LYRICS
...To Be Right
45 Second Blunder
A Tempted Fate
Aim
All I Ask Of Myself Is That I Hold Together
Ambush
Bite
Borehole
Capital Letters
Capsize
Cut Up
Faceless
Flexible Head
Floote
Grey Cell Green
Happy
Hibernation
I Want It Over
I've Never Been To Me
Intact
Kill Your Television / Kill Your Remix
Leg End In His Own Boots
Legoland
Less Than Useful
nad vs ndx = intact
nad vs ndx = nsa
Not Sleeping Around
Nothing Like
Perfectly Rounded
Plug Me In
Premonition
Prostrate
Saturday Night
Scrawl
Selfish
Sentence
She's Gone
Song Eleven Could Take Forever
Spring
Stuck
Suave And Suffocated
Swallowing Air
Take Me To The Cleaners
Talk Me Down
Tantrum
Terminally Groovie
That's Nice
The Old New 'Un
Throwing Things
Titch
Traffic
Trust
Twenty Three Hour Toothache
Two And Two Made Five
Until You Find Out
Walking Through Syrup
What Gives My Son?
Who Goes First?
Wirey
You
You Don't Want To Do That
Your Complex
Your Only Joke
...To Be Right
I'm there to be had, I've taken a bite, I'll do what you ask - if you do what you like
I only want it to be right, I only want it to be right
I hide my head then you say you're courageous
You still don't sweat, did you say something dangerous?
We ought to be happy, I ought to fell cleansed, I've got no illusion we could ever be friends
I only wanted the quiet life! I only wanted the quiet life!
I hide my head then you say you're courageous
You still don't sweat did you say something dangerous?
You pull my hair, you ask me to elaborate
I'll hide again, you dare me to retaliate
I only wanted to be right, I only wanted the quiet life
45 Second Blunder
Something is going on, is it any wonder
Now we're coming around, to the four letter blunder
How do you get round this one? It's a shock that weighs a tonne
How do you get round this one?
How do you tell her you're in?
[s] "machine wrapped with butter?-machine wrapped with butter"
A Tempted Fate
Stupid
Does he look stupid?
Do you think he feels stupid?
He could know everything
And you could be anyone but, more like the only one
Who failed to get the thinking clear before the mouth was put in gear
Thought it through and held it dear
Just to fall on deaf ears
Patient
Be patient
It takes patience
All comes to he who waits
How long to find the cure for someone barely half-way sure?
A tempted, a tempted fate
To tip your troubles on the pile, take away another's smile
Take away another's trial, pacify that roaming eye
Aim
Been missing you baby
I missed you again
Can't get a good aim
Ashamed, I can't get a grip on
Can't get a good aim
That's strange, I can't hold a gun right
Can't get a good aim
You don't stay in my sights
Can't get a good aim
Hold on, hold on tight
(Manchester, so much to answer for)
Lay off of my brain
Get off of my back
Get back on that train
And find your own track
Don't ever comeback
Don't ever comeback
Don't ever comeback
Don't ever comeback
All I Ask Of Myself Is That I Hold Together
(And all I ask of myself is that I hold together)
Half as drunk is twice as clever, appalled when tarred and feathered
Remarks upon the weather, will just retard endeavour
This piece of meat is pumping, poison 'round itself so neatly
About it, pound for pound, it feeds away and most discreetly
And all I ask of myself is that I hold together
Get me divine ascension, supply my worst intention
To thrash it out in heaven, our Lord - too thick to mention
This piece of mind is keeping to itself, if only sleeping
Regard it, freeze it, jar it, assign it all to healing
And all I ask of myself is that I hold together
Ambush
Your white
Is black
Nothing's gonna cover that
You want
What i have
Words will never bridge the gap
Your white
Is black
Last time i'll stroll into your trap
'Cause you knew i was coming
'Cause you knew i was coming
Your talk is second hand air
'Cause you knew i was coming here
Your words
Were planned
Where's the conversation there?
It's sad
Yes its sad
Next time i'll stay for the last laugh
Bite
If I stumble, you will Bite
The very second that I st-st-stutter, you will Bite
If I stumble, you will Bite
Cos you're hell-bent to find my impediment
So you will Bite
You won't make me no politician
To fill us all with superstition
Give us something good to chew
Hope I never speak too soon
Borehole
Blindfold. Stagnate. From blindfold to castrate, we've got to make the hole!
