1. |
You Can Have It
03:45
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Every day I go walking round and round in a monkey suit
Every hour I'm in touch with all of my superiors
I don't have to pay for my company car stereo
I got a smile that says I like it and a wink that says "I know"
But you can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
You can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
You can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
My girlfriend gives me a good time, seems I just can't get out of her bed
Once in a while I get hungry, then I go back to my wife instead
I don't have to sit waiting at the back of a doctor's queue
Whenever I want to get healthy he does whatever I tell him to
You can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
You can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
You can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
Cry baby, cry, then dry your eyes
Don't let what you want pass you by
Weep, baby, weep, then go back to sleep
Don't jump in the water if this is too deep
You can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
You can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
You can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
Every night I go drinking, I'm the funniest man I know
When it comes to quick thinking I should have my own TV show
And everyone I know likes me, 'cause I'm kind of a generous man
I think I should be a general in the pay of the Pentagon
You can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
You can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
You can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
Cry baby, cry, then dry your eye
Don't let what you want pass you by
Weep, baby, weep, then go back to sleep
Don't jump in the water if this is too deep
ooo-ooo-ooo, you can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
ooo-ooo-ooo, you can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
ooo-ooo-ooo, you can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
ooo-ooo-ooo, you can have it, ooo-ooo-ooo
© Dean Whitbread and Kevin Goldsborough 1990
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2. |
Pain and Pleasure
03:54
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What you want and what you get are two different things
She said "Start" but he said "Stop! I've got misgivings..
I don't know what to say, what you say goes
You say that I should make some of these decisions
What I decide is for me, you can't live through another
And you wonder why you feel dead
Only you can discover
The taste of pain and pleasure.."
What you want and what you get are two different things
She said, "You could help me out, I've been thinking..
You always get what you want, but I survive on maybes
Why should I just wait for a gift of man to save me?"
"Your so right," he said, "you give your life to another,
And you wonder why you feel dead..
Only you can discover
The taste of pain and pleasure"
Ooo-ooo
Ooo-oo-oo-oo-ooo-hoo
Ooo-ooo
Ooo-oo-oo-oo-ooo-hoo
Ooo-ooo
Ooo-oo-oo-oo-ooo-hoo
Yeah, yeah, yeah..
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3. |
Save the Planet
03:30
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When you fought for your country, what did you fight for?
When they told you "kill the enemy" what were you thinking of?
No Hitler, no Mussolini ever brought us to our knees
Forty years on what has gone wrong?
Save the planet, please
Save the planet, please
Save the planet, please
When you cried for dead family, what did you cry for?
When they talked about responsibility, what were you thinking of?
Joe Stalin's infiltrations never brought us down
Forty years on looks like a big one
Save the planet, please
Save the planet, please
Save the planet, please
When you vote for more of the same, what do you vote for?
The sweet smell of decay and corruption from a grocery store
When our children turn and ask us why we never changed
Forty years on, what has gone wrong?
Save the planet, please
Save the planet, please
Save the planet, please
Save the planet, please
Save the planet, please
Save the planet, please
Save the planet, please
Save the planet, please
Save the planet, please (please get up and say)
Save the planet, please (please don't throw it away)
Save the planet, please (please get up and say)
Save the planet, please (please don't throw it away)
Save the planet, please (please get up and say)
Save the planet, please (please don't throw it away)
Save the planet, please
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4. |
Airport
03:08
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Will you leave me
Yes you'd give me up
For travellers' cheques
And an airport paper cup
Will you leave me?
Yes you'd trade me in
For long-distance flights
And the sun on your skin
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5. |
All I Ever Wanted
03:49
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Do, do-oo, do do do
Do, do-oo, do do do
Do, do-oo, do do do
Do, do-oo, do do do
Do, do-oo, do do do
Do, do-oo, do do do
When I set my eyes on you
I could have sworn we'd met before
But I looked inside my tiny mind
I knew I'd found what I had wished for
It's not so long ago
But another day and another year
There's no need to stay afraid
Now you've made a friend, will you make the most of me?
