1. |
Do Without Aladdin
04:07
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DO WITHOUT ALADDIN
(Skaith / Jones)
We were talking, but who’s talking when things are left unsaid?
What’s the point? Let’s just jump straight into bed.
Cos if it works then use it
If we don’t we’re gonna lose it.
This melody goes round and round in my head.
(Chorus)
I’ve been talking in parties
I’ve been talking in pubs
Been talking in circles
In late night drinking clubs
And though there’s still so far to go
There’s one thing that I do know
I can do without Aladdin
But I’d like to use the lamp that he rubs.
You take my number,you say you’ll call me the very next day
I know you won’t but I sit here hoping you may
Please use my code, don’t file it
I’ll explode, please dial it
I’m close to the last of the notes that I can play
(Repeat Chorus)
You’re just playing – there’s nothing here to tell me I’m wrong
And I’m lost in a place I’ve been too long
Oh it’s a trap, I know it is
There’s no map to show it is
I’ll never stop singing the words to this damn song.
(Repeat Chorus x2)
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2. |
Hidden Hand
04:08
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HIDDEN HAND
(Skaith / Jones / Serrano)
Ceaseless, ceaseless in the street below
All my fellow city dwellers they just come and go
So many waves to make a tide
So many miss, so few collide.
(Chorus)
But still I, I don’t understand
Is everything unplanned?
Do these days go down at random?
Or is there a hidden hand?
Or is there a hidden hand?
Speechless, speechless I can’t seem to say
If matter is more than atom’s motion, are you this way?
Is the answer safe in science books?
Or wild and free in lovers’ looks?
(Repeat Chorus)
Cos if there is then I wanna shake it
I wanna put a drink in there
I’ll ay tell me fingers how d’ya make it?
Just what’s it like being everywhere?
What’s it like being everywhere?
Breathless, breathless from the race I’ve run.
Chasing explanations and now here comes the sun
Kept me thinking, kept me thinking through the night
By ever shrinking, ever shrinking candle light.
(Repeat Chorus x2)
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3. |
Gave Somebody a Night
03:51
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GAVE SOMEBODY A NIGHT
(Skaith / Jones)
His guitar strap is sorely splashed
With a punter’s blood
But he wears it like he always has
Since those days before the flood
And the hammers down and the speakers drown
The questions he won’t ask
Like who shed it? Who spilled it?
And who gave somebody a night and then just killed it.
13 years and 13’s still so unlucky for some
And the birthday boy she was waiting for
Who couldn’t wait to come
Then the spirit sprang from the bottle-neck
And he couldn’t pour it back
He couldn’t hack it, he couldn’t will it
So he gave somebody a night oh yea then he just killed it
He just killed it.
We give so much, we give so much
And get so little back
And every turn we take
Is into someone’s cul- de -sac
But we can’t live out on islands
So who else can we trust
When night comes in and your tinder skin is ready
Ready to combust?
So get the gore guitarist gone
With the birthday-ruined girl
And tear apart their oyster hearts
That just might yield a pearl
And hide your eyes with alibis and don’t go looking back
There’s a void there you couldn’t fill it
So you gave somebody a night
It was a rare and tender night
Such a rare and tender night
Oh you gave somebody a night
And then you just killed it-
Oh you just killed it
You gave somebody and then killed it
A rare and tender night
And then just killed it.
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4. |
Imaginary Friend
03:32
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IMAGINARY FRIEND
(Skaith)
If I said the world was flat
And dragons waited at the edge
You’d kind of laugh. Oh wouldn’t you?
If I said the moon was cheese
Gorgonzola, maybe Brie
You’d kind of smirk. Yea wouldn’t you?
But He changed water into wine
He died, and then came back to life, you say
And you don’t even blink,. Do you?
That’s some imaginary friend!
That’s your imaginary friend.
And the Red Sea it was parted ,
God’s children liberated
But I have a query:
These shows never happen in living memory?
And the same book says ‘Go take this Land’
Those other folk must understand
They ain’t my children
So His omnipresence ain’t for everyone?