About face
I've seen with my own eyes, now I know exactly what it takes
I've seen with my own eyes wide, now I know exactly what's at stake
I've covered my own blind side, now I know that no one should have faith to say...
Blindfold. Stagnate. From blindfold to castrate, we've got to make the hole!
About face and sell the state, it makes
Give me an answer, am I gonna get to have my say?
Give me an answer why, do I need permission to think straight?
It's gonna take quite some time, don't know if I'll be bothered to explain
Capital Letters
We both know I need this too much
Only I know that it's got to stop
But I can't keep my anger up
"Change it, it's your job, Change it, it's your job"
I'm stuck, I'm stuck
She'll break some hearts when she grows up
She'll break some hearts when she owns up
Mine is one, mine is one
When she looks at me in that tone of voice
She don't need to make a noise
I can read her thoughts in capital letters
I've lost it since I met her, I've lost it since I met her
Capsize
Talk like you chew like you sound like a tape, so wrapped in the crap that you spout
You don't have to tell me you planned your escape
Push me up, up and over, over and out
Always in your way
I was always in your way
Sounds like you do like you make no mistakes so honestly false to a fault
I don't have to try I just slip through your wake
See me chastised, capsized see if I float
Is the flesh under skin are the things that you think but you won't say
Cut Up
2 - 3 - 4
Did you think if you shout you can sort it all out?
You can't get your face from the blame
You're no wiser, you're no wiser even now
And you wish you knew why, you wish you knew why
But you're no wiser, you're no wiser even now
They know that you're cut up
So put up or shut up
She makes you feel free and that's how it should be
You've got all this time on your hands
And yes, you want her, you feel stronger even now
And I guess you know why, I guess you know why
Yes you want her, you feel stronger, even now
They know that you're cut up
But I told you to shut up
Faceless
I can face this by getting faceless
But the point is that it's pointless
And I try too hard
They stare at you, you turn to me
And catch me looking sideways
Do you think we've fell on bad ways
Taking things for free
Taking things for free
People try too hard
Do you really want to get it all off your chest?
And will I never hear a truer word spoken in Jest?
You try too hard
Do you really want to get it all off your chest?
And will I never hear a truer word spoken in jest?
I can face this, yes I can face this!
Flexible Head
Don't be so greedy
I might get angry and then I'll have to tell you that you're ugly
And the only muscle that you've got is in between your ears
You might know us, but you don't own us
You more than likely owe us and that still gets to me
Cos the only muscle that you got is in between your ears
Give me my toys back
I've been so sick I've been, so sad
Now the only pain that I can feel is in between my knees
Valium must be cheap
Or you must have a flexible head
Give me all my toys back
I've been so sick I've been, so sad
Floote
Got to put paid to 26 winters, trying to make the most in bed with the shivers
All the frustrations growing pains, gather us up in circle games
When I get you see your lean, smooth, groove, it gets me in a summer drool
All I want to do to tell the truth is get you in the swimming pool
I'm happier, happier, happy in the sun
Grey Cell Green
Desire
When your, your desire
It has been found, you'll be running far away
When your, your desire
It has been found, you'll be running far away
You're telling me it's in the trees, it's in the trees
It's not it's inside me now
You're telling me it's on the ground, it's all around
But it's not, it's inside me
You're telling me it's in disguise, well use your eyes
It's not, it's inside me now
You're telling me it's mother earth, some sign of birth
It's not, it's inside me
Desire
It's inside her
It's inside me
Desire, desire
The grey sells green only if the green cell's grey
The grey cell's green only if the green sells grey
Your desire
It's inside her
It has been found
Happy
Feeling so frustrated, even antiquated
'Cause you can't update me if I'm overrated
So frustrated, so frustrated, you can't update this
You fly off the handle, wait till I'm not there
If you will fly off the handle, wait till I'm not there
Cause I will talk, maybe you will listen
But you won't hear a single word I say
I will talk, you will listen
We have a house where I'm in your hair
I'll go spare and leave you happy
In there
Hibernation
Void of inspiration
Love it now, love it now
Lost all inclination
Love it now, love it now
Crass infatuation
And i'm coming down, coming down
Self same hibernation
Love it now, love it now
Break the chain don't stay the same
Make the change don't taste the shame
Drowned in seperation
Love it now, love it now
Short of information
Love it now, love it now
Black incriminations
Were coming down, coming down
Self same hibernation
Love it now, love it now
We're fighting for no cause
It's better to have lost
All this gets forgotten
What makes it worth the cost
When it's all, forgotten?
