Gilbert O'Sullivan

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"Please Don't Let My Weakness Show"

"Please Don't Let My Weakness Show"


I don't know what else to say
I'd thought we were doing okay
Shows you how little I know
And tomorrow when at work
Someone calls out does it hurt
Oh Lord
Please don't let my weakness show
Is I wonder her excuse
Given there was no abuse
That she just had to go
Do I beg her to come back
If I have to act like that
Oh Lord
Please don't let my weakness show
You said yourself when things go wrong
Faith is all you need
I put what faith I had in her
And got deceived
If I have to face the truth
If that's what I have to do
Oh Lord
Please don't let my weakness show
You said yourself when you were lost God will rescue me
But surely as his only son
Why wouldn't he I'm no angel must confess
But I loved her none the less
More than she will ever know
Is it my fault that she's gone
If I have to carry on
Oh Lord
Please don't let my weakness show
Oh Lord
Please don't let my weakness show

 

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"Pretty Polly"

"Pretty Polly"


Pretty Polly what have you done to your hair
Keeping it in rollers won't get it nowhere
Neither will it turn you into what
Your mother prescribed when your father forgot
Don't you think the boys could be looking at you
After all you've got what it takes for them too
Plus a little extra which I feel sure
Will knock every knocker of Diana's door.
It isn't funny I know
But what's the point me hanging around
When all I get from seeing you
Is browned off, browned off, browned.
Pretty Polly don't be so anxious to smile
We don't want the male population run wild
All we ask is will one sweet young man
Be anxious enough to take you off my hands

 

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"Save It"

"Save It"


Save it for your children
This love that you have got
Forget me now that I am sure
It's you that I want not
Save if for your loved
Ones who come to you each day
No matter what you do to them
They'll never have to say
That I don't love you any more
Still I don't care
Somebody else can love you more
I won't be there
Save it for another
Who's asking for your love
The only one who knows the truth
Will never know enough
Save it for the priest
Then who might one day say to you
Do you take this man for your husband?
Answer him I do
And you'll be happy
Just like I was when I left you
There's only one thing
Left for me to do forget you

And I will so help me
Ever if it means that I'll have to
Take a trip abroad
Where it's thought perhaps the change
Might do me good from you it should

Save it for the morning
That starts another day
If you have learnt your lesson
Someone else won't have to pay
Save it and remember
Your carefree days are through
No longer can you take somebody
And break his heart in two
For everyone knows
That you treated me unfair
Although I think about you inside me
I don't care anymore

 

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"Say Goodbye"

"Say Goodbye"


Say goodbye say good morning
Say good evening and good noon
Say hello tell me how you're feeling
Very well thanks and how are you

Say you did say you didn't
Say it's someone else instead
Say it's me would I be forgiven
Or is it something that I said
In spite of fears over what charges are proposed
In spite of tears over what secrets are disclosed
In spite of ears I have never heard you once complain

Sayonara konbanwa
Ohayo-gozaimasu kon-nichiwa
Kon-nichiwa gokigen-ikaga-desuka
Genki-desu arigato anatawa-ikaga-desuka

In spite of fears over inflation going up
In spite of tears over the breaking of a cup
In spite of years seems like it was only days ago

Say it is say it isn't
Say it's someone else instead
Say it's good when you don't like fishing
You just knock it on the heed
You just knock it on the heed

Say goodbye say good morning
Say good evening and good noon
Say hello tell me how you're feeling
Very well thanks and how are you

In spite of fears over a lack of crowd control
In spite tears over a bag that someone stole
In spite of years I have never seen you look so well

Sayonara konbanwa
Ohayo-gozaimasu kon-nichiwa
Kon-nichiwa gokigen-ikaga-desuka
Genki-desu arigato anatawa-ikaga-desuka

 

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"Say Ireland"

"Say Ireland"


When words fail you don't say why say Ireland say Ireland and I'll tell you why
When bombs dismay you don't just cry cry Ireland cry Ireland cry Ireland cry Ireland and I'll tell you why
(How much time have you got?)
Where are my Irish roots where did I get those boots
why do I not like suits and ties and why so shy in front of people
It's on top of a steeple that I belong far from the maddening crowd as far as I am allowed
far from the maddening crowd as far as I am allowed far from the maddening crowd as far as I am allowed
and the crack was in the ceiling
Say Ireland...(Ireland)...Say..(Ireland)
When words fail you don't say why say Ireland say Ireland

 

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"Sex Appeal"

"Sex Appeal"


