Gary Brooker

Song words

No more Fear of Flying
1979  

Savannah (Matthew L. Moore / Tom Kosta)
Well your father lends us a car,
If we just won't go too far.
And we always seem to come home late
In't that funny

Well your family is so afraid
Cos our love keeps growing stronger
And they really don't want us to carry on
any longer.

Oh Savannah
You've taken my heart
We can make a new start now
This situation is tearing us apart
Oh Savannah you know we can't wait
Cos it might be too late
If we wait any longer

You call me on the phone
and you tell me how you're so lonely
and your Daddy won't let you leave home
on account of me. Well you know,
You know we've talked this over before
Where can we go
We can run away, we can run away... ay...

Savannah, Oh you've taken my heart
We can make a new start now
This situation is tearing us apart
Oh Savannah you know we can't wait
Cos it might be too late
If we wait any longer
 

Pilot (Mickey Jupp)
You shot me down
You set me up woman then you shot me down
All you did was say "see you around"
You must have known, you must have seen it in my eyes
You must have known, I loved you woman, but now you're gone

I'm a summer, ruined by rain
I'm a pilot, shot down in flames
I'm a sailor, sunk without trace
The last time I saw your face

Why, for heavens sake woman won't you tell me why
Have you ever seen a grown man cry
I'm off my head, I'm going crazy thinking about the things you said
Could be with you but now instead

I'm a summer, ruined by rain
I'm a pilot, shot down in flames
I'm a sailor, sunk without trace
The last time I saw your face

I'm a summer, ruined by rain
I'm a pilot, shot down in flames
I'm a sailor, sunk without trace
The last time I saw your face

(No More) Fear of Flying (Gary Brooker / Keith Reid)
There was no more fear of flying
Once the final word were spoke
There was no more tears of crying
It had all become a joke
Though they took a vow of silence
Still the rumours quickly spread
There was no more point in trying
for the great affair was dead

There was no more fear of flying
There was no more fears and pain
There was no more need for spying
They had everything to gain

There was no more fear of flying
There was no more tortured brow
They had dropped the safety curtain
They had killed the sacred cow
There was everything to live for
There was nothing to explain
They had left the scene, triumphant
They would live to fight again

There was no more fear of flying
There was no more fears and pain
There was no more need for spying
They had everything to gain
 

Get Up and Dance (Gary Brooker / Pete Sinfield)
Well she looked me up and down
I said I'd just got into town
She said welcome it's a friendly kind of place
So I asked her if by chance
She knew where a man could dance
She said Yes Sir and a smile lit up her face

I said did she
She said I do
I said would she
She said with you
I said well now if that's OK
But if you wanna boogie baby
Lets stop wasting time this way

Get up and dance you never know what you might find
Get up and dance nobody cares nobody minds
Get up and dance you in the corner don't be shy
Get up and dance let the music get you high
Get up and dance get up and dance

Well we danced the night away
I said I have no place to stay
She said well you've got a friendly kind of face
So I asked her if by chance
She could help a man who danced
She said Yes Sir I know just the place

I said did she
She said I do
I said would she
She said with you
I said well now if that's OK
But if we're gonna make it baby
Lets stop wasting time this way

Get up and dance go and find a hand to hold
Get up and dance you know it stops you gettin' old
Get up and dance there ain't a thing you've got to loose
Get up and dance I want you rockin' in your shoes
Get up and dance get up and dance
 

Give Me Something to Remember You By (Brooker / Renwick / Sinfield)
So many ships have slipped on by in the night
I couldn't keep the score
Until you tied up in the harbour with me
And I prayed we'd share something more
Maybe we both tried just a bit too hard
New loves so close and true
For ten wild days we held a straight flush in hearts
And then I froze on you

Give me something to remember you by
Like a kiss on a cold cold night
Give me something to remember you by
As your ship sinks out of sight

