Bernard Butler

Well I feel so alive, got no reason to hide,
there ain't any woman I know,
that's got me so high.
I got things on my mind
that will reach you in time,
there ain't any woman I know,
that's got me so high.


And though she really lied,
yes though she really lied
there ain't any woman I know
that's got me so high.
And though we really tried,
yes though we really tried
there ain't an emotion I know
so low, so low
Got a reason to stay
she's taken the pain from yesterday
got a reason to stay
she's got no rhythm, she says,
she's got no rhythm, she says.


Got a reason to stay
she's taken the pain from yesterday
got a reason to stay
she's got no rhythm, she says,
she's got no rhythm, she says
So I feel so alive
got no reason to hide
but there ain't an emotion I know
so low
so low

Do you believe in every breath I ever take?
Do you believe that I know every move I make?
You can't keep crying over chances I must take.

Love I don't care if my feet are in the air,
and there's one thing I will share - you just know.
Lover I don't care if my feet are in the air,
'cos there's one thing I will share - you just know,
yeah you just know.

Do you know just how many hands I've had to shake?
Do you think I know every place I've ever played?
Well I know you worry but this is it I'm afraid.

Lover I don't care if my feet are in the air,
and there's one thing I will share - you just know.
Lover I don't care 'cos my hands are in the air,
and there's one thing I will share - you just know,
yeah you just know,
you just know.

Go play safe, fly low.
for the sake of all you have known.
Throw your staff down
from the citadel and run away.
He won't laugh at what you said
he's got a princess to impress.
Got no boat, plane or place to go
just the rain.
And people move on, move along,
people move on...
move along


There's a man that follows me
down the street,
holding roses for all the girls he meets.
And his hair curls down to his feet
he gives me the creeps
He'll take the wind from your sails,
quoting Jesus - hands on the Kells.
But his words usually fail,
to move me that way.
People move on, move along,
people move on...
just gotta keep moving on.


So go play safe, fly low,
for the sake of all you have known.
Throw your staff down
from the citadel, and run away.

A change of heart couldn't hurt nobody
the way she goes around
won't change your mind.
A change of heart couldn't hurt nobody
the way she goes around
won't make you smile.
I live in style, but life gets me down
and when a little high
she climbed inside and said:
don't go changing,
no don't change me,
because it feels like coming down
A change of luck couldn't hurt nobody
the way she goes around
won't change your mind.
A change of luck couldn't hurt nobody
and when she goes down,
it's gonna change your mind.
Well I live in style, but life gets me down,
and when a little high
she climbs inside my head.
Don't change me, no don't go changing me,
because it feel like I'm coming down,
oh yes it feels like I'm coming down.


A change of heart couldn't hurt nobody
the way we go around
won't change your mind,
it won't change your mind,
So change your mind,
change your mind,
...go on change your mind.

Is the summer time nearly over,
or has your warm smile turned us cold?
When dark clouds slip between us
that's the moment when our love grows, our love grows.
- 연 주 중 -
It's not what I choose to tell you
it's about what you already know.
It don't matter which way you push me
you've got to feel which way I flow.
Inside my book of autographs,
I pictured scenes that I could not write.
If your name was in that book of autographs,
would you stay with me every night?
- 간 주 중 -
the songs in my head you write.
Is the winter time really over,
or does the soft snow mirror your eyes?
When I say don't hurry me over
it's because I'm drifting to the edge of time.
Inside my book of autographs,
I pictured scenes that I could only describe.
If your name was in that book of autographs,
would you stay with me here tonight?
- 연 주 중 -
the songs in my head you write

you light the fire
and I'll bring home a smile,
and we'll probably be OK.
Yesterday was fine
but tomorrow you'll be mine,
and then every day will stay the same.
How long until you discover,
that the man you broke won't decay?
How long until you recover,
all the memories you threw away?


Take the car and drive
as far as possible tonight,
and promise me you'll stay away.
For you'll be wanting more
than the love you never saw,
and the motherhood you cast aside in haste.
How long until you discover,
all the lives you broke along the way?
How long until you recover,
and the man you broke walks away?


So you light me fire
and I'll bring home a smile,
and we'll probably be OK

Should I tell you why I feel so down,
when all I've carried for days is
the same old doubts?
Well I'd tell you if I'd had a plan,
only you're one of those with
your head in the sand.

