Return to Malibu - Lyrics

REAL AMOUR click for Real Audio

 

1. Tonight we all slip out of stream

Danny looks right, Patty looks right

They copied from a magazine

The stuff was tailor-made

But it never fitted anyway

And when it all came away

We laughed like a drain

And it was real amour

Lights out on the second floor

And we were really gone

We jumped right overboard

Yes we were really gone

For just one moment of our own

2. Looking at the handbags, take a little drag

Staying out of the light that's green

Danny said "Isn't that the girl?"

"Yes", I said - I don't need a go-between

She knows we know

And all her friends know it too

We don't need a tarot

To say it's just me and it's you

 

3. We got a ride in Ken and Betty's car

And Kenny shook his furry dice

And Patty took us down the Rock Lobster bar

And Betty had hers with rice

Everybody split the tab

And Danny left his magazine

Patty took a radio cab

And I watched it on TV

Just like real amour

Lights out on the second floor

And they were really gone

They jumped right overboard

Yes they were really gone

For just one moment of our own

 

SALLY IS DAMN GOOD NOW click for Real Audio

Sally took my last words into the night

Thought I saw emotion stopped in the half-light

Stopped in the half-light, Sally's there shining bright

I should've known you never hold hands with a jewel

She'll take you for a fool

As she marches another boy, fast toy

All around the pool that I'm crying into

Thought we were strangers in love

Perfect strangers

Trying to arrange for a love

To invade us

All around the world

People say the word

Falling for the girl

And coming out and saying it first

I could feel the moment slip out of my hands

People tell me Sally's started living in London now

I can feel my fingers touch the dial

Trying to touch that smile

And bring it back somehow

People say she cut a dash standing in the hall

Walking to the door on the arm of an American boy with a new toy

And a big American car

She was a stranger to love

Perfect stranger

Just re-arranging for love

To evade her

All around the world

People say their love is true

But I just found a girl

Who couldn't say it too

Just another nearly-made-it filed away

SOLO

All around the world

People say the word

Falling for the girl

And coming out and saying it first

All around the world

People tell me Sally's damn good now

And in another world

I made it come true

WHAT LOVE CAN BRING Version 1

Out on the street tonight

Wish I had another love song

To sing tonight

After all it took me so long

For the time of my life

It was too easy walking

Just holding hands

Easy just talking avoiding your eyes

There must be another song

Another song I could sing

Bring words and music to me

And I'll show you love

Let you know, let it show

Show you what love can bring

The thin line of smoke from my cigarette

Writes all the words we should've shared

Before they break up and drift away

Reaching out further than I could

Calling to you like I never would

There must be another song

Yes there's another song I can sing

Bring words and music to me

And I'll show you love

Let you know, let it show

Show you what love can bring

SOLO

For the million years I live tonight

I will dream another

Dream of light

I see the arms reach from our sides

Lips touching lips and eyes touching eyes

And I sing a different song

I sing the song that lovers sing

My words and music fill me

And show me the love

That I show you that I can bring

I'll show you what love can bring

[With a different song]

I'll show you what love can bring

[Had it inside all along]

I'll show you what love can bring

 

WHAT LOVE CAN BRING Version 2

Walking the street I only repeated the words

I should've said while I could be heard

It was too easy just holding hands while your eyes

Told me it could never survive

There must be another song

Another song I could sing

Bring words and music to me

And I'll show you love

I'll show you what love can bring

The thin line of smoke from my cigarette

Writes all the words we should've shared

Reaching out further than I ever could

Calling to you like I never would

There must be another song

Yes there's another song I can sing

Bring words and music to me

And I'll show you love

I'll show you what love can bring

SOLO

 

For the million years I live tonight

I will dream another

Dream of light

I see the arms reach from our sides

Lips touching lips and eyes touching eyes

And I sing a different song

I sing the song that lovers sing

My words and music fill me

And show me the love

That I show you that I can bring

I'll show you what love can bring

[With a different song]

I'll show you what love can bring

[Had it inside all along]

I'll show you what love can bring

 

WHERE IS FAY?