I Want It Over
We could finish it now, turn our shaking hands into a handshake
We could finish it now, turn up shaking hands, shaking hands
We could call it a day, don't have to agree, just say, just say, just say it won't wait
Don't give your word, no need to be so brave
I don't want to get on, I want it over
We could finish it now, turn our shaking hands into a handshake
We could finish it now, turn up shaking hands, shaking hands
I've Never Been To Me
Hey lady, you lady
Cursing at your life
I've been to Georgia and California
And anywhere I could run
I've been to paradise that's something you've never done
(Hey you know what paradise is
It's a lie, a fantasy we create about people
And places as we'd like them to be
But you knew what truth is
It's that little baby you're holding
And it's that man you fought with this morning
The same one you're going to make love to tonight
That's truth, that's love)
(Well I think that's rather perverted)
(That's truth, that's love)
(Pack your bags for America! Well, see-ya)
Intact
Here I stand the self made victim, I know that you didn't mean, anything well
I'm trying to make something from nothing (you're wasting)
You're wasting your breath on these ears, my dear
You're wasting your breath on these ears
You will kill me, someday, if you have to cash me in I will have to be okay
You'll fry the contents of my head, pretend and bend the words I've said
Kill me someday, stone dead
I can't help but wish that I was virgo, intact oh
I just wouldn't care cos, I just wouldn't know
So don't say in this that you're on your own
You founded the worst of these fears, my dear
You founded the worst of these fears
[s] "Life is the result of the struggle between dynamic opposites.
Form and chaos, substance and oblivion, light and dark
And all the infinite variations of ying and yang
When the pendulum swings in favour of one
It eventually swings back in favour of it's opposite
And thus the balance of the universe is maintained"
Kill Your Television / Kill Your Remix
She said, she said "you don't know shit,
Because you never been there"
She turned upon him, took him by the hair
Spun him round about, pushed him out,
Laughing as he fell about,
Sat down for a drink in her father's favourite chair
Kill
Your
Television
I said "I know, I don't know shit,
Because I've never been there"
You turned upon me, took me by the hair
Spun me round about, pushed me out,
Laughing as I fell about,
Sat down for a drink in your father's favourite chair
Soap for sore eyes (need an intermission)
If looks could kill I'd (kill your television)
Kill
Your
Television
Soap for sore eyes
Leg End In His Own Boots
D'you think I should? 'Cause i think i could
Get my fingers down your throat at the same time
That I cut you with a very long, very sharp knife
Come in number one, your time is all but done
Should it be anything to do with anyone
I must confess, I think it best
That I separate your breath from your body
It's only a shell so don't you worry
Come in number two, your time is all but through
Should it be anything at all to do with you
I bless the day, I bless that splendid day
I catch you on the phone to your lover
I tell her that you've studied that karma with another
Come in number three, I know that you can hear me
Any reason for your breathing just eludes me
Legoland
I just found out and there's no doubt
I've been, getting in the way
Well I held back not to freak out
'Cos there was nothing to say
I could see how, I could see how
I got carried away
The only thing that keeps me scared
It's the only thing that keeps me there
It's just typical me, and typical of her
When it's all day - and it's all night, It's no surprise
We're in and out of grace
Where we're all mean and we all fight
For fear of losing face
I Can see why, can see why
It gets blown out of place
The only thing that keeps us down
It's the one thing that makes us sound
So painfully humble, painfully proud
I'm one piece short of legoland and, it's all there, it's all there
One piece short, of legoland
[s] "There goes the neighbourhood..."
Less Than Useful
I don't believe what I'm thinking
I'm less than useful
I could take it from someone else
But even I think it's truthful
I need something my own size
Something that fits me well
Spend so long being serious when someone could have died for less
Do you want me to smile? Well I'll try
You say I must be in a mess, well let me guess what you suggest
You want me to smile? Well I'll try
Do you want me to smile?
Yes, I see what you're saying
I'm still pretty youthful
I can take it from someone like you
You've still got your hands full
But I need someone my own size
Someone that fits me well
If you don't mind
I'll keep my thoughts to myself
If you don't mind
You can do the other
So you want me to find a reason (do you want me to smile?)
Find a reason (do you want me to smile?) (if you don't mind)
If you don't find a reason why (do you want me to smile?)
I'll find a reason (do you want me to smile?)
