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1000 umbrellas Upturned couldn't catch all the rain That drained out of my head When you said we were Over and over I cried Till I floated downstream To a town they call Misery, oh oh, Misery Misery, oh oh, Misery And one million teacups I bet couldn't hold all the wet That fell out of my eyes When you fell out with me Now I'm crawling the wallpaper That's looking more like a road map To Miser...
The urge to take you grows more strong For time had made me wait too long Each watch I smash apart Just adding to my power Each watch I smash apart Just bringing near the hour of 25 o'clock, that's when you're going to be mine 25 o'clock, we'll be together 'til the end of time At 25 o'clock The ticking seconds hear them call My spell of hours will make you fall Each timer that I break Will hal...
Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers Nurses, queens and drones Wish they'd leave my head tonight Let me rest my bones A billion feet sound just like a billion drums A bed is creaking as the messiah comes The cars are crashing and the bacon is hacked The coffin's lowered and the lunches get packed Still segregating 'cause we insects are too proud Doesn't matter what colour of cat you are there...
"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief "There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth None of them along the line know what any of it is worth" "No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke But you and I, we've been through that and this i...
What can I say? Why do we starve a thing Thats near extinction? From day to day These weeds of fear Are choking our conviction Life's like a jig-saw You get the straight bits But there's something missing in the middle All of a sudden We find the cupboard bare All of a sudden We find heaven's not there All of a sudden We find the sun's gone cold All of a sudden We find we're more than old All ...
Do something for me, boys If I should die at sea, boys Write a little note, boys Set it off afloat, saying Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls Village and city girls by the quayside Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls Watching and waiting by the sea Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls Quiet or witty girls by the quayside Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty gir...
Always winter but never christmas You won't open your box or kiss under this How can I let you know? Always easter but never egg giving Crucify me, I just don't call this living How can I let you know? Can't you hear the bells ringing out? Can't you hear the fishmongers shout? That the way to live is celebrate and give Stop it being, always winter but never christmas Always ageing but never bi...
Am I the kind of girl who could be your boyfriend Am I the kind of Jill who could play with jacks Am I the kind of girl who could be your boyfriend The kind of screw that your toolbox lacks Put on the shoes, come let's go bend the rules We'll kiss and make up, showing them all They're straight-laced fools I'm the kind of girl who could be your boyfriend Am I the kind of woman who could be your...
My heart is taken, it's not lost in space And I don't want to see your moony moony face I say, why on earth do you revolve around me? Aren't you aware of the gravity? Don't need another satellite I'm happy standing on my feet of clay I have no wish to swim your milky, milky way I say, why on earth do you send your letters 'round here Only to gum up the atmosphere? Don't need another satellite ...
Are you receiving me? You are deceiving me I know, see, I know When we're out walking Your mouth ain't where it's supposed to do the talking When we're in kissing Your lips are missing, are they out on loan to someone else? Are you listening? I put it in a letter, what could be better? I put it in a note, one night, I wrote I put it in a telegram, just like the son of Sam Babe, there's somethi...
I'm heading into the atom age My contemporary house is all the rage My wife's getting lazy going gadget crazy Wants a pallette shaped coffee table and a matching settee I'm heading into the atom age My kids have gone obscene want to marry at fourteen Want a pallette shaped coffee table and a matching settee I'm heading into the atom age I flick on the video to soothe me It's better colour than...
Performed by johnny japes and his jesticles. recorded for viz Comics, written and produced by andy partridge, neville farmer, And dave gregory, and featuring john otway. Who's that dragging what looks like a pink sack of spanners down the road? His swollen folly on a supermarket trolley to alleviate the load Testicular tomfoolery To the rescue of humanity It looks a lot of balls to me Fun and ...
Save us from the ball and chain Save us from the ball and chain Save us from the ball and chain, oh yeah The diggers and the tower cranes The diggers and the tower cranes Don't want demolition Don't want your compensation It's not just bricks and mortar We are lambs to slaughter Save us from the ball and chain Save us from the ball and chain Save us from the ball and chain, oh yeah The diggers...
Orange and lemon raincoats Roll and tumble together Just liked fruit tipped from a tray Pineapple wet heads Watch new hairdos crumble As scenery, sunlight shifts away Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Apples and cherries Are varnished in water Despite striped awnings bright dismay I push my paintbrush To conjure a new world While this one is slowly washed away Ballet f...
Battery brides, have you ever tried To break out of your waiting room And find yourself a waiting groom Battery brides, battery brides She left school with a million others And worked in a store part time She dreams of a husband and a lover Doesn't realize she's on the production line of Battery brides, have you ever tried To break out of your waiting room And find yourself a waiting groom Bat...
Do you know what noise awakes you Every morning from your bed A coming from the farthest hillside A coming from inside your head You have heard You have heard the loudest sound In this and every world you can think of Louder than tanks on the highway Louder than bombers in flight Louder than noises of hatred Dancing us from darkest night is the rhythm of love Powered on the the beating of hear...
I spoke to your boss this morning He asked why you weren't home? I said sir they left without warning You won't even get them on the telephone They're in Beatown, it's a capital city And all roads lead to Beatown, B-b-beatown I spoke to your owner this lunchtime He asked why you weren't home? I said they thought it was hunchtime You won't even see them standing on their own Beatown, it's a cap...
It's your big day, your big day So you want to tie the knot Tie it tight, don't let it rot The memory of this day Are you deafened by the bells Could be heaven, could be hell, in a cell for two Big day come and big day go Life goes on after the show But will your love have the fire and glow Like on the big day Statistics, they don't say a lot But can you keep what you have got, forever togethe...
Push me off to start the fun On a bike ride to the moon Lots of room for everyone On a bike ride to the moon And we'll bring back cheese for my Auntie Jane And some magic moon dust that'll stop the rain On my poor Uncle Alfred's head, even though he stays in bed silly Alfred Why not bring a pot of tea On a bike ride to the moon Angel cake for you and me On a bike ride to the moon And we'll pac...
When your love's flown out the window, And the pain comes through the door. Once again you've missed the boat, And you're stranded on the shore. And you find out that what you had, Was never yours at all, Friends and lovers that you knew so well, Will never take your calls. So, You blame the weather, Oh-oh, Blame the weather, Oh-oh, Blame the weather, Oh-oh Can't you see you're in your prime? ...
Life is sometimes shorter than you think So take yourself a hike from the kitchen sink Me, I like to roam Wasn't built in a day And night throws the stars in our way Meanwhile on planet earth Some people are dying for the right to say Some people are dying 'cause the other people busy blowing them away Well, we're all dying so we better have a ton of fun along the way I say hats off, get your ...
co-written by andy partridge and tracey bryn of voice of the beehive Silver lining changed to grey skies When a red-eyed angel waved goodbye In my lifetime, I may find him once again to my surprise I'll wait here, patiently and you may just return to find me Chorus: Blue in paradise, the paint runs down Just like my teardrops Blue in paradise, I'll paint the town Until the hurt stops Make a wi...
Blue overall Overall the rooftop's blue birds fly apart Blue overall Overall the bones that cage this stupid heart Got blues drawing crosses on my front door Blues a-bringing buckets 'round the back Blues trying to push me from me white fence And tar me a darker bluey black For all this time I really thought you loved me For all this time You only rubber gloved me Blue overall Overall my anvil...
Boarded up Yeah, we're boarded up Nailed up shut Yeah, we're boarded up Music venue has had it's day Death watch Beetle band moved in to play Groups don't come down from London way 'Cos we're boarded up Yeah, we're nailed up shut Two by fourded up Yeah, we're boarded up Touring companies stay away Rats and mice take the center stage Carpenter's mate have a field day Boarded up Yeah, we're nail...
Books are burning in the main square And I saw there, the fire eating the text Books are burning in the still air And you know where they burn books, people are next I believe the printed word should be forgiven Doesn't matter what it said Wisdom hotline from the dead back to the living Key to the larder for your heart and your head Books are burning in our own town Watch us turn 'round and ca...
Brainiacs Daughter Made me a suit of bricks and mortar And a matching stove pipe hat, oh yes Brainiacs Daughter Took me on a sleigh ride underwater And I'm crazy for girls like that Oh yes Sir, yes Sir Three bags full Sir All across the land the bells ring out It's night, sun shines bright So I reach to hold her frozen hand in flight As we alight in the bottle city of Kandor Brainiacs Daughter...
As you're sweeping Autumn leaves up You are sweeping My fallen heart up with 'em As you're sweeping Autumn leaves up You are sweeping In swish-back broomstick rhythm You're dressed in red Your hair [would had a] brush on fire To make leaves dress up dead Ordered to parade Swayed by broomstick rhythm Hey As you're sweeping Winter snow up They have fallen For you so please forgive 'em As you're ...
Bungalow Bungalow By the sea Bungalow In the sea air Climbing rose Time to spare Luxury accommodation traps the sun So we're working every hour that God made So we can fly away Saving it all up for you Bungalow Bungalow By the sea Bungalow Silver shore line In the gorse You can be mine Standing prime position for the town Working for a vision through this lives So we can fly away Saving it all...
Never seen her glowing All that bright she's throwing like some aurora From her head it's growing Reaching to the ground And all around like a Navaho blanket Never heard her singing Now she's gently ringing like copper wind chimes What on earth is bringing Up this stream the cat who got the cream is licking her lips And smiling like her Cheshire cousin She claims she's found a way to make her ...
What makes you wander far Don't know who you are Now if the vibe is right I'll go out tonight 'Cause it's buzzcity talking It's buzzcity talking Go and find a late night bar If I'm not back, leave the door ajar It's buzzcity talking Talking to me We have sickness in our hair We have time to spare You close another door Break another law when it's Buzzcity talking It's buzzcity talking Go and f...
Thanks to erich sellheim lt;sellheimzfn.uni-bremen.degt; Well, let me tell you about my girlie She goes by the name of sleepy shirley She become a real life wiro Since she learned how to do the cairo And she go Up up down down Up up down down She pours out the sand on the kitchen floor Then we start to camel through the living room door She was cool to me, but now her heart's afiro Since she l...
Dig, dig down... Dig, dig down... chorus Candymine, candymine, tunnelling to honey for a girl so fine Candymine, candymine, tunnelling to honey for a girl so fine Wake up every morning when the clock strikes six Pick up my girlfriend and we pick up sticks Digging for her sweet love and I can't waste time Working down that candymine chorus Finish every evening when the clock strikes five Home t...
How bright are the fires of thought In a chain of command? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh How bright is the medical torch When it's put in our hand? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh My microbes and I We can't wait to lay down and die We realize that we must be spent Like the cells that dissolve when a brainwave is sent How bright are the fires of thought In a chain of command? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh,...
I'm floating over strange land It's a soulless, sequined, showbiz moon I'm floating over strange land And then stranger still, there's no balloon But I'm getting higher Wafted up by fame's fickle fire 'til the Chalk hills and children Anchor my feet Chalk hills and children Bringing me back to earth Eternally and ever Ermine Street. Even I never know where I go when my eyes are closed I'm skat...
Copyright 1993 emi virgin song inc. o.b.o. Emi virgin limited Composer: andy partridge Andy partridge - vocals, guitar, percussion, claps Colin moulding - bass, harmony vocals, claps Dave gregory - good natured ghost effects With Brian doherty - drums Garo yellin - cello David yazbek - keyboards, backing vocals, claps Sean altman - backing vocals Produced by david yazbek Chorus: Cherry cherry ...
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A lie for a lie, but a truth for the truth Church of women is made out of milk Which their love turns to butter Church of women will have you give praise With a laugh, bark and stutter Like us men like us men They are nothing like us men Men have gargoyles 'round their hearts I'm on my knees but dancing Want to worship at the church of women Breathe 'em in until my head goes spinning around Wa...
Man acting like a farmer And he?s treating the woman like a poor cow He got to treat you better from now But man is just a baby And he?s needing your milk of kindness I vow To drink as much as you will allow All the way through history Man machine, no mystery All the way through history Girl have the brain to act just like the weaker sex Down in the cockpit Man need the woman to pull him right...
Collideascope Careful, don't look down the wrong end You will see ships that fall out of the sky Who put that nail in your eye You make me want to cry with your... Collideascope Everything looks smashed and broken You will see fishes that drown in the sea If you don't alter your mind I'd hate you to go blind why don't you Wakey Wakey Wakey Little Sleeper If you doze much longer Then life turns...
Fire sign, indicate luminous pornography Heliograph and morse photography Signal ad, signal ad, signal ad Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality Coherent, match and blazing cuneiform wide open Sales pitch, high pitch, noise Brakes too soft to burn, envisage this Signal ad, signal ad, signal ad Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality Package, carton, package and carton, sell and packag...
I ask myself should I put my finger to the left, no I ask myself should I put my finger to the right, no It doesn't really matter where I put my finger Someone else will come along and move it And it's always been the same It's just a complicated game It's just a complicated game A little girl asked me should she part her hair upon the left, no A little girl asked me should she part her hair u...
Countdown Countdown to Christmas Countdown To Christmas party time We're so happy We want you to be happy too We're so happy And we want to share the secrets of happiness with you Grab a woman beneath the mistletoe Kiss her lips and make her glow No more fighting, no more fuss Ah, it's Christmas Countdown Countdown to Christmas Countdown To Christmas party time We're so happy We want you to be...
Crocodile, no, you won't make me jealous That she left me for him Scene one standing Crushed on landing You may have walked out But I'll swallow up my fate Scene two sitting Man in kitchen Bit and cold lifeless Like the burger on my plate But there's one emotion I'm afraid of Hear him scratching gently to be fed I can't stand it when he sits there smiling I don't want him nesting in my head Cr...
Across a crowded room I first set eyes on you My vision was impaired Obstructed out of view By those faces in a crowded room Them bodies in a crowded room Their breathing in a crowded room And their pushing me out, their pushing me out Their pushing me out Down the fire escape, down the fire escape Down the fire escape, down the fire escape In the crowded room I won't touch too much I felt the...
Another year's gone by The world's grown older Sometimes I heave a sigh People grow colder Every day I do my best to show I can make it in this world I know But all the bad thoughts that people bring My faith in human nature's getting pretty thin Help me get through these cynical days Help me get through my cynical ways You say, it's just a passing phase You've got to help me get through, thes...
Watch them go one two three I'm so happy and so is she In a dance band Show, slow, quick, quick, slow Heel to hell and toe to toe In a dance band Oh, you can do the Bosanova Till the night is through You know Gay Gordon You can meet him too But when you hear that tune One and one makes two Don't step on my toes Don't step on my toes Let's go Watch them go one two three I'm so happy and so is s...
Clock in my head Clock on the wall And the two of them Don't agree at all Friday is heaven Friday is heaven Day in, day out Day in Day in Wish you were here On the shop floor And day out And together we could Count the dots on the wall Friday is heaven Friday is heaven Day in, day out Day in Friday is heaven Friday is heaven Day in Day in Day out Day out Day in Day in Day out Day out Day in
Dear God I hat to be a bother, but I gotta say This world is getting crazier with every day I hope You'll hear me out now as I stop and pray Dear God People take your words and try to twist them round I know You can't be happy with what's goin' down I'm searchin' for some answers, but they can't be found Can You help me out, dear God? Dear God Just the other night I heard somebody say What's t...
I put on a fake smile And start the evening show The public is laughing I guess by now they know So climb from your high horse And pull this freak show down Dear Madam Barnum I resign as clown You said I was the master Of all I surveyed But now I'm sweeping up The last in line in your circus parade Children are clapping As I fall to the floor My heart's torn and broken And they just scream for...
We can plant a seed and watch it grow Food enough to fill a table Running water down an overflow Eat as much as we are able But would the fruit turn ripe If the rains had never been? Oh Lord, deliver us from the elements We, at Your mercy and Your reverence Oh Lord, deliver us from the elements We've no defense, we are impotent You can travel far to distant lands Some, so hot, no man could bea...
Cast away on a desert island Me and poor Crusoe are sharing the same fate Cast away on a desert island With Great Britain written on its name plate With my umbrella, I go walking Through all the sands on a building site Across the shopping malls and motorways Birds from Heathrow fill the Night with people flying to escape Friday comforts me and says, it's pay day Cast away on a desert island M...
Difficult age You're just fourteen And you're not friends with your body Painfully thin Look at your skin Play with yourself for a hobby How can they love a man who does that to himself? Difficult age Turn on the page Have that wee drink in the meantime Difficult age Now you're eighteen Here's all the freedoms you wanted All the best clothes A looker who goes The size of your wage packet flaun...
The bar is crowded and bright But inside I feel empty and decaying The smoky air full of music and words It's our record that is playing Disque bleu is all that I hear Songs that we loved now make me cry Disque bleu brings only a tear You were singing good But you were singing your good-byes To me tonight The night is warm and the pavement Below is a river of young lovers A radio drifting in m...
Do what you do what you Do what you do what you Do what you do to me Do what you do what you Do what you do what you Do what you do to me The stars are out and so am I The stars I see, ain't in the sky I'm heading, heading, heading for Twilight Zone [Incomprehensible] Please don't take me home Do what you do what you Do what you do what you Do what you do to me Do what you do what you Do what ...
Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper 'Cause I love you when you're wild Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper 'Cause I'd hate you to grow mild Since you took that job With a company You've changed so much You just won't recognize me They have you dressed up Like a secretary You mustn't change the things That make you what you are D...
Don't you ever dare call me chickenhead Don't you ever dare Don't you ever dare call me chickenhead Nobody has ever lived that ever did Nobody has ever lived.
You took me Down down down Down a peg Thank you For taking me down a peg Thank you It's true My position had gone to my head Thank you Like some commissionaire who has ideas above his station Or some jumped up councillor who think he's lord of creation You took me down down down down a peg Down down down down a peg Thank you For bringing my feet to the floor Thank you It's true My head wouldn'...
Man acting like a farmer and He's treated the woman like a poor cow We got to treat you better from now But man is just a baby and He's needing your milk of kindness I vow To drink as much as you will allow All the way through history Man, machine, no mystery All the way through history Girl, have the brain to act as like the weaker sex Down in the cockpit Man need the woman to pull him right ...
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It frightens me when you come to mind The day you dropped in the shopping line And my heart beats faster when I think of all the signs All the signs When they carried you out your eyes was open wide The cat went astray and the dog did pine for days and days And I felt so guilty when we played you up When you were ill, so ill What sticks in my mind is the sweet jar on the sideboard And your mul...
