Roger Taylor - Collaborations

This page features details of Roger Taylor's collaborations with other artists. If you can provide further details, please email me.

Queen Solo Tracks
Brian May - Starfleet
Freddie Mercury - Love Kills
Freddie Mercury - The Great Pretender

Collaborations Featuring Multiple Band Members
Trax - Unknown
Ian Hunter - You Nearly Did Me In
Billy Squier - Emotions In Motion
Elton John - Too Young and Angeline
Ian & Belinda - Who Wants To Live Forever?
Rock Aid Armenia - Smoke On The Water
Hale & Pace - The Stonk
The SAS Band - That's The Way God Planned It
Paul McCartney & Various Artists - All You Need Is Love
Paul McCartney & Various Artists - Hey Jude
Taylor Hawkins - Holy Man

Other Collaborations
Al Stewart - Past, Present And Future (LP)
Eugene Wallace - Dangerous (LP)
Fox - Survival
Hilary Hilary - How Come You're So Dumb and Rich Kid Blues
Mel Smith - Mel Smith's Greatest Hits and Richard & Joey
Kansas - Right Away, Diamonds And Pearls and Play The Game Tonight
Gary Numan - Crash, You Are You Are and Moral
Debbie Byrne - Fools Rush In
Jimmy Nail - Love Don't Live Here Anymore
Fergal Sharkey - Loving You
Camy Todorow - Bursting At The Seams
Virginia Wolf - Virginia Wolf (LP) : Are We Playing With Fire? | It Tonight | Only Love | It's In Your Eyes | Waiting For Your Love | Livin' On A Knife Edge | For All We Know | Don't Run Away | Take A Chance | Goodbye Don't Mean Forever
Roger Daltrey - Under A Raging Moon
Magnum - Vigilante (LP)
Sideway Look - Bulletproof Heart (LP)
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Dancerama
Shakin' Stevens - Radio
Ian Hunter - Michael Picasso
Naked Sushi - Carnivorous Girl
Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love
Procol Harum - Shadow Boxed
The Corrs - Toss The Feathers
Hannah Jane Fox - Stalker
Band Du Lac - Say It's Not True, These Are The Days Of Our Lives, I Want To Break Free, I Can't Dance
SOS All Stars - Drum Extravaganza (on seperate page)

Some sources also suggest that Roger appears on 'Whadda You Want' by Billy Squier, 'Try To Remember' by either Yoshiki or Crystal Japan, and 'Free Me' by Roger Daltrey. However, several other sources, including the Queen Fan Club's biography, do not have any mention of these tracks, so it is likely that Roger was not involved.

Past, Present And Future (LP)
Al Stewart, 1973. Roger provided Drums on two tracks, but nobody knows which ones (not even Roger).

unknown
Eugene Wallace, 1975, from the album 'Dangerous'. Roger provided Drums on unknown tracks.
Some sources suggest that Roger plays on the title track (length 3:08), although nobody really knows.

Survival
Fox, 1975, from the album 'Tales Of Illusion'. Roger provided Backing vocals. Length 4:21.
Released as a single, but did not chart. This is a slow, acoustic track.
Length:
You know the media is getting greedier
Every word out of three is inflationary
It's getting higher, higher, higher, higher
You know the wireless can't surprise us
With a key new phrase about economy
It's getting higher, higher, higher, higher

Oh, survival is out in the garden
The answer is over the fields
You see what you are, you are what you feel
Oh, survival is out in the meadows
The answer lies under the blue
Whoever you are, whatever you do

You know the workers are in a circus
Under a big top tent of controversy
The politicians have great ambitions
Oh, to make their names in history
They wanna go higher, higher, higher, higher

Oh, survival is out in the garden
The answer is over the fields
You see what you are, you are what you feel
Survival is out in the meadows
The answer lies under the blue
Whoever you are, whatever you do

(Improvised/ad-libbed vocals)
It's getting higher, higher, higher, higher

Oh, survival is out in the garden
The answer is over the fields
You see what you are, you are what you feel
They say it's getting higher, higher, higher, higher
Higher, higher, higher, higher
Higher, higher, higher, higher
Higher, higher, higher, higher
Higher, higher, higher, higher
Higher, higher, higher, higher

How Come You're So Dumb
Hilary Hilary, 1979. Written by Roger Taylor and Hilary Vance. Length 2:38+
Roger co-wrote the track, produced, arranged, and played Guitars, Drums, Keyboards and Bass
Released as a single with 'Rich Kid Blues', but did not chart.
This track has a similar feel to 'Turn On The TV'.
Lyrics:
Hey you
This girl is wounded, she's lost all her fight
She's even stopped caring if you're home at night
She's permanently pretty, she just watches TV
Thinks about leaving, but don't wanna be free

You just work at being a jerk
Oh, how come you're so dumb
How come you're so dumb
Oh, how come, you're so dumb, how come
(You're no intellectual)

This girl is wasted, this girl is tired
This girl is crazy, nervous and wild
Gets up at seven, her life's so unfair
She's unmoved by Venus, her heart is so bare

You just work at being a jerk
Oh, how come you're so dumb
How come you're so dumb
Oh, how come, you're so dumb, how come

You've got some habits, they're all so very nice
Baby I don't mind if I was part of your vice (know what I mean)
Baby I don't mind, I'm used to wasting time
When you're the only habit that I need

Oh, how come you're so dumb, how come
Oh, how come you're so dumb, how come

Rich Kid Blues
Hilary Hilary, 1979. Length 3:06+.
Roger produced and arranged, and played Guitars, Drums, Keyboards and Bass
Released on the B-Side of 'How Come You're So Dumb', but did not chart.
Lyrics:
Having bad times, and I am paying dues
Got shoes and money and good friends too
Always play to win but always seem to lose
That's why I think I got a rich kid's blues
That's why I think I got the rich kid's blues

I know what's going on
I don't have to wait till dawn
My love just exactly what's on your mind
Show me back and I'll prove it, yeah

Was I wondering why now, did I have to blame
All the people standing by caught there in my game
Love is just a story, a story without words
Words that always never seem, never even heard

I know what's going on, yeah
I don't have to wait till dawn
My love just exactly what's on your mind
Show me back and I'll prove it, yeah

Was I wondering why now, did I have to blame
All the people standing by caught there in my game
Love is just a story, a story without words
Words that always never seem, never even heard

