Women In Charge Graham Parker, The Rumour

You might believe that you're running the world But you're running the risk of being just another girl Lashing out viciously at the competition, it's just an admission, a nervous Condition It's more than

Don't Let It Break You Down Graham Parker

Now don't get bent out of shape Don't start tearing out your hair One a sweet little angel That stuff's nowhere When the bombs go off on Oxford Street And the kids beat up old people It's just a soundtrack

Jolie Jolie Graham Parker, The Rumour

Every caress keeps up the hunger within Now I'm in a feeding frenzy of loving you Loving you Jolie Jolie gets my attention Jolie Jolie don't have to mention I know what you want And you know what I need

Love Without Greed Graham Parker, The Rumour

and key Hold you down in one place for me Can't own the flesh and blood I need Can't have love without greed, without greed, oh, oh, oh He may get your kiss and believe that it's his But you know, baby

No Holding Back Graham Parker, The Rumour

Someone called me from across the ocean To find a weak link in my devotion They can shoot hot knives down the line I just slam it down every time I got the telephone jammed in my ear They're still talking

Endless Night Graham Parker, The Rumour

I had the time but I blew it I had the power and I knew it Had the energy, but outgrew it The identity but saw through it, yeah I had the walk, but got trampled Had the taste, it was sampled I had the

Manoeuvres Graham Parker, The Rumour

You let me in and I'll help you win This chance must be heaven sent You buy the time I sold you all mine No one knows the D J's bent I don't care if someone gets hurt When I lose it feels like dirt Other

Empty Lives Graham Parker, The Rumour

I'm just a tick in a box on a questionnaire another moment that flashes into nowhere a brand name on a pill that get's you there, ah ah ah ah I'm getting nothing and expecting oblivion the past aint even

Paralyzed Graham Parker, The Rumour

to please so I just freeze Nailed down by whispers, looks and sighs And I'm so paralysed, I am so paralysed I wait for you to disown me when you leave I won't look I wait for someone to phone me with the

Stupefaction Graham Parker, The Rumour

The sun is burnin' It never changes The people look up With nothing in their eyeballs They stare at billboards As if for guidance There's something wrong here I can't but my finger on Same thing, same

The Beating Of Another Heart Graham Parker, The Rumour

She comes from the hardest town They build you up to let you down and Leave you with an armour hard as steel It's not the chaos or the heat Or the noises from the street but Something inside she has to

The Heat In Harlem Graham Parker

the pavement that's where it happens Feel like fire in the midnight air The heat in Harlem The heat in Harlem, yep The heat in Harlem The heat in Harlem and the heat of the soul The heat in Harlem The

There’s A Ghost In My House Graham Parker

There's a ghost in my house The ghost of your memories The ghost of the love you took from me Well, our love used to be Only shadows from the past I see Time can't seem to erase The vision of your smiling

Back In Time Graham Parker

You stop in the old cafe where you used to play pinball And look for the air raid shelter but it's gone and the cafe seems so Small and all the gardens that had trees and stolen apples Now have small businesses

Platinum Blonde Graham Parker

Stuff comes down from the golden triangle On ferries from Denmark to Helsingborg The band strikes up but they're out of time On synthesiser and washboard Wooden tulips grow by the roadside Made in a factory

Platinum Blonde (BBC Session) Graham Parker

Stuff comes down from the golden triangle On ferries from Denmark to Helsingborg The band strikes up but they're out of time On synthesiser and washboard Wooden tulips grow by the roadside Made in a factory

The Kid With The Butterfly Net Graham Parker

She walks through the field Walks in the heat through the field She swings with her arm But can what she catches be real And when you look into her eyes You see what you want When everything was undone

Green Monkeys Graham Parker

In a distant street a distant beat repeats machine gun like In a forest grows a sweet fruit filled with poison In a clear blue sky a plane bursts into flames high above us In an office blind machines blink

Just Like Joe Meek's Blues Graham Parker

My head was swimming in a Bangkok joint You got paint on your coat like an arrow point I followed where it led as if pulled by a bow Fired into the night deep and slow to where I'll never know The hotel

Ten Girls Ago Graham Parker

got an attitude You think you're funny but you're choking hey hey Back every word that comes out of your mouth Ten girls ago You thought you had something to laugh about But it was just a crazy thing The

Discovering Japan Graham Parker

Her heart is nearly breaking, the earth is nearly quaking The Tokyo's taxi's braking, it's screaming to a halt And there's nothing to hold on to when gravity betrays you And every kiss enslaves you-oo-oo

The Kid With The Butterfly Net (Alternate Take) Graham Parker

She walks through the field Walks in the heat through the field She swings with her arm But can what she catches be real And when you look into her eyes You see what you want When everything was undone

She Wants So Many Things Graham Parker

And a system of worship like a powerful magnet That'll draw in the heathens pick them up in a dragnet And pull them underwater till they all go stagnant She wants so many things beamed in on a satellite

Just Like Hermann Hesse Graham Parker

I took off my mask that night and bared my teeth in your face You saw something else living under my skin the wolf with no thought of disgrace I know I know some things you must never confess I drop to

