The Proclaimers

[fox69]

"Love Can Move Mountains"

"Love Can Move Mountains"


A cynical mind
Won’t help you through the night
And it can’t hold you up
When you’re too tired to fight

Where you didn’t have the strength
To look after yourself
You find all that you need
For somebody else

But love can move mountains
Love can move mountains
Love can move mountains, yes it can
Love can move mountains

That impossible task
You’re thinking of
Is one you can complete
When you’re driven by love

And the strength that you find
Won’t go slipping away
Once it enters your soul
It’s reborn every day

Love can move mountains...

So if you’re lucky enough to live
To see love come your way
Be thankful every day
That it stays
Oh that it stays

A cynical mind
Won’t help you through the night
And it can’t hold you up
When you’re too tired to fight

But love can move mountains...

 

[fox69]

"Lulu Selling Tea"

"Lulu Selling Tea"


May I be allowed to voice dissent
Over the Sixties, and what they meant
Cos I’ve been listening for twenty years
The anecdotes ring in my ears
From people who were over the age of consent

Now I don’t recall too much long hair
At least not around where we used to stay
The only guy we thought was okay
Who wore his hair the Beatles way
Was a Belfast boy that Man United play

Mother’s Pride on the table, Batman on TV
A Man in a Suitcase, and Daktari and Skippy
Jimmy Clitheroe, Colin Stein, and Lulu selling tea
Going to school in the dark, in the winter

The view from beneath my balaclava
The world from four feet off the floor
Must have had its limitations
Without my adult complications
But I can only report what I saw

And I saw…

Lucky bags, Bazooka Joes, animal tracks on my shoes
I was sooking milk through a straw
in the middle of the morning
Saturday morning pictures, and fireworks getting thrown
Football songs in the shelter in the playground
St Cuthbert’s horses pulling the carts of the milkmen

You know, it’s funny, but
I don’t recall too much long hair

 

[fox69]

"Make My Heart Fly"

"Make My Heart Fly"


Please don't go rushing by
Stay and make my heart fly
Please don't go rushing by
Stay and make my heart fly

'Cause I never seem to know the time
When you're with me
You can tell it to the birds
I'll tell the bees

Please don't go rushing by
Stay and make my heart fly

I can't do any more
To get inside your door
I can't do any more
Please, let me inside your door

'Cause I never seem to know the time
When you're with me
You can tell it to the birds
I'll tell the bees

Please don't go rushing by
Stay and make my heart fly

'Cause I never seem to know the time
When you're with me
You can tell it to the birds
I'll tell the bees

Please don't go rushing by
Stay and make my heart fly
Stay and make my heart fly
Stay and make my heart fly

 

[fox69]

"Misty Blue"

"Misty Blue"


When the inspiration is above my station
Thoughts are melancholy and I let them pass
I tend to view this nation
Through the condensation
On a dirty glass
When the singer solemn was a bonnie laddie
When she brushed his hair with a watered comb
Then he could have dandered
And he could have shown ye
Seven hills like Rome
If misty eyes can witness love and affection
Why does the heart still resist
What the hell is wrong with you?
I've got eyes of misty blue
All the things I want to do
Are all I ever wanted to
As the laddie grew and he looked around him
At the thugs and rapists in their stolen suits
louder beat the rhythm of his bloody heart
Telling him to shoot
If misty eyes can witness love and affection
Why does the heart still resist
What the hell is wrong with you?
I've got eyes of misty blue
All the things I want to do
Are all I ever wanted to
Thoughtless competition
Like a home-made prison
Made him fix his vision
On a certain fate
What's the use in winning all the worlds creation
If you won't create.
If misty eyes can witness love and affection
Why does the heart still resist
What the hell is wrong with you?
I've got eyes of misty blue
All the things I want to do
Are all I ever wanted to

 

[fox69]

"Moral Compass"

"Moral Compass"


Here we go, one more round
Of an argument you can't lose
And I can't win
And I have to say if I step back
Your points seem stronger than mine yet again
But you hold your truth self-evident
And think that's the wrong place to begin

