Lyrics - Just Enough Education to Perform: Stereophonics @ WelshBands
Vegas Two Times
So it started with the immigration information bore
You gotta know
Gambling floor, then to the S.T.U.D.I.O 4
You gotta go
Now we're leaving, L.A.S Vegas two times
Crazy horse to spent us dry
Vietnam vet, taxi ride
Crazy horse to spent us dry
L.A.S Vegas two times
So we parked at the ground floor, front door, car hire,
room for four
we gotta go
Rambling slow to the L.A Marquis, all the imitation folk
we gotta go
Now we're leaving L.A.S Vegas two times
Crazy horse to spent us dry
Vietnam vet, Taxi ride
Crazy horse to spent us dry
L.A.S Vegas two times
Lying In The Sun
Wish that I could lie in the sun.
The same things as anyone.
Wish I could lie down there,
with my feet high in the air.
I'd have a drink in my hand,
read words from a newspaper stand.
Wish I could lie in the sun,
wish I could fly like everyone.
Same things as anyone.
The same things as anyone.
But you burn me up, you pant my skin
in bad designs that ain't even in.
My skin's crawling up the wall,
into the the ocean I'd love to fall.
I hear the sounds but they ain't the same
as feeling them with you two feet away.
There's always more worse of than me,
suppose I'm lucky I can even see
all the people that I'd like to be
passing me by everyday in the street.
Same things as anyone.
The same things as anyone.
But you burn me up, you paint my skin
in bad designs that ain't even in.
I got good lungs, I got a good heart,
my mind is fit and my feet can walk.
Here I am in the shade on the street,
asking people for money to eat.
What did I ever do to deserve this?
Did I kill a child or something worse?
Same things as anyone.
What's the reason, baby make you feel
how much more fortunate you are than me.
Mr Writer
You line em' up
pick out your shoes
you hang names on your wall
then you shoot them all
You fly around in planes
that bring you down
to meet me who loves you
likely crash into the groundAre you so lonely
you don't even know me
but you'd like to stone me
Mr writer why dont you tell it like it is
why don't you tell it like it really is
before you go on home
I used to treat you right
give you my time
but when i turn my back on you
then you do what you do
With you just enough in my own view
education to perform
i'd like to shoot you all
And then you go home
with you on your own
what do you even know
Mr writer why don't you tell it like it is
why dont you tell it like it really is
before you go on home
And then you go home
with you on your own
what do you really know
Mr writer why don't you tell it like it really is
why don't you tell it like it always is
before you go on home
Mr writer why don't you tell it like it really is
why don't you tell it like it always is
before you go on home
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Step On My Old Size Nines
I'd like to know what it's all about, what's out there.
Am I gonna get on in life, 'bout something.
Will I get me a boy or a girl, or not either.
Will I get what I want from this world, I'm a daydreamer.
Then I watched the old couple dance,
Step on my old size nines and I'll take you round.
I'd like to know what you're all about, what's up there.
Are you gonna get on in life, without a care.
Will you get you a boy or a girl, or not either.
Will you get what you want from this world, a daydreamer.
Then I watched the old couple dance,
Step on my old size nines and I'll take you round.
I'd like to know what we're all about, what we all have done.
Am I gonna get on in life, with someone.
Think I'll get me a boy and a girl, or not either.
Will I get what I want from this world, a daydreamer.
Then I watched the old couple dance,
Step on my old size nines and I'll take you round.....
Have A Nice Day
San Francisco Bay past pier thirtynine
Early PM can't remember what time
Got the waiting cab, stopped at the red light
Address unsure of, but it turned out just right
It started straight off, "coming here is hell"
Thats his first words we asked what it meant
He said "Where you from" we told him our lot
When ya' take a holiday is this what you want?
Have a nice day
Lie around all day have a drink to cheese
"Yourself and tourists, thats what I hate"
He said "We're going wrong, we've all become the same
We dress the same way only our accents change"
So have a nice day
"Swim in the ocean that be my dish
I drive around all day and kill processed fish
Its all money gum, no artists anymore
Your only in it now to make more more more"
Nice To Be Out
He asked me "so where have you been?"
Let me think now let me see. I was stood
once where Hitler's feet stood when he made a speech
in Nuremburg in '38 when he tried to build a perfect race, he
said "black men ain't gonna run alongside our perfect sons."
There's Dallas to the library, the place they ended Kennedy.
I stood where Oswald took his shot, in my opinion there's a
bigger plot. Costners back into the left, the picket fence, the
better bet. Paris came and Summer went, the tunnel's now
a flower bed. The famous turf to meet Geoff Hurst, vodka stops
to quench my thirst. Golden gate stroke Alcatraz, the fat man
failed to get us passed. Is Jimmy's corner in Raging Bull,
De Niro's jokes and bottled pills. Elvis tales from Mr. Wood.
