The Proclaimers

"Hate My Love"

"Hate My Love"


I like the smell of petrol
I love the taste of booze
But I hate my love for you
Yeah I hate my love for you
I like Johnny Cash
Singing "A Boy Named Sue"
But I hate my love for you
Yeah I hate my love for you
You're worse that drink
You're worse than crack
For you they should bring hanging back
And I should be the one to string you up
I hate the sound of cliche
As it begins to call
But I hate my love for you
Most of all
Hate my love for you, hate my love for you
I'd tell your ma
I'd tell your pa
But you don't come from Arkansas
And I can't send you back where you belong
I like the way you're standing
In just your high heeled shoes
But I hate my love for you
Yeah I hate my love my love for you
I hate my love for you
Yeah I hate my love for you
 
"He Just Can't"

"He Just Can't"


Last night picture of flouted desire
Is broken, defeated, he’s lost all his fire

He knows she won’t take him back
No matter how much he begs her
He knows she can’t take him back
Aww, he just can’t face the fact

Last night champion of violent emotion
Has canceled a decade of tender devotion

He knows she won’t take him back
No matter how much he begs her
He knows she can’t take him back
Aww, he just can’t face the fact

Such a way to end
such a tragedy
such a waste, waste

Last night picture of flouted desire
Is broken, defeated, he’s lost all his fire

He knows she won’t take him back
No matter how much he begs her
He knows she can’t take him back
No matter how much he tells her he loves her

He knows she can’t take him back
Ahh, he just can’t face the fact

Yeah, Yeah [X30]
 
"He's Just Like Me"

"He's Just Like Me"


His father's pride, his mother's joy
The end result of love, a beautiful little boy
You think he's perfect, and that he'll be
The answer to the disappointment that you feel in me

But he's just like me
You'll never own him
You won't control him
He'll never phone
You civilise him
And I'll criticise him and along the way
He'll grow to be a man

How many mothers
Gaze on their sons
And hope with all their heart
That he's gonna be the one
Who'll never roam and never stray
Who'll understand women better
Than his daddy does
But all I've got to say is

He's just like me
You'll never own him
You won't control him
He'll never phone
You civilise him
And he'll criticise him and along the way
He'll grow to be a man

and then there'll come a time
With tears and eyes all red when
His girl will say "I blame his mother"
I'll say "no you blame me instead"

Cause he's just like me
You'll never own him
You won't control him
He'll never phone
She civilised him
And I criticised him and along the way
He grew to be your man

He's just like me
You'll never own him
You won't control him
He'll never phone
You civilise him
And I'll criticise him and along the way
He'll grow to be a man
 
"Heaven Right Now"

"Heaven Right Now"


She's everything
a married man
should look for in a girl
She's married too
but not to you
and that's part of the thrill
She's the one who makes you feel alright
Her alibi's your alibi - it's watertight

She's old enough
to know of love
and know that this is not
But young enough
to not be willing
to settle for what she's got
She's the one who makes you feel alright
Her alibi's your alibi - it's watertight

And if you get caught
you're going to hell
but it's heaven right now

She's the one who makes you feel alright
Her alibi's your alibi - it's watertight

She's everything
a married man
should look for in a girl
She's married too
but not to you
and that's part of the thrill
She's the one who makes you feel alright
Her alibi's your alibi - it's watertight

She's the one who makes you feel alright
Her alibi's your alibi - it's watertight

Oh, and you're going to hell
but it's heaven right now
 
"Here It Comes Again"

"Here It Comes Again"


Here he comes again
on the radio, another misogynist
calling her a bitch, calling her a whore
and then he'll use a big word,
use a big word some of the time
just to make it rhyme
just to make it rhyme.

Here it comes again
got to keep it real, another hymn to violence
suffocating joy, draining all ideals
another hymn to violence,
give me silence some of the time
just to make it rhyme
just to make it rhyme.

So words are thrown to waste,
and women are debased for fun
and as they start to sing
I can't help wondering
what we've become?

Oh, here it comes again,
on my new TV, another well-fed schoolboy
saying he's a man, but what kind of man,
puts down women, puts down women
all the time
just to make it rhyme,
just to make it rhyme?

