Alchemy
Part one:
1. Once upon a time in
the west 13:01
2. Expresso love 5:34
3. Romeo and Juliet 8:18
4. Love over gold 3:29
5. Private investigations 7:32
6. Sultans of swing
Part two:
1. Two young
lovers 4:50
2. Tunnel of love 14:23
3. Telegraph road 13:43
4. Solid rock 6:02
5. Going home - theme from
'Local hero' 6:04
Some people
get a cheap laugh breaking up the speed limit
Scaring the pedestrians for
minute
Crossing up progress driving on
the grass
Leaving just enough room to
pass
Sunday driver never took a test
Oh yeah, once upon a time in
the west
Yes it's no
use saying that you don't know nothing
It's still gonna get you if you
don't do something
Sitting on a fence that's a
dangerous course
Ah, you could even catch a
buller from the peace-keeping force
Even the hero gets a bullet in
the chest
Oh yeah, once upon a time in
the west
Mother Mary
your children are slaughtered
Some of you mothers ought to
lock up yout daughter
Who's protecting the innocenti
Heap big trouble in the land of
plenty
Tell me how we're gonna do
what's best
You guess once upon a time in
the west
Oh yeah once
upon a time in the west
Oh yeah once upon a time in the
west
Oh yeah once upon a time in the
west
Once upon a
time in the west
She gets the
sun in the daytime
Perfume in the dusk
And she comes out in the night
time
With the honeysuckle musk
Because she smells just like a
rose
And she tastes just like a
peach
She got me walking where the
wildlife goes
I'd do anything to reach her
And she was
made in heaven
Heaven's in the world
Is this just expresso love
You know I'm crazy for the girl
She call me just to talk
She's my lover she's a friend
of mine
She says hey mister you wanna
take a walk
In the wild west end sometime
And I get trouble with my
breathing
She says boys don't know
anything
But I know what I want
I want everything
Well I feel
so good cos I feel so good
And I feel so good cos it feels
so right
I was made to go with my girl
Like a saxophone was made to go
with the night
And she can
raise one eyebrow
Put her hand on my hip
And I close one eye now
Seat on her hip
And I surrender to the fever
I surrender to the will of the
night
She love me so tender I got to
believe her
Love? Expresso love's alright
I don't want
no sugar in it
Thank you very much
All wired up on it all fired up
on it
Expresso touch
Hey maestro expresso
It's just another one just like
the other one
Hey maestro expresso
Is this another one just like
the other one
A lovestruck
Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade
Laying everybody low with a
lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight
steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me
babe how about it?
Juliet says
hey it's Romeo you nearly gimme me a heart attack
He's underneath the window
she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back
You shouldn't come around here
singing up at people like that
Anyway what you gonna do about
it?
Juliet the
dice were loaded from the start
And I bet and you exploded in
my heart
And I forget I forget the movie
song
When you gonna realise it was
just that the time was wrong Juliet?
Come up on
different streets they booth were streets of shame
Both dirty both mean yes and
the dream was just the same
And I dreamed your dream for
you and now your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I
was just another one of your deals?
When you can
fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty
strangers and the promises they hold
You promised med everything you
promised me thick and thin
Now you just say oh Romeo yeah
you know I used to have a scene with him
Juliet when
we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the
stars above I'll love you till I die
There's a place for us you know
the movie song
When you gonna realise it was
just that the time was wrong Juliet?
I can't do
the talk like they talk on tv
And I can't do a love song like
the way it's meant to be
I can't do everything but I'd
do anything for you
I can't do anything except be
in love with you
And all I do
is miss you and the way we used to be
All I do is keep the beat and
bad company
All I do is kiss you through
the bars of a rhyme
Julie I'd do the stars with you
any time
Juliet when
we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the
stars above I'll love you till I die
There's a place for us you know
the movie song
When you gonna realise it was
just that the time was wrong Juliet?
A lovestruck
Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade
Laying everybody low with a
lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight
steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me
babe how about it?
You walk out
on the high wire
You're a dancer on thin ice
You pay no heed to the danger
And less to advice
Your footsteps are forbidden
But with knowledge of your sin
You throw your love to all the
strangers
And caution to the wind
And you go
dancing through doorways
Just to see what you will find
Leaving nothing to interfere
With the crazy balance of your
mind
And when you finnaly reappear
At the place where you came in
You've thrown your love to all
the strangers
And caution to the wind
It takes
lover over gold
And mind over matter
To do what you do that you must
When the things that you hold
Can fall and be shattered
Or run through your fingers
like dust
It's a
mystery to me - the game commences
For the usual fee - plus
expences
Confidential information - it's
in a diary
This is my investigation - it's
not a public inquiry
I go checking
out the reports - digging up the dirt
You get to meet all sorts in
this line of work
Treachery an reason - there's
always an excuse for it
And when I find the reason I
still get used to it
And what have
you got at the end of the day?
What have you got to take away?
