- YOU'RE THE ONE FOR ME, FATTY - Morrissey
- You Know I Couldn't Last - Morrissey
- TROUBLE LOVES ME - Morrissey
- THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT - Morrissey
- The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores - Morrissey
- The Father Who Must Be Killed - Morrissey
- Pregnant For The Last Time - Morrissey
- On The Streets I Ran - Morrissey
- NOBODY LOVES US - Morrissey
- MOONRIVER (EXTENDED) - Morrissey
- LIFEGUARD SLEEPING, GIRL DROWNING - Morrissey
- In The Future When All's Well - Morrissey
- I Like You - Morrissey
- I Have Forgiven Jesus - Morrissey
- How Soon Is Now? - Morrissey
- GIRL LEAST LIKELY TO - Morrissey
- Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice - Morrissey
- DO YOUR BEST AND DON'T WORRY - Morrissey
- COSMIC DANCER (LIVE) - Morrissey
- Bigmouth Strikes Again - Morrissey
- America Is Not The World - Morrissey
- WILL NEVER MARRY (EDIT) - Morrissey
- Will Never Marry - Morrissey
- Cosmic Dancer - Morrissey
- WIDE TO RECEIVE - Morrissey
- HE CRIED - Morrissey
- YOU'RE GONNA NEED SOMEONE ON YOUR SIDE - Morrissey
- THE LAZY SUNBATHERS - Morrissey
- WHATEVER HAPPENS, I LOVE YOU - Morrissey
- WE'LL LET YOU KNOW - Morrissey
- We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful - Morrissey
- USED TO BE A SWEET BOY - Morrissey
- Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrissey
- To Me You Are A Work Of Art - Morrissey
- THERE'S A PLACE IN HELL FOR ME AND MY FRIENDS - Morrissey
- THE HARSH TRUTH OF THE CAMERA EYE - Morrissey
- THE TEACHERS ARE AFRAID OF THE PUPILS - Morrissey
- THE ORDINARY BOYS - Morrissey
- THE NATIONAL FRONT DISCO - Morrissey
- THE MORE YOU IGNORE ME, THE CLOSER I GET - Morrissey
- THE BOY RACER - Morrissey
- SWALLOW ON MY NECK - Morrissey
- Sunny - Morrissey
- SPRING-HEELED JIM - Morrissey
- SORROW WILL COME IN THE END - Morrissey
- SISTER I'M A POET (BEETHOVEN WAS DEAF) - Morrissey
- SISTER I'M A POET - Morrissey
- SEASICK, YET STILL DOCKED - Morrissey
- SATAN REJECTED MY SOUL - Morrissey
- OUR FRANK - Morrissey
- PICCADILLY PALARE - Morrissey
- PASHERNATE LOVE - Morrissey
- PAPA JACK - Morrissey
- NOW MY HEART IS FULL - Morrissey
- NOVEMBER SPAWNED A MONSTER - Morrissey
- MY LOVE LIFE - Morrissey
- INTERESTING DRUG - Morrissey
- Munich Air Disaster 1958 - Morrissey
- MICHAEL'S BONES - Morrissey
- MARGARET ON THE GUILLOTINE - Morrissey
- I KNOW IT'S GONNA HAPPEN SOMEDAY - Morrissey
- I Just Want To See The Boy Happy - Morrissey
- LUCKY LISP - Morrissey
- LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW ? - Morrissey
- Life Is A Pigsty - Morrissey
- Let Me Kiss You - Morrissey
- LAST NIGHT I DREAMT THAT SOMEBODY LOVED ME - Morrissey
- JACK THE RIPPER (BEETHOVEN WAS DEAF) - Morrissey
- Jack The Ripper - Morrissey
- Irish Blood, English Heart - Morrissey
- HAVE-A-GO MERCHANT - Morrissey
- I'VE CHANGED MY PLEA TO GUILTY - Morrissey
- I'm Not Sorry - Morrissey
- I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero Now - Morrissey
- I'D LOVE TO - Morrissey
- I DON'T MIND IF YOU FORGET ME - Morrissey
- I AM HATED FOR LOVING - Morrissey
- How Could Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel - Morrissey
- HE KNOWS I'D LOVE TO SEE HIM - Morrissey
- Friday Mourning - Morrissey
- FOUND FOUND FOUND - Morrissey
- DRIVING YOUR GIRLFRIEND HOME - Morrissey
- Disappointed - Morrissey
- DIAL-A-CLICHE - Morrissey
- Dial-A-Cliché - Morrissey
- Dear God, Please Help Me - Morrissey
- CERTAIN PEOPLE I KNOW - Morrissey
- Black-Eyed Susan - Morrissey
- BILLY BUDD - Morrissey
- BEST FRIEND ON THE PAYROLL - Morrissey
- At Last I Am Born - Morrissey
- AT AMBER - Morrissey
- ANGEL, ANGEL, DOWN WE GO TOGETHER - Morrissey
- All The Lazy Dykes - Morrissey
- (I'M) THE END OF THE FAMILY LINE - Morrissey
- Speedway - Morrissey
- ROY'S KEEN - Morrissey
- SING YOUR LIFE - Morrissey
- Mute Witness - Morrissey
- I Can Have Both - Morrissey
- HOLD ON TO YOUR FRIENDS - Morrissey
- KING LEER - Morrissey
- You Have Killed Me - Morrissey
- YES, I AM BLIND - Morrissey
- Tomorrow - Morrissey
- The Youngest Was The Most Loved - Morrissey
- THE OPERATION - Morrissey
- The Never-played Symphonies - Morrissey
- THE LOOP - Morrissey
- Sweetie Pie - Morrissey
- Southpaw - Morrissey
- SHOPLIFTERS OF THE WORLD UNITE - Morrissey
- Redondo Beach - Morrissey
- People Are The Same Everywhere - Morrissey
- OUIJA BOARD, OUIJA BOARD - Morrissey
- Oh Phoney - Morrissey
- Moonriver (Extended Version) - Morrissey
- Moonriver - Morrissey
- Mama Lay Softly On The Riverbed - Morrissey
- Lost - Morrissey
- Interlude - Morrissey
- I Will See You In Far Off Places - Morrissey
- I Knew I Was Next - Morrissey
- HAIRDRESSER ON FIRE - Morrissey
- Good Looking Man About Town - Morrissey
- GLAMOROUS GLUE - Morrissey
- DAGENHAM DAVE - Morrissey
- Come Back To Camden - Morrissey
- BREAK UP THE FAMILY - Morrissey
- Boxers - Morrissey
- Black Cloud - Morrissey
- ASIAN RUT - Morrissey
- Ammunition - Morrissey
- AMBITIOUS OUTSIDERS - Morrissey
- ALSATIAN COUSIN - Morrissey
- ALMA MATTERS - Morrissey
- WHY DON'T YOU FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF - Morrissey
- TONY THE PONY - Morrissey
- THE LAST OF THE FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL PLAYBOYS - Morrissey
- That's Entertainment - Morrissey
- SUEDEHEAD - Morrissey
- SUCH A LITTLE THING MAKES SUCH A BIG DIFFERENCE - Morrissey
- READER MEET AUTHOR - Morrissey
- Please Help The Cause Against Loneliness - Morrissey
- Michaelys Bones - Morrissey
- Mexico - Morrissey
- MEAT IS MURDER - Morrissey
- Maladjusted - Morrissey
- Let The Right One Slip In - Morrissey
- LATE NIGHT, MAUDLIN STREET - Morrissey
- Journalists Who Lie - Morrissey
- It's Hard To Walk Tall When You're Small - Morrissey
- I Know Very Well How I Got My Name - Morrissey
- Get Off The Stage - Morrissey
- First of the Gang to Die - Morrissey
- East West - Morrissey
- BENGALI IN PLATFORMS - Morrissey
- Angel - Morrissey
- All You Need Is Me - Morrissey
You're the One for me, fatty
You're the One I really, really love
And I will stay
Promise you'll say
If I'm in your way
You're the One for me, fatty
You're the One I really, really love
And I will stay
Promise you'll say
If I'm ever in your way
A-hey
All over Battersea
Some hope; and some despair
All over Battersea
Some hope; and some despair
Oh ...
You're the One for me, fatty
You're the One I really, really love
And I will stay
Promise you'll say
If I'm in your way
You're the One for me, fatty
You're the One I really, really love
And I will stay
Promise you'll say
If I'm ever in your way
A-hey
All over Battersea
Some hope; and some despair
All over Battersea
Some hope; and some despair
Oh, oh ...
You're the One for me, fatty
You're the One I really, really love
And I will stay
Promise you'll say
If I'm ever in your way
A-hey
You're the One for me, fatty
You're the One for me, a-hey-hey
A-hey
A-hey
A-hey
A-he-he-he-hey
The whispering, May hurt you, But the printed word might kill you
The whispering, May hurt you, But the printed word might kill you
So don't let the blue, The blue eyes fool you
They're just gelignite, Loaded and aiming right between your eyes
CDs and T-shirts, promos and God knows, You know I couldn't last, Someone please take me home
The teenagers, Who love you, They will wake up, yawn and kill you
The teenagers, Who love you, They will wake up, yawn and kill you
So don't let the blue, The blue eyes fool you
They're just gelignite, Loaded and aiming right between your eyes
CDs and T-shirts, promos and God knows
You know I couldn't last, Someone please take me home
There's a cash register ringing and
It weighs so heavy on my back, Someone please take me home
The critics who, Can't break you
They somehow help to make you
The critics who, Can't break you, Unwittingly they make you
So don't let the good days, Of the gold discs, Creep up and mug you
With evil legal eagles, You know I couldn't last, Accountants rampant, You know I couldn't last
Every -ist and every -ism, Thrown my way to stay, And the northern leeches go on, Removing, removing, removing
Then in the end, Your royalties bring you luxuries, Your royalties bring you luxuries, Oh but
The squalor of the mind, The squalor of the mind, The squalor of the mind, The squalor of the mind
Trouble loves me
Trouble needs me
Two things
More than you do
Or would attempt to
So, console me
Otherwise, hold me
Just when it seems like
Everything's evened out
And the balance
Seems serene
Trouble loves me
Walks beside me
To chide me
Not to guide me
It's still much more
Than you'll do
So, console me
Otherwise, hold me
Just when it seems like
Everything's evened out
And the balance seems serene
See the fool I'll be
Still running 'round
On the flesh rampage
Still running 'round
Ready with ready-wit
Still running 'round
On the flesh rampage
- At your age !
Go to Soho, oh
Go to waste in
The wrong arms
Still running 'round
Trouble loves me
Seeks and finds me
To charlatanize me
Which is only
As it should be
Oh, please fulfill me
Otherwise, kill me
Show me a barrel and watch me scrape it
Faced with the music, as always I'll face it
In the half-light
So English, frowning
Then at midnight I
Can't get you out of my head
A disenchanted taste
Still running 'round
A disenchanted taste
Still running 'round
Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore
Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and I
Want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please don't drop me home
Because it's not my home, it's their
Home, and I'm welcome no more
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine
Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
(But then a strange fear gripped me and I
Just couldn't ask)
Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one, da ...
Oh, I haven't got one
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine
Oh, There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
You must be wondering how
The boy next door turned out
Have a care, But don't stare
Because he's still there
Lamenting policewomen policemen silly women taxmen
Uniformed whores, They who wish to hurt you, Work within the law
This world is full, So full of crashing bores
And I must be one, 'Cos no one ever turns to me to say
Take me in your arms, Take me in your arms, And love me
You must be wondering how
The boy next door turned out
Have a care, And say a prayer
Because he's still there
Lamenting policewomen policemen silly women taxmen
Uniformed whores, Educated criminals, Work within the law
This world is full, Oh oh, So full of crashing bores
And I must be one, cos no one ever turns to me to say
Take me in your arms, Take me in your arms
And love me, And love me
What really lies, Beyond the constraints of my mind
Could it be the sea, With fate mooning back at me
No it's just more lock jawed pop stars
Thicker than pig shit, Nothing to convey
They're so scared to show intelligence
It might smear their lovely career
This world, I am afraid, Is designed for crashing bores
I am not one, I am not one
You don't understand, You don't understand, And yet you can
Take me in your arms and love me, Love me, And love me
Take me in your arms and love me, Love me, love me
Take me in your arms and love me, Take me in your arms and love me
Would you do, Would you do, What you should do, Oh oh oh, Oh oh
Stepchild, you have outlived your time
You represent embarrassment and failure
And the father who must be killed
Is the blight upon your blighted life
And his might is his legal right
To ground you down
Stepchild, with every petty swipe
You just might find you're fighting for your life
And the father who must be killed
Is a step farther but nonetheless
The way he chews his food
Rips right through your senses
Stepchild, there's a knife in a drawer in a room downstairs
And you, you know what you must do
So the stepchild ran with a knife to his sleeping frame
And slams it in his arms, his legs, his face, his neck and says
"There's a law against me now"
And the father who must be killed
With his dying breath, he grabs her hand
And he looks into her eyes
He says "I'm sorry" and he dies
"Stepchild, I release you
With this broken voice I beseech you"
"Why are lives so short?"
The stepchild thought heart pointing to the sky
"No one to warn me
No hand to touch me
And no Bible-Belters to mess with me
Mama don't miss me
Mama don't miss me
This death will complete me"
"But where I go there will be no one to meet me
I know there will be no one to meet me"
But still the step-child press the knife to her throat
Heart pointing to the sky
"Just as mother-less birds fly high
Then so shall I
So shall I
So shall I
So shall I
So shall I"
Phlegm lapels for the last time
Corn beef legs for the last time
Oh, we're so glad
That you've finally decided
But then you see someone new
And you want someone new
So you have someone new
I don't blame you
We would all do the same as you
If ever we had the nerve to
Chips with cream for the last time
The People's Friend for the last time
Oh, we're so glad
That you've finally decided
Tiny striped socks for the last time
Pokes and prods for the last time
And the doctor said
"Don't nod your head until June !"
But then you see someone new
And you want someone new
So you have someone new
I don't blame you
We would all do the same as you
If ever we had the chance to
Sick at noon for the last time
And who is going to clean up ?
Would you be so kind ?
Oh, everybody's staring
At the strange clothes that you're wearing
Bad advice for the last time
And people being nice for the very first time
Oh, we're so glad
Ooh, a working-class face glares back
At me from the glass and lurches
Forgive me, on the street's I ran
Turned sickness into, popular song
Streets of wet black holes
On roads you can never know
You never have them
But, they alway's have you
'Till the day that you croak
(it's no joke)
Ooh, a working-class face glares back
At me from the glass and lurches
Forgive me, on the street's I ran
Turned sickness into unpopular song
And all these street's can do
Is claim to know the real you
And warn if you don't leave
You will kill or be killed
Which isn't very nice
Here everybody's friendly
But nobody's friends
Oh, dear God when will I
Be where I should be?
And when the Palmist said:
"One Thursday you will be dead"
I said "No, not me, this cannot be,
Dear God, take him, take them, take anyone
The stillborn,
The newborn
The infirmed,
Take anyone
Take people from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Just spare me!"