I've been praying all the weeks through At home, at work and on the bus I've been praying, I can keep you And to earn enough for us I can take humiliation And hurtful comments from the boss I'm just praying by the weekend I can earn enough for us Found a house that won't repair itself With its windows cracking And a roof held together with holes Just because we're on the bottom of the ladder W...
Gold sun rolls around Chocolate nipple brown Tumble from your arms Like the ground, your breasts swell Land awake from sleep Hares will kick and leap Flowers climb erect Smiling from the moist kiss of her rainbow mouth Stage left Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk Stage right Now the son has died, the father can be born Stand up If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke New lif...
People rushing 'round with no time to spare I'm so dizzy, I'm neither here nor there In this traffic jam, I just want to shout "Let me off o' this English roundabout" English roundabout, English roundabout English round-a And all the horns go 'Beep Beep' All the people follow like sheep I'm full of lights and sound Making my head go 'round, 'round, 'round, 'round Everyone is cursing under thei...
Everything, everything, everything We ever thought or said Went in a box labeled quot;usquot; on a shelf In the back of your head Everything, everything, everything We ever shared or did Stored in a jar which I swear had quot;true lovequot; Pencilled in on the lid Now you're saying, now you're saying, now you're saying That you just don't love me anymore Has there been a thief in your storehou...
Yes, it's true I want that apple, just like William Tell No more floor gazing, no more head down the well I'm feeling extrovert I should be shaking the stars instead of hugging the dirt I swear I'm really burning, fit to boil up the sea Human volcano at a zillion degrees I'm feeling extrovert Instead of quiet and shy I'm really dying to fly I feel like someone else Yes I do, yes I do, yes I do...
The hunt is on to find the fox Cross patchwork fields and spiny copse Much to and froing White horses showing Their pearly teeth He lead them up into a wood Where he escape I guess he should You know he's a late starter But he's much smarter Than the rest He lead them up a garden path Such craftiness You got to laugh They got a clue, man He's almost human Fox on the loose You must see him show...
Here we go then I am the fly up on the wall My prying eyes are looking through your bottom drawer I just came flying through your door You didn't notice that your number had been called I see the mother who's beating the babe I see the money, the pennies you save Stored on computers, birth to the grave I'm telling you, fly on the wall, see, see, see, I'm seeing it all I am the fly up on the wa...
Let us talk about Some trivial things we like A bit of this and that Let?s chew the fat Pour ourselves a glass of Stout And let our Rael Brook shirts hang out Nothing makes us more content To let us wallow in a bit of nonsense We?re all so frivolous tonight, tonight Let?s reveal our childlike nature And leave our stocks And invoices to rot Let?s go to pot Tell our jokes about mothers in law Bu...
Tending my fruit, tending my fruit Ah, you've got to have a hobby A man must have a shed to keep him sane Spraying my buds, spraying my buds Got to keep away diseases I mix the poisons and the wife don't complain Some people say that I am out of my tree Or just a strawberry fool Someday they'll see, 'til then I'll blow you a raspberry 'Cos apples and pears are me So I'm tending my fruit and I ...
Funk pop a roll beats up my soul Oozing like napalm from the speakers and grill Of your radio Into the mouths of babes And across the backs of its willing slaves Funk pop a roll consumes you whole Gulping in your opium so copiously from a disco Everything you eat is waste But swallowing is easy when it has no taste They can fix you rabbits up With your musical feed They can fix you rabbits up ...
Kid, stay and snip your cord off, talk and let your mind loose Can't all think like Chekov but you'll be okay Kid, is this your first time here? Some can't stand the beauty So they cut off one ear but you'll be okay Welcome to the garden of earthly delights Welcome to a billion Arabian nights This is your life and you do what you want to do This is your life and you spend it all, this is your ...
Generals and Majors ah ah They're never too far From battlefields so glorious Out in a world of their own They'll never come down Till once again victorious Generals and Majors always Seem so unhappy 'less they got a war Generals and Majors ah ah Like never before are tired of being action less Calling Generals and Majors Generals and Majors everywhere Calling Generals and Majors Your World Wa...
Is the airplane sweeping low? Dropping leaflets down below. Ho, ho, ho. what they read, what they read [aw commation] Is affecting you Prince othello [stays her glow] Othello, the fellow, othello, othello [down wine] pho-to, oh [guess that's lee] What does this mean to me? Well, got the airplane sweeping low Dropping photo of othello The fellow, othello is gonna Make you Glow, glow, glow. Glow...
Looks as if you're dropping mirrors By the gross Looks as if your nine lives Have left town, town When you paint in gray and drear Eldorado won't appear To run his sword through all the fears That pull you down And it's okay, for the setting sun Will color everything around you, gold And it's okay, for the setting sun Will color everything around you, gold, gold, gold, gold Looks as if you nee...
Just take your suitcase from my wardrobe And pack it full of guns and bombs Then cfc's and germ-war microbes We've been destroying stuff too long And there's no home for us Just you raise your voice in chorus Goodbye humanosaurus They'll teach at schools we were cold-blooded And that we spoke and threw a turd How we all drowned as litter flooded We treated earth like it was dirt And so I must ...
Hey goosey goosey I believe it's for having fun Hey goosey goosey I believe it's for everyone. One red morning With no warning Life comes crashing in To wake you early with it's golden din. One blue evening Cruelly leaving It goes breezing out The very second that you figure it out What it's all for. Everybody has a magic lantern Everybody has an inner eye Everybody has a magic carpet Seems a ...
Laying on the grass My heart it flares like fire The way you slap my face Just fills me with desire You play hard to get 'Cause you're teacher's pet But when the boats have gone We'll take a tumble, excuse for a fumble Shocked me too, the things we used to do on grass If you fancy We can buy an ice-cream cone Your mate has gone She didn't want to be alone I will pounce on you Just us and the c...
Great fire burning, you supplied the spark Fires burning spreading through the ark Animals are panicking I'm animal and panicking Your glance, a match on the tinder wood You never spoke but I understood Bring water Eyes, bring water Great fire burning through Great fire burning through my house Great fire burning through my house and heart Great fire burning, all because of you Fires burning s...
Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman He wants to make you his bride Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman Forever to him you're tied And you know for a million years he has been your lover He'll be a million more And you know for a million years he has been your lover Down through the skin to the core Heed the Greenman Heed the Greenman Please to dance round for th...
When we're laying in bed And we're laying in love You and the blackness Fit me like a velvet glove That's why I go crazy When you flick on your lamp I'm dreaming Hang on to the night Hang on to the night Hang on to the night I don't want to see That dawn light Burn your window When we're feeling drunk In a city park Put away that torch I'm changed in the dark
Have you got Miss Fortune, she's the daughter of rich parents, all she does is cry. One four-letter word is all she wants but you can't buy love so there's no supply. Will you take young Master Charge, the boy who's living well beyond his father's means. Happy families. See his mother kill herself with work to keep her dandy in the latest jeans. Happy families. Happy families is a kid's game. ...
See the flowers 'round the altar See the peaches in tins 'Neath the headmaster's chair Harvest festival See the two who've been chosen See them walk hand in hand To the front of the hall Harvest festival, harvest festival What was best of all was the Longing look you gave me, that longing look More than enough to keep me fed all year See the children with baskets See their hair cut like corn N...
Have you seen Jackie? He's a strange strange strange little girl Make up on his face and his hair in curls Have you seen Jackie? She's a strange strange strange little boy Her long black beard is her pride and joy And all the children follow him around And all the grownups try to drag her down So we sing Hey, leave Jackie alone Hey, his pigeons have flown Hey, she's never at home at all these ...
quot;papersnowquot; From no talking just heads a. partridge, c. frantz, j. harrison, t. quot;blastquot; murray, t. weymouth Andy partridge: vocals, whistles and lyrics Tina weymouth: backing vocals and bass guitar Blast murray: guitar Chris frantz: bongos, drums and loops Jerry harrison: keyboards [transcribed by troy peters lt;tpeters6ix.netcom.comgt;] Pink confetti, shotgun wedding Rocket se...
She likes it hot she likes a tan she steals my infra fed when I'm gone oh no can it be we're heading for a heatwave Her legs are brown a trace of rust she's in love with a MKII deluxe oh no can it be we're heading for a heatwave Her hair is bleached like it's been boiled she browns herself in a sea of olive oil and I come around and she's relaxing in the conservatory
Heaven is paved with broken glass Since your hammer struck my heart This world, a hell of trees and grass All is wrong like north gone south There's a bad taste in my mouth Everything was stars 'Til you had a notion to leave Beauty marks turn scars Bet you had a laugh up your sleeve Congratulations love, love, love, love You made a fool of me and physics Heaven is paved with broken glass Since...
Oh heli, oh heli I'm crouching you with a telescope in hand Looking out across our Lego land I really think it's about time that she came down She a laughing giggly whirlybird She got to be obscene to be obheard I really think it's about time that she came down And I object to all the air male that she pick up The air male that she pick up The air male that she pick up When she's up there twir...
Here comes President Kill again Surrounded by all of his killing men Telling us who, why, where and when President Kill wants killing again Hooray, ring out the bells King Conscience is dead Hooray, now back in your cells We've President Kill instead Here comes President Kill again Broadcasting from his killing den Dressed in Pounds and Dollars and Yen President Kill wants killing again Hooray...
Hold me my daddy I never felt lower than dirt on the floor I say hold me my daddy I never felt like crying oceans before If this means war, why are we in it? Might've fired off a couple of rounds I didn't mean to begin it If these are the bullets That every father and son must chew Well then hold me my daddy I forgot to say I love you Hold me my daddy It hurts me to see grow men fighting this ...
Holly up on Poppy, Canter never stop She has escaped from the world Where they bake beautiful girls Holly up on Poppy, trotting to the top She talks and banners unfurl Their secrets crayoned in swirls Everyday I have to pluck up Courage to look her in the eyes The eyes of storms Anyway I love to watch her Ride and play the alchemy That love performed, laughing Holly up on Poppy, Canter never s...
An alchemy, human alchemy We stole them from their Freedom to be sold To turn their skins of black Into the skins of brightest gold An alchemy, human alchemy We stoked the fires of trade With human coals And made our purses From the flailed skins of purest souls An alchemy, human alchemy Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood, the color o...
Humble Daisy Form a chain to hold all battleships in check Humble Daisy Knit a ladder down to nature's sunken wreck Ragged rug unbound, tangle trip the lovers Royal barge aground Brighter than all of the others on the window sill I'll sing about you if nobody else will Humble Daisy Cast the milk and coins of morning's cash about Humble Daisy I fell down to heaven as you picked me out We'll loo...
I am the audience There's no doubt, no consequence I could make the morning papers If I use my capers Let's be the Audience I might lose my patience Polite applause excepted To the ones selected, as the audience... Oh I ... am the audience No doubt, no consequence Cause I'm the Audience Let's be the audience I might lose my patience Polite applause excepted To the ones selected I am the audien...
I bought myself a liarbird He came with free drinks just to blur The lies falling out like rain On an average English summer's afternoon I bought myself a new notebook Sharpened my guitar and went to look If this biz was just as bongo As the liarbird made out All he would say Is, "I can make you famous All he would say All he would say "Just like a household name is All he would say Methinks w...
And I may as well wish for the moon in hand I own this river, I own this town All of its climbers and its wino's sliding down But I can't own her and I never will No, I can't own her and that's a bitter pill Taken with rain Till the gutter shines like the swirling sky Like the swirling sky I've got all morning, I've got all year It's down in my pocket with the daylight folded there But I can't...
I drank a rainbow but I could not get me drunk All I could get me was blue, Red round the eyes where I cried bout how green I'd been Regarding you And all the works you do I took a jet plane but I could not get me gone All I could get me was here, Stuck in the dirt ankle deep, riches crashing in our atmosphere No parachute hangs near And I don't want to find myself this way again I don't want ...
Oh, I need protection Nothing is safe and Nothing is truly sacred If you want to stay alive Keep your body from the undertakers Sing out Oh, I need protection Have you ever had a threat? Have you ever had, stare? [Unverified], pause to make You can see it on TV From the pleasing safety of your armchair Sing out Oh, I need protection When it slap you in the face Will you take, to consider Down,...
Hot as golden sand in fields We whiled away the hours I'm thinking of the days we had Enormous super powers Yes, I'm sleeping, my mind's on the blink I thought a page, like it's written in ink When I remember distant days I remember many things But most of all, I remember the sun Most of all, I remember the sun Most of all, I remember the sun Squinting at the sun through eyes Screwed up by a f...
Thanks to erich sellheim lt;sellheimzfn.uni-bremen.degt; I sit in the snow The town lights aglow The air is alight We drown in the night
I'd like that if we could cycle down some lane I'd like that if we could ride into the rain No macs, getting wet I'd be your Albert if you'd be Victoria We'd laugh because each drop would make me grow up Really high, really high like a really high thing Say, a sunflower I'd like that I'd like that if we could lay before my fire What would you like? I'd like that if you could slide me from this...
I'm bugged, you all look like insects In your brand new sun specs I'm bugged, I'm bugged I drop a little note through my sympathetics door I think I'm going ga ga, I just can't take anymore At first I see 'em swarming from a dark and midnight nest And when I see 'em fiddling, well, I think you've guessed the rest I'm bugged, you all look like insects In your brand new sun specs I'm bugged, I'm...
I'm the man who murdered love Yeah, what do you think to that? I'm the man who murdered love Yeah, what do you think to that? He was begging on his bended knee For me to put him from his misery He hadn't worked at all this century Said, I'd do a job for all humanity I'm the man who murdered love Yeah, what do you think to that? I'm the man who murdered love Yeah, what do you think to that? I p...
Well, would you want me in your afternoons If I seduced you in your Mills and Boon? Well, I'll be the master, if you'll be the maid But don't ya get those headaches in another life I'll bring you milk tray from a parachute I'll play the Hollywood hunk, you can dye your roots Well, I'll be your Burton if you'll be my Liz There might be flying pigs in another life It's how we're built, love, don...
Boom goes my heart Dancing around your daisies Church bells will start Sat on you reading your ages I drift away In loving memory of a name Covered in moss You may have died for your country Forgotten, not lost You're laid to rest where you're wanted I stare awhile In loving memory of a name England can never repay you You gave your life to be buried alongside The place you loved The sermons a...
Instant tunes only just been made Instant songs never to be played Instant tunes hanging out to dry Oh let me try to introduce you to Instant tunes Instant tunes Instant tunes Instant tunes Ever and ever will they give us pleasure? Their instant, still instant Like mother, mother used to make it, oh Instant tunes give instant cash Make me want to start a backlash Let me have the recipe And mak...
I'm heading into the atom age My contemporary house is all the rage My wife's getting lazy, she's going gadget crazy She wants a palette shaped coffee table and a matching settee I'm heading into the atom age I'm heading into the atom age My contemporary house is all the rage My kids have gone obscene, they want to marry at fourteen They want a palette shaped coffee table and a matching settee...
andy partridge Chant your spirit free; Rush to greet truth like a dart Shake your bag o'bones, Shake your bag o'bones. That's not traffic roar, That's a leopard in your heart, Shake your bag o'bones, Shake your bag o'bones. Go tell your stale friends, Go tell false prophets, And drug traffickers, Not to try to push our bodies any faster We're dancing with disaster, And the first will be the la...
guest appearance by the dukes of stratosphear It's snowing angels, on my front porch Take a broom and sweep one in I'm such a lucky guy, such a lucky guy Even though my shoes have broken I can't deny my toes The right to fresh air And the joy of poking through It's snowing angels Hope I'll catch me one It's snowing angels By my window Take a net and fish one in I'm such a lucky guy, such a luc...
andy partridge There may be no golden fleece, But human riches I'll release Oh, my head is spinning like the world and it's filled with beasts I've seen, Let me put my bag down and I'll tell you it all right from the start, Like the scarlet woman who would pick on the boys she thought were green, And the two faced man who made a hobby of breaking his wife's heart. Seems the more I travel, From...
Scared of love, love and swimming pools Falling in, you said, was for fools But when you're standing on the edge You won't hear me because your blood is singing Jump, jump, go ahead and jump, jump If it's what your heart is wanting to do This is real life you're dreaming through And there is no glue to hold you down So, go ahead and go ahead and jump Scared of love, love and aeroplanes Falling...
J.U.M.P.I.N.G. jumping in gomorah, I'm religion free J.U.M.P.I.N.G. jumping in gomorah, I'm religion free Bring your horn of plenty Gold calves if you got 'em We'll get stuck in history Bring your burning bush All aboard for sodom Next stop tower of Babel Harlots if you're able We'll get stuck in history J.U.M.P.I.N.G. All aboard for sodom
J.u.m.p.i.n.g. jumping in gomorrah, I'm religion free J.u.m.p.i.n.g. jumping in gomorrah, I'm religion free Bring your horn of plenty Gold calves, if you got 'em We'll get stuck in history All aboard for sodom, Bring your burning bush, Harlots if you're able We'll get stuck in history Next stop tower of babel J.u.m.p.i.n.g. All aboard for sodom
Everyone's creeping up to the money God Putting tongues where they didn't ought to be On stepping stones of human hearts and souls Into the land of 'Nothing for free' Well, the way that we're living Is all take and no giving There's nothing to believe in The loudest mouth will hail the new found way To be king for a day Everyone's licking up to the new king pin Trying to get a way up with the ...
Knights in shining karma tend your flame And with love for armor they'll remain Ever by your bed, guarding, still sleeping Shield your soul from this rain Knights in shining karma will remain Jealous winter sun, cold as Vichyssoise Steals your smile for fuel They'll ignite with braziers of warming stars Knights in shining karma wash your feet And with spotless darma come complete Ever by your ...
Oh, knuckle down, love his skin It doesn't matter what color skin he's locked in Knuckle down, knuckle down and love that skin Knuckle down, love his race It doesn't matter if you win or lose a little face Knuckle down and love that race Because one bright morning The world might end with a big bang, big bang And you'll never ever get yourself another chance So put aside the hoodoo and some of...
Oh ladybird I have heard you wish to walk me through your garden I crave your pardon if I woke you with my thinking Ladybird Oh ladybird I have heard you wish to walk me through your meadow You'll spread no wings to fly in fright if I'm beside you Ladybird All through the winter time When wood was warm and splintered Time seemed longer than a goods train Now that spring is back again I'll ask ...
