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Mr Morrison’s Dream
03:17
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These are bankers’ fields
Landowners’ fields
They’re rich men’s fields
With their fancy motor cars
Their fields aren’t ours
They’re bankers’ fields
Landowners’ fields
They’re rich men’s fields
These men stand apart
And their fields aren’t ours
I had a dream,
I woke up on this hill
And before me, all I could see
Were streets and homes and schools
Around two reservoirs
Streets and homes and schools
And they were all ours
Could it be real?
Could these be our fields?
These are bankers’ fields
Landowners’ Fields
They’re rich men’s fields
But soon they’ll be ours
Soon they’ll be ours
When something’s ending
Something new starts
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Served by omnibus and nearby London Underground
The London County Council presents: Woodberry Down
Set in 60 acres, with two public parks nearby
The estate of tomorrow has finally arrived
But most importantly
It’s a place to call your own
After all that you’ve been through,
You deserve the best, we know
Forget those shabby rooms that you called home
These little details might just pique your interest
Your new home’s fitted wardrobes
And a fitted kitchenette
A school will soon be built boasting all new facilities
The perfect place to raise the perfect modern family
With everything you need
To help you on your way
Where neighbours become friends
And altogether say
“No clouds in the sky today”
So let the sun shine on everyone…
The rent man comes on Friday
Please pay 51 and 10
Subject to conditions
That we’ll not repeat again
Subject to conditions
That we’ll not repeat again
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Next Door Neighbour
03:22
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Did you meet my next-door neighbour?
Just moved in my next-door neighbour,
I know that it might be too soon to tell
But I think we’ll get along together well
Pleased to meet my next-door neighbour
Just like me my next-door neighbour
May all the flowers in his garden grow
Let joy be the only thing he knows
Now close the door and leave the world outside
Fill your home with all that you desire
Alec Abrahams shuts the door and places down his things
His little piece of peace and quiet in amongst the din
His shopping in the cupboard and a saucepan on the ring
With one eye on his supper in a quiet voice he sings:
Desire
Desire
Desire
Desire
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The Happy Man
02:52
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There’s a place we guarantee you’re welcome anytime
From 12 until three o clock, then five to closing time
Come inside and you’ll find you’ll escape the daily grind
So happy to see you, see,
What’s ours is yours, it’s fine of course, what’s ours is yours is mine
At the happy man
You’ve always a friend here, we’re all here to lend a hand
With good advice to help you find a way to understand:
Trust us, we know it’s hard to be happy all the time
But in here, we do our best to
Take you as we find you, see, you’ll find us by the sign
At the happy man
Now the time has come to say “Last orders at the bar”
Goodnight, gents, your time’s been spent
We hope you’ve not got far to go, you’re welcome here again
At the happy man
(if you’ve got troubles then you’ve got less troubles than me
Come along inside and take the weight off of your feet)
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A Kind of Loving
02:41
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I love Victoria
We get on the same train and we’ve got
An understanding
Mapped out in red and blue
No coincidence we share a route
A kind of loving
And I am just a simple office clerk
Who doesn’t mind a little walk to work
And though I take no pride in being late
For Victoria, there is no price I wouldn’t pay
A kind of loving
A kind of loving
I’d like to have her round, I’ll have to wait
Poor mother dear, it’s more than she could take
But I’m happy to admire from afar
And every night I sleep and dream of sweet Victoria
I’m sure that we would get on famously
If we ever took the chance to speak
And I wonder if she knows that I exist
But for Victoria, oh maybe ignorance…
Is bliss
I love Victoria
We get on the same train and we’ve got
An understanding
Mapped out in red and blue
No coincidence we share a route
A kind of loving
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Silk Screen Printer
03:41
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Silk screen printer
Oh such simple lines you traced
Softly, your fingers on my waist
Now you know
I embarrass easily
Silk screen printer
Whispered all your dreams to me
It's not easy to be kind
But I'll try
I will try to learn your ways
Stay true to you
Just you
Silk screen printer
When you took me for your wife
Laid bare: what's mine was yours was mine
Now I've found
All that I know to be true
Can't tell
Who am I and who are are you?
It's not easy to be kind
But I'll try
I will try to learn your ways
Stay true to you
Just you
And if these walls should crumble down
I swear I'd stick around
For you
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Mad Max Rapaport
01:57
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Mad Max Rapaport
Takes pills so that he grows
Backwards I suppose
A secret just he knows
Keeps getting younger while the world is getting old
Oh no, it’s so sad
It’s so sad
Oh no, it’s so sad
It’s so sad
Mad Max Rapaport
Couldn’t used to touch toes
An unknown underworld
Where other seldom go
I know it’s hard when this is all you know I know you know
It’s so sad
It’s so sad
Oh no, it’s so sad
It’s so sad
Mad Max Rapaport
Takes pills so that he grows
Backwards I suppose
A secret just he knows
Keeps getting younger while the world is getting old
Oh no, it’s so sad
It’s so sad
Oh no, it’s so sad
It’s so sad
It’s so sad
It’s so sad.