Elevating principles
To a place where they seem divine

But your moral compass is
Your moral compass is
Your moral compass is not mine

See all those soul
Doing the bad things
Things you believe
You would never do
Well maybe you're right
Or maybe you're just lucky
You haven't lived through
What they've lived through

You have a set of rules
To see you to the grave
Well, that's fine

But your moral compass is
Your moral compass is
Your moral compass is not mine

 

[fox69]

"My Old Friend The Blues"
(originally by Steve Earle)

"My Old Friend The Blues"
(originally by Steve Earle)



Just when every ray of hope was gone
I should have known that you would come along
I can't believe I ever doubted you
My old friend the blues

Another lonely night, a nameless town
If sleep don't take me first, you'll come around
'Cause I know I can always count on you
My old friend the blues

Lovers leave and friends'll let you down
But you're the only sure thing that I've found
No matter what I do I'll never lose
My old friend the blues

Lovers leave and friends'll let you down
You're the only sure thing that I've found
No matter what I do I'll never lose
My old friend the blues

Just let me hide my weary heart in you
My old friend the blues

 

[fox69]

"New Religion"

"New Religion"


Evidence of a new religion
I'll spare you the details
Effluent from a bloated business
With replica shirt sales
Two for the kids, one for the wife
Indicating a stunted life
Didn't know gullibility was so rife?
Well you do know now?

Evidence of a new rligion
Some hippy with a gripe
Strikes a blow with his census form
By summoning Star Wars tripe
Here's a thing I'd love to say
Lynndie England walks free today
If she'll only agree to play
With every Jedi Knight

An Lo! My faith it was honed
We can't be alone
Don't say we're alone

Give me ancestry that's inbred
Give me wit that's completely dead
Give me a zip for the back of my head
I want to join in too

Evidence of a new religion
Meeting a human need
fertiliser for the brain
Feeding the weakest seeds

 

[fox69]

"No One Left To Blame"

"No One Left To Blame"


You're a modern individual
With a mind that's strong and free
And it got you what you wanted
From the day you came to be

But when you got what you wanted
It could never quench your thirst
So you blamed the ones around you
For not warning you first

But now the ones around you
Are going and of no use
'Cuz as the last one vanishes
She takes the last excuse

There's no one left to blame
You're the cause of your pain

Love made you forget it
Love of every hue
A mother's love, a father's love
A lover's love, a child's love

But it came back again
And you felt like you'd lived through
An almighty deception
Designed just for you

But the almighty deception
Gives while you just take
It's living all around you
While you're holdin' its wake

There's no one left to blame
You're the cause of your pain

You blamed it on the market
For burdening you with wealth
You blamed it on the whisky
As if it poured itself

Dive into the mystic
So you don't have to think
Find another suspect
Find another shrink

There's no one left to blame
You're the cause of your pain
There's no one left to blame

There's no mystery
Not even the one that you see

There's no mystery
Not even the one that you see

There's no mystery
Not even the one that you see

 

[fox69]

"No Witness"

"No Witness"


No one sees me climbing up those stairs
None to ask what I am doing there
No witness to a soul without a prayer
I never make a sound when I'm going round
And you're not there

In silence under cover of the black
We'll wait until the world has turned its back
Then we let go the vows of old
And the bodies pound on the old home ground
When you're not around

In silence under cover of the black
We'll wait until the world has turned its back
Then we let go the vows of old
And the bodies pound on the old home ground
When you're not around
I have found how that woman sounds
When you're not around
When a tree falls down
Makes the same old sound
When you're not around

 

[fox69]

"Not Ever"

"Not Ever"


Pretty girl, don’t you waste a word
For I can’t love you, Not ever

Take this afternoon, recall our sexual mood
But, I’m not loving you, not ever

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

See that southern sky, drifting past the lights
It won’t touch you or I, not ever

Ooh, yeah, ooh, ooh