If I had a bike, I’d ride ten miles

Ride ten miles to see your face

If I had a car, I’d drive it to your door

100 miles to be with you

But I don’t get around much anymore

Though I know that there’s more to see

No I don’t get around much anymore

You’ll have to come to me

If I had a boat, I’d sail into your port

1,000 miles to see your face

If I had a plane, I’d fly around the world

All around this world to be with you

But I don’t get around much anymore

Though I know that there’s more to see

No I don’t get around much anymore

You’ll have to come to me

LET’S DO IT COUNTRY (JP)

Let’s do it country

That’s where I’m from

Let’s do it country

It’s where I belong

Let’s leave it solo

Cut out the mess

Keep it simple

That’s the best

Take me home

Keep me blue

Take me home

Maybe to the young man

Less is less

Not any longer

This is the best

So if you’ll come with me

Let’s make some dust

Like a couple of pilgrims

Praying for rust

See the rabbit run, see him fly

He’s got only one thing on his mind

Yes it’s a simple life but you know

It’s the only one he has

That’s the thing about life is the living

Whatever it is done the giving

Don’t ever let it go

Half the time, there’s no time

Too many things on our mind

But how do those roses smell - do you know?

It’s the only one you have

That’s the thing about life is the stopping

The ups and the downs, ears popping

Don’t ever let it go

All adrift, out at sea

A natural way to be

Yes it’s a lazy life, but you know

There’s so much to get in the way

That’s the thing about waves is the breakers

The hell with the movers and shakers

And never let it go

BREAKING THESE ROCKS (JP)

Cold bleak night and frost-bit, alone in my room

I heard trespassing footfall somewhere in the gloom

Maybe there’s just one of them, but maybe there’s five

But if you ain’t invited, you don’t leave alive

Even if it means

Breakin’ these rocks, breakin’ these rocks

Breakin’ these rocks for a long long, long long time

So I reached down for ‘Rosie’, hair-trigger times two

And faced with this same scene, what would you do?

I gave it him two times, he fell like a sack

That’s one creepin’ night-thief who ain’t ever comin’ back

That’s why I been

Breakin’ these rocks, breakin’ these rocks

Breakin’ these rocks for a long long, long long time

Dug a pit in the back yard, and laid him to rest

No tombstone nor marker, that boy did not get blessed

Cleaned the blood from my hands, scrubbed the soil from my nails

Left him in his nest, ’neath a twig and leafy veil

That’s how I came to be

Breakin’ these rocks, breakin’ these rocks

Breakin’ these rocks for a long long, long long time

So please listen children, here’s a tip just for free

Keep away from the farmsteads that house men like me

And if you own the farm then protect it from harm

But the law has a certain way of seein’ things

Don’t be joinin’ me

Breakin’ these rocks, breakin’ these rocks

Breakin’ these rocks for a long long, long long time

STATUES (JP)

Cool market blue, special today

Cool market green, take ‘em away

They’re ten a penny, a pound a pound

In this mall there’s no real sound

But the ticking of a stupid heart

Where are you now we need your art?

Who will kiss you, gently lift you?

Who will tell you you are queen?

Who will raise you, and save you?

Who will build your statues now?

All of your dreams, slipped away

Something obscene in their place

Nothing ventured, only pain

Where’s the pleasure, where’s the gain

Just a plastic imitation heart

Come back now, oh we need your art

Will the others, under cover

Lead us into endless sleep?

Who will raise you, and save you?

Who will build your statues now?

Who will raise you, and save you?

Who will tell you you are queen?

Who will kiss you, gently lift you?

Who will build your statues now?

A SPECIAL KIND OF LOVE (SK)

Sally-Ann was a working man, who lived the wrong side of the tracks

But sometimes what you gain in rent makes up for what the area lacks

Friday night at the old blue light, didn’t pull the nicest kind

Drinkers, dopers, some interlopers, but nobody seemed to mind

Slim walked in with a fabulous grin, he was the kind nobody could trust

He had a wicked name in the numbers game and a mind that was bent on lust

He bought some malt and tequila with salt and made his home at the bar

He pushed his luck, but this time, well he must’ve pushed it a little too far

Two steps forward, one step back

Somebody called it a heart attack

The wings beat down from up above

Killed by a special kind of love

She wasn’t looking for trouble, but fate lent her a hand

Just because you ain’t been tried don’t make you an innocent man

Jake the Snake lived across the lake, he was Sally-Ann’s special friend

The rumour ran that he’d had his hand in the deaths of a couple of men

When Sally called from the motel room he drove straight across the town

Dug a hole for Slim and they dropped him in to the cold forgiving ground

Jake and Sally moved two days later to a mobile home in Duluth

Rumour ran there was a missing man, but nobody knew the truth

When the coroner called at the old Blue Light, the silence rang like a bell

But the waitresses there didn't seem to care, 'cos they got a cut as well

FRAGMENTS (JP)

A walk in the park

Coming out of the movies in the daytime, weird

Burning the summerhouse down

Losing my wheels

Kissing two sisters

Someone throwing sand at the moon

Losing shoes and getting beat up bad

By speed-driven knights of the disaster zone

What a joke

All these little pieces, tiny fragments

All these little pieces

Let me put them together again

Living in a lay-by

Serving the people of a down-market town

About to sink in my own bile

Leftover pictures from a life that isn’t yours

A short communion with a non-existent god

And a death that made that right

The cowardice of friends and the comfort of strangers

It’s not unusual, yeah you got that right

FOLLOW ME (JP)

If you need to find the door to your heart

If you need to find the key

If you need to find the road to the door

Follow me, follow me, follow me

If you feel the rain on a sun-shiny day

When no-one had said it would pour

If you need to shelter from the storm

Follow me, follow me, follow me

If you’re burned up inside by hatred and rage

If you want to quench the fire

If you need a blanket to stifle the flames

Follow me, follow me, follow me

BLESS MY BROKEN HEART (SK)

Well, the first girl that I ever loved, she didn’t love me back

There's no sight sadder to behold than a heart under attack

She sent a note to tell me that my love was doomed to fail

She got it to me through the post, god bless the Royal Mail

I asked her if it was for real, which she of course confirmed

She said "I'd never lie to you, by know you should have learned"

Oh, bless my broken heart

I put it back together every time it falls apart

It's not a trick for anyone, it's certainly an art

Bless my poor old beaten, battered, burned-out broken heart

The second girl I thought I loved was one of my mistakes

And there was me prepared to think that I'd never get the breaks

She was selfish, smart and self-assured and she spawned a living hell

And two years after we moved in, well she left me as well

As I was going out the door I thought I heard her say

"I used to have respect for you, but that was yesterday"

And so in time and with much pain I learned to love again

I thought I must have finished with my problems by then

An angel and I fell for her, well what else could I do?

When she'd had enough of me, she upped and left me too

Every time I fall again my friends all ask me how

And I tell them with a sorry smile "I'm used to it by now"