On The Turn

Transcribed by:

Damian Penston (Ta Mate!)

CNO20029@rtc-carlow.ie / penston@clubi.ie


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Sally



If I had a clue
And a room
I would need a car to get you home
Tonight, again, 
Oh yeah
Got to get your hearing right or the fright
Never know what you're getting into
Now again
Oh yeah
Again
So you tell me lend me an ear
You're to hear
I'm the one and only hand that you can hold
Again
Oh yeah
Again
Not to say a bird in the hand should be glad
Some small mercies all you will ever have
Again
Oh yeah
Again

So the stakes couldn't make
I don't need the help of you
Could you try out of sight
For I haven't got a clue
Haven't got what it takes to
Got it wrong
Sally's won
denim suits get it
That's just what I was told
And I don't care if I was sold
So you were right
Sally flyed
I don't know what hit
I accept and can take the blame
Can you fake when the fake is lame

Changing round I have found
Wheather you're in can only leave you drowned
Again
Oh yeah
Again
Get the message loud and and clear
For my dear
Places I will go to lumber with my gear
Again
Oh yeah
Again
If you need a little help to move
Let me know
'Cause hardly I can wait
To say to you let go
Vilify me if it makes the cut turn you on
And I'm sure by the time you gain

JJ's Song


Handy it's for you
Even though you're not supposed to
Go away
Sue
Fool
Sue
With a smile at your creation
Of a mass anticipation
Go away
Sue
Go on
Sue

Give a milder man his place to
Give a silencer its grace to
Go away
Sue
Go on
Sue

Try to get it straight
I'm in action and I hate it
Can I write my eager list
With a message on the end
You can reach me at a station
I will swear to keep you waiting
Am I joking
Am I Hell
I'm a user and I'm closer

It's a silly kind of meaning
I can see sense in your reason
Go away
Fool
Away
Fool
Either way, to be tight fisted
Other means have been enlisted
In your name
Fool
Name
Fool
Take a second to decide if
You and I are going to croak if
You are maimed
Fool
maimed
Fool
So let it go
Lady leave it out
Oh why, 'cause I read so
Caught you on the ground again
And it looks so
Fully is the fake
Without any cuts shown
Filling in the time before
About time
Could it be that the boy was right
Any time you would make the fight
About time
They convince you to agonise
Take a cut when you get the prize
About 
Make a limp 'cause he's at the door
With a splint you can ask for more
Press eject when the fund it ends
Then again on the gravy train
About time
Give it up, I tried to
Qualify a lie to hurt you
Go ahead
Sue
Go on
Sue
Be a dear and say to no one
Never know you might be told on
Go ahead
Sue
Go on
Sue
I am always by your side to
Tell a lie if I'm allowed to
Go ahead
Sue
Go on
Sue

Didn't Even Try



So after all you never kid yourself alone
See you standing senile ever overblown
I knew a chance of changing back
Would re-appear again
But I can jump right over you say when
Tell me driver I can't seem to understand
Better be the leader than to hold the major's hand
Looking forward I can see a happy tree
A normal unaffected family
So what d'you mean
You didn't even try
But it's alright with me
I can hold myself I know myself
Hold on tight and you can feel the strain
But it's alright with me
I can change
Driving by hello remember me'amour
I'm the dandy member that you once adored
Mirrored in the window underneath a sunny glare
A reflection only you could bear
never ending nightmares you present to me
Knowing that the problem is the problem
That I see
Certain self control preventingunashamed
From doing what I might regret again

Mexican Wave



Hello, I'm the same boy
The one you left behind
And if you find disturbing
I will eagerly rewind
Knowing what's important
Is everything ok?
Slowing down was helpful
But if only it was when
All is said and done
With the blame you would've hung
To be building all these years
What amounts to amounts to
Fear of reinvention is discolouring your eyes
If I can stare right through them
Who am I to recognise
Ailment in the full
Fully blown's the way it looks
Can I make my meaning clear
No attention to attention

