Weller at the BBC

# I'm a changing man

# I'm built on shifting sands

# Yeah, I'm a changing man

# I'm waiting for the bang To light a bitter fuse, yeah. #

# In the city there's a thousand things I want to say to you

# But whenever I approach you You make me look a fool

# I wanna say, I wanna tell you

# About the young ideas

# But you turn them into fears

# In the city there's a thousand faces all shining bright

# And those golden faces are under 25

# They wanna say, they gonna tell ya

# About the young ideas

# You better listen now you've said your bit-a

# And I know what you're thinking You still think I am crap

# But you'd better listen, man Because the kids know where it's at

# In the city there's a thousand men in uniforms

# And I've heard they now have the right to kill a man

# We wanna say, we gonna tell ya

# About the young ideas

# And if it don't work at least we still tried

# In the city

# In the city

# In the city

# In the city

# In the city there's a thousand things I wanna say to you. #

# The distant echo...of faraway voices boarding faraway trains

# To take them home to the ones that they love and who love them forever

# The glazed, dirty steps Repeat my own and reflect my thoughts

# Cold and uninviting Partially naked

# Except for toffee wrappers and this morning's papers

# Mr Jones got run down

# Headlines of death and sorrow They tell of tomorrow

# Madmen on the rampage

# And I'm down in the tube station at midnight

# Oh oh oh oh oh

# I fumble for change And pull out the Queen

# Smiling, beguiling

# I put in the money and pull out a plum

# Behind me

# Whispers in the shadows

# Gruff blazing voices

# Hating, waiting

# Hey, boy! they shout Have you got any money?

# And I say I've a little money and a takeaway curry

# I'm on my way home to my wife

# She'll be lining up the cutlery You know she's expecting me

# Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork

# And I'm down in the tube station at midnight

# Oh oh oh oh oh

# I first felt a fist and then a kick

# I could now smell their breath

# They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs

# And too many right-wing meetings

# My life swam around me

# It took a look and drowned me in its own existence

# The smell of brown leather It blended in with the weather

# It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth, it blocked all my senses

# Couldn't see, hear, speak any longer

# And I'm down in the tube station at midnight

# Oh oh oh oh oh

# I said I was down in the tube station at midnight

# Oh oh oh oh oh

# The last thing that I saw as I lay there on the floor

# Was "Jesus Saves" painted by an atheist nutter

# And a British Rail poster read "Have an Awayday - a cheap holiday

# "Do it today!" I glanced back on my life and thought about my wife

# Cos they took the keys and she'll think it's me

# And I'm down in the tube station at midnight

# The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold

# I'm down in the tube station at midnight

# Oh oh oh oh oh

# Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight

# Oh oh oh oh oh... #

# Sup up your beer and collect your fags

# There's a row going on down near Slough

# Get out your mat and pray to the West

# I'll get out mine and pray for myself

# Thought you were smart when you took them on

# But you didn't take a peep in their artillery room

# All that rugby puts hairs on your chest

# What chance have you got against a tie and a crest?

# Hello-hooray, what a nice day for the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles

# Hello-hooray I hope rain stops play

# With the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles

# Thought you were clever when you lit the fuse

# Tore down the House of Commons in your brand new shoes

# Composed a revolutionary symphony

# Then went to bed with a charming young thing

# Hello-hooray, cheers then, mate It's the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles

# Hello-hooray, an extremist scrape With the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles

# What a catalyst you turned out to be

# Loaded the guns then you run off home for your tea

# Left me standing like a guilty schoolboy

# What a catalyst you turned out to be

# Loaded the guns then you run off home for your tea

# Left me standing like a naughty schoolboy

# We came out of it naturally the worst

# Beaten and bloody and I was sick down my shirt

# We were no match for their untamed wit

# Though some of the lads said they'll be back next week

# Hello-hooray, there's a price to pay to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles

# Hello-hooray, I'd prefer the plague to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles

# Hello-hooray, there's a price to pay to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles

# Hello-hooray, I'd prefer the plague to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles

# Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles

# Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles. #

# Some people might say my life is in a rut

# But I'm quite happy living with what I got

# People might say that I should strive for more

# But I'm so happy I can't see the point

# Something's happening here today

# A show of strength with your boys' brigade

# And I'm so happy and you're so kind

# You want more money, of course I don't mind

# To buy nuclear textbooks for atomic crimes

# And the public gets what the public wants

# But I want nothing this society's got

-# I'm going underground

-Going underground

# Well the brass bands play and feet start to pound

-# Going underground

-Going underground

# Well let the boys all sing and let the boys all shout for tomorrow

# Some people might get some pleasure out of hate

# Me, I've enough already on my plate

# People might need some tension to relax

# Me? I'm too busy dodging between the flak

# What you see is what you get

# You've made your bed You better lie in it

# You choose your leaders and place your trust

# As their lies put you down and their promises bust

# You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns

# And the public wants what the public gets

# But I don't get what this society wants

-# I'm going underground

-Going underground

# Well the brass bands play and feet start to pound

-# Going underground

-Going underground

# So let the boys all sing and let the boys all shout for tomorrow

# La la la

# La la la la

# We talk and we talk until my head explodes

# I turn on the news and my body froze

# Braying sheep on my TV screen

# Make this boy shout Make this boy scream!

# Going underground

# I'm going underground!

# I'm going underground

# I'm going underground

# La la la la

# La la la la

# La la la la

# La la la la

# Braying sheep on my TV screen

# Make this boy shout Make this boy scream

-# I'm going underground

-Going underground

# Well the brass bands play and feet start to pound

-# Going underground

-Going underground

# Let the boys all sing and let the boys all shout

-# Going underground

-Going underground

# Well let the brass bands play and feet go pow, pow, pow!

-# Going underground

-Going underground

# Let the boys all sing and let the boys all shout for tomorrow. #

# Better stop dreaming of the quiet life

# Cos it's the one we'll never know

# And quit running for that runaway bus

# Cos those rosy days are few

# And stop apologising for the things you've never done

# Cos time is short and life is cruel

# But it's up to us to change This town called Malice

# Rows and rows of disused milk floats

# Stand dying in the dairy yard

# And a hundred lonely housewives

# Clutch empty milk bottles to their hearts

# Hanging out their old love letters on the line to dry

# It's enough to make you stop believing

# When tears come fast and furious In a town called Malice

# Yeah-ah

# Pa pa pa pa, pa-pa pa Pa pa pa pa

# Pa pa pa pa, pa-pa pa, pa pa pa pa

# Struggle after struggle, year after year

# The atmosphere's a fine blend of ice, I'm almost stone cold dead

# In a town called Malice, ooh yeah

# A whole street's belief in Sunday's roast beef

# Gets dashed against the Co-op

# To either cut down on beer or the kids' new gear

# It's a big decision in a town called Malice, ooh yeah

# In a town called Malice, yeah. #

# Beat surrender

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# All the things that I care about

# Are packed into one punch

# All the things that I'm not sure about

# Are sorted out at once

# And as it was in the beginning

# So shall it be in the end

# That bulldozes over It just goes by different names

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# All the things that I shout about

# But never act upon

# All the courage and the dreams that I have

# But seem to wait so long

# My doubt is cast aside

# Watch phonies run to hide

# The dignified don't even enter in the game

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# If you feel there's no passion

