Paul Weller - Stanley Road (1995)

1. The Changingman
2. Porcelain Gods
3. I Walk On Gilded Splinters
4. You Do Something To Me
5. Woodcutter's Son
6. Time Passes...
7. Stanley Road
8. Broken Stones
9. Out Of The Sinking
10. Pink On White Walls
11. Whirlpools' End
12. Wings Of Speed

Video: Broken Stones (guitar version)


Broken Stones (lyrics)

Like pebbles on a beach
Kicked around, displaced by feet
Like broken stones - all trying to get home.
Like a losers reach
Too slow & short to hit the peaks
So lost & alone - trying to get home.

As another piece shatters
Another little bit gets lost
And what else really matters - at such a cost?

Like a losers reach -
Too slow & short to hit the peaks
So lost & alone - trying to get home.

Trying to get home -
Like broken stones - all trying to get home.

Paul Weller - Live Wood (1994)

1. Bull Rush/Magic Bus
2. This Is No Time
3. All The Pictures On The Wall
4. Remember How We Started/Dominoes
5. Above The Clouds
6. Wild Wood
7. Shadow Of The Sun
8. (Can You Heal Us) Holy Man/War
9. 5th Season
10. Into Tomorrow
11. Fool Of The Mountain
12. Sunflower
13. Has My Fire Really Gone Out?

Video: Has My Fire Really Gone Out?


Has My Fire Really Gone Out? (lyrics)

And when I open my eyes - will it then be morning?
First rays of summer sun - coming down and shining
And if I open my heart and say all that you would want
Hope faith and all I believe will be there to greet me

And if I open my head remember all that I said
Hey baby what will you find - coming down to meet you?

A lot of words but no one talking
I dont want no part of that
Something real is what Im seeking
One clear voice in the wilderness

And put an end to all your doubts -
Has my fire really really gone out?

Paul Weller - Wild Wood (1994)

1. Sunflower
2. Can You Heal Us (Holy Man)
3. Wild Wood
4. Instrumental (Part 1)
5. All The Pictures On The Wall
6. Has My Fire Really Gone Out?
7. Country
8. Instrumental Two
9. 5th Season
10. The Weaver
11. Instrumental One (Pt. 2)
12. Foot Of The Mountain
13. Shadow Of The Sun
14. Holy Man (Reprise)
15. Moon On Your Pyjamas
16. Hung Up

Video: Wild Wood


Wild Wood (lyrics)

High tide - mid afternoon
People fly by in the traffics boom
Knowing - where youre blowing
Getting to where you should be going.
Dont let them get you down
Making you feel guilty about
Golden rain bring you riches
All the good things - you deserve now.

Climbing forever trying
Find your way out - of the wild wild wood
Now theres no justice
Theres only yourself - that you can trust in
And I said - high tide mid afternoon
People fly by in the traffics boom
Knowing - just where youre 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
Find your way out - of the wild wild wood

Paul Weller - Paul Weller (1992)

1. Uh Huh Oh Yeh
2. I Didn't Mean To Hurt You
3. Bull-Rush
4. Round & Round
5. Remember How We Started
6. Above The Clouds
7. Clues
8. Into Tomorrow
9. Amongst Butterflies
10. The Strange Museum
11. Bitterness Rising
12. Kosmos

Video: Above The Clouds


Above The Clouds (lyrics)

Autumn blew its leaves at me,
Threatening winter as I walked.
Summer always goes so quick, barely stopping like my thoughts.
Which dip and spin and change so fast
I have to wonder - will I last.

Through the windows of the train,
I caught reflections of a paper cup,
Hanging small in a pale blue sky,
Never knowing which ways up.

Above the clouds, whats to be found,
I have to wonder - will I be around.
As my anger shouts - at my own self doubt,
So a madness creeps - into my dreams
When youre scared of living - but afraid to die
I get scared of giving - and I must find the faith to beat it

I must be me thats rushing by,
Time just lingers on the wind.
Bristlin through my open fears,
I wonder what its going to bring.

Above the clouds, whats to be found,
I have to wonder - will I be around.

Run and hide, run and hide
I catch the sail at evenings tide.

Paul Weller Movement - Into Tomorrow/Here's A New Thing (single) (1991)

Into Tomorrow
Here's A New Thing

Video: Into Tomorrow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ-5ZJFND9M

Into Tomorrow (lyrics)

Into the mists of time and space
Where we have no say over date and place
Dont get embarrassed if it happens a lot,
That you dont know how you started or where youre gonna stop
And if at times it seems insane - all the tears in searching;
Turning all your joy to pain - in pursuit of learning;
Buy a dream and hideaway - cant escape the sorrow;
Your mojo will have no effect - as we head into tomorrow

Round and round like a twisted wheel
Spinning in attempt to find the feel
Find the path that will help us find
A feeling of control over lives and minds

And if at times it seems insane - all the tears in searching;
Turning all your joy to pain - in pursuit of learning;
Buy a dream and hideaway - cant escape the sorrow;
Your mojo will have no effect - as we head

