I watch you sit and twitching
With a match between your teeth
You seem to have a knack for moving it
It's it time to the beat
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
I can't be distracted
By the stuttering of the kids
I just sit enraptured
By your fluttering eyelids
I can only stare
You make me feel like
I don't care
Your eyes explain a story
That never had a start
Your brow reveals the glory
That's hidden in your heart
Your skin is fine china
White as winter snows
Your lips are always shining
Turning up your nose
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
I can only stare
You make me feel like
I don't care
The tissue box is empty,
No coffee for my cream,
Dogs howl in the alley,
Crazy women scream,
Kids shout from their pick up trucks,
Stoned on life and beer,
Fifty radios playing in this street,
And I'm hardly still here.
Exquisitly bored in California,
We take our trouble to the Crest
Exquisitly bored in California
Exquisitly bored - just like all the rest.
When the sun shines things'll get moving,
You feel close to the stars.
There are good times walking in Laguna,
But it rains in my heart.
The peasants here are starving,
They look like barrels out in space.
Pray TV looks like pay TV to me,
It's just a curse on the human race.
Take a drive up to L.A.,
In my gas guzzling limousine.
There's a whole lot of crazy people up there,
Why was I born today
Life is useless like Ecclesiastes say
I never had a chance
But oppoertunity's now in my hands
I stand with my guitar
All I need's a mirror
Then I'm a Star
I'm so sick of dud TV
Next time you switch on
You might see me . . . what a thrill for you
I've been there and gone there
I've lived there and bummed there
I've spinned there, I gave there
I drank there and I slaved there
I've had enough of the way things have been done
Every man on a razers edge
Someone has used us to kill with the same gun
Killing each other by driving a wedge
My life's a mess I wait for you to pass
I stand here at the bar, I hold an empty glass
Don't worry smile and dance
You just can't work life out
Don't let down moods entrance you
Take the wine and shout
My life's a mess I wait for you to pass
You are safe from harm on the grid
You are safe from harm
This is the dream that I wake up dreaming
Lovin' my lover under dawn-pink skies
A perfect design that I wake up scheming
What I recall when I first open my eyes
This is the tune that you're always hearing
What you'll remember when you've broken the ties
We're dancing together as the sun is appearing
Again and again you awake in surprise
Early morning dreams
You feel so tender-you feel so wet
You feel so secure=so deep in love and yet the feeling is fleeting
You're a fugitive, safe at last
Your heart is a-beating
Will you relive the recent past?
Early morning dreams come true
I've proved it now that I'm here with you
You are here by my side
I'm siding with you
Early morning dreams come true
I'm playing my guitar while my sister bangs a jar
The glass sets up a sound like people laughing
It's going to my brain and it's easing all my pain
I must hear this sound again 'cause time is passing
I'm walking by the sea and the shingle sings for me
The crabs are swimming down among the starfish
The rocks all clatter down and the seagulls fly around
But the whole trip rubs it in that time is passing, passing
Find it, I got the hear it all again
My heart has heard the sound of harmony
Blind to it, as my tears fall again
It's only by the music, I'll be free
There's something in the whisper of the trees
Millions hear it, still they can't believe
There are echoes of us splashing in the waves
As an empire of dead men leave their graves
Don't listen to people talk, don't listen to 'em selling souls.
Don't listen to me or words from men above
Don't hear it in your needs, and don't hear it in your greeds
Just hear it in the sound of time a passing
Find it, I got to hear it all again
My heart has heard the sound of harmony
Blind to it, as my tears fall again
The time will come, yes I know (Di-da-di-da-doo)
You will come walkin' home (Di-da-di-da-doo)
And you'll find my address, expectin' my caress
But darlin', things have changed (Di-da-di-da-doo)
Things have changed (Di-da-di-da-doo)
Please don't come around destroyin' the happiness I've found
Things have changed (Di-da-di-da-doo, Di-doo-di-doo)
You left me once without a word (Di-da-di-da-doo)
Left me lookin' so absurd (Di-da-di-da-doo)
Now I find my way around, get my feet back on the ground
But darling, things have changed (Di-da-di-da-doo)
Things have changed (Di-da-di-da-doo)
Please don't come around destroyin' the happiness I've found
Things have changed (Di-da-di-da-doo, Di-doo-di-doo)
The only thing I can think about you
But all the same I can live without you
But darlin', things have changed (Di-da-di-da-doo)
Things have changed (Di-da-di-da-doo)
Here is message number one, I am your beloved son
Here is message number two, I'm in love with only you
Here is message number three, you cannot escape from me
Here is message number four, I'm so far away
Looking down from high above
Flying with a purple dove
I try now to describe the scene
This is what I think I seen
Squirm, squirm went the worm
Squirm, squirm went the worm
Here is message number five, you are here, you're alive
Here is message number six, there's no magic, there's no tricks
Here is message number seven, there's no hell, there's no heaven
Here is message number eight, I'm so far away
I'm so lost and lonely now
Trodden down with my leather shoe
Killing ants as I talk to you
Squashing mites as I deeply slept
This is the record that I kept
Squirm, squirm went the wormc
Squirm, squirm went the worm
Here is message number one, I am your beloved son
Here is message number two, I'm in love with only you
Here is message number three, you cannot escape from me
Here is message number four, help
Looking down from high above
Flying with a purple dove
I try now to describe the scene
This is what I think I seen
Squirm, squirm went the worm
Squirm, squirm went the worm
Mama's got a squeeze box
She wears on her chest
And when Daddy comes home
He never gets no rest
Because she's playing all night
And the music's alright
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night
Well, the kids don't eat
And the dog can't sleep
There's no escape from the music
In the whole damn street
'Cause she's playing all night
And the music's alright
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night
She goes in and out
And in and out
And in and out
And in and out
She's playing all night
And the music's alright
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night
She says "Squeeze me,
I want you to squeeze me
I want you to tease me like you do
I'm so in love with you"
Mama's got a squeeze box
You ain't gonna sleep tonight
In and out
And in and out
And in and out
And in and out
She's playing all night
She makes you feel alright
Mama's got a squeeze box
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la
So sad about us
So sad about us
Sad that the news is out now
Sad, suppose we can't turn back now
Sad about us
So bad about us
So bad about us
Bad - never meant to break up
Bad - now we'll never make up
Bad about us
Apologies mean nothing
When the damage is done
But I can't switch off my loving
I'm sitting' in the Sheraton Gibson playing' my Gibson
And boy do I wanna go home.
I'm sitting' in the Sheraton Gibson playing' my Gibson
And boy do I feel all alone.
Cleveland, you blow my mind.
Cleveland, I wish I were home this time.
Don't want to be unkind .
But I'm sitting' in the Sheraton Gibson playing' my Gibson
Thinking' 'bout a sunny barbeque
I'm sitting in the Sheraton Gibson playing' my Gibson
And my mind is a Cleveland afternoon.
Cleveland, you blow my mind.
Cleveland, I wish I were home this time
Don't wanna be unkind.
Cleveland, you blow my mind.
Cleveland, I wish I were home this time.
Don't wanna be unkind.
Oh Cleveland, you blow my mind.
Oh Cleveland, I wish I were home this time
Don't wanna be unkind.
But I'm sitting in the Sheraton Gibson playing' my Gibson
People come to me for explanations
Don't understand what they say
This is the age of intuition
Things look a little different every day
I have a little trouble to keep from getting angry with the world
But I feel a little better whenever I say to myself
I know when I'm right, I know when I'm wrong, ooh yeah
I know when I'm right, I know when I'm wrong, oh
I know when I'm right and I know when I'm wrong
And I know because I can feel it, that's how I get along
Here he comes the politician
Here he comes, watch it
Now do you think, propose a whipping
Or do you claim that I don't know law
Well the book don't talk about no tripping
And the book don't talk about no war
I have a little trouble to keep from getting angry with the world
But I feel a little stronger when I say to myself
I know when I'm right, I know when I'm wrong, ooh
I know when I'm right, I know when I'm wrong, ooh
I know when I'm right and I know when I'm wrong
And I know because I can feel it, that's how I get along
I know when I'm right, I know when I'm wrong
And I know when I'm right and I know when I'm wrong
I know when I'm right, I know when I'm wrong
My cup is cold
My paper's old
My heart is sold
To Melancholia
My clothes are torn
My shoes are worn
My heart is borne to Melancholia
A strange surprise
What I despise
In other guys
Is here in me
They lose their girl
They lose their world
Then they cry for all to see
I've never felt so bad
The virus drives me mad
The sheets are gray
There since the day
She went away
I lost all power
The dust is thick
The dog is sick
The kids have picked most of the flowers
The sun is shining
But not for me!
The sun is shining
But not for me!
The virus drives me mad
I've never felt so bad
My cup is cold
My paper's old
My heart is sold
To Melancholia
My clothes are torn
My shoes are worn
My heart is borne to Melancholia
We demand a universal grid
We demand a universal grid
We demand a universal grid
We demand a universal grid
ID-Ray High, Gridlife Chronicles, November the tenth, 1992
I'm working on my own in here, going over some old music I did in 1970
It's got something, something special, I could really dream then
It ain't such a bad dream either.
Walking to a club
I've been completely degraded by chasing publicity
Degraded, yeah, I'll never go back, I know too much
I know how it's done, I can't discover it all over again, make it seem new
You're great, Ray, you know that, man, here, hold up, this is the place
What? Can't go in here, that bloody cow Ruth Streeting uses this club
She hates my guts
It's her job to hate your guts, she's a journalist, it's nothing personal
Oh sod it, I forgot, of course she won't be here, she's in the States
Oh c'mon, let's go in anyway
We've got to get back in the mainstream sometime
Come on, you own shares in the place
That cow wrote that I'm ugly
Well, you are ugly
I'm not
Yes, you are
No, I'm not
Well, you are, actually
Now I know I was served in a big silver chair
But you seemed to think I deserved all indulgence I dared
We shared the same golden spoon
Unaware of who was feeding whom
Back then at the start we could eat with anyone we cared
I should've know you was full by the way that you hand it to me
We both got so old I couldn't say how we planned it to be
No need to pull any punch
Love maxims for lunch
With the fresh broken heart you will eat with anyone that's agreeing
We were full on caprese, we laughed while we dine
I served the entree, you served the spirits and the wine
But time heals, and while we laughed through our meals
I cheated desire, fading and tired and pine
So won't you RSVP now, say it right to my face
Have a maxim more for the road and let's get out of this place
I spent too long on the queue, you over drank the Le Tour
Let's get back to wafers and water, I can't stand the pace
I spent too long on the mike, while you were loving to type
Mary, you are everything a man could want
And I want you, Mary.
Did you know when you pushed me once away from you
The thing I knew grew inside me.
People are dancing for you now
But I can't see why
Can't they see that they can't beat
Nothing I have for you
Mary, you are everything a man could need
How I need you, Mary
Yeah
How I need you
When I look at the hole in your coat
I have to love you more
But when women let my brother down
I swore one day I'd land
Me one Mary
Swore I'l land me one Mary
Oh, Mary
When I look at the hole in your coat
I have to love you more
I remember when I was a child
My brother slept on the floor
Oh, I know that the sun don't shine
Down on every man
But when the woman let my brother dow
I swore one day I'd land me Mary
I'm afraid I spoke too soon again
Thought it important to explain
Now I'm gazing at my lonely words
I spent the night in there layin' there
All over the floor like cutoff hair
And I can't take back my lonely words
Don't take them in
My lonely words
Please don't befriend
My lonely words
The things I've said don't stay with me
They live alone in anarchy
I can't help to cushion lonely words
But I am still in love with you
Nothing I said in fear was true
Please don't you befriend my lonely words
Don't take them in
My lonely words
Please don't befriend
My lonely words
In a sandstorm, words are wind born
Lonely sheets torn, from a love alone
Journal full of plans, that should melt in your hands
Oh...
I'm afraid I spoke too soon again
(The things I've said don't stay with me)
I thought it important to try to explain
(They live alone in anarchy)
Now I'm gazing at my lonely words
(I can't help to cushion lonely words)
I spent the night in there layin' there
(I am still in love with you)
All over the floor like cutoff hair
(Nothing I said in fear was true)
I can't take back my lonely words
(Please don't you befriend my lonely words)
Oh, don't take them in
My lonely words
Please don't befriend
My lonely words
Don't take them in, please don't take in
My lonely words
Please don't befriend, don't befriend
My lonely words
Don't take them in
My lonely words
Please don't befriend
If I'm so lost without a friend
Tell me, who's this by my side?
This girl with eyes like gems
And cool reactions to your lies, lies
La la la la la la lies
You can't repeat what you put 'round
All the things that made me cry
You kicked me when I was down
And they hurt me all those lies, lies
La la la la la la lies
I've got my girl and together we're strong
To laugh at you and prove you wrong
I don't insist that you feel bad
I just want to make you smile
Don't ever think you made me mad
I didn't listen to your lies
If I'm so lost without a friend
Tell me, who's this by my side?
This girl with eyes like gems
And cool reactions to your lies, lies
La la la la la la lies
I don't insist that you feel bad
I just want to make you smile
Don't ever think you made me mad
I read your letter and the things you say
You said power chords are all that I should play
Well this is what you're gonna eat today, Virginia
If power chords are what you say you need
Look inside your body, baby, you will see
That man and egg and flying seed is in ya
If you depend on me to make you rock and roll
Well you better watch out titch, because we're growin' old
Look inside and check out your neglected soul, Virginia
'Cause I can seem to dance alone out on the scene
Or VIP and fight down at the music machine
But as for you, the place to look for rock and roll is in ya
You got it in ya
You got it in ya
You got it in ya
You got it in ya
It's in ya
Yeah, it's in ya
It's in ya
Well I forgive completely all your lack of tact
My patience is holding out and it's a hard-earned fact
I could easily buy your time, Dearest Virginia
You would always give me just a-one more chance
Hang around and ask me for a chance to dance
Don't be afraid of the night
Only you hear the scream that you scream
Don't turn away from the light
Only you see the dream that you dream
I'm not gonna run anymore
I'm not gonna run away from this honeymoon
I'm not gonna run anymore
I'm not gonna run like a rat to a piper's tune
For you and I will show one another love
You and I, we owe one another love
We're not gonna lie anymore
We're not gonna lie in ignorant ecstacy
We're not gonna cry anymore
We're not gonna cry at a figment of fantasy
For you and I will grow together now
You and I will go together
We're not gonna run anymore
We're not gonna run anymore, oh, no, no, no, no
I'm not gonna run anymore
I'm not gonna run away from this honeymoon
I'm not gonna run anymore
I'm not gonna run like a rat to a piper's tune
For you and I will show one another love
You and I, we owe one another love
We're not gonna lie anymore
We're not gonna lie in ignorant ecstacy
We're not gonna cry anymore
We're not gonna cry at a figment of fantasy
For you and I will grow together now
You and I will go together now
Don't be afraid of the night
Only you hear the scream that you scream
Don't turn away from the light
Throwing stones into the river
Watching ripples splashing over
Wadding the bank where horses are grazing
Reflection shatter quite amazing
But soon I quietly ask, is this the way for me?
I twist my vacuum flask and have a cup of tea
Goin' fishin' never catch none
If I did, I'd surely lance
The spirit of the first is quiggley
The fish tackle scares me and the snails
The pleasure cruiser's speed
Laden with wind cheaters
The hooters blow and seize
My mind from nature's creatures
Blowing the fish, emptying in my warm hand
I want fishin' everlasting
You can take my son if you drown your own daughter
You're a man and I am free
Throw a stick into the surface
Watch it bob, it cruises pass
The river flows gently eroding
There are men high up there fishing
They ain't seen quite enough of the world
I ain't seen a sign of my hero
I'm still diving down for pearls
Let me flow into the ocean
Let me get back to the sea
Let me be stormy and let me be calm
Let the tide in, I want it to rush over me
I'm flowing under bridges
Flying through the sky
Traveling down cold metal
I'm just a tear in a baby's eye
Let me flow into the ocean
Let me get back to the sea
Let me be stormy, let me be calm
Let the tide in, I want it to rush over me
I wanna drown
I am not the actor
This can't be the scene
But I am in the water
As far as I can see
You know, I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
Drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
Drown
In your sweet, sweet love
Drown in, drown in
Drown in, drown in
Drown in, drown in
Drown
I'm remembering distant memories
Recalling other names
I'm rippling over the canyons
And I'm boiling in the train
Let me flow into the ocean
Why don't you let me get back to the sea?
