REMAINS TO BE SEEN (Pembroke) 5:45 Well, as the day it breaks he wakes and slowly turns To see the door ajar and a distant light that burns Down a winding hall to somewhere far away While in his head he’s out to lunch somewhere today As if enchanted by this lasting longest flight He follows on to find the day has turned to night Is it the same old tale, or is it something new Or is life a dream we drift through? Chorus: Y’drag yourself up You dust yourself down Stick your chin in It’s time to face the world Yuh pull that comb Yuh brush that tooth Yuh lift that bag Call your best girl Just when you think you have it It’s the part Someone comes along And upsets the apple cart Short chorus And now the stairway’s empty, dreamers still in bed He’s sitting with the keys to try and unlock his head And when he thinks he’s finally got it in his sight Someone down the hall turned on the light Repeat chorus with variations Remains to be seen, remains to be seen Repeat chorus with variations (Hello honey, is that you? Can you buy me an ice-cold beer? ... Why, I feel better already. Well, I think I’ll go out and buy a newspaper ... Bye bye ...)
SUBTERRANEAN SUNRISE (Rechardt/Pembroke) 4:03 Headline! Hey, your tea’s ready now you mustn’t be late You know you got to be at work at half-past eight Get up, get dressed, that bit you always hate You got to hit the gas ‘cos the time won’t wait Chorus: Subterranean sunrise Take that light outa my eyes Subterranean sunrise You drag your way down the stairs in your gloom You find yourself in a sunny front room Look through the kitchen as the oven goes boom! Oh, flower-patterned armchairs in a wall-papered tomb (headline!) Feed the starving millions’, what does it take? “Clean up the garden,” “Buddy, gimme a break” Repeat chorus with variation Then he starts to thinking, “What’s the meaning of life?” A bungalow in bricktown with a fork and a knife? Search in the mirror, the clock on the wall It never should have worked out this way at all Short chorus Headline! Who’s got the money, he’s counting his stash He’d be hardly worth nothing if it weren’t for his cash The king was sitting counting his load Wondering what to do about the state of his abode Oh, the silver needed shining one more time It’s another good morning, buddy spare me a dime (Oh, lard!) Repeat Verse 1 (the word ‘time’ replaced by ‘bus’ in last line) Repeat chorus with variations
TITANS WHEEL (Rechardt/Pembroke) 5:45 (Welcome to the cave, the cave of the lost Lizard Stone King, where his days rule everything.) Oh, red-eyed dawn squints at the night Colouring the far off clouds with strokes of light Oh, wretched darkness in a drunken reel Tries to run and hide from the might of Titans Wheel And now he doth arrive with one great burning eye To send to flight that frost and paint the forest dry And we will fill this day, this day of ours With thoughts of love and precious flowers But the lost Lizard Stone King in his veil of tears No joy, no happiness after all these years His eyes roll back as his Dark Knight appears With the bells of Hades ringing in his ears The hedgerow moves, winter leaves Sleepy moonrise, mist garland weaves A distant star crossed galaxies If the world’s gone crazy tell me if you please (Welcome back to the cave, the cave of the lost Lizard Stone King ... Have you been away? ... But you’ve been here all the time, since before time, til after time, til closing time, in a cave of the lost Lizard Stone King, where his day and his nightmare rule everything, yeah, yeah, rule everything ... Oh, get me out of this stoned Lizard King’s garden ... Tear up the mountain, tear up the wire, tear out the telephone, unleash the fire ... Unleash the fire ... Ohhh ...) Titans wheel! It’s a far off place, it’s in your space To the outer reaches – human race Night she takes what sunlight gives Let Saturn turn green if the lost Lizard Stone King lives (Welcome back to the cave of the lost Lizard Stone King ... You’ve been away? ... But you’ve been here all the time, since the beginning of time, since before time, til after time ... Where the king is aware in his day and his nightmare in that he rules everything ... Yes, he rules everything ... Until closing time)
DRIVE ON DRIVER (Rechardt/Pembroke) 4:47 (Oh, they really got it now) Oh oh, down on Broadway there’s a parade Johnny makes a phone call from the arcade Sweet Melinda she wants to get paid He figures he’s lucky she got it made Oh oh, so it goes The fire dead but the fire glows Out on a walkout behind the skyline Up in her penthouse Lucy sees a sign While down at the crossroad the sirens whine Oh, Johnny’s on fire, it’s outa line Oh oh, so it goes The fire dead but the fire glows Chorus: Drive on drive on driver Drive on drive on driver The busman’s a tokin’, he got a car He’ll take you anyplace if it ain’t too far N’ Lucy got a diamond, she’s a star Well, she’s out dancing with Johnny in the bar Oh oh, so it goes The fire dead but the fire glows Well, he can’t dance But he don’t know Repeat chorus several times with guitar solo licks and partly incomprehensible speaking