And I know what's going on, yeah
I don't have to wait till dawn
And I know just exactly what's on your mind
Show me back and I'll prove it, yeah
Ohh, oh, ohh, oh, oooh, oooh

Though my good times just ain't dues
I got shoes and money and good friends too
Always play to win, I always seem to lose
That's why I think I got a rich bitch blues
That's why I think I got a rich kid's blues

Mel Smith's Greatest Hits
Mel Smith, 1981. Roger provided Backing vocals and Production. Length 3:09.
Released as a single, b/w Richard & Joey, but it failed to chart.
The title of the track is 'Mel Smith's Greatest Hits', although the actual lyric is 'Julie Andrews' Greatest Hits'.
Lyrics:
I wanna dance (I wanna dance)
You can tell at a glance (I wanna dance)
But I don't wanna do the mambo
And I don't wanna do the tango
I wanna jump up and down to my favourite sound
Which is black and round and it costs five pounds

Julie Andrews greatest hits
All the up-to-datest bits
They're my family favourites
Julie Andrews greatest hits

Julie Andrews greatest hits
John Peel gives me screaming fits
Find a station that transmits
Julie Andrews greatest hits
Julie Andrews greatest hits

I wanna dance (I wanna dance)
But I don't get a chance (I wanna dance)
But I don't wanna do the rumba
And all that kind of number
I want the whisperings of the shimmering strings
As the lady sings all my favourite things

Julie Andrews greatest hits
All my stereo emits
I can't wait to get me mits
On Julie Andrews greatest hits

Julie Andrews greatest hits
All the really straightest bits
What's the thing to dance to? It's
Julie Andrews greatest hits, ha

Ha, ha, OK, fine, yeah, well we're all having a jolly good time and I really don't want to break things up, OK, but

Julie drives me frantic
'Cos I'm a bit of an old romantic
And she sounds so nice and she's so precise
I'm in paradise with me Edelweiss

Julie Andrews greatest hits
Really tears my brain to bits
Loudly as the law permits
Julie Andrews greatest hits

Julie Andrews greatest hits
Even the sedatest bits
Rock and roll gets on my (yeah, good, point taken, OK)
Julie Andrews greatest hits
Julie Andrews greatest hits

Julie Andrews greatest hits (seven times, underneath the following dialogue:)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, OK, well, er, enough's enough, er, and a joke's a joke, er, and we've all have a jolly good laugh, um, and let's be honest, um, it's easy to laugh isn't it. But you know while we're laughing, um, and lets be honest why shouldn't we be laughing, I mean, I mean, well there's nobody enjoys a good laugh more than I do, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. But no, no, with all due respect, er, and bearing in mind that we're all entitled to our opinion let's be honest, Julie Andrews, what a marvelous professional. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear

Richard & Joey
Mel Smith, 1981. Roger provided Backing vocals and Production. Length 2:23.
Released on the B-side of 'Julie Andrew's Greatest Hits', but it failed to chart.
This track is a sort of conversation (mostly sung) between the two characters.
Lyrics:
Oh, oh, hi Joey
Hello Richard
How did it go?
Oh not bad, not bad, how did you go down?
Oh, oh, fine thanks
Here, what's wrong Dick? You're looking a bit down
Nothing
Oh come on Richard, tell your old mate Joey, get it off your chest, eh?

You've heard that old story
It's nothing new since he walked out on me
I've been so lost in the crowd wearing a shroud night and day
And I don't care what people say

Yeah, I know what you, I know what you mean mate, but I mean it's not that bad is it, I mean

My life's an old movie in kodachrome
Lines on a silver screen
My life's a gay masquerade, colours that fade and then die
Please take my hand, please tell me why

Yeah, well, I, I mean I

Keeping alone, my vigil over the phone
My love please let me atone I'm turning to stone out here
Steady on Dick, steady on
My movie's all going wrong, there is no end to the song
I'm left alone on the stage, trapped in a cage and I've dried

Please take your hand away, you fucking poof
Who cares what people say
They say it's never too late
Come off it mate
Please be kind
Look Dick, I'm not that way inclined

Ah, ah, ah, ah, la, la (no, Richard, Richard)
La, la, la
La, la, la
Laa, laa, laaaaa

Right Away
Kansas, 1982, from the album 'Vinyl Confession'. Length 4:06.
Roger sings backing vocals
This track was also released as a single but did not chart. It might also appear on the album 'The Best Of Kansas'
Lyrics:
Right away, love me right away
Won't you come on girl, there's no other way
If I were you, I would see it through
I'd be loving me, I'd know what to do
Right away

How do you feel about me now
The time has come, you must decide
Where you will run, where you will hide
How will I know if you're alright
I can feel the warmth of you next to me
Hearing your voice inside my head
Don't ever leave me, tell me you'll stay
Don't let me go on living this way

Right away, love me right away
Won't you come on girl, there's no other way
If I were you, I would see it through
I'd be loving me, I'd know what to do
Right away
Right away

All of the days and nights we shared
Remember the good, forget the bad
All of the things that we've been through
Don't they mean anything to you
Oh, when the night comes I feel all alone (feel all alone)
Knowing that you won't be there

It was a good thing, what we once had
Can't live without it, I've gotta get it back

Right away, love me right away
Won't you come girl, there's no other way
If I were you, I would see it through
I'd be loving me, I'd know what to do
Right away

Why don't you stop and think what you're doing to me

Right away
Right away

Diamonds And Pearls
Kansas, 1982, from the album 'Vinyl Confession'. Length 4:50.
Roger sings backing vocals.
The track may also appear on the album 'The Best Of Kansas'.
Lyrics:
The stage is set, the race is on
To drink the cup 'til every drop is gone
And when you make it to the top
The hunger doesn't stop

You climb the ladder to success
The way the world defines it more or less
You find the grass is greener still
On someone else's hill

Diamonds and pearls
Silver and gold
Soon fade away
Empty and cold
Nothing remains of the things that we strive to attain
Only the love that is lasting will not be in vain

They say that pride's before the fall
The stakes are high, you know who takes it all
To make it through the needle's eye
You just can't live a lie

Diamonds and pearls
Silver and gold
Soon fade away
Empty and cold
Nothing remains of the things that we strive to attain
Only the love that is lasting will not be in vain

Diamonds and pearls
Silver and gold
Soon fade away
Empty and cold
Nothing remains of the things that we strive to attain
Only the love that is lasting will not be in vain