Leisure They taught me how to work But they can't teach me how to shirk correctly Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh As you see, science once again robs us of our jobs They've put a microchip in my place I hide behind a screen of aggression nowadays It's just a way of saving some face So now I'm permanently drunk Like the rest of the race with leisure If you think I'm clowning I assure you that ...
Let's make a den What shall we use? Make it out of hay Who will be leader? In it we can play at both being mothers and fathers until we have Children of our own. Let's make a den What shall we use? Make it out of wood Who will be leader? Wouldn't it be good if we could fight off rival gangs and take total Possession of the hill For the rest of our days? Isn't that what we can all look forward ...
I have learnt there's a magical spot at the hop Come with me to the church on the corner, the hop There's nuts and crisps and there's c-c-cola on tap A good time had by those boys and those girls at the hop Tell me what do you say? Tell me what do you say? Tell me what do you say? I tell you, life begins at the hop, boys and girls Prepare yourself for the boys in the band at the hop The cheap ...
Everybody lives somewhere Mud hut or igloo But what I got is the hottest spot And it's away from you Everybody says something Truth lies or both But dear all your hot air Don't encourage my growth Do you wonder why I look so fresh Do you wonder why I look so tall Do you wonder why you'll never ever move me Life is good in the greenhouse Rather be a plant than be your Mickey Mouse Life is good ...
I'm in the limelight, no time for sun ray We are the happening, this day is our day I'm in the limelight, big on my block now I'm in the limelight, I'm in the limelight I'm in the limelight I'm in love with myself Please don't break the spell Give to someone else I am a success, at least for a short while I make decisions, influence people I'm in the limelight, big on my block now I'm in the l...
She's a little lighthouse when she Opens up her huge eyes And streams of diamonds shoot out 'Til we're wading waist deep in her brilliant love She's a little lighthouse when she Opens up her red mouth And gold word ribbons rope and rodeo The dark clouds in bouquet above For how long will this dark age last? For how long must we wait to learn? Across the black and fossil ocean vast I spy love a...
I stumbled in and I fell straight asleep in the chair Swear I did Woke with a start and I thought I saw you floating by Swear I did The fixtures and furniture's the same As the second you walked out the door But here in my head you put a ghost train And I can't go 'round any more And I hear the passengers scream I'm living in a haunted heart And I tell myself it's all a bad dream I'm living in...
Living through another Cuba it's 1961 again and we are piggy in the middle while war is polishing his drum and peace plays second fiddle Russia and America are at each other's throats but don't you cry just on your knees and pray, and while you're down there, kiss your arse goodbye We're the bulldog on the fence while others play their tennis overhead it's hardly love all and somebody might wi...
I want a back seat Because I'm dead beat I'm respirating Two [unverified] of the [unverified] Gives us sleepyheads, sleepyheads The road ahead, it takes us to our bed Sleepyheads, sleepyheads Our minds they race but our bodies are dead Just like looking for footprints Looking for footprints The lights are twisted Each one is misted To far and counting Head nod in twenty Gives us sleepyheads, s...
See the lovers all gone crazy Looking for romance it seems Many sleepless nights will follow Some may lose but some succeed Love at first sight What they want is, hey oh, love Make a play of lust intention Only just one thing in mind Make a slip could be forever Wedding bells, the shotgun kind Love at first sight What they want is, hey oh, love Love at first sight What they want is, hey oh, lo...
High climbs the summer sun High stands the corn And tonight, when my work is done We will borrow your father's carriage We will drink and prepare for marriage Soon, my darling, soon, my darling Shilling for the fellow who brings the sheep in Shilling for the fellow who milks the herd Shilling for the fellow with a wife for keeping How can we feed love on a farmboy's wages? Deep under winter sn...
We're only making plans for Nigel We only want what's best for him We're only making plans for Nigel Nigel just needs that helping hand And if young Nigel says he's happy He must be happy, he must be happy He must be happy in his work We're only making plans for Nigel He has his future in a British steel We're only making plans for Nigel Nigel's whole future is as good as sealed Yeah and if yo...
Me and the wind are celebrating your loss Me and the wind are pulling kites and pushing trees Me and the wind are celebrating your loss Me and the wind are feeling freer than air should ever be Should ever be, should ever be, should ever And when you lured me into your syrup All I could think of was What a lovely way for me to go I never really realized that Just like the struggling summer fli...
Woolworth beauty Factory beau Arm in arm They must go To the church of dance with the light on low Meccanic dancing oh we go Can't wait until the weekend comes I want to be with all my chums Alcohol is an easy key Helps you unwind And dance with me To a disco trot from germany I'm standing in front of this girl I'm under a flourescent light I've had a few beers inside me I feel like a giant to...
Woolworth beauty Factory beau Arm in arm They must go To the church of dance with the light on low Meccanic dancing oh we go Can't wait until the weekend comes I want to be with all my chums Alcohol is an easy key Helps you unwind And dance with me To a disco trot from Germany I'm standing in front of this girl I'm under a flourescent light I've had a few beers inside me I feel like a giant to...
andy partridge Programmes of violence, As entertainment, Brings the disease into your room. We know the germ, Which is man-made in metal, Is really a key to your own tomb. Prevention is better than cure, Bad apples affecting the pure, You'll gather your senses I'm sure Then agree to, Melt the guns, Melt the guns, Melt the guns, And never more to fire them. Melt the guns, Melt the guns, Melt th...
Higher, I'm a king, yes, I'm a head of state But I'm the kitchen, boy who'll wash your dirty plate I had no message and the message was We're all Jesus, Buddha and the Wizard of Oz I'm merely a man and I bring nothing but love for you I'm merely a man and I want nothing that you can't do And you know it's true that with logic And love we'll be lifting humanity higher, higher I'm all religious ...
From pools of xylophone clear From caves of memory I saw the children at heart That we once used to be Borne on foaming seahorse herd Compose with trumpeting shell From lines across their hands A song as new as new moon As old as all the sands Shrank to stagnant from Atlantic wild Lost that child 'til mermaid smiled Summoned by drum rolling surf As laughing fish compel The young boy woken in m...
We'd like to wish you Just the merriest christmas The merriest christmas You've ever seen We'd like to wish you Just the merriest christmas The merriest christmas There's ever been
We smelled your soup on the fire cooking We saw your toys and your pencils looking bright So bright and yet they come from, oh, so far away We heard your flags and your banners flapping We felt the air from your hands all clapping time In time, I'm sure your time is not so far away Millions, all moving forward Millions, all babbling crossword Millions, all flow as water Millions, all bright wi...
I?m 12 o?clock, all daylight hours I?ll warm your bed, I?ll grow your flowers Like I?m a miniature sun This ball ignited when she told me I was her only one I?m not the same now I?m not that plain little boy I?m all aflame now I?m king up here like a miniature sun No life comes close, I?m rising higher On holiday, on ball of fire You made a miniature sun There's no more shadows in this world s...
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On a hanging garden ------ ----------- [babylon seat] ------------- [baby batters] ----------------------- [weak] ---------- [hope you be great] And the children have said their backbones Will hurt you if you think For there is a doll's arm Floating in the scum And it's calling you over While it's calling you a bum And it beckons you to frown And it beckons you to brown And it thinks it's foun...
Fine art never moved my soul No vintage wine and designer clothes But my world shakes for me My bird sings sweetly A different kind of tinsel Decorates my tree Yeah, my bird performs A thousand Cheshire cats Grin inside of me Yeah, my bird performs There she goes Shakespeare's sonnets leave me cold The drama stage and the high brow prose But my world shakes for me My bird sings sweetly The bri...
In my heart, in my heart You want some lovely, I got some lovely In my head, in my head Where the lions wear the right tie Where the gems roar, there be lovely You want some lovely, I got some lovely In my bed In my bed Where the ocean wears the shore down Where's the on switch? There be lovely Laying waiting naked for you We can play every day We can play at being lovers We can play every day...
My love explodes all over the world for you, yeah you My love explodes in diamonds and pearls for you, just you When the straight plastic bowler men Grab your soul and pull you down down down Call my name on your dream telephone Catch a saucer and I'll be around Blow 'em out of town My love explodes My love explodes like the stars up in space for you, yeah you My love explodes with the whole h...
All of paris giggles with flags Laughing lions leap up from the page My the world looks good from where you are My the world looks good from where you paint from Barcelona, nuclear festive, wire women Wriggle from life's cage My the world looks good from where you are My the world looks good from where you paint from My the world looks good from where you are My the world looks like it's all a...
My train is coming I can see it up the line My train is coming And what's on it's all mine My train is coming I can hear it up the track My train is coming Bringing sugar time back Oh little darling Since you've gone I've been so sad and blue Little darling If you come home I'll be good to you Got to get it while it's here That's a lesson that is clear Got to get it while it's here And I hear ...
I dunno what she got, I dunno what she got I dunno what she got, I dunno what she got I dunno what she got but it seems to have a grip upon me No telling where she learn the things she do to me And I don't know what she done wrong but I want to hurt her Wanna take it out on her, wanna take it out on her Wanna take it out on her with my weapon With my weapon, with my weapon, with my weapon She'...
Hey, what you going to do now? You're standing there and wondering how You, you got to make some noise Just like one of the girls or even one of the boys When you do it, it ain't no disgrace I can see it written all across your face Neon shuffle and shuffle into outer space I said, "The neon shuffle is a dance for the human race" I said, "The neon shuffle is gonna pull you outta your place" Yo...
We need a new broom To sweep it all clean We need a beat boom We need a new scheme Break all the deadlocks And spill all the beer Mr ditko was right Mr a so near Break out the paints and the brushes And spill out your hearts No amount of soft soap Can ever give you a fresh start We are walking on a tight rope We can slip beyond religion The answer's in your cranium And not on independent telev...
I think my watch has bust and so is time I borrowed all my love so nothing's mine There's nothing decent on the TV page, yeah Like a new town animal in a furnished cage Like a new town animal in a furnished cage Uhh, it's gone eleven and the bar is shut I'm sitting waiting like a real good mutt There's nothing decent on the TV page, yeah Like a new town animal in a furnished cage Like a new to...
There is no language in our lungs To tell the world just how we feel No no, no no, no no, bridge of thought No mental link No letting out just what you think There is no language in our lungs Lungs, lungs, lungs There is no muscle in our tongues To tell the world what's in our hearts No no, no no, no, we're leaving nothing behind Just chiseled stones No chance to speak before we're bones There...
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A musical in three acts by XTC Cast of characters GRAHAM, a teenager MOTHER, a busy housewife FATHER, a conservative husband POLICEMAN, a young constable SCENE: A kitchen in suburbia, one bright Saturday morning ACT ONE Narrator: The insect-headed worker-wife will hang her waspies on the line. Her husband burns his paper, sucks his pipe while studying their cushion-floor, his viscous poly-past...
Can't you see 'em, in obscene procession? Clad in fox fur all cocky, they're violent and insane Pink and wobbling with all their possessions They live on junk food and tv and booze And bottles of pain relief pills and all. Don't you love them? They make life hell here And think there's heaven above 'em. Can't you hear 'em in obscene procession? It's called talking, it's how they betray their c...
Officer blue Really love the things you do Even when I was just eight years old Eight years old Officer blue Is it true what they say? That when you work you're still at play Still at play Oh, officer blue I really love the things you do It's magical, people in a human zoo Officer blue Cast a shadow on the wall But by torchlight even mice look tall They don't fall Officer blue In a blaze of hu...
Hey yeah Hey yeah, yeah Climb up here beside me We can ride and find a friend unfound Put your foot upon the laughing gas And drive your grin around Omnibus, take all of us All of us, take Omnibus Ain't nothing in the world like a white skinned girl Make your Union Jack and make your flag unfurl You can't say you've ridden 'Til you've given up your heart and seat Man that lady clippie rip your...
I got so much to say But I'm afraid it'll come out wrong I'm not a king to the eighties thing Where you look after number one But I won't rock the boat 'Cause I'm scared what might happen I won't rock the boat 'Cause I'm one of the millions Who never seem to do anything He never seems to do anything I never seem to do anything He never seems to do anything And every time I get the urge To stri...
She has six swans singing in her sauna So she can't hear what's going on No she can't hear what's going on In the outside world In the outside world In the outside Bad black and white men Standing in their pigpen Selling guns to simpletons To shoot 'em in the abdomen And she's not interested in that And she's not interested in that She has six swans singing in her sauna Outside - world - outsi...
So pale and precious is the light that will shine Up every morning on her bed Out of the windows in her head So pale and precious like the sun as it climbs If all of her moments were put down in a book Then I could read it 'til I went blind Well than I'm sure it would taste like wine If all of the tears she cried flowed into a brook Don't care what the others might say Fade away As far as I'm ...
Paper, iron, won't buy Eden Working for paper and for iron Work for the right to keep my tie on Working for paper and for iron Work for the unicorn and lion I pray the kids aren't starving No chicken for the Sunday carving I'll stay for one more farthing I take home my notes and coins every week I'm told I'm worth much more But the church says turn the other cheek The other cheek Iron, paper, ...
Paper, iron, won't buy Eden Working for paper and for iron Work for the right to keep my tie on Working for paper and for iron Work for the unicorn and lion I pray the kids aren't starving No chicken for the Sunday carving I'll stay for one more farthing I take home my notes and coins every week I'm told I'm worth much more But the church says turn the other cheek The other cheek Iron, paper, ...
Pink confetti, shotgun wedding Rocket secrets someone's shredding Nineteenth floor. Laundry ticket that exploded Joust with quaker pamphlet goaded Into war. Ankle deep we heroes amble Ankle deep we wade Ankle deep through someone else's Ticker tape parade Softly, softly, softly Falls papersnow... Softly, softly, softly All of our works blow away... Petals fell on petaluma Till receipt from mon...
Anytime you rise, I?m here and I?m crazy for you pink thing You make me want to laugh, you make me want to cry When I stroke your head I feel a hundred heartbeats high Ooh, pink thing I want to take you out and show you round the world Pink thing it?ll be okay If I could only wake you from your slumber curled Pink thing what would straight folks say? That man isn?t fit to enter heaven That man...
I climb up, spending daylight Slide down, bankrupt on the other side Some sweet girl, playing my wife Runs off with a boy whose bike she'll ride Playground, it's a playground Marked by the masters and bruised by the bullies In the playground, every day ground Never stop rehearsing, rehearsing for the big square world Bells will ring, door flies open Hare and Greyhound in the old kiss chase You...
Poor skeleton steps out, dressed up in bad blood Bad brains, bad thoughts and others deeds Poor skeleton no doubt, one of these days You can cast aside your human, be free When the cities run with blood and you drink our health in mud All flesh be gone, save your dry and joyous shout For the day poor skeleton steps out Step out, step out, step out, step out Poor skeleton steps out, sprung from...
Look at these hands Spokes of the sun God delay you, spray you Prince of orange, climb the ladder Prince of orange will die. Brass robinettes Trumpet and drums for the taking, baking Prince of orange, climb the ladder Prince of orange will die. All the food he steals is all right Far the tall and gentle poplar Causing fanfare to those listening Now Drape 'round your head Mischief and secrets i...
I've got a private eye to see if you've a mother I've got a private eye to find out where you go I've got a private eye to see if you've a lover I've got a private eye to tell me what you know You really should tread much more careful Or you're going to get a stareful from my private eye I've got a private eye to search the seas and skies I've got a private eye to follow you around I've got a ...
Pulsing pulsing There's a beat in his arm still Pulsing pulsing Like the throb of an anthill Pulsing pulsing No death in the rain I've been washing my hands [Unverified] I'm pulsing You're pulsing Who's pulsing? What's pulsing? Pulsing pulsing There's a lump in his throat still Pulsing pulsing At the site of a crash throw Pulsing pulsing No push in the vein I've been washing my hands [Unverifi...
Gather 'round Punch and Judy did it truly And were married in a haste In love, maybe, using the baby As a kind of romance paste She's grown fatter, her hair cut shorter Looks much older than nineteen He's a drinker, not a thinker Baby spoiled his could-have-been This must be make-believe This must be make-believe This must be make-believe 'Cos who do we know, dear, who acts like that? Punch an...
[transcribed by naoyuki isogai] Quicksilver, headed out for the creed Quicksilver, he's gonna take on wheel Quicksilver, she's a girl for me In a pool of mercury... Quicksilver, she pours, you can jaw Quicksilver, where do you go man, go Quicksilver, count for 1, 2, 3 In a pool of mercury... She's a girl in a million, She's a girl in a billion, x2 She's a girl in a trillion, She's a girl in a ...
Did you think you knew the game? Did you think that fame and fortune's All that I had in my head? Bang you're dead It's not a game I'm gonna play with you Did you think I'm high and dry? Did you think I'd hide from the Tentacles of the deaf dumb and blind Their poison inks behind me At the bottom of the sea And your criticism doesn't worry me And I'll sing Ra ra for red rocking horse Ride on o...
Well, there's a message up in China That they're getting in Japan It's bouncing off an ocean liner And make 'em shake 'em in Siam And all my kids are complaining That there's nowhere to go And all my kids are complaining That the songs are too slow All I'm saying is you're deaf To the fact that there's Radios in motion Atmosphere to ocean Radios in motion Gets you out of your red, white and bl...
In this secret time, invading on our privacy Unknowing we mime, we play for the ministry The can film you in bed Or when you take a bath They can tape every cry They can tape every laugh They can turn you around so you won't know what's Real by reel Busy little bees recording everything you feel On real by reel Documented down like rats They're catching up on every squeal On real by reel Real ...
You better watch your tape boys It's the tint that angers the beast Got their sails in the sunset They've already got the east Red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red Oh don't you let them make you Don't let them make you see red You better watch your lead boys It's already in your veins Did you ever see the color? Iron turns when it rains Red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red Don't you let th...
Red brick dream, windows scream As the rusting North Star shines above And drops its iron beams Crashing down upon the roofs of Swindon Town I heard the engine's dying breath Castles and kings all starved to death I dropped the Coronation cup Please don't wake them up from red brick dream Red brick dream, buttons gleam By the light of the furnace pouring Molten memories Splashing down upon the...
Reign of blows, reign of blows Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldier The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and symbol Are sickles that reap only weeds The reign of blows, reign of blows Reign of blows precedes a storm of revolution People have no place in th...
It's in the order of their hedgerows It's in the way their curtains open and close It's in the look they give you down their nose All part of decency's jigsaw I suppose Heard the neighbor slam his car door Don't he realize this is respectable street What d'you think he bought that car for 'Cos he realize this is respectable street Now they talk about abortions In cosmopolitan proportions to th...
