Song Lyrics
     

    The Seeds Of Love (1989)
     

    Woman In Chains
     

    You better love loving and you better behave
    You better love loving and you better behave
    Woman in chains
    Woman in chains
    Calls her man the Great White Hope
    Says she's fine, she'll always cope
    Woman in chains
    Woman in chains
    Well I feel lying and waiting is a poor man's deal
    And I feel hopelessly weighed down by your eyes of steel
    It's a world gone crazy
    Keeps woman in chains
    Trades her soul as skin and bone
    Sells the only thing she owns
    Woman in chains
    Woman in chains
    Men of stone
    Men of stone
    Well I feel deep in your heart there are wounds time can't heal
    And I feel somebody somewhere is trying to breathe
    Well you know what I mean
    It's a world gone crazy
    Keeps woman in chains
    It's under my skin but out of my hands
    I'll tear it a part but I won't understand
    I will not accept the greatness of Man

    It's a world gone crazy
    Keeps woman in chains
    So free her
    So free her
     



    Badman's Song
     

    Heard every word that was said that night
    When the light of the world put the world to right

    Well here's to the boys back in 628
    Where an ear to the wall was a twist of fate
    I will shine a blinding light
    Through those hearts as black as night
    Sticks and stones may break my bones
    But at least the seeds of love will be sown

    Now once in a while when I feel no shame
    I get down on my knees and I pray for rain
    And though the breeze blows gently while I state my case
    There'll be certain men waiting just to scratch my face
    Hand on my heart I will make a stand
    For the life and the times of the mirrorman

    In my head there is a mirror
    When I've been bad, I've been wrong
    Food for the saints that are quick to judge me
    Hope for a badman
    This is the Badman's Song

    Guilt in the frame of the looking-glass
    Puts a shine on the mind where reflections pass
    Where the jigsaw pieces of a broken man
    Try and fit themselves together again
    Lies in disguise in the name of trust
    Put your head in the sand it will turn to dust!
    What's your problem? What's your curse?
    Won't it make the matter worse?

    In my head...

    And they say "Faith can move mountains"
    "Fire can cleanse your soul"
    Faith can move mountains
    But mind over matter won't stop all your chatter

    No

    I heard every word that was said that night
    When the light of the world put the world to right
    When I hear the soft whispers at the break of day
    I'm in trouble every step of the way
    Sweet talking boys who can do no wrong
    When the stories are tall as the day is long
    With such a thin line drawn between friend and foe
    Lord help me now and bless my soul

    Look at yourself - see how you lie
    Your hands start shaking and you don't know why
    Look at yourself - see how you lie
    Your hands start shaking and you don't know why

    Well there's food for the saints that are quick to judge me
    Hope for a badman
     



    Sowing The Seeds Of Love
     

    High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man
    And the love train rides from coast to coast
    D.J.'s the man we love the most
    Could you be - could you be squeaky clean
    And smash any hope of democracy
    As the headline says you're free to choose
    There's egg on your face and mud on your shoes
    One of these days they're gonna call it the blues

    And anything is possible when you're Sowing the Seeds of Love
    Anything is possible - Sowing the Seeds of Love
    I spy tears in their eyes
    They look to the skies for some kind of divine intervention
    Food goes to waste
    So nice to eat - so nice to taste
    Politician grannie with your high ideals
    Have you know idea how the Majority feels
    So without love and a promised land
    We're fools to the rules of a government plan
    Kick out the Style - bring back the Jam

    Anything...
    Sowing the Seeds
    The birds and the bees
    My girlfriend and me in Love

    Feel the pain
    Talk about it
    If you're a worried man
    Then shout about it

    Open hearts -feel about it
    Open minds -think about it
    Everyone -read about it
    Everyone -scream about it
    Everyone
    Everyone - read about it
    Read about it
    Read it in the books  - in the crannies and the nooks there are books to read

    Mr. England Sowing the Seeds of Love
    Time to eat all your words
    Swallow your pride
    Open your eyes

    High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man
    And the love train rides from coast to coast
    Every minute of every hour
    I Love a Sunflower
    And I believe in lovepower, lovepower, lovepower

    Sowing the seeds
    An end to need
    And the politics of greed
    With love
     



    Advice For The Young At Heart
     

    Advice for the Young at Heart
    Soon we will be older
    When we gonna make it work...

