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Darling am I
I must be told
Tell me dear
Getting old
Y'know it's a
Million dollar fear
Creep in over here
If lines
Celluloid beauty
She never seems to realise
Age she's so afraid
Age she's not the rage
Never dies
I know I'm artificial I was reared with appliances But don't put the blame on me The pretty little mask not me In a consumer society When I put on my make-up In a consumer society That's the way a girl should be My existence is illusive The kind that is supported By mechanical resources By existence is illusive By mechanical resources The kind that is supported I wanna be instamatic I wanna be...
Packet of cigarettes on the counter
Carrying a government health warning
Still they want the money, still they want the tax
Still they want the money, still they want the tax
Why not take paper currency and light it up?
A lower tar content and a quicker puff
Then you could keep the money, you could keep the tax
You could keep the money, you could keep the tax
Fields wasted growing tobacco
Coul...
How do you feel now? I want to know
Clear as crystal, I can see your face
In my glass of water, I can see your face
How do you feel know? I want to know
Does your love burn like a summer's day
Or is it still on hold in an ice cube tray?
Clear as crystal
How do you feel now? I want to know
Clear as crystal, I can see your face
In my glass of water? I can see your face
Winter has passed now, did...
I clambered over mounds and mounds
Of polystyrene foam
And fell into a swimming pool
Filled with fairy snow
And watched the world turn day-glo
you know you know
The world turned day-glo you know
I wrenched the nylon curtains back
As far as they would go
And peered through perspex window panes
At the acrylic road
I drove my polypropolene
Car on wheels of sponge
Then pulled into a wimpy bar
To h...
Iggy says "I wanna be your dog."
But I want you to be a demigod
Look at my bow wow sitting there
Sniffing scratching without a care
Once upon a lifetime peroxide hair
What a heavy load to bear
What a heavy load to bear
Alcohol, drugs and rock n' roll
Come on doggy doggy let's go for a stroll
Before and after human growl so foul
And now animal and left to howl
A dog in Sweden, a man's best frie...
Genetic engineering
Could create an unknown life-force
That could us exterminate
Could create the perfect race
As our subordinated slave
Introducing worker clone
His expertise proficiency
Will surely dig our grave
It's so very tempting
Will he let us exist
When he becomes the creator
Will biologists resist
Bionic man is jumping
Through the television set
He's about to materialise
And guess who...
I know your antiseptic
Your deodorant smells nice
I'd like to get to know you
You're deep frozen like the ice
-chorus-:
She's a germ free adolescent
Cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away scrub away scrub away
The S.R. way....
You may get to touch her
If your gloves are sterilised
Rinse your mouth with listerine
Blow disinfectant in her eyes
-chorus-
Her phobi...
I don't wanna be? I don't wanna be
A good time girl A good time girl
String you along like I string my pearls
A typical good time girl
A good time girl
A good time girl
A typical good time girl
I don't need no diamonds now
They'd seem like broken glass
I'd never wear a fur
Would seem like stepping into anothers skin
A typical good time girl like me
A good time girl
A good time girl
A typical g...
You know, you know, you know you know you know
I can't go out alone
Hi chaperone, my chaperone
What you think is all wrong
'Cos you shouldn't treat a girl like a game of ping-pong
But I can't go out alone without a chaperone
Hi chaperone, my chaperone
You may say sweet dreams tonight
Blow me a kiss, well I guess that's alright, that's alright
I can't go out alone without a chaperone
Hi chapero...
Highly inflammable
Neurotic tensions
Waiting to explode
I thought you were a man
You thought I was a woman
Risen overflowed
But I was Tinkerbell
And you were Peter Pan
It ain't hip if you are retro
Influenced by the fashion pages
Influenced by other's phrases
You're a pseudo quasi intellectual
Supreme equality
We used to compete
The right to decide
Is denied to the sheep
I thought you were a m...
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche you've seen before
I am a cliche that lives next door
I am a cliche, you know what I mean
I am a cliche, pink is obscene
Yama, yama, yama
Yama, yama, yama
Boredom, boredom
Boring boredom
Yama, yama, yama
Yama, yama, yama
Boredom, boredom
Boring boredom
Repeat all
I am a poseur and I don't care
I like to make people stare
Exhibition is the name
I like to make people stare
I am a poseur and I don't care
Voyeurism is the game
Stereoscopic is the show
Viewing time makes it grow
My facade is just a fake
Shock horror no escape
Characatures are what you breed
Sensationalism for the feed
Overtones can be betrayingEstablishments like a laugh
Anti-art was the st...
