@ALBUM: electric.landlady Kirsty MacColl: Electric Landlady @SONG: Walking Down Madison (Kirsty MacColl/Johnny Marr) Walking down Madison - I swear I never had a gun No I never shot no-one - I was only having fun Walking down Madison - swear I never had a gun I was philosophizing some Checking out the bums See you give 'em your nickels, your pennies and dimes But you can't give 'em hope in these mercenary times, oh no And you feel real guilty about the coat on your back And the sandwich you had, oh no From an uptown apartment to a knife on the A train It's not that far From the sharks in the penthouse to the rats in the basement It's not that far To the bag lady frozen asleep in the park Oh no it's not that far Would you like to see some more? I can show you if you'd like to Walking down Madison - I swear I never had a gun No I never shot no-one - wouldn't do it just for fun Walking down Madison - trying to keep my head screwed on I was philosophizing some Checking out the nuns When you get to the corner don't look at those freaks Keep your head down low and stay quick on your feet, oh yeah The beaming boy from Harlem with the airforce coat The ones who died The ones who tried The ones that sit and gloat From an uptown apartment to a knife on the A train It's not that far From the sharks in the penthouse to the rats in the basement It's not that far To the bag lady frozen asleep on the church steps It's not that far Would you like to see some more? I can show you if you'd like to Within every city and town there's a Madison Frozen lives for whom nothing's happening Hungry children is a mother's dilemma Dumpster diving to feed her baby Emma So you walk on by like it doesn't affect you The held out hand that you pay no respect to Nickels and dimes won't even buy your guilt Another wino burnt to death in his quilt It's a cardboard city, newspaper metropolis The system can't cope or keep on top of this The authorities come as you're not for display Do they solve the problem no they move him away They're in a vicious circle of no fixed abode The social won't pay 'em the money they're owed When you've got no money you can't pay rent Hypothermia kills 'cos the system is bent From an uptown apartment to a knife on the A train It's not that far From the sharks in the penthouse to the rats in the basement It's not that far To the bag lady frozen asleep in the park Oh no it's not that far Would you like to see some more? I can show you if you'd like to From an uptown apartment to a knife on the A train It's not that far From the sharks in the penthouse to the rats in the basement It's not that far To the bag lady frozen asleep on the church steps It's not that far Would you like to see some more? I can show you if you'd like to In the subway sits a vacuous man His grip on life is a bent tin can It's a holy shrine where he burns his light It makes things easy and removes his plight For an hour or two but he can't escape They're all penned in with government tape There are good samaritans who bring the soup The sally army with their bibles and boots You can see yourself as it's not too far One short trip you don't who they are Till the night comes then it all comes back Like the smell of patchouli and the armies of rats It's a shame to be human it's a human shame It seems we've forgotten we're one and the same @SONG: All I Ever Wanted (Kirsty MacColl/Marshall Crenshaw) I'm nearly sober And I can see the truth I'm not immune to the sorrow that you put me through All I ever wanted Was a little more respect from you I used to love you But now I feel abused I was a fool to be blind to the things you do All I ever wanted Was a little more respect from you I'll never understand The habits of a man out on the town And where he hangs around Now you think it over Decide what to do I couldn't fall for your story if I wanted to All I ever wanted Was a little more respect from you I tried to make you see That you were losing me but every day You still went out to play And now I'll say for the last time You had the chance And I won't dance for you baby like you want me to All I ever wanted Was a little more respect from you All I ever wanted was a little more respect @SONG: Children Of The Revolution (Kirsty MacColl/Johnny Marr) Children of the revolution coming out to play Bombers ripped the night apart and blew the school away Some live on the south side and they overlook the water Some live on the north side and they're looking at the border And those children of the revolution see the soldiers come Smiling at the widows as they take away the sons Children of the revolution shot down with a brand new gun They're dropping down like flies and in their eyes The images of war are in their eyes They've seen it all before and know your lies Won't keep their bellies full In love and war there are no rules Children of the revolution getting off the boat To face the ignorance and prejudice that keep this world afloat Children of the revolution make a brand new start Running through the rubble of a thousand broken hearts and in their eyes All promises are broken in their eyes The words that can't be spoken and your lies Don't keep their bellies full In love and war there are no rules But in their eyes Murder comes by sea and from the skies It's shiny and it's quick to take