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by Vickie Mapes
1 - So much for all the prayers you've learned.
2 - They are no help to basic needs.
3 - And all the worlds they've shown you
4 - Just make you even greedier.
5 - So what about divinity?
6 - I'm further away than before.
7 - You're like two stars colliding,
8 - And you're never going to hit the floor.
9 - Why should I whisper in the church?
10 - Because they say it's sacred ground?
11 - Oh, my sacrilege would do you good.
12 - You see, there's nothing here, I've found.
13 - I feel so sorry for you,
14 - Believing because they control.
15 - And of all the guardian angels
16 - They chose me to save your soul!
17 - Oh, I'm just trying to explain,
18 - I'm a disbelieving angel.
1 - Emma's come down.
2 - She's stopped the light
3 - Shining out of her eyes.
4 - Emma's been run out on.
5 - She's breaking down
6 - In so many places,
7 - Stuck in low gears
8 - Because of her fears
9 - Of the skidding wheels,
10 - (The skid of her wheels she feels.)
11 - Skidding wheels,
12 - (The skid of her wheels she feels.)
13 - Skidding wheels.
14 - (Wheel-skidding feeling.)
15 - Her heart is there,
16 - But they've greased the road.
17 - Her heart is there,
18 - But she's no control.
19 - Come on, you've got to use your flow.
20 - You know what it's like, and you know you want to go.
21 Don't drive too slowly.
22 Don't put your blues where your shoes should be.
23 Don't put your foot on the heartbrake.
24 - She's losing that inner flame.
25 - It was burning bright,
26 - But she's losing the fight fast.
27 - She's only herself to blame.
28 - Remember yourself,
29 - And remember Georgie.
30 - But she's so O.D.'d on weeping [O.D. = overdosed]
31 - And she can hardly see
32 - She's dropping beads.
33 - (Red, red glass is bleeding.)
34 - Dropping beads.
35 - (Red, red glass is bleeding.)
36 - Dropping beads.
37 - (Red, red on the parquet.)
38 - Her heart is out there,
39 - But they've greased the road.
40 - Her heart is out there,
41 - But she's no control.
42 - Oh, come on, you've got to use your flow.
43 - You know what it's like, and you know you want to go.
44 - Don't drive too slowly.
45 - Don't put your blues where your shoes should be.
46 - Don't put your foot on the heartbrake.
47 - Oh, come on, you've got to use your flow.
48 - You know what it's like, and you know you want to go.
49 - Don't drive too slowly.
50 - Don't put your blues where your shoes should be.
51 - Don't put your foot on the heartbrake.
- line 7: album version: "Stuck in low gear."
- line 28: "Well, take care of yourself" (album)
- line 32: "That she's dropping beads." (album)
- line 38: "Her heart is there," (album)
1 - Just travelling on a bus
2 - From a friend's house,
3 - And all these people are looking at me.
4 - They're gazing out windows,
5 - In any English country gardens.
6 - But as gazes meet,
7 - Vacancy shows on screen.
8 - But I feel inside
9 - The latent hysteria:
10 - "Why is she looking at me?"
11 - And as I drift from one to one I can see
12 - They're all like me.
13 - They've all got frightened eyes
14 - Saying what they're thinking,
15 - What they are doing tonight.
16 - They've all got frightened eyes,
17 - Saying, "Leave me alone,
18 - I'm perfectly safe here inside.
19 - Please don't surprise me."
20 - Expressionless.
21 - Everyone here loves cheap wine--
22 - We all know good taste,
23 - We just get too busy trying to find
24 - The right games to play.
25 - Impatient, aren't we all?
26 - Watching the time trip by.
27 - And all these people are looking at me.
28 - They're gazing out windows.
29 - They're burning up in there.
30 - And as I drift from one to one I can see
31 - They're all like me.
32 - They've all got frightened eyes
33 - Saying what they're thinking,
34 - What they are doing tonight.
35 - They've all got frightened eyes,
36 - Saying, "Leave me alone,
37 - I'm perfectly safe here inside.
38 - Please don't surprise me."
1 - I've never seen
2 - Such a sad queen
3 - As Eddie.
4 - I've seen him raving,
5 - Maybe even in pain,
6 - But never
7 - Weeping like a baby.
8 - On Saturday afternoon
9 - He was really fine to him.
10 - But on Saturday evening,
11 - Oh, well Eddie was so pretty.
12 - But now his boy is leaving.
13 - Hey, boy, you're so young
14 - To be a queen weeping.
15 - You're just a little princess.
16 - Oh, Eddie, don't!
17 - 'Cause what can I do
18 - But listen to the tired old story. [ca. 1'25]
19 - On Saturday afternoon
20 - He was really fine to him.
21 - But on Saturday evening,
22 - Oh, well Eddie was so pretty.
23 - But now his boy is leaving.
24 - But now his boy is leaving.
25 - But now his boy is leaving him.
26 Queeny, come home soon!
- line 18: difficult to hear, but presumably correct.
1 - Who stands in the belltower,
2 - Now you're gone.
3 - And who knows all the sights
4 - Of Notre Dame?
5 - You knew the girls and the times,
6 - You knew the rides and the rhymes.
7 - Now they're trying to push me into your name.
8 - Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror,
9 - Won't leave it alone.
10 - The first time in my life,
11 - The first break of my life,
12 - I'm letting go.
13 - Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror,
14 - Won't leave it alone.
15 - Oh no,
16 - It's not the right thing to do!
17 - Who calls me from the other side
18 - Of the street?
19 - And who taps me on the shoulder?
20 - I turn around, but you're gone.
21 - You know my mind and my heart.
22 - So you should know I wouldn't take your part.
23 - All I want to do is forget
24 - You, friend.
25 - Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror,
26 - Won't leave it alone.