Nine times fined
Never mind
Things can only improve
We are just stood here
Waiting for the next great wound
And we just can't wait to make more mistakes
And to fluff our breaks, and to stuff our faces with cake
All in all, imagine this :
Nobody loves us
Dab-hands at Trouble
With four days of stubble, we are
Never loosen the grip on our hand
Call us home
Kiss our cheeks
Nobody loves us
So we ... oh ... we tend to please ourselves
People think all we do
Is lie around and think of how
Rich we'd be if we didn't think
Life could improve
And we just can't wait to make more mistakes
And we just can't wait till the whole thing blows up in our face
Call us home
Kiss our cheeks
Nobody loves us
Dab-hands at Trouble
With four days of stubble, we are
So, never loosen the grip on our hand
Call us home
Make our tea
Nobody loves us
So we ... oh ... we tend to please ourselves
Call us home
Tuck us in
Nobody wants us
Dreamers and schemers
All pie-eyed, and bog-eyed, and cross-eyed
Oh, never loosen the grip on our hand
Whack us, then
Hug us hard
Nobody loves us
So we ... oh ... we tend to please ourselves
And we just can't stress, oh, how more the mess
And complete distress won't make much difference to us
Sing us our
Favourite song
Nobody loves us
Born-again athiests
Practising troublemakers
Make us our
Favourite jam
Nobody loves us
Useless and shiftless
And jobless
But we're all yours
Moonriver
Wider than a mile
I'll be crossing you in style
Someday
Oh, Dreammaker
You heartbreaker
Wherever you're going
I'm going your way
Two drifters
Off to see the world
I'm not so sure the world
Deserves us
We're after
The same rainbow's end
How come it's just around the bend ?
It's always just around the bend ?
Moonriver
Wider than a mile
I'll be crossing you in style
Someday
Oh, Dreammaker
You heartbreaker
Wherever you're going
I'm going your way
Two drifters
Off to see the world
I'm not so sure the world
Deserves us
We're after
The same rainbow's end
It's just around the bend
It's just around the bend
It's just around the bend
It's just around the bend
Oh !
Ooh ...
Moonriver
Wider than a mile
I'll be crossing you in style
Someday
Oh, Dreammaker
You heartbreaker
Wherever you're going
I'm going your way
Two drifters
Off to see the world
I'm not so sure the world
Deserves us
We're after
The same rainbow's end
How come it's just around the bend ?
It's always just around the bend ?
-crying-
Moonriver
Wider than a mile
I'll be crossing you in style
Someday
Oh, Dreammaker
You heartbreaker
Wherever you're going
I'm going your way
Two drifters
Off to see the world
I'm not so sure the world
Deserves us
We're after
The same rainbow's end
It's just around the bend
It's just around the bend
It's just around the bend
It's just around the bend
It's just around the bend
What you gonna do ?
Always looking for attention
Always needs to be mentioned
Who does she
Think she should be ?
The shrill cry through darkening air
Doesn't she know he's
Had such a busy day ?
Tell her ... sshhh
Somebody tell her ... sshhh
Oh, no way, no way, there's no movement
Oh, oh, hooray
Slowest ...
It was only a test
But she swam too far
Against the tide
She deserves all she gets
The sky became marked with stars
As an out-stretched arm slowly
Disappears
Hooray
Oh hooray
No, oh, oh, woh, there's no movement
No, oh, hooray
Oh, hooray
Please don't worry
There'll be no fuss
She was ... nobody's nothing
(What's your name ?)
(What's your name ?)
(What's your name ?)
(What's your name ?)
When he awoke
The sea was calm
And another day passes like a dream
There's no ... no way
(What's your name ?)
(What's your name ?)
(What's your name ?)
(What's your name ?)
(What's your name ?)
(What's your name ?)
(What's your name ?)
(What's your name ?)
Armed with wealth and
The best of health
In the future when all's well
I will lie down and be counted
In the future when all's well
I thank you
I thank you with all of my heart
I thank you
I thank you with all of my heart
Lee, please stand up and defend me
In the future when all's well
Confront what you are afraid of
In the future when all's well
Every day I play a sad game called
In the future when all's well
Living longer than I had intended
Something must have gone right
I thank you
I thank you with all of my heart
I thank you
I thank you with all of my heart
Lee, please stand up and defend me
In the future when all's well
Confront what you are afraid of
In the future when all's well
Hold me closely if your will allows it
In the future when all's well
Paired-off
Pawed till I can barely stand it
The future is ended by a long, long sleep
The future is ended by a long, long sleep
The future is ended by a long sleep
Something in you caused me to
Take a new tact with you
You were going through something
I had just about scraped through
Why do you think I let you get away
With the things you say to me?
Could it be I like you
It's so shameful of me, I like you
No one I ever knew or have spoken to
Resembles you
This is good or bad, all depending on
My general mood
Why do you think I let you get away
With all the things you say to me?
Could it be I like you
It's so shameful of me, I like you
Magistrates who spend their lives
Hiding their mistakes
They look at you and I, and
Envy makes them cry, Envy makes them cry
Forces of containment
They shove their fat faces into mine
You and I just smile
Because we're thinking the same lines
Why do you think I let you get away
With all the things you say to me?
Could it be I like you
It's so shameful of me, I like you
You're not right in the head and nor am I
And this is why
You're not right in the head and nor am I
And this is why
This is why I like you, I like you, I like you
This is why I like you, I like you, I like you
Because you're not right in the head, and nor am I
And this is why, You're not right in the head, and nor am I
And this is why, This is why I like you, I like you, I like you, I like you
This is why I like you, I like you, I like you, I like you, This is why I like you, I like you
I was a good kid
I wouldn€™t do you no harm
I was a nice kid
with a nice paper-round
Forgive me any pain
I may have brung to you
With God€™s help I know
I€™ll always be near to you
but Jesus hurt me
When He deserted me / but
I have forgiven Jesus
for all the desire
He placed in me
when there€™s nothing I can do with this desire
I was good kid
through hail and snow / I€™d go
just to moon you
I carried my heart in my hand
- do you understand?
- do you understand?
but Jesus hurt me
when He deserted me / but
I have forgiven Jesus
for all of the love / he placed in me
when there€™s no one I can turn to with this love
Monday - humiliation / Tuesday - suffocation
Wednesday - condescension / Thursday - is pathetic
by Friday - Life has killed me
by Friday - Life has killed me
why did you give me /so much desire?
when there is nowhere I can go
to offload this desire?
and why did you give me so much love
in a loveless world?
when there is no one I can turn to
to unlock all this love
and why did you stick me in
self-deprecating bones and skin
Jesus - do you hate me?
why did you stick me in
self-deprecating bones and skin
... do you hate me?
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Oh, of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way ?
I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
There's a club, if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go, and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home, and you cry
And you want to die
When you say it's gonna happen "now"
Well, when exactly do you mean?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way ?
I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
How many times have I been around?
Recycled papers paving the ground
Well she lives for the written word
And people come second, or possibly third
And there is no style, but I say owell done@
To the Girl Least Likely To
Oh deep in my heart I wish I was wrong
But deep in my heart I know I am not
And there's enough gloom in her world, I'm certain
Without my contribution
So I sit, and I smile, and I say owell done@
To the Girl Least Likely To
Page after page of sniping rage
An English singe or an American tinge
oThere's a publisher,@ she said in the new year
oIt's never in this year@
I do think this but I can't admit it
To the Girl Least Likely To
So one more song with no technique
One more song which seems all wrong
And oh, the news is bad again
See me as I am again
And the Scales of Justice sway one way
In the rooms of those least likely to
Oh deep in my heart how I want to be wrong
But the moods and the styles too frequently change
>From 21 to 25, from 25 to 29
And I sit, and I smile and I say owell done@
To the Girl Least Likely To
Oh one more song about The Queen
Or standing around the shops with Bees
oBut somebody's got to make it!@ she screams
oSo why why can't it be me?@
But she would die if we heard her sing from the heart
Which is hurt
So how many times will I shed a tear
And another stage of verse to cheer
When you shine in the public eye, my dear
Please remember these nights
When I sit in support with a dutiful smile
Because there's nothing I can say
So chucking and churning and turning the knife
On everything, except your own life
And a clock somewhere strikes midnight
And an explanation it drains me
If only there could be a way
There is a different mood all over the world
[A different tune on familiar views
And Guiness that could all be for you]
So will you come down and I'll meet you
With no more poems, with nothing to hit
Long ago, when he was young and restless, suddenly, Daddy saw the beckoning
finger of fate
Don't make fun of Daddy's voice because he can't help it, when he was a teenage
boy something got stuck in his throat
When you are young you crave affection, and it can come from the strangest
direction
Don't make fun of Daddy's voice because he can't help it, when he was a teenage
boy something got stuck in his throat
Don't make fun of Daddy's voice because he can't help it, when he was a teenage
boy something got stuck in his throat
No te divertes con pappy. No te divertes con pappy, No te divertes con pappy. No
te divertes con pappy.
No te divertes con pappy. No te divertes con pappy, No te divertes con pappy. No
Compare the best of their days
With the worst of your days
You won't win
With your standards so high
And your spirits so low
At least remember ...
This is you on a bad day, you on a pale day
Just do your best and don't ...
Don't worry, oh
The way you hang yourself is oh, so unfair
See the best of how they look
Against the worst of how you are
And again, you won't win
With your standards so high
And your spirits so low
At least remember ...
This is you on a drab day, you in a drab dress
Just do your best and don't ...
Don't worry, oh
The way you hang yourself is oh, so unfair
Just do your best and don't ...
Don't worry, oh
The way you watch yourself is oh, so unfair
Just do your best and don't ...
Don't worry, oh
The way you hang yourself is oh, so unfair
Just do your best and don't ...
Don't worry, oh
Do your best and don't ...
I was dancing when I was twelve
I was dancing when I was twelve
I was dancing when I was ... oh
I was dancing when I was ... oh
I danced myself out of the womb
I danced myself out of the womb
Is it strange to dance so soon ?
Is it strange to dance so soon ?
Is it wrong to understand
The fear that dwells inside a man ?
What's it like to be a loon ?
I liken it to a balloon
Oh ...
I danced myself into the tomb
I danced myself into the tomb
Is it strange to dance so soon ?
Is it strange to dance so soon ?
Is it wrong to understand
The fear that dwells inside a man ?
What's it like to be a loon ?
I liken it to a balloon
Oh ...
Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said I'd like to smash every tooth
In your head
Oh ... sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking
When I said by rights you should be
Bludgeoned in your bed
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose to her roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt
Oh ...
Bigmouth, la ... bigmouth, la ...
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the Human race
Oh, bigmouth, la ... bigmouth, la
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the Human race
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose to her roman nose
And her hearing aid started to melt
Bigmouth, la ... bigmouth, la ...
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the Human race
Oh ...
Bigmouth, oh ... bigmouth, la ...
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the Human race
Oh ...
Bigmouth, oh ... bigmouth, la ...
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the Human race
Oh ...
Bigmouth, oh ... bigmouth, la ...
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the Human race
Oh ...
America your head's too big, Because America, Your belly's too big
And I love you, I just wish you'd stay where you is
In America, The land of the free, they said, And of opportunity, In a just and a truthful way
But where the president, Is never black, female or gay, And until that day
You've got nothing to say to me, To help me believe
In America, It brought you the hamburger, Well America you know where, You can shove your hamburger
And don't you wonder, Why in Estonia they say, Hey you, Big fat pig
You fat pig, You fat pig
Steely Blue eyes with no love in them, Scan The World,
And a humourless smile, With no warmth within, Greets the world
And I, I have got nothing, To offer you
No-no-no-no-no
Just this heart deep and true, Which you say you don't need
See with your eyes, Touch with your hands, please, Hear through your ears, Know in your soul, please
For haven't you me with you now?
And I love you, I love you, I love you, And I love you, I love you, I love you
I'm writing this to say
In a gentle way
Thank You - but no
I will live my life as I
Will undoubtedly die - alone
I'm writing this to say
In a gentle way
Thank You ...
I will live my life as I ... oh
For whether you stay
Or stray
An inbuilt guilt catches up with you
And as it comes around to your place
At 5 A.M.; wakes you up
And it laughs in your face
I'm writing this to say
in a gentle way
Thank You - but no
I will live my life as I
will undoubtedly die - alone
I'm writing this to say
in a gentle way
Thank you...
I will live my life as I...
for whether you stay
or you stray
an inbuilt guilt catches up with you
and as it comes around to your place
at 5 a.m. it wakes you up
I was dancing when I was twelve
I was dancing when I was twelve
I was dancing when I was ... oh
I was dancing when I was ... oh
I danced myself out of the womb
I danced myself out of the womb
Is it strange to dance so soon ?
Is it strange to dance so soon ?
Is it wrong to understand
The fear that dwells inside a man ?
What's it like to be a loon ?
I liken it to a balloon
Oh ...
I danced myself into the tomb
I danced myself into the tomb
Is it strange to dance so soon ?
Is it strange to dance so soon ?
Is it wrong to understand
The fear that dwells inside a man ?
What's it like to be a loon ?
I liken it to a balloon
Download something
useful, or useless
because I'm lying here
wide to receive
almost anything
you'd care to give
and I don't
get along with myself
and I'm not too keen
on anyone else
Turn on, plug in
then just walk away
unlock, process
then just go
and I've never felt quite so alone
I need you
Simple words
But words which had never been heard
By the soul
Stoned to death
But still living
And so he froze where he stood
And he looked to the ground
And he cried
He cried
Ride our minds
If you must
But there's always a line you don't cross
Time is short
Don't be cruel
Oh you don't know the power
In what you're saying
Oh ...
And so he froze where he stood
And he looked to the ground
And he cried
He cried
People where
I come from
They survive without feelings or blood
I never could
Was stoned to death
But I'm still living
So he froze where he stood
And he looked to the ground
And he cried
He cried
So he froze
And he looked, and he looked
To the ground
And he cried
He cried
With the world's fate
Resting on your shoulder
You're gonna need
Someone on your side
You can't do it by yourself
Any longer
You're gonna need
Someone on your side
Someone kindly told me
That you'd wasted
Eight of nine lives
Oh, give yourself a break
Before you break down
You're gonna need someone on your side
And here I am
And here I am
Well, you don't need
To look so pleased !
Day or night,
There is no difference
You're gonna need someone on your side
Day or night,
There is no difference
You're gonna need someone soon
And here I am
And here I am
Well, you don't need
To look so pleased
A world war
Was announced
Days ago
But they didn't know
The lazy sunbathers
The lazy sunbathers
The sun burns through
To the planet's core
And it isn't enough
They want more
Nothing
Appears
To be
Between the ears of
The lazy sunbathers
Too jaded
To question stagnation
The sun burns through
To the planet's core
And it isn't enough
They want more
Religions fall
Children shelled
"...Children shelled ? That's all
Very well, but would you
Please keep the noise
Down low ?
Because you're waking
The lazy sunbathers ..."
Oh, the lazy sunbathers
Names, secret names
But never in my favour
But when all is said and done
It's you I love
Cold loving prose
We stole each other's clothes
But when all is said and done
It's you I love
Yes, yes, yes, oh, yes
Oh no, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
Oh ...
Yes, yes ...
Fights for rights
Everyone's oh so quick with advice
And when they've all said their piece
It's still you I love
Now just like then
Then, then, then
Then, then, yes, yes
No, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
Yes, yes, oh ...
Mmm ...
How sad are we ?
And how sad have we been ?
We'll let you know
We'll let you know
Oh, but only if - you're really interested
You wonder how
We've stayed alive 'till now
We'll let you know
We'll let you know
But only if - you're really interested
We're all smiles
Then, honest, I swear, it's the turnstiles
That make us hostile
Oh ...
We will descend
On anyone unable to defend
Themselves
Oh ...
And the songs we sing
They're not supposed to mean a thing
La, la, la, la ...
Oh ...
You're lonely
Oh ... you're lonely
Oh ...
