Nancy (Let Your Hair Down For Me) Prefab Sprout

Weekday mornings find me moody I kiss my wife goodbye, I drive the boss to work each day. At the office, no one's watching Can I catch her eye?

Cue Fanfare Prefab Sprout

Some expressions take me back, like "Hair of Gold" and "Sweet Mary" and "Running to Me". The sweet sweet songs that cloud your eyes - nostalgia supplies.

Horsin' Around Prefab Sprout

It's me again your worthless friend or foe I somehow let that lovely creature down Horsin' around, horsin' around Some things we check and double check and lose I guess I let that little vow get lost Forgettin

The Venus Of The Soup Kitchen Prefab Sprout

The Venus of the soup kitchen is waiting There for me and all us poor Cripples, who've been in the wars End up sleeping on her floor Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah When you're scared of down and out You

Moving The River Prefab Sprout

You surely are a truly gifted kid But you're only good as The last great thing you did And where've you been since then Did the schedule get you down I hear you've got a new girlfriend How's the wife taking

LOOKING FOR ATLANTIS Prefab Sprout

If you're looking for Atlantis You should cast your eye on me Put your two and two together Don't you know who built Atlantis Then returned to the sea Don't you know who owns the weather ?

When Love Breaks Down Prefab Sprout

My love and I, we work well together But often we're apart Absence makes the heart lose weight, yeah, Till love breaks down, love breaks down Oh my, oh my, have you seen the weather The sweet September

Hallelujah Prefab Sprout

tend to be dumb as hell Move in close, closer still, I hear the songs of Georgie Gershwin I swear at you 'cause I believe that sweet talk like candy rots teeth No Hallelujahs, or gifted voices To sing your

Don't Sing Prefab Sprout

Like most I'll cone when I want things done, please God don't let that change. The anguish of love at long range. Should've been a doctor, oh, then they can see what they're getting.

Appetite Prefab Sprout

Please be careful is never careful Till it hears the gun She will always pay the bills For the having big fun He talks so well, what can you do, It's pretty plain he means it too I don't want to sell you

Wild Horses Prefab Sprout

Through the rails I spied Your ponytail. I tried With sugar cubes - And they're O.K.

Life Of Surprises Prefab Sprout

You can keep the good times righteousness The best parting line Rather then pretend we are A1 ultrafine Shall I be the first then to say what we have found There's something in our lifetime won't let us

We Let The Stars Go Prefab Sprout

There was that girl I used to know She'd tease me about my name Fan the embers long enough I sometimes catch her flame The soothing voice of distance tells me "That was just a fling" Other music fills

Blueberry Pies Prefab Sprout

Lying is killing the good things in me Ask me what the time is baby, ask me honey My eyes shift and slide Sure there are reasons for acting like this But reasons are kill kill killing the everything we

Whoever You Are Prefab Sprout

Whoever you are I'm looking for you On street after street, in bar after bar The search for love is never ending Whoever you are Wherever you are I'm prepared to travel No matter how long no matter how

Couldn't Bear To Be Special Prefab Sprout

BO BEE, BO BEE, BO So don't look at me and say, that I'm the very one, who makes the cornball things occur, the shiver of the fur.

Life's A Miracle Prefab Sprout

Hey half the day is gone Get a move on Life's a miracle, let me tell you why If you look above you, there are no more stars Like this one in the sky Life's a miracle, we gotta make the most Of the passing

The Sound Of Crying Prefab Sprout

s on the way Start singing now, a song to greet the joyful day Just when we thought the time was right for celebrating With music of the spheres What?

The Fifth Horseman Prefab Sprout

You do not have to see me To know that I'm around Pupils dilate The anxious heart will pound If you've a problem sleeping Well that's a danger sign It means your troubled heart Will soon be mine The Bible

Dublin Prefab Sprout

name of towns To build a city on such picturesque ground That takes some sort of flair We draw a line the ink is fear You stay that side we'll stay here It's far harder to keep it up Than to tear it down

Elegance Prefab Sprout

There are those who own, The world around your own. And say you want to swan, one to one Hey kid they own the pond.

Cruel Prefab Sprout

Cruel is the gospel thats sets us all free, then takes you away from me. There is no Chicago urban blues, more heartfelt than my lament for you.

Tiffanys Prefab Sprout

saxophones i thought you'd understand I'd love to sing my songs for you but i don't know if i can Said don't know if i can, don't know if i can Midnight is striking there's a pumpkin by the door It's

Mercy Prefab Sprout

Mercy on me, oh say that I'm forgiven And wrap your arms around me To your goodness I surrender Without mercy where is goodness ? Won't you have mercy on me ?

A Prisoner Of The Past Prefab Sprout

I'm a ghost to you now, I'm someone you don't really wish to see I'm a ghost to you now, a shadow since you turned your back on me Maybe you'll learn why it was I shook Baby your turn to wear the haunted

Knock On Wood Prefab Sprout

himself a ride He swore he'd never leave her, he meant it till he did He swore he'd never leave her, he meant it till he did Before you say you're lucky, before you say he's good Knock on wood Broke your

Horsechimes Prefab Sprout

Hello Johnson your mother once gave me A lift back from school That's no reason to get so excited I'd been playing football with the youngsters, Johnson says don't dramatize And you can't even spell salacious

Electric Guitars Prefab Sprout

I'd a dream that we were rock stars And that flash bulbs popped the air And girls fainted, every time we shook our hair.

