Abide with me, fast falls the eventide

The darkness deepens, Lord abide with me

When other helpers fail and comforts flee

Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

 

I fear no fue, with Thee at hand to bless

Ills have no weight and tears no bitterness

Where is death's sting, where, grave, that victory

I triumph still if Thou abide with me.

 

Hold Thou thy cross before my closen eyes

Shine throught the gloom and point me to the skies

Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee

In life, in death, O Lord abide with me

In life, in death, O Lord abide with me.

 

 

 

 

Good taste at times I've sometimes lacked

I won't deny the truth

I got dressed up as Donald Duck

Making up for my repressed youth

Disco balls and spandex pants

On questionable friends

Disco died but how the fog still rolled across the River Thames.

 

Snarling they just came along

And cut us to the quick

Called us a bunch of dinosaurs

And gave us a load of sticks

Told us that the times was changing

And all good things must end

But I'm still here and the fog still rolls across the River Thames.

 

Coro:

Nelson's on his column

Ravens are in the Tower

Big Ben never lost his voice

Chimes on every hour

And the fog still rolls off the River Thames

The forecast calls for rain

London Bridge ain't falling down

And some things never change.

 

The black-faced boys were holding tight

And Thatcher's in a noose

Hair got teased beyond belief

In the age of the golden goose

The new romantics claimed the throne

And we were wondering when

But they lost their crown and the fog still rolled across the River Thames.

 

(se repite el coro)

 

Big bold letters screaming out

A scandal in the house

Dogs without their vocal chords

Careers going south

What the eye can't see the eye invents

The truth was meant to bend

But nothing changed and the fog still rolled across the River Thames.

 

(se repite el coro)

 

 

 

 

This ain't no battle honey, this ain't no fight

How come you take it so hard when I stay out all night

If I take a drink, is that against the law

And if I have a good time, do you call that an act of war.

 

Well you better belive it boy, this house is your home

I didn't build it up for you to live here on my own

And if you think it's easy to forget about me

You'd better think twice, you'd better believe it's an act of war.

 

We're living on the front line you and me

Fighting on this battleground of misery

Oh go ahead bring on your artillery

And we'll make this an act of war

Give it all you've got 'cause I'm all dug in

Keep the punches coming I can take them on the chin

Winner takes all, let the best man win

And we call it an act of war.

 

Well I'm a man of convenience I work a long hard day

After twelve long hours ain't I got the right to play

If living together is getting in the way

Then I call that an act of war.

 

Well if that's your game then honey two can play

I'm going on the town tonight and have some fun my way

Ain't no way baby this girl's gonna stay

I call it, I call it an act of war.

 

And it looks like time ain't been on our side

If we could turn the clock back

We might survive this act of war.

 

 

 

 

What taste is this upon my lips

A taste so sweet, what can that be

What is this scent upon the air

That fills my lungs and comforts me.

 

And whispers low, how does it feel

To savor all such just revenge

To smell the fragrancy of loss

And drunkenly inhale his pain.

 

How can it be your countenance

Is stripped of all his dash and dare

And what of your bold confidence

Could it have drowned in your despair.

 

Coro:

And after all this time

I wash my hands of your charade

And celebrate your fall from grace

Preserve that sad look on your face

And praise what God might manifest

Himself to beings such as us

For vengeance that at last is mine

Comes sweetly after all this time.

 

If you'll allow me to recall

How my requests were swept aside

In every instance I beseeched you

I was shut out and denied.

 

You shattered what I once believed

From the moment you arrived

And now you wonder why I gloat here

Revelling in your grand demise.

 

You're arrogant beyond contempt

You beg to share my precious blood

I no sooner you in my veins

Than to see you with the ones you love.

 

(se repite el coro)

 

 

 

 

Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby

Ain't nothing like the real thing

Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby

Ain't nothing like the real thing.

 

I got your picture hanging on my wall

But I can't seem to come to me

When I call your name

I realized it's just a picture in a frame.

 

I read your letters but you're not here

They don't move me, they don't groove me

Like when I hear

Your sweet voice whispering in my ear.

 

I play my games of fantasy

I pretend I don't see reality

I need the shelter of your arms to comfort me.

 

I got some memories to look back on

Though they help me when you're gone

I'm well aware

Estoy bien consciente 

Nothing can take the place of you being there.

 

No other sound is quite the same as your name

No touch can do half as much

To make me feel better

Let's stay together.

 

I'm so

So glad we got the real thing, baby

So glad we got the real thing

Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby

Ain't nothing like the real thing.

 

 

 

 

The sister of sunlight

Comes to my lonely life

Bearing the crosses I hung

I hung on my lonely wife

And the anchor told me

If I prayed by the river

That the sweet sound of water

Would always go with her.

 

All across the havens to the waterfall

They told me I would meet her there

Inside those icy walls

But how on earth is this universe

Can they forgive me on my pains

For all across the havens

I must stumble locked in chains.

 

Then the mother of mercy

Showed me her stable

And told me you would be safe

Safe in her cradle

And the waterfall opened

And the water withdrew

Leaving me standing

On a road leading through.

 

 

 

 

 

 

All quiet on the Western Front, nobody saw

A youth asleep in the foreign soil, planted by the war

Feel the pulse of human blood pouring forth

See the stems of Europe bend under force.

 

All quiet

All quiet

All quiet on the Western Front.

 

So tired of this garden's grief, nobody cares

Old kin kiss the small white cross, their only souvenir

See the Prussian offense fly, weren't we grand

To place the feel of cold sharp steel in their hands.

 

It's gone all quiet on the Western Front, male angels sigh

Ghosts float in a flooded trench as Germany dies

Fever reaps the flowers of France, fair-haired boys

String the harps to Victory's voice, joyous noise.

