The Proclaimers

[fox69]

"It's Saturday Night"

"It's Saturday Night"


It's Saturday night, I'm feeling on song
I think I'm alright, I know I'm all wrong
The drink that I had, three hours ago
Has been joined by fourteen others in a steady flow
So let me walk straight, don't let me feel pain
I'm gonna scratch cars, with my key again
Cause when I go home, and fall on my bed
If it doesn't leave my stomach, it'll split my head.
Cause when I go home, and fall on my bed
If it doesn't leave my stomach, it'll split my head.
It's Saturday night, I'm feeling on song
I think I'm alright, I know I'm all wrong
The drink that I had, three hours ago
Has been joined by fourteen others in a steady flow

 

[fox69]

"Just Look Now"

"Just Look Now"


Wait a moment yet
Have a cigarette
We can stand out here on the pavement

There's a young man near
With the same idea
And a half-drunk beer as payment

But we turn his offer down
Give him a light and watch him frown
As he weaves his way back round
Into the crowd

Many years ago that was us, I know
When they said this place was dying
But just look now, look all around
If you squint, you'd swear it was thriving

Now it's we who are in decline
Like the old shipyards and mines
We outlived a time
That's long passed away

I thought we'd change things
But we never changed a thing
We never changed a thing

There's a girl
There's another
That one looks familiar
I think I knew her mother

Wait a moment yet
Have a cigarette
They let us stand out here on the pavement
Just look now, look all around
Now that's what I call entertainment

I thought we'd change things
But we never changed a thing
We never changed a thing

 

[fox69]

"King Of The Road"
(originally by Roger Miller)

"King Of The Road"
(originally by Roger Miller)



Trailer for sale or rent
Rooms to let fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets,
I ain't got no cigarettes.
Ah but two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room.
I'm a man of means, by no means king of the road.

Third boxcar, midnight train,
Destination Bangor, Maine.
Old worn out suits and shoes,
I don't pay no union dues.
I smoke old stogies I have found,
Short but not too big around.
I'm a man of means, by no means king of the road.

I know every engineer on every train,
All of the children and all of their names
And every handout in every town
And every lock that ain't locked when no one's around
I sing

Trailer for sale or rent
Rooms to let fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets,
I ain't got no cigarettes.
Ah but two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room.
I'm a man of means, by no means king of the road.

Trailer for sale or rent
Rooms to let fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets,
I ain't got no cigarettes.
Ah but two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room.
I'm a man of means, by no means king of the road

 

[fox69]

"Leaving Home"

"Leaving Home"


East Coast trains run slow
And Edinburgh seems cold
For eighteen year olds
Freedom
But Leith feels like New York
All the cars and talk
Moving down the Walk
All day
So I’m lying in this hotel
Hearing sirens and drunken fights
But I paid cash to the angels
Guarding me tonight
So I’m lying in this hotel
Hearing sirens and drunken fights
And I paid cash to the angel
Guarding me tonight
Long days on my own
Cry when I come home
Have to carry on
Somehow
Leith could be New York
All the cars and talk
Moving down the Walk
All day

 

[fox69]

"Let's Get Married"

"Let's Get Married"


We've been, going together
Too long to be vague
When there's something to say
If it's not now, then it's never
So I'll say it straight out
'Cos I have no doubt, no doubt

Let's get married
I love you and I want to stay with you
Let's get married
Have kids and grow old and grey with you
Let's get married
Hold hands, walk in the park
You can get a cat as long as it barks

We know, other people
Who drifted apart
Who broke each others hearts
But we ain't other people
So we'll do things our way
We're gonna be O.K.
We're gonna be more than O.K.