Play The Game Tonight
Kansas, 1982, from the album 'Vinyl Confession'. Length 3:27.
Roger sings Backing vocals.
This track was also released as a single but did not chart. It might also appear on the album 'The Best Of Kansas'
Lyrics:
You think that something's happening
And it's bigger than your life
But it's only what you're hearing

Will you still remember
When the morning light has come
Will the songs be playing over and over
Till you do it all over again

Play, play the game tonight
Can you tell me if it's wrong or right
Is it worth the time
Is it worth the price
Do you see yourself in the white spotlight
Then play the game tonight

And when the curtains open
To the roaring of the crowd
You will feel it all around you

Then it finally happens
And it's all come true for you
And the songs are playing over and over
Till you do it all over again

Play, play the game tonight
Can you tell me if it's wrong or right
Is it worth the time
Is it worth the price
Do you see yourself in the white spotlight
Then play the game tonight

Play

Play, play the game tonight
Can you tell me if it's wrong or right
Is it worth the time
Is it worth the price
Do you see yourself in the bright light

Play, play the game tonight
Can you tell me if it's wrong or right
Is it worth the time
Is it worth the price
Do you see yourself in the white spotlight

Play the game tonight
Play the game tonight
Play the game tonight

Crash
Gary Numan, 1982, from the album 'Dance'. Roger provided Drums. Album Version 3:37
There are some lyrics sung during the outro, over the vocals 'crash, the driver', but these are very difficult to make out.
Lyrics:
Don't things change
Don't we all
What's it like to
Crash, the driver
Crash, the driver
Crash, the driver
Crash

Like them dollar boys in the rain you are
Nothing more to prove
So please just send in the machines
We know little of celebrations
And how are things are with you
You're hung up on time
You're hung up on age
You're hung up on time
You're hung up on age
Wooh, now there's me
Wooh, now there's me
What's it like to
Crash, the driver
Crash, the driver
Crash, the driver
Crash

I remember not everything's like such now you know
You drink to rumours and talk about someone new in your bed
There is no game to win so get out as fast as you can

Hung up on the time
Hung up on my age
Hung up on the time
Hung up on my age
Oooh, you don't know
Wooh, you don't know
What it's like to
Crash, the driver
Crash, the driver
Crash, the driver
Crash, the driver
Crash, the driver
Crash, the driver
Crash, the driver
Crash, the driver
Crash, the driver
Crash, the driver

You Are You Are
Moral
Gary Numan, 1982, from the album 'Dance'. Roger provided Drums

Fools Rush In
Debbie Byrne, 1985, from the album 'The Persuader'. Presumably Roger provides drums.
The album was later reissued in 1996.

Love Don't Live Here Anymore
Jimmy Nail, 1985, from the album 'Take It Or Leave It'. Roger provided Drums, Production and synths
Released as a single, b/w 'Night For Day', and reached no. 3
Also appears on 'The Nail File - The Best Of Jimmy Nail'
Available Versions:
1. Single Version (3:52) (on the albums and 7" only)
2. Extended Version (unknown length) (on 12" single only)
Lyrics:
You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just look back and see
Love don't live here anymore

When you lived inside of me
There was nothing in the world
You wouldn't do for me
Troubles seemed so far away
Then you changed and went away

Then you abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just look back and see
Love don't live here anymore, anymore

Love don't live here anymore
Just emptiness and memories of what we had before
Why did you have to go away
Find another place to stay

You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just look back and see
Love don't live here anymore
Yeah

There are windows in my eyes
Everyone can see the loneliness inside of me
Don't you know I need you so
Why did you have to go

Then abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just look back and see that
Love don't live here anymore
Yeah

Don't live here anymore
Love don't live here
Don't live here anymore
Anymore

Went away and left me
Now love don't live here anymore
Anymore

Love don't live here anymore

Loving You
Fergal Sharkey, 1985. Roger provided Drums, Synths and Production
Released as a single, and reached no. 26. Extended version length 5:52
Extended Version Lyrics:
Touching you, it's a precious thing
Breathing close, I'm so unsure
Embracing her, oh, soft sweet skin
Feeling our, our arms entwined

Touching you
All this time, loving you
All this time, loving you

Close your eyes, touch again
Share a kiss, passions rise
Whispering "I love you"
Racing hearts, our bodies warm

Close your eyes
All this time, loving you
All this time, loving you

(Touching you, touching you)

Touching you, loving (touching you, touching you)
All this time, loving you
All this time, loving you

Loving you

Bursting At The Seams
Camy Todorow, 1985. Roger provided Drums, Synths and Production.
Written by Mark Ryder. Released as a single (b/w Instrumental version) which did not chart
These lyrics are my interpretation, and as such are probably inaccurate (they don't make much sense). Please email me with any lyric suggestions.
Available Versions:
1. Single Version (3:43) (on 7" only)
2. Instrumental Version (3:58) (on all singles) (retains some lyrics)
3. Backroom Mix (unknown length) (on 12" only; possibly an extended version)
Lyrics: (lyrics in red are present in the Instrumental version)
In the midnight heat
I thought I heard you call my name
Or was it just the hustling in the street
The rustling of my feet
Have I been alone too long

They've always been in my subway dreams
You left my heart just bursting at the seams

I heard a whisper
Was there someone right behind of me
Or was it just a ghost
Long in the street
The leaves on the trees
I'm out in so called Freedom Park

All of them showed that, all I could see
Were all the shameless people trying to hide in the backstreet

Like an everlasting dream
I need you, why'd you not come back?
We swear we'd be lovers but I never knew what that would mean
I found it hard to admit defeat, um
You hurt me
I need you now
Now

Stumbling round in empty bars
Wishing I could have made a start
Want to be with you when they bring me down
I'm a prisoner of the dawn
Highways and byeways pass me but I don't know what they mean
I was just wishing I was some place else

Like an everlasting dream
I need you, why'd you drop by me?
We swear we'd be lovers but I never knew what that would mean
I found it hard to admit defeat

Oh my heart just bursting at the seams
You left my heart bursting at the seams
You left my heart bursting, oooh, oh, oh
Why did you break me baby?
Oh baby, I need you back

You left my heart bursting at the seams
You left my heart bursting at the seams
You left my heart bursting, bursting, bursting
You left my heart bursting at the seams
You left my heart bursting at the seams
You left me bursting, bursting, bursting

You left my heart

Virginia Wolf (LP)
Virginia Wolf, 1985. Roger produced the album, full details of all tracks are below.