I'll find a reason (do you want me to smile?) (if you don't mind)
I'll find a reason why
nad vs ndx = intact
You founded the worst of these fears, my dear
You will kill me
You will kill me, someday
You will kill me, you will kill me
If you have to cash me in, i'll be okay
But if you have to cash me in, i'd lose my way
If you have to cash me in, i'd be okay
But if you have to cash me in, i'd lose my way
And if you have to cash me in, i'd make you pay
nad vs ndx = nsa
Oh it's some small wonder we existed
Just won't fit it, all unfixed we're
Bound by my heart, bound by my pride
Half of me stupid, half alive
Just now
Don't know if i'm right but i'm not wrong
And you keep thinking, what you keep thinking
Don't know what makes you think i'm so strong
So i keep saying, what i keep saying
In need of free roam
Or i need a long rope
Please don't let go, don't let go
You only do it cause you can
You only say it cause you can
I'm supposed to take it like a man
What if i can?
I'm not standing my ground
I'm too small to be proud
You're not sleeping around
You keep thinking, what you keep thinking
So i keep saying, what i keep saying
And you keep thinking, what you keep thinking
And i'll keep saying, what i keep saying
Don't know if i'm right but i'm not wrong
And you keep thinking, what you keep thinking
Don't know what makes you think i'm so strong
So i keep saying, what i keep saying
In need of free roam
Well i need a long rope
Please don't let go, don't let go
Not Sleeping Around
I don't know if I'm right but I'm not wrong, Just Now
I don't know what makes you think I'm so strong, Somehow
It's in keeping with my not sleeping around
You keep thinking I'm tired of you, but I'm just tired
While I keep saying you're sick of me but you're just sick
It's in keeping with your not sleeping around
You only do it cos you can, you only say it cos you can
I'm supposed to take it like a man, what if I can?
I can't give more, you can't take more
I can't keep it from my head that you're never around, you're never around
You can't get yourself out of bed so, you never come round, you never come round
It gets too hard for me to think, that becomes too much to drink
And now I'm scared that if I blink you'll be on the brink
Of needing a free roam, please don't let go
Nothing Like
I don't know what you're thinking when you fail to see things are at an end
You hate to see me start again
You don't seem nothing like my friend, you don't seem nothing like my friend
Well you just watch me
'Cause you cannot stop me
I don't deny you're in good health but I do deny that I've found wealth
You look a fool, but who can tell
You don't look nothing like yourself, you don't look nothing like yourself
Perfectly Rounded
This thing we all know, though I have to insist
If you're twisting my arm, I am breaking your wrist
Cause you know I exist and I know I exist
But I'm not who I was, so I cannot be trusted
These ageists I clone, though I try to resist
There are places I go, in the hope I'd be missed
Well they know I exist and they know I'd enlist
But they're not where I thought so my plan has been busted
You're twisting my arm, so I'm breaking your wrist
Wake up and face it, perfectly rounded
New to the crisis so long denied
Birthday boys, where are they hiding?
Where did I hide him?
This child's heard enough, of this is why and that's because
Are you offering your hands just to get to my throat?
I know what you suppose by the things you propose
But if anything goes you are welcome to gloat
Are you stealing my clothes, or just holding my coat?
You're twisting my arm, so I'm breaking your neck!
Plug Me In
The kids are actin' so hard
Cooler than a grown man
'til their feet are frozen so damn hard
They wish that they weren't sober, then they could fly
And they could sing if they really wished
They need voltage, they need voltage to exist
Plug me in, plug me in
I'm live by satellite
Making adverts, making films
Designed by somebody sick
Well they drive me mad
They drive me up the wall
And when I'm in the state I'm in, I could try
Oh I could try to escape the American super bomb
But it's no use and it's no fun
Premonition
(Due to the earthquake in the area you are calling your call cannot be completed at this time, please try your call later)
Is my house holding it's own?