It's in the order of their hedgerows It's in the way their curtains open and close It's in the look they give you down their nose All part of decency's jigsaw I suppose Heard the neighbor slam his car door Don't he realize this is respectable street What d'you think he bought that car for 'Cos he realize this is respectable street Now they talk about abortions In cosmopolitan proportions to th...
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Rip van ruben You've been asleep for a hundred seconds Now the whole world has changed There's no home on the range For rip van ruben You've been asleep for a hundred minutes Now you've woke and she's gone All alone in a dark new dawn Sits rip van ruben Don't let it get you down Hop on a tram and go up town Watch a silent film See the biplanes fly bye bye Everything new and upside down Pinchin...
Hey, I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus Take a packet of seeds, take yourself out to play I want to see a river of orchids where we had a motorway Push your car from the road Push your car from the road Just like a mad dog you're chasing your tail in a circle Just like a mad dog you're chasing your tail in a circle It's all in your...
Am I asleep or am I fast Your every race You first, you last Roads girdle the globe We safe in your concrete robe Hail mother motor, hail piston rotor, hail wheel Roads girdle the globe Am I tied in or do I turn Your holy incense You tyre burn Roads girdle the globe We safe in your concrete robe Hail mother motor, hail piston rotor, hail wheel Roads girdle the globe Steer me Anna Steer me Anna...
Cape canaveral florida, ready for takeoff stages Zoom destination an isolated planet mars On which observed many relics of past ages On return despite rocks no spars 2nd destination world's largest planet jupiter From there obtained some ancient relics When returned at base -- we want hoopiter And we would like some fancy cow's milk 3rd destinations many ringed planet saturn While there darted...
Birds beware, expect me up there Me and air are feeling light today Jets should hide, I'll fly alongside Me and pride are bolted tight today I've been set off by a pretty little girl Like a rocket from a bottle shot free I've been just explosive since you lit me I've been up with the larks, I've been shooting off sparks And I'm feeling in love Hate step back, my smile might just crack Can't st...
Rook, rook, read from your book Who murders who and where is the treasure hid? Crow, crow, spill all you know Is that my name on the bell? Rook, rook, gaze in the brook If there's a secret, can I be part of it? Crow, crow, before I'll let go Say, is that my name on the bell? Soar up high, see the semaphore from the washing lines Break the code of the whispering chimneys and traffic signs What'...
Oh run a, oh run a, oh runaway Oh run a, oh run a, oh runaway Please come home Oh run a, oh run a, oh runaway Please come home Daddy hit you in a temper But he's sorry now Please come home Just a quarrel had with mummy Just a family row Please come home You caught mum chasing dad with a knife Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry You ran away to escape from the fights Don't cry, don't cry...
Fire they cried So evil must die And yields are good So men pull back hoods and smile The scapegoat blood spilled Spittled and grilled it crackled and spat And children grew fat on the meat Change must be earnt Sacrificial bonfire must burn Burn up the old Ring in the new Assembled on high Silhouette against the sky The smoke prayed and pranced And sparks did their dance in the wind Shadows wo...
Fire they cried So evil must die And yields are good So men pull back hoods and smile The scapegoat blood spilled Spittled and grilled It crackled and spat Children grew fat on the meat Change must be earnt Sacrificial bonfire Must burn Burn up the old Bring in the new Burn up the old Bring in the new Assembled on high Silhouette against the sky The smoke prayed and pranced And sparks did thei...
Red as a pin with a tortoise skin, and I'm only a saturn boy I can't explain to your minute brain that I'm only a saturn boy All you wanna do is kiss and kiss and kiss all night saturn Get down on the floor, I'll show you how to do it right saturn All my folks home in ganza one? saturn Sure know how to have, sure know how to have themselves some fun And we can stare from an old grand chair, an...
Hope you enjoyed your flight In one of our new straw aeroplanes You'll find things here are just like What you're used to There's lots of waste and razor wire And no one gives a damn about the land We just stand around and stare Like you folks do For we ain't got no brains And we ain't got no hearts It's just that wild old wind That tears us all apart We're the scarecrow people Have we got lot...
I look out of my window at night I see the stars and I'm filled with fright I got a feeling someone's looking It ain't the aliens at the foot of my bed It's more the ale inside my head I got a feeling something's cooking Science friction burns my fingers Electricity still lingers Hey put away that ray How do you Martians say, "I love you"? I read my comics from front to back I'll be ready for ...
Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man Putting end to evil doers games Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man Maybe you are in his book of names Maybe you are in his book of names So be kind and helpful to your mother Just think twice before you try to steal When he cuts with sticky silver snippers You may find that wounds will never heal All self made bad boys If you ref...
It's raining on the beach She inches close but out of reach The waves look painted on Seagulls screaming The sea is warship gray It whispers, "Fool" then slides away Black coastline slumbers on Seagulls screaming kiss her, kiss her And all the flags that flap on the pier Spell why on earth do you want The fog hides much but one thing is clear She's nearer Dead deck chairs under shrouds And lif...
Season cycle moving round and round Pushing life up from a cold dead ground It's growing green, it's growing green Well, darling, don't you ever stop to wonder About the clouds, about the hail and thunder 'Bout the baby and its umbilical Who's pushing the pedals on the season cycle? Summer chased by autumn, autumn chased by winter Season cycle go from death to life Winter chased by springtime,...
Hey, hey, the clouds are away There's straw for the donkeys And the innocents can all sleep safely All sleep safely My, my, sun is pie There's fodder for the cannons And the guilty ones can all sleep safely All sleep safely And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working over...
Ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho Now you see it, now you don't Has no bones to hurt your throat Good and sweet, nice to eat If you like it, just repeat I'll set myself on fire I'll set myself on fire I'll set myself on fire Oh, strike my hand on a stone, Joan God knows this is yuck I do it all in unison Ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho We have the pool, I know that's cool Why do you take me for a fool? Try the ra...
Hey, rock, rock Hey, rock, rock Hey, rock, rock Hey, rock, rock I'm enlisting, overseas aid Need assisting, help with a maid Get the expert, on mademoiselles He could diffuse, any bombshell If I could only be tough like him Then I could win My own small battle of the sexes And Sgt. Rock is going to help me Make the girl mine keep her stood in line And Sgt. Rock is going to help me Make the gir...
Here he come again Dress in all that skin Like he was still human being Look at he long ears And he big brown eyes And with them truth he is seeing Isn't it a shame you kicked that girl Isn't it a shame she kicked you back, jackass She really shake you donkey up She really make you donkey up She really shake you donkey up, quite a packet She really shake you donkey up She really make you donke...
Zap, pow pow zap Zap, pap, pap, pap zap Da da da da Zap, pap pap zap Pop, pop pop pop There's something coming Maybe a song or two Can't stop from strumming Can you feel it too? I'm merely a man and I want Nothing but love from you I'm merely a man and I want Nothing more than to do What I want in the souls Of the order Love [in a write up] [from an anything] daughter It's another another [pro...
Awful plastic boots that come above her ankle Dayglo mini skirts just like a pop art spangle Digs vanilla fudge buys lipstick by the pound Gets that 'English' look resembles Kath McGowan Have you seen her hair it's a style from heaven Ah she's nowhere she thinking this is 1967? She's so square she's nowhere She's so square she's nowhere Take her to a disco and screaming Lord Sutch it Everyone ...
Hiding faces turning pages Still they read and read Double deckers full of smokers Look who's gone to seed Well the sun's getting higher Think I'll take a flyer The thought of it's causing me pain Ooh Shiny Cage Talk a walk under the subway See an old school chum Window shopping for a short while Then we'll have some fun Well the shops closing early Everywhere's deserted Hello and down comes t...
Slacks, coffee trend I could have been in the us navy Flapping grey, coffee smoke I could have been in another nineteen-fifty Where the hell were you? Rough stencil, print music Cardboard, cardboard, cardboard, cardboard, cardboard coffee Saxophone mention barbers, n.y. The cigarette was burning, the flat shoes Stool Bongo, coffee, don't mention that black man The leather-coat was his Where wa...
I was following adventure, nothing mattered And I knew best I had a blood in my head, no one could shake it Cause I knew best But now I find Remains of people that I left behind I never took them wise And now the skeletons tell me hit me now and then Here come the skeletons to say I told you so again Wish I'd done things differently Cause skeletons don't set you free I'd make a life for myself...
I'm living in my smokeless zone My house is not a happy home I got to do something 'fore I kick the bucket I'm living in this smokeless zone I clean my dusty window sills But everything I grow it kills I don't want to stay in this street any longer I'm living in this smokeless zone England's green, once so pleasant land Living on a time bomb, yeah The whole damn place Is gonna turn to sand Bah...
It isn't even winter but I'm freezing, freezing This sort of feeling isn't pleasing And what I want to know, man Why? Oh why, does she treat me like a snowman? It isn't even winter but I'm freezing, freezing This sort of feeling isn't pleasing And what I want to know, man Why? Oh why, does she treat me like a snowman? She's been building me, up quite steadily Seems like I've been here years an...
In my heart, in my heart You want some lovely, I got some lovely I've got some lovely in my head, in my head Where the lions, wear the right eye, Where the jems [unverified] roar, there be lovely You want some lovely, I got some lovely In my bed, in my bed Where the ocean wears the shore down Where's the on switch? There be lovely laying waiting naked for you We can play every day We can play ...
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I'm like a spinning top going 'round and around Well, I don't know what's up and I sure Don't know what's down, now watch me I'm like a spinning top, I can't tell day from night Well, I don't know what's wrong and I sure Don't know what's right, now watch me It started when I heard your song of love Pouring down like honey from above I started to spin, I started to move, just like a needle Tha...
I'm standing, standing in for Joe Joe called 'round to ask me, would I do a favor While he's gonna be out of town Says his girl needs company, she gets so restless Would I keep her safe and sound Softly, softly, in the night Well, you can guess the rest Now, these shoes fit all too well Standing in for Joe, standing in for Joe I'm standing in for Joe Joe said, we've been friends so long But I ...
There are no secrets in star park we'll rendezvous to a peacock's call I said I'd meet you after dark For a night we'll trip, but never fall chorus: So bring your old umbrella And some hair conditioner too, yeah So bring your old umbrella A swell time will be had by me and you Yeah yeah yeah In star park, maybe, after darkness There are no secrets in the trees They tell them out so constantly ...
The first time I saw you standing in the water You must have been all of a thousand feet tall Nearly naked, unashamed like Herod's daughter Your love was so big, it made New York look small You've been the subject of so many dreams Since I climbed your torso Oh, my statue of Liberty Boo boo, Impaled on your hair What do you do, do, do to me Boo boo I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book ...
Strange tales Scribbled on a uniform Strange tails Scribbled down in cuneiform It had been written You had To get in You know a cat'll play You used to be a big mouse Strange tales, strange tails Strange tales Scribbled on the shelter walls Strange tails Scribbled as the idol falls Strange tales, strange tails
I'm stupidly happy Everything's fine I'm stupidly happy My heart pumping wine I'm stupidly happy With idiot grin I'm stupidly happy It's surely a sin All the birds of the air call your name As they land on my kitchen roof All the fish in the lake do the same Should you need extra proof I'm stupidly happy My vision is skewed I'm stupidly happy I'm coming unscrewed And if the Devil walks up Dres...
Drowning here in summer?s cauldron under mats of flower lava Please don?t pull me out, this is how I would want to go Breathing in the boiling butter, fruit of sweating golden Inca Please don?t heed my shout, I?m relaxing the undertow When Miss Moon lays down and Sir Sun stands up Me, I?m found floating round and round Like a bug in brandy in this big bronze cup Drowning here in summer?s cauld...
In the car park, in the lamplight Go for a walk, clock him shiv-fight In the car park, in the lamplight Go for a walk, clock him shiv-fight Sodium-a-shine on all The faces white now And he got his Docs On bottle out all right now As you might say, as you might say As you might say, as you might say Him super-tuff, him super-tuff Him super-tuff In the corner, in the cold rain Sting like iodine ...
Living in a rabbit tunnel Keep the doggy in her kennel Mustn't let her see the world, oh, no Don't treat her like that, oh, no Don't treat her like that Leaving after mom and daddy Carry home just like a cat, he Mustn't let them see your kill Shout it clear for all to hear You won't shoot this bird down Shout it clear for all to hear We're going to take this town Turn and done bridge give the ...
Happy I'm floating Around on my feet now You make me go dizzy I'm weak at the knees As I feel like I'm walking 'Round a ten feet tall I feel like I'm walking 'Round a ten feet tall Well, you say I'm faking And I say don't worry The way that I bubble There's something in the make As I feel like I'm walking 'Round a ten feet tall I feel like I'm walking 'Round a ten feet tall Right, the chemistr...
Terrorism You're writing your diary in innocents' blood You're vain and you're ugly, you're no robin hood You don't steal from the rich to help the poor You just take life from both and what is more You break your bread and drink But post-confession you'll still stink of Terrorism Terrorism But you're sikh, jew, muslim and christian, you say Now which religion will you wear today? And in whose...
Thanks for Christmas Thank you for the love and happiness That's snowing down All around Thanks for Christmas Thank you for the winter friendliness That's snowing down All around the world It's nearer Children's eyes shine clearer now As they decorate the trees All across the seven seas It's nearer Yule log fires burn clearer now In the winter's frosty air Sing with us and we can share our Tha...
Do this, do that, do this, do that Go and speak Do this To your niece Do that Kiss your aunt Do this On the cheek Do that Don't talk back Do this Now run along Do that It's gone eight Do this Say goodnight Do that That's the way that it's done That's the way that it's done That's the way that it's done Boy and girl, girl and boy This is how you do it And who am I to reason why Do this, do that...
That wave pulled me into your eyes Through the greeny gray pebbles And countless cathedrals arriving That wave lift me into your mouth Turning spires and spittle of pearls To perplex the young diver I flew down to the bottom of the sea Where I questioned the fishes all about it I was in heaven, address, Cloud Eleven They danced and laughed spelling all I fell into was love That wave carried me...
I can't hold you down, if you want to fly Can't you see I'm all broke up inside? Well, just you use your two X Ray eyes Hurt like Kryptonite, put me on my knees Now that I've found out just what you're doing With your secret identities That's really super, Supergirl How you saved yourself in seconds flat And your friends are going to say ?That's really super, Supergirl? How you're changing all...
Pubs and clubs and opening hours Was all he knew One arm bandits and affiliated members Women taboo Had his own tankard And the evening standard And a trophy from darts That he kept over the bar He'd nothing to fear He had his beer B-e-e-r Then came her Through the blur Then came she Made him see He saw the light before he'd finished his pint She saved him from the biggest crime in life They h...
Peter Pumpkinhead, hey, came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the Vatican what gold's for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees Hooray for Peter Pumpkin Who'll pray for Peter Pumpkinhead? Oh my Peter Pumpkinhead pulled them all Emptied churches and shopping malls Where he spoke, it would raise the roof Pete...
The disappointed All shuffle 'round in circles Their placards look the same With a picture and a name Of the ones who broke their hearts The disappointed All congregate at my house Their voices sob with grief That they want to be chief Of the tribe with broken hearts Once, I had no sympathy For those destroyed and thrown away by love Seems, your ring upon my finger Signifies that I've become t...
Smalltown, snoring under blankets Woken by the clank It's just the milkman's dawn round Smalltown, hiding undercovers The lodgers and the lovers Are asleep 'round Smalltown Shiny gray black snake of bikes He slithers Bearing up the men and boys To work We're standing in poplar lines Making alarm clocks that'll wake our wives up Don't ask us, we haven't the time We're racing the hooter that'll ...
Though your heart desires the things that money can buy Emptiness lies through the glass, I shield your eyes There's nothing out there for you, my dear There's nothing out there for you Let me tell you about the good things The good things I know your head is full of big ideas You ain't missing anything, have no fear I have touched the grass so green on the other side It will grieve you and de...
So, let's briefly summarize what we know, shall we? The 50's The 60's The 70's The 80's Thank you, and goodnight.
The last balloon is leaving The last balloon from fear The last balloon is leaving Form that line right here Climb aboard, climb aboard, you menfolk You won?t need any bombs or knives Climb aboard, climb aboard, you menfolk Leave all that to your former lives Drop it all The last balloon is leaving The last balloon of all The last balloon is leaving Undress, discard, let fall Climb aboard, cli...
All around the world, every boy and every girl Need the loving The humble and the great, even those we think we hate Need the loving Soldiers of the queen, all the hard men that we've seen Need the loving Babies at the breast, those in power and those suppressed Need the loving Let's face it you just can't hide Your first taste'll send you reeling Like a firework to which we're tied Be prepare...
The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken Captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold The man who walked across his heart Who took no compass, guide or chart To rope and tar his blood congealed When he found his self revealed, ugly and cold And the sirens that sing By your nose with its ring They'll drag you in For your ...
Never been near a university Never took a paper or a learned degree And some of your friends think that's stupid of me But it's nothing that I care about Well, I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun And of mathematics well, I want none And I may be the mayor of simpleton But I know one thing and that's I love you When their logic grows cold and all thinking gets done You'll be warm in ...
Meet you in a secret place Scuffling in the dirt, I wait Whistle will blow, whistle will blow Share a joke, the laughs on me When I get you on your own, we'll see Someone might hear, someone might hear You're a working girl now You've got money of your own The meeting place, the meeting place Strolling under grimey skies Machines that make you kiss in time Smoke on your breath, smoke on your b...
If you think there's something wrong Holes appearing on your lawn Don't you blame the man next door It's not him Flowers walk from place to place Dark spot moves around your face Objects vanish without trace It's not you I'm the mole from the ministry And you'll all bow down to me I'm the mole in your potting shed I'm the bad thoughts inside your head And you won't catch me fish and visitors s...
He makes a beeline for the place Where he gets his only ace Sometimes he's standing in the rain Oh, Gene Kelly's hat and cane He has the rhythm in his head He has the rhythm in his head He has the rhythm in his head He has the rhythm, sing It's chaotic at the bar B and O those sweaty drops We are all mesmerized To the thing we have inside He has the rhythm in his head He has the rhythm in his ...
Thanks to erich sellheim lt;sellheimzfn.uni-bremen.degt; I'm warning you I'm warning you now Look out people as it's the holy cow It's the rotary I told you 'bout the spinning top And that's a dance you gotta drop Because the rotary is in The rotary, the rotary The dance you've got to top is the brand-new spinning top That's out, this is the rotary The rotary This is a thing that's definitely ...