The queen of rubies took the sweet jack of moons
So high above the flood
Though they survived the fall with ice on their wings
The stables ran with blood
Maybe we had too much to win or loose
We'd both been lost before
But that ain't your heart that's an anchor and chain
All those are claw marks across my floor

Give me something to remember you by
Like a knife or a blue steel key
Give me something to remember you by
Like a rose like a storm at sea

Give me something to remember you by
We weren't wrong but we weren't right
Give me something to remember you by
Bye-bye baby, bye-bye

Switchboard Susan (Mickey Jupp)
Switchboard Susan won't you give me a line
I need a doctor get me 999
The first time I picked up my telephone
I fell in love with your ringing tone

I'm a long distance romancer
And I keep on trying until I get an answer
Give me! give me! one more chance
You're a great little operator

Switchboard Susan let me off the hook
I've been this way since you just gave me a look
Switchboard Susan girl you're all the rage
Come on woman now let's get engaged

I'm a long distance romancer
And I keep on trying until I get an answer
Give me! give me! one more chance
You're a great little operator

Now when I look at you girl I get an extension
And I don't mean on Alexander Graham Bell's invention
Switchboard Susan can we be friends
After six and at weekends

I'm a long distance romancer
And I keep on trying until I get an answer
Give me! give me! one more chance
You're a great little operator

Old Manhattan Melodies (Gary Brooker/Pete Sinfield)
Wouldn't change a single word
Or touch a single note
Of those old songs those New York Songs
Of love that we once wrote
And though it hurts now we're apart
And different dreams pursue
Fragments of those songs remain
In whispered shades of blue

Old Manhattan melodies
Echo through my broken heart and call me back to you
Old Manhattan melodies . . .
Why Oh why the echoes cry I only wish I knew

Lighthouse shine in quarter time
And guide me from this coast
In case I run around once more
And meet you or your ghost
I 've tried, I can't turn back the clock
Your ship's too long at sea
A dream the river stole away
Oh Misty Melody ...

Old Manhattan melodies . . .
Echo through my aching heart and tell me you're still true
Old Manhattan melodies
Why Oh why the whole world cries I only wish I knew

Old Manhattan melodies .. .
Every note a memory some happy and some blue
Old Manhattan melodies . . .
Whisper through my lonely heart and call me back to you.

Angelina  (Gary Brooker/Pete Sinfield)
I've known some ladies
That made me happy
In so many different ways
Like sweet Conchita
And Isabella
Back in my travelling' days

Then there was Georgia
she was a country girl
she could reap all I could sow
Not like dear Judith
So fond of Music
And Edgar Allan Poe

But when I think of Angelina
All the others fade away
I can't recover
I know I'll love her
Now and forever

I took my pleasure
Where I found it
And the ladies as they came
Like Liz from Tucson
And Claire from Rouen
There were so many names

When unexpected
Just like a whirlwind
Angelina stole my heart
We did some walking
And got to talking,
And said we'd never part

Let Me In  (Gary Brooker/Pete Sinfield)
I've been watching your performance
From the minute you got here
you've been riding on your high horse
But your motives are not clear
You have filled up all the ashtrays
And the carpets wearing thin
I believe we both speak English
Won't you kindly let me in
Let me in all I want to do is help you
Let me in, let me in, let me in

You keep looking out the window
You keep staring at the door
Yeah and every time the phone rings
You make frantic semaphore
I'm a man that's used to trouble
I've seen all the seven sins
I'll even be your long lost uncle
If you'll only let me in . ..
Let me in all I want to do is help you
Let me in, let me in, let me in

You know they say a trouble shared's a trouble half way gone
But bottle it inside and you'll explode
I'd rather have your tears than nitroglycerine
So let me in I can take the load
I can mend a heart that's broken
Put a patch on your romance
But I gotta have some detail
Time and place and circumstance
I'm a man that's used to trouble
I've seen all the seven sins
There ain't nothin' left to shock me
But you gotta let me in . ..