Hey Billy, Yes it's me
Come around, we'll have a field day
A relay round the back
Hey Billy, ain't this sweet
I can't try to find a reason
To give you any slack
Hey Billy, hang around
I've a little box of raisins found

And if you like I can make you feel alright
And undone
Now it's not so easy
Waiting baited breath
Fearing for the day when the voices in my head
Giving up instructions
Intellegence is claimed
Leading up a garden path
Of where to who knows when
All is said and done
With the blame you would've hung
To be building all these years
What amounts to amounts to
Heads spinning round
I can hardly touch the ground
And if I stand by your side
Would you mend

Severed



So you won't even pay the fare
I'll hit you with my change gun
Having got the whole thing right
I won't meet the test of time
With your hair and your soft top shoes
I could never be you
Unending routes have been severed
Aboard you've all been tethered
only with the grace allowed thee
Turn this bus around
Before we run the rim that's in our way
Below we lie below we dive today
Collect ticket skinhead you try it on
Pull the other with the bells on
You can smoke your smoke outside
Dragging hard against the tide
Wipe your feet if you want to stay in
Does it matter whenyour lungs fill
Regarding the rules have been severed
Aboard you've all been tethered
Don't you make a sound
I'll stop it any time you pay me
I can't hold this course
Did I tell you stand
Did I say that anyone could touch me
I can't hold this course
Pity about your friends
Pity that none of them could save face
I can't hold this course
Did you touch the break
Did you touch anything i said no
I can't hold it I can't make you see

Pledge



Take stock of your time and ability
make room for the noise on your page
Can't give enough
Can't give enough
I'm the man with the means and the influence
I will leave you alone in my own time
Can't give enough
Can't give enough
So you rank with the names on the underground
They hope to see a sign of me falling down
Knock knock knock knocking on my window sill
Another sweet reminder just to pay the bill
I can't see the jokes I'm hearing right
I can't see the point of this circle tight
Can we hang around we won't say a word
Remember it's us now
Conditioned not to wait
I intend to be late
Take stock of your time and ability
Make room for the noise on your page
Trust you not to learn
When the tables turned the tables turned
Substandard sounds stand and take a bow
Pat each others back, oh really
Can't you feel it now
You can blow your trumpet
I don't have to listen in
Unfortunate like mine it's just another din
Easily misread, easily mistook
Read about yourself while you create a look
We can manage to run on our own steam
Remember it's us now
All the stories I told
You couldn't hear me
All the things that you wrote
You wouldn't teach me
Every word that you say i am believing
Even I was aware you didn't need me
I told you nothing
I know the words have got no meaning

On The Turn



I can't seem to think straight
I know I've had a little much too
Am I over acting this time?
I know
So give me a try
Could you have a little patience
I know I really didn't mean it
You're the limit on the inside
At least it's on the turn

I don't mind if you don't speak
Do I care for your retreat
Will you let me come around, oh yeah
Pucker up it couldn't hurt you
Let me go and then I'll work you
Simmer down we'll struggle in the end

I can't seem to walk straight
I know I've had a little much too
Am I over acting this time?
I know, so give me a try
Could you have a little patience
I know I really didn't mean it
You're the limit on the inside
At least it's on the turn
Leaning over from behind
Work on the assumption
Wrecking heads I will comply
To your lame suggestion
Spinning is the face I see
Is it your complexion?
I know that the joke's on me
When it's my reflection

Secure



It's a different kind of bleeding
That makes the fear react
And if I could try to make some sense
I'm sure that you'd relax
In answer to the question asked
I hope that my reply
Relieves you of the tension here
If only for a while
And I will help
Get you out
You're not home
But you've got to know to

See me see me smile
Cos I don't think I got things right this time
Guess who's in control
Now that I managed just to clear my eyes
Maybe I'm a goner
But at least I've tried to work it out
Ain't you feeling happy?
When you're on your own

