Baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Oh, don't you leave me
Don't you leave me no more
I've got this burning, yearning yearning feeling inside me
Oh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
You came into my life
So tenderly
With a burning love
That stings like a bee
And now that I've surrendered
So helplessly
You know I believe
You want to leave me
Oh, baby baby
Where did our love go
Oh, don't you leave me
Oh, baby baby
Where did our love go?
Oh don't you leave me
Don't you leave me no more
You came into my life
So tenderly
With a burning love
That stings like a bee
And now that I've surrendered
So helplessly
You know I believe
You want to leave me
Baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Oh, baby baby
Don't you leave me no more
I've got this burning, burning yearning feeling inside me
Deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
Baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Don't you leave me
Don't you leave me no more
And now that I've surrendered so helplessly
You know, I believe you want to leave me
Baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Sensation nation
Sensation nation
Sensation nation
Sensation nation
It's all so deliciously wicked
This decadent life we're living
If you see me as a victim
Could you be a little more forgiving
It's become a media circus
This colourful life we're leading
If I cry just a little more
Would you be less disbelieving
So take me higher
For a quick fix of desire
We're happy shiny people
With nasty little thoughts
Sensation nation
(I'm one of the)
Sensation nation
So hello all you shiny people
Have you got all that you ever wanted
Or is there still something missing
Is that why you're always reminiscing
It's all so deliciously wicked
This decadent life we're leading
It's all before your high has faded
Here's a mantra for the jaded
So take me higher
For a quick fix of desire
We're happy shiny people
With nasty little thoughts
Sensation nation
(I love it, got to have it)
Sensation nation
(give me more, give me more, more, more)
Sensation nation
I'm one of the, I'm one of the
Sensation nation
So take me higher
For a quick fix of desire
We're happy shiny people
With nasty little thoughts
Sensation nation
(I love it, I love it)
Sensation nation
Sensation nation
(Give me more, give me more, more, more)
Sensation nation
(I'm one of the)
Sensation nation
I love it
Sensation nation
Got to have it
We're happy shiny people
With nasty little thoughts
You in the clouds over there
Hanging on with a wing and a prayer
Forget your regrets and forgiving
Life is not for lasting but living
Don't be one of those lonely people
Waiting for a bus that never comes
Out run your limitations
Even little dreams are aspirations
I don't want to leave you
With a cloud over your head
Take some time to reassess
And think of what I've said
On an up
On an up
I'm gonna leave you on an up
On an up
On an up
I'm gonna leave you on an up
I'm gonna try and leave you on an up
Not to cry
And leave you on an up
I don't blame you
If you believe there's no beauty in the world
But if you take some time to look
You'll find it there for sure
Too much cynicism
Ridicule and vile derision
But if you're guilty then I am too
For seeing life through shades of blue
Don't want to leave your head
Full of dirty streets and falling rain
I want to leave you with a little sun
Here it comes again
On an up
On an up
I'm gonna leave you on an up
On an up
On an up
I'm gonna leave you on an up
I'm gonna try and leave you on an up
Not to cry
And leave you on an up
You in the clouds over there
Hanging on with a wing and a prayer
We're all part of the same plan
Trying to get through life the best we can
On an up
On an up
I'm gonna leave you on an up
On an up
On an up
I'm gonna leave you on an up
I'm gonna try and leave you on an up
Not to cry
And leave you on an up
On an up
Passing time in the afternoon
Cleaning the bathroom floor
Rearrange things in the dining room
Covers the chip on the kitchen door
The paperboy winks as he hands her a paper
He's cheekier every day
She undoes her apron and sinks on the sofa
Throws all her household chores away
She's in a fantasy
It's not so hard to see
That she is living a lie
She'll never be the same
She shuts her eyes again
Waves all her worries goodbye
Puts on her make-up
And smoothes down her dress
And finds the right words to say
Holds a remaining spark of beauty
Escape is only a romance away
Troubles come flooding back with her migraine
She trembles and shuts her eyes
It's a good thing that friends come in little bottles
Time to shake up and prepare for the lies
She's in a fantasy
It's not so hard to see
That she is living a lie
She'll never be the same
She shuts her eyes again
Waves all her worries goodbye
Pushing the hair back from her face
Shaping her thoughts in the sky
Heaven is through her kitchen window
"Pity it's only a dream", she sighs
Imagines herself as Elizabeth Taylor
The paperboy cycles away
She turns on the stove
Soon her husband is home
"Hello dear, it's been such a long day"
She's in a fantasy
It's not so hard to see
That she is living a lie
She'll never be the same
She shuts her eyes again
Waves all her worries goodbye
She's in a fantasy
It's not so hard to see
That she is living a lie
She'll never be the same
She shuts her eyes again
Waves all her worries goodbye
In a city lost in time
Somewhere sordid and sublime
We met over a gin and lime
One rainy evening
Survivors clinging to the mast
Trying to make the moment last just
Two people way past their prime
And how it shows
So come over here
For some romance
And dance with me
Like it's the last dance
And come home with me
Won't you come home with me
This is our last chance for love
You thought you looked like Carol White
Bleached hair piled upon your head but
You looked more like a lady of the night
Instead
In your see-through plastic mac
Homage to cheap sixties tack you're
So far out You're on your way back in
Again
I've wasted too many chances
On small ads and Internet romances
So come home with me
Won't you come home with me
This is our last chance for love
I toyed with a cigarette
Trying to look aloof and sexy
But I couldn't see for the smoke
In my eyes
OK, I have a shaky limp and
Dress a little like a pimp but
After your drink I'll still look OK
In a good light
I had some dreams where did they all go
Gone with my years
Nothing left to show
So come home with me
Won't you come home with me
This is our last chance for love
Come home with me
Won't you come home with me
This is our last chance
For romance
Our last chance
Come home with me
Won't you come home with me
This is our last chance for love
This is our last chance
He's in a world of his own
He's in a world of his own
He'd like the time to play with his mind
He'd like the time to go
He sees the things that pass him by
And the things that he never owned
Everyone has and he has not
So he lives in a world of his own
He cries, he lies
He's cool, he's kind
He heads out on a Friday night,
He gets drunk and he starts a fight
And he loses his mind
And he loses his sight
Because times are hard
And money is tight
Because he has the pressure
He has the blame
Life never changes
Forever the same
He's in a world of his own
He has a child but he doesn't know
He wanted love, so he loved himself
And he's at an all-time low
He's in a world of his own
He's in a hell of his own
He watches the clock and watches the time
Watches life slip by on the assembly line
And the youth he's never known
He cries, he lies
He's cool, he's kind
He heads out on a Friday night,
He gets drunk and he starts a fight
And he loses his mind
And he loses his sight
Because times are hard
And money is tight
Because he has the pressure
He has the blame
Life never changes
Forever the same
Forever the same
Forever the same
These darker times
Where do we go from here?
Living for trivial information
It's a hopeless situation
Blinded by lies
False Gods and fake religions
Ulterior motives and bad intentions
Nobody knows what waits round the corner
We gotta keep dancing
Through the years
We gotta keep smiling through our tears
Nobody knows where we go from here
In these darker times
These darker times
Why has it come to this
Urban decay and revolution
Suicide is the only solution
Am I being unrealistic
To feel so nihilistic
Don't judge the stage of my mind
'Cos brother we're two of a kind
We gotta keep dancing
Through the years
We gotta keep smiling
Through our tears
Nobody knows where we go from here
In these darker times
We gotta keep dancing
Through the years
We gotta keep smiling
Through our tears
Nobody knows where we go from here
In these darker times
Each night twisting
Turning in my bed
I'm trying to make sense of it all
Is it all in my head?
These darker times
Who shall I talk to now
Nothing going on in your eyes
Only the darkness in your eyes
It's a soulless situation
It's a spiritual vacation
Turn on the TV
Pass the remote
Turn off the light
And abandon all hope
We gotta keep dancing
Through the years
We gotta keep smiling
Through our tears
Nobody knows where we go from here
In these darker times
We gotta keep dancing
Through the years
We gotta keep smiling
Through our tears
Nobody knows where we go from here
In these darker times
We gotta keep dancing
Through the years
We gotta keep smiling
Through our tears
Nobody knows where we go from here
In these darker times
Instrumental
Heat
It was the heat of the night I think
Or it could've been the effect of the drink
But I had to brush away the flies
That started to collect around your eyes
I've still the taste of the sweat and the dust
You're still playing games and abusing my trust
In the heat of the night, in the glow of the light
It's the back and the bite, that's feeling alright
Do you use up bodies like cigarettes
Do you need them for ego, do you need them for sex?
In the heat of the night, in the glow of the light
It's the back and the bite, that's feeling alright
Do you use up bodies like cigarettes
Do you need them for ego, do you need them for sex?
It was a bite of a night gone wrong
And the effect of listening to negative songs
Stuck in a love scene from blood and sand
And the way the room keeps spinning around
Now I know what they mean by looks can kill
And they're having a strange effect on the way I feel
In the heat of the night, in the glow of the light
It's the back and the bite, that's feeling alright
Do you use up bodies like cigarettes
Do you need them for ego, do you need them for sex?
In the heat of the night, in the glow of the light
It's the back and the bite, that's feeling alright
Do you use up bodies like cigarettes
Do you need them for ego, do you need them for sex?
Oh, and you're moaning about your wasted life
Lying there listening to "Spanish Eyes"
With the cups on the floor, and the plates in the sink
And the room full of smoke, and then you full of drink
You skin's going dry and the color of sand
Ignore the cigarette burning your hand
You skin's going dry and the color of sand
Ignore the cigarette burning your hand
Now I know what they mean by looks can kill
And they're having a strange effect on the way I feel
Now I know what they mean by looks can kill
And they're having a strange effect on the way I
On the way I, on the way I feel
Now I know, now I know what they mean
Now I know what they mean by
By looks can, by looks can kill, kill
You're time-wasting again
Biting your nails like you were sixteen
Putting up your little walls
When emotion's around
Leave your little heart
In the lost and found
Your friends would die laughing
If they saw you this way
Even though they cry the same tears every day
Where was your heart
When you needed it most?
Hand in hand with your innocence
Gave up the ghost
But it doesn't do to tell
You're at your best
When you're living hell
Just put on your hard face
You know you do that so well
Thank god you wore
Your waterproof make-up today
And who gives a damn about him anyway?
To him you're a body
And to hell with the mind
But you get the same stick from his type all the time
Just a couple of drinks
And they've got you tonight
And you know the sad thing
Is that they're often right
Where was your heart
When you needed it most?
Hand in hand with your innocence
Gave up the ghost
They take hold of your heart
And they spit it right out
Make a show of their conquest
When their friends are about
Your ego deflated
You gave up the fight
And became the good-time-had-by-all-every-night
And where was your heart
When you needed it most?
