No Holding Back Graham Parker, The Rumour

Someone called me from across the ocean To find a weak link in my devotion They can shoot hot knives down the line I just slam it down every time I got the telephone jammed in my ear They're still talking

Waiting For The Ufo'S Graham Parker

"No-one can hide it anymore we know it's not imagining Even the skeptics are unsure when they stop to think People are not worth their life now they are obsolete We're dying to be invaded and put the blame

Slash And Burn Graham Parker

The world was stripped of beauty baby By the working man He was told it was his duty baby Again and again and again They took the slaves from Africa baby Along with sugar sacks To build the British Empire

Hold Back The Night Graham Parker, The Rumour

Hold back the night, turn on the light

There’s A Ghost In My House Graham Parker

There's a ghost in my house The ghost of your memories The ghost of the love you took from me Well, our love used to be Only shadows from the past I see Time can't seem to erase The vision of your smiling

Just Like Hermann Hesse Graham Parker

I took off my mask that night and bared my teeth in your face You saw something else living under my skin the wolf with no thought of disgrace I know I know some things you must never confess I drop to

Strong Winds Graham Parker

Have you seen her run through the wild things Dropping behind her the child's things that she'll no longer need Scattering like seeds they are discarded then Nothing can give them a life again they're

Back In Time Graham Parker

You stop in the old cafe where you used to play pinball And look for the air raid shelter but it's gone and the cafe seems so Small and all the gardens that had trees and stolen apples Now have small businesses

The Sun Is Gonna Shine Again Graham Parker

will see That I can lean on you and you can put your weight on me And every man will get a chance to be what a man wants to be And every woman will look at her child and know that he's growing up free The

Stupefaction Graham Parker, The Rumour

The sun is burnin' It never changes The people look up With nothing in their eyeballs They stare at billboards As if for guidance There's something wrong here I can't but my finger on Same thing, same

The Heat In Harlem Graham Parker

the pavement that's where it happens Feel like fire in the midnight air The heat in Harlem The heat in Harlem, yep The heat in Harlem The heat in Harlem and the heat of the soul The heat in Harlem The

Women In Charge Graham Parker, The Rumour

You might believe that you're running the world But you're running the risk of being just another girl Lashing out viciously at the competition, it's just an admission, a nervous Condition It's more than

Jolie Jolie Graham Parker, The Rumour

There's no remedy I just keep yearning for the sound of your voice I don't use teardrops as a weapon by choice They're just a fall out of my eyes Keep reminding me Every last touch is buried under my skin

Devil's Sidewalk Graham Parker, The Rumour

Took a walk down Hell's pavement Took a walk down pulled by the tide I had to make some new arrangement Oh I thought I'd reach the other side Then someone opened up their mouth to talk They said You ain't

I Want You Back (Live) Graham Parker

When I had you to myself I didn't want you around Those pretty faces always made you Stand out in a crowd But someone picked you from the bunch One glance was all it took Now it's much too late for

When I Was King Graham Parker

When I was King I was not really the man I am now I was like anyone sitting on a throne made out of china When I was king I had already abdicated Already melted my crown down to sell as scrap But they'd

Manoeuvres Graham Parker, The Rumour

You let me in and I'll help you win This chance must be heaven sent You buy the time I sold you all mine No one knows the D J's bent I don't care if someone gets hurt When I lose it feels like dirt Other

Endless Night Graham Parker, The Rumour

I had the time but I blew it I had the power and I knew it Had the energy, but outgrew it The identity but saw through it, yeah I had the walk, but got trampled Had the taste, it was sampled I had the

Paralyzed Graham Parker, The Rumour

to please so I just freeze Nailed down by whispers, looks and sighs And I'm so paralysed, I am so paralysed I wait for you to disown me when you leave I won't look I wait for someone to phone me with the

Soultime Graham Parker

When I was a boy I never felt The weight I'm feeling I had a crowd around me And that was that I'd get on the bus and go to the Ata every weekend And feel the ultraviolet show the fluff up on my collar

Empty Lives Graham Parker, The Rumour

I'm just a tick in a box on a questionnaire another moment that flashes into nowhere a brand name on a pill that get's you there, ah ah ah ah I'm getting nothing and expecting oblivion the past aint even

Ten Girls Ago Graham Parker

Buster turned round to me And said hey kid you must be joking You got an attitude You think you're funny but you're choking hey hey Back every word that comes out of your mouth Ten girls ago You thought

Passion Is No Ordinary Word Graham Parker

It worked much better in a fantasy Imagination's one thing that comes easy to me Cause this is nothing else if not unreal When I pretend to touch you, you pretend to feel CHORUS Passion is no ordinary

Yesterday's Cloud Graham Parker

, a woman in your clothes Skeletons inside us that dance on hot coals Cannibals are outside following our trail All our information comes from junk mail Don't leave it among us, don't let it loose in the

Cupid Graham Parker

Cupid draw back your bow And let your arrow flow Straight to my lover's heart for me Nobody else but me hey hey hey Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me Listen