Are We Playing With Fire? | It Tonight | Only Love | It's In Your Eyes | Waiting For Your Love | Livin' On A Knife Edge | For All We Know | Don't Run Away | Take A Chance | Goodbye Don't Mean Forever

This album was released on CD in October 2005.

Are We Playing With Fire?
Virginia Wolf, 1985. Produced by Roger. Length 3:58
Lyrics:
When you move in close to me
Sends a shiver right down my spine
When you move in close I feel so fine

When you look in my eyes
And my heart almost skipping a beat
Just one look and it knocks me off my feet
I don't know that I can get back it up

We're playing with fire
We're playing with fire
We're playing with fire
Is this love

When you take my hand
Never feel like I understand
Oh, I feel like I'll never let go your hand

Anywhere we kiss
I can feel there's a world I missed
There's a world I love inside your kiss
I don't know that I can help myself

We're playing with fire
We're playing with fire
We're playing with fire
Is this love?

We're playing with fire
We're playing with fire
We're playing with fire
Oh, is this love?

So now I feel
(Unknown lyric) love
Is it love I feel?

Girl, when we make love
Make a boy feel like a man
Make a boy feel like only a woman can

We're playing with fire
We're playing with fire
We're playing with fire
Oh, is this love?

We're playing with fire (we're playing with fire)
We're playing with fire (ooh, we're playing with fire)
We're playing with fire

Oh no
We're playing with fire (we're playing with fire)
We're playing with fire (oh we're playing with fire, yeah)
We're playing with fire
Is this, is this, is this love, yeah

We're playing with fire (playing with fire)
We're playing with fire (oh we're playing with fire)
We're playing with fire
Is this love, oh, oh, wow, yeah, yeah

We're playing with -

It Tonight
Virginia Wolf, 1985. Produced by Roger. Length 4:04
Lyrics:
I've been watching you
I've seen you hanging round sometimes
Yeah, I've been watching you
Now I can't get you off my mind

Just one look and you may find
Your lucky number is the same as mine
I've been watching you
Now I can't get you off my mind

I wanna touch you
I wanna feel you close to me
I wanna touch you
I wanna feel you wanting me

Take a chance and you can see
You can feel the same for me
I wanna touch you
I wanna feel you close to me

We're gonna make it tonight
Make it a night, tonight
We're gonna make it tonight
Make it a night, tonight
We're gonna make it tonight
Make it a night, tonight
Ooh, yeah

Hey

I can almost feel you
You're beating in my heart at night
I can almost feel you
I really need to hold you tight

Don't you know how it's gonna be
I believe in destiny
I can feel you
You're beating in my heart at night

We're gonna make it tonight
Make it a night, tonight, ooh yeah
We're gonna make it tonight
Make it a night, tonight
We're gonna make it tonight
Make it a night, tonight

Don't you know how it's gonna be
I believe in destiny
We're gonna make it tonight
Make it a night, tonight, ooh yeah
Gonna make it alright
Make it alright, yeah
Come, we're gonna make it tonight
Make it tonight
You know we're gonna make it tonight

Only Love
Virginia Wolf, 1985. Produced by Roger. Length 4:17
Lyrics:
Here we stand
Worlds apart
With love torn hearts
We close our eyes
Make believe we're blind
But between the lines
We can read the signs

We've been down this road so long, so many times
We've been here where angels fear to tread

Only love can break your heart
Only love can tear it apart
Only love keeps you asking why
You need her tonight

We can't go on
In make believe
We used to be
We can't go on
It's written on the wall
That our love will fall
Now that June has come

We've been down this road so long, so many times
We've been here where angels fear to tread

Only love can break your heart
Only love can tear it apart
Only love keeps you asking why

Only love can break your heart
Only love can tear it apart
Only love keeps you asking why
You need her tonight
You need her tonight
Oh, you need her

We've been down this road so long, so many times
We've been here where angels fear to tread

Only love can break your heart
Only love can tear it apart
Only love keeps you asking why

Only love can break your heart
Only love, oh, you tear it apart
Only love keeps you asking why
You need her tonight
You need her tonight

(Only love can break your heart) oh, you need her tonight
(Only love can take your heart)
(Only love can break your heart)
(Only love can take your heart) don't you know you need her
(Only love can break your heart)
(Only love can take your heart)
(Only love can break your heart)
(Only love can take your heart) oooh, your love
(Only love can break your heart)

It's In Your Eyes
Virginia Wolf, 1985. Produced by Roger. Length 4:25
Lyrics:
Words wouldn't reach my mind
Save your breath and please save mine
Silence is just fine
I won't attempt to read your mind
If I did, I'm sure I'd find
The things I'd left behind
If I read your mind

It's in your eyes
It's written in your eyes
In your eyes
It's in your eyes
No need for your reply
In your eyes
It's in your eyes
To think that you were mine
In your eyes
It's written in your eyes

Can't let the fallen ties
'Cos what you're saying with your eyes
Is speaking in disguise

A simple word, a simple lie
Won't be required, quite this time
No, not even if they're right
Hey, wouldn't that be fine

It's in your eyes
It's written in your eyes
In your eyes
It's in your eyes
No need for your reply
In your eyes
Oh, yeah
It's in your eyes
To think that you were mine
In your eyes
No need for your disguise
It's written in your eyes

Words wouldn't reach my mind
Save your breath and please save mine
Silence is just fine
I won't attempt to read your mind
If I did, I'm sure I'd find
The things I'd left behind
If I read your mind, ooh

It's in your eyes
It's written in your eyes
In your eyes
It's in your eyes
No need for your reply
In your eyes
Oh, yeah, yeah
It's in your eyes
To think that you were mine
In your eyes
No need for your disguise
It's written in your eyes

Waiting For Your Love
Virginia Wolf, 1985. Produced by Roger. Length 3:50
Lyrics:
It's two o'clock in the morning
And your man was out of town
Oh, the nights were so long, the feeling was strong
It's a habit worth forming
But my love is out of bounds
Girl, it's something inside that can't be denied

Waiting, waiting for your love
Waiting all day, yeah
Waiting, waiting for your love
Passing my way

I hear a knock on my door
And you're standing all alone
Girl, the nights become old
My passion grows cold

Love's some kind of drug
You abuse it all night long
Girl, you're hooked on love
But Lord above, it's been so long

Waiting, waiting for your love
Waiting all day, all day
Waiting, waiting for your love
Passing my way, yeah, oh
Waiting, waiting for your love
Keep on my side baby
Waiting, waiting for your love
Keep me satisfied, yeah