Dread by my premonition, contending the bone
Fed by antagonism, fear for my home
Bred by my premonition, contending the bone
Hung up so picked up the phone needed to know if anything was wrong
Prostrate
You can't, hold it back
I know what I need it's control that I lack
I can't, hold it back just to tease
You know you've got me
I've took the fall now you take the lead
Prostrate here I wait but it won't go away
I've took the fall, you take the lead
(You hate to prostrate but you'll have to refrain on your knees)
I told you that, I know what I wanted to hold up the gaps
I told you that was me
Just to tease
I've took the fall now you take the lead
You hate to prostrate but you'll have to refrain
I've took the fall, you take the lead
I took the fall now you take the lead
Prostrate here I wait but it won't go away
I've took the fall now you take the lead
I know what I want it's control that I lack
I know what I wanted to hold up the gaps
You can't hold it back just to please
Saturday Night
S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y night
Keep on dancing to the rock and roll
On Saturday night, Saturday night
Dancing to the rhythm in our heart and soul
On Saturday night, Saturday night
I just can't win, I gotta dance
It's the good old rock and roll road show I've gotta go
On Saturday night, Saturday night
Gonna rock it up, roll it up, do it all and have a ball
On Saturday night, Saturday night
S-S-S-Saturday night
S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y night
Dancin' with my baby till the night is through
On Saturday night, Saturday night
I tell her all the little things I'm gonna do
On Saturday night, Saturday night
I love her so, I gotta let her know
Scrawl
Grit your teeth don't lie back
You've got to keep it up don't lose track
Keep your feet don't slide
And watch your hair don't grow back
Everybody's scared that their own scrawl, is gonna leave, a mark to feeble
But nothing is "cool"
Nothing is "cool"
Nothing
Best laid plans of boy and man, slip your hands
And go
Now these two feet don't dance to neat but, they never can
And so
Selfish
[s] "Why don't you wake up and smell what you shovelin'?"
Be careful, you might hear something, you don't want to hear
Be careful, you might say something, that you really mean
You say "take things easy, go and have some fun"
But my mind is hazy about times I've spent alone
So be careful, you might feel something, you don't want to feel
Be careful, you might learn something, you don't want to know
I say, take things steady, go on and be alone
I hope your head's aching from having too much fun
If I don't know what's cool, will you call me a loser?
If I don't bend the rules, will I stay a loser?
The selfish gene in me, has finally come into being
He's teaching me how to be mean
But that's a sorry, sorry state to be in
Stop yawning, Stop yearning and wake up wake up
What you wanna do is wake up
Sentence
Old man, coughing up his guts
What's it gonna take for me to earn his trust?
When all he wants to know is how I earn my crust, so he can disapprove
He loves to disapprove
And what else can he do?
And at least I'm trying, at least I'm trying
Young girl, twenty-two, mother of three
What's it gonna take for you to listen to me?
When all you want to see and hear is on the t.v
And you don't understand me
And I don't understand
And this ain't what we planned
But at least I'm trying, at least I'm trying
Look at me, I don't want to shout
I'm trying to keep my head above the lager louts, but the people who count are the people who doubt
And I fail
Yes I fail
Always failed
Cos you're not buying
I'm tryin' hard to speak my mind
But even that was pre-defined
Too many jokes at my expense - I'm not laughing
She's Gone
Can't seem to get it right out, can't seem to win
She's never coming back, she's given in
But will I see her walking back into my future world?
Oh no my baby's gone and, I don't know where
Now I got to write another clichéd song, it's not fair!
I know I kid her on oh what a cliché
It's already done it took so long, what can I say?
Won't you come back before I go round the bend
Oh no my baby's gone and, I don't know where
Now I've got to write another clichéd song, it's not fair!
Oh yeah hit it Matthew!
I write a clichéd song every time my baby's gone
I write a clichéd song every time my baby's gone
Oh my baby's gone and, I don't know where
Now I got to write another clichéd song, it's not fair!
Song Eleven Could Take Forever
If we get along I could stay the night
If I think you're right I could go along
I'll get in the way if it stops a fight
Seems the more you learn, the less you know
This could take forever
I could tell you nothing's wrong if it makes you feel right
I could tell you nothing's wrong - wouldn't make it alright
Go, see the world it could change your mind
See what you find, digging in the dirt
Hide yourself away, out of sight and sound
See the more you learn, suggest you know
It could take forever
If we get along I could stay the night
If I think you're right I could go along
I'll get out the way if you want to fight
Seems the more you learn, the less you know
This could take forever
Spring
Could your mind be as shallow, as my five o'clock shadow?
Can things change this fast?
The one that you wanted is past tense
At present my presence no longer makes sense, at present you're too tense
Now I never said "I'm the be all and end all", you had to end it all, soon as you'd seen more
I never said I was worth less or worth more
Does it have to be this ugly? It's not like I stole your possessions or money
Things change this fast
Now the one that I wanted is past tense
At present your presence no longer makes sense, at present I'm too tense
But you'd know it, you'd know it all
Stuck
Have a good time without me, I'm the centre of your very being!
Have a good time without me, I'm the centre of your very being!