All along I ever wanted
Love is all I ever wanted
Do, do-oo, do do do
Do, do-oo, do do do
Do, do-oo, do do do
When I stopped to talk with you
I could have sworn we'd talked before
'Cause I never found such sympathy
In this or any other city
I knew that I would find
What a million others leave behind
All my dreams and my desires
Now you've made a friend, will you make the most of me?
All along I ever wanted
Love is all I ever wanted
I can't forget your kind of conversation
These little secrets feel like liberation
And when I'm with you all of my time stands still
When I'm without you, life's a bitter pill
Do, do-oo, do do do
Do, do-oo, do do do
Do, do-oo, do do do
All along I ever wanted
Love is all I ever wanted
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6. |
Paperboy
03:36
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Now and then it's not the same
It's serious this new game
Should have been an old flame
A sacrifice, who's to blame?
Sound advice, a re-name
Never mind, glad you came
There's no denying a loss of simplicity
No sympathising, unwelcome publicity
I'll be your paperboy, you'll tear me up for sure
I'll put the pieces through your shiny new front door
You'll never notice, and I wouldn't want you to
A preoccupation that might be forgiven you
There has to be another way
A new crime that does pay
We'll fight another day
A free for all, a give-away
A "trust me and what I say"
I never told you my real gift lies
Possessing a talent to idealise
I'll be your paperboy, you'll tear me up for sure
I'll put the pieces through your shiny new front door
You'll never notice, and I wouldn't want you to
A preoccupation that might be forgiven you
I'll be your paperboy, you'll tear me up for sure
I'll put the pieces through your shiny new front door
You'll never notice, and I wouldn't want you to
A preoccupation that might be forgiven you
I'll be your paperboy, you'll tear me up for sure
I'll put the pieces through your shiny new front door
You'll never pick me up, you wouldn't possibly
I'll sell you Sellotape for cheap reassembly
I'll be your paperboy
I'll be your paperboy
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7. |
The Impossible
04:23
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I never knew what just true happiness was
And my whole life was like a cloudy day
Now I know that I have true happiness because
It puts an end to all my doubt and dismay
Oh, you got to push to feel a push
You got to pull to feel a pull
You got to shake the impossible
Oh, you got to push to feel a push
You got to pull to feel a pull
You got to shake the impossible
I thought that I would spend my life alone
Awake each morning to an empty room
But oh baby, you're my cornerstone
And I have a light to pierce the darkest gloom
Oh, you got to push to feel a push
You got to pull to feel a pull
You got to shake the impossible
Oh, you got to push to feel a push
You got to pull to feel a pull
You got to shake the impossible
'Cause I'm living with a mercy
And I'm living with a tenderness
And I'm living with a grace
This kind of love must be the best
Just want your love don't want the rest
Oh but I know what you're gonna say
'Cause that kind of thing can't happen every day
But do you do what you're told to do
'Cause if you do you're bound to lose the games you play
Oh, you got to push to feel a push
You got to pull to feel a pull
You got to shake the impossible
Oh, you got to push to feel a push
You got to pull to feel a pull
You got to shake the impossible
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8. |
Sheets
04:22
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You took me out as far as I go
You took me and you left me to follow
I remember when you said your piece
Like a prisoner begging me for release
I don't want you to know
Humiliation and sorrow
Please when you find your peace
Don't go looking for love between the sheets
Love can be blind
But love can be true
Love can be every day I want you
There's something that I want you to know
Love can't wait 'til tomorrow
I remember when you turned your back
Hid your face just like death by heart attack
I just wanted to show
That words of hate leave me hollow
Please remember the armour is cracked
What matters to me is more than a matter of fact
Love can be blind
But love can be true
Oh, love can be every day I want you
I want you
Love can be blind
But love can be true
Oh, love can be blind
But love can be true
Oh, love can be blind
But love can be true
Love can be true
Oh, love can be true
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9. |
Top Of The City
03:29
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They say we're growing up so fast
But innocence ain't built to last
And Alice threw her looking glass
Ten stories down the elevator shaft
There's a place I know I go sometimes
'Cause it looks so pretty, looking down on this city
My mama's sick, my dad's been fired
By the boss he once admired
And my big sister looks so tired
As she waves goodbye to all her desires
There's a place I know I go sometimes
'Cause it looks so pretty, looking down on this city
From the top of the city I can see the satellites
My mama, don't wait up for me, I'll be coming home late tonight
They say that I should go to school
But it don't mean much except the rule
It don't mean I think my life is cruel
But college is for clever fools
There's a place I know where life is fine
On top of this city, it looks so pretty
I go sometimes on top of this city
I know what's mine on top of this city
I go sometimes on top of this city
See the satellites from the top of this city
I go sometimes on top of this city
I know what's mine from the top of this city..