Keeping you waiting
Keep me waiting so long
Keeping you waiting
Ahhhh, yeah

The dawn is breaking
As you're walking out of my door
Oh, I know you'll return
For something you're yearning for
Burning for

Waiting, waiting for your love
I can keep me, keep me waiting for more
Waiting, waiting for your love
Oooooh
Waiting, waiting for your love
Been waiting all day, baby
Waiting, waiting for your love
Keep me satisfied
Waiting, waiting for your love
Oh, kept me waiting so long
Waiting, waiting for your love
Ohh, but you're gonna let me down
Waiting, waiting for your love
And you kept me waiting so long

Livin' On A Knife Edge
Virginia Wolf, 1985. Produced by Roger. Length 4:45
Lyrics:
I knew there'd be danger
Knew right from the start that livin' on a knife edge
Livin' on a knife edge

You knew there'd be trouble
Knew right from the start you'd be livin' on a knife edge
Livin' on a knife edge

I hoped you'd be waiting
You lied with your arms, I was blinded by emotion
Blinded by emotion

You saw desperado
You saw from the start I was blinded by emotion
Blinded by emotion

Now we're livin' on a knife edge
Now we're livin' on a knife edge
Now we're livin' on a knife edge

Show me why I'm hurting
Survive while you can 'cos the tables will be turning
Tables will be turning

Just one hesitation
Needs this girl of mine, the tables will be turning
Tables will be turning

Now we're livin' on a knife edge
Now we're livin' on a knife edge
Now we're livin' on a knife edge

Now we're livin' on a knife edge
Now we're livin' on a knife edge
Now we're livin' on a knife edge

Now we're livin' on a knife edge (now we're livin' on a knife edge)
Now we're livin' on a knife edge (yeah, we're living, oh yeah)
Now we're livin' on a knife edge (ooh-oh-ooh, yeah, now we're living on)

Now we're livin' on a knife edge (oohhhhh)
Now we're livin' on a knife edge (now we're living, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Now we're livin' on a knife edge

Now we're livin' on a knife edge (yeah, we're living on a knife edge)
Now we're livin' on a knife edge (yeah, we're living on, yeah, yeah)

For All We Know
Virginia Wolf, 1985. Produced by Roger. Length 3:48
Lyrics:
I can see her smiling
There's a feeling going on
I can see her smiling
There's a feeling going on

There's a wind in and out my ears
But the sin but I just can't give
I can see her smiling
There's a feeling going on

For all we know
This could be one day called love
For all we know
This could be one day called love

There's a new day dawning
I can see it in her eyes
There's a new day dawning
I ain't telling her no lies

Should assume but I just can't see
She'd be loving all the times in me
There's a new day dawning
I can see it in her eyes

For all we know
This could be one day called love
For all we know
This could be one day called love
For all we know

I've been waiting so long
I've been waiting so long

There's a new moon rising
I can feel it in the air
There's a new moon rising
I can feel it everywhere

Stars are shining in the downward sky
When we kiss I feel like I can fly
There's a new moon rising
I can feel it in the air

For all we know
This could be one day called love
For all we know
This could be one day called love

This could be one day called love (this could be one day called love)
This could be one day called love (this could be I feel one day called love)
This could be one day called love (this could be one day called love)
This could be one day called love (this could be one day called love, yeah)
This could be one day called love (this could be one day called love)
This could be one day called love (this could be I feel one day called love)
This could be one day -

Don't Run Away
Virginia Wolf, 1985. Produced by Roger. Length 4:36
Lyrics:
Something's out there calling
You can feel it calling
There's no time for you to turn away

They don't know you're leaving
They won't care, no grieving
Be no tears, there'll be no words to say

And when the night is calling home
And all that's left to do is run
And they awake and find your empty room

Don't run away
Don't run away
Don't let them beat you
Don't let them cheat you
Don't run away
Don't run away
Don't let them find you've run away

Something's out there calling
Endlessly it's calling
There's no reason you can find to stay

They won't know you're leaving
They won't need their (unknown lyric: sleeping?)
No goodbyes (unknown lyric: no converts to repay?)

And when the night has come and gone3
And all that's left to do is run
And they awake and find your empty room

When the way your tongue is curled
No-one to lean on, no-one to hold
No-one to understand the way you feel

Don't run away
Don't run away
Don't let them beat you
Don't let them cheat you
Don't run away
Don't run away
Don't let them find that you've run away
Don't run away

Don't run away
Don't run away
Don't let them beat you
Don't let them cheat you
Don't run away
Don't run away
Don't let them find that you've run away
You've run away

Don't let them find you've run away, yeah, yeah, oooh
You've run away
Don't let them find you've run away, oh no
Don't let them, don't let them find
They'll find you've run away, run away, yeah, yeah

Take A Chance
Virginia Wolf, 1985. Produced by Roger. Length 3:27
Lyrics:
How does it feel
Is she everything you heard of
This is for real
Kind of love you only dream of

Think it over now
Think it over now
Think it over now

What will you see
She can keep your world from turning
How can it be
You can spend your nights re-learning

Think it over now
Think it over now
Think it over now

Think it over now
Think it over now

Take a chance and hold on tight
Save your dreaming for tonight
Take a chance don't lose a day
Feel your heartaches fade away

How does it feel
Like the whole world stands against you
When will you see
Let love come to your rescue

Think it over now
Think it over now
Think it over now

Think it over now
Think it over now

Take a chance and hold on tight
Save your dreaming for tonight
Take a chance don't lose a day
Feel your heartaches fade away

Feel them fade away
Mmmm

Take a chance and hold on tight
Save your dreaming for tonight
Take a chance don't lose a day
Feel your heartaches fade away

Take a chance and hold on tight
Save your dreaming for tonight
Take a chance don't lose a day
Feel your heartaches fade away

Feel them fade away
Oh, feel them fade away
Oooh, feel them fade away
Feel them, fade
Feel them fade away

Goodbye Don't Mean Forever
Virginia Wolf, 1985. Produced by Roger. Length 4:41.
Lyrics:
(Unknown lyrics at the start)

Take your time getting back to me
I've been waiting for the phone to ring
Summer passing by, passing by

Got your letter, sealed and signed
You say your hurting but you can't find time to break away
So you say

If you got a girl, I won't fade away
Save my tears for yesterday
Yesterday, so far away

