• Unpleasant Surprise - Nits
• Umbrella Army - Nits
• The Cold Eye - Nits
• Tables And Chairs - Nits
• Statue - Nits
• Spirits Awake - Nits
• Some Other Night - Nits
• Man-friday - Nits
• Man Of Straw - Nits
• Hobbyland - Nits
• Harrow Accident - Nits
• Frozen Fred - Nits
• Bild Am Sonntag (as Usual) - Nits
• Out Of Suburbia - Nits
• Oriental Skies - Nits
• A To B, C To D - Nits
• 130 - Nits
• Buildings - Nits
• Mountains In Minutes - Nits Bis
• Villa Homesick - Nits Bis
• The Infant King - Nits Bis
• Silly Fool - Nits Bis
• Zebra - Nits
• Saragossa - Nits
• Safety In Numbers - Nits
• Rubber Gloves - Nits

(Peters)
The first time we met
You were walking down the street
A copy of blonde on blonde
Under your arm
The first time we met
You were lost in your overcoat
A face that couldn't care less
Nothing is something
No one can do without
You told me but later
Asked to see me again
The first time we met
You were taking your coffee black
Oh oh oh unpleasant surprise
The first time
Last time we met
You were locked up in some suburb
A cynic lost in his critical views
You told me that lately you are
Taking things seriously
Oh oh oh unpleasant surprise
Nothing's still something
No one can do without
You told me but later asked
To see me again
Your friends have all settled
Some even made the grade
Oh oh oh unpleasant surprise

(Peters)
Posters invite him
To visit a sunny wonderland
The hostess invites him
And offers to take him by the hand
He won't run to catch his train
Umbrella army walking in the rain
Do as so many visit Europe by train
Down at the station
He's one in a crowd that's dressed in grey
He won't run to catch his train
Daily commuters
The same routine each and every day

(Peters)
Looking out my window
Looking at this dirty part of town
Looking out my window
Cold eyes looking cold eyes looking down
You should see them going
Going down not noticing the slope
You should see them going
Empty faces faces without hope
Doctor, it's not that I can't sleep
I call on you it's something else
I tell you doctor, reality is haunting me
Cos' everything's exactly as it is
There's no magic
There's no mystery in the night
No adventure
Only losers, in the morning light
Doctor, I hate to bother you
but take a look yourself you see it's true now
Doctor, I'm haunted by reality
Cos' everything's exactly as it is

(Peters)
Tables and chairs
Do not like one another
They bite in each others legs
Tables
See how they're neatly grouped together
They are a table and four chairs
See how they're peacefully
Standing together
They are two pairs two matching

(Peters)
He doesn't talk much
He doesn't move about either
No one likes him
No one dares to come nearer
It started harmlessly
Heavy on every knee
Couldn't tell from the start
He was a piece of art
He's becoming
He's becoming a statue
Not a bit like
Bit like me and you
He is very
Very much his own man
Look his face!
He's a made out of stone man
It started harmlessly
Heavy on every knee
Couldn't tell from the start
He was a piece of art
We think he's becoming
He's becoming a statue
A statue
Tell me Harry

(Peters)
Shake your rattle fly your kite
There's evil in the dark
Spirits awake spirits awake
Hear the sad song on the water
Someone passed away
Spirits awake spirits awake
Two worlds side by side
In broad daylight in darkest night
Spirits awake spirits awake
Don't offend the ghosts the jinns
That hide behind the bush
Spirits awake
You cannot see them you cannot touch them
Yet they're all too real
Spirits awake spirits awake

(Peters)
The evening has come to an end
Although we were very close friends
Somehow it ends
I met you a long time ago
I don't think that you'll ever know
I miss you so
I hope you come see me tonight
The last time you looked out of sight
Looked out of sight
Instead of you watching TV
You might spend an evening with me
Maybe you'll see
There's more between you and I
Than empty words and space
I'd love to see your face
When I talk to you on the phone
You stop me from feeling alone
Feeling alone
You said that you will but you won't
You promised to do but you don't
Do but you don't
You promised me once before
You never got past my door
You let me down once before
The evening has come to an end
I don't think that I call again
Somehow it ends
You said you come and see me tonight
You didn't so I have to try

(Peters)
It wasn't there before
What is he doing here
The only to survive
The island saved my life
Man-Friday
What is he doing here
A stranger in my land
What brought him there today
The weekend close at hand
I gotta find my man
I kill him if I can
Man-Friday
A footprint in the sand
It wasn't there before
A stranger in my land
What did he come here for

