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from Straw - Shoplifting (1999)
The door was open so she lay down on a rug
"You policeman you do too many drugs..." She took her shirt off and said, "This is a bust..." I put my hands up but got trampled in the rush And then she dared me to guess what her mother had said On her deathbed it was "Dracula has risen from the Grave" I lost my direction, something came up My 'resurrection' wasn't top of the pop-ups She made me blush so I hid beneath the rug "I'd like to help you but you do too many drugs..." The handcuffs were on but the jury was out When she read me my rights She took everything down And it scares me to think Where her truncheon was found But I've got the polaroids and it's freaking me out Because she's handing them out Everybody swears at me and you Everybody swears you know they do... |
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from Straw - Shoplifting (1999)
Galveston, oh Galveston
I still hear your sea-winds blowing I still see the dark pass glowing She was twenty-one When I left Galveston Galveston, oh Galveston I still hear your sea-waves crashing While I watch the camera flashing I clean my gun And dreamed of Galveston I still see her standing by the water Standing there, staring out to sea And is she waiting there for me? On the beach where we used to run Galveston, oh Galveston I am so afraid of dying For I wipe the tear she's crying For I watch the seagulls lying in the sun Galveston Galveston I still see her standing by the water Standing there, staring out to sea And is she waiting there for me? On the beach where we used to roam Galveston, oh Galveston I am so afraid of dying For I wipe the tear she's crying She was twenty-one When I left Galveston |
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from Straw - Shoplifting (1999)
I woke up to howling sunlight
Prayed for the morning silence to end Based on my favourite pastime I'm going to kill your boyfriend I will wait till summer's over I will waste away till somehow Overdone I'm gone I'm long gone Is that all Unhappy with myself Summer's like broken winter Watching the people fade from view Keep passing the open windows I guess I'm still falling out with you If I choose not to I don't need nobody else I'm unhappy with myself, happy with myself |
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from Straw - Shoplifting (1999)
If we get dropped I will sail out the window
Clutching the artwork to my debut single We'll fly past the helicopter high over St Paul's Head for the ocean I will live with the seagulls I don't want to talk about it I'm just glad we've failed I'm leaving the highlife for you yeah I'd burn down the highrise for you yeah I'm moving to California At least that's what I'm telling my friends If we get dropped I will bail out the window Absail to safety on a master tape spindle We'll live off the driftwood and the cash from the social We'll join hands together and go walk in the ocean I don't want to talk about it I'm just glad we've failed I'm leaving the highlife for you yeah I'd burn down the highrise for you yeah I'm moving to California At least that's what I'm telling my friends So bye bye UK This is Disneyland So bye bye UK This is Disneyland I don't want to talk about it I'm just glad we've failed I'm leaving the highlife for you yeah I'd burn down the highrise for you yeah I'm moving to California At least that's what I'm telling my friends So bye bye UK This is Disneyland So bye bye UK I'm moving to California At least that's what I'm telling my friends |
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from Straw - Shoplifting (1999)
I was comatose
I was drinking it in tomorrow I was stealing poses I was seeing ghosts I was looking to shake my shadow Confusing myself Choosing the short straw I'm moving to hell, (I'll send you a postcard) Feeling unwell, even the nurse Reminds me of you This is the last day of the war This is the last day I will want to fight with you This is the last day of the war Don't blame it on me I was floating over I was overdosed I wasn't planning on going solo Now I'm slipping under Now my eyes are closed I was dreaming about the photo Confusing myself They're shooting the wrong horse I'm moving to hell Going to send you a postcard Being unwell Feeling the nurse reminds me of you This is my reward... |
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from Straw - Shoplifting (1999)
Let me make a fashion statement
I don't like that shirt you're wearing You stand around here looking vacant It seems to me you're way past caring I'm trying hard to save your bacon Tine and time again you're taking taking Taking me shoplifting you go Shoplifting you go, shoplifting A starring role in crown court When you make your opening statement You've got to let me hear a suspended sentence Let me make a closing statement You get me off and I'll make the payments Payments by taking you shoplifting we go Shoplifting we go, Shoplifting A starring role in crown court |
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from Straw - Shoplifting (1999)
Choose between the sunburn and the blues
Scrape the suncream from my undone shoes Like the surfers I'll be bored again Hate in truth it's a formula I use Watch the waves cut me in two Been kicking sand into our faces again Soon I'll be opening the wounds I'll be singing out of tune No change there then just indifference This is the soundtrack of the summer Everybody said we were happy going nowhere The soundtrack of the summer You've got to sing alone just to get the damn thing over Oh yeah Cruise It's a missile I could use To detonate our last excuse Inflate the lilo drifting out to sea Summertime the tide is rising I close my eyes see tampons floating by Just you and I hitting the gulf stream As we wave goodnight This is the soundtrack of the summer Everybody said we were happy going nowhere The soundtrack of the summer You've got to sing alone just to get the damn thing over Oh yeah You in silence Me in silence The ice creams melted in my hand You in silence Me in silence We're never going to find our way out of here Are we going nowhere (at least it's somewhere) I'm there |