Hand in hand with your innocence
Gave up the ghost
No comfort of beds
Or the softness of sheets
Just the back of a car
Sprawled across the back seats
And he'll just not give up
And he's messed up your head
A dish in the disco
But a pig in the bed
So you build up a false love affair anyway
Photocopy soap opera stories all day
Where it all ends up fine
And it all ends in church
And the girl looks like you
And she never really gets hurt
And where was your heart
When you needed it most?
Hand in hand with your innocence
Gave up the ghost
I'm having a mid-life crisis
Behaving in strange ways
Wandering around the supermarket
In a daze
I try to fill my head
With positive thoughts
Try to get a rush
From the merchandise I bought
Out of my head
Out of my head
Where do we go
When the feelings are dead
Whatever it takes
To get me through
Whatever it takes
To stop me missing you
Whatever it takes
To get me through
Whatever it takes
To stop me missing you
I tried meditation
Crystal therapy
Colonic irrigation
Didn't agree with me
Road rage and new age
Just tricks of the mind
The onset of middle age
Is all that I find
Out of my head
Out of my head
Where do we go
When the feelings are dead
Whatever it takes
To get me through
Whatever it takes
To stop me missing you
Whatever it takes
To get me through
Whatever it takes
To stop me missing you
Whatever whatever whatever...
Whatever whatever whatever
Whatever it takes
To get me through
Whatever it takes
To stop me missing you
Whatever it takes
To get me through
Whatever it takes
To stop me missing you
Whatever it takes
To stop me missing you
Whatever it takes
When only you will do
I'm having a mid life crisis
Help me
I'm having a mid life crisis
Help me
Pour me a drink
Chop me a line
Roll me a joint
Another day melts into the evening
I sit alone and watch the stars
Remembering times
I think of the past
Here in my isolation
In the solitary situation
Reality hurts
Where memories last
When you whisper my name in the silence
You stop my heart with a touch of violence
We'll always be
Together alone
You're a breath in my ear
You're a word in my mind
I'm here on my own
Just two of a kind
Together alone
Together alone
You share in my deepest secrets
You're here in my darkest moment
Together alone
Together alone
You know what I'm always thinking
You lift my mood when I'm sinking
Together alone
Together alone
When you're here in my arms
I'm dreaming of you
Life will end when I stop
Believing in you
Together alone
Together alone
You're like a shadow
At the edge of my eye
Like a chill in the air
Like a light in the sky
Like the endless peace after we die
You're a breath in my ear
You're a word in my mind
I'm here on my own
Just two of a kind
Together alone
Together alone
I don't need anybody
I don't want anybody
I'm on my own
Together alone
Nobody can understand us
Nobody to make demands on us
Together alone
Together alone
And as the bombs are falling
I hear a voice that's calling
Together alone
Together alone
You're a breath in my ear
You're a word in my mind
I'm here on my own
Just two of a kind
Together alone
Together alone
Are you listening to me now?
Are you listening to me now?
Together alone
Together alone
You're deep in my heart now
You're deep in my soul now
Together alone
Forever alone
You're a breath in my ear
You're a word in my mind
I'm here on my own
Just two of a kind
Together alone
Together alone
Together alone
Forever alone
Are you listening to me now?
Are you listening to me now?
Together alone
Forever alone
Together alone
Together alone
Are you listening to me now?
It was the morning after the month before
And I'm looking like a nose with eyes
Take a trip or letter to make me feel better
Cos I know my mirror never lies
Have you ever had the feeling that your life's down the can
And the hand that holds the whip is not your own
Your breakfast's going cold and your routine's getting old
Is it me that's feeling insecure?
Hiding in the darkness where they can't see your eyes
In a naked city cinema
Watch the bodies rolling around on the screen
And nobody gives a damn who you are
You're surrounded by the bitter and the boring
And you wonder if you're on the turn
And again you get hurt when they're dishing the dirt
Is it me that's feeling insecure?
I haven't got time to worry about the future
When I'm busy covering up my past
Start to consider a tuck behind the ears
When I wonder if my looks will last
I could hit the bottle and the depths of despair
But come up fighting like the best
And I can tell myself that I'm winning the war
But then again I'm different than the rest
I'm not the hardest person in the world
But like the song says 'I will survive'
And I may be a wreck and a pain in the neck
But at least I feel that I'm alive
So I'll spit in your face and push you over the place
If I'm ever feeling so unsure
And you can really go to hell if you give me the soft sell
It's not me that's feeling insecure
It was the morning after the month before
And I'm looking like a nose with eyes
Take a trip or letter to make me feel better
Cos I know my mirror never lies
Have you ever had the feeling that your life's down the can
And the hand that holds the whip is not your own
Your breakfast's going cold and your routine's getting old
Is it me that's feeling insecure?
Forget the lows
Just love the highs
And wipe that look
Out from my eyes
Forget the face
That I despise
Cos I know my mirror
Never lies
I'll come up fighting
Like the best
But then I'm different
Than the rest
And I wonder how my looks will last
Because my life is really fast
And you wonder if you're on the turn
Oh, baby, won't you ever learn
That I'm a cut above the rest
Don't worry about the way I dress
And if my make-up looks a mess
I'm not about to get depressed
Cos I'm the one that loves to lose
Just loser in my fuck me shoes
And I've got the touch
And I've got the feel
To make your good time
Really real
I'll just spit right in your face
And push you all around the place
Just love to love
Just love to live
Just love to live
Just love to love
And, baby, are you so, so sure
That you're the one that's insecure?
I'll do anything
Anything at all
Just throw a little cash
In my direction
I'll sing anything
From rock to music hall
Just for a morsel of
Your attention
Maybe as a child
I wasn't given
All the love I needed
Maybe I'm a sad
Reflection of today
I'm desperate
I'm desperate
I'm desperate
Desperate for love
Any kind of love
Or attention
Don't have to tempt me
You won't see me resisting
See me in a magazine
Or I'm not existing
I'll parody myself
Just don't leave me on the shelf
Maybe I'm a symptom
Of a bigger problem
I'm desperate
I'm desperate
I'm desperate
Desperate for love
Any kind of love
Or attention
I'm always available
Without hesitation
Opening an envelope?
Just send an invitation
I'll dance for you
Pose for you
Take off all my clothes for you
Speak your words
Sing your song
I'm up for auction
Going gone!
I'm desperate
I'm desperate
I'm desperate
I'm desperate
I'm desperate
I'm desperate
Desperate for love
Any kind of love
Or attention
Any kind of love
Or attention
Any kind of love
Or attention
Would you like to taste a little pain
From the fickle hand of fame
Aren't you happy that the road to success
Is littered with drugs and sex
It's all here for your delectation
In compromising situations
Let fallen heroes entertain you
Take a look
Nobody's gonna blame you
Say hello, le Grand Guignol
Say hello, le Grand Guignol
Say hello, to the broken people
The broken people
Snake dancers, sex changer
Come inside
It gets stranger and stranger
Got a lot of unpleasant surprises
Cruelty comes in all shapes and sizes
Say hello, le Grand Guignol
Say hello, le Grand Guignol
Say hello, to the broken people
The broken people
Say hello, le Grand Guignol
Say hello, le Grand Guignol
Say hello, to the broken people
The broken people
It's Grand Guignol
It's rock 'n' roll
It's vaudeville and burlesque
All of human life is here
In the theatre of the grotesque
The city has turned upside down
The circus lion is eating the clown
We're all delivered to the poison pens
And sacrificed to the pig with the lens
Say hello, le Grand Guignol
Say hello, le Grand Guignol
Say hello, to the broken people
The broken people
Say hello, le Grand Guignol
Say hello, le Grand Guignol
Say hello, to the broken people
The broken people
It's Grand Guignol
It's rock 'n' roll
It's vaudeville and burlesque
All of human life is here
I'm all out of love
Have I given too much
I'm all out of love
Because there's never enough
I'm all out of love
Have I given too much
I'm all out of love
Drawing up all my years
I'm trying to feel something
Calling on my lost tears
Just trying to feel
Summoning all my passion
Some place I've long forgotten
My anxieties magnify
Doctor can you tell me why?
I'm all out of love
There's never enough
I'm all out of love
I'm all out of love
Have I given too much
I'm all out of love
So many doubts
So many fears
All those demons that rise
With the years
Love came calling
But the cupboard was bare
I try to find my heart
But it wasn't there
Am I a spent force?
Used up?
Washed up?
Left out to dry?
Is it the same for everybody
Doctor can you tell me why?
I'm all out of love
There's never enough
I'm all out of love
I'm all out of love
Have I given too much
I'm all out of love
When regret comes to call
It's a fear that visits us all
Any love that's left is mine
To keep me warm
For what's left of my time
As the final act approaches
If I could I'd sit and cry
But I'm drained of all emotion
Doctor can you tell me why?
I'm all out of love
There's never enough
I'm all out of love
I'm all out of love
Have I given too much
I'm all out of love
I'm all out of love
I've given too much
I'm all out of love
Never enough
I'm all out of love
I'm all out of love
All out of love
There is nothing left
I'm all out of love
I'm all out of love
Do you want me to
Get down on my knees
Beg you baby, please
Cry a million tears
Do you want me to
Call you on the phone
Beg you to come home
Think of all the years
When I once lived in paradise
When the love light shone in your eyes
Chorus:
Oh baby
What can I do when I still love you
What can I say when I still want you
What can I do
What can I say
You'll never know this way
Do you want me to
Follow you around
Everywhere in town
Do you want a clown
Why do you
Treat me mean and cruel
Breaking every rule
Can I be your fool
We can make this a happy home
So come back where you belong
Chorus
Please forgive me, come back, and then
We can fall in love
Over and over and over and over again
Oh baby
What can I do when I still love you
What can I say when I still want you
Won't you come back
Oh baby, what can I say
I said, what can I do
Oh baby, what can I say
I said, won't you come back
I said, won't you come back
I said, what can I do
I said, what can I say
I said, won't you come back
I said, won't you come back
Won't you come back
Oh baby, won't you come back
Oh baby, what can I say
I said, what, what, what? can I say
Won't you come back
Won't you come back
Won't you
Won't you come back
What can I say
What can I say
What can I do
What can I do
What can I say
What can I say
Won't you come back
Won't you come back
What can I do, do, do, do
What can I do
Atmospheres are tense today
Mother and father are rowing again
Silently seated around the table
You're the one that's getting the blame
Father looks at you like a snake
You play with the food upon your plate
No one seems to be on your side
Things that threaten to hurt your pride
Mother loves to be concerned
Using lessons that she learnt
Fathers never understand
When children have the upper hand
Smiling you did your time at school
Crying quietly like a fool
Saturday night and Sunday morning
Did all the things they asked you to do
They say that home is where the heart is
But home is only where the hurt is
Pull the wool over the eyes
Forget the worries that you started
Mother loves to be concerned
Using lessons that she learnt
Fathers never understand
When children have the upper hand
When you stayed out every night
The first time from your parent's sight
They started to show some concern
But by then it was too late
Feel it's time to pull away
Shut your ears to all they say
Be yourself you know it's true
When in the end what's left is you
Mother loves to be concerned
Using lessons that she learnt
Fathers never understand
When children have the upper hand
Mother loves to be concerned
Using lessons that she learnt
Fathers never understand
When children have the upper hand
I'm lost again and I'm on the run
Looking for love in a sad song.
