
10.07.88 Sheffield, England, intro to ´All That Heaven Will Allow´
´´How you doing out there tonight ? (cheers)....well, we got a little
rain coming down.....oh man....does it rain like this all the time out here
? (cheers)...let´s try this out, sing it Ritchie...”
10.07.88 Sheffield, England, intro to ´You Can Look´
”I remember when I was a little child....in my little diapers....crawling
across the livingroom floor....heading for that television set....that was when
I first heard the words that I would hear later on many times in my life....my
mama looked down at me and said....´Oh, Son, don’t you touch that
thing....yeah, yeah, Son, don’t you touch that thing....yeah, you can
look but you can’t touch that thing´....I went down to a little
department store downtown on a Friday night....went down to the toy department,
I was ten years old.....they had one of them little dress-up dolls, you know....I
was moving towards it....heard the saleslady cry ´Oh, son, don’t
you touch that thing.....oh, son, don’t you touch that thing ....yeah,
you can look but you can’t touch that thing´....I was 17 years old,
took out my first girlfriend on our date.... took her to a nice little dark
place to park....shut down the car, turn off the lights, turned the radio on
low....started whispering nice things....sweet things....she looked down at
me and said ´What is that thing ?....put that thing away....you´re
gonna hurt somebody with that thing´....I got my hand on her knee....moved
up to her thigh....started heading north....and she said ´Son, don’t
you touch that thing....oh, son, don’t you touch that thing....yeah, you
can look but you can’t touch that thing´....oh, son don’t
you touch that thing....oh, son , don’t you touch that thing ...oh, son,
don´t you touch that thing....oh, son, don´t you touch that thing
.... yeah, you can look but you can’t touch that thing´....”
10.07.88 Sheffield, England, intro to ´I´m a Coward´
´´Is there anybody out there tonight that has been in trouble with
their love affairs before ? (cheers)....is there anybody out there tonight that
has ever suffered from a broken heart ? (cheers)....from a disenhearted spirit
? (cheers)....from a tortured soul ? (cheers)...that´s good ....because
I´ve got a question that I want to ask you....are there any rough, tough
Sheffield men in the audience tonight ? (cheers)....are there any mean macho
men out there tonight ? (cheers) ....because I’ve known men who would
swim rivers....who would climb mountains, who would wrestle with the beasts
of the jungle....but there was one thing that they was afraid of.....there was
one thing that frightened them to death and do you want to know what that one
thing was ?....do you want to know what that one thing was ?....I´m talking
about L....U...V, I’m talking about love, that´s right, love....when
they got next to love, they ran home like little babies to their mommies....that´s
right....now are there any heroic, courageous Sheffield women out there tonight
? (cheers)....do we have any brave, sexy British ladies out there tonight ?
(cheers)....come on, I wanna hear you, girls (cheers)... because I’m talking
to you too....that´s right....I’ve known women that when they got
next to love, they ran home to their loneliness and their isolation.....now,
I’m not down here tonight just pointing my finger....I´m down here
tonight because I´ve got a confession I´ve got to make to you people.....and
what I want to say is I have sinned !....that´s right !....and I don´t
need Jimmy Swaggert or Jerry Falwell or whoever the hell else (?) to forgive
me, them boys can kiss my ass, baby....because what I want to say is I´m
a brave man, if I don´t say so myself ....but what I want to testify to
is, what I´ve got to confess to tonight is....that I’m a coward
when it comes to love....help me, boys !....”
10.07.88 Sheffield, England, intro to ´Spare Parts´
´´This is a song about a woman.....struggling to understand....the
value of her own independent existence....put away her old dreams....the part
of her past that´s holding her down....and to find something new and beautiful
and meaningful in her life now....”
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi