"Everyday I Write The Book

was written in a spare ten minutes 

on tour as a spoof of a Mersey-beat tune. 
 
In rehearsal Clive guided us

towards an arrangement that was 

unlike anything we had ever recorded.  

Although we borrowed a few touches 

from the r'n'b styles of the day 

I have witnessed, firsthand, 

the record's ability to clear a nightclub 

dance floor in seconds.  

Despite this it remains one of our very few 

entirely cheerful recordings and was even 

a minor hit on both sides of the Atlantic - 

reaching No. 28 in the U.K. and No.32 

in the U.S. charts - then our best 

placing for a single."

Don't tell me you don't know what love is
When you're old enough to know better
WHEN YOU FIND STRANGE HANDS IN YOUR SWEATER
When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions

Chorus

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book

Chapter One we didn't really get along
Chapter Two I think I fell in love with you
You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three
But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five and Six

(chorus)

The way you walk
The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh
In four or five paragraphs
All your compliments and your cutting remarks
Are captured here in my quotation marks

(chorus)

Don't tell me you don't know the difference
Between a lover and a fighter
With my pen and my electric typewriter
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal
I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel

(chorus)