Chained to the Anchor of Love
This House is a house of trouble
US Foreign Policy
Long black veil
Tennessee Waltz
Old Flames
Seminole wind
Margherita
Drunk by noon
Horses
Heaven's Gate

Lyrics:

"Chained to the Anchor of Love"
by Sally Timms & Jon Langford

The sun comes up like a shadow
And the gin makes my mouth taste so stale
But I'll be drinking some more
When you've walked out that door
Chained to the anchor of love


Chorus:
Chained to the anchor of love
Chained to the anchor of love
I'm drowning deep down in the ocean
Chained to the anchor of love

There's no ships left in the harbor
And there ain't no more fish in the sea
This old (?) port in a (?) storm and a (?) knife
Chained to the anchor of love

Repeat Chorus

Then there's (?) money to last me through winter
I'll be clutching at life through a straw
Oh, to feel myself sink
Down into the drink
Chained to the anchor of love

Repeat Chorus twice

"This House Is A House Of Trouble!"
written by Marc Almond

Chorus:
Sally: This house is a house of troubles/ this house is a house of tears/ the walls shake in desperation/ it's been a prison for many a year
Marc:  This house is a house of troubles/ this house is a house of tears/ the walls shake in desperation/ it's been a prison for many a year

M:  I gave you love
S: You gave me a necklace of diamonds
M: I gave you love
S: You gave me a Mercedes Benz
S&M:  I gave you love, love, love

S: Well I thought I loved a hero, but it seems I loved a fool
M: Gee, thanks!
S: Too many times I've seen you falling drunken off your stool

I've seen you in the looking small on the floor of some dark bar
Spending all your money like the vagabond you are
You promised me a heaven, but you stuck me in a hell
You're lazy and you're indiscreet, and you're bad in bed as well

M: Well, I've had no complaints before.
S: Lipstick where I've never seen lipstick marks before
Out each night to play the field, and me I'm locked behind this door

Repeat Chorus

M: You gave me lies and deception
S: I gave you love
M: You gave me an overdraft
S: I gave you love
M: You gave me the cold shoulder
S: I gave you love
M: You gave me an icy stare
S&M: I gave you love, love, love

M: I thought I married elegant
S: You did!
M: But it seems I married cheap
Seems you found some doubtful ways to boost your
__________________________(???)
I've seen you draped in furs, but they're as fake as fake can be
They go with your complexion and your personality
Well, when things start to get bad -- your hand up to your head
Making for the tranquilizers or some boy to your bed

S: Uh, you can do it!
M: Behaving ways I've never seen a lady act before
Out each night to play the field
And me I'm locked behind my door
I gave you love
S: You gave me an elegant prison
M: I gave you love
S: You gave me a washing machine
M: I gave you love
S: You gave me nothing
M: I gave you love
S: You gave me nothing
S&M:  You gave me everything but love, love, love


Repeat Chorus

"Long Black Veil"

Ten years ago, on a cold, dark night
There was someone killed 'neath the Town hall light
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
That the man who ran looked a lot like me

She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave while the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me

The judge said Son, what's your alibi
If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life
For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife

(Refrain)

The scaffold was high and eternity near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometime at night when the cold winds moan
In a long black veil she cries over my bones

(Refrain)


"Seminole Wind"
written by John Anderson  ( or is it Jon Anderson ?)

Ever since the days of old
Men would search for wealth untold
They'd dig for silver and for gold
And leave the empty holes;
And way down south in the Everglades
Where the black water rolls and the saw grass waves
The eagles fly and the otters play
In the land of the Seminole;

So blow, blow Seminole wind
Blow like you're never gonna blow again;
I'm callin' to you like a long-lost friend
But I don't know who you are;
And blow, blow from the Okeechobee
All the way up to Micanopy    (pronounced: Meh-can-o-pee)
Blow across the home of the Seminole
The aligator and the gull
                               
Progress came and took its toll
And in the name of flood control
They made their plans and they drained the land
Now the Glades are goin' dry
And the last time I walked in the swamp
I stood up on a cyprus stump
I listened close and I heard the ghost
Of Oseola cry

So blow, blow Seminole wind
Blow like you're never gonna blow again;
I'm callin' to you like a long-lost friend
But I don't know who you are;
And blow, blow from the Okeechobee
All the way up to Micanopy    (pronounced: Meh-can-o-pee)
Blow across the home of the Seminole
The aligator and the gull

Margherita

(Can't figure out some of the words here and there, especially when Sally goes off singing falsetto in the chorus)

Death was riding on the bus with me tonight
His touch on my shoulder made my blood like ice
My hands were not shaking as he took me to one side
And said in a calm voice that earlier I'd died

The sea turns black and _____  splashes with the laughter of a girl
Misery and unhappiness have turned me into a witch
That hell of a marriage that bound us like blind sheep
Now a thousand shattered mirrors, the image of you fades

Chorus:
Love festers inside us, and fills up our skin with poison and fear
But under the earth with _____________ and teeth marks
__________________________________________________
'Til you come and __________________________________.


