SO FARAWAY

Here I am again in this mean old town
And you're so faraway from me
And where are you when the sun goes down
You're so faraway from me

R: So faraway from me
    So far I just can't see
    So faraway from me
    You're so faraway from me

I'm tired of being in love and being all alone
When you're so faraway from me
I'm tired of making out on the telephone
And you're so faraway from me

R:

I get so tired when I have to explain
When you're so faraway from me
See you've been in the sun and I've been in the rain
And you're so faraway from me

R:
 
 

 MONEY FOR NOTHING

Look at them yo-yo's
That's the way you do it
Play the banjo on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way to do it
Money for nothin' and the chicks for free
That ain't workin' that's the way ya do it
Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb
Maybe get a blister on you little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb

R: We gotta install microwave ovens
     Custom kitchen deliveries
     We gotta move these refrigerators
     We gotta move these colour TV's

See that little faggot with the tutu and the makeup
Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little faggot's got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he's a millionaire

R:

I shoulda learned to play the guitare
I shoulda learned to play them drums
Look at that she got it stickin' in the camera
Man we could have some fun
And he's up there makin' Hawaiian noises
Bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee
That ain't workin' that's the way ya do it
Money for nothin' and chicks for free

R:

Look at them yo-yo's
That's the way to do it
Play the guitare on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way ya do it
Money for nothin' and chicks for free
 

WALK OF LIFE

Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-Bop A-Lula, Baby What I Say
Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman
Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay

R: He got the action, he got the motion
    Yeah the boy can play
    Dedication devotion
    Turning all the night time into the day
    He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman
    He do the song about the knife
    He do the walk, he do the walk of life

Here comes Johnny and hell tell you the story
Hand me down my walkin' shoes
Here come Johnny with the power and the glory
Backbeat the talkin' blues

R:

Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say
Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman
Down in the tunnels trying to make it pay

R: He got....

    Turning.....
And after all the violence and double talk
There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife
You do the walk, you do the walk of life
 

YOUR LATEST TRICK

All the late night bargains have been struck
Between the satin beaus and their bells
And prehistoric garbage trucks
Have the city to themselves
Echoes and the roars dinosaurs
They're all doing the monster mash
And most of the taxis and the whores
Are only taking calls for cash

R: I don't know how it happened
    It all took place so quick
    But all I can do is hand it to you
    And your latest trick

My door was standing open
Security was laid back and lax
But it was only my heart got broken
You must have had a pass key made out of wax
You played robbery with insolence
And I played the blues in twelve bars on Lover's Lane
And you never did have the intelligence to use
The twelve keys hanging off my chain

R:

Now it's past last call for alcohol
Past recall has been here and gone
The satin jazzmen have put away their horns
And were standing outside of these wonderlands
Looking so bereaved and so bereft
Like a Bowery bum when he finally understand
The bottle's empty and there's nothing left

I don't know how it happened
It was faster than the eye could flick
But all I can do is hand it to you
And your latest trick
 

WHY WORRY

Baby I see this world has made you said
Some people can be bad
The things they do the things they say
But baby I'll wipe away those bitter tears
I'll chase away those restless fears
That turn your blue skies into gray

R: Why worry, there should be laughter after pain
     There should be sunshine after rain
     These things have always been the same
     So why worry now

Baby when I'm down I turn to you
And you make sense of what I do
I know it isn't hard to say
But baby just when this world seems mean and cold
Our love comes shining red and gold
And all the rest is by the way

R:
 

RIDE ACROSS THE RIVER

I'm a soldier of freedom in the army of men
We are the chosen, we're the partisan
The cause it is noble and the cause it it just
We are ready to pay with our lives if we must

Gonna ride across the river deep and wide
Ride across the river to the other side

I'm soldiers of fortune, I'm a dog of war
And we don't give a damn who the killing is for
It's the same old story with a different name
Death of Glory it's the killing game

Gonna ride across the river deep and wide
Ride across the river to the other side

Nothing can stop them as the day follows the night
Right becomes wrong, the left becomes the right
And they sing as they march with their flags unfurled
Today in the mountains, tomorrow the world

Gonna ride across the river deep and wide
Ride across the river to the other side
 

THE MAN'S TOO STRONG

I'm just an aging drummer boy
And in the wars I used to play
And I've called the tune
To many a torture session
Now I'm fading away
So Father please hear my confession

I have legalized robbery
Called belief
I have run with some money
And hid like a thief
I have rewritten history
With my armies and my crooks
Invented memories
I did burn all the books
And I can still hear his laughter
I can still hear his song
The man's too big
The man's too strong

Well I have tried to be meek
And I have tried to be mild
But I spat like a woman
And I sulked like a child
I have lived behind walls
That have made me alone
Striven for peace
Which I never have known
And I can still hear his laughter
And I can still hear his song
The man's too big
The man's too strong

Well the Sun rose on the courtyard
And they all did hear him say
"You always were a Judas
But I got you anyway
You may have got you silver
But I swear upon my life
Your sister gave me diamonds
And I gave them to your wife"
The man's too big
The man's too strong
 

ONE WORLD

Can't find no sleeves from my records
Can't get no socks for my shoes
Can't get no funny notes on my blue guitar
Can't get no antidote for blues

Can't find the reasons for your actions
And I don't much like the reasoning you use
Somehow your motives are impure
Or somehow I can't find the cure
Can't find no antidote for blues

They say  it's mostly vanity
That writes the plays we act
They tell me that's what everybody knows
There's no such thing as sanity
And that's the sanest fact
That's the way the story goes

Can't get no remedy on my TV
There's nothing but the same old news
They can't find a way to be
One world in harmony
Can't get no antidote for blues
 

BROTHERS IN ARMS

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
Though they did hurt me
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the Sun's gone to Hell
And the Moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But  it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make wars
On our brothers in arms

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