With your avenger eyes and your catlike ways
I can hold you.
You are a fool for me to be cruel.
I'm leaning on this bar listening to you sing
And your sad song rings in my ears and I start to cry.
He's searching
she's showing
See him heZd in a deep
deep spell he knows she's glowing.
I can find within my mind a way to go
I can look deep into your light and shout
Hold me
hold me
hold me
hold me
hold me.
I hear the saxophone and it tears my soul
And we're feeling old
feeling so cold
She is the torch and she is the theme
She could be a dream but - oh boy - is she real.
Try to avoid her eyes
to avoid her words
They will hit you with all that you feel.
He's searching
she's showing
. . .
See her eyes they are bright tonight.
See the stars coming out tonight.
See the moon looking down tonight
See how they light your way tonight.
See my eyes they are bright tonight.
See my hands reaching out tonight.
Hear my words they are dynamite
See how they light your way tonight.
See her eyes they are bright tonight. . . .
See her eyes they are bright tonight.
Sunday morning going slow, I'm talking to the radio
Clothes and records on the floor, the memories of the night before
Out in Clubland having fun and now I'm hiding from the sun
Waiting for a visitor though no-one knows I'm here for sure
Dancing, laughing, drinking, loving
And now I'm all alone in bedsit land
My only home
I think it's time to cook a meal to fill the emptiness I feel
Spent my money going out, I've nothing in I'm left without
Clean my teeth and comb my hair and look for something new to wear
And start the nightlife over again and kid myself I'm having fun
Dancing, laughing, drinking, loving
And now I'm all alone in bedsit land
My only home
I look out from my window view that really nothing else to do
Read a book maybe write a letter, mother, things are getting better
Watch the mirror count the lines, the battle scars of all the good times
Look around and I can see a thousand people just like me
Dancing, laughing, drinking, loving
And now I'm all alone in bedsit land
My only home
Dancing, laughing, drinking, loving
And now I'm all alone in bedsit land
My only home
Standing in the door of the Pink Flamingo
Crying in the rain
It was a kind of so so love
And I'm going to make sure it never
Happens again
You and I
It had to be
The standing joke of the year
You were a sleep around
A lost and found
And not for me I fear
I tried to make it work
You in a cocktail skirt
And me in a suit
(Well it just wasn't me)
You're used to wearing less
And now you're life's a mess
So insecure you see
I put up with all the scenes
And this is one scene
That's going to be played my way
Take your hands off me
I don't belong to you, you see
Take a look at my face
For the last time
I never knew you
You never knew me
Say hello Goodbye
Say hello wave goodbye
Under the deep red light
I can see the makeup sliding down
Hey little girl you will always make up
So take off that unbecoming frown
What about me - well
I'll find someone
That's not going cheap in the sales
A nice little housewife
Who'll give me a steady life
And won't keep going off the rails
Take your hands off me
I don't belong to you, you see
Take a look at my face
For the last time
I never knew you
You never knew me
Say hello Goodbye
Say hello wave goodbye
We've been involved
For quite a while now
And to keep you secret has been hell
We're strangers meeting for the first time O.K.?
Just smile and say hello
Say hello then wave goodbye
GOODBYE
Youth has gone
I heard you say
It doesn't matter
Anyway
Don't hide the photos
Or turn off the lights
I'm quite sure we've both seen
Funnier sights
Youth sleep
In a deep, deep sleep
Beauty is skin deep
Youth has gone
Though we're still young
It's hard, I know to believe
That I was somebody's son
The memories
Of what you once were
The memories of what
We both were
Youth sleep
In a deep, deep sleep
Beauty is skin deep
Youth has gone
And don't think I don't cry
We let ourselves slip
And now I ask myself why
I'm on my own
And don't think I really mind
When after all
The years have been fairly kind
Youth sleep
In a deep, deep sleep
Beauty is skin deep
Sleep
In a deep, deep sleep
Beauty is skin deep
Sometimes I feel I've got to run away
I've got to get away
From the pain you drive into the heart of me.
The love we share seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my light for I toss and turn - I can't sleep at night.
Once I ran to you
now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given -
I give you all a boy could give you.
Take my tears and that's not nearly all - oh
tainted love - tainted love.
Now I know I've got to run away
I've got to get away.
You don't really want it any more from me -
To make things right you need someone to hold you tight
And you'll think love is to pray but I'm sorry I don't pray that that way
Once I ran to you
now I'll run from you
. . .
Don't touch me please - I cannot stand the way you tease.
I love you though you hurt me so
You only live twice or so it seems
One life for yourself and one for your dreams
You drift through the years and life seems tame
Till one dream appears and love is it's name
And love is a stranger who'll beckon you on
Don't think of the danger or the stranger is gone
This dream is for you, so pay the price
Make one dream come true, you only live twice
And love is a stranger who'll beckon you on
Don't think of the danger or the stranger is gone
This dream is for you, so pay the price
And so they say they're leaving
While you sleep away the day
You go out every evening
Collecting waifs and strays
They follow their illusions
They don't know what to do
They need a clear direction
That's why they turn to you
You're pleading, please don't leave me
Don't go from me so soon
I need to be found
For I'm astray too
Don't go
Just wait until tomorrow
Just wait until tomorrow
On the streets of Paris
On the streets of Rome
They find a home
In shadow or in coffee bars
Down the winding alleys
Through the brightly lit arcades
No matter where they are
In and out of life, they wander
Little waifs and strays
They stay until you fall in love
That's when they slip away
In the dark you'll see
Those sad brown eyes come shining through
Your heart will melt
You felt the way they looked at you
Don't go
Just wait until tomorrow
Just wait until tomorrow
You find you need someone
To love your days away
Just when your heart is crying out
Please stay, don't go away
Just wait until tomorrow
Just wait until tomorrow
Yes, it's true
I'm a stray too
Yes, it's true
I'm a stray too
Yes, it's true
I'm a stray too
Yes, it's true
Falling through at the seams
Living life in a dream
Even smiles make a lie
And I smile all the time
I'm skilled at the art
Of falling apart
It's the holding together
Together forever
I'm skilled at the art
Of falling apart
It's the holding together
Together forever
Trying all of the vices
Is what's doing the damage
All the good things are bad things
And I'm paying the prices
I'm skilled at the art
Of falling apart
It's the holding together
Together forever
I'm skilled at the art
Of falling apart
It's the holding together
Together forever
I'm covered in bruises
From mixing with losers
It's the black and the blue
That's seeing me through
My cigarette diet
Means my throat hurts like Hell
My friends say I'm dying
But I do it so well
Thank you
I'm skilled at the art
Of falling apart
It's the holding together
Together forever
I'm skilled at the art
Of falling apart
It's the holding together
Together forever
I'm skilled at the art
Of falling apart
It's the holding together
Together forever
Together forever
Together forever
It's the holding together
Together forever
Together forever
It's the holding together
Together forever
On heavenly rain
You fell into my life
Unforgettable smile
Unforgettable lies
In the name of the cross
Or a banner of love
With the hand of a friend
Or under a blanket of trust
The angels sighed
A little girl cried
The tears run rings
Around my eyes
We're going to set fire
To the house in my heart
We're going to set fire
To the whole damn world
I don't understand
The wicked things we do
In the name of the good
In the name of the few
The angels sighed
The little girl cried
The tears run rings
Around my eyes
The angels sighed
The little girl cried
The tears run rings
Around my eyes
Don't look at me
With your innocent smile
When the bed is burning
Around my head
When a war breaks out
It'll be no surprise
Your unforgettable smile
Your unforgettable lies
And I've got to stop running
To make my start
We've got to get together
Before we fall apart
They're pulling down the old slums
To build the new
They're bringing back the old rules
To please the few
In the name of the cross
Or a banner of love
With the hand of a friend
Or under a blanket of trust
The angels sighed
A little girl cried
The tears run rings
Around my eyes
The angels sighed
A little girl cried
The tears run rings
Around my eyes
The angels sighed
A little girl cried
The tears run rings
Around my eyes
The angels sighed
A little girl cried
The tears run rings
Around my eyes
Pull down the old slums
To build the new
Pull down the love
I built with you
Promise of tomorrow
You never kept
And you try to burn the house down
When I slept
The nation's in disorder
There's chaos in my heart
We've got to get together
Before we fall apart
Before we fall apart
Before we fall apart
Before we fall apart
Something's gotten hold of my heart
Keeping my soul and my senses apart
Something's gotten into my life
Cutting its way through my dreams like a knife
Turning me up
Turning me down
Making me a smile
Making me a frown
In a world that was war
I once lived in a time
That was peace
With no trouble at all
But then you came my way
And a feeling I know, shook my heart
And made me want you to stay
All of my nights and all of my days
And I wanna tell you now
Something got a hold of my hand
Dragging my soul to a beautiful land
Something has invaded my night
Painting my sleep with a color so bright
Changing the gray
Changing the blue
Scarlet for me
Scarlet for you
I've got to know if this is the real thing
I've got to know what's making my heart sing
A smile and I am lost for a lifetime
Each minute spent with you is the right time
Every hour, every day
You touch me and my mind goes astray
And baby and baby
Something's gotten hold of my hand
Dragging my soul to a beautiful land
Something's gotten into my life
Cutting its way through my dreams like a knife
Turning me up
Turning me down
Making me a smile
Making me a frown
In a world that was war
I once lived in a time
That was peace
With no trouble at all
But then you, you, you, you came my way
And a feeling I know shook my heart
And made me want you to stay
All of my nights and all of my days
And I wanna tell you now
Something's gotten hold of my heart
Keeping my soul and my senses apart
Something's invaded my night
Painting my sleep with a color so bright
Changing the gray
Changing the blue
Scarlet for me
Standing in the door of the pink flamingo
crying in the rain.
It was a kind of so-so-love and I'm gonna make sure
It never happens again.
You and I - it had to be the standing toke of the year
You were a sleep-around
a lost-and-found and not for me - I fear
I tried to make it work
you in a cocktail-skirt
And me in a suit (well
it just wasn't me).
You're used to wearinq less and now your life's a mess -
So insecure you see.
I put up with all the scenes and this is one scene
That's going to be played my way.
Take your hands off me
I don't belong to you
you see.
Take a look at my face for the last time -
I never knew you - you never knew me.
Say hello
goodbye - say hello
wave goodbye.
Under the deep red light I can see the make-up fliding down.
little girl
you will always make up
So take off that unbecoming frown
what about me?
Well
I'll find someone that's not going cheap in the sales
A nice little house-wife who'll give me a steady life
And won't keep going off the rails.
Take your hands off me
I don't belong to you
you see. . . .
We've been involved for quite a while now
And to keep you secret has been hell.
