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1. |
Rat Race
03:45
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You're working at your leisure to learn the things you'll need
The promises you make tomorrow will carry no guarantee
I've seen your qualifications, you've got a Ph.D.
I've got one art O level, it did nothing for me
Working for the rat race
You know you're wasting your time
Working for the rat race
You're no friend of mine
You plan your conversation to impress the college bar
Just talking about your Mother and Daddy's Jaguar
Wear your political T-shirt and sacred college scarf
Discussing the worlds situation but just for a laugh
You'll be working for the rat race
You know you're wasting your time
Working for the rat race
You're no friend of mine
Working for the rat race
You know you're wasting your time
Working for the rat race
You're no friend of mine
Just working at your leisure to learn the things you don't need
The promises you make tomorrow will carry no guarantee
I've seen your qualifications, you've got a Ph.D.
I've got one art O level, it did nothing for me
Working for the rat race
You know you're wasting your time
You're working for the rat race
You're no friend of mine
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2. |
Doors of Your Heart
03:49
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Every story has to be about something I suppose
This one says
I lose my head
As the feeling starts to grow you know?
I can feel love thumping at the doors of my heart
Feel love thump as it tears me apart
Feel love pump as the worrying starts
I can feel love thumping at the doors of my heart again
At the doors of my heart again
I can feel love thump
Bom-bom, be bom-bom
Everybody needs someone
They can cling to now and then
No more defense, no more pretense
No reasons for explaining
You can feel love thumping at the doors of your heart
Feel love thump as it tears you apart
Feel blood pump as the worrying starts
And you can feel love thumping at the doors of your heart again
At the doors of your heart again
You can feel love thump
Bom-bom, be bom-bom
Bom-bom, be bom-bom
This one your unity rocker, lord
Stick him in your living room and turn off the light eh
Bet you wouldn't know if he was black or white
Boy, say what's the use in fighting?
Man say, I say you shouldn't really fight
Tek him to a discotheque
Tek him to a pub eh
Tek him to a blues and then
You play him rub a dub eh
Say you shouldn't really fight, man say
Say you shouldn't really fight
Each and every day I walk through the streets
And I see man and man war and kill each other
Because you are black or you are white
So what's the use in fighting?
War alright
Because it's strictly love and unity
We a deal in today
And that we will never throw away
We will never throw away, war alright
I say just because you're brown
You no fe g'wan like a clown
Just because you're white
You no fe broke a likkle fight eh
Say what's the use in fighting, boy
I say, you shouldn't really fight
Every time it happens, seem to act a little touched
In this at least, you're just like me
I think we think too much
Why can't we just
Feel love thumping at the doors of our heart
Feel love thump as it tears us apart
Feel blood pump as the worrying starts
I can feel love thumping at the doors of my heart again
At the doors of my heart again
I can feel love thump
Bom-bom, be bom-bom
I can feel love thump
Bom-bom, be bom-bom
At the doors of my heart again
At the doors of my heart again
I say, I can feel love thump
Bom-bom, be bom-bom
Bom-bom, be bom-bom
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3. |
Johnny the Horse
02:57
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Johnny the Horse was kicked to death
He died for entertainment
Would you believe he came out well
He had a bright inquiring mind
His family knew that he'd go far
If he applied his time
But he started out standing on corners
And talking out loud, too loud
You see, he couldn't believe in himself or the world
Or anything he heard
It seems a million years ago
That he left his life behind
The moment came for him to go
He said goodbye to his wife and child
Started out walking he never looked back
There was too much pain
Between Glasgow and London
One hot summer he forgot his name
Can you remember his name?
Doodlo-dup-dup-dup
Doodlo-doodlo-doodlo, woo!
Can you remember his name?
Doodlo-dup-dup-dup
Doodlo-doodlo-doodlo, woo!
Can you remember?
He started out standing on corners
And talking out loud, too loud
You see, he couldn't believe in himself or the world
Or anything he heard
Can you remember his name?
Doodlo-dup-dup-dup
Doodlo-doodlo-doodlo, woo!
Can you remember his name?
Doodlo-dup-dup-dup
Doodlo-doodlo-doodlo, woo!
Will you remember?
Will you remember his name?
Doodlo-dup-dup-dup
Doodlo-doodlo-doodlo, woo!
Can you remember?
Doodlo-dup-dup-dup
Doodlo-doodlo-doodlo, woo!