Say It Ain't So Joe (Murray Head)
Say it ain't so Joe
Please, say it ain't so
That's not what I want to hear Joe
And I got a right to know

Say it ain't so Joe
Please, say it ain't so
I'm sure they're telling us lies Joe
please, tell us it ain't so

They told us that our hero
Had played his trump card
He doesn't know how to go on
We're clinging to his charm & determined smile
But the good old days have gone.

The image and the empire may be falling apart
The money has gotten scarce
one mans word held the country together
But the truth is getting fierce.

Say it ain't so Joe
Please say it ain't so
We've pinned our hopes on you Joe
And they're ruining our show

Oh baby don't you think we're gonna get burned
Oh baby don't you think we're gonna get burned
We're gonna get turned, we're gonna get learned
We're gonna get burned
We're gonna get burned
We're gonna get burned

Lead Me to the Water
1982
  

Mineral Man (Brooker)
I keep rolling like a wagon wheel
What keeps me going are these nerves of steel
And two good hands to keep me clothed and fed
A pair of feet to stagger to my bed
A heart of gold and fists of iron
A tongue of silver that's bought me time

Well I'm a mineral man
stuck here in the can
till I oxidise
Well I'm a guest of the State,
I'll sit here and wait
'cos I'm subsidised

When I'm moving like a ton of lead
There's nothing stops me on the road ahead
My skin is bronzed from my head to my toes
people looking everywhere I go
A heart of gold and fists of iron
a tongue of silver for to spin some line

Well I'm a mineral man
stuck here in the can
till I oxidise
Well I'm a guest of the State,
I'll sit here and wait
till I'm let outside

Another Way (Brooker)
My temper's boiling like a thermal mire
My heart is burning like a forest fire for you
Sticking pins all over my effigy
The pain's no worse than the witch's heart you left with me
How can you fail to see my point of view
Or are your eyes a bitch's brew?
At first I thought you came from paradise
then you split my world in two, but I love you

So tell me it another way
listen what I have to say
Don't leave me for another day
Tell me that you're here to stay

There's something odd about the way I fell
Could it be those potions that you mixed up Oh so well?
You spin your web but like a spider's mate
I served your purpose but for me it's not too late
You cut me deep but that is how I learned
You're just my cup of gruel
Familiar faces that you left with me
Are they meant to be so cruel? 'Cos I love you

So tell me it another way
listen what I have to say
Don't leave me for another day
Tell me that you're here to stay
That's all the words you have to say
Tell me it another way

Hang On Rose (Brooker)
A quiet night here in my home
Was interrupted by the 'phone
The caller said he'd got my name
from someone found out in the rain
'You've got it wrong, it can't be me.
Who could I know? I'll come and see.'

Her clothes were wet, her body hurt
Her face was white and smeared with dirt
They saw her floating from the wreck
Clutching something round her neck
That's when I knew that it was you
What could I say? What could I do?

Hang on Rose
Help is round the corner
Hang on Rose
It's not your time to go
I read your note
I'm running to your rescue
Hang on Rose
There's something you should know

A quiet night here by my fire
Becomes a turning-point in life
I've made it up, I'm by your side
My sight was blinded by your eyes

Hang on Rose
Help is round the corner
Hang on Rose
It's not your time to go
I read your note
I'm running to your rescue
Hang on Rose
There's something you should know

What can I say, What can I do?
Can't stand to lose someone like you.
I'm with you
 
 

Home Loving (Brooker)
Don't you worry if you find me blue
There's not a single thing that you can do
I'm just thinking of the days I had with Mama
Don't you worry 'bout the goodnight kiss
I won't remember all the nights you missed
I couldn't go back through it all again, Mama

Well as a boy I liked to fool around
I never had my feet down on the ground
But I loved my Mama, I loved my Papa,
I loved my sister and my little baby brother
I was quite a good boy at school
I had my fun but I was nobody's fool
Yes, I had some good times, I had some bad times
What's it matter when you've got somewhere to run for