    To many people living in a secret world
    While they play mothers and fathers
    We play little boys and girls
    When we gonna make it work...
    I could be happy
    I could be quite naive
    It's only me and my shadow
    Happy in our make believe

    Soon...

    And with the hounds at bay
    I'll call your bluff
    Cos it would be okay
    To walk on tiptoes everyday

    And when I think of you and all the love that's due
    I'll make a promise - I'll make a stand
    Cos to these big brown eyes, this comes as no surprise
    We've got the whole wide world in our hands

    Advice for the Young at Heart
    Soon we will be older
    When we gonna make it work...

    Love is a promise
    Love is a souvenir
    Once given
    Never forgotten, never let it disappear
    This could be our last chance
    When we gonna make it work...
    Working hour is over

    And how it makes me weep
    Cos someone sent my soul to sleep

    And when I...

    Advice for the Young at Heart
    Soon we will be older
    When we gonna make it work...

    Working hour is over
    We can do anything that we want
    Anything that we feel like doing

    Advice...
     



    Standing On The Corner Of The Third World
     

    Man - I never slept so hard
    I never drempt so well
    Dreaming I was safe in life
    Like mussels in a shell
    Rolling and controlling all the basements and the backroads of our lives

    Fill their dreams with big fast car
    Fill their heads with sand

    Holy white we'll paint this town
    The colour of our flag
    Hey there little lady - has your baby got the look of some old man?
    Standing on the corner of the third world

    Hungry men will close their minds
    Ideas are not their food
    Notions fall on stony ground
    Where passions are subdued
    Colour all the madness for the madness is the thorn that's in our side
    Standing on the corner of the third world

    When we gonna learn
    Who we gonna turn to
    The promises they make
    The call for our attention
    Compassion is the fashion
    Free to earn, our pockets burn
    We buy for love
    We die for love

    Hold me - I'm crying
    Hold me - I'm dying
     



    Year Of The Knife
     

    Halleujah, the king is dead. He said
    "Love Was The Knife"
    And now he'll dream some magic queen might try and save
    his life
    They say his famous final words
    Came from the heart of the man
    He made his bed on love denied
    He played Jeckyll and Hyde till the day he died

    Too late for the young gun
    To lead a simple life
    Too late for the young gun

    This is the year of the Knife

    See the mountains crumble
    Feel the fire go cold
    Summer will turn to winter
    Love will turn to stone

    They say his famous final words
    Came from the heart of the man
    I made my bed on love denied
    Now I ain't gonna sleep tonight

    Too late for the young gun
    To lead a simple life
    Too late for the young gun

    This is the Year of the Knife
     



    Famous Last Words
     

    After the wash
    Before the fire
    I will decay
    Melt in your arms
    As the day hits the night
    We will sit by candlelight
    We will laugh
    We will sing
    When the saints go marching in

    A for a heart
    B for a brain
    Insects and grass
    Are all that remain
    When the light from above
    Burns a hole straight through our love
    We will laugh
    We will sing
    When the saints go marching in
    And we will carry war no more

    All our love and all our pain
    Will be a tune
    The Sun and the Moon
    The wind and the rain
    Hand in hand we'll do and die
    Listening to the band that made us cry
    We'll have nothing to lose
    We'll have nothing to gain
    Just to stay in this real life situation
    For one last refrain

    As the day hits the night
    We will sit by candlelight
    We will laugh
    We will sing
    When the saints go marching in
    And we will carry war no more