 Genius Lyrics
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Billy Bragg – A Lover Sings
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You and I are victims of a love / That lost a lot in the translation / When I think of all the time that I spent / Sitting on the edge of your bed in anticipation / Of you giving
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Billy Bragg – Must I Paint You a Picture?
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It's bad timing and me / We find a lot of things out this way / And there's you / A little black cloud in a dress / The temptation to take the precious things / We have apart to
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Billy Bragg – Levi Stubbs' Tears
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This song was the first single released from Bragg’s third album, Talking with the Taxman about Poetry. Its title refers to The Four Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs, whose music
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Billy Bragg and Wilco – One by One
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[Verse 1] / One by one, the teardrops fall as I write you / One by one, my words come falling on the page / One by one, my dreams are fading in the twilight / One by one, my
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Billy Bragg – Tender Comrade
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What will you do when the war is over, tender comrade / When we lay down our weary guns / When we return home to our wives and families / And look into the eyes of our sons / What
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Billy Bragg – A New England
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Recorded and released in 1983, A New England became a hit single for Kirsty MacColl the following year.
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Billy Bragg – The Internationale
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Billy Bragg wrote the lyrics to this version of the traditional socialist anthem after discussion of the need for an updated version with Pete Seeger. His version is based on the
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Billy Bragg – Upfield
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I'm going upfield, way up on the hillside / I'm going higher than I've ever been before / That's where you'll find me, over the horizon / Wading in the river, reaching for that
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Billy Bragg – Rotting on Remand
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I stood before the Judge that day / As he refused me bail / And I knew that I would spend my time / Awaiting trial in jail / I said there is no justice / As they led me out of the
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Billy Bragg – The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
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Here we are, seeking out the Reds / Trying to keep the communists in order / Just remember when you're sleeping in your beds / They're only two days drive from the Texas border
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Billy Bragg – Rich Men Earning North of a Million
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[Verse 1] / If you're selling your soul, working all day / Overtime hours for bullshit pay / Well, nothing's gonna change if all you do / Is wish you could wake up and it not be
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Billy Bragg – Between the Wars
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[verse 1] / I was a miner / I was a docker / I was a railway man / Between the wars / [verse 2] / I raised a family / In time of austerity / With sweat at the foundry / Between the
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Billy Bragg – Deportees
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The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting / The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps / Flying us back to the Mexican border / Spend all our money to wade back again
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Billy Bragg – It Says Here
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A scathing takedown of the British press – particularly The Sun newspaper.
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Billy Bragg – Help Save the Youth of America
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This song, released in 1986, is an inversion of a popular sentiment at the time that residents of rich countries ought to contribute money and other resources to programs aiming to
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Billy Bragg – To Have and to Have Not (Live)
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Up in the morning and out to school / Mother says there'll be no work next year / Qualifications once the Golden Rule / Are now just pieces of paper / Just because you're better
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Billy Bragg (Ft. Michelle Shocked & Phill Jupitus) – Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
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[Verse 1] / It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline / But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline / Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
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Billy Bragg – Ideology
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When one voice rules the nation / Just because they're on top of the pile / Doesn't mean their vision is the clearest / The voices of the people / Are falling on deaf ears / Our
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Billy Bragg – Goalhanger
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He's got the bonhomie of a game show host / And his handshake is so limp its like meeting a ghost / His apologies are tired cos he uses them a lot / His excuses are so lame if they
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Billy Bragg – The Price I Pay
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My friend said she could see no way ahead / And I was probably better off without you / She said to face up to the fact that you weren't coming back / And she could make me happy
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Billy Bragg and Wilco – California Stars
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The lyrics to this song were written at an unknown time likely between 1940 and 1967 by Woodie Guthrie. Guthrie never recorded or wrote music for these lyrics. His estate
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Billy Bragg – Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards (Live)
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Waiting for Great Leap Forward is the final track on Billy Bragg’s 1988 album, Workers' Playtime. In the song he tells a number of stories relating to revolution, society and his
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Billy Bragg – The Marriage
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The Marriage is the third track on Billy Bragg’s 1986 record, Talking With the Taxman About Poetry.
The song deals with a male narrator trying to convince his girlfriend that
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Billy Bragg – Blake's Jerusalem
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And did those feet in ancient time / Walk upon England's mountains green? / And was the Holy Lamb of God / On England's pleasant pastures seen? / And did the Countenance Divine
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Billy Bragg – The Short Answer
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Between Marx and marzipan in the dictionary there was Mary / Between the deep blue sea and the devil that was me / If ever anyone could help me with my obsession with / The young
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Billy Bragg – St Swithin's Day
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From Billy Bragg’s second album, Brewing Up With Billy Bragg. It was later including on the collection Back to Basics.
Author David Nicholls thanked “Billy Bragg, for his fine
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Billy Bragg – The World Turned Upside Down
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Bragg’s cover of a 1975 song by Leon Rosselson called “Diggers' Song”, “The World Turned Upside Down” is a protest song and commemoration of the Diggers movement that began in
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Billy Bragg – Walk Away Renee
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She said it was just a figment of speech / And I said "You mean figure." And she said "No, figment" / Because she could never imagine it happening / But it did / When we first met
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Billy Bragg – Joe Hill
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Joe Hill born as Joel Hägglund was from Sweden. He travelled to the United States in 1902 and was very active in the early labor movement, he was a prominent union organizer and
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Billy Bragg – A Pict Song
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Rome never looks where she treads / Always her heavy hooves fall / On our stomachs, our hearts and our heads / And Rome never hears when we bawl / Her sentries pass on -- that is
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Billy Bragg – There Is Power in a Union
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Bragg’s song about protest and the right to unionize developed from the popular Civil War tune about the Union, “Battle Cry of Freedom.”
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Billy Bragg – Thatcherites
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You Thatcherites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear / You Thatcherites by name lend an ear / You Thatcherites by name, your faults I will proclaim / Your doctrines I must blame, you
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Billy Bragg – The Space Race Is Over
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When I was young I told my mum / I'm going to walk on the Moon someday / Armstrong and Aldrin spoke to me / From Houston and Cape Kennedy / And I watched the Eagle landing / On a
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Billy Bragg – The Saturday Boy
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I'll never forget the first day I met her / That September morning was clear and fresh / The way she spoke and laughed at my jokes / And the way she rubbed herself / Against the
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Billy Bragg – Brickbat
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I ought to leave enough hot water / For your morning bath, but I'd not thought / I hate to hear you talk that way / But I can't bring myself to say I'm sorry / The past is always
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Billy Bragg – Shirley
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Shirley / It's so exciting to be sleeping here in this new room / Shirley / You're my reason to get out of bed before noon / Shirley / You know when we sat out on the fire escape
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Billy Bragg and Wilco – Ingrid Bergman
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[Verse 1] / Ingrid Bergman, Ingrid Bergman / Let's go make a picture on the island of Stromboli / Ingrid Bergman / [Verse 2] / Ingrid Bergman, you're so perty / You'd make any
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Billy Bragg – The Only One
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Sometimes when you lose your way to me / I think you don't care at all / If you don't get here soon / I'll tear that clock down from the wall / Your family and friends don't
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Billy Bragg – She’s Got a New Spell
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What is that sound / Where is it coming from / All around / What are you running from / Something you don't understand / Something you cannot command / Chorus: / That's how I know
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Billy Bragg – Little Time Bomb
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One of them's off her food / And the other one's off his head / And both of them are off down the boozer / To drink a toast / To the one that he hates most / And she says there are
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