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Artist: Graham Parker
Canonical path: /graham-parker/manoeuvres
Related lyric paths: 6
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Manoeuvres
Read Manoeuvres lyrics by Graham Parker on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Manoeuvres
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You let me in and i'll help you win
This chance must be heaven sent
You buy the time i sold you all mine
No-one knows the d. j.'s bent
I don't care if someone gets hurt
When i lose it feels like dirt
Other records, they get played,
Kick some heads in you get paid
Manoeuvres, manoeures
Baby don't ever make me wait fools and angels hesitate
My whole life is one more move too late
Here comes a man you just got to meet,
Shake his hand and kiss his feet
He claims the time is coming soon,
The first pop music on the moon
The agent of the devil's a hip shakin fool,
If he don't like you that aint cool.
He's left already that's ok
We don't need him anyway
Manoeuvres, manoeuvres
Baby don't ever don't make me wait fools and angels hesitate
My whole life is one more move too late
Manoeuvres,
Manoeuvres, manoeuvres,
Manoeuvres, manoeuvres,
Manoeuvres, manoeuvres,
Downtown l.a. madam wong's,
Someone puts a tape on a couple of songs
Advertising the place next door
Madam finds out she'll sure gets sure
Out come the coolies, swinging their lead
Get those rockers, take their heads
Those poor souls must pay the price
They wind up in tomorrow's fried rice
Man - oeu - vres, man - oeu - vres
Baby don't ever don't make me wait fools and angels hesitate
My whole life is one more move too late
Manoeuvres, manoeuvres
Baby don't ever don't make me wait fools and angels hesitate
My whole life is one more move too late
Too late
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Graham Parker performs "Manoeuvres", and this lyric page sits inside the Graham Parker catalog on LyroVerse.
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