Caravan Album

Down here on Herne Bay Front, the weather's not too good
There's not a lot of crumpet, and the fish and chips are greasy
My mates and I are working days and sometimes nights
Sixteen-track recording, though our tiny hands are frozen

Down here on Herne Bay front, the summer season's gone
But the 'Bingo' is still open, and there's always roller-skating
But if you feel weak, a drive down to the 'Dolphin' for a wee drink
A touch of old 'Peculiar' helps me think

Down here at Herne Bay Front, on promenades 'stroll-on'
While the kids stop space invaders, fishermen in 'waders' hunt ragworms
Down here on Herne Bay Front, there's eels and liquor pies
In 'The Sunset' in the morning, four cups of tea they're pouring

Here in Herne Bay
The bed and breakfast ladies are out all day
The slickest thing is oil out in 'The Bay'
Back to Herne Bay front

Above 'Rancheros' caff, back to Herne Bay front
It's not Hotel California, only electric bar-fires warm you
Down here on Herne Bay Front, the 'Rangoon' has closed down
Curry and chips right out the question, topless girls give indigestion

Here in Herne Bay
In the 'Divers Arms' you'll find them all on display
Even traffics wardens drink there – hip hip hooray!
Back to front Herne Bay

Bet You Wanna Take It All

Feelin' bad, back against the wall
Sick and tired cos you've heard it all
You've been around and still you find
You're lookin' for the answer

You know I'm by when the drinks are cold
And then I looked at you like you were old
Why did I noticed you at all
-------- they can't help it

You gotta drink just to pass the time
You want a beer, won't you get the wine?
You say it's all, it's all just fine
Cos you're talkin' to the bar maid

You said you've dreams about life abroad
And then a husband is inside the fraud
You said you're no familiar car
But you wanna take advantage

Oh, what a night!
Likely you just can't fail to answer the call
Well no one said I doubt old sun
I bet you wanna take it all

You gotta dance when you're feelin' right
You got a hand in the pale moonlight
You gotta hum it on and on
And then how you gonna chance it

You think you'd better go back to the bar
She says why don't you come and take a shower
You can't believe you luck so far
And you're shakin' with excitement

Holley, I wanna
Holley, I wanna
All they say I know it is right
When I feel in my heart

Holley, I wanna
Holley, I wanna
Heaven knows what the future will be
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Oh, what a night!
Likely you just can't fail to answer the call
Well no one said I doubt old sun
I bet you wanna take it all

You said you never liked the march of touch
And then you got up on a ------ approach
And you were he, and she was she
It's a perfect situation

And then she said she want a -----
You're sure you want ---------
If you can call you took it all
You just kept on saying, you just kept on saying...


Hold on Hold on

Makes it all so much better
And I wanna tell you I feel it in my heart
You know how, know how I love all the things I said about honey
Nothing is not in dreams, catches made a sound, you got

Hold on, hold on – ---------
Hold on, hold on – ---------

Makes it all so much better
You're havin' it all right, singing in your head

Hold on, hold on – ---------
Hold on, hold on – ---------

Hey hey, A.A. man!
Hey hey, A.A. man!
Hey hey, A.A. man!
Hey hey, A.A. man!

Out on the motorway, clocking up the miles
My coupé's running roughly, steaming over
Got thirty miles to go to the next services
I ain't a-gonna make it, yes so this is

You won't believe the state my engine's in
I'm leaking oil and reckon I won't make it up the hill
I should have checked my fanbelt too
There's a burning smell, and now I'm pulling over to the side

Hey hey, A.A. man!
Hey hey, A.A. man!
Hey hey, A.A. man! – get to me as fast as you can

It's now well past four and pissing down with rain
Where's my member's handbook, Patricia darling!
The wheels are well locked up, I'm going for the phone
They ain't had the very man to fix it

Operator, put me through to breakdown
I'm down the road, in my little red Marina in the rain
Connect me through to Information
I'm pumped right out and I've fifteen miles to walk home in the wet

Hey hey, A.A. man! – get to me as fast as you can
Hey hey, A.A. man! – ------- up the jerrycan

Operator, put me through to breakdown
I'm down the road, in my little red Marina in the rain
Connect me to Auto Information
I'm pumped right out and I've fifteen miles to walk home in the wet

Every star that has died leave a void
Now locked inside some reel of celluloid
In some old archive
In this age of video, could we know
Or understand the magic and the joy
That was Hollywood?

