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Shipbuilding/Memories Of You/'Round Midnight
1982
Robert Wyatt
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| MEMORIES OF YOU |
A. Razaf / E. Blake |
Everything
Seems to bring
Memories of you
How I wish I could forget
Those happy yesteryears
They have left a rosary of tears
Your face beams
In my dreams
In spite of all I do
Everything
Seems to bring
Memories of you
| ROUND MIDNIGHT |
C. Williams - B. Hanigen / T. Monk |
Tears you've shed today will pause
waiting until tomorrow
Dreams of what could be
Come close to me, timidly
There's a brand new day in sight
At that time: round about midnight
Life's game of chance
And you're one of the minor players
Look for what you lost
For days to come, harbour some
Let your spirit start the fight
At that time: round about midnight
Every day's going to bring some sad times
Every day's going to bring some glad times
So take what you can of the glad times
Don't measure your pleasure
In nickels and dimes
Look back on today and you'll know
When you have been unhappy
Tears done, chased away
What might at night have their day
Let your eyes put out their light
At that time: round about midnight
Round about midnight
SHIPBUILDING
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C. Langer / E. Costello |
Is it worth it?
A new winter coat and shoes for the wife
and a bicycle on the boy's birthday
It's just a rumor that was spread around town
by the women and children
Soon we'll be shipbuilding
Well I ask you
The boy said 'Dad, they're going to take me to task
but I'll be home by Christmas
It's just a rumor that was spread around town
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The results of their shipbuilding
With all the will in the world
diving for dear life
when we could be diving for pearls
It's just a rumor that was spread around town
A telegram for a picture postcard
Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyard
and notifying the next of kin once again
it's all we're skilled in
We will be shipbuilding
With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls
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