Hurry and see, hurry and see The ship trapped in the ice Hurry and see, hurry and see The frost on the rigging superficially nice The captain sold his marbles and the crew lost theirs at dice Hurry and see, hurry and see The ship trapped in the ice How can we free, how can we free The ship trapped in the ice How can we free, how can we free They sailed in the shallows now they've paid the pric...
Well, man created the cardboard box to sleep in it And man converted the newspaper to a blanket Well, you have to admit that he's come a long way Since swinging about in the trees We're the smartest monkeys The smartest monkeys The evidence is all around Our brains are bigger, this we've found The smartest monkeys Well, man discovered the park bench can make a transition And the rubbish tip ma...
Untie the gown, float to the ground She revolve 'round, making no sound Air leaving slow, still breathing though Decaying through brown, diving she's bound Hours swum down, treasure unfound Air leaving slow, still breathing though Somnambulist, somnambulist Somnambulist, somnambulist Air leaving slow, still breathing though
Well hush my children don't you cry The troubles will soon all be over The tears that swell in every eye Will fall to the ground and bring clover The soldiers are only teenage boys The same as in durban or dover So rein aside all your warring toys The troubles will soon all be over Well hush my children go to sleep The troubles will soon all be over Their bombs will form a rusting heap For flo...
First there's the handshake It's so warm that you could bake by it Designed to take attention from their Ugly underneath Then there's the wedding The coordinated bedding And the fairy tale shredding Boy, it's ugly underneath And after the pretty There's a gluttony of pity On a cake called nitty, gritty And it's ugly underneath Did you ever try to prise away the mask Go ahead, take a spoon and ...
I've got the plough if you've got the furrow I've got the rabbit if you've his burrow home I've got the pen if you've got the paper Time is but clay and I'll see you and the wheel turn You and the wheel turn And if the pot won't hold our love If the pot won't hold our love If the pot won't hold our love Then we'll dash it to the ground And if the pot won't hold our love If the pot won't hold o...
Gone are the days When hate filled my heart I feel now I am a happy man I laugh now at values that I had All through my youth I was shouting and no one would hear Blind to the ways of the people Who now I hold dear, It's loud and clear The world is full of angry young men Chip on the shoulder, an ideal in their head The world is full of angry young men Who think life owes them something but yo...
Then she appeared Apple Venus on a half open shell Then she appeared The first photograph on Fox Talbots gel I was a little frightened Flying with my senses heightened Cherubim cheered, then she appeared Then she appeared As the giggling crew of Marie Celeste Then she appeared Pale Atlantis rising out of the west I was a little dazzled Catherine wheeled and senses frazzled Know it sounds weird...
In a milk bar and feeling lost Drinking sodas as cold as frost Someone leans in my direction Quizzing on my juke-box selection What do you call that noise That you put on? This is pop, yeah, yeah This is On a walkway and moving fast All I get is transistor blast Someone leans in my direction Quizzing on my station selection What do you call that noise That you put on? This is pop, yeah, yeah T...
This is the end This is the end This is the part where all the curtains come down And they won't drop fat boy on your town But if they do I hope it's not a trend This is the end This is the end This is the reel where all the titles come up And you have no more drink in your cup So here's where sweet and bitter rivers blend This is the end Of all the bread we broke together This is the end Of a...
Ah well, that's this world over Ah well, next one begins Will you smile like any mother As you bathe your brand new twins? Will you sing about the missiles As you dry odd numbered limbs? Ah, well, that's this world over Ah, well, next one begins Ah, well, that's this world over You sadly grin Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land About their leader with the famous face? Will ...
I shout this, You shout that, The clouds are coming over looking awful black. It's all hot air. You say go, I say stay, Clear blue sky goes sheffield grey. It's all hot air. I've grown immune to your claws, Pussycat, I know... All your threats are tissue tigers, Crawling across the table to me. All your threats are tissue tigers, Ripping 'em up is easy for me now. I shout this, You shout that,...
There's too many cooks in the kitchen There's too many minds on the job There's too many cooks in the kitchen Everybody wants a piece of the action Cooking the books and getting their fractions wrong What we need is law and order Everybody knows Can't have chiefs without the injuns Stepping on their toes There's too many cooks in the kitchen There's too many daps in the pie There's too many co...
Towers of London When they had built you Did you watch over the men who fell? Towers of London When they had built you Victoria's gem found in somebody's hell Pavements of gold leading to the underground Grenadier Guardsmen walking pretty ladies around Fog is the sweat of the never never navies who pound Pound, pound, pound, pound Spikes in the rails to their very own heaven Towers of London W...
Cindy's spending too much money on clothes Ken is going back to Gay Bob The teddy bears swear the neighborhood's gone Since the moving in of polliwog Rag doll gets beaten up by the action man The one with the real life hair He walks and he talks in a commanding voice But sexually, he's not all there Oh dear, what can the matter be, my children, sweet children What gives down in the nursery, my...
I'm out and I'm driving Got my eyes set on romance She says, "I've got a brand new thing Want to show you this dance" I say, "Am I learning it steady" She say, "Look you're doing it already" It's the traffic light rock Stop 'n go all of the time It's the traffic light rock Stop 'n go all of the time I'm out by the dance hall Best buddy by my side He says, "I've got a brand new car I want to ta...
Me train running low on soul coal They push pull tactics are driving me loco They shouldn't do that, no, no, no They shouldn't do that Me train running low on dream steam They pull me whistle too hard, me bound to scream And they shouldn't do that, no, no, no They shouldn't do that Think I'm going South for the winter Think I'm going mad in this hinterland Between young and old I'm a thirty ye...
You've learnt no lessons All that time so cheaply spent There's no youth culture Only masks, they let you rent Travels, travels in Nihilon We've seen no Jesus come and gone Fashion, their vampire Drapes itself across your back As you fall from style It waits rebirth on its rack Travels, travels in Nihilon We've seen no Jesus come and gone Building your whimsy Hypnotizing you to need Dance goes...
Someone's knocking in the distance But I'm deaf and blind She's not expected home this evening So I leave the world behind For the vanishing girl The vanishing girl Yes she'd give you a twirl But she vanishes from my world So burn my letters and you'd better leave Just one pint a day The whole street's talking about my White shirts looking so grey People gossip on the doorstep Think they know ...
Wait till your boat goes down That's when you'll need me most Wait till your boat goes down And you're washed up on some foreign and Unfamiliar coast Yachting's fine Sailing round and round in social circles In a sea of diamonds and wine Wait till you need a shoulder A girl's best friend's not any consolation when you're that much older Skiing's grand Drawing classic lines around the millionai...
You put your cleanest dirty shirt on Then you stagger down to meet the dawn You take a ride upon a bus, it's just a fuss You know it keeps you born You get to know a morning face You get to join the human race You get to know the world has passed you by Who cares? You might be dead Who cares? You stayed in bed Who cares? You wrote the note Who cares? You might have spoke Wake up, wake up, wake...
There's an epidemic Stirring passions in young hearts Even the old campaigners Have got it really bad Well, we ain't seen nothing like it Since coronation day But when the street parties sound I'm going underground To keep the rabid hounds at bay Oh, my, my, this war dance A patriotic romance No, we ain't seen nothing like it Since coronation day Oh, my, my, my But when the tickatape flies And...
Here comes my neck And here comes the axe Covered my ears Scared of the facts I never dreamt that that was the answer I'd hear I've been clocking up the courage to ask you all year Now I'm really punchy with success Because her answer was yes To every little question I could ask her Why her answer was yes The pessimist in me expects disaster But her answer was yes Here comes my hand Here
Mother's in the kitchen steaming up the window panes Smell of boiling cabbage comes up from an open drain But no amount of scrubbing could ever shift a gravy stain Washaway, washaway, washaway washerette Washaway, washaway every dirty stain you get Streets lay deserted, no one feels exerted Sat on their couches with loose change in their pouches They couldn't spend it if they tried, oh no In c...
And I won't take from you Don't you know, 'bout a zillion years ago Some star sneezed Now their paging you in reception Don't you know, Jack and zillion years ago Some dinosaur dropped the pail When it saw our reflection Don't you know we're all light? Yeah, I read that someplace Don't you know we're all light? Yeah, I read that someplace So you won't mind if I kiss you now Before indecision c...
2032 Housewives shock in blue What in the world is it coming to What in the world 2033 Cannabis in tea What in the world. Acid is free What in the world If daddy could see today he'd be turning in his grave If mummy could see the way The boys and girls and the manner in which they talk to their parents 2034 Women fight the wars Men are too bored, they're scrubbing floors Men are too bored They...
When we get to england Will we know when we've arrived? When we get to england Will we know if she has died? Does the girl with the dogs Still live in the big house On the corner? Are the boys collecting frogs Still marching away To die in war? Like it's all from a dream Like it's all from some history book Didn't look too hard Did I miss something that I should have seen? When we get to engla...
When you're near me, I have difficulty respirating When you're near me, I have difficulty concentrating When you're near me, I have difficulty standing upright When you're near me, I have difficulty sleeping at night I used to stand proud like a sphinx In a noble immovable state And then your heart nailed me under a jinx Now I'm feeling like a jellyfish Just a spineless wobbly jellyfish And it...
Can't you see, love and affection When it's put in your direction? Wrapped in your mysterious wonderland No fast car can make you grow up Gentlemen, you think you've sewn up Locked in your wonderful wonderland No dark horse like me Can cramp all of your style Too plain and simple I am for your file One day, you will break out of your spell And some day, you will want me for your own And I'll s...
Keep your fingers busy Mentally or physically What four-letter word D'you know like ... Look at me smile Look at me doing their Work Y'see me shuffle in the dirt My how I sweat But I don't mind Cause it's work You got me rolling up my shirt There's all my old friends Sat by the fountain drinking beer Their days have no starts and no ends They drift into pub nights with no Promise for tomorrow ...
Well, I stumbled and I fell Like a wounded horse When I found out you'd been riding Another man Well, I staggered round in circles On a loser's course When I found out you'd been riding Another man Well, my friends all said Just climb back in the saddle And you know that everything will turn out right Well, my friends all said You won't sink if you paddle But my ship drifts on into an endless ...
Some folks see the world as a stone Concrete daubed in dull monotone Your heart is the big box of paints And others, the canvas we're dealt Your heart is the big box of paints How coloured the flowers all smelled As they huddled there, in petalled prayer They told me this, as I knelt there Awaken you dreamers Adrift in your beds Balloons and streamers Decorate the inside of your heads Please l...
It's the airwaves of the world But not the hairwaves on your head Oh, but anything can be On land and in the sea You've got cross wires You've got cross wires When you've got cross wires Wow, when you've got cross wires Everything is buzz buzz Everything is beep beep Strange things happen everyday It may confuse the Chinese say Brings a nation to its feet It's them people that you meet When yo...
We, we will dance like tiny boats with cotton sails Upon the tops of the seas That, that would pull us down to the depths and crush us flat If given half a chance No need to look back to pictures of lost, when all was rust We, we will skim across the surface of the mud As if we're spinning pebbles In our yacht dance In our yacht dance We, we will dance like tiny boats with cotton sails Upon th...
And every morning before I'm awake I walk around the world to make sure she's alright And every evening 'fore I bolt the door I give the stars a stir to make sure they will spin all night For I see people who will scratch And spit and kick and fight And I see nations war about whether Right is left and whether wrong is right And I know storms inside your head Can amplify the plight But no matt...
Well you're a good man albert brown And you was wounded in the war And though you shot some people down You're still a good man albert brown Well you're a good man albert brown Though you are drunk upon the floor And if you're buying the next round Then you're a good man albert... Brown was the colour of the mud across the somme Red was the blood you spilled upon it Pink were the fingers of th...
Well you're a good man Albert Brown And you was wounded in the war And though you shot some people down You're still a good man Albert Brown Well you're a good man Albert Brown Though you are drunk upon the floor And if you're buying the next round Then you're a good man Albert... Brown was the colour of the mud across the Somme Red was the blood you spilled upon it Pink were the fingers of th...
You take me to heaven from deeper than hell ever dug And you fly me higher than a trip on a magical rug Confessions unravel You bang with your gavel And here I stand guilty In a court where you are the judge You're the drug You've got to come on round and pick me up You've my drug And I don't ever know if I can give you up Well you bring me colour where once I had just black and white Now I ha...
What was I supposed to do? I turned around with the world and she simply was there My blood ran like ice right through She had your face and your lips and your eyes and your hair You're the wish you are I had You're the wish you are I had You're the wish that I had I wonder if she knows that when I made her up I made her eat an apple and I made her drink a cup or two Wish, wish, wish, wish, wi...
I see them offering you gum I hear the swarming schoolkids' hum A tribe of polyester warriors spellbound They bring you offerings to please Like cigarettes or new lp's You'll have them on their knees and begging Just to play with your comb One glance from those two eyes Will seal your playground empire My oh my, what a sight for sore eyes, young cleopatra My oh my, what a wonderful prize, youn...
H A T E, is that how you spell love in your dictionary? K I C K, pronounced as kind F U C K, is that how you spell friend in your dictionary? Black on black, a guidebook for the blind Well, now that I can see, my eyes won't weep Now that I can hear, your song sounds cheap Now that I can talk, all your corn I'll reap I'm not so sure that Joey wed a virgin Mary There are no words for me inside y...
You gold dress is whirling around Like a fan it's lifting you high High above the ground Never coming down You gold dress is burning alight Deafens me with the sound of the sun Setting fire to the night And everything's all right Vibrations coming my way When you're floating on by In your gold dress Vibrations coming to play When you're filling the sky With your gold ... dress Your gold dress ...
Zonked right out HA HA Won't you bop on over little Charlie, won't you [bop] Won't you bop on over with the move and don't you stop It's za bees, za bows, zabaglio That gets the feelin' makes the world go go Zonked right out HA HA on life I could tell you how to be a happy person All you do is throw yourself in love

Albums

Apple Venus Volume 1
Gold sun rolls around Chocolate nipple brown Tumble from your arms Like the ground, your breasts swell Land awake from sleep Hares will kick and leap Flowers climb erect Smiling from the moist kiss of her rainbow mouth Stage left Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk Stage right Now the son has died, the father can be born Stand up If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke New lif...
Let us talk about Some trivial things we like A bit of this and that Let?s chew the fat Pour ourselves a glass of Stout And let our Rael Brook shirts hang out Nothing makes us more content To let us wallow in a bit of nonsense We?re all so frivolous tonight, tonight Let?s reveal our childlike nature And leave our stocks And invoices to rot Let?s go to pot Tell our jokes about mothers in law Bu...
Tending my fruit, tending my fruit Ah, you've got to have a hobby A man must have a shed to keep him sane Spraying my buds, spraying my buds Got to keep away diseases I mix the poisons and the wife don't complain Some people say that I am out of my tree Or just a strawberry fool Someday they'll see, 'til then I'll blow you a raspberry 'Cos apples and pears are me So I'm tending my fruit and I ...
Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman He wants to make you his bride Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman Forever to him you're tied And you know for a million years he has been your lover He'll be a million more And you know for a million years he has been your lover Down through the skin to the core Heed the Greenman Heed the Greenman Please to dance round for th...
See the flowers 'round the altar See the peaches in tins 'Neath the headmaster's chair Harvest festival See the two who've been chosen See them walk hand in hand To the front of the hall Harvest festival, harvest festival What was best of all was the Longing look you gave me, that longing look More than enough to keep me fed all year See the children with baskets See their hair cut like corn N...
Knights in shining karma tend your flame And with love for armor they'll remain Ever by your bed, guarding, still sleeping Shield your soul from this rain Knights in shining karma will remain Jealous winter sun, cold as Vichyssoise Steals your smile for fuel They'll ignite with braziers of warming stars Knights in shining karma wash your feet And with spotless darma come complete Ever by your ...
Hey, I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus Take a packet of seeds, take yourself out to play I want to see a river of orchids where we had a motorway Push your car from the road Push your car from the road Just like a mad dog you're chasing your tail in a circle Just like a mad dog you're chasing your tail in a circle It's all in your...
The last balloon is leaving The last balloon from fear The last balloon is leaving Form that line right here Climb aboard, climb aboard, you menfolk You won?t need any bombs or knives Climb aboard, climb aboard, you menfolk Leave all that to your former lives Drop it all The last balloon is leaving The last balloon of all The last balloon is leaving Undress, discard, let fall Climb aboard, cli...
H A T E, is that how you spell love in your dictionary? K I C K, pronounced as kind F U C K, is that how you spell friend in your dictionary? Black on black, a guidebook for the blind Well, now that I can see, my eyes won't weep Now that I can hear, your song sounds cheap Now that I can talk, all your corn I'll reap I'm not so sure that Joey wed a virgin Mary There are no words for me inside y...
Black Sea
Never seen her glowing All that bright she's throwing like some aurora From her head it's growing Reaching to the ground And all around like a Navaho blanket Never heard her singing Now she's gently ringing like copper wind chimes What on earth is bringing Up this stream the cat who got the cream is licking her lips And smiling like her Cheshire cousin She claims she's found a way to make her ...
Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper 'Cause I love you when you're wild Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper 'Cause I'd hate you to grow mild Since you took that job With a company You've changed so much You just won't recognize me They have you dressed up Like a secretary You mustn't change the things That make you what you are D...
Generals and Majors ah ah They're never too far From battlefields so glorious Out in a world of their own They'll never come down Till once again victorious Generals and Majors always Seem so unhappy 'less they got a war Generals and Majors ah ah Like never before are tired of being action less Calling Generals and Majors Generals and Majors everywhere Calling Generals and Majors Your World Wa...
Living through another Cuba it's 1961 again and we are piggy in the middle while war is polishing his drum and peace plays second fiddle Russia and America are at each other's throats but don't you cry just on your knees and pray, and while you're down there, kiss your arse goodbye We're the bulldog on the fence while others play their tennis overhead it's hardly love all and somebody might wi...
See the lovers all gone crazy Looking for romance it seems Many sleepless nights will follow Some may lose but some succeed Love at first sight What they want is, hey oh, love Make a play of lust intention Only just one thing in mind Make a slip could be forever Wedding bells, the shotgun kind Love at first sight What they want is, hey oh, love Love at first sight What they want is, hey oh, lo...