Hollywood, movie queens
Heart-throb magazines
Memory's all we've got
Videos of Hollywood

I love all those films, so grand
I see them still, the Cecil B. De Mille's
On the silver screen
The legend lingers on, but with time
The era gone, now images and songs
That was Hollywood

Hollywood, movie queens
Heart-throb magazines
Memory's all we've got
Videos of Hollywood

Now why do you have to stand there on your own?
I just can't bear to see you so alone
You want to grab the spotlight, can't you see?
For me, the moon is up and bright lights it will always be

Sally my love, don't change it
You don't need to prove you're a star
Sally don't rearrange it
Cos I like it the way we are

I'm so afraid I might forget my lines
I always say the wrong things all the time
But if I had the words, I'd cry out loud
Oh, Sal, we don't need a writer, what we've got is all our power

Sally my love, don't change it
You don't need to prove you're a star
Sally don't rearrange it
Cos I like it the way we are

Sally you're a winner
Always been a dreamer
Sally you can be a star
Sally can't you hear me?
Won't you please believe me?
Sally that's the way you are

You say it will be all right on the night
Why worry? We can fix it with the lights
And if we fall ascending every --------
To ------- I'll live my life this way

Sally my love, don't change it
You don't need to prove you're a star
Sally don't rearrange it
Cos I like it the way we are

Maybe I don't know what is going on – but I know for sure
You gotta do what you feel is alright when you never have the thought
It may not cost you a penny, but it all adds up to a crying shame
When you count the cost of a heart that's lost and you're home again

You awake with thea morning light, don't wanna face it at all
What a way to begin in your day when your head feels like a saw
You slip your head back on the pillow, floating away in a trance
Only takes 'bout a moment or two when you could find yourself in France

"All aboard!" – you can hear them calling out
As you're falling and really trying to shout
"Wait for me, I don't wanna stay 'round here!"
While your heart is out on the quayside
You're still in bed on the floor
You're searching hard for excuses
But you've heard it all, you've heard it all before

Seems like an hour or so later, you're waiting to climb on a train
Wanna go where the living is slow, and never back again
You know that in only a moment, your heart will be lost in a glance
Never sure, now they're closing the door and now you'll never get the chance

"All aboard!" – you can hear them calling out
As you're falling and really trying to shout
"Wait for me, I don't wanna stay 'round here!"
While your heart is lost at the station
You're still in bed on the floor
You're searching hard for excuses
But you've heard them all, you've heard them all before

It may not cost you a penny, but it all lines up to the same
When you count the cost of the heart that's lost
You find yourself, you find you're home again
Home again, hu-huh...

Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, taking my breath away

There's a whole wide world at 4 o'clock in the morning
Didn't have no place to go
With my luck run out, standing there on the pouring
My heart was feeling like a stone
Sick and tired and all alone

When I called out loud, something sturred in the darkness
Fingers running down my spine -------- but coldness touching my face
Wasn't gonna hang around
My feet grew hard and touched the ground

Oh, so scared!
I could feel those eyes follow me everywhere
I did yell
God, I hope somebody's listening, I need a friend

Oh, I know I'll have to say
It's taking my breath away
Oh oh oh, hey hey
It's taking my breath away

Well I must admit, finally in the daylight
It never seems to be the same
And you tell your friends really wasn't such a bad fright
They say it's drink that's got your brain
You think you maybe grow insane

Oh it's there
But to prove it you would have to go back again
And you'll yell
Better pray somebodys listening, you'll need a friend

Oh, I know you'll have to say
It's taken your breath away
Oh oh oh, hey hey
It's taken your breath away, breath away

Crawling through the senses are the voices from the darkness
Calling all the forces from beyond the other side
What I know of all this I could say in just one sentence
Nothing!

He was an egomaniac before a madman and eccentric
Crazy people running scared from voices in the night
??ing what they say is right, that thief is in the bottle

When it all comes back to what you thought in the first place
Can't be wrong it must be right
When you know you're cop and got to put on a brave face
Trace your steps into the night
Searching for another fright

Oh, you'll be scared
You will feel those eyes follow you everywhere
You will yell
Better hope somebody's listening you'll need a friend

Oh, I know you'll have to say
It's taking your breath away
Oh oh oh, hey hey
It's taking your breath away

Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, taking your breath away

Late in the night, early in the morning, always telling me I'm wrong
Always something I've forgotten – can't they see I'm rocking on?
Music is my life, I need it more and more
But every time I write a song, it's been heard before
Fighting for my first break, I just can't work it out
It's enough to make your heart break – what's it all about?

Suddenly I'm rich and famous, gonna be a megastar
Suddenly we're on the telly, as overnight sensations are
Mother, she's so proud, she found a colour set
But all the neighbours down our street can't forget
Now I've got my first break, she still can't work it out
It's enough to make your heart break – what's it all about?

Took it all, the smiling faces, lost it all with open hands
Watched it sliding through my fingers, fame and fortune now it's gone
But music's still my life, I need it more and more
There'll always be someone who's heard it all before
Back to front existence blinkers on your eyes
Won't need no assistance, there'll be no more surprise...