Home loving
Costs you nothing
Home loving
Saves you suffering

Don't you worry 'bout the things you said
Have no regrets about the life you lead
Don't be concerned about the tears I shed, Mama
I can live here with a broken heart
Don't be upset 'cos we've been apart
I can forgive if you forget the past, Mama

Now I'm having fun with all my friends
I bring them home and you are there again
Yes I love my Mama, love my Papa
I love my sister and my big bad brother

Now I'm a man and I know what went wrong
We learnt our lesson and it's in this song, we need
Home loving
Costs us nothing
Home loving
Saves you suffering
Home loving It must mean something
to share your fun with your own sweet brethren
Home loving
Costs you nothing
Home loving
Saves you suffering

Don't you worry if you find me crying
Don't be upset about how much you're trying
So I'll admit my love for someone else now, Mama

I've got some home loving
 
 

The Cycle (Let it Flow) (Brooker)
Rain is falling all around
It seeps into the ground and it flows
let it grow, let it grow

Streams by water filled
Feed rivers, turning mills and it grows
let it flow, let it flow

Raindrops are tears falling from Heaven
I've seen the mist rise up from the Severn
The chain is complete, the cycle not broken
Teardrops are rain that say more than any words spoken

Wheat and barleycorn
by help of moisture born, our food
Let it grow, let it grow

Usk or the Wye, it doesn't bother me
Sea, river, lake, as long as they're close and free
Ask me why? Water's a part of me
I'm seven-tenths wet! Yes all but a third of me's water
Water {Severn, Usk and Wye are rivers in the south-west of England}

Dark and thund'ry skies
Cloud our eyes: that's how it goes

Let it flow, let it flow
Let it grow, Let it grow
Let it flow, let it flow.
 
 

Lead Me To The Water (Brooker)
Take me by the hand
Lead me to the water
I will be your lamb
Heading for the slaughter

I've been away from home too long
But I still taste the tears
And when I'm in some stranger's arms
I still feel you near

Now if they ask me how I feel
I smile and say 'Just fine!'
But deep inside this lonely heart
I know you're still mine

Take me by the hand
Lead me from the fire
We'll fly up from this land
We're going to get higher

So this is where the end begins
The parting of the ways
Somebody's calling me up there
I hear it in the waves

Take me by the hand
Lead me to the water
I will be your lamb
I'm ready for the slaughter

Take me by the hand
Lead me from the fire
We'll fly up from this land
I'm dying to get higher
 
 

The Angler (Brooker)
The search is over, the battle done
The fish is beaten, the angler's won
But simple stories make longer tales
No consolation if he had failed

Through wind and desert, Blackberry Hole
Coyote and rattler had made him old
No it ain't easy, it's on the borderline
Between health and madness, the way he bides his time

Fin to fin in every log-jam
This is where they lie
The Deschutes is hot, the bottom's black
They're eye-to-eye
My oh my what fun to be on your own

Down foaming rapids into the deep black hole
Through thorns and rockslides for to reach his goal
And golden chances, he let them slip away
Or was he waiting for the Judgement Day?

They really nailed 'em on the deadline
This is where they lie
Where the water's fast, the current's strong, their eye-to-eye
My oh my what fun to be on your own

But on the thirteenth morning when the sun was high
he tricked that steelhead and saw the line go tight
Two spirits fighting, two creatures bold
Bad luck and trouble had finally lost their hold

Fin to fin in every log-jam
This is where they lie
The Deschutes is hot, the bottom's black
They're eye-to-eye
I see why he spend his time on his own
 

Low-flying Birds (Brooker)
Black suspenders and high-heeled walk
A painted mouth that says it wants to talk
The offer's made and it's hard to miss
but bear in mind that you're running a risk with those

Low flying birds
I wouldn't shoot at 'em
Low flying birds
they're far too dangerous

A tight sweater that tell it all
Just like a trophy hanging on the wall
The scented hair that leaves a trail behind
something to follow if you don't mind those

Low flying birds
I wouldn't shoot at 'em
Low flying birds
they're far too dangerous
Low flying birds
What would you do with them
Low flying birds
You'd only ruin them

The tightest denim that Levi's make
Slowly peeling to reveal the shape
The blackest hair that's just been done
With make-up looking like a sticky bun, and they're

Low flying birds ...
in black suspenders
Low flying birds
in tight sweaters ...
 