(Peters)
I'm the man of straw standing in
The meadow-ow
Chasing crows away they call me
A scarecrow
Man of straw (oh oh oh)
I'm the man of straw they call me
A scarecrow-ow
I stand here all day long in the
Rain and snow

(Peters)
My world
There's no love lost between
Me and this old great big world
That will never change
So I made my own one
In my own time true to scale
In my own house
My world
Little shops and little houses
Tiny trains that always run on time
Little men and little ladies
Everyone there is a friend of mine
My world
In my own time

(Peters)
Girl you look so pale you need a holiday
Why not take a break in the Scottish hills
This turned out to be a very bad advice
That I [do?] regret and always will
Took you to St Pancras and supplied the fare
You took my arm and smiled at me
How was I to know this would be the very last time
THat we were together you and me
It seems like yesterday

(Peters)
This is a story you haven't heard
You may not believe it's true
What happened to this cat called Frozen Fred
Could happen to me and to you
Fred had a passion for frozen food
And TV dinners too
He hated the merciless summer sun
The weekly barbecue
Spends his summer
In the swimming pool
Trying desperately to keep it cool

(Peters)
Houses, tattoed by warfare
Holes in houses that once were homes
Silence, trees stand in silence
As usual, they speak of different times
Time's passing by, they know
Time's passing by
Streets are deserted
As usual, everyone stays inside
Das Bild Am Sonntag is lying
As usual, papers lie on the street
Time's passing by, I know
Time's passing by
Holes in (Houses)

(Peters)
Life is so boring
Out of Suburbia
You tend to forget you're alive at all
Houses are piled up high
Reaching out for the sky
They make you feel so very small
No one's out there in the streets
There is not a soul to meet
Vintage violence
Midnight fever
Restlessness is all I know
Smash up the windows
Tear down the buildings
Should have done so long ago
Seems the world is standing still
I feel at home in the subway
It's staying under the ground
Don't wanna see this dirty old town
Some speak about changing
And rearranging
A better world for you and I
Static structures
Concrete jungles
Don't believe their dirty lies
Vintage violence get them all

(Peters)
Under oriental skies
A yellow sun is shining
Under oriental skies
A bloodred sun is dying
Where will it go
Where will it take me
Where will it go
Where will it take me to
You'll never get to the heart
The heart of the matter
You'll never get to the point
You only scratch the surface
Why can't you see
Why can't you see it
Why can't you see it clear
Down by the river a thousand
Red flowers in bloom
A woman is silently rowing her
Boat to the sea
Tomorrow there will be

(Peters)
Hello my name is Mr Reasonable
Always willing to lend an ear
I am amazed by all your senseless talking
And the silly notions I hear
You said nothing
Nothing can change your mind
Some fools believe there's gonna be a change
Still I do not believe anymore
They say a brand new world is coming our way
Yes we've heard that story before
Facts and figures
There's no spirit at all
Our world is so real is so terribly real
That I never dreamt it could be
It may fulfill the dreams of engineers
But it will not do for me

(Peters)
I can't sleep
Counting sheep
The hours slowly slip away
Half past one
Half past two
Someone please tell me what to do
I'll fix myself a drink
So now I leave the bed
My thoughts they rule my head
Hear that hum
There's a buzz
I think about the two of us
Who is wrong
Who is right
This question keeps me up all night
You're living in a world
That's made up by yourself
Hey honey you need help
Just like the sun
Just like the sun
Just like the sun you came my way
I couldn't run
Couldn't hide
Between dawn and dusk you had your day
Did I tell you
There's no future for the sun
One day your time has come
Half past one
Half past two
Half past one
Half past two

(Peters)
The buildings was always
One step ahead of me
Gonna beat it at its own game
I'm always looking
Up at my building
And the shadow that is hanging over me
Jump to conclusions
From the eighty-second storey
Jump to conclusions
From the eighty-second floor
Jump to conclusions
From the eighty-second storey
Jump to conclusions
Couldn't take it anymore
Buildings are looking
Over my shoulder
They are dominating like my wife
Buildings are looking
Over my shoulder

(Peters)
Mountains in minutes in my head
Mountains in minutes in my head
The things I thought but haven't said
Mountains in minutes in my head
You lost them, you found them
And still you can't surmount them
You make them, you break them
And yet you'll never take them
Mountains in minutes in my head
Volcanoes every word he said
Mountains in minutes in my head
Volcanoes underneath my bed
My mood ever changing
It needs some re-arranging
But then in the morning
It's gone without a warning
The bells ring, it's sunday
Here comes another funday
A whole world to be taken
I feel like china breaking
Mountains in my head
You lost them, you found them
And still you won't surmount them
You've seen them, you've heard them
And yet you don't deserve them