Let me be stormy and let me be calm
Let the tide in, I want it to rush over me
I wanna drown, I wanna drown
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
Drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
Over mountain, over canyon, over [Incomprehensible]
I wanna drown
In your sweet, sweet love
I'm drifting and drifting like a ship out on the sea
I'm drifting and drifting like a ship out on the sea
Nobody seems to want me, except the wide and open sea
My ship ain't got no captain, my ship ain't got no crew
My ship ain't got no captain, my ship ain't got no crew
Doin' that tide dare blow me, their my passing few to do
I look around for a savior, who saves me from the hungry sea
I look around for a savior, who saves me from the hungry sea
I'm driftin' and driftin', like a ship out on the sea
I'm driftin' and driftin', like a ship out on the sea
Nobody seems to want me
Except the wide and open sea
My ship ain't got no captain, my ship ain't got no crew
My ship ain't got no captain, my ship ain't got no crew
Doin' that tide dare blow me and my past and future too
I look around for a savior to search me from the hungry sea
I look around for a savior to search me from the hungry sea
I didn't find out I was a coward till I ran away
Didn't think I was a hypocrite till I tried to pray
Didn't realize I was lost till I started lookin'
I didn't know how much I love you till I tasted your cookin'
I didn't know I was a cheat till I fixed the deck
Didn't felt like a petty larcenist till I forged a check
Didn't think I could hardly read till I stated bookin'
I didn't know how much I love you till I tasted your cookin'
For your garlic flavored steak I'd suffer nightmares
For your mashed potatoes, I'd even dig the dirt
For your roast beef, I'd even get a haircut
And to keep the larder full, I'd even work
Didn't know I was a good liar till I wrote this song
But sometimes I like to get stoved more than you
Despite the fact there's no cook quite as good lookin'
Didn't know how much I loved you till I tasted your cookin'
Didn't know how much I loved you till I tasted your cookin'
Circles, my head is going 'round in circles
My mind is caught up in a whirlpool
Dragging me down
Time will tell if I can live without you
I'm trying but I'll never get threw
Circles bring me back to you
Everything I do, I think of you
No matter how I try, I can't get by
These circles, there leading me back to you
'Round and around and around and around and around
And around and around and around and around and around
And around and around and around and around and around
And around and around and around and around and around
And around and around and around and around and around
And 'round and 'round like a fool I go
Down and down in the pool I go
Dragging me down
Time will tell if I'll take the homeward track
I don't know why I lived, I won't come back
Come on back to you, I'm coming on back to you
Leading me back to you
Did you ever see the faces of the children? They get so excited
Waking up on Christmas morning, hours before the winter sun's ignited
They believe in dreams and all they mean including heavens generosity
Peeping round the door to see what parcels are for me, in curiosity
And Tommy doesn't know what day it is
He doesn't know who Jesus was or what praying is
How can he be saved? From the eternal grave
Surrounded by his friends, he sits so silently, and unaware of anything
Playing proxy pin ball, picks his nose and smiles and
Pokes his tongue, and everything, I believe in dreams
But how can men who've never seen light be enlightened?
Only if he's cured, will his spirits future level ever heighten?
And Tommy doesn't know what day it is
Doesn't know who Jesus was or what praying is
It won't be easy, you'll think it's strange
When I try to explain how I feel
And that I still need your love
After all that I've done
You won't believe me
All you will see is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you
I had to let it happen, I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window
Staying out of the sun
So I choose freedom
Running 'round, trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
Well I never expected it too
Don't cry for me, Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days, my mad existence
I kept my promise, don't keep your distance
As for fortune and as for fame
Well I never invited them in
Though it seems to the world
They were all I desired
They were illusions
They're not the solutions they promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me
Don't cry for me, Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days, my mad existence
I kept my promise, don't keep your distance
Day tripper
Day tripper
Day tripper
Got a good reason for taking the easy way out
Got a good reason for taking the easy way out now
She was a day tripper, a one way ticket, yeah
It took me so long to find out and I found out
She's a big teaser, she took me half the way there
She's a big teaser, she took me half the way there now
She was a day tripper, one way ticket, yeah
It took me so long to find out and I found out
If I needed someone to love
You're the one that I'd be thinking of
If I needed someone
If I had some more time to spend
Then I guess I'd be with you, my friend
If I needed someone
Got your number on my wall
And maybe you will get a call from me
If I needed someone
Day tripper
Day tripper
Day tripper
I tried to please her but she only plays one night stands
I tried to please her but she only plays one night stands now
She was a day tripper, Sunday driver, yeah
It took me so long to find out and I found out
She's so heavy, heavy
She's so heavy, heavy
She's so heavy, heavy
When they begin the beguine
It brings back the sound of music so tender
It brings back a night of tropical splendor
It brings back a memory ever green
I'm with you once more under the stars
And down by the shore an orchestra's playing
And even the palms seem to be swaying
When they begin the beguine
To live it again is past all endeavor
Except when that tune clutches my heart
And there we are, swearing to love forever
And promising never, never to part
What moments divine, what rapture serene
The clouds came along to disperse the joys we had tasted
And now when I hear people curse the chance that was wasted
I know but too well what they mean
So don't let them begin the beguine
Let the love that was once a fire remain an ember
Let it sleep like the dead desire I only remember
When they begin the beguine
O yes, let them begin the beguine, make them play
Till the stars that were there before return above you
Till you whisper to me once more, "Darling, I love you"
And we suddenly know what heaven we're in
When they begin the beguine
I don't matter you don't matter
Neither does this mindless clatter
It don't matter where you're from
What matters is your uniform
Wear your braces round your seat
Doctor Martens on your feet
Keep your barnet very neat
For credibility on street
We are marching as to war
We won't be obscure no more
In uniform - In uniform
I am really living life inside a jar - I'm all alone
So I feel forgiven if I'm under par - a fallen clone
Only in the river can I claim a star to call my own
I'm newly born,
In uniform I'm up on the throne
I am frightened, you are frightened
Should we get our trousers tightened?
Where in Brighton is your norm
Who wears enlightened uniform?
On my Parka is some band
I don't really understand
Perry is my guiding hand
Scooter polo sweeps the land
We are marching as to war
We won't be obscure no more
In uniform - in uniform
People think we dress alike to segregate identities
Pills or drink or puffing pipes in integrated entities
Then they wink and snort their line and say how great their Bentley is
They feel so warm when they conform. . .
They say that nakedness is what our Lord intended
When we stand naked then we all appear the same
But it's just faking it if we all try pretending
Are we just making all our prayers in the rain
Heaven knows I need new clothes.
We are marching as to war
But we are really fighting for
Our uniform - our uniform
When I contemplate my future I go numb, don't feel a thing
I don't' overrate my suitors number one, I always sing
But the State and their computers make me run for comfort in
My uniform.
In uniform I feel like a king.
They say that nakedness is what our Lord intended
When we stand naked then we all appear the same
But it's just faking it if we all try pretending
Are we just making all our prayers in the rain
It seems insane
But heaven knows
It's all the same
And I need new clothes
Tough boys
Running the streets
Come a little closer
Rough toys
Under the sheets
Nobody knows here
Rough boys
Come over here
I wanna bite and kiss you
I wanna see what I can find
Tough kids
Take a bottle of wine
When your deal is broken
Ten quid
She's so easy to blind
Not a word is spoken
Rough boys
Don't walk away
I'm still pretty blissed here
Tough boys
I'm gonna carry you home
You got pretty pissed dear
Gonna get inside you
Gonna get inside your bitter mind
Rough boys
Don't walk away
I wanna buy your leather
Make noise
Try and talk me away
We can't be seen together
Tough kids
What can I do?
I'm so pale and weedy
Rough fits
In my Hush Puppy shoes
But I'm still pleadin
Tough boys
Running the streets
Come a little closer
Rough toys
Under the sheets
Nobody knows her
Rough boys
Come over here
I wanna bite and kiss you
[Badger and Crow:]
What we want is a brand new year
Open your heart and set us free
What we need is a brand new life
We'll decide on our own destiny
[Woodland Creatures:]
What we want is a brand new life
For every brother and sister - husband and wife
For the single and lonely, living in fear
What we want is a brand new year
[Crow:]
While this year is still young enough for laughter
We must insist that no tears follow after
Resolve to be strong
And right the wrong
Inflicted on you and me
[Woodland Creatures:]
What we want is a brand new life
For every brother and sister - husband and wife
For the single and lonely, living in fear
What we want is a brand new year
[Crow:]
You know there are changes waiting in the future
Some of them'll hurt yer, some of them'll suit yer
One thing to be certain of
You control your own destiny
[Woodland Creatures:]
What we want is a brand new life
For every brother and sister - husband and wife
For the single and lonely, living in fear
What we want is a brand new year
[Jay and Badger:]
What we want is a new conception
A child to lead us out of here
Free from mistrust with no deception
What we want is a brand new year
[Crow, Jay:]
While the midnight bells are rung
We are waking from a peaceful dream
Where children go to school
And play the fool
Decide their own destiny
[Hogarth:]
While this year's still young
You've got to show us that our kids are totally free
They wanna go to school, they wanna play the fool
They gotta decide on their own destiny
They have to guide the course of their own destiny
They gotta have pride enough to know their own destiny
[Woodland Creatures:]
What we want is a brand new year
Open your hearts and set them free
What we want is a brand new life
And to decide on our own destiny
[Hogarth, Crow:]
What do we want
What do we need
What do we want right now
What do we need right here
We want a brand new life now
We need a brand new year
[Jay:]
Woooooooooooh!
[Chorus:]
All shall be well
And all shall be well
And all manner of things
Just wanna be misunderstood
Wanna be feared in my neighborhood
Just wanna be a moody man
Say things that nobody can understand
I want to be obscure and oblique
Insc
o hard to pin down
I wanna leave open mouths when I speak
Want people to cry when I put them down
Don't wanna be either old and young
Don't like where I ended up or where I begun
I always feel I must put things in the can
I just can't handle the way I am
Why am I so straight and simple
People see through me like I'm made of glass
Why can't I deepen with grey and pimples?
Am I growing out of my class?
I always feel I should be somewhere else
I grow impatient like a doll on a shelf
They say that I should live "sera, sera"
But I am such an ordinary star
Coolwalking smoothtalking straightsmoking firestoking
Coolwalking smoothtalking straightsmoking firestoking
Yeah
Just wanna be misunderstood
Wanna be feared in my neighborhood
Just wanna be a moody man
I was always here in the silence
But I was never under your eye
Gather up your love in some wiseness,
For every memory shall always survive
And you will see me.
I am an animal
My teeth are sharp and my mouth is full
And the passion is so strong
When I'm alone, loneliness will change me
I am a vegetable
I get my body badly pulled
I'm rooted to the spot
Nothing will rearrange me
I'm looking back and I can't see the past
Anymore so, hazy
I'm on a track and I'm traveling so fast
Oh for sure I'm crazy
I am a human being
I can't believe all the things I'm seeing
I've nowhere to hide anymore
I'm losing my way
I am an angel
I booked in here I came straight from hell
I don't know how to lie anymore
I'm bozzing to pray
I'm looking back and I can't see the past
Anymore so, hazy
I'm on a track and I'm traveling so fast
Oh for sure I'm crazy
I was always here in the silence
But I was never under your eye
Gather up your love in some wiseness
for every memory shall always survive
And you will see me
I will be immersed
Queen of the fucking Universe
And I don't know what I have anymore
Anymore than you do
I am a nothing king
Been right around on a golden ring
I don't know where you are anymore
I've got no clue
I was always here in the silence
But I was never under your eye
Gather up your love in some wiseness
for every memory shall always survive
And you will see me
I am an animal.
I'm walking.. Stand still
Not running.. Sit tight
Soft talking. I'm thrilled
Not gunning..By your light
Not flying..Lady
I'm Falling..This way
I'm not crying..Mabey
I'm calling and I'm going to get you anyway
I'm gonna get you
I'm gonna get you anyway
I'm cooking..Hot Me
Not raping..Blue eyes
Just looking..you got me
Not gaping..No lies
Not chasing..Lady
I'm trailing..This way
I'm not racing..Crazy
I'm wailing but I'm gonna get you anyway
I'm gonna get you
I'm gonna get you anyway
I'm gonna get you anyway
By sheer persistence
I'm gonna get you anyway
Break down your resistance
I'm gonna get you anyway
Babe I'm gonna woo ya
I'm gonna get you anyway
Girl I'm gonna do ya
I'm gonna get you anyway
(solos)
I'm gonna get you anyway
I'm gonna get you anyway
I'm gonna get you anyway
I'm gonna get you anyway
I'm gonna get you anyway
I'm gonna get you anyway
Girl I'm gonna do ya
I'm gonna get you anyway
Athletic..boggey down
Hustle..Turn back
Feel pathetic..Sugar town
No muscle..Soul hack
I'm jumping..You move
No dancer..Beside me
I'm thumping..You prove
Don't get no answer but I'm gonna get you anyway
I'm gonna get you, gonna get you, gonna get you, gonna get you
I'm gonna get you anyway
When I have to get on my bike
When I look back on my life
I think of the days of the wine
Of what I put you threw that time
When I have to move away
Pick up the pieces another day
I remember little white lies
And pretty brown blue eyes
Little girl in a suitcase
Little girl in a suitcase
I'll be leaving you behind, oh yea
Girl in the suitcase
I took you with me round the world
Couldn't get use to a new place
So I packed you in my suitcase girl
Took you along in a suitcase
When I think about the past
All the best things happened last
And you where always there
When carried down from stairs
I think about my effect on you
The way you were born so true
Did you relay care
That Alice cut my hair
Little girl in a suitcase
Little girl in a suitcase
I'll believing you behind
Girl in the suitcase
I took you with me round the world
Couldn't get use to a new place
So I packed you in my suitcase girl
Took you along in a suitcase
Girl in the suitcase
I took you with me round the world
Couldn't get use to a new place
I packed you in my suitcase girl
Took you along in a suitcase
I watch you sit and twitching
With a match between your teeth
You seem to have a knack of moving it
It's in time to the beat
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
I can't be distracted
By the stuttering of the kids
I just sit enraptured
By your fluttering eye lids
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
I can only stare
You make me feel
Like I don't care
I can only stare
You make me feel
Like I don't care
I can only stare
You make me feel
Like I don't care
Your eyes explain a story
That never had a start
Your brow reveals the glory
That's hidden in your heart
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
Your skin is fine china
White as winter snows
Your lips are always shining
Turning up your nose
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
Face dances tonight
Fate chances moonlight
I can only stare
You make me feel
Like I don't care
I'm an English boy
I was brought up right
Hold me down
And I will bite
I know no fear
I serve with joy
I'm proud to be here
An English boy
I feel like a stray dog
Blurred like a movie
You say you've come to arrest me
But you're just trying to test me
I'm bored with your prejudice
Spreading like a fever
Your promises to train me
Are just attempts to restrain me
I'm an English boy
Precisely made
Pin me down
I am not afraid
I show no fear
I will serve with joy
I'm proud to be here
An English boy
Use me like a headline
Cut pieces to pieces
I'm balack on the tube liine
Red on the touch-line
Freezing the future
Stopping every stopwatch
You say we're moving like an oil slick
Thicker than a house brick
I'm an English boy
I was brought up right
If you raise your dress
Then I will bite
My voice is clear
I got perfect poise
Good to be down here
With all the English boys
And I don't know where I am now
Or where I'm gonna go
I just keep going round and round on the circle line
Like some demented kind of fool in the mirror
Trying to avoid paying for my ticket
I'm a lsot soul
I read about myself in the newspapers
I'm a pig
I'm a thug
I've got nowhere to go but down
Feel like I'm kicking at a dead man
Kicking in the chorus
I'm broken by hatred
While politicians just ignore us
You never gave me any value
You didn't give me any reason
There's no tools and no toys
For any English boys
I'm an English boy
I was brought up right
Hold me down
And I will bite
I know no fear
I serve with joy
I'm proud to be here
An English boy
I'm an English boy
No tools, no toys for any English boys
Make me of clay, make me of steel
But whatever you do don't try and make me real
Make me your dream, a secretive deal
But don't ever scheme to try and make me real
Stop trying to make me real
I haven't got the kind of heart a lover can steal
Stop crying, I just can't feel
Any sympathy for someone trying to make me real
Make me of shit in a two-teenier deal
Make me of pornography in a pedophile wheel
Whatever I do, whatever I feel
By your double standard I will never be real
Stop trying to make me real
I haven't got the kind of heart a lover can steal
Stop crying, I just can't feel
Any sympathy for someone trying to make me
Why can't you settle for a fantasy?
You're so convinced that I'm the man to see
I can't live up to
What you give up to
I fail to see, the perfect man in me
Make me from your magazine a listed ideal
Dress me in the doll's house your knickers conceal
Make me your brother-lover beau-ideal
But you will soon discover lover can't be real
Stop trying to make me real
I haven't got the kind of heart a lover can steal
Stop crying, I just can't feel
Any sympathy for someone trying to make me real
Stop trying to make me real
I haven't got the kind of heart a lover can steal
Stop crying, I just can't feel
Any sympathy for someone trying to make me real
Don't try to make me real, Oh no
I've got no sympathy
Sympathy for someone trying to make me real
Stop trying to make me real
I haven't got the kind of heart a lover can steal
Stop crying, I just can't feel
Any sympathy for someone trying to make me real
[Old Farmers]
We old ones, have seen two wars
We old ones, have seen two wars
[Father]
When you're sick and afraid
And there's danger around
Take a pick and a spade
And cut into the ground
Away from the light
Away from the sound
Make a trap for the beast
Dig his burial mound
Dig for your life
Dig to the death
Dig for salvation
Till your very last breath
Dig for protection
Dig for release
Dig for resurrection
Dig for peace
[Old Farmers]
We old one, have seen two wars
[Father]
When you dream of a laser
That sears your soul
Slices like a razor
Burns like coal
You can bet you'll forget
When the rocks start to roll
And the last meets the least
By the watering hole
Dig it down deep
Dig it out wide
Dig it for pleasure
Dig it for pride
Dig it for treasure
Dig it for stones
Dig it for the metal
And dig it for the bones
Dig it
Dig it down deep
Dig it out wide
Dig it for pleasure
Dig it for pride
Dig it for treasure
Dig it for stones
Dig it for the metal
And dig it for the bones
Dig
[Old Farmers]
We old ones, have seen two wars
We old ones, have seen two wars
[Father]
Dig it down deep
Dig it out wide
Dig it for pleasure
Dig it for pride
Dig it for treasure
Dig it for stones
Dig it for the metal
And dig it for the bones
Dig for your life
Dig to the death
Dig for salvation
Till your very last breath
Dig for protection
Dig for release
Dig for resurrection
Dig for peace
[Old Farmers]
We old ones, have seen two wars
I'm on my own, I'm all alone
I sow no seeds there now
My heart is home
And I guess this party is over because I'm on my own
My friends they say's hello
My dancer fool, my skies are blue
But I've got wise and acted like a fool
And the nights the morning after and I feel like a fool
I'm feeling black and blue
Well all them back street women, woooooooooh
All that homemade liquor has left me here
We're just like some old bottle the tide left washed up beneath the pier
There's a message in here somewhere
This story's old, this heart is cold
This old street corner has heard it all before
But if I can bum just one more one
I'll say so long, I'm going home
Well last night the joint was jumping, yeah
With all those small ass gamblers and the booze
They must have seen me coming because these cradle marks are pretty hard to lose
I bet years from now
This story is old, this heart is cold
Well this old trash can has seen it all before
But if I can bum just one more one
I'll say so long, I'm going home
I'll say so long from here, I'm going home
I'll say so long, I guess I'm on my own
I'll say so long, this one's down the road
[Hogarth:]
You can wake deep in the night
And know that out of sight
A dangerous passion grows
A force you can't oppose
[Vixen and Hogarth:]
In the safety of your bed
You dream of a flaming head
You know you've lost your heart
You never even had a start
[Woodland Creatures:]
All shall be well
And all shall be well
And all manner of things
Shall be well
[Vixen:]
I was naked and dreaming
Behind locked doors
You'll still hear me screaming,
"Take me, I'm yours"
[Hogarth:]
Take me, I'm yours
[Vixen and Hogarth:]
Take me I'm yours
Don't offer any other option
But one that restores this land to me
This land where the color of love
Is by decree
Set it free!
