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| Love Can Be |  | | Words: Dennis Johnson, Music: Steve Turner | | Love is burning a hole in my heart
I’m bruised and I’m hurt but I’m not really complaining
Love is tearing my whole world apart
But when all’s said and done I guess I’m only pretending
Love is changing my whole point of view
I used to be certain of where I was going
Love is forcing me to despise you
I’m not even certain that I know what I’m saying | | Love can be so unfulfilling
Especially it seems when you’re not willing
To say that you love me without laughing
To say that you need me without walking away
I know that you will be leaving me soon | | Love is killing the dreams I once had
I’m nervous and I’m restless and I know that it’s showing
Love is dying and I’m feeling so sad
I’m numb and I’m breathless, love has been my undoing | | Love can be so unfulfilling
Especially it seems when you’re not willing
To say that you love me without laughing
To say that you need me without walking away
I know that you will be leaving me soon |
| Girl For Granted | | | Words: Tony Green, Music: Jeff Walker | | | One of very few lyrics Tony wrote for the GBs, and a fine bit of work it is too. This was originally a Frank song which we boogified for the street and the Tea Chest. It was also recorded for the 'Lost' Album with Jon Cleary adding some fabulous piano, and once again for the Gone to the Dogs album. Great tune from Jeff too - they should've written together more often! | | I once had a woman, she treated me too kind
I took her for granted, I thought that she’d always be mine
But now I’m a loner, I don’t like being by myself
The kind of love I’m looking for I can’t find with nobody else
Boy don’t take your girl for granted
Boy why don’t you listen to me
Boy don’t take your girl for granted
‘Cos you don’t know a good thing till it’s gone | | She won’t come running and begging for your time
But soon she’ll be leaving, leaving your hard head behind
And then you’ll be crying, but your tears will all be in vain
‘Cos once she walks out that door she ain’t coming back again
Boy don’t take your girl for granted
Boy why don’t you listen to me
Boy don’t take your girl for granted
‘Cos you don’t know a good thing till it’s gone |
| Jodie | | | Words: Sam Sampson, Music: Steve Turner | | | This song dates back to the band Steve and Jeff were in with Sam Sampson and Jez Coad and was written in 1982 | | Jodie came from a northern town
Where people smile and mean it
Things got tough, she'd had enough
She said she'd have to leave it
Goodbye to Sam, she's never going to come back home | | She took a bedsit room in South Kensington
Watch the black limousines roll by
All the women were brown from an indoor tan
But they never looked you in the eye
If you've had enough, say you're going to come back home
Jodie, why'd you have to leave? | | She found a job in a shop called Snob
All the rich girls smell the same
She bought a skirt off the peg, cost an arm and a leg
But a plastic card did the paying
If you've had enough, say you're going to come back home
Jodie, why did you have to leave? |
| Boy With The Edge | | | Words: Dennis Johnson, Music: Steve Turner | | | Another one inspired by Den's childhood, remembering playing in the old factories on Hackney Marshes. We never did figure out who the song's about, but Sidney of the taxi door ears is photographed with Den and a pair of monkeys in the picture section. Surreal… | | We had a hideout
In a bombed out factory
The harness brothers
And you and me
Trouble was our business
Dare the Devil to his face
Holes in our trousers
And a shoe without a lace | | Remember Sidney
With his ears like taxi doors
The dogs would chase him
With their snapping snarling jaws
His mother screaming
Leave my son alone
Kill ourselves with laughter
Then we’d take the long way home. | | Times remembered, times gone by
You were my best friend and the first to die
Lost your balance and you tumbled from the ledge
You were the boy with the edge. | | Your hand in plaster
Broke your knuckle in a fight
I got a whipping
For staying out all night
Your sister kissed me
And planned our wedding day
I joined the navy
And then I sailed away. | | Times remembered, times gone by
You were my best friend and the first to die
Lost your balance and you tumbled from the ledge
You were the boy with the edge. |
| True Love Story | | | Words: Dennis Johnson, Music: Steve Turner | | He takes a walk down by the river
He looks across to the other side
He sees a girl and he knows he knows her
She was once to be his bride
She was caught between two choices
To marry him or to live alone
She had to listen to those inner voices
Next day she was leaving home
It's a real best seller, a true love story | | She went to live in a cold grey city
A thousand miles from anywhere
She never wrote a single letter
She just planned to disappear
He took to drink to drown the sorrow
He took to walking in the rain
He knew he'd never have another
Until his girl was back again
It's a real best seller, a true love story
It's a real tear jerker, a true love story
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| Swimming Towards You | | | Words and Music: Chris Cawte | | I left my clothes upon your beach
I'm out of touch and out of reach
I look so far but I'm so near to you
The tide is high so I dive in
I'm sitting here in waves of sin
I cry to all the saints what can I do
I do believe I heard you call
Or was it not to me at all
I never know why I am treading water now
I'm not going to tread this water any more | | I'm pushing to break through, I'm swimming toward you
As the shore gets nearer everything's in view | | A million years will soon go by
As I stand shrouded by the sky
As I crawl out of water into you
By light of moon you made me fall
And what I have I'd give it all
To be in motion and not treading water now
I'm not going to tread this water any more | | I'm pushing to break through, I'm swimming toward you
As the shore gets nearer everything's in view
I'll fight against the tide to reach the other side
As I come up for air I'm swimming towards you |
| Little Tears | | | Words and Music: Chris Cawte | | Said to my woman, but don't the years go by
Seems like only yesterday I brought a sparkle to your eye
Now love has turned to clouds and it's falling from the sky
Like little tears | | She looked me over and said but ain't it sad
How love can make you crazy, love can drive you mad
And leave you screaming like a lunatic for all you never had
Little tears | | When every true love dies they say an angel cries
And little tears come pouring down
With every broken heart a rain storm starts
And little tears will fall in pools upon the ground | | It's the same old story of feelings never told
We sit and stir our coffee while our love is growing cold
Now love has made you blind and you'll be crying till you're old
Little tears | | Now love has turned to clouds and it's falling from the sky
Like little tears |
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