Loudon Wainwright - Hard Day On The Planet

"The dollar went down and the President said
“Who’s in charge, now?” I don’t know, take your pick.
A new disease every day and the old ones are coming back
Things are looking kind of gray, like they’re going to black

Don’t turn on the TV, don’t show me the paper
(I) don’t want to know he got kidnapped or why they all raped her
I want to go on vacation ‘till the pressure lets up
But they keep hijacking airplanes and blowing them up

(Refrain)
It’s been a hard day on the planet
How much is it all worth?
It’s getting harder to understand it
Things are tough all over on earth.

It’s hot in December and cold in July
When it rains it pours out of a poisonous sky
In California the body counts keep getting higher
It’s evil out there, man that state is always on fire.

Everyone has a system, but they can’t seem to win
Even Bob Geldorf looks alarmingly thin
I got to get on that shuttle get me out of this place
But there’s gonna be warfare up there in outer space
(Refrain)
I’ve got clothes on my back and shoes on my feet
A roof over my head and something to eat
My kids are all healthy and my folks are alive
You know, it’s amazing but sometimes I think I’ll survive

I’ve got all of my fingers and all of my toes
I’m pretty well off I guess, I suppose
So how come I feel bad so much of the time?
A man ain’t an island—John Dunn wasn’t lying
(Refrain)
It’s business as usual; some things never change
It’s unfair, it’s tough, unkind and it’s strange
We don’t seem to learn; we can’t seem to stop
Maybe some explosions would close up the shop

You know, maybe that would be fine: we would be off the hook
We resolved all our problems, never mind what it took
And it all would be over, finito, the end
Until the survivers started up all over again"

George Michael - Mothers Pride

"Oh she knows
She takes his hand
And prays the child will understand
At the door they watch the men go by
in the clothes that daddy wore

Mother's pride
Baby boy
His fathers eyes
He's a soldier waiting for war
Time will come
He'll hold a gun
His father's son

And as he grows
He hears the band
Takes the step from boy to man
And at the shore she waves her son goodbye
Like the man she did before

Mother's pride
Just a boy
His country's eyes
He's a soldier waving at the shore
And in her heart the time has come
To lose a son

And all the husbands, all the sons, all the lovers gone
They make no difference
No difference in the end
Still hear the woman say your father died a hero
In the name of God and man

Mother's pride
Crazy boy
His lifeless eyes
He's a soldier now forevermore
He'll hold a gun 'till kingdom come"

Hallo Venray - Tuck The Man

"Tuck is a man
and he likes to be a man
and he knows he can love a woman that way

Tuck wants to be an actor
he doesn't mention it that much
he says it's a dream but it doesn't pay

Tuck was good at school
that's where he met his first girlfriend
and he's still with her up to this day

Tuck has a job
and he likes to work hard
and he knows he can pay the bills he has to pay

One day I'm gonna be an actor
and sing a song to the girl I'm after
I bin waiting so long I want to have her
and my love is so strong
I'll die if I won' t have her

And when I get to her lips
we'll give a kiss
and fill the emptiness
we felt so long in our hearts

she'll be the one with the sun in her eyes
she'll be the one with the sun in her eyes
she'll be the one with the sun with the sun with the sun in her eyes

Tuck is a man
and he likes to be a man
and he knows he can love a woman that way

Tuck is doing the best he can
and he says doing less
would be wrong the wrong thing to do

One day I'm gonna be an actor
and sing a song to the girl I'm after
I bin waiting so long I want to have her
and my love is so strong
I'll die if I won' t have her

And when I get to her lips
we'll give a kiss
and fill the emptiness
we felt so long in our hearts

she'll be the one with the sun in her eyes
she'll be the one with the sun in her eyes
she'll be the one with the sun with the sun with the sun in her eyes

she'll be the one with the sun in her eyes
she'll be the one with the sun in her eyes
she'll be the one with the sun with the sun with the sun in her eyes

TUCK IS A MAN"