Episode 2 Singer-Songwriters at the BBC

# It's a lesson too late for the learning

# Made of sand

# Made of sand

# In the wink of an eye my soul is turning

# In your hand

# In your hand

# Are you going away with no word of farewell?

# Will there be not a trace left behind?

# Well, I could've loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind

# You know that was the last thing on my mind

# You've got reasons a-plenty for going

# This I know, this I know

# For the weeds have been steadily growing

# Please don't go, please don't go

# Are you going away with no word of farewell?

# Will there be not a trace left behind?

# Well, I could've loved you better

# Didn't mean to be unkind

# You know that was the last thing on my mind

# As I lie in my bed in the morning

# Without you, without you

# Each song in my breast dies a bornin'

# Without you

# Without you

# Are you going away with no word of farewell?

# Will there be not a trace left behind?

# Well, I could've loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind

# You know that was the last thing on my mind

# That was the last thing on my mind. #

APPLAUSE

# In the early morning rain

# With a dollar in my hand

# With an aching in my heart

# And my pockets full of sand

# I'm a long way from home

# Lord, I miss my loved one so

# In the early morning rain

# With no place to go

# Out on a runaway number nine

# Big 707 set to go

# And I'm stuck here on the grass

# Where the pavement never grows

# Now the liquor tasted good

# And those women all were fast

# Well, there she goes, my friend

# Well, she's rollin' down at last

# Hear the mighty engine roar

# See the silver wing on high

# She's away and westward bound

# Far above the clouds she'll fly

# Where the morning rain don't fall

# And the sun always shines

# She'll be flying o'er my home

# In about three hours' time

# This old airport's got me down

# It's no earthly good to me

# And I'm stuck here on the ground

# As cold and drunk as I can be

# You can't jump a jet plane

# Like you can a freight train

# So I'd best be on my way

# In the early morning rain

You can't jump a jet plane

# Like you can a freight train

# So I'd best be on my way

# In the early morning rain. #

APPLAUSE

# Well, in 1941 a happy father had a son

# And by 1944, the father walked right out the door

# And in '45, the mum and son were still alive

# But who could tell in '46 if the two were to survive?

# The years went passing quickly

# But not fast enough for him

# So he closed his eyes till '55

# Then he opened them up again

# When he looked around, he saw a clown

# The clown seemed very gay

# And he said, "I'd like to join the circus, clown, and run away"

# Doh, doh, doh

# La di-di, la-da-da-da, da da-dum-da

# Oh, no, la di-di

# La-da-da-da, da-dum-di

# Da-dum da da-da-da-da

# Da-dum da da-da da

# Da-da da-da da-da da-da

# Da doo-doo-doo-da da

# Do-do-do, da-da-da, do-do-do

# Well, he followed every railroad track and every highway sign

# And he had a girl in each new town, and the towns he'd left behind

# And the open road was the only road he knew

# But the colour of his dream was slowly turning into blue

# Then he met a girl, the kind of girl he'd wanted all his life

# She was soft and kind and good to him

# So he took her for his wife

# And then they got a house not far from town

# And in a little while

# The girl had seen the doctor

# And she came home with a smile

# Now in 1961 a happy father had a son

# And by 1964 the father walks right out the door

# And in '65, the mum and son were still around

# But what will happen to the boy

# When the circus comes to town?

