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BUDGIE LYRICS
"The Best of Budgie" (1975 Best of/Compilation)
1. Breadfan
2. I Ain't No Mountain
3. I Can't See My Feelings
4. Baby Please Don't Go
5. Zoom Club
6. Breaking All the House Rules
7. Parents
8. In for the Kill
9. In the Grip of a Tyrefitter's Hand
1. Breadfan
Open up your mind
Open up your purse
Open up your bones
Never, never gonna lose it
Breadfan
Take it all away
Never give an inch
Gotta make a mint
Gotta make me a million
Breadfan
You got it wrong
Some long time friend's gonna lose it
In the end who's a fool
Seagull
Give it all away
Stay a bird
Stay a man
Stay a ghost
Stay what you wanna be
Loser
Give it all away
Never stay with the winner
With the man
With all the filthy money
Come on
Keep it on the side
With a ride
On a record on the top
If you're gonna be a bad boy
Breadfan
You got it wrong
Some long time friend's gonna lose it
In the end who's a fool
Seagull
Give it all away
Stay a bird
Stay a man
Stay a ghost
Stay what you wanna be
2. I Ain't No Mountain
Now it wasn't easy when you didn't mean much
And buried your feet and you lost your luck
You cheated someone then you strayed too far
Now you're on your own and you drive your car
I ain't no mountain for you to climb up
Ain't nobody that you can be
So don't make my bed for me to lie on
While I’m playing my outlaw rag
Oh, you've seen some action, you know it's bad
All it seemed to tell you was
What you all never had
Don’t think so loudly as you drive your car
Or you'll blow your mind and I’ll know who you are
I ain't no mountain for you to climb up
Ain’t nobody that you can be
So don't make my bed for me to lie on
While I’m playing my outlaw rag
3. I Can't See My Feelings
I can’t see my feelings open my eyes
I can’t see my feelings open my pair of eyes
I can’t see my feelings keeping me high
I just keep on reeling bought me back tell me why
I just stand there screaming,don`t even try
Music bans all feeling
If it’ll tell me why
I can’t stop that feeling showing me why
Man I love that feeling yeah
Floats me right through the sky
4. Baby Please Don't Go
Rollin' off you go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go down to New Orleans
You know I love you so
Baby please don't go
Why don't you mind that guard
Why don't you mind that guard
Why don't you mind that guard at the County Farm
With your shackles on
Baby please don't go
Gonna be a doll
Gonna be a doll
Gonna be a doll to get your way down here
To make you walk along
Baby please don't go
Don't you go
Don't you go
Yeeeah ha
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go down to New Orleans
You know I love you so
Baby please don't go
Why don't you mind that guard
Why don't you mind that guard
Why don't you mind that guard at the County Farm
With your shackles on
Baby please don't go
5. Zoom Club
Come on everyone of you G.I.'s
You are the ones who can care
Speed on you wonderful dropouts
We’ll break the walls of this room in
Zoom along, superstar
All over the land
Move on music man
Come on everyone of you people
You ain`t got mud in your eyes
Tell everybody with hunger
Eat up the music tonight
Come on you’ll only get harder
I wanna get it to you
You are my life
You turn around in your zoot suit
Come on everyone of you preachers
You do the best that you can
Move on every one of you teachers
You do the best that you can
6. Breaking All the House Rules
I’ve been running from a dark horse, I can’t lose it
I’ve been calling to an old force, don’t excuse it
Now I’m in the back and I’m all right
Got a mean kinda woman she’s outta sight
Well I don’t mind now sit me with the old fool
Out the back door, break the house rules
I go looking for my ego, don’t explain it
Don’t want never never leave girl, just sustain it
Well I’ve got a home and it’s all right
With a mean kinda woman she’s outta sight
Well I don’t know about ripping up the old school
No no more breaking all the house rules
I got things I wanna do girl,don`t refuse me
I don’t wanna be a bad boy, you don’t rule me
Well you knowing me well that’s all right
When a guy’s gotta live and he’s outta sight
I just wanna leave everything paid for
Feeling good that it's our thing girl
It’s obscene
Well here we go,
I got things I wanna do girl,don`t refuse me
I don’t wanna be a bad boy, you don’t just rule me
Well I’m neat neat well that’s alright
With a kind kinda woman she’s outta sight
I just wanna beat everything you throw me
You don’t think that that’s obscene?
Yes it is.
7. Parents
When I was a little boy
They would say to me
Don't go in the world and play
It's bad company
All they had was child and faith
Let him grow and let him wait
Just to find out what it was to be free
But now I'm over twenty one
Growing up I've had my fun
And I know it's got to be
Baby lying in a womb
Are you free or in a tomb
Let me in,
I feel I want to cry.
Oh the road is long
Oh the road is long
Come on back, back.
Wash your hands and up to bed
Mind your manners
Or you're dead
Mind the cars cos you've got school on Monday
Put my trust in God
Who is he I know not what
Something mummy said one Sunday.
Maybe love is life but life is not
It's something I need plenty of.
Oh! I wish I'd died and never lived a day.
Now there's no one near me now
Tell me what to do and how
Take me back and sing my cares away.
Take me let me sing my cares away
Oh! the road is there
Oh that road is there
Come on back, back.
Oh! I'm empty now
Rainy pain has left me now.
Think of what my people used to say.
Black is black and white is white
Which to choose and which is right
Guide me to a place where I can stay.
Wrap me up and keep me warm
Hide myself far from the storm
Sleep and love will keep my mind at rest.
Only now I realise what my parents had to try.
Love you all and keep you all my life.
Oh that road is there
Oh the road is there
Come on back, back.
8. In for the Kill
Living ain't easy it opens your head
Layin' and prayin' you wish you were dead
When I was born I was given a will
That the meaning of life is
I'm in for the kill
Loving knowing giving showing
Love is seeing and ever being
Motor cruising midnight boozing
Altar singing and bells that are ringing
You got a reason to listen to me
For I am a messenger carrying the key
Money is nothing to hold into wills
And the meaning of life is
I'm in for the kill
You see me moving around playing on people's minds
But I won't be for nobody I only have a way of return
Take me make me do what you want
You ain't gonna mock up me
Well I am the tolls and I am the right
And I am the earth and the sea
Hey there you with a lock that is boozed
Gonna say it with a face that's red
It's only the ones who can take the pain
Who can take that golden hat
I'm only trying to help you love in a world
That is hot and rough
It's me and you and a cat named boo
And a woman who has run out of stuff
9. In the Grip of a Tyrefitter's Hand
You got your feelings
Your old fashioned feelings
About the world and its ways
No retribution
No simple solution
I think we're caught in a maze
And all the plunder
That feeling down under
It tends to gnaw at you
We're in the grip it's a total Eclipse
The tyre fitter's got you
Now let me explain
This feeling of pain
Comes from the man at the top.
His grip is so tight
His political might
The tyre fitter will not stop
He's bleeding your brain
He'll drive you insane
Nobody making a move
He'll give you a pen
But he's got him a gun
The tyre man is oh so shrewd
I'm licking my wounds
And mending my bones
And catching the wind out of town
We're all in the grip of a tyre fitter's hand
It's only doing me harm
Running away
Just isn't the way
You got to get it yourself
Watch what we do
We just gotta make do
And hide away on the shelf
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