Over The Border (To America) Graham Parker

stricken One for the healthy and one for the sick and One for the tortured and one for the slave One they tell you when they put you in your grave One for the businessman with someone else's money One

New York Shuffle Graham Parker

D A Manhattan baby with a sing song voice G D she got her place in the human zoo D A I went to living on the boulevard G A now that the revolution's due G A She said I've been around from town to town

Long Stem Rose Graham Parker

My long stem rose won't sit on the mantelpiece She's not disposed to being one of a dozen she's A living thing that's bound to get tired She won't be content just being admired funny that's the way it

Long Stem Rose (BBC Session) Graham Parker

My long stem rose won't sit on the mantelpiece She's not disposed to being one of a dozen she's A living thing that's bound to get tired She won't be content just being admired funny that's the way it

Big Man On Paper Graham Parker

Oooh la la la la la la la la bop bop bop I look at a news cast being broadcast and Try to connect with the events in front of my eyes But I can't see any further than the bills on the table Or my kids

Soultime Graham Parker

When I was a boy I never felt The weight I'm feeling I had a crowd around me And that was that I'd get on the bus and go to the Ata every weekend And feel the ultraviolet show the fluff up on my collar

Short Memories Graham Parker

They took their kids in their teenage years Fitted them out with combat gear Filled their hearts with mortal fear and sent them away Some came home their pants in creases Some came home in bits and pieces

Everything Goes Graham Parker

Another schoolgirl disappears She's the twenty third one this year They're gonna search on the river bank And in the disused water tank But everything goes don't worry don't worry baby Everything'll work

Everything Goes (Single Version) Graham Parker

Another schoolgirl disappears She's the twenty third one this year They're gonna search on the river bank And in the disused water tank But everything goes don't worry don't worry baby Everything'll work

Yesterday's Cloud Graham Parker

There's a man in my suitcase, a woman in your clothes Skeletons inside us that dance on hot coals Cannibals are outside following our trail All our information comes from junk mail Don't leave it among

You Got The World (Right Where You Want It) Graham Parker

As you wash your hair and bathe in Perrier As you hit the bank machine at night Drinking money for tomorrow's flight As you count your loss or bet on a black horse Sit behind the wheel of a black Porsche

They Murdered The Clown Graham Parker

The ringmaster looked a bit pasty and down Dying as he was to get out of town The lions and the tigers had gnawed at his feet But the lion tamer's whip hurt much more than their teeth The Giovanni Sisters

My Love's Strong Graham Parker

When the world's asleep And there's no one in your arms Raindrops hit the window Like distant alarms You don't have to worry Hey girl don't you cry My love beats adversity baby Eats it alive And I got

That's Where She Ends Up Graham Parker

It's not right the way that you deal with her She's not something you handle like cash To be undressed like Sunday's leftovers To be picked on Monday And Tuesday in the trash That's where she ends up It's

Protection Graham Parker

his head Em G G C And all of those infected waiting to be collected Am C D I must get out at any price before the

Hotel Chambermaid Graham Parker

When the lights are low you know I'm going to go to my hotel chambermaid I'm going to jump the garden and come on hard all right While the river's rolling outside the window Going to see her going to get

Devil's Sidewalk Graham Parker, The Rumour

Took a walk down Hell's pavement Took a walk down pulled by the tide I had to make some new arrangement Oh I thought I'd reach the other side Then someone opened up their mouth to talk They said You ain't

Here It Comes Again Graham Parker

make him pick up the check Well, here it comes here it comes, here it Here, here, here it comes again twice While you were sleeping the neighbors crept in Saw you were naked and called it a sin The next

Fools` Gold Graham Parker

A D A D I been doing my homework now for a long long time A D A D And everything that I look for I know I will one day find E D E D I'm a fool so I'm told I get left in the cold E D A Cause I will

Fools' Gold Graham Parker

A D A D I been doing my homework now for a long long time A D A D And everything that I look for I know I will one day find E D E D I'm a fool so I'm told I get left in the cold E D A Cause I will search

Oasis Graham Parker

I am a lucky man that's what I think I might come close to the edge but I never sink And I notice that vulnerable look in your eyes tonight And in the desert that passes for my heart, Sweet rain is falling

Waiting For The Ufo'S Graham Parker

"No-one can hide it anymore we know it's not imagining Even the skeptics are unsure when they stop to think People are not worth their life now they are obsolete We're dying to be invaded and put the blame

Too Many Knots To Untangle Graham Parker

I don't understand telepathy, but I am thinking of you I am going to get my feelings across the gulf that divides me and you Cos when the doors get locked and the windows are shuttered The oaths get broken

You Can't Be Too Strong Graham Parker

you a shot, so that you wouldn't feel And washed it away, as if it wasn't real It's just a mistake, I won't have to face Don't give it a name, don't give it a place Don't give it a chance, it's lucky in

Museum Of Stupidity Graham Parker

One day there'll be a museum of stupidity Where we can hang ourselves and throw away the key Along with the attitudes of the pmrc And this bullshit drug war full of hypocrisy The banning of 2 live crew

Hold Back The Night Graham Parker, The Rumour

Hold back the night, turn on the light