# No quality sensation

# Seize the young determination

# Show the fakers you ain't foolin'

# You'll see me come runnin'

# To the sound of your strummin'

# Fill my heart with joy and gladness

# I've lived too long in the shadows of sadness

# My doubt is cast aside Watch phonies run to hide

# The dignified don't even enter in the game

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender

# Come on, boy, come on, girl Succumb to the beat surrender. #

# Your hair hangs in golden steps You're a bonafide in every respect

# You are walking through streets that mean nothing to you

# You believe you're above it and I don't really blame you

# Maybe that's why you speak like a child

# The things you're saying like I'm so free and so wild!

# And I believe it when you look in my eyes

# You offer me a life and never lies

# Least only the kind to make me smile

# Your clothes are clean and your mind is productive

# It shops in store where only the best buy

# You're cool and hard and if I sound like a lecher

# It's probably true But at least there's no lecture

# I really like it when you speak like a child

# The crazy sayings like I'm so free and so wild

# You have to make a bargain with me now

# A promise that you won't change somehow

# No way, no how

# Spent all day thinking about you

# Spent all night coming to terms with it

# Time and conditions are built to tame

# Nothing lasts with age, so people say

# But I will always try to feel the same

# All day thinking about you

# All night coming to terms with it

# Time and conditions are built to tame

# Nothing lasts with age, so people say

# But I will always try to feel the same

# I really like it when you speak like a child

# I really like it when you speak like a child

# The way you hate the homely rank and the file

# The way you're so proud to be oh, so free and so wild

# I really like it when you speak like a child

# I really like it when you speak like a child

# I really like it when you speak like a child

# The way you're so proud to be oh, so free and so wild

# I really like it when you speak like a child

# I really like it when you speak like a child

# I really like it when you speak like a child

# The way you're so proud to be oh, so free and so wild. #

Thank you.