Symphathy for the Hard of Hearing (Brooker)
Called up to Camberley in '39
To play his part on the French front line
He was full of hope, overflowing with tears
He'd been on the earth barely nineteen years
but he was willing

Sailed across the Channel for to meet his foe
Marched from Le Havre to Forge-les-Eaux
There were sounds of battle that assailed his ears
They moved that night with the taste of fear
to the killing

Got dug down in Deauville
His young life on the line
Had time to think about her
His first love he'd left behind

The battle lost
at heavy cost
To life and limb
but not for him
He was caught
and marched away
to darker days
a prisoner

He walked to Poland
with thousands of others
Their common plight
would make them brothers
For years of cold and fear
and lonely tears
for four long years
The Allies came
to liberate
They found him in rags
In a pitiful state
But alive
Taken at the very start
Not freed until the last

Lest we forget the sacrifice
That young men make for what seems right
We lose them
confuse them
abuse them

Young rose waiting on the English shore
To hold her boy, now a man of twenty-four
Hard of hearing, no feeling
What do we know of pain and healing?
Hard of hearing, hard of hearing.
 
 

Echoes in the Night
1985 

Count Me Out (G. Brooker / I. Sutherland)
When it's time for me to go
and I hear that whistle blow
I'll be waiting in line day or night
Take my hand and lead me down
Lay my burden on the ground
Break these chains and let me stand in the light
Now I know what the game's all about
If that's the way you want to play - count me out

Had enough of alibis, empty promises and lies
Trying to find a better life on my own
There's no easy way I know - now the strains begin to show
Still I'm looking for a light to lead me home
Though my heart's still full of doubt -
There's no way I'm gonna play - so count me out

I've been too long here breaking my back
Doing my best to get through
I never thought I could feel this way
But I need to find something new
It's not the money and it's not the gold
- I just want some peace of mind
My life is racing like a runaway train
Getting faster all the time...

Underneath a golden sky
Far away I'm gonna fly
To a place I know is there in my mind
Like a sailor home to die
With no journey left to try
Throw my spirit in the tide and lead me blind
Now I know what this game's all about
If that's the way you wanna play
Then count me out

Two Fools In Love (Brooker / Fisher)
Don't you listen to a word they're saying
We're in love and that's the way we'll stay forever
It doesn't matter what they think about us
I know that you and I'll work it out together
They can't stand to see us caring
Can't believe what we are sharing

They tell me I'm a gentleman of leisure
And you're just a woman of pleasure
Maybe it's only infatuation
We don't care it's a lovely situation
Don't they know it's not the way we planned it
Guess they'll never really understand it

Two fools in love
Blessed from above
Two hearts as one
Two fools in love
Nowhere to run
Two hearts as one

If people had their way they'd part us
Separate lives and far removed from each other
So let's leave the world we know behind us
We'll walk away girl as lovers
It's no crime that need our time defending
Just a case of love that's never ending

Two fools in love
Blessed from above
Two hearts as one
Two fools in love
Nowhere to run
Two hearts as one

Echoes in the Night (Brooker / Fisher / Reid)
There's a song you may remember; it's been played a thousand times.
And the words they keep returning, I know every single line.
Please don't stop that music playing. Keep the jukebox turned up high.
Let the memories wash over me, just like echoes in the night.

Hold on to those echoes in the night; save them, don't let them out of sight.
Hold on to those echoes in the night. Midnight got me feeling alright.

There's a guy you may remember; he was big in '69.
Had a simple little story, with a message in the rhyme.
When I heard that music playing, I felt like dancing in the street.
Now I hear a different drummer and a different kind of beat.

