Love Is A Burning Question Graham Parker

when we come Love is a burning, love is a burning love is a burning question On the tip of your tongue, baby baby I'll endlessly make you and endlessly become remade I'll endlessly search for your heart

Burning On A Higher Flame Graham Parker

The night falls dark around me, and the dogs bark out a curse A bad dreams twist inside me and I scream for a doctor or a nurse But I'm just dyin' for morning, watch the sun rise like a pearl Just to feel

Durban Poison Graham Parker

The Zulus are rising from their shanty towns The Injuns are launching a counter attack The funeral pyre's burning as I strike a match And everything goes up in smoke again, oh Durban Poison, oh oh oh oh

Here It Comes Again Graham Parker

Let's talk about a criminal procedure Throw out the idea of illegal seizure Put a rope around somebody's neck Let's hold some bastard up for example Take his blood and a urine sample Feed him garbage and

Too Many Knots To Untangle Graham Parker

divides me and you Cos when the doors get locked and the windows are shuttered The oaths get broken and the curses are muttered And every emotion's confused and cluttered There's nothing to stop us from burning

Get Started. Start A Fire Graham Parker

The mona lisa's sister doesn't smile She tried to pose but only for a while Leonardo sent her home since then she has lived alone With her few belongings and a copy of a painting of herself unhappy She

Worthy Of Your Love Graham Parker

If I had the slightest clue as to what you are and what's inside you I would know exactly what to do and be worthy of your love If a flower bloomed in the frozen wastes and the moon had a smiling face

Mr. Tender Graham Parker

Mr tender is something I'm not I pulled too tight when we tied the knot Surrender is something I can't, I can't let go and I rave and I rant But I resolve to solve this problem and be the one you need

Hotel Chambermaid Graham Parker

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 love

The Sun Is Gonna Shine Again Graham Parker

Someday we will cross a bridge, someday we 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

The Heat In Harlem Graham Parker

yep The heat in Harlem The heat in Harlem and the heat of the soul And when the heat burns your feet, Got to jump to save your skin And when you jump the water pump The water just rushes away in the burning

Dancing For Money Graham Parker

When I ask you for a light you don't turn the lights out When I'm looking for a fight you don't punch my lights out Sometimes they say love is invincible I wouldn't go as far as to say that One thing I

OK Hieronymus Graham Parker

I break a heart in a thousand places, she makes a slur against other races He rejects all of the unpretty faces, sticks them full of knives I take a shot at birds flying south, he takes the gun barrel

I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down Graham Parker

You think you've got it all set up, You think you've got a perfect plan But charm any man you see, And play with everything one that you can But I've got news for you baby, I hope it don't hit you too

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

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

New York Shuffle Graham Parker

D A Manhattan baby with a sing song voice G D she got her place in the human zoo D A I went to living on the boulevard G A now that the revolution's due G A She said I've been around from town to town

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

I Don't Know Graham Parker

questions to no avail I don't know why there's empty shelves Empty books and silent bells I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know why it's not enough To feel moments of mighty love

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

Guardian Angel Graham Parker

are looking down on you As they fold your wings and collect your things And lift you into the blue Your guardian angels they can't just fly away They're going to stay on Earth their job to do The task is

Local Girls Graham Parker

Don't talk too much 'cause she falls for the suckers, makes her feel everything is secure Don't ever leave a footprint on her floor Don't bother with the local girls Don't bother with the local girls Don't

She Wants So Many Things Graham Parker

keep her from crumbling And a camouflage jacket to hide from herself in And a system of worship like a powerful magnet That'll draw in the heathens pick them up in a dragnet And pull them underwater till

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

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

A Brand New Book Graham Parker

I once read the story of somebody's life I had a few moments to spare He was a good man who lived with his wife With the usual kids in his hair There was happiness a lot of weirdness And a sprinkle of

Back In Time Graham Parker

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 flourishing in cinder blocks Then they will call your name and hand you a

Sugar Gives You Energy Graham Parker

I believe every man has a chance to make good I'm convinced that this is so Equal opportunity for the king or the hood And everybody knows Sugar gives you energy Sugar gives you energy Sugar gives you

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

Waiting For The Ufo'S Graham Parker

life now they are obsolete We're dying to be invaded and put the blame on something concrete Waiting for the UFOs Waiting for the UFOs We are waiting for the UFOs We know that they're there We're just a

Yesterday's Cloud Graham Parker

There's a man in my suitcase, 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

That's Where She Ends Up Graham Parker

like cash To be undressed like Sunday's leftovers To be picked on Monday And Tuesday in the trash That's where she ends up It's not right the way that you don't listen She's not something you hang on a

Long Stem Rose Graham Parker

My long stem rose won't sit on the mantelpiece She's not disposed to being one of a dozen she's A living thing that's bound to get tired She won't be content just being admired funny that's the way it

Long Stem Rose (BBC Session) Graham Parker

My long stem rose won't sit on the mantelpiece She's not disposed to being one of a dozen she's A living thing that's bound to get tired She won't be content just being admired funny that's the way it

Silly Thing Graham Parker

A E You want me be someone better A E I just wanna monkey 'round yeah A E You want me to write you a letter A E A E But the words just won't come the right way A E B My pen won't listen to a thing that

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

Don't Ask Me Questions Graham Parker

Lead Guitar intro Em Bm A Em Bm D A Bm then Bm G Bm G Bm G Crimson autograph is what we leave behind, Everywhere man set foot. Em Bm F

Slash And Burn Graham Parker

jewels and gold While Atlas the Adonis Was holding up the globe Hey hey slash and burn Hey hey slash and burn Hey hey slash and burn That's how they feed the world That's how they feed the world America is

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

Platinum Blonde Graham Parker

in Jonjoping Fake glass baubles hang in the station Just like the passenger's imitation Then it hits you she was just the dregs All you wanna do now is break her legs Kick that brunette into a pond Replace

Platinum Blonde (BBC Session) Graham Parker

in Jonjoping Fake glass baubles hang in the station Just like the passenger's imitation Then it hits you she was just the dregs All you wanna do now is break her legs Kick that brunette into a pond Replace

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

Discovering Japan Graham Parker

Her heart is nearly breaking, the earth is nearly quaking The Tokyo's taxi's braking, it's screaming to a halt And there's nothing to hold on to when gravity betrays you And every kiss enslaves you-oo-oo

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

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

Protection Graham Parker

no protection Em C G D G C Just can't get, just can't get no Can't get no protection, G C G C D protection, protection Every bomb is

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

Cupid Graham Parker

hey Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me Listen I don't want to bother you but I'm in distress There's danger of me losing all of my happiness 'Cause I love

Everything Goes Graham Parker

this year They're gonna search on the river bank And in the disused water tank But everything goes don't worry don't worry baby Everything'll work out fine But everything goes don't worry daddy's got a

Everything Goes (Single Version) Graham Parker

this year They're gonna search on the river bank And in the disused water tank But everything goes don't worry don't worry baby Everything'll work out fine But everything goes don't worry daddy's got a