[Hogarth:]
You can demand that love's defined
Before you jump in blind
Keep everything to plan
So you can remain a man
[Crow:]
You can demand that your love is defined
Before you break and jump in blind
You have to keep everything to plan
Just so that you can remain a man
[Hogarth:]
You have imprisoned half of your soul
You have denied the love that you hold
Your angry heart never seems to break
You've learned to give, but not to take
[Vixen:]
One heart divided
Cold civil wars
Like twenty million people crying,
"Take me, I'm yours"
[Hogarth:]
Take me, I'm yours
[Vixen and Hogarth:]
Take me, I'm yours
Don't offer any other option
But one that restores this land to me
This land where the color of love
Is by decree
Set it free!
[Vixen:]
WooooooAhhhh!
[Woodland Creatures:]
All shall be well
And all shall be well
And all manner of things
Shall be well
[Hogarth:]
You can wake deep in the night
And find that out of sight
But right under your nose
A revolution grows
The White City
That's a joke of a name
It's a black violence place
If I remember the game
I couldn't wait to get out
But I love to go home
To remember the White City fighting
The White City
Blood was an addiction
Now it's analyzed
As though it were fiction
The battles were won
And the battles were blown
At the height of the White City fighting
Down to the refuge near QPR
I drive to committees in my German car
Prone to violence, and prone to shame
I glide in silence, my pride in vain
For no one remembers not that I can see
That we were defenders-we were the free
The White City
I finally grew up
To resist the temptation
The gutters all threw up
But I have to go back
I guess I'm violence prone
Remember the White City fighting
Was there life before this love
Was there love before this girl I can see
Was there ever love for her before me
And if I look will she
Look back at me
Is fantasy
Enough?
Was there heat before this flame
Were there flames before this fire in my heart
Was I wrong about it from the start
Am I in ecstasy
Or next to see
That fantasy
S'to blame
Was there life before this love...
If I look up will she
Look back at me
Is fantasy
Enough?
If this scene is in a dream
Then I'm perfect for the part I play
You can count on me to stand and say
"Was there ever life before this wonderful day?"
Was there heat before this flame
Were there flames before this fire in my heart
Was I wrong about it from the start
Am I in ecstasy
Or next to see
That fantasy
S'to blame
If this dream's within a dream
Then I'll never swoon quite deep enough
No hypnotic trance quite sleep enough...
If in this sweet dream I'm flying
I will never fly quite high enough
You will hear me crying high above
(Pete)
If I see you put that on the wall
I'll smack you
(little girl in background)
I'm not I'm not
(Pete)
You got a mischief look in your eye
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
In you I saw someone that I recognized
Had no idea what was in your mind
I met your eyes and I was hypnotized
I let our lives become entwined
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
I feel so badly Darlin' all the time
I have tortured you so long
But I am helpless in this pantomime
I am aware that I was wrong
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
(Can't do a thing about it)
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
(Can't do a thing about it)
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
(You can't do a thing about it)
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
You can't do a thing about it
For though you knew that I was twice your age
To make you laugh seemed youth enough
I thought we'd love and then you'd turn the page
I'd have to suffer your rebuff
And it was me who had the most to gain
Despite the fact that I now have lost
The only love that ever caused me pain
I feel like a double head was tossed
Now and the you see a soul and you fall in love
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
And you can't do a thing about it
(You can't do a thing about it)
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
(Can't do a thing about it)
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
A call on Rastus' answering machine
Till the rivers all run dry
Till the sun falls from the sky
Till life on earth is through
I'll be needing you
I know sometimes you may wonder
From little things I say and do
But there's no need for you to wonder
If I need you cause I'll need you
Till the rivers all run dry
Till the sun falls from the sky
Till life on earth is through
I'll be needing you
Too many times I don't tell you
Too many things get in the way
And even though sometimes I hurt you
Still you show me in every way
Till the rivers all run dry
Till the sun falls from the sky
Till life on earth is through
Sometimes they ask me if I’m really happy now.
I say sure, I never loved her anyhow.
But inside I long for you and the way it used to be,
I look around, and there’s a heartache following me.
I always say that I’m really glad you’re gone.
I even act like I never cared at all.
But your memory lingers on and I’m never really free,
I look around and there's a heartache following me.
I pawned my ring and every thing that tied me to the past.
I say I never loved you, never meant for it to last.
But I know it’s just a game, and the losers always me
I look around, and there’s a heartache following me.
Sometimes they ask me if I’m really happy now.
I say sure, I never loved her anyhow.
But inside I long for you and the way it used to be,
I look around, and there’s a heartache following me.
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
I miss you, I miss you
I remember lying by your side
Up in the eerie waters of paradise
'N then one day you walked out
Now I have nothing to do but shout
And I want my voice
To cut over mountains
And I want my soul
To gush up like fountains
I remember being richer than a king
The minutes of the day were golden
I recall that when the joint passed around
My body felt a little colder
But now I'm like a sewer channel - running lime and scag
Let me get at the master panel - let me at my stack
The sea refuses no river
And right now this river's banks are blown
The sea refuses no river
Whether stinking and rank
Or red from the tank
Whether pure as a spring
There's no damn thing stops the poem
The sea refuses no river
And this river is homeward flowing
I have seen a trace of strain
In other's eyes, not spoken.
I must admit that I enjoyed their pain
But this time it's me that's broken
I demand for you and His
This must be the time
When we decide what freedom is
Turn water into wine
For the sea refuses no river
We're polluted now but in our hearts still clean
The sea refuses no river
We tried not to age
But time had it's rage
We're washed over the stones
From babies into clones of the mean
The sea won't refuse this muddy river
Nor deny the sulphurous stream
There was a fool in a dressing robe
Riding out the twilight hour
Lonely and cold in an empty home
Trying to assess his power
But now he's like a stream in flood
Swollen by the storm
He doesn't care if he sheds his blood
Let him be reborn
For the sea refuses no river
Remember that when the beggar buys a round
The sea refuses no river
And rain fills the gutters
No time for stutters
This is our chance
To sing and dance and to clown
The sea refuses no river
And rivers were sprung to drown
The sea refuses no river
No pecking code respected for the damned
The sea refuses no river
Whether starving and ill
Or strung on some pill
Just 'cos you own the land
There's no unique hand plugs the dam
The sea refuses no river
And the river is where I am
The river is always flowing
Relentless towards the costal tides
It travels down to the great ocean
While most of us simply watch from the water side
The water becomes Siddhartha's teacher
Sometimes powerful and stern
Sometimes gentle , forgiving
It never changes in direction
As it carries even mountains down to the sea
I'll take you over
I don't want your money
Just hang on tight
Till we reach the other wall
Things in Vegas
They all cling to my ankle
The horn blows wide, and the currents roar
God fill this gutter
That breaks my shoulder
Smash me to pieces
And wash me to mud
Dry me to dust
And set me to smolder
Please let me dissolve in the autumn flood
The rivers always flowing
But I'm free now
From It's grace
I'll be swept down to the ocean
And now you
Stardom in Acton that's all they got.
Stardom in Acton that's all they got.
Stardom in Acton that's all they got.
Just like the grub that wriggles to the top of the mass
I'm the first to get hooked
Just like the stub of that long cigarette full of hash
I'm the first to get booked.
But I'm capable
My loves inescapable
Conquering lethargy
I've got energy
Stardom-I want a hit
Want my tan, want my cash, want my innocence
Stardom-I want a script
Want my band, want my stash, want omnipotence
I'll go where the senescent soldier retires
And shiver in south California
Watching the storms and tangled wires
And rivers that meet on the corner
Like some prostitute
Handing round the loot
I am not ashamed
I will stake a claim
Stardom-born in a trunk
Got my home, got my car , got stability
Stardom-I'm Hollywood's son
All alone don't admire anonymity
I'm so angry that you turned me on
I didn't remain your friend for too long
I'm so angry that you turned me on
I didn't stay your friend for too long
I'm so angry that you let me see
My totally futile destiny
I'm so angry-you interrupted my dream
Now I know that the power rests in me.
Stardom-I want a hit
Want my tan, want my cash, want my innocence
Stardom-I want a script
Want my band, want my stash, want omnipotence
Stardom-born in a trunk
Got my home, got my car , got stability
Stardom-I'm Hollywood's son
All alone don't admire anonymity
Stardom in Acton that's all they got.
Stardom in Acton that's all they got.
Stardom in Acton that's all they got
Stardom in Acton that's all they got
I was just thirty four years old and I was still wandering in a haze
Wondering why everyone I met seemed like they were lost in a maze
I don't know why I thought I should have some kind of divine right to the blues
It's sympathy not tears people need when they're the front page sad news
The incense burned away and the stench began to rise
And lovers now estranged avoided catching each others' eyes
And girls who lost their children cursed the men who fit the coil
And men not fit for marriage took their refuge in the oil
No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned
>From all this you'd imagine that there must be something learned....
Slit skirts - Jeannie never weas those slit skirts
And I don't ever wear no ripped shirts
Can't pretend that growing old never hurts
Knee pants - Jeannie never wears no knee pants
We have to be so drunk to try a new dance
So afraid of every new romance
Slit skirts slit skirt
Jeannie isn't wearing those
Slit skirts slit skirt
She wouldn't dare in those
Slit skirts slit skirt
Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt
Romance romance
Why aren't we thinking up
Romance
Why can't we drink it up
True heart romance
Just need a brief new romance
Let me tell you some more about myself you know I'm sitting at home just now
The big events of the day are passed and the late TV's around
I'm number one in the home team but I still feel unfulfilled
A silent voice in her broken heart complains that I'm unskilled
And I know that when she thinks of me she thinks of me as "Him"
But unlike me she don't work off her frustration in the Gym
Recriminations fester and the past can never change
A woman's expectations run from both ends of the range
Once she woke with untamed lovers' face between her legs
Now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg
Slit skirts slit skirt
Jeannie isn't wearing those
Slit skirts slit skirt
She wouldn't dare in those
Slit skirts slit skirt
Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt
Romance romance
Why aren't we thinking up
Romance
Why can't we drink it up
True heart romance
(instrumental)
I used to wake up in the morning
I used to feel so bad
I got so sick of having sleepless nights
I went and told my dad
He said, "Son now here's some little something"
And stuck them on my wall
And now my nights ain't quite so lonely
In fact I, I don't feel bad at all
I don't feel bad at all
Pictures of Lily made my life so wonderful
Pictures of Lily let me sleep at night
Pictures of Lily solved my childhood problems
Pictures of Lily make me feel alright
Pictures of Lily
Lily, oh Lily
Lily, oh Lily
Pictures of Lily
And then one day things weren't so fine
I fell in love with Lily
I asked my dad where Lily I could find
He said, "Son, now don't be silly"
"She's been dead since 1929"
Oh, how I cried that night
If only I'd been born in Lily's time
It would have been alright
Pictures of Lily made my life so wonderful
But their was always,
Pictures of Lily helped me sleep at night
Pictures of Lily to help me feel alright
Cause me and Lily are together in my dreams
Hey I was wondering mister, have you ever seen
(instrumental)
(instrumental)
Sometimes, walking in the streets of this city
I see all the faces of the winners and the losers
Why, can't I see a change -
Ever since I was a young boy,
I've played the silver ball.
From Soho down to Brighton
I must've played them all.
But I never seen anything like him
In any amusement hall...
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball!
He stands like a statue,
Becomes part of the machine.
Feeling all the bumpers,
Always playing clean.
He plays by intuition,
The digit counters fall.
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball!
He's a pinball wizard.
There has to be a twist.
A pinball wizard's got
Such a supple wrist.
How do you think he does it?
I don't know!
What makes him so good?
He ain't got no distractions,
Can't hear no buzzers and bells.
Don't see no lights a flashin',
Plays by sense of smell,
Always has a replay,
An' never tilts at all...
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball!
I thought I was
The Bally table king
But I just handed my pinball crown to him.
Even at my favorite table
He can beat my best.
His disciples lead him in
And he just does the rest.
He's got crazy flipper fingers,
Never seen him fall...
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
When you travel to the green hills of Ayr
Where the sea breaks windows on the border line.
Remember me to a girl who lives there,
For she once was a true love of mine.
Please see for me that her red hair is long,
And flows and curls down her back and breast.
Please see for me that her red hair is long,
For that's the way I remember her the best.
See that she's warm when the summer ends
When the trees are bare and the rivers freeze
She washes clothes where the river bends
She's working on her knees.
See for me that her coat's pulled up close,
And her beret frames her sweet pretty face.
See that she's warm and drink her a toast
For I am exiled in a lonely place.
Please let me know if she remembers me at all,
A hundred times I've hoped and prayed
That way up there near the Roman wall
She didn't suffer when the fall-out sprayed.
Make no sail for a gift of the wind
Drive is slow and for this dream never ends
All my family and all my friends know there's nowhere to run
In the morning they head for the sun
Leave your shadows behind whatcha done
I have tried but I never have won
Because there's no where to run
Michael's rowing?
Where she's going?
What's she saying?
But that's right, yeah that's right
Don't starve old sailor long since been dead
Smoking his pipe and he's scratching his head
It's bad news but I heard what is said
He said there's no where to run
Michael's rowing?
Where she's going?
What's she saying?
But that's right, that's right
Make no sail for a gift of the wind
Drive is slow and for this dream never ends
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Ray writes a letter
RAY: Dear Lily. Thank you for the pictures. You look really nice. I am back in the studio again. The press seem to have finished with me for now. Because of the Roz Nathan affair, my old albums are back in the charts. I'm getting hundreds of letters and photographs now, and for that I am very thankful.
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
In the recording studio
RASTUS: Hey hey! This is gonna be great. What a team.
RUTH: Shut up, Rastus. Ray, love, are you ready? I know this is difficult for you, but you do have such a wonderful dream to share. We must bring it to the world.
RASTUS: Yeah!
RUTH: It's a great vision.
RASTUS: Yeah!
RUTH: We must try and start again, it could save the planet.
RASTUS: Yeah!
RUTH: Shut up, Rastus. So, when you're ready, sweetheart.
For though you knew that I was twice your age
To make you laugh seemed youth enough
I thought we'd love and then you'd turn the page
I'd have to suffer your rebuff
And it was me who had the most to gain
Despite the fact that I now have lost
The only love that ever caused me pain
I feel like a double head was tossed
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
Now and then you see a soul and you fall in love
You can't do a thing about it
You will each hear your own song
Each your own note
Your own vibration in the cosmos
All of you will know one another through the other song
You will blend and get in harmony
As you blend your song will change
And at the end your music will turn into a sound so complete
That it will show us that we all are one
Free
We are in tune
I know what you've been up to
Alright, but I know what your game is too
The words of Rosalind's song say it all, really, don't they?
My name is Spinner
Athena, the controller
Of 'The Life Experience Grid', is neglecting her job
She makes experienced programs
These implement virtual reality systems
The programs are fed to
Anyone wearing Gridlife suits
They are for refuge from pollution
Or radiation during Grid-sleep curfews
Um, I'll see you tomorrow. I might be a bit late, but I will be there this time. Uh, so, call me back tonight. Anyway ... OK?
I stand beside you
I face the future
I'll admit to you
I am afraid
I am afraid
As I stand beside you
I have denied you
I am afraid
I am not drunk now
I am not pilled down
My windows wound down
I am not brainwashed
I am not running
I am not hiding
My bet's still riding
I am afraid
I swing you high-o
I swing you low-a
I see your eye-o
I see you grow-a
I hear you crying
Your brother's dying
Be no more lying
I am afraid
Ruth's radio show
RUTH: Well, who'd have thought it? Thanks to my expose, all hell broke loose for Ray High as the "Porno Pen Pal" story burst upon us this week. It started harmlessly enough when pretty American fifteen-year-old Rosalind Nathan wrote to her pop hero, Ray High.
