LEO SAYER

PATCHES – LIVING IN AMERICA (SINGLE 1971)

LIVING IN AMERICA
(David Courtney)

I think the folks in America
They’ve got it good in America
Living their lives from day to day
I met a man on the central line
He said to me babe we’re gonna make you fine
He told me ah he’d give me peace of mind
Ah the world it’s gonna get well
No war, no tears, no hell
I just don’t know what I’m doing here
Maybe I’ll split and yes well I’ll disappear
But the man said, get this into your head
Well I took off from platform ten
I missed the train when I get well again
God knows the shape I’m in
This world is gonna, is gonna get well
No war, no tears, no hell
Yes the world is gonna, it’s gonna get well
No war, No tears, no hell
Ah living in America
Ah living, living in America
Living in America
Living in America
Living in America
Living in America
Living in America

ROGER DALTREY – DALTREY (1972)

ONE MAN BAND
(Leo Sayer/David Courtney)

Everybody knows down Ladbroke Grove
You have to leap across the street
You can lose your life under a taxi cab
You gotta have eyes in your feet
You find a nice soft corner and you sit right down
Take up your guitar and play
Then the police come says move along
So you move along all day…
I’m a one man band
Nobody cares nor understands
Is there anybody out there wanna lend a hand
To my one man band
For three days now I haven’t eaten at all
My, my, I must be getting so thin
Soon my cap won’t be large enough
To drop a half-a-crown in
So hey there mister don’t you look so sad
Don’t look so ill at ease
I can play you any song you like
To cheer up the life you lead…
Oh I’m a one man band
Nobody cares nor understands
Is there anybody out there wanna lend a hand
To my one man band
And oh, oh, oh, look at the rain falling
Oh, oh, oh look at it rain
Nobody hears the minstrel boy
As he sings his tale of woe
Nobody sees him disappear, nobody sees him go
So hey there mister don’t you look so sad
Don’t look so ill at ease
I can play you any song you like
To cheer up the life you lead…
I’m a one man band
Nobody cares nor understands
Is there anybody out there wanna lend me a hand
To my one man band
I’m a one man band
Nobody cares nor understands
Is there anybody out there wanna lend me a hand
To my one man band
I’m a one man band
I’m a one man band
Ooh I’m a one man band
Oh I’m a one man band
Ooh one man band

YOU ARE YOURSELF
(Leo Sayer/David Courtney)

Do you wish you had the power
To be just who you wish to be
Oh you could be, a most important person,
Don’t you agree
Oh can’t you were just like strangers
I don’t know you, you don’t know me
Oh let say maybe, I’m a movie star,
And you’re the queen
You are yourself
Like everybody else
And when you realise you’re just the same,
Then you’ll be free
So do you wish to have the answer
To what I’m trying to say
Just close your eyes, and maybe you can see yourself,
And you’re OK
The world is full of lonely people
And lonely people often dream
Day by day, they dream of being someone else
Like you and me
But you are yourself
Like everybody else
And when you realise you’re just the same,
Then you’ll be free
You are yourself
Like everybody else
And when you realise you’re just the same
Then you will be free
You… you are yourself
You are yourself
You are yourself
You are yourself
You are yourself
You
You are yourself

THINKING
(Leo Sayer/David Courtney)

(Spoken)
Break his legs and give him thirty years in jail

I was just
Thinking about a girl
She meant to me the world, she meant the earth
I was just
Thinking about old times
Some are left behind, some things are gone
Thinking about your face behind my door
Thinking about the love we made on the floor
Thinking I’d like to get back to before
Get back to before
I was just
Thinking about the rain
The way the seasons change, you just can’t stop ‘em
Ooh I was just
Thinking about the sun
And you and me on the run, well we had some fun
Thinking about the world that it gets no better
Thinking about my love, I should have given more
Thinking I’d like to get back to before
Get back to before
(Solo)
Thinking about the world that it gets no better
Thinking about my love I should have given more
Thinking I’d like too get back to before
Get back to before
I was just
Thinking about a girl
She meant to me the world, she meant the earth
Oooh I was just
Thinking about the sun
And you and me on the run, we had some fun
Thinking about your face behind the door
Thinking about the love we made on the floor
Thinking about I’d like to get back to before
Thinking about the world that gets no better
Thinking about my love I should have given more

IT’S A HARD LIFE
(Leo Sayer/David Courtney)