While I don't feel so afraid,
maybe this is just some kind of phase,
but I don't care about the wind in my face.

'cos I'm not alone, these days.

Could I tell you how I hear those sounds?
Well I've been roaming the streets with
my head in the cloud,
and I won't need to show you my heart.
'Cos all I need in my hands is an Electric Guitar.

Well I thought that you understood,
that friends like these won't ever do me no good.
'cos I have never known the people I should,

but I'm not alone, these days.

Maybe I misunderstood.

When car lights flash in your face,
your kind heart will give you away.
Don't keep us apart, don't lead us astray,
don't leave it too late.
When darkness keeps you awake,
and demons lead you astray,
don't keep us apart, don't leave it too late,
don't you take this away.
And when you grow, I'll give you away,
I'll lead you my way,
I'll shield you from pain.
And when you're low,
I'll see that you're safe,
I'll shield you from pain.
When God's love gets in your way,
remember child how you were made.
Don't keep us apart, don't lead us astray,
don't you leave it too late.
And behind this explanation
lies the sweetest inspiration
it won't keep us apart,
it won't lead us astray,
I'll keep the demons at bay.
And when you grow, I'll give you a way,
I'll lead you my way,
I'll shield you from pain.
And when you're low,
I'll see that you're safe,
I'll shield you from pain.


And when you grow, I'll give you away,
I'll lead you my way,
I'll shield you from pain.
And when you're low,
I'll see that you're safe,
I'll shield you from pain.
And when you grow, I'll give you a way,
I'll lead you my way,
I'll shield you from pain.
Then when you love
I'll see that you're safe,
I'll shield you from pain.

Rolling motor, lover sublime,
push me away if you feel so inclined.
you've got what it takes.
I'll be brother, I'll be guide,
I'll take you home when you wanna hide,
you've got what it takes,
You've got what it takes...
Clicking machinery, clicking tongues,
ever wondered "What have I done?"
you've got what it takes, but nodbody knows.
You confide in me at the end of your days,
how you wish you'd written a book or a play,
you had what it takes, you had what it takes.
You've got what it takes...
Don't you feel so helpless, don't you feel so low.
And when you catch me crying,
you'll probably be the first,
so don't let nobody else know.
You've got what it takes...

These days are wasting away
the kind that I'd rather save
Don't go stay
I hope it don't rain
the sky is laughing again
Don't go stay this time
Don't go just stay this time
I know I've gotta move with the times
for you to be mine
I tried to believe what you say
that you won't change if you just stay
Don't go stay this time
Don't go just stay this time
And you remember that fears on your side
good people are gonna keep you alive
And you remember the tears in my eyes
when all the things you do blow your mind
Don't go stay this time
Don't go just stay this time
Stay Stay
Don't go stay

I sit on life's window.
I'm not afraid to slip off the ledge.
Don't dry the tears from my pillow,
they don't slip easy from my face.
Goodbye brothers and sisters,
my spirit will fly in your face.
I'm not afraid if everything's over,
maybe the future's in space...


So goodbye brothers and sisters,
Don't make me do it your way.
Don't hinder me with your wisdom,
maybe the future's in vain...
In vain

I'm tired, I can't explain,
all the troubled notions scrambling my brain.
I'm tired, let me be for now.
There was a time when I was interested by you,
but it isn't now.
If only I could escape
leave a dummy in my place,
slip away through the walls,
not listen at all.
I'm tired, I can't explain.
I may as well have been talking to myself
by the look on your face.
I'm high, I don't feel myself.
I think I should feel happy
but I only want to lie down.
If only I could escape
leave a dummy in my place,
slip away through the walls,
not listen at all.
I'm tired, I might go away,
I'm tired, I've no more to say,
I'm tired, I'm tired.
So take me, take me away.

