Walking Back Home Deacon Blue

The stars and satellites Are quiet over the hills tonight And the cats' eyes and white lines Are heading out for miles The frost on the embankment Keeps my feet on the road But the tunes and beers Are walking

Homesick Deacon Blue

There's me and daddy out at Lunan Bay Now looking dandy stepping out Saturday I can still see the buses Lined up to take the dancing home That's me on the stairs suitcase in hand Kidding on but knowing

Goodnight Jamsie Deacon Blue

You were a good man Jamsie Everyone loves you Now you're gone And the seagulls over Where you lie Sing your final song I'm walking back Away from here To see where you belong Here's the church And here's

Christmas & Glasgow Deacon Blue

about Christmas and Glasgow Drinking and talking And the sweet smell Of the Kelvin Hall Circus And the sweet smell lingered Of her perfume and kisses He needed to take one step He was taking one step back

Closing Time Deacon Blue

This is the way we walk This is how we walk At closing time These are the songs we sing These are our songs At closing time And in the clear Of this sweet moonshine We'll walk back To where we started

Plastic Shoes Deacon Blue

That you'd gone after all Whats left is this: And from what I can recall Theres something I've missed And I have seen it all You caught me drawn in the Bathroom mirror And said I looked a little older Walking

Only Tender Love Deacon Blue

Understood the need you need with Understood the time it took To take you where nothing ever was Never was there once nothing And everything once was Not dead but still and ready to be born anew Looking back

One Day I'll Go Walking Deacon Blue

wonder Or high high tide And in times like this You bring me here And when the wind is blowing quick time For the waves to be dancing by And the moon is watching over The purple gloaming sky I'll go walking

Silhouette Deacon Blue

Down in the streets they're walking and kissing All he sees is the lights in her her eyes She feels his hand and smells his warm breath Looking up all she sees is the night sky He saw her standing there

Your Swaying Arms Deacon Blue

Send me back all the thing she ever wrote Tell me secrets of her days when she was young Show me nights when she laughed So innocent I'll be happy Waiting till they come Love the people that she smiled

Town To Be Blamed Deacon Blue

happen next time Yeah baby that's this town It won't happen next time Sure baby that's this town Lovers on love downs It's this town to be blamed It's this town to be blamed Work work work Rain rain rain Home

One Hundred Things Deacon Blue

raking bins Through carry outs and skins To find the hundred things that led you here So you're Down town raking bins Through carry outs and skins To find the hundred things that led you here Long night walking

Cover from the Sky Deacon Blue

I will love you when the morning is ascending I will love you when the moon is riding high I will love you when we only have pretending When our home becomes a cover from the sky Well my eyes have seen

Dignity Deacon Blue

I saved my money They`ll say isn`t she pretty That ship called Dignity And I`m telling this story In a faraway scene Sipping down Raki And reading Maynard Keynes And I`m thinking about home

My America Deacon Blue

and she's one small step away Church bells keep ringing for you and I We rush,we live,we laugh for some time night These green fields and roads go rolling in your eye These green fields and roads go back

Still in the Mood Deacon Blue

By the light of the waning moon Under a blueblack sky They talked the slow way home Of years passed closely by They caught only a casual look From strangers with things to do Only a loveless heart Could

Bound to Love Deacon Blue

There's no direction And no way through There is no reason To pay back what is through You never owned intentions Never knowed no way back Never knowed no way back But I know you're only asking And I know

Fergus Sings The Blues Deacon Blue

bars of twelve or less I'm a stranger To the land To this wilderness All Things are possible But happen less and less This Is my country These Are my reasons 'Cause I look In the mirror And it throws Back

DEACON BLUES Steely Dan

DEACON BLUES This is the day Of the expanding man That shape is my shade There where I used to stand It seems like only yesterday I gazed through the glass At ramblers Wild gamblers That's

Born In A Storm Deacon Blue

That hurricane day Will soon pass away And someone will sweep All the jetsam back into the bay And we'll come down Like we always did And knock on my door Like the big bad wind Born in a storm Is that

Kings Of The Western World Deacon Blue

hello He's got a good job So the story goes He says it's it's funny to see you look so low I said I'm on top of the hill Looking down at the Kings of the Western World I went out and caught the train home

The Very Thing Deacon Blue

One day all of us will work We'll stand outside this orchard and we'll talk When all is said, all is done We'll still be thinking about home They say that love might be the very thing If only it could

Beautiful Stranger Deacon Blue

quietly away By the window where she stands She counts the beads in her hand And knows it wasn't God who planned to make Honky tonk angels She makes the bed all alone but a house Without love is not a home

Raintown Deacon Blue

hello I'm down here working on some dumb show In a Raintown Raintown Rain down On all those tired eyes and tears and frowns In a Raintown Raintown Rain down On all those days you're not around Sitting at home

All I Want Deacon Blue

A cautious smile under the western sky Would curl upwards like the wild sea A special friend knowing all the ways of love Would talk his way back inside a tiny second Don't promise good intention One in

Wages Day Deacon Blue

take it all away From where we left off Living it all Your way If you'll stand in my shoes If you'll do what I do On a wages day On a wages day And the cap from Disneyland That his cousin she brought back

