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Everything You Know Is Wrong Words and music by Jules Gray Is this much soul searching late at night such a virtue? What to do when your logic and insight desert you? You're so surprised I keep changing my mind Each time, time after time, does it hurt you? There ain't no gospel that is carved in stone, don't you love it? If you've a leaning post to call your own, well what of it? When any day now your whole world could implode Do you think, think that you could rise above it? What if everything you know is wrong? Things that you're depending on Could be wrong? Could be wrong? Could be wrong? What if everything you see and touch Everything you love so much Could be wrong? Could be wrong? Could be wrong? Now I don't mean to criticise all your thinking But too much water makes a boat capsize, then it's sinking Do what you do and I'll do what I can each time Time after time, without blinking What if everything you know is wrong? Things that you're depending on Could be wrong? Could be wrong? Could be wrong? What if everything you see and touch Everything you love so much Could be wrong? Could be wrong? Could be wrong? Could be wrong? Could be wrong? Could be wrong? Back to the index Looking For Something Words and music by Jules Gray Are you looking for answers? Just a passing raft, not a shooting star Are you looking for answers? Just a passing raft, not a shooting star The road you travel on there's so much gone Can't see the start from where you are But you gotta do something You might have drifted off too far And you gotta tell someone Tired of keeping it down, tired of keeping it in Yeah, you gotta tell someone Tired of keeping it down, tired of keeping it in The road you travel on, there so much gone Can't see the start, can't see the end But you gotta tell someone And time is running out, dear friend There's a path cuts through the middle Of your wearisome vigil It's an honest, sweet ride There's a chance you'll get what you're after You find it in the laughter Of an honest, sweet ride But the day is dark now And it's hard to see quite where you tread But the day is dark now And it's hard to see quite where you tread This road you travel on, there's so much gone Can't see the light way up ahead There's a path cuts through the middle Of your wearisome vigil It's an honest, sweet ride There's a chance you'll get what you're after You find it in the laughter Of an honest, sweet ride And you're looking for answers? Just a passing raft, not a shooting star Back to the index Overflow Words and music by Jules Gray I know I shouldn't be resting With all of this time on my hands It's time for investing In some of those half-remembered plans Should have seen the whole thing coming Years ago Oh yes and I I Left the water running Overflow Overflow Me I look out of windows See the summer sun and winter showers Pick out colours in rainbows See the sky grow dark each passing hour Should have seen the whole thing coming Years ago Oh yes and I I Left the water running Overflow Overflow Down the line The future's fine Till tomorrow Till tomorrow Friend of mine Have you some time I can borrow? I can borrow? Didn't know when I met you Five years gone you'd break my heart No, I'll never forget you No matter how far we drift apart I should have seen the whole thing coming Years ago Oh yes and I I left the water running Overflow Yes and I Should have seen the whole thing coming Years ago Oh yes and I I Left the water running Overflow Overflow Back to the index A Farewell To Sorrows Words and music by Jules Gray No they haven't been close And now she wants to give up the ghost The thief has gone and the cheque's in the post It's still not enough And she won't change her mind She's decided to leave him behind Yes, she's been dumb but she won't be so blind Next time she's in love She's dusting off some memories While he slumps at the table again Using up her sympathies He looks so disabled, so lame Life has got her Reaching for her medicine But starting tomorrow Her sorrow will come to an end A madman danced in a fire Of anger, fear and desire And then he snapped like a wire Cause I'd gotten his goat I'd ignored all he said About the voices inside of his head Conspiring to make him see red Then go for my throat But some friends stopped us making making a scene Turn from bad to something worse But how come he'd gotten so mean I guess that some people are cursed Every time They forget to inject their medicine But maybe tomorrow Their sorrow will come to an end And the preacher preaches with zeal Convinced that his teachings can heal A new age evangelist deal Some great panacea There's no getting away From the stuff he spews out every day Imported from the U S of A Like all we hold dear It's not that I don't understand I know we all need a rock But some people need a helping hand Some others an electric shock Step up, step up Try Uncle Sam's mindwash medicine And starting tomorrow Your sorrow will come to an end The thin man faded away No one had clocked him for days Till I saw him through a cigarette haze Early that June He didn't look out of place And the beard that covered his face Hid pain and the shame and disgrace That burst his balloon But he just couldn't go on any more He wrote a letter to apologise Lay down in bed when he locked his door Dimmed the lights and then closed his eyes Life had got him Reaching for some very strong medicine There'd be no tomorrow His sorrow had come to an end And me I've just got to quit These habits that make me unfit To stand up, lie down or sit Without needing a crutch I blow hot and cold Especially as I grow old And I need somebody to hold A little too much This century drew to a close She left me lonely in tears If it's taught me a thing I suppose it's That I've learned nothing in all of these years I won't need no cure-all No potions, no medicine If your love I can borrow My sorrow will come to an end Back to the index Connemara Song Words and music by Jules Gray Took a trip to where the air is keener Up around the coast The water bluer and the grass is