And for those who think that heaven waits
For suicides who kill and mutilate
I thought you said: Your – God- was - Great
Yourimaginary friend
That’s your imaginary friend.
(Chorus)
Don’t let him tell us who is first and second class.
Don’t let him tell us who is damned and who is blessed
Don’t let him tell us who we should and shouldn’t kill
Don’t let him tell us who we can and cannot love
5,000 die in an earthquake
A survivor blinks into the light and says
‘Thank God for His mercy.’
‘Mercy?!’ Hey where’s your neighbours?’
And we’re living with this modern plague
His messengers say ‘Abstain’s the way.´
Callate! Its condom protection.
And best get it now cos if you believe,
That virgins wait in some paradise
Something just got lost in translation
By your imaginary friend
Just your imaginary friend
(Repeat chorus)
If I said the world was flat
And dragons waited at the edge
You’d kind of laugh. Wouldn’t you?
(Thanks to Azundris for the title and idea for this song.)
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5. |
Life
04:41
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LIFE
(Skaith)
From the first cup of coffee in the morning
To the last glass of beer at night
For the times that I’ve had my heart broken
To the times time came along to put it right
For all the goals in the park I still remember
And those dropped catches I would like to forget
For the friends who’ve explained this world to me
And for those that I still haven’t met
(Chorus)
Oh this life, I want more
When they say that was your life
I’ll say come on give me 5 more
Now, daddy finally makes a debut
I hope this kid will understand
It’s Saturday, don’t want to be changing these things
I should be out with a rock and roll band
And if he thinks he gets round me with a gurgle
If he thinks he breaks my heart with his smile
Kid’s got to learn life ain’t easy
Oh well- I guess it could be for a while…..
(Repeat Chorus)
En esta vida, yo quiero más
Eso fue tu vida
Dame cinco más
I ain’t singing about the guy who works for peanuts in some factory
I ain’t singing about the woman tricked and sold into the bedroom
I ain’t singing about the kid who wakes up hungry in some desert
Sometimes the things you know
Don’t always point in the same direction.
(Choruses)
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6. |
Whisky - Hatha Yoga
04:01
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WHISKY, HATHA-YOGA
(Skaith / Jones)
She had a barstool facility and a codeine past,
It showed but she carried it.
He brought his sham humility,
He couldn’t make it last
She knew, she knew when she married it.
(Chorus)
He couldn’t work in his toupee
But he wore it anyway
It made him look like a Caesar,
Like a rogue in a toga
It wasn’t easy to please her
With her whisky and Hatha-yoga
It wasn’t easy to please her
With her whisky and Hatha-yoga
She was her own slice of history
A colour, out of time
The Chelsea bohemian
How they met it’s a mystery
Ridiculous but sublime
In the heart of Midlothian
(Repeat chorus)
No time for pleasantries
He’d hang the white flag out
But he never discovered one.
Time stopped in the 70’s
They dragged the wagon out
He said? Make mine, make mine a covered one.’
(Repeat chorus)
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7. |
How Many New Toys?
02:51
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HOW MANY NEW TOYS
(Skaith / Jones)
What would you do if you had a friend
Who opened his eyes just to see day’s end?
And then can’t tell what he sees
For fading smiles in illustrated trees.
Some things best left unspoken
But how many new toys has this kid broken?
But how many new toys has this kid broken?
How many times have you seen someone
Sitting still but still they’re on the run
They love it here but meanwhile
They put their faith in intervening miles
Wonderland, Hoboken
Oh how many new toys has this kid broken?
Oh how many new toys has this kid broken?
Why did it break? he asks
As he holds out the pieces for me to see
Just needed to see if it would last
Can’t you help me find a heart in this debris
Perhaps the Queen of hearts in this debris?
Does he reflect or does he just stare
At the looking-glass, the hatter and the hare
Alice in a daydream
The storyline makes me want to scream
Please leave this one un-woken
Oh how many new toys has this kid broken?
Oh how many new toys has this kid broken?
Please tell me, how many new toys has this kid broken?
