Sound Of The Loop

Sounds Of The Loop

Are You Happy?

You say you got a big house out in the country
With a ruddy great swimming pool
You say you got a lot of things I never had
That's true
But are you happy
Are you happy
Are you happy
When you get right down to the nitty gritty
Are you happy you

You say you got boyfriends calling you up
Every other day of the week
And that you got more now then you could ever need
But are you happy
Are you happy
Are you happy

You can find happiness
In a hole in your sock
You can be fully dressed
In a coat that's a frock
You can stand in the rain when it's raining
And not think it's not sunny

You say you got a car parked out in the drive
But are you happy etc etc etc
That you've not even driven yet
And that you got another one
That you can use instead
But are you happy
Are you happy Are you happy
When you get right down to the nitty gritty
Are you happy
Are you happy
Are you happy you

What about love
Money couldn't buy it and that's the crazy thing
When you've had enough of trying to deny it
Look what love can bring

Well are you happy Are you happy Are you happy
When you get right down to the nitty gritty Are you happy

You can be who you are,
Without having to prove,
In a sense who you are,
With attempts that are crude,
Buying acres of land, that you won't even use,
Is not the answer.

You say you got an Aunt,
whose cousin is married to
a relative of the queen,
and that you get invited to
every social scene

But are you happy
Are you happy Are you happy
When you get right down to the nitty gritty
Are you happy
Are you happy
Are you happy you

Not That It Bothers Me

I know the difference in our ages
Is quite considerable indeed
You're almost twice as old as I am
Not that it bothers me

And I keep your picture in my wallet
It's there so everyone can see
And those that do think your my mother
Not that it bothers me

Love is the strangest thing
It has the power to change us
It takes a harmless sort
And makes him highly dangerous

People can be so cruel
I cannot understand it
Our case is odd it's true
But that's not how we planned it

I've great respect for both my parents
Without them I would not be here
They've now disowned me altogether
Not that it bothers me

Sometimes

Sometimes when I am lonely
And I need some love and care
Sometimes I feel I only
Have to call and you'll be there
Sometimes I wake up in the morning
With my hair down in my eyes
Sometimes I can look at you
Then I don't and then I do
Sometimes

Sometimes I take exception
To the way we're criticized
Once it was because we had long hair
And now cause we've short back and sides
They never stop they always have to win
Ooh a parents reputation is based
Only on what the neighbours think

Sometimes you have the answer
Long before the questions put
Sometimes you are a dancer
Without moving either foot
Sometimes I get undressed for dinner
Stay up all hours of the night
Have my breakfast with my lunch
Well you know it can be fun
Sometimes

Sometimes you take a letter
And you post it in a box
You assume that It will get there
Even though the last you sent got lost
How tragic it would be if here and now
Ooh all optimism disappeared
Replaced by something less endowed

Sometimes I'm up in heaven
When you hold me in your arms
Sometimes I'm up at seven
To the sound of my alarm
Sometimes I read about the third world
And the hunger there you find
Sometimes love it can be blue

Red or green and yellow too
Sometimes love is in the air
It's a crazy world I swear
Sometimes

It's Easy To See When Your Blind

It's easy to see when you're blind
How walks in the park are mountains to climb
And it's easy tell at a glance
How hard it must seem
When you don't stand a chance
Let me take you out to a movie
I promise I won't spoil your view
It's easy to see when you're blind
How much this means to you
It's easy to see when you're blind
How words you can feel
Enlighten your mind
And it's easy to tell at the start
Those able to breathe
But who haven't a heart
Building roads without a pavement
Who needs to walk when a car will do
It's easy to see when you're blind
How angry this makes you

And I'm afraid for everybody's future
And I'll tell you why
Instead of common sense we'll have computers
Running our lives
And that ain't right

We have so much to distract us
Images of wealth and greed
It's easy to see when you're blind
How blind we all must be

Having Said That

I think love is just a load of crap
But having said that
If you'd love me the way that I love you
I'd take it all back

I don't give a dam about you now
And I'm not being sour
There's plenty more of you where I come from
On the hour
Every hour

And I don't suppose you'd consider
Accompanying me out to dinner
Found this really cute little French place
The food they tell me is Greek
I'll understand please forgive me
What's his name is it Dave
Does he take you everywhere
I'll bet
He's lousy in bed
Not like me

