Soho (Needless To Say)

Album: Past, Present And Future (1973)
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  • Rainstorm, brainstorm, faces in the maelstrom
    Huddle by the puddles in the shadows where the drains run
    Hot dogs, wet clogs clicking up the sidewalk
    Disappearing into the booze shop
    Rainbow queues stand down by the newsstand, waiting for the late show
    Pin ball, sin hall, minds in free fall
    Chocolate-colored ladies making eyes through the smoke-pall

    Soho, needless to say (needless to say)
    I'm alone on your streets on a Friday evening
    I've been here all of the day
    Going nowhere with nowhere to go

    Football supporters taking the waters
    They're looking around for the twilight daughters
    Non-stop strip club pornographic bookshop
    Come into the back and take your time and have a good look
    Old man laughs with flowers in his hair
    Newspaper headline "Middle East Deadline"
    Jazz musicians are down on the breadline

    Soho, needless to say (needless to say)
    I'm alone on your streets on a Friday evening
    I've been here all of the day
    Going nowhere with nowhere to go

    Soho feeds the needs and hides the deeds, the mind that bleeds
    Disenchanted, downstream in the night
    Soho hears the lies, twisted cries, lonely sighs
    'Til she seems lost in dreams

    Sun goes down on a neon eon
    Though you'd have a job explaining it to Richard Coeur de Lion
    Animation, bar conversation, anticipation, disinformation
    Old man laughs with flowers in his hair
    Begs for the dregs from the bottom of the kegs, man
    You've never seen a lady lay down and spread her legs like

    Soho, needless to say (needless to say)
    I'm alone on your sheets, or am I dreaming?
    And I've been here all of the day
    Going nowhere with nowhere to go
    Soho, needless to say (needless to say)
    I'm alone on your streets, or am I dreaming?
    I've been here all of the day
    Going nowhere with nowhere to go Writer/s: Alistair Ian Stewart
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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