The Sound Of Crying Prefab Sprout

s this another boat of fleeing refugees On a sea of children?s tears Once more the sound of crying Is number one across the earth Once more the sound of crying Is number one across the earth We?

Tiffanys Prefab Sprout

Time is the healer, time was on my hands The bus stopped at tiffany's So i went to hear the band I saw Cinderella, then the curtain dropped Time hung heavy on my hands but today The clock just stopped

Don't Sing Prefab Sprout

The burden of love is so strange. The stubborn beast and the priest, are hiding from the captians. The burden of love is so plain. Are they happy to see you? No, you always bring trouble.

Dublin Prefab Sprout

Who does not adore the sound Of music in the 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

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

The World Awake Prefab Sprout

That frightening little sound, it's just the world awake It's just a way of saying we're in business It's just a lightning strike, it's just a family row It's just the give and take of forgiveness Chance

The Golden Calf Prefab Sprout

Once upon a time I stalked the streets on raining evenings When the distant sea blended with the sky Past Coliseum's filled with brass on pavements carved from toasted glass I carried in my heart a word

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

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

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

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

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.

Michael Prefab Sprout

All the jobs I've ever held, positions I have known The one I was a fool to leave was Right hand to the throne Ambition took me speed of light To God's exclusion zone Michael if you're listening, Michael

Jordan: The Comeback Prefab Sprout

They say the spirit moves in mysterious ways Sometimes the way it moves looks plain berserk But two things you should be slow to criticize A mans choice of woman and his choice of work Some work'll earn

Faron Young Prefab Sprout

Every other sentiments an antique As obsolete as warships in the baltic I'm driving on a straight road it never alters And the radio serenades but doesn't falter You offer infrared instead of sun

The Ice Maiden Prefab Sprout

Standing on the boulevard You wish to know my name I'm the Ice Maiden I think perhaps you like being unhappy I'm the Ice Maiden - The limit of your dreams Arctic winds blow and still you believe Loves

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

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

Andromeda Heights Prefab Sprout

Were building a home on the side of a mountain Above the clouds, next to the sky And after our labours our stars will be neighbours Well take our place with them in space Were not using concrete

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.

I Never Play Basketball Now Prefab Sprout

After the last unholy row I never, ever play basketball now. It joins a list of things I'll miss Like fencing foils and lovely girls I'll never kiss.

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.

Avenue Of Stars Prefab Sprout

Love is an Avenue of Stars, I know because I've seen the glow Lighting up faces, faces that have been Close enough to shine at what they have seen Love is an Avenue of Stars, and if it is light years away

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

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

One Of The Broken Prefab Sprout

Sing me no deep hymn of devotion

Desire As Prefab Sprout

They were the best 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

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

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

Here On The Eerie Prefab Sprout

The mind meets dilemma, with a heart in decay. How they reconcile art with What was I going to say? I called because you're in a position to help. With a limited talent, but impossible wealth.

Hallelujah Prefab Sprout

There are all kinds of things I could ask you if I choose But I don't do I dear good intentions don't survive here No instead my requests tend to be dumb as hell Move in close, closer still, I hear the

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!

Horsin' Around Prefab Sprout

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

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.

Wild Horses Prefab Sprout

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

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

Cars And Girls Prefab Sprout

Innocence coming to grief At the hands of life - Stinkin' car thief, that's my concept of sin Does heaven wait all heavenly over the next horizon ?

Nightingales (Full Version) Prefab Sprout

Tell me do, something true, true of you and me That we're too busy living through, too busy to see. What is it that we do makes us what we are If we sing are we nightingales, shine are we stars ?

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.

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

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.

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

Bonny Prefab Sprout

I spend the days with my vanity I'm lost 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

Ghost Town Blues Prefab Sprout

I know the Mayor Of this hysterical town, He worked himself up From the dirt on the ground. Now everyone asks him questions and so on.

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.

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

All The World Loves Lovers Prefab Sprout

All the world loves lovers. All the world loves people in love Don't forget it. Don't forget it. Love whatever the price All the world loves lovers.

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

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

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