'Cos goodbye don't mean forever
Time will show that I am right
Though tonight we're not together
You know goodbye don't mean forever

Don't turn your face, don't look away
No use in crying, you can't use your tears to wash away
What you say

I don't know, try to understand
Can't keep on leaping when I just don't know where I'm gonna land
Where I stand

If you've got a girl, I won't fade away
Save my tears for yesterday
Yesterday, so far away

'Cos goodbye don't mean forever
Time will show that I am right
Though tonight we're not together
You know goodbye

'Cos goodbye don't mean forever
Time will show that I am right
Though tonight we're not together
You know goodbye
Don't mean forever
Don't mean forever
Don't mean forever

Take your time getting back to me
I've been waiting for the phone to ring
Summer passing by, passing by

Got your letter, safely sealed and signed
You say your hurting but you can't find time to break away
Ooh, so you say

If you got a girl, I won't fade away
Save my tears for yesterday
Yesterday, so far away

'Cos goodbye don't mean forever
Time will show that I am right
Though tonight we're not together
You know goodbye

'Cos goodbye don't mean forever
Time will show that I am right
Though tonight we're not together
You know goodbye
Don't mean forever
Don't mean forever
Don't mean forever

Oh, no
Don't mean forever
Don't, no, mean forever, oh no
Don't mean forever
Ooooh, yeah
Don't mean forever
Forever, oh, no
Don't mean forever
Oooh

Under A Raging Moon
Roger Daltrey, 1985, from the album 'Under A Raging Moon'. Roger provided Drums.
Written by John Parr and Julia Dawnes. Released as a single, and reached no. 43.
This track features Roger Taylor, Cozy Powell, Martin Chambers, Stewart Copeland, Zak Starkey, Carl Palmer and Mark Brzezicki on drums.
Available Versions:
1. Album version (4:30) (on 'Anthology', and presumably on the 'Under A Raging Moon' album and 7" single)
2. Extended version (6:40) (presumably on the 12" single only) (this adds a longer instrumental introduction, an additional drum section, and a drum outro)
Lyrics: (the lyrics in red at the end are added to the Extended version)
In the searchlights
You could see us as we circled around
Down below us
You were screaming I could hear the sound
I could see your arms
Reaching up to me

Like a demon
Feel the madness running through the crowd
We were freedom
From the moment that we hit the ground
And the wild man
He laid the thunder down

Do you remember me
Like I remember you
In a sea of hands
You came shining through
In the mist of time
I can see it now

All my life I will remember this
Under a raging moon
For this moment I was born for it
Under a raging moon
Under a raging moon
We were flying there
Under a raging moon
We saw Zion there
It ended all too soon
Under a raging moon

We were out there
When they handed us the rebel's crown
All the headlines
All they tried to do was tear us down
But the wild man
He didn't fool around

Do you remember me
'Cos I remember you
Yeah, you won my love
When the dream came true
When my blood ran high
I can hear it now

All my life I will remember it
Under a raging moon
For this moment I was born for it
Under a raging moon
Under a raging moon
We were flying boy
Under a raging moon
It's worth dying for
It ended all too soon
Under a raging moon

Under a raging moon

Taking me back to better times
We never read the danger signs
Why are the young
Why are the young so blind

Do you remember me
'Cos I remember you
Yeah, you won my blood
When my dream came true

All my life I will remember this
Under a raging moon
From this moment I was born for this
Under a raging moon

All my life I will remember this
Under a raging moon
For this moment I was born for it
Under a raging moon

Do you remember me

Do you remember me

Do you remember me

Vigilante (LP)
Magnum, 1986. Roger produced the album.
Roger also provides backing vocals on two tracks: 'When The World Comes Down On You' and 'Sometime Love'.
The following singles were released (none of which charted):

'When The World Comes Down On You' b/w 'Vigilante'
'Lonely Night' b/w 'Les Morts Sansant (Live)'
'Midnight' b/w 'Back Street Kid'.

The track 'Midnight' was released as Extended and Single versions. Some of the tracks also appear on the 'Chapter And Verse' album.

Bulletproof Heart
Sideway Look, 1986. Roger produced the track.
It is also believed that more tracks were recorded, but abandoned and remain unreleased.

Dancerama
Sigue Sigue Sputnik, 1989. Roger remixed the single version.
Released as a single, and reached no. 50.
Roger is known to have remixed the single version, and presumably he also remixed the extended version. There are also numerous other remixes, and it is unknown whether Roger had any involvement in them. To further complicate things, there is also an extended version of the album track which appears on the singles in addition to the 'extended' version.
Available Versions:
1. Single Version (3:44) (on all formats of the single except the second (black) 12" single; presumably also on '21st Century Boys - The Best Of Sigue Sigue Sputnik)
2. Extended Version (7:18) (on the CD and first (white) 12" single)
Lyrics: (the Extended version loses the lyrics in blue, but adds the lyrics in red)
Ah-ah
Is it love?
Or is it
Is it love?
Or is it sex?
It's purely sexual
Is it power?
Or is it pleasure?
It's purely sexual
Pleasure
It's purely sexual
It's purely se- it's purely sexual

Girls are alright
I said boys are alright
And Lolita's alright
So seduce me tonight
Seduce me and

Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance

I love you (the way you are)
I love you

And Sulka's alright
And sex is alright
And sex is alright
And sex is alright all night so

Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance

And Eddie's alright
J-Jean's alright
And Buddy's alright
And Elvis you made my night so

Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Romance everybody
Dance

Sex is alright (oh, oh yeah)
And freak's so chic tonight (oh, oh yeah)
And Sulka's alright (oh, oh yeah) (I like that)
Viva le shock tonight (oh, oh yeah)
Alright, all night

Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
(Dance) tonight is going to be the best night of their lives
Who are you?
I'll make your wildest dreams come true
So, you wanna dance or what?

