Dear Father Christmas

Dear Father Christmas
with your white, fluffy whiskers
instead of just a letter I am writing you a song this year

Its not for the money
I'm not being funny
It's for something else to do with the season of good cheer

Dear Father Christmas
Can I ask for this much?
How about some love and understanding in this world?

Peace between each nation
An end to all starvation
If only for the sake of every boy and every girl

Dear Father Christmas
I know it's good for business
But haven't we enough atomic bombs to kill us all?

A thousand time over
The world could be in clover
If only greedy people didn't think so Goddam small

ps: Father Christmas
For my brothers and my sisters
Give them all a happy time, and teach them how to get along

Though it's just a Christmas single
With lots of bells that jingle
I hope someday the world will never have to hear this kind of song

lala...la la-la......

Though it's just a Christmas single
With lots of bells that jingle
I hope someday the world will never have to hear this kind of song

Dear Father Christmas
With your white, fluffy whiskers
here's lots of love and kisses.

Thanks to Louise Marriott for transcribing this!

        

Death-Cab For Cutie (Stanshall/Innes)

That night Cutie called a cab, uh huh huh
(baby don't do it)
She left her East Side room so drab uh huh huh
(baby don't do it)
She went out on the town
Knowin' it would make her lover frown
(Death-cab for Cutie)
(Death-cab for Cutie)
Someone's gonna make you pay your fare

The cab was racin' through the night, mm mm mm
(baby don't do it)
His eyes in the mirror, keepin' Cutie in sight, uh huh huh
(baby don't do it)
When he saw Cutie, it gave him a thrill
Don't you know, baby curves can kill
(Death-cab for Cutie)
(Death-cab for Cutie)
Someone's gonna make you pay your fare

Cutie, don't you play with fate
Don't leave your lover alone
If you go out on this date
His heart will turn to stone

Bad girl, Cutie, what have you done, uh huh huh
(baby don't do it)
Slippin' slidin' down-a Highway 31, mm mm mm
(baby don't do it)
The traffic lights changed from green to red
They tried to stop but they both wound up dead
(Death-cab for Cutie)
(Death-cab for Cutie)
Someone's gonna make you pay your fare
Someone's gonna make you pay your fare
Someone's gonna make you pay your fare
Someone's gonna make you pay your fare
Aaaahh oooo....

Dig Your Bones

Do you know who I am?
Can you hear me talkin'?
I am always with you
When you go out walkin'

I am the skeleton in your body
And I'm here to put you straight
I am the skeleton in your body
Without me you'd be like a jello on a plate

So, dig your bones (dig your bones)
Dig your bones (dig your bones)

Now, don't be too alarmed
You're in no danger
When all is said and done
I am no stranger

I am the skeleton in your body
And I'm here to put you straight
I am the skeleton in your body
Without me you'd be like a jello on a plate

So, dig your bones (dig your bones)
Dig your bones (dig your bones)

Together we can run
Hop and skip and jump things
Use our fingers, what a team!
We are really something!

I am the skeleton in your body
And I'm so articulate
I am the skeleton in your body
Without me you'd be like a jello on a plate

So, dig your bones (dig your bones)
Dig your bones (dig your bones)
Dig your bones (dig your bones)
Dig your bones (dig your bones)

Okay, so what do you wanna do now?
Let's try a cartwheel. Maybe a handstand.
Okay, let's keep it simple, let's stand on tiptoe with our arms up as
high as we can.
Wiggle our fingers!
Yeah, that's it.
Ah, just a moment, maybe we oughta chill out.
People are beginning to stare at us.
Okay, we'll just walk down the street.
(dig your bones)
Just cool and slow.
(dig your bones)
That's it.
(dig your bones)
Don't draw attention to yourself.
(dig your bones)
(dig your bones)

 

Disillusioned

Life is illusion
Ideas in the mind, jumping to conclusions
Seeing is believing
Ideas in the mind can be so deceiving
As time goes by
and the seasons change I cry

I'm disillusioned, disillusioned
My eyes no longer play tricks on me
I'm disillusioned, disillusioned
The more I look the less I see
Oh yeah the more I look, the less I want to see
The more I look the less I want to see

Seems like only yesterday
My eyes were open wide
Sometimes I was enchanted
Other times just mystified
Once I had a vision but it don't mean a thing
In the land of the blinded, the one-eyed man is king
He leads, the dance
Honi soit qui mal y pense

I'm disillusioned, disillusioned
My eyes no longer play tricks on me
I'm disillusioned, disillusioned
The more I look the less I see

For life is illusion
Ideas in the mind, jumping to conclusions
Seeing is believing
Ideas in the mind can be so deceiving