We're strangers meeting for the first time
o.k.?
Just smile and say "hello" -
Say hello
then wave goodbye - say hello
then wave goodbye
Say hello
Numbers
Who's the person that you woke up next to today
If you were any older
Then you'd know you'd have to pay your way
Well maybe you do already
But you make out they pay you
Did you ask yourself where did love go wrong with you?
Numbers
Don't tell me your name I don't want to know
And don't forget to take the reminders when you go
Good things had to end
And I was never any good at saying goodbye
Because when I say goodbye a silly thing happens
And I always cry
Numbers
You're looking so thin these days are you doing speed?
(No, numbers)
Have you seen your face? Now you're really going seed
(Playing numbers)
Doing a nine to five in the day
And you never know their names
Because names make a person real
And there's no real people in these games
Numbers
Pass them on and pass them by
Numbers
Never hold a good thing down for long
Numbers
Throw 'em away like Kleenex
Numbers
Pick them up and push them away
Numbers
Oh numbers
Until you wake up one day
And find that you're a number
Until you wake up one day
And find that you're a number
Until you wake up one day
And find that you're a number
Until you wake up one day
And find that you're a number
Body one, body two, body three, body four
Body one, body two, body three, body four
This next song is a bit of a tongue twister
But if I get all the words
Try to play this and sing at the same time
That's what rock and roll is all about
Always the dreamer, but never the dead
You had a rocky road mapped out somewhere in your head
Anyone in your way, was a spike in your side
With one hand in the wallet, you took them for the ride
You could look in their eyes, you perfected a lie
Never gave them the chance to question why
If they hit on you then you slammed them right back
Never keeping their cool it was up and attack
You should have seen you when you were eighteen
You were the toughest little fucker I've ever seen
And with each downfall you turned ten foot tall
The biggest kick in the balls you've ever been
And Dr Diablo's on his rounds again
Looking for blame and you know
That he'll diagnose pain again
Yeah, pain again
Narrow the sorrow, sick of the slick
Of the doors of discovery you had your pick
If they hit on you then you hit right back
Never keeping their cool, it was up and attack
You could look in their eyes, you perfected a lie
Never gave them the chance to question why
If they hit on you then you hit them right back
Never keeping their cool it was up and attack
Whoa, you're looking so torrid today, life
Has gone wild, no one blocks out the way
You even look good, so they say
A new lease of life flowed through your body today
Not that looks are all to go by, but anyway
The stuff is free and you can now go to town
Building your life up and smashing it down
Building your life up and smashing it down
You couldn't escape from this fact of life
That existing makes you a mess
That every decision or feeling or reason
Causes some sort of mental distress
You could look in their eyes, you perfected a lie
Never gave them the chance to question why
If they hit on you then you hit right back
Never keeping their cool it was up and attack
Keep the cool for the fool
Keep the cool for the fool
Keep the cool for the fool
Keep the cool for the fool
Hey, hey
You couldn't escape from this fact of life
That existing makes you a mess
That every decision or feeling or reason
Causes some sort of mental distress
You could look in their eyes, you perfected a lie
Never gave them the chance to question why
If they hit on you then you hit right back
Never keeping their cool it was up and attack
Building your life up and smashing it down
Building your life up and smashing it down
Why don't I just give up
And do myself a favor?
My life is slowly turning gray
And losing all its flavor
Everything the same
Again and again and again
Everything the same
Again and again and again
Over and over and over
Again and again and again
(Monoculture)
Over and over and over
Again and again and again
(Monoculture)
No change
The world's gone insane
(Monoculture)
Everything that's old
Is new again
(Monoculture)
Monoculture
Monoculture
Why don't I just give up
And submit to the great God of Bland
All my exotic gestures
No longer in demand
Everything the same
Again and again and again
Everything the same
Again and again and again
Over and over and over
Again and again and again
(Monoculture)
Over and over and over
Again and again and again
(Monoculture)
Monoculture
It's the same
Monoculture
(Monoculture)
Mediocre
(Mediocre)
Monoculture
(Monoculture)
Mediocre
Over and over and over
Again and again and again
(Monoculture)
Over and over and over
Again and again and again
(Monoculture)
No change
The world has gone insane
(Monoculture)
Everything that's old
Is new again
(Monoculture)
Monoculture
Mediocre
The same, ordinary
Boring, mediocre
The same, ordinary
Wherever I go
I take a little piece of you
I collect, I reject
Photos I took of you
Well, times that I passed through
So many faces, so many places
I have got to have a memory
I have never been there
I have never been there
I have never had you
I have never had you
I have never had you
I have never had you
I have never had you
I have never had you
I have never had you
I have never had you
I have never had you
I can't remember
Give me your reminder
I can't remember
Give me your reminder
I collect, I reject
Memorabilia, memorabilia
Memorabilia, memorabilia
Key chains and snowstorms
Taste of your sweat
The look in your eyes
I have been inside you
I have been inside you
I have been inside you
I have been inside you
I have been inside you
I have been inside you
I know what it feels like
I know what it feels like
I know what it feels like
I know what it feels like
I know what it feels like
I know what it feels like
I collect, I reject
I collect, I reject
I collect, I reject
Memorabilia
Give me your reminder
Give me your reminder
Give me your reminder
I can't remember
Give me your reminder
Give me your reminder
Give me your reminder
I can't remember
I collect, I reject
I collect, I reject
I collect, I reject
I collect, I reject
Memorabilia, memorabilia
Memorabilia, memorabilia
Memorabilia, memorabilia
Rain keeps on falling
Sun refuse to shine
Baby quit your stalling
And say that you are mine
Chorus:
'Cause I've got so many troubles
Oh I feel like I could cry
Going down in the subway
Jump on those train tracks and die
Down in the subway
I hide these tears of mine
Down in the subway
I'm gonna cry cry cry 'til the end of the line
Cold hearted baby
You're too mean to smile
Every day is stormy
Oh you're one evil child
Chorus
Red blooded baby
Your too tough for me
I don't mean maybe
Oh why don't you let me be
Chorus
Jump on those train tracks and die
Jump on those train tracks and die
Go down in the subway
Jump on those train tracks and die
Jump on those train tracks and die
Baby doll is on her trapeze
Wearing the smile that she never sees
Thinking of a dollar as she tries to tease
Thinking of a dollar as she tries to tease
She's thinking of a dollar as she tries to tease
Baby doll, baby doll
Baby doll, baby doll
Time to play Sheba on a wooden stage
Taking off the clothes that are grimy with age
Rubbing down the skin that is white and cold
And the sticking plasters that cover up the holes
She stared at by a man that would do her harm
She needs to earn the money that will feed his arm
He promised you security, safe and warm
He promised you security, safe and warm
They'll never know the hurt that you feel inside
The emptiness you try to hide
They'll never know the hurt that you feel inside
The emptiness you try to hide
Baby doll
I would melt your eyes that are glassy and cold
And as for the future when you grow old
Baby doll, baby doll
They'll never know the hurt you feel inside
The emptiness you try to hide
Take a tiny costume from a pile of clothes
Just a touch of glitter and a lot of gold
Pick on a failure, make his knees go weak
Mouth open, eyes wide, fake your peak
Mouth open, eyes wide, fake your peak
Mouth open, eyes wide
Mouth open, eyes wide
Baby doll
He'll wipe a line of dribble running from his mouth
You make your wages later when you're back at his house
You try to hide the mirror 'cause it's never kind
You kickstart the heart that's so hard to find
You try to save your beauty and to draw the line
You bite your lip when you find it [Incomprehensible]
Continue your search for a genuine love
Continue your search for a genuine love
Continue your search for a genuine love
Baby, baby, baby doll
Baby, baby, baby doll
This next song is a bit of a tongue twister
But if I get all the words
Try to play this and sing at the same time
That's what rock and roll is all about
Always the dreamer, but never the dead
You had a rocky road mapped out somewhere in your head
Anyone in your way, was a spike in your side
With one hand in the wallet, you took them for the ride
You could look in their eyes, you perfected a lie
Never gave them the chance to question why
If they hit on you then you slammed them right back
Never keeping their cool it was up and attack
You should have seen you when you were eighteen
You were the toughest little fucker I've ever seen
And with each downfall you turned ten foot tall
The biggest kick in the balls you've ever been
And Dr Diablo's on his rounds again
Looking for blame and you know
That he'll diagnose pain again
Yeah, pain again
Narrow the sorrow, sick of the slick
Of the doors of discovery you had your pick
If they hit on you then you hit right back
Never keeping their cool, it was up and attack
You could look in their eyes, you perfected a lie
Never gave them the chance to question why
If they hit on you then you hit them right back
Never keeping their cool it was up and attack
Whoa, you're looking so torrid today, life
Has gone wild, no one blocks out the way
You even look good, so they say
A new lease of life flowed through your body today
Not that looks are all to go by, but anyway
The stuff is free and you can now go to town
Building your life up and smashing it down
Building your life up and smashing it down
You couldn't escape from this fact of life
That existing makes you a mess
That every decision or feeling or reason
Causes some sort of mental distress
You could look in their eyes, you perfected a lie
Never gave them the chance to question why
If they hit on you then you hit right back
Never keeping their cool it was up and attack
Keep the cool for the fool
Keep the cool for the fool
Keep the cool for the fool
Keep the cool for the fool
Hey, hey
You couldn't escape from this fact of life
That existing makes you a mess
That every decision or feeling or reason
Causes some sort of mental distress
You could look in their eyes, you perfected a lie
Never gave them the chance to question why
If they hit on you then you hit right back
Never keeping their cool it was up and attack
Building your life up and smashing it down
Building your life up and smashing it down
Beware of his promise
Believe what I say
Before I go forever
Be sure of what you say
So he paints a pretty picture
And he tells you that he needs you
And he covers you with flowers
And he always keeps you dreaming
If he always keeps you dreaming
You won't have a lonely hour
If a day could last forever
You might like your ivory tower
But the night begins to turn your head around
And you know you're gonna lose more than you found
Yeah the night begins to turn your head around
Beware of his promise
Believe what I say
Before I go forever
Be sure of what you say
For the words may come too easy
If you don't believe I'm leaving
And goodbye will come too quickly
If you really think he loves you
If you really think he loves you
You would give your love so sweetly
If that day could last forever
You would fall in love completely
But the night begins to turn your head around
And you know you're gonna lose more than you found
Yeah the night begins to turn your head around
But the night begins to turn your head around
And you know you're gonna lose more than you found
Yeah the night begins to turn your head around
And you know you're gonna lose more than you found
Oh the night begins to turn your head around
Yeah the night, the night, the night, the night, the night, the night
Yeah the night, the night, the night, the night, the night, the night
Oh, another day, another way
Another life, another day, another life of existence
Oh, fear, threat and filth, tender in hate
Slug and grab, trap and take away
Another track, meat rack and ruin
Boarded up and beaten up, roaming the streets
Have no respect for a life, a limb, a love
Whose love are you anyway?
