...What getting neck is all about!
Suede /ˈsweɪd/ is a type of leather with a napped finish, commonly used for jackets, shoes, shirts, purses, furniture and other items. The term comes from the French "gants de Suède", which literally means "Swedish gloves".
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Brett Lewis Anderson (born 29 September 1967) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Suede. After Suede disbanded in 2003, he briefly fronted The Tears, and has released four solo albums. Suede reformed in 2010. In Suede's early days, Anderson's androgynous style and unique, wide ranging vocals were an instant phenomenon in the UK.
Born in Haywards Heath, West Sussex into a working class family, Anderson's mother was an artist and his father was a classical music fan. He was brought up in a small council estate in Lindfield, a village adjoining Haywards Heath, attending Lindfield Junior School then Oathall Comprehensive School.
In his teens, Anderson played guitar for garage bands such as The Pigs and Geoff, the latter featuring future Suede bassist Mat Osman. In the late-1980s, Anderson and Osman formed Suede with Anderson's girlfriend, Justine Frischmann, soon recruiting guitarist Bernard Butler through an advertisement in the NME. After receiving percussional help from former Smiths drummer Mike Joyce, in 1991, Simon Gilbert joined Suede as their official drummer. It was around this time that Frischmann left Anderson for Blur frontman Damon Albarn, which created an early rift in the burgeoning Britpop scene of the early 1990s. After missing too many rehearsals and flaunting her relationship with Albarn while still living with Anderson, Frischmann was fired from the group, going on to front Elastica.
Suede
You always felt like suede
There are days I feel your twin
Peekaboo
Hiding underneath your skin
Jets are rewing
Yes rewing
From a central source
And this has power over me
Not becuase you feel something
Or don't feel something for me
But becuase
Mass so big it can swallow
Swallow her whole star intact
Call me 'evil' call me 'tide is on your side'
Anything that you want
Anybody knows you can conjure anything
By the dark of the moon
Boy and if you keep your silence
Silencer on you'll
Talk yourself right into a job
Out of a hole
Into my bayou
I'm sure that you've been briefed
My absorption lines
They are frayed
And I fear
My fear is greater than my faith
But I walk
The missionary way
You always felt like suede
There are days I am your twin
Peekaboo
Hinding underneath your skin
Juets are rewing
Yes rewing
From an ether twist
Call me 'evil' little sister
I guess i'd do the same
Little sister
Don't take your life cos your bicycle won't fly
You may be going to heaven tonight
Don't spoil the show for the love of some albino
You won't be going to heaven alone
I see her by the window waiting every night
So I wouldn't give a shit if your bicycle's in bits
I think I'm going to heaven on it
I see her by the window pour the poison from you
I'll go there through the window in my sixteen hole boots
And I'll sing to the birds here at my side
And I'll sing to the birds that will save my life...
Don't take your life cos your bicycle won't fly
You may be going to heaven tonight
I wouldn't give a shit if your bicycle's in bits
I think I'm going to heaven on it
I see her by the window and I see there's a day
We'll walk out through the traiffic and pour the poison away
So I'll sing to the birds there at my side
And I'll sing to the birds who will save my life
na na na na na na na
"She-rocker you're wasting your time,
Cos you're only a girl"
She'rocker sacked the factory line for a chance of a dance in a surreal world
She said, "come rescue, rescue me from this Hollywood life
come rescue, rescue me from this Hollywood life"
She'rocker hear the audience scream for the death of the king
But a hand-job is all the butchery brings
Cos fame ain't as easy as him (how sad)
Oh, come rescue, rescue me from this Hollywood life
come rescue, rescue me from this Hollywood life
There's a song playing on the radio
Sky high in the airwaves on the morning show
And there's a lifeline slipping as the record plays
And as I open the blinds in my mind I'm believing that you could stay
And oh if you stay I'll chase the rainblown fields away
We'll shine like the morning and sin in the sun
Oh if you stay
We'll be the wild ones, running with the dogs today
There's a song playing through another wall
All we see and believe is the D.J. and debts dissolve
And it's a shame the plane is leaving on this sunny day
Cos on you my tattoo will be bleeding and the name will stain
But oh if you stay we'll ride from disguised suburban graves
We'll go from the bungalows where the debts still grow every day
And oh if you stay I'll chase the rainblown fears away
We'll shine like the morning and sin in the sun oh if you stay
We'll be the wild ones running with the dogs today
She walks the streets of summer
Inside her there's no future
She walks the streets to pass the time
The cash machines are laughing
At plastic people passing
She walks the streets to pass the time
Sadie, Sadie in the sound of the streets
Insane as anything, ah ah
Sadie, Sadie kn-knows the sound of the streets
It's the same as anything, ah ah
She sees the midnight taxis
The toilets and the backstreets
She feels the wheels and needs a line
Outside there's crazy parties
There's dames in faces laughing
So many ways to pass the timeSadie...
She walks the streets of summer
Inside her there's no future
She walks the streets to pass the time
Inside she feels like winter
For the child that died within her
She walks the streets to pass the time
If I was the wife of an acrobat...
Could of had it all...Could of had it all...
Where's all the money gone? - I'm talking to you,
All up the whole in your arm,
is the needle a much better screw?
But oh, what will you do alone? Cos I have to go.
Where is this life of fun that you promised me?
Nothing here works but your works and I mean it
I have to leave
But oh, what will you do alone? Cos I have to go.
If I was the wife of an acrobat would I look like the living dead, boy?
You're on the wire and can't get back,Let's talk about the living dead
Could have had a car, could have had it all,
Could have walked in the sky but we stare at the wall.
I know where the money's gone - I know what you do
Cos I've seen the hole in your arm and the needle's a much better screw
I know a girl she walks the asphalt world
She comes to me and I supply her with Ecstasy
Sometimes we ride in a taxi to the ends of the city
Like big stars in the back seat like skeletons ever so pretty
I know a girl she walks the asphalt world
But where does she go?
And what does she do?
And how does she feel when she's next to you?
And who does she love in time-honoured fur?
Is it me or her?
I know a girl she walks the asphalt world
She's got a friend, they share mascara I pretend
Sometimes they fly from the covers to the winter of the river
For these silent stars of the cinema
It's in the blood stream, it's in the liver
I know a girl, she walks the arse felt world
But where does she go?
And what does she do?
And how does she feel when she's next to you?
And who does she love in time-honoured fur?
Is it me or is it her?
With ice in her blood
And a Dove in her head
Well how does she feel when she's in your bed?
When you're there in her arms
And there in her legs
Well I'll be in her head
Cos that's where I go
And that's what I do
And that's how it feels when the sex turns cruel
I'm so sorry to hear about the news,
Don't you worry,
I'll buy us a bottle and we'll drink in the petrol fumes,
I'm so sorry to hear about your world,
Don't you worry,
There's a gap in the fence down by the nature reserve,
Hey, such a lovely day, such a lovely day,
Such fun, looking at the lovers in a lay-by with my little one.
I'm so sorry to hear the news today,
Don't you worry,
There's been a speeding disaster so we'll go to the motorway,
I'm so sorry to hear about the scene,
Don't you worry,
Just put on your trainers and get out of it with me,
Hey, such a lovely day, such a lovely day,
Such fun, looking at the lovers in a lay-by with my little one.
Hey, such a lovely day, such a lovely day,
Such fun, looking at the lorries in the litter with my lovely one,
We could go dancing, we could go walking,
we could go shopping, we could keep talking,
we could go drinking, we could sit thinking,
All the people in your life say you're down
And the strangers in the night say you're down
And the loonies on the right say you're down and you're down
And the ambulances sigh that you're down
And the traffic speeding by says you're down
And the people in your life say you're down and you're down
Hey you chase the day away
Hey you draw the blinds and blow your mind away
And there's a sadness in your style
And there's a blankness in your smile
And the people in the park say you're down
And the strangers in the dark say you're down
And the pissheads in the bars say you're down
And the audiences cry that you're down
And the ambulances sigh that you're down
And the boyfriends in your life say you're down and you're down
Hey you chase the day away
Hey you draw the blinds and blow your mind away
And there's a sadness in your style
And there's a blankness in your smile
Hey you chase the day away
Hey you draw the blinds and blow your mind away
And there's a sadness in your style
Whiplash caught the silver son
Took the film to No. I
Crashed the car and left us here
Broken glass for teenage boys trapped in steel and celluloid
Crashed the car and left us here.
And daddy burned a million eyes
Dared the dogs to criticise
He crashed the car and I was born
And daddy turned a million heads
Took the teenage dream to bed
He crashed the car and left us here
With dreams of gasoline drying our eyes
Green fields of destiny high in the sky
But oh can you see him?
Oh Daddy's speeding
Whiplash caught the silver son
Killed the sad American
Crashed the car and left us here
And sorrow turns his eyes to mine
Come with me now it's your time
Let's crash the car and I'll be born
And sorrow breaks the silent day
Takes the teenage boys away
They crash the cars and leave us here
With dreams of gasoline drying our eyes
Green fields and death machines high in the sky
But oh can you see him?
Back where the dogs bark
where still life bleeds the concrete white
try not to go too far inside your mind
back where the cars decide
where the lame star limps an endless mile
have I gone too far inside my mind?
oh if you were the one would I even notice now my mind has gone?
oh if you were the one, would I even notice?
Back where the car was parked
Where the canine in the A-line stole your time
you can only go so far for womankind
oh if you were the one, would I even notice now that he has come?
oh, if you were the one, would I even notice?