GET OFF THE ROOF !
Oh ...
Your Arsenal !
We may seem cold, or
We may even be
The most depressing people you've ever known
At heart, what's left, we sadly know
That we are the last truly British people you'll ever know
We are the last truly British people you will ever know
You'll never never want to know
We hate it when our friends become successful
We hate it when our friends become successful
Oh, look at those clothes
Now look at that face, it's so old
And such a video !
Well, it's really laughable
Ha, ha, ha ...
We hate it when our friends become successful
And if they're Northern, that makes it even worse
And if we can destroy them
You bet your life we will
Destroy them
If we can hurt them
Well, we may as well ...
It's really laughable
Ha, ha, ha ...
You see, it should've been me
It could've been me
Everybody knows
Everybody says so
They say :
";Ah, you have loads of songs
So many songs
More songs than they'd stand
Verse
Chorus
Middle eight
Break, fade
Just listen ...";
La, la-la, la-la
Used to be a sweet boy
Holding so tightly
To Daddy's hand
But that was all
In some distant land
Blazer and tie
And a big bright healthy smile
Used to make all
Of our trials worthwhile
Used to be a sweet boy
And I'm not to blame
But something went wrong
Something went wrong
And I know
I'm not to blame
Something went wrong
Can't be to blame
Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town that they forgot to close down
Armageddon, come Armageddon, come, Armageddon, come
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and gray
Hide on the promenade, etch a postcard
How I dearly wish I was not here
In the seaside town that they forgot to bomb
Come, come, come, nuclear bomb
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
Trudging back over pebbles and sand
And a strange dust lands on your hands
And on your face, on your face
On your face, on your face
Everyday is like Sunday
Win yourself a cheap tray
Share some greased tea with me
I live a life
I feel the pain
To sing this song
To tell the tale
I wish I never even heard the song
I see the world
It makes me puke
But then I look at you and know
That somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me
To me you are a work of art
And I would give you my heart
That's if I had one
I see the world
It makes me puke
But then I look at you and know
That somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me
To me you are a work of art
And I would give you my heart
That's if I had one, had one
To me you are a work of art
And I would give you my heart
That's if I had one
There is a place
Reserved
For me and my friends
And when we go
We all will go
So you see
I'm never alone
There is a place
With a bit more time
And a few more
Gentler words
And looking back
We will forgive
(We had no choice
We always did)
All that we hope
Is when we go
Our skin
And our blood
And our bones
Don't get in your way
Making you ill
The way they did
When we lived
Oh, there is a place
A place in hell
Reserved
For me and my friends
And if ever I
Just wanted to cry
Then I will
Churchillian legs, hair barely there
The harsh truth of the camera eye
Your eyes signal pain, because of the strain of smiling
The harsh truth of the camera eye
Telling you all that you never wanted to know
Showing you what, you didn't want shown
My so friendly lens, it zooms into, "The inner you"
And it tells the harsh truth and nothing but
Laugh with us all now here if you can
Then take the pictures home and scream
Telling you all that you never wanted to know
Showing you what you didn't want shown
This photographer, he must have really had it in for you
Ooh, I don't want to be judged anymore
I don't want to be judged, I would sooner be loved
There's too many people
Planning your downfall
When your spirit's on trial
These nights can be frightening
Sleep transports sadness
To some other mid-brain
And somebody here
Will not be here next year
So you stand by the board
Full of fear and intention
And, if you think that they're listening
Well, you've got to be joking
Oh, you understand change
And you think it's essential
But when your profession
Is humiliation
Say the wrong word to our children ...
We'll have you, oh yes, we'll have you
Lay a hand on our children
And it's never too late to have you
Mucus on your collar
A nail up through the staff chair
A blade in your soap
And you cry into your pillow
To be finished would be a relief
To be finished would be a relief
To be finished would be a relief
To be finished would be a relief
To be finished would be a relief
To be finished would be a relief
Say the wrong word to our children ...
We'll have you, oh yes, we'll have you
Lay a hand on our children
And it's never too late to have you
To be finished would be a relief
To be finished would be a relief
To be finished would be a relief
To be finished would be a relief
To be finished would be a relief
To be finished would be a relief
I'm very glad the spring has come
The sun shines out so bright
All the birds that are on the trees
Are singing for delight
Ordinary boys, happy knowing nothing
Happy being no-one but themselves
Ordinary girls, supermarket clothes
Who think it's very clever to be cruel to you
For you were so different
You stood all alone
And you knew
That it had to be so
Avoiding ordinary boys
Happy going nowhere, just around here
In their rattling cars
Ordinary girls
Never seeing further
Than the cold, small streets
That trap them
But you were so different
You had to say no
When those empty fools
Tried to change you, and claim you
For the lair of their ordinary world
Where they feel so lucky
So lucky, so lucky
With their lives laid out before them
They are lucky
So lucky, so lucky
So lucky, so ...
David, the wind blows
The wind blows ...
Bits of your life away
Your friends all say ...
";Where is our boy ? Oh, we've lost our boy";
But they should know
Where you've gone
Because again and again you've explained that
You're going to ...
Oh, you're going to ...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
England for the English !
England for the English !
David, the winds blow
The winds blow ...
All of my dreams away
And I still say :
";Where is our boy ? Ah, we've lost our boy";
But I should know
Why you've gone
Because again and again you've explained
You've gone to the ...
National, ah ...
To the National ..
There's a country; you don't live there
But one day you would like to
And if you show them what you're made of
Oh, then you might do ...
But David, we wonder
We wonder if the thunder
Is ever really gonna begin
Begin, begin
Your mom says :
";I've lost my boy";
But she should know
Why you've gone
Because again and again you've explained
You've gone to the :
National
To the National
To the National Front Disco
Because you want the day to come sooner
You want the day to come sooner
You want the day to come sooner
When you've settled the score
Oh, the National
Oh, the National
Oh, the National
Oh, the National
Oh, the National
The more you ignore me
The closer I get
You're wasting your time
The more you ignore me
The closer I get
You're wasting your time
I will be
In the bar
With my head
On the bar
I am now
A central part
Of your mind's landscape
Whether you care
Or do not
Yeah, I've made up your mind
The more you ignore me
The closer I get
You're wasting your time
The more you ignore me
The closer I get
You're wasting your time
Beware !
I bear more grudges
Than lonely high court judges
When you sleep
I will creep
Into your thoughts
Like a bad debt
That you can't pay
Take the easy way
And give in
Yeah, and let me in
Oh, let me in
Oh let me ...
Oh, let me in
IT'S WAR
IT'S WAR
IT'S WAR
IT'S WAR
IT'S WAR
Oh, let me in
Ah, the closer I get
Ah, you're asking for it
Ah, the closer I get
He's just too good-natured and
He's got too much money and
He's got too many girlfriends
I'm jealous, that's all
Have you seen him go, though, oh ?
Have you seen him go, though, oh ?
Boy racer
Boy racer, oh
We're gonna kill this pretty thing
Boy racer
Boy racer, oh
We're gonna kill this pretty thing
He's got too many girlfriends
He thinks he owns this city
He overspeeds and he never gets pulled over
Have you seen him go, though, oh ?
Have you seen him go, though, oh ?
Boy racer
Boy racer, oh
We're gonna kill this pretty thing
Boy racer
Boy racer, oh
We're gonna kill this pretty thing
He thinks he got the whole world in his hands
Stood at the urinal
He thinks he got the whole world in his hands
And I'm gonna ... kill him !
Oh, no !
Oh, no !
Oh, no !
Oh, no !
Oh, no !
Oh, no !
Oh, no !
Oh, no !
Oh, no !
Oh ....
Boy racer
Boy racer, oh
We're gonna kill this pretty thing
Boy racer
Boy racer, oh
We're gonna kill this pretty thing
Boy racer
Boy racer, oh
We're gonna kill this pretty thing
He's just too good-looking
He's just too good-looking
He's just too good-looking, and
And, and ...
Boy racer
Boy racer, oh
We're gonna kill this pretty thing
Boy racer
Boy racer, oh
We're gonna kill this pretty thing
Oh ...
I have been smashed again
With the men from the
Old Valhalla Road Crematorium
Boring men with the same old patter
I am a simple man
Not much to gain or lose
And I don't know why I held out
So long for me and you
Until he drew
A swallow on my neck
And more, I will not say
He drew
A swallow, deep and blue
And soon, everyone knew
Then I was wrecked again
With the men full of bluff and ardour
From a well-known funeral parlour
I am a simple man
Not much to gain or lose
Older and wiser
Never applies to me
And so he drew
A swallow on my neck
And more, I will not say
He drew
A swallow, deep and blue
And soon, everyone knew
Aah ...
Oh ...
You have been telling me
That I have been
Acting childish
Foolish, ghoulish and childish
Oh, I know, I know, I know !
I know, I know, I know
But I don't mind
I don't mind
I don't mind
Ah ...
I don't mind
Ah ...
We're really missing you
We're really missing you
Oh, and you've only just gone
Oh, well, you punched and fell
Then you felt embarrassed
My heart goes out to you
So I offered love and it was not required
Oh, what else can I do?
What else can I do?
We're really missing you
We're really missing you
And you've only just gone
So, sunny, send at least one thoughtful letter
My heart goes out to you
Tell us all how things are so much better
My heart, it left with you
What else can I do?
Oh, they're not forgiving you
And you're not even wrong
Oh, with your jean belt wrapped around your arm
Oh, sunny, my heart goes out to you
And with a needle pressed onto tight skin
Sunny, I cry when I see
Where it's taken you
I'm here, I won't move
I'm here, I won't move
Spring-heeled Jim winks an eye
He'll "do", he'll never be "done to"
He takes on whoever flew through
"Well, it's the normal thing to do" ... ah ...
Spring-heeled Jim lives to love
Now kissing with his mouth full
And his eyes on some other fool
So many women
His head should be spinning
Ah, but no !
Ah, but no !
But no !
Ah, no !
Spring-heeled Jim slurs the words :
"There's no need to be so knowing
Take life at five times the
Average speed, like I do"
Until Jim feels the chill
"Oh, where did all the time go ?"
Once always in for the kill
Now it's too cold
And he feels too
Too old
Mmm, old...
Legalized theft
Leaves me bereft
I get it straight in the neck
(Somehow expecting no less)
A court of justice
With no use for Truth
Lawyer ...liar
Lawyer ...liar
You pleaded and squealed
And you think you've won
But Sorrow will come
To you in the end
And as sure as my words are pure
I praise the day that brings you pain
Q.C.'s obsessed with sleaze
Frantic for Fame
They're all on the game
They just use a different name
You lied
And you were believed
By a J.P. senile and vile
You pleaded and squealed
And you think you've won
But Sorrow will come
To you in the end
And as sure as my words are pure
I praise the day that brings you pain
So don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
A man who slits throats
Has time on his hands
And I'm gonna get you
So don't close your eyes
Don't ever close your eyes
You think you've won
All over this town
Yes, a low wind may blow
And I can see through everybo...
With no reason
To hide these words I feel
And no reason
To talk about the books I read
But still I do
That's 'cause I'm a ...
Sister I'm a ...
All over this town
Along this way
Outside the prison gates
I love the romance of crime
And I wonder
Does anybody feel the way I do ?
And is evil just something you are
Or something you do ?
Sister I'm a ...
Sister I'm a ...
All over this town
All over this town
They pull over
In their Citroen vans
Not to shake your hand
With meths on their breaths
And you with youth on your side
A plastic bag stranded at the lights
This once was me ...
But now I'm a ...
Sister I'm a ...
All over this town ...
Oh, oh, oh
All over this town
All over this town
Oh ...
I still cannot speak French ... I am very lazy
All over this town
Yes a low wind may blow
And I can see through everybody's clothes with no reason
To hide these words I feel
And no reason to talk about the books I read
But still I do
That's cos' I'm a
Sister I'm a, all over this town
Along this way
Outside the prison gates
I love the romance of crime
And I wonder does anybody feel the way I do?
And is evil just something you are, or something you do?
That's cos' I'm a
Sister I'm a, all over this town
All over this town
They pull over in their Citroen vans
Not to shake your hands
With a meths on their breaths
And you with youth on your side
A plastic bag,
stranded at the lights,
This once was me, but now I'm a
Sister I'm all over this town
All over this town
I am a poor freezingly cold soul
So far from where I intended to go
Scavenging through life's very constant lows
So far from where I'm determined to go
Wish I knew the way to reach the one I love
There is no way
Wish I had the charm to attract the one I love
But you see, I've got no charm
Tonight I've consumed much more than I can hold
Oh, this is very clear to you
And you can tell I have never really loved
You can tell, by the way, I sleep all day
And all of my life no one gave me anything
No one has ever given me anything
My love is as sharp as a needle in your eye
Satan rejected my soul
He knows my kind
He won't be dragged down
He's seen my face around
He knows Heaven doesn't seem
To be my home
So I must find
Somewhere else to go
So I must find
Somewhere else to go
So, take it - please
It's free
You'll never see
You'll never see
All the fun in life it's cost me
Satan rejected my soul
As low as he goes
He never quite goes this low
He's seen my face around
He knows Heaven doesn't seem
To be my home
So I must find
Somewhere else to go
So I must find
Somewhere else to go
So, take it please
It's really sly
Come on, come on, ah
Come on, come on, come on
Take it please
It's really sly
Come on, come on, ah
Come on, come on, come on
Call me in
Pull me in, call me in
Come on, come on, oh
Come on, come on, come on
Pull me in, pull me in
Call me in, haul me in, pull me in
Come on, come on, ah
Come on, come on
La la la la la
Our frank and open
Deep conversations
They get me nowhere
They bring me down, so
Give it a rest, won't you ?
Give me a cigarette
God give me patience
Just no more conversation
Oh, give us a drink
And make it quick
Or else I'm gonna be sick
Sick all over
Your frankly vulgar
Red pullover
Now see how the colours blend
Our frank and open
Deep conversations
They get me nowhere
They just bring me down, so
Give it a rest, won't you ?
Now will you just give over ?
The world may be ending
But look, I'm only human
So, give us a drink
And make it quick
Or else I'm gonna be sick
All over
Your frankly vulgar
Red pullover
Now see how the two colours blend, my friend
Won't somebody help ?
Won't somebody stop me
From thinking
From thinking all the time
About everything
Oh, somebody
From thinking all the time
So deeply, so bleakly ?
So bleakly all the time
About everything ? (Who I am, how I ever got here)
Somebody stop me
From thinking
From thinking all the time
So bleakly, so bleakly
So bleakly all the time
Off the rails I was and
off the rails
I was happy to stay
GET OUT OF MY WAY
on the rack I was
"easy Meat
but a reasonably good buy
a reasonably good buy
the Piccadilly palare
was just a silly slang
between me and the boys in my gang
"so bona to vada, OH YOU
your lovely eek and
your lovely riah
We plied an ancient trade
where we threw all life's
instructions away
exchanging lies and digs (my way)
well, in a belted coat
oh I secretly knew
that I hadn't a clue
the Piccadilly palare
was just a silly slang
between me and the boys in my gang
exchanging palare
you wouldn't understand
good sons like you
NEVER DO
So why do you smile
when you thing about Earls Court?
but you cry when you think of all
the battles you've fought (and lost)?
it may all end tomorrow
or, it could go on forever
(in which case; I'm doomed)
Pashernate love
In any form
Whether real or a dream
Pashernate love
Could make your system erupt
Into wild blisters and boils
Oh, as for me
It still doesn't understand me
It wouldn't lay one single finger on me
Pashernate love
Could make your Grandmother zoom
Roller-skating back from the grave
Pashernate love
Could make your old Daddy feel
Like he may have a reason to live
Oh, as for me
It still doesn't understand me
And it wouldn't lay one single finger on me
I'm always there
It's always elsewhere
Whoah, Pashernate love
Oh, where are you ?