Into the stars and always up
Drinking from a broken cup
Whose golden gleam is fading fast
Praying that it has not passed
Into tomorrow

The Style Council - The Complete Adventures of the Style Council [Box set]

Disc: 1
1. Speak Like a Child
2. Party Chambers
3. Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1 & 2 [Bevans, Bert Alernate Remix]
4. Headstart for Happiness
5. Mick's Up
6. Long Hot Summer
7. Paris Match
8. Lédepart
9. Solid Bond in Your Heart
10. It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands
11. My Ever Changing Moods [12" Version]
12. Mick's Company
13. Spring, Summer, Autumn
14. Mick's Blessings
15. Whole Point of No Return
16. Me Ship Came In!
17. Blue Café
18. Paris Match
19. My Ever Changing Moods
20. Dropping Bombs on the White House
21. Gospel

Disc: 2
1. Strength of Your Nature
2. You're the Best Thing
3. Here's One That Got Away
4. Headstart for Happiness
5. Council Meetin'
6. Big Boss Groove
7. Shout to the Top!
8. Ghosts of Dachau
9. Piccadilly Trail
10. Soul Deep [Bevans, Bert Remix]
11. Walls Come Tumbling Down!
12. Whole Point II
13. Bloodsports
14. Spin' Drifting
15. Homebreakers
16. All Gone Away
17. Come to Milton Keynes
18. Internationalists
19. Stone's Throw Away
20. Stand Up Comic's Instructions
21. Boy Who Cried Wolf

Disc: 3
1. Man of Great Promise
2. Down in the Seine
3. Lodgers
4. Luck
5. With Everything to Lose
6. Our Favorite Shop
7. (When You) Call Me
8. Have You Ever Had It Blue? [Uncut Version]
9. Mr. Cool's Dream
10. It Didn't Matter
11. All Year Round
12. Right to Go
13. Heavens Above
14. Fairy Tales
15. Angel
16. Walking the Night
17. Waiting
18. Cost of Loving
19. Woman's Song
20. Francoise

Disc: 4
1. Wanted
2. Cost of Loving [12" Version]
3. Life at a Top Peoples Health Farm [Um & Argh Mix]
4. Sweet Loving Ways
5. It's a Very Deep Sea
6. Story of Someone's Shoe
7. Changing of the Guard
8. Little Boy in a Castle/A Dove Flew Down from the Elephant
9. Gardener of Eden (A Three Piece Suite)
10. Why I Went Missing
11. How She Threw It All Away
12. Iwasadoledadstoyboy
13. Confessions 1, 2, & 3
14. Confessions of a Pop-Group
15. In Love for the First Time
16. I Do Like to Be B-Side the A-Side/The Mixed Companions

Disc: 5
1. Promised Land [Longer Version]
2. Can You Still Love Me?
3. Long Hot Summer '89
4. Everybody's on the Run/Modernism: A New Decade
5. New Decade
6. Can You Still Love Me?
7. World Must Come Together
8. Hope (Feelings Gonna Getcha)
9. That Spiritual Feeling
10. Everybody's on the Run
11. Love of the World
12. Sure Is Sure

Video: Changing of the Guard


Changing of the Guard (lyrics)

Changes of clothes and summer showers
Like changing the guard it only lasts for hours,
Wondering what and where did it go
Crying over nothing worth crying for
Once in a while - I still think about,
The smile on your face girl, the first time around,
Im wondering what and who your doing it with
Crying over nothing - worth crying for, still -

Just now and then - I still get it,
That same old feeling, I cant forget it
Wondering why and where did I go
Trying not to let them get to me so -

Once in a while I just cant help it
Its that same old feeling and how I regret it,
Wondering why - I miss you so,
Crying over nothing worth it all

Baby please, if theres a chance,
Lets throw out the past and get something back,
Im wondering why - did we part at all
Crying over nothing worth crying for,
Crying over nothing worth crying for,
Crying over nothing worth crying for.

The Style Council - The Sound of the Style Council (2003)

1. Speak Like A Child
2. Money-Go-Round (Part 1)
3. Headstart For Happiness
4. Long Hot Summer
5. The Paris Match
6. It Just Came To Pieces In My Hands
7. My Ever Changing Moods
8. The Whole Point Of No Return
9. You're The Best Thing
10. Shout To The Top
11. Ghosts Of Dachau
12. The Piccadilly Trail
13. Walls Come Tumbling Down
14. Spin' Drifting
15. Homebreakers
16. A Man Of Great Promise
17. Have You Ever Had It Blue
18. Waiting
19. It's A Very Deep Sea
20. Changing Of The Guard
21. Spring, Summer, Autumn

Video: Have You Ever Had It Blue


Have You Ever Had It Blue (lyrics)

Have you ever chased the night that sailed in front of you
On a boat thats 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 deck - have you ever had it blue.
Have you ever woke to find the morning didnt 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 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

The Style Council - The Style Council Collection (1996)

