Big in America: British Hits in the USA

MUSIC: "Bits And Pieces" by The Dave Clark Five

# I'm in pieces, bits and pieces

# Since you left me and you said goodbye

# I'm in pieces, bits and pieces

# All I do is sit and cry

# I'm in pieces, bits and pieces

# You went away and left me misery

# I'm in pieces, bits and pieces

# And that's the way it'll always be

# I'm in pieces, bits and pieces

# You said you loved me and you'd always be mine

# I'm in pieces, bits and pieces

# And we'd be together till the end of time

# I'm in pieces, bits and pieces

# Now you say it was just a game

# I'm in pieces, bits and pieces

# Well, all you're doin' is leavin' me pain

# Time goes by, it goes so slow, oh, yeah

# Till you start to see it, too

# Only just a few days ago

# You said you loved me and it made me blue

# I'm in pieces, bits and pieces

# Now you're gone and I'm all alone

# I'm in pieces, bits and pieces

# You're still way up there on your throne

# I'm in pieces, bits and pieces

# Nothin' seems to ever go right

# I'm in pieces, bits and pieces

# Cos night is day and day is night. #

MUSIC: "America" by The Nice

APPLAUSE

# Oh, a storm is threat'ning

# My very life today

# If I don't get some shelter

# Yeah, I'm going to fade away

# War, children, it's just a shot away

# It's just a shot away

# War, children, it's just a shot away

# It's just a shot away

# Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'

# My very street today

# Looks like a red coal carpet

# Mad bull lost its way

# War, children, it's just a shot away

# It's just a shot away

# War, children, it's just a shot away

# It's just a shot away

# I say rape, murder

# It's just a shot away It's just a shot away

# Rape, murder

# It's just a shot away It's just a shot away

# Rape, murder

# It's just a shot away

# Wooo

# See the flood is threat'ning

# My very life today

# Gimme, gimme shelter

# Yeah, I'm going to fade away

# War, children It's just a shot away

# I tell you war, children

# It's just a shot away It's just a shot away

# Love, sister It's just a kiss away

# It's just a kiss away

# It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away

# It's just a kiss away Kiss away, kiss away. #

APPLAUSE

# Finished with my woman cos she couldn't help me with my mind

# People think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time

# All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy

# Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify

# Can you help me occupy my brain?

# Oh, yeah! #

Come on, now, let's go!

# Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry

# Happiness I cannot feel and love to me is so unreal

# And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state

# I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but it's too late. #

APPLAUSE

# We'll be fighting in the streets With our children at our feet

# And the morals that they worship will be gone

# And the men who spurred us on

# Sit in judgement of all wrong

# They decide and the shotgun sings the song

# I'll tip my hat to the new constitution

# Take a bow for the new revolution

# Smile and grin at the change all around

# Pick up my guitar and play

# Just like yesterday

# Then I'll get on my knees and pray

# We don't get fooled again Oh, no

# I'll move myself and my family aside

# If we happen to be left half alive

# I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky

# For I know that the hypnotized never lie

# Yeah

# There's nothing in the street

# Looks any different to me

# And the slogans are out-phased, by-the-by

# And the parting on the left

# Is now parting on the right

# And their beards have all grown longer overnight

# I'll tip my hat to the new constitution

# Take a bow for the new revolution

# Smile and grin at the change all around

# Pick up my guitar and play

# Just like yesterday

# Then I'll get on my knees and pray

# Yeah!

# Meet the new boss

# Same as the old boss. #

APPLAUSE

# When are you gonna come down

# When are you going to land

# I should have stayed on the farm

# I should have listened to my old man

# You know you can't hold me forever

# I didn't sign up with you

# I'm not a present for your friends to open

# This boy's too young to be singing the blues

# Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ah-ah-ah

# So goodbye, yellow brick road

# Where the dogs of society howl

# You can't plant me in your penthouse

# I'm going back to my plough

# Back to the howling old owl in the woods

# Hunting the horny back toad

# Oh, I've finally decided my future lies

# Beyond the yellow brick road

# Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ah-ah-ah-ah

# What do you think you'll do then?

# I bet they'll shoot down your plane

# It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics

# To set you on your feet again

# Maybe you'll get a replacement

# There's plenty like me to be found

# Mongrels who ain't got a penny

# Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground

# Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ah-ah-ah

# So goodbye, yellow brick road

# Where the dogs of society howl

# You can't plant me in your penthouse

# I'm going back to my plough

# Back to the howling old owl in the woods

# Hunting the horny back toad

# Oh, I've finally decided my future lies

# Beyond the yellow brick road

# Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ah-ah-ah-ah. #

# Here in my car

# I feel safest of all

# I can lock all my doors

# It's the only way to live

# In cars

# Here in my car

# I can only receive

# I can listen to you

# It keeps me stable for days

# In cars

# Here in my car

# Where the image breaks down

# Will you visit me, please

# If I open my door?

# In cars

# Here in my car

# I know I've started to think

# About leaving tonight

# Although nothing seems right

# In cars. #

APPLAUSE

# When I was young It seemed that life was so wonderful

# A miracle

# Oh, it was beautiful, magical

# And all the birds in the trees Well, they'd be singing so happily

# Oh, joyfully Oh, playfully watching me

# But then they sent me away To teach me how to be sensible

# Logical, oh Responsible, practical

# And then they showed me a world Where I could be so dependable

# Oh, clinical Oh, intellectual, cynical

# There are times When all the world's asleep

# The questions run too deep

# For such a simple man

# Won't you please Please tell me what we've learned

# I know it sounds absurd

# But please tell me who I am

# I said, now, watch what you say They'll be calling you a radical

# A liberal, oh Fanatical, criminal

# Won't you sign up your name?

# We'd like to feel You're acceptable, respectable

# Oh, presentable, a vegetable

# Oh, take, take, take it, yeah

# But at night When all the world's asleep

# The questions run so deep

# For such a simple man

# Won't you please Please tell me what we've learned

# I know it sounds absurd

# But please tell me who I am

# Who I am

# Who I am

# Who I am. #

APPLAUSE

