The Beautiful South songs lyrics

(Heaton/Rotheray) You can't write a novel from a briefcase You can write a poem from a trench You can dream a dream from A to B But you can't...

(Heaton/Rotheray) Build your dream castle out of sand It's bound to get washed up anyway Dream your dreams out of last week They're bound to...

(Heaton/Rotheray) Old Red eyes is back Red from the night before the night before Walked into the wrong bar walked into a door Old Red's in...

This reign of plastic That replaced the reign of gold Couldn't have known that you Would feel so undersold If love was built on hindsight Then...

Well I always knew you'd take the crutches and not the skis 1 always knew you'd take the stilts and then your knees When God gave you the sky ...

All our times have come Here but now they're gone Seasons don't fear the reaper Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain We can be like they are Come...

Vagabonds don't fall in love They just wheel and they deal So if I turn a funny colour when you kiss me I can't help the way that I feel ...

Your figure like your friendship Gradually grows and grows The clothes that you thought that you'd shrunk Their size just froze When the body...

Que' onda Jose? Que' onda Jose? See the vegetable man In the vegetable van With a horn that's honking Like a mariachi band In the middle of the...

(Heaton/Rotheray) She'd given everything she could give Twenty years of kindness made her sad Kindness never made enough to live So she sold...

(Heaton/Rotheray) I was handed down the looks of a man with a broken nose That's the way our family was I suppose But at least you gave me...

(Heaton/Rotheray) He was just a social drinker but social every night He enjoyed a pint or two or three or four She was just a silent thinker,...

(Heaton/Rotheray) Who's gonna tell the orange they're actually brown Who's gonna mop up for grey when they've painted the town It's the news...

(Heaton/Rotheray) She's a perfect 10, but she wears a 12 Baby keep a little 2 for me She could be sweet 16, bustin' out at the seams It's still...

(Heaton/Rotheray) Like the toupee on a fading fame The final whistle in a losing game Thick lipstick on a five year old girl It makes you...

And the woman tug their hair Like they're trying to prove it won't fall out And all the men are gargoyles Dipped long in Irish stout The whole...

Stars shining bright above you, Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you" Birds singing in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me Say...

Sailin' away on the crest of a wave It's like magic Rollin' and ridin' and slippin' and slidin' It's magic Chorus And you, and your sweet desire,...

Let's not fight it anymore Unpack the bags and close the door I'll never leave you, no no Though you lied right from the start I can't convince my...

(Heaton/Rotheray) Hey church I was thinking The Third World seems to be sinking Can't you all get over there And we'll have them all over...