# Do do-do

# Do do-do do-do-do... #

# Late again

# When I get home

# You'll be waiting

# Still you know

# There ain't no use

# In you complaining

# I know that I

# Can show some respect

# Especially when I'm wrong

# But when I get back

# I know you'll say

# You've been away too long

# Ooh, ooh

# I wonder why I stay

# When everybody's gone

# Yeah

# There's always something there

# It keeps me hanging on

# La la la la

# I wonder why I stay

# When everybody's gone

# Away

# There's always something there

# Keeps me hanging on

# I know that I

# Could show some respect

# Especially when I'm wrong

# Late again

# When I get home

# You'll be waiting. #

# All my bags are packed

# I'm ready to go

# I'm standing here

# Outside the door

# I hate to wake you up to say goodbye

# But the dawn is breaking, it's early morn

# Taxi's waiting he's blowing his horn

# Already I'm so lonesome I could die

# So kiss me and smile for me

# Tell me that you'll wait for me

# Hold me like you'll let me go

# Cos I'm leaving on a jet plane

# Don't know when I'll be back again

# Oh, babe, I hate to go

# There's so many times I let you down

# So many times I played around

# I tell you now they don't mean a thing

# Every place I go, I'll think of you

# Every song I sing I'll sing for you

# When I come back I'll bring your wedding ring

# So kiss me and smile for me

# Tell me that you'll wait for me

# Hold me like you'll never let me go

# Cos I'm leaving on a jet plane

# Don't know when I'll be back again

# Oh, babe, I hate to go

# Now the time's come to leave you

# One more time

# Let me kiss you

# Close your eyes

# I'll be on my way

# Dream about the days to come

# When I won't have to leave alone

# About the times, I won't have to say. #

Why don't you folks sing with me?

AUDIENCE SING ALONG: # Kiss me and smile for me

# Tell me that you'll wait for me

# Hold me like you'll never let me go

# Cos I'm leaving on a jet plane

# Don't know when I'll be back again

# Oh, babe, I hate to go

# I'm leaving on a jet plane

# Don't know when I'll be back again

# Oh, babe

# I hate to go-o-o-o. #

APPLAUSE

# Ooh

# Doo, doo, doo

# Hey, hey, hey

# Have you ever ridden horses through a rainstorm?

# Or a lion through a bazaar?

# Get your wish and, lady, compassion

# But somehow I feel they're safer where they are

# Well, some people are inbound with infatuation

# Said no-one can be deceived they want me to believe in laws

# Won't you take it away?

# Lord, yeah, brother, Lord

# Yeah you find just where it was

# And where it's going to fall

# Yeah, there's a man I know

# With no expression

# Seems that everybody says it all

# Say, the man

# Mmm, at all

# No expression

# Hey, look at his face just fall

# One day, out on some other city

# See a different kind passing

# This man lays about

# There's the ones that got too far

# And the ones that they might be bringing

# Stop and sigh, makes it easy, cry

# And they're shocked to see

# That he just ain't really breathing

# See it and you just walk by

# How can you be that man?

# Every expression

# On his face will fall

# Ooh, ah, that man, he'll fall

# Take no expression

# Lift it up so high

# Ooh, yeah

# There may be one part that can leave him ringing

# And you know that this distance is there to follow

# May not be gone and this time with that imagination

# And you feel that every town you visit

# Anybody may go there at all

# So many do that too

# No expression, ain't nothing at all

# He's getting this at last

# There ain't no other place to fall

# Did you talk to that man?

# No, no

# With no expression

# Said that he ain't got none at all

# Wow, yeah. #

I have many favourite singers, and this guy's one of them.

Bill Withers.