We grow together morning 'til night
We share a weakness I'm straining to hide
I'm in the picture, I'm on your wall
Sister together we're 10 feet tall

Yes it's wonderful to be friends & lovers
Yes it's wonderful to be your lover

You listen to me, listen this time
I've faked this sadness, I've faked my whole life
And in the bedroom, well I cling to your side
Sister whatever, I mirror your life

Yes it's wonderful to be friends & lovers
Yes it's wonderful to be your lover

Of all the lies we shared
This one will find us out in the end
Of all the ways to care
Cherish this, cherish this my friend

Yes it's wonderful to be friends & lovers
Yes it's wonderful to be your lover

You and I've got something caught between our eyes
A figure of fun and a teller of lies
You and I need nothing more to taint our lives
Would I do it to you? Well I'll do it this time

I'd do it again if I could
I'd do it again if you told me I should
I'd do it again for you my love
Follow me and I'll do it again

You and I feel nothing - we're anaesthetised
When you've got no shame you've got nothing to hide
Just one click of your heels and I'd lend you my soul
Would I do it for you? Well I do what I'm told

I'd do it again if I could
I'd do it again if you told me I should
I'd do it again for you my love
Follow me and I'll do it again

I think about nearly nothing else when I'm on my own
Solitude is freezing the life from my bones

Looks like the same thing's happening again
It's getting strange round here - I don't feel the same
If you could only see me today

Cocoon you laugh in my face
We've gotta learn to communicate
Get real I will always be this way
Paint the lines in grey

So I think about nearly nothing else
Still I'm on my own
Staying in ain't chic when you've got no home

Looks like this frame was made for me
You could climb across the rooftops - Then you'd see
Through the burning sash I'm free

Cocoon you laugh in my face
We've gotta learn to communicate
Get real I will always be this way
Paint the lines in grey
Hey you! I'm on your case
You remind me of lovers I used to chase
Through the golden songs from a golden age
Let me love you today

Don't hold your pain
In the cracks in your face
Remember those lines will reflect your whole life
You don't look the same when your heart is tame

What's in your hand?
Tell me what's in your hand?

Spare a thought for something I've been taught
You won't get far keeping me awake
So smile
Just smile

And then sing this song
Without a care anywhere
I will care for you in every way
I will share every day

Stoned despair
Just leaves our minds unaware
Until we sing this song
Without a care anywhere
I will care for your in every way
I will share every day
You're too smart for me to take

Just don't despair, sugar, land is near
Could we walk for miles without the faintest smile?
Just smile
Smile!

You can't look back
But you can look on ahead
There's no sense of ease, no-one to please
But you carry on
You can't look so sad
You can't look down your nose
There's nothing to believe, no use in being
But you carry on

So cherish the days when we searched for caves
And paddled our feet in the midday heat
Your mother would scream if she heard you'd been
Well it's just as well we carried on and on and..........

This can't look so bad
Just 'cos you're on your own again
You're losing sleep, you don't know how to breathe
But you carry on
You can't look back
You can look on ahead
There's nothing to believe, all you do is weep
But you carry on

So cherish the days when we searched for caves
And paddled our feet out on the heath
My mother would scream if she heard you'd been
Well it's just as well we carried on and on and..........

On and on..........

Time alone has informed me
That there's no easy way out for me
No no easy way out
Just like a film without a story
We dreamt of rain without clouds and wild country
But then our luck just ran out

Now there's no easy way out
No no easy way out
No release when we're down

I tend to frighten all too easy
But there's no need when you tower beneath me
Often sweet never sour
But time alone has just confused me
So we keep dreaming about what should have been ours
I'm just so please when you're around

But there's no easy way out
No no easy way out
No release when we're down
Believe me now
There's no easy way out
No no easy way out
No release for us now
But there's no easy way out

Everyone I know is falling apart around you
But I know I'll be the last
So I'll tell you when they're through
Everyone I know is falling apart around you
But I keep telling myself that it won't happen
With us too

I won't touch, I won't feel
I'll still be here behind the wheel
No I won't carry on

Everyone I know is falling apart around you
Can't you see the weight on your shoulders
Is a burden meant for two
Everyone wants to know what in the world's got
Into you
And I just wish I could sing
What it means to feel like you

Come now hush,
Tears won't help you carry on
Take good care will you?
Take good care will you?

Run....take your fears with you
Run....take good care with you
Run....take good care will you?

Hoping I don't make somebody cry
Hoping not to live too many lies
I gave her what I could
But she didn't notice what happened to me
Hoping I remember what I wanna say
Hoping that religion doesn't get in my way
I gave her everything
But she didn't notice what happened to me

She'll have to wait a long time
To comfort me

She took me to the station where she cried
She told me that my instincts were run dry
I told her everything was going to be alright
If she comforted me

She'll have to wait a long time
To comfort me

So I sing this to myself now she's not around
I sing it where and whenever I may be bound
It makes me feel so good
Just to hear the sound that comforts me

There's a whisper in the breeze
And it drifts between you and me
It radiates mortality

Before we've nothing left to spare
You and me should just go somewhere
A secret hid and a secret shared

But if these words they go too deep, consider all possibilities
There's just one way to fall down
But you won't know till you've hit the ground

And it's a wonder that you breathe
When all around you has ceased to be and it hurts to see you down
Yeah, it hurts to see you down, let's go away, let's go away

And I so appreciate
That my life ain't gone to waste
It's down to you my friend of fate

'Cause I've a will to set you free
Though I don't know what that really means
I just hope it's not out of reach

But if these words they go too deep, consider all possibilities
There's just one way to fall down
But you won't know till you've hit the ground

And it's a wonder that you breathe
When all around you has ceased to be and it hurts to see you down
Yeah, it hurts to see you down, let's go away
Ah, let's go away

Never stop us running, never stop us running
Never stop us running, never stop us running
(Let's go away, yeah)
Never stop us running, never stop us running
Never stop us running away
(Let's go away)

Never stop us running, never stop us running
Never stop us running, never stop us running
(Let's go away)
Never stop us running, never stop us running
Never stop us running away
(Oh)

Never stop us running, never stop us running
Never stop us running, never stop us running
Never stop us running, never stop us running
Never stop us running away

Never stop us running, never stop us running
Never stop us running, never stop us running
Never stop us running, never stop us running
Never stop us running away

Never stop us running, never stop us running
Never stop us running, never stop us running
Never stop us running, never stop us running
Never stop us running away

Don't hold me to these words
Cos to you they could mean anything
But to me they are my everything
I need to spin the world

Don't hold me to these words
Cos they'll hurt you more than melodies
But to me they're more than empathy
I cling to every verse

Don't drive along these roads
Cos they'll take you to a precious glade
Where troubled minds release their pain
And never tell a soul

Don't hold me in your arms
Cos I needed that more yesterday
But I need you now and I'll not complain
Just don't read every word

If you feel the same
You should let it all out now
And if you feel the same
Then you should let me know right now

Inside I'm open
I just never learnt how to get it all out
Inside I'm all hope
I just never learnt how to get it all out

Got your mind set on something
- But you won't let it show
Got an expert opinion
- Got a 3D show
Got your line full of women
- All waiting in tow
Has your mind got away?

Not a lot of sense believing in a man with no home
God does anybody tell you, god does anyone know?
I'm not your one way ticket - I'm your one way show
Has your mind got away? Tell me it ain't so

So the ladies arrive with their wardrobes of clothes
'Cos they know where to take you when everywhere is closed
Has the drink run dry (...like the jokes that you told)
Or has your mind got away?

Another landslide election oh but you didn't vote
'Cos it all amounts to nothing once you have spoke
And the way that you dance
You should be lucky you ain't broke
Has your mind got away?
...Tell me it ain't so
Have you finally choked?

And the last I remember we both got it wrong
'Cos the mind walked sideways while the brain got choked
But if no-one's gonna tell you
Then how should you know
Until you've choked?

You don't need a system to fly a kite
You don't need pictures to know when it's high
And it doesn't matter who you know, know why
'Cause you'll feel it when you're mine

You don't need to narrow to show me a sign
You won't need a mirror, just look in my eyes
And no matter what you done and no matter why
You'll feel it when you're mine

You'll feel it when you're mine
You'll feel it when you're mine
You'll feel it when you're mine

You'll feel it when you're mine
You'll feel it when you're mine
You'll feel it when you're mine

You'll feel it when you're mine
When you're mine, when you're mine
When you're mine, when you're mine

Oh I was moved by your screen dream
Celluloid pictures living
Your death could not kill our
love for you

Take two people romantic
Smoky nightclub situation
Your cigarette traces a ladder

Here´s looking at you kid
Celebrate years
Here´s looking at you kid
Wipe away tears
Long time
since we´re together
Now I hope it´s forever