I am afraid
As I stand beside you
I have denied you
I am afraid
I stand beside you
I face the future
I'll admit to you
I am afraid
By my religion
I stand here naked
I cannot fake it
With God as witness
My little children
Who wait for feeding
I watch you bleeding
I am afraid
I am afraid
As I stand beside you
I have denied you
I am afraid
I stand beside you
I face the future
I'll admit to you
I am afraid
RUTH: High, one-time psychedelic flower child, now turned alcoholic vegetable, frantically encouraged a sordid series of what can only be described as letters. This steamy correspondence climaxed in this wide-eyed, innocent fourteen year-old's now infamous photo, with its suggestion of nakedness, underage necrophilia, and incest. High issued a series of what can only be described as "instructions" by return-of-post allegedly inducting this vulnerable little waif into his so-called secrets of stardom. She opened her heart to him. She loved to sing. But he seized upon her gullibility to test out his weird theories. Why did he encourage her? What was he after? Was she pushed? I think we should be told. Now there's been a dramatic new development. Although Ray High's albums have been re-released this week, decent normal people will be more interested in young Rosalind. She's a brilliant songwriter, a brilliant singer, and with my help, has just released a brilliant new record. I predict a smash hit for this talented, sexy, nubile young singer so rudely abused by that slimeball, Ray High.
Ray arrives at Rastus' place
RAY: What the fuck are you doing here, Ruth? You've come to gloat, have you?
RUTH: I'm with Rastus.
RAY: Rastus? ... You? ... Rastus?
RUTH: Yeah. I'm staying here as his guest. He's worried about the scandal. Thinks it could be the end of you.
RAY: Ruth, what do you really want? What are you doing here?
Man makes machines
To man the machines
That make the machines
That make the machines
Make a machine
To make a machine
And man and machine
Will make a machine
To break the machines
Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's see freedom
Let's see who cares
Take me with you
When you leave me
And my shell
Behind us there
I have learned it
Known who burned me
Avatar has warmed my feet
Take me with you
Let me see you
Time and life can meet
Rumor has it
Minds are open
Then you must fill them up with lies
Future passing
Nothing lasting
I try to scream, 'cause nothing dies]
Nothing is, everything
Everything is, nothing is
Please the people
Audiences
Break the fences, nothing is
Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's see freedom
In the air
Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's be free
Let's see who cares
Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's see freedom
In the air
Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's be free
Let's see who cares
(GUITAR SOLO)
Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's see freedom
In the air
Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's be free
Let's see who cares
Give me a drink, boy
Wash my feet
I'm so tired of running
From my own heat
Take this package
And here's what you do
Gotta get this
Information through
I don't know where I'm going
I don't know what I need
But I'll get to where I'm gonna end up
And that's alright by me
I've been running from side to side
Now I know for sure, that both sides lied
It's got so hard, but we gotta keep trying
I can't stand to see my people crying
I don't know where I'm going
I don't know what I need
But I'll get to where I'm gonna end up
And that's alright by me
Ba ba ba etc
I don't know where I'm going
I don't know what I need
But I'll get to where I'm gonna end up
And that's alright by me
Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's see freedom
In the air
Let's see action
Let's see people
Let's be free
Let's see who cares
Nothing is, everything
Everything is, nothing
In the club
MAN IN CLUB: Are you Harold Pinter?
WOMAN IN CLUB: Noel Coward, I think. "Let's get pretentious, put on an act. Let's get portentous and embroider the facts." (laughs)
MAN MUMBLING: A fabulous extraordinary hit, especially these people shouting music
Let's get pretentious
Put on an act
Let's be portentous
Embroider fact
Exaggerate it
Dress up the bland
Let's overrate it
Let the critics be damned
Let's get sensuous
Put on some airs
Let's drink Kailuas
And sit bored on the stairs
Let's get excited
When we say hello
Let's be delighted
Though it's nobody we know
I don't know much
But I know what I like
I don't know much
But so and so said such and such
I don't know much
But I know what I like
I don't know much
Let's find a market
For sparkling wit
Let's make a target
Of anyone with a hit
Let's keep some secrets
Let's make them up
Put them together
Then break them up
I don't know much
But I know what I like
I don't know much
But so and so said such and such
I don't know much
But I know what I like
I don't know much
RAY: Oh God, this place is crawling with journalists. I hate the fucking lot of 'em.
RASTUS: Oh Ray, you've got to play the game, eh? I mean, you've got to believe.
RAY: You know what I think?
RASTUS: What?
RAY: If you've got beauty or talent you're going get caught up in some kind of prostitution. Well, it's inevitable. That's all it was, my life on the road: prostitution. We're all cunts after all. Get me another drink.
RASTUS: As you know Ray, I find all this fascinating. Pity Ruth Streeting's missin' it.
RAY: Oh, she'll get it, she'll get it, all right. But my way. Don't you worry. My story'll get told.
(Guitar Solo)
I don't know much
But I know what I like
I don't know much
Now so and so said such and such
I don't know much
But I know what I like
I don't know much
Let's get pretentious
Put on an act
Let's be portentous
Embroider fact
Exaggerate it
Dress up the bland
Let's overrate it
Let the critics be damned
In another part of the same club
RASTUS: Ruth, wow. Hey, you look wonderful in black leather.
RUTH: It's not leather you twerp, it's rubber.
RASTUS: Hey watch it, you call me a "twerp" again and I might have to get me bicycle pump out.
RUTH: Talking of flat tires, how's Ray?
RASTUS: I can't get anything out of him. He must have some dough stashed away, and he's up to something, but fuck knows what it is. You know, he still reads his fan mail, but he doesn't reply to it anymore. I don't know what'll fire him up.
RUTH: Bet I could fire him up.
RASTUS: Yeah?
RUTH: Yeah, I could do it. You say he still reads his fan mail?
RASTUS: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, if you can do something Ruth, we could shift millions, you know that? And I'll cut you in. I would.
RUTH: I might have an idea. But it'd be dangerous ... especially for Ray.
Instrumental - No lyrics
River's getting higher
No wood for the fire
They saw the messiah
But I guess I missed him again
That brings my score to a hundred and ten
The water's getting closer
Better ring up the grocer
Stack up the potatoes
Oh, Jack are you ever coming back
Will your operatic soul turn black?
Keep me turning, oh keep me
Keep me burning, for your sun
Keep me turning
Don't you leave me till the very last
Keep me turning, I'm hanging on
Stop me yearning, I've had enough
Keep me turning
While I hand in my backstage pass
Children are smiling
Parents are wining
Bow tie tying
For the big day ahead real soon
Is there really gonna be no room
I've got a ticket
Just gotta get past the picket
They say that the trick is to walk in backwards
Like your walking out
I guess the lord's wearing glasses now
Keep me turning, Oh keep me on
Keep me burning, For your sun
Keep me turning
Don't you leave me till the very last
Keep me turning, I'm hanging on
Stop me yearning, I've had enough
Keep me turning
While I hand in my backstage pass
Solo
Keep me turning, Oh keep me on
Keep me burning, For your sun
Keep me turning
Don't you leave me till the very last
Keep me turning, I'm hanging on
Stop me yearning, I've had enough
Keep me turning
While I hand in my backstage pass
Every year is the same
I feel it again.
I'm a loser, no chance to win.
Leaves start falling,
Come down is calling
Loneliness starts sinking in.
But I'm one
I am one.
And I can see
That this is me
I will be,
You'll all see, I'm the one.
Where do you get
Those blue, blue jeans,
Faded, patched, secret so tight?
Where do you get,
That walk oh, so lean?
Your shoes and your shirt always right
But I'm one, I'm one
And I can see
That this is me
I will be,
You'll all see, I'm the one.
I got a Gibson
Without a case
But I can't get that even-tanned look on my face.
Ill-fitting clothes
And I blend in the crowd
Fingers so clumsy,
Voice too loud.
But I'm one, I'm one
I can see
That this is me
And I will be,
You'll all see, I'm the one.
I'm the one
I'm the one
Ruth's radio show
RUTH: Well, would you believe that after my mention of Ray High last week he's been seen out and about in the big city. Until now Ray's been locked away struggling with a follow-up to his last mega-excess. But rumor was he couldn't even open a bottle without a drink inside him. There was talk of a nervous breakdown. He's even got up the nose of his sexy manager. Poor old Rastus Knight now has a challenged coke habit. I've always had a soft spot for Rastus, and I've often seen him looking at it. While I was away in 'Frisco, I hear Ray went into my club and sat at my table. Why thanks Ray, that put an end to happy hour. Why my place anyway, Ray? Nobody there who's anybody cares two filo faxes about peace and love. I heard about you Mr. Stinking - rich, has - been , rodent ,drinking vintage Krug as though it was two bob a bottle. I'll be watching out for you.
Free ride to the house of life
Free ride to the house of life
Free ride to the house of life
Free ride to the house of life
Free ride to the house of life
Free ride
I work hard at my job
I save and I save
I know what I deserve
After all that I gave
You know I want that thing
You know I want that thing
Put aside a little money
Almost every day
When I think that I'm close
It just gets further away
You know I want that thing
I want that thing
Free ride to the house of life
I want that thing
Free ride to the house of life
I want that thing
Free ride to the house of life
I want that thing
Don't know if it's truth
Don't know if it's lies
I just can't be aloof
To what you advertise
You know I want that thing
I want that thing
I can't wait
Any longer to choose
If I can't get my own
Gonna have to take yours from youze
I want that thing
I want it, I want it, I really want that thing
Free ride to the house of life-I want that thing
Free ride to the house of life-I want that thing
Free ride to the house of life-I want that thing
Free ride to the house of life-I want that thing
Free ride I wanna free ride
SPINNER: I've planned an alternative. I will secretly commandeer one of the Gridlife studios and stage a live rock concert for every single person wearing Grid suits. That's fifty percent of the world's population. The result will be amazing. Everyone who experiences the concert will slip out of their suit and come to the show. They will be drawn to it. This will produce the biggest live concert audience in history.
_____________________
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
You better stop the things you do
I aint' lying, no I ain't lying
You know I can't stand it
The way you're running round
You know I can't stand it mamma
The way you put me down
So I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
Do I love ya
Do I love ya
Do I love ya
Do I love ya any how
And I don't care
I don't care if you don't want me
Because I'm yours right now
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
(guitar solo)
You know I can't stand it
I can't stand it
I can't stand it
I can't stand it when you put me down
You ought to no better mamma
I can't stand a women run around
I put a spell on you
Because
Because you're mine
[Iron Man:]
I eat heavy metal
Gargle premium gas
I drink heavy water
Nitro-demitasse
I eat heavy metal
I chew up limousines
I munch barbed wire
In my submarines
I like stainless razor
Sharpen appetite
I can swallow laser
If I'm eating light
I like anchor sandwich
Served on aluminum side
I like rusty fences
Locomotive pie
I eat heavy metal
I don't truck with tinsel
I drink heavy water
I eat turbo schnitzel
I eat big transformers
I like stoves and cans
Tasty rolled-steel-girders
I chomp copper pans
[Hogarth:]
He eats heavy metal
[Iron Man:]
I'm gonna say it one more time
I eat heavy metal
I gargle premium gas
I drink heavy water
Nitro-demitasse
That's all I drink people!
[Woodland Creatures:]
He eats heavy metal
[Iron Man:]
I chase it with nitro-demitasse
Har har har har...
My room looks out to the wide open spaces
My heart is touched by awakening faces
I see the panic of people in motion
I can stand here, look out on an ocean.
I am a wall awaiting a catchword.
I see the city laid out like a patchwork.
Alone I am free from hatred and blindness
I hope that this life is frozen and timeless.
My man is here, we grow old by inches.
Tomorrow I'll walk among heroes and princes.
I feed the boys, I hear secrets whispered.
I know the hearts that are battered and blistered.
I am secure
In this world of apartheid.
This is my cell, but it's connected to star - light.
Instrumental - no lyrics
From my window I see roads
Lead to darkness, leading home
In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping
Hear the waterfall of women weeping
Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling
Hear the prostituted children calling
From the barred and mesh- floor streets
Of a winter's night,without a moon
I am safe-hidden here.
I am safe-hidden here
Hiding out
I look over the chequerd fields
And the towering web of steel
Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling
While the empty church's bell are pealing
And the green hills lay ignored, untended
Lonely watchers remain unbefriended
And out in the one way streets
Is a swelling maze,without a door
I am safe-hidden here
I am safe-hidden here
Hiding out
Johnny boy, he's always propping up the bar
He's sees life crystallized through his jar
He says he only lives for beer
But deep in his heart is a cry of fear
Give me a heart to hang onto
Give me a soul that's tailored new
Give me a heart to hang onto
A heart to hang onto
Sally seems to get bigger everyday
She evens out in a contented way
A finger on the pulse of every guy
But deep in the night you can hear her cry
Give me a heart to hang onto
Give me a life that's tailored new
Give me a heart to hang onto
Oh please a heart to hang onto
Give me heart to hang onto
Give me a soul that's tailored new
Give me a heart to hang onto
Danny, he wants to save for a new guitar
He's going to learn to play but he won't get far
He thinks it's an easy going' high
But his whole life is just another try
Give me a heart to hang onto
Give me a suit that's tailored true
Give me a heart to hang onto
A heart to hang onto
I need a heart... to hang onto...
Happy Jack wasn't old but he was a man
He lived in the sand at the Isle Of Man
The kids all would sing, he would take the wrong key
So they rode on his head on their furry donkey
But they never stopped Jack or the water lapping
And they couldn't distract him from the seagulls flapping
The kids couldn't hurt Jack
They tried and tried and tried
They dropped things on his back
They lied and lied and lied and lied and lied
But they never stopped Jack or the waters lapping
And they couldn't prevent Jack from feeling happy
They never stopped Jack nor the waters lapping
And they couldn't prevent Jack from feeling happy
Give Blood
But you may find that blood is not enough
Give blood
And there are some who say it's not enough
Give blood
But don't expect to ever see reward
Give blood
You can give it all but still you're asked for more
Give blood
But it could cost more than your dignity
Give blood
Parade your pallor in iniquity
Give blood
They will cry and say they're in your debt
Give blood
But then they'll sigh and they will soon forget
And nothing sure is forever
When forever's no time at all
As I lie amongst the heather bed
High above the ocean's roar
I seem to hear my name being called
Yet who am I waiting for
And I love the lover who loves with
All the love he has and more
And now that the summer's ending
And your baby cries out to sea
I do feel that I am drowning
In the love that you're sending me
And now that the summer's ending
And your baby cries out to sea
I do feel that I am drowning
In the love that you're sending me
(Song is played underneath Ray's dialogue)
Ray writes a letter
RAY: Dear Rosalind, thanks for the new tape. You did my song very well. But, be careful. Celebrities believe their actions affect the behavior of their fans. It is a conceit the press reinforce. They suggest they entrust their precious readers into the hands of the performer. But it's really the performer who entrusts his audience to the press. You must serve the press as well as the audience. For me, a journalist called Ruth Streeting has become a symbol for the press and the establishment. They can't accept that a shit like me has value. I've always needed to make a crowd look away from the beautiful toward me. The more distasteful Ruth Streeting finds that need, the more driven I am to perform especially for her. Her disgust is the most powerful motivator of the artist in me. And as this is the last time I'm writing to you, I can tell you now something that I hardly believe has happened. I have fallen in love with her.
You shone a light for me to follow
Knowing I would
You graced me with a precious gift
That no-one else could
Touched by your presence I surrender, oh yeah
You gave me a lead and I was a follower
A quest to succeed, I am a discoverer
Oh flame, you set me on fire
Nothing can take me any higher
I'm fueled on emotion
And full of desire
Flame, show me the way, uh huh
(Verse one is played under dialogue)
Rastus and Ruth
ANNOUNCER ON RADIO: Number one this week, Roz Nathan with "Flame".
RUTH: There you go Rastus. It's Rosalind on the radio. I can't wait to see Ray's face.
RASTUS: Yeah, well I can't wait to see Rosalind's fuckin' face. Of course, I won't, will I? Because it's you, isn't it, eh? You! You were Rosalind, that picture was of you. You dirty cow. You couldn't have been older than, what, fourteen? No wonder Ray started writing to you.
RUTH: How did you find out? Oh, of course, the witch's teats. Me and a couple of girls at school took it, we were about twelve. Ray believes Rosalind's uncle Charlie took it ... by force.
RASTUS: I knew you were smart Ruth, but not that smart.
RUTH: It worked anyway, his old records are selling like mad.
RASTUS: So, uh, he write wrote your song, then?
RUTH: That would be telling.
(V1) You shone like a light to follow
Knowing I would
You graced me with a precious gift
That no one else could
Touched by your presence I surrender
You gave me a lead and I was a follower
A quest to succeed, I am a discoverer
Flame! You set me on fire
Nothing can take me any higher
I'm fueled on emotion and full of desire
Flame! Show me the way
(Guitar solo)
You gave me a lead and I was a follower
A quest to succeed, I am a discoverer
Oh! hold on the flame and feel the power
Flame! You set me on fire
Nothing can take me any higher
I'm fueled on emotion and full of desire
Flame!
Rastus' place
RUTH: I'm not gonna turn my back on Rosalind now. You manipulated her! Careful what you say, I'll print it.
RAY: I don't give a smorgasboard about that load of old bollocks you churn out.
RASTUS: Now, now, Ray. Don't get introspective. We've got the headlines, we're back in calculator country!
RAY: I helped her deal with her problem!
RUTH: She doesn't have a problem. Do you?