Where are you ?
Where are you ?
Where are you ?
Where are you ?
Where are you ?
Where are you ?
Where are you ?
Where are you ?
Where are you ?
Where are you ?
Where are you ?
Papa Jack wants to turn back the clock
And reach out to the kids he once had
Who have flown
Papa Jack in decline feels inclined
To reach out to the kids he once had
Who have flown
But there was a time
When the kids reached up
And Papa Jack just pushed them away
Looking deep in his heart
Papa Jack doesn't like what he sees
Or the time on his hands
The dying day, the chilly sun
Papa Jack all alone sings slow
Grieving and low
But there was a time
When the kids reached up
Now you can't always have it your way
There's gonna be some trouble
a whole house will need re-building
and everyone I love in the house
will recline on an analyst's couch quite soon
Your Father cracks a joke
and in the usual way
empties the room
Tell all of my friends
(I don't have too many
just some rain-coated lovers' brothers)
Dallow, Spicer, Pinkie, Cubitt
rush to danger
wind up nowhere
Patric Doonan-raised to wait
tired again-tried again, and
Now my heart is full
now my heart is full
and I just can't explain
So I won't even try to
Dallow, Spicer, Pinkie, Cubitt
Every jammy Stressford poet
Loafing oafs in all-night chemists
Loafing oafs in all-night chemists
underact-express depression
ah, but Bunnie I loved you
I was tired again
I tried again, and
Now my heart is full
Now my heart is full
and I just can't explain
Sleep on and dream of Love
because it's the closest you will get to love
poor twisted child
so ugly, so ugly
poor twisted child
oh hug me, oh hug me
one November
spawned a monster
in the shape of this child
who later cried
"But Jesus made me, so
Jesus save me from
pity, sympathy
and people discussing me
a frame of useless limbs
what can make GOOD
all the BAD that's been done?
And if the lights were out
could you even bear
to kiss her full on the mouth
(or anywhere?)
poor twisted child
so ugly, so ugly
poor twisted child
oh hug me, oh hug me
one November
spawned a monster
in the shape of this child
who must remain
a hostage to kindess
and the wheels underneath her
a hostage to kindess
and the wheels underneath her
a symbol of where mad, mad lovers
must PAUSE and draw the line
So sleep and dream of love
because it's the closest
you will get to love
that November
is a time
which I must
put OUT of my mind
oh one fine day
LET IT BE SOON
she won't be rich or beautiful
but she'll be walking your streets
in the clothes that she went out
Aah ...
Come on to my house
Come on and do something new
I know you love one person so
Why can't you love two ?
Aah ...
Give a little something
Give a little something
To My Love Life
To My Love Life
My Love Life
Oh ...
Aah ...
I know you love one person so
Why don't you love two, love?
Oh, love to ...
Give a little something
Give a little something
To My Love Life
To My Love Life
My Love Life
Oh ...
I know you love one person so
Why don't you love two, love ?
Love to ...
Oh, give a ...
Oh, give a ...
Oh, give a ...
Oh, give a ...
Oh, give a ...
Oh, give a ...
Oh, give a ...
Oh, give a ...
Oh, give a ...
Oh, give a ...
Oh, give a ...
Oh, give a ...
Love
Love
Aah ...
Love
Love
Aah ...
I know you love
I know you love
I know you love
I know you love
Oh, I know you love
I know you love
I know you love
Aah ...
Love
Love
Oh, love
Love
Aah ...
Oh, I know you love
Oh, I know you love
Oh, I know you love
I know you love
I know you love
Aah ...
Oh, I know you love
I know you love
I know you love
Aah ...
I know you love
Come on to my house
Aah ...
There are some bad people on the rise
there are some bad people on the rise
they're saving their own skins by
ruining people's lives
bad, bad people on the rise
Young married couple in debt
- ever felt had?
young married couple in debt
- ever felt had?
on a government scheme
designed to kill your dream
oh mum, oh dad
once poor - always poor
la la la la
interesting drug
the one that you took
God, it really really helped you
I wonder why you're only half-ashamed?
"Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!
and look around...
We love them
We mourn for them
Unlucky boys of Red
I wish I'd gone down
Gone down with them
To where Mother Nature makes their bed
We miss them
Every night we kiss them
Their faces fixed in our heads
I wish I'd gone down
Gone down with them
To where Mother Nature makes their bed
They can't hurt you
Their style will never desert you
Because they're all safely dead
I wish I'd gone down
Gone down with them
Michael's bones
Lay where he fell
Face down on a sports ground
Oh ...
He was just somebody's luckless son
Oh, but now look what he's done
Oh, look what he's done
Your gentle hands are frozen
And your unkissed lips are blue
Your thinning clothes are hopeless
And no one was mad about you
Michael's bones
Were very young
But they were never to know
Oh ...
Impetuous fun
Mr. Policeman
I don't know where you get such notions from
His gentle hands are frozen
And his unkissed lips are blue
But his eyes still cry
And now you've turned the last bend
And see - are we all judged the same at the end?
Tell me, tell me
Oh, you lucky thing
You are too brave
And I'm ashamed of myself
As usual
Oh ...
The kind people
Have a wonderful dream
Margaret On The Guillotine
Cause people like you
Make me feel so tired
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
And people like you
Make me feel so old inside
Please die
And kind people
Do not shelter this dream
Make it real
Make the dream real
Make the dream real
Make it real
Make the dream real
Make it real
My love, wherever you are
Whatever you are
Don't lose faith
I know it's gonna happen someday
To you
Please wait ...
Please wait ...
Oh ...
Wait ...
Don't lose faith
You say that the day just never arrives
And it's never seemed so far away
Still, I know it's gonna happen someday
To you
Please wait ...
Don't lose faith
Lord these words I beg of you
As I kneel down at my bed
Because soon I will be dead
Let's face it soon I will be dead
And I just want to
I want to see the boy happy
With some hope in his pale eyes
Is that too much to ask?
Before I die
I have one final dream
For my own life I don't care anything
Lord these words I beg of you
As I kneel down at my bed
Let's face it soon I will be dead
And I just want to
I want to see the boy happy
With his arms around his first love
Is that too much to ask?
Before I die
I have one final dream
For my own life I don't care anything
And I just want to
I want to see this boy happy
Why is this such a bad thing?
When your gift unfurls
when your Talent becomes apparent
I will roar from the stalls
I will gurgle from the circle
The Saints smile shyly
down on you
they couldn't get over
your nine-leaved clover
Lucky lisp was not wasted on you
lucky lisp was not wasted on you
When your name is with the best
will my name be on your guest list?
I will roar from the stalls
oh the balcony fool was me, you fool
Jesus made this all for you, love
He couldn't get over
your Grandma's omen
Lucky lisp was not wasted on you
An afternoon nostalgia
Television show
You spoke in silhouette
(but they couldn't name you)
Though the panel were very polite to you
Oh, but I remembered you
Friday nights, 1969
ATV - you murdered every line
Too old to be a child star
Too young to take leads
Four seasons passed
And they AXED you
Nervous juvenile
(WON'T SMILE!)
What became of you ?
Did that swift eclipse
Torture you ?
A star at eighteen
And then - suddenly gone
Down to a few lines
In the back page
Of a faded annual
Oh, but I remembered you
I remembered you
Life Is A Pigsty
It's the same old S.O.S.
But with brand new broken fortunes
And once again I turn to you
Once again I do I turn to you
It's the same old S.O.S.
But with brand new broken fortunes
I'm the same underneath
But this you, you surely knew
Life is a pigsty
Life is a pigsty
Life is a pigsty
Life is a pigsty
Life, life is a pigsty
Life, life is a pigsty
Life, life is a pigsty
Life is a pigsty
And if you don't know this
Then what do you know?
Every second of my life I only live for you
And you can shoot me
And you can throw me off a train
I still maintain
I still maintain
Life, life is a pigsty
Life is a pigsty
And I'd been shifting gears all along my life
But I'm still the same underneath
This you surely knew
I can't reach you
I can't reach you
I can't reach you anymore
Can you please stop time?
Can you stop the pain?
I feel too cold
And now I feel too warm again
Can you stop this pain?
Can you stop this pain?
Even now in the final hour of my life
I'm falling in love again
Again
Even now in the final hour of my life
I'm falling in love again
Again
Again
Again
I'm falling in love again
Again
Again
Again
There's a place in the sun for anyone
Who has the will
Chase one and I think I found mine
Yes I do believe I have found mine.
So, close your eyes
And think of someone you physically admire
And let me kiss you, oh.
Let me kiss you, oh.
I zigzagged all over America
And I cannot find
A safety haven
Say, would you let me cry on your shoulder
I've heard that you'd try anything twice
Close your eyes
And think of someone you physically admire
And let me kiss you, oh.
Let me kiss you, oh.
But then you open your eyes
And you see someone that you physically despise
But my heart is open
My heart is open to you
Last night I dreamt
That somebody loved me
No hope, no harm
Just another false alarm
Last night I felt
Real arms around me
No hope, no harm
Just another false alarm
So, tell me how long
Before the last one ?
And tell me how long
Before the right one ?
The story is old - I KNOW
But it goes on
The story is old - I KNOW
But it goes on
Oh, GOES ON
And on
Oh, goes on
And on
Oh, you look so tired
Mouth slack and wide
Ill-housed and ill-advised
Your face is as mean
As your life has been
Crash into my arms
I WANT YOU
You don't agree -
But you don't refuse
I know you
And I know a place
Where no one is likely to pass
Oh, you don't care if it's late
And you don't care if you're lost
And oh, you look so tired
(But tonight you presume too much)
Too much, too much
And if it's the last
Thing I ever do
I'M GONNA GET YOU
Crash into my arms
I WANT YOU
You don't agree -
But you don't refuse
I know you
Crash into my arms
I WANT YOU
You don't agree -
But you don't refuse
I know you
Oh ...
Thankyou.
Oh, you look so tired
Mouth slack and wide
Ill-housed and ill-advised
Your face is as mean as your life has been
Crash into my arms, I want you
You don't agree
But you don't refuse, I know you
And I know a place
Where no one is likely to pass
Oh, you don't care if it's late
And you don't care if you're lost
And oh, you look so tired
But tonight you presumed too much
Too much, too much
And if it's the last thing I ever do, I'm gonna get you
Crash into my arms, I want you
You don't agree
But you don't refuse, I know you
Crash into my arms, I want you
You don't agree
Irish blood, English heart this i'm made of
there is no one on Earth i'm afraid of
and no regime can buy or sell me
i've been dreaming of a time when to be English
is not to be baneful
to be standing by the flag not feeling shameful, racist, or partial
Irish blood, English heart this i'm made of
there is no one on Earth i'm afraid of
and i will die with both of my hands untied
i've been dreaming of a time when the English
are sick to death of labor & touries
and spit upon the name of Oliver Cromwell
and denounce this royal line that still salutes him
Have a go
When the pubs all close
And have a go when they open
Then have a go by the traffic lights
Cut up or shut up, you're alright !
And as always I'm here right behind you
And as always there's time, so have another go
Oh ...
A small baby girl cradled in your arms
Your one big contribution
We'll never know
We'll never know
We'll never know
We'll never know
Ah, yes
Ah, yes
Oh ...
Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha
Ah, ah, ha ha
A small girl runs crying, through the park
So freely her daddy berates her
Right now, so for the rest of her life
She is convinced that her daddy hates her
Oh ...
Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha
Oh, oh, ha ha
Oh ...
Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha
Oh, oh, ha ha
Oh ...
Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha
Oh, oh, ha ha
Oh ...
Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha
Oh, oh, ha ha
Oh ...
Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha
Oh, oh, ha ha
Oh ...
Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha
Oh, oh, ha ha
I'm standing in the dock
With my innocent hand on my heart
I've changed my plea
I've changed my plea to guilty
Because freedom is wasted on me
See how your rules spoil the game
Outside there is a pain
Emotional air raids exhausted my heart
And it's safer to be inside
So, I'm changing my plea
And no one can dissuade me
Because freedom was wasted on me
See how your rules spoil the game
Something I have learned
If there is one thing in life I've observed
It's that everybody's got somebody
Ooh no, not me
So I've changed my plea to guilty
And reason and freedom is a waste
It's a lot like life
On returning, I can't believe this world is still turning, The pressure's on, Because the pleasure hasn't gone
And I'm, Not sorry for, For the things I've done
And I'm, Not looking for, Just anyone
On competing, Oh, when will this tired heart stop beating?, It's all a game, Existence is only a game
And I'm, Not sorry for, For the things I've done
And I'm, Not looking for, Just anyone
I'm, Slipping below the water line, I'm, Slipping below the water line
Reach for my hand, And, And the race is won
Reject my hand, And, The damage is done
I'm, Slipping below the water line
I'm, Slipping below the water line
The woman of my dreams, She, She never came along
The woman of my dreams, Well, There never was one
And I'm, Not sorry for, For the things I've said
There's a wild man in my head, There's a wild man In my head
Warm lights from the grand houses blind me
Haves cannot stand Have-nots
And my love is under the ground
My one true love is under the ground
And I'll never be
I'll never be
I'll never be anybody's hero now
I'll never be
I'll never be
I'll never be anybody's hero now
They who should love me
Walk right through me
I am a ghost
And as far as I know I haven't even died
And my love is under the ground
My one true love is under the ground
And I'll never be
I'll never be
I'll never be anybody's hero now
I'll never be
I'll never be
I'll never be anybody's hero now
See as I.. See as I.. See as I..
I'll never be
I'll never be
I'll never be anybody's lover now
I'll never be
I'll never be
I'll never be anybody's lover now
Things I've heard and I've seen
And I've felt and I've been
Tell me I'll never be anybody's lover now
It begins in the heart
And it hurts when it's true
It only hurts because it's true
Again
I lay awake
and I cried because of waste
I'd love to
(But only with you
Only with you)
Oh, time is gonna wipe us out
There, I've said it loud and clear
So that you will hear
There's no one in view
Just you
Just you
And time will never wipe you out
Now I've had enough
I've had more than could be
My rightful share
Of nights I can't bear
How can it be fair ?
Time must wipe them out
So, again, I lay awake
In a trance
Oh, I just want my chance
But only with you
Only with you
That's all
That's all
Aah ...
I don't mind
I don't mind if you forget me
Having learned my lesson
I never left an impression on anyone
So now you send me your hardened 'regards'
When once you'd send me 'Love'
Sincerely I must tell you
Your mild 'best wishes'
They make me suspicious
I don't mind
I don't mind if you forget me
Having learned my lesson
I never left an impression on anyone
The pressure to change, to move on
Was strange
And very strong
So this is why I tell you
I really do understand
BYE BYE
I don't mind if you forget me
No no no no no no no
You can only be strong for so long
It may not eat you but it will beat you
So this is why I tell you
I really don't understand
This time
REJECTION IS ONE THING
BUT REJECTION FROM A FOOL
IS CRUEL
REJECTION IS ONE THING
BUT REJECTION FROM A FOOL
IS CRUEL
And I don't mind if you forget me
I don't mind if you forget me
I am hated for loving
I am hated for loving
Anonymous call, a poison pen
A brick in the small of the back again
I still don't belong
To anyone - I am mine
And I am hated for loving
I am haunted for wanting
Anonymous call, a poison pen
A brick in the ... ah ...