There was a girl who flew the world from a lonely shore
Through southern snow to Heathrow to understand the law
There was a boy who loved the noise of the underground
He left the coast and overdosed on that London sound
He said,
"I don't care if you're black or blue,
me and the stars stay up for you
I don't care who's wrong or right
and I don't care for the U.K. tonight so stay, stay"
And then one day she moved away from those garden walls
She left some flowers, he smoked for hours
She understood the law
I don't care if you're black or blue
Me and the stars stay up for you
I don't care who's wrong or right
And I don't care for the U.K. tonight
So stay, stay, stay, stay.........
Oh when you and I
Watch the planes go by, silver in the sky,
Do whatever we like,
Oh you and me
See the birds in the sea
People on the streets, do whatever we please
But every Monday morning comes,
Every Monday morning, yeah
Oh every Monday morning comes
Every Monday morning, yeah
Oh, when you and I
Watch the London sky, Traffic rolling by
Do whatever we like,
So we chase the day away
Feel the morning rain
Piss our money down the drain
Through endless Asia, through the fields of Cathay
or enslaved in pebble-dash grave with a kid on the way
If you're far over Africa on the wings of youth
or if you're down in some satellite town and there's nothing you can do
Just give me, give me, give me the power
And I'll make them bleed
Give me, give me the power
(Although I'm just the common breed)
You might live in a screen kiss, it's a glamorous dream
Or belong to a world that's gone, it's the English disease
But give me, give me the power
And I'll make them bleed
Give, give me, give me the power
I watch the slow hand
Kill the day,I see my starring mode
take away,
I watch the skyline,for him to come
And when he comes alone,we'll be gone.
And we'll go into the city,into the light
We'll be there in the headlines,
in care of the night
Cause this is the big time
this is the way
Now he's in the big time
he'll show you the way
This is the big time
This is the way
Now he's in the big time
I see you in my life, I see you on the screen
An ascending socialite, orbiting the scene
And everybody wants you now
Everybody wants to be a part of your crowd, ooh
Baby it seems
Sometimes you're lost in TV
Lost in a dream
(Instant sunshine)
Baby
We wandered through our minds with images and scenes
And with animated lives, rehearsing for our dreams
And everybody wants it now
Everybody wants to be a face in the crowd, ooh
Baby it seems
Sometimes we're lost in TV
Trapped in a screen
Lost in a scene
Lost in TV
(Instant sunshine)
Baby
Everybody wants it now
(Sunshine)
Everybody wants to be a face in the crowd, ooh
Baby it seems sometimes we're lost in TV
Lost in a dream
(Instant sunshine)
Dressed as a cowboy on top of a hill it's sadder than it probably sounds
He gets lovely the more he's ill don't o.d. on him now
Dressed as a woman with horrible hair and singing to the birds in town
Who goes walking through traffic out there don't o.d. on her now
Oh is it true what they say about you?
Oh is it true what they say about you two?
Married to me is a hungry son who wants to push me from the 2nd floor
We're so disco we can't get on in this world anymore
Oh, is it true what they say about you?
Oh, is it true what they say about you two?
Dressed as a cowboy in a permanent gag it's sadder than it probably sounds
So fucking what if he's licking the bag, don't o.d. on him now
Oh, is it true what they say about you?
Slipping through the city sliding train to train
Sulking on the subway music in our brain
She and me together in the city sounds
Me and mona lisa on the underground
Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah
Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah
Slipping through the city sliding brain to brain
Sulking on the subway listening to the train
She and me together speed through space and time
Grafitti in our eyes and music in our mind
Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah
Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah
Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah
Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah
Well the church bells are calling
Police cars on fire
And as they call you to the eye of the storm
All the people say "Stay at home tonight"
I say we are the pigs, we are the swine
We are the stars of the firing line
And as the smack cracks at your window
You wake up with a gun in your mouth
Oh let the nuclear wind blow away my sins
And I'll stay at home in my house
I say, we are the pigs
we are the swine
we are the stars of the firing line
But deceit can't save you so
Will you be my lover?
Will you be the one?
Will you be like no other?
For how long?
Yes, I'll be your wild flower
Grown through the concrete
And born to the back beats of the stars
Yes, I am just a stupid guy
Crushed like a, a butterfly
Dead eye at the drive by in a car
And I flies on a windscreen
Like insects in glue
We could stick together
If you wanted to
Yes, I'll be your wild flower
Grown through the concrete streets
And born to the back beat of the stars
Yes, I am just a stupid guy
Crushed like a, a butterfly
Dead eye at the drive by in a car
Yeah, just a stupid guy
Crushed like a, a butterfly
Come out tonight in the puddles
Splash some love across the sky
Just you and I bursting bubbles
As the sky is about to cry
When the rain falls
There's magic in our lives
When the rain falls
We're happy deep inside
When the rain falls
It cleans away the corners of our minds
When all the world looks like Atlantis
And the cars rusting in the drives
Just step outside & hit the concrete pavement
As the rain falls down for you and I
When the rain falls
The pretty people run
When the rain falls
The colours cloud the sun
When the rain falls
We'll sit and watch the children hurry home
One, two!
And when everything is blue or green or green or blue or grey
I cross the street
to catch the beat of my heart
And I watch it all
'cause there's nothing else to do today
And I watch it all fall so hard
Lay Lady Lay and Band of Gold
A Day in the Life, And Dream of Sheep
Seasong and Vincent and Death Disco
Listen to the music in your sleep
These are the sad songs, the broken words
These are the sad songs, the lies you've heard
These are the good times you keep inside
These are the good things that you can have if you try
Venus in Furs and An Occasional Dream
Sign o the Times and Bill is Dead
and Lazyitis and Big Louise
Listen to the music in your head
These are the sad songs, the broken words
These are the sad songs, the lies you've heard
These are the good times you keep inside
Come to my house tonight,
We can be together in the nuclear sky.
We wildance in the poison rain,
We can stay a while in heaven today.
Stay together
And say, these days ??
Stay together
Two hearts under the skies remain.
There's a time bomb in the high ?life?
There's a blue suburban dream.
Will I see you up in paradise?
Or have you come to touch me?
Come to my arms tonight,
You and me together on electric light.
She will dance in the poisoned air,
Just you and me forever by the motorway ??
Come to my arms or not,
Just you and me together in the year of the hawk.
Single file in the nuclear night,
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, check it out!
Street life into the night with the syncopated melodies
Street life look left to right
she got the lips from a magazine
Cheap sound that comes from the underground communicates to everyone
Street life fits so right
she gets your tips from a popular song
It's the beat of the concrete street
that you'll love for a million years
It's the sound that comes from underground
ThatÅ got you clapping, got you shaking your rears
Street life, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Street life step to the night with your sexual equality
Street life look left to right
she got the lips from a magazine
Cheap sound that comes from the underground
Is like a bass drum kicking along
Street life sweet life cheap life
It's street life going on and on
To the beat of the concrete street
you can live for a million years
Dumb sound that comes from underground
ThatÅ got you clapping, got you shaking your rears
Street life, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
It's all you know
It's all you see
It's all you follow
It's all you believe
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Move your feet to the concrete beat
and you can live for a million years
To the sound that comes from underground
clap your hands, get shaking your rears
Street life, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Street life, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Is it my imagination or is that a cardboard sky?
Is it just a situation
that made me lose my mind?
I don't need you to be sorry
I just wanted you to know
That this is one hit to the body
One hit to the soul
It's one hit to the body
That won't show
It's a million constellations
up in the make-believe sky
And a million dead-end situations
you could leave behind
And the lights and the lorries
will show you which way to go
And this is one hit to the body
It's one hit to the soul
It's one hit to the body
That won't show
It's something in the air that you breathe
It's something in the books that you read
It's something in the things that you do
It's something in the words that you use
Cos the lights and the lorries
Will show you where you want to go
And this is one hit to the body
It's one hit to the soul
It's one hit to the body
That won't show
Well I don't really need anybody
I just wanted you to know
That this is one hit to the body
That won't show
That won't show
She's the face on the radio
She's the body on the morning show
She's there shaking it out on the scene
And she's the colour of a magazine
And she's in fashion
Ouh Ouh Ouh
And she's in fashion
Ouh Ouh Ouh
She's employed where the sun don't set
And she's the shape of a cigarette
And she's the shake of a tambourine
And she's the colour of a magazine
Ah Ah
And if she tells you two is one
Then two is one my love
Ah Ah
And if she tells you you should know
Then you should know my love
She is strung out on a TV dream
And she's the taste of the gasoline
And she's as similar as you can get
To the shape of a cigarette
The sunshine will blow my mind
come unto me my winter son
we could lie on the rails
and when the morning comes
we'll be miles away, miles away
slipping away while the city sleeps
running away from this cruel disease
miles away, miles away
modern boys, modern boys
hand in hand
sick of the fear
chasing away all the hungry years
we're the modern boys
come unto me my sickly thing
we could lie on the rails
but to really win
we'll just drive away, drive away
yes the world calls my international
so let the decades die
let the parties fall
and we'll be miles away, miles away
'cos we'll be living like
modern boys, modern boys
hand in hand
sick of the fear
chasing away all the hungry years
we're the modern boys, modern boys
into the night, under the stars
jumping the lights in the silent cars
he's on your left
i'm on your right
Angel, don't take those sleeping pills, you don't need them
Though it's just time they kill
Angel, give me your sleeping pills, you don't need them
Give me the time they kill
You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
Gone gone to Valium, can you get me some?