 

In the half-light telling me vaguely she's heaven sent

Looking like nothing but just a little more than the minimum content

Asking me to take a little step to the left of my better judgment

(They) all got turned over like

So many playing cards

Can't hold, they just fold

They just fall apart

Somebody told me I

Could lose my way tonight

I cried it's one-sided

Shooting at 'em from both sides

Where is Fay?

She feels like light years away

And it was only a day

Before I stepped on the plane

 

 

On the rack just listening to the soundtrack, uninspired

This could be love or I could be just hot-wired

Like a loco, thinking in slow-mo, wheels on fire

Can't even use my ticket, it just expired

I let the time go by

Bye mister, goodnight

I left my ticket and my clean shirt on the outside

I just got taken there

I lost my reservation

I came without a gun

And I was shot by both sides

Where is Fay?

She feels like light years away

And it was only a day

Before I stepped on the plane

 

LA LA LA

J'ai besoin de quelqu 'un

Besoin de paillason

Si on va faire la bringue, fais la noce, fais la nouba

Voila le m'as-tu-vu

Comme il est bien foutu

Pas comme ci, fais comme ca

On peut faire la foire, la bomboula

I hear you talking

I hear you shout about it

I see the light flash in your eyes

I mean that walking

I can't get by without it

Let it take us over tonight

Let my arms hold you tight

Let's go faster than light

Say goodbye to the world

Let's get out of control

Entre tes bras

J'ai le béguin pour toi

La danse et la chanson

Un amour de rencontre

It took us over tonight

 

SOLO

Now stop that talking

I can't make out that inflection

I say the whole thing's out of sight

And let's stop stalling

Take a step in my direction

It'll take us over tonight

Let my arms hold you tight

Let's go faster than light

Say goodbye to the world

Let's get out of control

Entre tes bras

J'ai le béguin pour toi

La danse et la chanson

Un amour de rencontre

It took us over tonight

 

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE

1. I look outside - wish I could look inside

Wish I could be the one

Jump out of line, step out of time

If I could make it I might try

The radio tracks me down

And it's almost yesterday

Conspiring to break my heart

And I just can't get away

I thought I heard the tower of pictures and words

But they can't say nothing at all

I'm alive in the city branded with eyes

To watch me a thousand times over

You got it made if you can capture the woman in shades

And tell her it's not like that at all

She wouldn't smile between the sand and the ice

If she ever stepped out into this side of paradise

2. Standing under I look up and wonder if I could be the one

Rain in my eyes, wish I was holding her hand in the sun

The stones, the plastic skin and bones

They speak to me every day

"If I can't take your heart

I'll just take your life away"

Why don't you come dancing out of the walls

And boxes and paper parades

Can you wait 'till the streetlight touches the nerve

And breaks up the folded arms

I wanna start, I wanna tear that woman apart

Lay her naked across the street

See what she's got to say

She wouldn't smile between the sand and the ice

If she ever stepped out into this side of paradise

Didn't want to tell the difference

Didn't want to know

Didn't want to let my picture show

We could've been home by now

We could've been

We could've been home

SOLO

Why don't you come dancing out of the walls

And boxes and paper parades

Can you wait 'till the streetlight touches the nerve

And breaks up the folded arms

I wanna start, I wanna tear that woman apart

Lay her naked across the street

See what she's got to say

She wouldn't smile between the sand and the ice

If she ever stepped out into this side of paradise

VENUS IN MUFTI

Got my description on the classified, pre-paid

Looking for a four-string girl or a Japanese

Now I can't understand

Why they didn't come falling out of trees

I don't want a photograph

Or your CV

Or your guarantee

Oh - it's only you and only me

Be my Venus, my Venus in mufti

Be my Venus, my Venus in mufti

Be my Venus, my Venus in mufti, mufti

Yeah - ooh, ooh, ooh

GUITAR BREAK [1]

 

 

I'm in double vision wishing I could tell you that it's you

But the words won't - but the words won't

Still I can't understand

What I meant when I said it was a run-through

I just want to see white lines

Lips touching lips and tired eyes

We're taking the long way round

Still not in town

BREAK

Oh -

Take me out of this loneliness

Take me out of this lo -

GUITAR BREAK [2]

Be my Venus, my Venus in mufti

Be my Venus, my Venus in mufti

Be my Venus, my Venus in mufti, mufti

Yeah - ooh, ooh, ooh

 