A brick in the small of the back again
I still don't belong
To anyone - I am mine
I am falling
With no-one to catch me
I am falling
And there's still
No-one to catch me
Ah ..
Anonymous call, a poison pen
A brick in the ... ah ...
A brick in the small of the back again
I just don't belong
To anywhere
I just don't belong
Mmm ...
She told me she loved me, Which means, She must be insane
I've had my face dragged in , Fifteen miles of shit, And I do not, And I do not, And I do not like it
So how can anybody say, They know how I feel, The only one around here who is me, Is me
They said they respect me, Which means, Their judgement is crazy
I've had my face dragged in, Fifteen miles of shit, And I do not, And I do not, And I do not like it
So how can anybody say, They know how I feel, When they are they, And only I am I
He said he wants to befriend me, Which means, He can't possibly know me
The voices of the real, And the imagined cry, The future is passing you by, The future is passing you by
So how can anybody possibly think they know how I feel, Everybody look, See pain, And walk away
And as for you in your uniform, Your smelly uniform, You think you can be rude to me
Because you wear a uniform, A smelly uniform, And so you think you can be rude to me
But even I, As sick as I am, I would never be you
Even I, As sick as I am, I would never be you
Even I, Sick and depraved, A traveller to the grave
I would never be you, I would never be you
I have lived in the Arse of the world...
he knows, he knows
he knows I'd love
to see him happy
(or as close as is allowed)
I have lived
in the Arse of the world
he knows, he knows
he knows I'd love
to see him happy
(or as close as possible
as close as possible
as close as is allowed)
My name still conjours up deadly deeds
and a bad taste in the mouth
the police - they actually know me
they said:
"You're just another person in the world
you're just another fool with radical views
you're just another who has maddening views
you want to turn it on its head
by staying in bed!"
I said: "I know I do"
said: "I know I do"
Friday mourning
I am dressed in black
Douse the house lights
I'm not coming back
For years, I warned you
Through tears, I told you
Friday mourning, there comes a time
Before that breaks, this very smug mug of mine
This dawn raid soon put paid to all the things
I whispered to you at night time
And I will never stand naked in front of you or if I do
It won't be for a long time
Look once to me, just once to me
Then look away
Look once to me
Then look away
And when they hold me down the hall
And when they kick me down the stairs
I see the faces all lined up before me of teachers and of parents
And bosses who all share a point of view
You are a loser, you are a loser, loser
Loser
A loser
A loser
Friday
Friday mourning
Dressed in black
I won't be coming back
Friday
Friday mourning
Dressed in black
I won't be coming back
Friday
Friday mourning
Friday, Friday, Friday [Incomprehensible]
found found found
someone who's worth it
in this murkiness
someone who's never
seeming scheming
found found found
found found found
someone who's worth it
in this murkiness
someone who's never
seeming scheming
Oh, but if I'd never found
oh, but if I'd never found
oh, but if I'd never found
I do believe that
the more you give your love
and I do believe that
the more you offer trust
the more you chase
the more you cry
the more you're bound to lose
the more you're bound to lose
Oh, but if I'd never found
oh, but if I'd never found
somebody
who wants to be
who wants to be
with me
I'm driving
Your girlfriend home
And she's saying
How she never chose you
";Turn left";, she says
I turn left
And she says
";So how did I end up
So deeply involved in
The very existence
I planned on avoiding ?";
And I can't answer
I'm driving
Your girlfriend home
And she's laughing
To stop herself crying
";Drive on";, she says
I drive on
And she says
";So how did I end up
Attached to this person
When his sense of humour
Gets gradually worser ?";
And I can't tell her
I'm parking
Outside her home
And we're shaking hands
Goodnight, so politely
Our unsleepable friend
gets the message on an ill-wind
'all your friends and your foes
would rather die than have to touch you'
TO SAY THE LEAST: truly disappointed
truly, truly, truly
Drank too much
said too much
and there's nowhere to go - but Down
young boy - I wanna help you
SEE THESE LINES?: truly disappointed
truly, truly, truly
Don't talk to me now
about people who are "nice
'cause I have spent my WHOLE LIFE
in RUINS...
because of people who were "nice
This world may lack Style, I know
but each bud must blossom and grow
Young girl one day we really will be old
but the thing is: I love you NOW
This is the last song I will ever sing
No I've changed my mind again
GOODNIGHT
Further into the fog I fall
Well, I was just
Following you!
When you said :
"do as I do and scrap your fey ways"
(dial-A-clich)
"grow up, be a man, and close your mealy-mouth!"
(dial-A-clich)
Dial-A-clich
Dial-A-clich
But the person underneath
Where does he go ?
Does he slide by the wayside ?
Or ... does he just die ?
And you find that you€™ve organised
Your feelings, for people
Who didn€™t like you then
And do not like you now
But still you say :
"do as I do and scrap your fey ways"
(dial-A-clich)
"grow up, be a man, and close your mealy-mouth!"
(dial-A-clich)
"the safe way is the only way !
There€™s always time to change, son !"
I€™ve changed
But I€™m in pain !
Dial-A-clich
Further into the fog I fall
Well, I was just
Following you!
When you said :
"Do as I do and scrap your fey ways"
(Dial-A-Cliché)
"Grow up, be a man, and close your mealy-mouth!"
(Dial-A-Cliché)
Dial-A-Cliché
Dial-A-Cliché
But the person underneath
Where does he go ?
Does he slide by the wayside ?
Or ... does he just die ?
And you find that you've organized
Your feelings, for people
Who didn't like you then
And do not like you now
But still you say :
"Do as I do and scrap your fey ways"
(Dial-A-Cliché)
"Grow up, be a man, and close your mealy-mouth!"
(Dial-A-Cliché)
"The Safe way is the only way !
There's always time to change, son !"
I've changed
But I'm in pain !
I am walking through Rome
With my heart on a string
Dear God, please help me
And I am so very tired
Of doing the right thing
Dear God, please help me
There are explosive kegs
Between my legs
Dear God, please help me
Will you follow and know
Know me more than you do
Track me down
And try to win me?
Then he motions to me
With his hand on my knee
Dear God, did this kind of thing happen to you?
Now I'm spreading your legs
With mine in-between
Dear God, if I could I would help you
And now I am walking through Rome
And there is no room to move
But the heart feels free
The heart feels free
The heart feels free
But the heart... feels free
The heart feels free
I take the cue from
Certain people I know
I use the cue
And then I
Hand it on to you
And when I swing it
So, it catches his eye ...
(Weren't you there ?
- You'd have died !)
I trust the views of
Certain people I know
They look at Danger
And they
LAUGH THEIR HEADS OFF
Their clothes are Imitation
George the 23rd
(Don't you find this absurd ?)
I'd hate to be like
Certain people I know
They break their necks
And can't afford to
Get them fixed
Ah, they'd sacrifice all
Of their principles for
anything cashable
I do believe it's terrible
Oh, wo, wo
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Oh, wo, wo
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Oh, wo, wo
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Black-eyed Susan
You make us nervous
Because we're very aware that you do not care
Oh, Black-eyed Susan
What don't you believe in ?
";No is always easier than Yes";
Whoo !
Black-eyed Susan
You must insist :
You are a born-again atheist, oh
Oh, heavy-rings on
Bitten fingers
Black-eyed Susan sometimes
Shakes to break
So, watch it
Oh ...
Black-eyed Susan
Rest and do nothing
'Cause it's the only thing that you do quite well
Aah ...
Black-eyed Susan
Rest and do nothing
'Cause it's the only thing that you do quite well
Aah ...
Black-eyed Susan
Rest and do nothing
'Cause it's the only thing that you do quite well
Aah ...
Black-eyed Susan
Please remember
We were the first
We were the first
Oh ...
Say, Billy Budd
So you think you should ?
Oh, everyone's laughing
Say, Billy Budd
So you think that you should ?
Everyone's laughing !
Since I took up with you
Things have been bad
Yeah, but now it's 12 years on
Now it's 12 years on
Yes, and I took up with you
I took my job application
Into town
Did you hear ? They turned me down
Yes, and it's all because of us
Oh, and what was in our eyes
Oh, what was in our eyes, yeah
I said, Billy Budd
I would happily lose
Both of my legs
I would lose both of my legs
Oh, if it meant you could be free
Oh, if it meant you could be free
I turn the music down; and I don't know why, this is my house
I turn the music down; and I don't know why, this is my house
The best friend on the payroll
No, no, no, it's not gonna work out
It's not gonna work out
No, no, no, no
The best friend on the payroll
Oh, no, no, no, it's not gonna work out
It's not gonna work out
More breakfast in bed, and I'll bring the paper in later
The best friend on the payroll
Oh, no, no, no, it's not gonna work out
It's not gonna work out
No, no, no, no
The best friend on the payroll
Oh, no, no, no, it's not gonna work out
It's not gonna work out
More breakfast in bed, and I'll bring the paper in later
The best friend on the payroll
No, no, no, it's not gonna work out
It's not gonna work out
No, no, no, no
The best friend on the payroll
No, no, no, no, it's not gonna work out
It's not gonna work out
At last I am born
Historians note
I am finally born
I once used to chase affection withdrawn
But now I just sit back and yawn
Because I am born, born, born
Look at me now
From difficult child to spectral hand to Claude Brasseur-oh-blah blah blah
At last I am born
Vulgarians know
I am finally born
I once thought that time accentuates despair
But now I don't actually care
Because I am born, born, born
Look at me now
From difficult child to spectral hand to Claude Brasseur-oh-blah blah blah
At last I am born
At last I am born
Leaving the one true free life born
I once thought I had numerous reasons to cry
And I did, but I don't anymore
Because I am born, born, born
At last I am born
At last I am born
It took me a long, long time
But now I am born
I once was a mess of guilt because of the flesh
It's remarkable what you can learn
Once you are born, born, born
Born, born, born
Born, born, born
I'm calling you from the foyer
Of the Sands Hotel
Where the men and the women are acquainted quite well
And the drunkards keep on drinking
And oh, my room is cold
I'm disputing the bill, I will sleep in my clothes
And you my invalid friend
You slammed the receiver when you say
oIf I had your limbs for a day
I would steam away@
I'm calling you from the foyer
Of this awful hotel
Where the slime and the grime gel
And I cannot, or I do not
And oh, my room is cold
And I'm envying you never having to choose
And you my invalid friend
You slammed the receiver when you say
oIf I had your limbs for a day
I would steam away@
I'm calling you from the foyer
Of the Sands Hotel
It's not low-life, it's just people having a good time
And oh, my invalid friend, oh my invalid friend
Angel, Angel
Don't take your life tonight
I know they take
And that they take in turn
And they give you nothing real
For yourself in return
But when they've used you
And they've broken you
And they've wasted all your money
And cast your shell aside
And when they've bought you
And they've sold you
And they've billed you for the pleasure
And they've made your parents cry
I will be here
OH, BELIEVE ME
I will be here
...believe me
Angel, don't take your life
Some people have got no pride
They do not understand
The Urgency of life
But I love you more than life
I love you more than life
I love you more than life
I love you more than life
All the lazy dykes, Cross armed at the palms, Then legs astride their bikes, Indigo burns on their arms
One sweet day, An emotional whirl, You will be good to yourself, And you'll come and join the girls
All the lazy dykes, They pity how you live, Just "somebody's wife", You give, and you give,
And you give, and you give, Give, and you give
And one sweet day , An emotional whirl, You will be good to yourself, And you'll come and join the girls
Touch me, Squeeze me, Hold me too tightly, And when you look at me you actually see me
And I've, Never felt so alive, In the whole of my life, In the whole of my life
Free yourself, Be yourself, Come to the Palms and see yourself
And at last your life begins, At last your life begins
At last your life begins, At last your life begins
With no complications
Fifteen generations
(of mine)
All honouring Nature
Until I arrive
(With incredible style)
I'm the end of the line
The end of the family line
The end of the line
No baby pulled screaming
Out into this seething whirl
By chance or whim
(Or even love ?)
Our family tree hacked into decline
And I'm spared the pain
Of ever saying
(";Goodbye";)
I'm the end of the line
The end of the family line
The end of the line
The decision is mine
The end of the family line
The end of the line
I'm the end of the line
The end of the family line
The end of the ...
And when you slam
down the hammer
Can you see it in your heart?
All of the rumours keeping me rounded
I never said that they were
completely unfounded
So when you slam down the hammer
Can you see it in your heart?
Can you delve so low?
And when you're standing on my fingers
Can you see it in your heart?
And when you try to break my spirit
It won't work
because there's nothing left to break anymore
All of the rumours keeping me rounded
I never said that they were
completely unfounded
You won't sleep
until the earth that wants me
Finally has me
oh you've done it now
You won't rest
until the heart that becomes me
Finally takes me
oh you've done it now
And you won't smile
until my loving mouth
is shut good and proper FOREVER
All of the rumours keeping my rounded
I never said that they were
completely unfounded
and all those lies
writtens lies, twisted lies
well, they weren't lies
they weren't lies
they weren't lies
I never said I never said
I could have mentioned your name
I could have dragged you in
guilt by implication
by association
I've always been true to you
in my own strange way
I've always been true to you
in my own sick way
Go on
He's romancing you
And chancing his arm
He'll be here
Smiling on time
He's romancing you
And chancing his arm
He'll be here
Smiling on time
Roy's keen, oh, Roy's keen
Roy's keen, oh, Roy's keen
We've never seen a
Keener window-cleaner
Back up the ladder
Into each corner
Dunking the chamois
Just think of the goodwill
The ladder's a planet
Roy is a star and
I am a satellite
But that's alright
He can hold a smile for as long
As you require, even longer
He can hold a smile for as long
As you require, even longer
Roy's keen, oh, Roy's keen
Roy's keen, oh, Roy's keen
We've never seen a
Keener window-cleaner
Back up the ladder
Into each corner
Dunking the chamois
Just think of the goodwill
The ladder's a planet
Roy is a star and
I am a satellite
I will be set alight
Don't say you'll hold it steady
Then you'll let it go
Don't say you'll hold it steady
Then you'll let it go, ooh
You're up the ladder
Into each corner
Foot in a bucket
We trust you to wreck it
Even when it's under your nose
Well, you just can't see it, can you ?
Well, it's here right under your nose
And you just can't see it, can you?
Roy's keen, Roy's keen
Roy's keen, Roy's keen
We've never seen a
Sing your life
Any fool can think of words that rhyme
Many others do
Why don't you ?
Do you want to ?
Oh...
Sing your life
Walk right up to the microphone
And name
All the things you love
All the things that you loathe
Oh, sing your life
The things that you love
And the things you loathe
Oh, sing your life
Oh, sing your life
La, la-la, la-la, sing your life
La, la-la, la-la, sing your life
Others sang your life
But now is a chance to shine
And have the pleasure of
Saying what you mean
Have the pleasure of
Meaning what you sing
Oh, make no mistake my friend
All of this will end
So sing it now (sing your life)
All the things you love (sing your life)
All the things you loathe
Oh, sing your life
The things that you love
And the things you loathe (sing your life)
Oh, sing oh...
Oh, sing oh...
La, la-la, la-la, sing your life
La, la-la, la-la, sing your life
Don't leave it all unsaid
Somewhere in the wasteland of your head, oh
Head, oh, head, oh, head, oh
And make no mistake, my friend
Your pointless life will end
But before you go
Can you look at the truth ?