If "stuck" is what you say, well that is what you've made
"stuck" is what you say, well that is what you've made
Enough to make your day; is it too much or is it too safe
"Enough" is what you say then stuck is what you've made
Take it back you astound me
Don't recall us ever being without this
Take it back you astound me
Don't recall us ever being without this
Suave And Suffocated
[s] "They're not that different from you, are they?
Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you.
Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster.
They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you.
Their eyes are full of hope, just like you."
I waste nobody's time but my own
Well it's mine to waste so let it go
My childhood inspection, is my record collection, sometimes I need to feel grown
You've got your head up your ass, to keep yourself covered
You trip up the past, trip over your mother
How come? How come I think you're capable?
That's bad enough
I need a kick up the ass, to stop feeling smothered
Look up at the past, look down to discover
How come? How come I feel incapable
(head down)
My childhood obsession, is my record collection
So what makes us so squeaky clean?
If we're food for worms that's not my scene, that's not my scene
[s] "Listen. Hear it?"
[s] "What are they gonna say about him, what are they gonna say?
He was a kind man? He was a wise man?
He had plans? He had wisdom? Bullshit man!"
Swallowing Air
Don't call this fair, when I've been so careful
I've swallowed air, now I've had my bellyfull
So now I want to get something for me
Now I want to get something for me
I've swallowed air, now I've had my bellyfull
I don't want to lose it if we have no cause
I don't want to lose it but the choice is yours
You don't compare, to anything I have
I want to stare, I don't want a photograph
It's about time you did something for me
It's about time you did something for me
I want to stare, I don't want a photograph
I don't want to lose it if we have no cause
I don't want to lose it but the choice is yours
So what is it now? You call me unsung
I've fallen foul, of somebody's hot tongue
The man inside can never be seen
God help me if I ever come clean
I've fallen foul, of somebody's hot tongue
Take Me To The Cleaners
Jesus, take me to the cleaners
I'm sweating under this new leaf
Appetise my misdemeanours
Package them as disbelief
Jesus, Jesus, take me to the cleaners, Jesus
Experience, drag me through the reasons
All I have has come to this
I don't deal in half-baked theories, show me where I lost my feet
Experience
Talk Me Down
All these mistakes you say I've made, got me more laugh-lines than things that felt right
How can you describe?
How can you decide?
Don't try to talk me down from here
Don't try to talk me down from here
Don't try to talk me out of her
Don't try to talk me down from here
I rest my case, how your deceit lays your cards on the table - your eyes on the ceiling
How can you advise?
How can you decide?
Tantrum
Tell me what I'm supposed to say and I won't argue
Tell me what it is you want to hear
I trust rebound is just rebound
And somehow follows
You're stuck between my attitude and beer
What I want is one collision, stop splitting hairs
Make one decision, to lose your cares
Tell me how I'm supposed to keep you begged and borrowed
Tell me something just to make this clear
I credit you with all the youth you say has gone now
I understand indifference is my fear
I think if only things would fit, then maybe I won't throw a fit
If I believed you give a shit, maybe we could drop this
Maybe we could drop this
What I want is one collision, stop splitting hairs
Make one decision to lose your cares, cares, cares, to lose your cares
Terminally Groovie
She got sex appeal on tap
I try to leave, she drags me back
Oh I may have her on her knees
But I'm the one with the killer disease
If you live your life again, sucker
Don't pass up on this woman
She's terminally groovie
Terminally groovie
She moves me
To come on
She believes in after-life
Even dead she'd groove all night
I believe the end is soon
Cos she's gonna drop the atomic groove
I ask her not to squeeze so tight
That's sort of why I don't sleep at night
Well I was keen when it began
But soon she's gonna kill me, man!
I made love to you until my face turned blue
But because I had to
That's Nice
You're not for real!
Well I hear you talk about it, what do you know?
I read what you write about it, what do you know?
You don't know nothing
You don't know nothing
I said it all in "First To Fall", you know the score- that's all
Keep your money, it's my shout
You're the best, there is no doubt
Well I still can't work it out
What's it all about?
Money, ego, sweat and doubt
You build the flame and snub it out
I still can't work it out
What's it all about? Gold!
