I like a girl in satin
Who talks dirty in Latin
A girl who's flirty
When she quotes Krishnamurti
If she likes to be goosed
While reciting from Proust
I'll know she's my kind of cre...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
Like a lobster I can swim
And can grow another limb
Where a powerless stump you saw
I have grown a powerful claw
Where you thought me safely drowned
In the depths I swim around
Th...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
Give me simple for my pleasure
Charity for my success
Give me wisdom and misfortune
Heart's ease for my distress
When men boast or make me tremble
When men mock or make me weak
Gi...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
I'm Darby the tinker and my brother is Tam
We go where the work is, my boys, and we work where we can
With the mending and fixing, it's together we stay
Intending our fortunes to t...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
[Verse 1]
Oh, holy man save you from a dance with the Devil
Jesus save you from the bottle of gin
Voodoo save you from a sleepwalk woman
Who's gonna save you from the rattle wi...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
The urchins are writhing around in the mud,
Like eels playing tag in a barrel
The old Sally Army sound mournful and sweet
As they play an old Chrissmassy carol...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
You're going to give yourself away
One of these nights
Your gaze of compassion
Just a little too right
Your hug of encouragement
A little too tight
And then he'll know
It's the lit...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
[Verse 1]
I'm longing for a storm to blow through town
And blow these sad old buildings down
Fire to burn what fire may
And rain to wash it all away
[Chorus 1]
But the stor...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
Lovers pair off and they fall into bed
The same old lies trip off the tongue
A few lonely hearts stand and prop up the room
The night is young
Envy the bodies asleep on the floor
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Artist - Richard Thompson
Don't think my love is something that you can play with
I'm not the one to spend the time of day with
You learn to hide love, you lock it up or find it gone
You think you need me, ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson