Too
hot to move, too hot to think
American sailors
Falling over you
Goodbye little boy
Bottle of love
The spinning top
song
Butterflies into
worms
The clown prince
Good fortune
rose
New year's greetings
One mechanic
town
Blackeyed susan
Fairytale love
TOO HOT TO MOVE, TOO HOT TO THINK
I can hear the timer
ringing
I can hear the whistle blow
I can hear the customers, they're
saying
"Yes, it's time to go
home"
Everything has been delivered
Everyone has called it a day
There's the doorman checking in his pocket
for his weekly pay
Chorus :
And from this window, I can see the
street below
I can hear the hit parade on the
radio
There's dirty dishes piling up in
the sink
But it's too hot to move, and it's
too hot to think
Outside the dog is growling
In a dark and hollow tone
He'll be going out tonight, there's
nothing here
to make him stay at home
I can hear the baby crying
Listen... Mama's crying too
No-one gets much sleeping done
till they've been crying through and
through
Chorus
AMERICAN
SAILORS
American sailors are in town
My sisters wear their thin summer frocks
And dance with anyone
Bathing their shoulders in the night
air
Kisses on the lawn
FALLING
OVER YOU
I was always... I was always...
stop!
- wait a minute. I'll remember...I
think it was September...
Taking off time, taking off clothes
Taking more than I needed I suppose
Taking rides in strangers' cars
Handsome lips, topless bars
Falling down the stairs in a white
wedding dress
Looking like a mess, just like I
never close
Off somebody's balcony, I suppose
Falling out the window into the warm
wet night
You gave me such a thrill then you
gave me such a fright
...yes I remember that particular
night
I was always falling over you
All that summer long one night ran
into another
I was falling over you when I didn't
know your number
I was always...I was always...stop!
- wait a minute. I'll remember...it
was really December...
I was always falling over you
GOODBYE
LITTLE BOY
Said you didn't need me
Said you had to leave me
So I helped you pack your bags
And I showed you to the door
Thought I heard a cab door
Just before I hit the cold floor
But I woke up in the morning
And I drank a little more
You said I cramped your style
I didn't make you smile
And all my sweet nothings
Came to nothing in the end
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye little boy
Phone rang in the night
I woke up with a fright
You crying "Something isn't
right"
And you were coming home again
You said you'd changed your mind
You'd been thinking 'bout the good times
How we should always be together
And forever you'll be mine
Why don't you leave for good this
time
Do me a favour, stop wasting my time
I'm tired of drinking, fighting and crying
Why don't you leave for good this
time
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye little boy
(Don't hold your breath, read my lips
I've got a million other suckers to
get my kicks
Do me a favour, stop, wasting my time
I'm so tired, I'm so fucking tired)
BOTTLE OF
LOVE
I' m a little man
but I need more love than the next
man
I'm a starving man
I take all that I can
Oh, from the bottle of love
I'm a broken heel
but it takes more than that to make
me cry
Really I'm as hard as steel
I just got something caught in my
eye
Oh, from the bottle of love
I'll fall for anything stronger than
myself
I will heal physician, heal myself
(Hush me up, and rock me slow)
Well nothing happens here
Not too much gets done
But you get to like it
You get to like the drinking and the
swimming around
Oh, passing around the bottle of
love
THE SPINNING TOP SONG
Well I made goot time but took some
bad advice
I got lost in the salt lakes maybe once or twice
Days went missing, weeks they folded in two
I lost track of them. I don't pine for you
You're either on my arm or under my heel
Hurt me all you can, you don't know
how good I feel
Everything I touch turns to purple
and gold
I keep on living like this. I know
I'll never get old
Chorus :
I'm a spinning top, I'm a catherine
wheel
I'm a sideshow freak, I'm a ribbon
of steel
Listen good buddy to the words of my
song
I never fade out cos I'm already gone, yoo-hoo
yeah yeah yeah, yodelay-hee-ho...
I'm an open cut I take too much dirt
I never close up I drink an ocean of
hurt
I am a topless bar I make you feel
alright
Flashing neon sign says "Open
All Night"
(chorus)
Well I'm cold and hungry but don't hold me tight
I just shake cos I'm living at the speed of light
(chorus)
BUTTERFLIES
INTO WORMS
All you daughters, all you sons
Learn your lesson from what I've
done
I threw away the gift of love
between every line I've ever sung
A thousand times I looked you
in the eye
And every time I mixed the truth
with lies
But it seemed so good and it seemed
so right
Singing gospel in the yellow evening
light
Chorus :
Yesterday the world was mine
And every trick I learned
The only trick I remember now
Is turning butterflies into worms
Don't put no net down below
Don't call for my hand or try to see
me down slow
As I turn away from the morning sun
To the bottle upon the shelf
So tell me who to turn to baby,
who to turn to now, when you're with
somebody else
(chorus)
THE CLOWN PRINCE
"Principe, principe
¿quien te robo la corona?"
Little clown prince, you thief of frowns,
saddest face, most open heart of all
the clowns
Your graceful wife, your weightless
jest
condems to shadows all the rest
Oh wooden saint, oh wondrous boy, so
strange and so sweet,
the marque lights slip beneath your feet
How high and well you waltz and dip!
