[Sgt Pepper]

Into Temptation

You opened up your door
I couldn’t believe my luck
You in your new blue dress
Taking away my breath
The cradle is soft and warm
And couldn’t do me no harm
You’re showing me how to give
Into temptation
Knowing full well the earth will rebel
Into temptation

A muddle of nervous words
Could never amount to betrayal
The sentence is all my own
And the price is to watch it fail
As I turn to go
You looked at me for half a second
With an open invitation
For me to go
Into temptation
Knowing full well the earth will rebel
Into temptation
Safe in the wide open arms of hell

We can go sailing in climb down
Lose yourself when you linger long
Into temptation
Right where you belong

The guilty get no sleep
In the last slow hours of morning
Experience is cheap
I should’ve listened to the warning
But the cradle is soft and warm..

Into temptation
Knowing full well the earth will rebel
Into your wide open arms
No way to break the spell
Break the spell

Don’t tell..

Crowded House

[Sgt Pepper]

April Come She Will

April come she will
When streams are ripe and swelled with rain
May she will stay
Resting in my arms again

June she’ll change her tune
In restless walks she’ll prowl the night
July she will fly
And give no warning to her flight

August die she must
The autumn winds blow chilly and cold
September I’ll remember
A love once new has now grown old

Simon and Garfunkel

[Sgt Pepper]

This song was written for the brilliant Billie Holiday… who was born today in 1915.

Angel Of Harlem

It was a cold and wet December day
When we touched the ground at JFK
The snow was melting on the ground
On the BLS I heard the sound
Of an angel
New York like a Christmas tree
Tonight this city belongs to me
Angel

Soul love
Well this love won’t let me go
So long
Angel of Harlem

Birdland on Fifty-Three
The street sounds like a symphony
We got John Coltrane and a love supreme
Miles and she’s got to be an angel
Lady Day got diamond eyes
She sees the truth behind the lies
Angel

Soul love
Well this love won’t let me go
So long
Angel of Harlem

She sings with heart
Heart and soul
Yeah yeah..

Blue light on the avenue
God knows they got to you
Empty glass the lady sings
Eyes swollen like a bee-sting

Blinded you lost your way
In the side streets and the alleyways
Like a star exploding in the night
Full into the city with broad daylight

Angel in devil’s shoes
Salvation in the blues
You never looked like an angel
Yeah yeah
Angel of Harlem

Angel
Angel of Harlem..

U2

[Sgt Pepper]

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man

You know you can’t hold me forever
I didn’t sign up with you
I’m not a present for your friends to open
This boy’s too young to be singing the blues

So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can’t plant me in your penthouse
I’m going back to my plough

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I’ve finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

What do you think you’ll do then
I bet that’ll shoot down your plane
It’ll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again

Maybe you’ll get a replacement
There’s plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain’t got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground

So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can’t plant me in your penthouse
I’m going back to my plough

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I’ve finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

Elton John

Thanks to everyone over the years

xx

:)

[Sgt Pepper]

Hearts And Bones

One and one-half wandering Jews
Free to wander wherever they choose
Are travelling together in the Sangre de Cristo
The Blood of Christ Mountains of New Mexico
On the last leg of a journey they started a long time ago
The arc of a love affair
Rainbows in the high desert air
Mountain passes slipping into stones
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones

Thinking back to the season before
Looking back through the cracks in the door
Two people were married
The act was outrageous
The bride was contagious
She burned like a bride
These events may have had some effect on the man with the girl by his side
The arc of a love affair
His hands rolling down her hair
Love like lightning shaking till it moans
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones

And oh she said why?
Why don’t we drive through the night
And we’ll wake up down in Mexico
Oh I..
I don’t know nothin’ about nothin’ about no Mexico
And tell me why?
Why won’t you love me
For who I am
Where I am?
He said
‘Cause that’s not the way the world is baby
This is how I love you baby
This is how I love you baby

One and one-half wandering Jews
Returned to their natural coasts
To resume old acquaintances
And step out occasionally
And speculate who had been damaged the most
Easy time will determine if these consolations will be their reward
The arc of a love affair
Waiting to be restored
You take two bodies and you twirl them into one
Their hearts and their bones
Oh and they won’t come undone
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones

Paul Simon

[Sgt Pepper]

Minds Locked Shut

It happened on a Sunday afternoon
On a lovely bright crisp winters afternoon
On a perfect day for walking