Let's get married
We're ready for tying the knot
Let's get married
Set the seal on the feelings we've got
Let's get married
We can make each other happy or we can make each other blue
Yeah, it's just a piece of paper but it says "I Love You"
For the good times
For the days when we can do no wrong
For the moments when we think we can't go on
For the family
For the lives of the children that we've planned
Let's get married
C'mon darlin', please take my hand

And I'll be the one
Who's by your side
I'll be the one
Still taking pride
When we're old if they ask me
"How do you define succes?"
I'll say,
You meet a woman
You fall in love
You ask her and
She says "Yes"

Let's get married
I love and I want to stay with you
Let's get married
Have kids and grow old and grey with you
Let's get married
Hold hands when we walk in the park
All right you can get a cat just as lang as it barks
For the good times
For the days when we can do no wrong
For the bad times
For the moments when we think we can't go on
For the family
For the lives of the children that we've planned
Let's get married
C'mon darlin', please take my hand

 

[fox69]

"Letter From America"

"Letter From America"


When you go will you send back
A letter from America?
Take a look up the railtrack
From Miami to Canada
Broke off from my work the other day
I spent the evening thinking about
All the blood that flowed away
Across the ocean to the second chance
I wonder how it got on when it reached the promised land?

When you go will you send back
A letter from America?
Take a look up the railtrack
From Miami to Canada

I've looked at the ocean
Tried hard to imagine
The way you felt the day you sailed
From Wester Ross to Nova Scotia
We should have held you
We should have told you
But you know our sense of timing
We always wait too long

When you go will you send back
A letter from America?
Take a look up the railtrack
From Miami to Canada

Lochaber no more
Sutherland no more
Lewis no more
Skye no more
[3x]

I wonder my blood
Will you ever return
To help us kick the life back
To a dying mutual friend
Do we not love her?
I think we all claim we love her
Do we have to roam the world
To prove how much it hurts?

When you go will you send back
A letter from America?
Take a look up the railtrack
From Miami to Canada

Bathgate no more
Linwood no more
Methil no more
Irvine no more.
[3x]

Bathgate no more
Linwood no more
Methil no more
Lochaber no more.

 

[fox69]

"Life With You"

"Life With You"


When I was a younger man
When I was a silly boy
I didn't need a thing
I was strong as anything
I viewed solitude as a joy

But since I met you I'm distraught
You wandered in and now I'm caught
I never thought I would see
Someone so truly good
Someone who's so everything I'm not

I want to spend my life with you
Don't want to live all alone
I can't conceive of the years left to me
Without you in our home

But what if what if what if what
If it's not perfect then it's not
But every care I take
Nothing I won't forsake
To dwell beside what you've got

Every time I think about you
I think I can't live without you
I tell you something I am nothing without you

I want to spend my life with you
Don't want to live all alone
I can't conceive of the years left to me
Without you in our home

I want to spend my life with you
Don't want to live all alone
I can't conceive of the years left to me
Without you in our home

Without you in our home

 

[fox69]

"Like A Flame"

"Like A Flame"


I heard the rain
as it skipped and rolled down the pane.
Sleep was almost here
But I stirred from not having you near.
We were apart
for the first time since you'd claimed my heart
I said your name
And I knew we would burn like a flame.
Now twenty years have gone
And I know how much I've done you wrong
I caused you pain
And I know that things can't be the same.
But my love has a name
And it's yours and it burns like a flame.

 

[fox69]

"Like Comedy"

"Like Comedy"


You were built to last a lifetime
Just not the life that you live
You don't have to make it worse
'Cause the world isn't perfect
And you don't need to give a toss
But you'd make it better if you did
You did, you did, you did

You were made to be loving
Not a source of bitterness and hate
And when you turn them on yourself
You make one more useless martyr
Make the best of here and now
Heaven or hell can wait
They'll wait, they'll wait, let them wait

When you lose your appetite for self-destruction
You can stop viewing life as tragedy
Give it a few more years and look from this angle
Where it looks more and more and more like comedy
Where it looks more and more and more like comedy

Oh, you were made to be happy
Not mired in sorrow and regret
Misery comes around enough
You don't need to invite him
And when he leaves you should grab
All the joy you can get
You can get, you can get, you can get

When you lose your appetite for self-destruction
You can stop viewing life as tragedy
Give it a few more years and look from this angle
Where it looks more and more and more like comedy
Where it looks more and more and more like comedy
Like comedy
Like comedy
Like comedy

 

[fox69]

"Long Black Veil"
(originally by Lefty Frizzell)

"Long Black Veil"
(originally by Lefty Frizzell)



Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
The slayer who ran looked a lot like me

The judge said, "Son, what is your alibi?
If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die"
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life
For I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife

She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me

The scaffold stood high, eternity neared
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan
In a long black veil, she cries on my bones

She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me

Nobody knows but me