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10. |
Mystery Man
04:36
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I think of you yesterday and tomorrow
Not another dull day getting by without you
What am I supposed to do with happiness and sorrow?
I'm keeping special things I want to give you
Oh baby it's true
If I gave you gifts of perfume
Was the mystery man in your room
It's just what everybody else would do
Oh, so I give you my days and my nights
And all of the love in my life
And nobody else will ever pay that price
I spend my days, I guess it's almost every day
Wishing I was near you, wishing I was close to you
What am I supposed to do?
Beg, steal or borrow?
Can't buy you special things I want to give you
Oh baby it's true
If I gave you gifts of perfume
Was the mystery man in your room
That's just what everybody else would do
Oh, so I give you my days and my nights
And all of the love in my life
And nobody else will ever pay that price
You say you know me oh, so well
Tell me this, how can you tell?
You have never seen inside these gifts of mine
Oh baby it's true
If I gave you gifts of perfume
Was the mystery man in your room
That's just what everybody else would do
Oh, so I give you my days and my nights
And all of the love in my life
And nobody else will ever pay that price
Oh baby it's true
If I gave you gifts of perfume
Was the mystery man in your room
That's just what everybody else would do
Oh, so I give you my days and my nights
And all of the love in my life
And nobody else will ever pay that price
Ooo-ooo, oo-hoo-ooo oo-oo-ooo
Ooo-ooo, oo-hoo-ooo oo-oo-ooo
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11. |
How Can You Know?
03:48
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How can you know what you've done to me?
I was living the week for the weekend's story
And all of my highs were temporary
Living a life full of lies and misery
But I'll feel fine in a little while
I'll twist my lips in a permanent smile
Oh what it is to be a happy child
Oh what it is to be reconciled
How can you know?
Now I'm a changed man
'Cause I understand
I played a part in your plans
How can you know
Now I'm a changed man
'Cause I understand
I played a part in your plans
What do you say to the other boys
Testosterone and techno toys
Fire and blood and broken necks
Will shatter their dreams of permanent sex
How can you know?
Now I'm a changed man
'Cause I understand
I played a part in your plans
How can you know?
Now I'm a changed man
'Cause I understand
I played a part in your plans
Write me down on the list of places, list of names and list of places
(How can you know? How can you know?)
Count me out and count me in, it's a race to the finish and nobody's winning
(How can you know? How can you know?)
Every Friday got a pay packet, dress me up in a Japanese jacket
(How can you know? How can you know?)
African girl's got a mouth to feed, you and me slaves to the free economy
Free economy, free economy, free economy..
How can you know?
(How can you know?)
Now I'm a changed man
'Cause I understand
(How can you know?)
I played a part in your plans
How can you know?
(How can you know?)
Now I'm a changed man
'Cause I understand
(How can you know?)
I played a part in your plans
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12. |
When I Think About You
02:12
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I'm still yours but the further I go
I don't want to hear and you don't want to know
Night has come and the day has grown cold
When I think about you
I feel it in my soul
"Love" she said, "is more than just bed"
- there's some more illusion shed
You make sense while I make amends
When I think about you
I never pretend
When I think about you
I want a love with no end
When I think about you
One day our children will be free
If we can fill the world with a hope that we carry
I know now that no love is wrong
When I think about you
When I think about you
When I think about you
When I think about you
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13. |
Truth Will Out
04:06
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You can hide a million little things
But in the end, truth will out
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14. |
Use the Phone
04:48
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Who needs enemies? We can be old friends
I can live with honesty, it's lies I can't defend
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The Believers London, UK
The Believers' eponymous first album re-released September 2017, thirty years after the band was founded by Dean Frederick, Kevin Goldsborough and Richard Woods.
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