There is no language in our lungs To tell the world just how we feel No no, no no, no no, bridge of thought No mental link No letting out just what you think There is no language in our lungs Lungs, lungs, lungs There is no muscle in our tongues To tell the world what's in our hearts No no, no no, no, we're leaving nothing behind Just chiseled stones No chance to speak before we're bones There...
Paper, iron, won't buy Eden Working for paper and for iron Work for the right to keep my tie on Working for paper and for iron Work for the unicorn and lion I pray the kids aren't starving No chicken for the Sunday carving I'll stay for one more farthing I take home my notes and coins every week I'm told I'm worth much more But the church says turn the other cheek The other cheek Iron, paper, ...
It's in the order of their hedgerows It's in the way their curtains open and close It's in the look they give you down their nose All part of decency's jigsaw I suppose Heard the neighbor slam his car door Don't he realize this is respectable street What d'you think he bought that car for 'Cos he realize this is respectable street Now they talk about abortions In cosmopolitan proportions to th...
Birds beware, expect me up there Me and air are feeling light today Jets should hide, I'll fly alongside Me and pride are bolted tight today I've been set off by a pretty little girl Like a rocket from a bottle shot free I've been just explosive since you lit me I've been up with the larks, I've been shooting off sparks And I'm feeling in love Hate step back, my smile might just crack Can't st...
Hey, rock, rock Hey, rock, rock Hey, rock, rock Hey, rock, rock I'm enlisting, overseas aid Need assisting, help with a maid Get the expert, on mademoiselles He could diffuse, any bombshell If I could only be tough like him Then I could win My own small battle of the sexes And Sgt. Rock is going to help me Make the girl mine keep her stood in line And Sgt. Rock is going to help me Make the gir...
I'm living in my smokeless zone My house is not a happy home I got to do something 'fore I kick the bucket I'm living in this smokeless zone I clean my dusty window sills But everything I grow it kills I don't want to stay in this street any longer I'm living in this smokeless zone England's green, once so pleasant land Living on a time bomb, yeah The whole damn place Is gonna turn to sand Bah...
Untie the gown, float to the ground She revolve 'round, making no sound Air leaving slow, still breathing though Decaying through brown, diving she's bound Hours swum down, treasure unfound Air leaving slow, still breathing though Somnambulist, somnambulist Somnambulist, somnambulist Air leaving slow, still breathing though
Towers of London When they had built you Did you watch over the men who fell? Towers of London When they had built you Victoria's gem found in somebody's hell Pavements of gold leading to the underground Grenadier Guardsmen walking pretty ladies around Fog is the sweat of the never never navies who pound Pound, pound, pound, pound Spikes in the rails to their very own heaven Towers of London W...
You've learnt no lessons All that time so cheaply spent There's no youth culture Only masks, they let you rent Travels, travels in Nihilon We've seen no Jesus come and gone Fashion, their vampire Drapes itself across your back As you fall from style It waits rebirth on its rack Travels, travels in Nihilon We've seen no Jesus come and gone Building your whimsy Hypnotizing you to need Dance goes...
Chips From The Chocolate Fireball
The urge to take you grows more strong For time had made me wait too long Each watch I smash apart Just adding to my power Each watch I smash apart Just bringing near the hour of 25 o'clock, that's when you're going to be mine 25 o'clock, we'll be together 'til the end of time At 25 o'clock The ticking seconds hear them call My spell of hours will make you fall Each timer that I break Will hal...
Push me off to start the fun On a bike ride to the moon Lots of room for everyone On a bike ride to the moon And we'll bring back cheese for my Auntie Jane And some magic moon dust that'll stop the rain On my poor Uncle Alfred's head, even though he stays in bed silly Alfred Why not bring a pot of tea On a bike ride to the moon Angel cake for you and me On a bike ride to the moon And we'll pac...
Brainiacs Daughter Made me a suit of bricks and mortar And a matching stove pipe hat, oh yes Brainiacs Daughter Took me on a sleigh ride underwater And I'm crazy for girls like that Oh yes Sir, yes Sir Three bags full Sir All across the land the bells ring out It's night, sun shines bright So I reach to hold her frozen hand in flight As we alight in the bottle city of Kandor Brainiacs Daughter...
Collideascope Careful, don't look down the wrong end You will see ships that fall out of the sky Who put that nail in your eye You make me want to cry with your... Collideascope Everything looks smashed and broken You will see fishes that drown in the sea If you don't alter your mind I'd hate you to go blind why don't you Wakey Wakey Wakey Little Sleeper If you doze much longer Then life turns...
Have you seen Jackie? He's a strange strange strange little girl Make up on his face and his hair in curls Have you seen Jackie? She's a strange strange strange little boy Her long black beard is her pride and joy And all the children follow him around And all the grownups try to drag her down So we sing Hey, leave Jackie alone Hey, his pigeons have flown Hey, she's never at home at all these ...
She's a little lighthouse when she Opens up her huge eyes And streams of diamonds shoot out 'Til we're wading waist deep in her brilliant love She's a little lighthouse when she Opens up her red mouth And gold word ribbons rope and rodeo The dark clouds in bouquet above For how long will this dark age last? For how long must we wait to learn? Across the black and fossil ocean vast I spy love a...
My love explodes all over the world for you, yeah you My love explodes in diamonds and pearls for you, just you When the straight plastic bowler men Grab your soul and pull you down down down Call my name on your dream telephone Catch a saucer and I'll be around Blow 'em out of town My love explodes My love explodes like the stars up in space for you, yeah you My love explodes with the whole h...
So pale and precious is the light that will shine Up every morning on her bed Out of the windows in her head So pale and precious like the sun as it climbs If all of her moments were put down in a book Then I could read it 'til I went blind Well than I'm sure it would taste like wine If all of the tears she cried flowed into a brook Don't care what the others might say Fade away As far as I'm ...
Hiding faces turning pages Still they read and read Double deckers full of smokers Look who's gone to seed Well the sun's getting higher Think I'll take a flyer The thought of it's causing me pain Ooh Shiny Cage Talk a walk under the subway See an old school chum Window shopping for a short while Then we'll have some fun Well the shops closing early Everywhere's deserted Hello and down comes t...
Pubs and clubs and opening hours Was all he knew One arm bandits and affiliated members Women taboo Had his own tankard And the evening standard And a trophy from darts That he kept over the bar He'd nothing to fear He had his beer B-e-e-r Then came her Through the blur Then came she Made him see He saw the light before he'd finished his pint She saved him from the biggest crime in life They h...
If you think there's something wrong Holes appearing on your lawn Don't you blame the man next door It's not him Flowers walk from place to place Dark spot moves around your face Objects vanish without trace It's not you I'm the mole from the ministry And you'll all bow down to me I'm the mole in your potting shed I'm the bad thoughts inside your head And you won't catch me fish and visitors s...
Someone's knocking in the distance But I'm deaf and blind She's not expected home this evening So I leave the world behind For the vanishing girl The vanishing girl Yes she'd give you a twirl But she vanishes from my world So burn my letters and you'd better leave Just one pint a day The whole street's talking about my White shirts looking so grey People gossip on the doorstep Think they know ...
2032 Housewives shock in blue What in the world is it coming to What in the world 2033 Cannabis in tea What in the world. Acid is free What in the world If daddy could see today he'd be turning in his grave If mummy could see the way The boys and girls and the manner in which they talk to their parents 2034 Women fight the wars Men are too bored, they're scrubbing floors Men are too bored They...
Well you're a good man Albert Brown And you was wounded in the war And though you shot some people down You're still a good man Albert Brown Well you're a good man Albert Brown Though you are drunk upon the floor And if you're buying the next round Then you're a good man Albert... Brown was the colour of the mud across the Somme Red was the blood you spilled upon it Pink were the fingers of th...
You take me to heaven from deeper than hell ever dug And you fly me higher than a trip on a magical rug Confessions unravel You bang with your gavel And here I stand guilty In a court where you are the judge You're the drug You've got to come on round and pick me up You've my drug And I don't ever know if I can give you up Well you bring me colour where once I had just black and white Now I ha...
You gold dress is whirling around Like a fan it's lifting you high High above the ground Never coming down You gold dress is burning alight Deafens me with the sound of the sun Setting fire to the night And everything's all right Vibrations coming my way When you're floating on by In your gold dress Vibrations coming to play When you're filling the sky With your gold ... dress Your gold dress ...
Drums And Wires
How bright are the fires of thought In a chain of command? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh How bright is the medical torch When it's put in our hand? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh My microbes and I We can't wait to lay down and die We realize that we must be spent Like the cells that dissolve when a brainwave is sent How bright are the fires of thought In a chain of command? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh,...
I ask myself should I put my finger to the left, no I ask myself should I put my finger to the right, no It doesn't really matter where I put my finger Someone else will come along and move it And it's always been the same It's just a complicated game It's just a complicated game A little girl asked me should she part her hair upon the left, no A little girl asked me should she part her hair u...
Clock in my head Clock on the wall And the two of them Don't agree at all Friday is heaven Friday is heaven Day in, day out Day in Day in Wish you were here On the shop floor And day out And together we could Count the dots on the wall Friday is heaven Friday is heaven Day in, day out Day in Friday is heaven Friday is heaven Day in Day in Day out Day out Day in Day in Day out Day out Day in
Oh heli, oh heli I'm crouching you with a telescope in hand Looking out across our Lego land I really think it's about time that she came down She a laughing giggly whirlybird She got to be obscene to be obheard I really think it's about time that she came down And I object to all the air male that she pick up The air male that she pick up The air male that she pick up When she's up there twir...
I have learnt there's a magical spot at the hop Come with me to the church on the corner, the hop There's nuts and crisps and there's c-c-cola on tap A good time had by those boys and those girls at the hop Tell me what do you say? Tell me what do you say? Tell me what do you say? I tell you, life begins at the hop, boys and girls Prepare yourself for the boys in the band at the hop The cheap ...
I'm in the limelight, no time for sun ray We are the happening, this day is our day I'm in the limelight, big on my block now I'm in the limelight, I'm in the limelight I'm in the limelight I'm in love with myself Please don't break the spell Give to someone else I am a success, at least for a short while I make decisions, influence people I'm in the limelight, big on my block now I'm in the l...
We're only making plans for Nigel We only want what's best for him We're only making plans for Nigel Nigel just needs that helping hand And if young Nigel says he's happy He must be happy, he must be happy He must be happy in his work We're only making plans for Nigel He has his future in a British steel We're only making plans for Nigel Nigel's whole future is as good as sealed Yeah and if yo...
We smelled your soup on the fire cooking We saw your toys and your pencils looking bright So bright and yet they come from, oh, so far away We heard your flags and your banners flapping We felt the air from your hands all clapping time In time, I'm sure your time is not so far away Millions, all moving forward Millions, all babbling crossword Millions, all flow as water Millions, all bright wi...
She has six swans singing in her sauna So she can't hear what's going on No she can't hear what's going on In the outside world In the outside world In the outside Bad black and white men Standing in their pigpen Selling guns to simpletons To shoot 'em in the abdomen And she's not interested in that And she's not interested in that She has six swans singing in her sauna Outside - world - outsi...
In this secret time, invading on our privacy Unknowing we mime, we play for the ministry The can film you in bed Or when you take a bath They can tape every cry They can tape every laugh They can turn you around so you won't know what's Real by reel Busy little bees recording everything you feel On real by reel Documented down like rats They're catching up on every squeal On real by reel Real ...
Am I asleep or am I fast Your every race You first, you last Roads girdle the globe We safe in your concrete robe Hail mother motor, hail piston rotor, hail wheel Roads girdle the globe Am I tied in or do I turn Your holy incense You tyre burn Roads girdle the globe We safe in your concrete robe Hail mother motor, hail piston rotor, hail wheel Roads girdle the globe Steer me Anna Steer me Anna...
Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man Putting end to evil doers games Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man Maybe you are in his book of names Maybe you are in his book of names So be kind and helpful to your mother Just think twice before you try to steal When he cuts with sticky silver snippers You may find that wounds will never heal All self made bad boys If you ref...
Happy I'm floating Around on my feet now You make me go dizzy I'm weak at the knees As I feel like I'm walking 'Round a ten feet tall I feel like I'm walking 'Round a ten feet tall Well, you say I'm faking And I say don't worry The way that I bubble There's something in the make As I feel like I'm walking 'Round a ten feet tall I feel like I'm walking 'Round a ten feet tall Right, the chemistr...
Do this, do that, do this, do that Go and speak Do this To your niece Do that Kiss your aunt Do this On the cheek Do that Don't talk back Do this Now run along Do that It's gone eight Do this Say goodnight Do that That's the way that it's done That's the way that it's done That's the way that it's done Boy and girl, girl and boy This is how you do it And who am I to reason why Do this, do that...
When you're near me, I have difficulty respirating When you're near me, I have difficulty concentrating When you're near me, I have difficulty standing upright When you're near me, I have difficulty sleeping at night I used to stand proud like a sphinx In a noble immovable state And then your heart nailed me under a jinx Now I'm feeling like a jellyfish Just a spineless wobbly jellyfish And it...
English Settlement
Man acting like a farmer and He's treated the woman like a poor cow We got to treat you better from now But man is just a baby and He's needing your milk of kindness I vow To drink as much as you will allow All the way through history Man, machine, no mystery All the way through history Girl, have the brain to act as like the weaker sex Down in the cockpit Man need the woman to pull him right ...
People rushing 'round with no time to spare I'm so dizzy, I'm neither here nor there In this traffic jam, I just want to shout "Let me off o' this English roundabout" English roundabout, English roundabout English round-a And all the horns go 'Beep Beep' All the people follow like sheep I'm full of lights and sound Making my head go 'round, 'round, 'round, 'round Everyone is cursing under thei...
Here we go then I am the fly up on the wall My prying eyes are looking through your bottom drawer I just came flying through your door You didn't notice that your number had been called I see the mother who's beating the babe I see the money, the pennies you save Stored on computers, birth to the grave I'm telling you, fly on the wall, see, see, see, I'm seeing it all I am the fly up on the wa...
Oh, knuckle down, love his skin It doesn't matter what color skin he's locked in Knuckle down, knuckle down and love that skin Knuckle down, love his race It doesn't matter if you win or lose a little face Knuckle down and love that race Because one bright morning The world might end with a big bang, big bang And you'll never ever get yourself another chance So put aside the hoodoo and some of...
Leisure They taught me how to work But they can't teach me how to shirk correctly Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh As you see, science once again robs us of our jobs They've put a microchip in my place I hide behind a screen of aggression nowadays It's just a way of saving some face So now I'm permanently drunk Like the rest of the race with leisure If you think I'm clowning I assure you that ...
andy partridge Programmes of violence, As entertainment, Brings the disease into your room. We know the germ, Which is man-made in metal, Is really a key to your own tomb. Prevention is better than cure, Bad apples affecting the pure, You'll gather your senses I'm sure Then agree to, Melt the guns, Melt the guns, Melt the guns, And never more to fire them. Melt the guns, Melt the guns, Melt th...
A musical in three acts by XTC Cast of characters GRAHAM, a teenager MOTHER, a busy housewife FATHER, a conservative husband POLICEMAN, a young constable SCENE: A kitchen in suburbia, one bright Saturday morning ACT ONE Narrator: The insect-headed worker-wife will hang her waspies on the line. Her husband burns his paper, sucks his pipe while studying their cushion-floor, his viscous poly-past...
Oh run a, oh run a, oh runaway Oh run a, oh run a, oh runaway Please come home Oh run a, oh run a, oh runaway Please come home Daddy hit you in a temper But he's sorry now Please come home Just a quarrel had with mummy Just a family row Please come home You caught mum chasing dad with a knife Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry You ran away to escape from the fights Don't cry, don't cry...
Hey, hey, the clouds are away There's straw for the donkeys And the innocents can all sleep safely All sleep safely My, my, sun is pie There's fodder for the cannons And the guilty ones can all sleep safely All sleep safely And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working over...
It isn't even winter but I'm freezing, freezing This sort of feeling isn't pleasing And what I want to know, man Why? Oh why, does she treat me like a snowman? It isn't even winter but I'm freezing, freezing This sort of feeling isn't pleasing And what I want to know, man Why? Oh why, does she treat me like a snowman? She's been building me, up quite steadily Seems like I've been here years an...
We, we will dance like tiny boats with cotton sails Upon the tops of the seas That, that would pull us down to the depths and crush us flat If given half a chance No need to look back to pictures of lost, when all was rust We, we will skim across the surface of the mud As if we're spinning pebbles In our yacht dance In our yacht dance We, we will dance like tiny boats with cotton sails Upon th...
Go 2
Are you receiving me? You are deceiving me I know, see, I know When we're out walking Your mouth ain't where it's supposed to do the talking When we're in kissing Your lips are missing, are they out on loan to someone else? Are you listening? I put it in a letter, what could be better? I put it in a note, one night, I wrote I put it in a telegram, just like the son of Sam Babe, there's somethi...
Battery brides, have you ever tried To break out of your waiting room And find yourself a waiting groom Battery brides, battery brides She left school with a million others And worked in a store part time She dreams of a husband and a lover Doesn't realize she's on the production line of Battery brides, have you ever tried To break out of your waiting room And find yourself a waiting groom Bat...
I spoke to your boss this morning He asked why you weren't home? I said sir they left without warning You won't even get them on the telephone They're in Beatown, it's a capital city And all roads lead to Beatown, B-b-beatown I spoke to your owner this lunchtime He asked why you weren't home? I said they thought it was hunchtime You won't even see them standing on their own Beatown, it's a cap...
What makes you wander far Don't know who you are Now if the vibe is right I'll go out tonight 'Cause it's buzzcity talking It's buzzcity talking Go and find a late night bar If I'm not back, leave the door ajar It's buzzcity talking Talking to me We have sickness in our hair We have time to spare You close another door Break another law when it's Buzzcity talking It's buzzcity talking Go and f...
Across a crowded room I first set eyes on you My vision was impaired Obstructed out of view By those faces in a crowded room Them bodies in a crowded room Their breathing in a crowded room And their pushing me out, their pushing me out Their pushing me out Down the fire escape, down the fire escape Down the fire escape, down the fire escape In the crowded room I won't touch too much I felt the...
I am the audience There's no doubt, no consequence I could make the morning papers If I use my capers Let's be the Audience I might lose my patience Polite applause excepted To the ones selected, as the audience... Oh I ... am the audience No doubt, no consequence Cause I'm the Audience Let's be the audience I might lose my patience Polite applause excepted To the ones selected I am the audien...