RAY: She knows I do. If she were here now, we could ask her, couldn't we Rastus?
RASTUS: Well, we could, yeah, if she was here.
RAY: Are you saying nothing I wrote helped her?
RUTH: No, you just helped her become a fucking star.
Fire! I'll take you to burn
Fire! I'm gonna take you to learn
I'll see you burn
You fought hard and you saved and earned
Now all of it's going to burn
In your mind, your tiny mind
You know you've been completely blind
Don't you dream of what you left so far behind?
Fire! To destroy all we've done
Fire! To end all we've become
I'll see you burn
You were living your life just like a little girl
Spreading your wings in the middle of this little world
In your mind your tiny mind
You know you've fallen far behind
Now you're gonna burn
Fire! You're gonna burn!
(Pete Townshend/Jon Astley/Billy Nichols/Jon Lind)
You can fake it
Hold my hand
If you take it
I will understand
I don't care if you fake it
I don't give a damn
I don't care if you fake it
Don't you understand
You might laugh at me later
But why not smile at me now
Don't ever feel like a traitor
You're not letting me down
Fake it, fake it
I can take it
Love's just an end, it's the means we feel
Fake it, fake it
I can make it
Why not pretend that your love is real
Why not fake it?
I'm going to ask you to act it
Don't let me see if you're bored
If you use the right tactic
You will hear me applaud
I don't mind what you're thinking
I'll just guess what you feel
Don't regret you've been drinking
To make your pleasure look real
Fake it, fake it
I can take it
I don't believe in eternity
Fake it, fake it
Help me make it
I've taken leave of all dignity
Why not fake it?
I am prepared to put up with this
Because I love you so much
And I know that you probably don't love me in the same way
But if you care for me at all
Then take me in your arms
Fabricate the way you feel
I'll just pretend that it's allfor real
Fake it anyway
You can fake it
Hold my had
If you fake it
I will understand
We've got to face the face
You must have heard the cautionary tales
The dangers hidden on the cul-de-sac trails
>From wiser men who have been through it all
And the ghosts of failures spray-canned up on the wall
We've got to judge the judge
Got to find the finds
We've got to scheme the schemes
Have to line the lines
We must stake the stakes
And show the shown
We must take the takes
And know the known
Try to place the place
Where we can face the face
Face the face-got to
Face the face
You must have tried and the defied belief
Maybe found futility in insular grief
I need your hunger just as you need mine
A million appetites can swallow up time
We've got to fool the fools
And plan the plans
We must rule the rules
Got to stand the stands
We must fight the fight
And fall the falls
We must light the light
And call the calls
We must race the race
So we can face the face
New York! Chicago!
London and Glasgow!
Keep looking!
Keep on cooking
Keep on looking
Gotta stay on this case
Study the pix
Watch the fix
We've got to find the face
Talk about your woman,
I wish you could see mine.
You talk about your woman,
I wish you could see mine.
Every time she starts to lovin'
She brings eyesight to the blind.
You know her daddy gave her magic.
I can tell by the way she walks.
You know her daddy gave her magic.
I can tell by the way she walks.
Every time she start shakin'
The dumb begin to talk.
She's got the power to heal you,
Never fear.
She's got the power to heal you,
Never fear.
Every time she start to wiggle,
The deaf begin to hear.
Talk about your woman,
I wish you could see mine.
I wish you could see her
You talk about your woman,
I wish you could see mine.
Every time she starts to shaking
She brings eyesight to the blind.
Comma comma comma comma
Commai commai commai commai
Commu commu commu commu
communi communi communicate
Selbstdarstellung
Gay Talese
Ronald Rocking
Euthanasia
Use the words like flowing river touches
Embraces parting hard steel surfaces reveling pages
Beneath the water skin broken like ice flows
Smashed by iron bows on the back of a whale
Comma comma comma comma
Commai commai commai commai
Commu commu commu commu
Communicate
Selbstarstellung
Open hearted
Soon forgotten - never parted
Com com communicate
Communicate communicate
Communicate communicate
Via satellite and solid state
Never never hesitate
Communicate communicate
Communicate communicate
Never never hesitate
Reaching leaning scratching vainly
Faces dancing locked lipped and between thigh secret
Briolette tears drip from frozen masks
As all those death row questions don't get asked
Comma comma comma comma
Commai commai commai commai
Commu commu commu commu
communi communi communicate
Communicate communicate
Communicate communicate
Via satellite and solid state
Never never hesitate
Communicate communicate
Communicate communicate
Never never hesitate
Well, once I was a stone, many years ago
Into a pool was thrown, many years ago
Time went by and the pool ran dry
Excavated was I and tempered
And beat in the fiery heat
By the hand of a man whose name was Dan
Dan the blacksmith
Well, once I was a daisy, many years ago
In pastures green and lazy, many years ago
But I was on my goat who fell in a moat
And forgetting to float
He sunk like a lead and stayed until dead
And was relieved to find
Well, just how kind it all was
Well, once I was a bullfrog, had to struggle for survival
And once I was a carp and lived in waters on the meadow
And once I was a myna bird, quoting verses from the Bible
I said, "Pretty boy, pretty boy, Saint Luke"
Then I was born, a human baby, a many years ago
I remember I was born unto a lady, a many years ago
All our hopes were piled on the back of a child
Who turned out to be wild, sent the Devil a prayer
Caused the parson to swear so I took my leave
To lie and thieve on my way to jail
Well, I've been a tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor
Known good times and disaster
But now I found a teacher
And my teacher has a master
And the master is perfection
So he'll help us get there faster
Don't need no proof, 'cause it's the truth
I was an English boy
I was brought up right
You could hold me down
And I would bite
I knew no fear
I served with joy
I was proud to be here
An English boy
You spray like a tomcat
Piss like a stray dog
Swear like a sailor
Speaking in gang tongues
Kicking in chorus
Stabbing to order
Slashing like a blind man
Lost like a soldier
I was an English boy
Precisely made
You could pin me down
I was not afraid
I showed no fear
And I served with joy
I was so proud to be here
An English boy
Blurred like a movie
Gray under streetlights
Gray in the sunshine
So black on the tube line
White on the touchline
Moving like a fever
Spreading like an oil slick
Thicker than a house brick
I was an English boy
I was brought up right
If you raised your dress
And I would bite
My voice was clear
I had perfect poise
Was good to be down here
With all the English boys
And I don't know where I am now
Or where I'm gonna go
I keep going round and round on the circle line
Like some demented kind of commuta
Trying to avoid paying for my ticket
I'm a lost soul
I read about myself in the newspapers
I'm a pig
I'm a thug
I've got nowhere to go but down
(guitar solo)
Stand up, when I'm talking to you boy
Stand up, when I'm talking to you boy
Stand up! stand up! stand up!
Stand up!
Stand up!
Slow like a prejudice
Broken like hatred
Kicking at a dead man
Cut pieces to pieces
Marking your territory
Freezing the future
Stopping the stopwatch
I am despairing
I was an English boy
I was brought up right
You could hold me down
And I would bite
I knew no fear
And I served with joy
I was proud to be here
An English boy
I was an English boy
Yes I was
I was an English boy
I was an English boy
I was an English boy
I was an English boy
I was an English boy
I was an English boy
I was an English boy
Ray addresses the audience
RAY: "Gridlife" was a vision, a real vision. Not a fiction, not a fairy tale, a glimpse of the future. Today, twenty years later, the apocalypse it foresaw is nearer. But, whatever you read in the newspapers, we still don't have any alternative reality. It's all games now: all lies and deceit. What happened to the truth? What happened to the dream? What happened to all that lovely hippy shit?
His pride is like a bandage
He's wrapped in a warm cocoon
His pride is just like heroin
He's back inside the womb
His pride is like an ocean
Encircled by a reef
His pride's an hypnotic potion
His memory is a leaf
Her pride is like an armour
Flaming ring of fire
Her pride is like a blindness
An ever tightening wire
Her pride is like a razor
A surgeon's purging knife
Her pride is like a censor
I can't be held responsible for my behavior
I lost all contact with my only savior
Please don't lock me out because I missed to phone ya
I can't bear to live forever like a loner
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
I seen you on a Tuesday morning
Everyone but me seems still to be yawning
I can write a letter and I'm gonna to ya
Am I gone blind thinking about you lot
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
I try to explain but you never understand it
I need your body but I can't just demand it
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
I can't be held responsible for my behavior
I lost all contact with my only savior
Please don't lock me out because I missed to phone ya
I can't bear to live forever like a loner
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
Keep singing
Don't let go of the coat
Keep telling myself now
Don't let go of the coat
That's why I'm singing now
Don't let go of the coat
Oo, Don't let go of the coat
Admitting to myself
Don't let go of the coat
Quit felling bad for myself
Don't let go of the coat
Just gotta look after myself
Don't let go of the coat
Oh, Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
Don't let go of the coat
Ruth and Rastus
RUTH: Oh Rastus you bastard! Why so bloody hard? Ray might hear us - he'd be jealous.
RASTUS: Why would he be jealous?!
RUTH: Because he loves me! He said so in one of his letters to Rosalind.
RASTUS: Turn over. Here, what are these marks?
RUTH: Do you like them? One person in a million has these.
RASTUS: Yeah, I know. Witch's teats.
RUTH: Oh Rastus you fantastic bastard. Harder! Harder!
Ray writes a letter
RAY: Dear Rosalind, In answer to all your questions: firstly, I'm afraid it wouldn't help you to feel secure. In fact, it would defeat you. Insecurity is the principal driving force we performers share. Secondly, like you, something awful happened to me as a child, but I learned from it. The only power available to you lies in your submission. Isn't that what the photo was all about? Remember, you don't have to bury the past or the pain. You can use it.
Rastus and Ruth
RASTUS: There you go, Ruth. There's your cut. Five percent. That's sixty grand. Back to my place.
RUTH: Sixty-thousand pounds. Not much for what I dreamed up.
RASTUS: Well, it's fifteen grand a nipple. (laughs) It's not bad.
RUTH: Five percent of what he's getting ... he's a rich boy, isn't he?
RASTUS: Don't worry, there'll be more. It worked, that's all that matters. He's in his element. This is just the beginning. Tours, TV, toot and tarts. Back where we belong: on top. And no more letters. At least he's finished with all that.
Nothing must pass this line
Unless it is well defined
You just have to be resigned
You're crashing by design
You once believed that crazy accidents
were happening to you
You were chasing a capricious wind
Whenever bad luck and trouble
happened to pursue you
The dice would surely save your skin
But when you look back you must realize
That nothing in your life's divine
Everything that's ever befallen you
Happened simply 'cause it crossed your mind
You're crashing by design
Nothing must pass this line
Unless it is well defined
You just have to be resigned
You're crashing by design
In your single-roomed flat in a courtyard building
You sit alone just like a broken toy
Where's your mother, where's your lover
and where are the children
Are you a man or still a boy?
Who left you behind, or did you run
From the crush of so many options?
Now you know the special despair of the man
Discussed, debated and offered for adoption
Nothing must pass this line
Unless it is well defined
You just have to be resigned
Another man without a woman
Dropped like a tool no longer required
A man who longs for the stifling
Milk flowered bosom, a fool
who's no longer desired
Another man without a woman
Too many rages have cost you this time
Another man among a hundred children
You're just a child who is lost in time
You're crashing by design
You're crashing by design
I't all happens by design
I't all happens by design
You're crashing by design
I't all happens by design
I't all happens by design
You're crashing by design
I am ready to learn and to grow
I am alone with the truth
I am brave, what is there to fear?
I am strong, God supports me
I am patient, each moment of eternity
I am able to help when necessary
I am happy, singing in the arms of God
I am balanced, keeping mind and heart equal
I am complete when I forget myself
I am receptive to each message of love
I am responsive to all that lives
I am happy, singing in the arms of God
Enough, I am content
See that girl who's smiling so brightly,
Well I reckon she's cool and I reckon rightly,
She's good looking and I ain't frightened,
I'm gonna show you why they call me lightning.
Hey little girl who's dancing so lightly,
My XKE is shining brightly,
The loose around us is slowly tightening,
I'm gonna show you why they call me lightning.
Hey little girl who's dancing so lightly,
My XKE is shining brightly,
The loose around us is slowly tightening,
I'm gonna show you why they call me lightning.
You can't catch me, I'm as fast as can be,
Call me lightning, I'm as fast as can be,
No you can't catch me, no you can't catch me.
Girl is on a white sheet
She's tripped in a trance,
While her friends go out and dance
She's alone don't ask me why
This kid from Brooklyn cries
Boy struts on the main street
He's dressed for affect
But his eye's reveal he's really red
He's all alone don't ask me why
This kid from Brooklyn cries
And their both just a mile apart
Just streets away from a kindred heart
But they might as well
Be an ocean between them
There might as well
Be an ocean between them
You and me just can't relate
We got love given on a plate
Is it love or is it fate
Were not alone
Same girl in the sunshine
Such a perfect shape
And he can't talk, he just passed again
She walks alone don't ask me why
This kid from Brooklyn cries
Same boy doing cell time
Hanging his head, Pickup didn't go quiet as planned
He feels alone don't ask me why
This kid from Brooklyn cries
And their both just a mile apart
Just streets away from a kindred heart
But they might as well
Be an ocean between them
Yes there might as well
Be an ocean between them
Say goodbye to the brilliant blues
Say goodbye to the brilliant blues
Say goodbye
It's time to live
So make me, take me
It's time to give
So don't betray me, pay me
The brilliant blues, don't want to be frozen
I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine cafe
I've read the news, the clique-ridden notions
I know that now is the time to say
It's time
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
To teach
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
So tell me
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
Come on and tell me
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
It's time
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
To preach
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
So help me
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
Come on and help me
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
The brilliant blues will never flow this way again
The color of the Mersey is gray
The brilliant blues have faded into sadness and pain
And now is the time to say it's time
You and me are gonna to finally sail away
(We'll get far away from the blues and the mist in the rain)
You and me are gonna fight until we reach the day
(For now is the time that we must say goodbye)
To the brilliant blues
The brilliant blues, I don't want to be frozen
I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine cafe
I've read the news, the clique-ridden notions
I know that now is the time to stay
It's time
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
To trust
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
So buy me
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
Come on and try me
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
It's time
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
To trust
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
So guide me
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
Stay beside me
(Say goodbye to the brilliant blues)
The brilliant blues will never flow this way again
The color of the Mersey is gray
The brilliant blues have faded into sadness and pain
(instrumental)
Everybody get on your feet
You make me nervous when you in your seat
Take off your shoes and pat your feet
We're doing a dance that can't be beat
We're barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
Went to a party the other night
Long Tall Sally was out of sight
She threw her wig, and her high sneakers too
She was doing a dance without any shoes
She was barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
Hey little girl with the red dress on
I bet you can barefoot all night long
Take off your shoes and throw them away
Come back and get them another day
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
Lil John Henry he said to Sue
If I can barefoot, you can barefoot too
Sue told John, I can get out here and groove
I was barefootin ever since I was two
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
Take off your shoes and dance
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
barefootin'
A scene from "Gridlife"
SPINNER: Music and vibrations are the basis of everything. They pervade everything. Human consciousness is reflected by them. Atoms are vibrations between positive and negative forces. Some very subtle, some complex, but, it's all music. Soon, we will switch in the whole world. Every person wearing an experience suit will share this adventure with us.
In the recording studio
RAY: The crowd rush in. Three circles closing fast to form a perfect cushion as he lands. As Spinner hits the crowd and the long, sustained final chord suddenly ends ...
RUTH: Ray, I've cut all this. Go straight to twenty-eight.
She said I'll see you in the morning, darling
I see you when the kids have gone to school
But well I know tomorrow is your birthday
I know you know that you're are an April Fool
We used to roam so freely. It's been so long
I took my dreams to bed now where they belong
She said there's dust and cobwebs on your north star
There no more fussing the campfires in your hair
I'll see the wheels there rusted in the backyard
I know we're not going anywhere
We used to roam so freely. It's been so long
I took my dreams to bed now where they belong
Ohhhh, look stand tall, Annie
See the world grow small, Annie
But when will it fall, Annie, when will it be....
Winter has come, Annie
No friend in the sun, Annie
And when it's gone, Annie
Where shall we be?
All those colors have faded
When ol' Jack comes to call
Don't tell him no, tell him maybe
Ohhhhh now, Annie, may God bless us all
Oh yes Annie, God bless us all
Did the children they call, Annie?
Every leaf must fall, Annie
God bless us all, Annie
Where ever will be
And I moved
As I saw him looking in through my window
His eyes were silent lies
And I moved
And I saw him standing in the doorway
His figure merely filled the space
And I moved
But I moved toward him
And I moved
And his hands felt like ice exciting
As he laid me back just like an empty dress
And I moved
But a minute after he was weeping
His tears his only truth.
