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Album: Crime Of The Century Released: 1974 Total Time: 44:15 Bob C. Benberg - Drums, Percussion Roger Hodgson - Vocals, Guitar, Pianos John Anthony Helliwell - Saxophones, Clarinet, Vocals Dougie Thomson - Bass Richard Davies - Vocals, Keyboards, Harmonica |
1 - School
2 - Bloody Well Right
3 - Hide In Your Shell
4 - Asylum
5 - Dreamer
6 - Rudy
7 - If Everyone Was Listening
8 - Crime Of The Century
I can see you in the morning when you go to school Don't forget your books, you know you've got to learn the golden rule, Teacher tells you stop your play and get on with your work And be like Johnnie-too-good, don't you know he never shirks He's coming along! After School is over you're playing in the park Don't be out too late, don't let it get too dark They tell you not to hang around and learn what life's about And grow up just like them - won't you let it work it out And you're full of doubt Don't do this and don't do that What are they trying to do? Make a good boy of you Do they know where it's at? Don't criticize, they're old and wise Do as they tell you to Don't want the devil to Come out and put out your eyes Maybe I'm mistaken expecting you to fight Or maybe I'm just crazy, I don't know wrong from right But while I am still living, I've just got this to say It's always up to you if you want to be that Want to see that Want to see that way You're coming along!
So you think your schooling's phoney I guess it's hard not to agree You say it all depends on money And who is in your family tree Right, you're bloody well right You got a bloody right to say Right, you're bloody well right You know you got a right to say Ha-ha you're bloody well right You know you're right to say Yeah-yeah you're bloody well right You know you're right to say Me, I don't care anyway! Write your problems down in detail Take them to a higher place You've had your cry - no, I should say wail In the meantime hush your face Right, you're bloody well right You got a bloody right to say Right, you're bloody well right You know you got a right to say Ha-ha you're bloody well right You know you're right to say Yeah-yeah you're bloody well right You know you got a right to say You got a bloody right to say You got a bloody right to say You got a bloody right to say You got a bloody right to say
Hide in your shell cos the world is out to bleed you for a ride What will you gain making your life a little longer? Heaven or Hell, was the journey cold that gave your eyes of steel? Shelter behind painting your mind and playing joker Too Frightening to listen to a stranger Too Beautiful to put your pride in danger You're waiting for someone to understand you But you've got demons in your closet And you're screaming out to stop it Saying life's begun to cheat you Friends are out to beat you Grab on to what you can scramble for Don't let the tears linger on inside now Cos it's sure time you gained control If I can help you, if I can help you If I can help you, just let me know Well, let me show you the nearest signpost To get your heart back and on the road If I can help you, if I can help you If I can help you, just let me know. All through the night as you lie awake and hold yourself so tight What do you need, a second-hand-movie-star to tend you? I as a boy, I believed the saying the cure for pain was love How would it be if you could see the world through my eyes? Too Frightening- the fire's becoming colder Too Beautiful- to think you're getting older You're looking for someone to give an answer. But what you see is just an illusion You're surrounded by confusion Saying life's begun to cheat you Friends are out to beat you Grab on to what you can scramble for Don't let the tears linger on inside now Cos it's sure time you gained control If I can help you, if I can help you If I can help you, just let me know Well, let me show you the nearest signpost To get your heart back and on the road If I can help you, if I can help you If I can help you, just let me know. I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know Oh, I've got to know I wanna know you I wanna know you Well let me know you I wanna feel you Oh, I wanna touch you Please let me near you Let me near you Can you hear what I'm saying? Well I'm hoping, I'm dreamin', I'm prayin' I know what you're thinkin' See what you're seein' Never ever let yourself go Hold yourself down, hold yourself down Why d'ya hold yourself down? Why don't you listen, you can trust me, Oh there's a place I know the way to A place there is no need to, to feel you to feel that you're all alone Oh won't you hear me I know exactly what you're feelin' cos all your troubles are within you So begin to, to see that I'm just bleeding to Love me, love you Loving is the way to Help me, help you Why must we be so cool Oh so cool? Oh, we're such damn fools...
