Fergus Sings The Blues Deacon Blue

Fergus sings the Blues In bars of twelve or less I'm a stranger To the land To this wilderness All Things are possible But happen less and less This Is my country These Are my reasons 'Cause I look In

DEACON BLUES Steely Dan

DEACON BLUES This is the day Of the expanding man That shape is my shade There where I used to stand It seems like only yesterday I gazed through the glass At ramblers Wild gamblers That's

Get Older Dan Deacon

This is the day Of the expanding man That shape is my shade There where I used to stand It seems like only yesterday I gazed through the glass At ramblers Wild gamblers That's all in the past

Preachin' Blues Son House

One deacon jumped up and he began to grin One deacon jumped up and he began to grin You know he said, "One thing, elder I believe I'll go back to barrelhousin' again" One sister jumped up and

The Wildness Deacon Blue

Oh the rush hour is over And the night has been trying To drive us and chase us away But we're lovely and drunk now And our laugh dosen't Rattle or fray And the Friday folk Are coming round Let the wildness

Kings Of The Western World Deacon Blue

at the Kings of the Western World I went out and caught the train home Looked at the land so the story goes They've got factories and jobs and playground provided And the workers are willing so the story

Still in the Mood Deacon Blue

By the light of the waning moon Under a blueblack sky They talked the slow way home Of years passed closely by They caught only a casual look From strangers with things to do Only a loveless heart Could

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

The day that Jackie jumped the jail The day that Jackie jumped the jail There was a big explosion just as he got off the motorway And thirty thousand fireworks took the piss out of Princes Street Gardens

Your Constant Heart Deacon Blue

Your constant heart Beats like the road It cuts through the rain And clears the snow And in our summer We take it slow Letting the wind Die in the hollow Oh, your constant heart Your constant heart Your

Indigo Sky Deacon Blue

We went as we know how As far as the wind and the sky would allow Waking from sleep Alive to the noise we came After the turn of the year With only the sky as a silver seer Of anything restively turning

Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel The Rain Deacon Blue

Would the rain, the frozen rain Be as cold upon your forehead As the tears that plough your beaten face again Would the rain Could your hands, your grubby hands Pull your coat around your shoulder Steel

I Will See You Tomorrow Deacon Blue

Outside the world The wind is howling Through the broken trees And the moon is shining As the river meets the sea And I will see you tomorrow Calm and bright in tender light And my heart will be racing

Bethlehem's Gate Deacon Blue

There was a night As purple as this With a love so close We longed to be missed Summer '89 And everything stood Sure and free and there To be finished I long to be there As bright as the sky At Bethlehem's

Orphans Deacon Blue

I now describe my country As if to strangers This train is full of songs Of local winners And the wind surrounds the towers And the flags they are blowing And the bunting and the distance Stretches over

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

The World Is Lit By Lightning Deacon Blue

I'm sorry About the light in this place Makes my heart seem cold As the words on these pages Maybe I'm reminded By a shop window displays or a decoration Like some church candle That might just burn,

Bound to Love Deacon Blue

answer that's not there You know the cost of everything And the value of nothing The only thing that's certain Is you're bound to love again And he just came from Eden Where the fruit was on the tree

The Very Thing Deacon Blue

One day all of us will work We'll stand outside this orchard and we'll talk When all is said, all is done We'll still be thinking about home They say that love might be the very thing If only it could

All I Want Deacon Blue

A cautious smile under the western sky Would curl upwards like the wild sea A special friend knowing all the ways of love Would talk his way back inside a tiny second Don't promise good intention One in

Cover from the Sky Deacon Blue

I will love you when the morning is ascending I will love you when the moon is riding high I will love you when we only have pretending When our home becomes a cover from the sky Well my eyes have seen

Goodnight Jamsie Deacon Blue

You were a good man Jamsie Everyone loves you Now you're gone And the seagulls over Where you lie Sing your final song I'm walking back Away from here To see where you belong Here's the church And here's

Walking Back Home Deacon Blue

The stars and satellites Are quiet over the hills tonight And the cats' eyes and white lines Are heading out for miles The frost on the embankment Keeps my feet on the road But the tunes and beers Are

One Day I'll Go Walking Deacon Blue

Water Tiny at first then bigger And it flowed right down From the highest hill And it grew and it joined The battling burn And it flowed right through To where we are now Standing Beside a cool cool stream