And I don't know why some have more I only know they always will tracksuit top coming off
As the sweat is pouring from you still
Sex appeal it's a lover's embrace
Sex appeal it's the thrill of the chase
Sex appeal something you have places
That looks so inviting
Sex appeal in the heat of the sun
Sex appeal with a bathing suit on
Sex appeal pouring oil down your front
And then rubbing it all over
And there are no rules
Even those who's
Looks may not be all that great
Can in fact be looked at
Even in the most desirable way
Sex appeal it's a natural thing
Sex appeal getting soaked to the skin
Sex appeal lying down by the fire
In a blanket your holding
Sex appeal it's the parting of lips
Sex appeal it's getting to grips
Sex appeal like the way that she slips and lust carries on talking
I'm not saying that everyone has to be young and fancy free in a cage middle-aged
You can turn those heads so easily
Sex appeal it's a lover's embrace
Sex appeal it's the egg on your face
Sex appeal something you have in places
That looks so inviting
Oh it looks so exciting
Sex appeal it's an animal right
Sex appeal it's the meaning of life
Sex appeal contributions denied
If you think it's for the money
Sex appeal it's your hair in a mess
Sex appeal in a thick woolly vest
Sex appeal and the feeling I guess
Of what might just be underneath
Of what might just be underneath

 

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"Showbiz"

"Showbiz"


Well here we are and here we go
Up the hill and down the slope
Pardon me if I seem out of breath
Bus was late so I walked instead
There's nobody quite like me
Isn't that presumably
What it is they say you're looking for
Ballad singer with a guitar
Okay so guitar was the part I got wrong
The rest of me surely is what you want.
Wait a minute who is this
He needs a psychiatrist
Either that or I do give me strength
(Would do if I knew the way it went)
You say you sing slow songs and fast numbers too
Do you know Volare
(Is that her next to you)
I'm running round in circles
I'm getting so forlorn
Whatever so forlorn's supposed to mean
I'm sick of good intentions
Whatever their intent on being
Who's responsibility lies in sending him to me
Tell me and I'll tear them limb from limb
I said Matt Monro not Gunga Din.
Our members will see him and eat him alive
No two ways about it
Or three or four or five
One day you'll see I'll he enormous
(Then here's a tip lay off your fookin)
They'll say of me and my performance
It's was superb (don't make me laugh)
The best we've heard (you must he daft)
False modesty is not for me
The way to skin a rabbit the way to comb a hare
I know which one of those I'd rather heed
As I'm sure would the rabbit
Who only wants to live and breed I write each and all my songs
Always have done all along
So if you want "My way" I can do
Every song in my way just for you
Has it occurred to you that I might not be well
I've got a heart that needs a bypass I can tell
So here we are together then
You and me the best of friends
(Best of friends you must be off your head)
How about employer then instead
We have to work closely and mostly we do
We're at opposite ends of
An industry without any smoke
It's boiler being only fired by hope
It is showbiz

 

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"Showbiz (Reprise)"

"Showbiz (Reprise)"


The way to skin a rabbit the way to comb a hare
I know which one of those I'd rather heed
As I'm sure would the rabbit
Who only wants to live and breed

I write each and all my songs
Always have done all along
So if you want my way I can do
Every song in my way just for you

Has it occurred to you that I might not be well
I've got a heart that needs a bypass I can tell

So here we are together then
You and me the best of friend
Or should I say colleagues from tonight?
(Not unless a pig has taken flight)

We have to work closely and mostly we do
We're at opposite ends of
An industry without any smoke
It's boiler being only fired by hope
It is showbiz

 

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"Shy"

"Shy"


Oh, every time I pass you I'm
Inclined to look away
I don't know why, but some day
I will turn my head and say
Excuse me miss, but this glove is
it the one that you've just dropped
And you'll reply by saying of course?
Or in as many words et lost?
I've never been successful
I mean with girls of my own age
They like the food and the wines I choose
But after that I'm afraid
That in the art of making love
I'm really so naive it's not true
I usually pretend I'm too tired
And then fall asleep as proof

And by the sound of things
it looks as though I'm doomed
To spend the rest of my life living in one room
Dreaming of how one cold and windy night quite cooly
Sophia Loren seduced me

My name is John, I'm twenty one
I drive a Ford Cortina estate
If you'd care to join me in my room
I'll show you my license plate

 

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"So What"

"So What"


Oh I was born and raised in Alabama
Well it sounds better than Leeds
Mama said the sooner you grow up
The sooner you can leave
And thus I came into existence
What else can I tell you
I could reminisce about the kiss
That really blew my mind
I could demonstrate how when I was eight
I celebrated nine
I could be young I might be old
I could be and if so
So what

Got my finger on the trigger
Whatever that's supposed to mean
Got my thumb caught in between the door
After which I screamed
It only hurts now when I suck it
What else can I tell you
Well its very sad to think you had
More money than good sense
Now you've lost it all your back to call
On me you're oldest friend
I'm not a man who minces words
And if that sounds absurd
So what

Even if it's likely to become the flavour of the year
Demonstrating for the right to work is work that is sincere
There ain't no pride in being idle
What else can I tell you
Well I've been described as looking like a nothing of a man
Had my work reviewed by critics who dismiss me out of hand
They say I'm middle of the road I say if that is so
So what