He ran away from them all

He never played at rugby or played at football

And his brother was a weirdo

He shied away from the ball

He couldn’t tell his kneecaps from his elbows

And he looked like he’d just climbed out of hull

Some boys committed a big crime

While others committed to toe the line

To the world you revealed the freak we knew

Some things in life are taboo

Whatever happened to ted moult’s feather

It found itself part of your tutu

Some boys committed a big crime

While others committed to toe the line

To the world you revealed the freak we knew

Some boys committed a big crime

While others committed to toe the line

You and punter both made the news

Here comes gary looking more like meredith to take them on

In pre skirt days he had another craze

But there weren’t too many that saw his coat done up in those days

Words and music Andy J Gallagher

Wake up there’s a new day dawning

This is your last warning

Wake up and you can be

I’ve got the thing you won’t admit to

Words and music Andy J Gallagher

It doesn’t hasten time sitting thinking about the reasons

Doesn’t mean you’re on your own, you’re not alone

Just because i sit and listen to your politics

It doesn’t mean that i agree, i don’t concur

I have been so tired and lost inside your cool off time

You rate absence

I have been so tired and lost inside your cool off time

It doesn’t hasten wind as it’s whistling through the treetops

Doesn’t mean you’re on your own, you’re not alone

Just because i sit and listen to your politics

It doesn’t mean that i agree, i don’t concur

I have been so tired and lost inside your cool off time

You rate absence

I have been so tired and lost inside your cool off time

Sometimes i get lonely and stop thinking about you

Now i know i can live without you

The things you say mean nothing to me

I have been so tired and lost inside your cool off time

You rate absence

I have been so tired and lost inside your cool off time

Words and music Andy J Gallagher

You couldn’t even if you tried break my foolish pride

And if you ever wonder why i’ll say it’s because i’m so tired

Of all your lies and your deceit the time is now at hand

To leave you and your kind behind you must think i’m blind

Don’t bring me down – you couldn’t if you tried

- I’m pushing you to the back of my mind

Now baby even if you begged me and whined

I would still leave you behind

And now i’m packed and ready to go i just want you to know

The only common thing is we are both in love with me

You think you always ruled the roost gonna give your ego a boost

You never knew what made me tick and now you make me (fucking) sick

Don’t bring me down – you couldn’t if you tried

- I’m pushing you to the back of my mind

Now baby even if you begged me and whined

I would still leave you behind

Words and music Andy J Gallagher

She drags herself up the pole while the music plays

Starts to take off her clothes and they all paid

With nothing really mastered

Her life drifts by faster and faster

He picked himself off the floor one sunny day

Took a look through the bars and saw the people play

With nothing really mastered

His life drifts by faster and faster

So stick a pin in your arm you won’t feel no pain

There are limited times you’ll do this again

With nothing really mastered

Your life drifts by faster and faster

So step away from the pole and let the music play

Keep on all of your clothes they can keep their money

With something finally mastered

Your life moves on faster and faster and faster and faster and faster

Words and music Andy J Gallagher

Remembering the times we had before you went away

I can’t help but regret the person i became

It seems to me you don’t need me

And you probably never did

You don’t need me

Remembering the fun we had on the pacific coast highway

Helicopter dolphin submarine like you they’ve gone away

It seems to me you don’t need me

And you probably never did

You don’t need me

Life goes on and time will heal the wounds of yesterday

But nothing can ever take the place of all we never got to do or say

It seems to me you don’t want to

And you probably never will

You don’t want to

But i probably always will still want to

Words and music Andy J Gallagher

I see people walking around

I see you mouth the words but i don’t hear a sound

Your empty promise became unfound

I’ll see you on the bus to take you out of town

Sometimes you bring me, i don’t know i’m in a spin

Most times you send me back on my way again

So sad to see you’re still around waving your flag as the band plays loud

Goodbye sweetheart, so long dear

I’d be simply thrilled if you walked out of here

Now you’re back again the past’s unclear

I’m nowhere near to tears

Sometimes you bring me, i don’t know i’m in a spin

Most times you send me back on my way again