There were gunshots, stones and bullets
On a lovely bright crisp winters afternoon
There was chaos, panic and death
Disbelief upon the faces
Fear and bewilderment
The seconds seemed so long

They’re firing bullets at us

It was not supposed to be like this

Awesome to behold

And then our minds locked shut
And then our minds locked shut
And then our minds locked shut
And then our minds locked shut

And there remains
Remains

Jackie Duddy and Willie Nash,
Gerry Donaghy, Willy McKinney,
Gerard McKinney and Jim Wray,
Johnny Johnston, Barney McGuigan,
Paddy Doherty, Kevin McIlhenny,
John Young, Mickey Kelly,
Hugh Gilmore, Micheal McDaid

Let us remember

It happened on a Sunday afternoon
On a lovely bright crisp winters afternoon
On a perfect day for walking

Christy Moore

[Sgt Pepper]

Within You Without You

We were talking
About the space between us all
And the people
Who hide themselves behind a wall
Of illusion
Never glimpse the truth
Then it’s far too late
When they pass away

We were talking
About the love we all could share
When we find it
To try our best to hold it there
With our love
With our love
We could save the world
If they only knew

Try to realise it’s all within yourself
No one else can make you change

And to see you’re really only very small
And life flows on within you and without you

We were talking
About the love that’s gone so cold
And the people
Who gain the world and lose their soul
They don’t know
They can’t see
Are you one of them?

When you’ve seen beyond yourself
Then you may find
Peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come
When you see we’re all one
And life flows on
Within you and without you

The Beatles

[Sgt Pepper]

American Tune

Many’s the time I’ve been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes and I’ve often felt forsaken
And certainly misused
Oh but I’m alright
I’m alright
I’m just weary to my bones
Still you don’t expect to be bright and bon vivant
So far away from home
So far away from home

I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered
I don’t have a friend who feels at ease
I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered
Or driven to its knees
Oh but it’s alright
It’s alright
For we lived so well so long
Still when I think of the road we’re traveling on
I wonder what’s gone wrong
I can’t help it
I wonder what’s gone wrong

And I dreamed I was dying
I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassuringly

And I dreamed I was flying
And high up above my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea

And I dreamed I was flying
Oh we come on the ship they call “The Mayflower”
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age’s most uncertain hours
And sing an American tune

Oh and it’s alright
It’s alright
It’s alright
You can’t be forever blessed
Still tomorrow’s going to be another working day
And I’m trying to get some rest
That’s all I’m trying to get some rest

Paul Simon

[Sgt Pepper]

Saints And Sinners

Well anyone can lose it all
Well anyone can lose it all
When you don’t heed your warning’s call
Well anyone can lose it all

Well anyone can make a mess
Yeah anyone can make a mess
Just take so much and make it less
Well anyone can make a mess

When you got time and streets making saints and sinners
Well ink on sheets making losers and winners
Well it’s not what your dreams should be

Well anyone can be a saint
Well anyone can be a saint
And you just forget that you ain’t
We can go and be a saint

Well anyone can be a star
Well anyone can be a star
Well just get in your car
We can go and be a star

When you got time and streets making saints and sinners
Well ink on sheets making losers and winners
Well it’s not what your dreams should be

It’s not what your dreams should be

You know I wish we’d had more time
You know I wish we’d had more time
You know I think it was a crime
The things we’d waste trying not to waste our time

When you got time and streets making saints and sinners
Well ink on sheets making losers the winners
Well it’s not what your dreams should be

And we got time and streets making ends for beginners
Shuffling feet on these losers and winners
Well it’s not what your dreams should be

Paddy Casey

[Sgt Pepper]

Joanni

All the banners stop waving
And the flags stop flying
And the silence comes over
Thousands of soldiers
Thousands of soldiers

Who is that girl?
Do I know Her face?
Who is that girl?

Joanni Joanni wears a Golden Cross
And She looks so beautiful in Her armour
Joanni Joanni blows a kiss to God
And She never wears a ring on Her finger

All the cannon are firing
And the swords are clashing
And the horses are charging
And the flags are flying
And the battle is raging
And the bells
The bells are ringing

Who is that girl?
Do I know Her face?
Who is that girl?

Joanni Joanni wears a Golden Cross
And She looks so beautiful in Her armour
Joanni Joanni blows a kiss to God
And She never wears a ring on Her finger
Joanni, Joanni, Joanni, Joanni blow a kiss to God
And She just looks beautiful in Her armour
Beautiful in Her armour…

Kate Bush

Blessed Saint Joan

x

Jan 6th 1412

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