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8. |
The Fury
03:13
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Saturday night up on Stamford Hill
The boys all out, though the clouds are forming
From a lovers’ settee by a windowsill
A Saturday girl, born Friday morning
Thinks she sees a friend inside a coffee shop
Tells herself that she can keep him waiting
Gets herself a drink and watch the buses stop
It’s all breaking down.
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New River
04:02
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When this working day is done
Locked in tight back in the scrum
So to green remembered fields
Butterfly break on your wheel
Now the day has gone
Now the day has gone
Empty streets for busy lives
Time and space to multiply
Close your eyes, now you can see
Everywhere you want to be
Now the day has gone
Now the day has gone
Sleep at night so you can dream
All is not quite as it seems
Here: the voice you long to hear
“Come home, there’s nothing to fear.”
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10. |
Three Sisters
02:25
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Three sisters
Side by side by the reservoir
They watch me come and go
These three sisters
Fickle mistresses
Why do you look alone?
I wish that I could show you
The love that I have for you
Each one mourning
The new day dawning
Over an empty sky
I beg them: don’t grow old
The truth’s that you’ve still to show me
All that you know
Stay a while, please don’t go
Three sisters
Growing colder
Though spring will soon be here
The seasons weather away
And all that was cannot stay
But three sisters
Still three sisters
Three sisters
Still three sisters
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Jewellery Class
02:24
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Used to make do and mend
A drab little thing
Scrubbed up for the weekend and
Bound together by strong
Now I sit like a queen
Among roses and rings that I made
All by myself
I started again
No phone calls today
No visits no cards
My fortieth birthday
This fussing replaced
With quiet and calm
Everything in its place and I'm
All by myself
I started again
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A Photograph of Emily
02:42
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A photograph of Emily
Pinned onto my wall
From a time before she went away
Close my eyes and still I see
White ribbons in her hair
Eyes the camera
Too shy to look away
Feel so far away
From everything I see today
So show me please
A photograph of Emily
Do you remember how we sang
Together harmonies
To songs our mother taught us
Many years ago?
Now these lines become ingrained
Yet your memory still fades
Just a feeling now
I used to know
Now I wait for sleep to fall
Dare to dream of nothing more
Feel so far away
From everything I see today
Now all that I see
Is falling around me today
Oh show me please
A photograph of Emily
Pinned onto my wall
From a time I won’t get back again
Close my eyes and still I see
White ribbons in her hair
Eyes the camera
Too scared to look away
Feel so far away
From everything I see today
Now all that I see
Is falling around me today
Feel so far away
From everything I see today
So show me please
A photograph of Emily
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13. |
Take Me Home
02:11
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take me home
take me home
back to the streets where I’m known
Only place left I can go
After all this time
take me home
take me home
been away for far too long
I just don’t know how I’ve gone
wrong again
Oh now
What can I say now?
Too much to undo
To come back to you
Oh now
Where do I go now
That everything’s changed?
Must I start this again?
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14. |
Dear Mr Morrison
03:21
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Dear Mr Morrison
Whatever happened to
The dream that we both shared?
Oh woe is me and you
They’ve knocked down all the houses
A place I hardly knew but where I knew that I was loved and now it’s gone
And now it’s gone
I’ll carry on, Mr Morrison
What else is there to do?
There’s nobody to write to
So I’m writing now to you
I know that we’ll be ok
I’m sure we’ll find a way to be, a place where we can tell that we belong
I’m clinging on
Oh dear, Mr Morrison
Wherever shall we turn?
We thought we had the answers
But do we ever learn?
We wish for something different
But make the same mistakes in different ways and then we tear it all apart
It breaks my heart
Dear Mr Morrison
I don’t know what to do
The dreams that we both shared
I’d put myself into
Now all the talk’s of endings
But try to think of all it was back when the sun shone down on everyone
When this had just begun
When this had just begun
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15. |
Rose & Ben
02:44
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Won’t you remember me?
Carry these memories
Old songs we can’t sing
Rising up through the din
And so it ends
We’ll be seeing you then
We pass on our names
That you might do the same
Someday
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Those Unfortunates London, UK
Those Unfortunates are a London, UK based four piece.
They sound harder than they sound.
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