# A love-struck Romeo Sing a street-suss serenade

# Laying everybody low With a love song that he made

# Finds a streetlight Steps out of the shade

# Says something like, "You and me babe, how about it?"

# Juliet says, "Hey, it's Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack!"

# He's underneath the window

# She's singing, "Hey, la, my boyfriend's back

# "You shouldn't come around here Singing up at people like that

# "Anyway, What you gonna do about it?"

# Juliet The dice was loaded from the start

# And I bet And you exploded in my heart

# And I forget I forget the movie song

# When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet

# Come up on different streets They're both the streets of shame

# Both dirty, both mean, yes In the dream it was just the same

# And I dreamed your dream for you And now your dream is real

# How can you look at me

# As if I was just another one of your deals?

# When you can fall for chains of silver

# You can fall for chains of gold

# You can fall for pretty strangers And the promises they hold

# You promised me everything

# You promised me thick and thin, yeah

# Now you just say, "Oh, Romeo?"

# "Yeah, you know, I used to have a scene with him"

# Juliet, when we made love You used to cry

# You said, "I love you like the stars above

# "I'll love you till I die"

# There's a place for us You know the movie song

# When you gonna realise

# It was just that the time was wrong, Juliet? #

APPLAUSE

# I walked along the avenue

# I never thought I'd meet a girl like you

# Meet a girl like you

# With auburn hair and tawny eyes

# The kind of eyes that hypnotize me through

# Hypnotize me through

# And I ran I ran so far away

# I just ran I ran all night and day

# I couldn't get away

# Reached out a hand to touch your face

# You're slowly disappearing from my view

# Disappearing from my view

# Reached out a hand to try again

# I'm floating in a beam of light with you

# Beam of light with you

# And I ran I ran so far away

# I just ran I ran both night and day

# And I ran I ran so far away

# I just ran

# I couldn't get away. #

APPLAUSE

# Every breath you take

# Every move you make

# Every bond you break

# Every step you take

# I'll be watching you

# Every single day

# Every word you say

# Every game you play Every night you stay

# I'll be watching you

# Oh, can't you see?

# You belong to me

# How my poor heart aches with every step you take

# Every move you make

# Every vow you break

# Every smile you fake

# Every claim you stake

# I'll be watching you

# Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace

# I dream at night I can only see your face

# I look around but it's you I can't replace

# I feel so cold and I long for your embrace

# I keep crying, baby, baby, please!

# Ooh, ooh

# Ooh, ooh

# Ooh, ooh

# Ooh, ooh

# Ooh, ooh

# Ooh, ooh

# Ooh, ooh

# Oh, can't you see?

# You belong to me

# How my poor heart aches with every step you take

# Every move you make

# Every vow you break

# Every smile you fake

# Every claim you stake

# I'll be watching you

# Every move you make

# Every step you take

# I'll be watching you

# I'll be watching you

# Every breath you take Every move you make

# Every bond you break

# I'll be watching you

# Every single day Every word you say

# Every game you play

# I'll be watching you

# Every move you make Every vow you break

# Every smile you fake

# I'll be watching you

# Every single day Every word you say

# Ooh!

# I'll be watching you

# Every breath you take Every move you make

# Every bond you break

# I'll be watching you. #

APPLAUSE

# Yesterday I got so old I felt like I could die

# Yesterday I got so old It made me want to cry

# Go on, go on, just walk away Go on, go on, your choice is made

# Go on, go on and disappear Go on, go on away from here

# And I know I was wrong when I said it was true

# That it couldn't be me and be her in between

# Without you

# Without you

# Yesterday I got so scared I shivered like a child

# Yesterday away from you It froze me deep inside

# Come back, come back Don't walk away

# Come back, come back Come back today

# Come back, come back Why can't you see?

# Come back, come back Come back to me

# And I know I was wrong when I said it was true

# That it couldn't be me and be her in between

# Without you

# Without you

# Without you, without you

# Without you, without you

# Without you, without you. #

APPLAUSE

# Come with me into the trees

# We'll lay on the grass and let the hours pass

# Take my hand Come back to the land

# Let's get away just for one day

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Metropolis has nothing on this

# You're breathing in fumes

# I taste when we kiss

# Take my hand Come back to the land

# Where everything's ours for a few hours

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Let me hear you make decisions

# Without your television

# Let me hear you speaking just for me

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Let me hear you speaking just for me

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Let me hear you crying just for me

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Let me hear you speaking just for me

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Let me hear you crying just for me

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Let me hear you speaking just for me. #