And I moved
But I moved toward him
They say that love often passes in a second
And you never can catch it up
So I'm hanging on to you as though eternity beckoned
But it's clear that the match is rough
Common sense 'd tell me not to try 'n continue
But I'm after a piece of that diamond in you
So keep an eye open
My spirit ain't broken
Your love is so incredible
Your body so edible
You give me an overdose of love
Just a little is enough
I'm a connoisseur of champagne cognac
The perfume nearly beats the taste
I eat an oyster and I feel the contact
But more than one would be a waste
Some people want an endless line that's true
But all I have's a little time with you
A smile sets me reeling
A kiss feels like stealing
Your love is like heroin
The addict is mellowing
I can't pretend that I'm tough
Just a little is enough
Just like a sailor heading into the seas
There's a gale blowing in my face
THe high winds scare me but I need the breeze
And I can't head for any other place
Life would seem so easy on the other tack
But even a hurricane won't turn me back
You might be an island
On the distant horizon
But the little I see
Looks like heaven to me
I don't care if the ocean gets rough
Just a little is enough
Common sense 'd tell me not to try and continue
But I'm after a piece of that diamond on you
So keep an eye open
My spirit ain't broken
Your love's so incredible
Your body so edible
You give me an overdose of love
HOGARTH
When eyes meet in silence
A pact can be made
A life-long alliance
That won't be betrayed
Be friendly, befriend me now
A friend is a friend
Nothing can change that
Arguments, squabbles
Can't break the contract
That each of you makes
To the death, to the end
Deliver your future
Into the hands of your friend
WOODLAND CREATURES
Be friendly, befriend me now
HOGARTH
A promise is a promise
A handshake will seal it
No amount of discussion
Can ever repeat it
Commitment forever
To borrow or lend
Deliver your future
Into the hands of your friend
BADGER
When eyes meet in silence You need a pact
A pact can be made
A life-long alliance CROW
That won't be betrayed Won't be betrayed
You need a mate BADGER
When facing the end You need a mate
What is the fate
Now facing my friend? BADGER
Facing my friend What is the fate?
What faces my friend?
HOGARTH and WOODLAND CREATURES
A friend is a friend
Nothing can change that
Arguments, squabbles
Can't break the contract
That each of you makes
To the death, to the end
Deliver your future
Into the hands of your friend
HOGARTH
A fool says love is like a melody
Or something like a symphony
But this love is cacophony
Never changing key
We, we can't fool our audience
We put up such a poor pretense
Don't hide a shred of evidence
We have no defense
A fool says
Love is foolproof
A fool says
Love is foolproof
A fool says
We, we can't fool our audience
We put up such a poor pretense
Don't hide a shred of evidence
We have no defense
A fool says
Love is foolproof
A fool says
Love is foolproof
A fool says
When you're at the movie
Don't pretend you're groovy
Don't be swayed and shell shocked
Hinder hear the band out
There is only waving
Men's are misbehaving
Jackie's on the craving
Rabbits on the raving
They're on the way with a tooth force
Hella frat while the cats gone
Zelda waves from the backseat
Hello, hello
Zelda lays up the track sheet
Hello, hello
Stand outside the door frame
Enter at your own game
Horse is trapped and ignorant
Of course, you won't get in here
Zelda is only waving
Doesn't know you're worth saving
Mine is trapped in a cave in
Monday feels like a slave in
Zelda is waving with her two hands
Freddy's making up a new band
Zelda waves from the backseat
Hello, hello
Zelda lays up the track sheet
Hello, hello
I can't explain
Again and again
Ain't you afraid
Again and again
Zelda waves from the backseat
Hello, hello
Zelda lays up the track sheet
Hello, hello
When we meet with a genius
You know he's never really seen us
He's come back to brandy
Well that's very handy
Zelda's on the way man
To raise his kids, it's just amazing
Keith had joined the navy
Roger's little baby
Zelda screams not to touch her
But one day someone will fuck her
Zelda waves from the backseat
Hello, hello
Zelda lays up the track sheet
You're so clever, so smooth and debonair.
You're so clever and you never seem to have a care.
You groove unflustered by storms or humid, sticky weather.
Oh, you're so clever, oh.
You're so flippant, Mmmm a thousand in the red
You're so extant, snap your finger and the light for my cigarette.
I feel impusted by your charm when we're together.
Oh, you're so clever, oh yeah.
I mean it, you're so perfect.
You always choose the red wine.
I seen you on the dance floor
And you keep such perfect time.
There's no one I want but you, I mean forever
I mean forever, you're so clever.
Mean it, oh, you're a genesis
Everything that ever gets me hot
I'm reeling, you cause my nemesis
You're everything I want and all I'm not
There's no one I want but you and I mean forever
I mean forever, you're so clever, oh.
You're so open
So straight but never plain
So gently spoken, I'm not joking
Your smile could stop the rain
I'm going to muster strength and chase you bare for leather
You're so clever, oh, yeah.
You, you're so clever.
Yes, you, you're so clever.
Yes, you, you're so clever.
You better you better you bet
You better you bet you bet
I call you on the telephone
My voice too rough with cigarettes
I sometimes feel I should just go home
But I'm dealing with a memory that never forgets
I to hear you say my name
Especially when you say yes.
I got your body right now on my mind
And I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T Rex
Oh, Oh, Yea
When I say I love you, you say "You better!"
You better you better you bet
When I say I love you, you scream "You better!"
You better you better you bet
You better bet your life
Or love will cut you
Like a knife.
I want those feeble-minded axes overthrown.
I'm not into your passport picture,
I just like your nose.
You welcome me with open arms and open legs
They say only fools have needs, but this one never begs.
I don't really mind how much you love me
A little is alright
When you say, "Come over and spend the night"
Tonight.
When I say I love you, you say "You better!"
You better you better you bet
When I say I love you, you scream "You better!"
You better you better you bet
You bet your life
Or love is gona cut you
Just like a knife.
I lay on the bed with you
We could make some book of records
Your dog keeps licking my nose
And chewing up all those letters
Saying "You better!"
You better bet your life.
You better love me, all the time now
You better shove me, back into line now
You better love me, all the time now
You better shove me, back into line now
You better love me, all the time now
You better shove me, back into line now
You better love me, all the time now
You better shove me, back into line now
I showed up late one night with a neon light for a visa
But knowing I'm so eager to fight can't make letting me in any easier
I know that I been wearing crazy clothes, and I look pretty crappy sometime
But my body feels so good and I still ride a razor line every time
And when it comes to all night living
I know what I'm giving
I've got it all down to a tee
And it's free
When I say I love you, you say "You better!"
You better you better you bet
When I say I love you, you scream "You better!"
You better you better you bet
When I say I love you, you say "You better!"
You better you better you bet
When I say I love you, you scream "You better!"
You better you better you bet
When I say I love you, you say "You better!"
You better you better you bet
When I say I need you, you scream "You better!"
You better you better you bet
"You better!"
You better you better you bet
"You better!"
You better you better you bet
You bet your life
Or love is gona cut you
I don't matter you don't matter
Neither does this mindless clatter
It don't matter where you're from
What matters is your uniform
Wear your braces round your seat
Doctor Martens on your feet
Keep your barnet very neat
For credibility on street
We are marching as to war
We won't be obscure no more
In uniform - In uniform
I am really living life inside a jar - I'm all alone
So I feel forgiven if I'm under par - a fallen clone
Only in the river can I claim a star to call my own
I'm newly born,
In uniform I'm up on the throne
I am frightened, you are frightened
Should we get our trousers tightened?
Where in Brighton is your norm
Who wears enlightened uniform?
On my Parka is some band
I don't really understand
Perry is my guiding hand
Scooter polo sweeps the land
We are marching as to war
We won't be obscure no more
In uniform - in uniform
People think we dress alike to segregate identities
Pills or drink or puffing pipes in integrated entities
Then they wink and snort their line and say how great their Bentley is
They feel so warm when they conform. . .
They say that nakedness is what our Lord intended
When we stand naked then we all appear the same
But it's just faking it if we all try pretending
Are we just making all our prayers in the rain
Heaven knows I need new clothes.
We are marching as to war
But we are really fighting for
Our uniform - our uniform
When I contemplate my future I go numb, don't feel a thing
I don't' overrate my suitors number one, I always sing
But the State and their computers make me run for comfort in
My uniform.
In uniform I feel like a king.
They say that nakedness is what our Lord intended
When we stand naked then we all appear the same
But it's just faking it if we all try pretending
Are we just making all our prayers in the rain
It seems insane
But heaven knows
It's all the same
I've looked under chairs
I've looked under tables
I've tried to find the key
To fify million fables
They call me the Seeker
I've been searching low and high
I won't find what I'm after
Till the day I die
I asked my idols
The questions to my mother
I bought tickets just anywhere
Hoping to discover
They call me the Seeker
I've been looking low and high
I won't get to get what I'm after
Till the day I die
People tend to hate me
'Cause I never smile
As I ransack their homes
They wanna shake my hand
Focusing on nowhere
Investigating miles
I'm a Seeker, I'm a really desperate man!
I asked Bobby Dylan
I asked the Beatles
I asked Timothy Leary
But he didn't help me either
They call me the Seeker
I've been looking low and high
I won't get to get what I'm after
Till the day I die
I learned how to raise my voice in anger
Now look at my face
Ain't this a smile?
I'm happy when life's good
And when it's bad I cry
I got values
But I don't know how or why
I'm looking for me!
You're looking for you!
We're looking at each other
And we don't know what to do!
They call me the Seeker
I've been searching low and high
I won't get to get what I'm after
Till the day I die
I won't get to get what I'm after
Face the face - got to the face the face
Face the face - got to the face the face.
you must have heard the cautionary tales
The danger's hidden on the cul-de-sac trails.
From wiser men who have been through it all
And the ghosts of failures spray-canned up on the Wall.
We got to judge the judge
we got to find the finds
We got to scheme the schemes
we got to line the lines.
We must stake the stakes
we got to show the shown
We got to take the takes
we got to know the known.
Try to place the place where we can face the face
Try to place the place where we can face the face.
Face the face - got to face the face
Face the face - got to face the face.
You must have tried and then defied belief
Maybe found futility in insular grief.
I need your hunger
you need mine
A million miles can swallow up time.
We got to fool the fools
we got to plan the plans
We got to rule the rules
we got to stand the stands.
We got to fight the fight
we must fall the falls
We got to light the light
we got to call the calls.
We must race the race so we can face the face
We must race the race so we can face the face.
Face the face - we got to face the face
We got to race the race - we got to -
Keep looking - New York
Chicago - London and Glasgow - keep lool
Keep on looking
keep on cooking
go to stay on this case
Study the pix
watch the flix
we got to find the face.
Face the face - got to face the face -
watch the flix - got to -
We got to judge the judge
we got to find the finds
We got to scheme the schemes
we got to line the lines.
We got to fight the fight
we got to fall the falls
We got to light the light
we got to call the calls.
'ky to place the place where we can face the face
Try to place the place where we can face the face.
?ky to place the place where we can face the face
We must place the place so we can face the face
We must place the place so we can face the face
Every day I get in the queue (Too much, the Magic Bus)
To get on the bus that takes me to you (Too much, the Magic Bus)
I'm so nervous, I just sit and smile (Too much, the Magic Bus)
Your house is only another mile (Too much, the Magic Bus)
Thank you, driver, for gettin' me here (Too much, the Magic Bus)
You'll be an inspector, have no fear (Too much, the Magic Bus)
I don't want to cause a fuss (Too much, the Magic Bus)
Can I buy your Magic Bus? (Too much, the Magic Bus)
Noooooooooo!
I don't care how much I pay (Too much, the Magic Bus)
I wanna drive my bus to my baby each day (Too much, the Magic Bus)
Every day you'll see the dust (Too much, the Magic Bus)
As I drive to my baby in my Magic Bus (Too much, the Magic Bus)
Magic Bus, Magic Bus, Magic Bus
Magic Bus, Magic Bus, Magic Bus
Give me a hundred (Magic Bus)
She goes like thunder (I want a Magic Bus)
I won't take under (I want a Magic Bus)
It's a bus-age wonder
I want it, I want it, I want it
You can have her for one hundred pounds
Hey, I want my bus
I want it myself
I wanna drive it
You can't have it!
Think how much I'll save in bus fare
You can't have it!
Thruppence and sixpence every day
Just to drive to my bus to see my baby
Thruppence and sixpence every way
'Cause I drive my baby every way
But I wanna buy your Magic Bus (Too much Magic Bus)
Give me a hundred
I wanna buy your Magic Bus
Magic Bus, goes like thunder
Magic Bus, I won't take under
Magic Bus, I won't take under
Magic Bus, it's a bus-age wonder
I want it, I want it, I want it
When you and I are having problems
Pretend you're simpley me, and I am you
Watch the way we weep and slip under
Making love before the evening through.
Say hello to the love man
You can't afford to pass him by
Say hello to the love man
Now I've said it, don't forget it, you'd regret it
Or tomorrow , die.
Don't you know that he's in our town
Someone wrote it on the wall
Just for us he can be found
But do we really need to call.
Care at all.
Say hello to the love man
You can't afford to pass him by
Say hello to the love man
Now I've said it, don't forget it, you'd regret it
If tomorrow he should die.
Yaaaah
[Guitar solo]
Tickle me don't let me hear him singing
Dance for me don't let me see his face
Sing for me don't answer any questions
Love me don't love him don't lead the race.
He didn't even come out of his caravan
Just swung these leapers out the door
How can you imagine that he's human
Can I match your money you have seen before.
Never less I will
Say hello to the love man
You can't afford to pass him by
Say hello to the love man
Now I've said it, don't forget it, you'd regret it
Cause tomorrow he's going to die
Say hello to the love man
Say hello to the love man
I don't mind other guys dancing with my girl.
That's fine, I know them all pretty well.
But in time I know I must get out in the light.
Better leave her behind with the kids are alright,
The kids are alright
Sometimes I feel I gotta get away.
Bells chime, I know I gotta get away.
And I know if I don't I'll go out of my mind.
Better leave her behind with the kids are alright,
The kids are alright.
I know if I'd go thing's be a lot better for her.
I had things planned but her folks wouldn't let her.
I don't mind other guys dancing with my girl.
That's fine, I know them all pretty well.
But I know sometimes I must get out in the light.
And leave her behind with the kids are alright,
the kids are alright.
Sometimes I feel I gotta get away.
Bells chime, I know I gotta get away.
And I know if I don't I'll go out of my mind.
Better leave her behind with the kids are alright,
The kids are alright,
The kids are alright,
Teresa, I had no idea how much I'd need her
Take me home and teach me how to feed her
My heart is palpitating and I guess wrong
But I guess I'll get along
She's just a girl
Teresa, all I ever want to do is please her
She pulls me up and kissed me what's the reason
I just keep on crashing down and I guess wrong
I guess I'll get along
She's just a girl
I don't know if I love her
Passion
Teresa, just a girl, just a girl
Teresa, she's just a girl, just a girl
Teresa, just a girl, just a girl
Teresa , just a girl
She's just a girl
Just a fucking girl
Teresa, my heart felt like a shattered glass in an acid bath
I feel like one of those flattened ants you find on a crazy path
I'd of topped myself to give you time you don't need to ask
I'm a suicidal psychopath
Your just a girl - your just a girl
Consumed, there's a beautiful white horse I saw on a dream stage
He had a snake the size of a sewer pipe living in his rib cage
I feel like a pickled priest who was being flambed
It's an inquisition Blondie
Just a girl - I'm happy
I'm fucking ecstatic- lucky, lucky
Just a girl just a girl
Just a girl just a girl
Just a girl just a girl
Just a girl
Teresa, you picked me up by my lapels and screamed "cheater"
It's like waking up in heaven on an empty meter
I know you're in love with a man who's really a leader
I hate the cunt, I don't mean that
I just said it
Forget it, please
It is a girl
It's just a girl
yea yea yea yea just a girl
Your just a girl
You think we look pretty good together
You think my shoes are made of leather
I'm a substitute for another guy
I look pretty tall but my heels are high
The simple things you see are all complicated
I look pretty young but I'm just back-dated...yeah
(Substitute) Your lies for fact
(Substitute) I see right through your plastic Mac
(Substitute) I look all white but my dad was black
(Substitute) My fine-looking suit's really made out of sack
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
The north side of my town faced east and the east was facing' south
And now you dare to look me in the eye
Those crocodile tears are what you cry
It's a genuine problem, you won't try
To work it out at all, just pass it by...pass it by
(Substitute) Me for him
(Substitute) My coke for gin
(Substitute) You for my mum
(Substitute) At least I'll get my washin' done
I'm a substitute for another guy
I look pretty tall but my heels are high
The simple things you see are all complicated
I look pretty young but I'm just back-dated...yeah
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
The north side of my town faced east and the east was facing' south
And now you dare to look me in the eye
Those crocodile tears are what you cry
It's a genuine problem, you won't try
To work it out at all, just pass it by...pass it by
(Substitute) Me for him
(Substitute) My coke for gin
(Substitute) You for my mum
(Substitute) At least I'll get my washin' done
(Substitute) Your lies for fact
(Substitute) I see right through your plastic Mac
(Substitute) I look all white but my dad was black
Street in the city. Street in the city on a working day.
Street in the city. Street in the city on a working day.
There's a man up on that ledge. He's only cleaning windows.
What a shame, who's to blame, for the pain with his sin,
Going to lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall.
See that man going in the bank with a blue suit?
He's carrying a bag full of very important papers.
There's old Mac trying to busk with his new flute.
Did you read about the Cambridge raper?
Street in the city. Street in the city on a working day.
Street in the city. Street in the city on a working day.
Those girls pass every day. They seem to think I'm funny.
It's just a game that they're playing till they can claim their personal man.
Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for her knickers to fall.
See that woman with a bun in her hair?.
Don't she know that ain't still done anywhere?
See that man going in the Wig and Pen?
He was charged with telling lies again.
I see the world go by as I lean against my wall.
I watch as Fleet Street makes new heroes rise and fall.
The news is written in the eyes of us all.
On is a sinner. One is a saint, but most of us worry about showing up late.
I'm gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall.
Street in the city. Street in the city on a working day.
Street in the city. Street in the city on a working day.
There's a man up on that ledge. He's only cleaning windows.
