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Dear Father Christmas
Death-Cab For Cutie
Dig Your Bones
Disillusioned
Don't Know Why
Doubleback Alley
Down That Road
Drama on a Saturday Night
Dream On
Dreams Shine Through
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Dear Father Christmas
Dear Father Christmas
with your white, fluffy whiskers
instead of just a letter I am writing you a song this year
Its not for the money
I'm not being funny
It's for something else to do with the season of good cheer
Dear Father Christmas
Can I ask for this much?
How about some love and understanding in this world?
Peace between each nation
An end to all starvation
If only for the sake of every boy and every girl
Dear Father Christmas
I know it's good for business
But haven't we enough atomic bombs to kill us all?
A thousand time over
The world could be in clover
If only greedy people didn't think so Goddam small
ps: Father Christmas
For my brothers and my sisters
Give them all a happy time, and teach them how to get along
Though it's just a Christmas single
With lots of bells that jingle
I hope someday the world will never have to hear this kind of song
lala...la la-la......
Though it's just a Christmas single
With lots of bells that jingle
I hope someday the world will never have to hear this kind of song
Dear Father Christmas
With your white, fluffy whiskers
here's lots of love and kisses.
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Death-Cab For Cutie (Stanshall)
That night Cutie called a cab, uh huh huh
(baby don't do it)
She left her East Side room so drab uh huh huh
(baby don't do it)
She went out on the town
Knowin' it would make her lover frown
(Death-cab for Cutie)
(Death-cab for Cutie)
Someone's gonna make you pay your fare
The cab was racin' through the night, mm mm mm
(baby don't do it)
His eyes in the mirror, keepin' Cutie in sight, uh huh huh
(baby don't do it)
When he saw Cutie, it gave him a thrill
Don't you know, baby curves can kill
(Death-cab for Cutie)
(Death-cab for Cutie)
Someone's gonna make you pay your fare
Cutie, don't you play with fate
Don't leave your lover alone
If you go out on this date
His heart will turn to stone
Bad girl, Cutie, what have you done, uh huh huh
(baby don't do it)
Slippin' slidin' down-a Highway 31, mm mm mm
(baby don't do it)
The traffic lights changed from green to red
They tried to stop but they both wound up dead
(Death-cab for Cutie)
(Death-cab for Cutie)
Someone's gonna make you pay your fare
Someone's gonna make you pay your fare
Someone's gonna make you pay your fare
Someone's gonna make you pay your fare
Aaaahh oooo....
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Dig Your Bones
Do you know who I am?
Can you hear me talkin'?
I am always with you
When you go out walkin'
I am the skeleton in your body
And I'm here to put you straight
I am the skeleton in your body
Without me you'd be like a jello on a plate
So, dig your bones (dig your bones)
Dig your bones (dig your bones)
Now, don't be too alarmed
You're in no danger
When all is said and done
I am no stranger
I am the skeleton in your body
And I'm here to put you straight
I am the skeleton in your body
Without me you'd be like a jello on a plate
So, dig your bones (dig your bones)
Dig your bones (dig your bones)
Together we can run
Hop and skip and jump things
Use our fingers, what a team!
We are really something!
I am the skeleton in your body
And I'm so articulate
I am the skeleton in your body
Without me you'd be like a jello on a plate
So, dig your bones (dig your bones)
Dig your bones (dig your bones)
Dig your bones (dig your bones)
Dig your bones (dig your bones)
Okay, so what do you wanna do now?
Let's try a cartwheel. Maybe a handstand.
Okay, let's keep it simple, let's stand on tiptoe
With our arms up as high as we can.
Wiggle our fingers!
Yeah, that's it.
Ah, just a moment, maybe we oughta chill out.
People are beginning to stare at us.
Okay, we'll just walk down the street.
(Dig your bones)
Just cool and slow.
(Dig your bones)
That's it.
(Dig your bones)
Don't draw attention to yourself.
(Dig your bones)
(Dig your bones)
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Disillusioned
Life is illusion
Ideas in the mind, jumping to conclusions
Seeing is believing
Ideas in the mind can be so deceiving
As time goes by
and the seasons change I cry
I'm disillusioned, disillusioned
My eyes no longer play tricks on me
I'm disillusioned, disillusioned
The more I look the less I see
Oh yeah the more I look, the less I want to see
The more I look the less I want to see
Seems like only yesterday
My eyes were open wide
Sometimes I was enchanted
Other times just mystified
Once I had a vision but it don't mean a thing
In the land of the blinded, the one-eyed man is king
He leads, the dance
Honi soit qui mal y pense
I'm disillusioned, disillusioned
My eyes no longer play tricks on me
I'm disillusioned, disillusioned
The more I look the less I see
For life is illusion
Ideas in the mind, jumping to conclusions
Seeing is believing
Ideas in the mind can be so deceiving
As time goes by
and the seasons change I cry
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Don't Know Why
I don't know why
The world turns out to be the way it is
As time goes by
Oh I (I...)
Don't know why (don't know why...)
True love turns out to be the stuff
Between hello and goodbye
Looking back with 20-20 hindsight
We only tried to play our part
When selfishness is state of the art
You've just got to change the locks on your heart
Now I (I...)
Don't know why (don't know why...)
True love turns out to be the stuff
Between hello and goodbye
Looking back with 20-20 hindsight
We only did the best we could
As green as any Norwegian Wood
The acid test of fame we withstood
Now I (I...)
Don't know why (don't know why...)
The world turns out to be the way it is
As time goes by
Oh I (I...)