Oh I think women are completely daft
But having said that
How many of them do you ever hear
Get a heart attack
And having said that

Don't come running after me again
I'm not your friend
Liked you once about a week ago
But that was then
Never again

Of all the women I've loved
You're the first to make blood boil
All the others they would of course
Make it bleed
I don't know how to thank you enough
Can't stand the sight of blood
You see

You mean nothing to me anymore
So now you know
I had been thinking that for quite some time
I'd let you go
So now you know

And don't think that I don't men this
Whatever we had between us
Is to the best of my knowledge
Now a thing of the past
But then again if you came up
With nothing on but your make-up
Possibilities are
Out if the kindness of my heart
I might
For tonight
Let you in

The Best Love I Never Had

I say a prayer for those who
Unlike me
Suffer some form of brutality
I get no kicks from mugging pensioners
I don't believe that that's all their good for
You know I love you
And I always will
I keep a picture of you on me still
It's so sad
You were the best love I never had

I see you've brought your children
Along too
The little one
She looks a lot like you
I'm sure you must be very proud of them
I'd love to have a child myself
But then
On second thoughts I'd better leave
This talk of children is upsetting me
It's so sad
You were the best love I never had

And I can't for the life of me fathom
Out why Eve when she met up with Adam
Didn't know they would put at risk
Every man, woman, child
For the bite of an apple

Remember days of wine and daffodils
A hand upon your breast
Oh what a thrill
It's so sad
You were the best love I never had

You make your bed
And then you lie in it
wouldn't the truth be more appropriate
It's so sad
You were the best love I never had

Divorce Irish Style

In answer to your question
You've made a big mistake
But in the eyes of God
That's a risk you have to take
Divorce Irish style

Unless of course your privileged
With a cardinal up your sleeve
Hope of an annulment is
Unlikely to succeed
Divorce Irish style

How can two people live together
When they've fallen out of love
Are we so blind
As to reject the pain they fell
What right has anyone to say you must
Even God himself can't be the judge
We've only one life after all
And if it's not our fault
Why can't we be released
Something must be done
And that something must be done urgently

Forget it ever happened
Go away and start anew
You love each other surely
Well at least you used to do
Divorce Irish style

Think about the children
After all they must come first
Okay she's found another man
Oh well it could be worse
Divorce Irish style

Came And Went

When you needed money
You came to me
It was no problem
That was plain to see
Yet when I needed some company
You promised you'd pay me a call
But you came and went so quickly
I didn't know
You had been here at all

When there was a war on
You came crawling to me
There seemed no better place
That you'd rather be
Yet when it was over you told me
You'd come back and pay me a call
But you came and went so quickly
I didn't know
You had been here at all

What does it mean
What does it prove
If I get my
Own back on you
Revenge is sweet
But so are peas
And not the ones
Alphabetically

My hands are cold
Legs are like ice
I'm on the beach
Weather is nice
The wind comes up
It starts to snow
My hands get warm
My feet they glow

Oh I can remember
Things you used to say
But what sticks in my mind most
Is the way
You hurt me so much
When you left me
Although you promised you'd pay me a call
But you came and went so quickly
I didn't know
You had been here at all

I'm Not Too Young

I'm not too young to fall in love
I'm not too young to smoke
I'm not too young to defend myself
If ever I'm provoked
I'm not too young you mark my words
To be left on the shelf
I'm not too young I'm over one
Next year I will be twelve

I'm not as daft as one might think
If one's the word to use
For why not instead of one
Must mustn't one instead use two's
I won't say that it makes it any easier
But still it goes to show
That one can do what one must do
With two's or three's or four's

And while we're on the subject
Let me say that for a start
Although I failed my eleven plus
I really did try hard
And I've come to this conclusion
Right or wrong abut exams
You pass only because your memory
Failed to go blank

I'm not too young to pay the price
For things I didn't do
I'm not too young they tell me
So I guess it must be true
I'm not too young to cry out loud
In northern Ireland name
I'm not too young I'm everyone
A bomb has ever maimed

And by and large it's true to say
That even as we speak
A child not out in Africa
But believe it or not here
Is learning what it feels like
To exist without much food
And waits in what he calls his home
To be forcibly removed

I Can Give You

There are diamonds in this world for a lady
If I had the money you'd never had enough
You don't have to understand me
When I tell you
There is only one thing I can give you
Love