As time goes by
and the seasons change I cry

 

Don't Get Me Wrong (Stanshall/Innes)

(DON'T GET ME WRONG)
(DON'T GET ME WRONG)
I ...
(DON'T GET ME WRONG)
I just want to explain ...
(DON'T GET ME WRONG)
(WHEN I TELL YOU THAT I NEED YOU)
(NEED YOU) I really mean ...
(WHEN I TELL YOU THAT I NEED YOU)
(NEED YOU) I want you to be
(DON'T GET ME WRONG) My girl
(DON'T GET ME WRONG)
My girl
(WHEN I TELL YOU THAT I NEED YOU)
(NEED YOU)
(WHEN I TELL YOU THAT I NEED YOU)
(NEED YOU)
(DON'T GET ME WRONG) Don't ...
(DON'T GET ME WRONG)
Don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong
Every time I stop to think
Of all your charms
(Of all your chaaaarms)
Ruby lips and eyes of pink
And a touch of aerosol .....
..........
UNDER YOUR AAAA-AAARMS!
(DON'T GET ME WRONG)
Darling, it's ...
(DON'T GET ME WRONG)
... been such a long time since we were close
(DON'T GET ME WRONG) (DON'T GET ME WRONG)
In my mind I can just recall ...
(WHEN I TELL YOU THAT I NEED YOU)
(NEED YOU) ... sudden impressions of you
(WHEN I TELL YOU THAT I NEED YOU)
(NEED YOU)
... neeeeeeeeeeeeed yooooou!

Against a wall
So warm, so secure
And I felt
Strong as tempered steel
(WEEEEEEE-OOOOO-WEE-OOOOOO)
Why did you let me go?
(WEEEEEEE-OOOOO-WEE-OOOOOO)
Please know I feel ...
(WEEEEEEE-OOOOO-WEE-OOOOOO)
... the same way
About you
(WEEEEEEE-OOOOO-WEE-OOOOOO) (DON'T GET ME WRONG)
You level my
Ideal
(WEEEEEEE-OOOOO-WEE-OOOOOO) (DON'T GET ME WRONG)
She'd have big knockers and ...
(WEEEEEEE-OOOOO-WEE-OOOOOO)
... skin like a seal
(DON'T GET ME WRONG)
(WEEEEEEE-OOOOO-WEE-OOOOOO) (DON'T GET ME WRONG)
Those smooth legs
(WEEEEEEE-OOOOO-WEE-OOOOOO)
From the top to the tips
(DON'T GET ME WRONG)
But you
Suck my
Soul
(DON'T GET ME WRONG)
With warm
Honey lips
(DON'T GET ME WRONG)
Don't
(Do-oo-wo-o-o-on't get me wrong)
Don't get me wrong ...
(Do-o-o-o-o-on't get me wrong)
Don't get me wrong

Let's all point at Guille "URBANSPACEDUDE" Gomez for taking the extra time to contribute this!

Don't Know Why             I don't know why            The world turns out to be the way it is            As time goes by            Oh I  (I...)            Don't know why  (don't know why...)            True love turns out to be the stuff            Between hello and goodbye            Looking back with 20-20 hindsight            We only tried to play our part            When selfishness is state of the art            You've just got to change the locks on your heart            Now I   (I...)            Don't know why  (don't know why...)            True love turns out to be the stuff             Between hello and goodbye            Looking back with 20-20 hindsight            We only did the best we could            As green as any Norwegian Wood            The acid test of fame we withstood            Now I   (I...)            Don't know why (don't know why...)            The world turns out to be the way it is            As time goes by             Oh I  (I...)            Don't know why  (don't know why...)             True love turns out to be the stuff             Between hello and goodbye

Doubleback Alley

People were proud in Doubleback Alley
Neighbors were loud, but ever so pally
People would shout, joking about
The smoke and the soot, Mother would put
The milk bottles out

We had a good time in Doubleback Alley
With fences to climb, and Father O'Malley
To clip your ear, and steer you clear
Of the funny man in the ice cream van
Who talked so queer

Doubleback Alley takes me back and in my mind I see
Happy, smiling faces if I flog my memory

Plenty to do in Doubleback Alley
Play peek-a-boo with Saccharine Sally
Bouncing a ball against a wall
Showing her drawers, "You come indoors!"
Her dad would call

(Aaaaaah)
(La la la laaaaaa)
(Laaaaaa)
(La la la laaaaaa)

Doubleback Alley takes me back
And in my mind I see
Happy, smiling faces if I flog my memory

Stinking of gin in Doubleback Alley
Grinning a grin in Doubleback Alley
Kick a dustbin, bingo to win
Windows to break, Mother would take
The milk bottles in

