
Date of issue: 22.04.2012
Record label: Parlophone
Song language: English
Crossfire |
Spring light in a hazy May |
and a man with a gun at the door |
Someone’s crawling on the roof above-- |
all the media here for the show |
I’ve been waiting for our friends to come |
Like spiders down ropes to free-fall |
A thirty round clip for a visiting card-- |
admit one to the embassy ball |
Caught in the crossfire on Princes Gate Avenue |
In go the windows and out go the lights |
Call me a doctor. |
Fetch me a policeman |
I’m down on the floor in one hell of a fight |
I’m just a soul with an innocent face-- |
a regular boy dressed in blue |
conducting myself in a proper way |
as befitting the job that I do They came down on me like a ton of bricks |
Swept off my feet, knocked about |
There’s nothing for it but to sit and wait |
for the hard men to get me out |
Calm reason floats from the street below |
and the slow fuse burns through the night |
Everyone’s tried to talk it through |
but they can’t seem to get the deal right |
Somewhere there are Brownings in a two-hand hold-- |
cocked and locked, one up the spout |
There’s nothing for it but to sit and wait |
for the hard men to get me out |
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Aqualung | 1990 |
Locomotive Breath | 1990 |
We Used To Know | 1997 |
Wond'Ring Aloud | 1996 |
The Whistler | 1990 |
A New Day Yesterday | 1990 |
Another Christmas Song | 2009 |
Moths | 2018 |
Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll | 1990 |
Cross Eyed Mary | 1990 |
Rocks On The Road | 2018 |
First Snow On Brooklyn | 2009 |
Bungle In The Jungle | 1990 |
Living In The Past | 1990 |
The Poet and the Painter | 2012 |
Mother Goose | 1990 |
Reason For Waiting | 2010 |
Up To Me | 1996 |
Cheap Day Return | 1996 |
A Song For Jeffrey | 1990 |