Paralyzed Graham Parker, The Rumour

to please so I just freeze Nailed down by whispers, looks and sighs And I'm so paralysed, I am so paralysed I wait for you to disown me when you leave I won't look I wait for someone to phone me with the

Endless Night Graham Parker, The Rumour

I had the time but I blew it I had the power and I knew it Had the energy, but outgrew it The identity but saw through it, yeah I had the walk, but got trampled Had the taste, it was sampled I had the

Women In Charge Graham Parker, The Rumour

You might believe that you're running the world But you're running the risk of being just another girl Lashing out viciously at the competition, it's just an admission, a nervous Condition It's more than

Stupefaction Graham Parker, The Rumour

The sun is burnin' It never changes The people look up With nothing in their eyeballs They stare at billboards As if for guidance There's something wrong here I can't but my finger on Same thing, same

The Beating Of Another Heart Graham Parker, The Rumour

She comes from the hardest town They build you up to let you down and Leave you with an armour hard as steel It's not the chaos or the heat Or the noises from the street but Something inside she has to

Devil's Sidewalk Graham Parker, The Rumour

Took a walk down Hell's pavement Took a walk down pulled by the tide I had to make some new arrangement Oh I thought I'd reach the other side Then someone opened up their mouth to talk They said You ain't

No Holding Back Graham Parker, The Rumour

Someone called me from across the ocean To find a weak link in my devotion They can shoot hot knives down the line I just slam it down every time I got the telephone jammed in my ear They're still talking

Manoeuvres Graham Parker, The Rumour

You let me in and I'll help you win This chance must be heaven sent You buy the time I sold you all mine No one knows the D J's bent I don't care if someone gets hurt When I lose it feels like dirt Other

Hold Back The Night Graham Parker, The Rumour

Hold back the night, turn on the light

Empty Lives Graham Parker, The Rumour

I'm just a tick in a box on a questionnaire another moment that flashes into nowhere a brand name on a pill that get's you there, ah ah ah ah I'm getting nothing and expecting oblivion the past aint even

Love Without Greed Graham Parker, The Rumour

in secret in a long sedan I can hear you laugh at all his jokes Taking everything that's offered until it chokes And it makes me want to get a lock and key Hold you down in one place for me Can't own the

Jolie Jolie Graham Parker, The Rumour

There's no remedy I just keep yearning for the sound of your voice I don't use teardrops as a weapon by choice They're just a fall out of my eyes Keep reminding me Every last touch is buried under my skin

The Kid With The Butterfly Net Graham Parker

, every field was open Nothing was impossible yet For the kid with the butterfly net The kid with the butterfly net There's a stream runs through this land Runs through the heart of this land There's a

The Heat In Harlem Graham Parker

I ain't stopping fingers keep bopping Swing band rocking from the street to the bar West Coast's dated music's overrated Here it on the radio in every car The heat in Harlem The heat in Harlem, yep The

The Kid With The Butterfly Net (Alternate Take) Graham Parker

, every field was open Nothing was impossible yet For the kid with the butterfly net The kid with the butterfly net There's a stream runs through this land Runs through the heart of this land There's a

Under The Mask Of Happiness Graham Parker

She looked so good he looked so sane Not forever could they last Under the mask under the mask Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness She got colder with each incision No one knew he

Local Girls Graham Parker

she waits each morning So isolated that she thinks that the army is the place where a man ought to be Don't bother with them, they don't bother me Don't bother with the local girls Don't bother with the

They Murdered The Clown Graham Parker

The ringmaster looked a bit pasty and down Dying as he was to get out of town The lions and the tigers had gnawed at his feet But the lion tamer's whip hurt much more than their teeth The Giovanni Sisters

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

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

Over The Border (To America) Graham Parker

A man smokes and a dog stretches A woman works and a kid kvetches I'm ridin' on a road that stretches Over the border to America Over the border to America I got nothin' but lonesome time A backyard and

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

Museum Of Stupidity Graham Parker

One day there'll be a museum of stupidity Where we can hang ourselves and throw away the key Along with the attitudes of the pmrc And this bullshit drug war full of hypocrisy The banning of 2 live crew

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There’s A Ghost In My House Graham Parker

There's a ghost in my house The ghost of your memories The ghost of the love you took from me Well, our love used to be Only shadows from the past I see Time can't seem to erase The vision of your smiling

My Love's Strong Graham Parker

When the world's asleep And there's no one in your arms Raindrops hit the window Like distant alarms You don't have to worry Hey girl don't you cry My love beats adversity baby Eats it alive And I got

Just Like Hermann Hesse Graham Parker

I took off my mask that night and bared my teeth in your face You saw something else living under my skin the wolf with no thought of disgrace I know I know some things you must never confess I drop to

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

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

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

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

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

Don't Let It Break You Down Graham Parker

Now don't get bent out of shape Don't start tearing out your hair One a sweet little angel That stuff's nowhere When the bombs go off on Oxford Street And the kids beat up old people It's just a soundtrack

Here It Comes Again Graham Parker

Let's talk about a criminal procedure Throw out the idea of illegal seizure Put a rope around somebody's neck Let's hold some bastard up for example Take his blood and a urine sample Feed him garbage and

She Wants So Many Things Graham Parker

her She wants so many things all at once Like a brick wall that'll keep her from crumbling And a camouflage jacket to hide from herself in And a system of worship like a powerful magnet That'll draw in the

OK Hieronymus Graham Parker

I break a heart in a thousand places, she makes a slur against other races He rejects all of the unpretty faces, sticks them full of knives I take a shot at birds flying south, he takes the gun barrel

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

The Sun Is Gonna Shine Again Graham Parker

will see That I can lean on you and you can put your weight on me And every man will get a chance to be what a man wants to be And every woman will look at her child and know that he's growing up free The

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

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

A Brand New Book Graham Parker

I once read the story of somebody's life I had a few moments to spare He was a good man who lived with his wife With the usual kids in his hair There was happiness a lot of weirdness And a sprinkle of