One For the Road (BBC Session Simon Mayo 9/6/97) Lyrics

Saturday afternoonThe sunshine pours like wineThrough the windowAnd I know golden JuneCan turn an empty grayAgainst your windowAnd I feel like I'm on the outsideOf the circleIf I w...Read Full Lyrics

I see double up ahead Where the riverboat swayed beneath the sun Is where the river runs red Like a King who stalks the wings and shoots a dove And frees an eagle instead It's more...Read Full Lyrics

And when she blows the candle flame to smokeShe says a prayer for all of those who live in houses and in homesAnd Monday she'll go down town standing naked in the roadYou may know ...Read Full Lyrics

Who is that upon the stairsActing like he don't know whereAnd who is laying down all the cardsAnd giving me the wrong things to sayAnd like a wheel on the tableHe's a Cain to my Ab...Read Full Lyrics

The house caught on fire in the winterThe bosses lay slainAnd each of the workers decided to ten-fold their payAnd they saw in the mirror the sun had been shot down in flamesAnd no...Read Full Lyrics

The brilliance of my fleeting mindChimes like voices in foreign cavesIt chimes in time - takes me where I'm goingAlone my fleeting mind is knowingBelieve it when I pin it downAnd t...Read Full Lyrics

Spark and Cindy live by their own meansThey wouldn't have any if I'd only known where they'd beenAnd I want to make things a part of my lifeAnd I want to see that things are going ...Read Full Lyrics

We came down the stairsAnd hardly said a wordAnd all through the dayThat's all we heardAnd we wanted to knowWhere mariners went wrongAnd all through the dayWe played the same songA...Read Full Lyrics

Bus stop stretching out before All along the High Street wall 'Til your eyes can't see no more Early evening in sunlight Turns the world to shine so bright Like a blind man given s...Read Full Lyrics

This England made meBetween the war and a rockets flyingYou found the crib that saves meAnd teach me wrong and rightThen the world was talkingIt never got it's chance to sayWhen th...Read Full Lyrics