BITESIZE (Rechardt/Pembroke) 6:14 Well, he’s crying in his beer Nuthin’s ever near The TV isn’t here In Doug’s scullery He’s frying up a storm He’s running true to form Everything is norm In Doug’s scullery And by the window sill Well, half a paid up bill Mamy’s long lost will In Doug’s scullery Chorus: Out of mind Out of reach On a beach somewhere Far away from the noisy crowd Doug dug dig it up Your castles in the sand Don’t get bitten by the hand The hand that feeds you And waiting in a jar Is Fred the Budgerigar Wishing he was far away From Doug’s scullery And no one gives him seeds No caring for his needs He’s wasting in the weeds In Doug’s scullery Repeat chorus with slight variation And when he’s fattened up They’ll put him in a cup And feed him to the pup In Doug’s scullery Repeat chorus with slight variation and then again with guitar solo (Oh, what a happy day ... it’s a sign of the times ... it’s bitesize)
GREATFIELD (Pembroke) In a greatfield of the passing of the falling water pure A clearing of the ages to keep forevermore Great sky of clearness, distant planet bright A beacon for to follow on such a darkened night The deep and mighty forest with running stream so clean The babble of the people, not clear just what they mean Great sky of nearness, star on star so bright Light the path to travel on this our darkest night I don’t know, well, it’s kind of blue now I don’t know, well, I say to you If you know whadda do I you know – shoot! I said it’s kinda foggy Yes, I say it’s a misty and blue If you say turn away, turn away I don’t know, well, I’ll turn around, yeah Oh baby now, take that trip Oh baby now – shoot! If you know, well, whadda do I don’t know, well, I say to you, yeah Oh baby now, yes it’s kinda blue Yes, I’ll say misty and blue Yes, I’ll say it’s a kinda foggy Oh baby now – shoot! What do they want, the people around? To build it up or pull it all down? Oh oh oh oh, look out! And you can get buried in your happy waste You can get covered in a funny taste Don’t let it be, don’t let it be And you can stand up for your beliefs Or you can lie down and get your relief Let relief be it, oh yeah And you can get up and you can shout about it Till you’re blue in the face that you ain’t gonna take it no more! So the greatfield of passing of the falling water pure A clearing for the senses, to keep for evermore Great sky of clearness, distant planet bright A beacon for to follow on this our darkest night Yeah yeah yeah Oooh oooh Ooooh oooh
WIN YOUR LOVE (Pembroke) 3:42 Darlin’ I wanna know How I can make you Love me N’ diamonds I will bring to your door All those precious things Yes, and what is more Chorus: I would climb to the highest mountain I’d go sail through the deepest sea Reach for that farthest star out there If it’ll make you love me Oh darlin’ Yes yes, for evermore If I can make you love me Of my love I’d make you sure So I’m a-knocking’ yeah On your door ‘Cos darlin’ I wanna know How I can make you love me for evermore Repeat chorus So darlin’ yeah Any time you hear this song I just want you to know It was for you all along All those diamonds yeah That I bring to your door And those precious things I will put on your floor Repeat chorus twice with slight variations + outtro
DRINKS ON THE HOUSE (Pembroke) 5:57 Well, the drummer kept drumming Echo down those misty halls Another hotel Another four dancing walls Oh, and what’s that guitar player doing With that sign hanging from his balls? “Do not disturb” Never seen, never heard Leave him sleep in the curb Don’t say a word Cracked a lot of bottles And we cracked a lot of wine Tomorrow would never come This was our time Oh, as he smashed the Jack bottle Up against the window pane Do not complain It’s just his silly game He’s not really insane He’s only at it again This is crazy,’ said the bassman Picking up his head “We’re gonna miss the boat If you don’t get outa that bed” So he slowly turned, grinned And went back to sleep again “Sweet dreams tonight We’re gonna go and miss the flight Room service! That’s right! Six beers tonight!” Just then room service enters Amidst the broken glass “Now take us to your leader ‘Cos we need to kick his ass” Well, don’t ask why He’s just a funny kinda guy He’s really quite sly My my my The manager so crestfallen Yes, when he saw the mess The time had come to go downtown And hit the bars, I guess “Levitation is the total Of the item, more-or-less” “Sweet dreams tonight. We’re gonna go and miss the flight Room service! That’s right! Six beers tonight!” Yeah, the waitress entered All amidst the broken glass “Take us to your leader ‘Cos we need to find him fast” Yes, the manager crestfallen Oh, when he saw the mess The time had come to go downtown And hit those bars I guess So with eyes in orbit If they were buildings they’d be condemned The tried bunch of heroes They hit the road again (And it was drinks on the house! A one two tree uh! Drinks on the house! Drinks on the house He’s at it again! He’s at it again Oww! Drinks on the house! Oh oh etc.)
