Where are you going with your suit of armour on
And your back turned to the sun
And your lips tightly sealed
What is this poison that you carry like a curse
I'm your lover not your nurse
But I will wash it away
Wash it away
Don't stay here for me
Dream dream now, down by the river, calls on me.
Drift drift down to where the sun meets a sea.
Can't even say my name or close my eyes.
Happens to us all I know.
Where is he? And what is written?
Sleep, sleep, sleep. To die seems so easy.
Happens to us all I know
Farewell to this land's cheerless marshes
Hemmed in like a boar between arches
Her very lowness with her head in a sling
I'm truly sorry - but it sounds like a wonderful thing
Dear Charles, don't you ever crave
To appear on the front of the Daily Mail
Dressed in your mother's bridal veil?
So I checked all the registered historical facts
And I was shocked into shame to discover
How I'm the 18th pale descendant
Of some old queen or other
Has the world changed or have I changed?
Has the world changed or have I changed?
As some 9-year old tough peddles drugs
(I swear I never even knew what drugs WERE)
And so, I broke into the Palace
With a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said, "Eh, I know you and you cannot sing."
I said, "That's nothing - you should hear me play
piano."
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
*But when you're tied to your mother's apron
No-one talks about castration*
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
Like love and law and poverty
These are the things that kill me
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
But the rain that flattens my hair
These are things that kill me
Past the Pub that saps your body
And the church who'll snatch your money
The Queen is dead, boys
And it's so lonely on a limb
Past the Pub that wrecks your body
And the church - all they want is your money
The Queen is dead, boys
You can trust me, boys
(life is very long, when you're lonely
life is very long, when you're lonely
life is very long, when you're lonely
life is very long, when you're lonely)
I think about you sometimes because I know it helps my
peace of mind.
It's not that I don't notice you, I have her love so
bright it stings my eyes.
I could attempt to turn away because I know I can't
escape myself.
Just don't expect any sense because you'll find it's just
a waste of time.
Have you seen her?
The finest kiss is mine.
Have you seen her?
Heaven every time.
Now she wants to grow up 'cos she can't get about
The words in her head can't seem to get out
She gets all her facts from the latest Smash Hits
She can't seem to buy any clothes that fit
The books that she reads
aren't the ones from the school
She dreams of the day she can leave
Here she comes now
IT'S LULU, she'd dancing close to the flame
IT'S LULU, you better remember her name
IT'S LULU, sing your song
Sing your song, your song, again
There's a tear on her cheek when she's talkin' on the phone
When she has to tell her friends that she's gotta stay home
Her parents both hate her
They don't want her to grow up
The pain in her head makes her want to throw up
The ones who understand are the posters on the wall
She finds her favourite tape and puts it on
Here she comes now
Monkeys dressed in uniforms
Thinking they own the place
Threatening to break my face
Cryin' cos they won't let me in
You can't win with these guys
I wanted just to see you, wanted just to see you
Adieu Clo-Clo
Goodbye to you my brother
Adieu Clo-Clo
Goodbye to you my brother until the end
Swimming in electricity
Stand back now could you please
Come on there's nothing to see
Watching the black and white flickering
Foreign to these ears
Something always breaks you, something always breaks you
Adieu Clo-Clo
Goodbye to you my brother
Adieu Clo-Clo
Goodbye to you my brother until the end
There she goes
There she goes again
Racing through my brain
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains
There she goes
There she goes again
Pulsing through my veins
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains
There she goes
(There she goes again)
There she goes again
(There she goes again)
Racing through my brain
(There she goes)
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains
There she goes
There she goes again
She calls my name
she pulls my train
No one else could heal my pain
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains
There she goes
(She calls my name)
There she goes again
(She calls my name)
Chasing down my lane
(She calls my name)
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains
There she goes
(There she goes again)
There she goes
(There she goes again)
There she goes
There she goes
There she goes again
Racing through my brain
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains
There she goes
There she goes again
Pulsing through my veins
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains
There she goes
(There she goes again)
There she goes again
(There she goes again)
Racing through my brain
(There she goes)
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains
There she goes
There she goes again
She calls my name
she pulls my train
No one else could heal my pain
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains
There she goes
(She calls my name)
There she goes again
(She calls my name)
Chasing down my lane
(She calls my name)
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains
There she goes
(There she goes again)
There she goes
(There she goes again)
There she goes
Come fly, fasten seatbelts before we land
give it all up to the custom man
before we can leave we must go thru again
come ride the runaway with me.
fly high engines buzzin' and head in my hands
as long as they buzz then we can relax
pick up the bags and light up our flags
come ride the runaway with me.