A love born once must soon be born again
A spark that burned, then died, leaving cinders to be fanned
By the wind and thrown to flame;
Flames like tongues impassioned in a moments burst.
Tell me friend - why do you stand aloof from your own heart?
The truth confronts you - the truth confronts you as the sea
Crushing without detail,
Impassioned and detached,
Killing with love and power in God's Name.
Love conquers poses. Love smashes stances. Love crushes angles
Into black. So you, without question, know your first love
Is your last. And you, will never - never - Love again
I always wished to walk with her into resteraunts, (A clammy tale).
To be seen beside her at the public bar footrail.
I always wanted to be matched with her -
Yet her beauty was so different to mine.
My "beauty" needs an understanding, a knowledge of what I am.
Hers is enough. Earned through eons; for that is what true beauty is -
Time's gift to perfect humility.
May I be matched with you again
I know the match is bad
But God help me -
May I be matched with you again
Stardom in action that's all they got.
Just like the grub that wriggles to the top of the mass
I'm the first to get hooked
Just like the stub of that long cigarette full of hash
I'm the first to get booked.
But I'm incapable
My love's inescapable
Conquering lethargy
I've got energy
Stardom - I want a hit
Want my tan, want my cash, want my innocence.
Stardom - I want a script
Want my band, want my stash, want omnipotence.
I'll go where the senescent soldier retires
And shiver in south California,
Watching the storms and the tangling wire
And rivers that meet on the corner.
Like some prostitute
Handing round the loot,
I am not ashamed
I will stake a claim.
Stardom - born in a trunk
Got my home, got my car, got stability
Stardom - I'm Hollywood's son
All alone don't admire anonimity.
I'm so angry that you turned me on,
I didn't remain your friend for too long
I'm so angry that you turned me on,
I didn't stay your friend for too long.
I'm so angry that you let me see
My totally futile destiny.
I'm so angry - you interrupted my dream,
Now I know that the power rests in me.
I stood at the door beside her
But she wouldn't let me pass
I was such a bore and I lied to her
I said I didn't really want her ass
I went away in the mud and rain
The gang became snide and laughed
I was slayed, but I smiled and the pain
Began to subside at last
And when I got back to my hotel
I wondered if the thunder meant I'd landed in hell
And on the forecourt I slipped and fell
I cracked my stupid head and I heard a bell
I thought, hey
Somebody saved me, it happened again
Somebody saved me, I thank you my friend
Somebody saved me, from a fate worse than heaven
'Cause if I'd had her for just an hour
I'd have wanted her forever
Somebody saved me
You would have thought that I'd have learned
Twenty years ago or more
A beautiful girl raised her mouth and yearned
But I didn't know what lips were for
I ran away in the mud and rain
The weather here is never too bright
She'd had an affray with her man and came
For solace and the means to fight
She finally bored with seducing me
And took up with some geezer from the Ealing scene
It nearly killed him like it would've killed me
When her original man snapped his fingers and she obeyed, she obeyed
But somebody saved me, it happened again
Somebody saved me, I thank you my friend
Somebody saved me, from a fate worse than heaven
'Cause if I'd had her for just an hour
I'd have wanted her forever
I don't know about guardian angels
All I know about's staying alive
I can't shout about spiritual labels
When little ones die and big ones thrive
All I know is that I've been making it
And there've been times that I didn't deserve to
Every show there's been more faking it
But right at the point of no return
Somebody saves me, again and again
Somebody saves me, I thank you my friend
Somebody saves me, from a fate worse than heaven
'Cause if I blew it for a single moment
I'd blow it forever
But somebody saves me
I took up the connection once
Made me feel quite aloof
I never could queue to collect my lunch
While I was pursuing the truth
So I left my folks in the mud and rain
It always rains in Sunnyside Road
I lived hippy jokes, getting stoned insane
'Till the rain looked just like snow
But there was a soul in whom I could depend
He worked himself crazy while I laid in bed
I never leaned on a person like I leaned right then
And when I finally woke up clean
My friend was dead, stone dead
Somebody saved me, it happened again
Somebody saved me, I thank you my friend
Somebody saved me, I ain't ready for heaven
'Cause if I'd seen you for a second I'd have wanted to see you forever
Somebody saved me
Sleeping dog by the open fire
You're sleeping your life away
You don't know how far you've got to go
Or the trouble that you'll have to face
Yet all I can do is love you
Provide you with some fun and food
All I can do is love you
And that is what I do
Sleeping children laying in your beds
Tomorrow you'll be back at school
You look so young but you've come so far
You'll never be any soul's fool
All I can do is love you
Provide you with some fun and food
All I can do is love you
And that is what I do
(instrumental verse)
All I can do is love you
Provide you with some fun and food
All I can do is love you
And that is what I do
Now I'm going up to my wife
Baba I pray to you
Love me just a little like I love them
And I can do some sleeping too
All I can do is love you
Provide you with a song
All I can do is love you
Like you've been loving me all along
All I can do is love you
Provide you with a verse or two
All I can do is love you
Don't bring me secondhand love
Don't bring me secondhand love
I know you went out tonight
Who've you been hanging around with this time?
I don't care if he's black or white
I just don't like his kind.
I don't want your secondhand love
I don't want your secondhand love
I don't want your secondhand love
Don't bring me secondhand love
He's been leaving his scent on you
I can sense it from a mile
All my money is spent on you
But you're still selling your smile
Don't bring me secondhand love
Don't bring me secondhand love
I don't want your secondhand love
I don't want your secondhand love
Give your love, and keep blood between brothers
Give your love, and keep blood between brothers
I don't want your secondhand love
I can guess where you've been tonight
You've been hanging out on the street
Wearing your dress too tight
You're showin' out to anyone you meet
But I don't want your secondhand love
I don't want your secondhand love
Don't bring me your secondhand love
Don't bring me your secondhand love
I want the first call on your kiss
Answer me one question:can you promise me this
I want my defences laying in your hands
I don't want to rest in the palm of another man
I don't want your secondhand love
Don't want, Don't want, your secondhand love
I don't want, I don't want, your secondhand love
I don't want,I don't want your secondhand love
Here by the sea and sand
Nothing ever goes as planned
I just couldn't face going home
It was just a drag on my own.
They finally threw me out
My mom got drunk on stout
My dad couldn't stand on two feet
As he lectured about morality.
Now I guess the family's complete,
With me hanging round on the street
Or here on the beach.
The girl I love
Is a perfect dresser
Wears every fashion
Gets it to the tee.
Heavens above
I've got to match her
I know where
She wants her man to be
Leave it to me.
My jacket's gonna be cut slim and checked
Maybe a touch of seersucker with an open neck
I ride a G.S. scooter with my hair cut neat
And my wartime coat in the wind and sleet.
I see her dance
Across the ballroom
UV light making starshine
Of her smile.
I am the face
She has to know me
I'm dressed up better than anyone
Within a mile.
So how come the other cats look much better?
Without a penny to spend they dress to the letter.
How come the girls all come on oh so cool
Yet when you meet 'em, every one's a fool?
Come sleep on the beach
Keep within my reach
I'm feeling so high with you here
I just want to die with you here
I'm wet and I'm cold
But thank God I ain't old
Why didn't I say what I mean?
Oh, I should have split home at fifteen
There's a story that the grass is so green
What did I see?
Where have I been?
Two dozen other dirty lovers
Must be a sucker for it
Cry, but I don't need my mother
Just Hold My hand while I come
To a decision on it
Sooner or later
Your legs give way, you hit the ground
Save it for later
Don't run away and let me down
Sooner or later
You hit the deck, you get found out
Sooner or later
You run away, run away and let me down
Black air and seven seas and rotten through
But what can you do?
Sometimes I don't know how get on with you lot
Sometimes I don't try
I just now, now, now, now ,now .....
Sooner or later
Your legs give way, you hit the ground
Save it for later
Don't run away and let me down
Sooner or later
You hit the deck, you get found out
Save it for later
Don't run away, don't run away and let me down
Two dozen other stupid reasons
Why we should suffer all this
I can't see teeth to find a reason
Just to him I come
To a decision on it
Sooner or later
Your legs give way, you hit the ground
Save it for later
Don't run away and let me down
Sooner or later
You hit the deck, you get found out
Save it for later
Don't run away, you run away and let me down
Why don't you hold me
Why don't you hold me and kiss me
Why Don't you hold me
Why don't you hold me and kiss me now
Save it for later baby
Save it for later honey
Don't run away, Don't run away and let me down
There once was a note, pure and easy
Playin' so free like a breath rippling by
The note is eternal, I hear it, it sees me
Forever we blend this, forever we die
I listened and I heard music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star
As people assemble
Civilization is trying to find a new way to die
But killing is really merely scene changer
All men are bored with other men's lives
I listened and I heard music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding on a star
We all know success when we all find our own dream
And our love is enough to knock down any walls
And the future's been seen as men try to realize
The simple secret of the note in us all, in us all
Listened and I heard music in a word
Words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star
Today is the day, the sound curdles mountains
Flowing, blowing each man in its wake
Destroying itself in the end with vibration
There's nothing on earth, it's challenge can take
Excepting one note
Excepting one note, pure and easy
Playing so free like a breath rippling by
Excepting one note, excepting one note
Listen, once was a note, listen
(Pure and easy)
Once was a note, listen
(Pure and easy)
Once was a note, listen
(Pure and easy)
Once was a note, listen
(Pure and easy)
Once was a note, listen
(Pure and easy)
Once was a note, listen
(Pure and easy)
Once was a note, listen
(Pure and easy)
Once was a note, listen
Your love is so predictable
I can rely on you to blow my brain
You always know which trick to pull
I can predict you'll drive me wild-insane
Your love is so predictable
(Oh yes it is)
Your love is so predictable
(Oh yes it is)
Your love is so predictable
( who , who, who, who)
Your love is so predictable
(Yea)
Your body's so delectable
I know for sure I'm gonna be amazed
You get me so erectable
I can predict you're gonna leave me raised
Your love is so predictable
(Oh yes it is)
Your love is so predictable
(Ah yes it is)
Your love is so predictable
(You can guarantee)
Your love is so predictable
(Pre-dict-able)
Your love is always so theatrical
My performance gonna make you rave
Or I will have to hear the cat-you-call
I know how bad you can misbehave baby,
now listen to this
(Guitar Solo)
Most lovers' lovin' is heart-a-beatin' it
Depends on a tension to keep intact
This lover's lovin' is hard to beat it
Will a'lend pretentious to the matter of fact
Your love is so predictable
You take this Taurus boy by the horn
But you know just how to trick the bull
I can predict you're gonna leave me torn
Your love is so, so theatrical
My performance better make you rave
Or I will have to hear the cat-you-call
I know how bad you misbehave
Sitting in clouds of air
Praying no on is there
Holding your head to the sky, in there
Swinging the smoke around
Cross like in Heaven bound
Hot line is cut up, because your bills all paid
Praying the game you play
Sin is from sin's to say
One minute here again, out of your brain
Playing the praying game
Stay away from them
Keeping out on the reign
Praying the game
And it's all the losers start
As your hurting all together
Are you really getting threw
Would you be wrong to sing and dance
Life goes on forever
Understanding isn't really new
I am a fool you claim
We are one all the same
Then you surrender, and the case is closed
Guess you ride innocence
I cause a sin offense
Short change my heart, for a fashionable home
Praying the game we play
All do it every day
No point pretending nobody's fool
Staying the same we say
Bring on a change our way
Treating the Lord, like a teacher in school
And we check over each shoulder
Making sure that no one knows
As we get down on our knees
And yet the witness inside
Looking out threw our own eyes
Is there really worthy on the trees
Praying the game we play
Saying's from saves to say
One minute here again, and out of your brain
Playing the praying game, staying away from pain
Any tough can fight, few can play.
Any fool can fall, few can lay.
Any stud can reproduce, few can please.
Any boy can pay a bill, you can tease.
I just wanna be popular
I just wanna be popular
I don't really care who you are
I just wanna be popular
Any man can claim, few can find.
Any girl can blink, few can lie.
Any soul can sleep, few can die.
Any wimp can weep, few can cry.
I just wanna be popular
I just wanna be popular
I don't really care who you are
I just wanna be popular
I wanna be more popular than the rest
I'll do anything I think will impress
Everyone is average but I just wanna be the best
Everything I do has to be as fact and interest
Popular
I wanna be popular
I just gotta be popular
Popular
Any brain can hide, but few can stand.
Any kid can fly, a few can land.
Any gang can scatter, few can form.
Any child can chatter, few can storm.
Anyone can fight, few can play.
Anyone can try, but few can stay.
Anyone can cuss, but few can lay.
Everyone complains, buy you can say.
I just wanna be popular
I just wanna be popular
I don't really care who you are
I just wanna be popular
I just gotta be popular, popular
I just gotta be popular, popular
I don't really care who you are
O Parvardigar, the Preserver and Protector of all
Without beginning are You Lord without end
Non-dual beyond compare and none can measure You
Without color, expression, or form, nor attributes to lend
You are unlimited and none can plumb Your depths
Imperishable beyond conception by our minds
None can divide You, oh God You are eternal
None can see You but with eyes divine
You always were, You always are, and always will be
You are everywhere in everything and beyond
In the firmament above and in the deep
On all the seven planes and farther on
In all that’s hidden to our eyes in all we see
Beyond the trinity of worlds and in them all
You can not be perceived, on no one shall depend
O Parvardigar preserve protect us all
Without beginning are You Lord without end
You always were, You always are, and always will be
You are the Creator, the Lord of Lords
The knower of all minds and hearts
Omnipotent, omnipresent, from You we cower
You are Knowledge, Infinite Bliss, Infinite Power
You are the Ocean of Knowledge knowing all
Infinitely knowing, who can but tell
The knower of the past, the present and future
Crowning even this - Your knowledge itself
Oh merciful benevolence eternal
You are the trinity of Knowledge, Truth and Bliss
You are the source of Truth the One with infinite attributes
You are the Ocean of Love we sorely miss
You always were, You always are, and always will be
You are the Ancient One - the Highest of the High
Kejay, Kejay, Kejay, Kejay
You are Prabhu and Parameshwar
Kejay, Kejay, Kejay, Kejay
You are the Beyond God: Beyond Beyond God are You
Meher, Meher, Meher, Meher
Parabrahma, Elahi and Allah
Meher, Meher, Meher, Meher
Yezdan, Ahura-Mazda
And God the Beloved
O Parvardigar, the Preserver and Protector of all
Without beginning are You Lord without end
You are named Ezad, the only One worthy of worship
We sing the universal prayer to you: Amen
Over the top we go
Yey yuh yair yuh ye-uh
Over the top we go
Yey yey year yuh ye-ah
[Iron Man:]
I've no idea where my life began
But I am a fearless Iron Man
I lost my arm
I lost my eyes
I broke my feet
I bruised my thighs
My head's on a cliff
Hanging from a tree
My neck's on the beach
With my elbow and knee
Over the top we go
Yey yuh yair yuh ye-uh
Over the top we go
Yey yey year yuh ye-ah
My eye looked around
Discovered my hand
Together they uncovered
My arm in the sand
All the pieces of me
Came together as one
And we all dance forever
In the morning sun
Over the top we go
Yey yuh yair yuh ye-uh
Over the top we go
Yey yey year yuh ye-ah
I've no idea where my maker ran
But I am a fearless Iron Man
[4x]
Over the top we go
Yey yuh yair yuh ye-uh
Over the top we go
Yey yey year yuh ye-ah
I breathe
My throat clenches
Clutching to exclude
A dozen different stenches
In Falmouth Bay
A blue whale rolls
Gonna drown in the swill
From city sewer holes
Summers longer
Deltas gashed
Ancient trees
Uprooted, smashed
Time is generous-more, take more
Time is generous-more, take more
Time is generous-more, take more
I must outrun the dinosaur
RAY: As to your question about how this will affect your career, the great artist is just like a child, and intuitively understands the need to submit to the audience. Do you begin to see the secret?
A silent temple
Marble-hard
Decays and softens
Battle-scarred
A relic deaf
To bits and streams
And polo-necks
And perfect jeans
Obsessed with silence
Spiked by noise
I hold my son
I plan his toys
Time expansive-more, take more
Time expansive-more, take more
Time expansive-more, take more
I must outlive the dinosaur
RAY: Lastly, you must be prepared to test yourself. Why not try the song I have enclosed? It's an outtake from a secret project I'm working on called "Gridlife". The tape you sent shows you can sing, so ... sing.
