Gary Walker - Rain Album No 1

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MAGAZINE WOMAN

Imagine the scenes that you’ve seen in your dreams with a woman

The scenes in your dream make it seem like you’ve been with that woman

Magazine woman, magazine woman

It’s as strange as it seems and it isn’t quite real, but supposing

The feelings you feel become real even though you’re just dozing

Magazine woman, magazine woman

Run, run, run, run, run to the sky

It’s certainly nice when you know you can go when you need to

It’s certainly nice when you get to the place someone needs you

Magazine woman, magazine woman

It’s so good to know if you go there you know she is waiting

This woman you dream of, you know she is hating the waiting

Magazine woman, magazine woman

Run, run, run, run, run to the sky

(Magazine woman, wooh)

Run, run, run, run, run to the sky

(Magazine woman, wooh)

Run, run, run, run, run to the sky

(Magazine woman, wooh)

Run, run, run, run, run to the sky

(Magazine woman, wooh)

THE SUN SHINES

You drink wine, eat T-bone steak

I drink water, eat rock cake

The sun shines on everybody

But it’s raining on me

Around my house the birds don’t sing

I get winter when you get spring

The sun shines on everybody

But it’s raining on me

I just don’t understand

There is no future in my hand

The weatherman says clear today

There’s a big black cloud that’s hanging over me

Big bright eyes and rosy cheeks

I never had cause I don’t sleep

The sun shines on everybody

But it’s raining on me

You drink wine, eat T-bone steak

I drink water, eat rock cake

The sun shines on everybody

But it’s raining on me

I just don’t understand

There is no future in my hand

The weatherman says clear today

There’s a big black cloud that’s hanging over me

My, my, hello is this the day

The big black cloud’s just blown away

The sun shines on everybody including me

Feeling fine, weatherman’s not a bad guy

No more worries, kiss them goodbye

Because the sun shines on everybody including me

The sun shines on everybody including me

DOCTOR DOCTOR

Yeah, yeah

When the birds began to bark

Put the light on it till dark

You’ll agree, I must take a break

Yeah

Caught a chill, feeling old

Light the fire, I’m still cold

Throbbing pain from bones that chill and ache

Yeah

Doctor, doctor

What is wrong

Is it bad

Will it take long

Tell me, tell me

If it will get worse

It’s all right, don’t worry son

You’ll be well when I have done

Medicine is what I recommend

Two weeks later I feel good

Doing what he said I should

Taking just these eighty pills a day

And now the doctor’s feeling bad

Think he’s got what I've just had

And his wife has got the symptoms too

Yeah

Won’t the people get away

You could catch it any day

Not a single thing that you can do

Now it’s getting out of hand

Think it’s spreading through the land

Whoops, I think I’ve started something big

Oh yeah

Two weeks later I feel good

Doing what he said I should

Taking just these eighty pills a day

And now the doctor’s feeling bad

Think he’s got what I’ve just had

And his wife has got the symptoms too

Won’t the people get away

You could catch it any day

Not a single thing that you can do

Now it’s getting out of hand

Think it’s spreading through the land

Whoops, I think I’ve started something big

Doctor, doctor, I feel good

Doctor, doctor

I CAN'T STAND TO LOSE YOU

Listen to me baby, quit your running round

I’m gonna leave you

And never have I said these words before now

Because I love you

Baby, I love you

I can’t stand to lose you

No I can’t

You only have to ask of me

You know, you know I’d surely give in

But you took me for granted

And now, now you better forget it

You had to upset it

And now I stand to lose you

Yes I do

Every night I lay awake crying

Disappointment is rotting in my heart, oh heart

I just lie here and soak my pillow

I convince myself I will go

I should go

You wouldn’t hear my plea

I've packed my bags

I’m leaving you, just watch me

I never ever thought you’d let me get this far

Without trying to stop me

Baby, please stop me

I can’t stand to lose you

No I can’t

I can’t stand to lose you

No I can’t

I can’t stand to lose you

Oh, oh, yeah, yeah

I can’t, can’t stand to lose you

You said it, yeah can’t stand to lose you

I know I can’t, can’t stand to lose you

MARKET TAVERN

A hundred and forty four York Way

The Market Tavern in its heyday

Harry, Frank and Jim

Look at the state they’re in

Mort behind the bar drinks a gin

Billiards is the game, you know

It really goes to show

They shoot the table till it’s time to go

Harry’s nice to the people

He’ll buy you a drink when you’re down

Frank is the champ of the table

He’ll play you for half a crown, if he’s able

Jimmy comes from Glasgow with his Cockney attitude

A hundred and forty four York Way

The Market Tavern in its heyday

Harry, Frank and Jim

Look at the state they’re in

Mort behind the bar drinks a gin

Jimmy comes from Scotland where the haggis can be found

He wears his suits on Sundays and he’ll never let you down

He’s related to Robert the Bruce

He came to London and he drank all the juice

Jimmy comes from Glasgow with a Cockney attitude

Frank is a family man

He’s got a wife and three kids

A lovely wife and three kids

He’s got a wife and three kids

Harry is the nice old man that we all like to meet

You’ll find him in the ale house

When you meet him it’s a treat

All the people like him

Say he’s good enough to eat

As far as playing billiards

Well, he’s got you all beat

One hundred and forty four York Way

The Market Tavern in its heyday

Harry, Frank and Jim

Look at the state they’re in

Mort behind the bar drinks a gin

A hundred and forty four York Way

The Market Tavern in its heyday

Harry, Frank and Jim

Look at the state they’re in

Mort behind the bar drinks a gin

SPOOKY

In the cool of the evening when everything is getting kind of groovy

I call you up and ask you if you’d like to go with me and see a movie