Every drop of blood that falls
I had to share it with you all
Pain's not pleasure it just hurts
I wept these tears into the dirt
Though I shared it with you all
Men like me have far to fall
I gave you all
Ca-rolin,
Ca-rolin,
You smashed your dreams and now you've taken mine
Ca-rolin,
Ca-rolin,
You talk so low and make out you're so kind
Ca-rolin,
Ca-rolin,
You trampled on the only one who cared
Ca-rolin,
Ca-rolin,
Don't walk off and pretend you haven't heard
Ca-rolin,
Ca-rolin,
If you're so high and clever where's your friends?
If you're so high and clever where's your friends?
Barney and me,
you know we lived out our dreams
outside the newsagents closed for the night.
We dreamt of being kings.
Okay, we did the same things
but never the same way twice.
The picture's faded, I'm still the same.
It's the picture that keeps me sane.
Ooh, it stops the lonely
thinking of the time when we were the only?
Ooh it stops my mind
from going round? Round, round, round and round it goes.
Not much to say,
you've headed out on Kingsway
while I took the avenue down.
Tomorrow would be the same,
somehow, I feel it's a shame
that we won't be there tonight.
Reflected in the pane,
sitting through the rain and the dark,
barely seventeen.
Feeling like we've been here so long.
Try to put yourself in my place
It's written all over my face
I'm closer to God
I've shed my dirty old skin
Grown a brand new feeling
I'm closer to God
Thinking fast and feeling free
And there's no-one who can touch me
Higher than the Universe itself
Thanks I don't need no help
I don't have to see my picture
Or my name in a music paper
Now I'm close to God
I don't have trouble sleepingI don't have to go to meetings
When I'm close to God
Thinking fast and feeling free
And there's no one who can touch me
Higher than the Universe itself
Thanks I don't need no help
It's a secret no one keeps it
Reveals the places others try to hide
It tips the balance from the violence
That lies within the bottles on the side
Now we're high as monkeys
Now we've come so far
You and I are simple friends no more
Now we're high as monkeys
Opened a few doors
Let the sunshine crash into our souls
Try to put yourself in my place
It's written all over my face
I'm closer to God
I've shed my dirty old skin
Grown a brand new feeling
I'm closer to God
Thinking fast and feeling free
And there's no-one who can touch me
Higher than the Universe itself
It's a secret no one keeps it
Reveals the places others try to hide
It tips the balance from the violence
That lies within the bottles on the side
Now we're high as monkeys
Now we've come so far
You and I are simple friends no more
Now we're high as monkeys
Opened a few doors
Let the sunshine crash into our souls
I've tried so damn hard to convince her
But my plea's in vain
I still feel the same as I did
Could you call her, maybe tell her
It Might sound right from you
I don't know what else to do
Would you try?
Now we're older, things are stranger
Then they've ever been
Now I'm scared of death
For the first time
All my friends say I look better
But my health is gone
Smoking far too much
All the time
Take your future in your own hands
Don't rush, take your time
Look around and find
Your friends
Come together, love each other
Spit on those who say
This is not the way
Let them die
And whgat goes up must come down
So I can't talk right now
And maybe it's easy to believe
That once once in your life, once your life
You'll find the love that you have always had
Realise that before you knew nothing at all
(...700 hertz)
Ain't that just you
you know the facts, but you
haven't got a clue
about me or my life, why don't
you try and take the time
till then what am I supposed
to do? but then that's just
like you to leave me
I hang suspended on your
words, yeah you leave me
I hang suspended on your words
don't you care? I don't read
minds and I did I'd be
elsewhere, tell me what's on
your mind so I can rectify in
time, or else I won't know
what I'm to do, but then that's
just like you to leave me
I hang suspended on your words
Though you know you have to go
It's much too hard to do
Pack all your things
though you only have a few
We have got no business here
there's nothing left for us
get on the bus...
Streets stretch out miles ahead
half blind wishing I'd come to bed
Where's he? I told him there
on this day at this hour
I don't wanna make a scene or cause a fuss
Here it is right on time, it really is a must
Get on the bus
Streets stretch out miles away
As we have this curse place on time
where next I've no idea
Ask the driver if you care
I don't wanna make a scene or cause a fuss
Here it is right on time, it really is a must
Get on the bus
So we proved we're alive
Showed that we can beat time
Another one joins the line of those who've died
But I still see
Yes I still hear
and Oh! what a time we had
Oh! what a time we had...