Steve Harley - The Psychomodo (2004) by Steve Harley (보컬) on maniadb.com

Pop paper people printing "rebel insane"
They in my head and digging into my brain
I need umbrella to keep out the rain
I can't hope to keep the pace I have made
Maybe I'll settle in the country and fade

It's all too much for me to handle with ease
I'm sinking fast- I'll soon be down on my knees
Dreams of loretta and lorraine and louise


I can't hope to be the "devil-may-care"
Maybe I'll settle with you all in my hair

Broke three fingers last night
Ain't got the energy to fight
They tell me everyfhing's gonna be all right
I can't dope to do more than my best
It's so easy. this is really no test!

I been losing my head

I been losing my way

I been losing my brain cells at a million a day

I been so disillusioned

I'm on suicide street

I seen everything

In every shape

I seen l984 in a terrible state

I seen you Quazimodo

Hanging on my gate

Oh! he was so hung-up and wasted

Oh! he was so physically devastated

He was young enough

He was well-slung enough

I seen my own epitaph

I been to heaven and back

Was introduced to St. Peter; we were having a chat

I felt him losing his mind

So I began to retreat



Desdemona and me

We had a ball in a tree

She read my palm in a moment: it was shocking to me

Oh, we were so mystified

Began to scream out of fear

Oh! she was so hung-up and wasted

Oh! she was so physically devastated

She was young enough

She was well-slung enough

I been writing a song

We all been singing along

It's like a wild schizophrenia - wondering where we

belong!

Sling it all out the window

Start all over again...

Come into my heart

Come in and tear me apart

I wanna be claustrophobic - got a passion - ha ha!

I'm so confused I wish I could die

Mr. Soft, turn around and force the world

To watch the things you're going through

Mr. Soft, believe everything they tell you

And be dammed if they'll thank you

You paint everything so cruel,

Coming on like Mr. Cool;

Paint your face and shut the gate,

No one's coming home till late

Don't you know, life gets tedious enough

Without this extra grudge to bare

You, so slow, shift your ideas, make your mind up

In a jiffy, let' s be fair



We'll be taking off tonight,

Turn off your eyes and shut the light,

You're the most, you're so unreal,

We'd all be dead without your spiel!

Mr. Soft, go to town and bring the dawn in,

In the morning on your way

Mr. Soft, put your feet upon the water

And play Jesus for the day

You begin to hear them mumble,

Spot the Starman, rough-and-tumble,

Fight the good fight, sling your axe,

Watch the speaker lead the packs

Thinking lots of a pretty face
When we were yong, such smashing days
We'd pass the time in such pleasant ways
Happy just to be iiving-oh yeah!
Too many summers controlled our heads
Too many memories - so many dead
We fall behind but we also lead them
Listened all the time to a singular band

Put our resources into one appollo
We only had to watch and follow
Then swoop around like a possessed swallow
Thinking only of winning ¨c oh yeah!


And all the iime defending ourselves
Brushed aside all the tempting sea-shells
Charging-up like battery cells
Looking all the time for a singular band

You and me getting everywhere now
On the land and in the air now
Got no worries of getting there now
(consider what we're attempting-oh yeah!)
And now we have lots of pretty clothes
Many friends and many foes
Looking wonderful but heaven knows
Who will want us now we're turning into singular band

Hark to rouall's white insanity
Clowns in drag concealing vanity
This is hardly paradise
We're still in search of petty scorn

Images so dead, in mourning
Clap and cheer the man performing
This is hardly paradise
We're still in search of petty scorn

Couch my disease in chintz-covered kisses
Glazed calico cloth, my costume this is
Come to pablo fanque's in indigo
We'll show you pastel shades of rhyme

It's okay to laugh in harmony
See the white-faced auguste's army
Come to pablo's-fanque's in indigo
We'll show you pastel shades of rhyme

Take a letter ophelia, write
"sorry desdemona." bright
Peeking through the nimbus covers
We see the twisted tale of man


Catch us in the cornfield hiding
Me, maryse and moonbeams gliding
Peeking through the nimbue covers
We see the twisted tale of man

Careless, caress, curt up beside me
Visit, sleep and smile and drown me
March together, slay like nero
Now we have something you understand

Oh! the clown, his stare is eyeless
Shall he make you laugh or cry.yes
March together, slay like nero
Now we have sometning you understand

It is time to hide my body
Shall we start to speak of holly
I don't wanna be that superhero
'til you have something we anderstand

Heard they're moving pisces into june
Shall we put together a platoon
I don't wanna be that superhero
'til you have something we understand

Make mine old time, or i'il spit in your eye
It's better than lying, anytime . . .
I'm horrified of modern times, I'm trying
Very hard to keep up my guard
Everything's becoming drag, we'd best be off
Escape the bad- could be very sad
Misery coming over me, I'm thinking about
Going blind and don't want to see.

Shift around this one-song town
Like a sparrow with a broken wing -feeling blue!!!
Terrified to step outside, it's so easy
To make a suicide come true
Masturbation-getting off; you can scoff
Your ideals offer nothing new!
I'm getting ready to run and hide,
Looking for a suitable bitch to crucify.

We're all beginqing to
Testify, testify-it's getting fierce
We're all beginning to testify,
Testify, to be cavaliers
How does it feel now you've testified?

Love to have God next to me with his
Hands around my throat in harmony
Take away the silver tray, fetch me water


God, give me strength, I'm in pain
Seeing, blow-job blues and boogaloos
Ten little niggers hooked on absinthe and daffodils
Telling tales of white gardinia,
Honky-tonking all the love that's in ya!

We're all beginqing to
Testify, testify-it's getting fierce
We're all beginning to testify,
Testify, to be cavaliers
How does it feel now you've testified?

Long-tailed coat, a silly joke; they drink
Like men then see them choke on coca-cola
Morgue-like iips and waitress tips and you
Shuffle around on your sabrina hips
Make mine old time or I'll spit in your eye
It's better than lying-anytime
Horrified to step outside, trying very
Hard to keep up my guard.

We're all beginqing to
Testify, testify-it's getting fierce
We're all beginning to testify,
Testify, to be cavaliers
How does it feel now you've testified?

I've just been speaking to the one who holds the key
When she asked me would I like to wait and to see?
Would I like to try and explain?
Would I like to try and explain?
How my heart is feeling tonight with all the strain?
And I said I could take much more from such a friend
Although I hoped we weren't very far away from the end
For the time it's a-getting late,
Yeah, the time it's a-getting late
And my heart is hurting a little bit from the weight

She just said:
"i've got a bed here for you
I've got a bed here for me


So you can look into my eyes
And tell me what you see . . .'

She's like a rosebud in my heart and in my dreams
See her flow into the night like rivers and streams
How I'd love to lie in her arms
How I'd love to lie in her arms
But I don't seem able to win her with my charms

She just said:
"i've got a bed here for you
I've got a bed here for me
So you can look into my eyes
And tell me what you see . . .'

to.moonn6pence from.shootingstar



Tumbling Down
by Steve Harley

Gee, but it's hard
When one lowers one's guard
to the vultures

Now, me I regard it
A torturous hardship
that smolders

Like a peppermint eaten away
Will I fight? Will I swagger, or sway?

Tee hee, milady
She cries like a baby
Scold us

See her tumbling down

Heil to the monkey
We're having a funky reunion
Wasted and sunk
he can only have Sunday communion

He's got nicotine stains in his eyes
He's got nothing to protect but his pride
Oh smothered a kiss
Or be drowned in blissful confusion

See her tumbling down
See her tumbling down
See her tumbling down