1. A THOUSAND TREES

Standing at the bus stop with my shopping in my hands
And I'm overhearing elder ladies
As the rumours start to fly
You can hear them in the school yard
In the scrap yard
In the chip shop
In the phone box
In the pool hall
At the shoe store
Every corner turn around
It started with a school girl
Who was running
Running home to her Mam and Dad
Told them she was playing, in the change room of the local foorball side
They said tell us again, she told them again, tell us the truth, they find it hard to believe
'Cause he taught our I was steve, he even trained me, taught our John who's a father of three

Only takes one tree, to make 1000 matches
Only takes one match, to burn A thousand trees
A thousand trees

You see it in the classroom
In the swimming pool
Where the match stick men are made
At the scout's hall
At the football
Where the wise we trust are paid
They all honour his name
He did a lot for the game
Got his name knocked up above the sports ground gates
But they're ripping them down, stamping the ground
Picture gathers dust behind the bar in the lounge

Only takes one tree, to make a thousand matches
Only takes one match, to burn a thousand trees
A thousand trees

Wake up, and smell the rain
Shake up, he's back to stay
He hasn't been on a holiday
His growing seeds don't believe
Why he's been away
From the school yard
Changing room
Playing field
Bathroom
Phone box
Office blocks
Corners turn around
They keep doubting the flame, tossing the blame
Got his name knocked up above the sports ground gates
And they're ripping them down, stamping the ground
Picture gathers dust in the bar

Only takes one tree, to make a thousand matches
Only takes one match, to burn A thousand trees
A thousand trees
A thousand trees
A thousand trees


2. LOOKS LIKE CHAPLIN

I feel awash
Close down the street
Yeah Chaplin walks
Be 9:15
And I hear them, hear them call his name
And I see him, see him turn away

They take him in
And clean him up

They take him in
And strip him down
They dry his skin
And feed him wine
And I hear them, hear them call his name
And I see him, see him turn away

Ask's to use the phone

Yeah he lives alone, he lives alone
There's no one, no one home to phone
He sits alone at home
He call his home his own
His wife is still unknown


3. MORE LIFE IN A TRAMPS VEST

I get camping eyes in the final hour
Last minute shoppers picking cauliflower
The fuss they make, you'd swear they were buying a car
They always moan, moan it's not so cheap
Cheaper still, cheaper still down the street
Lose my rag and tell them take your bag and shop down there
Closing down, they're closing down another road
One way, system steals the show
Mac the knife swigs a can and sings the day away

There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest

The flower man sits down in the street
Surrounded by, the stock he bought last week
Bring back the ladies wearing lipstick on their teeth
Make up, we make up a crappy joke
Sit back, relax and have a smoke
Mac the knife swigs a can and sings the day away

There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest

I get camping eyes in the final hour
Last minute shoppers picking cauliflower
Mac the knife swigs a can and sings the day away

There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest
There's more life, more life, more life in a tramp's vest


4. LOCAL BOY IN THE PHOTOGRAGH

There's no mistake, I smell that smell
It's that time of year again, I can taste the air
The clocks go back, railway track
Something blocks the line again
And the train runs late for the first time

A pebble beach, we're underneath, a pier that's just been painted red
Where I heard the news for the first time

And all the friends lay down the flowers
Sit on the banks and drink for hours
Talk of the way they saw him last
Local boy in the photograph
Today

He'll always be 23, yet the train runs on and on
Past the place they found his clothing

There's no mistake, I smell that smell
It's that time of year again, I can taste the air
The clocks go back, railway track
Something blocks the line again
And the train runs late for the first time
Today

And all the friends lay down the flowers
Sit on the banks and drink for hours
Talk of the way they saw him last
Local boy in the photograph
Today

He's gone away


5. TRAFFIC

We all face the same way, Still it takes all day
I take a look to my left, Pick out the worst and the best
She paints her lip, greasy and thick
Another mirror stare
And she's going where?

Another office affair, to kill an unborn scare
You talk dirty to a priest, it makes you human at least
Is she running away, to start a brand new day?
Or she's going home, why's she driving alone?

Is anyone going anywhere?
Everyone's got to be, somewhere

She's got a body in the boot? Or just bags of food?
Those are models legs, but are they women's, are they men's?
She shouts down the phone, she missed a payment on the loan
She's go to be above the rest, keeping up with the best

Is anyone going anywhere?
Everyone's got to be, somewhere

Waits tables for a crook? You wrote a hardback book
You teach kids how to read, sell your body on the street
And nurse without a job, another up town snob
But have I got you all wrong, one look and you were gone

Is anyone going anywhere?
Is anyone going anywhere?
Is anyone going anywhere?
Everyone's got to be, somewhere


6. NOT UP TO YOU

Salt grips the road awaits his lift again
Street orange glow shades the odds against
One more sip a shoe a miss
A shaving nick one extra kiss

Who's to know whatever!
Not up to me not up to you
Not up to me not up to you

Swings don't swing the parks been dead for years
How do you know the last swing weren't your last for good
Hard book on freaks fresh summer peach
Creased magazine sugar chocolate treat

Who's to know whatever!
Not up to me not up to you
Not up to me not up to you

The street's so long where she lost her pocket purse
Kept the last picture of the man she committed first
Cracked windscreen rain french murder
Play junk take away tired street parades

Who's to know whatever! whatever!
Not up to me not up to you
Not up to me not up to you whatever!
Not up to me not up to you
Not up to anything we do
Not up to me not up to you…

