The Loneliest Jukebox Inch Away Keep The Faith Angela You Must Be Mad

The Winds Of Change Never Thought Afrika If Only Local News

 

The Loneliest Jukebox I've been feeling so down and out now you hate me and you've left this town And some bum in New York City scribbles a few more lines down A love song he doesn't feel for But it earns him a buck And as I sit here in England It's appropriate enough It haunts my soul, breaks my heart and threatens to pull it from me Chorus: It's the loneliest jukebox I have found The loneliest jukebox in this cold and lonely town I've got to get drunk tonight, but this companion will only cause me pain And out of that smokey bar-room will rise a shattering refrain When you go out to a bar, when you feel bad There's always a popular record to make you wish that you never had It haunts your soul, breaks you heart and threatens to pull it from you Chorus Out of my way, this cannot go on I've got to change this record and put something happier on I was so disappointed, when I got there 'Cos every selection on that machine was about a broken love affair They all haunt my soul, all break my heart They were all weeping with me Chorus (Copyright DREWETT 1988 - Cote Basque Music Publishing Limited) Back to Top List

Inch Away. She's finally gone, it has taken her so long but the beatings went on and he started on the kids she thought the thing through, picked them up from school then fled into the night. Chorus: She was so scared she was paralysed he held a knife, an inch away from her face. He'd break down and cry and beg forgiveness once again but she'd heard all those lies, far too many times she'd make herself look good like any girl would the make up hides the scars. Chorus: Well times are hard, without money spent on booze you can't call the police, you know, there is nothing they can do its domestic you see and anyway, who the hell do you think they'd believe she said I've got to go, I'm not safe in my home but what the hell's it like out there. Chorus: The holiday snaps don't tell the truth the good times, they will haunt you but they were so few. She's finally gone, it has taken her so long but the beatings went on and he started on the kids a beautiful girl of fourteen years how the hell could he harm her Chorus: The blade wasn't used, but they were both stabbed through the heart by the cold icy chill of a thought that this was just the start, the beginning of the end. (Copyright DREWETT 1988 - Cote Basque Music Publishing Limited) Back to Top List

Keep The Faith. Keep the faith, we gotta, gotta keep the faith. There's something wrong I am sure When we measure how well we're off by the poverty next door There's something wrong 'round here We should be broadening horizons and not closing down the wards. Chorus: Faint hearted stand aside you have not got the pride needed day by day to retrieve this battered land and Keep the Faith. There's no compassion here There's too much business interest in South African affairs Black acrid smoke fills the air Her little pearls of wisdom form a necklace of despair Chorus: We need change why do you find that strange? I will testify to you, there's so much here we could improve We need change, why do you find that strange? I will testify to you, and I have Marx to prove it too Look what they're doing to the youth Behold the new slave trade, behold the closing schools They will waste the best in you so gather up all your convictions Lets remove these evil fools (Copyright DREWETT 1988 - Cote Basque Music Publishing Limited) Back to Top List

Angela. I can't help it I keep falling asleep Twelve hours of the day in bed are doing absolutely nothing for me You work the day, I sleep away and that causes trouble at night When I want you, you are too tired and I am wide-awake Well in the morning when you rise I don't move 'Cos I've tossed and turned the night disturbing you Oh what the hell I'm I supposed to do Chorus: Oh Angela, Angela, dear Angela You are breaking my heart I can't afford to go out and you hate staying in And we're both sick and tired of you paying for everything It's an easy come, easy go, kind of life When you both earn a wage, it broadens out your life Who were you drinking with last night? Chorus Have you heard the news, soon they'll send children down the mines Oh what's new, they used to do that in Victorian times Have you heard the news, youth unemployment is stable again It's not what it seems, they're all on training schemes You are my world, I've nothing else to fill each lonely day And in the quiet of the afternoon I hear my life tick... tock... away Well, a room can be a prison when you're kept in You need money for everything Durex, cigarettes, travel and booze, Angela I swear I'm missing you I want you, I need you. I want you, I need you. Chorus Come on please reply to me Chorus (Copyright DREWETT 1998 - Cote Basque Music Publishing Limited) Back to Top List

You Must Be Mad Careers and jobs don't fall from the sky These days you have to grovel on your knees now It's enough to make you cry He wanted to see some of the world Wear a uniform, impress the girls Have a little money when on leave And he wanted to settle down He settled down in a hole in the ground In that training scheme in Port Stanley 'cos you know as killing comes and goes, this one wins votes Chorus: You must be mad Well I thought you had a lot more sense than that You must be mad Well I found out, you're not that kind of lad You are simply mad He got under the feet of his family at home That pressure finally made his mind up It's enough to make you cry, yeah, yeah, yeah He wanted to see some of the world Thought uniforms impressed the girls Have a little pride no-one here could give And he wanted to settle down, he settled down in a hole in the ground In that training scheme in Port Stanley And you know, as killing comes and goes, this one wins votes. Chorus: And it all comes down to you. (Copyright DREWETT 1998 - Cote Basque Music Publishing Limited) Back to Top List