I can't write
And I can't sing
I can't do anything
I can't read
And I can't spell
I can't even get to hell
I can't luv
And I can't hate
I can't even hesitate
I can't dance
And I can't walk
I can't even try to talk
Freedom tried to strangle me
With my plastic popper beads
But I hit him back
With my pet rat
Yeah I hit him back
With my pet rat
I can't spit
And I can't kick
I can't even be thick
I...
I live off you
And the whole world
And you live off me
Lives off of everybody
See we gotta be exploited
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody by somebody
By somebody
The cat eats the rat
While the pimp beats the whore
For more and more
As she just screams out
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody by somebody
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody
I LIVE OFF YOU
AND YOU LIVE OF ME
AND THE WHOLE WORLD
LIVES OFF OF EVERYBODY
SEE WE GOTTA BE EXPLOITED
SEE WE GOTTA BE EXPLOITED
BE SOMEBODY BE SOMEBODY
BE SOMEBODY
THE CAT EATS THE RAT
WHILE THE PIMP BEATS THE WHORE
AS SHE JUST SCREAMS OUT
FOR MORE AND MORE
SEE WE GOTTA BE EXPLOITED
SEE WE GOTTA BE EXPLOITED
BE SOMEBODY BE SOMEBODY
BE SOMEBODY
Identity
Is the crisis
Can't you see
Identity identity
When you look in the mirror
Do you see yourself
Do you see yourself
On the t.v. screen
Do you see yourself
In the magazine
When you see yourself
Does it make you scream
When you look in the mirror
Do you smash it quick
Do you take the glass
And slash your wrists
Did you do it for fame
Did you do it in a fit
Did you do it before
You read ab...
India, India, India
India, India, clarified butter from the holy cow
India, India, India
I'm a pauper bereft of spiritual vision
Looking for a guru such a decision
India, India, India
Clarified butter from the holy cow
India, India, India
I'm a conscious consumer
but there's nothing to consume
Lotus flowers are still in bloom in
India, India, India
India, India, clarified butter from the holy ...
Johnny's got an addiction
He's strung out without conviction
He was raised with a microwave
Sticky trashy fast food slave
He's a junk food junky
He could be a lot more spunky hunky
But he's a junk food junky
Blame it on the food yeah, you know it's bad
Mother doesn't really know
Shopping in a glossy show
Then again her budget's low
Her health so bad it makes her slow
She's a junk food junky
Sh...
It's dark and eerie
And it's really late
Come on kids don't hesitate
We're going down to the underground
We're going down we're going down
To the underground
Dagger glares from richard hell
The hades ladies are dressed to kill
Tension heightening heating frightening
Thunder rolls as fast as lightening
If you've got the urge
The subterrene is a bottomless pit
Come on let's submerge
The vinyl vu...
My mother the cow who still feeds me now is being tortured
Her son the bull who the fields should plough is being slaughtered
The human child in the womb who is never born for being unwanted
Melancholy in the Age of Kali
Melancholy in the Age of Kali
Kali Kali
My mother, the earth, man treats like dirt, her resources being exhausted
Ant-like astronauts, of the human race, scratch and scar the ...
You are just a concept
You are just a dream
Of the new regime
You're just a reflection
You are just a theme
For the sales machine
Ooo ooo they're obsessed
You are just a symbol
You're just another figure
With yoo ooo
Ooo ooo they're obsessed
Ooo ooo cos they're watching
With yoo ooo
With yoo ooo
You are just a find
You are just a victim
Soon to be a casuality
A casuality of time
oh oh oh oh
now everyday someone had a feeling for you then i was mostley running after the days that you were there
im obsessed im obsessed with you im obsessed im obsessed with you
now its funny funny that i cant realy see you from the dakness light oh i need you here bcause im obsessed
i look in your eyes so deeply and i dont see enything because i am obsessd with you everys day a girl come...
Bind me tie me
Chain me to the wall I wanna be a slave
To you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Chain-store chain-smoke
I consume you all
Chain-gang chain-mail
I don't think at all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Thrash me crash me
Beat me till I fall
I wanna be a victim
For you all
Oh bondage up your...
Bind me tie me
Chain me to the wall I wanna be a slave
To you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Chain-store chain-smoke
I consume you all
Chain-gang chain-mail
I don't think at all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Thrash me crash me
Beat me till I fall
I wanna be a victim
For you all
Oh bondage up your...
Did you enjoy the party you went to the other night?
No not really not really, no not really at all
I was bored stiff all night.
Did you find anyone you could talk to?
Anyone with a lot to say?
No not really no one, no not one not really
Just a boy who had a fixation on his body all the time.
He wanted to know if I..... he called 'making love'
I said "My dear pubescent adolescent socks
I gave ...