A Brighter Star Than You Will Shine Deacon Blue

Down on the flag stones Accordions, sweet trumpets rise Rusty memories of sin and doubting Mingle in around the Queen Street, traffic noise Would that all the love in the world Watch me through the night

Only Tender Love Deacon Blue

Way out there in the wilderness Of love and pain Under the gentle arches we rode The silver streets Couldn't see a difference between gold or Wooden cross Could never see where we're falling Came in to

Beautiful Stranger Deacon Blue

Quentin crossing to Tarbert to Gigha Oh lonesome me howled box car willie Coming out of Tobermory to the sound In the morning Patsy Clines on the air say's I've loved and lost again From now on all of

Fellow Hoodlums Deacon Blue

On the night that Maxton died I fell over The Clyde was full of old Tyres The wind nearly pulled my Breeches off And Ann Kelly She kissed my mouth Fellow hoodlums and Engineers The Union's south And we're

James Joyce Soles Deacon Blue

Here's the pictures I promised to send You see the airbase Where we were sent Now the winter Has started to descend Your loving son was sent here I got your letter From Boise Idaho To James Joyce Soles

Silhouette Deacon Blue

Down in the streets they're walking and kissing All he sees is the lights in her her eyes She feels his hand and smells his warm breath Looking up all she sees is the night sky He saw her standing there

Born In A Storm Deacon Blue

That hurricane day Will soon pass away And someone will sweep All the jetsam back into the bay And we'll come down Like we always did And knock on my door Like the big bad wind Born in a storm Is that

Christmas & Glasgow Deacon Blue

He was lying in the half light Of Christmas and Glasgow Thinking and talking Talking to St Enoch about Christmas and Glasgow Drinking and talking And the sweet smell Of the Kelvin Hall Circus And the sweet

Plastic Shoes Deacon Blue

Plastic shoes Empty in the hall Well, I gathered the news That you'd gone after all Whats left is this: And from what I can recall Theres something I've missed And I have seen it all You caught me drawn

One Hundred Things Deacon Blue

opened Browsed in and bored you Unlocked things that should have been fastened down To be burned To be burned Jimmy To be gone forever So you're Down town raking bins Through carry outs and skins To find the

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

This Changing Light 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 But last

Your Swaying Arms Deacon Blue

Send me back all the thing she ever wrote Tell me secrets of her days when she was young Show me nights when she laughed So innocent I'll be happy Waiting till they come Love the people that she smiled

Rae Deacon Blue

I can't go with you And I can't let you go You can't be with me So I won't let it show I don't want you to know So I'll just have to let you go I'm going to love you so much better You'll forget the error

Queen Of The New Year Deacon Blue

You're so young And you know so much Heaven help us all From the tales you tell You're so old And innocent as hell How I love your questions You Queen of the New Year Oh you're so young And you know so

My America Deacon Blue

Church bells go ringing for you and I This bright sky is singing for you and I All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye Oh my America my new found

Love's Great Fears Deacon Blue

You know the agony Of seeing it all slip away Well maybe now you'd be happy Just to talk it out straight If it's just Slipping away About the danger of Believing in plans in hand About the role that you

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

Homesick Deacon Blue

There's me and daddy out at Lunan Bay Now looking dandy stepping out Saturday I can still see the buses Lined up to take the dancing home That's me on the stairs suitcase in hand Kidding on but knowing

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

Circus Lights Deacon Blue

charms On this bright night You want to display your charms Over these circus Christmas lights Your cares your misanthropy Your distant gaze is missing me And your jewelery that's what blinded me From the

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

Real Gone Kid Deacon Blue

And I'd tear out the pages That I've got in these books Just to find you some words Just to get some reward And I'll show you all the photographs That I ever got took And I'll play you old 45's That now

He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now Deacon Blue

looks like Spencer Tracy now And he cries all night And he cries all night And he cries all night And he cries all night And he may have been with Oppenheimer, shaken Einstein's hand Did we have to drop the

Wages Day Deacon Blue

There he stood and there we left Outside the flashing neon sign With the smell of cheap cigars And the hope of sweet perfume And his heart it was reeling With the thrill of it all All to do and only hours

I Was Right And You Were Wrong Deacon Blue

I was right and you were wrong girl Nothing lasts forever Inside every one of us There`s only so long I believe the longest day girl The lovely light of may girl If asked if I could ever leave I never