APPLAUSE

# Love is like a bomb, baby C'mon, get it on

# Livin' like a lover with a radar phone

# Lookin' like a tramp like a video vamp

# Demolition woman can I be your man?

# Your man

# Razzle and a-dazzle and a flashing little light

# Television lover, baby go all night

# Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet

# Little Miss Innocent, sugar me Yeah!

# Yeah!

# C'mon, take a bottle, shake it up

# Break the bubble, break it up

# Pour some sugar on me

# Ooh, in the name of love

# Pour some sugar on me

# C'mon, fire me up

# Pour your sugar on me

# Oh, I can't get enough

# I'm hot, sticky sweet

# From my head to my feet, yeah!

# Listen! Red light, yellow light green-a-light, go!

# Crazy little woman in a one-man show

# Mirror queen, mannequin rhythm of love

# Sweet dream, saccharine, loosen up

# Loosen up

# You got to squeeze a little

# Squeeze a little Tease a little more

# Easy operator come a-knockin' on my door

# Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet

# Little Miss Innocent, sugar me

# Yeah, yeah!

# Give a little more

# Take a bottle, shake it up

# Break the bubble, break it up

# Pour some sugar on me

# Ooh, in the name of love

# Pour some sugar on me

# C'mon, fire me up

# Pour your sugar on me

# Oh, I can't get enough

# I'm hot, sticky sweet

# From my head to my feet, yeah!

SWAGGERING GUITAR SOLO

# You got the peaches I got the cream

# Sweet to taste, saccharine

# Cos I'm hot Say what, sticky sweet

# From my head, my head, to my feet

# Do you take sugar?

# One lump or two?

# Take a bottle, shake it up

# Break the bubble, break it up

# Pour some sugar on me

# Ooh, in the name of love

# Pour some sugar on me

# C'mon, fire me up

# Pour your sugar on me

# Oh, I can't get enough

# Pour some sugar on me

# Oh, in the name of love

# Pour some sugar on me. #

APPLAUSE

# Keep on moving

# Don't stop like the hands of time

# It's the time...

# Click clock Find your own way to stay

-# Stay in my life

-The time will come one day

# Why do people choose to live their lives...

# This way?

# Keep on moving, don't stop, no Keep on moving

# Oh

# Keep on moving

# Keep on moving, yeah

# It's our time, time today

# The right time is here to stay

# Stay in my life, my life, always

# Yellow is the colour of sun rays

# I hide myself from no-one

# I know the time will surely come when

# You'll be in my life, my life always

# Yellow is the colour of sun rays

# Keep on moving, don't stop

# Keep on moving, don't stop, no

# Like the hands of time Click clock

# Find your own way, stay, yeah

# Yeah

# The time will come one day, yeah

# Ooh

# Keep on moving, don't stop, no

# Oh, oh, whoa

# Keep on moving

# Hey, hey

# I know the time

# Time today

# Walking alone in my own way

# Extremely cold, a rainy day

# Friends and I have fun along the way

# Yes, we do, yeah

# I hide myself from no-one

# I know the time will really come when

# You'll be in my life My life, always

# Yellow is the colour of sun rays. #

APPLAUSE

# Warm sun, feed me up

# And I'm leery, loaded up

# Loathing for a change

# And I slip some boil away

# Swallowed, followed

# Heavy 'bout everything but my love

# Swallowed, sorrowed

# I'm with everyone and yet not

# I'm with everyone and yet

# Just want to be myself

# Hey, you said you would love to try some

# Hey, you said you would love to die some

# In the middle of a world on a fishhook

# You're the wave You're the wave, you're the wave

# Swallowed, followed

# Heavy 'bout everything but my love

# Swallowed, borrowed

# Sharp about everyone but yourself

# I'm with everyone and yet

DISSONANT GUITAR SOLO

# Piss on self-esteem

# And I'm forward, busted knee

# Sick head, blackened lungs

# And I'm simple, selfish son

# Swallowed, borrowed

# Heavy 'bout everything but my love

# Swallowed, oh, no

# I'm with everyone and yet not. #

APPLAUSE

CASCADING PIANO CHORDS

# The lights go out and I can't be saved

# Tides that I tried to swim against

# Have brought me down upon my knees

# I know, I beg I beg and plead, singing

# Come out of things unsaid

# And shoot an apple off my head

# With a trouble that can't be named

# A tiger's waiting to be tamed, singing

# You are

# You are

# Confusion never stops

# Closing walls and ticking clocks

# Are going to come back and take you home

# I could not stop That you now know

# And I come out upon my seas

# I curse missed opportunities

# Am I part of the cure?

# Or am I part of the disease? Singing

# You are

# You are

# You are

# You are

# You are

# You are

# And nothing else compares

# Oh, nothing else compares

# Oh, nothing else compares

# You are

# You are

# Home, home

# Where I wanted to go

# I went home, home

# Where I wanted to go

# I went home, home

# Where I wanted to go

# I went home, home

# Where I wanted to go

# I went home, home

# Where I wanted to go

# I went home, home

# Where I wanted to go

# Home, home

# Where I wanted to go

# I went home, home

# Where I wanted to go

# I went home

# I went home. #

Thank you very much.

APPLAUSE

# I heard

# That you're settled down

# That you found a girl

# And you're married now

# I heard

# That your dreams came true

# Guess she gave you things

# I didn't give to you

# Old friend

# Why are you so shy?

# It ain't like you to hold back

# Or hide from the light

# I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited

# But I couldn't stay away I couldn't fight it

# I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded

# That for me it isn't over

# Never mind, I'll find someone like you

# I wish nothing but the best

# For you too

# Don't forget me, I beg

# I remember you said

# Sometimes it lasts in love

# But sometimes it hurts instead

# Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead

# Yeah

# You know how the time flies

# Only yesterday

# It was the time of our lives

# We were born and raised

# In a summer haze

# Bound by the surprise

# Of our glory days

# I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited

# But I couldn't stay away I couldn't fight it

# I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded

# That for me it isn't over

# Yeah

# Never mind, I'll find someone like you

# I wish nothing but the best

# For you too

# Don't forget me, I beg

# I remember you said

# Sometimes it lasts in love

# But sometimes it hurts instead

# Yeah

# Nothing compares No worries or cares

# Regrets and mistakes They're memories made

# Who would have known how bittersweet

# This would taste?

# Never mind, I'll find someone like you

# I wish nothing but the best

# For you too

# Don't forget me, I beg

# I remember you said

# Sometimes it lasts in love

# But sometimes it hurts instead

# Never mind, I'll find someone like you

# I wish nothing but the best

# For you too

# Don't forget me, I beg

# I remember you said

# Sometimes it lasts in love

# But sometimes it hurts instead

# Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead

# Yeah, yeah. #