Not much difference 'tween a cow and you
Flesh, blood, bones
She cries like you do
Cries like you do
Yours is the hippest hypocritical point of view
Wake up and realise the things that you do
You're busy whipping Hitler cos he gassed so many Jews
You're as guilty of murder - look at what you chew
Everybody's worried 'bout a Third World War
Nuclear annihilation, need I say more?
While you're fe...
1977 and we are going mad
1977 and we're gonna show them all
It's 1977 and we've seen to many ads
That apathy's a drag
My mind is like a plastic bag
That corresponds to all those ads
That is fed in through by ear
I eat kleenex for breakfast
It sucks up all the rubbish
To dry my tears
And use soft hygienic weetabix
My mind is like a switchboard
I dont't know what's going on
With crossed and tan...
We got something don't you know it's true?
We got something don't feel it too?
We got something, we got something to do
Not a mushy line that I'm pushing on you
Just another blue-note sung slightly out of tune
We got something, we got something to do
Prayer for peace, prayer for peace
Prayer for peace.
It may appear that we've been sleeping through our years
And we've been living in an imagina...
Sophia look like a witch
A beautiful witch is she
Sophia look like a witch
Hidden form in the name of chastity
Sophia wears a crucifix
Christ hung round her neck
Sophia wears a crucifix
Crucifix effect
Sophia lies between black sheets
Between black sheets she rests
Sophia rises while the cock-a-doodle-doos' a calling
And in black robes she's dressed
Sophia look like a witch Sophia look like a ...
Warrior in Woolworth's
Humble he may seem
Behind his servile innocence
He plots and he schemes
He's the rebel on the underground
She's the rebel of the modern town
He's the rebel on the underground
She's the rebel of the modern town
Warrior in Woolworth's
His roots are in today
Doesn't know no history
He threw the past away
Warrior in Woolworth's
Dips on friday nights
Youths meet at Stockwell ...
Warrior in woolworths
Behind his serville innocence
He's the rebel on the underground
He plots and he schemes
Humble he may seem
She's the rebel of the modern town
He's the rebel on the underground
His roots are in today
Warrior in woolworths
She's the rebel of the modern town
Doesn't know no history
Warrior in woolworths
He threw the past away
Weapons rule their livesDips on friday nights
You...
Albums
Anthology |
Darling am I
I must be told
Tell me dear
Getting old
Y'know it's a
Million dollar fear
Creep in over here
If lines
Celluloid beauty
She never seems to realise
Age she's so afraid
Age she's not the rage
Never dies
I know I'm artificial I was reared with appliances But don't put the blame on me The pretty little mask not me In a consumer society When I put on my make-up In a consumer society That's the way a girl should be My existence is illusive The kind that is supported By mechanical resources By existence is illusive By mechanical resources The kind that is supported I wanna be instamatic I wanna be...
Packet of cigarettes on the counter
Carrying a government health warning
Still they want the money, still they want the tax
Still they want the money, still they want the tax
Why not take paper currency and light it up?
A lower tar content and a quicker puff
Then you could keep the money, you could keep the tax
You could keep the money, you could keep the tax
Fields wasted growing tobacco
Coul...
I clambered over mounds and mounds
Of polystyrene foam
And fell into a swimming pool
Filled with fairy snow
And watched the world turn day-glo
you know you know
The world turned day-glo you know
I wrenched the nylon curtains back
As far as they would go
And peered through perspex window panes
At the acrylic road
I drove my polypropolene
Car on wheels of sponge
Then pulled into a wimpy bar
To h...
I know your antiseptic
Your deodorant smells nice
I'd like to get to know you
You're deep frozen like the ice
-chorus-:
She's a germ free adolescent
Cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away scrub away scrub away
The S.R. way....
You may get to touch her
If your gloves are sterilised
Rinse your mouth with listerine
Blow disinfectant in her eyes
-chorus-
Her phobi...
Highly inflammable
Neurotic tensions
Waiting to explode
I thought you were a man
You thought I was a woman
Risen overflowed
But I was Tinkerbell
And you were Peter Pan
It ain't hip if you are retro
Influenced by the fashion pages
Influenced by other's phrases
You're a pseudo quasi intellectual
Supreme equality
We used to compete
The right to decide
Is denied to the sheep
I thought you were a m...