Mother smiles, narrow smiles
Drink up your poison like a good little girl
Can't have your coke and beat it you know
Sick of seeing you bruised and burnt out
Ugly and low, so sick and tired of
Being sick and tired of being used and abused
That's right
(That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right)
Pushing through the pavement sprawl
Round the late night supermarket, dirt locked lady
Who hits you in the chest
Give her all your money, Mr. Barefoot
All the year round, please don't breathe on me
Oh and hi there, Zizi Jean
(Night)
Mare
Still sticky from you, still sticky from me
(I hear voices)
Still sticky from you, still sticky from me
Smack, kerpow
Into cold grease burger prance
Call me Chico, Chico from Puerto Rico
Guilty of another cold handed sperm murder
Forever the crunch of makeup under foot
Where will you take me
When this is all over?
Somewhere where I don't have to
Shiver in the shadows
So sick and tired of being used and abused
Everyday you set up go to work
Floating like the ash
In the Coffee Pot café
(That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right)
Throwing upon an over-diet of slob culture
Overdose and out, I'm scared for you
For me, for you, no
For me, I got so tired of reading about the anguish of being
That I ended up being without and where will you take me?
Where will you take me?
Away from this hell to be
(Or not to be)
Pull up the vacancy sign in your eyes
I've seen it and I don't like it
I've seen it and I don't like it
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired
Of being used and abused
Hey, is this the last night in Sodom?
(That's right, that's right, that's right)
Sick and tired
A day today of a life of existence
And his name is Jesus
(You have never known love)
(Till you've known the love of God, that's right)
Only God may find a way
Where there is no way, that's right
Is this the last night in Sodom?
(You have never known love)
(Till you've known the love of God, that's right)
What a waste
And they never shed a tear
For Jesus Christ when He died on the Cross
And they drove a spike in His side
And hammered a crown of thorns on His head
Isn't it nice, sugar and spice
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice
I can make a film and make you my star
You'll be a natural the way you are
I would like you on a long black leash
I will parade you down the high streets
You've got the attraction
You've got the pulling power
Walk my doggie, walk my little Sex Dwarf
We can make a scene, we'll be a team
Making the headlines sounds like a dream
When we hit the floor you just watch them move aside
We will take them for a ride of rides
They all love your miniature ways
You know what they say about small boys
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
I'm a Rolls Royce, look it's so huge!
It's big and it's gold with my dumb chaufer
Looking to procure, run little doggie
Lure a disco dolly
Run my little Sex Dwarf, I feel so lonely
Get my little camera, take a pretty picture
Sex Dwarf, in a gold Rolls
Making it with the dumb chaufer
Isn't it nice, sugar and spice
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice
Sex Dwarf, isn't it nice?
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
We can make an outfit for my little Sex Dwarf
To match the gold Rolls on my dumb chaufer
We'll all look so good, we'll knock 'em cold
Knocking 'em cold in black and gold
We can have playtime in my little playroom
Disco dollies, my Sex Dwarf and my dumb chaufer
I would like you on a long black leash
You can bring me all the things I need
Sex Dwarf, isn't it nice
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice?
Sex Dwarf, isn't it nice
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice?
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf, isn't it nice
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice?
Sex Dwarf, isn't it nice
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice?
Isn't it nice, sugar and spice
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice?
Sex Dwarf, isn't it nice
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice?
Sex Dwarf, isn't it nice
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice?
Isn't it nice, sugar and spice
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice?
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
Sex Dwarf
A lover spurned
A lesson learned
On love you've got
Your fingers burnt
She'd bitter tears
Now love has turned
The sweet revenge
Of a lover spurned
A passing phase
A week of love
But all at once
You had enough
It pales so soon
Waned with the moon
No deep concern
For a lover spurned
She'll destroy you with her little games
See you swallow all the blame
Make you pay in many ways
For the pleasure of watching you squirm
She'll tell her friends to treat you rough
That you just weren't good enough
Make the going really tough
For the pleasure of watching you burn in hell
And every day
More guilt to pay
A lesson learned
From a lover spurned
It was all so cozy for you
You had a wife, two children
And a beautiful house
And me, well you wanted me
When it suited your needs
And now, now I have nothing
Just a handful of faded photographs
Nothing but a cold empty heart
But I'm not easily forgotten
I'll appear when you least expect, to make you pay
You asked for it that way
She'll come to get you with a knife
Write poison letters to your wife
Totally destroy your life
For the pleasure of watching you squirm
She'll make a fool of you at work
Drag your name through the dirt
Make sure that it really hurts
For the pleasure of watching you burn in hell
A lover spurned
A lesson learned
On love you've got
Your fingers burnt
She'd bitter tears
Now love has turned
The sweet revenge
Of a lover spurned
The sweet revenge
Heat
It was the heat of the night I think
Or it could've been the effect of the drink
But I had to brush away the flies
That started to collect around your eyes
I've still the taste of the sweat and the dust
You're still playing games and abusing my trust
In the heat of the night, in the glow of the light
It's the back and the bite, that's feeling alright
Do you use up bodies like cigarettes
Do you need them for ego, do you need them for sex?
In the heat of the night, in the glow of the light
It's the back and the bite, that's feeling alright
Do you use up bodies like cigarettes
Do you need them for ego, do you need them for sex?
It was a bite of a night gone wrong
And the effect of listening to negative songs
Stuck in a love scene from blood and sand
And the way the room keeps spinning around
Now I know what they mean by looks can kill
And they're having a strange effect on the way I feel
In the heat of the night, in the glow of the light
It's the back and the bite, that's feeling alright
Do you use up bodies like cigarettes
Do you need them for ego, do you need them for sex?
In the heat of the night, in the glow of the light
It's the back and the bite, that's feeling alright
Do you use up bodies like cigarettes
Do you need them for ego, do you need them for sex?
Oh, and you're moaning about your wasted life
Lying there listening to "Spanish Eyes"
With the cups on the floor, and the plates in the sink
And the room full of smoke, and then you full of drink
You skin's going dry and the color of sand
Ignore the cigarette burning your hand
You skin's going dry and the color of sand
Ignore the cigarette burning your hand
Now I know what they mean by looks can kill
And they're having a strange effect on the way I feel
Now I know what they mean by looks can kill
And they're having a strange effect on the way I
On the way I, on the way I feel
Now I know, now I know what they mean
Now I know what they mean by
By looks can, by looks can kill, kill
Lonely
I'd like to drown me in my coffee
Counting hours with cappuccinos
Sitting framed within the window
I'm lonely
I sit here acting like I'm reading
I'm reading minds
And sadly dreaming
There's some of me left to believe in
Surrender
Surrender
That businessman smell
Found in one night hotels
The sheets are unwashed
From the stories they tell
Tobacco and sweat
And initials in dust
The man at the desk
Throws you looks of disgust
Soon I'll try hard to lose you
Drown you in my cappuccino
Surrender
Surrender
Sodom and Gomorrah
Come tomorrow
I won't know you from Adam or Eve
Look me in the eyes
And tell me you love me
Once, before you leave
Surrender
She's a secretary in the daytime
A modern venus on the 8th floor
She's a secretary in the daytime
A bright young thing
With a promising career
She's got the abilities
She's got the facilities
She's got the abilities
She's got the facilities
She's a secretary in the daytime
A model beauty
At the typewriter
She's a secretary in the daytime
A smile for boss
And she's doing fine
She's got the abilities
She's got the facilities
She's got the abilities
She's got the facilities
She's a secretary in the daytime
She's a secretary in the daytime
She makes herself a drink and she climbs into bed,
The sheets so clean and cool,
It's so nice to rest her aching head,
She thinks back on her working day,
Her boss; the silly things he says,
She smiles, she shuts her eyes,
And she's dreaming of Terry, a mechanic,
sometimes working 8 'til 10,
It's so rare she ever sees him,
And she wants so much to see him again,
He bought her a ring and the flowers on her bedside table,
And she knows that she loves him, but does he love her?
She kisses the photo on the wall beside her bed,
And tries to hold back a silly tear.
She's a working girl now, and Mummy lives so far away,
So She bites her lip,
she knows that Terry will be calling soon one day.
I look at the clock and I'm feeling the rhythm of love
(It's going through me)
I look at the light and it sends a lonely shiver down my spine
(It gets right to me)
I'm thinking of you in some-one else's arms,
I'm thinking of you in some-one else's eyes,
You're everything I like and everything I despise.
(Why don't you leave me?)
Running my fingers through your hair,
Running your fingers down the back of my neck.