Success Graham Parker

The dreams and hopes of men Are powered by addiction And who am I to say that This is an affliction When everybody gets Suckered in and lives their Lives like fiction Writing their own story Of success

Just Like Joe Meek's Blues Graham Parker

My head was swimming in a Bangkok joint You got paint on your coat like an arrow point I followed where it led as if pulled by a bow Fired into the night deep and slow to where I'll never know The hotel

Museum Of Stupidity Graham Parker

One day there'll be a museum of stupidity Where we can hang ourselves and throw away the key Along with the attitudes of the pmrc And this bullshit drug war full of hypocrisy The banning of 2 live crew

Protection Graham Parker

his head Em G G C And all of those infected waiting to be collected Am C D I must get out at any price before the

Saturday Nite Is Dead Graham Parker

A Bm A D Everybody just looks ugly now information don't compute A Bm I draw a blank every time I think E A the football crowd is going to give me a boot CHORUS D A E And Saturday night is dead Saturday

Hotel Chambermaid Graham Parker

When the lights are low you know I'm going to go to my hotel chambermaid I'm going to jump the garden and come on hard all right While the river's rolling outside the window Going to see her going to get

Call Me Your Doctor Graham Parker

Call me your doctor if you want, I'll get the cure out To be administered before sleep Call out the thing you really want And I'll be there I'll make a housecall I'll find the problem's root No matter

Lady Doctor Graham Parker

G C G C I went in with a heart burn into the surgery To my surprise two pretty eyes was running up and down me.

Release Me Graham Parker

Na na nah I can still feel your teethmarks in my neck your footprints on my back And the gris gris you sprinkled in my bed is starting to make me crack I can still hear your twang ringing in my ears, your

Love Is A Burning Question Graham Parker

We work through the rituals and cover our poisonous tracks Making good use of weaknesses, horoscopes, rumors and facts Inspired by the needles and pins and the pains in the heart With no control over the

Big Man On Paper Graham Parker

Oooh la la la la la la la la bop bop bop I look at a news cast being broadcast and Try to connect with the events in front of my eyes But I can't see any further than the bills on the table Or my kids

Soul Shoes Graham Parker

Intro G CG (4 times VERSE G CG G CG Well I ain't got no worry I ain't in no hurry You better tell your mother, That you're a real soul brother Hey hey!

Short Memories Graham Parker

took their kids in their teenage years Fitted them out with combat gear Filled their hearts with mortal fear and sent them away Some came home their pants in creases Some came home in bits and pieces The

The Girl Isn't Ready Graham Parker

The girl isn't ready, the girl isn't ready The girl isn't ready, is what her mother says We just put her toys away, it seems like yesterday She has seen something better through the window She will reach

The Beating Of Another Heart Graham Parker, The Rumour

She comes from the hardest town They build you up to let you down and Leave you with an armour hard as steel It's not the chaos or the heat Or the noises from the street but Something inside she has to

You Got The World (Right Where You Want It) Graham Parker

As you wash your hair and bathe in Perrier As you hit the bank machine at night Drinking money for tomorrow's flight As you count your loss or bet on a black horse Sit behind the wheel of a black Porsche

Don't Get Excited Graham Parker

There is always some advantage to be wielded and brought to bear It's a lonely occupation keeping others out of your hair Fingers on all the switches talk in whispers talking soft You know all my favourite

Under The Mask Of Happiness Graham Parker

She looked so good he looked so sane Not forever could they last Under the mask under the mask Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness She got colder with each incision No one knew he

My Love's Strong Graham Parker

When the world's asleep And there's no one in your arms Raindrops hit the window Like distant alarms You don't have to worry Hey girl don't you cry My love beats adversity baby Eats it alive And I got

White Honey Graham Parker

G C You wake up early in the morning G C A-playing on the clarinet G C Whole town down when the man comes around F G And no one pays their rent It's all spent on C F C F C F C F White honey get

Love Without Greed Graham Parker, The Rumour

in secret in a long sedan I can hear you laugh at all his jokes Taking everything that's offered until it chokes And it makes me want to get a lock and key Hold you down in one place for me Can't own the

Too Many Knots To Untangle Graham Parker

I don't understand telepathy, but I am thinking of you I am going to get my feelings across the gulf that divides me and you Cos when the doors get locked and the windows are shuttered The oaths get broken

I'm Just Your Man Graham Parker

I'm not a page in history not something that bold I'm not the greatest mystery that was ever told I may not be who you wanna spend a whole life with alone I'm not that fascinating with features carved

They Murdered The Clown Graham Parker

The ringmaster looked a bit pasty and down Dying as he was to get out of town The lions and the tigers had gnawed at his feet But the lion tamer's whip hurt much more than their teeth The Giovanni Sisters

Love Gets You Twisted Graham Parker

E b e ac#m e a e Love gets you twisted, love gets you twisted all the way The hearts are enlisted, the hearts are enlisted to break each day G#m e I try to straighten out but Im too wrapped up to see C