1. Speak Like A Child
2. Headstart For Happiness
3. Long Hot Summer
4. The Paris Match
5. It Just Came To Pieces In My Hands
6. My Ever Changing Moods
7. The Whole Point Of No Return
8. Ghosts Of Dachau
9. You're The Best Thing
10. The Big Boss Groove
11. A Man Of Great Promise
12. Homebreakers
13. Down In The Seine
14. A Stones Throw Away
15. With Everything To Lose
16. Boy Who Cried Wolf
17. The Cost Of Loving
18. Changing Of The Guard
19. Why I Went Missing
20. It's A Very Deep Sea

Video: A Man Of Great Promise (Live on the Tube - late 1984)


A Man Of Great Promise (lyrics)

I bought the paper yesterday and I saw the obituary
And I read of how you died in pain -
Well I just couldnt understand it
If I could of changed that, then lord knows Id do it now
But there is no going back -
And whats done is done forever

But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt -
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt

And I think of what you might have been,
A man of such great promise
Oh but, you seem to forget the dream -
And the more you saw you hated

But lets not talk of blame, for what is only natural
Like a moth going to a flame -
You had a dangerous passion

But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt -
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt

All the things that you might have been - but who am I to say?
Still I wonder -
If its the cold earth you prefer to lay -
If its the cold earth - you prefer to stay

The Style Council - Headstart For Happiness (1991)

LONG HOT SUMMER
WHY I WENT MISSING
ANGEL
WAITING
MOVE ON UP
SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN
COME TO MILTON KEYNES
WANTED
HEAVEN'S ABOVE
EVERYBODY'S ON THE RUN
SPIN DRIFTIN'
FRANCOISE
IT JUST CAME TO PIECES IN MY HANDS
HEADSTART FOR HAPPINESS

Video: Headstart For Happiness


Headstart For Happiness (lyrics)

When i find you waiting hours; oh,
You're there to save my life for our obvious goal
We've got a headstart for happiness
For our part, guess we must be blessed
For this feeling to be so strong
Tell me is that so wrong?
The space betweeen us for days has been so far;
I've spent a lonely week
Now i wanna be where you are
We've got a headstart for happiness, for our part
Guess we must be kissed by this force i feel inside
Now i'm not gonna hide.

All the roads that lead to struggles
Bring you back to where you need
Some reassurance in your own depth,
Only you can see, but let others feel
Peace in my mind i'm so happy to find
As i get on my trek with a headstart back to you.

When i find you waiting hours, oh
It's my heart, not my head that takes control
And you've got to lead where your heart says go
And this hope that it turns out so
And that's all that you can hope for
Can you expect much more?

Naive and wise with no sense of time
As i set my clock with a heart beat, tick tock
Violent and mild - common sense says i'm wild
With this mixed up fury, crazy beauty
It's healthy to find all these feelings inside
As i get on my trek with a headstart back to you.

The Style Council - Here's Some That Got Away (1993)

1. Love Pains
2. Party Chambers
3. The Whole Point II
4. The Ghosts Of Dachau
5. Sweet Loving Ways
6. A Casual Affair
7. A Woman's Song
8. Mick's Up
9. Waiting On A Connection
10. Night After Night
11. The Piccadilly Trail
12. (When You) Call Me
13. My Very Good Friend
14. April's Fool
15. In Love For The First Time
16. Big Boss Groove
17. Mick's Company
18. Bloodsports
19. Who Will Buy
20. I Ain't Goin' Under
21. I Am Leaving
22. A Stone's Throw Away

Video: (When You) Call Me


(When You) Call Me (lyrics)

I know you have time
But believe me it will fly by -
And if it don't treat you right
I want you to know that you can call me.
Into each life, some rain must fall
But if the storm becomes too much for you all -
Don't be afraid to enter my life
I will be there when you call me.

Don't let your pride get in the way of your view
Of how we used to be -
Oh, to you it's long ago, but to me, yesterday,
The passing of time is like the crashing of waves
It wears down on your memory and you can forget
That if it all gets too much i will always be there
For you to call me - if you need to call me.

Into each life, some rain must fall
But when the storm becomes too much for you all -
Don't be ashamed to enter my life
I will be there when you call me.

The Style Council - The Singular Adventures Of The Style Council (1989)

1. You're The Best Thing
2. Have You Ever Had It Blue (12in Version)
3. Money Go Round (Parts I & II)
4. My Ever Changing Moods (12in Version)
5. Long Hot Summer (12in Version)
6. The Lodgers
7. Walls Come Tumbling Down!
8. Shout To The Top!
9. Wanted
10. It Didn't Matter
11. Speak Like A Child
12. A Solid Bond In Your Heart
13. Life At A Top People's Health Farm
14. Promised Land
15. How She Threw It All Away
16. Waiting

Video: Wanted



Wanted (lyrics)

There's a girl in my office
She keeps on stopping
Right in front of my eyes
Though I try and try
I can't hide anymore
Letting my feelings speak for me

But when I try to speak
My tongue gets weak
I stay the lonely man I am

Why should it be
That my heart's under lock
And I can't find the key
Tell me, why should it seem
That I'm diving inside without making a try