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche you've seen before
I am a cliche that lives next door
I am a cliche, you know what I mean
I am a cliche, pink is obscene
Yama, yama, yama
Yama, yama, yama
Boredom, boredom
Boring boredom
Yama, yama, yama
Yama, yama, yama
Boredom, boredom
Boring boredom
Repeat all
I am a poseur and I don't care
I like to make people stare
Exhibition is the name
I like to make people stare
I am a poseur and I don't care
Voyeurism is the game
Stereoscopic is the show
Viewing time makes it grow
My facade is just a fake
Shock horror no escape
Characatures are what you breed
Sensationalism for the feed
Overtones can be betrayingEstablishments like a laugh
Anti-art was the st...
I can't write
And I can't sing
I can't do anything
I can't read
And I can't spell
I can't even get to hell
I can't luv
And I can't hate
I can't even hesitate
I can't dance
And I can't walk
I can't even try to talk
Freedom tried to strangle me
With my plastic popper beads
But I hit him back
With my pet rat
Yeah I hit him back
With my pet rat
I can't spit
And I can't kick
I can't even be thick
I...
I live off you
And the whole world
And you live off me
Lives off of everybody
See we gotta be exploited
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody by somebody
By somebody
The cat eats the rat
While the pimp beats the whore
For more and more
As she just screams out
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody by somebody
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody
I LIVE OFF YOU
AND YOU LIVE OF ME
AND THE WHOLE WORLD
LIVES OFF OF EVERYBODY
SEE WE GOTTA BE EXPLOITED
SEE WE GOTTA BE EXPLOITED
BE SOMEBODY BE SOMEBODY
BE SOMEBODY
THE CAT EATS THE RAT
WHILE THE PIMP BEATS THE WHORE
AS SHE JUST SCREAMS OUT
FOR MORE AND MORE
SEE WE GOTTA BE EXPLOITED
SEE WE GOTTA BE EXPLOITED
BE SOMEBODY BE SOMEBODY
BE SOMEBODY
Identity
Is the crisis
Can't you see
Identity identity
When you look in the mirror
Do you see yourself
Do you see yourself
On the t.v. screen
Do you see yourself
In the magazine
When you see yourself
Does it make you scream
When you look in the mirror
Do you smash it quick
Do you take the glass
And slash your wrists
Did you do it for fame
Did you do it in a fit
Did you do it before
You read ab...
Johnny's got an addiction
He's strung out without conviction
He was raised with a microwave
Sticky trashy fast food slave
He's a junk food junky
He could be a lot more spunky hunky
But he's a junk food junky
Blame it on the food yeah, you know it's bad
Mother doesn't really know
Shopping in a glossy show
Then again her budget's low
Her health so bad it makes her slow
She's a junk food junky
Sh...
It's dark and eerie
And it's really late
Come on kids don't hesitate
We're going down to the underground
We're going down we're going down
To the underground
Dagger glares from richard hell
The hades ladies are dressed to kill
Tension heightening heating frightening
Thunder rolls as fast as lightening
If you've got the urge
The subterrene is a bottomless pit
Come on let's submerge
The vinyl vu...
You are just a concept
You are just a dream
Of the new regime
You're just a reflection
You are just a theme
For the sales machine
Ooo ooo they're obsessed
You are just a symbol
You're just another figure
With yoo ooo
Ooo ooo they're obsessed
Ooo ooo cos they're watching
With yoo ooo
With yoo ooo
You are just a find
You are just a victim
Soon to be a casuality
A casuality of time
oh oh oh oh
now everyday someone had a feeling for you then i was mostley running after the days that you were there
im obsessed im obsessed with you im obsessed im obsessed with you
now its funny funny that i cant realy see you from the dakness light oh i need you here bcause im obsessed
i look in your eyes so deeply and i dont see enything because i am obsessd with you everys day a girl come...
Bind me tie me
Chain me to the wall I wanna be a slave
To you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Chain-store chain-smoke
I consume you all
Chain-gang chain-mail
I don't think at all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Thrash me crash me
Beat me till I fall
I wanna be a victim
For you all
Oh bondage up your...
Bind me tie me
Chain me to the wall I wanna be a slave
To you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Chain-store chain-smoke
I consume you all
Chain-gang chain-mail
I don't think at all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Thrash me crash me
Beat me till I fall
I wanna be a victim
For you all
Oh bondage up your...
Not much difference 'tween a cow and you
Flesh, blood, bones
She cries like you do
Cries like you do
Yours is the hippest hypocritical point of view
Wake up and realise the things that you do
You're busy whipping Hitler cos he gassed so many Jews
You're as guilty of murder - look at what you chew
Everybody's worried 'bout a Third World War
Nuclear annihilation, need I say more?
While you're fe...