Well I see you hang around us, I know where you go
You slip and slide and you crawl around us, I know where you go
But you're going nowhere
You are going nowhere
The Old New 'Un
You know it's raining hard outside, won't you come in and hide, with me
You know we can make our own sunshine it will be alright, just wait and see
It's raining hard come on inside
Come, come, come, come
I'm in love with the way that you wrinkle your nose
I'm in love with the way that you fold your clothes
And I know my love can never fail, heaven knows, heaven knows
It's raining hard come on inside
Come, come, come, come, come on inside
Throwing Things
I'm not saying this for the sake of it
I'll take so much and then I'll have to quit
I know how I feel, I know how I feel
The words don't fit
I can't speak, I can't speak
I can't, speak
I think I've lost the art of conversation
Things are looking bleak
Please go easy on me, I don't know what's wrong with me
Please be gentle with me, and take it easy, take it easy, take it easy
Take it out on me
Did I hear you right, did I hear you wrong
Did I miss something
Tell me who's the sleeping partner
Who's the sleeping partner here?
Cause you don't speak and I don't speak
We never seem to, speak
I think i'm deaf, I think you're dumb
Well you tell me
Now you're tying up my heart strings
I've got no halo, got no wings
We've got verbal constipation
Let's start throwing things
Titch
I get to feeling walked all over
And always off guard
Until I can live with my disappointments
You're gonna sleep with yours
Walked all over, never felt this small
Until I can live with my disappointments
You will sleep with yours
Traffic
Don't make me drive, shrink the world and wrap it, that's where I shat it, lost in all the traffic
Rule by my thumb, hear it deaf, say it dumb, it leads me, leads me
I wanted to try - must have got too tired
I wanted to want to be kind - just had no time
Now I've taken more than a reasonable quota, not that I owe ya, not that I owe ya
Blame everyone, we are sick to succumb, it grieves me, grieves me
Don't make me drive, shrink wrap the planet, that's where I shat it, lost in all the traffic
Rule by my thumb, hear it deaf, say it dumb, it leads me, leads me
I wanted to want to be kind - I wanted to try
Trust
This simple ongoing concern
Is becoming a growing, a growing concern
Now something is wrong, this patience has gone
"All I know is we've lost control" he says
"I lay no blame but it's not the same" she says
This simple ongoing concern
Is becoming a painful and pointless return
The things that they're sick of, they're scared to be rid of
He did his worst so how'd she guess?
Aw they couldn't care less, they couldn't care less
Twenty Three Hour Toothache
It's a trail to stay awake with my twenty three hour toothache
Should I drink a pint of cocaine or smoke a joint of junk-food everyday without fail
Don't crowd me out
I'll go home and you go home, I'm tired
Don't crowd me out
I'll go home and you go home, I'm tired
We've got to try to take a break
Save 28 days for our own sake
I only need you one hour a day
I only need you one hour a day
So, Don't drown me out
I'll go home and you go home, I'm tired
Don't drown me out
I'll go home and you go home, I'm tired
It's a trail to stay awake
My twenty three hour toothache (don't crowd me out)
So I drink a pint of cocaine, smoke a joint of junk food everyday without fail
(Don't crowd me out, I'm tired)
We've got to try to take a break
Save 28 days for out own sake (don't drown me out)
I only need you one hour a day
I only need you one hour a day (I'm tired)
Two And Two Made Five
More by chance than planned, finally thrown some light
I won't make that stand, I won't ask you why
I just hope you know now, I'm still as stupid, still as blind
If you don't hear forgiveness, watch my mouth
I know this all adds up, I just don't know how
If you don't have the will to breathe better start now
Better start now
I know what's all washed up will all wash out
More by luck than judgement, seems we've kept acquainted
Always absent, never present must have tried your patience
I just take your best intentions and complicate them
Take your hands off her, why can't you tell?
You know that I know, you only try to console yourself
Don't you touch her, that's enough now, she knows you too well
Don't ask her to sympathise, not now, not now, not now, no
Until You Find Out
All you need do is catch me
When I'm back on the real scene
And all the things that I don't do
Just make me laugh because they irritate you
And what you don't know, ain't gonna hurt you
While you don't know
And what you can't see, ain't gonna kill you
Until you find out
I think we're tarred with the same brush
It's not so easy to get in between us
I think we're tired of the same things
It's like getting locked out when the phone rings
Walking Through Syrup
You should wish me luck
I've taken my own head off
It was not my idea of fun, it was not my idea of fun
So here's the prediction
You get an affliction
You gain an addiction
You grab what you can
Get introduced to some good lady bubble-head
While she's seducing some old man
Tell them who is boss, they think I've buckled, they think I've gone soft
But this ponytail is not for life, it suits me while it suits the wife
(I wanted to believe the hype, was it overkill or overnight)
So here's the prediction
You get an affliction
You gain an addiction
You grab what you can
Get introduced to some good lady bubble-head
Thinks she's seducing peter pan
So here's the prediction
You get an affliction You gain an addiction
You get an affliction You gain an addiction
You get an affliction You gain an addiction
You get an affliction
What Gives My Son?
