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This songbook contains all the songs Graham Gouldman has written or co-written throughout his career.  Titles written in  this colour are      from Graham Gouldman's solo-albums or written by 'Graham Gouldman-the-composer' for other groups or artists than 10cc.   Titles written in thiscolour are from the 10cc-catalogue. Titles written in this colour are from the Wax- or Common Knowledge-catalogue. Lyrics of titles with this * mark may need correction. We are still searching for lyrics to complete this songbook.  If you are in possession of the lyrics to the titles in this colour, please send a copy to the webmaster. Also adress to the webmaster if you have any remarks to make. Eternal gratitude and a place for your name in the  Graham Gouldman Virtual Hall of Friends will be your part.
 

Pamela, Pamela  (1966)
(Gouldman)

Pamela, Pamela
Remember the days
Of inkwells and apples
And books and school plays
Where little Brer Rabbit kissed Pooh in the wood
And Fluff was the cat that sat on the rug
Oh, Pamela
I remember so well

When Laurel and Hardy were shown at the flicks
With sticky red lollies on splintery sticks
Pigtails and ribbons and crushes on miss
Secret discussions about a first kiss
But you were young
And everything was new
Impatient to do things you couldn't do
Oh, Pamela, Pamela
You started to grow
Answers to questions you wanted to know

When the rest of your childhood
Forgets as a dream
And the harshness of life
Dims those peaches and cream

When Laurel and Hardy were shown at the flicks
With sticky red lollies on splintery sticks
Pigtails and ribbons and crushes on miss
Secret discussions about a first kiss
But you were young
And everything was new
Impatient to do things you couldn't do
 
 

Pawnbroker     (1968)
(Gouldman)

Under the sign of the old pawnbroker
There rest a man with a passed succes
All that I value is in his keeping
He is the guardian
Of everything I posess

Trophey's inscribed with my name in honor
Medals for races that I have won
Prizes for fights in which I was victor
So what th hell I say
What's gone is gone
All is gone

In on monday out on friday
I'm the only one to blame
Waiting for that Thursday's payday
Every week it's just the same

Behind the grill wearing gold-rimmed glasses
The old man values the cost of fears
Trumpets, guitars, early concertina's
Assigned orchestra's
Lamenting for wasted years

In on monday out on friday
I'm the only one to blame
Waiting for that thirsty payday
Every week it's just the same

Under the sign of the old pawnbroker
Trail all the losers in life's contest
Some hurry back to redeem their pledges
My promise, I'll redeem, the day that I'm laid to rest

In on monday out on fiday
I'm the only one to blame
Waiting for that thirsty payday
Every week it's just the same

Under the sign of the old pawnbroker
There rest a man with a passed succes
All that I value is in his keeping
He is the guardian
Of everything I posess
Everything I posess
Everything I posess
 
 

Peace In Our Time   (1995)
(Gouldman/Pigott)

Thank you for the gift
The freedom to wonder
In search of the light
Are we gonna let it shine
Forgiveness is the key
The perfect emotion
Will you show us the way
To peace in our time

Where the wild wind blows
The deserts are shiftin'
And the seed will grow
In the sands of time
From the darkest night
A new day is dawning
It's a long long way
To peace in our time

Ooh, tell me where can we find
Peace in our - in our time
Where can we find
Peace in our time

From a distant shore
Voices are crying
Can you hear them call
Are we gonna light their way
Salvation is the key
We have to keep tryin'
What we need right now
Peace in our time

Ooh, tell me where can we find
Peace in our - in our time
Where can we find
Peace in our time

Thank you for the chance
To light up the darkness
Leading the way
Show us to the promised land
Tear down these walls
That keep us imprisoned
What we're prayin' for
Is peace in our time

Ooh, tell me where can we find
Peace in our - in our time
Where can we find
Peace in our time
 

People all over this world (1997)