It’s a hard life
When you feel down
And nobody understands you
They leave you hanging around
You waste all your days
Miss all your nights
Sit round just dreaming
You can’t do nothin’ right
It’s a hard life
When you’re alone
Cramped in your lonely little room
Hungry dressed just like a bone
You walk in the streets
And people are so blind
Won’t give you their pennies
No they just don’t have the time
Ooh it’s a hard life
Up on the road
You better check it out well first
Before you meet all the blows
For you won’t like the walkin’
You’ll get caught in the rain
Have to sleep out on the highway
Lord you wish you never came

GIVING IT ALL AWAY
(Leo Sayer/David Courtney)

I paid all my dues
So I picked up my shoes
I got up and walked away
Oh, I was just a boy
I didn’t know how to play
I’ve worked hard and failed
Now all I can say is
I threw it all away
Oh, I was just a boy
Giving it all away
Sail away, sail away
Ooh, well I know better now,
I know better now
Giving it all away
Oh Oh, I now better now,
I know better now
I’ve given it all away
Went out in the world
Too much for my nerves
Well only myself to blame
Oh, I was just a boy
Giving it all away
I’ve done all I can
Now it’s out of my hands
Stand on my head and say
I was just a boy
Giving it all away
Sail away, yeah, sail away
Oh, well I know better now,
I know better now
Giving it all away
Oh oh, yeah, I now better now,
I know better now
Giving it all away
Ooh, I know better now
I know better now
I’ve given it all away
Just a boy
Giving it all away
Just a boy
Giving it all away
I was just a boy
Giving it all away
Just a boy

THE STORY SO FAR
(Leo Sayer/David Courtney

You’d better
Give him up
Oh give him up
Explain it to him naturally
So he don’t get hurt
We’ve got so much left to do
And he’ll step right inside my shoes
I will leave it up to you, to you
You’d better
Give him up
Oh give him up
Explain it to him naturally
So he don’t get hurt
We’ve got so much left to do
And he’ll step right inside my shoes
I will leave it up to you
So you don’t think it’s gonna work
Don’t think it’s gonna work
Well I ask you from experience
Do you want it enough
Am I right, do I suit
Does he mean that much to you
Take him up, you know you won’t lose
(Solo)
Then I’d better give you up
Oh I’d better give you up
Go back to the lonely streets
Well I wish you both luck
Why do things always go wrong
Perhaps I lectured you too long
But then you saw through me all along, all along
So you don’t think it’s gonna work
You don’t think it’s gonna work
Well I ask you from experience
You don’t want it enough
Am I right do I suit
Does he mean that much to you
You know now that you won’t lose, you can’t lose
Ooh
(Solo)

WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS
(Leo Sayer/David Courtney)

It’s been a long hard lonely winter
I’ve been so cold and all alone
Now I don’t know what made you drop by here
But I’m so glad you came along
So when the music stops, think it over
I’ll ask the band to play your song
And when the music stops
Think it over
And maybe I can take you home
Take you home
Just in case your mind way back to last summer
Oh when the sun shone all day long
Just think of the days we spent together
Just like the music soon they’ll be gone
So when the music stops
Think it over
Before you take your things and you’re gone
And when the music stops
Think it over
And maybe I can take you home
Take you home
I’ll take you home
Take you home
Oh I’ll take you home
Take you home
Take you home
Take you home
I’ll take you home

REASONS
(Leo Sayer/David Courtney)

Reason
Oh there’s gotta be a reason
Behind the things that you do
Treasons
Find me guilty of treasons
Making evil out of good
Well I pick up my life and I turn and walk away
Well I pick up my life and I turn and walk away
Pick up my life and live for everyday
Pick up my feet and I turn and walk away
Stop
You better stop and listen
See what tomorrow may bring
Oh well it may just bring you sunshine
And it may just bring you rain
Oh well I pick up my life and I turn and walk away
Oh well I pick up my life and I turn and walk away
Oh well I pick up my life and I turn and walk away
Pick up my life and I live for everyday
Oh well I pick up my feet and I turn and walk away
(Solo)
Pick up my feet and I turn and walk away
Help
You got to help yourself
To live together with your friends
Oh well we’re all using somebody
To make it in the end
Well I pick up my life and I turn and walk away
Well I pick up my life and I turn and walk away
Well I pick up my life and live for everyday
Pick up my feet and I turn and walk away
Pick up my life and live for everyday