1977 and we are going mad
1977 and we're gonna show them all
It's 1977 and we've seen to many ads
That apathy's a drag
My mind is like a plastic bag
That corresponds to all those ads
That is fed in through by ear
I eat kleenex for breakfast
It sucks up all the rubbish
To dry my tears
And use soft hygienic weetabix
My mind is like a switchboard
I dont't know what's going on
With crossed and tan...
Warrior in Woolworth's
Humble he may seem
Behind his servile innocence
He plots and he schemes
He's the rebel on the underground
She's the rebel of the modern town
He's the rebel on the underground
She's the rebel of the modern town
Warrior in Woolworth's
His roots are in today
Doesn't know no history
He threw the past away
Warrior in Woolworth's
Dips on friday nights
Youths meet at Stockwell ...
Warrior in woolworths
Behind his serville innocence
He's the rebel on the underground
He plots and he schemes
Humble he may seem
She's the rebel of the modern town
He's the rebel on the underground
His roots are in today
Warrior in woolworths
She's the rebel of the modern town
Doesn't know no history
Warrior in woolworths
He threw the past away
Weapons rule their livesDips on friday nights
You...
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Conscious Consumer |
Packet of cigarettes on the counter
Carrying a government health warning
Still they want the money, still they want the tax
Still they want the money, still they want the tax
Why not take paper currency and light it up?
A lower tar content and a quicker puff
Then you could keep the money, you could keep the tax
You could keep the money, you could keep the tax
Fields wasted growing tobacco
Coul...
How do you feel now? I want to know
Clear as crystal, I can see your face
In my glass of water, I can see your face
How do you feel know? I want to know
Does your love burn like a summer's day
Or is it still on hold in an ice cube tray?
Clear as crystal
How do you feel now? I want to know
Clear as crystal, I can see your face
In my glass of water? I can see your face
Winter has passed now, did...
Iggy says "I wanna be your dog."
But I want you to be a demigod
Look at my bow wow sitting there
Sniffing scratching without a care
Once upon a lifetime peroxide hair
What a heavy load to bear
What a heavy load to bear
Alcohol, drugs and rock n' roll
Come on doggy doggy let's go for a stroll
Before and after human growl so foul
And now animal and left to howl
A dog in Sweden, a man's best frie...
I don't wanna be? I don't wanna be
A good time girl A good time girl
String you along like I string my pearls
A typical good time girl
A good time girl
A good time girl
A typical good time girl
I don't need no diamonds now
They'd seem like broken glass
I'd never wear a fur
Would seem like stepping into anothers skin
A typical good time girl like me
A good time girl
A good time girl
A typical g...
You know, you know, you know you know you know
I can't go out alone
Hi chaperone, my chaperone
What you think is all wrong
'Cos you shouldn't treat a girl like a game of ping-pong
But I can't go out alone without a chaperone
Hi chaperone, my chaperone
You may say sweet dreams tonight
Blow me a kiss, well I guess that's alright, that's alright
I can't go out alone without a chaperone
Hi chapero...
India, India, India
India, India, clarified butter from the holy cow
India, India, India
I'm a pauper bereft of spiritual vision
Looking for a guru such a decision
India, India, India
Clarified butter from the holy cow
India, India, India
I'm a conscious consumer
but there's nothing to consume
Lotus flowers are still in bloom in
India, India, India
India, India, clarified butter from the holy ...
Johnny's got an addiction
He's strung out without conviction
He was raised with a microwave
Sticky trashy fast food slave
He's a junk food junky
He could be a lot more spunky hunky
But he's a junk food junky
Blame it on the food yeah, you know it's bad
Mother doesn't really know
Shopping in a glossy show
Then again her budget's low
Her health so bad it makes her slow
She's a junk food junky
Sh...
My mother the cow who still feeds me now is being tortured
Her son the bull who the fields should plough is being slaughtered
The human child in the womb who is never born for being unwanted
Melancholy in the Age of Kali
Melancholy in the Age of Kali
Kali Kali
My mother, the earth, man treats like dirt, her resources being exhausted
Ant-like astronauts, of the human race, scratch and scar the ...
Did you enjoy the party you went to the other night?
No not really not really, no not really at all
I was bored stiff all night.
Did you find anyone you could talk to?
Anyone with a lot to say?
No not really no one, no not one not really
Just a boy who had a fixation on his body all the time.
He wanted to know if I..... he called 'making love'
I said "My dear pubescent adolescent socks
I gave ...
Not much difference 'tween a cow and you
Flesh, blood, bones
She cries like you do
Cries like you do
Yours is the hippest hypocritical point of view
Wake up and realise the things that you do
You're busy whipping Hitler cos he gassed so many Jews
You're as guilty of murder - look at what you chew
Everybody's worried 'bout a Third World War
Nuclear annihilation, need I say more?