Why oh, well I only want to be wanted

There's a girl in my dreams
Working nights on my scenes
Till she has me in little bits

There's a time and a place
But it moves at a pace
And I can't seem to keep in time

There's a word for the way
But no words can I say
So a lonely man I stay

Why should it be
I confess that it's hard
turning hopes into dreams but -
Why did I see
You cocoon yourself nights
Finding soup in your flies

Oh, I only to be wanted

Why should it be
That my heart's under lock
And I can't find the key
Tell me, why should it seem
That I'm diving inside without making a try

Why oh, well I only want to be wanted

The Style Council - Confessions of a Pop Group (1988)

1. It's A Very Deep Sea
2. The Story Of Someone's Shoe
3. Changing of The Guard
4. The Little Boy In A Castle(A) Dove Flew Down From The Elephant(B)
5. The Garden Of Eden
6. Life At The Top Peoples Health Farm
7. Why I Went Missing
8. How She Threw It All Away
9. Iwasadoledadstoyboy
10. Confessions 1, 2, & 3
11. Confessions Of A Pop Group

Video: It's A Very Deep Sea


It's A Very Deep Sea (lyrics)

Ill keep on diving til I reach the ends,
Dredging up the past to drive me round the bendz,
What is it in me that I cant forget
I keep finding so much that I now regret.
But no, on I go down into the depths
Turning things over that are better left
Dredging up the past that has gone for good
Trying to polish up what is rotting wood.

Something inside takes me down again
Diving not for goblets but tin cans
Dredging up the past for reasons so rife
Passing bits of wrecks that once passed for life.

But Ill keep on diving till I drown the sea,
Of things not worth, even mentioning
Perhaps Ill come to the surface and come to my senses
But its a very deep sea around my own devizes.

Diving, diving.

The Style Council - The Cost of Loving (1987)

1. It Didn't Matter
2. Right to Go
3. Heavens Above
4. Fairy Tales
5. Angel
6. Walking the Night
7. Waiting
8. Cost of Loving
9. Woman's Song



Video: It Didn't Matter


It Didn't Matter (lyrics)

I remember all the early days
Trying to think of the right things to say
I didnt want you to think I was like the rest
Who think they own you just because youve laid with them
It didnt matter - really didnt matter
It didnt matter now we are together

There are crystal hearts just waiting to be smashed
And out to break them are the ones who never last
To soon today and gone tomorrow
And taking with them just another little piece of you

There are those who think its smart
Thinking that theyve stole your love and broke your heart
Too much too soon and gone tomorrow
Well my love doesnt need to lend or steal or borrow

The Style Council - Home & Abroad - Live (1986)

1. Big Boss Groove
2. My Ever Changing Moods
3. Lodgers
4. Headstart for Happiness
5. (When You) Call Me
6. Whole Point of No Return
7. Our Favourite Shop
8. With Everything to Lose
9. Homebreakers
10. Shout to the Top!
11. Walls Come Tumbling Down!
12. Internationalists

Video: Walls Come Tumbling Down!


Walls Come Tumbling Down! (lyrics)

You dont have to take this crap
You dont have to sit back and relax
You can actually try changing it
I know weve 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

Are you gonna try to make this work
Or spend your days down in the dirt
You see things can change -
Yes an walls can come tumbling down!

Governments crack and systems fall
cause unity is powerful -
Lights go out - walls come tumbling down!

The competition is a colour tv
Were on still pause with the video machine
That keep you slave to the h.p.

Until the unity is threatend by
Those who have and who have not -
Those who are with and those who are without
And dangle jobs like a donkeys carrot -
Until you dont know where you are

Are you gonna realize
The class wars real and not mythologized
And like jericho - you see walls can come tumbling down!

Are you gonna be threatend by
The public enemies no. 10 -
Those who play the power game
They take the profits - you take the blame -
When they tell you theres no rise in pay

Are you gonna try an make this work
Or spend your days down in the dirt -
You see things can change -
Yes an walls can come tumbling down!

The Style Council - Our Favourite Shop (1985)

1. Homebreakers
2. All Gone Away
3. Come To Milton Keynes
4. Internationalists
5. A Stones Throw Away
6. The Stand Up Comics Instructions
7. Boy Who Cried Wolf
8. A Man Of Great Promise
9. Down In The Seine
10. The Lodgers (Or She Was Only A Shopkeeper's Daughter)
11. Luck
12. With Everything To Lose
13. Our Favourite Shop
14. Walls Come Tumbling Down
15. Shout To The Top (USA Remix)

Video: Boy Who Cried Wolf


Boy Who Cried Wolf (lyrics)

As the rain comes down, upon this sad sweet earth
I lie awake at nights and - think about me
All those usual things like what a fool Ive been
I curse the awful way - that I let you slip away
For what was forged in love, is now cooling down
With only myself to blame for playing that stupid game
I thought I need only call and you would run
But that day you never showed honey - well I sure learnt -

That it seems I need you more each day
Heaven knows why that it goes that way -
Now its far too late - an Ive lost this time -
Like the boy who cried wolf

An yes - I know its far too late
To ever win you back -
No tale of nightmares at my gate -
Could make you turn -
My lost concern

And now the night falls down, upon my selfish soul
I sit alone and wonder - where did I go wrong?
It always worked before you kept the wolf from my door
But one day you never showed and honey - now Im not so sure -

That is seems I need you more each day
Heaven knows why that it goes that way -
Now its far too late - an Ive lost this time -
Like the boy who cried wolf

The Style Council - Café Bleu (1984)

1. Mick's Blessings
2. Whole Point Of No Return
3. Me Ship Came In!
4. Blue Café
5. The Paris Match
6. My Ever Changing Moods
7. Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse
8. A Gospel
9. Strength Of Your Nature
10. You're The Best Thing
11. Here's One That Got Away
12. Headstart For Happiness
13. Council Meetin'

Video: My Ever Changing Moods- Live in Japan


My Ever Changing Moods (lyrics)

Daylight turns to moonlight - and Im at my best
Praising the way it all works - gazing upon the rest
The cool before the warm
The calm after the storm
I wish to stay forever - letting this be my food
But Im 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 wont be too soon
The hush before the silence
The winds after the blast
I wish wed move together - this time the bosses sued
But were caught up in the wilderness and an ever changing mood
Teardrops turn to children - whove never had the time
To commit the sins they pay for through - anothers evil mind
The love after the hate
The love we leave too late
I wish wed wake up one day - an everyone feel moved
But were caught up in the dailies and an ever changing mood

Evil turns to statues - and masses form a line
But I know which way Id run to if the choice was mine
The past is knowledge - the present our mistake
And the future we always leave too late
I wish wed come to our senses and see there is no truth
In those who promote the confusion for this ever changing mood

The Style Council - Introducing the Style Council (1983)

1. Long Hot Summer
2. Headstart For Happiness
3. Speak Like A Child
4. Long Hot Summer (Club Mix)
5. The Paris Match
6. Mick's Up
7. Money-Go-Round



Video: Speak Like A Child


Speak Like A Child (lyrics)

Your hair hangs in golden steps
Youre a bonafide in every respect
You are walking through streets that mean nothing to you
You believe youre above it and I dont really blame you
Maybe thats why you speak like a child;
The things youre saying like Im 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
Youre cool and hard, and if I sound like a lecher
Its probably true,
But at least theres no lecture

I really like it when you speak like a child
The crazy sayings like Im so free and so wild
You have to make a bargain with me now
A promise that you wont change somehow
No way, now 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

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 youre 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 youre so proud to be oh, so free and so wild

The Jam - Gold

Disc: 1
1. In The City
2. Away From The Numbers
3. The Modern World
4. David Watts
5. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
6. It's Too Bad
7. To Be Someone (Didn't We Have A Nice Time)
8. Mr. Clean
9. English Rose
10. The Butterfly Collector
11. The Eton Rifles
12. Private Hell
13. Thick As Thieves
14. Smithers-Jones
15. Saturday's Kids
16. Going Underground
17. Start!
18. Liza Radley
19. Pretty Green
20. Boy About Town
21. That's Entertainment
22. Tales From The Riverbank
23. Town Called Malice
24. Ghosts
25. Carnation
26. Beat Surrender

Disc: 2
1. The Dreams Of Children
2. News Of The World
3. Strange Town
4. When You're Young
5. Funeral Pyre
6. Absolute Beginners
7. Move On Up
8. Shopping
9. Pop Art Poem
10. A Solid Bond In Your Heart
11. No One In The World
12. And Your Bird Can Sing
13. Burning Sky
14. Disguises
15. Get Yourself Together
16. The Great Depression
17. Stoned Out Of My Mind
18. Pity Poor Alfie / Fever
19. But I'm Different Now
20. I Got You (I Feel Good)
21. Hey Mister
22. We've Only Started
23. So Sad About Us

Video: Private Hell


Private Hell (lyrics)

Closer than close - you see yourself -
A mirrored image - of what you wanted to be.
As each day goes by - a little more -
You can't remember - what it was you wanted anyway.
The fingers feel the lines - they prod the space -
Your ageing face - the face that once was so beautiful,
is still there but unrecognizable -
Private Hell.
The man who you once loved - is bald and fat -
And seldom in - working late as usual.
Your interest has waned - you feel the strain -
The bed springs snap - on the occasions he lies upon you -
close your eyes and think of nothing but -
Private Hell.
Think of Emma - wonder what she's doing -
Her husband Terry - and your grandchildren.
Think of Edward - who's still at college -
You send him letters - which he doesn't acknowledge.
'Cause he don't care,
They don't care.
'Cause they're all going through their own - Private Hell.
The morning slips away - in a valium haze,
And catalogues - and numerous cups of coffee.
In the afternoon - the weekly food,
Is put in bags - as you float off down the high street
The shop windows reflect - play a nameless host,
To a closet ghost - a picture of your fantasy -
A victim of your misery - and Private Hell
Alone at 6 o'clock - you drop a cup -
You see it smash - inside you crack -
You can't go on - but you sweep it up -
Safe at last inside your Private Hell.
Sanity at last inside your Private Hell.

The Jam - The Very Best of the Jam (Import)

1. In The City
2. All Around The World
3. Modern World
4. News Of The World
5. David Watts
6. A Bomb In Wardour Street
7. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
8. Strange Town
9. When You're Young
10. Eton Rifles
11. Going Underground
12. Dreams Of Children
13. Start
14. That's Entertainment
15. Funeral Pyre
16. Absolute Beginners
17. Town Called Malice
18. Precious
19. Just Who Is The 5 O'clock Hero
20. Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
21. Beat Surrender

Video: Absolute Beginners


Absolute Beginners (lyrics)

In echoed steps I walked across an empty dream
I looked across this world, there was no one to be seen
This empty feeling turned and quietly walked away
I saw no warmth in life - no love was in my eyes
I stared a century thinking this will never change
As I hesitated, time rushed onwards without me
Too scared to break the spell too small to take a fall
But the absolute luck is - love is in our hearts!

I lost some hours thinking of it
I need the strength to go and get what I want
I lost a lifetime thinking of it
An lost an era daydreaming like I do

In echoed steps you walk across an empty dream
But look around this world, theres millions to be seen
Come see the tyrants panic see their crumbling empires fall
Then tell em we dont fight for fools -
cos love is in our hearts!

I lost some hours thinking of it
I need the strength to go and get what I want
I lost a lifetime thinking of it
An lost an era daydreaming like I do

You can lose some hours thinking of it
You need the strength to go and get what I want
You can lose a lifetime thinking of it
And lose an era daydreaming like I do

The Jam - The Peel Sessions - 1996 (Single)

1. In The City
2. Art School
3. I've Changed My Address
4. Modern World








Video: Art School


Art School (lyrics)

Anything that you wanna do, anyplace that you wanna go
Dont need permission for everything that you want
Any taste that you feel is right
Wear any clothes just as long as theyre bright
Say what you want, cos this is a new art school
Do what you want if it takes your mind
Better do it now, cos you wont have time
And never worry if people laugh at you
The fools only laugh cos they envy you
Time is motion and the hands are fast
Young words are mumbled, they dont always last
Its up to us to be sure they understand
Who makes the rules that make people select
Who is to judge that your ways are correct
The media as watchdog is absolute shit
The tv telling you what to think
Anything that you wanna do, anyplace that you wanna go
Dont need permission for everything that you want
Any taste that you feel is right
Wear any clothes just as long as theyre brightsay what you want,
cos this is a new art school
Do what you want, cos this is the new art school

The Jam - The Jam Collection (1996)

1. Away From The Numbers
2. I Got By In Time
3. I Need You (For Someone)
4. To Be Someone (Didn't We Have A Nice Time)
5. Mr Clean
6. English Rose
7. In The Crowd
8. It's Too Bad
9. Butterfly Collector
10. Thick As Thieves
11. Private Hell
12. Wasteland
13. Burning Sky
14. Saturday's Kids
15. Liza Radley
16. Pretty Green
17. Monday
18. Man In The Corner Shop
19. Boy About Town
20. Tales Of The River Bank
21. Ghosts
22. Just Who Is The Five O'clock Hero
23. Carnation
24. Great Depression
25. Shopping

Video: Ghosts & In The Crowd (live)


In The Crowd (lyrics)

When Im in the crowd, I dont see anything
My mind goes a blank, in the humid sunshine
When Im in the crowd I dont see anything
I fall into a trance, at the supermarket
The noise flows me along, as I catch falling cans
Of baked beans on toast, technology is the most.

And everyone seems just like me,
They struggle hard to set themselves free
And their waiting for the change

When Im in the crowd, I cant remember my name
And my only link is a pint of walls ice cream
When Im in the crowd - I dont see anything

Sometimes I think that its a plot,
An equilibrium melting pot
The government sponsors underhand
When Im in the crowd
When Im in the crowd
When Im in the crowd

And everyone seems that theyre acting a dream
cause theyre just not thinking about each other
And theyre taking orders, which are media spawned
And they should know better, now you have been warned

And dont forget you saw it here first
When Im in the crowd
When Im in the crowd
When Im in the crowd

And life just simply moves along
In simple houses, simple jobs
And no ones wanting for the change
When Im in the crowd
When Im in the crowd
When Im in the crowd

The Jam - Live Jam (2002)

1. Modern World
2. Billy Hunt
3. Thick As Thieves
4. Burning Sky
5. Mr Clean
6. Smithers Jones
7. Little Boy Soldiers
8. Eton Rifles
9. Away From The Numbers
10. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
11. Strange Town
12. When You're Young
13. A Bomb In Wardour Street
14. Pretty Green
15. Boy About Town
16. Man In The Corner Shop
17. David Watts
18. Funeral Pyre
19. Move On Up
20. Carnation
21. Butterfly Collector
22. Precious
23. Town Called Malice
24. Heatwave

Video: Pretty Green


Pretty Green (lyrics)

I've got a pocket full of pretty green -
I'm gonna put it in the fruit machine -
I'm gonna put it in the juke box -
It's gonna play all the records in the hit parade -
This is the pretty green - this is society
You can't do nothing - unless it's in the pocket
- oh no -

I've got a pocket full of pretty green
I'm gonna give it to the man behind the counter
He's gonna give me food and water -
I'm gonna eat that and look for more -

And they didn't teach me that in school -
It's something that I learnt on my own -
That power is measured by the pound or the fist -
It's as clear as this oh -

I've got a pocket full of Pretty Green!

The Jam - Snap! (IMPORT)(2006)

Disc: 1
1. In the City
2. Away from the Numbers
3. All Around the World
4. Modern World
5. News of the World
6. Billy Hunt
7. English Rose
8. Mr. Clean
9. David Watts
10. 'A' Bomb in Wardour Street
11. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
12. Strange Town
13. Butterfly Collector
14. When You're Young
15. Smithers-Jones
16. Thick as Thieves

Disc: 2
1. Eton Rifles
2. Going Underground
3. Dreams of Children
4. That's Entertainment [Demo Version]
5. Start!
6. Man in the Corner Shop
7. Funeral Pyre
8. Absolute Beginners
9. Tales from the Riverbank
10. Town Called Malice
11. Precious
12. Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)
13. Beat Surrender

Disc: 3
1. Move on Up [Live]
2. Get Yourself Together [Live]
3. Great Depression [Live]
4. But I'm Different Now [Live]

Video: Strange Town


Strange Town (lyrics)

Found myself in a strange town
Though I've only been here for three weeks now
I've got blisters on my feet
Trying find a friend in Oxford Street
I bought an A to Z guide book
Trying to find the clubs and YMCAs
But when you ask in a strange town
They say don't know, don't care
And I've got to go, mate

They worry themselves about feeling low
They worry themselves about the dreadful snow
They all ignore me 'cause they don't know
Am I really a spaceman from those UFOs

You've got to move in a straight line
You've got to walk and talk in four four time
You can't be weird in a strange town
You'll be betrayed by your accent and manners

You've got to wear the right clothes
Be careful not to pick or scratch your nose
You can't be nice in a strange town
'Cause we don't know, don't care
And we got to go, man

Rush my money to the record shops
I stop off in a back street
Buy myself a snort
We got our own manifesto
Be kind to queers
And I'm so glad the revolution's here
It's nice and warm now!

I've finished with clubs where the music's loud
'Cause I don't see a face in a single crowd
There's no one there
I look in the mirror
But I can't be seen
Just a thin, clean layer of Mister Sheen
Looking back at me
Oh, oh

Found myself in a strange town
Though I've only been here for three weeks now
I've got blisters on my feet
Trying find a friend in Oxford Street

I bought an A to Z guide book
Trying to find the clubs and YMCAs
When you ask in a strange town
They say don't know, don't care
And I've got to go, mate

They worry themselves about feeling low
They worry themselves about the dreadful snow
They all ignore me 'cause they don't know
Am I really a spaceman from those UFOs

Strange town

Break it up
Baby don't shake it up
Break it up

The Jam - The Sound of the Jam (2003)

1. In The City
2. Away From The Numbers
3. The Modern World
4. David Watts
5. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
6. To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time)
7. Mr. Clean
8. English Rose
9. The Butterfly Collector
10. The Eton Rifles
11. Thick As Thieves
12. Going Underground
13. Start!
14. Liza Radley
15. Pretty Green
16. That's Entertainment
17. Tales From The Riverbank (Fan Club Version)
18. Town Called Malice
19. Ghosts
20. Beat Surrender

Video: The Butterfly Collector


The Butterfly Collector (lyrics)

So you finally got what you wanted
Youve achieved your aim by making me walk in line
And when you just cant get any higher
You use your senses to suss out this weeks climber
And the small fame that youve acquired
Has brought you into cult status
But to me youre still a collector

Theres tarts and whores but youre much more
Youre a different kind cause you want their minds
And you just dont care cause youve got no pride
Its just a face on your pillowcase
That thrills you

And you started looking much older
And your fashion sense is second rate like your perfume
But to you in your little dream world
Youre still the queen of the butterfly collectors

As you carry on cause its all you know
You cant light a fire
You cant cook or sew
You get from day to day by filling your head
But surely you must know the appeal between your legs
Has worn off

And I dont care about morals
cause the worlds insane and were all to blame anyway
And I dont feel any sorrow
Towards the kings and queens of the butterfly collectors

Theres tarts and whores but youre much more
Youre a different kind cause you want their minds
And you just dont care cause youve got no pride
Its just a face on your pillowcase
That thrills you

As you carry on cause its all you know
You cant light a fire
You cant cook or sew
You get from day to day by filling your head
But surely you must know the appeal between your legs
Has worn off

And I dont feel any sorrow
Towards the kings and queens of the butterfly collectors