Not up to me not up to you
It‘s not up to you
It‘s not up to you
It‘s not up to you


7. CHECK MY EYELIDS FOR HOLES

I gotta lose weight I I swallow honey
Is my stand up show still still that funny
Am I back for good I said that I said that I would be
She's down waist low trying to make me happy

Because I like watching you
It's time I tried tried to check my check my eye lids check for holes
It's time I tried tried to check my check my eye lids check for holes

Two weeks late I I gotta test for babies
Shop take is falling low I'm not going back back to the factory's

Because I like what I do
It's time I tried tried to check my check my eye lids check for holes
It's time I tried tried to check my check my eye lids check for holes

It's time I tried tried to check my check my eye lids check for holes
It's time I tried tried to check my check my eye lids check for holes
It's time I tried It's time I tried It's time I tried It's time I tried…
…check my lids check for holes


8. SAME SIZE FEET

A weeks too long, not to ring
Re-colours her hair, and waits for him
Not cat against dog, just head over heels
Sex twice a day, best time in years
Oh no, why hasn't he phoned?
She has to wait until he's on his own
Lying and Denying so nobody knows
I'll tell her this week is what he tells
Her to keep her on loan
He'll buy her one day

Sex drives, oral highs, cheating wife's spouse
Cream cakes, coffee days, throwing gifts, goodbye
Pass the way for the day had a change of kind
Sex change, to mundane for the average mind
Oh no, she just can't see
Where he is and where he's been
Looked prim and straight
Like she's always been

All that she saved for went missing again
She could be, she could be, she could be wrong
She could be, she could be, she could be wrong
She could be, she could be, she could be wrong
It looks like, It looks like, It looks like the worlds gone wrong

They found a body in the lake
maybe it wasn't really his name
Same colour, same weight, same size feet
It's the not knowing that kills you
Oh no the clocks stopped slow, everytime you're on your own
ya' hide from the spies so nobody knows
Scratch through the pages on the lazy days news for a clue
Still looking for you


9. LAST OF THE BIG TIME DRINKERS

Ten minutes flat after that day at the factory
I'm Drinking like a dog in the sun
I don't need to eat or sleep a wink, at the weekend
Drop my guts

And I can't wait for my next drink
The first one is gonna sink
I'm the last of the big time drinkers
I take pride in my work
Last of the big time drinkers

The beer don't taste the same without my name painted on my glass
I don't live to work, I work to live, I live at the weekend
I nearly spent a week in the sun
Come home with my bird, sheets thrown out the window
And sunday morning comes

And I can't wait for my next drink
The first one is gonna sink
I'm the last of the big time drinkers
I take pride in my work
Last of the big time drinkers

The beer don't taste the same without my name painted on my glass

And I can't wait for my next drink
The first one is gonna sink
I'm the last of the big time drinkers
I take pride in my work
Last of the big time drinkers

Just give me half a pint of slops
Last of the big time drinkers
I take pride in my job
Last of the big time drinkem


10. GOLDFISH BOWL

The same long faces in the workman's hall
Caramel crisp counts his birds
Cliff chip's lines up his dominoes
Kingfisher lead singer calms his nerves

I'm drinking sinking swimming drowning working smirking learning
Burning sleeping thieving cheating beating I'm eating I'm deep in a
goldfish bowl It's sink or swim

The hall down town just burns to the ground
My boxing ring turned to ash
Red head ginger bread sells tickets at the door
Stella sleep walks in the sand

I'm drinking sinking swimming drowning working smirking learning
Burning sleeping thieving cheating beating I'm eating I'm deep in a
goldfish bowl It's sink or swim they're looking in

Hard up outta luck time to ride the village bike
A bike been used ten times or more
Grape vine here's the wife lays down her royal flush
I think I've lost another rife

I'm drinking sinking swimming drowning working smirking learning
Burning sleeping thieving cheating beating I'm eating I'm deep in a
goldfish bowl It's sink or swim they're looking in It's sink or swim


11. TOO MANY SANDWISHES

Shopping spree for the family tree, haven't seen your family tree, in quite a while
Too many sandwiches and wine, sherry stains down your best mans tie, what a speech
The band arrive, the grannies cry, the singers tongue's's in the bar maids mouth, what a voice
Grandpa drunk a drop or two and his head's still stuck down the portaloo, what a man

You bought a sequin dress for your chicken breasts, the discos late and he's overpaid tonight
You got a diamond ring and a man who sings, the man who sings made love to the bar maid twice
And that's just tonight

The blue rinsed hairs lift up their chairs
The bands too loud, they're off down stairs what a noise
The bride and groom they dance their dance
The singer mimes there's still a chance, the bar maid smiles

You bought a sequin dress for your chicken breasts, the discos late and he's overpaid tonight
You got a diamond ring and a man who sings, the man who sings made love to the bar maid twice
And that's just tonight

You bought a sequin dress for your chicken breasts, the discos late and he's overpaid tonight
You got a diamond ring and a man who sings, the man who sings made love to the bar maid twice
Grandpa drunk a drop or two and his head's still stuck down the portaloo, what a man
The bride and groom they dance their dance, the singer mimes there's still a chance tonight
And the bar maid smiles


12. BILLY DAVEYS DAUGHTER

I never knew her name
I only knew her fame
She lived near my town
Another goldfish to drown

Well I just past the bridge
That parts us from them the bridge
That she used again and again again
I remember when they found her

Billy davey's daughter the word gets around
Billy davey's second daughter threw herself
To dirty water billy's left with nothing but a
Dream he dreams