So sad to see you’re still around waving your flag as the band plays loud

So sad to see you’re still around waving your flag as the band plays loud

So sad to see you’re still around waving your flag as the band plays loud

Words Lee Andrews / Andy J Gallagher

Music Andy J Gallagher

Sometimes I feel like I’m coming down

With a disease that’s based on whether you’re around

I never wanted you to see me sticking ‘round

Sometimes I feel like I’m losing myself

I can’t think straight and I need some help

Still you’re ignoring me completely, go fuck yourself

You might as well find something else

Something that you could start anew

So go ahead star in your play

You can’t make me stay

Sometimes I feel like I’m falling down

A giant hole that you dug a thousand metres down

I only wanted you completely

You might as well find something else

Something that you could start anew

So go ahead star in your play

You can’t make me stay

You look kinda different I never seen you look like this before

Where you once looked interesting now you look like a bore

Sometimes I feel like I’m wearing down

Your defences and your absolute resound

I only hope that you can see me

You’re still looking kinda different I’ve only seen you look like this once before

Did you ever look interesting or always look like a bore?

Words and music Andy J Gallagher

The brightest star in the sky reminds me of why i’ll always cry

I threw away my dreams ended them all

Took you for granted like every other man before

Don’t get me wrong i lived before you

And though i never knew you for long

I can’t believe the impact on me

I wish it would be that you’d still want me

The brightest star in the sky reminds me of why i’ll always smile

At least i lived my dream for a short while

Tried to contain you and so you rightly ran a mile

Don’t get me wrong i lived before you

And though i never knew you for long

I can’t believe the impact on me

I wish it would be that you’d still want me

The brightest star in the sky reminds me

Words and music Andy J Gallagher

In windows all you need is a friend

To make me sing and dance, won’t someone fill me in

On where i went wrong with the glitzy, glamorous sugar chicks

And most of all with the heretic

I found myself a girl who would run away

She smiled with teeth so white that had the minimum of decay

We’d dance and sing and kiss and i’d ignore all the glamorous chicks

During my time with the heretic

Words and music Andy J Gallagher

Dragging her satin covered cheeks across the velvet upholstery

Sipping on pink champagne ever more enthusiastically

Because for the men in suits you’re crocodiles and prostitutes

Legs apart and a lying smile, it appears to be you’re living the big time

Maybe?

A man in a suit went into the bar and took the golden deceiver away

Before too many days had past he learnt that he’d always have to pay

Because for the men in suits you’re crocodiles and prostitutes

Legs apart and a lying smile, it appears to me you’re living the big time

Maybe the men in suits are the prostitutes

Because for the men in suits you’re crocodiles and prostitutes

Legs apart and a lying smile, it appears to be you’re living the big time

For the men in suits you’re crocodiles and prostitutes

Legs apart and a lying smile it appears to me you’re living the big time

Whatever!

Words Gallagher

Music AJ Gallagher/R Jugg

And al capone

Do you remember in the assembly

You were there you drummed into a frenzy

You played phil collins and then at the fourteenth attempt

It sounded like a table coming down the stairs

Paralysed i stood and applauded, my sound was born then and there

Les hart didn’t care he couldn’t be there

And al capone

My memory of the rock inhabitants a mockery

Remember them and al capone

Do you remember being there together

Do you remember visiting the cages that once were full of men

I visited them for my only friends

And al capone

My memory of the rocks’ inhabitants a mockery

Remember them and al capone

Words and music Andy J Gallagher

Counting out the days since you went away

Waiting by the phone

Don’t you know i missed you

Crying in the night for a better life

Walking in the rain

Hanging out my heart to kiss you

How long can this go on

How strong do you think you are

Tonight in my arms or tonight in the back of my car

I’ll have you wherever you are

Wherever you are

Playing all the games to make you come my way

Unfortunately you

Don’t yet know the lengths i’d go to

Still you live your life on the edge of a knife

I feel so alone

You could stop this becoming obsession

How long can this go on

How strong do you think you are

Tonight in my arms or tonight in the back of my car

I’ll have you wherever you are

Wherever you are

Words Andy J Gallagher / Ronnie Scott

Music Andy J Gallagher