The King Is Half
Undressed
A.Sturmer / R.Manning
So this is where she stands at night
On this cold avenue of lights
The reds and greens but mostly reds
For you he's stopping
In seeing him she knows him less
His stick is wet she's half undressed
And all in all they're both obsessed
With so much nothing
I know it's hard for you to see
What lies behind's a mystery
If words could speak they'd
Mean even less
When the king is half undressed
She dots her "i's" with a smiley
face
A work of art in all but taste
The fool deserves the bed he's made
Where idiots slumber
Divine she is to aire this fate
A crack of smile through all
His hate
Means nothing more in this
Nervous state of
So much nothing
I know it's hard for you to see
The truth behind is misery
If words could speak they'd mean
Even less
When the king is half undressed
Blue autumns
Sunshine kisses
Hearts and flowers
And broken wishes
That Is Why
A.Sturmer / R.Manning
Though it's hard to admit it's true
I've come to depend on you
You and your angelic shout
Loud enough for two
And that is why
I'll confide in you the truth
This time
That is why
I just can't go on and live this life
Yesterday I was right as rain
But now the forecast's not
It's partly cloudy with trouser stains
And his copy of enquiring minds
But that never meant that much to her
She chose to keep her nose too clean
She'd rahter keep it pointed
Anyway
In the spine of a magazine
And when you say I trust in you
I promise you the truth
And when you say I bet you won't
You know I will
And it'll be better in the end
So when you think you've got it
Figured out
Then you know you don't
Like all the rest you'd like to sit and pout
But of course you won't
I Wanna Stay
Home
A.Sturmer
When you need someone
And there's noone there
There is always the 9 o'clock
To take you out somewhere
I take the train in town
Like I did for years
There is only 7 more blocks
I could walk from here
I wanna stay home
I wanna stay home right here
I wanna stay home today
I wanna stay
It's only 6 o'clock
When my day begins
There is always my alarm clock
To wake me up again
When I realise the weight
That's firmly on my shoulders
On my shoulders
I just try and find the place
I can take a walk on my blind side
On my blind side
When these memories fade
In my ripe old age
Please remember my dear
I wanna stay home...
Baby's Coming
Back
A.Sturmer
I knew that when I saw her
That my life would soon move over from
The fast lane
Gone would be the days of all my drinkin'
And my carryin' on
But when I settled down
The party king uncrowned
The stubborn memory hadn't faded
Too many dumb mistakes
And the grief it makes
Left nothin' else to be debated
And if you say that you
Understand then you're lyin'
But if you figure that I’m alright
Now I can't deny it
Baby's coming back
Baby's coming back
So I’m on my best behaviour
I can't take it any more
I just woke up on the floor today
I've long run out of my last chance
But she's on her way
If I had a dollar
For every single time that I fought her
I'd buy a handgun
But that couldn't shoot away
The bullseye that she made on my heart
And if I sound like a beaten man well
I guess so
But on her its the sweetest prize and i
Can't let go
What I told her on the telephone was that
i'd
Been so bad
I wouldn't blame her if she mowed down these
Wild oats i'd sown
But when she said she'd give me one
More chance
I said knock three times when you arrive
Baby's coming back...(you know the rest)
Bedspring
Kiss
A.Sturmer / R.Manning
Jimmy
His secrets out
The one he locked inside and denied every
Word about
He's guilty so his story claims
Twisting in his seat he repeats alone his name
Counting the words
Between his every line
Searchin' miles and miles to define
Just what it all means
Jimmy
As quiet as a church mouse
Painted every graphic scene but
With few details
His accomplice had made sure
Of this
When she sealed it with a
Bedspring kiss
And when her time had come to go
Jimmy washed all the bloodstains from her
Bloodstained clothes
But with a needle in his vein
It became too hard to explain
Just what it all means
Counting the words between his every line
Searchin' miles and miles to define
Just what it all means
Killing his time
The monkey in his veins
He knew he could not explain
Just what it all means
Just what it all means
The Ghost
At Number One
A.Sturmer / R.Manning
Ugly apparition gods gift to
Oxygen
The puffed up immortal son
How they love him cause he'll become
The ghose at number one
How does it feel to be the only one
How does it feel to be the only one
Who know that you're right
How does it feel to be a loaded gun
How does it feel inside a chamber
Packed with piss and spite
Sure life's no cherry
But a cupcake for the meek
So he shoots up his poison
Until the frosting tastes so sweet
(like a valentine)
He's giving it all he's got
The king of rebels hit the jackpot
But his finish line was an
Artistic flop