While you're fe...
We got something don't you know it's true?
We got something don't feel it too?
We got something, we got something to do
Not a mushy line that I'm pushing on you
Just another blue-note sung slightly out of tune
We got something, we got something to do
Prayer for peace, prayer for peace
Prayer for peace.
It may appear that we've been sleeping through our years
And we've been living in an imagina...
Sophia look like a witch
A beautiful witch is she
Sophia look like a witch
Hidden form in the name of chastity
Sophia wears a crucifix
Christ hung round her neck
Sophia wears a crucifix
Crucifix effect
Sophia lies between black sheets
Between black sheets she rests
Sophia rises while the cock-a-doodle-doos' a calling
And in black robes she's dressed
Sophia look like a witch Sophia look like a ...
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Germ Free Adolescents |
Darling am I
I must be told
Tell me dear
Getting old
Y'know it's a
Million dollar fear
Creep in over here
If lines
Celluloid beauty
She never seems to realise
Age she's so afraid
Age she's not the rage
Never dies
I know I'm artificial I was reared with appliances But don't put the blame on me The pretty little mask not me In a consumer society When I put on my make-up In a consumer society That's the way a girl should be My existence is illusive The kind that is supported By mechanical resources By existence is illusive By mechanical resources The kind that is supported I wanna be instamatic I wanna be...
I clambered over mounds and mounds
Of polystyrene foam
And fell into a swimming pool
Filled with fairy snow
And watched the world turn day-glo
you know you know
The world turned day-glo you know
I wrenched the nylon curtains back
As far as they would go
And peered through perspex window panes
At the acrylic road
I drove my polypropolene
Car on wheels of sponge
Then pulled into a wimpy bar
To h...
Genetic engineering
Could create an unknown life-force
That could us exterminate
Could create the perfect race
As our subordinated slave
Introducing worker clone
His expertise proficiency
Will surely dig our grave
It's so very tempting
Will he let us exist
When he becomes the creator
Will biologists resist
Bionic man is jumping
Through the television set
He's about to materialise
And guess who...
I know your antiseptic
Your deodorant smells nice
I'd like to get to know you
You're deep frozen like the ice
-chorus-:
She's a germ free adolescent
Cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away scrub away scrub away
The S.R. way....
You may get to touch her
If your gloves are sterilised
Rinse your mouth with listerine
Blow disinfectant in her eyes
-chorus-
Her phobi...
Highly inflammable
Neurotic tensions
Waiting to explode
I thought you were a man
You thought I was a woman
Risen overflowed
But I was Tinkerbell
And you were Peter Pan
It ain't hip if you are retro
Influenced by the fashion pages
Influenced by other's phrases
You're a pseudo quasi intellectual
Supreme equality
We used to compete
The right to decide
Is denied to the sheep
I thought you were a m...
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche you've seen before
I am a cliche that lives next door
I am a cliche, you know what I mean
I am a cliche, pink is obscene
Yama, yama, yama
Yama, yama, yama
Boredom, boredom
Boring boredom
Yama, yama, yama
Yama, yama, yama
Boredom, boredom
Boring boredom
Repeat all
I am a poseur and I don't care
I like to make people stare
Exhibition is the name
I like to make people stare
I am a poseur and I don't care
Voyeurism is the game
Stereoscopic is the show
Viewing time makes it grow
My facade is just a fake
Shock horror no escape
Characatures are what you breed
Sensationalism for the feed
Overtones can be betrayingEstablishments like a laugh
Anti-art was the st...
I can't write
And I can't sing
I can't do anything
I can't read
And I can't spell
I can't even get to hell
I can't luv
And I can't hate
I can't even hesitate
I can't dance
And I can't walk
I can't even try to talk
Freedom tried to strangle me
With my plastic popper beads
But I hit him back
With my pet rat
Yeah I hit him back
With my pet rat
I can't spit
And I can't kick
I can't even be thick
I...
I live off you
And the whole world
And you live off me
Lives off of everybody
See we gotta be exploited
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody by somebody
By somebody
The cat eats the rat
While the pimp beats the whore
For more and more
As she just screams out
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody by somebody
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody
Identity
Is the crisis
Can't you see
Identity identity
When you look in the mirror
Do you see yourself
Do you see yourself
On the t.v. screen
Do you see yourself
In the magazine
When you see yourself
Does it make you scream
When you look in the mirror
Do you smash it quick
Do you take the glass
And slash your wrists
Did you do it for fame
Did you do it in a fit
Did you do it before
You read ab...
