STICKY GEORGE

STICKY GEORGE (James Warren, Phil Harrison)

Six foot two, eyes of blue, fabulous.
Cut price deals, hard line spiel, one of us.

Sticky George, cut it out, cut it out
Sticky George, he's your man
Sticky George, turn it on, turn it on.

Public school, stretch the rules, rent-a-mind.
Three piece suite, frozen meat, one of us.

Sticky George, cut it out, cut it out
Sticky George, he's your man
Sticky George, turn it on, turn it on.

Although there's much to do,
He's got the time for you.
Better to travel than arrive,
Better to travel than arrive.

Sticky George, cut it out, cut it out
Sticky George, he's your man
Sticky George, turn it on, turn it on.

CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS NOW (James Warren)

Every morning trying to forget
Times and places, feelings when we met
Do I try too much
I need your touch

Can't we be friends now
Can't we be friends now
Can't we be friends now
We can make it work

I talk and talk I'm really miles away
I hear your voice but I don't hear what you say
Though you hold the key
Don't set me free

Can't we be friends now
Can't we be friends now
Can't we be friends now
We can make it work

And how I want you so
Don't ever let me go

Can't we be friends now
Can't we be friends now
Can't we be friends now
We can make it work

FOOLISHNESS OF LOVE (Phil Harrison)

In the chāteau she was the harlequin
Opening my dreams to her she walked in
feeding the rich a mountain of gold
Laser-kick of lascivious cold
In the night we fell into the foolishness of love

Drinking Medoc in the white bungalow
And we had a million more miles to go
Touching her heart with fingers of lace
Spinning the madness over her face
In the night we fell into the foolishness of love
Drifted slowly through a sea of hotels
(Into the foolishness of love)
Now the show is over we see what sells
(Foolishness of love)
Feeding the poor a barrel of fun
Nobody walking everyone run
In the night we fell into the foolishness

DOMESTIC BLISS (James Warren, Phil Harrison, Stuart Gordon)

First cold daylight
Watching the planets move
We stay home every night
Your love has melted the winter
Your love has opened my eyes

Think of this
Domestic bliss
Take the risk

Tea and then
News at ten
Love you when
No-one's looking

Walls painted white
Our cold war strategy
We stay home every night
This time I don't need excuses
This time I only need you

Think of this
Domestic bliss
Take the risk

Tea and then
News at ten
Love you when
No-one's looking
Rented rooms
Candlelight
Diamond weddings
We stay home at night
Your love has melted the winter
Your love has opened my eyes

Think of this
Domestic bliss
Take the risk

Tea and then
News at ten
Tell me when

THAT WAS MY BIG MISTAKE (Andy Davis, James Warren)

Farewell the faint-hearted man
seduced by a smile
I was the ordinary guy
In search of a style
We were helpless
We were victims of persuasion

It's not things that were said
The schemes we had planned
It's just that love is so rare
And seldom at hand
We were lovers
And I believed in happy endings

That was my big mistake
I should have known you better
You left me with nothing
but broken dreams
What a fool I've been

Ungraced by laughter or youth
A man without charm
I was the ordinary guy
Who meant you no harm
We were shipwrecked
In our see of isolation

It's not that roles get confused
Or keep us confined
It's just when love is abused
We fall out of line
We were lovers
And I believed in happy endings

That was my big mistake
I should have known you better
You left me with nothing
but broken dreams
What a fool I've been

NOWHERE TO RUN (Andy Davis, James Warren)

Dark star
Black night
Cruel heat
Strange light
Whole towns blown out
All hope snuffed out

Playback your voice on my answerphone
Wait for the fall-out, my hell's just began
Nowhere to run

Dead minds
Bearing the scars
Evil men
Black hearts

Playback your voice on my answerphone
Wait for the fall-out, my hell's just began
Nowhere to run

CONTRABAND (James Warren)

I don't deal in contraband
I don't walk on shifting sand
'Cos you've got to be cruel to be kind
Play by the rules don't play blind

I don't weave no make-believe
Cash has been my sole reprieve
'Cos you've got to move fast to go slow
Aim for the top don't shoot low

Cruising down the boulevard
Filthy-rich I flash my car
at schoolgirls ripe with promise
White white-glove-pure depravity
I flaunt my cheap morality
For a centimes worth of sonnets
And if I should fall in love
you must reserve all your love for me

With hired-hands and Peeping Toms
I'm kept aware of what goes on
in houses of refinement
With cut-throat-sharp audacity
I blackmail those whose chastity
is out of true alignment
And if I should fall in love
you must reserve all your love for me

I don't deal in contraband
I don't walk on shifting sand
'Cos you've got to be cruel to be kind
Play by the rules don't play blind

ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD (Andy Davis, James Warren)

Your life has been a mess
You'll fall apart
unless you change direction
'Cos underneath the show
(Don't think that I don't know)
You crave affection

All the love in the world
That's what I have for you
All the love in the world
That's what I have for you

Sometimes I wonder why
The underdog is either cursed
or made to pay
It's indefensible
Even contemptible
But everybody, everybody has
their day

All the love in the world
That's what I have for you
All the love in the world
That's what I have for you

You've waited years
Was it all in vain?
All those tears
You always felt the same
Someone else to blame
It's a losing game

All the love in the world
That's what I have for you
All the love in the world
That's what I have for you

DON'T SAY THAT IT'S OVER (James Warren)

Somehow I know that girls would leave me astray
I read what the papers say
Once in a while you catch that look in their eyes
You know that they're telling lies
I had a broken family
No affection
And I've been searching all my life for a love that's true

Don't say that it's over
Don't say I was right
Don't say that it's over
Love, love me tonight

Nobody told me how to go it alone
I still wished I lived at home
Couldn't explain the doubts I've had in my mind
I'm sure that I'm going blind
They say you've done a lot for me
And my mother
Now you've turned your back and egg is on my face

Don't say that it's over
Don't say I was right
Don't say that it's over
Love, love me tonight

LIVING ON THE ROCKS (James Warren)

Stone-cold sober
The party's over
Two of us alone
Nothing to say
Three years together
Such stormy weather
Relations don't improve
They only grow stale

We fail the test
Choosing second best
And it's to so hard to cope
Living on the rocks

Prone to first impressions
Midnight confessions
I knew we would be friends
But how near is close?
For heaven knows how much I tried
To keep the hurt inside
I fabricate and crawl
But where does it lead?

We fail the test
Choosing second best
And it's hard to cope
Living on the rocks

Oh Lord you punish me
This can't be justice
You build up my hopes to knock me down

We fail the test
Choosing second best
And it's to so hard to cope
Living on the rocks

We all need love, but we just don't give enough,
And it's so hard to cope, so hard to cope
So hard to cope
Living on the rocks

DON'T LOOK BACK (James Warren) [non-LP single 1982]

Down on luck
I can hardly say I'm down on luck
I've monopolised your life too long
I know that certainly, something's gone wrong

Times are tough
I can hardly say that times are tough
But all around us friends are so confused
But you have so much to give, and nothing to lose

Don't look back
Walk away
Burn the past
Live today
People change
Who cares why
Don't grow old
Never die

Celebration
Being alive is cause for celebration
But I'm obliged to say I feel so sad
And I was the optimist, supposedly mad

I know you'll be alright
Don't you worry 'cos I'll know you'll be alright
And there's one thing you must believe: I love you
Here alone tonight, I really do

Don't look back
Walk away
Burn the past
Live today
People change
Who cares why
Don't grow old
Never die

Don't look back
Don't look back
Don't look back
Don't look back
Don't look back...

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