You're a water sign, and I'm an air sign
Too Siamese to catch the leaves from those trees
Angel, don't take those sleeping pills, you don't need them
though it's just time they kill
you're a water sign, I"m an air sign
Pumped up with Valium, could you get me some?
You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
With sweet F.A. to do today, with sweet F.A. to do today...
She walks the streets of summer
Inside her there's no future
She walks the streets to pass the time
The cash machines are laughing
At plastic people passing
She walks the streets to pass the time
Sadie Sadie hear the sound of the streets
Insane as anything ah
Sadie Sadie knows the sound of the streets
It's insane as anything ah
She sees the midnight taxis
The toilets and the backstreets
She feels the wheels and needs a line
Outside there's crazy parties
There's painted faces laughing
So many ways to pass the time
Sadie, Sadie hear the sound of the streets
Insane as anything, ah
Sadie, Sadie knows the sound of the streets
It's insane as anything, ah
She walks the streets of summer
Inside here there's no future
She walks the streets to pass the time
Inside she feels like winter
For the child that died within her
She walks the streets to pass the time
Sadie, Sadie hear the sound of the streets
Insane as anything, ah ah
Sadie, Sadie knows the sound of the streets
It's insane as anything, ah
We sit in silence
A marriage license
Is all you know
All you know, all you know
We sit and chew gum
Watch television
And you know
And you know, and you know
But there's oceans between us
Light years that screen us
Oceans that drift away
Oceans that fade to grey
We sit and rot here
Resenting each year
Will you go?
Will you go, will you go?
We sing the old songs
The beat box plays on
And you know
And you know, and you know
But there's oceans between us
Light years that screen us
Like oceans we drift away
[Like] oceans we fade to grey
Between us there's oceans
There's life in slow motion
Quietly we drift away
Quietly we fade to grey
I was born as a pantomine horse
ugly as the sun when he falls to the floor
I was cut from the wreckage one day
this is what I get for being that way
Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them?
Well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend?
I was conned by a circus hand
Tragic as the son of a superman
"I would die for the stars" she said
This is what I get for my beautiful head
Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them?
well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend?
you say what you want to say
your diamonds are drops of rain
your smile is ypur credit card
and your currency is your love
and the morning is for you
and the air is free
and the birds sing for you
and your positivity
watch out
so you play where you want to play
on the main streets where the creeps all pray
and you can feel like you're in dynasty
and you can be what you want to be
and the morning is for you
and the air is free
and the birds sing for you
and your positivity
and the car crash for you
and the sunshine is free
and the sirens call you
yes the morning is for you
yes the air is free
and yes the world spins for you
and your positivity
shame on me well I had the beast you see
and if he can take it I can take him home with me
shame on her she's a lovely little number
and when we go lassoing you get lassoed, all of you
If you can take it, I can take it
And we're moving, so moving, so we are a boy, we are a girl
so moving, so moving...
shame on the girl, she's got a big black dog in her
and while tough kids sing about tough kids she just skins the world
we'll never never play the harp, and we'll stick like sick on the stars
and if you can take it I can take these stones from my heart
if you can take it, I can take it
and we're moving, so moving, so we are a boy we are a girl
so moving, so moving....
If you can take it, I can take it, all of me
If you can take it, I can take it all
If you can take it, I can take it, all of me
well she's show showing it off then
the glitter in her lovely eyes
show show showing it off then
and all the people shake their money in time
she sells heart, she sells meat
oh dad, she's driving me mad, come see
we shake shake to the trumpet
and through the slippery city we ride
skyline swine on the circuit
where all the people shake their money in time
she sells heart, she sells meat
In a hired car she will come to England from the sea
And as the tide flows the London snows will come.
And from the skyline shines the lies of the government's singular history
So in a hired world she will buy a gun
And she will come from India with a love in her eyes
That say oh how my dark star will rise
In rented gear 2000 years we waited for a man
But with a tattoed tit she'd die for us all tonight.
And she will come from India with a gun at her side,
Or she will come from Argentina
With her cemetery eyes that say
Oh, how my dark star will rise,
Dog man star took a suck on a pill
And stabbed a cerebellum with a curious quill
Europe, America, Winterland
Introducing the band
Chic thug stuttered through a stereo dream
A fifty knuckle shuffle heavy metal machine
The tears of suburbia drowned the land
Introducing the band
So steal me a savage, subservient son
Get him shacked-up, bloodied-up and sucking on a gun
I want the style of a woman, the kiss of a man
Introducing the band
And as the sci-fi lullaby starts to build
See them whipping all the women, cracked governments killed
Oh let the century die to violent hands
Open up my heart and see what's inside
Take a look inside me, inside my mind
And you'll see my heart is broken in two
Cos I've seen the real you
Images of violence fill up my mind
And you see the silence, feel it inside
And you'll see my heart is broken in two
Cos I've seen the real you
So sad we seem, so far we've been
She knows the scene
And I see your heart is broken too
Cos we've seen the real you
All the white kids shuffle to the heavy metal stutter
And go shaking on the scene like killing machines
And they know that when she's stacked up top
She'll be a sucker for the shotgun show
Shaking obscene like killing machines here we go
It's the same old show he's a killer he's a flash boy oh
He's a killer he's a flash boy oh
Oh if you shake your fake tan thru aerosol land you'll know
That you'll suffer your sex by the caravenettes oh no
And that shitter with the pout won't be putting it about no more
Or shaking obscene like a killing machine here we go
It's the same old show, he's a killer he's a flash boy oh
He's a killer he's a flash boy oh...
...oh and Athena loves your body
So think of the sea my darling
Think of the sea as you murder me, murder me, murder me,
murder me, murder me...
It's the same old show, he's a killer, he's a flash boy oh
This is the killing of a flash boy oh.
Have you ever been this low?
The taxis take you where you wanna go
Broken windows, endless television shows
I haven't ever been so low
I am the one, I sing the song
My lights are on but there's nobody home
So much happening today
A thousand people come and go and stay and fade away
They draw the blinds and watch the show
Have you ever been so low?
I am the one, I sing the song
My lights are on but there's nobody home
Draw the blinds and watch the show
Heard it on the radio
Saw it on the news today
Heard the lonely people say
There's a great big crack in the union jack
There's a great big crack in the union jack
Another day, another low
Another midday TV show
I saw it on the news today
I heard the lonely people say
There's a great big crack in the union jack
There's a great big crack in the union jack
When you're high on diesel nightly
And the traffic starts to roll
You smoke a cigarette and watch the black girls
In a white boys world
Anything is possible for the Bentswood boys
Where the karma comes with the kids and the cat food
You see Tina push the pram
'Cos she was on her back in his estate car
And in the back of his van
Anything is possible for the Bentswood boys
For the Bentswood boys (things are happening)
For the Bentswood boys (mmm... tell it like it is!)
Don't take me down
Don't take me down
You belong among the wild flowers
picked at the side of the road,
You belong among the silent hours
and broken telephones,
You belong among the TV screens
with sound turned down again,
You belong where there's CCTV
watching you every day,
Well you beautiful loser,
You beautiful lay,
You beautiful loser,
you're coming down the hard way,
You belong under electric lights
with the hand me down surrounds,
You belong out in the countryside
with your hands deep down in the ground,
Well you beautiful loser,
You beautiful lay,
You beautiful loser,
you're coming down the hard way,
Your brain is drip connected to the satellite,
Your heart is not a part of your brain,
Aesthetics and inventions
well they pass you by
And complicate your day....
You belong sat on a motorbike
doing 161 in the rain,
50cc thru the wild life
getting trashed in the slow lane,
You beautiful loser,
You beautiful lay,
You beautiful loser
I said you're coming down the hard way...
I see you're moving, see you're moving, moving in with her
You'll pierce your right ear, pierce your heart there
This skinny boy is one of the girls
cos around my neck and around her neck hangs everything you are
I know you've been inside but what were you in for?
Animal lover, animal lover, animal lover?
I see you're moving, see you're moving like wildlife from the waist
But when your name's scratched in on a shiny ring your waist is my resting place
And around my neck and around her neck hangs everything you are
I know you've been inside but what were you in for?