APPLAUSE

# Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

# It's not warm when she's away

# Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

# She's always gone too long

# Any time she goes away

# Wonder this time where she's gone

# Wonder if she's going to stay

# Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

# And this house just ain't no home

# Any time she goes away

# I know, I know, I know, I know

# I know, I know, I know, I know

# I know, I know, I know, I know I know, I know

# I know, I know, I know, I know

# I know, I know, I know, I know

# I know, I know, I know, I know

# I know I'll leave the young thing alone

# But ain't no sunshine when she's gone

# Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

# Only darkness every day

# Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

# This house just ain't no home

# Any time she goes away

# Any time she goes away

# Any time she goes away-y-y. #

APPLAUSE

# How come when I cut the ace of hearts

# You always draw the ace of spades

# And how's it when your best friend

# Brings you lilies on your birthday?

# How come?

# How come?

# Well, I ain't superstitious

# But these things I've seen

# How come? How come?

# I ain't a superstitious fella but it worries me

# How come when the local clergy calls

# He tells me that you shouldn't wear black?

# What kind of bread are you going to bake

# With that hemlock in your spice rack?

# How come? How come?

# Well, I ain't superstitious but these things I've seen

# How come? How come?

# I ain't a superstitious fella but it worries me

# Spider ran, the cobwebs gone

# Did you eat it when the moon was new?

# I drowned your cat, what do you say to that?

# I've even broken up your broom

# How come? How come?

# Well, I ain't superstitious, but these things I've seen

# How come? How come?

# I ain't a superstitious fella but it worries me

# How come? How come?

# Well, I ain't superstitious but these things I've seen

# How come? How come?

# I ain't a superstitious fella but it worries me. #

APPLAUSE

# Coldwater, coldwater canyon

# He said he wanted to know her

# He had this place in the canyon

# He said he wanted to show her

# Coldwater, coldwater canyon

# He said in a dulcet tone

# Let's go to my place in the canyon

# Where we can be alone

# Well, he had a bed that was covered with tiger skin

# It was a non-ecological scene

# And she felt so scared cos its teeth were bared

# And its smile was righteously mean

# He had a water mattress and a vibrating pillow

# Designed for decreasing the tension

# He had a stereo set in the headboard yet

# And it was featuring the fifth dimension

# High in a nook on the opposite wall

# Disguised in a driftwood frame

# Compatible colour TV tuned to channel three

# Showing Hunchback Of Notre Dame

# And a huge aquarium with neon lights

# She was quite taken back by the sharks

# And a Mynah bird that she distinctly heard

# Making absolutely rude remarks

# Coldwater, coldwater canyon

# He said he wanted to know her

# He had this place in the canyon

# He said he wanted to show her

# Coldwater, coldwater canyon

# He said in a dulcet tone

# Let's go to my place in the canyon

# Where we can be alone

# Well, ain't it great, he said, to be all alone?

# Oh, it's a young girl graduate's wish

# But then the room went blank

# When she looked at the tank

# And saw a fish eat another fish

# And the hunchback rang those Notre Dame bells

# And the bird yelled something risque

# About balloon ascension while the fifth dimension

# Rendered up, up, up, up, up, up up and away

# He had his headphones on and he was getting it off

# He had an amy popper in his nose

# So he never did see her leave the room

# He never did hear the screen door close

# And she ran, ran wild like a paranoid child

# And nothing was aware of her flight

# Except the eye of the sleeping sky

# And the ear of the infinite still and silent night

# Coldwater, coldwater canyon

# Poor baby, she should have known

# Coldwater, coldwater canyon

# You got no grace if you go no place

# To be alone. #

Yeah!