Here in this world there are all kinds of people
All kinds of problems to solve every day
Too much at stake for the work to be unequal
You can't fight for peace in a battle-zone
You can't find solutions while standing alone

People all over this world gonna have to help each other
'Cause people all over this world have to live with one another
If people all over this world, every colour, creed and nation
Found a common path

What a world we'd have, it's not imagination
Fighting for money and fighting for power
Fighting for land you don't need anyway
Hate and confusion in Babylon's tower
Making no effort to better yourself
Misunderstanding everyone else

People all over this world gonna have to help each other
'Cause people all over this world have to live with one another
If people all over this world, every colour, creed and nation
Found a common path

What a world we'd have, it's not imagination
What's the matter when we really need to band together
How would you like it if our history was lost forever?
People all over this world gonna have to help each other
'Cause people all over this world have to live with one another
If people all over this world, every colour, creed and nation
Found a common path
What a world we'd have, it's not imagination

P(eople)eace and (all) love (over) for (this) every (world) nation
P(eople)eace and (all) love (over) for (this) every (world) nation
P(eople)eace and (all) love (over) for (this) every (world) nation
P(eople)eace and (all) love (over) for (this) every (world) nation
P(eople)eace and (all) love (over) for (this) every (world) nation
P(eople)eace and (all) love (over) for (this) every (world) nation
 
 
 

People in Love   (1976)
(Gouldman/Stewart)

People in love do funny things
Walk under buses and burn their wings
People like us do nothing right
Talk to the ceiling into the night

Look at the smile in her eyes
I knew I was right in my bones
I feel the turnin' of wheels as it grows

Look at my face in her eyes
Am I right, am I wrong
She's given me butterflies all along

Ooh sitting alone in the dark
Ooh feeling you close to me
We're in a dream
But the hands on the clock seem to know
Tell me it's time to go

People in love play silly games
Running in circles and everywhere
People like us can make believe
Love is forever and I'll never be

Ooh sitting alone in the dark
Ooh feeling you close to me
We're in a dream
But the hands on the clock seem to know
Tell us it's time to go
 
 
 

Pictures of Paris    (1989)
(Gold/Gouldman)

Right bank left bank
Two troubled souls on a starry French night
She goes he stays
All on his own in the city of lights

All that he's left with are pictures of Paris
Memories of her on the Champs Elysees
Trashing his life on the sidewalks of Paris
She said love's dead

She walks away as he sits there in shame
Gets drunk, heart sunk
Watching his dreams as they float down the Seine

All that he's left with are pictures of Paris
Memories of her on the Champs Elysees
Trashing his life on the sidewalks of Paris
Cafes soirees

He should feel happy but now its all wrong
Bells peel but now he feels more like
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

All that he's left with are pictures of Paris
Memories of her on the Champs Elysees
Trashing his life on the sidewalks of Paris
East side West side
Back in New York he is hungry and wet
Last chance romance
Pictures of Paris are all he has left
 
 

The Power Of Love  (1982)
(Gold/Gouldman/Stewart)

Momma don't mind, cause your momma don't know
But if your poppa finds out that we're all alone
He's gonna change your mind and rearrange my bones
Cause the power of love is like a tidal wave
It can pick you up and knock you on the floor
make you do the things you never done before

Don't imagine that you're free
There's no escaping from reality
You're under the spell, under the power of love
Turn the lights down low [lights down low]
And the hi fi high [hi fi high]
Put the lock on the door, pull the curtains too

Don't want the world to know, I'm getting close to you
Well you never see it [never see it]
But you sure can feel it [sure can feel it]
And if you get the taste, you get the hunger pains
You'll be hooked for life, never be the same

Everybody's gonna see
There's no escaping from the mystery
You're under the spell, under the power of love
The power of love [power of love]
The power of love [power of love]
The power of love [power of love]

So you're sitting in a restaurant
And you feel so nonchalant
When the waiter says "what'll it be"
You start to speak, then suddenly
A pretty girl walks 'cross the floor
You ain't thinking 'bout food - no more

