LOOKING ON
DELUXE EXPANDED EDITION
SALVO/FLY RECORDS SALVOCD014
RELEASED 14 APRIL 2008 (UK ONLY)

LYRICS

"Musically, I'm very happy with The Move because I'm getting the chance to write a lot of material with Roy and it's all stuff which we're including in the act. Jeff Lynne, May 1970

 


LOOKING ON (Roy Wood)

Standing up in someone's place
Looking down on me
Now I may behold you face
As it's supposed to be
Get you in
I've tried enough to keep you clean
Give you in
You take a yard
You're too real mean

Oh may it not be so
See me looking down
I'm just Looking On

Standing with my head so messed
Closing down on me
There's a pain inside my chest
Where my soul should be
Give you in
I see you as they all spy now
Get you in
They be you as they all cry now.

Oh may it not be so
See me looking down
I'm just Looking On

Standing up in someone's place
Looking down on me
Now I may behold you face
As it's supposed to be
Get you in
I've tried enough to keep you clean
Give you in
You take a yard
You're too real mean

Oh may it not be so
See me looking down
I'm just Looking On


TURKISH TRAM CONDUCTOR BLUES (Roy Wood)

Hey Mr. Judge
The trams are coming down the line
Their cargo ain't too much
It may contain some friends of mine
I heard they smuggle immigrants
Along the Western Midland line

One summer time
There came a gypsy caravan
Seemed so inclined
Ran over the inspector man
Discovered they were yellow
Promptly threw them in the can

Turn over turn over
Turn over turn over
Turn over turn over
I'd hate to throw you back again

Turn the volume up
Until you blow the speaker cone
Hey Mr. Judge
You have to give your dog a bone
There's a rhino in the kitchen
Send him on a tram back home

Hey Mr. Judge
The trams are coming down the line
Their cargo ain't too much
It may contain some friends of mine
I heard they smuggle immigrants
Along the Western Midland line

Turn over turn over
Turn over turn over
Turn over turn over
I'd hate to throw you back again


WHAT ? (Jeff Lynne)

What is that stranger in the sky?
Why should a strange star pass me by?

How can you congratulate the people who destroyed
the piece of mind the silly people just like you and better too?
How can they keep turning when the overture is burning
on the faces of the people in the churches of the land?

That's all they wait
There are, right from the light
The day has come at last

People that cry in the boulevard
Their eyes are blind
They cry so hard

How can you congratulate the people who destroyed
the piece of mind the silly people just like you and better too?
How can they keep turning when the overture is burning
on the faces of the people in the churches of the land?

That's all it seems
There is only one dream
The day has come at last

That's all it seems
There is only one dream
The day has come at last

What you have done
Makes me ashamed
I'll blow it up and start again

How can you congratulate the people who destroyed
the piece of mind the silly people just like you and better too?
How can they keep turning when the overture is burning
on the faces of the people in the churches of the land?

That's all it seems
There is only one dream
The day has come at last


WHEN ALICE COMES BACK TO THE FARM (Roy Wood)

Jenny had a bawl at me the other night
She threw it up and drove away
So I made a call completely out of sight
Need to put it right today

When Alice comes back to the farm
I won't be in the cold tonight
When Alice comes back to the farm
You know it's gonna be alright

Gimme an appointment
Put me in the light
That's a taste of what she needs
Such a disappointment
Daddy's in the right
Time for tearing out the weeds

When Alice comes back to the farm
You won't be in the cold tonight
When Alice comes back to the farm
You know it's gonna be alright

Relax now baby
That woman won't pass my door
I believe, I believe
That woman won't pass my door
She won't get raising no alarm
Don't get around much anymore

Jenny had a bawl at me the other night
She threw it up and drove away
So I made a call completely out of sight
Need to put it right today

When Alice comes back to the farm
I won't be in the cold tonight
When Alice comes back to the farm
You know it's gonna be alright

Relax now baby
That woman won't pass my door
I believe, I believe
That woman won't pass my door
She won't get raising no alarm
Don't get around much anymore