Rising rivers
Drown new shoots
Words and breath
In death cahoots
The strong survive
To wean more brutes
Who grow and seed
Extend their roots
Cowards, bombs
And scab recruits
Like monkeys trapped
In monkey suits
Time is plentiful-more, take more
Time is plentiful-more, take more
Time is plentiful-more, take more
I must outfight the dinosaur
Time is plentiful-more, take more (Take some more)
Time is plentiful-more, take more (There's plenty more)
Time is plentiful-more, take more (Just take some more)
Time is plentiful-more, take more
Time is plentiful-more, take more (Ah.....take)
Time is plentiful-more, take more ( Take some more)
Time is plentiful-more, take more,
more take more, more take more
Take more
You need a new song
I'll set the words up so they tear right at your soul
Don't take me too long
But there's a danger that I'll plagiarize something old
My fingers kill me as I play my guitar
'Cause I've been chewing down at my nails
My hairline ain't exactly superstar
But there's one trick that never fails
This never fails
I write the same old song with a few new lines
Everybody wants to cheer it
I write the same old song you heard a good few times
Admit you really want to hear it
Ah, yea
Whenever I see you
You try to treat me like I'm some kind of perfect man
Just 'cause I please you
You explain but you don't think I can understand
My head is spinning as I scrawl with my pen
'Cause I've been pouring vodka in my soul
Nothing really ever changes my friend
New lamps for old, new lamps for old
We hum the same old lines to a different crowd
Everybody's wanting to hear it
We run on endless time to reach a higher cloud
But we never ever seem to get near it
Turn on the radio, love is proclaimed
Again and again and again
Join in and sing now, don't be ashamed
Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain
Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain
Let it rain, let it rain
We need a new song
But why not sing the change
Underneath a harvest moon
The mood was all wrong
Who wanna see the rage
Somebody switched the tune
It's easy being obnoxious and queer
The difference could earn you fame
Nothings left unsaid, it's just another year
But we need shaken up just the same
Just the same
We sing the same old line, just like a vintage car
You can look but you won't ever drive it
We drink the same old wine from a brand new jar
Get hung over but we always survive it
Sing the same old song, sing the same old song
Like the same old song with a few new lines
Everybody wants to cheer it
Like the same old song, you heard a good few times
I passed her once, I passed her twice
Your first reply, just seamed as cold as ice
You never ask me
If you loved me
I was in doubt, I begin to shout
She kept on laying the same line out
You never ask me
If you loved me
She said never ask me, If I love you baby
What do you really think, I'm going to say
You never asked me, If I loved you
Cause if you don't know now You'll never will
My words are still, Just words until.
Just tell me once, just tell me twice
And baby baby I'll fly to the heights
You never asked me
If you loved me
I have you near, I kiss your ear
But I'm so insecure, I just gotta hear you saying
You never ask me
If you loved me
I just got to pin her down
My heart bleeds for the sound
Of her shouting out she loves me
As he is I sit in guess
My head's in such a mess
What's the use to hold truth above me
Does she really love me
Never ask me
Never ask me
Never ask me
You never asked me, If I loved you
Cause if you don't know now You'll never will
And words are still, Just words until.
I asked you once, I asked you twice
Your first reply, just seamed as cold as ice
Never asked me
If I love you
I'm in such doubt, I got to shout
You keep on laying the same lines out
Never ask me
If I love you
Please tell me
Never ask me
Please tell me
Never ask me
Please tell me
(whispers)
I love you
My baby wakes in the deep of the night
She doesn't need it , but she says it's all right
My baby digs him 'cause I'm rollin' away
My baby gives it up every day
My baby gives it, she gives it away
My baby gives it up every day
My baby. She just gives it away.
When you're alone in some city hotel,
You can get company by ringing a bell
You might go pick up a girl on the street
Well my baby gives it up totally free
My baby's counting, won't cause you no harm
My baby's brother never break a your arm
My baby ha, ha, I love her
She's cheap. ooooooooo yeah.
My baby...
You better buy yourself a new pair of shoes
And walk for a lifetime on the page you knew
You better buy an electric guitar
You better play, there's no other way to beat the blues
I beat em
My baby...
She give it way, every day, every way
My baby just gives it away
My baby's mama is a singular girl
She brought up her daughter and brought her up well
I'm breathing no more, 'cause she took it away
My baby gives it up every day
My baby gives it, she gives it away
My baby gives it up every day
My baby...
How I love her. Yeah
My baby, my baby, she just gives it away
My baby, my baby, she just gives it away
My baby, my baby, gives it away
Let me tell you, my baby, she just give it away
My baby, every day
My baby gives it up every day
My baby give it
Down at the Astoria the scene was changing,
Bingo and rock were pushing out X-rating,
We were the first band to vomit in the bar,
And find the distance to the stage too far,
Meanwhile it's getting late at ten o'clock,
Rock is dead they say,
Long live rock.
Long live rock, I need it every night,
Long live rock, come on and join the line,
Long live rock,
Be it dead or alive.
People walk in sideways pretending that they're leaving,
We put on our makeup and work out all the lead-ins,
Jack is in the alley selling tickets made in Hong Kong,
Promoter's in the pay box wondering where the band's gone,
Back in the pub the governor stops the clock,
Rock is dead, they say,
Long live rock.
Long live rock, I need it every night,
Long live rock, come on and join the line,
Long live rock,
Be it dead or alive.
Landslide, rocks are falling,
Falling down 'round our very heads,
We tried but you were yawning,
Look again, rock is dead, rock is dead, rock is dead.
The place is really jumping to the high-watt amps,
'Til a 20-inch cymbal fell and cut the lamps,
In the blackout they dance right into the aisle,
And as the doors fly open even the promoter smiles,
Someone takes his pants off and the rafters knock,
Rock is dead, they say,
Long live rock, long live rock, long live rock.
Long live rock, I need it every night,
Long live rock, come on and join the line,
Long live rock, be it dead or alive.
Long live rock, I need it every night,
Long live rock, come on and join the line,
Long live rock
When people keep repeating
That you'll never fall in love
When everybody keeps retreating
But you can't seem to get enough
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
When everything feels all over
Everybody seems unkind
I'll give you a four leaf clover
Take all worry out of your mind
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
I have the only key to your heart
I can stop you falling apart
Try today, you'll find this way
Come on and give me a chance to say
Let my love open the door, it's all I'm living for
Release yourself from misery
There's only one thing gonna set you free
That's my love, that's my love
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
When tragedy befalls you
Don't let it drag you down
Love can cure your problems
You're so lucky I'm around
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart
I was digging in the yard today
When a letter came from Southampton way
Keep on working
Keep on working
I must admit I was a bit in the red
But if you never have pleasure then you could be dead
Keep on working
Keep on working
But there's on thing
They can't take away
Hear the sea sing
See a smiling face
I think we're OK
Though we all could be mad
That's what they say
We just can't all be bad
I got something now to think about
I'll work all day but not to pay it out
Keep on working
Keep on working
Don't care if they say where a dying race
I'd rather be here than any other place
Keep on working
Keep on working
And there's another whirl
They can't ever touch
Just need a boy and girl
It don't cost you much
And if your luck is in
you might have kids at play
To make you laugh and sing
Anyone can have an opinion
Anyone can join in and jump
Anyone can pay or just stay away
Anyone can crash and thump
But did you read the stuff that Julie said?
Or little Jimmy with his hair dyed red?
They don't give a shit Keith Moon is dead
Is that exactly what I thought I read?
Typewriter tappers
You're all just crappers
You listen to love with your intellect
A4 pushers
You're all just cushions
Morality ain't measured in a room
He wrecked.
Anyone can by some leather
Ain't no better than wearing sheep
anyone can sell lucky heather
You can see that words are cheap!
But did you read the stuff that Julie said?
Or little Jimmy with his hair dyed red?
They have a standard of perfection there
That you and me can never share
Typewriter bangers on
You're all just hangers on
Everyone's human 'cept Jools and Jim
Late copy churners
Rock and Roll learners
Your heart's are melting in pools
Of gin
But I know for sure that if we met up eye to eye
A little wine would bring us closer, you and I
'Cos your right, hypocrisy will be the death of me
And theirs an I before e when your spelling ecstasy
And you, you two......
Did you hear the stuff that Krishna said?
Or know for you that Jesus' blood was shed?
Is it in your heart or in your head?
Or does the truth lie in the center spread?
Anyone can have an opinion
Anyone can join in and jump
Anyone can pay or just stay away
Anyone can crash and thump
The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff
How far had he walked? Nobody knows
Where had he come from? Nobody knows
How was he made? Nobody knows
Taller than a house, the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, in the darkness.
The wind sang through his iron fingers
And his great iron head, shaped like a dustbin but as big as a bedroom,
Slowly turned to the right
Slowly turned to the left
He was hearing the sea.
His eyes like headlamps, glowed white then red
Then infrared, searching the sea
Never before had the Iron Man seen the sea.
He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back
He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff
And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out,
into space
And the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness
CRASH!
Down the cliff the Iron Man came toppling head over heels
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
From rock to rock, tumbling slowly,
And as he crashed and crashed his iron legs fell off,
His iron arms broke off, and the hands broke off the arms
His great iron ears fell off
And his eyes fell out
His great iron head fell off.
All the separate pieces tumbled scattered crashing
bumping clanging down, on to the rocky beach far below
Then silence.
Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen
I went to Dallas back in 82
The cafe society was numero oui
Surrounded by model, girls and guys in boots
I watched as they conspired taking parking lot dues
Looking back on a cherished memory
A strange conception seems to frontal me
Holly's like ivy
She grows on it
I realize if all the beautiful girls
Were lost like gems, will grow to pearls
Now Holly is behind me and I fall from the place
I've got this burning sensation as she brushed my things
Looking back on a cherished memory
A strange conception seems to frontal me
Holly's like ivy
She grows on it
Looking back on a cherished memory
A strange conception seems to frontal me
Holly's like
I know I must hurry back there
And look for Holly with her long brown hair
I was brit by some relief
All I want for Christmas is her two front teeth
Looking back on my cherished memory
A strange conception seems to frontal me
Holly's like ivy
She grows on it
Holly's like ivy
I was listening to a guitar, bass drum thing
Started hearing chest screech, thought I had a gut strength
Then I saw a big band, right on the pavement
Violins and heavy boots, wondering where the wave went
(What?)
I'm talking to you, you're wearing the wrong colored scarf
(So what?)
Well, you're playing your tune to the Torrence of the enemy Hauf
Hey you
(What?)
I'm talking to you, concentrate on the game
(What for?)
Well, the whistle just blew, the conductor's going to complain
Play the song on the wall, come on, sir, pass me the ball
Don't let the violinist trouble your playing
Fierce looking people, but their manager's gay
Syncopation to the sound of the ball
Trouble with the ref on in the concert hall
Hey you
(What?)
That cellist was found, that conductor must be blind
It's a girl
(Whew)
Oh, look at the crowd, this session's run to extra time
Sit back, or face off the senior that won't walk alone
Music has arrived at the football stadium
A logical step would be spears at the Palladium
Fifty thousand watts screaming out for a goal
Why don't they blow a whistle in rock and roll?
Hey you
(What?)
Get back to your seat, the song has only just begun
(So what?)
We need two encores to beat and the band is faced to run
Hey you
(What?)
Get down off the wire, the spirit of the game's still strong
(Say's who?)
Well, I'll never talk, kicking my piano around
All you fans of the score, if you give a show support
Will
Fast food, feed me fast
I've been waiting for an aeon
And I just won't last
I want fast food, I want food fast
Food fast food
She wants food fast
She wants fast food
Fast food fast
No, I haven't booked
I don't want it grilled and I don't want it cooked
I don't even want it killed
If it's dead I heave, it makes me sick
So check that it can breathe and bring it to me quick
I want food fast
I want fast food
Frisky little children
Served up in the nude
Keep them coming
If you want my gratitude
Bring me food fast
Now I want fast food
Food fast food
She wants food fast
She wants fast food
Fast food fast
I must say it's gracious
Of you all to multiply
For I am voracious
And I need a huge supply
Of organic, bleeding
Palpitating swill
I'm ready for feeding
And I don't want a bill
I want food fast
I want fast food
Pretty naked girls
Preferably tattooed
I don't like fiber
Especially barbecued
I want food fast, yeah
I want fast food
Long ago I used to grace
Vegetarian restaurants out in space
But here below I looked and saw
You were growing fat on the spoils of war
I want food fast
I want fast food
Pulsating organs
Delicately chewed
I want to be like you
Rapacious and crude
I want food fast, fast, hear me?
I want fast food
Food fast food
She wants food fast
She wants fast food
Fast food fast
It's great to be down under
With you slobbering jackeroos
I'm partial to a chunder
Over throbbing kangaroos
Now let your women breed
Impale the sacred cow
Because I'm dressed to feed
And I'll breast feed now
I want food, fast food
I want fast food
Because I'm so hungry
Fast food, I want fast food
Because I'm so hungry
If only dust could talk what would we hear it say?
Before it's brushed aside, just as it's swept away
It's just the evidence, it's of no consequence
It's only flesh and bone, why don't we leave it alone?
If only dust could gather into lines of chalk
Around a silhouette detective fiction walks
For it's the only witness that can testify
Can I spit out the truth or would you rather just swallow a lie?
Why did they dam the land, why did they flood the plain?
Did they erase the name and wipe away the stain?
You kept your mouth well shut, appeared to turn your coat
Now there's a name for you but it's stuck in my throat
If dust could only mutter or in laughter trill
If it could warn and whisper from the windowsill
But it's the only witness that can testify
Can I spit out the truth or would you rather just swallow a lie?
Here comes the juggernaut, here come The Poisoners
They choke the life and land and rob the joy from us
Why do they taste of sugar when they're made of money?
Here come the Lamb of God and the butcher's boy, Sonny
If dust could only gather in the needle track
Then it would skip a beat and it would jump right back
If dust could only gather in a needle track
When you're feeling low
Try a day of silence
Take things very slow
Listen to the wireless
Never speak a sound
Sit up on the hedgerow
Watch the world go round
Peace will let your mind go
When you've had a row
Sit alone say nothing
It's really funny how
You quickly see that something
Wonderful and warm
Lies between each second
In every side and out
Eternity will beckon
You and me, we are part of a single soul
And one day we will know we're one
Sit and listen the word will come
There is nothing beneath the sun that we can't realize
And one peaceful night
Will remind us that it's alright
And we'll figure we owe it all
To one life of silence
Whispers will emerge
Proud against the thunder
The wind hiss precious words
Erase our problems rumble
Watch a speckled fawn
Hear it crash like seaspray
Someone sees it all
We will meet him someday
When you're feeling low
Try a day of silence
Take things very slow
Cat's in the cupboard
You've got to set him free
Cat's in the cupboard
You've got to set him free
Cat's in the cupboard
You've got to set him free
Rats on the high street
You've got to let 'em be
Rats on the high street
You've got to let 'em be
Rats on the high street
Can't you let them be?
While you're racing
People wasting
Life's enthralling
People are calling
While you're weeping
Blood is seeping
While you're dancing
No one's answering me
No, never get an answer
Cats? It's cool for rats
Cat's in the cupboard
You've got to set him free
Cat's in the cupboard
You've got to set him free
Cat's in the cupboard
You've got to set him free
Rats on the high street
You've got to let 'em be
Rats on the high street
You've got to let 'em be
Rats on the high street
Can't you let them be?
While you're racing
People wasting
Life's enthralling
People are calling
While you're weeping
Blood is seeping
While you're dancing
No one's answering me
Nobody's answering me
Nobody's answering me
[Incomprehensible] cats
Nobody's answering me
I'm never gonna get an answer
Nobody's answering
You've gotta let it be
Nobody's answering
Nobody's answering
No one, no one
Nobody's answering me
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
No one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be fated
To telling only lies
But my dreams they aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance that's never free
No one knows what it's like
To feel these feelings
Like I do
And I blame you
No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain and woe
Can show through
But my dreams, they aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance that's never free
When my fist clenches, crack it open
Before I use it and lose my cool
When I smile, tell me some bad news
Before I laugh and act like a fool
And if I swallow anything evil
Put your finger down my throat
And if I shiver, please give me a blanket
Keep me warm, let me wear your coat
No one knows what it's like
To be the sad man
To be the bad man
I'd gladly lose me to find you
I'd gladly give up all I have
To find you I'd suffer anything and be glad
I'd pay any price to get you
I'd work all my life and I will
To win you, I'd stand naked, stoned and stabbed
I call that a bargain
The best I ever had
The best I ever had
I'd gladly lose me to find you
I'd gladly give up what I got
To catch you, I'm gonna run and never stop
I'd pay any price to win you
Surrender my good life for bad
To find you, I'm gonna drown an unsung man
I call that a bargain
The best I ever had
The best I ever had
I sit looking 'round
I look at my face in the the mirror
I know I'm worth nothing without you
And like one and one don't make two
One and one make one
And I'm looking for that free ride to me
I'm looking for you
I'd gladly lose me to find you
I'd gladly give up all I got
To catch you, I'm gonna run and never stop
I'd pay any price to win you
Surrender my good life for bad
To find you, I wanna drown an unsung man
I call that a bargain
The best I ever had
After the fire, the fire still burns
The heart grows older but never ever learns
The memories smolder and the soul always yearns
After the fire, the fire still burns
I heard a voice asking what happens after the fire
And then the sound of a breaking window
And the scream of a tire
And then the sound of a distant gun
And the cry of a hungry child
The night is hot but nothing is gonna stop
This gang going wild
After the fire, the fire still burns
The heart grows older but never ever learns
The memories smolder but the soul always yearns
After the fire, the fire still burns
I saw Matt Dillon in black and white
There ain't no color in memories
He rode his brother's Harley across the TV
While I was laughing at Dom De Luise
Now I'm cycling all my video tapes
And I'm crying and I'm joking
I've gotta stop drinking, I've gotta stop thinking
I've gotta stop smoking
After the fire, the fire still burns
The heart grows older but never ever learns
The memories smolder and the soul always yearns
After the fire, the fire still burns
Raging through the pain
Blackening the promises the tears and the rain
The fire sill burn till the wind begins to turn
And it all begins again
After the fire, the fire still burns
The heart grows older but never ever learns
The memories smolder and the soul always yearns
After the fire, the fire still burns, the fire still burns
After the fire, the fire still burns
The heart grows older but never ever learns
The memories smolder and the soul always yearns
After the fire, the fire still burns
After the fire, the fire still burns
After the fire, the fire still burns
After the fire, the fire still burns
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