(Peters)
She lives in villa homesick
The climate is her skin
She spends her time playing solitaire
Although she'll never win
She reads her Daily Mirror
A brief glance at the sun
She's walking by the seaside
Kicking the shells for fun
She spends her days with kinfolk
Understatements in the sun
She spends her nights in clubland
Old kinfolk on the run
Great big benevolant sun
Shining down on everyone
On everyone
Her skin is tight and wrinkled
Especially in her neck
Each day her body bronzes
Her mind is wandering back
To England's greenest pastures
To Blackpool's bingo halls
Though she likes to ignore it
The homefront seems to call
England's on the horizon

(Peters)
Wheels on steel go rumbling through the night
Away away they seem to say
I tip-toe tip-toe through the sleeping train
An infant king who meets his bride
My self-reflection in the window pane
A portrait or a photograph
Two eyes two ears nose uncertain smile
A child reflected thousandfold
Someone said the other day
The border's closed there's no way in or out
Pack your bags make up your mind
You can leave your memories behind
The water in a river we just crossed
Reflects a dark and rolling sky
The train keeps speeding through an endless night
My mood is changing every mile
Someone said the other day
The world is cracking up it's plain to see
(I) overheard two people say
Some gold works wonders when you want to go
This is a portrait not a photograph
It says a great deal about me
Two eyes two ears nose uncertain smile

(Peters)
Ugly street ugly town
Ugly faces running 'round
Silly fool silly fool
No one knowing where he's bound
Silly fool silly fool
Always someone else's tool
Silly fool silly fool
Don't you have pride at all
Pride at all
Let it rain let it rain
Let the rain wash away that
Fool fool
Marching down the street today
Beehive behave
Always doing what they're told
Fool fool
No one seems alive at all
Alive at all
Books are burned (the flames are running high)
Books are burned (the bodies follow soon)
Silly fool silly fool
What you're going to do today
Silly fool silly fool
Look at what the papers say
Silly fool silly fool
Listen to the neighbours say
Silly fool silly fool
Doesn't make sense at all
Sense at all
Flags torn, symbols worn
Nobody who seems to care
Silly fool silly fool

(Peters)
Wait! Cross now!
Wait! Cross now!
Wait! Cross now!
Wait! Cross now!
Here I am on the zebra
Here I am on the zebra
Laughing cars traffic war
Grinnin' grilles iron smiles
Traffic war laughing cars
Iron smiles grinnin' grilles
Here I am on the zebra (repeat)
Look left look right
Look right look out!!

(Peters)
Saragossa mating season
Got to go to-day
It's my nature versus reason
Somehow I can't stay
I am an eel somewhere
Out in the ocean
Finding it's way on his own
Fresh water salt water
Gulf streams and cold water
Only one sea is my home
Saragossa mating season
Got to go to-day
It's my nature versus reason

(Peters)
No one can harm me
This is my army
No one can hurt me
No one deserts me
I'm walking up front you're lagging behind
I want action don't need peace of mind
You stay on your own and say we are wrong
You're strange and you're restless you keep looking on
I'm in the crowd I'm never alone
We're carrying sticks and we're carrying stones
You say we are scared I know you are too
Why don't you join us there's a place for you
Join us now why don't you join us
Now why don't you join us
Say why don't you join
I'm walking up front you're lagging behind
I want action don't need peace of mind
You stay on your own and say we are wrong
You're strange and you're restless you keep looking on
You seem to believe the things that you read
Why don't you give up it's all that you need
We only believe the things that we do
Why don't you join us there's a place for you
Join us!!
Now why don't you join us
Now why don't you join us

(Peters)
She was a chanceless contender in the Deborah Harry
Look alike contest a long time ago
He was an upcoming doctor wearing rubber gloves
That is the reason he was stealing the show
She looking at him
She looked at him and thought of something to say
He looked at her
He looked at her and she was looking away
Will they meet in time? Will they meet in time?
He'd love to take her home and tell her
'Bout the romantic disease he had got
She didn't know she didn't believe him
There is no reason there is no plot
Will they meet in time?
Will they meet in time?
Reason and rhyme
She's still a chanceless contender in the Deborah Harry
Look alike contest who lost in the end
He's still an upcoming doctor wearing rubber gloves
That is the reason she refused him her hand
Will they meet in time?
Will they meet in time?
A chanceless contender in the Deborah Harry