OPEN UP SAID THE WORLD AT THE DOOR
(Jeff Lynne)

Can you believe
No one has called anymore
Since the ball that was thrown in the spring
Brother beware
Nobody dare anymore
Since the days back when balls were the thing

Open up said the world at the door

Swimming around
Out in the hole
In the ground
Till she finds what she lost years ago
In a nightdress
Dirty old vest
She never rests
But the old folks at home never know

Open up said the world at the door

One to the heart
Yes it's a part of the tale
And the feeling that's being within
Brother beware
Nobody dare anymore
Since the days back when balls were the thing

Open up said the world at the door


BRONTOSAURUS (Roy Wood)

Well her sister used to hate it
So I never thought she'd make it
But she threw you all
Supposing in a spangle wrapper

She will let you stroke her head
But if you move away you're dead
She'll just break you up
Before you realise it's happened

But she can really do the Brontosaurus
And she can scream the Heeby Jeeby for us
Until you know what she's really got
Cos she can do it loud
But she can really do the Brontosaurus
And she can scream the Heeby Jeeby for us
Well I know she can really rock
So do it do it now

Do it do it do it!

Now her daddy's getting old
And he seemed to lose control
When the Brontosaurus stormed into the house to trap her
Well her sister used to hate it
So I never thought she'd make it
Until she shook you up
Exactly like a firecracker

But she can really do the Brontosaurus
And she can scream the Heeby Jeeby for us
Until you know what she's really got
Cos she can do it loud
But she can really do the Brontosaurus
And she can scream the Heeby Jeeby for us
Well I know she can really rock
So do it do it now

Do it do it do it!

Well she can really do the Brontosaurus
And she can scream the Heeby Jeeby for us
Until you know what she's really got
Cos she can do it
Well she can really do the Brontosaurus
And she can scream the Heeby Jeeby for us
Until she knows what she's really got
Cos she can do it

Well she can really do the Brontosaurus
Well she can really do the Brontosaurus
Well she can really do the Brontosaurus

Yeah!


FEEL TOO GOOD (Roy Wood)

She's got me stolen
So you wonder why
Man I was rolling
She has all I got
Feel too good
(Feel too good)
What can you do
(What can you do, what can you do)
Can't seem to control myself
So how can I talk to you?

Left her in the garden
Taking a stairway home
Something hit me harder
Hits me like a stone

Feel too good
(Feel too good)
What can you do
(What can you do, what can you do)
Can't seem to control myself
So how can I talk to you?

If it should be questioned
I can feel the heat
Man her reflection
Stops you in the street

Feel too good
What can you do
Can't seem to control myself
So how can I talk to you?

(Feel too good)
I feel too good
(What can you do)
What can you do, what can you do
(Can't seem to control myself)
So how can I talk to you

Feel too good
(Feel too good)
What can you do
(What can you do, what can you do)
Can't seem to control myself
So how can I talk to you?

I feel too good
Feel too good
I feel too good
What can you do?


LIGHTNIN' NEVER STRIKES TWICE
(Rick Price / Mike Tyler)

Let the wind blow you out of my memory
Let the rain wash you out of my eyes
Too many bad times loving you
Now I gotta realise
That I can throw you right out of my mind
And put you right back in your place
Cos lightnin' never strikes twice in the same place

I can live without loving you
Carry on in the same old way
Do anything that I wanna do
Say what I wanna say
Cos I can throw you right out of my mind
And put you right back in your place
Cos lightnin' never strikes twice in the same place

Lightnin' strike
Lightnin' strike

Your kind of woman just drags me down
Wanna put on a ball and chain
I was king till you took my crown
I wanna win it back again
Cos I can throw you right out of my mind
And put you right back in your place
Cos lightn; never strikes twice in the same place

Lightnin' strike
Lightnin' strike


THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S LETTUCE
(Roy Wood & Jeff Lynne)

The Duke Of Edinburgh's Lettuce
(Amazing)
Come on now
Show us your lettuce
Lets get it out
Ohhh, it's big innit
Like a big green twash…


Goodnight.

 

 

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