Carl Marsh: Lyrics to "Too Much Fun"

Too Much Fun:
Every Bone In My Body / Let Me Sleep Beside You / Shadow To Shadow / Garden Of Earthly Delight / Here Comes The Crush / Hold Me Up / Sweet Rain / Big Blues / Once Is Too Much For Me.

All songs published by Blue Mountain Music, except: 'Angel Pavement' and 'Sweet Rain' published by Blue Mountain Music/Virgin Music; 'Here Comes The Crush' and 'Big Blues' published by Blue Mountain Music/Ten Music; and 'Let Me Sleep Beside You' published by Westminster Music Limited.

All songs written by Carl Marsh except the following: 'Let Me Sleep Beside You' by David Bowie, 'Angel Pavement' and 'Sweet Rain' by Carl Marsh/David Barratt, 'Here Comes The Crush' and 'Big Blues' by Carl Marsh/Lu Edmonds. Songwriting credits are given on the LP label only; the BMI website confirms them and also lists some other songs from this period which never got released.

Lyrics reproduced without permission.

• Every Bone In My Body
  
  Cream soda baby
  Cheekbones and eyes
  A wave on a rise
  Mid-sixties french
  I'd call her maybe
  A butter-blonde sun
  Shockwave and gun
  My sixth sense
  Silver and scandalised
  My night time is vandalised
  And how'd you do this to me
  My secrets are history honey
  
  Every bone in my body gets broken over you
  Every bone in my body will learn and see it through
  Every bone in my body if I only could have known
  Every bone in my body could've left you alone
  
  All blown away
  Cracked up inside
  A rough kind of ride
  Blue love grenade
  I might even be
  Forgiven my sins
  If she would sing
  My serenade
  Wicked and worldly wise
  Savage but organised
  And now here's another thing
  My dignity's dying darling
  
  Every bone in my body gets broken over you
  Every bone in my body will learn and see it through
  Every bone in my body if I only could have known
  Every bone in my body could've left you alone
  
  
• Let Me Sleep Beside You
  [Written by David Bowie. Bowie's original lyrics differ slightly from Carl Marsh's version as reproduced here.]
  
  Baby baby brush the dust of youth from off your shoulder
  Because the years of threading dasies lie behind you now
  Don't return to fields of green where rainbow secrets were told
  Place your ragged doll with all the toys and paints and beads
  I will show you games where the winner never wins
  Let your hair hang down
  Wear the dress your mother wore
  Let me sleep beside you
  
  Lock away your childhood and throw away the key
  For now the streets and city sounds will burn your eyes as coals
  You shall drink the oldest wine and velvet skies shall linger
  Child you're a woman now your heart and mind are free
  I will hold a lighted lamp and we shall walk together
  So let your hair hang down
  Wear the dress your mother wore
  Let me sleep beside you
  
  Your darkened eyes grow misty
  And your lips are void of mystery
  You could not imagine
  That it could happen this way could you
  
  I will give you dreams and I'll tell you things you'd like to hear
  So let your hair hang down
  Wear the dress your mother wore
  Let me sleep beside you
  
  Let me sleep beside you
  Let me sleep beside you
  
  
• Shadow To Shadow
  
  A narrow way
  Sweet diversion
  Perfect crime
  The way to heaven
  It's a charmed life
  Off the warpath
  Could be right there
  If you'd only ask
  I know this day will pass just like any day
  I know the morning will leave us alone
  But until then we can breathe along together
  And until then we can stay
  
  Arm in arm
  Lips to fingertips
  Shadow to shadow
  And heart to heart
  Arm in arm
  Lips to fingertips
  Shadow to shadow
  And heart to heart
  
  Could be the same
  This way forever
  It could be different
  It's your desire
  I don't want it
  As an accident
  A long slide
  Into your heart
  I know this love we have could kill us that's how deep it is
  I know these moments could crack us apart
  But until then we can lean on them together
  And until then we can stay
  
  Arm in arm
  Lips to fingertips
  Shadow to shadow
  And heart to heart
  Arm in arm
  Lips to fingertips
  Shadow to shadow
  And heart to heart
  
  
• Angel Pavement
  
  I travel light
  I fly close to the ground
  The passing out parade is coming round round round
  We're up from the basement
  We're covered in dust
  This is no time to keep the dreambox shut
  So stay close to me
  Stay under my wing
  The saints of the latterday are doin' their thing
  
  Out on angel pavement
  There's a thing divine
  It's the ground you walk on
  Angel pavement is mine
  
  I've been researching
  Here's what I found
  The sound of a whisper written down down down
  So casually spellbound
  So cool in disgust
  A scavenger supercharged and on its way up
  I guess you could say
  Should destiny ring
  The queen of tomorrow is kissing her king
  
  Out on angel pavement
  There's a thing divine
  It's the ground you walk on
  Angel pavement is mine
  
  It's a holy indiscretion
  And you take what you find
  It's not a heavenly system
  But angel pavement is mine
  
  So sad living for just one day
  Never know just what you might find (life can shine)
  Now you know the way to walk an angel
  Get it pure and get it well refined
  
  
• Garden Of Earthly Delight
  
  When she tracked me down
  I stayed in and locked her out
  I stood upon my rights and I said nothing
  But I know that by tonight
  With the failing of the light
  I'll be begging of her please to give me something
  
  I will go to her
  Plead with her tonight
  She may take me down
  To the garden of earthly delight
  
  Ready for the trial
  Shredding all the files
  Throwing all my life into recession
  A marginal surprise
  In this testament of lies -
  She couldn't see the point of my confession
  
  I will be her road
  Walk on me tonight
  I will lead her down
  To the garden of earthly delight
  
  Come take me down into the garden
  Come take me down I want to
  Go down with you into the garden
  Come take me down why don't you
  