# Mmm

# Daylight turns to moonlight and I'm at my best

# Praising the way it all works gazing upon the rest

# The cool before the warm the calm after the storm

# The cool before the warm the calm after the storm

# I wish to stay forever letting this be my food

# But I'm caught up in a whirlwind and my ever-changing moods

# Bitter turns to sugar, some call a passive tune

# But the day things turn sweet for me won't be too soon

# The hush before the silence The winds after the blast

# The hush before the silence The winds after the blast

# I wish we'd move together, this time the bosses sued

# But we're caught up in the wilderness

# And an ever-changing mood

# Let me tell you now

Ha-ha ya

# Teardrops turn to children who've never had the time

# To commit the sins they pay for through another's evil mind

# The love after the hate The love we leave too late

# The love after the hate The love we leave too late

# I wish we'd wake up one day and everyone feel moved

# But we're caught up in the dailies and an ever-changing mood

# Let me tell you now

# Yeah, hey

# Ah-hah hah

# The cool before the warm The calm after the storm

# The hush before the silence The winds after the blast

# The love after the hate The love we leave too late

# The love after the hate The love we leave too late. #

# You don't have to take this crap

# You don't have to sit back and relax

# You can actually try changing it

# I know we've always been taught to rely

# Upon those in authority

# But you never know until you try

# How things just might be

# If we came together so strongly, yeah

# Are you gonna try to make this work?

# Or spend your days down in the dirt?

# You see things can change, walls can come tumbling down

# Governments crack and systems fall Cos unity is powerful

# Lights go out, walls come tumbling down

# Yes, they do Yes, they do

# The competition is a colour TV

# We're on still pause with the video machine

# That keep you slaves to the HP, yeah

# Until the unity is threatened by

# Those who have and who have not

# Those who are with and those who are without

# And dangle jobs like a donkey's carrot

# Until you don't know where you are

# Are you gonna get to realize

# The class war's real and not mythologized

# And like Jericho walls can come tumbling down

# Governments crack and systems fall

# Cos unity is powerful

# Lights go out, walls come tumbling down

-# Till we're divided

-Down

-# Let us unite it

-Down

-# We're united

-Ooooh

# Are you gonna be threatened by

# The public enemy's number 10?

# Those who play the power game

# They take the profits, you take the blame

# When they tell you there's no rise in pay

# Are you gonna try to make this work?

# Or spend your days down in the dirt?

# You see things can change, walls can come tumbling down

# Governments crack and systems fall

# Cos unity is powerful

# Lights go out walls come tumbling down

# Governments crack and systems fall

# Cos unity is powerful

# Lights go out, walls come tumbling down

# Governments crack and systems fall

# Cos unity is powerful

# Lights go out, walls come tumbling down. #

# Doo, doo-doo, doo doo doo-doo-doo-doo

# Doo, doo-doo, doo doo doo-doo-doo-doo

# Doo, doo-doo, doo doo doo-doo-doo-doo

# Doo, doo-doo, doo doo doo-doo-doo-doo, doooo

# Have you ever chased the night that sailed in front of you?

# On a boat that's bound for hope but left you in the queue

# With your shouting, waving, taunting, flaunting friends as crew

# Telling you that every lie you ever heard was true

# Have you stood upon that dock, have you ever had it blue?

# Ooh-oo

# Doo, doo-doo, doo doo doo-doo-doo-doo

# Doo, doo-doo, doo doo doo-doo-doo-doo

# Doo, doo-doo, doo doo doo-doo-doo-doo

# Doo, doo-doo, doo doo doo-doo-doo-doo, dooo

# Have you ever woke to find the morning didn't come?

# Undelivered with the papers stolen by someone

# Found the milkman bound and gagged and shackles round the sun

# And the holder of the keys turns out to be the one

# The girl you had your heart set on have you ever had it blue?

# Have you ever had it blue?

# Have you ever had it blue?

# Ooh ooh ooh

# Ba doo ba doo ba doo ba

# Ba doo bah doo ba doo ba-yah

# Ba doo ba doo ba doo ba, ba doo ba doo, bah doo ba doo ba-yah

# Have you ever watched the day passing by your door?

# Powerless to change its course, your feet fixed to the floor

# When all the people you thought you knew are changing more and more

# Even the girl you thought would see, seems only to ignore

# The only love worth fighting for, have you ever had it blue?

