Paul Kelly

[fox69]

"So Blue"

"So Blue"



Standing in a bright lit room
Strangers all around me
To the spot my feet were glued
Before the Lac d'Annecy

I walked around then I came back
And stood there lost in wonder
Nothing else there could attract
The rest were only pictures

So blue, so blue, so blue

I waited on a cold highway
Throwing stones and singing
A man he took me all the way
Right through to Central Station

"Where have you been?" he said to me
I've been down to the gallery
"What did you see?" he said to me
I saw the Lac d'Annecy

And it was so blue, so blue, so blue

Now colour constructs every line
And the more every link is made fine
The stronger the net will be
Every day he left his wife
To wrestle with his lover
A hundred ways Mont St Victoire
And each time starting over

Now Pablo's work was child's play
And Henri did it faster
But the slow old grizzly bear
Was their only master

So blue, so blue, so blue

 

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"Some Guys"

"Some Guys"



Some guys work in the morning
They always take their lunch
Some guys come home dirty
Some guys come home drunk all the time
Drunk all the time
You better look twice

One shot is too many
Two shots is not enough
Three don't feel like any
But it sure does cure my cough every time
Cure my cough every time
You better look twice

Look twice
This time

When I feel so wiry in my insides
Well its just like clockwork
And now its coming back right on time
Right on time
You better look twice
You better look twice
This time

One shot is too many
Two shots is not enough
Three don't feel like any
But it sure does cure my cough every time
Cure my cough every time
Make me feel just fine
Make me feel alright
You better look twice
You better look twice

 

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"Somebody's Forgetting Somebody (Somebody's Letting Somebody Down)"

"Somebody's Forgetting Somebody (Somebody's Letting Somebody Down)"



Are you lonesome tonight?
Are you feeling like me?
I'll bet you're dancing tonight
Running around so carelessly
Somebody's forgetting somebody
Somebody's letting somebody down

The door to my heart
Your kiss is the key
The keys to the car
Now they're useless to me
Somebody's forgetting somebody
Somebody's letting somebody down

And every time I hear those bells
I think I'm done for
And every time they cast their spell
I think I'm done for
Nowhere to run for
Somebody's forgetting somebody
Somebody's letting somebody down

 

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"Someone New"

"Someone New"



I just want to sleep with someone new
Someone I’ve never met
Knowing it’s a foolish thing to do
And sure to cause regret
There is no reason to do our love wrong
When we’re together it’s sweet and strong
It’s where I belong

But I just want to sleep with someone new
Who doesn’t know my name
Who comes and takes my hand out of the blue
Just like in a dream
Pass any doorway, ride any train
Walk into any room - beauty stakes its claim
And drives it home again and again and again

I just want to sleep with someone else
Touch some different skin
To do or not to do is both ways false
But one’s a greater sin
I’m not about to tear this house down
And I couldn’t stand to sneak around
And lose this love I’ve found
So daily I will make her someone new

 

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"Sometimes My Baby"

"Sometimes My Baby"



Sometimes my baby goes away
In the blink of an eye on an ordinary day
I’m right there beside her but all at a loss
No way to reach her, no way to get across
Was it something I did? Was it something I said?
She lies on the bed with her face to the wall
Oh, it’s breaking my heart and it’s doing my head
To see her tumble and fall

Sometimes my baby takes a little trip
She gives me no warning, just gives me the slip
I hold her and kiss her and whisper her name
But she’s somewhere else, I’m right out of the frame
Oh, it’s nothing I’ve done and it’s nothing I’ve said
Nothing to do with my loving at all
I wish I could take out the knives in her head
Like a stone in a pond she falls

I listen all night to the sound of the sea
The tide inches out and the tide inches in
I follow the moon sinking down through the trees
Until she rises again

 

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"Somewhere In The City"

"Somewhere In The City"



She’s somewhere in the city and the clock has just struck nine
This great big city and I can’t get her off of my mind
I called her today but, alas, she never got back to me
Maybe I said something wrong
Or something’s wrong with her message machine