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8. |
Stranger at Your Door
05:03
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STRANGER AT YOUR DOOR
(Skaith / Jones / Serrano)
Unannounced, I turned up once
At a house that formed a gable end
I didn’t look too much like Gable
But I thought I might just pass as a friend
I’d been away all springtime
All I made was one weekend in four
So why should I be half- surprised
To find a stranger at your door
(Chorus)
Stranger at your door, I argued pressure of time
Stranger at your door, and loyalty long into the night
Said you’re too precious for words
Then used those words to balance wrong and right
Unannounced I turned up once
I was a stranger at your door
We shared a rented space once
In a house that served for passing through
And we passed away all the seasons
Discovering those things that lovers do
Nothing then was further
From this couple on the second floor
Than the day I would say hello to
The stranger on the wrong side of your door
(Repeat Chorus)
And there’s a comb you left, some cigarettes
There’s a blanket and a skirt you somehow tore
There’s a note somewhere, a photograph
There’s a ribbon and a stranger at your door.
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9. |
The Emperor
03:59
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THE EMPEROR
(Skaith / Jones / Serrano)
He had the keys to the city of Tupelo
He had the keys to the highway, you should see him go
And go he went and go he gone
Hope it’s not his return that you’re waiting on.
He had eyes like needles and they got you stitched
Had you calling a home run every time he hit
But the line went stale, the line went dead
It was nothing you did, it was nothing you said.
(Chorus)
Look at the corner, line of young bloods
Back of the studio crawling with studs
Trunk full of tinsel, sinkful of suds,
The emperor’s got new
The emperor’s got new
The emperor’s got new duds
He had eyes like needles and they got you stitched
Had you calling a home run every time he hit
But the line went stale the line went dead
It was nothing you did, it was nothing you said.
(Repeat Chorus)
The emperor’s got new duds
Got new clothes, new rags and tatters
Too late to shoot the tailor
Fames a jailor
Idol’s all that matters.
The emperor’s got new duds
Got new clothes, new rags and tatters
Too late to shoot the tailor
Fames a jailor
Idol’s all that matters.
(Repeat Chorus x2)
The emperor’s got new duds,
New clothes, new rags, new tatters
The emperor’s got new duds
Too late to shoot the tailor
Fames a jailor,
Idol’s all that matters.
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10. |
Adios For Now
06:56
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ADIOS FOR NOW
(Skaith / Serrano)
To Hugo Sanchez, and Cuatemoc Blanco
Pejelagarto, Hijo del Santo
El sub-comandante, Lila Downs too
Adios for now – goodbye for the moment
Adios for now – nos vemos later
Adios for now – and let’s make it pronto
And Tepozteco, Coyoacan
Beautiful Huatulco, Tequisquiapan
San Jeronimo, little tlalpan too
Adios for now – goodbye for the moment
Adios for now – nos vemos later
Adios for now – and please lets make it pronto.
Barbacoa, Chile relleno,
Sopa Azteca, beautiful Negra Modelo
Imposible, Bacalao
Adios for now – goodbye for the moment
Adios for now – te como later
Adios for now – and let’s make it pronto
Frida Kahlo, Chava Flores
Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete
There is Cantinflas yTintan
Adios for now – goodbye for the moment
Adios for now – nos vemos later
Adios for now – and let’s make it pronto
Xochimilco, Canal de Chalco,
Centro Historico, Los Dinamos
Tlanepantla, Lindavista too
Adios for now – goodbye for the moment
Adios for now – nos vemos later
Adios for now – let us make it pronto
TV Azteca, Televisa
En otras palabras el monopolio
El IMSS,ISSTE
PresiCente too
Adios for now – goodbye for the moment
Adios for now – nos vemos later
Adios for now – and let’s make, let’s make, let’s make it pronto.
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Steve Skaith Band UK
Steve Skaith was the singer and co-writer of the band Latin Quarter. When the band split up in 1998 Steve went to live in Mexico where he met and formed the Steve Skaith Band with Mexican musicians. Since returning to the UK in 2007, Steve Skaith has been playing with British musicians and has completed a forth album, entitled "Latin Quarter Revisited". ... more
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