It's dark and eerie
And it's really late
Come on kids don't hesitate
We're going down to the underground
We're going down we're going down
To the underground
Dagger glares from richard hell
The hades ladies are dressed to kill
Tension heightening heating frightening
Thunder rolls as fast as lightening
If you've got the urge
The subterrene is a bottomless pit
Come on let's submerge
The vinyl vu...
You are just a concept
You are just a dream
Of the new regime
You're just a reflection
You are just a theme
For the sales machine
Ooo ooo they're obsessed
You are just a symbol
You're just another figure
With yoo ooo
Ooo ooo they're obsessed
Ooo ooo cos they're watching
With yoo ooo
With yoo ooo
You are just a find
You are just a victim
Soon to be a casuality
A casuality of time
Bind me tie me
Chain me to the wall I wanna be a slave
To you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Chain-store chain-smoke
I consume you all
Chain-gang chain-mail
I don't think at all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Thrash me crash me
Beat me till I fall
I wanna be a victim
For you all
Oh bondage up your...
1977 and we are going mad
1977 and we're gonna show them all
It's 1977 and we've seen to many ads
That apathy's a drag
My mind is like a plastic bag
That corresponds to all those ads
That is fed in through by ear
I eat kleenex for breakfast
It sucks up all the rubbish
To dry my tears
And use soft hygienic weetabix
My mind is like a switchboard
I dont't know what's going on
With crossed and tan...
Warrior in woolworths
Behind his serville innocence
He's the rebel on the underground
He plots and he schemes
Humble he may seem
She's the rebel of the modern town
He's the rebel on the underground
His roots are in today
Warrior in woolworths
She's the rebel of the modern town
Doesn't know no history
Warrior in woolworths
He threw the past away
Weapons rule their livesDips on friday nights
You...
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Live At The Roxy |
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche you've seen before
I am a cliche that lives next door
I am a cliche, you know what I mean
I am a cliche, pink is obscene
Yama, yama, yama
Yama, yama, yama
Boredom, boredom
Boring boredom
Yama, yama, yama
Yama, yama, yama
Boredom, boredom
Boring boredom
Repeat all
I can't write
And I can't sing
I can't do anything
I can't read
And I can't spell
I can't even get to hell
I can't luv
And I can't hate
I can't even hesitate
I can't dance
And I can't walk
I can't even try to talk
Freedom tried to strangle me
With my plastic popper beads
But I hit him back
With my pet rat
Yeah I hit him back
With my pet rat
I can't spit
And I can't kick
I can't even be thick
I...
I live off you
And the whole world
And you live off me
Lives off of everybody
See we gotta be exploited
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody by somebody
By somebody
The cat eats the rat
While the pimp beats the whore
For more and more
As she just screams out
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody by somebody
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody
Identity
Is the crisis
Can't you see
Identity identity
When you look in the mirror
Do you see yourself
Do you see yourself
On the t.v. screen
Do you see yourself
In the magazine
When you see yourself
Does it make you scream
When you look in the mirror
Do you smash it quick
Do you take the glass
And slash your wrists
Did you do it for fame
Did you do it in a fit
Did you do it before
You read ab...
It's dark and eerie
And it's really late
Come on kids don't hesitate
We're going down to the underground
We're going down we're going down
To the underground
Dagger glares from richard hell
The hades ladies are dressed to kill
Tension heightening heating frightening
Thunder rolls as fast as lightening
If you've got the urge
The subterrene is a bottomless pit
Come on let's submerge
The vinyl vu...
Bind me tie me
Chain me to the wall I wanna be a slave
To you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Chain-store chain-smoke
I consume you all
Chain-gang chain-mail
I don't think at all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Thrash me crash me
Beat me till I fall
I wanna be a victim
For you all
Oh bondage up your...
1977 and we are going mad
1977 and we're gonna show them all
It's 1977 and we've seen to many ads
That apathy's a drag
My mind is like a plastic bag
That corresponds to all those ads
That is fed in through by ear
I eat kleenex for breakfast
It sucks up all the rubbish
To dry my tears
And use soft hygienic weetabix
My mind is like a switchboard
I dont't know what's going on
With crossed and tan...
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Obsessed With You |
Darling am I
I must be told
Tell me dear
Getting old
Y'know it's a
Million dollar fear
Creep in over here
If lines
Celluloid beauty
She never seems to realise
Age she's so afraid
Age she's not the rage
Never dies
I know I'm artificial I was reared with appliances But don't put the blame on me The pretty little mask not me In a consumer society When I put on my make-up In a consumer society That's the way a girl should be My existence is illusive The kind that is supported By mechanical resources By existence is illusive By mechanical resources The kind that is supported I wanna be instamatic I wanna be...