He may ask to take you with him every day
And then give you presents
You've only ever dreamed of
Though I'd take you walking with me anyway
There is only one thing I can give you
Love

What's important to me
Is not the good times we'll have
But the bad times that end up so badly
For you
And so you see
What I want
Is not the earth to move
What on earth it prove
But a love that will make me
A love that will take me for good

And I don't know why soldiers shoot to kill
And I don't know why at ease I get so ill
And I don't give a damn unless of course I do

So if you want to go with him just remember
What I say to you in spite of how I feel
Though he'll give you things
You've only ever dreamed of
There is only one thing I can give you
Love

Can't Think Straight

Hello...Ooh, is Mary there?
No, but
Well, if you see Mary
Will you tell her I called?
Tell her that I love her
And I'm sorry that's all
You see we had our very first quarrel today
I got really angry and I slapped her face
Now I'm sorry but what can I say
I love her so much
I can't think straight

My name is Pegge and I know how you feel
Same thing that happened to you did to me
I was so upser I couldn't sleep for a week
Finally she called boy was I relieved
Now I'm sorry but what can I say
I love her much I can't think straight
Love her much you can't think

What about people other than me?
What about those with nothing to eat?
How can I claim that life isn't fair?
What a pathetic sight I swear
If I could kick I'd kick
Myself of course and if

Listen to me look I know hat I'm saying
I'm sure Mary is as much to blame
Well in that case
Why won't she answer the phone?
Don't try and tell me
She's not at home
I'm sorry but what can say

I'm sorry but what can say

We're sorry but what can I say
I love her so much I can't think

What are we doing? What have we done?
What in the world is going on?
Isn't it crazy looking so fine
Knowing that in as much time
As it takes to make a drink
We could all become as the dinosaur has
Nothing but extinct
And to top it all I hear
That my rent is to be raised

So if you see Mary
Will you tell her I called
Tell her that I love her
And I'm sorry that's all
And by the way thank you for being so kind
If I've taken up too much of your time
I'm sorry but what I can say
Lo siento pero no se que decir
We're sorry but what can I say
I love her so much
I can't think
Love her so much
I can't think straight

Can't Think Straight -
Spanish Version

Si...Ooh, is Mary there?
No, pero
Well, if you see Mary
Will you tell her I called?
Tell her that I love her
And I'm sorry that's all
You see we had our very first quarrel today
I got really angry and I slapped her face
Now I'm sorry but what can I say
I love her so much
I can't think straight

Yo soy Silvia y te podria ayudar
si en lugar de a ella me quisieras mirar
te ba�aria en oceanos de amor
haria de tu vida un paraiso mejor
y mira ya no puedo seguir
te quiero tanto que ahora siento
nublarseme el pensamiento

What about people other than me?
What about those with nothing to eat?
How can I claim that life isn't fair?
What a pathetic sight I swear
If I could kick I'd kick
Myself of course and if

No te amargues ten la seguridad
de que tambien ella se arrepentira'

Well in that case
Why won't she answer the phone?
Don't try and tell me
She's not at home
I'm sorry but what can say

Lo siento pero no se que decir

We're sorry but what can I say
I love her so much I can't think
What are we doing? What have we done?
What in the world is going on?
Isn't it crazy looking so fine
Knowing that in as much time
As it takes to make a drink
We could all become as the dinosaur has
Nothing but extinct
And to top it all I hear
That my rent is to be raised

What A Way (To Show I Love You)

If and when you want me to
I'll be right there by your side
If and then you can't be sure
I can help you to decide
It's no secret any longer
Come to think it
It wasn't even at the start
In my heart where you reign

You'd have thought by now
That something would upset the balance
But as yet nothing has come along

What a way to show I love you
Underneath the floor above you
What a way to give each other a ride
What a way to face the future
Knowing you'll be always true to her
What a way to keep each other alive

I'm a great believer in
The thoughts of anywhere and how
I would say that all the things
You want are yours right here and now
Don't forget I've learnt my lesson
Had the opportunity to make many mistakes
In the days before you came

And although I find it hard
To let myself look foolish
It doesn't mean we don't have any fun

What a way to show I love you
Other than below or above you
What a way to kiss each other goodbye
What a way to start tomorrow
Knowing that there'll be no sorrow
What a way to keep each other alive