Sleepy head get out of bed
Big bad world is calling
Step in your shoes and catch the news
It's another morning
Morning,
It's morning
Morning,
It's morning again
Rub your eyes as nature sighs
The population's yawning
Just step in your shoes there's so much to do
It's a brand new morning
Morning,
It's morning
Morning,
ItÅ morning again
And all around this cardboard town
The cops are crawling
The sirens scream and break your dreams
It's morning
It's morning
It's morning
High on diesel and gasoline
Psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits
Drag acts, drug acts, suicides
In your dad's suits you hide
Staining his name again
Cracked up, stacked up, 22
Psycho for sex and glue
Lost it to Bostik, yeah
Shaved heads, rave heads
On the pill, got too much time to kill
Get into bands and gangs
Oh, here they come
The beautiful ones, the beautiful ones
Loved up, doved up
Oh, here they come
The beautiful ones, the beautiful ones
Loved up, doved up
Loved up, doved up
Hung around, stoned in a lonely town
Shaking their meat to the beat
High on diesel and gasoline
Psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits
Oh, here they come
The beautiful ones, the beautiful ones
Loved up, doved up
Here they come
The beautiful ones, the beautiful ones
Loved up, doved up
You don't think about it
You don't do without it
Because you're beautiful
And if your baby's going crazy
That's how you made me
La, la, la
And if your baby's going crazy
That's how you made me
Whoa, whoa
And if your baby's going crazy
That's how you made me
La, la, la
La, la, la
La, la, la
La, la, la
Sat on the metro with love on her mind
Intimate details of every kind
Opening doorways to secret rooms
Her emptiness calling to you
She give a little bit of attitude
Give a little bit of something new
Give a little bit of attitude
Get a little bit tacky too
Give a little bit of attitude
Give a little bit of something rude
Give a little bit of attitude
Get a little bit tacky too
A dangerous daughter in a leopard print skirt
A Polaroid camera recording the dirt
Intimate details of every scene
Opening doorways for me
She give a little bit of attitude
Give a little bit of something new
Give a little bit of attitude
Get a little bit tacky too
Give a little bit of attitude
Give a little bit of something rude
Give a little bit of attitude
Get a little bit tacky too
She give a little bit of attitude
Give a little bit of something new
Give a little bit of attitude
Get a little bit tacky too
Give a little bit of attitude
Give a little bit of subterfuge
Give a little bit of attitude
Watching all the women shaking slimming
Walking down the road again
Looking at the lovers under covers come in and let's be friends
Watching all the schoolgirls shaking the rules
Coming on and having sex
Watching all the women shaking slimming
Come in an cash the cheques
The suburban girls and they're making noise
And they're making eyes at suburban boys
Watching all the lovers under cover
Watching all the roads that bend
Listening to lulu, amazula
Come in and let's pretend
Watching all the women shaking slimming
Walking down the road again
Scheming like a schoolboy watching you boy
Come in and let's pretend
The suburban girls and they're making noise
And they're making eyes at suburban boys
Suburban girls and they're making noise
And they're making eyes at suburban boys
At suburban boys
At suburban boys
At suburban boys
The suburban girls and they're making noise
And they're making eyes at suburban boys
Suburban girls and they're making noise
And they're making eyes at suburban boys
At suburban boys
At suburban boys
She takes the blame, takes the pain but the world smiles
'Cos outside is just a taxi ride to drive away
So she packs her bags, calls a cab and the world smiles
And inside well she feels all right and turns to say:
"Yes it's the end, the final showdown
Yes it's the end of our small love
You'll have to find another no one to take the shit like I have
Well I guess this is the end, I guess this is the end."
She feels the sun, phones her mum and the world smiles
'Cos outside in the morning light it's another day
So she packs her bag, smokes a fag and the world smiles
'Cos inside well she feels all right, and turns to say:
"Yes it's the end, the final showdown
Yes it's the end of our small love
You'll have to find another no one to take the shit like I have
Coast to coast
Side to side
Shines the minds of fine enlightend
minds coast to coast
We are only youngbut we style our future with a cattle gun
We are idle rich
so we smile for tomorrow with a bitch of an itch
Cause when the fire light shocks like a cop shop pyre
we'll jack the politics for premonition and fire
and we'll move like Nuryev at night
Coast to coast
Side to side
Shines the light of fine enlightened minds
Coast to coast
We are only young
but we style out future in the shadow of guns
We are not idle rich
so we smile for tomorrow with a bitch of an itch
cause when the stylized kick of the filmstar whip,
cracks down on the millions, cracks the kids on the hips
we'll be moving like Nuryev at night
Coast to coast
Side to side
shines the light of fine enlightened minds
Coast to coast
Side to side
feel the steel that shines outside the blinds
Coast to coast
Side to side
blades engraved with babies' nameswhile pylons hide the suicide
Coast to coast
Side to sideshines the light of fine enlightened minds
Coast to coastSide to side
feel the steel that shines outside the blinds
Coast to coast
Side to side
Oh, day after day, every morning
The city sighs and cars collide
Oh we take the train
Through the winter hinterlands and garage bands
An we wash it away, we wash it away this grey
Wash it away
Oh, cos this time is yours and mine
Oh hear the city sound, see the lonely crowds
This scene is you and me
Oh in the lazy sun, we're the lonely ones
Oh, day after day, every morning
The roundabouts will take us out
Past every train in every station
Traffic signs and circle lines
Oh we wash it away, we wash it away this grey
Wash it away
Oh, cos this time is yours and mine
Oh hear the city sound, see the lonely crowds
This scene is you and me
see you in your next life when we'll fly away for good
stars in our own car we can drive away from here
far away, so far away, down to Worthing and work there
far away, we'll go far away and flog ice creams til the company's on its knees
Won't someone give me a gun?
oh well it's for my brother
well he writes the line wrote down my spine
It says "Oh do you believe in love there?"
So slow down, slow down, you're taking me over
And so we drown, sir we drown, stop taking me over
Won't someone give me some fun?
(and as the skin flies all around us)
We kiss in his room to a popular tune
Oh, real drowners
slow down, slow down, you're taking me over
And so we drown, sir we drown,
And maybe we're just kids who've grown, and maybe not,
And maybe when we're on our own, we don't have much,
But oh, we are young and not tired of it,
Oh, we are young and easily lead,
Oh, with all the kids getting out of their heads.
Oh, Class A, Class B, is that the only chemistry?
Oh, Class A, Class B, is that the only chemistry between us?
And maybe were just Streatham trash, and maybe not,
And maybe we're just capital flash in a stupid love,
But oh, we are young and not tired of it,
Oh we are young and easily lead,
Oh, by all the kids getting out of our heads.
Oh, Class A, Class B, is that the only chemistry?
All the white kids shuffle to the heavy metal stutter
And go shaking on the scene like killing machines
And they know that when she's stacked up top
She'll be a sucker for the shotgun show
Shaking obscene like the killing machines here we go
It's the same old show, He's a killer of a flash boy oh
He's a killer he's a killer he's a flashboy oh
Oh if you shake your fake tan thru aerosol land you'll know
That you'll suffer for your sex by the caravanettes oh no
And that sh*tter with the pout won't be putting it about no more
oh shaking obscene like a killing machine he we go
It's the same old show, he's a killer he's a flash boy oh
He's a killer he's a flash boy oh...oh and Athena loves your body
So think of the sea my darling
Think of the sea as you murder me
It's the same old show, he's a killer, he's a flash boy oh
Lonely skies
Empty minds
We walk by to the rock and rhyme
I said, oh come on do it again
City signs
Business minds
We walk by with head hi-fi
You know oh I wanna do it again
And we lose it to the music
And we lose it to the beat
And get stupid, come on lose it
Cos it all means nothing to me
So give me head, give me head, give me head music instead
You know, oh is it all in the mind
So give me head, give me head, give me head music instead
You know, oh yes it's all in the mind
Kids get high
Cities die
We just smile cos it's all inside
You know, oh yes it's all in the mind
So come on lose it to the music
And lose it to the beat
And get stupid, come on lose it
Cos this all means nothing to me
Come on come on and
Give me head, give me head, give me head music instead
You know, of cos it's all in the mind
Come on come on and
Give me head, give me head, give me head music instead
You know, of cos it's all in the mind
Run with me baby, let your hair down
through every station, through every town
run with me baby, let's take a chance
from Heathrow to Hounslow, from the Eastern Block to France
Europe is our playground, London is our town
so run with me baby now
Run with me baby, let your hair down
through every station, through every town
run with me baby, let's make a stand
from peepshow to disco, from Spain to Camber Sands
Europe is our playground, London is our town
She can walk out anytime, anytime she wants to walk out, that's fine,
She can walk out anytime, anytime she feels that life has passed her by,
And when I start my new life I won't touch the ground,
I'm gonna try hard this time not to touch the ground.
He can walk out anytime, anytime he wants to walk out, that's fine,
He can walk out anytime, across the sand, into the sea, into the brine,
And when I start my new life I won't touch the ground,
I1m gonna try hard this time not to touch the ground.
So we sold the car and quit the job
and shook some hands and wiped the make-up right off,
And we said our good-byes to the bank
left Seven Sisters for a room in a seaside shack,
And when I start my new life I won't touch the ground,
I'm gonna try hard this time not to touch the ground?
...it's by the sea we'll breed
Like his dad you know that he's had
Animal nitrate in mind
Oh in your council home he jumped on your bones
now you're taking it time after time
oh it turns you on, on, on, now he has gone
oh what turns you on, on, on, now your animal's gone?
Well he said he'd show you his bed
and the delights of his chemical smile
so in your broken home he broke all of your bones
now you're taking it time after time
oh it turns you on, on, on, now he has gone
oh what turns you on, on, on, now yor animal's gone?
what does it take to turn you on, on
now he has gone?
now you're over 21?
now your animal's gone?
Out in the sticks, out in the stickiness
They're chasing round in stolen ice cream vans
They're sparking up with someone, oh
They're covering up their jumpers in roses, oh
Where pigs don't fly, oh
Out over there, out in the sticky wire fire,
Your royal stickiness your highness
I've heard there's someone saying I do
And banging at the old piano tune
Where the pigs don't fly, I do
Where the pigs don't fly, I do
I do...
All the white kids shuffle to the heavy metal stutter
And go shaking on the scene like killing machines
And they know that when she's stacked up top
She'll be a sucker for the shotgun show
Shaking obscene like the killing machines here we go
It's the same old show, He's a killer of a flash boy oh
He's a killer he's a killer he's a flashboy oh
Oh if you shake your fake tan thru aerosol land you'll know
That you'll suffer for your sex by the caravanettes oh no
And that sh*tter with the pout won't be putting it about no more
oh shaking obscene like a killing machine he we go
It's the same old show, he's a killer he's a flash boy oh
He's a killer he's a flash boy oh...oh and Athena loves your body
So think of the sea my darling
Think of the sea as you murder me
It's the same old show, he's a killer, he's a flash boy oh
This is the killing of a flash boy oh...