Wicked Things Prefab Sprout

Your Mother's got bags of good advice The don'ts exceed the do's But she's not you All it takes is a little nerve As I close in for the kill Just stand still What could make a girl believe The wicked

Technique Prefab Sprout

Her husband works in Jodrell Bank, He's home late in the morning, Had he been a lawyer, He wouldn't work for pennies.

Diana Prefab Sprout

All the boys I know love diana, some calming apparition you bet she is The world careering nightmare somewhere it is her arms reach out And stop the savagery at least they do for me Her eyes china blue

Bonny Prefab Sprout

in heaven and I'm lost to earth Didn't give you minutes not even moments All my life in a tower of foil Shaded feelings, don't believe you When you were there before my eyes No one planned it took it for

The Golden Calf Prefab Sprout

glass I carried in my heart a word or two You dashing horseman all gone away Left you a stable bill to pay And now the golden calf has turned to clay All my feelings dressed in gloves Couldn't touch your

The King Of Rock 'N' Roll Prefab Sprout

All my lazy teenage boasts are now high precision ghosts And they're coming round the track to haunt me.

The Wedding March Prefab Sprout

Music's a wild thing with mischief to prove I can't adjust to the way that you move Music's a wild thing whatever the groove Some music isn't for dancing One dance whose steps I never could learn It's

Goodbye Lucille #1 Prefab Sprout

Ooh, Johnny Johnny Johnny, there is a time for tears Ooh, Johnny Johnny Johnny, you won't make it any better Ooh, Johnny Johnny Johnny, you might well make it worse Ooh, Johnny Johnny Johnny, I advise

The Mystery Of Love Prefab Sprout

It's a mystery, but no mystery like the mystery of love Should I live to see someone smarter than me Explain the secrets of the skies I won't be too impressed, I've got a tougher test What's going on behind

Desire As Prefab Sprout

times, the harvest years with jam to lace the bread So goodness, goodness knows why I'd throw it to the birds But there it is, and there we are And all I ever want to be is far from the eyes that ask me

Here On The Eerie Prefab Sprout

This star crossed lovers business, astrologeewhizzness, Go rhyme your runes in June. Don't turn tearful, or mystical on me, I'm not your seventh son.

Machine Gun Ibiza Prefab Sprout

He's a top rollmo' star Black wand, white magic, nitroglycerine He's earned the right to be known as MACHINE GUN IBIZA Voodoo up rollmo' down MACHINE GUN IBIZA Ha

Moon Dog Prefab Sprout

The funeral cars crawl down The heartbreak side of town The mourners all discuss The boy who caused a fuss We chopped a billion trees to print up eulogies But guys we should have guessed, The girls would

Steal Your Thunder Prefab Sprout

Perhaps one day I'll love another Whose eyes may be storm cloud grey Whose every kiss is hot as summer With the suns every ray But no-one's ever, ever gonna steal Ever gonna steal your thunder Never, ever

Paris Smith Prefab Sprout

Lovely name for a girl is Paris Smith Baby Paris Smith Don't my mistakes Paris Smith Paris Any music worth its salt is good for dancing Paris But I tried to be the Fred Astaire of words Paris you heard

Swans Prefab Sprout

Swans and their partners they stay Faithful forever or die on the water Foxes are only good for Ruffling feathers, leading lambs to the slaughter Swans effortlessly beautiful, take care!

When The Angels Prefab Sprout

When the angels take the angel voice away Some lower their eyes, some of us shout cheats For cheating on the deal, pulling off the sting, Tuning up the harps, dishing out the wings If they can dance on

The World Awake Prefab Sprout

well, not forever It's just the way I am, it's just the way we are It's just a nervous flickering of old flames Now everybody wears the look of the child Who wished to marry you Who, knocking proudly on your

Avenue Of Stars Prefab Sprout

beyond words to be on that street Each step is hard, each step is slow Each step unsure and yet I know Love is an Avenue of Stars and though I'm tired and I'm lame My will is iron and one day I will race Down

If You Don't Love Me Prefab Sprout

If you don't love me, oh if you don't love me You can tell me anything, You can tell me anything, I'll believe you, You know it too Shame the truth with lies Say the sun won't rise Only realize If you

Carnival 2000 Prefab Sprout

Welcome to : Carnival 2000 : Loves come and go but love above all Is belle of the ball We ask for any wrong we've done The years ahead forgive us We ask for any good we've done That all of it outlive us

Anne Marie Prefab Sprout

There's a person that I'd like to be, Anne Marie I can glimpse him when you're next to me, Anne Marie There is music that no-one can hear, Anne Marie Yet it's audible when you are near Anne Marie, Anne