27 - The first time in my life,
28 - The first break of my life,
29 - I'm letting go.
30 - Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror,
31 - Won't leave it alone.
32 - Oh no,
33 - It's not the right thing to do!
Differences to the album version:
Many differences. I just add the album version:
Hammer Horror (album version)
You stood in the belltower,
But now you're gone.
So who knows all the sights
Of Notre Dame?
They've got the stars for the gallant hearts.
I'm the replacement for your part.
But all I want to do is forget
You, friend.
Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror,
Won't leave me alone.
The first time in my life,
I leave the lights on
To ease my soul.
Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror,
Won't leave it alone.
I don't know,
Is this the right thing to do?
Rehearsing in your things,
I feel guilty.
And retracing all the scenes,
Of your big hit,
Oh, God, you needed the leading role.
It wasn't me who made you go, though.
Now all I want to do is forget
You, friend.
Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror,
Won't leave me alone.
The first time in my life,
I leave the lights on
To ease my soul.
Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror,
Won't leave it alone.
I don't know,
Is this the right thing to do?
Who calls me from the other side
Of the street?
And who taps me on the shoulder?
I turn around, but you're gone.
I've got a hunch that you're following,
To get your own back on me.
So all I want to do is forget
You, friend.
Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror,
Won't leave me alone.
The first time in my life,
I leave the lights on
To ease my soul.
Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror,
Won't leave it alone.
I don't know,
Is this the right thing to do?
(Note: the wrong title "A Rose Growing Old" comes from a mishearing of "Waltz".)
1 - Slipping past the chimney-pots,
2 - Down among the ashes, away from old times--
3 - Why must I self-indulge in memories?
4 - I should be celebrating to a moving melody,
5 - But it hurts me, it hurts me,
6 - Honey, honey, it hurts me.
7 - And I'm feeling like a waltz,
8 - Growing old, - old, old, old, old.
9 - I was fiery but you put me out.
10 - I was always one for loving and leaving.
11 - I like to think I was immune to romance.
12 - I should be laughing at some good old comedy.
13 - Oh, but it hurts me, it hurts me.
14 - Honey, honey, it hurts me.
15 - And I'm feeling like a waltz -
16 - If you laughed at me, I'd laugh too.
17 - Waltz, don't you know that I'd be really breakin-ing.
18 - L'amour--marche avec un etranger.
19 - I shouldn't care, you're not my darling anymore,
20 - But it hurts me, it hurts me,
21 - Honey, honey, honey, honey.
22 - And I'm feeling like a waltz,
23 - Growing old, old, old, old, old.
1 - Kashka from Baghdad
2 - Lives in sin, they say,
3 - With another man,
4 - But no one knows who.
5 - Dark lights at night.
6 - No one thinks there's life inside at all,
7 - That there's life inside at all.
8 - Except for the ladies who clean the house,
9 - Except for the men who put the garbage out.
10 - At night
11 - They're seen
12 - Laughing,
13 - Dancing.
14 - They know
15 - The way
16 - To be
17 - Happy.
18 - Never go for walks.
19 - Maybe it's because
20 - The moon's not bright enough.
21 - Light in love, you see.
22 - I watch their shadows,
23 - Tall and slim,
24 - In the window opposite.
25 - I long to be with them.
26 - What would I do if I were seen?
27 - What would I do if they knew my feelings?
28 - At night
29 - They're seen
30 - Laughing,
31 - Loving.
32 - They know
33 - The way
34 - To be
35 - Happy.
Differences to the album version:
- lines 5 - 9 in the album version:
Old friends never call there.
Some wonder if life's
Inside at all--
If there's life inside at all.
But we know the lady who rents the room.
She catches them calling a la lune.
- line 13: album version has "Loving" instead of "Dancing".
- line 18: "They never go for walks." (album)
- line 21: "There's light in love, you see." (album)
- lines 26/27: album version:
'Cause when all the alley-cats come out,
You can hear music from Kashka's house.
- the album version has at the end: (four times)
"Watching every night.
Don't you know they're seen?
Won't you let me laugh?
Let me in your love.
1 - I've pulled down my lace and the chintz.
2 - Oh, do you know you have the face of a genius?
3 - I'll send your love to Zeus.
4 - Oh, by the time you read this,
5 - I'll be well in touch.
6 - I'm giving it all in a moment for you.
7 - I'm giving it all in a moment or two.
8 - I'm giving it all, giving it, giving it.
9 - The kicking here inside
10 - Makes me leave you behind.
11 - No more under the quilt
12 - To keep you warm.
13 - Your sister I was born. Lose me.
14 - You must lose me like an arrow,
15 - Shot into the killer storm.
16 - You and me on the bobbing knee--
17 - Welling eyes from identifying with Lizzy Wan's story.
18 - I will come home again, but not until
19 - The sun and the moon meet on yon hill.
20 - I'm giving it all in a moment for you.
21 - I'm giving it all in a moment or two.
22 - I'm giving it all, giving it, giving it, giving it, giving it!
23 - The kicking here inside
24 - Makes me leave you behind.
25 - No more under the quilt
26 - To keep you warm.
27 - Your sister I was born. Lose me.
28 - You must lose me like an arrow,
29 - Shot into the killer storm.
30 - I've pulled down my lace and the chintz.
31 - Oh, do you know? You have the face of a genius.
32 - I'll send your love to Zeus.
33 - Oh, by the time you read this...
Differences to the album version:
- the lines 6/7 and 20/21 are interchanged.
- line 8 has an additional fourth "giving it" in the album
version.
- line 13 and 27: the "Lose me"'s are missing in the album
version.
- line 17: album version: " Didn't we cry at that old mythology
he'd read!"
- line 22 has four "giving it" in the album version. The
last two in the demo version
are sung in a much higher voice.