Playing your games with your innocent eyes,
I try hard to smile through all of your lies,
That start to hurt me, hurt me
It's like a page from true-love stories
It's like a page from true-love stories
It's like a page from true-love stories
A page from true-love stories
She's a secretary in the daytime
A modern venus on the 8th floor
She's a secretary in the daytime
A bright young thing
With a promising career
She's got the abilities
She's got the facilities
She's got the abilities
She's got the facilities
It's like a page from true-love stories
It's like a page from true-love stories
It's like a page from true-love stories
A page from true-love stories
She found a message on her typewriter,
(Like a page from true-love stories)
It said that she was just a normal girl, (It's like a dream)
They also felt she was a human being (like a dream)
They said that she was a facility (A dream)
She found a message on her typewriter, (It's like a dream)
It said that she was just a normal girl, (Like a dream, dream dream)
They also felt she was a human being
They said that she was a facility (Like a dream)
Dream, dream, dream, dream,
Look, she's here again
The girl with the patent leather face
Tears pictures out of magazines
Looks longingly at makeup ads
And glossy spreads of beauty queens
The girl with the patent leather face
Sits in a darkened bedsit gloom
She chains her door, squats on the floor
Lets no one into her room
Two faced baby
Shiny baby
Two faced baby
Shiny baby
You can laugh, point at me
They do it all the time
But how would you like it if you had
A face like mine
The girl with the patent leather face
Is a psychopathic mental case
A target for the freaks and creeps
A reject of the human race
The girl with the patent leather face
Hangs around the mutant bars
She tampers with machinery
So other beauties crash their cars
Two faced baby
Shiny, shiny, shiny, shiny baby
Two faced baby
You can laugh, point at me
They do it all the time
But how would you like it if you had
A face like mine
The girl with the patent leather face
Tears pictures out of magazines
Looks longingly at makeup ads
And glossy spreads of beauty queens
The girl with the patent leather face
Sits in a darkened bedsit gloom
She chains her door, squats on the floor
Lets no one into her room
I'm alone and she's alone
And we should get together
I'll never ask you to remove
Your mask of shiny
Patent leather
Patent leather
If you kiss me
Kiss me
You can laugh, point at me
They do it all the time
But how would you like it if you had
A face like mine
Had a
Face like mine
Had a face like mine
If you kiss me, kiss me
Kiss me, kiss me
Shiny baby
With your lips of
Patent leather
I hear a calling that's hard to resist
Love is a feeling that I miss
So won't you touch my heart with a kiss
Somebody somewhere
Somebody sometime
Somebody somehow
Won't you help me now
I need to fix my aching heart
Like a hunter alone in the dark
I just need somebody to understand
Somebody somewhere
Somebody sometime
Somebody somehow
Won't you help me now
Is it all in my mind (is it)
All in my mind
(Is there somebody out there for me to find
Or is it all in my mind)
I'd give myself to you as a gift
Dedicated to an emotional lift
I need to feel passion
I need to feel love
Somebody somewhere
Somebody sometime
Somebody somehow
Won't you help me now
This is a plea from my desires
This is a call for pleasure
Brush the shadows from my eyes
Let me see is this love or lies
Somebody somewhere
Somebody sometime
Somebody somewhere
Somebody sometime
Somebody somewhere
Somebody somehow
Won't you help me now
Somebody working
Somebody eating
Somebody lying
Somebody cheating
Somebody bored
Somebody trying
Somebody laughing
Somebody crying
Somebody out there
Somebody somewhere
Somebody out there
Somebody somewhere
Somebody out there
Somebody somewhere
Somebody out there
Somebody somewhere
It's all in my mind
It's all in my mind
Got my preacher in the kitchen
Got my dealer in the hall
I'm blind to the truth
Though I say I've seen it all
I'm always asking why
I want to laugh but I have to cry
Gonna live for the day
Looking for tomorrow
Gonna go off the rails if I don't find a god to follow
I know
I don't know which way to go
I'm living on the edge all the time going out of my mind
Oh yeah, I'm a divided soul
Got my lawyer in the bathroom
I've got a hooker in my bed
I'm taking medication
For the voices in my head
Got a holster on my shoulder
A bible in my hand
I'm the serpent in Eden
Praying for redemption
On evil I'll be feeding
To make my resurrection
I know
I don't know which way to go
I'm living on the edge all the time going out of my mind
Oh yeah, I'm a divided soul
I'm turning up the music
I'm drowning out the screams
I'm a man of passion
A child of apathy
Though I keep on running
Life's catching up with me
I know
I don't know which way to go
I'm living on the edge all the time going out of my mind
Oh yeah, baby
I know
I don't know which way to go
I'm living on the edge all the time going out of my mind
Oh yeah yeah
I know
I've not got long to go
I'm living on the edge all the time going out of my mind
Oh yeah, I'm a divided soul
I'm a risk taking
Danger loving
Chance risking
Trouble tasting
Liar a thief
An apostle of grief
I'm a killer or a lover
One or the other
Who the hell am I?
I'm a divided soul
I'm a divided soul
I'm a divided soul
I'm a divided soul
We're all divided souls
Yeah, we're all divided souls
We're all divided souls
I'm a divided soul
Little rough rhinestone
Where will your love go today?
Sometimes you think
You had none to start with anyway
You will lose the deep pools
And the blues will cloud up
Your frightened little eyes
And the cold comes to claim you inside
You sit writing letters to imaginary friends
That you left behind in your mind
The deep dark red doorways
Call to a limbo of loneliness
Where a million rhinestones sit and cry
I never knew sorrow
Could hit me this way
I once had a friend
But he moved away
And even my mother
When she turned on me
Couldn't put emotion
Like this in me
Fist into glass into head
(Someone else's head)
They beat you up so badly
That your eyes
Show the look of the nearly dead
The wagon will come and scoop up
What's left of the sorry debris
And you'll take the place
Of a hundred other little Johnny's
That went the very same way
I never knew sorrow
Could hit me this way
I once had a friend
But he moved away
And even my mother
When she turned on me
Couldn't put emotion
Like this in me
And screaming out loud
He ran crashing through the crowd
He ran crashing through the crowd
He ran crashing through the crowd
Screaming
God, if you're up there?
I need you
Where are you?
I need you
Where are you?
I need you
Where are you?
Chips on my shoulder
More as I grow older
Feel I owe a debt
For the things I don't get
I only miss out
Well I was there before
I sit in a corner
Sit on the floor
Misery, complaints, self pity, injustice
Misery, complaints, self pity, injustice
Misery, complaints, self pity, injustice
Chips on my shoulder
Chips on my shoulder
There's no time for fun time
It's sit and complain time
I'll talk about famine
While cooking my dinner
Don't you feel guilty
Don't you feel pity (No)
While the cat gets fatter
And the starving get thinner
Misery, complaints, self pity, injustice
Misery, complaints, self pity, injustice
Misery, complaints, self pity, injustice
Chips on my shoulder
Chips on my shoulder
I should have told you
I've chips on my shoulder
I'm making a stand
While I sit on my arse
Fish and chip supper
Whereas those in the gutter
Can't have a good time
Fun's just a farce
Misery, complaints, self pity, injustice
Misery, complaints, self pity, injustice
Misery, complaints, self pity, injustice
Chips on my shoulder
Chips on my shoulder
Chips on my shoulder
More as I grow older
Feel I owe a debt
For the things I don't get
I only miss out
Well I was there before
I sit in a corner
Sit on the floor
Misery, complaints, self pity, injustice
Misery, complaints, self pity, injustice
Misery, complaints, self pity, injustice
Chips on my shoulder
Chips on my shoulder
Now sing it
Chips on my shoulder
(I've got) Chips on my shoulder
Come and meet
Another kind of love
Meet another kind of love
Different than the real thing
But just as demanding
And just as demeaning
Treacled in apathy
All worries swept away
By one so simple act of annihilation
And I've not cried like this
And I've not felt this calm
Meet Murder My Angel
You've arrived at the moment
To cross over the threshold
I met another kind of love
Met another kind of love
And I've not felt alive in this way
For a long time
Your pleaser
Annoyer
Destroyer
and Voyeur
Waits alone at the corner
At the back door to paradise
the back door to paradise
You're shaking all over
It's time to cross over the threshold
And there's no way back my angel
There's no way back for an angel
Meet Murder My Angel
You've arrived at the moment
To cross over the threshold
It's such a feeling
Oh such a feeling
Oh it's such a feeling
The wind in my hair
And the black in my eyes
I was holding back tears
As I reeled with surprise
There was no one to phone
I just chewed at the time
I was waving goodbye
To control of my mind
And the beat of my heart
Marks the passing of time
And I just wanna scream to the sky
There are times when my mind is an explosion of feelings
I'm trying to hold on to the soul inside
I go looking for lies
In your play-the-game eyes
But I couldn't find the way out
The where's or the why's
Should I laugh
Should I cry
Should I live
Should I die?
It's a wild celebration of feelings inside
And the beat of my heart
Marks the passing of time
And I just wanna scream to the sky
And there are times when my mind is an explosion of feelings
I'm trying to hold on to the soul inside (x3)
(I've got to hold on to the soul inside)
Inside...
It's a wild celebration
(It's a wild)
It a wild celebration of feelings inside
And it's tearing me...
And it's tearing me up
It's a wild...
It's a wild celebration of feelings inside
It's a wild... it's a wild...
Celebration of feelings inside
And I'm trying to hold on
And I'm trying to hold on
And I'm trying
Hold on...
Martin
Martin is talking to you
Martin is a boy with problems
Martin has a family history
Martin has too many nightmares
He lives in a fantasy
There's a danger that he'll take too far
His morbid curiosity
He's seen too many creepy films
He's read too many books
Martin sleeps with all the lights on
Martin's seen too many looks
He lives out a strange obsession
Tries hard to resist
But Martin needs his strange obsession
To exist
(Kill, kill, kill)
He's far too pale and far too frail
To be a normal boy
There's something shining in his eyes
The things he'd like to say
Martin had a lot to live down
Growing up in a mining town
Torches burning in the trees
The shivering lust of blood
He's the star of many horror movies
But deep inside he's good
There's an illness flowing through him
That's there all the time
And though he watches and he waits
He knows he's not to blame
The face at the window
The hand under the bed
Martin has hallucinations
Dreams that he's dead
He finds the hunger's at its worst
When he's in bed
(Kill, kill, kill)
He's finding hard to keep control
He knows it won't be long
And his tongue rolls over his dry lips
My supermarket trolley
Glides around the shelves
Of frozen foods
My supermarket trolley
Glides around the shelves
Of pre-packed goods
It rattles an accompaniment
To the droning from the speakers
When I knock a jar (checkout 5)
I stand and stare oblivious as it shatters
(will the manager please go to checkout 5)
Someone passes by
We near collide
She's silent but she's frantic
Can't figure out why she's bought so many useless items
(checkout 5, will the manager please go to checkout 5)
I can't figure out why I've bought so many useless items
(there is a problem at checkout 5)
I only wanted cigarettes
(will you investigate please)
I push my trolley further
(will you investigate please)
I glide around the frozen goods
Lost in here forever
Lost in here forever
Lost in here forever
Lost in here forever
Ever (ever)
My arms do things oblivious of my wishes and my orders
(there is a problem at checkout 5
Will the manager investigate please)
The frantic woman has turned white
A hand upon her shoulder
Buy (buy) buy (buy)
Buy more now
Buy (buy) buy (buy)
Buy more now
Buy (buy) buy (buy)
Buy more now
Buy (buy) buy (buy)
Buy more now
Buy (buy) buy (buy)
Buy more now
Buy (buy) buy (buy)
Buy more now
Buy (buy) buy (buy)
Buy more now
I only hear the neutron sounds
By the cheap impersonators
And I out run my limitations
And I out run my limitations
Buy, buy
(checkout 5)
Buy more now
Buy, buy
(there is a disturbance at checkout 5)
Buy more now
Buy (buy) buy (buy)
Buy more now
Buy (buy) buy (buy)
Buy more now
Buy (buy) buy (buy)
Buy more now
I only hear the neutron sounds
By the cheap impersonators
And I out run my limitations
And I out run my limitations
And I out run my limitations
And I out run my limitations
And I out run my limitations
And I out run my limitations
(I don't want any of them)
And I out run my limitations
(I can't afford all these things
I can't afford all these things)
And I out run my limitations
(I can't afford all these things)
And I out run my limitations
And I out run my limitations
And I out run my limitations
(I don't want any of them)
And I out run my limitations
(I don't want all these things)
And I out run my limitations
And I out run my limitations
(please, please, leave me alone)
And I out run my limitations
(leave me alone, leave me alone)
And I out run my limitations
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Please
I don't want them
I don't want them
I can't afford them
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
(leave me alone
Leave me alone)
(can't afford them
Leave me alone
You're time-wasting again
Biting your nails like you were sixteen
Putting up your little walls
When emotion's around
Leave your little heart
In the lost and found
Your friends would die laughing
If they saw you this way
Even though they cry the same tears every day
Where was your heart
When you needed it most?
Hand in hand with your innocence
Gave up the ghost
But it doesn't do to tell
You're at your best
When you're living hell
Just put on your hard face
You know you do that so well
Thank god you wore
Your waterproof make-up today
And who gives a damn about him anyway?