Repeat first verse.
Repeat chorus.

Drunk By Noon  (Lyrics by Rennie Sparks)

There once was a poodle who thought he was a cowboy,
But he lived in a cage the size of his thumb.
And, though his white horse was a box of toothpicks,
He galloped around until hit by a car.

Sometimes I flap my arms like a hummingbird
Just to remind myself I'll never fly.
Sometimes I burn my arms with cigarettes
Just to pretend I won't scream when I die.

If my life was as long as the moon's,
I'd still be jealous of the sun.
If my life lasted only one day,
I'd still be drunk by noon.

Sometimes I can't wait to come down with cancer.
At least then I'll get to watch TV all day.
And on my deathbed I'll get all the answers
Even if all my questions are taken away.

If my like was as long as the moon's,
I'd still be jealous of the sun.
If my life lasted only one day,
I'd still be drunk by noon.

U.S. Foreign Policy
(from the Sally Timms' "It Says Here" CD EP)

I was young, I was strong
I was ready to try anything
Day after day, week by week
Spent under fire
The ones who cheated death
Feasted and rejoiced
Like they would never die
But some of us knew better
Some of us could read between the lines

Nothing else matters
Here they come again
Tears in the rain

So we left long ago
And felt the heat that melted
?______________?
Walls of steel rising up
Bursting right above the harbor
Miles of ancient forests burn
Laser beams explode in the stormy sky
Beauty and majesty and suppertime
?_______________? the worlds collide

Nothing else matters
Here they come again'
Tears in the rain

Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You
written by Hugh Moffatt & Pebe Sebert

Downtown tonight I saw an old friend someone who
I used to take comfort from long before I met you
And I caught a spark from her eyes of forgotten desire
With a word or a touch, I could have rekindled that fire

CHORUS:
But old flames can't hold a candle to you
No one can light up the night like you do
Flickering embers of love I've known one or two
But old flames can't hold a candle to you

Sometimes at night I think of old lovers I've known
I remember how holding them helped me not feel so alone
Then I feel you beside me and even their memories are gone
Like stars in the night lost in the sweet light of dawn

CHORUS:
Old flames can't hold a candle to you
No one can light up the night like you do
Flickering embers of love I've known one or two
But old flames can't hold a candle to you

Old flames can't hold a candle to you

c 1978 Rightsong BMI

"Tennessee Waltz"
Words and Lyrics by Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King

I was dancin' with my darlin' to the Tennessee Waltz
When an old friend I happened to see
I introduced him to my loved one
And while they were dancin'
My friend stole my sweetheart from me
I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz
Now I know just how much I have lost
Yes, I lost my little darlin' the night they were playing

"Horses"
by Sally Timms and Jon Langford

I'd be riding horses if they let me
Sleeping outside at night and not take fright
I would ride the range and never worry
I would disappear into the night

Chorus:
Everybody needs an angel
But here's that devil by my side
Death's head ring upon his fingers
Poor boy hanging on your life

They'd be drawing straws in the courtroom
As a sudden twilight turns to black
Torches burn into the sad eyes
On the wrong side of the track

Make those horses jump through hoops of flame
They won't kick and they won't --------- (scare?)
Let the good lord do the driving
Poor boy sinking in the --------- (?)

I can smell the camp fires burning
But I'll go out walking on my own
By day and night the world keep turning
Frightened people hiding in their homes

Repeat Chorus

"Heaven's Gate"
(mistakenly labeled as "My Pet Pony" on the outer sleeve) by Sally Timms and Jon Langford

I'll buy me a future with my back to the bow
Proud as a lion and sick as a cow
I'll settle for anything short of a war
But I'm not going down to the turnpike no more

Like shillings through fingers I've been there before
Trading in blood and jealousy sores
Now all the fine ladies and dull stupid men
Will never drive out to the country again

I look like a baby and dress like a whore
The devil blows kisses through my bathroom door
He's holding a ticket and a silver-tipped cane
But I'll never go down to the railroad again

He came in the winter and left in the spring
Wrote me a letter and gave me a ring
(Blinking?) ____________ like horses we tug on the rein
But I'll never go down to the turnpike again

In the old market there's rubbish to tend
God is a genius, God is my friend
'Cause we're moved by forces like rivers and rain
I'll never go down to the turnpike again

Their hats are pulled down to cover their eyes
All dressed in silver to with guns at their side
In lipstick and perfume I'll take my last ride
Down in the graveyard to take me a bride

The land of milk and honey (Scout CD 1995) Sally Timms