Lying in my bed, I think of you
That song goes through my head, the one we both knew
In each line lies another line full of sacred sound
But you're outside where the companies dream and the money goes round
Lying in my bed.
Watching my mistakes,
I listen to the band they said that it could be the 2 of us
The snow might fall and write the lines on the silent page
But you're outside making permanent love to the nuclear age
Two silhouettes by the cash machine make a lovers dance
It's a tango for the lonely wives of the business class
Lying in my bed
Watching my mistakes
I listen to the band
Lying in my bed
With nothing much to say so I listen to the man
He said that it could be the 2 of us
I heard you call from across the city through the stereo sound
And so I crawled there sickeningly pretty as the money went round
Lying in my head watching my mistakes
I listen to the band
And the drums beat in my head
Pianos chime the sound in this prison of the house
And as the illness comes again can you hear me through the rain
As I listen to the band?
As I sing the silent song
Mime each lonely word
Please listen to the man he said that it could be the 2 of us
Alone but not lonely, you and me
Alone but loaded.........
Dog man star took a suck on a pill
And stabbed a cerebellum with a curious quill
Europe, America, Winterland
Introducing the band
Chic thug stuttered through a stereo dream
A fifty knuckle shuffle heavy metal machine
The tears of suburbia drowned the land
Introducing the band
So steal me a savage, subservient son
Get him shacked-up, bloodied-up and sucking on a gun
I want the style of a woman, the kiss of a man
Introducing the band
And as the sci-fi lullaby starts to build
See them whipping all the women, cracked governments killed
Oh let the century die to violent hands
Introducing the band
I love that deafening, thundering sound
That sounds like buildinggs tumbling down
And people wish that they weren't around
When we all rock and roll into town
We hear those fearful, piercing screams
The kind you find on cinema screens
And if they're fit to burst at the seams
If they could say what all of this means
I am, I am the elephant man
It is incredible how I can
Look just like an elephant, man,
Just like, just like my elephant fans
We love that satisfying, rattling crash
The sound of registers full of cash
We'll be all over your town like a rash
We'll steal your children and smoke all your hash
I am, I am the elephant man
It is incredible how I can
Look just like an elephant, man,
Just like, just like my elephant fans
I love that deafening, thundering sound
The sounds like buildings tumbling down
And people wish that they weren't around
When we all rock and roll into town
I am, I am the elephant man
It is incredible how I can
Look just like an elephant, man,
Just like, just like my elephant fans
We are, we are the elephant men
Take heed, we'll be stampeding again
Look out all of you fairweather friends
Because elephants never forget
Watch the early morning sun
Drip like blood from the day
See the crazy people run
So many games to play
See the blue suburban dream
Under the jet plane sky
Sleep away and dream a dream
Life is just a lullaby
Ah Ah Ah
And everything will flow
Watch the day begin again
Whispering into the night
See the crazy people play
Hurrying under the light
A million cars, a million trains
Under the jet plane sky
Nothing lost and nothing gained
Life is just a lullaby
The neon lights in the night tonight will say
Everything will flow
The stars that shine in the open sky will say
Everything will flow
The lovers kissed with an openness will say
Everything will flow
The cars parked in the hypermarket know
She walks the streets of summer
Inside her there's no future
She walks the streets to pass the time
The cash machines are laughing
At plastic people passing
She walks the streets to pass the time
Sadie, Sadie in the sound of the streets
Insane as anything, ah ah
Sadie, Sadie kn-knows the sound of the streets
It's the same as anything, ah ah
She sees the midnight taxis
The toilets and the backstreets
She feels the wheels and needs a line
Outside there's crazy parties
There's dames in faces laughing
So many ways to pass the timeSadie...
She walks the streets of summer
Inside her there's no future
She walks the streets to pass the time
Inside she feels like winter
For the child that died within her
She walks the streets to pass the time
Sadie...
Maybe, maybe it's the clothes we wear,
The tasteless bracelets and the dye in our hair,
Maybe it's our kookiness,
Or maybe, maybe it's our nowhere towns,
Our nothing places and our cellophane sounds,
Maybe it's our looseness,
But we're trash, you and me,
We're the litter on the breeze,
We're the lovers on the streets,
Just trash, me and you,
It's in everything we do,
It's in everything we do...
Maybe, maybe it's the things we say,
The words we've heard and the music we play,
Maybe it's our cheapness,
Or maybe, maybe it's the times we've had,
The lazy days and the crazes and the fads,
Maybe it's our sweetness,
But we're trash, you and me,
We're the litter on the breeze,
We're the lovers on the street,
Just trash, me and you,
It's in everything we do,
She, walking like a killer,
She, another night another pillow.
Nowhere places, nowhere faces, no one wants to see,
No education, it's the arse of the nation,
She is bad, she is bored, she is bony, she is...
She, sh-shaking up the karma,
She, 3injecting marijuana2,
Nowhere places, nowhere faces, no one wants to see,
No education it's the arse of the nation,
She is bad, she is bored, she is bony, she is...
she...
Nowhere faces, nowhere places, no one wants to be,
No stimulation in this privatisation,
It's the way you pick your clothes off the floor
It's the way you scratch your skin when you yawn
It's the T-shirts that you choose like you're in the Air Force
Yeah, the language that you use reacts like chemicals
Obsessions in my head
Don't connect with my intellect
It's called obsession
Can you handle it?
It's connected to the hip sounds
And it moves with the underground
It's called obsession
When you're around
It's the way you close the doors of my car
It's the stupid things you bought with my credit card
It's the way you don't read Camus or Brett Easton Ellis
Yeah, the TCP you use, it stings when we kiss
Obsessions in my head
Don't connect with my intellect
It's called obsession
Can you handle it?
It's connected to the hip sounds
And it moves with the underground
It's called obsession
When you're around
Obsessions is like sex
It's simple and complex
It's called obsession
Can you handle it?
It's connected to the hip sounds
And it moves with the underground
It's called obsession
Oh when you and I
Watch the planes go by
Silver in the sky
We do whatever we like
Oh when you and me
See the birds and the sea
The people on the streets
We do whatever we please
But every Monday morning comes
Every Monday morning yeah yeah
Oh every Monday morning comes
Every Monday morning yeah
Oh when you and I
Watch the London sky
The traffic rolling by
We do whatever we like
So we chase the day away
And feel the morning rain
Piss our money down the drain
And do whatever they say
But every Monday morning comes,
Every Monday morning, yeah, yeah
Oh every Monday morning comes,
Every Monday morning, yeah
I feel real now walking like a woman and talking like a stone age man
I feel real now talking like buddha and doing it again
I get kick I rip it up kick it up take it like a teenage tough
I feel real now talking like sugar and shaking that stuff
Singing I can't get enough
Singing I can't get enough
I feel schizo every so psycho kicking at an old tin can
I feel real like a man like a woman like a woman like a man
I make dead space feel like a headcase take it like a teenage tough
And feel real now watching those wheels and shaking that stuff
Singing I can't get enough
Singing I can't get enough
Singing I can't get enough
Singing I can't get enough
I feel real now walking like a woman and talking like a stone age man
I feel real now talking like buddha and doing it again
So give me this and give me that smother me and give me some of that bad stuff
I feel real now talking like sugar and shaking that stuff
Singing I can't get enough
Singing I can't get enough
Singing I can't get enough
A strange relationship has started
A strange relationship indeed
It's like a watercolor forming
Between the pages of a dream
And it's calling you
It's calling me
It's calling everyone to be
In a future world with an astrogirl
One on one is all you need
In a future world with an astrogirl
One on one is all you need
A strange experience has started
Between her molecules and me
It's like two seas between us forming
From obsolete technology
And it's calling you
It's calling me
It's calling everyone to be
In a future world with an astrogirl
One on one is all you need
In a future world with an astrogirl
The sky goes on and on for you and me
The sky goes on and on for you and me
The sky goes on and on for you and me
In a future world with an astrogirl
There'll be no obstacles, you'll see
'Cos we'll be making friends with the supermen
The sky goes on and on for you and me
The sky goes on and on for you and me
The sky goes on and on for you
Tony only reads Asian Babes
Danny's doing doves down the raves
Terry drinks his money away
Oh god, and his sons play drums all day
On the scene, on the dole, in your eyes, in your soul, the young men
You are the ones, are the scene, are the sons, are the young men
Young men, here we, here we go again
Les says punk isn't dead
Mick is not impeccably bred
Paul he just can't get out of bed
Oh god, and Phil's still off his head
On the scene, on the dole, in your eyes, in your soul, the young men
You are the ones, are the system, are the sons, are the young men
Young men, here we, here we go again
On the scene, on the dole, in your eyes, in your soul, the young men
You are the ones, are the scene, are the young men
Cheating on the wives, all shiny suits and lazy lies, the young men
Insulting everyone, picked up your sister, kicked your son, the young men
Fighting in the clubs, flash on the streets, cash in the pubs, the young men
Out in the sticks, out in the stickiness
They're chasing round in stolen ice cream vans
They're sparking up with someone, oh
They're covering up their jumpers in roses, oh
Where pigs don't fly, oh
Out over there, out in the sticky wire fire,
Your royal stickiness your highness
I've heard there's someone saying "I do"
And banging at the old piano tune
Where the pigs don't fly, I do
Where the pigs don't fly, I do
Lying in my bed, I think of you
That song goes through my head, the one we both knew
In each line lies another line full of sacred sound
But you're outside where the companies dream and the money goes round
Lying in my bed.
