The Proclaimers

[fox69]

"Sing All Our Cares Away"
(originally by Damien Dempsey)

"Sing All Our Cares Away"
(originally by Damien Dempsey)



Mary loves the Grouse
Hides the bottles round the house
She watches chatshows and the soaps
Broken-hearted but she copes

Michael's out of work
Feels he's sinking in the murk
He's unshaven and a mess
Fnds it hard some days to dress

Stevie smashed the delf
Cos he can't express himself
He's consumed by rage
Like his father at his age

Rita's little child
Has a lovely little smile
But this means nothing to her father
Because he's never even seen her.

And we sing, sing all our cares away
And we live to fight another day

Joey's off the gear
He's been clean for half a year
He gets bored out of his mind
But he's trying to toe the line

Maggie's in a chair
'Twas joyriding put her there
She puts the kettle on the boil
And she's always got a smile

And we sing, sing all our cares away
And we live to fight another day

And we sing, sing all our cares away
And we live to love another day

We grow strong from it all,
We grow strong, or we fall

We grow strong from it all,
We grow strong, or we fall

And we sing all our cares away

 

[fox69]

"Sky Takes The Soul"

"Sky Takes The Soul"


It could be tomorrow, or it could be today
When the sky takes the soul
The earth takes the clay

I sometimes wonder why I pray
When my spirit drives away
With a faith and a bit of luck
And a half-tonne bomb in the back of a truck

It could be tomorrow...

Feel the towel it's wet with sorrow
From the tears we'll shed tomorrow
Don't bring flowers, take a chance
On some graves you should dance

It could be tomorrow...

If it's tomorrow, or if it's today
I don't say it will be, I just say it may
When I'm on my knees
To the gates I'll stumble
And plead my case
In a style that's humble.

It could be tomorrow...

 

[fox69]

"Slowburner"

"Slowburner"


Keep on a slow burner
From Monday till Friday
Keep on a slow burner
Ank I'll take its place

Stay lonely, for four midnights
Till I'm holding you tight
Keep on a slow burner
And I'll take its place

Keep on a slow burner
From Monday till Friday
Keep on a slow burner
I'll take its place

Work hard now
But not too much
Don't damage your soft touch
Keep on a slow burner
And I'll take its place
Keep on a slow burner etc...

 

[fox69]

"Spinning Around in the Air"

"Spinning Around in the Air"


Let me give praise to your sparkling eyes
And your coloured hair
Let me spend ages on poetic phrases
To show I care
Let me go grazing on dappled green pastures
Where you're the mare
Let me rephrase that
I think there's a better line there
Spinning around in the air
Let me donate something to a kid's charity
Of your choice
For you I would willingly be a worse traitor
Than William Joyce
If I could sing I would sing you a song
In Sam Cooke's voice
Let me rephrase that
I think there's a better line there
Spinning around in the air
Are you happy now?
Say yeah, yeah, yeah
Are you really happy now?
Say yeah, yeah, yeah
Tell me where it hurts
It hurts there and there and there
Adverbs and nouns
Juicy and round
Spinning around in the air
Are you happy now?
Say yeah, yeah, yeah
Are you really happy now?
Say yeah, yeah, yeah
Tell me where it hurts
It hurts there and there and there
Adverbs and nouns
Juicy and round
Spinning around in the air
Madam Onassis took Ari's old glasses
And put them on
She said "I see ships" and she started to quip
About old Boston
I climbed over her just to climb upon you,
What did I do wrong?
Let me rephrase that
I think there's a better line there
Spinning around in the air

 

[fox69]

"Sunshine On Leith"

"Sunshine On Leith"