# Have you ever had it blue?

# Ever had it blue?

# Have you ever had it blue?

# Ever had it blue?

# Have you ever had it blue?

# Have you ever had it blue?

# Have you ever had it blue? #

# I don't care how long this lasts

# We have no future, we have no past

# I write this now while I'm in control

# I'll choose the words and how the melody goes

# Along winding streets we walked hand-in-hand

# And how I long for that sharp wind

# To take my breath away again

# I'd run my fingers through your hair

# Hair like a wheatfield I'd run through

# That I'd run through

# And I miss you so

# I miss you so

# Now you're gone I feel so alone

# Oh oh, I miss you so

# I'd send you a flower, a sunflower bright

# Cos you cloud my days messing up my nights

# And all the way up to the top of your head

# Sun-shower kisses I felt we had

# And I miss you so

# Oh darling I miss you so

# Now you're gone, I feel so alone

# Oh, I said I miss you so

# But I miss you so

# Oh, darling, I miss you so

# Now you're gone, well I feel so alone,

# Oh, I said I miss you so

# All I gotta do is think of you

# And I miss you so

# Baby I'm... I'm afraid to say why

# I miss you so

# Baby I'm...I'm afraid to say why

# Oh, that I miss you so, I do. #

# High tide, mid afternoon

# People fly by in the traffic's boom

# Knowing just where you're blowing

# Getting to where you should be going

# Don't let them get you down

# Making you feel guilty about

# Golden rain will bring you riches

# All the good things you deserve now

# Climbing, forever trying

# Find your way out of the wild, wild wood

# Now there's no justice

# You've only yourself that you can trust in

# And I said high tide, mid afternoon

# People fly by in the traffic's boom

# Knowing just where you're blowing

# Getting to where you should be going

# Day by day your world fades away

# Waiting to feel all the dreams that say

# Golden rain will bring you riches

# All the good things you deserve now

# And I say climbing, forever trying

# You're gonna find your way out of the wild, wild wood

# I said you're gonna find your way out of the wild, wild wood

# Out of the wild, wild wood. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# You do something to me

# Something deep inside

# I'm hanging on the wire

# For a love I'll never find

# You do something wonderful

# Then chase it all away

# Mixing my emotions

# That throws me back again

# Hanging on the wire, yeah

# I'm waiting for the change

# I'm dancing through the fire

# Just to catch a flame, to feel real again

# Hanging on the wire

# I said I'm waiting for the change

# Dancing through the fire

# Just to catch a flame, to feel real again

# You do something to me

# Somewhere deep inside

# I'm hoping to get close to

# A peace I cannot find

# Dancing through the fire, yeah

# Just to catch a flame

# Just to get close to

# Just close enough to tell you that...

# You do something to me

# Something deep inside. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# Is happiness real?

# Or am I so jaded?

# I can't see or feel

# Like a man being tainted

# Numbed by the effect, aware of the muse

# Too in touch with myself, I light the fuse

# I'm the changingman

# I'm built on shifting sands

# Yeah, I'm the changingman

# I'm waiting for the bang

# As I light a bitter fuse, yeah

# My time is on loan

# Only ours to borrow

# What I can't be today

# I can be tomorrow

# And the more I see, the more I know

# The more I know, the less I understand

# I'm the changingman

# Built on shifting sands

# I don't have a plan, I'm the changingman

# I'm waiting for the bang

# As I light a bitter fuse

# It's a bigger part

# When our instincts act

# A shot in the dark

# A movement in black

# The more I see, the more I know

# The more I know, the less I understand

# I'm the changingman

# I'm built on shifting sands

# But I don't have a plan, I'm the changingman

# I'm waiting for the bang

# As I light a bitter fuse, yeah

# Changingman

# I'm waiting for the bang

# As I light a bitter fuse

# I'm the changingman

# I'm a changingman. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# A police car and a screaming siren

# Pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete

# A baby wailing, a stray dog howling

# The screech of brakes and lamp light blinking

# That's entertainment

# That's entertainment

# A smash of glass and rumble of boots

# An electric train and a ripped up phone booth

# Paint splattered walls and the cry of a tomcat

# That's going out and a kick in the balls

# I say that's entertainment

# That's entertainment

# Sha la la la la

# Sha la la la la

# Sha la la la la

# Sha la la la la

# Days of speed and slow time Monday

# Pissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday

# Watching the news and not eating your tea

# A freezing cold flat and damp on the walls

# I say that's entertainment

# That's entertainment

# Waking up at 6am on a cool warm morning

# Opening the windows and breathing in petrol

# An amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard

# Watching your telly and thinking about your holidays

# That's entertainment

# That's entertainment

# Sha la la la la

# Sha la la la la

# Sha la la la la

# Sha la la la la

# Waking up from bad dreams and smoking cigarettes

# Cuddling a warm girl and smelling stale perfume

# A hot summer's day and sticky black tarmac

# Feeding ducks in the park and wishing you were far away

# That's entertainment

# That's entertainment

# Two lovers kissing amongst the scream of midnight

# Two lovers missing the tranquillity of solitude

# Getting a cab and travelling on buses

# Reading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs

# I say that's entertainment

# That's entertainment

# Sha la la la la

# Sha la la la la

# Sha la la la la

# Sha la la la la. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# I've got a feeling from the floorboards up

# Call it a calling if you like that touch

# Call it what you will I really don't care too much

# I've got a feeling and I know it's right

# I get it most evenings if not every night

# It sings in the air and dances like candlelight

# When we play, we play, we play Mama, from the floorboards up

# When we dance, we dance, we dance Papa, from the floorboards up

# When we sway, we sway, we sway from the floorboards up

# From the floorboards up

# I get a feeling from the walls and chairs

# They tell me of the things that have always been there

# And all that is not will have to go back to dust

# When we play, we play, we play Mama, from the floorboards up

# When we dance, we dance, we dance

# Papa, from the floorboards up

# When we sway, we sway as one from the floorboards up

# From the floorboards up

# I've got a feeling and I know it's right

# I get it most evenings if not every night

# It sings in the air and dances like candlelight

# When we play, we play, we play Mama, from the floorboards up

# When we dance, we dance, we dance Daddy, from the floorboards up

# When we sway, we sway, we sway from the floorboards up

# From the floorboards up

# From the floorboards up. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Build your dreams

# To stars above

# But when you need someone to love

# Don't go to strangers

# My darling come to me

# Play with fire

# Get your fingers burned

# But when you got no place to turn

# Don't go to strangers

# My darling, come to me

# When you hear that call to follow your heart

# You'll follow your heart, I know

# I've been through it all I'm an old hand

# And I'll understand if you go

# So make your mark

# For your friends to see

# But when you need more than company

# Don't go to strangers

# My darling come to me... #

Jacko Peake on saxophone.

# When you hear that call

# To follow your You'll follow your heart, I know

# I've been through it all

# So I understand I understand if you go

# Oh, oh, ohhh

# So make your mark

# For your friends to see

# But when, when you need company

# Don't go to strangers

# My darling come to me. #

APPLAUSE

Amy Winehouse!

# Take her by the sun bath

# I can no longer see it clear

# All day long I'm lonely

# Waiting by my phone to hear you call

# Baby come home

# Round and round and round I go

# Lounging round this town you know

# Come on, hanging on this waterfall

# What it shows I just don't know

# Baby come home

# Round and round and round we go

# Lounging round this town you know

# Oh come on

# Hanging on this waterfall

# What it shows I just don't know

# Baby come home

# I fall into the ashes

# Crash back through the attic at home

# Baby come home

# Baby come home

# Baby come home

# Waiting for your only

# Waiting for your only

# Waiting for your only

# Waiting for your only

# Waiting for your only

# Waiting for your only. #

APPLAUSE

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