'Cause the power of love is like a tidal wave
It can pick you up and knock you on the floor
make you do the things you never done before
Don't imagine that you're free
There's no escaping from reality
You're under the spell, under the power of love
The power of love [power of love]
The power of love [power of love]
The power of love [power of love]
[Repeat to fade]
 
 

The Promise   (1987)
(Gold/Gouldman)

Leaves are falling green and gold
Changing of the season
Safe and warm against the cold
Within our house new life unfolds

These are the promised days
From cradle to the grave
This is the special time
In which the light will shine

Welcome to the human world
Filled with love and hatred
Some are rich and some are poor
Unto this world our child is born

CHORUS
 

He's coming
She's coming
Someone to build a new world for us
He's coming
She's coming
To keep the promise in all of us

Heed the warning wind that blows
Ignorance and evil
Rapes the harvest that we sow
Crush te flower where it grows

CHORUS

He's coming
She's coming
 

Railroad to Heaven   (1989)
(Gold/Gouldman)

We're gonna take a trip to some new destination
I got a pair of tickets for a dream tonight
You don't know what love is like
Baby till you ride on the good love line

'Cause we'll be travellin' on a train to Paradise
Won't you pack your bags and ride the
Railroad to heaven
Steamin' through the dark
Get on the right track baby
Choo-choo round my heart
Woo-woo-woo woh yeah

I wanna be your driver wanna be your conductor
Make a reservation on the Love Express
My heart is just speedin' away
'Cause our love is like a runaway train
I don't ever want to slow this motion down

Baby we're just ridin' on the
Railroad to heaven
Steamin' through the dark
Get on the right track baby
Choo-choo round my heart
Woo-woo-woo woh yeah

Passin' cars and countin' stars
We'd watch the world go by
Let's make a locomotion
Shakin' up the floor
Just give me a little signal now Honey
All on board Ha!

Railroad to heaven
Steamin' through the dark
Get on the right track baby
Choo-choo round my heart
Woo-woo-woo woh yeah
 
 

Ready Or Not    (1987)
(Gold/Gouldman)

The time has come for you to fly on your own
You don't have to be afraid
We'll always be here to catch you when you fall
Yes you're all grown up today

So ready or not
Time to break out
Out of your shell into the blue
Spread your wings across the sky
Ready or not
Time to find out
What does the future hold for you
Fly away fly away fly away

The time has come to open your eyes
There's a brand new world to see
You've got the power to face it on your own
And fulfil your destiny

CHORUS

You gonna spread your wings
Spread your wings
Fly away and cast your fate to the wind

Remember don't look back
Don't you ever look back
Let the moment carry you

We'll always be here to catch you when you fall
Yes you're all grown up today

CHORUS

Fly away fly away fly away
 
 

Ready To Go Home   (1995)
(Gold/Gouldman)

On the street below these walls
Where I used to walk
Now I can barely crawl
All this darkness rising tall
Lord shine a light for me
I'm waiting to be called

I'm ready to go home
I'm ready to receive
Forgiveness for my sins
I'm ready to begin

Take this river to the sea
Where the Delta flows
The tide is washing over me
Guide this soul to Heaven's door
Show me where tomorrow lies
I'm waiting to be born
I'm ready to lay down
I'm ready now to sleep
A promise I must keep
I'm ready to go home

So tired I lay down
With these memories
Breathe shallow deep inside of me
If time has run its course with me
Then

I'm ready to go home
I'm ready to receive
Forgiveness for my sins
I'm ready to begin

When the evening shadows fall
When the time has come
I'll let defences fall
To surrender's to survive
I will give up everything
To those I leave behind

I'm ready to go home
I'm ready to receive
Forgiveness for my sins
I'm ready to begin
I'm ready to lay down
I'm ready now to sleep
A promise I must keep
I'm ready to go home
Again
 