(Want to) Hold on to those echoes in the night; save them, don't let them out of sight.
Shadows in the candlelight; midnight got me feeling alright.

There's a face you might remember, though her name you won't recall.
Had her picture in the papers, you had a poster on your wall
From Los Angeles to Broadway you could see her name in lights,
Now the fantasy has faded: she's just an echo in the night.

Hold on to those echoes in the night; save them, don't let them out of sight.
Hold on, echoes in the night: midnight got me feeling alright.

Hold on to those echoes in the night; save them, no, don't let them out of sight.
Shadows in the candlelight, burning…

Ghost Train (Brooker / Fisher / Reid)
They're putting up the posters
The carnival's in town
Performing seals and dancing dogs
And gaily painted clowns
So ladies take your places
And wear your finest clothes
Put on your silk and laces
Your buttons and your bows
Spin the wheel of fortune
And lay your money down
Let fate be your decider - "faites vos jeux"
The carnival's in town

When the show is over
The empty streets are glistering in the rain
It's still the same
Riding on a ghost train
A feeling stranger than you've ever known
You're all alone.

They're putting up the posters
A wanted man's in town
They say he's armed and dangerous
And now he's gone to ground
He's livin' rough from hand to mouth
A lethal burning fuse
He know his time is running out
There's nothing left to loose
So parents find your children
And keep them safe indoors
He's killed before he'll kill again
The next one could be yours.

When the show is over
The empty streets are glistering in the rain
It's still the same
Riding on a ghost train
A feeling stranger than you've ever known
You're all alone.

Mr. Blue Day (Brooker / Sutherland)
Every Morning - sunrise dawning
Shadows lifting - night clouds drifting
Rolling away
Open your eyes from dreaming
Look to the sky - the sun is streaming down.
Lightning up the world to greet us like a friend
Lending a guiding hand until the twilight ends
- No don't give us up Mr. Blue Day
- Shine out just enough through the cold grey
To lead us home again.

Every morning sundown
Shades of darkness draw round
Day is slowly dying
Night birds homeward flying on their way
- Can't stop the night from falling
- Can't stop the shadows calling to us all
From another world of timeless mystery
Out floating helpless on some far and lonely sea
- So don't give us up Mr. Blue Day
- Shine out just enough through the cold grey
To lead us home again.

Saw the Fire (Brooker / Fisher / Reid)
Saw the fire
Saw you laughing at the crowd
You were happy
I was glad
Drew your picture
Drew your picture in the sand
Felt your heart beat
In my hand
Felt the wind roar
On the seashore
I heard a voice calling calling
In the half light
Saw a strange light
Up in the sky falling falling

Just a picture
Just a picture on the beach
You were always
Out of reach
Saw the fire
Saw the flames light up the sky
Saw your picture
Floating by
Feel the wind roar
On the seashore
I heard a voice calling calling
In the half light
I saw a strange light
Up in the sky falling falling

The Long Goodbye (Brooker / Fisher / Reid)
I know I've done my best
But that's no consolation
I s'pose I should have guessed
When I saw the invitation
you told me love was blind
But you were only joking
I know you've changed your mind
But I still keep on hoping.

Head held high
Eyes on the sky
I know I've got to be strong
If I see you again
it will be as a friend
With time for a long goodbye

You know I felt so bad
When I left you at the station
It was the first time I
Had felt such desolation
It's been a long, log time
And I still can't forget you
But my friends all say
That maybe I don't want to.