MURDERS

 

This is my shotgun seranade

It's a song about pills and lemonade

And the fire-line firing pin people

In the hair-trigger shaky shade

Now now poor crazy Lee

And he lived so close that he couldn't see

And they took him away to make him happy

And he ran away free

But he fell down the stairs

And he tilted his head

Now he's drunk in a warehouse

With his fingers all red

Let's go where the criminals go

And we can do murders

And no-one will know

Let's go where the criminals go

And we can do murders

And no-one will know

 

ONLY THE LIGHTS STILL SHINE

 

She said "You know it might be him" - well, maybe

I'm looking at you look at me strangely

Looking for a look or a sign

Oh - he always talked at me so coldly

Now he's trying to be the one and only

Doing it all like there might not be a next time

Someone said it's just a game, boy

No, it really can't be you

Playing with a little time before you lose

Well I'm staying just a little insane, boy

I know it's too good to be true

Look me in the eye - say you don't want it too

Only the lights still shine bright in the night

It's just the same in the room with my name

 

I can find myself a mystery lady

But she can never call me baby

Cos I can only sing her the lines

I get it one way or another

It's like I'm working undercover

Going through the stop sign - working every line - playing double time

Yes it's just a game, girl - it's crazy but it's true

Tonight you found me here and I found you

We can get a little insane girl

We can start it on a count of two

You don't need me any more - than I need you

 

COME BACK WHEN YOU GROW UP

 

I saw a girl looking so pert

Looking so nervous

Going for a headline

Going past bedtime

Getting turned over

But all those tears you cried

All those tears lied

Just playing was a game of suicide

Thought it was only a moment of passion

Then there was another day

You make out till you can't

Make out a thing they say

Don't try to hide your pain inside

Until love slips away

I know it ain't easy

I know you're out of luck

 

Come back baby, when you grow up

I saw a man holding out a hand

Smiling on purpose

Watching for a tell tale sign

For the time to take you

To the circus

All happened so fast

And it was so unreal

Now you couldn't tell me more than what you feel

Turned into a new disaster

Every night it's a different game

They tell me they recall the face but not the name

Come back baby, when you grow up

 

KAREN AND GARY

 

See my photograph

It's my boyfriend

In'ee lovely?

She was showing it to all her friends

And they all said "yes"

It must be lovely in the fire brigade

Does he say what it's like in the fire brigade?

Karen and Gary the fireman

They go to Bromley

On the train to weekend excitement

Two hearts beating softly

We was driving in his car

to the Air Show

He goes very fast

Sometimes on Friday he will call me up

And at the weekend we will

Sit at the bar and he will talk to his friends

And I will watch him talking - watch him talking

 

Karen and Gary the fireman

They go to Bromley

On the train to weekend excitement

Two hearts beating softly

Break:

(Then) one day Gary said the US of A

Is where I want to be

And he got on a plane .....

Karen looks out of the window at Bromley

Holding the letter

She writ to Gary

And one day he'll call me

One day he'll call me

One day he'll call ..........

 

 

SHE'S WASHING HER HAIR TONIGHT

 

I was sitting here all alone

I called my girl on the telephone

I said come on baby won't you come out tonight

We could take a drive in the respray

Hot back seat love on a Saturday

Two straws and a coffee in the old cafe

(but her momma said)

She's washing her hair tonight

She's washing her hair tonight

She's washing her hair tonight

Tonight

Just a bottle on my lips tonight

Only my jeans holding me tight

Tonight

Got no chance for a fast show

Can't go slow dance rubbing in the disco

Solo - how can I get by on my own?

 

In the street cold-sweating at a call box

One more chance - gonna give it my best shot

But her momma said she don't want anything I got

Now I'm stuck half-standing by the handbag set

Sucking on a low-tar cigarette

Looking for anything I can get

(Cos her momma said)

She's washing her hair tonight

She's washing her hair tonight

She's washing her hair tonight

Tonight

Just a bottle on my lips tonight

Only my jeans holding me tight

Tonight

Got no chance for a fast show

Can't go slow dance rubbing in the disco

Solo - how can I get by on my own?

 

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