She’s somewhere in the city with a glass of wine in her hand
This great big city with a lowdown sorry man
It’s tearing me up bit by bit the way she runs hot and cold
I so love her face but I sure worry about her soul

She’s somewhere in the city, somewhere in the city

She’s somewhere in the city but she might as well be somewhere on Mars
This great big city with its nightlife, restaurants and bars
So many places in the city for someone to have a good time
On a night like this I feel like committing a crime

She’s somewhere in the city, somewhere in the city
Somewhere in the city, somewhere in the city

 

[fox69]

"Song From The Sixteenth Floor"

"Song From The Sixteenth Floor"



Something's frying on the floor below
I'm leaning out of my window
The sky's on fire, the street's all aglow
And somebody's singing to the radio
I would jump from the sixteenth floor
If I only could get next to you
Put my head in a lion's jaw if I only could get next to you
I'm walking the floor, I'm climbing the walls
I wake up from dreaming, that's when I fall
I would jump from the sixteenth floor
If I only could get next to you
Put my head in a lion's jaw if I only could get next to you
Over broken glass I would crawl, yes I would darling
Every day I speak your name
If I had wings I'd fly 'cause you're not here to hold me
I'd walk on burning coal, I'd sell my only soul
I would jump from the sixteenth floor, put my head in a lion's jaw
Take a ride on Niagara Falls if I only could get next to you

 

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"Song Of The Old Rake"

"Song Of The Old Rake"



Pretty child, come here to me
And listen to my story
Won’t you sit down on my knee
Your eyes are like your mother’s
And you mother’s mother’s
Deeper than the deep blue sea
All them girls I used to love
By the fire, all alone, I sit dreaming of
All them girls I used to hold
I made their love turn cold

These old bones are aching
These old hands are shaking
Lord, I can’t see the page
Sing me the song I taught you
Fetch my wine and water
Never thought I’d reach this stage
All them girls I used to know
Like a fool acting smart I let them go
All them girls, long time gone
I lost them one by one

All them girls with their creamy skin
What I’d give just to have one in my arms again
Oh, my girl, when you start to play
Don’t give your heart away
All them girls I used to kiss
I don’t know how my days all came down to this
All them girls I used to hold
I made their love turn cold

 

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"South Of Germany"

"South Of Germany"



Many lives I could have lived, many trails taken
It always seems that way at twenty-three
You walk into a room sometime and then a window opens
My life changed forever in the south of Germany

A morning train I had to catch, I just lay there sleeping
There was nothing in that town to hold me
By the time the clock had done another day of creeping
My life had changed forever in the south of Germany

Oh I'm so sorry that today I have to go away

Seven children have I raised, I love some more than others
The hardest thing to do is set them free
So I learned my lesson hard seven times all over
My life changed forever in the south of Germany

I never was the kind of girl for acting sentimental
I never called our meeting destiny
I just call it good luck to meet a man so gentle
My life changed forever in the south of Germany

Oh I'm so sorry that today I have to go away

Sometimes when I wake at night I'm dreaming of another
Then I turn and touch him next to me
And I know where I belong; still I sometimes wonder
My life changed forever in the south of Germany

Oh I'm so sorry that today I have to go away

 

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"Special Treatment"

"Special Treatment"



Grandfather walked this land in chains
A land he called his own
He was given another name
And taken into town

He got special treatment
Special treatment
Very special treatment

My father worked a twelve-hour day
As a stockman on the station
The very same work but not the same pay
As his white companions

He got special treatment
Special treatment
Very special treatment

Mother and father loved each other well
But together they could not stay
They were split up against their will
Until their dying day

They got special treatment
Special treatment
Very special treatment

Mama gave birth to a stranger's child
A child she called her own
Strangers came and took away that child
To a stranger's home

She got special treatment
Special treatment
Very special treatment

I never spoke my mother's tongue
I never knew my name
I never learnt the songs she sung
I was raised in shame

I got special treatment
Special treatment
Very special treatment
We got special treatment
Special treatment
Very special treatment