Doubleback Alley takes me back
And in my mind I see
Happy, smiling faces if I flog my memory

Doubleback Alley takes me back
And in my mind I see
Happy, smiling faces if I flog my memory

Doubleback Alley

Down That Road

It won't be long now before we turn this corner
And when we do we'll keep on down that road
We'll keep on going along the straight and narrow
There's no two ways about it down that road

Never mind the weather as long as we're together
It would take an avalanche to come between us
Though we may get weary,
We'll stay bright and cheery
We'll keep smiling through

We'll take our chances
We'll cross each bridge we come to
We'll find our destination down that road

Though we may sometimes drag our footsteps
We shall stumble on some way to get us there
On some way to get us there

It won't be long now
Before we turn this corner
hAnd when wHe do we'll keep on down that road
(keep on going, keep on going)
(keep on going, keep on going)

Keep on going (keep on going, keep on going)
down that road (keep on going, keep on going)
Keep on going (keep on going, keep on going)
down that road (keep on going, keep on going)
Keep on going (keep on going, keep on going)
down that road (keep on going, keep on going)
Keep on going (keep on going, keep on going)
down that road (keep on going, keep on going)
Keep on going (keep on going, keep on going)
down that road (keep on going, keep on going)
Keep on....

Drama on a Saturday Night

Bella was a beauty queen
One of a kind
She couldn't get ambition off her mind
She entered every contest
from Redcar to Penzance
She entered anywhere she stood a chance
Then one day, way down yonder
In Shanklin, Isle of Wight,
She became a big name overnight

She was placed above the rest
The winners sash across her breast
She wept with joy, she kissed the crown
She was the toast of her home town
(ahhh AH!)

Drama on a Saturday night
A story of human emotion
Love is as shallow as people
And as deep as the ocean

She posed for Sunday papers
wearing nothing but a smile (oo-la la!)
She took 'em off while putting on the style
She soon became the sweetheart
of a playboy millionaire
Who bought her clothes and took her everywhere
They were married in Las Vegas
She said solemnly "I do"
amidst t.v.cameras and Yankee ballyhoo
Bella frequented the nightclub scene
as befits an ex-beauty queen
She took to drink while her playboy played
And so it was their love decayed

Drama on a Saturday night
A story of human emotion
Love is as shallow as people
And as deep as the ocean

Bella got a gun
Bella shot him dead (Bella shot him dead!)
"He died instantly" the coroner said
And so behind dark glasses
Bella hid her eyes
It's unsightly when a woman cries
Just who was to blame
the press would soon find out
But as it was, the jury had no doubt

The verdict was guilty
The judge had no choice
He said "You get life"
in a serious voice
But Bella just laughed
and tearfully said,
"Oh what a joke,
    I've always been dead!"
(aahh aahhhhhhh)

Drama on a Saturday night
A story of human emotion
Love is as shallow as people
And as deep as the ocean

Drama on a Saturday night
A story of human emotion
Love is as shallow as people
And as deep as the ocean

 

It's so hard to follow a dream
Dreams are following me
Hard on my heels they come
   Geronimo
      Captain Hook
        The almanacs
          The history books
            Encyclopaedias
              Beginnings and ends
              So many stories
              Have been put to the pen
              To explain
                     or defend
        the right to be understood
        in the name of brotherhood
           I don't know why I cry
            Or laugh
              Or fall in love
                 Or try to reach
                    The stars above
                        There's no conclusion
                        Dreams are for fools
                        My little dreamer
                        My little fool
                              little fool....  dream on...

                           dream on

                               dream on

                                     dream on

                                           dream on...

Dreams Shine Through

An old man lay dying beneath cold city skies
An ominous look in his derelict eyes
The moment of death for him had no sting
His soul had the power to grant him one thing
So he said
     "Let my dreams shine through,
     Let my dreams shine through."

Passing nearby was a shiny black car
In the front a chauffeur, in the back a cigar
That lit up the face of a middle-aged man
Who bought and sold stock like nobody can,
And he said
     "Let my dreams shine through,
     Let my dreams shine through."

Close by two young lovers were gettin' it on
And of all the positions they knew every one
And after they'd tried every trick in the book
He lay on the bed with a faraway look
Just thinking,
     "Let my dreams shine through,
     Let my dreams shine through."

Not far away was another big car
This time in the back was a rock an' roll star
And that night at the concert the fans all went wild
As he strummed his guitar and sang through his smile
Singing,
     "Let my dreams shine through,
     Let my dreams shine through."

Well, the fans went home happy, and so did the star
Likewise the young lovers and the man in the car
But as the old man turned over and died
For the moment all the others felt cold
and empty
inside.