Yeah even the critics can't outrun
The ghost at number one
How does it feel to be the only one
How does it feel to be the only one
Who knows that you're right
How does it feel to be a chalklind
Dollar sign
How does it feel up at the address
All the widows write
Mrs lynn the fruit of your labour
Gives s a saviour, nappy superstar
To we've bid congratulations to
Him adulation
A blessed life begun, for the
Ghost at number one
How does it feel to be the only one
How does it feel to be the only one
Who knows the you're right
How does it feel to be a visionary poet
How does it feel to pack a pen with
Vinegar and insight
There's a party at the pearly gates
Of gold and platinum
(and) for you an invitation to the
Holy rock'n'rollers
How does it feel to be the only one
How does it feel to be the only one
Who knows that you're right
Standing on the bandstand
You'll see the legends
Who'll tell you how it fels
To be the only one who knows
How does it feel to be so deep down underground
How does it feel to be the only one
Who knows you've been buried alive
Mrs lynn the fruit of your labour
Gives us a saviour
New Mistake
A.Sturmer / R.Manning
Curtain opens spotlights the gentleman
Siging his love letter best wishes simpleton
Dialog swam from his pen like pollywogs
He knew better that perfum was gravity
Pulling him closer to what could be tragedy
Love is blind, deaf and dumb, but nevermind
You better catch me when i fall
I'm on my roller skates
Cause any ole way that i fall
I land in your arms even though
It's wrong
Cause i love my new mistake
Intermission gave way to a miracle
The birth of an accident grew to a spectacle
That couldn't wait the mother was three weeks
Late
So father mason clutching his crucifix
Baptized the baby in whiskey and licorice
What a lovely way drowning sins and tooth decay
Looks like our hero's gonna fall
The bow's about to break
Cause any ole way that i fall
I'll be in your arms even though it's wrong
With our lovely new mistake
You better catch me when i fall
I'm on my roller skates
Cause any ole way that i fall
I land in your arms even though
It's wrong
Cause i love my new mistake
The ending turned tragic when many years
later
The baby had grown up and married
A pop singer
I guess it was her turn to make her first mistake
Any ole time at all
Any ole way that i fall
I just like awake with my new mistake
Joining A
Fan Club
A.Sturmer / R.Manning
She turned the nightlight on
And blew him a kiss
He stared back through his green
Crayola eyes
She traced his likeness from off
The back of the disc
Next to the boxtop promise of the biggest prize
Joining a fan club with my friends
Filling our bathtubs with tee
Shirts and 8 x 10's
He looks so dreamy i'm in love
From afar
When i'm picking up a fallen star
Downstairs the late show's blasting
'Age of the rock'
The greedy monks playin' last
Sunday at the milky way
Mom's writing checks to the
Minister in the corner singing
"dig down deep"
Cause if you wanna go to heaven
All you gotta do is pay to pray
Joining a fan club with my pen
Filling my bath tub with holy
Water and amens
He looks so dreamy i'm in love
From afar
When i'm picking up a fallen star
Shake that woody for me
St. Pinocchio
You've paid your money
Now watch that money grow
Joining a fan club best be warned
He turns me on when he wears that lampshade
Crown of thorns
We'd look so dreamy sharing his balck caviar
While i'm picking up a fallen star
Joining a fan club is a big mistake
I still get heartburn when i think about all off the
Stamps i ate
I wish i'd loved him before fate crashed his car
Say a prayer for a fallen star
The Glutton
of Sympathy
A.sturmer / R.manning
In the breathless hush of
Four am
In the dark sits a sad cliche'
Cloaked in the navy blu of slowly
Fading stars
Tell me how this came to be
Sleeplessness talk to me
She'd say over and over again
Fumbling through a cut glass vase
Passing lipstick and cotton spools
Burning jealous pictures of
Marriages of friends
You never asked to be
The glutton of sympathy
She says over and and over that this is
The end
'Cause i see it in her eyes
What you don't know, time to let go
I see it in your eyes there is so
Much more out there to be learned
Such mornful words
On this white snow
Vacant page all the lesson
That she learns she packs away
Will you never cease to be
The glutton of sympathy
She writes over and over again
That's when i see it in your eyes
What you don't know time to let go
I see it in your eyes
There is so much more out there to
Be learned
Tossing, turning roll away
Indecision won't you ever make up
Your mind
Lifetime nighttime wake the day
'Cause tomorrow will see
If you've had your fill of sympathy
Will you never cease to be
The glutton of sympathy
Don't you know the stars are all
Fading let the sunshine capture the sparkle of
Your smile
No Matter What
No matter where you go
I will always be with you
Doesn't matter what you do girl, ooh girl, with you.