Head held high
Eyes on the sky
I know I've got to be strong
If I see you again
it will be as a friend
With time for a long goodbye

Hear what you're saying (Brooker / Fisher)

My band was playing at a club just down the road
The room was hot and they were dancing' toe to toe
When in the corner - I saw a lonely face
Turnin' down the suitors - the music weren't her taste

Play some
Play something to make me move
Sing some
Sing a song let's change the mood

Upon the stage guitar and saxophone
They kept on wailin' windin' up the song
The drummer laying right back on the beat
But still that girl stayed right back on her seat

Play some
Play something to make me move
Sing some
Sing a song to change the mood

Is this what you're saying
That somehow we're failing
You speak for us all but tell me how
It needs all the soul that's
Deep down inside us
I hear what you're saying now

I stopped the singing let the band take up the beat
And fought a passage thru' the crowd up to hear seat
I took her hands in mine and drew her to the floor
We'd found the one thing that we'd both been looking for

Play some
Play something to make me move
Sing some
Sing some more you've changed the mood
 

Missing Person (Brooker / Sutherland)

I've been waiting
For you to come home
It's such a long time
So all alone
And when the night comes
It hits me so hard
Thinking about you
And where you've gone
Why don't you come home
Why don't you come home
Why don't you come home

You've got me wondering
What would I do now
If you don't come back
How can I get through now
The way I see it
Sooner or later
You're gonna miss me
Then you'll come running back
Why don't you come home
Why don't you come home
Why don't you come home

Every time I hear the telephone
I run and pick it up
Hoping it you to say you're coming back
Every time I see the setting sun
I can't help counting the days you've been gone

The way I see it
Sooner or later
You're gonna miss me
Then you'll come running back
When the night comes
It hits me so hard
I gets me hurtin'
It hits me so hard
Why don't you come home
Why don't you come home
Why don't you come home

Trick of the Night (Brooker / Fisher / Reid)
There's a pile of papers I was going through
Old reminders I was saving
realized I had changed my view
All because of you

Found a picture of a friend of mine
Make me think of times together
Fond old memories of a friend of mine
In another time

It's a trick of the night
Everything is all right
Caught me while I was dreaming of you
It's a trick of the night
Everything is alright
Caught me while I was sleeping

There is also a French version of this song, words by Franky Brooker: see here
 

Within Our House
1996 

Within Our House (Brooker / Reid)
Within Our House
love and grace
fires burn so bright
through darkest night
Throughout our lives
so much to learn
you read the signs
be our guide at every turn
Lift your voice
and you will know the tune
something old something new
Come join us! Come join us!
Within Our House

Be of good cheer
you are not alone
welcome to our joyous feast
let troubles cease
this day of peace
Lift your voice
and you will know the song
live with us and you'll belong
give thanks and pray
you found your way
welcome to our house

Within Our House
love and grace
throughout our life
so much to learn
Take comfort here
you are not alone
give thanks and pray
you found your way
Lift your voice in harmony
feel the strength enrich thee
Come join us! Come join us!
live in our house
within our house
live Within Our House
 

Singles / rare items 

SS Blues (Brooker)

Oh it's been a year slaving with a shovel and pick
Cutting my own bean-poles and pea-sticks
Got blisters from mowing and bad back from hoeing
That old cock just ruins my sleep 

I got the SS Blues: supermarket looks just fine
I got the SS Blues: Good Life don't mean a good time

Yeah now here's some advice to those that think
That after a while they'll get used to the stink
Of farmyard manure and chicken muck
Let me tell you brother you're going to need some luck

The goose got so fat wouldn't fit in the pot
The duck's got eaten by God knows what
The hen ain't been laying, the pig-pen ain't paying
I think that's just about my lot

I got the SS Blues: supermarket looks just fine
I got the SS Blues: Good Life don't mean a good time

Oh, think I'll move away from here
How about moving up to London?
No window-boxes!