 

Right Between The Eyes   (1985)
(Gold/Gouldman)

True love for me was nothing but a mystery
Just something only captured in a dream
Oh then suddenly, it was hitting me
Right between the eyes

I wasn't looking for a love explosion
But I must have been a target, my oh my
'Cause when I least expected it
Took a direct hit
Right between the eyes

You, you shattered my resistance
Yes it's true, you battered my defense
What could I do?
I'm running from the heat between me and you

You hit me with a million volts
Nailed me with a lightning bolt
Oh baby, it knocked me cold
Your love zapped me
Right between the eyes

Nothing's going to cool down my desire
'Cause I'm jumping from the fat into the fire
The love bug has bitten me
You're hittin' me
Right between the eyes
And now, each time I think about you
I don't know how, I ever did without you
Spin me round, and I'll never get my feet back on the ground

You hit me with a million volts
Nailed me with a lightning bolt
Oh baby, it knocked me cold
Your love zapped me
Right between the eyes
Oh, the power of your love is much too strong
You turn me on

You hit me with a million volts
Nailed me with a lightning bolt
Oh baby, it knocked me cold
Your love zapped me
Right between the eyes
You hit me with a million volts
Nailed me with a lightning bolt
Oh baby, it knocked me cold
Your love zapped me
Right between the eyes
 
 
 

Rise Up  (1989)
(Gold/Gouldman)

Rise up, rise up
The salt of the earth
Rise up, rise up
Celebrate the new birth
Rise up, rise up
The promise of true joy
Rise up, rise up
Will be evermore
Rise up, rise up
All brothers in arms
Rise up, rise up
Rise up rise up in storm
Rise up, rise up
The corrupt ones will fall
Rise up, rise up
Help (?)
Oh, rise up and celebrate
Let it be so
Rise up retaliate
Rise up, rise up
The day has finally come
Rise up, rise up
For this house
Rise up, rise up
Passionate and kind
Rise up, rise up
United in one mind
Oh rise up and celebrate
Lift up your hearts
Rise up retaliate
We're free now!
Rise up, rise up
The salt of the earth
Rise up, rise up
Celebrate the new birth
Rise up, rise up
The promise of true joy
Rise up, rise up
Will be evermore
Oh, rise up and celebrate
Let it be so
Rise up retaliate
Oh rise up and celebrate
Lift up your hearts
Rise up retaliate
C'mon, c'mon
Oh, rise up and celebrate
Let it be so
Rise up retaliate
Retaliate!
Rise up, rise up
Rise up, rise up
 

Rock my world (1997)

It's alright, yeah it's okay
Go ahead and rock my world
It's just fine, it's cool this way
Uhhuh there you go girl
C'mon and rock my world
I love to party, baby, all night long
Stay up with all my friends
Just chill and hang out until dawn
The party never ends

Now I'm not saying I've been a real bad boy
But girl, I ain't no saint
Yeah there's been lots of pretty girls around
But baby I hardly took the bit
Yeah I thought I had a feeling
But I didn't have a clue
Thought I had a master plan, babe
But I didn't figure on you, yeah
You came along and threw a spanner in the works

It's alright, yeah it's okay
Go ahead and rock my world
It's just fine, it's cool this way
Uh huh yeah you go girl
Rock my world... hey
I thought I'd really been in love before
Maybe a time or two
But now I realise there's so much more
And it's all because of you
(Let me give you an example)
I was happy when you met me
Thought I had it going on
Thought it couldn't get much better
But baby I was wrong yeah
You came along and threw a spanner in the works

It's alright, yeah it's okay
Go ahead and rock my world
It's just fine, it's cool this way
Uh huh yeah you go girl
Rock my world... hey
It's alright, yeah it's okay
Go ahead and rock my world
It's just fine, it's cool this way
Uh huh yeah you go girl
Rock my world... hey
Like this..