I clambered over mounds and mounds
Of polystyrene foam
And fell into a swimming pool
Filled with fairy snow
And watched the world turn day-glo
you know you know
The world turned day-glo you know
I wrenched the nylon curtains back
As far as they would go
And peered through perspex window panes
At the acrylic road
I drove my polypropolene
Car on wheels of sponge
Then pulled into a wimpy bar
To h...
Genetic engineering
Could create an unknown life-force
That could us exterminate
Could create the perfect race
As our subordinated slave
Introducing worker clone
His expertise proficiency
Will surely dig our grave
It's so very tempting
Will he let us exist
When he becomes the creator
Will biologists resist
Bionic man is jumping
Through the television set
He's about to materialise
And guess who...
I know your antiseptic
Your deodorant smells nice
I'd like to get to know you
You're deep frozen like the ice
-chorus-:
She's a germ free adolescent
Cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away scrub away scrub away
The S.R. way....
You may get to touch her
If your gloves are sterilised
Rinse your mouth with listerine
Blow disinfectant in her eyes
-chorus-
Her phobi...
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche
I am a cliche you've seen before
I am a cliche that lives next door
I am a cliche, you know what I mean
I am a cliche, pink is obscene
Yama, yama, yama
Yama, yama, yama
Boredom, boredom
Boring boredom
Yama, yama, yama
Yama, yama, yama
Boredom, boredom
Boring boredom
Repeat all
I am a poseur and I don't care
I like to make people stare
Exhibition is the name
I like to make people stare
I am a poseur and I don't care
Voyeurism is the game
Stereoscopic is the show
Viewing time makes it grow
My facade is just a fake
Shock horror no escape
Characatures are what you breed
Sensationalism for the feed
Overtones can be betrayingEstablishments like a laugh
Anti-art was the st...
I can't write
And I can't sing
I can't do anything
I can't read
And I can't spell
I can't even get to hell
I can't luv
And I can't hate
I can't even hesitate
I can't dance
And I can't walk
I can't even try to talk
Freedom tried to strangle me
With my plastic popper beads
But I hit him back
With my pet rat
Yeah I hit him back
With my pet rat
I can't spit
And I can't kick
I can't even be thick
I...
I live off you
And the whole world
And you live off me
Lives off of everybody
See we gotta be exploited
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody by somebody
By somebody
The cat eats the rat
While the pimp beats the whore
For more and more
As she just screams out
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody by somebody
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody
Identity
Is the crisis
Can't you see
Identity identity
When you look in the mirror
Do you see yourself
Do you see yourself
On the t.v. screen
Do you see yourself
In the magazine
When you see yourself
Does it make you scream
When you look in the mirror
Do you smash it quick
Do you take the glass
And slash your wrists
Did you do it for fame
Did you do it in a fit
Did you do it before
You read ab...
It's dark and eerie
And it's really late
Come on kids don't hesitate
We're going down to the underground
We're going down we're going down
To the underground
Dagger glares from richard hell
The hades ladies are dressed to kill
Tension heightening heating frightening
Thunder rolls as fast as lightening
If you've got the urge
The subterrene is a bottomless pit
Come on let's submerge
The vinyl vu...
You are just a concept
You are just a dream
Of the new regime
You're just a reflection
You are just a theme
For the sales machine
Ooo ooo they're obsessed
You are just a symbol
You're just another figure
With yoo ooo
Ooo ooo they're obsessed
Ooo ooo cos they're watching
With yoo ooo
With yoo ooo
You are just a find
You are just a victim
Soon to be a casuality
A casuality of time
Bind me tie me
Chain me to the wall I wanna be a slave
To you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Chain-store chain-smoke
I consume you all
Chain-gang chain-mail
I don't think at all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Thrash me crash me
Beat me till I fall
I wanna be a victim
For you all
Oh bondage up your...
1977 and we are going mad
1977 and we're gonna show them all
It's 1977 and we've seen to many ads
That apathy's a drag
My mind is like a plastic bag
That corresponds to all those ads
That is fed in through by ear
I eat kleenex for breakfast
It sucks up all the rubbish
To dry my tears
And use soft hygienic weetabix
My mind is like a switchboard
I dont't know what's going on
With crossed and tan...
Warrior in woolworths
Behind his serville innocence
He's the rebel on the underground
He plots and he schemes
Humble he may seem
She's the rebel of the modern town
He's the rebel on the underground
His roots are in today
Warrior in woolworths
She's the rebel of the modern town
Doesn't know no history
Warrior in woolworths
He threw the past away
Weapons rule their livesDips on friday nights
You...
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