No matter what you do
I will always be around
Won't you tell me what you found girl, ooh girl, won't you
Knock down the old grey wall
Be a part of it all
Nothing to say, nothing to see, nothing to do
If you would give me all
I would give it to you
Nothing would be, nothing would be, nothing would be.
No matter where you go
There will always be a place
Can't you see it in my face girl ohh girl want you
Guitar solo: with phaser
Knock down the old grey wall
Be a part of it all
Nothing to say, nothing to see, nothing to do
If you would give me all
I would give it to you
Nothing would be, nothing would be, nothing would be.
No matter where you go
I will always be with you
Doesn't matter what you do girl, ooh girl, with you.
Ooh girl, you girl, want you
Let 'Em In/That
Is Why
Though it's hard to admit it's true
I've come to depend on you
You and your angelic shout
Loud enough for two
And that is why
I'll confide in you the truth
This time
That is why
I just can't go on and live this life
Yesterday I was right as rain
But now the forecast's not
It's partly cloudy with trouser stains
And his copy of enquiring minds
But that never meant that much to her
She chose to keep her nose too clean
She'd rahter keep it pointed
Anyway
In the spine of a magazine
And when you say I trust in you
I promise you the truth
And when you say I bet you won't
You know I will
And it'll be better in the end
So when you think you've got it
Figured out
Then you know you don't
Like all the rest you'd like to sit and pout
But of course you won't
The King
Is Half Undressed
A.Sturmer / R.Manning
So this is where she stands at night
On this cold avenue of lights
The reds and greens but mostly reds
For you he's stopping
In seeing him she knows him less
His stick is wet she's half undressed
And all in all they're both obsessed
With so much nothing
I know it's hard for you to see
What lies behind's a mystery
If words could speak they'd
Mean even less
When the king is half undressed
She dots her "i's" with a smiley
face
A work of art in all but taste
The fool deserves the bed he's made
Where idiots slumber
Divine she is to aire this fate
A crack of smile through all
His hate
Means nothing more in this
Nervous state of
So much nothing
I know it's hard for you to see
The truth behind is misery
If words could speak they'd mean
Even less
When the king is half undressed
Blue autumns
Sunshine kisses
Hearts and flowers
And broken wishes
Jet
Paul McCartney
Jet
I can almost remeber their funny faces
That time you told them that you were going to be marrying
soon.
And Jet I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.
Jet wooooooo Jet woooooo Jet wooooooo
Jet was your father as bold as the sergeant
major
How come he told you that you were hardly old enough yet
And Jet I thought the major was a lady suffragette
Jet woooooo Jet woooooooo Jet woooooooo
Ah Mater want Jet to always love me
Ah Mater want Jet to always love me
Ah Mater much la........ter.
(All the way from London it's Linda McCartney!!!)
Jet
And Jet I thought the major was a lady suffragette
Jet woooooo Jet woooooooo Jet woooooooo
Ah Mater want Jet to always love me
Ah Mater want Jet to always love me
Ah Mater much later
Now She
Knows She's Wrong
A.Sturmer / R.Manning
It's not the same without him here
20 years of him dead and gone
This vodka does a memory clear
Though it's too hard to imagine what these
Tears are for
A walkin posterboy for all that's good
He got swallowed by the cracks
Before he understood
She likes to think he loved here but it
Hurts so bad
Cos now she knows
She's wrong
It always seemed to strike
Her strange his working late until
The morning spending as much cash
And the sweet smell of his angel's
Hair that seemed to cling to his
Lips like a wax moustache
A walking monument to dna
Makin love under the podium at
The p.t.a
He's the principle of principles this
Love gone bad cos now she
Knows she's wrong
It hardly seems worth it baby
Too late in asking why
He juggled his honesty with 2 balls and an alibi
Now she knows that
Now she knows that
Now she knows she's wrong