Don't know why (don't know why...)
True love turns out to be the stuff
Between hello and goodbye
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Doubleback Alley
People were proud in Doubleback Alley
Neighbors were loud, but ever so pally
People would shout, joking about
The smoke and the soot, Mother would put
The milk bottles out
We had a good time in Doubleback Alley
With fences to climb, and Father O'Malley
To clip your ear, and steer you clear
Of the funny man in the ice cream van
Who talked so queer
Doubleback Alley takes me back and in my mind I see
Happy, smiling faces if I flog my memory
Plenty to do in Doubleback Alley
Play peek-a-boo with Saccharine Sally
Bouncing a ball against a wall
Showing her drawers, "You come indoors!"
Her dad would call
(Aaaaaah)
(La la la laaaaaa)
(Laaaaaa)
(La la la laaaaaa)
Doubleback Alley takes me back
And in my mind I see
Happy, smiling faces if I flog my memory
Stinking of gin in Doubleback Alley
Grinning a grin in Doubleback Alley
Kick a dustbin, bingo to win
Windows to break, Mother would take
The milk bottles in
Doubleback Alley takes me back
And in my mind I see
Happy, smiling faces if I flog my memory
Doubleback Alley takes me back
And in my mind I see
Happy, smiling faces if I flog my memory
Doubleback Alley
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Down That Road
It won't be long now before we turn this corner
And when we do we'll keep on down that road
We'll keep on going along the straight and narrow
There's no two ways about it down that road
Never mind the weather as long as we're together
It would take an avalanche to come between us
Though we made get weary,
We'll stay bright and cheery
We'll keep smiling through
We'll take our chances
We'll cross each bridge we come to
We'll find our destination down that road
Though we may sometimes drag our footsteps
We shall stumble on some way to get us there
On some way to get us there
It won't be long now
Before we turn this corner
hAnd when we do we'll keep on down that road
(keep on going, keep on going)
(keep on going, keep on going)
Keep on going (keep on going, keep on going)
down that road (keep on going, keep on going)
Keep on going (keep on going, keep on going)
down that road (keep on going, keep on going)
Keep on going (keep on going, keep on going)
down that road (keep on going, keep on going)
Keep on going (keep on going, keep on going)
down that road (keep on going, keep on going)
Keep on going (keep on going, keep on going)
down that road (keep on going, keep on going)
Keep on....
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Drama on a Saturday Night
Bella was a beauty queen
One of a kind
She couldn't get ambition off her mind
She entered every contest
from Redcar to Penzance
She entered anywhere she stood a chance
Then one day, way down yonder
In Shanklin, Isle of Wight,
She became a big name overnight
She was placed above the rest
The winners sash across her breast
She wept with joy, she kissed the crown
She was the toast of her home town
(ahhh AH!)
Drama on a Saturday night
A story of human emotion
Love is as shallow as people
And as deep as the ocean
She posed for Sunday papers
wearing nothing but a smile
She took 'em off while putting on the style
She soon became the sweetheart
of a playboy millionaire
Who bought her clothes and took her everywhere
They were married in Las Vegas
She said solemnly "I do"
amidst t.v.cameras and Yankee ballyhoo
Bella frequented the nightclub scene
as befits an ex-beauty queen
She took to drink while her playboy played
And so it was their love decayed
Drama on a Saturday night
A story of human emotion
Love is as shallow as people
And as deep as the ocean
Bella got a gun
Bella shot him dead
"He died instantly" the coroner said
And so behind dark glasses
Bella hid her eyes
It's unsightly when a woman cries
Just who was to blame
the press would soon find out
But as it was, the jury had no doubt
The verdict was guilty
The judge had no choice
He said "You get life"
in a serious voice
But Bella just laughed
and tearfully said,
"Oh what a joke,
I've always been dead!"
Drama on a Saturday night
A story of human emotion
Love is as shallow as people
And as deep as the ocean
Drama on a Saturday night
A story of human emotion
Love is as shallow as people
And as deep as the ocean
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Dream On
It's so hard to follow a dream
Dreams are following me
Hot on my heels they come
Geronimo, Captain Hook
The almanacs, the history books
Encyclopedias
Beginnings and ends
So many stories
Have been put to the pen
To explain
or defend
the right to be understood
In the name of brotherhood
I don't know why I cry
Or laugh
Or fall in love
Or try to reach
The stars above
There's no conclusion
Dreams are for fools
My little dreamer
My little fool
little fool....dream on...
Dream on
dream on, dream on, dream on
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Dreams Shine Through
An old man lay dying beneath cold city skies
An ominous look in his derelict eyes
The moment of death for him had no sting
His soul had the power to grant him one thing
So he said
"Let my dreams shine through,
Let my dreams shine through."
Passing nearby was a shiny black car
In the front a chauffeur, in the back a cigar
That lit up the face of a middle-aged man
Who bought and sold stock like nobody can,
And he said
"Let my dreams shine through,
Let my dreams shine through."
Close by two young lovers were gettin' it on
And of all the positions they knew every one
And after they'd tried every trick in the book
He lay on the bed with a faraway look
Just thinking,
"Let my dreams shine through,
Let my dreams shine through."
Not far away was another big car
This time in the back was a rock an' roll star
And that night at the concert the fans all went wild
As he strummed his guitar and sang through his smile
Singing,
"Let my dreams shine through,
Let my dreams shine through."
Well, the fans went home happy, and so did the star
Likewise the young lovers and the man in the car
But as the old man turned over and died
For the moment all the others felt cold
and empty
inside.
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