Closing Time Deacon Blue

This is the way we walk This is how we walk At closing time These are the songs we sing These are our songs At closing time And in the clear Of this sweet moonshine We'll walk back To where we started

Town To Be Blamed Deacon Blue

Close your eyes and go to sleep From the howling howling over these streets People stare 'cause you're so mad That wild wild spark that innocent laugh But baby that's this town It won't happen next time

Will We Be Lovers Deacon Blue

All my worries All my care Is held in check For you not there Evening comes And darkness falls We sit round And curtain out The black night There is a time Away From here Seasons pass So quickly come And

Still in the Mood Deacon Blue

years passed closely by They caught only a casual look From strangers with things to do Only a loveless heart Could feel anything less than sure That they're still in the mood Still in the mood After the time

Only Tender Love Deacon Blue

Then hounded by love Hounded by the very thing you dreamed up Chased inside the walls you tried to breach Sent crashing to your knees Only tender love Understood the need you need with Understood the time

Beautiful Stranger Deacon Blue

it wasn't God who planned to make Honky tonk angels She makes the bed all alone but a house Without love is not a home plays on the radio She says why can't he be you I hear You've gone from Brown to blue

My America Deacon Blue

goodbye All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye Oh my America my new found land Oh my America my new found land Church bells go ringing and strangers cry People keep bring their sad,sad smiles Time

I Will See You Tomorrow Deacon Blue

broken By the loving words you say And I will see you tomorrow Calm and bright in tender light And my heart will be racing Like your wakening eyes Though you're far still your heart sounds loud beating time

Rae Deacon Blue

love you so much better You'll forget the error of my ways I'm sending you the good I wished I'd given you Oh how I miss you Rae Some day you might well laugh at this As memories of love all shift and time

Long Window To Love Deacon Blue

You're taking down the signs Now the time has come and the cleansing's coming You're turning down the lights In this cruel light symbols mean nothing You're taking down the signs Turning round your eyes

The Day That Jackie Jumped The Jail Deacon Blue

again And you you will be loved again And the wind And the rain And the wind And the rain Falls around I don't know I don't know Ooh yeah Ooh yeah As he walked down Hope Street he thought about the last time

Bethlehem's Gate Deacon Blue

To be finished I long to be there As bright as the sky At Bethlehem's gate September again You come so quick So sudden your strength So strong your kiss The world groans and strains For the hope of a time

All I Want Deacon Blue

and lonely pines Where no midday sun ever shines As the clouds all float into thin air Underneath the blackest sky somewhere I hear the soul of man never dies I hear that special will survive Keeping time

Walking Back Home Deacon Blue

La I left them at the circle As the sun began to rise And we walked the last few hundred yards Back to my own house I pulled my coat still closer 'Cause now I'm on my own I've struck out for the first time

One Day I'll Go Walking Deacon Blue

cool cool stream It's hard to imagine The great and terrible river you'll be Bringing life or rest Or wonder Or high high tide And in times like this You bring me here And when the wind is blowing quick time

One Hundred Things Deacon Blue

tired too Jimmy More than that I'm angry at that Well now that I'm finished This small town world seems so much bigger It didn't seem important then Between jobs and flags and parliaments But our small time

I'll Never Fall In Love Again Deacon Blue

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte) What do you get when you fall in love? A guy with a pin to burst your bubble That's what you get for all your trouble I'll never fall in love again I'...

I`Ll Never Fall In Love Again Deacon Blue

What do you get when you fall in love, A girl with a pin to burst your bubble, That's what you get for all your trouble, I'll never fall in love again, I'll never fall in love again. What do you ge...

Dignity Deacon Blue

There`s a man I meet Walks up our street He`s a worker for the council Has been twenty years And he takes no lip off nobody And litter off the gutter Puts it in a bag And never thinks to mut...

When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)? Deacon Blue

Pale blue eyes, the same old house, no ties A little bit older but not so worldly wise That I cant see your lights on me Making me regretfully say The wonder of it all was you And underneath it all

Twist And Shout Deacon Blue

I wrote this once before Long before the summer You were then a student And we were dark as angels We were in the east Working to the west The west was looking south And the south she had no pity B...

Your Town Deacon Blue

I wouldnt want to be you Mostly not even near you When youre gone they will curse you And raise the tide against you I no longer care now For what you said was fair now I just dont go there now I j...

James Joyce Soles Deacon Blue

Here's the picturesI promised to sendYou see the airbaseWhere we were sentNow the winterHas started to descendYour loving son was sent hereI got your letterFrom Boise IdahoTo James Joyce SolesTo Ja...

Fellow Hoodlums Deacon Blue

On the night thatMaxton diedI fell overThe Clyde was full of old TyresThe wind nearly pulled myBreeches offAnd Ann KellyShe kissed my mouthFellow hoodlums andEngineersThe Union's southAnd we're all...

Goodnight Jamsie Deacon Blue

You were a good manJamsieEveryone loves youNow you're goneAnd the seagulls overWhere you lieSing your final songI'm walking backAway from hereTo see where you belongHere's the churchAnd here's the ...

Born In A Storm Deacon Blue

That hurricane dayWill soon pass awayAnd someone will sweepAll the jetsam back into the bayAnd we'll come downLike we always didAnd knock on my doorLike the big bad windBorn in a stormIs that the o...

