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Songs:

01. Arnold Layne

Arnold Layne had a strange hobby

Collecting clothes

Moonshine washing line

They suit him fine

On the wall hung a tall mirror

Distorted view

See through baby blue

He got it, oh Arnold Layne

It's not the same, takes two to know

Two to know, two to know, two to know

Why can't you see?

Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne

Now he's caught a nasty sort of person

They gave him time

Doors bang, chain gang

He hates it, oh Arnold Layne

It's not the same, takes two to know

Two to know, two to know, two to know

Why can't you see?

Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne

Don't do it again

- Instrumentaal -

Emily tries but misunderstands, ah ooh

She's often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow

There is no other day

Let's try it another way

You'll lose your mind and play free games for may

See Emily play

Soon after dark Emily cries, ah ooh

Gazing through trees in sorrow hardly a sound till tomorrow

There is no other day

Let's try it another way

You'll lose your mind and play free games for may

See Emily play

Put on a gown that touches the ground, ah ooh

Float on a river forever and ever, Emily

There is no other day

Let's try it another way

You'll lose your mind and play free games for may

See Emily play

Remember a day before today

A day when you were young

Free to play along with time

Evening never comes

Sing a song that can't be sung

Without the morning's kiss

Queen you shall be if you wish

Look for your king

Why can't we play today?

Why can't we stay that way?

Climb your favourite apple tree

Try to catch the sun

Hide from your little brother's gun

Dream yourself away

Why can't we reach the sun?

Why can't we blow the years away?

Blow away

Last night I had too much to drink

Sitting in a club with so many fools

Playing to rules

Trying to impress, but feeling rather empty

I had another drink

Drink a drink a drink a drink

What a way to spend that evening

They all turn up with their friends

Playing the game

But in the scene I should have been

Far away

Away, away, away, away, away

Getting up, I feel as if I'm remembering this scene before

I open the door to an empty room

Then I forget

The telephone rings and someone speaks

She would very much like to go out to a show

So what can I do, I can't think what to say

She sees through anyway

Away, away, away, away, away

Out of the front door I go

Traffic's moving rather slow

Arriving late, there she waits

Looking very angry, as cross as she can be

Be a be a be a be a be

Getting up, I feel as if I'm remembering this scene before

I open the door to an empty room

Then I forget

Sunlight bright upon my pillow

Lighter than an eiderdown

Will she let the weeping willow

Wind his branches round

Julia dream, dreamboat queen

Queen of all my dreams

Every night I turn the light out

Waiting for the velvet bride

Will the scaly armadillo

Find me where I'm hiding

Julia dream, dreamboat queen

Queen of all my dreams

Will the misty master break me

Will the key unlock my mind

Will the following footsteps catch me

Am I really dying

Julia dream, dreamboat queen

Queen of all my dreams

Careful with that axe, Eugene!

Aaaaaah!

In a churchyard by a river

Lazing in the haze of midday

Laughing in the grasses

And the graves

Yellow bird you are not long

In singing and in flying on

In laughing and in leaving

Willow weeping in the water

Waving to the river-daughters

Swaying in the ripples and the reeds

On a trip to cirrus minor

Saw a crater in the Sun

A thousand miles of moonlight later

I was standing by the Nile

When I saw the lady smile

I would take her for a while

For a while

Like tears that like a child

How her golden hair was blowing wild

Then she spread her wings to fly

For to fly

Soaring high above the breezes

Going always where she pleases

She will make it to the island

In the sun

I will follow in her shadow

And I'll watch her from my window

One day I will catch her

She is calling from the deep

Summoning my soul to endless sleep

She is bound to drag me down

Drag me down

Wasting my time

Resting my mind

And I'll never pine

For the sad days and the bad days

When we was working from nine to five.

And if you don't mind

I'll spend my time

Here by the fire side

In the warm light of the love in her eyes.

And if you don't mind

I'll spend my time

Here by the fire side

In the warm light of the love in her eyes.

I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like

It's got a basket, a bell that rings

And things to make it look good

I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world

I'll give you anything, everything if you want things

I've got a cloak it's a bit of a joke

There's a tear up the front it's red and black

I've had it for months

If you think it could look good then I guess it should

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world

I'll give you anything, everything if you want things

I know a mouse and he hasn't got a house

I don't know why I call him Gerald

He's getting rather old but he's a good mouse

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world

I'll give you anything, everything if you want things

I've got a clan of gingerbread men

Here a man, there a man, lots of gingerbread men

Take a couple if you wish, they're on the dish

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world

I'll give you anything, everything if you want things

I know a room of musical tunes

Some rhyme, some chin, most of them are clockwork

Let's go into the other room and make them work