  At the moment I receive
  Everything I need
  She escapes to somewhere I can't follow
  When I get left alone
  In the temperamental zone
  I have to get to somewhere dark and hollow
  
  She may throw me down
  She may take my life
  She may bury me
  In the garden of earthly delight
  
  
• Here Comes The Crush
  
  Some people up above
  Wear hats that fit like gloves
  One hawk for every dove
  There's a ghost train in a tunnel of love
  Some things I do insist on
  One drink that I get pissed on
  A big stereo beatbox system
  One job you sprain your wrist on
  
  I'm tender and tough
  I love this rush
  I stutter and blush
  Step it up - here comes the crush
  
  Some measure of collusion
  Makes mileage from confusion
  Deliberate indecision
  You gotta brace up for the big collision
  Such charming English whimsy
  Some people seem so friendly
  One ticket might just win me
  Psychotic killing frenzy
  
  I'm tender and tough
  I love this rush
  I stutter and blush
  Step it up - Here comes the crush
  
  Some people up above me
  Take turns and say they love me
  This could all start to bug
  Me if I wasn't quite so hungry
  Between the sky and sea
  There's something there for me
  
  Step it up - here comes the crush
  
  Between the roof and floor
  There's things I'm looking for
  
  Step it up - here comes the crush
  
  Between the head and feet
  Operating on the beat
  
  Step it up - here comes the crush
  Step it up - here comes the crush
  Step it up - here comes the crush
  Step it up - here comes the crush
  Step it up - here comes the crush
  
  
• Hold Me Up
  
  Stop right here
  Review the situation
  All the lovers out of time
  A nation in decline
  Hold me up
  Set me an example
  Defenders of the faith
  Behind the lines
  
  Hold me up I'm shakin' like a body gone
  Hold me up and keep me whole
  Hold me up oh please be there when things go wrong
  Help me out come take control
  
  Look out now
  Things are boiling over
  There's a devil out there somewhere
  Filling empty heads and hands
  Sort this out
  I need personal preotection
  Poltergeists and phone freaks
  Are screwing up my plans
  
  Hold me up I'm shaking like a body gone
  Hold me up and keep me whole
  Hold me up oh please be there when things go wrong
  Help me out come take control
  
  Temper the wind for the shorn lamb
  Drive the devil off the land
  Meltdown mercy memory hole
  Come on - take control
  
  Him on her
  Ham on rye bread
  Keep it straight
  And see it through
  No safety net
  No edge to this religion
  Everybody baptized
  With vitriol and glue
  
  Hold me up I'm shaking like a body gone
  Hold me up and keep me whole
  Hold me up oh please be there when things go wrong
  Help me out come take control
  
  
• Sweet Rain
  
  One thing at a time
  Now that guesswork
  Is all the work there is
  Rhyme reason or heresy?
  Everybody's the same
  Wet with teardrops
  Hit by circumstance
  Fame fortune and jealousy
  
  Getting caught in the act
  Lit by flashgun
  Framed in printer's ink
  Fact fiction and perjury
  Still staying alive
  Drum up business
  Work up appetite
  Knives forks and surgery
  
  Rhyme reason or heresy the quest is on
  Fame fortune and jealousy this way
  
  Let your sweet rain pour on me
  Let it pour down let it fall
  Give me sensation give me it all
  Let your sweet rain pour on me
  
  Hang a picture of health
  Lit by sunlamp
  Sprayed with aerosol
  Wealth talent and beauty
  One voice out of reach
  Never stops shouting
  Always trying to
  Preach freedom and duty
  
  Wealth and talent and beauty the quest is on
  Preach freedom and duty this way
  
  Let your sweet rain pour on me
  Let it pour down let it fall
  Give me sensation give me it all
  Let your sweet rain pour on me
  
  
• Big Blues
  
  When the evening fades away
  I feel a breath from overseas
  On a flickering old TV
  Cartoons and funerals sing to me
  Every day for an hour or so
  I see these faces quizzed
  Taking care to explain to me
  Where they'll be when the atoms kiss
  
  Why when there's a weight of faith
  Should it all be wasted
  Why when there's a weight of faith
  Should it all be thrown away
  
  Oh here we go
  Big blues
  Here we go again
  Big blues
  
  When I see who should know best
  I know I should trust knowledge less
  Even now with nothing to lose
  I feel I'm risking everything
  
  Why when there's a weight of faith
  Should it all be wasted
  Why when there's a weight of faith
  Should it all be thrown away
  
  Oh here we go
  Big blues
  Here we go again
  Big blues
  
  How did the big blues get so big
  How did they last so long so wrong
  There ain't time to ask it twice
  Get it out of my garden and get it out of my life...
  
  My mind my body my soul
  My trinity has resolved
  It'll work if we make it work
  It's as physical as oil and gold
  
  Why when there's a weight of faith
  Should it all be wasted
  Why when there's a weight of faith
  Should it all be thrown away
  
  Oh here we go
  Big blues
  Here we go again
  Big blues
  
  
• Once Is Too Much For Me
  
  There is a place of love
  I've been there frequently
  Those there are blessed in love
  Supernaturally
  But all that I could see
  Were doors all closed to me
  I had to gamble love
  Too casually
  
  I knew I could lose - I don't want that
  Fall into blue - I don't want that
  
  I guess I would know
  I've been there once
  Once is too much for me lord
  Once is too much for me
  
  While I still wait for love
  I know she's cheating me
  Though there's a case for love
  Mistreating me
  And each and every day
  While I live hope and pray
  I have to wait for love
  To come visit me
  
  I knew I could lose - I don't want that
  Fall into blue - I don't want that
  
  I guess I would know
  I've been there once
  Once is too much for me lord
  Once is too much for me
  
  

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