You have a lovely singing voice
A lovely singing voice
And all of those
Who sing on-key
They stole the notion
From you and me
So, sing your life (sing your life)
Sing your life (sing your life)
Oh, sing your oh...
Oh, sing your
Sing your life
Sing your life
Sing your life
Oh, sing your oh...
(Sing your life)
(Sing your life)
Sing your life
(Sing your life)
Your poor witness
crying so loudly on the floor
oh but she's only trying to tell you
what it was that she saw
she is only trying to tell you
what it was that she saw
Now see her standing on the table
with her small arms flailing
and you feel such compassion
in your soul for
Your poor mute witness
still testing the strength
of our patience
oh but she's only trying to tell you
what it was that she saw
Now see her pointing to the frisbee
with a memory too fuzzy
as her silent words
describe the fright of last night
4 a.m. Norhtside, Clapham Common
who knows what she was doing there?
will she sketch the answer later?
Well, I'll ask her
"now dry your tears, my dear"
Now see her mime in time so nicely
it would all have been so clear
is only she had never volunteered
Staring in the window of the shop that never opens
planning my selection from all the treats inside
should I take as I desire oh shall I oh shall I
or should I hang around to be enticed inside.
CHORUS
I'm trying to explain to myself
I can have both
I'm trying to explain to the voice inside
I can have both
I can have both
There's nobody around to say no
who've brainwashed this small shy boy inside
he doesn't know
he can have both
Smiling through the window to the one who never serves you
I've not been feeling myself tonight
should I take as I feel like it well shall I oh shall I
or should I wait and hope to be dragged inside
(CHORUS)
I can have both
there's no need to choose
because I can have both
A bond of trust
Has been abused
Something of value
May be lost
Give up your job
Squander your cash - be rash
Just hold on to your friends
There are more than enough
To fight and oppose
Why waste good time
Fighting the people you like
Who will fall defending your name
Oh, don't feel so ashamed
To have friends
But now you only call me
When you're feeling depressed
When you feel happy I'm
So far from your mind
My patience is stretched
My loyalty vexed
Oh, you're losing all of your friends
Hold on to your friends
Hold on to your friends
Resist - or move on
Be mad, be rash
Smoke and explode
Sell all of your clothes
Just bear in mind :
Oh, there just might come a time
Your boyfriend, he went down on one knee
Well, could it be he's only got one knee?
I tried to surprise you with vodka or tizer
I can't quite quite remember but you didn't thank me
You didn't even thank me because you never do
Your boyfriend, he has the gift of the gab
Or, could it be the gift of the grab ?
I tried to surprise you, I lay down beside you
And nothing much happened and you didn't phone me
You didn't even phone me because it's not your style
To dial
Your boyfriend, he has displayed to me
More than just a real hint of cruelty
I tried to surprise you, I crept up behind you
With a homeless chihuahua you coo-ed for an hour
Pasolini is me, "Accattone" you'll be
I entered nothing & nothing entered me
Til you came with the key
And you did your best but,
As I live and breathe,
you have killed me, you have killed me
Yes i walk around somehow
But you have killed me, you have killed me
Ya se acabo
Watch my life form
Visconti is me, Magnani is you
I entered nothing & nothing entered me
Til you came with the key
And you did your best but,
As I live and breathe,
you have killed me, you have killed me
Yes i walk around somehow
But you have killed me, you have killed me
Who am I that I to be here?
As I live and breathe,
you have killed me, you have killed me
Yes i walk around somehow
But you have killed me, you have killed me
And there is no point saying this again
There is no point saying this again
But i forgive you, i forgive you
Yes, I am blind , no I can't see
The good things, just the bad things, oh
Yes, I am blind, no I can't see
There must be something horribly wrong with me
God, come down if You're really there
Well, You're the one who claims to care
Love's young dream
I'm the one who shopped you
I'm the one who stopped you
'Cause in my sorry way I love you
Love's young dream
Are you sorry for what you've done?
Well, you're not the only one
And in my sorry way I love you
Yes, I am blind but I do see
Evil people prosper over the likes of you and me, always
God, come down if You're really there
Well, You're the one who claims to care
Little lamb on a hill run fast if you can
Good Christians, they wanna kill you
And your life has not even begun
You're just like me, you're just like me
Oh, your life has not even begun
You're just like me, you're just like me
And your life has not even begun
You're just like me, just like me
And your life has not even begun
You're just like me, you're just like, just like me
Tomorrow, will it really come?
And if it does come
Will I still be human?
All I ask of you is one thing that you never do
Would you put your arms around me?
I won't tell anyone
Tomorrow, does it have to come?
All I ask of you is one thing that you'll never do
Would you put your arms around me?
I won't tell anybody
Tomorrow and what must come before
Oh, the pain in my arms
Oh, the pain in my legs
Through my shiftless body
Tomorrow, it's surely nearer now
You don't think I'll make it
I never said, I wanted to
Well did I?
Oh, the pain in my arms
Oh, the pain in my legs
Oh yeah, oh yeah
No yeah, no yeah
Through my shiftless body
Tomorrow, tomorrow, all I ask of you, oh
Is would you tell me that you love me?
Tell me, tell me that you love me
Tell me, tell me that you love me
Tell me that you love me
I know you don't mean it
I know you don't mean it
Tell me, tell me that you love me
Tell me, tell me that you love me
Tell me, oh, tell me, oh
Tell me, oh, tell me, oh
The youngest was the most loved
The youngest was the shielded
We kept him from the world's glare
And he turned into a killer
Retroussé nose
Turned up and mischievous
Forget me not eyes
That cried if we ever left his side
There is no such
Thing in life as normal
There is no such
Thing in life as normal
The youngest was the most loved
The youngest was the cherub
A small boy from a poor house
Who turned into a killer
A blushed rose
If he had to say, ?Hello?
A lopsided grin
Strained to keep the shyness in
There is no such
Thing in life as normal
There is no such
Thing in life as normal
The youngest was the most loved
The youngest was the cherub
The look was all before him
With a lovely wife beside him
The youngest was the most loved
The youngest was the cherub
We kept him from the world's glare
And he turned into a killer
There is no such
Thing in life as normal
There is no such
You fight with your right hand and caress with your left hand
Everyone I know is sick to death of you
With a tear that's a mile wide in the kite that you're flying
Everyone I know is sick to death of you
Ever since you don't look the same
You're just not the same, no way
You say clever things and you never used to
You don't catch what I'm saying when you're deafened to advice
Everyone here is sick to the back teeth of you
With a tear that's a mile wide in the kite that you're flying
Everyone here is sick to the tattoo of you
Ever since you don't look the same
You're just not the same, no way
You say pleasant things and there is no need to
Still, you fight with your right hand
And caress with your left hand, ooh ooh
Sad to say
How once I was in love with you
Sad to say
You don't catch what I'm saying
When you're deafened to advice, ooh ooh
Ever since you don't look the same
You're just not the same, no way
Reflecting from my deathbed
I'm balancing life's riches against the ditches
And the flat gray years in between
All I can see are the never-laid
That's the never-played symphonies
I can't see those who tried to love me
All those who felt they understood me
And I can't see those who very patiently put up with me
All I can see are the never-laid
Or the never-played symphonies
You were one, you meant to be one
And you jumped into my face and laughed
And kissed me on the cheek
And then were gone forever not quite
Black sky in the daytime
And I don't much mind dying
When there is nothing left to care for anymore
Just the never-laid, the never-played symphonies
You were one, you knew you were one
And you slipped right thru my fingers
No not literally but metaphorically
I just wanna say
I haven't been away
I am still right here
Where I always was
So one day, if you're bored
By all means call me
Because you can do
But only if you want to
I just wanna say
I haven't been away
I am still right here
Where I always was
So one day, when you're bored
By all means call me
Because you can do
Sweetie pie I have fallen in love
And the joke is on me and the sun's given up
I'm depending on you to see I get safely to
The port where my heart is too lost to find
And will be there to meet you when it's your time
Sweetie pie I'm ending my life
Because I've fallen in love and enough is enough
I'm depending on you to see I get safely to
The port where my heart is too lost to find
And will be there to meet you when it's your time
Sweetie pie how I feel in my mind
And how I live in the world, there are oceans apart
I'm depending on you to see I get safely to
The port where my heart is too lost to find
You were a boy before you became a man
I don't see the joy
And you ran with your pals in the sun
You turned around and they were gone
Again
A sick boy should be treated
So, easily defeated
Oh, I just don't understand
So, you ran with your pals in the sun
You turned around, you were alone
Again
And you ran back to ma
Which set the pace for the rest of your days
Ohh, oh, you ran back to ma
Which set the pace for the rest of your days
Ohh, oh, you ran back to ma
Which set the pace for the rest of your days
And now, there is something that you should know
There is something that you should know
The girl of your dreams is here all alone
Girl of your dreams is here all alone
The girl of your dreams is sad and all alone
The girl of your dreams is here all alone
There is something that you should know
There is something that you should know
Girl of your dreams is all alone
The girl of your dreams is sad and is all alone
The girl of your dreams is sad and is feeling all alone
Learn to love me, assemble the ways
Now, today, tomorrow and always
My only weakness is a listed crime
My only weakness is well, never mind, never mind, oh
Shoplifters of the world, unite and take over
Shoplifters of the world, hand it over
Hand it over, hand it over
Learn to love me, assemble the ways
Now, today, tomorrow and always
My only weakness is a list of crimes
But last night the plans of a future war
Was all I saw run Channel Four
Shoplifters of the world, unite and take over
Shoplifters of the world, hand it over
Hand it over, hand it over
A heartless hand on my shoulder, a push and it's over
Alabaster crashes down, six months is a long time
I tried living in the real world instead of a shell
But before I began, I was bored before I even began
Shoplifters of the world, unite and take over
Shoplifters of the world, unite and take over
Shoplifters of the world, unite and take over
Let it be known a dreaming hotel
We just had a quarrel, I sent you away
I was lookin' for you
Are you gone, gone?
Called you on the phone but there was no answer
Will you never return, will you never want me?
I was looking for you
Are you gone, gone?
Down by the ocean it was so dismal
Women all standing with shock on their faces
Sad description, oh I was looking for you
Everyone was singing a girl is washed up
On Redondo Beach and everyone is so sad
I was looking for you
Are you gone, gone?
Hey little girl, everyone cried
How she was the victim of suicide
I was looking for you
Are you gone, gone?
Down by the ocean it was so dismal
Women all standing with shock on their faces
Sad description, oh I was looking for you
The desk clerk told me a girl is washed up
Was small, an angel with apple blonde hair, now
I was looking for you
Are you gone, gone?
Picked up my key and I didn't reply
I just went into my room and I started to cry
It was morning angel
Are you gone, gone?
Down by the ocean it was so dismal
I was just standing with shock on my face
The hearse pulled away
And the girl that had died, it was you
You'll never return into my arms
Never return into my arms
You'll never return into my arms
'Cause you're gone gone
Gone gone
Gone gone
Set me aside, you'll find
People are the same everywhere
Hoist me from the herd and
People are the same everywhere
Then our creator had to stumble and stall
And our creator had to make
The biggest mistake of all
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Set me aside, and find
People are the same everywhere
Stoode me from the group and
Groups are the same everywhere
Then our creator had to
Stumble and stall and our creator
Had to make the biggest mistake of all
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
It's a shame, it's a shame but
People are the same everywhere
And land of the free and the home of the brave
Exists nowhere.
Here in our loveless nation
We're all in a rush to find a lovers touch
And when it's found you wonder
Why it meant so much
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
It's a shame, it's a shame
That people are the same
It's a shame, it's a shame but
Ouija Board
Would you work for me ?
I have got to say
"Hello to an old friend"
Ouija Board, Ouija Board, Ouija Board
Would you work for me?
I have got to get through
To a good friend
Well she has now gone
From this unhappy planet
With all the carnivores
And the destructor's on it
Ouija Board, Ouija Board, Ouija Board
Would you help me?
Because I still do feel
So horribly lonely
Would you, Ouija Board
Would you, Ouija Board
Would you help me?
And I just can't find
My place in this world
Well she has now gone
From this unhappy planet
With all the carnivores
And the destructor's of it
Oh hear my voice
(Hear my voice)
Oh hear my voice
(Hear my voice)
Hear my voice
(Hear my voice, my voice)
Hear my voice
(Voice)
Table is rumbling
The table is rumbling
The glass is moving
No I was not pushing that time, it spells
S T E V E N
The table is rumbling
The glass is moving
No I was not pushing that time
P U S H O double F
Well she has now gone
From this unhappy planet
With all the carnivores
My hometown's being circled by and by
Excuses will only wear me down
The tension's tied tight stealing all the air
Which back will break first
Back will break first
We wont lay down
We wont lay down
Tonight
This one goes out to everybody's ears
Let's tame my doubt
We won't take for granted
The fact that we believe
And we can't be beat
My hometown's dreaming
Everything it makes sense
But everybody's leaving
The tension's tied tight stealing all the air
Which back will break first
Back will break first
This one goes out to everybody's ears
Let's tame my doubt
We won't take for granted
The fact that we believe
And we can't be beat
I'm locked away (I'm locked away)
And if you catch my drift would you let me out
I'm locked away (I'm locked away)
I'm locked away (I'm locked away)
And if you catch my drift would you let me out
This one goes out to everybody's ears
Let's tame my doubt
We won't take for granted
The fact that we believe
And we can't be beat
This one goes out to everybody's ears
Let's tame my doubt
We won't take for granted
The fact that we believe
And we can't be beat
We wont lay down
We wont lay down
We wont lay down
Tonight
We wont lay down
We wont lay down
We wont lay down
Moonriver, wider than a mile
I'll be crossing you in style, someday
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're going, I'm going your way
Two drifters off to see the world
I'm not so sure the world deserves us
We're after the same rainbow's end
How come it's just around the bend?
It's always just around the bend
Moonriver, wider than a mile
I'll be crossing you in style, someday
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're going, I'm going your way
Two drifters off to see the world
I'm not so sure the world deserves us
We're after the same rainbow's end
It's just around the bend
It's just around the bend
It's just around the bend
Moonriver, wider than a mile
I'll be crossing you in style, someday
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're going, I'm going your way
Two drifters off to see the world
I'm not so sure the world deserves us
We're after the same rainbow's end
How come it's just around the bend?
It's always just around the bend
Moonriver, wider than a mile
I'll be crossing you in style, someday
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're going, I'm going your way
Two drifters off to see the world
I'm not so sure the world deserves us
We're after the same rainbow's end
It's just around the bend
It's just around the bend
It's just around the bend
Mama, why did you do it?
Mama, who drove you to it?
Was it the pigs in grey suits persecuting you?
Un-civil servants, unconcerned that's how they frighten you
Life is nothing much to lose
It's just so lonely here without you
Mama, why did you do it?
Mama, who drove you to it?
