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Intro

  Please send me a sign

 And set me up against the rain

 And give me something I can trust

 In all the drama of change

  I followed a dream

 And if a man is born to fall

 Then let me live against my creed

 In all the filth of it all

 And I can drink my whiskey and water

 And fix folly in peace

 Cos there's a price you pay

 To live this way, its called a release

  Please drop me a line

 And send me love and sun to boot

 Cos I am idle drunk and well

 Busy with nothing to do

  This body is cold

 I have to make the grade alone

 Cos I have traveled far to find

 I need a room of my own

 Where I can

 Break kindly with Fortune

 Cos she's something to be

 She's spending Saturdays in the Baltic

 With the SSP

 And I am charged guilty as sin

 Because it hurts me to know

 That she is working so hard

 But for the joy of stock control

Instrumental verse

 But let me sing out to myself

 And polish off these bottled cries

 And send them down to Saville Row

 Cos I'm not ready to die

 But I, I'm ready to live

 Can I make it out with pride

 Play the left wing let down king

 Put out there something to hide

 And I can run to you for cover and

 We'll bury the dread

 And when the time has come for leaving

 I will love you instead

 Oh won't you sing something in minor key

 This stillness is bleak

 Oh could we dream away the guilt

 We have for the working week

 oh and in the warm arms of a stranger I'm

 Too happy to lie

 I know we've both been here before

 Just please don't ask me why

 And I have

 Walked here with you close to me

 But never alone

 But won't you cling to me in the major key

 All the joy I've known

 All the joy I've known

 Oh the joy I've known (x4)

 Lalalala-lalala (x3)

 Lalala la