A bottle of whisky and a new
set of lies
Blinds on the window and a pain
behind the eyes
Scarred for
life - no compensation
private investigation
You get a
shiver in the dark
It's raining in the park but
meantime
South of the river you stop and
you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie double
four time
You feel alright when you hear
that music ring
You step
inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to
hear the jazz go down
Too much competition too many
places
But not too many horns can make
that sound
Way on downsouth way on
downsouth London town
You check out
Guitar George he knows all the chords
Mind he's strictly rhythm he
doesn't want to make it cry or sing
And an old guitar is all he can
afford
When he gets up under the
lights to play his thing
And Harry
doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
He's got a daytime job he's
doing alright
He can play honky tonk just
like anything
Saving the Sultans with the
Sultans of Swing
And a crowd
of young boys they're fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best
brown baggies and their platform soles
The don't give a damm about any
trumpet playing band
It ain't whet they call rock
and roll
And the Sultans played Creole
And then the
man he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the
time bell rings
'Thank you goodnight now it's
time to go home'
and he makes it fast whith one
more thing
'We are the Sultans of Swing'
Getting crazy
on the waltzers but it's the life that i choose
Sing about the sixblade sing
about the switchback and a torture tattoo
And I been riding on a ghost
train where the cars they scream and slam
And I don'r know where I'll be
tonight but I'd always tell you where I am
In a
screaming ring of faces I seen her standing in the light
She had a ticket for the races
just like me she was a victim of the night
I put my hand upon the lever
said let it rock and let it roll
I had the one arm bandit fever
there was an arrow through my heart and soul
And the big
wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
And I'm just high on the world
Come on and take a low ride
with me girl
On the tunnel of love
It's just the
danger when you're riding at your own risk
She said you are the perfect
stranger she said baby let's keep it like this
It's just a cakewalk twisting
baby step right up and say
Hey mister give me two give me
two cos any two can play
And the big
wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
And I'm just high on the world
Come on and take a low ride
with me girl
On the tunnel of love
Well it's
been money for muscle another whirlgig
Money for muscle another girl I
dig
Another hustle just to make it
big
And rockaway rockaway
And girl it
looks so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the spanish city to me
when we were kids
Oh girl it looks so pretty to
me just like it always did
Like the spanish city to me
when we were kids
She took off
a silver locket she said remember me by this
She put her hand in my pocket I
got a keepsake and a kiss
And in the roar of dust and
diesel I stood and watched her walk away
I could have cought up with her
easy enough but something must have made me stay
And the big
wheel keep on turning neon burning up above
And I'm just high on the world
Come on and take a low ride
with me girl
On the tunnel of love
And now I'm
searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades
Searching everywhere from
steeplechase to palisades
In any shooting gallery where
promises ar made
To rockaway rockaway from
Cullercoasts and Whitley bay out to rockaway
And girl it
looks so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the spanish city to me
when we were kids
Oh girl it looks so pretty to
me just like it always did
Like the spanish city to me
when we were kids
A long time
ago came a man on a track
Walking thirty miles with a
sack on his back
And he put down his load where
he thought it was the best
He made a home in the
wilderness
he built a cabin and a winter
store
And he ploughed up the ground
by the cold lake shore
And the other travellers came
riding down the track
And they never went further and
they never went back
Then came the churches then
came the schools
Then came the lawyers and the
came the rules
The came the trains and the
trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the
telegraph road
Then came the
mines - then came the ore
Then there was the hard times
then there was a war
Telegraph sang a song about the
world outside
Telegraph road got so deep and
so wide
Like a rolling river...
And my radio
says tonight it's gonna freeze
People driving home from the
factories
There's six lane of traffic
Three lanes moving slow...
I used to
like to go to work but they shut it down
I've got a right to go to work
but there's no work here to be found
Yes and they say we're gonna
have to pay what's owed
We're gonna have to reap from
some seed that's been sowed
And the birds up on the wires
and the telepraph poles
They can always fly away from
this rain and this cold
You can hear them singing out
their telegraph code
All the way down the telegraph
road
You know I'd
sooner forget but I remember those nights
When life was just a bet on a
race between the lights
You had your head on my
shoulder you had your hand in my hair
Now you act a little colder
like you don't seem to care...
But believe in me baby and I'll
take you away
From out of this darkness and
into the day
From these rivers of headlights
these rivers of rain
From the anger that lives on
the streets with these names
'cos I've run every red light
on memory lane
I've seen desperation explode
into flames
And I don't wanna see it
again...
From all of
these signs saying soory but we're closed
All the way down the telegraph
road
Well take a
look at that
I made a castle in the sand
Saying this is where it's at
you know
Couldn't understand now
If I realised that the chances
were slim
How come I'm so suprised when
the tide rolled in
I wanna live
on solid rock
I'm gonna live on solid rock
I wanna give don't wanna be
blocked
I'm gonna live on solid rock
Well I'm sick
of potential
I'm sick fo vanity now
I'm sticking to essential
reality now
I don't know what's worse
Try to make a silk purse
Living an illusion living in
confusion
Well a house
of cards
Was never built for shock
You could blow it down in any
kind of weather
Now two solid rocks two solid
blocks
You know they're gonna stick
Yeah they're gonna stick
together
Because the
heart that you break
That's the one that tou rely on
The bed that you make
That's the one you gotta lie on
When you point you fingers cos
you plan fell through
You got three more fingers
pointing back at you
I wanna live
on solid rock
I'm gonna live on solid rock
I wanna give don't wanna be
blocked
I'm gonna live on solid rock