Would any Richard Burton if you could? The tourists stare
at tourist stops. One more picture, one more got. Now a top up
for a change, it makes you think, it makes you sane. Talking
more about yourself, there's a mirror to have a check. Cheques
are always passing through, some depart but a lot come too.
The restaraunt talk of pick your teeth. You bite your tongue or
chew your meat. Sleep to drink or drink to sleep, one more week
and we will meet. We talk of what we haven't done since we
departed back a month. We argue while we have to shout.
All in all, it's nice to be out.
Watch Them Fly Sundays
I'd just like to say,
I remember the day,
I first woke with you,
Some days I have to admit,
The way we happened to meet,
Was strange, because it was new.
I'm not drinking no more,
Not drinking no less,
Not sleeping at all,
Never in the same bed,
Undressed at the bar,
Engraved bench in the park,
We'd watch them fly Sundays.
Fly, birds round my head again,
Laughed at the words you sent,
I pushed the boat back to you,
I flew from the rain again,
Killed you with what I said,
You already knew.
Not thinking no more,
Not drinking no less,
Not sleeping at all,
Never in the same bed,
Undressed at the bar,
Engraved bench in the park,
We'd watch them fly Sundays.
They say if something should fly away,
And it comes back to you again,
Then it's yours.
Everyday I Think Of Money
I drive a truck, it carries money,
And everyday, I dream up my fantasies.
Yesterday, I bought my beach house,
A little place just off the coast of France.
Everyday I think of money,
Everyday I think of running.
I love my truck, I love my family,
Stuck in the back, the good life surrounds me.
Could tie my right hand man, and put him some place,
Then I'd ditch the truck, and buy a new face.
Everyday I think of money,
Everyday I think of something.
It cant buy you love, cant give you soul,
Can pick you up, can down you low.
Can drag you out of the hole,
You dug, yourself, out of again.
Sat in a truck, it it carries convicts,
My hands are bound to the seat by handcuffs,
Tomorrow, I'll maybe walk around the yard,
Or paint in my cell, and hate imprisonment.
Everyday I think of money,
Everyday I miss my family.
Maybe
Maybe one thing,
Maybe something,
Maybe nothing,
All I know is friend, it's nothing new.
Maybe it's me,
What is to be,
Maybe lucky,
All, I ask is where we're supposed to be.
I give a lot,
I take a lot,
It's nothing new to me.
Maybe you've grown,
Am I so wrong,
How longs too long,
All I want is stuff to be happy.
Maybe moving,
Always proving,
Am I losing,
All that's meant to be, that's meant to be.
You hear a lot,
You told a lot,
Its nothing new to me.
Maybe laughing,
Something lacking,
Always sometimes,
All I hear is how, it's meant to be.
Maybe learning,
Always searching,
Am I asking things,
I'll know too soon, I'll know too soon.
We talk a lot,
Don't do a lot,
Its nothing new to me.
I give a lot,
I take a lot,
Its nothing new to me.
Caravan Holiday
Seven day holiday in the rain it's June.
At the time we were playin', ol' me and you.
It didn't matter that the sky came down,
I never really felt like going out.
Seven days watching rain inside with you.
Saturday, watched the game, you fried our food.
Nothing busy, nothing easy but something you.
It didn't matter that we couldn't eat out,
my ship sank and my shoes were damp.
Seven days hearing rain inside with you.
There's always time to complain about the weather,
season's change in a day just like each other,
but we wait for Summer.
Seven day holiday in the rain with you.
Lie awake drinking Lady's all that's left to do.
Not a sound but the rain on the pale blue roof.
It didn't matter that we couldn't sleep out,
I never really felt like sleeping rough.
Seven day holiday drinking dry with you.
There's always time to complain about the weather,
season's change in a day just like each other,
but we wait for Summer.
Seven day holiday in the rain with you.
Seven days holiday in the rain with you.
Rooftop
Standing on a rooftop,
Trying to clear my mind,
I only came up to look,
But now there's such a crowd.
I don't feel that bad,
Cant help but laugh,
And they cry out,
They say jump, and I say how high?
I feel my body blowing,
From every side to side,
My mind cant help but knowing.
What it feels like to fly.
I don't feel that bad,
Cant help but laugh,
And they cry out,
They say jump, and I say how high?
Say jump and I say I might.
And they cry out,
And they cry out,
Say jump and I say I'll try,
Say jump and I say I'll say goodbye,
Say jump and I say how high?
High, fly.
Fly.
I'm just standing,
On the edge of,
Something I should try to hide from.
I don't know much but I know something,
I need to try and find me a way,
Try I always come out fighting,
I don't feel I should deny me.
Cant help knowing what is down there,
Feels I should fly now for them,
I'm fascinated, mis-educated, its reincarnation,
Of my imagination, I'm far away, from here today,
It's where I'll stay if I get my way,
It's lying awake, that makes me sane,
But it makes me sick but I cant change again.