Twist And Shout Deacon Blue

differently I wrote it on my hand I kept it in the dark I never ran it through my hair I stuffed it in my pocket I wrote this on a journey All the way from Spain Where our fellows fought And never came back

This Changing Light Deacon Blue

differently I wrote it on my hand I kept it in the dark I never ran it through my hair I stuffed it in my pocket I wrote this on a journey All the way from Spain Where our fellows fought And never came back

The Wildness Deacon Blue

us driving We were six miles out And a Hundred miles to go Still the morning lies waiting And the light falls On your travel map I'm still here hoping For the wildness To relax For the wildness To go back

Baltihorse Dan Deacon

in this place I'll dig a little Hole in the ground with my face and rhythm Out of mud I'll explain my case that's about this They both hound this tiny little city And I don't know which way we get back

I'll Never Fall In Love Again Deacon Blue

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte) What do you get when you fall in love? A guy with a pin to burst your bubble That's what you get for all your trouble I'll never fall in love again I'...

I`Ll Never Fall In Love Again Deacon Blue

What do you get when you fall in love, A girl with a pin to burst your bubble, That's what you get for all your trouble, I'll never fall in love again, I'll never fall in love again. What do you ge...

Your Town Deacon Blue

I wouldnt want to be you Mostly not even near you When youre gone they will curse you And raise the tide against you I no longer care now For what you said was fair now I just dont go there now I j...

James Joyce Soles Deacon Blue

Here's the picturesI promised to sendYou see the airbaseWhere we were sentNow the winterHas started to descendYour loving son was sent hereI got your letterFrom Boise IdahoTo James Joyce SolesTo Ja...

Fellow Hoodlums Deacon Blue

On the night thatMaxton diedI fell overThe Clyde was full of old TyresThe wind nearly pulled myBreeches offAnd Ann KellyShe kissed my mouthFellow hoodlums andEngineersThe Union's southAnd we're all...

I Will See You Tomorrow Deacon Blue

Outside the worldThe wind is howlingThrough the broken treesAnd the moon is shiningAs the river meets the seaAnd I will see you tomorrowCalm and bright in tender lightAnd my heart will be racingLik...

Ragman Deacon Blue

Offered her a roofThe rain had made it shineOffered her a songWasn't really mine[Chorus]I showed her all my thingsShe offered me belongingsShe thought I was a RagmanShe offered me possessionsI tied...

He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now Deacon Blue

There's a shadow on his photograph on Tinian '45Smiling like a college boy who's glad to be aliveBut now he owns a factory and a store in Los AlamosA wife called Beverly sells second hand Ford Moto...

Love's Great Fears Deacon Blue

You know the agonyOf seeing it all slip awayWell maybe now you'd be happyJust to talk it out straightIf it's justSlipping awayAbout the danger ofBelieving in plans in handAbout the role that you ha...

Riches Deacon Blue

It's good to know how big a life can beEspecially when it falls away so easilyAnd how hard it is to let you take your leaveAlso I wish you all the things that you believe inLike richesNow that they...

Circus Lights Deacon Blue

You're tired and you say you're angryYou're thankful for this blessed rainAnd you think you'd knowBut your old friends have to tell you againYour books taught you all you knowYour tastes and patter...

The World Is Lit By Lightning Deacon Blue

So maybe you're standingIn some foreign townYou've walked for milesTill the heat slows you downAnd your jeans and your curlsAre bleached and splitAnd your money and your angerAre all used upMaybe I...

Your Constant Heart Deacon Blue

Your constant heartBeats like the roadIt cuts through the rainAnd clears the snowAnd in our summerWe take it slowLetting the windDie in the hollowOh, your constant heartYour constant heartYour cons...

Orphans Deacon Blue

I now describe my countryAs if to strangersThis train is full of songsOf local winnersAnd the wind surrounds the towersAnd the flags they are blowingAnd the bunting and the distanceStretches over o...

Love Hurts Deacon Blue

hurts Some fools dream of happiness Blissfulness, togetherness Some fools fool themselves I guess But they're not fooling me I know it isn't true, know it isn't true Love is just a lie made to make you blue

Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel The Rain Deacon Blue

Would the rain, the frozen rainBe as cold upon your foreheadAs the tears that plough your beaten face againWould the rainCould your hands, your grubby handsPull your coat around your shoulderSteel ...

The Day That Jackie Jumped The Jail Deacon Blue

The day that Jackie jumped the jailThe day that Jackie jumped the jailThere was a big explosion just as he got off the motorwayAnd thirty thousand fireworks took the piss out of Princes StreetGarde...

When You Are Young Deacon Blue

When you were young and your heart was freeI'd run and meet you and rush to seeJust over the wall where the clouds roll byAnd age and chance and tears were far awayOh if heaven wouldn't seeLight lo...

A Brighter Star Than You Will Shine Deacon Blue

Down on the flag stonesAccordions, sweet trumpets riseRusty memories of sin and doubtingMingle in around the Queen Street, traffic noiseWould that all the love in the worldWatch me through the nigh...

Long Window To Love Deacon Blue

You're taking down the signsNow the time has come and the cleansing's comingYou're turning down the lightsIn this cruel light symbols mean nothingYou're taking down the signsTurning round your eyes...