Ideal love flies away now
White jacket moon black tie wings too
You gave her away to the hero

Words don´t express my meaning
Notes could not spell out the score
But finding not keeping´s the lesson


Here´s looking at you kid
Hard to forget
Here´s looking at you kid
At least not yet
Your memory stays
It lingers ever
Will fade away never

You´ve got me girl
on the run around run around
You´ve got me all around town
You´re got me girl on the run around
And it´s getting me down,
getting me down

Lady if you want to find a lover
Then you look no further
For I´m gonna be your only
Searching
at the start of the season
And my only reason
Is that I´ll get to you

I´ll find some way of connection
Hiding my intention
Then I´ll move up close to you
I´ll use you and I´ll confuse you
And the I´ll lose you
But still you won´t suspect me

Baby's On Fire
Better throw her in the water
Look at her laughing
Like a heifer to the slaughter
Baby's On Fire
And all the laughing boys are bitching
Waiting for photos
Oh the plot is so bewitching
Rescuers row, row
Do your best to change the subject
Blow the wind blow, blow
Lend some assistance to the object


Photographers snip-snap
Take your time she's only burning
This kind of experience
Is necessary for her learning
If you'd be my flotsam
I could be half the man I used to
They said you were hot stuff
And that's what baby's been reduced to


Juanita and Juan
Very clever with maracas
Making their fortune
Selling second-hand tobaccos
Juan dances at Chico's
And when the clients are addicted
He empties their ashtrays
And pockets all that he's collected


But baby's on fire
And all the instruments agree that
Her temperature's rising
But any idiot would know that

Well this is such A sad affair
I've opened up my heart
So many times
But now it's closed

Oh my dear
Every salted tear
It wrings
Bitter-sweet applause

But when the show's in full swing
Every once in a while
High stepping chorus lines
Mean I'm forgetting Mein lullaby - liebchen

How rich in contrast
Love can be Sometimes
I'm quite amused
To see it twist and turn To taste - both sweet and dry
These vintage years!
Lovers you consume, my friend
As others their wine

Nein, dass ist nicht
Das Ende der
Welt Gestrandet an
Leben und Kunst
Und das Spiel geht weiter
Wie man weiss
Noch viele Schoenste ...
Wiedersehn

And now, as you turn to leave
You try to force a smile
As if to compensate
Then you break down
and cry

Gee, but it's hard
When one lowers one's guard
to the vultures
Now, me I regard it
A torturous hardship
that smoulders
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
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

She can
start
to walk out
if she wants
Because we're young
because we're gone
We'll take
the tide's electric mind

so young
so gone
let's chase the dragon
Because wer're young
because gone
We'll scare the skies
with tigers eyes We're

so young and
so gone
let's chase the dragon
Let's chase the dragon
Let's chase the dragon
dragon from our home
high in the city
where the sky
line stained the snow
I fell
for a servant
who kept me on the boil

so young
so gone
let's chase the dragon
from our home

from our home
from our home

Like he's dead you know
that he's had
Animal nitrate in mind
Oh in your council home
he jumped on your bones
Now you're taking
it time after time
Oh it turns you on
on now he has gone
Oh what turns you on on
now your animal's gone
Well he said
he'd show his bed
And the delights of a
chemical smile
So in your broken home
he broke all your bones
Now you're taking
it time after time
Oh it turns you on on
now he has gone
Oh what turns you on on
now you're animal's gone

What does it take to
turn you on on
Now he has gone
Now you're over 21
Now your animal's gone
animal he was animal
an animal
animal he was animal
an animal
animal
animal
he's just an animal
an animal animal
he was animal

She'll come to her end locked in a car somewhere
with exhaust in her hair
What's she called? I dunno,
she's fucking with a slip of a man while the engine ran

And he said She's not dead,
she's gone away, gone away he said
He said She's not dead, just go away, go away he said

In the car he couldn't afford they found his made up name
on her ankle chain
So don't call, don't call her at home,
she's fucking with a slip of a man while the engine ran

And he said She's not dead,
she's gone away, gone away he said
He said She's not dead,
she's gone away, gone away he said
Just gone away, gone away he said
She's gone away to someone else's bed