# See the curtains hanging in the window

# In the evening on a Friday night

# A little light a-shining through the window

# Lets me know everything's all right

# Summer breeze makes me feel fine

# Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

# Summer breeze makes me feel fine

# Blowing though the jasmine in my mind

# See the paving laying on the sidewalk

# A little music from the house next door

# So I walk on up to the doorstep

# Through the screen and across the floor

# Summer breeze makes me feel fine

# Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

# Summer breeze makes me feel fine

# Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

# Sweet days of summer, the jasmine's in bloom

# July is dressed up and playing her tune

# And I come home from a hard day's work

# And you're waiting there

# Not a care in the world

# See the smile awaiting in the kitchen

# Food's cooking and a place for two

# Feel the arms that reach out to hold me

# In the evening when the day is through

# Summer breeze makes me feel fine

# Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

# O-oh

# Summer breeze makes me feel fine

# Blowing through the jasmine in my mind. #

# Where your love is, put your heart

# Guard these moments well

# Where your dreams are put your hopes

# You know they will not fail you

# When the sun rises in the morning

# You will wake up and find her yawning

# When the wind blows strong and cold

# She'll be with you until you grow old

# Where your love is, put your heart

# Oh, what would you do if your dreams came true?

# I would build a lovely house

# With satin green shutters

# It would be lovely

# The most lovely house in the world

# And I would sing a lovely song

# With you in my mind and you in my eyes

# The most lovely song in the world

# I would write it down on the wall

# Just for you, just for you

# And I would hold you in my arms

# For the rest of my days

# When you're sad and feeling low

# You're on your own with nowhere to go,

# Make believe that she is gone

# Play your guitar and write a song for her

# Write down the words about how you cried

# When you woke up weeping cos you thought that she'd died

# And you heard her breathing through your pain

# And you held her close and cried all over again

# Where your love is, put your heart

# Oh, what would you do if your dreams came true?

# And inside my lovely house

# With satin green shutters

# There would be children

# The most lovely children in the world

# And even when the skies are grey

# We would be happy

# For we have love

# The most lovely love in the world

# I would write it down on the wind

# Just for you

# Just for you

# And I would hold you in my arms

# For the rest of my days. #

# Clearing skies and drying eyes

# Now I see you smile

# All my sadness goes

# And your softness shows me

# A changing style

# Just in time

# Your words, they rhyme

# Well, bless your soul

# Now I'll fill your hands

# With my kisses and a Tootsie Roll

# Oh, reality

# You know it's not for me

# And it makes me laugh

# Oh, fantasy world

# And those Disney girls

# Guess I'm coming back

# Patti Page and those summer days

# Out on old Cape Cod

# All those happy times making home-made wine

# Down my garage

# I remember country shade and sipping lemonade

# I guess I'm slowing down

# You know it be a turned back world

# With a local girl

# In a smaller town

# Oh, those open cars

# And those clearer stars

# Oh, those soft laughs of yours

# But fantasy world

# And those Disney girls

# Guess I'm coming back

# Love!

# Hi, Rick and Dave, Hi, Pop

# Well, good morning, Mom

# Love

# Get up, guess what?

# Did you know that I'm in love with a girl I found

# And she's really swell cos she likes church

# Bingo chances

# And all those old-time dances

# All my life

# Did you know that I spent the nights

# With my dreams of you?

# And the warmth I missed

# And for all those things that I wished for

# Now they're all coming true

# I've got some love to give

# And a little place to live

# I guess I'm gonna stay

# It'd be a perfect life

# With my forever wife

# And a little kid someday

# Oh, we'd all have some early nights

# And some pillow fights

# And your soft laugh

# Fantasy world

# And my Disney girls

# Guess I'm coming back

# O-o-oh

# Do-day

# Do-do-do, do-do-dee-dee

# Dee-dee, dee-dee-day

# Da-da, da-da

# Da-da, da-da-da

# Dee, dee-dee-dee

# Do, dee-dee-dee

# Do-do-dee

# Dee-dee, dee-dee-dee

# Dee-dee, dee-dee-dee

# Dee, dee-dee-dee... #

HE WHISTLES

# Da-da, da-a

# A-ah. #

And from one of my records of the week

to one of my artists of the week,

this week's breakfast show artist of the week,

Sutherland Brothers and Quiver,

and a beautiful number, very successful indeed.

They're about to sink rather seductively into the arms of Mary.