Raintown Deacon Blue

It's a rain dirt town job hurts but it don't payAll these calls they're making me and driving you insaneDon't you seeDon't you understandWaiting for the phone to ring to make me all I am.You're in ...

Ragman Deacon Blue

Offered her a roofThe rain had made it shineOffered her a songWasn't really mine[Chorus]I showed her all my thingsShe offered me belongingsShe thought I was a RagmanShe offered me possessionsI tied...

He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now Deacon Blue

There's a shadow on his photograph on Tinian '45Smiling like a college boy who's glad to be aliveBut now he owns a factory and a store in Los AlamosA wife called Beverly sells second hand Ford Moto...

The Very Thing Deacon Blue

One day all of us will workWe'll stand outside this orchard and we'll talkWhen all is said, all is doneWe'll still be thinking about homeThey say that love might be the very thingIf only it could b...

Love's Great Fears Deacon Blue

You know the agonyOf seeing it all slip awayWell maybe now you'd be happyJust to talk it out straightIf it's justSlipping awayAbout the danger ofBelieving in plans in handAbout the role that you ha...

Riches Deacon Blue

It's good to know how big a life can beEspecially when it falls away so easilyAnd how hard it is to let you take your leaveAlso I wish you all the things that you believe inLike richesNow that they...

Kings Of The Western World Deacon Blue

I have an old friendSo the story goesHe never calls without saying helloHe's got a good jobSo the story goesHe says it's it's funny to see you look so lowI said I'm on top of the hillLooking down a...

Circus Lights Deacon Blue

You're tired and you say you're angryYou're thankful for this blessed rainAnd you think you'd knowBut your old friends have to tell you againYour books taught you all you knowYour tastes and patter...

This Changing Light Deacon Blue

I wrote this once beforeLong before the summerYou were then a studentAnd we were dark as angelsWe were in the eastWorking to the westThe west was looking southAnd the south she had no pityBut last ...

The World Is Lit By Lightning Deacon Blue

So maybe you're standingIn some foreign townYou've walked for milesTill the heat slows you downAnd your jeans and your curlsAre bleached and splitAnd your money and your angerAre all used upMaybe I...

Silhouette Deacon Blue

Down in the streets they're walking and kissingAll he sees is the lights in her her eyesShe feels his hand and smells his warm breathLooking up all she sees is the night skyHe saw her standing ther...

Your Constant Heart Deacon Blue

Your constant heartBeats like the roadIt cuts through the rainAnd clears the snowAnd in our summerWe take it slowLetting the windDie in the hollowOh, your constant heartYour constant heartYour cons...

Orphans Deacon Blue

I now describe my countryAs if to strangersThis train is full of songsOf local winnersAnd the wind surrounds the towersAnd the flags they are blowingAnd the bunting and the distanceStretches over o...

Love Hurts Deacon Blue

hurts Some fools dream of happiness Blissfulness, togetherness Some fools fool themselves I guess But they're not fooling me I know it isn't true, know it isn't true Love is just a lie made to make you blue

Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel The Rain Deacon Blue

Would the rain, the frozen rainBe as cold upon your foreheadAs the tears that plough your beaten face againWould the rainCould your hands, your grubby handsPull your coat around your shoulderSteel ...

Christmas & Glasgow Deacon Blue

He was lying in the half lightOf Christmas and GlasgowThinking and talkingTalking to St Enoch aboutChristmas and GlasgowDrinking and talkingAnd the sweet smellOf the Kelvin Hall CircusAnd the sweet...

The Wildness Deacon Blue

Oh the rush hour is overAnd the night has been tryingTo drive us and chase us awayBut we're lovely and drunk nowAnd our laugh dosen'tRattle or frayAnd the Friday folkAre coming roundLet the wildnes...

When You Are Young Deacon Blue

When you were young and your heart was freeI'd run and meet you and rush to seeJust over the wall where the clouds roll byAnd age and chance and tears were far awayOh if heaven wouldn't seeLight lo...

Plastic Shoes Deacon Blue

Plastic shoesEmpty in the hallWell, I gathered the newsThat you'd gone after allWhats left is this:And from what I can recallTheres something I've missedAnd I have seen it allYou caught me drawn in...

A Brighter Star Than You Will Shine Deacon Blue

Down on the flag stonesAccordions, sweet trumpets riseRusty memories of sin and doubtingMingle in around the Queen Street, traffic noiseWould that all the love in the worldWatch me through the nigh...

Indigo Sky Deacon Blue

We went as we know howAs far as the wind and the sky would allowWaking from sleepAlive to the noise we cameAfter the turn of the yearWith only the sky as a silver seerOf anything restively turningA...

Homesick Deacon Blue

There's me and daddy out at Lunan BayNow looking dandy stepping out SaturdayI can still see the busesLined up to take the dancing homeThat's me on the stairs suitcase in handKidding on but knowing ...

Wages Day Deacon Blue

There he stood and there we leftOutside the flashing neon signWith the smell of cheap cigarsAnd the hope of sweet perfumeAnd his heart it was reelingWith the thrill of it allAll to do and only hour...

Real Gone Kid Deacon Blue

And I'd tear out the pagesThat I've got in these booksJust to find you some wordsJust to get some rewardAnd I'll show you all the photographsThat I ever got tookAnd I'll play you old 45'sThat now m...