The Winds Of Change The generation that invented the bomb turned on its youth, told them they were wrong "you are the vanguard of our moral decline" The generation that stopped Vietnam have voted in Reagen as their ideal man but Nicaraqua will survive and if you fight and run away, you'll live to fight another day and if you live another day, you must learn to fight another way Chorus: Smiling through the pain, your eyes can't hide that look of mild distain, where anger used to rise smiling through the strain, you've been sucked dry by worrying about your age and believing media lies, the winds of change, they blow our way the winds of change, you either snap or bend and sway If this is living, you've got to be mad If this is living, then living is sad If this is living, then I don't wanna live here America the home of the brave, the "me" generation lost in space looking for a New World to patronise United Kingdom the fifty-first state we're not their backyard we're their garden gate forever, forever swinging to the right and if you fight and run away, you'll live to fight another day and if live another day, you must learn to fight another way Chorus: If this is living, you gotta be mad, If this is living then living is sad, If this is living I dont' wanna live here Chorus: If this is living, you gotta be mad, If this is living then living is sad, If this is living I dont' wanna live here the winds of change, you either snap or bend and sway If this living, if this is living, if this is living I don't wanna live here. (Copyright DREWETT 1988 Published by PRESENT TIME LTD) Back to Top List

Never Thought At Holborn station the vagrants greet my eyes It's a wonder they survive these cold and bitter nights The chill I feel comes not from these cold winds But from seeing youth pulling food out of the bins And hour by hour their numbers increase and you know As we lay in front of the fire You hate your body and I hate mine As if in someway we're deprived I just gaze into your eyes, and I coo into your ears Chorus: Never thought that I would ever need someone, someone like you Never thought that I would ever meet someone as lovely as you I watch the snow falling in Parker Street London shivers while it's trying to get to sleep And there are those who won't be waking up anymore Yes winter kills but it only kills the poor And hour by hour their numbers increase and you know As we lay in front of the fire You hate your body and I hate mine As if in some way we're deprived I just gaze into your eyes, and I drivel in your ear Chorus: When you've no money, you have nothing at all When you have no love and no home, you cannot walk tall The chill I feel comes not from these cold winds But from seeing youth pulling food out of the bins From cardboard city to the dreaded spike and you know As we lay in front of the fire You hate your body and I hate mine As if in some way we're deprived I just gaze into your eyes, and I coo into your ear Chorus (Copyright DREWETT 1988 Published by PRESENT TIME LTD) Back to Top List

Afrika I've had enough of seeing people shot down to the ground Any caring human being would wanna bring this regime down We've been feeding starving people with the latest 12inch disc While down in south the slaughter continues, it makes me sick Chorus Talking 'bout Afrika, South Afrika A legacy of Hitler has raised his head again, 'cos we all know that Botha is Thatcher's friend She says "No" to sanctions, she says they'll just do harm She puts her money where her mouth is and out comes Afrikaans Chorus It's liberation time Well, Live Aid raised millions of Dollars, Pounds and Francs But a pillar of Apartheid are the western banks And you can't ease your conscience with a cheque book anymore 'Cos the state is causing riots outside your own front door. Chorus (Copyright DREWETT 1988 Published by Logo Songs). Back to Top List

If Only. All I seem to do is sit here thinking of you When pleasure and pain become one and the same It leaves me dazed and confused I have a lock of your hair, snarled up in a curled elastic band Not given in love but pulled out from your head The last night you spent in my bed Chorus: If only you knew, just how much you've been torturing me If only you knew, well if only I could stop thinking If only you knew Hassles in life, they will come and go But the hardest thing I have found Is trying to live with myself I can't get to sleep, I infrequently eat and I'm smoking my way back to yellow stained teeth Mention cancer to me and I'll inwardly freeze and vow never again I want to relive the passions of those days, skin cells under finger nails and sheets in disarray And that feeling of calm as I lay in your arms and I'd whisper into your ear Chorus: What they have said, I don't give a damn They see the world different from me And you know they always have Chorus: That I'm missing you, If only you knew, If only you knew (Copyright DREWETT Published by PRESENT TIME PUBLISHING 1988) Back to Top List

Local News. All local news, all local news, all local news. A little thing I tried to keep secret was published today It's funny how a local paper can change the way people behave The neighbours don't talk to me Net-curtain people had a conference in the street You should hear the gossip that goes 'round When one's not present they run them into the ground With quivering lips and spiteful tongues Aimed at absolutely anyone Monday morning I got into work and my foremen come up to me He said "I'd like to see you in my office around about quarter to three" I guessed it, my job had gone Over a column only two inches long "We can't afford to keep you on, now you've broke the law" "It's not what our company stands for" But the company car will still be cleaned By someone else on a training scheme Don't get in your local news Remember the night you cried over the telephone It was your sixteenth birthday but I'm not allowed in your home The finger's not pointing it's prodding and I've just about had enough of your local news All local news, all local news, all local news Remember the night you cried over the telephone It was your sixteenth birthday but I'm not allowed in your home The finger's not pointing it's prodding and I've just about had enough of your local news   Saw an old teacher the other day, he said "I read what you done" He said "I always thought you'd never change, I always knew one day you would get done" Self-righteous hypocrite It's more like you who hasn't changed A racist school teacher, teaching and feeding ignorance and hate "And how many minds have you poisoned, In the years since I left that school" Don't get in your local news. (Copyright DREWETT Published by PRESENT TIME PUBLISHING 1988). Back to Top List Return to non-frames menu