 

 

 

 

Breaking down never seems to be that hard

Falling short is always in the cards

I'm on the road, sun rising at my back

Lost it all somewhere between the cracks.

 

I always hoped that I'd do better

That I'd come out on top for once

We all get what we're delivered

Then there are the lucky ones.

 

And I've got all that I'm allowed

It'll do for me, I'm thankful now

The walls get higher every day

The barriers get in the way

But I see hope in every cloud

And I'm thankful, thankful

I'm thankful, so thankful

I'm thankful, I've got all that I'm allowed.

 

Leaving town gets to feel just like a job

My desire never winds up on top

I can say now I didn't want the moon

It's out of reach somewhere beyond this room.

 

I've always tried to make things clear

Then I watched as progress stalled

I only hope I'm standing here

When heaven finally comes to call.

 

 

 

 

Raised to be a lady by the golden rule

Alice was the spawn of a public school

With a double barrel name in the back of her brain

And a simple case of Mummy-doesn't-love-me blues.

 

Reality it seems was just a dream

She couldn't get it on with the boys on the scene

But what do you expect from a chick who's just sixteen

And hey, hey, hey, you know what I mean.

 

All the young girls love Alice

Tender young Alice they say

Come over and see me

Come over and please me

Alice it's my turn today.

 

All the young girls love Alice

Tender young Alice they say

If I give you my number

Will you promise to call me

Wait till my husband's away.

 

Poor little darling with a chip out of her heart

It's like acting in a movie when you got the wrong part

Getting your kicks in another girl's bed

And it was only last Tuesday they found you in the subway dead.

 

And who could you call your friends down in Soho

One or two middle-aged dykes in a Go-Go

And what do you expect from a sixteen year old yo-yo

And hey, hey, hey, oh don't you know.

 

 

 

 

If it came to pass that they should ask

What could I tell them

Would they criticize behind my back

Maybe I should let them

Oh I only then and only then

They would understand

They'd turn a full-blooded city boy

Into a full-blooded city man.

 

If they could face it

I could take it in their eyes

Oh I know I'd make it

Their tiny minds

And sacred cows just fake it

If only then and only then

They would understand

They'd turn a full-blooded city boy

Into a full-blooded city man.

 

But I know the way they want me

In the way they publicize

If they could turn their focus off

To the image in their eyes

Maybe it would help them, help them understand

Maybe it would help them, help them understand

Maybe it would help them, help them understand

That a full-blooded city boy

Is now a full-blooded city man.

 

Oh my soul

Oh my soul

Oh my soul.

 

 

 

 

 

You're a cool little one

My dark southern breeze

Sweeps through my fingers

And it amazes me.

 

Dixie shadowland

Your envy shelters me

Lay down your burden

Mystery of ebony.

 

And it amazes me

Oh it amazes me

Maybe the heat babe could be this tune

It amazes me

It amazes me

What drives me crazy is that big fat yellow moon.

 

Look up that pale light

Well she's waking the trees

I'm drifting in your hoodoo

And it amazes me.

 

That magnolia state

Got a hold on me

I got no blues to preach

Just Mississippi company.

 

Ain't no magic potion

No gri-gri on her side

She's bound to my salvation

Ella está rumbo a mi salvación 

Sweet little mama

Take me down by the river tonight

And it amazes me.

 

 

 

 

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.

 

See the little baby

Wrapped in a manger

On Christmas Morning

Amen, Amen, Amen.

 

See him in the Temple

Talking with the Elders

Tomorrows Wisdom

Amen, Amen, Amen

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.

 

Down at the Jordan

And John was baptising

And Savin' all sinners

Amen, Amen, Amen.

 

See 'em at the Seaside

Talking with the fisherman

And makin' disciples

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.

 

Sing it through the mountains.

 

 

 

 

 

Seen him playing in his backyard

Young boy just starting out

So much history in this landscape

So much confusion, so much doubt.

 

Been there drinking on that front porch

Angry lads, mean and dumb

Looks like a painting, that blue skyline

God hates fags where we come from.

 

'Western skies' don't make it right

'Home of the brave' don't make no sense

I've seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire

Left to die on a high ridge fence

It's a cold, cold wind

It's a cold, cold wind

It's a cold wind blowing, Wyoming.

 

See two coyotes run down a deer

Hate what we don't understand

You pioneers give us your children

But it's your blood that stains their hands.

 

Come where that road forks up ahead

To ignorance and innocence

Three lives drift on different winds

Two lives ruined, one life spent.

 

 

 

 

I'm sorry for everything I've said

And for anything I forgot to say too

When things get so complicated

I stumble, at best, muddle through

I wish that our lives could be simple

I don't want the world, only you

I wish I could tell you this face to face

But there's never the time, never the place

So this letter will have to do

I love you.

 

 

 

 

Lately I've been thinking how much I miss my lady

Amoreena's in the cornfield brighting the daybreak

Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours

Rolling through the hay like a puppy child.

 

And when it rains the rain falls down

Washing out the cattle town

And she's far away somewhere in her eiderdown

And she dreams of crystal streams

Of days gone by when we could lean

Laughing fit to burst upon each other.

 

I can see you sitting eating apples in the evening

The fruit juice flowing slowly, slowly, slowly

Down the bronze of your body

Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours

Rolling through the hay like a puppy child.

 

Oh if only I could nestle in the cradle of your cabin

My arms around your shoulders the windows wide and open

While the swallow and the sycamore are playing in the valley

Oh I miss you Amoreena like a king bee misses honey.

 

Lately I've been thinking how much I miss my lady

Amoreena's in the cornfield brightening the daybreak

Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours

Rolling through the hay like a puppy child.