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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Phil Hetherington
Last Modified: 01.08.06