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VERSURI IAN HUNTER
| Ian Hunter - (Miss) Silver Dime |
| (Ian Hunter/Earl Slick)
Alice was a drunken Mona Lisa
Arching up some American wall
She said I really want to please you
I said that's easy let yourself fall
All you got to do is go
Ride on down roc |
| Ian Hunter - 23A, Swan Hill |
| (Ian Hunter)
(Transcribed by Justin Purington; corrections by
Colin Ford)
Wrote this poem
called the floods roll on
he said this ain't yours,
where'd you get it from?
you must have stole it from a b |
| Ian Hunter - 3,000 Miles From Here |
| (Ian Hunter)
Fare thee well, gentle maid,
I'll see you on your way;
And the sun will rise tomorrow
And wash my sins away.
For I know that I've abused you
But I only had a day.
And I know that's why |
| Ian Hunter - All Of The Good Ones Are Taken |
| (Ian Hunter)
Girl-things ain't been goin' too good for me
Girl-I'm living in the middle of a mystery
You're the only one that can turn me on
'N' now that you're gone I said
Girl-I'm livin' in the midd |
| Ian Hunter - American Music |
| (Ian Hunter)
I have a dream-its only one dream
But I know dreams can come true
And I have a wish-its only one wish
But I know wishes can too
I wanna be-faraway from here
With those honky tonk heroes- |
| Ian Hunter - American Spy |
| (Ian Hunter)
Neon lights in the pouring rain - it's just
another Saturday
Avoid the bovver boys comin' out the Indian -
looking for an affray
I left home on the 4th of July - in nineteen
hundred and sev |
| Ian Hunter - Apathy 83 |
| (Ian Hunter)
Standin' on the edge of Vesuvius - my mouth is
runnin' dry
Drunk on wine & wisdom - giving it all away
Old enough to hate tomorrow - young enough not to
know where to run
Oh there ain't no |
| Ian Hunter - Beg A Little Love |
| (Hunter/McNasty)
Life takes a little piece of you away
Most everyday of your life
Oh learn to get wise, you learn to compromise-
You learn to criticise yourself
I guess we all grow up 'cos one day eve |
| Ian Hunter - Big Time |
| (Ian Hunter)
One more town on the merry-go-round
One more room with no view
One more punk eatin' nothing but junk
Trin' to make a phone call to you
Well maybe I'll never, get myself together
But some |
| Ian Hunter - Boy |
| (Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson)
Genocidal tendencies are silly to extreme
After all you're still quite small you don't know
where you've been
You was only swearing yesterday
Oh you want to win the world away
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| Ian Hunter - Broadway |
| (Ian Hunter)
Green lights on Broadway
All the magic seems to say
Come and ride with me baby you know
It's got to be the greatest show on Broadway
Out here on the streets they say
You can see your lif |
| Ian Hunter - Dancing On The Moon |
| (Ian Hunter/Darrell Bath/Honest John Plain)
(Transcribed by Colin Ford)
Oh!!
Well I climbed through the fence, out with the
(?), head for the river plate(?).
The river's not tame, heat in the city mean |
| Ian Hunter - Death Of A Nation |
| (Ian Hunter)
I was having a drink with Prince Charles and the
Queen
When Winston Churchill stepped into my dream
His head it was heavy, his voice was shakin'
He said, Look what they've done - it's the |
| Ian Hunter - God (Take 1) |
| (Ian Hunter)
God said to me Gonna kick your ass - 'cos all you
do is ask ask ask
All that energy looking for me when I'm sitting
here inside you - plain to see
How I built you cell for cell gave you s |
| Ian Hunter - Golden Opportunity |
| (Ian Hunter)
The kids are OK
They're telling you now
But you're letting them down
Cause you just don't know how
And it's a golden opportunity
I'm spinning in space
I'm laughing away
Your so patheti |
| Ian Hunter - Gun Control |
| (Ian Hunter)
All right
Gun Control, we don't want no
Gun Control, we don't want no
Gun Control, we don't want no
Gun Control.
Stick to your guns, boys, stick to your guns.
We'll make a lot of money |
| Ian Hunter - How Much More Can I Take |
| (Ian Hunter)
You're breakin' my heart
Stealing my thunder
How much more can I take
You're draggin' me down
Holding me under
How much more can I take
How much more can I take
Won't somebody b |
| Ian Hunter - I Need Your Love |
| (Ian Hunter)
It was a cold, cold house,
I was a cold, cold room.
No one lived in me.
I was an empty tune.
Lovers came to view
'n' they looked all around.
But they couldn't see nothin',
nothin but t |
| Ian Hunter - Irene Wilde |
| (Ian Hunter)
When I was just sixteen - I stood waiting for a
dream -
at Barker Street bus station every night
When I tried to get it on - she just looked at me
with scorn - my courage
turned to dust a |
| Ian Hunter - Keep On Burning |
| (Ian Hunter)
Oh
Well there ain't no sense
in burning bridges.
No, there ain't no sense
in burning bridges.
If we're sorry
then it's our failure
so says the jailor,
fade? away.