Nimble step upon the wire, hand on
dandy hip
With crimson sash and pride unfuried
You float above this stinking world
You part our seas, you fill our cup
We laugh and cry untill we cry
"Enough!"
You feign to fall and women tug their hair
They gasp in fear as you skip across the air
Let them weep, let them burn for you
Where were they when they could have
learned from you?
Let them weep, let them burn for you
Where were they?
Little clown prince, you thief of frowns
Same dawn table every night, you
knock them down
Friday night spreads out against the
sky
Men and women drinking take-home pay
Fluorescent lights, a dab of powder, a splash of grease paint
The trash floats in, the scum floats out
They sweep under the bar what they
can't kick out
This land of tears, such a secret place
This land of tears, such a secret
place
Only a dollar for the prince of
clowns, only a dollar
and he'll steal your frowns, only a dollar for his tinsel crown
Only a dollar for the prince of
clowns
"No Llores mi nino
lagrimas, lagrimas en secretos ocultos"
GOOD
FORTUNE ROSE
I've been looking for a
free telephone
Thought I'd ring to say I was
catching the 12.20 home
Out here (yeah yeah, shut the door)
I get so lonely
Out here I get so bored
This is my America this is the place
I'm meant to be
With the many tiers of the building
smiling down on me
That was my brother you know
Now leave him alone
Out here daddy sas summer's almost
gone
Dream let me dream
I'm on that golden train
Rushing past porch lights
Under sheets of rain
Cos in my mind's eye
i can see my dreaming rise
From my window seat my home-coming
looks so sweet
You say: "Now just mind the
step at the doorway
While I reach the light"
Out here I call myself
Good Fortune Rose
Out here Good Fortune Rose
Out here I call myself
Good Fortune Rose
Out here Good Fortune Rose
NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS (The Country
Widower)
I've got a little place to
myself up on Stony Ridge
I got it made in the shade
I sleep in the afternoon
Leave my bed unmade
No-one breathing down my neck, black coffee and a shave
I whistle a little of whatever AM
radio plays
As for letters and provisions...
Well it's a long walk to the corner
shop
In the January heat, it's a big decision
To either think of you, or not
Chorus :
I send you a New Year's Kiss
And I hope you will remember me like this
I got two good arms, one bent leg,
One weekly social security cheque
I can make an honest dollar, but to be quite honest
I can't keep track of where it went
I've got a good black dog, so I
don't need a phone
He can smell bad weather coming in his old dog bones
I don't need no Eyewitness News, no Seven Eleven
No Southern Fried Chicken, no Man
from Prudential
To give me good times on easy terms
No Eyewitness News
And in the evening when the skyline
is cut in two
By a figure resembling you
Wet matches won't light, and I
double take
Wind shuders to a halt, main roads are washed out
And all around, as far as the night can see
is just the gaping lack of you and
me
I hear you're riding a new horse in
the sun
Sure hope those Sydney shoeshine boys don't take you for a run
I still want you back, when it's all
said and done
(chorus)
Let the sky roll back/Let the ground give way
The wind has turned around/The seasons upside down
To either think of you/Or not
To either think of you/Or not
ONE
MECHANIC TOWN
She sank without a trace in a
little one mechanic town
All the old folks shrugged their
shoulders when I asked around
She was the spooky type who never
made a sound
But who was always there when you
turned around
She was always there when you turned
around
Braided chestnut hair, skinny white
legs
Is she swimming from the willow, is
she swimming in the dregs?
Is this the late-night stretsch
where she lost control?
Where her little white car wrapped
itself around the pole?
Wrap her up, can't you see she's
growing cold!
Where she want to run to? Why she
want to go?
Now the white wax flowers frow
covering the mound
Where she sank without trace in a
little one mechanic town
Where she want to run to? Why she
want to go?
BLACK-EYED
SUSAN
You my backdoor blackeyed susan
You my ship adrift
You my compass spinning dervish
Saint with broken teeth
You my drowning altar boy
You my thistle child
You my fallen Irish wake
Our appetites entwined
Dissolve so I may love you
Lie beside me, lie beside me
Lie beside me on the ground
You my cheap spent penny token
Useless currency
You my swinging plastic jesus
My star upon the sea
You and your bare shoulders
I have to hold them just to stop you, just to stop you
from coming apart
You my backdoor blackeyed susan
You my driving blind
Now you lay me down to sleep
Goodnight my love goodbye
Dissolve so I may love you
Lie beside me, lie beside me
lie beside me, lie beside me
for a while
FAIRYTALE LOVE
In an earlier time, in a
green land above
By the mill and the willows we made
fairytale love
With the sky a warm blanket, and our
backs to the rain
We thought that our pleasure would
always remain
No blemish of lust, flesh unfreckled
by sin
A heart made like clockwork, white
marble for skin
Still waters green pastures, with
one caress of your hand
I swear even the wild dog lies down
with the lamb
We thought that our pleasure would
always remain
Soft fairytale kisses again and
again
The last moment we touched, by the
river you shone
The black swan spread its wings and
hissed
lo! the night came on
In an earlier time, in a green land
above
By the mill and the willows we made
fairytale love
With the sky a warm blanket, and our
backs to the rain
We thought that our pleasure would
always remain
Recorded September/October 1988 in The Justice
Room, Cathanger, Somerset, England.