Shame on me well I had the beast you see
And if he can take I can take him home with me
Shame on her she's a lovely little number
and when we go lassooing you get lassoed, all of you
if you can take, I can take it
And we're moving, so moving, so we are a boy, we are a girl
So moving, so moving...
Shame on the girl, she's got a big black dog in her
And while thogh kids sing about tough kids she just skins the world
We'll never never play the harp, and we'll stick like sick on the stars
And if you can take it, I can take these stones from my heart
If you can take it, I can take it
And we're moving, so moving, so we are a boy we are a girl
So moving, so moving...
If you can take it, I can take it, all of me
If you can take it, I can take it all
If you can take it, I can take it, all of me
If you can take it, I can take it all!

I was born as a pantomime horse
Ugly as the sun when he falls to the floor
I was cut from the wreckage one day
This is what I get for being that way
Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them?
Well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend?
I was conned by a circus hand
Tragic as the son of superman
I would die for the stars she said
This is what I get for my beautiful head
Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them?
Well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend?

Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them?
Well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend?
...ever tried it that way
have you ever tried it that way?
have you ever tried it that way?
...ever tried it that way
have you ever tried it that way?
have you ever tried it that way?
...ever tried it that way
have you ever tried it that way?
have you ever tried it that way?
...ever tried it that way
have you ever tried it that way?
have you ever tried it that way?
...ever tried it that way
...ever tried it that way
...ever tried it that way
have you ever tried it that way?

Won't someone give me a gun?Oh, well it's for my brotherWell he writes the line wrote down my spineIt says "Oh do you believe in love there?"So slow down, slow down, you're taking me overAnd so we drown, Sir we drown, stop taking me

Angel, don't take those sleeping pills
you don't need them
Though it's just time they kill
Angel, give me your sleeping pills
you don't need them
Give me the time theykill
You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
Gone gone to Valium,can you get me some?
You're a water sign, and I'm an air sign
Too Siamese to catchthe leaves from those trees
Angel, don't take those sleeping pills
you don't need them
Give me the time theykill
You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
Pumped up with Valium, could you get mesome?
You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
With sweet F.A. to dotoday
sweet F.A. to do today

Angel, don't take those sleeping pills

Back where the dogs bark,
Where still life bleeds the concrete white,
Try not to go too far inside your mind.
Back where the cars decide
Where the lame star limps an endless mile
Have I gone too far inside my mind
Oh, if you were the one
Would I even notice now
My mind has gone
Oh, if you were the one
Would I even notice
Back where the cars decide
Where the lame star limps an endless mile
Have I gone too far inside my mind
Oh, if you were the one
Would I even notice now
My mind has gone
Oh, if you were the one
Would I even notice

Does your love only come,
Does your love only come,
Does he only come in a Volvo?

Well she's show showing it off then
The glitter in her lovely eyes
Show show showing it off then
And all the people shake their money in time
She sells heart she sells meat
Oh dad she's driving me mad come see

We shake shake shake to the trumpet
And through the slippery city we ride
Skyline swine on the circuit
Where all the people shake their money in time

She sells heart she sells meat
Oh dad she's driving me mad, come see

She sells heart she sells meat
Oh dad she's driving me mad, come see

She sells heart she sells meat

I see you're moving, see you're moving,
moving in her You'll pierce your right ear,
pierce your heart here,
this skinny boy is one of the girls
'Cos around my neck and around her
neck hangs everything you are
I know you've been inside but what were you in for?
Animal lover, animal lover, animal lover?
I see you're moving, see you're moving like
wildlife from the waist
But when your name's scratched in
on a shiny ring your waist is my resting place
And around my neck and around her neck
hangs everything you are
I know you've been inside but what were you in for?
Animal lover, animal lover, animal lover?

Animal lover, animal lover, animal lover?

