Raintown
Album - 1 maggio 1987 - Debaser id 28119

it's a rain-dirt-town-job hurts, but it don't pay
all these calls they're making me and driving you insane
don't you see don't you understand
waiting for the phone to ring to make me all i am
you're in the suburbs waiting for somewhere to go
i'm down here working on some dumb show

in a raintown raintown rain down
on all those tired eyes and tears and frowns
in a raintown raintown rain down
on all those days you're not around

it takes a big hearted girl from the north country you can tell
how you payed those bills and went through heaven and hell
and you you cried and you travelled and you spat but you never asked
well how long how long how long is this pain
you're on for three minutes trying hard to say "hello"
i'm down here working on some dumb show

in a raintown raintown rain down
on all those tired eyes and tears and frowns
in a raintown raintown rain down
on all those days you're not around

sitting at home listening to your radio
listening for your old friend talking on some dumb show

in a raintown raintown rain down
on all those tired eyes and tears and frowns
in a raintown raintown rain down
on all those days you're not around

offered her a roof
the rain had made it shine
offered her a song
wasn't really mine

i showed her all my things
she offered me belongings
she thought i was a ragman

she offered me possessions
i tied them in a knot
wrapped it in a note
kept it in my pocket

i showed her all my things
she offered me belongings
she thought i was a ragman
i came to her too soon
she should have had a ragdoll
and wound up with a ragman

wing and kites and wedding rings
all these charms i said i'd bring

i showed her all my things
she offered me belongings
she thought i was a ragman
baby you're a rich man
lost in a small world
looking for a ragdoll
wound up with a ragman
with a ragman
ragman

you sigh, you walk, you talk, you care about nothing
sometimes you feel that life has treated you wrong
i've got a feeling you know what the score is baby
but it's hard when you're sitting here surrounded by friends

i've got a love that i'll cling on to
and i'll stay there stay there till the end
'cause one thing i know is

i have found an answer i don't think you don't care
just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
and things are different from there
i have found an answer i don't think you don't care
just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
and things are different from there

you walk and you talk
and you sing and you shout
and you justify about anything
and you rant and you rave and you hope and you say nothing
and you eat and you drink and you dress and you live as if
no one else did baby
no one else like you lives out in this world

i've got a love that i'll cling on to
and i'll stay there stay there till the end
'cause one thing i know is

i have found an answer i don't think you don't care
just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
and things are different from there
i have found an answer i don't think you don't care
just you laugh 'cause you're loaded

i have found an answer i don't think you don't care
just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
and things are different from there
i have found an answer i don't think you don't care
just you laugh 'cause you're loaded
and things are different from there

pale blue eyes
same old house no ties
a little bit older but not so
worldly wise
that i can't see
your light's on me
making me regretfully say

the wonder of it all was you
and underneath it all it wasn't true

i want you in everything
in everything
in anything i do
when will you make my phone ring
and tell me i can't give you anything
anything at all now

tiny steps
from ruthless legs
when you've been walking so long
now don't you rest
from disharmony
from disunity
from anything that isn't you and me

the wonder of it all was you
and underneath it all it wasn't true

i want you in everything
in everything
in anything i do
when will you make my phone ring
and tell me i can't give you anything
anything at all now

tired of chasing old dreams
tired of wasting days
tired of waking mornings
just to wait for you till late
tired of searching high
tired of getting low
tired of listening hard
just to wait for you to know that

i want you in everything
in everything
in anything i do
when will you make my phone ring
and tell me i can't give you anything
anything at all now

there's a man i meet walks up our street
he's a worker for the council
has been twenty years
and he takes no lip off nobody
and litter off the gutter
puts it in a bag
and never seems to mutter
and he packs his lunch in a "sunblest" bag
the children call him "bogie"
he never lets on
but i know 'cause he once told me
he let me know a secret about the money in his kitty
he's gonna buy a dinghy
gonna call her dignity

and i'll sail her up the west coast
through villages and towns
i'll be on my holidays
they'll be doing their rounds
they'll ask me how i got her i'll say "i saved my money"
they'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity

and i'm telling this story
in a faraway scene
sipping down raki
and reading maynard keynes
and i'm thinking about home and all that means
and a place in the winter for dignity
and i'll sail her up the west coast
through villages and towns
i'll be on my holidays
they'll be doing their rounds
they'll ask me how i got her i'll say "i saved my money"
they'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity

and i'm thinking about home
and i'm thinking about faith
and i'm thinking about work
and i'm thinking about how good it would be
to be here some day

on a ship called dignity
a ship called dignity
that ship