Watching my mistakes,
I listen to the band they said that it could be the 2 of us
The snow might fall and write the lines on the silent page
But you're outside making permanent love to the nuclear age
Two silhouettes by the cash machine make a lovers dance
It's a tango for the lonely wives of the business class
Lying in my bed
Watching my mistakes
I listen to the band
Lying in my bed
With nothing much to say so I listen to the man
He said that it could be the 2 of us
I heard you call from across the city through the stereo sound
And so I crawled there sickeningly pretty as the money went round
Lying in my head watching my mistakes
I listen to the band
And the drums beat in my head
Pianos chime the sound in this prison of the house
And as the illness comes again can you hear me through the rain
As I listen to the band?
As I sing the silent song
Mime each lonely word
Please listen to the man he said that it could be the 2 of us
Alone but not lonely, you and me
This still life is all I ever do
There by the window quietly killed for you
In the glass house my insect life
Crawling the walls under electric lights
I'll go into the night, into the night
She and I into the night
Is this still life all I'm good for too?
There by the window quietly killed for you
And they drive by like insects do
They think they don't know me
They hired a car for you
To go into the night, into the night
She and I into the night
And this still life is all I ever do
There by the window quietly killed for you
And this still life is all I ever do
But it's still, still life
But it's still, still life
She's star, starcrazy, electric-shock-bog-brush-hair,
Flat on her back in the 80's, in the 90's going nowhere,
Star, starcrazy, got a kicking transistor inside,
A heavy metal stutter that brains me,
and an electric love in her eyes,
Oh, she don't want education,
She got nothing to say,
She got no imagination (so they say)
Why does she feel this way?
Cos she's star, starcrazy, getting stupid on the streets tonight,
and shaking like a mechanical thing
with an electric love in her eyes,
Oh, she don't want education,
She got nothing to say,
She got no imagination (so they say)
Because we're young, because we're gone
we'll take the tide's electric mind, oh yeah? oh yeah
we're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon, oh
Because we're youn, because we're gone
We'll scare the skies with tiger's eyes, oh yeah? oh yeah
we're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon, oh
let's chase the dragon...
...from our home high in the city where the skyline
stained the snow, I fell for a servant who kept me on the boil
she'll come to her end locked in a car somewhere with exhaust in her hair
What's she called? I dunno, she's fucking with a slip of a man while the engine ran
And he said "She's not dead, she's gone away, gone away" he said
He said "She's not dead, just go away go away" he said
In the car he couldn't afford they found his made up name on her ankle chain
so don't call, don't call her at home
she's fucking with a slip of a man while the engine ran
and he said "she's not dead, she's gone away gone away" he said
he said "she's not dead, she's gone away gone away"
he said "just gone away, gone away" he said
She lives in a house she's stupid as a mouse
And she going where the lights are on
She shaking obscene like a fucking machine
And she gone gone gone
She cooking crack giving us heart attack
And she living in a kooky show
She open your mind for the millionth time
And then go go go
She got everything she needs
She got pretty pretty feet
And she got flowers in her hair yeah yeah
Today she's been working, she's been talking, she's been smoking,
but it'll be alright,
Cos tonight we'll go dancing, we'll go laughing, we'll get car sick,
and it'll be okay like everyone says, it'll be alright and ever so nice,
We're going out tonight, out and about tonight.
Oh, whatever makes her happy on a Saturday night,
Oh whatever makes her happy, whatever makes it alright.
Today she's been sat there, sat there in a black chair, office furniture,
but it'll be alright,
Cos tonight we'll go drinking we'll do silly things,
and never let the winter in,
And it'll be okay like everyone says, it'll be alright and ever so nice,
We're going out tonight, out and about tonight.
Oh, whatever makes her happy on a Saturday night,
Oh, whatever makes her happy, whatever makes it alright.
we'll go to peepshows and freak shows,
we'll go to discos, casinos,
we'll go where people go and let go
Inside her is the suburbs, in the sodium lights and the streets
In the parked cars and the pretty parks, and in every disease
In the new loves under covers, in the cold touch of the right
In the dead flowers and the silent hours
Cold, cold as the night, high as the trees, slow as you like
Oh you know she's cold, cold as the night
High as the trees, slow as you like... Sadie
Inside her is the suburbs, in the old front rooms in the rain
In all the bad days and the music that plays
In the bored kids and their games
In the new loves under covers, and all the young mums and their worlds
Who are left at home when all the kids have grown watching the pretty young girls
Cold, cold as the night, high as the trees, slow as you like
Oh you know she's cold, cold as the night
High as the trees, slow as you like... Sadie
Oh and I've got to take it, and I've got to fake it
And I've got use her, and I've got to choose her
And I've got to feel it, and I've got steal it
I wake up every day to see her back again
Screaming my name through the astral plane
And in this catalogue town she takes me down
Down through the platinum spires
Down through the telephone wires
And we shake it around in the underground
And like a new generation rise
And like all the boys in all the cities
I take the poison, take the pity
But she and I, we soon discovered
we'd take the pills to find each other
Oh but when she is calling here in my head
Can you hear her calling
And what she has said?
Oh but when she is calling here in my head
It's like a new generation calling
Can you hear it call?
And I'm losing myself, losing myself to you
I wake up every day, to find her back again
Breeding disease on her hands and knees
While the styles turn and the books still burn
Yes it's there in the platinum spires
It's there in the telephone wires
And we spread it around to a techno sound
But like a new generation rise
Cos like all the boys in all the cities
I take the poison, take the pity
But she and I we soon discover
We take the pills to find each other
Oh but when she is calling here in my head
Can you hear her calling?
And what she has said?
Oh but when she is calling here in my head
It's like a new generation calling
Can you hear her call?
In the high life, I've got this feeling now
I've got this horrible feeling
on the escalator they took it out on him
as the ridiculous world went...oh
oh he is gone
he's my insatiable one
oh he is gone
he's my insatiable one...oh
On the high wire, dressed in a leotard
there wobbles one hell of a retard
on the escalator
we shit paracetemol
as the ridiculous world goes...by
oh he is gone
he's my insatiable one
oh he is gone
he's my insatiable one
oh he is gone
he's my insatiable one
oh he is gone
You thought you'd come and amaze me honey
You thought you'd come on and amaze me with your money
You thought you'd come and amaze me honey
Get flash get cash get phoney
You thought you'd come and amaze me honey
You thought you'd come on and amaze me with your money
You thought you'd come and amaze me honey
Get rich get stitched get lonely
So come and amaze me so come and amaze me
It takes everyone every son, every dad and every mum
Some find a one and a one turns them on, it's money
You thought you'd come and amaze me honey
You thought you'd come on and amaze me with your money
You thought you'd come and amaze me honey
Get wheels, get heels, get sloaney
You thought you'd come and amaze me honey
You thought you'd come on and amaze me with your money
You thought you'd come and amaze me honey
Get fucked, pissed up, get loaded
So come and amaze me, so come and amaze me
It takes everyone, every son, every dad and every mum
Stephanie stares at the posters on the wall
Tina sits and waits for a telephone call
Maxine mixes alcohol
With polythene and paint
Sylvia stays in bed on her own
She can hear the cars outside
And wonders where they go
And if you call her answer phone
She'll get back to you one day
And lonely girls
Lonely girls fill the world
Oh, Julia dreams while she's typing away
Jackie kills time while the company pays
Tracy still hears 808 ringing in her brain
Jane slaps paints on the walls of her home
Lydia sings when she thinks she's alone
Jean gets drunk and wonders home
Through the car parks that need her change
Yeah, lonely girls
Lonely girls fill the world
And they smile through the summer
And laugh in the rain
And singing through the winter
But never show the pain
Oh, sometimes our lives are not what they seem
Sometimes things aren't like they are in lifestyle magazines
We see what we want to see
In this miracle of clay
Well, lonely girls
Here they come with their make-up on
as lovely as the clouds, come and see them,
Boys and girls and their mums and their words
and their romances and jobs and their sons,
Barking mad kids, lonely dads
who drug it up to give it some meaning,
From the raves to the council estates
they're reminding us there's things to be done.
But you and me, all we want to be is lazy,
you and me, so lazy...
Here they come gone 7am
getting satellite and Sky getting cable,
Bills and Bens and their mums and their friends
who just really, really want to be loved,
Uncle Teds and their legendary vests
helping out around the disabled,
From the flats and the maisonettes
they're reminding us there's things to be done.
But you and me, all we want to be is lazy,
you and me, so lazy...
Oh, jumble sale mums, what are they on?
Kids just sit hanging round the street
And they've got somebody else's clothes on
Jumble sale dads, boil in the bag
Says some things that I can't repeat, and he swears...
Oh, this ain't the highlife
This ain't the highlife
This ain't the highlife
This ain't the highlife
Oh, jumble sale mums, what are they on?
Kids just sit hanging round the street
And they've got somebody else's clothes on
Jumble sale dads, now she's packed her bags
Says some things that I can't repeat, and he swears...
Oh, this ain't the highlife
This ain't the highlifeThis ain't the highlife
You'll hide among the covers and wave as the aeroplanes go by
There's nothing to say when you sleep all day but "bye bye".
Your mind will find another and that's where the days have gone
And all you can hear is a stereo somewhere playing a pig of a song
And you'll know her know her when she comes.
When you turn the light out light out she'll come.