greener I offered up a toast Raised a glass to the Atlantic Ocean And each and every star That was shining in the heavens Near and far Hopped a wall when there was no one around there And crept into a wood An enchanted world we found there Surrounding where we stood On a bridge that spanned a river Dancing to the sea There we watched it leaving You and me So what I had to wait for all these years? So what I had to walk for all those miles? It's worth it just to capture all your tears And turn them into smiles Did you hear the ghost of the music Riding on the breeze? Melancholy and majestic Moving through the trees To the rhythm of my heartbeat Giving me a chill Coming from a house that's standing still So what I had to wait for all these years? So what I had to walk for all those miles? It's worth it just to capture all your tears And turn them into smiles Taking turns to read a story Sitting on the beach Trying to keep our worries out of reach As the tide came rolling home, love At the end of the day And the sun set all along the bay So what I had to wait for all these years? So what I had to walk for all those miles? It's worth it just to capture all your tears And turn them into smiles So what I had to wait for all these years? So what I had to walk for all those miles? It's worth it just to capture all your tears And turn them into smiles Back to the index One Way Traffic Words and music by Jules Gray She still loves me They tell me that she cries most every night We weren't meant to be That's not to say that what I did was right It seems she won't be singing in the morning for a while And it'll take a better man than me to make her smile And though it's plain to hear and see Just what she's going through And though she's still in love with me I fell in love with you But you still love him Although this other woman's turned his head Hanging on a limb You sought comfort in these arms of mine instead I thought you might have come to stay Suppose I'm not so smart Cause you can give your love away While he's still in your heart And though my hopes they're growing slim I'll wait the winter through Cause though you're still in love with him I fell in love with you I can't begin to understand It only took a glance But you steamrolled me over and I never stood a chance And though my hopes they're growing slim I'll wait the winter through Cause though you're still in love with him I fell in love with you Back to the index Southern Pacific Words and music by Neil Young Down the mountainside To the coastline Past the angry tide The mighty diesel whines And the tunnel comes And the tunnel goes Round another bend The giant drivers roll I rode the Highball I fired the Daylight When I turned sixty-five I couldn't see right It was Mr. Jones We've got to let you go It's company policy You've got a pension though Roll on, Southern Pacific On your silver rails On your silver rails Roll on, Southern Pacific On your silver rails Through the moonlight I put in my time I put in my time Now I'm left to roll Down the long decline I ain't no brake man Ain't no conductor But I would be though If I was younger Roll on, Southern Pacific On your silver rails On your silver rails Roll on, Southern Pacific Roll on, on your silver rails Back to the index Bad Luck Shuffle Words and music by Jules Gray Wish upon a star struck Down a wishing well It goes to show that bad luck Would have us go to hell And curse the day I met you Curse the day I fell From the grace of a god Who knows that you never can tell Half a pound of money For half an hour's show Half of this is funny I've half a mind to go Tell it on the mountain Tell them what I know About the fire in the sky And the trouble down below Who knows where that river flows And if it wants to take you? Who know where the wind it blows And if it's gonna break you? Who knows where that river flows And if it wants to take you? Who know where the wind it blows And if it's gonna break you? Wish upon a star struck Down a wishing well It goes to show that bad luck Would have us go to hell And curse the day I met you And I curse the day I fell From the grace of a god Who knows that you never can tell From the grace of a god Who knows that you never can tell Back to the index I Won't Count On It Words and music by Jules Gray I understand all the reasons Why you're calling it a day But I can wait while the seasons Turn to gold, turn to grey I sympathise with your sorrow But this chance may slip away Though there's always tomorrow What's in store, I can't say I won't count on it I won't count on it I don't count on anything much Anything much At all At all At all Can I get to you somehow And which song should I sing? Only thing that I'm sure of now Is you can't promise anything So I won't count on it I won't count on it I don't count on anything much Anything much At all At all At all, all At all I won't count on it I won't count on it I don't count on anything much Back to the index Built To Last Words and music by Jules Gray Cheers, then, I must be on my way And 'fore I do I got some things to say Be thankful for the rising of the sun And try to see the good in everyone And love as you would be loved yourself Look after yours in sickness and in health Even if the weather's looking grim Good times will soon come round again And again And don't let the pressures wear you down Rejoice in the pleasures of the sound Of music and of laughter, come what may And the silence at the closing of the day Ah, let me see a smile before I go I promise to return and hope you know That even if the weather's looking grim Good times will soon come round again And again All things must come to pass Except for those that we built to last All things must come to pass Except for those that we built to last All things must come to pass Except for those that we built to last All things must come to pass Except for those that we built to last All things must come to pass Except for those that we built to last All things must come to pass Except for those that we built to last All things... 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