I pick up the telephone When I want to call you so much? Who's going to make me forget you And get you off my mind? I could be out breaking other people
Käännös: MacColl, Kirsty. Muut ihmisten sydämet.
Sometimes it's hard to remember you lied And memory fades as the years pass you by Sometimes the truth's got up, lay down and died But I can't forget
I went up to the corner to ask about the boys It gets to mean a lot to me, I like that kind of noise They had a look and they were nowhere to be found
A busy life keeps a body busy With so many same old things to do So why not stop a while and take a good look around? Maybe you will find out something
In a dream of a desolate land Finding my feet on the wide white sand alone now Shot down in apathy during the war Never been north of the wise old Thames
No rain but I felt the thunder You came and my ship went under With a white light shattering the night As you smiled like you do I could take evasive
You turned all my dreams into nightmares But you won't turn my water to wine Now you don't handle me like that rosary I've seen you carressing now and
When you do know what you don't know When you can't tell what you do know And it gets so very hard to see And if you weren't expecting trouble And
Don't go near the water Don't you think it's sad What's happened to the water Our water's going bad Oceans, rivers, lakes and streams Have all been
Out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican girl Night-time would find me in Rosa's Cantina Music would play and Felina would
Happy to see you again I'm happy 'cos you're a girl's best friend I love it when you get real close But I don't smile so no-one knows That I'm happy
All babies together, everyone one a seed Half of us are satisfied, half of us in need Love's bountiful in us, tarnished by our greed Oh when will there
We never say what we should say I guess it's just the English way We talk about the weather Stay polite and fine together and It's true, you keep it
I am afraid of the dark I am afraid of the day I am afraid to walk outside And of what people say I am afraid to drink too much Because of what I might
How insensitive I must have seemed When he told me that he loved me. How unmoved and cold I must have seemed When he told me so sincerely. Why, he must
Twenty, twenty, twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated Nothing to do, nowhere to go Oh, Oh, I wanna be sedated Put me in a wheelchair And get me
