhoon

And I'm playing on my slide trombone

Anymore anymore cannot take it anymore

Gotta get away from this stone cold floor

Crazy stone cold crazy you know

 

Walking down the street

Shooting people that I meet

With my rubber Tommy water gun

Here come the deputy

He's gonna come and get me I gotta get me up and run

They got the sirens loose

I ran right outa juice

They're gonna put me in a cell

If I can't go to heaven

Will they let me go to hell?

Crazy stone cold crazy you know

 

DEAR FRIENDS

 

So dear friends

Your love has gone

Only tears to dwell upon

I dare not say

As the wind must blow

So a love is lost

A love is won

Go to sleep and dream again

Soon your hopes will rise

And then from all this gloom

Life can start anew

And there'll be no crying soon

 

MISFIRE

 

Don't you misfire fill me up

With the desire to carry on

Don't you know honey that love's a game

It's always a hit or miss

So take your aim

Got to hold on tight

Shoot me out of sight

Don't you misfire fill me up

With the desire to carry on

 

Don't you misfire fill me up

With the desire to carry on

Your gun is loaded

And pointing my way

There's only one bullet

So don't delay

Got to time it right

Fire me through the night

Come on take a shot

Fire me higher

Don't you miss this time

Please don't misfire

Misfire

 

BRING BACK THAT LEROY BROWN

 

Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown

Yeah!

Bring back bring back gotta ring that Leroy Brown

Yeah!

Bet your bottom dollar bill you're a playboy

Yeah Yeah!

Daddy cool with a ninety dollar smile (ooh Yeah)

Took my money out of gratitude

And he git right out of town

Well I gotta getty up steady up shoot him down

Gotta hit that latitude babe

Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!

Bring back bring back gotta ring that Leroy Brown Yeah!

Big bad Leroy Brown he got no common sense

No no he got no brains but he sure gotta lotta style

Can't stand no more in this here jail

I gotta rid myself of this sentence

Gotta get out of the heat step into the shade

Gotta get me there dead or alive babe

Wooh wooh big bad Leroy

Wooh wooh wooh wooh

Big bad Leroy Brown

Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!

Bring back bring back gotta bring back Leroy Brown Yeah!

Big mama

Lulu Belle she had a nervous breakdown

She had a nervous breakdown

Leroy's taken her honey chile away

But she met him down at the station Oohoo

Put a shotgun to his head and unless I be mistaken

This is what she said

Big bad big boy big bad Leroy Brown

I'm gonna get that cutie pie

Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!

Big bad caused a mighty fine sensation

Yeah Yeah!

Gone and got himself elected President

We want Leroy for President

Next time you gotta hit a bitty baddy weather

This time like a shimmy shammy leather

He's a big boy bad boy Leroy

I don't care where you get him from

Bring that big bad Leroy back

Want him back

 

SHE MAKES ME (Storm trooper in stilletoes)

 

I love she makes me

She is my heart

She is my love

She is my love

I know you're jealous of her

She makes me need

She is my love

She is my love

Who knows who she'll make me

As I lie in her cocoon

But the world will surely heal my ills

I'm warm and terrified

She makes me so

I know the day I leave her

I'd love her still

She is my love

She is my love

Who knows where my dreams will end

I'll follow as they grow

But the world will know

How long I'll take

And if I'm very slow

She makes me so

She is my love

She is my love

 

IN THE LAP OF THE GODS...(Revisited)

 

It's so easy but I can't do it

So risky but I gotta chance it

It's so funny there's nothing to laugh about

My money that's all you want to talk about

I can see what you want me to be

But I'm no fool

It's in the lap of the gods

Wo wo la la la

I can see what you want me to be

But I'm no fool

No beginning there's no ending

There's no meaning in my pretending

Believe me life goes on and on and on

Forgive me when I ask you where do I belong

You say I (you can do it) can't (you can do it

You can go and) set you free from me

But that's not true

It's in the lap of the gods

Wo wo la la la

I can see what you want me to be

But I'm no fool

It's in the lap of the gods

Wo wo la la la wo

Wo wo la la wo wo wooh

But that's not true

It's in the lap of the gods

Wo wo la la la wo

Wo wo la la wo wo wooh

But I'm no fool

It's in the lap of the gods

Wo wo la la la wo

Wo wo la la wo wo wooh

It's in the lap of the gods

Wo wo la la la wo

Wo wo la la wo wo wooh

But I'm no fool

It's in the lap of the gods

Wo wo la la la wo

Wo wo la la wo wo wooh

 

 

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