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from Straw - Shoplifting (1999)
Real life
Real lies Real photos They're in black and white Real love Real life Like in My Guy Annual 1979 I have a souvenir momento of you The bitter taste of sick in my mouth will do I want to remember To forget I don't want to remember To forget I just want to remember To forget Everything we said last night To forget you Real lies Readers' wives Weary photos And wearing red black and white Real love Real life Can we watch them burn 400 fahrenheit I have a souvenir momento of you The bitter taste of sick in my mouth will do I don't want to remember To forget I don't want to remember To forget I just want to dismember And forget Everything we said last night I don't want to remember To forget I don't want to remember To forget I don't want to remember And forget Everything we said last night To forget you And I hope you remember me So I can ignore you The next time we meet |
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from Straw - Shoplifting (1999)
I'm wasted at closing time
There's only lovers left alive Counting the corpses' eyes washed up on the morning tide Taking it easy Taking you home We don't belong to you Watching the forum lights Watching the Tom Jones look unlikely This is the end in sight The beautiful friend turns ugly Making it easy Making it home We don't belong to you Sing alone Come on We don't belong to you |
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from Straw - Shoplifting (1999)
If I learned to sing I would in a telephone booth
Urine, junk and chewing gum looking down on my street I'm cracking up, I'm happy you noticed I wrote a song for all of us I forgot how it feels I am a weird superman I could not fly but on alcohol I can leap tall buildings I'm indestructible yeah you could try but I'm weird superman I have been called, I'm giving up, I'm going under She said "I really love your early stuff" Wait here for the sequel I'm throwing up, I'm happy you noticed Erode asong for all of us, I forgot how it feels I am a weird superman I could not fly but on alcohol I can leap tall buildings I'm indestructible yeah you could try but I'm weird superman I have been called You won't find out, you won't find out anyway You find out because I'm using my X-ray I see through you, you see through me But that's OK, maybe I am a weird superman I could not fly but on alcohol I can leap tall buildings I'm indestructible yeah you could try but I'm weird superman I have been called, I have been called |
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from Straw - The Aeroplane Song (2006)
I tried to write a song, but I can't sing
I make a full, complete apology for it You took my hand, you broke my thumb You needed someone to hold on to Paint a picture of your insecurity And less is more or less, it's meaningless to me You took my hand, you broke my arm You needed someone warm to hold on to Let's compile the greatest hits of your lovelife You and I, a list of all the failures we admired Let's compile the greatest hits of your lovelife Shouldn't take too long Made a film of every day there's ever been Best original screenplay I have ever seen You took my hand, you broke my arm You needed someone warm to hold on to Let's compile the greatest hits of your lovelife You and I, a list of all the failures we admired Let's compile the greatest hits of your lovelife Shouldn't take too long A double gatefold triple CD presentation box Maybe just an EP Maybe just a 7" A 45 - That only plays one side You took my hand, you broke my arm You needed someone warm to hold on to Let's compile the greatest hits of your lovelife You and I, a list of all the failures we admired Let's compile the greatest hits of your lovelife Shouldn't take too long |
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from Straw - The Aeroplane Song (2006)
(Close your eyes)
(We are snowblind) (Circumcised) (We are snowblind) (I apologise) (We are snowblind) Floating round the supermarket Stinking like an OAP They're sending me Leaflets on the centuries and they Opened up on half day closing And I caught the name of the new cashier With their perfume waves Like War and Peace on holiday We don't socialise 'Cos we are snowblind I apologise 'Cos we are snowblind You can't sympathise 'Cos we are snowblind Just turned down an empty high street The white dog do in the bus lane grid And they're sending me to prison For the things I did And close your eyes 'Cos we are snowblind You can't sympathise 'Cos we are snowblind I apologise But we are snowblind We don't socialise 'Cos we are snowblind I apologise 'Cos we are snowblind You can't sympathise 'Cos we are snowblind |
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from Straw - The Aeroplane Song (2006)
For today
I bought an aeroplane I flew away All I need now is a name to appraise A kind of liturgy, a claim to fame Book me a window seat and I closed my eyes and she came Does anybody care to see why Everybody here seems happy? Lufthansa go where you wanna go Lufthansa go where you wanna go Lufthansa I can't stay I dreamed today I boarded a frequent flyer And had my wicked way Recline a window seat I closed my eyes and she came But it's uncommon courtesy Everybody here seems happy? Lufthansa go where you wanna go Lufthansa go where you wanna go Lufthansa I can't stay Danke Fraulein, schone Scheinwerfer, liebchen, auf wiedersehen Lufthansa go where you wanna go Lufthansa go where you wanna go Lufthansa I can't stay Singing auf wiedersehen Lufthansa go where you wanna go Lufthansa go where you wanna go Lufthansa I can't stay Singing auf wiedersehen Singing auf wiedersehen Singing auf wiedersehen Singing auf wiedersehen |
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