their lives And if it's cruel in love and war there are no rules Children of the revolution coming out to play Someone sells a gun and someone blows them all away Children of the revolution sold out by the banks Who swap the green upon the dollars for the green upon the tanks Children of the revolution shot down by a brand new gun @SONG: Halloween (Kirsty MacColl/Mark E.Nevin) I must have fallen on my feet A hundred times or more I heard the wind blow down the street The knocking at the door But there was no one there Though I looked everywhere So was it all a dream? Oh Halloween The spirits of the past The costumes and the masks The shipwrecks and the ghosts From up and down the coast They've all come back to see If we were meant to be We can't escape our dreams Oh Halloween You must have followed me back home And hid behind my back No one could find me on their own I'm off the beaten track Well I was scared before But I'm afraid no more And nothing's as it seems Halloween The spirits of the past The costumes and the masks To me they don't disguise The presence in your eyes They turn their heads to see If we were meant to be A nightmare or a dream Oh Halloween @SONG: My Affair (Kirsty MacColl/Mark E.Nevin) When I was just a child My folks would drive me wild They'd spy upon my every move Until it drove me to despair They told me what to wear They told me not to cut my hair But that's all over now I had to tell them anyhow It's my affair Where I go and what I do It's my affair oh yeah It's my affair It's up to me and not to you It's my affair That's the way I want to keep it I kissed the boy in secret Thrilled me to the very core I couldn't stop I wanted more and I didn't hear the door and They caught me on the floor With my affair And when we first got wed We used to stay in bed All day and night all night and day We bedded half our lives away But that's all over now We move in higher circles Chomping through the upper crust I couldn't see you for the dust And then you met that girl Who left you with your money spent And now it's no concern of yours If I sleep with the President It's my affair And if I don't come home tonight It's my affair alright It's my affair Who I see is up to me It's my affair That's how I want to keep it I kiss the boys in secret Hiding in the parking lot Is just as far as I have got but If the phone should ring and There's no one there Then it's my affair Eso es asunto de ella Donde va y lo que hace Well it's all over now You've seen the last of me And I don't have to put up with you Giving me the third degree So you go on your way And don't come sneaking round the back door Trying to get yourself back in Where you're not wanted anymore It's my affair Shoodoloowapbob Shoodolowap It's my affair oh yeah It's my affair Who I see is up to me It's my affair That's how I want to keep it I kiss the boys in secret Making eyes at perfect strangers I know that it could be dangerous So if the phone should ring and There's no one there then it's my affair Donde va y lo que hace Si yo vivo mi vida Feliz y contenta A nadie eso le importa Donde va y lo que hace Si mi queda afuera toda la noche Es asunto mio Donde va y lo que hace Es que sufri por ese amor Que un dia me traiciono Donde va y lo que hace Who I see is up to me Es mi asunto a quien yo veo @SONG: Lying Down (Kirsty MacColl/Pete Glenister) I was born and I was bred I was reared and I was fed Moved into the neighbourhood Where I was bad and I was good I fixed things for people there I took them out I don't know where I coloured in their lives to give them outlines I walked before I'll walk again I'll walk along a line of men And walk into the lions den I think you know but you won't say Just what it is makes life this way But I'm not going to take this lying down Reach for the stars retch for the earth We took the earth and made it worse And there was never any doubt We ate it up we spat it out And still we love to say we did it our way On this voyage of discovery I'm blinded by the things I see I've seen before I'll see again I'll look along a line of men And fall into the lion's den Now you can pray your head is bared And I'm not saying I'm not scared But I'm not going to take this lying down I think you know but you won't say Just what it is makes life this way But I'm not going to take this lying down. @SONG: He Never Mentioned Love (Kirsty MacColl/Jem Finer) I couldn't hear him when he called to me I couldn't hear him at all you see He was down the road away from me How could I know his answer? I couldn't hear him 'though he shouted loud I couldn't hear him in my own backyard The trains were rattling by above He never mentioned love He may have held my hand When we were walking down the street He talked about all kinds of things But none of them were him and me He looked into my eyes Just as an airplane roared above Said something about football But he never mentioned love I never heard him all the times he yelled I never heard him if he tried to tell me If my memory serves me well He never mentioned love I never hurt him 'though he says I did I never hurt him but I die a bit Each time he passes on the street He never mentions love I used to call him every night And pray that he was home I couldn't bare the feeling I might have to live my life alone But now my phone