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Maxwell Saxty
Just Once in my Life
I wanna to listen to Beefheart while looking up at the northern lights
Take you Dancing on a Mississippi steamboat on a starry starry night
Topkapi museum, Taj Mahal and Jellystone park
All these things I’d like to try
Just once in my life
Before I die
Check out the Apollo in downtown Harlem
Or hear Pavarotti way down in Covent Garden
Maybe I’ll just Sit in with a kicking little band at Ronnie Scott’s
All these things I’d like to try
Just once in my life
Before I die
Go see Michelangelo in Florence, Van Gogh and Monet getting down at Le Louvre in style
Make love on a sweltering afternoon, whilst drifting slowly down the Nile
Smoke a cigar in Havana, I think that’ll make you smile
All these things I’d like to try
Just once in my life
Before I die
Have breakfast with Tiffany, lunch’s a salt beef bagel in Brick Lane
Let’s go for dinner at La Gavrouche let Michel Roux Junior take the blame
Take the time to learn more magic tricks for the kids
All these things I’d like to try
Just once in my life
Before I die
What’s to stop me Water skiing around Sydney Harbour
Take me to the Mardi Gras, I Might even Learn to cha cha cha
Then we’ll Listen to the jazz on Basin St. ‘til it’s real late and our time to sleep
All these things I’d like to try
Just once in my life
Before I die
April in Paris, Autumn in New York
Dance naked in the rain on some plain way over in Spain
Why I want to do all this stuff I really really really can’t explain
There’s all these things I’d like to try
Just once in my life
Before I die.
Song Lyrics by Maxwell Saxty
Just Another Ordinary Day
Intro
Oo oo, ha ha, he he, yeah yeah
I read the news today oh boy
A president presents himself as Jesus
Everyone can tell he’s a batshit loon
But he’s still got his finger on that trigger of doom
Lonely politicians attack one another
While our world’s getting blown away
we stare at screens in endless wonder
Is this really just another ordinary day
It’s Just an ordinary day
Just another ordinary day
It’s Just an ordinary day
Just another ordinary day, today
Them Royals, post their inane tittle tattle
Always trying to grab my attention
While the disgraced prince hides away
with his enormous teddy bear collection
I met a woman sleeping on the street last night
In this really most affluent of towns
She said another food bank opens here today
Well, what more do I have to say
It’s Just an ordinary day
Just another ordinary day
It’s Just an ordinary day
Is this Just another ordinary day, today
Instrumental break
I heard the war planes again last night
Heading in a Middle Eastern direction
And still “you don’t believe me when I say
Can’t you see We’re on the eve, eve of destruction “
It’s Just an ordinary day
Just another ordinary day
It’s Just an ordinary day
Just another ordinary day, today
Oo oo, ha ha, he he, oh yeah
Song Lyrics by Maxwell Saxty
Whether
Whether I am or whether I’m not
Whenever I move or whether I stop
Whether I do or whether I don’t
Whether I will or I won’t
Whether I dare or whether I daren’t
Whether I can or whether I can’t
Whether I’m weak or feeling strong
Whether I’m right or wrong
Chorus:
Whatever the whethers
I’ll always be making it back to you
Whatever the weather
It’s me that will see you through
Whether they did, whether they didn’t
Whenever they said it couldn’t be done
If ever I felt I couldn’t go on
Or feared I might have got it wrong
Whether it’s sooner or whether it’s later
I need to come find you wherever you are
Early in the morning or late afternoon
Whenever I get there it can’t be too soon
Chorus:
Whatever the whethers
(you know) I’ll always make it back to you
Whatever the weather
It’s me that will see you through
By Maxwell Saxty