He took his battered bones and his broken dreams
To Regents Park at sunset
Will you remember?
Doodlo-dup-dup-dup
Doodlo-doodlo-doodlo, woo!
Will you remember his name?
Doodlo-dup-dup-dup
Doodlo-doodlo-doodlo, woo!
Will you remember?
Doodlo-dup-dup-dup
Doodlo-doodlo-doodlo, woo!
Will you remember?
Doodlo-dup-dup-dup
Doodlo-doodlo-doodlo, woo!!
Johnny the Horse was kicked to death
He died for entertainment
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4. |
Keys to Your Heart
03:06
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They say love can move a mountain
Love's gonna bring down trees
It's on this that I'm counting
Cause for your heart
I found the keys, keys
Yeah the keys to your heart heart
Yes I got them on a chain chain
When the doors come apart part
We'll never be the same same
Alright. hey...
I used to be a teenage drug-taker
I used to hate the taste of cheese
I was gonna be an undertaker
Until for your heart I found the keys keys ...
Yeah the keys to your heart heart
Yes I got them on a chain chain
When the doors come apart part
We'll never be the same same, alright
The keys to your heart heart
Well I got them on a chain chain
When the doors come apart part
We'll never be the same same, alright
Yes I got the keys to your heart
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5. |
Corner Stone
03:11
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The stone that the builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone-a sing it brother
The stone that the builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone
You're a builder, baby
Here I am, a stone
Don't you pick and refuse me
'Cause the things people refuse
Are the things they should choose
Do you hear me?
Hear what I say!
Stone that the builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone-a tell me why
The stone that the builder refuse, yeah!
Will always be the head cornerstone
Here I am baby
I am, a builder's stone!
Don't you pick and refuse me, listen
The tings people refuse
Are the things they should use
Do you hear me
Hear what I say
The stone that the builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone
The stone that the builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone
The stone that the builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone
The stone that dem builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone
The stone that the builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone
The stone
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6. |
In the City
02:42
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In the city there's a thousand things I want to say to you
But whenever I approach you, you make me look a fool
I wanna say, I wanna tell you
About the young ideas
But you turn them into fears
In the city there's a thousand faces, all shining bright
And those golden faces are under twenty-five
They wanna say, they gonna tell ya
About the young idea
You better listen now you've said your bit-a, go!
And I know what you're thinking
You still think I am crap
But you'd better listen, man
Because the kids know where it's at
In the city there's a thousand men in uniforms
And I've heard they now have the right to kill a man
We wanna say, we gonna tell ya
About the young idea
And if it don't work, at least we said we've tried
In the city, in the city
In the city, in the city
In the city there's a thousand things I want to say to you
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You are the kind of girl that I've been looking for
You are the kind of girl that I've been hearing about
You better come into my parlour
Said the spider to the fly
You better come into my parlour
That's what I'm saying to you now
I hear those voices say woman that you're a real good swinger
The way that you walk and you shake it
Girl I still don't doubt it
You better come and let me prove it
I wanna prove it to my self
You better come and let me prove it
I want you just here for myself
I can't even sleep at night
You're leaving home in misery
Then I remember the way in which you walk and shake it
Girl
You give me all haste
You give me all haste
You give me all haste
You give me all haste
You better come into my parlour
Said the spider to the fly
You better come into my parlour
That's what I'm saying to you now
I can't even sleep at night
You're leaving home in misery
Then I remember the way in which you walk and you shake it
Girl
You give me all haste
You give me all haste
You give me all haste
You give me all haste
You rock it to me shock it to me girl
You give me all haste
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8. |
Out on the Streets
04:26
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Out on the streets again
Looking for something
It just don't matter now I don't wanna care
I want to have some fun
Make a connection
I feel like a roller coaster
I don't wanna stop
Let's go somewhere, I don't know where lets go
Somewhere exciting
White lies and amber lighting
Try to seduce me
I don't wanna go there again
Don't wanna go, don't wanna go
But it's the only place to go oh oh
There's gonna be trouble I know oh oh
Don't wanna know don't wanna know oh oh
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9. |
Everyday
02:54
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Everyday when I'm away I'm thinking of you,
Everyone can carry on
Except for we two
And you know that our love
And you know that I
And you know that our love won't die
And it won't even show
And no-one will know
One little wave
To say you'll behave
It won't even show
How far love can go
Everyday when I'm away
And there's been a few
Every land I need a hand
To help me come through
And you know that our love
And you know that
And you know that our love won't die
And it won't even show
And no-one will know
One little wave
To say you'll behave
It won't even show
How far love can go
And you know that our love
And you know that I
And you know that our love won't die
And it won't even show
And no-one will know
One little wave
To say you'll behave
It won't even show
How far love can go
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The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become
The further you take my rights away
The faster I will run
You can deny me, you can decide
To turn your face away
No matter 'cause there's
… Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Oh, something inside so strong