GOOD MORNINGTON STREET (Rechardt/Pembroke) Yeah the late night show is over There’s nothing will amuse The bars are closed and shuttered There’s no-on to accuse And the whiskey bottle’s empty So sad there ain’t no booze Oh, such a bad case of this Mornington Blues, ow Chorus: Ow, ow, ow, ow Good Mornington Street Yeah, yeah, yeah to everyone you meet The barstools by the dance floor all stand in rows of twos The piano player was sleeping, the saxman’s out of tunes His credit cards are missing, eaten by baboons Got a bad case of the Mornington blues Repeat chorus I was found in boomtown In the roarin’ ninety-twos With someone cooking moonshine To the point of straight abuse We had a dog called Badroad He was faithful as a goose Bad case of the Mornington Blues Repeat chorus So we just can’t have a story About feeling in a wooze The bright side of the cloud Is the dark side of the muse So tears will turn to laughter Just ain’t no excuse Bad case of this Mornington Blues Repeat chorus Tell me girl what a nice girl like you doing in a place like this Good Mornington Street etc.
THE LOST LIZARD KING (Rechardt/Pembroke) On a day so the scriptures say According to Abra-Inatyme This planet earth was enjoying a very long period of peace It had been a long climb (No bridge in this verse) The advance state of the human race were happy It was dawn of the New Age Of universal peace and harmony Man had turned a new page Possessions irrelevant It was going the way it was meant Peace had been crowned king and was charged with everything To be everlasting for evermore – Amen! Oh happy man! In his paradise on earth Envisioned down through all the Age Man had turned a new page He’d become of age Chorus: So, why was the lizard king so sad? Hadn’t he ruled the world? Had it been so bad? That he sleeps in the ground? Unknowable knowledge timeless time stretched before him Like another mountain to climb All things being known like a dog with no bone Man had to go it alone! (No bridge in this verse) Chorus variation: They’ll say! So, why was the Lizard King so sad? Hadn’t he ruled the world? Had it been so bad? Now he sleeps in the ground (Lost Lizard King where are you etc.)
TO THE OTHER SIDE (Rechardt/Pembroke) 5:10 Oh, the dainty sharpshooter looking for a tutor Out bowling like fishknife, looking like a tooter man In a windy old town, oh windy old street Oh, the pitter patter of a no-one’s feet He says I’ll help you take that ride To the other side Let the crowd decide You’ll be sanctified Oh oh oh, to the other side Yeah, to the other side And oh what a ride, oh the crowd kept cheering And he feels so, oh healed inside He’ll chew his gum and take it as it comes To the other side Let the crowd decide You’ll be sanctified Oh oh oh, ooh ooh ooh, yeah Sanctified To the other side Let the crowd decide You’ll be sanctified So just another day, nowt to shout about Shots in the streets, well they, yeah they rang out Is that the TV news I heard at five? He took the fifth and he did not take a dive We didn’t wanna take this news tonight To the other side Let the crowd decide You’ll be sanctified To the other side Let the crowd decide You’ll be sanctified
HEAVEN IN A MODERN WORLD (Rechardt/Pembroke) 5:01 So here we are again in another place Like rollin’ around on God’s own lawn Got to do this thing, get in the race Ever since we were born Oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh We want Heaven in a modern world Oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh We want Heaven in a modern world “Oh yes,” said the gate man, “It’s you guys back again Last time I saw you, you were running for a train Lemme see if God’s around, to Him you can explain About this Heaven World you’re talking ‘bout again” Oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh You want Heaven in a modern world Oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh You want money in a Heaven world Oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh Heaven in a modern world (x 4) Now we could be relaxin’ back at the racing track With my car and my trailer rollin’ in the sack But I just love yuh honey, the way you stir my tea Lay my bets on ‘Beetlebomb’, she’ll come through for me! Yeah! Heaven in a modern world Honey in a modern world Money in a modern world Horses in a horses’ race Humans in a human’s race New brave modern world Oh yeah! How those guys got it now? New brave modern world Oh yeah yeah yeah New brave modern world New brave modern world etc. (‘Beetlebomb’)
THAT’S THE WAY (Pembroke) 4:53 Before you get sunshine You got the have rainfall Before you get rainfall You sometimes get thunder So follow down the clouds my friend Take it easy let it flow Follow down the clouds to the end We can make it, yes I know Before you get thunder You got to have lightning Before you get lightning You sometimes get hailstorms So follow down the clouds my friend It’ll work out, sure we know So follow down the clouds to the end Take it easy, here we go! ‘Cos that’s the way that’s the way God wanted it! ‘Cos that’s the way, that’s the way That’s the way, that’s the way Yeah yeah, now that’s the way now God wanted it! That’s the way, that’s the way That’s the way we all wanted it! Yeah! Oh that’s the way we all wanted it That’s the way that’s the way That’s the way we all wanted it Ooh ooh ooh Oh yeah yeah, ooh! Aaaaaaaahh! That’s the way! Oh yes! That’s the way! Yyyeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh!!! That’s the way That’s the way