# The lights shine down the valley

# And the wind blows up the alley

# Oh, and I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary

# She took the pains of boyhood

# And turned them into feel good

# Oh, how I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary

# Mary was the girl who taught me all I had to know

# She put me right on my first mistake

# Summer wasn't gone when I learned all she had to show

# She really gave all a boy could take

# Woah

# So now when I get lonely

# Still looking for the one and only

# That's when I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary

# Mary was the girl who taught me all I had to know

# She put me right on my first mistake

# Summer wasn't gone when I learned all she had to show

# She really gave all a boy could take

# The lights shine down the valley

# And the wind blows up the alley

# Oh, and I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary

# Ooh, lying in the arms of Mary

# Mm, lying in the arms of Mary

# Ooh-ooh-ooh

# Oh, I wish I was

# Yeah! #

APPLAUSE

# I'm gonna step out of emotion

# Break events that bring me down

# I'm so uncertain

# But it's my fault for letting you distract me

# It's trouble now

# I'm on the edge

# Stepping out Stepping out

# Right out of devotion

# Stepping into life Oh, yeah

# I don't want no contradiction

# Your navigation's gone haywire

# Your little arrow

# Oh, it's missed my heart by miles

# You better hide

# Your self-satisfied smile

# Cos I'm stepping out Stepping out

# Right out of commotion

# Stepping into life

# Stepping into life Oh, yeah

# Stepping out Stepping out

# Stepping out

# Right out of commotion

# Stepping into life

# Stepping into life Oh, yeah

# I'm gonna give myself promotion

# Award myself a great big star

# I'm not so certain

# That I won't make that star a crown

# Woah, I'm free

# And I'm alone with me

# Stepping out

# Right out of commotion

# Stepping into life

# Stepping into life Oh, yeah

# Stepping out Stepping out

# Stepping out

# Stepping into life Oh, yeah

# Stepping out Stepping out

# Stepping out. #

# She can kill with a smile She can wound with her eyes

# And she can ruin your faith With her casual lies

# And she only reveals What she wants you to see

# And she hides like a child But she's always a woman to me

# She can lead you to love She can take you or leave you

# She can ask for the truth But she'll never believe you

# And she'll take what you give her As long as it's free

# She steals like a thief But she's always a woman to me

# Oh, she takes care of herself

# She can wait if she wants

# She's ahead of her time

# Oh, and she never gives out

# And she never gives in

# She just changes her mind

# And she'll promise you more Than the Garden of Eden

# And she'll carelessly cut you And laugh while you're bleeding

# But she'll bring out the best And the worst you can be

# Blame it all on yourself Cos she's always a woman to me... #

HE HUMS

# Oh, she takes care of herself

# She can wait if she wants

# She's ahead of her time

# Oh, and she never gives out

# And she never gives in

# She just changes her mind

# She's frequently kind And she's suddenly cruel

# But she can do as she pleases She's nobody's fool

# And she can't be convicted She's earned her degree

# And the most she will do Is throw shadows at you

# But she's always a woman to me. #

HE HUMS

# Every night I just wanna go out Get out of my head

# Every day I don't want to get up Get out of my bed

# Every night I want to play out

# Every day I want to do, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

# But tonight I just want to stay in And be with you, you

# And be with you... #

SHE VOCALISES

# Every day I lean on a lamppost I'm wasting my time

# Every night I lay on a pillow I'm resting my mind

# Every morning brings a new day

# Every night that day is through ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

# But tonight I just wanna stay in And be with you

# Hey, and be with you

# Yeah! #

SHE VOCALISES

# Yeah

# But tonight I just wanna stay in And be with you

# Woah, and be with you

# Yeah! #

SHE VOCALISES

# Every night! #

APPLAUSE

# Oh, I can't take another heartache

# Though you say you're my friend I'm at my wits' end

# You say your love is bona fide

# But that don't coincide

# With the things that you do

# And when I ask you to be nice You say

# You gotta be cruel to be kind In the right measure

# Cruel to be kind It's a very good sign

# Cruel to be kind Means that I love you

-# Baby

-# You gotta be cruel

# You gotta be cruel to be kind

# Well, I do my best to understand, dear

# But you still mystify And I wanna know why

# I pick myself up off the ground

# To have you knock me back down

# Again and again

# And when I ask you to explain You say

# You gotta be cruel to be kind In the right measure

# Cruel to be kind It's a very good sign

# Cruel to be kind Means that I love you

-# Baby

-# You gotta be cruel

# You gotta be cruel to be kind

# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh!

# Well, I do my best to understand, dear

# But you still mystify And I wanna know why

# I pick myself up off the ground

# To have you knock me back down

# Again and again

# And when I ask you to explain You say

# You gotta be cruel to be kind In the right measure

# Cruel to be kind It's a very good sign

# Cruel to be kind Means that I love you

-# Baby

-# You gotta be cruel

# You gotta be cruel to be kind

-# Cruel to be kind

-# Oh, in the right measure

-# Cruel to be kind

-# It's a very, very, very good sign

-# Cruel to be kind

-# It means that I love you

-# Baby

-# You gotta be cruel

# You gotta be cruel to be kind

-# Cruel to be kind

-# Oh, in the right measure

-# Cruel to be kind

-# Yes, it's a very very, very good sign

-# Cruel to be kind

-# It means that I love you

-# Baby

-# You gotta be cruel

# You gotta be cruel to be kind

-# Cruel to be kind

-# Oh, in the right measure... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE