Max Q - Way of the World (1989)

Max Q (Australia)

Way of the World

Year: 1989

Chart history
Highest position	Country
#5	New Zealand
#8	Australia
#87	Great Britain

You are born into this world
Looking down the barrel of a gun
And those who hold the gun
Want you to work fast and die young
And if you don't work
If you don't obey
They'll make you live in fear till your dying day
Those who govern hold the gun to your head
With religions, corporations, proud of blood
They've shed

Whether it's God or the bomb
It's just the same
It's only fear under another name
And the corporate snakes coming in to feed
On that pathetic fact known as human greed
Skin and bone being raked over those hot coals
This dump never seems to give time for human soul
And all those things that we have learnt
No time for questions, you'll just get burnt
You'll just get burnt

And those words crush you flat
Like your skull's under a brick
And the fear's so damned strong
That it makes you sick
And you can see right through those eyes
That make you fear, that make you lie
And you're taught to hold high
Yet you wonder why
Dumb values forced upon you by the
Living lie

Mocedades - Eres tú (1973)

Mocedades (Spain)

Eres tú

Year: 1973

Mocedades – Eres tú (1973)

Mocedades – Eres tú (1973)

Chart history
Highest position	Country
#1	El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Spain, Switzerland
#2	Denmark, Guatemala, Finland, Sweden
#3	Netherlands, New Zealand
#4	Luxembourg
#6	Canada
#8	Belgium, Norway
#9	USA
#15	Germany
#20	Bulgaria, Portugal, Israël, Yugoslavia,
#29	Australia

Como una promesa, eres tú, eres tú

Como una mañana de verano
Como una sonrisa, eres tú, eres tú
Así, así, eres tú.
Toda mi esperanza, eres tú, eres tú
Como lluvia fresca en mis manos
Como fuerte brisa, eres tú, eres tú
Así, así, eres tú
Eres tú,
Como el agua de mi fuente
(Algo así eres tú)
Eres tú el fuego de mi hogar
Eres tú como el fuego de mi hoguera
Eres tú el trigo de mi pan
Como mi poema, eres tú, eres tú
Como una guitarra en la noche
Todo mi horizonte eres tú, eres tú
Así, así eres tú
Eres tú
Como el agua de mi fuente
(Algo así eres tú)
Eres tú el fuego de mi hogar
Eres tú como el fuego de mi hoguera
Eres tú el trigo de mi pan

Alice - Per Elisa (1981)

Alice (Italy)

Per Elisa

Year: 1981

Chart history
Highest position	Country
#1	Italy
#4	Austria
#5	Switzerland
#17	Germany

Per Elisa

vuoi vedere che perderai anche me

per Elisa, non sai più distinguere che giorno è

e poi non è nemmeno bella.

 

Per Elisa

paghi sempre tu e non ti lamenti

per lei ti metti in coda per le spese

e il guaio è che non te ne accorgi.

 

Con Elisa

guardi le vetrine e non ti stanchi lei,

ti lascia e ti riprende come e quando vuole lei

riesce solo a farti male.

 

Vivere vivere vivere non è più vivere

lei ti ha plagiato, ti ha preso anche la dignità.

Fingere fingere fingere non sai più fingere

senza di lei, senza di lei ti manca l'aria.

 

Senza Elisa

non esci neanche a prendere il giornale

con me riesci solo a dire due parole

ma noi un tempo ci amavamo.

 

Con Elisa

guardi le vetrine e non ti stanchi lei,

ti lascia e ti riprende come e quando vuole lei

riesce solo a farti male.

 

Vivere vivere vivere non è più vivere

lei ti ha plagiato ti ha preso anche la dignità.

Fingere fingere fingere non sai più fingere

senza di lei, senza di lei ti manca l'aria.

 

Vivere

non è più vivere

per Elisa

con Elisa

Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine (1967)

Lemon Pipers (USA)

Green Tambourine

Year: 1967

Chart history
Highest position	Country
#1	USA
#2	Phillipines
#3	Australia, Canada, New Zealand
#6	South Africa
#7	Great Britain, Switzerland
#8	Malaysia
#9	Netherlands
#10	Germany
#21	Italy
#30	Belgium

Drop your silver in my tambourine
Help a poor man fill his pretty dream
Give me pennies, I'll take anything
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine

Watch the jingle jangle start to chime
Reflections of the music that is mine
When you toss a coin you'll hear it sing
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine

Drop a dime before I walk away
Any song you want I'll gladly play
Money feeds my music machine
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine

Listen while I play

Neil Diamond - I am... I said (1971)

Neil Diamond (USA)

I am... I said

Year: 1971

Chart history
Highest position	Country
#1	Ireland
#2	Canada, Switzerland
#3	Germany
#4	Great Britain, Singapore, USA
#6	Australia, Netherlands
#8	Belgium
#9	South Africa
#17	Italy

 L.A.'s fine, the sun shines most the time

And the feeling is "lay back"
Palm trees grow and rents are low
But you know I keep thinkin' about
Making my way back

Well I'm New York City born and raised
But nowadays
I'm lost between two shores
L.A.'s fine, but it ain't home
New York's home
But it ain't mine no more

"I am"... I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair

"I am"... I cried
"I am"... said I
And I am lost and I can't
Even say why
Leavin' me lonely still

Did you ever read about a frog
Who dreamed of bein' a king
And then became one
Well except for the names
And a few other changes
If you talk about me
The story is the same one

But I got an emptiness deep inside
And I've tried
But it won't let me go
And I'm not a man who likes to swear
But I never cared
For the sound of being alone

"I am"... I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair
"I am"... I cried
"I am"... said I
And I am lost and I can't
Even say why
"I am"... I said
"I am"... I cried
"I am"

Barry Ryan - Kitsch (1970)

Barry Ryan (England)

Kitsch

Year: 1970

Chart history
Highest position	Country
#3	Netherlands
#10	Belgium, Germany
#37	Great Britain

I had a dream
oh what a dream
I saw the shape
of things to come
then I awoke
it was no joke
I'd seen the shape
of things to come.

Kitsch is a beautiful word
it's a beautiful word
it's a beautiful lullabye.

I saw a queen
all dressed in green
but I could see
she had no soul
I see the moon
shining in June
what we all need
is Rock and Roll.

Kitsch is a beautiful word
it's a beautiful word
it's a beautiful lullabye.

Old plastic macs
and caddilacs
prawn cocktails
steak
and lovely wine
just do your thing
and we'll all sing
so here we go
now take your time.

Kitsch is a beautiful word
it's a beautiful word
it's a beautiful lullabye

Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone (2008)

Glasvegas (Scotland)

Daddy's Gone 

Year: 2008

Chart history
Highest position	Country
#12	Great Britain

How you are my hero
How your never here though
Remember times when you put me on your shoulders
How I wish it was forever you would hold us
Right now I'm too young to know
How in the future it will affect me when you go
You could have had it all
You, me, and mum y'know
Anything was possible

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
A fifty year old
Reminiscing what I had

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
Forget your dad, he's gone

All I wanted was a kick-a-bout in the park
For you to race me home when it was nearly getting dark
How I could've been yours, and you be mine
It could've been me and you until the end of time
Do what you want, when you want
Be as fuckin' insincere as you can
What kind of way is that to treat your wife
To see your son on Saturdays
What way is that to live your life?

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
A fifty year old
Reminiscing what I had

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
Forget your dad, he's gone

Harpo - Horoscope (1976)

Harpo (Sweden)

Horoscope

Year: 1976

Chart history
Highest position	Country
#3	Germany
#5	Denmark, Sweden
#16	Switzerland
#17	Austria

Maybe that I am blind
Maybe that I won't find
The signs within my mind
Maybe that I am blind
Maybe that I am blind
Maybe that I won't find
The signs within my mind
Maybe that I am blind

We'll hope my heart is burning
That's so good I will be learning
The Secrets how to live to take and to give.
Temptation's and desire
My world is like a fire
In magic circles
The earth is slowly turning
I'm looking
I'm searching
I read my horoscope
I'm looking
I'm searching
I read my horoscope

Maybe that I am blind - Maybe that I won't find -
The signs within my mind
There ain't no communication
But I'm trying to make it
There's a world of gloss and I'm trying to break it
With my tiny little hands I'm building castles in the sand
I'm only one of the Lost generation
I'm looking
I'm searching
. . .
Maybe that I am blind
Maybe that I won't find
. . .
I don't know why or if I'm going for
But I look to the sky and I follow my star
I'm looking at the space through my kaleidoscope
And ev'ry day I read my horoscope
I'm looking
I'm searching