Jeane The low-life has lost its appeal And I'm tired of walking these streets To a room with a cupboard bare Jeane I'm not sure what happiness means But I look in your eyes And I know that it isn't there We tried, we failed We tried, and we failed We tried, and we failed We tried, and we failed We tried Jeane There's ice on the sink where we bathe So how can you call this a home When you know it's a grave? But you still hold a greedy grace As you tidy the place But it'll never be clean Jeane We tried, we failed We tried, and we failed We tried, and we failed We tried, and we failed We tried Oh, cash on the nail It's just a fairytale Oh, and I don't believe in magic anymore Jeane But I think you know I really think you know Oh, I think you know the truth Jeane, oh No heavenly choir Not for me and not for you Because I think that you know I really think you know I think you know the truth Oh, Jeane That we tried, and we failed That we tried, and we failed We tried, and we failed We tried, and we failed Oh, oh, Jeane

Shirley, it's so exciting to be sleeping here in this new room Shirley, you're my reason to get out of bed before noon Shirley, you know when we sat out on the fire escape talking Shirley, what did you say about running before we were walking? Sometimes when we're as close as this It's like we're in a dream How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team? Shirley, your sexual politics have left me all of a muddle Shirley, we're joined in the ideological cuddle I'm celebrating my love to you With a pint of beer and a new tattoo And if you haven't noticed yet I'm more impressionable when my cement is wet Politics and pregnancy are debated as we empty our glasses And how I love those evening classes Shirley, you really know how to make a young man angry Shirley, can we get through the night without mentioning family? The people from the church agree It's not much of a career Trying the handles of parked cars Whoops there goes another year, whoops there goes another pint of beer Here we are in our summer years Living on ice cream and chocolate kisses And would the leaves fall from the trees If I was your old man and you was my missus? Give my greetings to the new brunette Shirley Greetings to the new brunette Shirley Greetings to the new brunette Shirley Greetings to the new brunette Shirley

Hey Lenny, don't those city lights look real pretty, As the moon cascades a smile over Main and Hastings, You came in from the hammer, On a Greyhound coach out west To find those narceritos waiting for you with a kiss I'll say my goodbyes, and leave you with a smile We don't have many friends 'round here But the gesture's worth the while 'Cause the boys downtown and the government Aren't waiting for our votes, But the narceritos are making sure They get that tax we owe (Break) Did you hear they don't want your safe house here anymore, And they cut the arts with a steely knife, And sent kids off the war, 'Cause there's no room for an addict, Or an artist in the house, This law and order all the while in a narceritos smile So Lenny, this city sleeps, and now I'll say goodbye 'Cause we ain't got no business in these chambers of our time, So if you'd rather pay your money, On an 8-ball piece of mind Well it's all going to the government, And organized crime

Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers Leave the light on at the top of the stairs Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky A tree taps on the window pane That feeling smothers me again Daddy is it true that we all have to die At the top of the stairs Is darkness I closed my eyes and when I looked Your name was in the memorial book And what had become of all the things we planned I accepted the commiserations Of all your friends and your relations But there's some things I still don't understand You were so tall How could you fall? Some photographs of a summer's day A little boy's lifetime away Is all I've left of everything we've done Like a pale moon in a sunny sky Death gazes down as I pass by To remind me that I'm but my father's son I offer up to you This tribute I offer up to you This tank park salute

She said it was just a figment of speech And I said "You mean figure", And she said "No, figment" Because she could never imagine it happening. But it did When we first met I played the Shy boy When she spoke to me for the first time my nose began to bleed She guessed the rest The next day we went on a bus ride to the ferry And when nobody came to collect our fares Well I knew then this was something special I couldn't stop thinking about her And every time I switched on the radio There was somebody else singing a song about the two of us It was just like being on a fast ride at the fun fair The sort you want to get off because its scary And then as soon as you're off you want get straight back on again But all love is strange And you have to learn to take the crunchy with the smooth I suppose She began going out with Mr. Potato Head It was when I saw her in he car park With his coat around her shoulders that I realized I went home and thought about the two of them together Until the bathwater went cold around me I thought about her eyes and the curve of her breasts And about the point where their bodies met I confronted her about it I said, "I'm the most illegible bachelor in town, And she said "Yeah that's why I Could never understand any of those silly letters you sent me" And then one day it happened She cut her hair and I stopped loving her

One by one the teardrops fall as I write you One by one my words come falling on the page One by one my dreams are fading in the twilight One by one my schemes are fading fast away One by one the flowers fading in my garden One by one the leaves are falling from the trees One by one my hopes are vanished in the clouds clear One by one like snowflakes melting in the breeze One by one my hair is turning gray One by one my dreams are fading fast away One by one I read your letters over One by one I lay them all away One by one the days are slipping up behind you One by one the sweetest days of life go by One by one the moments stealing out behind you One by one she'll come and find not you or I One by one I hear the soft words that you whispered One by one I feel your kisses soft and sweet One by one I hope you'll say the words to marry One by one to one by one forever be

I'll never forget the first day I met her That September morning was clear and fresh The way she spoke and laughed at my jokes And the way she rubbed herself Against the edge of my desk She became a magic mystery to me And we'd sit together in double History twice a week And some days we'd walk the same way home And it's surprising how quick A little rain can clear the streets We dreamed of her and compared our dreams But that was all that I ever tasted She lied to me with her body you see I lied to myself 'bout the chances I'd wasted The times we were close Were far and few between In the darkness at the dances in the school canteen Did she close her eyes like I did As we held each other tight And la la la la la la la la means I love you She danced with me and I still hold that memory Soft and sweet And I stare up at her window As I walk down her street But I never made the first team, I just made the first team laugh And she never came to the phone She was always in the bath In the end, it took me a dictionary To find out the meaning of unrequited While she was giving herself for free At a party to which I was never invited I never understood my failings then And I hide my humble hopes now Thinking back she made us want her A girl not old enough to shave her legs

With the money from her accident She bought herself a mobile home So at least she could get some enjoyment out of being alone No one could say that she was left up on the shelf "It's you and me against the world, kid", she mumbled to herself When the world falls apart some things stay in place Levi stubbs' tears run down his face She ran away from home with her mother's best coat She was married before she was even entitled to vote And her husband was one of those blokes The sort that only laughs at his own jokes The sort that war takes away And when there wasn't a war he left her anyway When the world falls apart some things stay in place Levi stubbs' tears run down his face Norman Whitfield and Barratt Strong Are here to make right everything that's wrong Holland and Holland and Lamont Dozier too Are here to make it all okay with you And one dark night he came home from the sea And put a hole in her body where no hole should be It hurt her more to see him walking out the door And though they stitched her back together They left her heart in pieces on the floor When the world falls apart some things stay in place She takes off the Four Tops tape and puts it back in its case And when the world falls apart some things stay in place Levi stubbs' tears

Well you wake up in the morning you hear the work bell ring And they march you to the table to see the same old thing. Ain't no food upon the table and no fork up in the pan. But you better not complain boy you get in trouble with the man. Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me Let the Midnight Special shine a ever loving light on me. Yonder come miss Rosie, how in the world did you know? By the way she wears her apron, and the clothes she wore. Umbrella on her shoulder, piece of paper in her hand; She come to see the gov'nor, she wants to free her man. Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me Let the Midnight Special shine a ever loving light on me. If you're ever in Houston, well, you better do the right; You better not gamble, there, you better not fight, at all Or the sheriff will grab ya and the boys will bring you down. The next thing you know, boy, Oh! You're prison bound. Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me Let the Midnight Special shine a ever loving light on me. Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me Let the Midnight Special shine a ever loving light on me.