Spare priggish money-men
Who scared the life out of you
Bailiffs with bad-breath
I will slit their throats for you
Life is nothing much to lose
It's just so lonely here without you, Mama
Life is nothing much to lose
It's just so lonely here without you, so
We're gonna run to you
We're gonna come to you
We're gonna lie down
Beside you, Mama
We're gonna be with you
We're gonna join you
We're gonna lie down
Beside you, Mama
And we will be safe and sheltered in our graves
We'll come before you
And we will kiss you
Jet trails in the sky
Leave one word behind
A hand bangs into sand a name
And we all understand
Everybody's lost
But they're pretending they're not
Lost, oh, lost
Jet trails in the sky
Leave one thought behind
A hand bangs into sand a name
And we all understand
Everybody's lost
But they're pretending they're not
Lost, oh, lost
So if I see you
And I tell you
How I've watched you
I'm just lost
So if I see you
And I tell you
I've watched you
Don't make fun of me later
'Cause I'm just lost
If I see you
And I tell you
How I've watched you
Don't make fun of me later
'Cause I'm just lost
If I see you
And I tell you
How I've watched you
Don't make fun of me later
'Cause I'm just lost
Lost, lost, lost
Time is like a dream
And now for a time you are mine
Let's hold fast to the dream
That tastes and sparkles like wine
Who knows if it's real
Or just something we're both dreaming of
What seems like an interlude now
Could be the beginning of love
Loving you is a world that's strange
So much more than my heart can hold
Loving you makes the whole world change
Loving you I could not grow old
No, nobody knows when love will end
So till then, sweet friend
Time is like a dream
And now for a time you are mine
Let's hold fast to the dream
That tastes and sparkles like wine
Who knows if it's real
Or just something we're both dreaming of
What seems like an interlude now
Could be the beginning of love
What seems like an interlude now
Could be the beginning of love
What seems like an interlude now
Nobody knows what human life is
Why we come, why we go
So why then do I know
I will see you, I will see you in far off places
The heart knows why I grieve,
And yes one day, I will close my eyes forever but
But I will see you, I will see you in far off places
It's so easy for us to sit together
But it's so hard for our hearts to combine
And why? and why? why? why? why? why? why? why?
Destiny for some is to save lives
But destiny for others is to end lives
But there is no end
And I will see you in far off places
If your God bestows protection upon you
And if the USA doesnt bomb you
I believe I will see you somewhere safe
So what do you think I am?
And how precisely could you tell
A decent skin is all I am?
People think badly of me
But one day maybe they'll praise
Oh, but meanwhile
I knew I was next and I didn't mind
Here I offer you my life for any debts you're due
And when you've been down for the very last time
There is nothing anyone can do to hurt you
The shadows of trees, they reach to me
They know a decent skin is all I am
People think badly of me
But when I'm in my grave maybe they'll praise
Oh, but meanwhile
I knew I was next and I didn't mind
Here I offer you my life for any debts you're due
And when you've been down for the very last time
There is nothing anyone can do to hurt you
Oh, but meanwhile
I knew I was next and I didn't mind
When you've been slapped around
And one more slap can't hurt you
And when you've been down for the very last time
There is nothing anyone can do to hurt you
I knew I was next and I didn't mind
When you've been slapped around
And one more slap can't hurt you
And when you've been down for the very last time
Here is london, giddy of london
Is it home of the free -
Or what ?
Can you squeeze me
Into an empty page of your diary
And psychologically save me
I've got faith in you
I sense the power
Within the fingers
Within an hour the power
Could totally destroy me
(or, it could save my life)
Oh, here is london
"home of the brash, outrageous and free"
You are repressed
But you're remarkably dressed
Is it real ?
And you're always busy
Really busy
Busy, busy
Oh, hairdresser on fire
All around sloane square
And you're just so busy
Busy, busy
Busy scissors
Oh, hairdresser on fire
(only the other day)
Was a client, over-cautious
He made you nervous
And when he said
"i'm gonna sue you"
Oh, I really felt for you ...mmm...
So can you squeeze me
Into an empty page of your diary;
And supernaturally change me ?
Change me, change
Oh, here in london
"home of the brash, outrageous and free"
You are repressed
But you're remarkably dressed
Is it real ?
And you're always busy
Really busy
Busy clippers
Oh, hairdresser on fire
All around sloane square
And you're just too busy
To see me
Busy clippers
Oh, hairdresser on fire
I'm not running away
I'm running to
Corruption of the spirit isn't in it
For a good looking man about town
Are you afraid of someone alive?
Are you feeling heartbroken
Because you'll never be mistaken for a
Good looking man about town?
You got your degree then you flew to Mars
But you still feel wretched 'cause
You'll never be naked with a
Good looking man about town
Are you afraid of someone alive?
Are you scared to death
Of even looking at the flesh of a
Good looking man about town?
Hear the gang say
Marry me, marry me
On the midnight street
No moon and no stars
No one around to calm you down
And to soften the stings to my heart
The dream is sand in my hands
First day with the jar, you find everyone lies
First day with the jar, you find everyone lies
Nobody minds, everyone lies
Where is the man you respect ?
And where is the woman you love ?
Where's the woman you love ?
Third week with the jar, you find everything dies
We won't vote conservative because we never have
Everyone lies, everyone lies
Where is the man you respect ?
And where is the woman you love ?
Where's the woman you love ?
Everything of worth on earth
Is there to share
I used to dream and I used to vow
I wouldn't dream of it now
We look to Los Angeles for the language we use
London is dead, London is dead, London is dead
London is dead, London is dead, London is dead
Now I'm too much in love, I'm too much in love
I know, I'll go empty hand
Head in the clouds
And a mouthful of pie
Head in a blouse
Everybody loves him, I see why
Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave
Oh, Dagenham Dave
Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave
Oh, Dagenham Dave
'I love Karen, I love Sharon'
On the window screen
With never the need to fight
Or to question a single thing
Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave
Oh, Dagenham Dave
Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave
Oh, Dagenham Dave
Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave
Oh, Dagenham Dave
Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave
Dagenham Dave
He'd love to touch
He's afraid that he might self-combust
I could say more
But you get the general idea
Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave
Dagenham Dave, Dagenham, Dagenham
Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave
Dagenham Dave, Dagenham
Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave
Dagenham Dave, oh Dave, oh Dagenham
Dagenham, Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave
There is something I wanted to tell you
It's so funny you'll kill yourself laughing
But then I, I look around and I remember
That I am alone, alone for evermore
The tile yard all along the railings
Up a discolored dark brown staircase
Here you'll find, despair and I calling to you
With what's left of my heart
My heart for evermore
Drinking tea with the taste of the Thames
Sullenly on a chair on the pavement
Here you'll find, my thoughts and I
And here is the very last plea from my heart
My heart for evermore
Where taxi drivers never stop talking
Under slate gray Victorian sky
Here you'll find, despair and I
And here I am every last inch of me is yours
Yours, for evermore
Your leg came to rest against mine
Then you lounged with knees up and apart
And me and my heart
We knew, we just knew, for evermore
Where taxi drivers never stop talking
Under slate gray Victorian sky
Here you'll find, my heart and I
And still we say come back
Come back to Camden
And I'll be good, I'll be good
The strange logic in your clumsiest line
It stayed emblazoned on my mind
You said, "Break up the family and let's begin to live our lives"
I want to see all my friends tonight
It wasn't youth, it wasn't life, born old sadly wise
Resigned well we were to ending our lives
I'm so glad to grow older to move away from those awful times
I want to see all my friends tonight
Yes, you found love but you weren't at peace with your life
Home late full of hate despise the ties that bind
I'm so glad to grow older to move away from those younger years
I'm in love for the first time and I don't feel bad
Let me see all my old friends
Let me put my arms around them
'Cause I really do love them
Now does that sound mad?
Captain of games, solid framed, I stood on the touchline
Hailstones, driven home in the car, no brakes, I don't mind
I'm so glad to grow older to move away from those darker years
I'm in love for the first time and I don't feel bad
So wish me luck my friends, goodbye
So wish me luck again, goodbye
Wish me luck my friends, goodbye
Losing in front of your home crowd
You wish the ground
Would open up and take you down
And will time never pass?
Will time never pass for us?
Your weary wife is walking away
Your nephew is true
Well, he thinks the world of you
And I have to close my eyes
Losing in front of your home town
The crowd call your name
They love you all the same
The sound, the smell, and the spray
You will take them all away
And they'll stay till the grave
Your weary wife is walking away
Your nephew, is true
Well, he thinks the world of you
And I have to close my eyes
Losing in your home town
Hell is the bell
That will not ring again
You will return one day
Because of all the things that you see
When your eyes close
Your weary wife, walking away
Your nephew, it's true
He still thinks the world of you
The one I love is standing near
The one I love is everywhere
And I can woo you, I can amuse you
But there is nothing I can do to make you mine
Black cloud, black cloud
The one I love roosts in the mind
Can snap this spell or increase hell
I can chase you and I can catch you
But there is nothing I can do to make you mine
Black cloud, black cloud
Oh, black cloud, oh, black cloud
I play the game of favorites now
I can, I must, I will, I do
And I can please you or I can freeze you out
But there is nothing I can do to make you mine
Black cloud, black cloud
Black cloud
I can choke myself to please you
And I can sink much lower than usual
Day oh so late, strangely the sun still shone
Oh Asian boy what are you on?
Day oh so late, strangely the sun still shone
Oh Asian boy what are drugs are you on?
Tooled up Asian boy has come to take revenge
For the cruel, cold killing of his very best friend
Tooled up Asian boy has come to avenge
The cruel, cold killing of his only friend
There's peace through our school, it's so quiet in the hall
It's a strange sign for one of what's to come
Tough and cold and pale oh well they may just impale you on railings
Oh, English boys it must be wrong three against one
Brakes slammed, and his gun jammed and as far as I could tell
Brave Asian boy was dealt a blow and fell
I'm just passing through here on my way to somewhere civilized
I know these roads
Each ridge and narrow bridge
Each Chevron enticing me on
Each warning sign, I take in my stride
I don't need more ammunition
I've got more than I can spend
I don't dwell on things I'm missing
I'm just pleased with the things I've found
I know these roads
An old hand understands
Above all, I know what's
Expected of me now, veering cliff wards
I don't need more ammunition
I've got more than I can spend
I don't dwell on things I'm missing
I'm just pleased with the things I've found
With the things I've found, with the things I've found, I've found
I've been crying
It comes back on these salient days
And it stays and it says
"We've never really been away"
I don't need more ammunition
I've got more than I can spend
I don't think of who I'm missing
I've got no space and no time in my life anymore
Bolt-lock your doors, alarm your cars
And still we move in closer every day
Top of the list is your smiling kids
But we'll be smiling too, so that's okay
Oh, and by the way
Thank you, because you're giving, giving, giving
And we're receiving no, no, we're taking
Keeping the population down
Your taxes paid, but police waylaid
And we knows when the school bus comes and goes
We're on your street, but you don't see us
Or, if you do, you smile and say, "Hello"
But don't underestimate us
When you are giving, giving, giving
And we're receiving no, no, we're taking
Just keeping the population down
You're giving, giving, giving
Well, it's your own fault
For reproducing
We're just keeping
Were you and he lovers ?
And would you say so if you were ?
On a forecourt, on a Friday
Passing my way
Ohh ohh ohh
Were you and he lovers ?
And if you were, then say that you were
On a groundsheet
Under canvas with your tent flap
Open wide
A note upon his desk
'P.S. bring me home and have me'
Leather elbows on a tweed coat, oh
Is that the best you can do?
So came his reply
"But on the desk is where I want you"
So I ask even though I know
Oh, were you and he lovers ?
Oh oh ahh ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah
So the choice I have made
May seem strange to you
But who asked you anyway?
It's my life to wreck
My own way
You see, to someone, somewhere, oh yeah
Alma matters
In mind, body and soul
In part and in whole
Because to someone, somewhere, oh yeah
Alma matters
In mind, body and soul
In part and in whole
So the life I have made
May seem wrong to you
But I've never been surer
It's my life to ruin
My own way
You see, to someone, somewhere, oh yeah
Alma matters
In mind, body and soul
In part and in whole
Because to someone, somewhere, oh yeah
Alma matters
In mind, body and soul
In part and in whole
To someone, somewhere, oh yeah
Alma matters
In mind, body and soul
Part and in whole
So to someone, somewhere, oh yeah
Alma matters
In mind, body and soul
Part and in whole
To someone, somewhere, oh yeah
Oh yeah
The sanest days are mad
Why don't you find out for yourself ?
Then you'll see the price
Very closely
Some men here
They have a special interest
In your career
They wanna help you to grow
And then syphon all your dough
Why don't you find out for yourself ?
Then you'll see the glass
Hidden in the grass
You'll never believe me, so
Why don't you find out for yourself ?
Sick down to my heart
That's just the way it goes
Some men here
They know the full extent of
Your distress
They kneel and pray
And they say :
"Long may it last"
Why don't you find out for yourself ?
Then you'll see the glass
Hidden in the grass
Bad scenes come and go
For which you must allow
Sick down to my heart
That's just the way it goes
Don't rake up my mistakes
I know exactly what they are
And ... what do YOU do ?
Well ... you just SIT THERE
I've been stabbed in the back
So many many times
I don't have any skin
Still drinking on the corner
Just don't say I didn't warn you
Always nagging big brother
He's only looking out for you
Tony The Pony
Tony The Pony
You're still standing on the corner
Just don't say I didn't warn you
Old and jealous big brother
You had your time and you spent it crying
Now Tony The Pony
Tony The Pony
So, that's what they call you now
When you're free outside
So cold and hard and in control and
There's a free ride on Tony The Pony
Oh, why do you always wanna stop me
From doing the things in life that make me happy?
And when I'm outside with friends, laughing loudly
Why do you always wanna stop me?
Oh, I would never
I would never
But you will carry the can for anyone
There's a free ride on gullible Tony
You're drunker quicker
And you're sicker even quicker
For something heavy is gonna fall on you, oh
And what do they call you now?
When you're free outside
So cold and hard and in control
And, oh, been a lark
There's a free ride on fucked up Tony
I will never say I told you so
Or how I knew that something bad
Would happen to you
I don't wanna say I told you so
Dear hero, imprisoned
With all the new crimes
That you are perfecting
Oh, I can't help quoting you
'Cause everything
That you said rings true
And now in my cell
Well, I followed you
And here's a list of who I slew
Reggie Kray, do you know my name?
Oh, don't say you don't
Please say you do, ohh ohh
I am the last of the famous
International playboys
The last of the famous
International playboys
And in my cell
Well, I loved you
And every man with a job to do
Ronnie Kray, do you know my face?
Oh, don't say you don't
Please say you do, ohh ohh
I am the last of the famous
International playboys
The last of the famous
International playboys
In our lifetime those who kill
The news world
Hands them stardom
And these are the ways
On which I was raised
These are the ways
On which I was raised
I never wanted to kill
I am not naturally evil
Such things I do
Just to make myself
More attractive to you
Have I failed?
Oh, the last of the famous
International playboys
Police car with a screaming siren
Pneumatic drill on ripped-up concrete
Baby wails, a stray dog howling
Brakes screech as lamp light blinking
That's entertainment, that's entertainment
Smash of glass and a rumble of boots
Electric train and a ripped up phone booth
A hot day and a sticky black tarmac
A hot day and I'm wishing I was far away
That's entertainment, that's entertainment
La, la, la, la, la, la
Days of speed and a slow time Mondays
Wake up at 6 a.m. and think about your holidays
Open window and breathe in petrol
Cold flat with a damp on the walls
Yes, that's entertainment, that's entertainment
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Two lovers kissing over screams of midnight
Two lovers miss the tranquility of solitude
Read graffiti of slash-seat affairs
Splattered walls and a kick in the balls
Is all that you get in the name of entertainment
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Why do you come here?
And why, why do you hang around?
I'm so sorry, oh, I'm so sorry
Why do you come here
When you know it makes things hard for me?
When you know, oh, why do you come?
Why do you telephone?
And why send me silly notes?
I'm so sorry, oh, I'm so sorry
Why do you come here
When you know it makes things hard for me?
When you know, oh, why do you come?
