John Cale live in Groningen - February 28, 2025
Fear Is A Man's Best Friend - John Cale

Lyrics

MiXology (volume 1)

MiXology (volume 1)

  1. Clap Clap (Vinyl Version)
  2. I Know You're Happy (feat Tei Shi) (Chill Mix)
  3. Long Way Out of Pain (feat Tony Allen)
  4. 1000 Years (Vinyl Version)
  5. Invention of Language
  6. The Adventures of SupaCane
  7. Standing Next To You (Vinyl Version)

Clap Clap

Put your hands together and your eyes closed
Put your hands together
Put your hands together

There's a creep in the bathroom
With a broken nose
Keep your hands together

There's a priest in the backroom
With a broken nose

(Clap clap)

She was hanging out to dry
She was on the outside
We were looking everywhere but here

Put your hands together and your eyes closed
Put your hands together and your eyes closed
And your eyes closed and your eyes closed
Put your hands together

(Give it up, give it up, give it up...)

You're here you're there you're here
You're here you're there and everywhere
But now you're here with me

If you find a way if you find the way
If you find the way if you find the way
If you know the difference between here and there

We're together with our eyes closed
We're together
We're together with your eyes closed
We're together
We're together (if you find a way)
We're together (if you find a way)
We're together

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I Know You're Happy

I can't be your hero, don't wanna be your fool
Always sympathetic, playing by your rules
you're happy when, I'm sad
I know you're happy when, I know you're happy when, I'm sad
Always

Will your poison save me, will it burn me down
Will our hearts be transplanted, will you show me how

Congratulations, I know you're satisfied
You've been discovered, since you were on my mind
Always, always, playing by your rules

I know you're happy when, I know you're happy when, I'm sad
I know you're happy when, I know you're happy when, I'm sad

Can you save me, save me, save me

Will your poison save me, will it burn me down
Will our hearts be transplanted, ill you show me how
Will your poison save me, will it burn me down
Will our hearts be transplanted, will you show me how

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Long Way Out of Pain

When you were out on safari
Did you kill anything
Did the mighty stay fallen
Were the rhinos running the play

You see the life of the rabbit
Gets smaller and smaller each day
I've got a hole in my body
My teeth are sharp on display

No noise escapes it
It sits there day by day
You're sitting close to the mad hatter
And the malice he displays
It had a price back in those days
From the long way out of pain
Long way out of pain
Long way out of pain
Long way out of pain

You see the life of the rabbit
Its getting shorter everyday
When you are out on safari
Did you kill anything
Did the mighty stay fallen
And were the rhinos running the play

Long way out of pain
Long way out of pain
Long way out of pain
Its the price for making changes
The price is getting crazy these days
The price is getting crazy these days
The price is getting crazy these days
The price is getting crazy these days

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1000 Years (Vinyl Version)

(A thousand years...)
(Mist mist mist mist...)

A thousand years under ice
Everything is very still

Nothing has moved since we got here
Hemmed in by mistake

(Thousand years...)

Words and conversations
Steam on glass
Looking out at summers passed
(Looking out at summers passed)

(Growl, howl, growl, howl)

Daylight getting longer
Darkness doesn't exist
No one casts a shadow
Peering through the mist

At the upturned horse drawn carriage
The upturned horse drawn carriage
The upturned horse drawn carriage
The upturned horse drawn carriage

(Thousand years...)

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Invention of Language

I'm a man and I'm here
Moving the heart
Wherever I find it
Wherever I hear it
Take me away for now

Take me away from all I know
I'll give it back to you
Here I am and I can see
Another way from this insanity

I'm a man and I'm here
Moving the heart
Wherever I find it take me away
Take me away from all I know

Here I'm standing alone
And I'm waiting to see
What my life will be
What my life will be

I've heard it before
And I'm starting to see
I'm hoping for the best
That you bring out in me

And I'm starting to see
And I'm hoping for the best
The best that you bring out in me

I'm a man, I'm a man
And I'm here
I'm a man, I'm here
Moving the heart

Leave it alone, only time will tell
Leave it alone, let it be
Leave it alone, here is where I stand
Here is where I'll be
Leave it alone, my heart belongs to me
Leave it alone, I'm me
Leave it alone, leave me alone
The gang is all here

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The Adventures of SupaCane

SupaCane I want you
SupaCane I need you
SupaCane I want you

SupaCane I want you
SupaCane I need you
SupaCane I see you now

SupaCane (SupaCane)
SupaCane I want you now
(I need to save the day
Need you to save the day)
I want you now

Man of the hour
Man of the day
You need to save the day
Need you to save the day
Need you to save the day
Need you

SupaCane I want you
SupaCane I need you
SupaCane I want you

(I need you now)
SupaCane I want you
SupaCane I need you
SupaCane I need you now
Don't put me on again

I am the man of the hour
I'm the man of the day (today is another day)
I'm the man of the year
I need to save the day (need you)

SupaCane I want you
SupaCane I need you

I'm the man of the hour
I'm the man of the hour

(I'm the man of the hour
I'm the man of the day
I'm the man of the year for now)

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Standing Next To You

As I lay me down
And I say goodnight
The town is now asleep

Now my day is done
And autumn leaves me here
Without many words to say

Standing next to you
Standing next to you
Standing, standing next to you

Now I have been told
That my heart is strong
And it leads me on my way
So I leave it there
And before we know
Our souls are left behind

Standing next to you
Standing next to you
Standing, standing next to you

If we should carry
The weight of many
We make a columbine

Standing next to you
Standing next to you
Standing, standing next to you

Standing next to you
Standing next to you
Standing, standing next to you

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