My heart was broken, my heart was broken
Sorrow sorrow sorrow sorrow
My heart was broken, my heart was broken
You saw it, You claimed it
You touched it, You saved it
My tears are drying, my tears are drying
Thank you thank you thank you thank you
My tears are drying, my tears are drying
Your beauty and kindness
Made tears clear my blindness
While I'm worth my room on this earth
I will be with you
While the Chief, puts sunshine on Leith
I'll thank Him for His work
And your birth and my birth
Yeah, yeah, yeah
My heart was broken, my heart was broken
Sorrow sorrow sorrow sorrow
My heart was broken, my heart was broken
You saw it, You claimed it
You touched it, You saved it
While I'm worth my room on this earth
I will be with you
While the Chief, puts sunshine on Leith
I'll thank Him for His work
And your birth and my birth
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

 

[fox69]

"Sweet Little Girls"

"Sweet Little Girls"


Sweet little girls
Cut a swathe through this world
Using skills that they get
From their mothers
Sweet little girls
Might like ribbons and curls
But they most like to torture their brothers
And sweet little girls
Love their friends
'Till it hurts
Or until
They can find them another
Watch their lips, they make a circle like
"Coo coo coo coo"
But the words their saying softly are
Cruel cruel cruel
Sweet little girls
Cut a swathe through this world
Using skills that they get
From their mothers
Watch their lips, they make a circle like
"Coo coo coo coo"
But the words their saying softly are
Cruel cruel cruel
Yeah sweet little girls
Cut a swathe through this world
Using skills that they get
From their mothers
Using skills that they get from their mothers
Using skills that they get from their
Aah aah [etc...]

 

[fox69]

"Teardrops"

"Teardrops"


Teardrops running down your face
Teardrops running down your face
Diamonds of water, and salt from your body
Coming down to meet my kisses

Teardrops running down your face
Teardrops running down your face
Staining your skin and my skin and beginning
The stories that you can't begin
The way I feel could be despised but its a vision that I prize
Teardrops Teardrops
I'm not trying to make you feel pain
or joy to make the tears flow
But when they roll unashamed - they move me so

Teardrops running down you, face
Teardrops running down you, face
Let me, let me brush them with my fingers
Comfort you and say its alright
It's so strong this way I feel sometimes I want to beg or steal
Teardrops Teardrops.

 

[fox69]

"Ten Tiny Fingers"

"Ten Tiny Fingers"


Ten tiny fingers, ten tiny toes
I thought I knew about love
But I didn't know
No no, I didn't know

My newborn daughter
Lay in my arms
And I was a fool for all her charms
But no no no, I didn't know

I was a patsy, I was a dupe
I couldn't think
My brains had turned to soup
I couldn't speak, but my heart
Began to whoop
It's the age-old story

Ten tiny fingers, ten tiny toes
Let you know that, you don't know
No no, you don't know

Now I've been a father
For twenty one years
And any time I thought
I could hold love
It disappeared, it disappeared

And while I'm thinking
How far I've come
I find I'm back where I started
Oh no, I didn't know

Ten tiny fingers, ten tiny toes
Your daddy's ears and your mummy's nose
That's as far as my knowledge goes
What I see before me are

Ten tiny fingers, ten tiny toes
Let you know that you don't know
No no, you don't know

 

[fox69]

"That's Better Now"

"That's Better Now"


That's better now, much better now
It's easy lying here, through all that sweat
Did I forget, how much I love you dear

The tensions all been released
We're slumbering now in peace
So yes, somehow, it's better now

I feel it clear in my mind
It seems to work every time

That's better now, much better now
It's easy lying here, through all that sweat
Did I forget, how much I love you dear

I feel it clear in my mind
It seems to work every time
So yes, somehow, it's better now

 

[fox69]

"That's When He Told Her"

"That's When He Told Her"


Streetlight
yellow in the room
lifting out our futures from the gloom
same song
in the street below
football song that everybody knows

[Chorus]
That's when he told her
that he loved her
and he'd love her all his life - [2x]

bright lights
five years down the lane
point to where the just born babies cry
he knows now
they are joined for good
life could never break them
nothing could

[Chorus 2x]

30 years pass like a sonic boom
sunlight floods into a different room
they both know they're saying goodbye too soon
but there's no more time

[Chorus]

that's when he told her
that he meant it when he
said he loved her
and he'd love her all his life