She called you from across the city you hired a car to crawl,
But with the high rise still in your eyes you wonder who's out there at all.
And you'll know her, know her, when she comes.
When you turn the light out, light out, she'll come.
When you turn the light out, she'll come.
She walks in beauty like the night
Discarding her clothes in the plastic flowers
Pornographic and tragic in black and white
My Marilyn come to my slum for an hour
I'm aching to see my heroine
I'm aching been dying for hours and hours
She walks in the beauty of a magazine
Complicating the boys in the office towers
Rafaella or Della the silent dream
My Marilyn come to my slum for an hour
I'm aching to see my heroine
I'm aching been dying for hours and hours,
been dying for hours and hours
She walks in beauty like the night
Hypnotising the silence with her powers
Armageddon is bedding this picture alright
My Marilyn come to slum for an hour
I'm aching to see my heroine
Aching, been dying for hours and hours
I'm 18, I need my heroines
Aching, been dying for hours
Oh and I'm never alone now
Tears on a pillow
Eyes on the phone
You pour all the love that you keep inside
Into a song
Like 'He's Gone'
And these are the thoughts that you keep inside
You smile from your window
And stand all alone
And pour all the love that you keep inside
Into the phone
Into the phone
And like the leaves on the trees
Like the Carpenters song
Like the planes and the trains and they lives that were young
He's gone
And it feels like the words to a song
With the style of a widow
And the place of your own
You pour all the words that you keep inside
Into the phone
And sit alone
And these are the thoughts that you keep inside
And smile from your window
And stand all alone
And pour all the love that you keep inside
Into a song
into a song
And like the leaves on the trees
Like the Carpenters song
Like the planes and the trains and they lives that were young
He's gone
And it feels like the words to a song
And like the stains on the names of the lives of the young
He's gone
And it feels like the words to a song
And like the leaves on the trees
Like the Carpenters song
Like the planes and the trains and they lives that were young
He's gone
And it feels like the words to a song
And like the stains on the names of the lives of the young
He's gone
And it feels like the words to a song
So gone
I wake up every day,
But I don't want it that way
I take my thoughts to the round about
Cause me and them we like to get out
Oh what you do in your head,
You do in your head
Oh if he is dead
He said he had a horrible house
I looked in it and learnt to shut my mouth
He said I had the luck of a son
With all the love and poison of London
Oh what you do in your head
You do in your head
Oh if he is dead
Oh what you do in your head
You do in your head
Graffiti women draw pictures on the wall
Graffiti slogans and situations fall
Just made up people who wander through the rain
Graffiti people got nothing got no name
And you sleep but they'll find you
And they'll carve their number in your minds
And they steal what they want from who they want, from time to time
Graffiti women swap stories in the dark
Graffiti women take photos at the dark
And tenement people who wander through the day
Graffiti people got nothing got no name
And you sleep but they'll find youGra
And they'll carve their number in your minds
And they'll steal what they want from who they want, from time to time
And you sleep but they'll find you
And they carve their number in your minds
And they steal what they want from who they want, from time to time
And you'll sleep but they'll find you
And they carve their number in your minds
Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car, it looks so easy,
Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car tonight,
Filmstar, giving it class, living it fast, it looks so easy,
Filmstar, giving it class, living it fast tonight.
What to believe in, it's impossible to say?
What to believe in when they change your name,
wash your brain, play the game again, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Filmstar, elegance, a terylene shirt, it looks so easy,
Filmstar, an elegant sir in a terylene shirt tonight,
Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car, it looks so easy,
Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car tonight.
What to believe in, it's impossible to say?
What to believe in when they change your name,
wash your brain, play the game again,
I love that deafening, thundering sound
That sounds like buildinggs tumbling down
And people wish that they weren't around
When we all rock and roll into town
We hear those fearful, piercing screams
The kind you find on cinema screens
And if they're fit to burst at the seams
If they could say what all of this means
I am, I am the elephant man
It is incredible how I can
Look just like an elephant, man,
Just like, just like my elephant fans
We love that satisfying, rattling crash
The sound of registers full of cash
We'll be all over your town like a rash
We'll steal your children and smoke all your hash
I am, I am the elephant man
It is incredible how I can
Look just like an elephant, man,
Just like, just like my elephant fans
I love that deafening, thundering sound
The sounds like buildings tumbling down
And people wish that they weren't around
When we all rock and roll into town
I am, I am the elephant man
It is incredible how I can
Look just like an elephant, man,
Just like, just like my elephant fans
We are, we are the elephant men
Take heed, we'll be stampeding again
Look out all of you fairweather friends
We got a love that's cold as stone
We got a love from our violent homes
We got a love and it got no name
We kiss our love with lips like pain
We got a lotta electricity
We got a love like AC/DC
We got a love and it got no shame
We kiss our love with lips like pain
Oh it's bigger than the universe
It's bigger than the universe
It's bigger than the 2 of us
Oh it's bigger than you and me
We got a love between us and it's like electricity
We got a love like a violent mind
We get our love from white white lines
We got a love and it got no name
We kiss our love with lips like pain
We got a love from nowhere towns
We got a love like electric sounds
We got a love and it got no shame
We kiss our love with lips like pain
I said, oh it's bigger than the universe
It's bigger than the universe
It's bigger than the 2 of us
Oh it's bigger than you and me
We got a love between us and it's like electricity
Oh it's bigger than the universe
It's bigger than the universe
It's bigger than the 2 of us
Oh it's bigger than you and me
You've had your fun
Your money's gone
Your only friend is the telephone
Oh duchess, now you're one of us
You stay at home
And light the lights
It make you smile in the empty night
Oh duchess, now you're one of us
Well she knows Latinos, and she knows Mexicans
And she sits alone by the telephone but they won't call back again
You count the bands, you cut your hair
And someone saying you're a millionaire
Oh duchess, now you're one of us
You've friends to see, a car to drive
You go to bars but you're much too shy
Oh duchess, now you're one of us
Well she knows Latinos and she knows Mexicans
And she sits alone over thirteen stone
And they won't come back again
oh li-da-di-da-dioh li-da-di-da-dioh li-da-di-da-dioh oh
Well she knows Latinos and she knows Mexicans
But nothing sad stuff and they've had enough
And they won't come back again
You've had your fun
Your money's gone
She knows that there are places I won't go,
But if I did, I'd make her follow
A trail of seeds that leads across the road,
And colours like a raven's shadow
Alone in the climate of her greed,
Her heels on the wheels of nothing,
Her love is sabotage,
Her love is sabotage
I touch her things when I think I'm alone,
With self control that approaches mania,
No barriers, no boundaries for her,
Her touch is like a raven's shadow
Alone in the climate of her greed,
Her love is the shape of mother,
Her love is sabotage,
Her love is sabotage
Her will is done
Her will is done
Her will is done
I climb to the scaffold smiling,
My hands on the cross I'm holding
Love is sabotage
Her love is sabotage
I smile as the rope cuts through me
So cold in this London summer
Love is sabotage
Her love is sabotage
And her will is done
And her will is done
And her will is done
And her will is done
And thy will be done
From a distance the world looks blue and green,
And the snow-capped mountains white.
From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
And the eagle takes to flight.
From a distance, there is harmony,
And it echoes through the land.
It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace,
It's the voice of every man.
From a distance we all have enough,
And no one is in need.
And there are no guns, no bombs, and no disease,
No hungry mouths to feed.
From a distance we are instruments
Marching in a common band.
Playing songs of hope, playing songs of peace.
They're the songs of every man.
God is watching us. God is watching us.
God is watching us from a distance.
From a distance you look like my friend,
Even though we are at war.
From a distance I just cannot comprehend
What all this fighting is for.
From a distance there is harmony,
And it echoes through the land.
And it's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves,
It's the heart of every man.
It is the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves.
This is the song of every man.
And God is watching us, God is watching us,
God is watching us from a distance.
Oh, God is watching us, God is watching us.
To those whom I miss,
And to those who would miss me
Life is short, but long in the living
Going forth on the uncertain paths of the future
Seeking an outlet, a path, in vein
There where that tunnel so familiar
And that wall banishing the light
Stifling forever the hope of better day
Curs'd be she who gave me birth
Prisoner of life, I await my deliverance
I am weary of the struggle for chimeras
Of sensing the weight of time, past and future
I began my descent as from that first day
This night shall be mine, that of the great leap
There will be a war, a key, a door
Faced with the dilemma of the cord
Short are the paths which lead to the tomb
Drunk with eternity I topple the chair beneath my feet
The phobia of the infinite is speedily replaced by darkness
This profound and absolute darkness
If I was the wife of an acrobat...
Could've had it all... Could've had it all...
Where's all the money gone? - I'm talking to you,
All up the hole in your arm is the needle,
a much better screw.
But oh, what will you do alone? Cos I have to go.
Where is this life of fun that you promised me?
Nothing here works but your works and I mean it
I have to leave
But oh, what will you do alone? Cos I have to go.
If I was the wife of an acrobat would I look like the living dead, boy?
You're on the wire and can't get back, Let's talk about the living dead
Could have had a car, could have had it all,
Could have walked in the sky but we stare at the wall.
I know where the money's gone - I know what you do
Cos I've seen the hole in your arm and the needle's a much better screw
Here's a sweet September morning, there's the sense of Autumn on the rise
He steps into the wind and sadly sighs
"Why does it always seem to be, there's a cold December wind in front of me?"
The more he fills his empty evenings
The less he feels that there's a chance to find
Something that can bring a peace of mind
Is there a place where you can go?