To him you're a body
And to hell with the mind
But you get the same stick from his type all the time
Just a couple of drinks
And they've got you tonight
And you know the sad thing
Is that they're often right
Where was your heart
When you needed it most?
Hand in hand with your innocence
Gave up the ghost
They take hold of your heart
And they spit it right out
Make a show of their conquest
When their friends are about
Your ego deflated
You gave up the fight
And became the good-time-had-by-all-every-night
And where was your heart
When you needed it most?
Hand in hand with your innocence
Gave up the ghost
No comfort of beds
Or the softness of sheets
Just the back of a car
Sprawled across the back seats
And he'll just not give up
And he's messed up your head
A dish in the disco
But a pig in the bed
So you build up a false love affair anyway
Photocopy soap opera stories all day
Where it all ends up fine
And it all ends in church
And the girl looks like you
And she never really gets hurt
And where was your heart
When you needed it most?
Hand in hand with your innocence
I want to see you crawl
As I drive by in my big black car
With police outriders
And a hundred guards
Looking drop dead gorgeous
Dressed up to the nines
In the skins of several species
In decline
As I set fire to your houses
And your cars
I'll be dancing like a dervish
In the sparks
Is this what true power feels like?
Racing round my veins
Like a motorbike
It's the fall of Rome
My Caligula syndrome
It's the fall of Rome
My Caligula syndrome
I'll display you in my game show
On TV
Called 'Humiliation
And Hypocrisy'
Throw an orgy for the dissolute
And the damned
Every kind of deviation
On demand
So worship me
And fall down on your knees
Or I'll unleash another
Chemical disease
Is this what true power feels like?
Racing round my veins
Like a motorbike
It's the fall of Rome
My Caligula syndrome
It's the fall of Rome
My Caligula syndrome
Have I become just a little deranged?
While you're crawling on your hands and knees
Like slaves
Am I still desirable?
You're ever so destructible
Do you think this party's ever going to end?
Dance with me
While our city is burning
Won't you dance with me
While our empire is falling
Like Nero let's make music to the
Fires of Rome
It's my Caligula syndrome
Fr.fr... fr... frustration!
Frustration
Frustration
I have life
Ordinary wife
I have car
A favourite bar
I have job
A moderate wage
I get the pains
That come with age
I am so ordinary
I have child
She goes wild
I have home
A mortgage of my own
I have hobby
But it's nothing very special
I do the garden
I watch girls
I am so ordinary
I have life
I have cage
I'm going bald
I want to tell the world
I've done nothing
I've achieved nothing
I work for a firm
But I want to burn it down, down
I am so ordinary
I am so ordinary
I was born
One day I'll die
There was something in between
I, I don't know what
Or why
I'm a man
I want to break a rule
I am a no, no, no, no, no, no, nobody
Everybody's fool
I am so ordinary
Frustration (x4)
I'm so tired of endless art
Love stories
I'm beginning to not give a damn
I wish I could reach right out for the untouchable
Film starring Bruce, John Wayne, Elvis Presley
Experiment with cocaine, LSD and set a bad bad example
Live a little, run a harem, be a tiger
Meet Bo Derek and be her Tarzan
Reach, reach out out
Live, live, live
Die, die, die
I, I, I, I wanna die...
Frustration, oh
Frustration (x3)
I wanna die
I wanna die, die, die, die
die, die, d.d.d.die, die, die
Frustration
Trying to please
All these people around me
Is trying to reach for the moon
(The Moon)
I see their faces looking so empty saying
I hope that they'll finish soon
(So Soon)
Could be a chat show
(Yap Yap Yap)
Could be a go go
Reaction would be the same
(The Same)
So here I go
Though why I don't know
Trying to prove myself again
Entertain me
I'm as blank as can be
And I've seen it before
And I've done it before
And I think that I like it
But no I don't like it
It just goes on over and over
And over and over and over again
I try to give them all of my best
And it's taking a turn for the worst
(Oh No)
Things going wrong
Start to sing the wrong song
I think that we must be cursed
(You Betcha)
Playing the wrong tune
Hitting the wrong note
This is where my nerves become frayed
It's falling apart
Why did we ever start
And do you think we'll be paid
(No No)
Entertain me
I'm as blank as can be
And I've seen it before
And I've done it before
And I think that I like it
But no I don't like it
It just goes on over and over
And over and over and over again
Over and over again
Build 'em up, knock 'em down (x5)
I see a movement
Down in the front row
Maybe it's just a mistake
She's smiling at me
(Hello)
But he's frowning at me
(Goodbye)
Which conclusion
Do I make
Fold all your arms
And look straight ahead
At this puppet on a string
You're feeling confused
But you've made a decision
You don't like anything
Entertain me
I'm as blank as can be
And I've seen it before
And I've done it before
And I think that I like it
But no I don't like it
It just goes on over and over
And over and over and over again
Build 'em up, knock em down (x4)
Entertain me
I'm as blank as can be
And I've seen it before
And I've done it before
And I think that I like it
But no I don't like it
It just goes on over and over
Oh I would believe that she's a real diva
As she tugs at the reins
Of a hundred Chihuahuas
She'll live a few years
But she'll have some adventures
Then sing off her sequins
With tears and with traumas
A fistful of love
With Raoul Kowalski
He's only a slob of a Corsican junkie
Hoods, Heroin, Hot Janes
Those fingers of finesse
Salo aftershave
Spend the rent on a new dress
Chi Chi at the bar
Dressed à L'Esqualita
Talks of Johns and Joans
And tomorrow's rhinestones
I'm so sick in my spare time
Humouring thugs
We could go out for dinner
But we're always on drugs
Conchita piqueur
She will take on the whole floor
This Carmen in cling film
Will bathe in your applause
She pads out the glamour
With warmth from your dollars
Squeeze out your breath
With the strength from her shoulders
OK so it's ham
But she means every word
In a ten minute ballad
Of despair and blood
With one hand to the bosom
Paid for by the ballad
But somewhere in there
Is a deep love for love
Chi Chi at the Bar
Dressed à L'Esqualita
Talks of Johns and Joans
And tomorrow's rhinestones
I'm so sick in my spare time
Humouring thugs
We could go out to dinner
But we're always on drugs
And somewhere in there
Is a deep love for love
And somewhere in there
Sleazy city
Seedy films
Breathing so heavy
Next to my neighbour
Let's get acquainted
Getting to know you
Feeling sleazy
In seedy sin city
Feeling sleazy
In seedy sin city
Sleazy city
Sleepy people
Down in your alleys
Seems that anything goes
Blue films flicker
Hands of a stranger
Getting to know you
And I'm getting to like you
Hey that's fine
Got no time
Meet me on Friday
Down, down, down in blue city
Got no address
Just a telephone number
Phone me tonight
And maybe we can talk dirty
Phone me tonight
And maybe we can talk dirty
Sleazy city
Sleepy people
Down in your alleys
Seems that anything goes
Blue films flicker
Hands of a stranger
Getting to know you
And I'm getting to like you
Sleazy city
Seedy films
Breathing so heavy
Next to my neighbour
Let's get acquainted
Getting to know you
Feeling sleazy
In seedy sin city
Feeling sleazy
In seedy sin city
Sleazy city
Sleepy people
Down in your alleys
Seems that anything goes
Blue films flicker
Hands of a stranger
Getting to know you
And I'm getting to like you
Hey isn't that you on the screen
Isn't that you on the screen
(No that's not me)
Getting to know you
Getting to like you
Standin' at the door
Of the Pink Flamingo
Crying in the rain
It was a kind of so so love
And I'm gonna make sure
It doesn't happen again
You and I had to be
The standing joke of the year
You were a run around
A lost and found
And not for me I feel
Take your hands
Off me, please
I don't belong to you, you see
And take a look in my face
For the last time
I never knew you
You never knew me
Say hello, goodbye
Say hello and wave goodbye
We tried to make it work
You in a cocktail skirt
And me in a suit
But it just wasn't me
You're used to wearing less
And now your life's a mess
So insecure you seem
Well I put up with all the scenes
And this is one scene
That's goin' to be played my way
Take your hands
Off me, please
I don't belong to you, you say
And take a look in my face
For the last time
I never knew you
You never knew me
Say hello, goodbye
Say hello and wave goodbye
Say hello and wave goodbye
Under the deep red light
I can see the make up sliding down
Well hey little girl
You will always make up
So take off that
Unbecoming frown
As for me well
I'll find someone
Who's not going cheap
In the sales
A nice little house wife
Who'll give me a steady life
And not keep going off the rails
Take your hands
Off me, please
I don't belong to you, you say
And take a look in my face
For the last time
I never knew you
You never knew me
Say hello, goodbye
Say hello and wave goodbye
Say hello and wave goodbye
Say hello and wave goodbye
Wave goodbye
Say hello and wave goodbye
Say hello, wave goodbye
Goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye
We were born before the wind
Who were we to understand
We were born before the wind
Say goodbye
Through the rain, hail, sleet and snow
Say good bye
And I'm trying, trying, trying
To say goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye
In the wind and the rain my darling
Say goodbye
Lonely
I'd like to drown me in my coffee
Counting hours with cappuccinos
Sitting framed within the window
I'm lonely
I sit here acting like I'm reading
I'm reading minds
And sadly dreaming
There's some of me left to believe in
Surrender
Surrender
That businessman smell
Found in one night hotels
The sheets are unwashed
From the stories they tell
Tobacco and sweat
And initials in dust
The man at the desk
Throws you looks of disgust
Soon I'll try hard to lose you
Drown you in my cappuccino
Surrender
Surrender
Sodom and Gomorrah
Come tomorrow
I won't know you from Adam or Eve
Look me in the eyes
And tell me you love me
Once, before you leave
Surrender
It was the morning after the month before
And I'm looking like a nose with eyes
Take a trip or letter to make me feel better
Cos I know my mirror never lies
Have you ever had the feeling that your life's down the can
And the hand that holds the whip is not your own
Your breakfast's going cold and your routine's getting old
Is it me that's feeling insecure?
Hiding in the darkness where they can't see your eyes
In a naked city cinema
Watch the bodies rolling around on the screen
And nobody gives a damn who you are
You're surrounded by the bitter and the boring
And you wonder if you're on the turn
And again you get hurt when they're dishing the dirt
Is it me that's feeling insecure?
I haven't got time to worry about the future
When I'm busy covering up my past
Start to consider a tuck behind the ears
When I wonder if my looks will last
I could hit the bottle and the depths of despair
But come up fighting like the best
And I can tell myself that I'm winning the war
But then again I'm different than the rest
I'm not the hardest person in the world
But like the song says 'I will survive'
And I may be a wreck and a pain in the neck
But at least I feel that I'm alive
So I'll spit in your face and push you over the place
If I'm ever feeling so unsure
And you can really go to hell if you give me the soft sell
It's not me that's feeling insecure
It was the morning after the month before
And I'm looking like a nose with eyes
Take a trip or letter to make me feel better
Cos I know my mirror never lies
Have you ever had the feeling that your life's down the can
And the hand that holds the whip is not your own
Your breakfast's going cold and your routine's getting old
Is it me that's feeling insecure?