Here it comes again, [x4]
on the radio,
calling her a bitch, [x2]
calling her a whore. [x3]

Here it comes again, [x4]
on the radio,
calling her a bitch, [x2]
calling her a whore. [x3]

Here it comes again. [x10]
radio/radios. [x16]
Here it comes again. [x2]
 
"Hit The Highway"

"Hit The Highway"


Your way
No way
Do it my way
Or hit the highway
Your way
No way
Do it my way
Or hit the highway
I respect your point of view
You've got your thoughts
I've got mine too
But you'll be out of here
If I don't hear the words I want to hear
Your way
No way
You do it my way
Or you can hit the highway
I've watched you
Backsliding
Then there's trouble
You, your always hiding
Now if I was in your shoes
I might look at me and think
"There's a fool"
But I'm not in your shoes
And I don't have to play
By your set of rules No No
Your way
Let me tell you that there's no way
No way You do it my way
Or you can hit the highway
Hit it again
Your way
No way
Do it my way
Or hit the highway
I'm stating - not negotiating
You want more
There's the door
 
"How Many Times"

"How Many Times"


Well it takes a long time
To find the right woman
The best one there is
Not the best you can do
It takes a long time
To find the right woman
Some men never do
I spent half my life
Lying to girls
Who were looking for love
Where it didn't exist
The rest of the time
I was worrying myself
About what it was that I'd missed

[CHORUS]
How many times
I don't know, I don't know
How many times
I don't know but when it happened my heart started to go...
Ooh-aah, ooh-aah
Ooh-aah, ooh-aah

I didn't trust you
From the moment I saw you
I didn't trust you
And I know it was right
But my head and my heart
Have been fighting a battle
And my heart started winning last night

[CHORUS]

Well I'm bored by pain and I'm tired of sorrow
Give me the word and I'll leave here tomorrow
I don't give a damn about anything else
The rest of the world can go and hang themselves

ooh-aah....[etc.]
 
"I Know"

"I Know"


You'd lay your life down for this country
Lay it down for fools like me
I know, I know, I know you would

You'd make the ultimate sacrifice
Lose yourself on a throw of the dice
I know, I know, I know you would

Cos the line you come from stretches back
In an unbroken chain other countries lack
Every single corner of the world
Has seen our banners being unfurled
You've won and lost and battled on
Whether the cause was right or wrong

God knows what you do to the enemy
Cos you scare the living hell out of me

He'd lay his life down for his country
He'd like to kill fools like me
I know, I know, I know he would

He'd make the ultimate sacrifice
Blow himself to paradise
I know, I know, I know he would

And the line he comes from stretches back
In an unbroken chain other countries lack
In the farthest corners of the world
Where he's watched our banners being unfurled
He's won and lost and battled on
Whether his cause was right or wrong

He's this generation's enemy
And he scares the living hell out of me

No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while there's men
willing to fight in them

No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while there's patriotism,
Not while there's patriotism,

No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while there's some saying
That this is the last one,

No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while religious nuts
Are willing to spill their guts

And the line we come from stretches back
In an unbroken chain no country lacks
To the darkest corner of a cave
Where there's a weapon made to stave
Or gouge or choke or cut and kill
In a hundred years we'll be fighting still
I know, I know, I know,
I know we will.
 
"I Know (Reprise)"

"I Know (Reprise)"


No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while there's men
willing to fight in them
No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while there's patriotism,
Not while there's patriotism,
No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while there's some saying
That this is the last one,
No more war? It's not gonna happen
Not while religious nuts
Are willing to spill their guts
 
"I Think That’s What I Believe"

"I Think That’s What I Believe"


They say, "don't stop believing"
Give no room to reason
Build it and they will come
I've no quibble with that drivel
It's alright for some
But I was born in a European nation
In the twentieth century
And what I've seen and what I've learned
Means it's not right for me

Thy say, "don't stop believing"
'Cause if you stop believing
Very soon you'll regret it
But what they believe
Is you can believe
And still end up in a fiery pit
So I sit in this European nation
In the twenty-first century
And I know someone's got it wrong
Is it them or is it me?

During the deepest darkest nights
I feel that they must be right
But when I see the morning light
Science wins again

They say, "don't stop believing"
'Cause if you just believe
Your future's like the shining sun
I say "I would believe
But there's all these beliefs
What if I pick the wrong one?"
When I look at the European nations
Down through the centuries
Every single belief system
Ended up causing grief, incalculable grief
And if you ask me now
I think that's what I believe
 
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