Johnny Was Lyrics

(Fingers/Ogilvie) She asks for more and I give less Why can't she see it's obvious I mean no but she takes yes I make it clear but she don't guess. She comes around it gets me down...Read Full Lyrics

I sit and I don't make a sound While I watch the speakers pound And mum shouts up to turn it down Cos I'm waking up half the town But I don't hear a word that's said While the need...Read Full Lyrics

When you're young you stand your ground And nothing seem to get you down at all Then you grow to realise That everything ain't black and white, it's brown On and on your life drags...Read Full Lyrics

(J. Burns/B. Foxton) Arise! You've listened to too many liars too long And too many were your masters You've got the chance here to right all the wrong Don't squander it on disas...Read Full Lyrics

Everybody's down in the centre of town Doing nothing wrong we're only hangin' around They put you up against the wall Make loud mouthed jokes just to make you feel small Laugh at y...Read Full Lyrics

Living on Government hand-outs Water in the milk from a hole in the roof Where the rain comes through What can you do? You can't move You got tears from your little sister Cryin...Read Full Lyrics

(C.S. Dodd/arr.Fingers) (Chorus:) Hey I hear you calling Mr Fire Coal-Man Come and do your work You never see smoke without fire What you reap you got to sow, now Repeat (Chorus...Read Full Lyrics

(Fingers/Ogilvie) It seems so easy in the light of day And when we're there it always feels ok But then again I'm so alone when I am by myself And can I ever count on someone else...Read Full Lyrics

Why do you talk that way? It's not what you used to say Can't you see things my way? I feel so strange I'm still the friend you knew Surely you know it's true? Why can't I get it ...Read Full Lyrics

You tell me all your tales and your stories You give me all your theories on life How nothing that I say ever matters And nothing that I do's ever right The world's put here just t...Read Full Lyrics