is off the hook The word came from above It told me I was wasting time If he never mentioned love I never heard him if he said he cared I never heard him, I kept my claws bared I never heard the things he says he said He never mentioned he was scared I never heard him when he asked of love I never heard him as the skies above Chucked buckets on the two of us He never mentioned love So if I seem hardhearted I would like the court to note He never mentioned love to me In anything he wrote And if I seem coldblooded I should like to tell the judge In all the time I knew this man He never spoke of love (or if he did) I never heard him when he called to me I never heard him at all you see He was down the line away from me He never mentioned L.U.V. I never hurt him 'though he says I did I never hurt him I just die a bit Each time we meet upon the street We never mention love @SONG: We'll Never Pass This Way Again (Kirsty MacColl) Darling While the firelight is low I'm disappearing Like the last day of the snow And really, it's better this way We both know it's over And we'll never pass this way again Sunshine and the desert call to me And you know moonshine Makes you blind so you can't see at all But whatever you feel It may not be real And baby we'll never pass this way again I'm not the only love you'll ever know Look to your stars above and wish it so Let me go Darling If I stay too long you'll tire of me 'Cos darling, that's the way we are designed to be So, hard as it is to say We had the night and we had our day We'll never pass this way again @SONG: The Hardest Word (Kirsty MacColl/Hamish MacColl) With me in the valley you out on the hill I can just see you if I close my eyes Climbing those mountains I picture you still I see your smile just as I saw the sunrise This land is ancient built out of bones At war with each other, the mother, the father The sisters, the brothers, the daughters and sons Be kind to each other, your father, your mother On the horizon the eagles are flying And I mean no more than a cloud in the sky I never know if I'm laughing or crying The hardest word is the word goodbye Teach me the old ways I'm ready to learn Be kind to the sister, be kind to the brother The writer, the singer, the poet, the clown Be kind to the man and be kind to them all And we are ancient built from bones Make time for the young and make time for the old Be kind to each other oh that's what I know Be kind to the mothers, daughters and sons The true and the great and the scared and the small Be kind to each other, be kind to them all Forgive our indignity and we forgive yours As I am the mother, you are the father Entwined in each other, now and forever The fathers of daughters, the mothers of sons Forever and ever and ever as one As we are the fathers, we are the sons And we are the daughters, the mothers and brothers Forever and ever and ever as one @SONG: Maybe It's Imaginary (Kirsty MacColl) Maybe it's imaginary, I'd like to know What's the world coming to and where will it go? The hole in the sky where the sunshine gets in It dries up the land as it mucks up your skin And I don't know why, who will reveal? Maybe it's imaginary, maybe it's real We wash all the food and we peel off the skin But what is the point if it's poisoned within? Now I don't know why we say ok Maybe it's imaginary, hope it's not too late And when in the summer we go to the sea The things floating by aren't what we want to see And I'd change it all if I had one wish I'd never go swimming with those nuclear fish Maybe those imaginary rivers run dry But if it's true then I'd like to know why I don't know much but I'd like to know why @SONG: My Way Home (Kirsty MacColl/Pete Glenister) All it took was the time it takes To smoke a cigarette or jam on the brakes I nearly had it in my hands and now it's gone Am I complaining 'bout by luck again? Well it seems to me I was the one Stood moaning in the morning sun And now it doesn't matter much wherever I may roam I keep feeling, feeling my way home Now you see me, now you don't You say you will but I know you won't You nearly had me in your hands but now I'm gone But not complaining 'bout my life again No siree, and what I've got belongs to me entirely I look left and I look right and I cross this road alone 'Cos I'm feeling my way I may go up, I may go down but wherever I may roam I keep feeling my way home Shall I explain away my life again? Well it seems to me it's too far gone To wonder where it all went wrong I get up and I get down but I get there on my own And I'm feeling I look left and I look right and I cross this road alone 'Cos I'm feeling my way home @SONG: The One And Only (Kirsty MacColl/Mark E.Nevin) Sometimes it feels like you never will win Just when you're ready to pack it all in You tear it down and start over again But I'm not down for the first time Maybe I'll always be the one and only girl for me I never minded the rain on my face I knew the sun lived in some other place I had to go I just needed the space But I'm not down for the first time Maybe I'll always be the one and only girl for me Sometimes your life isn't going too well Sometimes it reads like a postcard from hell I've made my mistakes I suppose you can tell Some lives read like a postcard And some lives read like a book I'll be happy if mine