And first you say no, you’ve got some plans for tonight

And then you stop and say, all right

Love is kind of crazy with a spooky little girl like you

You always keep me guessing

I never seem to know what you are thinking

And if a fellow looks at you

Then it’s for sure your little eye will be a-winking

I get confused cause I don’t know where I stand

And then you smile and hold my hand

Love is kind of crazy with a spooky little girl like you

A spooky, hey, hey

If you decide you better stop this little game that you are playing

I’m gonna tell you all the things my heart’s been a-dying to be saying

That just like a ghost you’ve been a-haunting my dreams

So I’ll propose on Halloween

Love is kind of crazy with a spooky little girl like you

A spooky, hey, hey

Oh, oh, all right

A spooky, yeah

I said a spooky

Oh, oh

I said a spooky

TAKE A LOOK

Take a look in the sky, you’ll see a rainbow

Take a look in her eye, you’ll see the same show

Cause she is better, she’s so much better than she ever was before

Take a look at the face you think you do know

Take a look at her smile, you’ll see a new glow

Cause she is better, she’s so much better

Is she really better than she ever was before

Yes, she’s really better than she ever was before, really better

Take a look at us now, you’ll see together

Take a look at our love, you’ll see forever

Cause she is better, she’s so much better

Is she really better than she ever was before

Yes, she’s really better than she ever was before, really better

She’s so much better than she ever was before

THE VIEW

The man sits in the shadow of the sun

Watching the people just for fun

Who all push, shove and run

He counts the clouds one by one

The waiting game had begun

No one knows what he’d done

See the man who is bad

The man who is sad

The man who’d been had

What is the view like from the thirteenth floor

I’ll take the moon from your skies

I’ll take the stars from your eyes

I told the truth, they told lies

See yourself tomorrow as you are today

Talking with nothing else to say

Is this the price we have to pay

See the man who is bad

The man who is sad

The man who’s been had

What is the view like from the thirteenth floor

The rest of his life he will be hid

Inside his mind he’s just a kid

Can they be sure he really did

See the man who is bad

The man who is sad

The man who’s been had

What is the view like from the thirteenth floor

IF YOU DON'T COME BACK

Well a noise woke me up this morning

I looked through Venetian blinds

The car was gone and you were gone

And I almost lost my mind

If you don’t come back

(If you don’t come back)

Well if you don’t come back

(If you don’t come back)

Well, baby you can call up the people at this crazy house

And take this crazy man away

I threw myself up against a wall now

I tore my clothes and I sobbed

I ran out on the street in my stocking feet

Yelling, "police I’ve been robbed"

If you don’t come back

(If you don’t come back)

Well if you don’t come back

(If you don’t come back)

Well, baby you can call up the people at this crazy house

And take this crazy man away

Mrs Bromley talking about me

To the people way across the street

She says, "I made that boy now a bucket of stew

But the poor thing just won’t eat"

If you don’t come back

(If you don’t come back)

Well if you don’t come back

(If you don’t come back)

Well, baby you can call up the people at this crazy house

And take this crazy man away

The doc came up to see me

Inspected with a fine tooth comb

He says, "you ain't sick, but you're gonna die

If you don’t get your baby back home"

If you don’t come back

(If you don’t come back)

Well if you don’t come back

(If you don’t come back)

Well, baby you can call up the people at this crazy house

And take this crazy man away

If you don’t come back

(If you don’t come back)

Well if you don’t come back child

(If you don’t come back)

Well, baby you can call up the people at this crazy house

And take this crazy man away

Well if you don’t come back

(If you don’t come back)

Well if you don’t come back child

(If you don’t come back)

Well, baby you can call up the people at this crazy house

And take this crazy man away

THOUGHTS OF AN OLD MAN

Early in the morning as the dawn begins to break

He opens up his window, feels the sunrise on the lake

Slowly rising higher as the wind it softly sighs

The sun is all around him, it’s warming up the sky

Later in the morning, getting colder, feels like rain

This awful autumn weather, yes it always is the same

I thought the sun was too good to be true this time of year

So I’ll sit down in my armchair and I guess I’ll have a beer

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

Later in the evening as the sun begins to set

He closes up the window, turns on the Hi-Fi set

Slowly sinking lower, hears the wind, it softly cries

Stars are all around him, warming up the sky

In the morning

(Nothing much is found, nothing ever did)

In the morning

(Nothing to be seen since he was a kid)

In the morning

(Nobody knows how but the world's been hid)

In the morning

It’s so sad

FRANCIS

Remember in school, he was ever so cool about teacher

Acting the fool, he would break all the rules of the preacher

And Francis philanderer, on Saturday

Met up with Alice and took her away

As he grew older, he also grew bolder and sold her

It wasn’t like him to be mean with his money, he told her

He took her away for a year and a day

He gave her the time of her life

He thought he would buy everything that he wanted

But he couldn’t buy him a wife

A-money couldn’t buy him a wife

He didn’t expect it, he thought she’d accept him for money

He felt dejected, now he’s just a rejected honey

And Francis philanderer, on Saturday

He met up with Alice and took her away

He thought he could buy everything that he wanted

Money brought him nothing but strife

He bought all the cars and a house in the country

But money couldn’t buy him a wife

Money couldn’t buy him a wife

Francis philanderer

A-Francis philanderer, baby, woh, oh