You had to sneak into my room just to read my diary
It was just to see, just to see
All the things you knew I'd written about you
Oh so many illustrations
Oh, but I'm so very sickened
Oh, I am so sickened and now
Oh, it was a good lay, good lay
It was a good lay, good lay
It was a good lay, good lay, aha
Oh, it was a good lay, good lay
It was a good lay, good lay
Oh, it was a good lay, good lay
Ah ah ha ah ha
Oh, it was a good lay
It was a good lay, ah
It was a good lay, good lay, good lay
Ah ha ah ha
Such a little thing
such a little thing
but the difference it made was grave
there you go
wielding a bicycle chain
oh why won't you change
change and be nicer?
such a little thing
a gentle tone of kindness
or written words on paper
- can you write?
how I love all of
the complicating things of life
(God's good air)
how I love all of
the complicating things of life
such a little thing
a fumbling politeness
the difference it saved me
wielding a bicycle chain
"I WILL NOT CHANGE
AND I WILL NOT BE NICE
Most people keep their brains
You don't know a thing about their lives
They live where you wouldn't dare to drive
You shake as you think of how they sleep
But you write as if you all lie side by side
Reader meets author
With the hope of hearing sense
But you may be feeling let down by the words of defense
He says, "No-one ever sees me when I cry"
You don't know a thing about their lives
Books don't save them, books aren't Stanley Knives
And if a fight broke out here tonight
You'd be the first away because you're that type
And the year 2000 won't change anyone here
As each fabled promise flies so fast
You'll swear it was never there
Oh, have you ever escaped from a shipwrecked life ?
So safely with your software of miles from the front line
You hear the way their sad voice sings
And you start to imagine things
The time of the confrontation has come
Between me and the soldiers of god
Facing my heavenly ennemies
Feel that the fight now has to begin
Thou shall die in front of me
Thou shall suffer eternally
Thou shall bow down eventually
Thou shall cry for my mercy (in vain...)
I see the light, the heavenly betrayer's attack
His fire's not real, I now inside that I already hold victory
Terror divine, he realises now that the scale turns for me
Dagger in hand, I already can smell the blood of God
Facing my heavenly ennemies
Numerous but weack in front of me
Facing my heavenly ennemies
I am the cure to your desease, your life...
What on earth have you won
Followong him, Jehova's son
And now that you die on your knees
I will make you repent for this
All dead, the confrontation is won
All in hell, the soldiers of god
God is dead, for his servants are gone
By the purest eradication
My heavenly enemies
All dead, dust gone with the wind
Celebration of our victory
Michael's bones
Lay where they fell
Face down on a sports ground
He was just somebody's luckless son
Oh but now look what he's done
Oh look what he's done
Your gentle hands are frozen
And your unkissed lips are blue
Your thinning clothes are hopeless
And no one was mad about you
Michael's bones were very young
But they were never to know
Impetuous fun
Mr. Policeman
I don't know where you get such notions from
His gentle hands are frozen
And his unkissed lips are blue
But his eyes still cry
And now you've turned the last bend
And see are we all judged the same at the end?
Tell me, tell me
Oh you lucky thing
You are too brave
In Mexico, I went for a walk
To inhale the tranquil, cool, lover's air
But I could taste
A trace of American chemical waste
And the small voice said
"What can we do?"
In Mexico, I went for a walk
To inhale the tranquil, cool, lover's air
But I could sense the hate
From the Lonestar State
And a small voice said
"What can we do?", Oh
It seems if you're rich and you're white
You think you're so right
I just don't see why this should be so
If you're rich and you're white
You think you're so right
I just don't see why this should be so
In Mexico, I lay on the grass
And I cried my heart out
For want of my love, oh
For want of my love, oh
For want of my love, oh
It seems if you're rich and you're white
You think you're so right
I just don't see why this should be so
If you're rich and you're white
You think you're so right
I just don't see why this should be so
In Mexico, I lay on the grass
And I cried my heart out
For want of my love
For want of my love
For want of my love
Heifer whines could be human cries
Closer comes the screaming knife
This beautiful creature must die
This beautiful creature must die
A death for no reason
And death for no reason is MURDER
And the flesh you so fancifully fry
Is not succulent, tasty or kind
It's death for no reason
And death for no reason is MURDER
And the calf that you carve with a smile
Is MURDER
And the turkey you festively slice
Is MURDER
Do you know how animals die ?
Kitchen aromas aren't very homely
It's not "comforting", cheery or kind
It's sizzling blood and the unholy stench
Of MURDER
It's not "natural", "normal" or kind
The flesh you so fancifully fry
The meat in your mouth
As you savour the flavour
Of MURDER
NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER
NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER
On this glorious occasion
Of the splendid defeat
I wanna start from
Before the beginning
Loot wine, "Be mine, and
Then let's stay out for the night"
Ride via Park side
Semi-perilous lives
Jeer the lights in the windows
Of all safe and stable homes
But wondering then, well what
Could peace of mind be like?
Anyway do you want to hear
Our story, or not?
As the Fulham road lights
Stretch and invite into the night
From a Stevenage overspill
We'd kill to live around
South West 6 with someone like you
Keep thieves' hours
With someone like you
As long as it slides
You stalk the house
In a low-cut blouse
"Oh Christ, another stifled
Friday night"
And the Fulham road lights
Stretch and invite into the night
Well, I was fifteen
What could I know?
When the gulf between
All the things I need
And the things I receive
Is an ancient ocean
Wide, wild, lost, uncrossed
Still I maintain there's nothing
Wrong with you
You do all that you do
Because it's all you can do
Well, I was fifteen
Where could I go?
With a soul full of loathing
For stinging bureaucracy
Making it anything
Other than easy
For working girls like me
With my hands on my head
I flop on your bed
With a head full of dread
For all I've ever said
Maladjusted, maladjusted
Maladjusted, maladjusted
Never to be trusted
Oh, never to be trusted
There's nothing wrong with you, oh
There's nothing wrong with you, oh
There's nothing wrong with you, oh
There's nothing wrong with you
Let the right one in
Let the old dreams die
Let the wrong ones go
They cannot, they cannot
They cannot do what you want them to do, oh
Let the right one in
Let the old dreams die
Let the wrong ones go
They do not, they do not
They do not see what you want them to, oh
Let the right one in
Let the old things fade
Put the tricks and schemes away
(For good)
Ah, I will advise
Ah, until my mouth dries
Ah, I will advise you to
Ah, let the right one slip in
Slip in, slip in
And when at last it does
I'd say you were within your rights to bite
The right one and say, "What kept you so long ?"
Winter coming
Winter push on
Push on
Oh, winter push on
Winter is so long
Winter moves on
The last night on Maudlin Street
Goodbye house, goodbye stairs
I was born here and I was raised here
And I took some stick here
Love at first sight, may sound trite
But it's true, you know, I could list the detail of everything
You ever wore or said or how you stood the day
As we spent the last night on Maudlin Street
Goodbye house forever
I never stole a happy hour, around here
Adam was ugliest boy
He became what you see I am
The ugliest man
Oh, the last night on Maudlin Street
Truly I do love you
Oh, truly I do love you
When I sleep with that picture of you framed
Beside my bed
Oh, it's childish and it's silly
But I think it's you in my room by the bed
Yes, I told you it was silly and I know
I took strange pills but I never meant to hurt you
Oh, oh truly I love you
Came home late once, everyone had gone to bed
But you know no one stays up for you
I had sixteen stitches all around my hand
Oh, the last bus I missed to Maudlin Street
So he drove me home in the van
Complaining, "Women only like me for my mind"
Don't leave your torch behind
A power cut ahead, 1972, you know
And so we clipped through the park
No I cannot steal a pair of jeans off a clothes line for you
But you without clothes, oh, I could not keep the straight face
Me without clothes, well a nation turns its back and gags and packs
I am moving house, a half life disappears today
With every hand waves me on
Secretly wishing me gone now
Well I will be soon
Oh, listen, listen
Oh, listen, listen
Oh, listen, listen
Oh, listen, listen
There were bad times on Maudlin Street
They took you away in a police car
Inspector, "Don't you know? Don't you care?
Don't you know about law?"
Your gran died and your mother died on Maudlin Street
In pain and ashamed with never time to say
Special farewell, I took the key from Maudlin Street
Well it's only bricks and mortar
Oh, oh truly I love you, oh
Wherever you are, wherever you are
Wherever you are, I hope you're singing now
Journalists Who Lie
Stealing The Money
Prospering With Spite
Hate-In-A-Hurry
Yeah, Well
They're Only Trying To Make Their Name
By Spreading Biz-Myth-Lies
About The Ones Who've Made Their Name
Stick In The Knife
Stick In The Knife
Journalists Who Lie
The Truth Is, It Happens
Praise Then Crucify
Just Follow This Pattern
And See How
They're Only Trying To Make Their Name
By Spreading Sickening Lies
About The Ones Who've Made Their Name
Give Him The Knife
Give Us The Knife
Journalists Who Life
So Happy In Malice
Rock Star Out Of Line
So Happy In Malice
So Sick And Belaboured
They Only Want To Be Favored
They Only Want To Be Favored
See How
They're Only Trying To Make Their Name
With Unprovable Lies
About The Ones
Who've Made Their Name
In The Black Hole
Out Your Soul
Still Bargaining Away
The Truth
So Easily
I can kill standing still
It?s easy
I can scare with a stare
It?s easy
Hey Ringo, it?s sad though
Because it?s hard to walk tall, when you?re small
Whether dressed in disciplined style, never mind
When you?re small, you walk as if you?re falling
I attack from the back
Because it?s easy
And I can assail
While wearing very nice jewelery
Oh hey Ringo, it?s sad though
Because it?s hard to walk tall, when you?re small
Whether dressed in disciplined style, never mind
When you?re small, you spend your life crawling
I burst into public bars and I throw my weight around
And no one can even see me
No one can even see me
Nobody can see me, no one can see me
Success is just a mess, oh
Hey Gringo, It?s sad though
Because it?s hard to walk tall, when you?re small
Whether dressed in disciplined style, never mind
When you?re small, you?re bound to look appalling
So compadre, please do this for me
Compadre, please weep for me
Compadre, compadre
A child in a curious phase
A man with Southern Ways
Oh I know very well how I got my name
You think you were my first love
You think you were my first love but you're wrong
You were the only one who's come and gone
When thirteen years old
Who dyed his hair gold
Oh I know very well, I don't need to be told
You think you were my first love
You think you were my first love but you're wrong
You were the only one who's come and gone
Oh you silly old man
You silly old man
You're making a fool of yourself
So get off the stage
You silly old man
In your misguided trousers
With your mascara and your Fender guitar
And you think your can rouse us
But the song that you just sang
It sounds exactly like the last one
And the next one
I bet you it will sound
Like this one
Downstage, and offstage
Don't you feel all run in?
And you wonder when they will take it away
This is your final fling
But then applause ran high
But for the patience of the ones behind you
As a verse drags on like a month drags on
It's very short but it seems very long
And the song that you just sang
It sounds exactly like the last one
And the next one
I bet you it will sound
Like this one
So get off the stage
Oh, get off the stage
And when you get down off of the stage
Please stay off the stage, Ol
Get off the stage
Oh, get off the stage
And when we've had our money back
Then I'd like your back in plaster
Oh I know that you say
How age has no meaning
Oh but here is your audience now
And they're screaming
Get off the stage
Oh, get off the stage
ZCuz I've given you enough of my time
And the money that wasn't even mine (have you seen the silvery [screen])
Oh get off the stage...
You have never been in love,
Until you've seen the stars
Reflect in the reservoirs.
And you have never been in love,
Until you've seen the dawn rise
Behind
The home for the blind.
We are the pretty, petty thieves,
And you're standing on our streets,
Where Hector was the first of the gang with a gun in his hand, he was the first to do time.
The first of the gang to die.
Oh my.
Hector was the first of the gang with a gun in his hand, he was the first to do time.
The first of the gang to die.
Oh my.
You have never been in love,
Until you've seen...
Sunlight thrown...
Over smashed human bones.
We are the pretty petty thieves,
And you're standing on our streets...
Where Hector was the first of the gang with a gun in his hand, he was the first to do time.
The first of the gang to die.
Such a silly boy.
Hector was the first of the gang with a gun in his hand, and a bullet in his gullet, and the first lost lad,
To go,
Under the sod.
And he stole from the rich and the poor
and the not-very-rich and the very poor
and he stole all hearts away
he stole all hearts away
he stole all hearts away
(Graham Gouldman)
East West
Over the ocean
Perpetual Motion
Traveling around
No rest, singing and playing
Night out and day in
Doing the rounds
What a great life this must seem!
Swelled joints
Everything classy
Nothing is tacky
Only the best!
Lush girls, older and dying
Sighing and crying
This is success!
What a good life this must seem!
But when I hear your voice
Singing out
The Bells Of Hope
Are ringing out
And I feel all alone
(And I think of my home)
Cold times
A wind through the houses
The bleakness arouses
A longing to leave
Time flew
I wanted to see you
Somehow I could not do
Because of success
What a strange life this can be!
But when I hear your voice
singing out
The Bells Of Home
Are ringing out
And I feel all alone
Bengali, Bengali
Bengali, Bengali
No no no
He does not want to depress you
Oh no no no no no
He only wants to impress you
Bengali in platforms
He only wants to embrace your culture
And to be your friend forever
Forever
Bengali, Bengali
Bengali, Bengali
Oh, shelve your western plans
And understand
That life is hard enough when you belong here
A silver studded rim that glistens
And an ankle star that blinds me
A lemon sole so very high
Which only reminds me, to tell you
Break the news gently
Break the news to him gently
"Shelve your plans, shelve your plans, shelve them"
Bengali, Bengali
It's the touchy march of time that binds you
Don't blame me
Don't hate me
Just because I'm the one to tell you
That life is hard enough when you belong here
That life is hard enough when you belong here
Ohh oh ohh oh
Shelve your Western plans
Ohh oh ohh oh
Shelve your Western plans
'Cause life is hard enough when you belong
Life is hard enough when you belong here
Ohh oh ohh oh
Shelve your Western plans
Ohh oh ohh oh
Shelve your best friends
'Cause life is hard when you belong here
Angel, Angel
dont take your life tonight
I know they takeant that they take in turn
and they give you nothing realfor yourself in return
and when they've used you
and they've broken you
and wasted all your money
and cast your shell aside
and when they've bought you
and they've sold you
and they've billed you for the pleasure
and they've made your parents cry
I will be here
BELIEVE ME
I will be here
...believe me
Angel, dont take your live
some peopüle have got no pride
they do not unterstand
the Urgency of life
but I love you more than lifeI love you more than life
I love you more than life
You hiss and groan and you constantly moan
But you don't ever go away
And that is because
All you need is me
You roll your eyes up to the skies
Mock horrified
But you're still here
All you need is me
There's so much destruction
All over the world
And all you can do is
Complain about me
You bang your head against the wall
And say you're sick of it all
Yet you remain
'Cause all you need is me
And then you offer your one and only joke
And you ask me what will I be
When I grow up to be a man
Me, nothing
There's a soft voice singing in your head
Who can this be?
I do believe it's me
There's a naked man standing
Laughing in your dreams
You know who it is
But you don't like what it means
There's so much destruction
All over the world
And all you can do is
Complain about me
I was a small, fat child in a welfare house
There was only one thing I ever dreamed about
Fate has just handed it to me, whoopee
You don't like me, but you love me
Either way you're wrong
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
You don't like me, but you love me
Either way you're wrong
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
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