… The more you refuse to hear my voice (ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh)
The louder I will sing
You hide behind walls of Jericho (ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh)
Your lies will come tumbling
Deny my place in time, you squander wealth that's mine
My light will shine so brightly it will blind you
Because there's
… Something inside so strong, strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Oh, something inside so strong
… Brothers and sisters
When they insist we're just not good enough
Well we know better
Just look him in his eyes and say
We're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway
… There's something inside so strong
And I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no
There's something inside so strong, oh
Something inside so strong
… Brothers and sisters
When they insist we're just not good enough
Well we know better
Just look him in his eyes and say
We're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway
Because there's
… Something inside so strong, (something inside so strong)
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Something inside so strong (oh oh yeah)
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no, oh no
There's something inside so strong
… Oh oh, something inside so strong
Oh oh, something inside so strong
Oh oh, something inside so strong
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11. |
Mack The Knife
03:22
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Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And it shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe
And he keeps it, ah, out of sight
You know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves, oh, wears old MacHeath, babe
So there's never, never a trace of red
Now on the sidewalk, huh, huh, whoo sunny morning, un huh
Lies a body just oozin' life, eek
And someone's sneakin' 'round the corner
Could that someone be Mack the Knife?
There's a tugboat, huh, huh, down by the river don'tcha know
Where a cement bag's just a-drooppin' on down
Oh, that cement is just, it's there for the weight, dear
Five'll get ya ten, old Macky's back in town
Now did ya hear 'bout Louie Miller? He disappeared, babe
After drawin' out all his hard-earned cash
And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor
Could it be our boy's done somethin' rash?
Now Jenny Diver, ho, ho, yeah, Sukey Tawdry
Ooh, Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Oh, the line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky's back in town
I said Jenny Diver, whoa, Sukey Tawdry
Look out to Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Yes, that line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky's back in town
Look out, old Macky's back
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12. |
Wooly Bully
03:06
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Uno, dos
One, two, tres, cuatro
Yes, Wooly Bully
Watch it now, watch it
Here he come, here he come
Watch it now, he git ya
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw
Had two big horns and a wooly jaw
Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully, yeah, drive
Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully
Hatty told Matty, "Let's don't take no chance
Let's not be L-seven, come and learn to dance"
Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully
Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully
Watch it now, watch it, watch it, watch it
Yeah
Yeah, drive, drive, drive
Matty told Hatty, "That's the thing to do
Get you someone really pull the wool with you"
Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully
Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully
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13. |
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
03:27
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When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When I go out, yeah, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
If I get drunk, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And If I haver, hey, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you
But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
When I'm working, yes, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
And when the money, comes in for the work I do
You are pass almost every penny on to you
When I come home (when I come home), oh, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I grow old, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you
But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
When I'm lonely, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you
And when I'm dreaming, well, I know I'm gonna dream
I'm gonna dream about the time when I'm with you
When I go out (when I go out), well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
And when I come home (when I come home), yes, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home with you
I'm gonna be the man who's coming home with you
But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
And I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walk a thousand miles
And fall down at your door
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14. |
Wouldn't Try to Explain
03:00
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I wouldn't try to explain
I know you wouldn't understand
It doesn't matter anyway
We could never see the same
I wouldn't try to explain
That would just be a waste of time
Go ahead and waste your own
'Cause I will not let you waste mine
I wouldn't try to explain
You and me should just agree
We could never see eye to eye
You know that's alright with me
Doesn't matter anyway
We could never see the same
I don't expect you to understand
I don't expect you to do the things I do
I wouldn't try to explain
That would just be a waste of time
Go ahead and waste your own
'Cause I would not let you waste mine
We could never see the same
We could never see the same
We will never see the same
I wouldn't try to explain
I know you wouldn't understand
Doesn't matter anyway
We could never see the same
Doesn't matter anyway
We could never see the same
Doesn't matter anyway
We will never see the same
We could never see the same
We could never see the same
We will never see the same
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