[s] "You look like a bum. Thought you told me at christmas you were gonna get a haircut.
You look like a god damned girl!"
Far be it for me to say you're loose son
Far be it for me to say you're no one
I've heard your excuse I've, heard your excuse I've, heard your excuses, every one
You don't know what's going, you don't know what's going
You don't know what's going on my son
Far be it for me to say you're brain dead
It might help if you get your ass out of bed
It twists me inside to see your girlfriend's backside
She gets tongue-tied and run
You're my son, I'm older than you
You can't be a man too
Your hair's too long, get out of my home
Papa, growing old, you're growing cold
I said growing old, you're growing cold
You went too far, you crashed my car, you crashed my car
You crashed my car
I'm in a rage, get off of that stage
OK
[s]
"When are you gonna wise up?
You wanna be a bum all your life be a bum but not under my roof!
This is my house, and as long as you live here you're gonna live by my rules.
I want you to get a decent haircut, get some decent clothes and start looking for a job.
You got that?
Is that clear!"
Who Goes First?
She'll study while you fidget and you squirm
Recite the final lesson of the final summer term
But no amount of lessons could have made you learn
If you're lonely you'll get lazy, if you're lazy you'll get lonely
It's all too hard to take what you deserve, you'll turn against her
You will turn
You'll turn against her - you will turn
You'll turn against her - you will turn
She'll listen while you try to kill the sound
Of each and every sigh you make, it's heads down
But no amount of days and hours could turn this thing around
You were lonely you got lazy, you were lazy you got lonely
It's all too hard to favour what you've found
You'll turn against her - you will turn
Wirey
Used by what I'm used to
Scarred by what I'm scared of
Confused by what confuses you
And snared by what is fair enough
You think we're no pair, well so do I let's start from there
You call this despair, well so can I let's start from there
You think we're no pair
Accuse myself of acting older
Of shaking hands and taking sides
I see things loud and clear I'm neither, undecided or uninspired
You
You
You trainee trooper, with your ten a side, trendy tosh
I bet you, I bet you think now don't you
I said I, I bet you think now don't you
I bet you think don't you
You
Your mom, your dad, your uncle, and his fishpond, your pet chinchilla
I bet you, I bet you think now don't you
I said I, I bet you think now don't you
I bet you think don't, you!
(Don't you)
(You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you)
You Don't Want To Do That
My feet touch down but my head flies off
Seems all we have is all I've got
My feet touch down but my head flies off
If I keep my head will I still get lost?
My feet touch down but my head flies off
If we go forward don't look back, I'd say you don't want to do that
It's too easy to sit on your hands and lose out
My skin turns brown but my hair goes white
If I keep my grip will I lose all sight?
My skin turns brown but my hair goes white
I could stay in bed and get more uptight
My skin turns brown but my hair goes white
My legs slow down but my brain won't stop
If it's all we have, then it's all we've got
It's all we have it's all we've got, it's enough
If it's all we have it's all we've got, then it's
Your Complex
Don't go telling me it's gone wrong
Don't go telling me on the phone
Cause the only voice I hear is my own
So don't go telling me it's gone wrong
That don't rub with me, I know better
Don't go telling me it's gone wrong
And for Christ's sake, oh for Christ's sake not on the phone
Cause the only voice you'll hear is your own
So don't go telling me on the phone
That don't rub with me, I know better
How can we be so scared, it's only a word
I know better, I think i know better
And it's not so complicated, it's not so complicated is it?
There's a wire of tension between you and me
Why can't we disagree to agree?
That don't rub with me, I know better
Your Only Joke
Come the crunch I'll lynch myself, if just to be first
Masochist plays cowardice, I know what's worse
Given chance, I'll bleed myself and let you spectate
Roll a sleeve, don't intervene, I just can't wait!
Should you go, please don't forget to choke on
Your only joke, and any hopes you hang on
Now when you fantasize, about your own face
Be sure and sack the viewer, who heads his own taste
Amusing poor excuses, supplied these cuts and bruises
You forced my hand to choose it, who loses now?
Who loses?
Should you go, please don't forget to choke on
Your only joke, and any hopes you hang on