J.U.M.P.I.N.G. jumping in gomorah, I'm religion free J.U.M.P.I.N.G. jumping in gomorah, I'm religion free Bring your horn of plenty Gold calves if you got 'em We'll get stuck in history Bring your burning bush All aboard for sodom Next stop tower of Babel Harlots if you're able We'll get stuck in history J.U.M.P.I.N.G. All aboard for sodom
J.u.m.p.i.n.g. jumping in gomorrah, I'm religion free J.u.m.p.i.n.g. jumping in gomorrah, I'm religion free Bring your horn of plenty Gold calves, if you got 'em We'll get stuck in history All aboard for sodom, Bring your burning bush, Harlots if you're able We'll get stuck in history Next stop tower of babel J.u.m.p.i.n.g. All aboard for sodom
Everybody lives somewhere Mud hut or igloo But what I got is the hottest spot And it's away from you Everybody says something Truth lies or both But dear all your hot air Don't encourage my growth Do you wonder why I look so fresh Do you wonder why I look so tall Do you wonder why you'll never ever move me Life is good in the greenhouse Rather be a plant than be your Mickey Mouse Life is good ...
Woolworth beauty Factory beau Arm in arm They must go To the church of dance with the light on low Meccanic dancing oh we go Can't wait until the weekend comes I want to be with all my chums Alcohol is an easy key Helps you unwind And dance with me To a disco trot from Germany I'm standing in front of this girl I'm under a flourescent light I've had a few beers inside me I feel like a giant to...
I dunno what she got, I dunno what she got I dunno what she got, I dunno what she got I dunno what she got but it seems to have a grip upon me No telling where she learn the things she do to me And I don't know what she done wrong but I want to hurt her Wanna take it out on her, wanna take it out on her Wanna take it out on her with my weapon With my weapon, with my weapon, with my weapon She'...
You better watch your tape boys It's the tint that angers the beast Got their sails in the sunset They've already got the east Red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red Oh don't you let them make you Don't let them make you see red You better watch your lead boys It's already in your veins Did you ever see the color? Iron turns when it rains Red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red Don't you let th...
In the car park, in the lamplight Go for a walk, clock him shiv-fight In the car park, in the lamplight Go for a walk, clock him shiv-fight Sodium-a-shine on all The faces white now And he got his Docs On bottle out all right now As you might say, as you might say As you might say, as you might say Him super-tuff, him super-tuff Him super-tuff In the corner, in the cold rain Sting like iodine ...
He makes a beeline for the place Where he gets his only ace Sometimes he's standing in the rain Oh, Gene Kelly's hat and cane He has the rhythm in his head He has the rhythm in his head He has the rhythm in his head He has the rhythm, sing It's chaotic at the bar B and O those sweaty drops We are all mesmerized To the thing we have inside He has the rhythm in his head He has the rhythm in his ...
Homegrown
Boarded up Yeah, we're boarded up Nailed up shut Yeah, we're boarded up Music venue has had it's day Death watch Beetle band moved in to play Groups don't come down from London way 'Cos we're boarded up Yeah, we're nailed up shut Two by fourded up Yeah, we're boarded up Touring companies stay away Rats and mice take the center stage Carpenter's mate have a field day Boarded up Yeah, we're nail...
A lie for a lie, but a truth for the truth Church of women is made out of milk Which their love turns to butter Church of women will have you give praise With a laugh, bark and stutter Like us men like us men They are nothing like us men Men have gargoyles 'round their hearts I'm on my knees but dancing Want to worship at the church of women Breathe 'em in until my head goes spinning around Wa...
I'm the man who murdered love Yeah, what do you think to that? I'm the man who murdered love Yeah, what do you think to that? He was begging on his bended knee For me to put him from his misery He hadn't worked at all this century Said, I'd do a job for all humanity I'm the man who murdered love Yeah, what do you think to that? I'm the man who murdered love Yeah, what do you think to that? I p...
I climb up, spending daylight Slide down, bankrupt on the other side Some sweet girl, playing my wife Runs off with a boy whose bike she'll ride Playground, it's a playground Marked by the masters and bruised by the bullies In the playground, every day ground Never stop rehearsing, rehearsing for the big square world Bells will ring, door flies open Hare and Greyhound in the old kiss chase You...
In my heart, in my heart You want some lovely, I got some lovely I've got some lovely in my head, in my head Where the lions, wear the right eye, Where the jems [unverified] roar, there be lovely You want some lovely, I got some lovely In my bed, in my bed Where the ocean wears the shore down Where's the on switch? There be lovely laying waiting naked for you We can play every day We can play ...
I'm standing, standing in for Joe Joe called 'round to ask me, would I do a favor While he's gonna be out of town Says his girl needs company, she gets so restless Would I keep her safe and sound Softly, softly, in the night Well, you can guess the rest Now, these shoes fit all too well Standing in for Joe, standing in for Joe I'm standing in for Joe Joe said, we've been friends so long But I ...
I'm stupidly happy Everything's fine I'm stupidly happy My heart pumping wine I'm stupidly happy With idiot grin I'm stupidly happy It's surely a sin All the birds of the air call your name As they land on my kitchen roof All the fish in the lake do the same Should you need extra proof I'm stupidly happy My vision is skewed I'm stupidly happy I'm coming unscrewed And if the Devil walks up Dres...
Well, I stumbled and I fell Like a wounded horse When I found out you'd been riding Another man Well, I staggered round in circles On a loser's course When I found out you'd been riding Another man Well, my friends all said Just climb back in the saddle And you know that everything will turn out right Well, my friends all said You won't sink if you paddle But my ship drifts on into an endless ...
Mummer
Do you know what noise awakes you Every morning from your bed A coming from the farthest hillside A coming from inside your head You have heard You have heard the loudest sound In this and every world you can think of Louder than tanks on the highway Louder than bombers in flight Louder than noises of hatred Dancing us from darkest night is the rhythm of love Powered on the the beating of hear...
We can plant a seed and watch it grow Food enough to fill a table Running water down an overflow Eat as much as we are able But would the fruit turn ripe If the rains had never been? Oh Lord, deliver us from the elements We, at Your mercy and Your reverence Oh Lord, deliver us from the elements We've no defense, we are impotent You can travel far to distant lands Some, so hot, no man could bea...
Cast away on a desert island Me and poor Crusoe are sharing the same fate Cast away on a desert island With Great Britain written on its name plate With my umbrella, I go walking Through all the sands on a building site Across the shopping malls and motorways Birds from Heathrow fill the Night with people flying to escape Friday comforts me and says, it's pay day Cast away on a desert island M...
Funk pop a roll beats up my soul Oozing like napalm from the speakers and grill Of your radio Into the mouths of babes And across the backs of its willing slaves Funk pop a roll consumes you whole Gulping in your opium so copiously from a disco Everything you eat is waste But swallowing is easy when it has no taste They can fix you rabbits up With your musical feed They can fix you rabbits up ...
Looks as if you're dropping mirrors By the gross Looks as if your nine lives Have left town, town When you paint in gray and drear Eldorado won't appear To run his sword through all the fears That pull you down And it's okay, for the setting sun Will color everything around you, gold And it's okay, for the setting sun Will color everything around you, gold, gold, gold, gold Looks as if you nee...
Great fire burning, you supplied the spark Fires burning spreading through the ark Animals are panicking I'm animal and panicking Your glance, a match on the tinder wood You never spoke but I understood Bring water Eyes, bring water Great fire burning through Great fire burning through my house Great fire burning through my house and heart Great fire burning, all because of you Fires burning s...
An alchemy, human alchemy We stole them from their Freedom to be sold To turn their skins of black Into the skins of brightest gold An alchemy, human alchemy We stoked the fires of trade With human coals And made our purses From the flailed skins of purest souls An alchemy, human alchemy Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood, the color o...
Boom goes my heart Dancing around your daisies Church bells will start Sat on you reading your ages I drift away In loving memory of a name Covered in moss You may have died for your country Forgotten, not lost You're laid to rest where you're wanted I stare awhile In loving memory of a name England can never repay you You gave your life to be buried alongside The place you loved The sermons a...
Scared of love, love and swimming pools Falling in, you said, was for fools But when you're standing on the edge You won't hear me because your blood is singing Jump, jump, go ahead and jump, jump If it's what your heart is wanting to do This is real life you're dreaming through And there is no glue to hold you down So, go ahead and go ahead and jump Scared of love, love and aeroplanes Falling...
Oh ladybird I have heard you wish to walk me through your garden I crave your pardon if I woke you with my thinking Ladybird Oh ladybird I have heard you wish to walk me through your meadow You'll spread no wings to fly in fright if I'm beside you Ladybird All through the winter time When wood was warm and splintered Time seemed longer than a goods train Now that spring is back again I'll ask ...
High climbs the summer sun High stands the corn And tonight, when my work is done We will borrow your father's carriage We will drink and prepare for marriage Soon, my darling, soon, my darling Shilling for the fellow who brings the sheep in Shilling for the fellow who milks the herd Shilling for the fellow with a wife for keeping How can we feed love on a farmboy's wages? Deep under winter sn...
Me and the wind are celebrating your loss Me and the wind are pulling kites and pushing trees Me and the wind are celebrating your loss Me and the wind are feeling freer than air should ever be Should ever be, should ever be, should ever And when you lured me into your syrup All I could think of was What a lovely way for me to go I never really realized that Just like the struggling summer fli...
Cindy's spending too much money on clothes Ken is going back to Gay Bob The teddy bears swear the neighborhood's gone Since the moving in of polliwog Rag doll gets beaten up by the action man The one with the real life hair He walks and he talks in a commanding voice But sexually, he's not all there Oh dear, what can the matter be, my children, sweet children What gives down in the nursery, my...
Can't you see, love and affection When it's put in your direction? Wrapped in your mysterious wonderland No fast car can make you grow up Gentlemen, you think you've sewn up Locked in your wonderful wonderland No dark horse like me Can cramp all of your style Too plain and simple I am for your file One day, you will break out of your spell And some day, you will want me for your own And I'll s...
Nonsuch
Books are burning in the main square And I saw there, the fire eating the text Books are burning in the still air And you know where they burn books, people are next I believe the printed word should be forgiven Doesn't matter what it said Wisdom hotline from the dead back to the living Key to the larder for your heart and your head Books are burning in our own town Watch us turn 'round and ca...
Bungalow Bungalow By the sea Bungalow In the sea air Climbing rose Time to spare Luxury accommodation traps the sun So we're working every hour that God made So we can fly away Saving it all up for you Bungalow Bungalow By the sea Bungalow Silver shore line In the gorse You can be mine Standing prime position for the town Working for a vision through this lives So we can fly away Saving it all...
Crocodile, no, you won't make me jealous That she left me for him Scene one standing Crushed on landing You may have walked out But I'll swallow up my fate Scene two sitting Man in kitchen Bit and cold lifeless Like the burger on my plate But there's one emotion I'm afraid of Hear him scratching gently to be fed I can't stand it when he sits there smiling I don't want him nesting in my head Cr...
I put on a fake smile And start the evening show The public is laughing I guess by now they know So climb from your high horse And pull this freak show down Dear Madam Barnum I resign as clown You said I was the master Of all I surveyed But now I'm sweeping up The last in line in your circus parade Children are clapping As I fall to the floor My heart's torn and broken And they just scream for...
Holly up on Poppy, Canter never stop She has escaped from the world Where they bake beautiful girls Holly up on Poppy, trotting to the top She talks and banners unfurl Their secrets crayoned in swirls Everyday I have to pluck up Courage to look her in the eyes The eyes of storms Anyway I love to watch her Ride and play the alchemy That love performed, laughing Holly up on Poppy, Canter never s...
Humble Daisy Form a chain to hold all battleships in check Humble Daisy Knit a ladder down to nature's sunken wreck Ragged rug unbound, tangle trip the lovers Royal barge aground Brighter than all of the others on the window sill I'll sing about you if nobody else will Humble Daisy Cast the milk and coins of morning's cash about Humble Daisy I fell down to heaven as you picked me out We'll loo...
Fine art never moved my soul No vintage wine and designer clothes But my world shakes for me My bird sings sweetly A different kind of tinsel Decorates my tree Yeah, my bird performs A thousand Cheshire cats Grin inside of me Yeah, my bird performs There she goes Shakespeare's sonnets leave me cold The drama stage and the high brow prose But my world shakes for me My bird sings sweetly The bri...
Hey yeah Hey yeah, yeah Climb up here beside me We can ride and find a friend unfound Put your foot upon the laughing gas And drive your grin around Omnibus, take all of us All of us, take Omnibus Ain't nothing in the world like a white skinned girl Make your Union Jack and make your flag unfurl You can't say you've ridden 'Til you've given up your heart and seat Man that lady clippie rip your...
Rook, rook, read from your book Who murders who and where is the treasure hid? Crow, crow, spill all you know Is that my name on the bell? Rook, rook, gaze in the brook If there's a secret, can I be part of it? Crow, crow, before I'll let go Say, is that my name on the bell? Soar up high, see the semaphore from the washing lines Break the code of the whispering chimneys and traffic signs What'...
That wave pulled me into your eyes Through the greeny gray pebbles And countless cathedrals arriving That wave lift me into your mouth Turning spires and spittle of pearls To perplex the young diver I flew down to the bottom of the sea Where I questioned the fishes all about it I was in heaven, address, Cloud Eleven They danced and laughed spelling all I fell into was love That wave carried me...
Peter Pumpkinhead, hey, came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the Vatican what gold's for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees Hooray for Peter Pumpkin Who'll pray for Peter Pumpkinhead? Oh my Peter Pumpkinhead pulled them all Emptied churches and shopping malls Where he spoke, it would raise the roof Pete...
The disappointed All shuffle 'round in circles Their placards look the same With a picture and a name Of the ones who broke their hearts The disappointed All congregate at my house Their voices sob with grief That they want to be chief Of the tribe with broken hearts Once, I had no sympathy For those destroyed and thrown away by love Seems, your ring upon my finger Signifies that I've become t...
Well, man created the cardboard box to sleep in it And man converted the newspaper to a blanket Well, you have to admit that he's come a long way Since swinging about in the trees We're the smartest monkeys The smartest monkeys The evidence is all around Our brains are bigger, this we've found The smartest monkeys Well, man discovered the park bench can make a transition And the rubbish tip ma...
First there's the handshake It's so warm that you could bake by it Designed to take attention from their Ugly underneath Then there's the wedding The coordinated bedding And the fairy tale shredding Boy, it's ugly underneath And after the pretty There's a gluttony of pity On a cake called nitty, gritty And it's ugly underneath Did you ever try to prise away the mask Go ahead, take a spoon and ...
Then she appeared Apple Venus on a half open shell Then she appeared The first photograph on Fox Talbots gel I was a little frightened Flying with my senses heightened Cherubim cheered, then she appeared Then she appeared As the giggling crew of Marie Celeste Then she appeared Pale Atlantis rising out of the west I was a little dazzled Catherine wheeled and senses frazzled Know it sounds weird...
There's an epidemic Stirring passions in young hearts Even the old campaigners Have got it really bad Well, we ain't seen nothing like it Since coronation day But when the street parties sound I'm going underground To keep the rabid hounds at bay Oh, my, my, this war dance A patriotic romance No, we ain't seen nothing like it Since coronation day Oh, my, my, my But when the tickatape flies And...
Some folks see the world as a stone Concrete daubed in dull monotone Your heart is the big box of paints And others, the canvas we're dealt Your heart is the big box of paints How coloured the flowers all smelled As they huddled there, in petalled prayer They told me this, as I knelt there Awaken you dreamers Adrift in your beds Balloons and streamers Decorate the inside of your heads Please l...
Oranges amp; Lemons
Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers Nurses, queens and drones Wish they'd leave my head tonight Let me rest my bones A billion feet sound just like a billion drums A bed is creaking as the messiah comes The cars are crashing and the bacon is hacked The coffin's lowered and the lunches get packed Still segregating 'cause we insects are too proud Doesn't matter what colour of cat you are there...
I'm floating over strange land It's a soulless, sequined, showbiz moon I'm floating over strange land And then stranger still, there's no balloon But I'm getting higher Wafted up by fame's fickle fire 'til the Chalk hills and children Anchor my feet Chalk hills and children Bringing me back to earth Eternally and ever Ermine Street. Even I never know where I go when my eyes are closed I'm skat...
Another year's gone by The world's grown older Sometimes I heave a sigh People grow colder Every day I do my best to show I can make it in this world I know But all the bad thoughts that people bring My faith in human nature's getting pretty thin Help me get through these cynical days Help me get through my cynical ways You say, it's just a passing phase You've got to help me get through, thes...
Kid, stay and snip your cord off, talk and let your mind loose Can't all think like Chekov but you'll be okay Kid, is this your first time here? Some can't stand the beauty So they cut off one ear but you'll be okay Welcome to the garden of earthly delights Welcome to a billion Arabian nights This is your life and you do what you want to do This is your life and you spend it all, this is your ...
Here comes President Kill again Surrounded by all of his killing men Telling us who, why, where and when President Kill wants killing again Hooray, ring out the bells King Conscience is dead Hooray, now back in your cells We've President Kill instead Here comes President Kill again Broadcasting from his killing den Dressed in Pounds and Dollars and Yen President Kill wants killing again Hooray...
Hold me my daddy I never felt lower than dirt on the floor I say hold me my daddy I never felt like crying oceans before If this means war, why are we in it? Might've fired off a couple of rounds I didn't mean to begin it If these are the bullets That every father and son must chew Well then hold me my daddy I forgot to say I love you Hold me my daddy It hurts me to see grow men fighting this ...
Everyone's creeping up to the money God Putting tongues where they didn't ought to be On stepping stones of human hearts and souls Into the land of 'Nothing for free' Well, the way that we're living Is all take and no giving There's nothing to believe in The loudest mouth will hail the new found way To be king for a day Everyone's licking up to the new king pin Trying to get a way up with the ...
Higher, I'm a king, yes, I'm a head of state But I'm the kitchen, boy who'll wash your dirty plate I had no message and the message was We're all Jesus, Buddha and the Wizard of Oz I'm merely a man and I bring nothing but love for you I'm merely a man and I want nothing that you can't do And you know it's true that with logic And love we'll be lifting humanity higher, higher I'm all religious ...