Summer Nights (Brooker / Reid) or (Brooker / Fisher / Sutherland) see explanation

Still I remember
It don't seem so long ago
Since that evening last summer
like the words in a song
Looking back on the way it was
did it really happen?
You're still there in my memory

You and I in the sweet rain falling
on a summer night (gimme those summer nights)
No-one else in the world at all
on such a magic night (gimme those summer nights)

A voice in the darkness
Shadows on the wall
A midsummer madness
Ooh, the thrill of it all
Everything seemed so easy then
nothing in our way
still believe she'll come back again

You and I in the sweet rain falling
on a summer night (gimme those summer nights)
no-one else in the world at all
on such a magic night (gimme those summer nights)
stopping time for a moment
lying in the full moonlight (gimme those summer nights)
like a girl on a swing
forever on an endless flight

I keep playing that old song
From so long ago
I keep watching the firelight
It sets those memories aglow
Keep it burning right to the end
Someday we'll make it back again

You and I in the sweet rain falling
On a summer night (gimme those summer nights)
No-one else in the world at all
On such a magic night (gimme those summer nights)
Stopping time for a moment
Lying in the full moonlight (gimme those summer nights)
Like a girl on a swing
Forever on an endless flight (gimme those summer nights)
(Gimme those summer nights)
(Gimme those summer nights)
(Gimme those summer nights)
(Gimme those summer nights)
Let's do it right now (gimme those summer nights)
 
 

Chasing For The Chop (Brooker / Reid) ... words verified by GB, 26 October 2004

We are children one and all
From deliverance to the fall
From the moment that we meet   
In our triumph and defeat

From the corridors of power
To the ivoriest of towers
In the battle and the heat
In the shadow of retreat

From the cradle to the grave
From the bitter to the brave
From existence to the shock
From resistance to the block

We are children one and all
From deliverance to the fall
And we speak with many tongues
And we shout with many lungs

We are constantly excused
We are tired of being used
We are making idle threats
We are gaining piled-up debts

We are racing for the top
We are chasing for the chop
We are breaking all the rules
We are choosing to be fools

From the cradle to the grave
From the bitter to the brave
We are racing for the top
We are chasing for the chop

We are breaking all the rules
We are choosing to be fools

Fat Cats (Brooker / Reid)

They drive past you in their fast cars
Typecast you in their hype bars
Feel you up and make you squirm
Writhe around like bloated worms

Fat cats!

They'll tell you that the world stinks
Swilling food and spilling drinks
They'll tell you what the world needs
Taking gold and giving beads

They fly past you in their jet 'planes
Bypass you in the fast lanes
Cut you out and make you wiggle
Call you names and watch you wriggle

They sail past you on their big yachts
Tie-tongue you with their big knots
Spout the facts and wave the figures
Pull the strings and push the triggers

They'll tell you that they're in the pink
Pull the plug and watch you sink
They say they'll never let you down
Pull the plug and watch you drown

Leave the Candle (Brooker) or (Brooker / Sinfield) see explanation

Leave the candle, let it burn
It helps the wheels of memory turn
To forgotten friends and loved ones' ghosts
[A strange heart] smiles to greet their hosts [any better suggestions?]
Replay the dreams of when and where
The times we shared
Many yesterdays and nights ago

Leave the candle burning bright
To keep at bay the stormy night
It's flickering, the shadows dance
Into the flame my gaze entranced
To see what lies on next year's road
Who will bear or share my load?
The candle knows.
If wax be dreams then candle burn down slow

Leave the candle, let it shine
Into some other eyes but mine
And light a hearth of angels' gold
Someone who loves but does not hold
Oh leave the candle, let it burn
It helps the wheels of memory turn
And something's learned
If you'd be true to love and fair to friends

Leave the candle ... Leave the candle ...
Let the candle burn at just one end

Badlands (Brooker)                    Conjectural words. Please send suggestions
Take me on home girls ['boys', live!]
Let me have rest
From the badlands, from the badlands

Seen the bright side of life from here
I've been in places where they lived in fear
Of the badlands, oh those badlands

From North Dakota to the Crescent City
Southern Georgia with its girls so pretty
From the rivers of Oregon to San Diego
And Nova Scotia where the cold winds blow

Ain't so hard to earn a buck or two
Black lung from shining shoes
In the badlands, oh those badlands

So many [colours] so many tongues
Forever asking what the white man's done
For the badlands, oh the badlands