It's alright, yeah it's okay
Go ahead and rock my world
It's just fine, it's cool this way
Uh huh yeah you go girl
Rock my world... hey
It's alright, yeah it's okay
Go ahead and rock my world
It's just fine, it's cool this way
Uh huh yeah you go girl
Rock my world... hey
It's alright, yeah it's okay
Go ahead and rock my world
It's just fine, it's cool this way
Uh huh yeah you go girl
Rock my world... hey
...wow that's good!
 
 

Rock 'n' Roll Lullaby  (1976)
(Gouldman/Stewart)

Listen while I sing you to sleep
With a rock 'n' roll lullaby
Close your eyes and don't you peep
This is a rock 'n' roll lullaby
Sandman's gonna get you

Snuggle down your sleepy head
It's gettin' late the Sandman said
Your dreams are waiting
It's daybreak in the land of nod
So get to sleep you little sod
Your dreams are waiting

And if you get a nightmare
Would you go and shake your Ma
Cause your Daddy's been a workin' all day
And if you go and get a glass of water by yourself
You can show us that you're older than you are
Show us that you're older

The Sandman's gonna get you
Well you're too small to understand
You're living in a wonderland
Your dreams are waitin'
If only we could be there too
And dream a dream along with you
Your dreams are waitin'

Careful that you don't get out the wrong side of the cot
Are you gonna be an angel or a devil
You're too small to reason what is right and what is wrong
Childhood dreams are gone too fast
There's no way we can make them last
We'll always love you anyway
Any way you are
Any way you are
 
 
 
 

Rubber Bullets  (1973)
(Creme/Godley/Gouldman)

I went to a party at the local county jail
All the cons were dancing and the band began to wail
But the guys were indiscreet
They were brawling in the street
At the local dance at the local county jail

Well the band were playing
And the booze began to flow
But the sound came over on the police car radio
Down at Precinct 49
Having a tear-gas of a time
Sergeant Baker got a call from the governor of the county jail

Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets
Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets

I love to hear those convicts squeal
It's a shame these slugs ain't real
But we can't have dancin' at the local county jail

Sergeant Baker and his men made a bee-line for the jail
And for miles around
You could hear the sirens wail
There's a rumor goin' round death row
That a fuse is gonna blow
At the local hop at the local county jail

Whatcha gonna do about it, whatcha gonna do
Whatcha gonna do about it, whatcha gonna do

Sergeant Baker started talkin'
With a bullhorn in his hand
He was cool, he was clear
He was always in command
He said "Blood will flow;
Here Padre
Padre you talk to your boys..."
"Trust in me -
God will come to set you free"

Well we don't understand
Why you called in the National Guard
When Uncle Sam is the one
Who belongs in the exercise yard
We all got balls and brains
But some's got balls and chains
At the local dance at the local county jail

Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets
Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets

Is it really such a crime
For a guy to spend his time
At the local dance at the local county jail
At the local dance at the local county jail
Whatcha gonna do about it, whatcha gonna do
Whatcha gonna do about it, whatcha gonna do
 

Runaway   (1982)
(Gold/Gouldman/Stewart)

Remember I'm the one who didn't have a lot to say
I was trying to find the courage, but I let you walk away
And I can't forget your face, y'know it haunts me all the time
And it seems to me you're living in a dream

CHORUS
Wish we could run away, and we could be alone together
Far away, and leave the world behind
Runaway, what I want to say is
You're a part of me, let me be a part of you
Want to tell you what I'm thinking, but the words get in the way
When I'm sitting here alone I find the things I meant to say
If I wrote them in a letter, would you read between the lines
Would you understand how much I really care

CHORUS
[I] I love you
[Need] I need you
[You] Don't want to live without you
If I'm backward counting forward, would you help me realize
All the answers to the questions I've been asking with my eyes
I could hand you all the cliches, but you've heard them all before
And I want to say I love you in my own way

CHORUS
And could we run away...

CHORUS