Now there ain't no |
| Ian Hunter - Lounge Lizard |
| (Ian Hunter)
Well I picked her up on a Saturday night
Pool hall poison but she felt alright
Oh dear what a sight when I saw her in the light
of day
She was a speakeasy sleazer of the highest degree
Oh |
| Ian Hunter - Morons |
| (Ian Hunter)
We were morons from the day we were born
We believed every word that you said - boy were we
wrong
We're all fat now - on the sofas - mini morons -
taking over
Cos we're older now, older no |
| Ian Hunter - My Revolution |
| (Casino Steel/Ian Hunter/Dangerfield)
You were just a twinkle in your teenage mother's
eyes
I was squeezing Brylcreem on my hair
No one taught us how to be politically correct
And no one told our winkl |
| Ian Hunter - Never Trust A Blonde |
| (Darrell Bath)
(Transcribed by Colin Ford)
A thousand pin-up girls to Stepney to Bombay
Take me to fancy restaurants to be amongst the (?)
And all the blue-eyed gals of 6 foot 3
Are gonna leave you br |
| Ian Hunter - No One |
| (Ian Hunter)
I used to come home each night to no one - no one
All by myself, turn out the light - no one - no
one
One knife, a fork 'n' a spoon
An empty bed in a cold room
Oooh I needed someone - may |
| Ian Hunter - Noises |
| (Ian Hunter/Tommy Morrongiello)
Noises are taking away my freedom.
Noises seem to rob me of myself.
Noises are the sound of mediocrity.
Noises ... to take that ... from out of myself.
Noises are takin |
| Ian Hunter - Old Records Never Die |
| (Ian Hunter)
Sometimes you realize
that there is an end to life.
Yesterday I heard them say
a hero's blown away.
And it's so hard to lose
someone who's close to you.
Oh me, I did not see
the danger |
| Ian Hunter - Open My Eyes |
| (Ian Hunter/Darrel Bath)
(Transcribed by Colin Ford)
On the Avenue of dead umbrellas
In a place where nothin' sleeps
No one's pickin' up the pieces - no one speaks
Snow falls down - God dusts funky to |
| Ian Hunter - Psycho Girl |
| (Honest John Plain)
If I'd known then what I know now
I'd do it all again 'cause I'm crazy and how
About my mixed-up, messed-up pretty little Psycho
Girl
I should've given her a swift body swerve
I di |
| Ian Hunter - Restless Youth |
| (Ian Hunter)
He's much the same as anyone - He don't do what
he's told
He got hostile on his school report - and he
leaves his mother cold
His father owned a bakery - one day they found him
hanged
It a |
| Ian Hunter - Resurrection Mary |
| (Ian Hunter)
(Studio version)
(Transcribed by Justin Purington)
In 1935 I was living in paradise, I had a friend
up in Cicero.
We used to go out to the track, we'd knock a few
whiskeys back.
I'd lose |
| Ian Hunter - Ripoff |
| (Ian Hunter)
I don't wanna be no traitor to the cause
But England is a luxury - not many can afford
There's people going under - it's getting out of
hand
Whatever happened to our - our green and pleasa |
| Ian Hunter - Seeing Double |
| (Ian Hunter)
Doctor, doctor, am I alright?
I keep on stayin' up - all through the night
Smokin', drinkin', watchin' T.V. 'til the light
It's been a long time since I slept
All I seem to think about is |
| Ian Hunter - Shades Off (spoken) |
| (Ian Hunter)
Where do you go when you've somewhere to run
But the time isn't right and there's things to be
done
And you're trapped half-way up, you don't want to
go back
So you keep going on - comprom |
| Ian Hunter - Shallow Crystals |
| (Ian Hunter)
Her life gets smaller in his eyes
And he wonders if he thinks he should cry
Oh mother the colour's gone and left your hair
And he wonders if he thinks he should care
She told him how to p |
| Ian Hunter - Skeletons (In Your Closet) |
| (Ian Hunter/Darrel Bath/Honest John Plain)
(Transcribed by Adrian Perkins; corrections by
Colin Ford)
Bimbo, flirts, sluts in skirts - muscles brightly
glisten
Conversation's full of filth - let's all h |
| Ian Hunter - Soap And Water |
| (Ian Hunter)
I can't believe what you did, you know - you just
can't let it go
I'm sick 'n' tired of listening to your innuendo
I can't believe what you did, you know - you sawed
me in half
When I was |
| Ian Hunter - The Loner |
| (Ian Hunter)
I was born
On the 3rd of June-hard labor-Gemini moon
I was raised
In a country town-livin' dead were all puttin' me
down
And my flesh and blood-my flesh and blood
Kicked me out - they n |
| Ian Hunter - Theatre Of The Absurd |
| (Ian Hunter)
My tea turned seven shades darker
as I sit 'n' write these words
and London's gettin' paler
in my theatre of the absurd.
You figured for an evening
and you made it all worthwile.
It's s |
| Ian Hunter - Wash Us Away |
| (Ian Hunter)
On the very first decade that we got to dream in
Our fathers were angry, our mother's were
screamin'
At the clothes we were wearin' and the music we
got off on
Hitler was dead, welcome to |
| Ian Hunter - Who Do You Love |
| (Ian Hunter)
Driving off in the rain and snow
Oh the jets ain't jumping cause the clouds too low
I wanna know
I wanna know
I wanna know
The ice on the window the highway the sea
Who do you love is i |
| Ian Hunter - You Nearly Did Me In |
| (Ian Hunter)
See lonely shadows - silver needles
Abandoned in the evening war
Lost children of the night - come catch the candle
bright
I hear a hollow sound - falling to the ground -
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