The Sun Is Gonna Shine Again Graham Parker

sun is gonna shine again We'll make it around that bend I'll walk one more mile with you Cos you're my friend The sun is gonna shine again Someday we will ride a train that only seats one class To a destination

Local Girls Graham Parker

Sit by my window and look outside, wonder why the sun don't shine on me What's wrong with you, you stupid child, don't you think that I'm the one you're waiting to see?

Slash And Burn Graham Parker

The world was stripped of beauty baby By the working man He was told it was his duty baby Again and again and again They took the slaves from Africa baby Along with sugar sacks To build the British Empire

Here It Comes Again Graham Parker

make him pick up the check Well, here it comes here it comes, here it Here, here, here it comes again twice While you were sleeping the neighbors crept in Saw you were naked and called it a sin The next

Everything Goes Graham Parker

Another schoolgirl disappears She's the twenty third one this year They're gonna search on the river bank And in the disused water tank But everything goes don't worry don't worry baby Everything'll work

Everything Goes (Single Version) Graham Parker

Another schoolgirl disappears She's the twenty third one this year They're gonna search on the river bank And in the disused water tank But everything goes don't worry don't worry baby Everything'll work

Too Many Knots To Untangle Graham Parker

I don't understand telepathy, but I am thinking of you I am going to get my feelings across the gulf that divides me and you Cos when the doors get locked and the windows are shuttered The oaths get broken

Durban Poison Graham Parker

The Zulus are rising from their shanty towns The Injuns are launching a counter attack The funeral pyre's burning as I strike a match And everything goes up in smoke again, oh Durban Poison, oh oh oh oh

I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down Graham Parker

you've got a perfect plan But charm any man you see, And play with everything one that you can But I've got news for you baby, I hope it don't hit you too hard One of these days when you're at play, I'm gonna

Dancing For Money Graham Parker

When I ask you for a light you don't turn the lights out When I'm looking for a fight you don't punch my lights out Sometimes they say love is invincible I wouldn't go as far as to say that One thing I

Guardian Angel Graham Parker

Your guardian angels are looking down on you As they fold your wings and collect your things And lift you into the blue Your guardian angels they can't just fly away They're going to stay on Earth their

Back In Time Graham Parker

You stop in the old cafe where you used to play pinball And look for the air raid shelter but it's gone and the cafe seems so Small and all the gardens that had trees and stolen apples Now have small businesses

You Can't Be Too Strong Graham Parker

keep it right, put it to sleep at night Squeeze it until it could say You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You can't be too strong You decide what's wrong Well I ain't gonna

Under The Mask Of Happiness Graham Parker

All the dirt's lying under the carpet He swallowed a drink and then checked her heartbeat Her wedding gown has been burned to ashes Fanned by the flutter of her false lashes One last chance to kiss again

Oasis Graham Parker

I am a lucky man that's what I think I might come close to the edge but I never sink And I notice that vulnerable look in your eyes tonight And in the desert that passes for my heart, Sweet rain is falling

Just Like Joe Meek's Blues Graham Parker

My head was swimming in a Bangkok joint You got paint on your coat like an arrow point I followed where it led as if pulled by a bow Fired into the night deep and slow to where I'll never know The hotel

Little Miss Understanding Graham Parker

tail wag You're little miss understanding yeah You're little miss understanding yeah You're little miss understanding yeah You're little miss understanding yeah I know I got a kink somewhere A chip on the

Soultime Graham Parker

When I was a boy I never felt The weight I'm feeling I had a crowd around me And that was that I'd get on the bus and go to the Ata every weekend And feel the ultraviolet show the fluff up on my collar

Children And Dogs Graham Parker

She said she just wanted a friend And then she'd be good Something to play with now again And give lots of food We've got a yard that's big enough She says he's like a dream But they've got us running

Protection Graham Parker

no protection Em C G D G C Just can't get, just can't get no Can't get no protection, G C G C D protection, protection Every bomb is

Over The Border (To America) Graham Parker

a religious shrine There must be something better over there Over the border to America There's a lot of versions of the honest truth One for them and baby one for you One for the rich one for the poverty

Burning On A Higher Flame Graham Parker

The night falls dark around me, and the dogs bark out a curse A bad dreams twist inside me and I scream for a doctor or a nurse But I'm just dyin' for morning, watch the sun rise like a pearl Just to feel

Silly Thing Graham Parker

A E You want me be someone better A E I just wanna monkey 'round yeah A E You want me to write you a letter A E A E But the words just won't come the right way A E B My pen won't listen to a thing that

Love Is A Burning Question Graham Parker

We work through the rituals and cover our poisonous tracks Making good use of weaknesses, horoscopes, rumors and facts Inspired by the needles and pins and the pains in the heart With no control over the

Saturday Nite Is Dead Graham Parker

A Bm A D Everybody just looks ugly now information don't compute A Bm I draw a blank every time I think E A the football crowd is going to give me a boot CHORUS D A E And Saturday night is dead Saturday

Lady Doctor Graham Parker

G C G C I went in with a heart burn into the surgery To my surprise two pretty eyes was running up and down me.