A little something you should know to turn the tide to your favor?
(Chorus)
Wait a little while to welcome what you're after
Give it the time to find its way to you
And soon as you no longer try, you'll turn and find it standing by your side
Come and get it, when you let it, it'll come to you
(Instrumental Break)
(Chorus)
Wait a little while to welcome what you're after
Give it the time to find its way to you
And soon as you no longer try, you'll turn and find it standing by your side
Come and get it, when you let it, it'll come to you
When I run short on inspiration, I best recall what I've known all along
'N I remember sweet September's song, there never really has to be
A cold and bitter wind in front of me anymore
(Chorus)
Wait a little while to welcome what you're after
Give it the time to find its way to you
And soon as you no longer try, you'll turn and find it standing by your side
Come and get it, when you let it, it'll come to you
Just forget it and wait a little while, while, while
Wait a little while, everything will come to you in time
Wait a little while - everything will come to you in time
Wait a little while - every little thing's gonna come to you in time
Wait a little while - everything will come to you in time
Wait a little while - everything will come to you in time
Here they com with their make-up on
as lovely as the clouds, come and see them,
Boys and girls and their mums and their words
and their romances and jobs and their sons,
Barking mad kids, lonely dads
who drug it up to give it some meaning,
From the raves to the council estates
they're reminding us there's things to be done.
But you and me, all we want to be is lazy,
you and me, so lazy...
Here they come gone 7am
getting satellite and Sky getting cable,
Bills and Bens and their mums and their friends,
who just really really want to be loved
Uncle Teds and their legendary vests,
helping out around the disabled
From the flats and the maisonettes
they're reminding us there's things to be done
But you and me, all we want to be is lazy,
you and me, so lazy...
The air is still, we are struck like matches
Too beautiful to really care what's right
The rumours burn like roman candles
In the broken light
This blood has lived in her
This blood has lived in you
For one snowblind moment
This love has lifted her
This love has lifted you
For one snowblind moment too
There's aniseed in your lace-wing kisses
The morning comes with the blackbird's song
We find our keys on the kitchen table
And forget what's done
This blood has lived in her
This blood has lived in you
For one snowblind moment
This love has lived in her
This love has lived in you
For one snowblind moment too
You are frozen by the moment
The thing is what can we do
When I'm frozen by the moment too
All the statues on the tube can't
Hold a candle to you
When you're frozen by the moment too
This blood has lived in her
This blood has lived in you
For one snowblind moment
This love has lifted her
This love has lifted you
You touch the place where we meet
Where you and I become she and he
I'm not as strong as I pretend to be
You feel the scratches and scars
You feel the parts of me we call ours
But drop me once
And I will fall to bits
Come on and hit me
With your majesty
Come on and hit me
With all your mystery
Come on and hit me
With your majesty
Come on and hit me
With all your mystery
La la la la la...
And the moment we touch we are young
You feel my pulse and we become one
But drop me once
And I will fall to bits
Come on and hit me
With your majesty
Come on and hit me
With all your mystery
Come on and hit me
With your majesty
Come on and hit me
With all your mystery
La la la la la...
Come on and hit me
With your majesty
Come on and hit me
With all your mystery
Come on and hit me
With your majesty
Come on and hit me
Aniseed kisses and lipstick traces,
Lemonade sipped in Belgian rooms,
Couldn't replace the graceful notions
That clung to me when I clung to you.
And they touch you like no one touched you.
When you broke they were there with glue.
And their kindness is not a weakness.
When they are there they are there for you.
But will they love you, the way, the way I loved you?
We jumped over the barriers.
Jumped over the barriers.
And our world, it was wrapped in tinsel,
Invitations and fountain pens.
But the heart is a lonely hunter,
It trapped you once and it will trap you again.
But will they love you, the way, the way I loved you?
We jumped over the barriers.
Jumped over the barriers.
Will they love you, the way, the way I loved you?
We jumped over the barriers.
Jumped over the barriers.
(Oh oh oh oh oh oh...)
Jumped over the barriers
Jumped over the barriers
Jumped over the barriers
All the colours in the rainbow don't compare
With one look in your impossible eyes
And I walked into the trap with my eyes wide shut
But I never knew what it would be like
All the plans were made
In the wooded glade
Where your body was split wide open
And I count to ten
As the race begins
Round your hairpin bends
Sometimes I feel I'll float away
Sometimes I feel I'll float away
Sometimes I feel I'll float away
Without you to hold me
I can't count the times I forgot my lines
And you pretended that you didn't know
Let me take you through each stage of the male mistake
And we'll adopt our natural roles
And I need you more
Than you need to be needed
So I sign my will one stab at a time
And I count to ten
As the race begins
Round your hairpin bends
Sometimes I feel I'll float away
Sometimes I feel I'll float away
Sometimes I feel I'll float away
Without you to hold me
Sometimes I feel I'll float away
Sometimes I feel I'll float away
Sometimes I feel I'll float away
Without you to hold me
With the sunrise burning into your green eyes,
Adam and Eve on faultlines greet the golden dawn.
Is it birdsong or is it just the car alarms
Making us feel so young, naked as the faun?
Celebrate the pale dawn, celebrate the birdsong,
Celebrate, this is your time,
Although we live in the wreckage and on the faultlines.
And everything we own is not everything we are,
With every word we breathe, we live, we live again.
And you love me more than I deserve to be,
The palace of cards you built for me is all just paper now.
Is it birdsong or is it just the car alarms
Making me feel so young and savage like the dawn?
Celebrate the pale dawn, celebrate the birdsong,
Celebrate, this is your time,
Although we live in the wreckage and on the faultlines.
And everything we own is not everything we are,
With every word we breathe, we live, we live again.
Celebrate, there is no fear now,
There is no fear now for us to feel.
Celebrate, there is no fear now,
There is no fear now for us to feel,
Don't wish it away, just say it's over to my face,
I face the morning with dreams that make my pillow wet,
She said she was into me but I was always in the way,
She pushed me away.
But I will always be near
I will always be near
Always be near
I set my clock for 7.30 every day.
And wait for you like I'm in a book or in a play.
I'm there outside with a weightlessness you can't escape,
You can't wish me away.
Cause I will always be near
I will always be near
Always be near
Cause I will always be near
I will always be near
Always be near
I will always be near
I will always be near
Always be near
Like a sniper in the wings, like the endless chattering,
Like the rope that twists in your hand and it's starting again
Like a shadow on your lung, like the verse I've sung,
Like the knife that twists in your hand and it's starting again
I will always be near
I will always be near
Lips like semaphore to my heart
We slither and slide and slip
Stings like aerosol in my eyes
And nothing compares to this
And it's ever so clear
And it's ever so plain
For the strangers, the strangers
And it's ever so clear
And it's ever so plain
For all the strangers out there
Pips from oranges spat away
To gutters and drains and bins
Left like promises on a tray
When you delivered yourself to him
And it's ever so clear
And it's ever so plain
For the strangers, the strangers
And it's ever so clear
And it's ever so plain
For all the strangers out there
A paper trail on the road
That was left for the gulls
And like the birds flying north
It's been growing cold
And it's ever so clear
And it's ever so plain
For the strangers, the strangers
And it's ever so clear
And it's ever so plain
For all the strangers out there
For all the strangers
For all the strangers out there
For all the strangers
For all the strangers out there
For all the strangers
For all the strangers out there
For all the strangers
She was standing smoking counting stolen change
Don't someone have the guts to complain?
Said "superman I'm a big fan
Let's get something straight
Well you don't have the guts to complain"
Now your son's coming out to play
Your son's coming out to play
When you're on your own
Standing by the phone
We should get together
Got a supermarket stance
Just taking it hand in hand
We should get together
Just think of the life you'll save
Not stuck in your early grave
We should get together
I saw you standing smoking counting stolen change
But I don't have the guts to complain
Well I picked you up, got mixed up with you,
That's OK
'Cos now I've got the guts to complain
And now your son's coming out to play
Your son's coming out to play
When you're on your own
Standing by the phone
We should get together
Got a supermarket stance
Just taking it hand-in-hand
We should get together
Just think of the life you'll save
Not stuck in your early grave
Like a cause without a martyr,
Like an effigy of balsa,
Like a hairline crack in a radiator,
Leaking life
I shout out but it just spins faster,
I'd crawl out but my knees are water,
I cling on by my nails to this sweet disaster
And I fall to the floor like my strings are cut,
Pinch myself but I don't wake up,
Spit in the wind cause too much is not enough,
It starts and ends with you,
It starts and ends with you
And I've worn so many faces,
Shot my love at fifteen paces,
My inheritance is all the thoughts I can't sweep away,
I shout out but it just spins faster,
I'd crawl out but my knees are water,
I cling on by my nails to this sweet disaster
And then I fall to the floor like my strings are cut,
Pinch myself but I don't wake up,
Spit in the wind cause too much is not enough,
It starts and ends with you,
It starts and ends with you
Shout out but it just spins faster,
Crawl out but my knees are water,
Cling on by my nails to this sweet disaster
And then I crash to the floor like my strings are cut,
Spit in the wind myself but I don't wake up
Pinch myself cause too much is not enough
It starts and ends with you,
It starts and ends with you,
It starts and ends with you,
It starts and ends with you
I shout out but it just spins faster,
I'd crawl out but my knees are water
I shout out but it just spins faster,
I'd crawl out but my knees are water
I shout out but it just spins faster,
I'd crawl out but my knees are water
I shout out but it just spins faster,