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Favours

by Let's Planet

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1.
Favours 03:30
So you finally made your decision, born from under the table Though I don't claim to have your vision I hope (for your sake) it's the right one Now you're on your own and not too sure you want to be So you call up a heart politician and ask for one little favour She sends you overeas on a mission, sentences you to hard labour Now you're unattached and not too sure you want to be You want to cut the cord, you want it all but don't ask for favours When it hurts you to ask for anything And it hurts you to leave behind everything You think it's an easy slide? It's all uphill from here This is nothing (it's just the start) Don't ask for favours And it hurts you to ask for anything And it hurts you to leave behind everything
2.
26 years (or maybe it's 7?) ... the time rolls fast and I haven't even sent you a call Well I meant to write you a card today But my memory lapsed when I thought how I used to say "Don't wait up for me" You lived your life through bedroom schemes, travel catalogues and magazines As you sit in your silence and stare through the smoke haze Don't wait up for me So you spent 3 years with an ice-cream man Knows nothing of love or the glorious plans that wait And you watch from your car as the world slips by Still fantasizing going to America Don't wait up for me 'Cause you won't see me much in your town No more whispered phone calls in dressing gowns in the dead of the night when you're out of love and lonely Don't wait up for me
3.
I have this dream many times I call out names, I'm calling out names in my sleep And I'm running over foreign ground They shoot me down, lay me out, ask a lot of questions And I feel cold and out of place I'm in this room without doors There's figures all around, a lot of men in uniform it seems Their eyes are flashing, one another taking notes Another world ... I'm intruding, I'm the stranger I'm the alien I'm the stranger here And I feel cold I'm out of place, I'm out of touch I really don't know anything They probably think that I'm American They would be so wrong
4.
See me as I am and I am as you see me A time ago this would not have been me A time ago when strangers met And met again before a lesson learned I thought the way was set, that roads ran straight and corners turned You laid a bet that I'd get my fingers burned You knew I had to learn I had to hurt again before a lesson learned You knew me well, we've talked a thousand times But still times have changed And we talk but our lives have re-arranged
5.
Big Blow 03:30
There's a big sea running, waves break all over the wall I watch the seagulls hang-gliding, facing into a northerly squall And I button up my coat, tread the wooden steps down to the shore I shout into the wind, take your letter and read it once more These kind of times ... Battle elements and find it's a big blow when you can't decide This type of scene that you've walked through in your dreams It's a big blow every way you turn Big blow I live by the waterfront, I watch the tugs go back and forth They're taking out the line, container ship arrives from up north I'm thinking of your words, trying to read between the lines As I jump down to the beach the sands whips into my eyes
6.
See you listening, zeroing in You don't like what you hear Can you feel it? Will you change it? Or will you keep on talking, talking? To drown out this loud silence Can't stand to be on your own Who's that in the mirror? You know you are always looking Always looking for ...
7.
Was down by the docks, sea-mist was swirling in Our breath sending out smoke signals in the cold night air And I'm standing still, I'm feeling shaky and slim She speaks of opportunity, says "Everyone has a price" And I ask about chances missed and ask "Will they ever come, will they?" She said "Love can be oceans away, it can be in your backyard" "Love can leave you hungry and thin Or it can hide on a mountain road" There is no time that is not right A day is a day is a night etc and you can conjour up And live your wildest dreams or sleep with the light on There is no time There is no time that is not right
8.
The Only One 02:46
Look at him waiting for her Look at her waiting for him Doesn't he know she will never see? Doesn't he see he will never be the one she loves? Look at him aching for her Look at her faking for him
9.
Disappearing 03:42
After reading old history books The pupils never seeem to learn We've all gone out to play Haven't got a teacher We are disappearing Stay inside from the rain See - it makes the trees burn Men playing powerful game With a medicine that doesn't work We are disappearing, slowly disappearing Inside the houses and in the desert In the motor cars and in the cities We are throwing all life out the windows and doors When the lights all go down on the politics of love We start disappearing, slowly disappearing Talking with generations Speaking with survivors They all want the message out And it's written on their t-shirts We are disappearing, slowly disappearing And on the airlines and in the prisons In the stadiums and on television
10.
I'm in the room and then you walk in Don't you know there's nothing to say at all? Any wonder ... I'm so tired of petty talking, so tired of these conversations Any wonder ... Safe on the ground You don't want or seem to notice Ignorance is really no bliss at all Any wonder, that? I never had a penny in the safe I never had a reason to be where you are Safe on the ground
11.
Blood Of One 03:58
The blood of one A taste of fear A pale white face Living under the shelter of a nuke umbrella Trying hard to see through the cruel black haze Hi ho, take cover in an open silo Take a last quick look before she blows The blood of one (the blood of some) A taste of fear (in hearts so numb) A pale white face (the cruel sun) Living in the shelter of these islands Trying hard to see above the waves Hi ho, don't you love it in paradise? Take a last quick look before she fades ...

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The debut album, released on Pagan Records in November 1990.

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released November 1, 1990

Alan Galloway: vocals and guitars
Ben Stewart: guitars and vocals
Caroline Easther: vocals, drums, viola, percussion
Helen Cairney: keyboards
Murray Costello: bass

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