Forget the lows
Just love the highs
And wipe that look
Out from my eyes
Forget the face
That I despise
Cos I know my mirror
Never lies
I'll come up fighting
Like the best
But then I'm different
Than the rest
And I wonder how my looks will last
Because my life is really fast
And you wonder if you're on the turn
Oh, baby, won't you ever learn
That I'm a cut above the rest
Don't worry about the way I dress
And if my make-up looks a mess
I'm not about to get depressed
Cos I'm the one that loves to lose
Just loser in my fuck me shoes
And I've got the touch
And I've got the feel
To make your good time
Really real
I'll just spit right in your face
And push you all around the place
Just love to love
Just love to live
Just love to live
Just love to love
And, baby, are you so, so sure
The wind in my hair
And the black in my eyes
I was holding back tears
As I reeled with surprise
There was no one to phone
I just chewed at the time
I was waving goodbye
To control of my mind
And the beat of my heart
Marks the passing of time
And I just wanna scream to the sky
There are times when my mind is an explosion of feelings
I'm trying to hold on to the soul inside
I go looking for lies
But I couldn't find the way out
In your play-the-game eyes
The where's or the why's
Should I laugh
Should I cry
Should I live
Should I die?
It's a wild celebration of feelings inside
And the beat of my heart
Marks the passing of time
And I just wanna scream to the sky
And there are times when my mind is an explosion of feelings
I'm trying to hold on to the soul inside (x3)
(I've got to hold on to the soul inside)
Inside...
It's a wild celebration
(It's a wild)
It a wild celebration of feelings inside
And it's tearing me...
And it's tearing me up
It's a wild...
It's a wild celebration of feelings inside
It's a wild... it's a wild...
Celebration of feelings inside
And I'm trying to hold on
And I'm trying to hold on
And I'm trying
Hold on...
Searching through the memory books
Of photographs your lovers took
Why play the game of place the pain
When you end up feeling just the same
Anyway...
Sleep comes so slowly now
So hard to keep the eyelids down
And you're hoping soon to drown the sound
Of a voice you know that whispers in
Your mind...
Oh, it was a sad, sad day
The day you turned away
And there was nothing in your eye
You had told me once you found it impossible
To cry...
I know you've been there and back
I've been there too
But it was never really deep in you
To do those things you had to do...
And in your sleepy bedroom eyes
I saw the signs
And I lay awake all night
In the cold
Until the light burned my side
And there was nothing
There was nothing anymore...
And there was nothing
Not a feeling
As you glanced back from the door...
Move away to find another place
That illustrates your point of view
Surrounded by the little things
That re-assure
That reflect you...
Ooooo and there was nothing
And there was nothing in my heart
And there was nothing in my head
The light in your eyes is changing all the time
And I still have your smile
Come and meet
Another kind of love
Meet another kind of love
Different than the real thing
But just as demanding
And just as demeaning
Treacled in apathy
All worries swept away
By one so simple act of annihilation
And I've not cried like this
And I've not felt this calm
Meet Murder My Angel
You've arrived at the moment
To cross over the threshold
I met another kind of love
Met another kind of love
And I've not felt alive in this way
For a long time
Your pleaser
Annoyer
Destroyer
and Voyeur
Waits alone at the corner
At the back door to paradise
the back door to paradise
You're shaking all over
It's time to cross over the threshold
And there's no way back my angel
There's no way back for an angel
Meet Murder My Angel
You've arrived at the moment
To cross over the threshold
It's such a feeling
Oh such a feeling
Oh it's such a feeling
Atmospheres are tense today
Mother and father are rowing again
Silently seated around the table
You're the one that's getting the blame
Father looks at you like a snake
You play with the food upon your plate
No one seems to be on your side
Things that threaten to hurt your pride
Mother loves to be concerned
Using lessons that she learnt
Fathers never understand
When children have the upper hand
Smiling you did your time at school
Crying quietly like a fool
Saturday night and Sunday morning
Did all the things they asked you to do
They say that home is where the heart is
But home is only where the hurt is
Pull the wool over the eyes
Forget the worries that you started
Mother loves to be concerned
Using lessons that she learnt
Fathers never understand
When children have the upper hand
When you stayed out every night
The first time from your parent's sight
They started to show some concern
But by then it was too late
Feel it's time to pull away
Shut your ears to all they say
Be yourself you know it's true
When in the end what's left is you
Mother loves to be concerned
Using lessons that she learnt
Fathers never understand
Sleazy city
Seedy films
Breathing so heavy
Next to my neighbour
Let's get acquainted
Getting to know you
Feeling sleazy
In seedy sin city
Feeling sleazy
In seedy sin city
Sleazy city
Sleepy people
Down in your alleys
Seems that anything goes
Blue films flicker
Hands of a stranger
Getting to know you
And I'm getting to like you
Hey that's fine
Got no time
Meet me on Friday
Down, down, down in blue city
Got no address
Just a telephone number
Phone me tonight
And maybe we can talk dirty
Phone me tonight
And maybe we can talk dirty
Sleazy city
Sleepy people
Down in your alleys
Seems that anything goes
Blue films flicker
Hands of a stranger
Getting to know you
And I'm getting to like you
Sleazy city
Seedy films
Breathing so heavy
Next to my neighbour
Let's get acquainted
Getting to know you
Feeling sleazy
In seedy sin city
Feeling sleazy
In seedy sin city
Sleazy city
Sleepy people
Down in your alleys
Seems that anything goes
Blue films flicker
Hands of a stranger
Getting to know you
And I'm getting to like you
Hey isn't that you on the screen
Isn't that you on the screen
(No that's not me)
Getting to know you
Getting to like you
In your little black book
You've got the names
And the favourite persuasions
Of the people in the headlines
I'm in there under A
And I'm rated under B
You've got photographs to prove it
And I swear to God it's not me
You've got a hard heart
Being hard is your art
You think love is a dirty dirty word
You pick up the phone
And you ring me when I'm at home
And then you put it down
And I'm reaching for my valium
My secret life
Living life
On a knife edge of life
Tell my wife
And she's just had a breakdown
And I
I'm not rich
But you know I'm top in my pitch
And you'll ruin the lot
Finish everything I've got
My secret life
Secret life
I'll give you anything
Anything to shut you up
Why do you hate me so much
What have I ever done to you
But leave you
I don't want to play
Cat and Mouse
Have the neighbours looking over At my house
All the secret smiles
When I walk in the room
And I think I'm going to
Crack up soon
I'm going to run away
Find a place in the dark
Where I don't have to hear
The nasty nasty talk
Change my sex
Change my hair
Be hard to find anywhere
My secret life
Living life
On a knife edge of life
Tell my wife
And she's just had a breakdown
And I
I'm not rich
But you know I'm top in my pitch
And you'll ruin the lot
Finish everything I've got
My secret life
Secret life
Little rough rhinestone
Where will your love go today?
Sometimes you think
You had none to start with anyway
You will lose the deep pools
And the blues will cloud up
Your frightened little eyes
And the cold comes to claim you inside
You sit writing letters to imaginary friends
That you left behind in your mind
The deep dark red doorways
Call to a limbo of loneliness
Where a million rhinestones sit and cry
I never knew sorrow
Could hit me this way
I once had a friend
But he moved away
And even my mother
When she turned on me
Couldn't put emotion like this in me
Fist into glass into head (someone else's head)
They beat you up so badly
That your eyes
Show the look of the nearly dead
The wagon will come and scoop up
What's left of the sorry debris
And you'll take the place
Of a hundred other little Johnny's
That went the very same way
I never knew sorrow
Could hit me this way
I once had a friend
But he moved away
And even my mother
When she turned on me
Couldn't put emotion
Like this in me
And screaming out loud
He ran crashing through the crowd
He ran crashing through the crowd
He ran crashing through the crowd
Screaming
God if you're up there
I need you
Where are you?
I need you
Where are you?
I need you...
Where are you?
Dishonesty breeds like poison in an unhealed wound
Multiply tell a little lie
To pull the wool
Over god's little eye
Before he makes up his mind
And that wouldn't do
Life is one long Play For Today
The one that uses all the four-letter words
The one that everybody pretends
They've never never heard
Oh yeah
And it gets in my skin
And I find myself fitting a form
That is worn like a badge on a blazer at school
Tear it off rip it up
Stick your 2 fingers up at the world
And the lying little worms
That would take you for a fool
For your life has to be this way
And you can't say this
And you can't watch that
It'll darken your mind little child -
A moral straightjacket to stop you running completely wild
Oh yeah
And it's nice when being yourself behind a locked door
Talk in whispers when you're scared out of your mind
By the law
Who leave no bruises but the ones in your heart
And they're the ones that really hurt
Yeaaahhh
The debate of the day, win a long holiday
You at home can decide what would be the best way to kill
The best way to kill
And you don't stand a chance in hell
But you go down fighting to the sound of the bell
Losers all in the eyes of the men with the pens
But winners all in the end
The debate of the day, win a long holiday
You at home can decide what would be the best way to kill
The best way to kill
And you don't stand a chance in hell
But you go down fighting to the sound of the bell
Losers all in the eyes of the men with the pens
But winners all in the end
(Before he makes up his mind)
We've hit those depths again
Playing black games again
Black mellow lies
And the narrowing of eyes
Playing those games again
You hold the reins again
But then I turned the card
And you know I hit hard
Loving you, hating me
It's the other side of love
It's the side that you don't want to see
Shaking your head that way
It's so true when they say
That love is a pain in the heart
A pain that pulls apart
I'm breaking rules again
You're breaking hearts again
Pretend to despise
When there's love in your eyes
Loving you, hating me
It's the other side of love
It's the side that you don't want to see
And I'm loving you
And you're hating me
It's the other side of love
Fun City
I left my home
With a pain in my heart
Not a word of goodbye
To the ones that I loved
I'm taking a train
Away from the rain
To the lights and the smoke
I've got to find my own way now
Fun City
To the London Experience
Fun City
To the London Experience
Backward
Forwards
Wearing out the corners
Fun City
Here's my experience
Have no feelings
Have no sex
I wonder who to pick up next
Playland Scandal
Pocket weighs you down
Machine handle
Goes down
I lose all my money
Trying to make a killing
Can't even make my fare back home
So this is Fun City
Have no feelings
Have no sex
Wonder who
To pick up next
I tried to make friends
Tried to make amends
I sunk so low
That it's hard to climb out
I've nowhere to live
But I've so much to give
I found the hard way
What's life all about
Have no feelings
Have no sex
I wonder who to pick up next
I'm all alone
And I'm lost in this city
Being paraded
Feeling degraded
I wanted love
And I thought this was the way
But I'm only young
And I'm often this wrong
Have no feelings
Have no sex
Wonder who to pick up next
I have no morals
Have no innocence
I'm quite straight
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