Tonight
Forever my King Creole
And my heart you stole
Forever to suck my soul
Tonight (oh, oh, oh yeah)
Are you lonesome tonight?
Alright, alright, alright, all night

Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Just dance

Sex is alright
And freak's so chic tonight
And Sulka's alright
Viva le shock tonight
Alright, all night

Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance everybody
Come on everybody
Dance

(Undecipherable lyrics)

Radio
Shaky, 1992. Roger provided Drums.
Released as a single, and reached no. 37. Also appears on 'The Epic Years' and 'The Best Of Shakin' Stevens'
Available Versions:
1. Single Version (3:29) (on all singles)
2. Acoustic Version (3:22) (only on the first CD single) (fades slightly earlier)
Lyrics: (the two lines in red at the end are missing from the acoustic version)
Well, I've got a girl who's as cute as can be
But she never pays no attention to me
She lives her life in a world full of steady-oh
'Cos all she ever want to do is listen to the radio
And that's all

Well, I take her to the movies and it's just the same
We're just gettin' cosy and it's on again
Listenin' on her headphones, tuning to her favourite show, woh ooh
'Cos all she ever want to do is listen to the radio
All day long

Come on
Yeah
Uh

I whisper sweet nothings inside her ear
But when I get close all I ever hear
Is some cool DJ tellin' me it's gonna snow, woh ooh

There doesn't seem to be a way of getting inside her head
She talks to me but it's only if the battery's dead
But then she keeps a spare and it's back to rock 'n' roll, yeah
'Cos all she ever want to do is listen to the radio
That's all she ever want to do

I've got a girl who's as cute as can be
But she never pays no attention to me
She lives her life in a world full of steady-oh, woh ooh

It's a hopeless case and I don't know what I can do
I rack my brains while she sings out of tune
Well she's switching me off and one of these days I'm gonna go, yeah
'Cos all she ever want to do is listen to the radio

All she ever want to do is listen to the radio
Yeah, all she ever want to do is listen to the radio
All she ever want to do is listen to the radio
Radio

All she ever want to do is listen to the radio
All she ever want to do is listen to the radio
Radio
All she ever want to do is listen to the radio
Radio
All she ever want to do is listen to the radio
Radio
All she ever want to do is listen to the radio

Michael Picasso
Ian Hunter, 1994. Roger provided Drums. Live version 6:44
Recorded live at the Mick Ronson tribute concert, at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, 29 April 1994
Available on the Ian Hunter 'Once Bitten Twice Shy' compilation, and on 'The Mick Ronson Memorial Concert'.
Lyrics:
Once upon a time
Not so long ago
People used to stand and stare
At the spider with the platinum hair
They thought you were immortal

We had our ups and downs
Like brothers often do
But he was there for me
I was always there for him
We were there for him

How can I put into words
What my heart feels
It's the deepest thing
When somebody you love dies
I just wanted
To give something back to you
Gift a gift

Michael
Michael Picasso
Goodnight
Alright

You used to laugh a lot
You said it was relaxing
Now I walk in the places you walked
I talk in all the places you talked
I guess it still hasn't sunk in

All the words we used
They come into my head
I'm only one
Do the shadows
Play tricks with my mind

Oh, it feels like nothing has changed
But I know it has

Michael
Michael Picasso
Goodnight

Heal me
Won't you
Heal me
Nothing lasts forever
Let me be

Heal me
Won't you
Heal me
I'm the one who's left here
Heal me
Heal me
Heal me
Heal me
Ooh-oh, ooh-oh, ooh-oh, ooh-oh

You turned into a ghost
So I live by your pain
All the things that I like the least
Were sitting round Hasker Street
Lying about the future

And we all cried
In a room of flowers
On a windy day
And I looked round
But none of these words seem right

I just want to
Give something back to you
Gift a gift

Michael
Michael Picasso
Goodnight

Oh, Michael
Michael Picasso
Goodnight

Hey, Michael
Lay your hair on my pillow, ooh-ooh-ooh
Oh, it feels like
Nothing has changed
But I know it has

Michael
Michael Picasso

To know, know, know him
Was to love, love, love, him
And I do, and I do

Carnivorous Girl
Naked Sushi, 1999. Roger provides backing vocals.
Released on the 'No Name' single, with 'Love' and 'Feel My Groove', on CD only.
I think 'Naked Sushi' featured at least one member of Roger's live band.

You Can't Hurry Love
Phil Collins, 2002. Performed at the 2002 Queen's Jubilee Concert.
Written by Holland, Dozier and Holland. Roger plays drums. Length 3:02
Available on 'Party At The Palace'
Lyrics:
I need love, love, love
Ooh, to ease my mind
And I need to find, find
Someone to call my
My mumma said

You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love
Oh, you'll just have to wait
Just trust in the good times
No matter how long it takes

And now, how many heartaches
Must I stand
Before I find a love
To let me live again

'Cos right now the only thing
That keeps me hanging on
Is when I feel my strength
Yes it's almost gone
I remember mumma said

You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
She said, love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take

How long must I wait?
How much more must I take?
Before loneliness
Will cause my heart, heart to break

And now I can bear
To live my life alone
I've grown impatient for that love
To call my own

And when I feel that I
I can't go on
You know I feel my strength
Yes, it's almost gone
I remember mumma said

You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love
Oh, you'll just have to wait
Just trust in the good times
No matter how long it takes
And I'll wait

Now love, love, love
Well it don't come easy
No, I keep on waiting
Anticipating
For that soft voice
To talk to me at night
For some tender arms
To hold me tight

I'll keep waiting
Ooh, until that day
But it ain't easy
(Love don't come easy)
No, it ain't easy
And my mumma said

You can't hurry love
Oh, you'll just have to wait
She said, love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love
Oh, you'll just have to wait
Just trust in the good times
No matter how long it takes
And I'll wait

Thank you

Shadow Boxed
Procol Harum, 2003. From the album 'The Well's On Fire'.
Written by Gary Brooker and Keith Reid. Roger provides backing vocals. Length 3:32
Lyrics:
I've been body swerved, close observed
Down the well, kiss and tell
I've been lost and found, undergound
As good as gold, overload

I've been crazy glued, baby blued
Off the wall, too close to call
I've been Chinese rocks
I've been shadow boxed

I've been squeezed and stroked, okee-doked
Gone and went, heaven sent
I've been fluffed and fussed, cuffed and cussed
Show of hands, shadow lands

I've been down to the wire, house on fire
Reconditioned, under suspicion
I've been Chinese rocks
I've been shadow boxed
I've been Chinese rocks
I've been shadow boxed

I've been instant karma, Dalai Lama
Living proof, and cosmic truth
I've been powder kegged, heavy lead
Out of bounds, what's that sound

I've been down to the wire, house on fire
Reconditioned, under suspicion
I've been lost and found, undergound
As good as gold, overload

I've been crazy glued, baby blued
Off the wall, too close to call
I've been Chinese rocks
I've been shadow boxed
I've been Chinese rocks
I've been shadow boxed

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

I've been fluffed and fussed, cuffed and cussed
Show of hands, shadow lands
I've been squeezed and stroked, okee-doked
Gone and went, heaven sent

I've been crazy glued, baby blued
Off the wall, too close to call
I've been Chinese rocks
I've been shadow boxed

I've been Chinese rocks
I've been shadow boxed
I've been Chinese rocks
I've been shadow boxed
I've been Chinese rocks
I've been shadow boxed

Toss The Feathers
The Corrs, 2003. Performed at the 46664 Concert in Cape Town, South Africa.
This is a traditional Irish instrumental track, and features Roger on drums. Length 3:10.
The track is available on the '46664' album and DVD. The DVD also includes excerpts of rehearsals for the track.