It's a different kind of cold now
You've just come in the room
If you or I could gain some ground
Then neither'd be the fool
But you insist on teasing me
Gets closer to the bone
And if I can't be responsible
If I am left if I am left
Short change shooter
It can only get you flack
And if I said that I was sorry
Would you let me take it back
How do you know?
So do you care?
Now that what we've got was never meant to be
Always ends up beat
Up on the roof
An angel next to me
Cos I saw your face in a magazine
Show me the eyes
You know that I despise
The joke decide the way that you or I will descend
Deal with this or help yourself to more
Thanks a lot I'll show you to the door
See me see me smile
Cos i don't think I'm born to get things right
Guess who's in control
I just cleared my eyes

Lesser Shelf



Every time a day goes by
Bridie comes to mind
Maybe cos I'm stupid or irate
I'd reather face the future
With undefective eyes
Cos I can see no solace
In the past

Bridie had a friend she couldn't keep
Crooked was tyhe eye that failed to see
Dad was a drunk who never knew
The state of the man that he got to
Sat on the edge of a lesser shelf
The man only lived cos he knew
No tape parade, no fuss was made
The dead beats allowed and I'm so proud

Think of now old loves, old friends
Old meanings pass us by
All your tricks don't interest me at all
Every other dealing done
With every other high
Sens me right back
Waiting for a chance
Facing fact is none too bad
With curtains on my side
Happy now that what was done's denied
Never mind the seed has gone
Through coloured glass I see
Hoping that you see yourself in me
On a lesser shelf
On a lesser shelf
On a lesser shelf
On a lesser shelf
On a lesser shelf
On a lesser shelf
On a lesser shelf
On a lesser shelf
No tape parade, no fuss made
The dead beats allowed and I'm so proud

Pointless



Seven times I rang you
Seven times you said you were bored
How do I know by the tone in your voice
You will be there
Time enough I've humoured thoughts
That situations change
Help me to know because all I will drop
just to be there

So why are you taut and confusing
I heard that once
Nothing comes between
Did you see the sun outside today
Burning the bridges I made yesterday
Memory serves me never quite so well
So I broke it
I fell

Tried and tried to listen hard
And gave you all I had
Back in the face and the bile
I could taste in your reasons
Save for him all your frivolous chat
And I'm sure for you're reward
A house of your own and a book
Full of nuns to remember
What you know is just a lie
I wouldn't tell you what to do for me
I have what's best inside
I saw the man your eye's on
We're so wierd it hurts
And I don't even mind if that's all the plan
I'm fully careless of this

Rewind



Stop me if you think I'm going back
Nothing matters saving over empty sacks
Given time I'm sure a leak will break
Second time around is here
And I won't take
Dizzier my sides again I find
Even with a super feeling left behind
Neither mean exceptions to the blame
Can't accept a reason for a rise in fame
You play the rules that I keep breaking
Whether you know that I am making

The times keep me wise
Give me a rise
Cheap disguise
The times keep me wise
Give me a rise
Cheap disguise

Digging up a part of me
So new couldn't leave a pointer
Couldn't leave a clue
Curious the stories I can tell
Leaving me no option but to run as well
While you're here I could scream
It's ok, it's not me
Empty heads are still awake
I've tried

Sorry For The Record



See all the places that you liked
Careers have wasted all your life
Never need to understand
What's yours is mine, intact my plan
Cover over creases that you see
With another claim of disbelief
You're a star that just won't fade
With that being said my mind is made

Of all the faces we forgot to
Hold the hand that fed us well
Sorry for the record, let us down again
Of all the faces we forgot to
Hold the hand that fed us well
Sorry for the record, let us down

Killing my useless train of thought
Have all these heirlooms that were brought
In an air of self disgrace
My mouth is dry despite your wine
Rewrite the verses of them all
Would yu expect to fly or fall
Red or rough, you just can't see
Among the rest you find is me
And I'm laughing
Every penny that you can make
We will pander to your spoken words
God, I'm feeling great
That's a beautiful coat you are wearing out
Deserving of nothing less
You couldn't tell if it smacked you in the face
Grateful, grateful, never