Waiting For The Ufo'S Graham Parker

"No-one can hide it anymore we know it's not imagining Even the skeptics are unsure when they stop to think People are not worth their life now they are obsolete We're dying to be invaded and put the blame

Passion Is No Ordinary Word Graham Parker

It worked much better in a fantasy Imagination's one thing that comes easy to me Cause this is nothing else if not unreal When I pretend to touch you, you pretend to feel CHORUS Passion is no ordinary

Big Man On Paper Graham Parker

Oooh la la la la la la la la bop bop bop I look at a news cast being broadcast and Try to connect with the events in front of my eyes But I can't see any further than the bills on the table Or my kids

The Heat In Harlem Graham Parker

the pavement that's where it happens Feel like fire in the midnight air The heat in Harlem The heat in Harlem, yep The heat in Harlem The heat in Harlem and the heat of the soul The heat in Harlem The

Sugar Gives You Energy Graham Parker

I believe every man has a chance to make good I'm convinced that this is so Equal opportunity for the king or the hood And everybody knows Sugar gives you energy Sugar gives you energy Sugar gives you

Mr. Tender Graham Parker

Mr tender is something I'm not I pulled too tight when we tied the knot Surrender is something I can't, I can't let go and I rave and I rant But I resolve to solve this problem and be the one you need

Strong Winds Graham Parker

Have you seen her run through the wild things Dropping behind her the child's things that she'll no longer need Scattering like seeds they are discarded then Nothing can give them a life again they're

The Girl Isn't Ready Graham Parker

The girl isn't ready, the girl isn't ready The girl isn't ready, is what her mother says We just put her toys away, it seems like yesterday She has seen something better through the window She will reach

Yesterday's Cloud Graham Parker

, a woman in your clothes Skeletons inside us that dance on hot coals Cannibals are outside following our trail All our information comes from junk mail Don't leave it among us, don't let it loose in the

Discovering Japan Graham Parker

Her heart is nearly breaking, the earth is nearly quaking The Tokyo's taxi's braking, it's screaming to a halt And there's nothing to hold on to when gravity betrays you And every kiss enslaves you-oo-oo

Weeping Statues Graham Parker

Weeping statues, Elvis sightings Visitations, man struck by lightning Everyday someone gets a sign It rips apart the fabric of their daily lives Is it fear of flying That keeps us rooted to the ground

Hotel Chambermaid Graham Parker

When the lights are low you know I'm going to go to my hotel chambermaid I'm going to jump the garden and come on hard all right While the river's rolling outside the window Going to see her going to get

Release Me Graham Parker

Na na nah I can still feel your teethmarks in my neck your footprints on my back And the gris gris you sprinkled in my bed is starting to make me crack I can still hear your twang ringing in my ears, your

Platinum Blonde Graham Parker

Stuff comes down from the golden triangle On ferries from Denmark to Helsingborg The band strikes up but they're out of time On synthesiser and washboard Wooden tulips grow by the roadside Made in a factory

Platinum Blonde (BBC Session) Graham Parker

Stuff comes down from the golden triangle On ferries from Denmark to Helsingborg The band strikes up but they're out of time On synthesiser and washboard Wooden tulips grow by the roadside Made in a factory

White Honey Graham Parker

G C You wake up early in the morning G C A-playing on the clarinet G C Whole town down when the man comes around F G And no one pays their rent It's all spent on C F C F C F C F White honey get

Blue Highways Graham Parker

The kid's left home, the kid's got a kid of her own Don't knock that door, don't knock it, nobody's home The mystery sign, turn off and follow it blind The interstate is jammed and crammed with exhaust

Cupid Graham Parker

lover's heart for me Nobody else but me hey hey hey Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me Now Cupid if your arrow makes her love strong for me I swear I'm gonna

You Got The World (Right Where You Want It) Graham Parker

As you wash your hair and bathe in Perrier As you hit the bank machine at night Drinking money for tomorrow's flight As you count your loss or bet on a black horse Sit behind the wheel of a black Porsche

Success Graham Parker

The dreams and hopes of men Are powered by addiction And who am I to say that This is an affliction When everybody gets Suckered in and lives their Lives like fiction Writing their own story Of success

Worthy Of Your Love Graham Parker

If I had the slightest clue as to what you are and what's inside you I would know exactly what to do and be worthy of your love If a flower bloomed in the frozen wastes and the moon had a smiling face

New York Shuffle Graham Parker

D A Manhattan baby with a sing song voice G D she got her place in the human zoo D A I went to living on the boulevard G A now that the revolution's due G A She said I've been around from town to town

Call Me Your Doctor Graham Parker

Call me your doctor if you want, I'll get the cure out To be administered before sleep Call out the thing you really want And I'll be there I'll make a housecall I'll find the problem's root No matter

She Wants So Many Things Graham Parker

up in a dragnet And pull them underwater till they all go stagnant She wants so many things beamed in on a satellite Served up on a silver tray a wasp and parasite She wants so many things where you gonna