I?m 12 o?clock, all daylight hours I?ll warm your bed, I?ll grow your flowers Like I?m a miniature sun This ball ignited when she told me I was her only one I?m not the same now I?m not that plain little boy I?m all aflame now I?m king up here like a miniature sun No life comes close, I?m rising higher On holiday, on ball of fire You made a miniature sun There's no more shadows in this world s...
I got so much to say But I'm afraid it'll come out wrong I'm not a king to the eighties thing Where you look after number one But I won't rock the boat 'Cause I'm scared what might happen I won't rock the boat 'Cause I'm one of the millions Who never seem to do anything He never seems to do anything I never seem to do anything He never seems to do anything And every time I get the urge To stri...
Anytime you rise, I?m here and I?m crazy for you pink thing You make me want to laugh, you make me want to cry When I stroke your head I feel a hundred heartbeats high Ooh, pink thing I want to take you out and show you round the world Pink thing it?ll be okay If I could only wake you from your slumber curled Pink thing what would straight folks say? That man isn?t fit to enter heaven That man...
Poor skeleton steps out, dressed up in bad blood Bad brains, bad thoughts and others deeds Poor skeleton no doubt, one of these days You can cast aside your human, be free When the cities run with blood and you drink our health in mud All flesh be gone, save your dry and joyous shout For the day poor skeleton steps out Step out, step out, step out, step out Poor skeleton steps out, sprung from...
Hope you enjoyed your flight In one of our new straw aeroplanes You'll find things here are just like What you're used to There's lots of waste and razor wire And no one gives a damn about the land We just stand around and stare Like you folks do For we ain't got no brains And we ain't got no hearts It's just that wild old wind That tears us all apart We're the scarecrow people Have we got lot...
All around the world, every boy and every girl Need the loving The humble and the great, even those we think we hate Need the loving Soldiers of the queen, all the hard men that we've seen Need the loving Babies at the breast, those in power and those suppressed Need the loving Let's face it you just can't hide Your first taste'll send you reeling Like a firework to which we're tied Be prepare...
Never been near a university Never took a paper or a learned degree And some of your friends think that's stupid of me But it's nothing that I care about Well, I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun And of mathematics well, I want none And I may be the mayor of simpleton But I know one thing and that's I love you When their logic grows cold and all thinking gets done You'll be warm in ...
Skylarking
1000 umbrellas Upturned couldn't catch all the rain That drained out of my head When you said we were Over and over I cried Till I floated downstream To a town they call Misery, oh oh, Misery Misery, oh oh, Misery And one million teacups I bet couldn't hold all the wet That fell out of my eyes When you fell out with me Now I'm crawling the wallpaper That's looking more like a road map To Miser...
My heart is taken, it's not lost in space And I don't want to see your moony moony face I say, why on earth do you revolve around me? Aren't you aware of the gravity? Don't need another satellite I'm happy standing on my feet of clay I have no wish to swim your milky, milky way I say, why on earth do you send your letters 'round here Only to gum up the atmosphere? Don't need another satellite ...
Orange and lemon raincoats Roll and tumble together Just liked fruit tipped from a tray Pineapple wet heads Watch new hairdos crumble As scenery, sunlight shifts away Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Apples and cherries Are varnished in water Despite striped awnings bright dismay I push my paintbrush To conjure a new world While this one is slowly washed away Ballet f...
It's your big day, your big day So you want to tie the knot Tie it tight, don't let it rot The memory of this day Are you deafened by the bells Could be heaven, could be hell, in a cell for two Big day come and big day go Life goes on after the show But will your love have the fire and glow Like on the big day Statistics, they don't say a lot But can you keep what you have got, forever togethe...
Dear God I hat to be a bother, but I gotta say This world is getting crazier with every day I hope You'll hear me out now as I stop and pray Dear God People take your words and try to twist them round I know You can't be happy with what's goin' down I'm searchin' for some answers, but they can't be found Can You help me out, dear God? Dear God Just the other night I heard somebody say What's t...
It frightens me when you come to mind The day you dropped in the shopping line And my heart beats faster when I think of all the signs All the signs When they carried you out your eyes was open wide The cat went astray and the dog did pine for days and days And I felt so guilty when we played you up When you were ill, so ill What sticks in my mind is the sweet jar on the sideboard And your mul...
I've been praying all the weeks through At home, at work and on the bus I've been praying, I can keep you And to earn enough for us I can take humiliation And hurtful comments from the boss I'm just praying by the weekend I can earn enough for us Found a house that won't repair itself With its windows cracking And a roof held together with holes Just because we're on the bottom of the ladder W...
Laying on the grass My heart it flares like fire The way you slap my face Just fills me with desire You play hard to get 'Cause you're teacher's pet But when the boats have gone We'll take a tumble, excuse for a fumble Shocked me too, the things we used to do on grass If you fancy We can buy an ice-cream cone Your mate has gone She didn't want to be alone I will pounce on you Just us and the c...
From pools of xylophone clear From caves of memory I saw the children at heart That we once used to be Borne on foaming seahorse herd Compose with trumpeting shell From lines across their hands A song as new as new moon As old as all the sands Shrank to stagnant from Atlantic wild Lost that child 'til mermaid smiled Summoned by drum rolling surf As laughing fish compel The young boy woken in m...
Fire they cried So evil must die And yields are good So men pull back hoods and smile The scapegoat blood spilled Spittled and grilled it crackled and spat And children grew fat on the meat Change must be earnt Sacrificial bonfire must burn Burn up the old Ring in the new Assembled on high Silhouette against the sky The smoke prayed and pranced And sparks did their dance in the wind Shadows wo...
Fire they cried So evil must die And yields are good So men pull back hoods and smile The scapegoat blood spilled Spittled and grilled It crackled and spat Children grew fat on the meat Change must be earnt Sacrificial bonfire Must burn Burn up the old Bring in the new Burn up the old Bring in the new Assembled on high Silhouette against the sky The smoke prayed and pranced And sparks did thei...
Season cycle moving round and round Pushing life up from a cold dead ground It's growing green, it's growing green Well, darling, don't you ever stop to wonder About the clouds, about the hail and thunder 'Bout the baby and its umbilical Who's pushing the pedals on the season cycle? Summer chased by autumn, autumn chased by winter Season cycle go from death to life Winter chased by springtime,...
Drowning here in summer?s cauldron under mats of flower lava Please don?t pull me out, this is how I would want to go Breathing in the boiling butter, fruit of sweating golden Inca Please don?t heed my shout, I?m relaxing the undertow When Miss Moon lays down and Sir Sun stands up Me, I?m found floating round and round Like a bug in brandy in this big bronze cup Drowning here in summer?s cauld...
I can't hold you down, if you want to fly Can't you see I'm all broke up inside? Well, just you use your two X Ray eyes Hurt like Kryptonite, put me on my knees Now that I've found out just what you're doing With your secret identities That's really super, Supergirl How you saved yourself in seconds flat And your friends are going to say ?That's really super, Supergirl? How you're changing all...
The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken Captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold The man who walked across his heart Who took no compass, guide or chart To rope and tar his blood congealed When he found his self revealed, ugly and cold And the sirens that sing By your nose with its ring They'll drag you in For your ...
Meet you in a secret place Scuffling in the dirt, I wait Whistle will blow, whistle will blow Share a joke, the laughs on me When I get you on your own, we'll see Someone might hear, someone might hear You're a working girl now You've got money of your own The meeting place, the meeting place Strolling under grimey skies Machines that make you kiss in time Smoke on your breath, smoke on your b...
The Big Express
Do something for me, boys If I should die at sea, boys Write a little note, boys Set it off afloat, saying Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls Village and city girls by the quayside Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls Watching and waiting by the sea Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls Quiet or witty girls by the quayside Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty gir...
Blue overall Overall the rooftop's blue birds fly apart Blue overall Overall the bones that cage this stupid heart Got blues drawing crosses on my front door Blues a-bringing buckets 'round the back Blues trying to push me from me white fence And tar me a darker bluey black For all this time I really thought you loved me For all this time You only rubber gloved me Blue overall Overall my anvil...
I bought myself a liarbird He came with free drinks just to blur The lies falling out like rain On an average English summer's afternoon I bought myself a new notebook Sharpened my guitar and went to look If this biz was just as bongo As the liarbird made out All he would say Is, "I can make you famous All he would say All he would say "Just like a household name is All he would say Methinks w...
Hot as golden sand in fields We whiled away the hours I'm thinking of the days we had Enormous super powers Yes, I'm sleeping, my mind's on the blink I thought a page, like it's written in ink When I remember distant days I remember many things But most of all, I remember the sun Most of all, I remember the sun Most of all, I remember the sun Squinting at the sun through eyes Screwed up by a f...
Red brick dream, windows scream As the rusting North Star shines above And drops its iron beams Crashing down upon the roofs of Swindon Town I heard the engine's dying breath Castles and kings all starved to death I dropped the Coronation cup Please don't wake them up from red brick dream Red brick dream, buttons gleam By the light of the furnace pouring Molten memories Splashing down upon the...
Reign of blows, reign of blows Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldier The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and symbol Are sickles that reap only weeds The reign of blows, reign of blows Reign of blows precedes a storm of revolution People have no place in th...
It's raining on the beach She inches close but out of reach The waves look painted on Seagulls screaming The sea is warship gray It whispers, "Fool" then slides away Black coastline slumbers on Seagulls screaming kiss her, kiss her And all the flags that flap on the pier Spell why on earth do you want The fog hides much but one thing is clear She's nearer Dead deck chairs under shrouds And lif...
Here he come again Dress in all that skin Like he was still human being Look at he long ears And he big brown eyes And with them truth he is seeing Isn't it a shame you kicked that girl Isn't it a shame she kicked you back, jackass She really shake you donkey up She really make you donkey up She really shake you donkey up, quite a packet She really shake you donkey up She really make you donke...
Smalltown, snoring under blankets Woken by the clank It's just the milkman's dawn round Smalltown, hiding undercovers The lodgers and the lovers Are asleep 'round Smalltown Shiny gray black snake of bikes He slithers Bearing up the men and boys To work We're standing in poplar lines Making alarm clocks that'll wake our wives up Don't ask us, we haven't the time We're racing the hooter that'll ...
Ah well, that's this world over Ah well, next one begins Will you smile like any mother As you bathe your brand new twins? Will you sing about the missiles As you dry odd numbered limbs? Ah, well, that's this world over Ah, well, next one begins Ah, well, that's this world over You sadly grin Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land About their leader with the famous face? Will ...
Me train running low on soul coal They push pull tactics are driving me loco They shouldn't do that, no, no, no They shouldn't do that Me train running low on dream steam They pull me whistle too hard, me bound to scream And they shouldn't do that, no, no, no They shouldn't do that Think I'm going South for the winter Think I'm going mad in this hinterland Between young and old I'm a thirty ye...
You put your cleanest dirty shirt on Then you stagger down to meet the dawn You take a ride upon a bus, it's just a fuss You know it keeps you born You get to know a morning face You get to join the human race You get to know the world has passed you by Who cares? You might be dead Who cares? You stayed in bed Who cares? You wrote the note Who cares? You might have spoke Wake up, wake up, wake...
Mother's in the kitchen steaming up the window panes Smell of boiling cabbage comes up from an open drain But no amount of scrubbing could ever shift a gravy stain Washaway, washaway, washaway washerette Washaway, washaway every dirty stain you get Streets lay deserted, no one feels exerted Sat on their couches with loose change in their pouches They couldn't spend it if they tried, oh no In c...
What was I supposed to do? I turned around with the world and she simply was there My blood ran like ice right through She had your face and your lips and your eyes and your hair You're the wish you are I had You're the wish you are I had You're the wish that I had I wonder if she knows that when I made her up I made her eat an apple and I made her drink a cup or two Wish, wish, wish, wish, wi...
Wasp Star Apple Venus Volume 2
Well, would you want me in your afternoons If I seduced you in your Mills and Boon? Well, I'll be the master, if you'll be the maid But don't ya get those headaches in another life I'll bring you milk tray from a parachute I'll play the Hollywood hunk, you can dye your roots Well, I'll be your Burton if you'll be my Liz There might be flying pigs in another life It's how we're built, love, don...
In my heart, in my heart You want some lovely, I got some lovely In my head, in my head Where the lions wear the right tie Where the gems roar, there be lovely You want some lovely, I got some lovely In my bed In my bed Where the ocean wears the shore down Where's the on switch? There be lovely Laying waiting naked for you We can play every day We can play at being lovers We can play every day...
White Music
I'm heading into the atom age My contemporary house is all the rage My wife's getting lazy going gadget crazy Wants a pallette shaped coffee table and a matching settee I'm heading into the atom age My kids have gone obscene want to marry at fourteen Want a pallette shaped coffee table and a matching settee I'm heading into the atom age I flick on the video to soothe me It's better colour than...
Watch them go one two three I'm so happy and so is she In a dance band Show, slow, quick, quick, slow Heel to hell and toe to toe In a dance band Oh, you can do the Bosanova Till the night is through You know Gay Gordon You can meet him too But when you hear that tune One and one makes two Don't step on my toes Don't step on my toes Let's go Watch them go one two three I'm so happy and so is s...
Do what you do what you Do what you do what you Do what you do to me Do what you do what you Do what you do what you Do what you do to me The stars are out and so am I The stars I see, ain't in the sky I'm heading, heading, heading for Twilight Zone [Incomprehensible] Please don't take me home Do what you do what you Do what you do what you Do what you do to me Do what you do what you Do what ...
When we're laying in bed And we're laying in love You and the blackness Fit me like a velvet glove That's why I go crazy When you flick on your lamp I'm dreaming Hang on to the night Hang on to the night Hang on to the night I don't want to see That dawn light Burn your window When we're feeling drunk In a city park Put away that torch I'm changed in the dark
She likes it hot she likes a tan she steals my infra fed when I'm gone oh no can it be we're heading for a heatwave Her legs are brown a trace of rust she's in love with a MKII deluxe oh no can it be we're heading for a heatwave Her hair is bleached like it's been boiled she browns herself in a sea of olive oil and I come around and she's relaxing in the conservatory
I'm bugged, you all look like insects In your brand new sun specs I'm bugged, I'm bugged I drop a little note through my sympathetics door I think I'm going ga ga, I just can't take anymore At first I see 'em swarming from a dark and midnight nest And when I see 'em fiddling, well, I think you've guessed the rest I'm bugged, you all look like insects In your brand new sun specs I'm bugged, I'm...
Instant tunes only just been made Instant songs never to be played Instant tunes hanging out to dry Oh let me try to introduce you to Instant tunes Instant tunes Instant tunes Instant tunes Ever and ever will they give us pleasure? Their instant, still instant Like mother, mother used to make it, oh Instant tunes give instant cash Make me want to start a backlash Let me have the recipe And mak...
Hey, what you going to do now? You're standing there and wondering how You, you got to make some noise Just like one of the girls or even one of the boys When you do it, it ain't no disgrace I can see it written all across your face Neon shuffle and shuffle into outer space I said, "The neon shuffle is a dance for the human race" I said, "The neon shuffle is gonna pull you outta your place" Yo...
I think my watch has bust and so is time I borrowed all my love so nothing's mine There's nothing decent on the TV page, yeah Like a new town animal in a furnished cage Like a new town animal in a furnished cage Uhh, it's gone eleven and the bar is shut I'm sitting waiting like a real good mutt There's nothing decent on the TV page, yeah Like a new town animal in a furnished cage Like a new to...
Well, there's a message up in China That they're getting in Japan It's bouncing off an ocean liner And make 'em shake 'em in Siam And all my kids are complaining That there's nowhere to go And all my kids are complaining That the songs are too slow All I'm saying is you're deaf To the fact that there's Radios in motion Atmosphere to ocean Radios in motion Gets you out of your red, white and bl...
I look out of my window at night I see the stars and I'm filled with fright I got a feeling someone's looking It ain't the aliens at the foot of my bed It's more the ale inside my head I got a feeling something's cooking Science friction burns my fingers Electricity still lingers Hey put away that ray How do you Martians say, "I love you"? I read my comics from front to back I'll be ready for ...
Ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho Now you see it, now you don't Has no bones to hurt your throat Good and sweet, nice to eat If you like it, just repeat I'll set myself on fire I'll set myself on fire I'll set myself on fire Oh, strike my hand on a stone, Joan God knows this is yuck I do it all in unison Ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho We have the pool, I know that's cool Why do you take me for a fool? Try the ra...
Awful plastic boots that come above her ankle Dayglo mini skirts just like a pop art spangle Digs vanilla fudge buys lipstick by the pound Gets that 'English' look resembles Kath McGowan Have you seen her hair it's a style from heaven Ah she's nowhere she thinking this is 1967? She's so square she's nowhere She's so square she's nowhere Take her to a disco and screaming Lord Sutch it Everyone ...
I'm like a spinning top going 'round and around Well, I don't know what's up and I sure Don't know what's down, now watch me I'm like a spinning top, I can't tell day from night Well, I don't know what's wrong and I sure Don't know what's right, now watch me It started when I heard your song of love Pouring down like honey from above I started to spin, I started to move, just like a needle Tha...
The first time I saw you standing in the water You must have been all of a thousand feet tall Nearly naked, unashamed like Herod's daughter Your love was so big, it made New York look small You've been the subject of so many dreams Since I climbed your torso Oh, my statue of Liberty Boo boo, Impaled on your hair What do you do, do, do to me Boo boo I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book ...
In a milk bar and feeling lost Drinking sodas as cold as frost Someone leans in my direction Quizzing on my juke-box selection What do you call that noise That you put on? This is pop, yeah, yeah This is On a walkway and moving fast All I get is transistor blast Someone leans in my direction Quizzing on my station selection What do you call that noise That you put on? This is pop, yeah, yeah T...
I'm out and I'm driving Got my eyes set on romance She says, "I've got a brand new thing Want to show you this dance" I say, "Am I learning it steady" She say, "Look you're doing it already" It's the traffic light rock Stop 'n go all of the time It's the traffic light rock Stop 'n go all of the time I'm out by the dance hall Best buddy by my side He says, "I've got a brand new car I want to ta...
It's the airwaves of the world But not the hairwaves on your head Oh, but anything can be On land and in the sea You've got cross wires You've got cross wires When you've got cross wires Wow, when you've got cross wires Everything is buzz buzz Everything is beep beep Strange things happen everyday It may confuse the Chinese say Brings a nation to its feet It's them people that you meet When yo...