Stalker
Hannah Jane Fox, 2005. Roger produced the track with Joshua J. Macrae. Length 3:20.
This track, by Scaramouche from the London production of 'We Will Rock You', was released as part of the 'We Will Rock You - Around The World EP' on iTunes in 2005.
Some of the lyrics of the track (in red) are from a phone-in from a radio/TV programme, with Hannah Jane Fox talking to the host.
Lyrics:
See that man, behind that tree
He's spent seventeen hours just waiting for me
It is really no doubt he's in love with me
I really am his number one priority

You might call him a loser, but I call him a friend
'Cos he's the last man standing when my evening ends
He says "baby I love you, won't you hear my confession"
I say "don't worry babe, I share the same obsession"

Yeah, I've got myself a stalker (oooh, ooh, ooh)
And he's not much of a talker (oooh, ooh, ooh)
But he's mine, I must have hit the big time
I've got myself a man (oooh, ooh, ooh)
He follows me in a big blue van, oh yeah
I must have hit the big time, man

I just love the attention, and his life's a mess
I wanna do it with a drummer in a borrowed dress (wow)
He's happy to let me, 'cos he knows my address
And with some gentle persuasion he's gonna sell it to the press

I don't mind the heavy breathing on the end of the phone (ha, ha, ha, ha)
'Cos I've never been a girl who likes to be alone (never be alone)
And I'm comfortable sleeping, knowing that he is peeping
We're two of a kind, we share the same obsession (ohhhhh)

Yeah, I've got myself a stalker (oooh, ooh, ooh)
And he's not much of a talker (oooh, ooh, ooh)
But he's mine, I must have hit the big time
I've got myself a man (oooh, ooh, ooh)
He follows me in a big blue van, oh yeah
I must have hit the big time

So, what do you do with this correspondance, Hannah?
Um, keep his letters by my bed
I just sort of like to re-read things that he's said
It's good, it's good to know I really count
(Isn't that what life's about)
Tell me what your thinking
I close my eyes and count to ten
Um, do you know what I mean, he's still there when I open them
Do you think you're lacking a role model?
What, do you think I never had a dad?
I think I never had a dad

Oooh, ooh-oooh, ooh-oooh, ooh-oooh
I know you're in there
Oooh, ooh-oooh, ooh-oooh, ooh-oooh
I've bought you underwear

The police want to meet him, said he's gone too far
When they found out he was sleeping in the back of my car
I said officer please, don't take him away
'Cos he's the only man I ever loved this way

Yeah, I've got myself a stalker (oooh, oooh, la, la, la)
And he's not much of a talker (oooh, oooh, la, la, la)
But he's mine, I must have hit the big time
I've got myself a man (oooh, oooh, la, la, la)
He follows me in a big blue van, oh yeah (oooh)
I must have hit the big time
I've got myself a man (oooh, oooh, la, la, la)
He follows me in a big blue van, oh yeah (oooh)
I must have hit the big time, man

Thank you
You've been really helpful

I Can't Dance
Band Du Lac, 2005. Roger plays drums. Length 8:22.
Roger plays drums on this track, the All-Star Finale of the Band Du Lac concert at Wintershall, 11 June 2005.
This track is available on the Band Du Lac - One Night Only Live DVD, along with Roger performing Say It's Not True, These Are The Days Of Our Lives and I Want To Break Free.
Lead vocals are sung by Gary Brooker.
The DVD main menu features an edit of the track, of length 1:03 approx.
Lyrics: (lyrics in red are on the menu edit)
Hot sun beating down
Burning my feet just walking around
Hot sun making me sweat
Gators getting close, hasn't got me yet

'Cos I can't dance, I can't talk
Only thing about me is the way I walk
Yeah, I can't dance, I can't sing
I'm just standing here selling everything

Blue jeans sitting on the beach
Dog's talking to me, but she's out of reach
She's got a body under that shirt
All she wants to do is rub my face in the dirt

'Cos I can't dance, I can't talk
Only thing about me is the way I walk
And I can't dance, I can't sing
I'm just standing here selling

And checking everything is in place
Never know who's looking on

Oh, young punk spilling beer on my shoes
Fat guy's talking to me trying to steal my blues
Thick smoke, see her smiling through
Never thought so much could happen just shooting pool

'Cos I can't dance, I can't talk
Only thing about me is the way I walk
I can't dance, I can't sing
I'm just sitting here and

Oh and checking everything is in place
Never know who's looking on, no, no
Perfect body with a perfect face

Oh, a hot sun beating down
Burning my feet just walking around
Hot sun making me sweat
Gators getting close, hasn't got me yet

'Cos I can't dance, I can't talk
Only thing about me is the way I walk
I can't dance, I can't talk
Only thing I (ad-libbed vocal)

And checking everything is in place
Never know who's looking on
Perfect body, with the perfect face

I can't dance, I can't walk
(The way I walk)
I can't dance, I can't sing
(The way I walk)
I can't, I can't walk

Yeah, yeah
(The way I walk)
I can't think
I can't think
Yeah, yeah, yeah
(The way I walk)

I can't dance, I can't talk
Yeah, I can't dance, I can't talk, no
I can't, I can't
Oh, it's only the way that I talk

I can't dance, I can't sing
Oh, tell me everything
I can't, I can't
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, oooh
(The way I walk)

I can't dance, I can't talk
(The way I walk)
I said I can't dance, I can't talk
Only thing about me is the way I walk

I can't dance, I can't talk
I can't dance, I can't talk
Only thing about me is the way I walk
Yeah, I can't dance, I can't talk
I'm a just a sitting here selling

Woh, and checking everything is in place
You never know who's looking on
Perfect body, with the perfect face

Wooh

Yeah, wooh
Woooh
Woooh
Wooh, oooh
Woooh

Wooh
Yeah, wooh