The Jam - Compact Snap (1997)

1. In The City
2. All Around The World
3. The Modern World
4. News Of The World
5. David Watts
6. A Bomb In Wardour Street
7. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
8. Strange Town
9. When You're Young
10. Smithers-Jones
11. The Eton Rifles
12. Going Underground
13. Dreams Of Children
14. That's Entertainment
15. Start!
16. Funeral Pyre
17. Absolute Beginners
18. Town Called Malice
19. Precious
20. The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)

Video: A Bomb In Wardour Street- Live


A Bomb In Wardour Street (lyrics)

Where the streets are pave with blood,
With cataclysmic overtones
Fear and hate linger in the air
A strictly no-go deadly zone
I dont know what Im doing here
cause its not my scene at all
Theres an a bomb in wardour street
Theyve called in the army, theyve called in the police

Im stranded on the vortex floor
My heads been kicked in and bloods started to poor
Through the haze I can see my girl
Fifteen geezers got her pinned to the door

Theres an a bomb in wardour street, its blown up the city
Now its spreading through the country

Law and order takes a turn for the worst,
In the shape of a size 10 boot
Rape and murder throughout the land,
And they tell me that youre still a free man
Well if this is freedom I dont understand
cause it seems like madness to me.

a bomb in wardour street.
Hate bomb, hate bomb, hate bomb, hate bomb!

A philistine nation, of degradation,
And hate and war. there must be more.
Its doctor martins a p o c a l y p s e - apocalypse!

The Jam - Extras (1992)

A Collection of Rarities (IMPORT)
1. The Dreams Of Children
2. Tales From The Riverbank
3. Liza Radley
4. Move On Up
5. Shopping
6. Smithers-Jones
7. Pop Art Poem
8. Boy About Town
9. A Solid Bond In Your Heart
10. No One In The World
11. And Your Bird Can Sing
12. Burning Sky
13. Thick As Thieves
14. Disguises
15. Get Yourself Together
16. The Butterfly Collector
17. The Great Depression
18. Stoned Out Of My Mind
19. Pity Poor Alfie/Fever
20. But I'm Different Now
21. I Got You (I Feel Good)
22. Hey Mister
23. Saturday's Kids
24. We've Only Started
25. So Sad About Us (Cover/The Who)
26. The Eton Rifles

Video: So Sad About Us (slide show)


So Sad About Us (lyrics)

So sad about us
So sad about us
Sad - let the music stop now
Sad - suppose we can't turn back now
Sad about us

So bad about us
So bad about us

Bad - never meant to break up
Bad - suppose we'll never make up
Bad about us

Apologies mean nothing when the damage is done
But you can't switch off my loving
Like you can't switch off the sun

So sad about us
So bad about us

Sad - let the music stop now
Sad - suppose we can't turn back now
Sad about us

The Jam - Greatest Hits (1991)

1. In The City
2. All Around The World
3. The Modern World
4. News Of The World
5. David Watts
6. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
7. Strange Town
8. When You're Young
9. The Eton Rifles
10. Going Underground
11. Start!
12. That's Entertainment
13. Funeral Pyre
14. Absolute Beginners
15. Town Called Malice
16. Precious
17. Just Who Is The Five O'clock Hero
18. The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
19. Beat Surrender

Video: Precious


Precious (lyrics)

Your precious love - that means so much
Will it ever stop or will I just lose touch
What I want to say - but my words just fail
Is that I need it so I cant help myself
Like a hungry child - I just help myself
And when Im all full up - I go out to play

But I dont mean to bleed you dry
Or take you over for the rest of your life
Its just that I need something solid in mine

Lonely as the moors on a winters morning
Quiet as the sea on a good calm night
In your tranquil shadow - I try and follow

I hear your distant show clicks
To the midnight beat -
I feel trapped in sorrow
In this imagery
But thats how I am and why I need you so

The Jam - Dig the New Breed (Live 1977-1982)

1. In the City
2. All Mod Cons
3. To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time)
4. It's Too Bad
5. Start!
6. Big Bird
7. Set the House Ablaze
8. Ghosts
9. Standards
10. In the Crowd
11. Going Underground
12. Dreams of Children
13. That's Entertainment
14. Private Hell

Video: Ghosts (not the CD's version)


Ghosts (lyrics)

Why are you frightened - cant you see that its you
That aint no ghost - its a reflection of you
Why do you turn away - an keep it out of sight
Oh - dont live up to your given roles
Theres more inside you that you wont show

But you keep it hidden just like everyone
Youre scared to show you care - itll make you vulnerable
So you wear that ghost around you for disguise

But theres no need just cos its all weve known
Theres more inside you that you havent shown

So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets

One day youll walk right out of this life
And then youll wonder why you didnt try

To spread some loving all around
Old fashioned causes like that still stand
Gotta rid this prejudice that ties you down

How do you feel at the end of the day
Just like youve waked over your own grave

So why are you frightened - cant you see that its you
At the moment theres nothing - so theres nothing to lose
Lift up your lonely heart and walk right on through