Soho Songs

This is after midnight
Anything can happen
We might fall in love
We could find a doctor to pop the potion
But we just might get ripped off
This is Sloanes and hobos
Helping each other out for a bit of brown
This is you and me
Inside out in the middle of the town
And we don't believe in anything unless anything believes in us
So, the girl on the door gets a lift with a limousine straight back to Kings Cross
Yeah, we get a lift from whatever we find
Yeah, we really work each other up in our prime
And surfing channels is a waste of time

We just get inside out you know

We're just looking out
And waiting for a wave to waste the wreck we're in
What's the worth in worrying at all
There's always someone who knows your pin
Yeah, all you need is love, but I've still got hope
I've still got hope
This is all we've got, so let us not
Forget to say a prayer to whatever substitute you use
That gets you clean out of your head
There's no Great Escape or hidden agenda
You've got to keep moving through the crowds
You've got to face the world or lose

We just get inside out you know

MARINA

Marina's on the door again
She's calling in the boys from the rain
She'll show you a show. If you got no where to go

One week shy of 53. Clutching books on numerology
There's leak in her heart. She's got nothing to start

And its easy to feel the cold when you think that you're no one
And it's hard to see places when faces don't come out to show one

So Marina is dancing all alone
Like queen Elizabeth on a fag break down the road
And she's dreaming of a summer that has no rain
To take her away from the boys in the line and the girls on the game

Her son she says is good with cars
Others say he's behind bars
She won't hear what they told her
One day he'll pull up in a Roller
Her daily highlights picking out scents
The stingers bring 'em down in price
It's a treasure chest in polythyne
She really loves the latest Calvin Klein

So Marina is dancing all alone
Like queen Elizabeth on a fag break down the road
And she's dreaming of a summer that has no rain
To take her away from the boys in the line and the girls on the game

JIMMY DODGER

I don't want to see this anymore again
Thank heavens I've not seen it happen to a friend
Here comes jimmy dodger, he stung me once before
His sleeping bag's his mother
He only lives to score
And I said hey man what's your tipple?
He said cocktail of white and brown
Are you pipe and foil? He said: no I boil 'em together
And pump 'em down.
Disappearing at 23.
I don't know why I tried to
Help him I was drunk
I told him all the same I said:
You know the spirit is stranger than junk.
And he'll never know what lies in his soul
But whatever it is keeps him going.
But jimmy forgets there was a time he use to let
Angels help him to grow his, help him get to know his.

LIFE IN A DAY

There's a girl on the door and she's flaunting her all
At the shy passers by who'll pay all she affords
It was only supposed to be a short stint in the industry
Now she does a rock round the clock for the dough she affords
It's taking her mind off the hoards
And it's breaking her heart

Jo's just gone and blown her life in a day

She's stopped writing letters to mummy and her purse is so light
It's that tight, she can't buy the stamps
She's through with freebasing and now she's just chasing
And chasing, the big city ain't what it seems any more
She's high but she don't know what for
And it's breaking my heart

Jo's just gone and blown her life in a day
She's scratching around like a rat
Yeah, she's out of her head
She just can't go on, so she's gone and got a gun
And pumped herself full of lead

Jo's just gone and blown her life in a day