Jimmy Cream was keen, his brain was always winnin' I can't keep tabs on mine, it's really quite a joke I see him down the road, I ask if he'd be willing To lend me 15p - I'm dying for a smoke Don't arrange to have me sent to no asylum I'm just as sane as anyone It's a just a game I play for fun - for fun I told em - look! - I said I'm not the way you're thinkin Just when I'm down, I'll be the clown, I'll play the fool Please don't arrange to have me sent to no asylum I'm just as sane as anyone It's just a game I play for fun - for fun Will he take a sailboat ride? He is very likely to Will he feel good inside? He ain't very likely to Will he tell you he's alive? He is always trying to But nothin', no nothin', does he say In the morning when the day's begun - "Hello Good morning, how are you?" And in the evening or the noonday sun - "What a lovely afternoon!" Well I've been living next to you Bluesy Monday is the one day that they come here When they haunt me and they taunt me in my cage I mock them all, they're feelin' small, they got no answer They're playin' dumb but I'm just laughing as they rage Don't arrange to have me sent to no asylum It's only a game I'm playin' for fun Yeah I've been tryin' to fool everyone - everyone Will he take a sailboat ride? He is very likely to Will he feel good inside? He ain't ever likely to Will he tell you he's alive? He is always tryin' to But nothin', no nothin' does he ever say In the morning when the day's begun - "Do you think it looks like rain"? And in the evening or the noonday sun - "You know I nearly missed my train" Well I've been living next to you my friend But what kind of friend are you? Is it the beginning or the sorry end? Will I ever see it through? I've never been insane Oh what's the game? I believe I'm dying He's mad, mad, mad... Not quite right... Oooooooooo.....
Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no! I said dreamer, you're nothing but a dreamer Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no! I said "Far out, - What a day, a year, a life it is!" You know, - Well you know you had it comin' to you Now there's not a lot I can do Dreamer, you stupid little dreamer So now you put your head in your hands, oh no! I said "Far out, - What a day, a year, a laugh it is!" You know, - Well you know you had it comin' to you Now there's not a lot I can do Well work it out someday If I could see something - You can see anything you want boy If I could be someone - You can be anyone, celebrate boy If I could do something - You can do something If I could do anything - Can you do something out of this world? Take a dream on a Sunday Take a life, take a holiday Take a lie, take a dreamer Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream along... Come on and dream, dream along Come on and dream, dream along Come on and dream, dream along Come on and dream, dream along Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no! I said dreamer, you're nothing but a dreamer Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no! OH NO!
Rudy's on a train to nowhere, halfway down the line He don't wanna get there, but he needs time He ain't sophisticated, nor well-educated After all the hours he's wasted, still he needs time He needs time - he needs time for livin' He needs time - for someone just to see him He ain't had no lovin' For no reason or rhyme And the whole world's above him Well it's not as though he's fat No there's more to it than that See he tries to play it cool Wouldn't be nobody's fool Rudy thought that all good things comes to those that wait But recently he could see that it may come too late All through your life, all through the years Nobody loved, nobody cared So dim the light, dark are your fears Try as I might, I can't hold back the tears How can you live without love, it's not fair? Someone said give but I just didn't dare What good advice are you waiting to hear? Hearing's alright for them that's all there You'd better gain control now You'd better show'em all now You'd better make or break now You'd better give and take now You'll have to push and shove now You'll have to find some love now You'd better gain control now Now he's just come out the movie Numb of all the pain Sad but in a while he'll soon be Back on his train
The actors and jesters are here The stage is in darkness and clear For raising the curtain And no-one's quite certain whose play it is How long ago, how long If only we had listened then If we'd known just how right we were going to be For we dreamed a lot And we schemed a lot And we tried to sing of love before the stage fell apart If everyone was listening you know There'd be a chance that we could save the show Who'll be the last clown To bring the house down? Oh no, please no, don't let the curtain fall Well, what is your costume today? Who are the props in your play? You're acting a part which you thought from the start was an honest one Well how do you plead? An actor indeed! Go re-learn your lines You don't know what you've done The finale's begun If everyone was listening you know There'd be a chance that we could save the show Who'll be the last clown To bring the house down? Oh no, please no, don't let the curtain fall
Now they're planning the crime of the century Well what will it be? Read all about their schemes and adventuring It's well worth the fee So roll up and see And they rape the universe How they've gone from bad to worse Who are these men of lust, greed, and glory? Rip off the masks and let's see But that's no right - oh no, what's the story? There's you and there's me That can't be right
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