See you in your next life
when we'll fly away for good
Stars in our own car
we can drive away from here
Far away so far away
down to Worthing
and work there
Far away we'll go far away
and flog ice creams
'til the company's on its knees

See you in your next life
when we'll fly away for good

You say what you want to say
Your diamonds are drops of rain
Your smile is your credit card
And your currency is your love
And the morning is for you
And the air is free
And the birds sing for you
And your positivity
Watch out
So you play where you want to play
On the main streets where the creeps all prey
And you can sill Iike your ( )
And you can be what you want to be
And the morning is for you
And the air is free
And the birds sing for you
And your positivity

And the cars crash for you
And the sunshine is free
And the sirens call you
Yes the morning is for you
Yes the air is free
And yes the world spins for you
And your positivity
Positivity

It's the way you pick your clothes off the floor
It's the way you scratch your skin when you yawn
It's the t-shirts that you choose
like you're in the Air Force
Yeah the language that you use reacts like chemicals
Obsessions in my head Don't connect with my intellect
It's called obsession Can you handle it?
It's connected to the hip sounds
And it moves with the underground
It's called obsession When you're around
It's the way you close the doors of my car
It's the stupid things you bought with my credit card
It's the way you don't read Camus or Brett Easton Ellis
Yeah the TCP you use, it stings when we kiss
Obsessions in my head Don't connect with my intellect
It's called obsession Can you handle it?
It's connected to the hip sounds
And it moves with the underground
It's called obsession When you're around

Obsessions is like sex It's simple and complex
It's called obsession Can you handle it?
It's connected to the hip sounds
And it moves with the underground
It's called obsession When you're around

Stephanie stares at the posters on the wall
Tina sits and waits for a telephone call
Maxine mixes alcohol with paraphin and paint

Sylvie stays in bed on her own
She can heat the cats outside and wanders where they to
And if you call her answer phone,
she'll get back to you one day

And lonely girls, lonely girls
feel the words

Julie dreams while she's typing away
Jackie Kills time while the company pays
Tracie is still ? ringing in her brain

Jane slaps ? on the wallsof her home
Leenie sings when she thinks she's alone
Jeane gets drunk and wanders home
Through the car parks to meet her Jane

Yeah, lonely girls, lonely girls
Feel the words

And they smile through the summer
And they laugh in the rain
And sing through the winter
But never show the pain

Sometimes our lives are not what they seem
Sometimes things aren't like what they are
in lifestyle magazines
We see what we want to see in this miracle of clay

Well, lonely girls, lonely girls
Feel the words

I see you in my life I see you on the screen
An ascending socialite Orbiting the scene
Everybody wants you now
Everybody wants to be a part of your crowd
But baby it seems sometimes you're lost in TV
Lost in a dream baby
We wander through our minds
With images and scenes With animated lives
Rehearsing for our dreams
Everybody wants it now
Everybody wants to be a face in the crowd
But baby it seems sometimes we're lost in TV
Trapped in a screen lost in a scene Lost in TV baby
Everybody wants it now
Everybody wants to be a face in the crowd
But baby it seems sometimes we're lost in TV
Lost in a dream baby

you belong among the wild flowers
picked at the side of the road
you belong among the silent hours
and broken telephones

you belong among the tv screens
with the sound turned down again
you belong where there's cctv
watching you every day

well you beautiful loser
well you beautiful lay
well you beautiful loser
you're coming down the hard way

you belong under electric lights
with the hand-me-down surrounds
you belong out in the countryside
with your hands deep down in the ground

well you beautiful loser
well you beautiful lay
well you beautiful loser
i said you're coming down the hard way

your brain is drip-connected to the satellite
your heart is not a part of your brain
aesthetics and inventions well they pass you by
and complicate your day

you belong sat on a motorbike
doing 161 in the rain
50cc through the wild life
getting trashed in the slow lane

well you beautiful loser
well you beautiful lay
well you beautiful loser
i said you're coming down the hard way

well you loser
well you beautiful lay
well you beautiful loser
you're coming down the hard way
you're coming down the hard way
you're coming down the hard way

Street life,
into the night with the syncopated melody
Street life, look like a brat,
she's got the lips from a magazine
Cheap sound comes from underground coming to ?
Street life, it's so right you get
your dips from a popular sound
It's the beat of a concrete street
that you'll love for a million years
It's the sound that comes from the underground,
It's got you clapping, got you shaking, you grease
Street life!
Street life,
step to the mine with your sexual equality
Street life, look like a brat,
she's got the lips from a magazine
Cheap sound comes from underground,
it's like a pace drum kicking along
Street life, sweet light ? going on and on
To the beat of a concrete street,
she can live for a million years
A drum sound that comes from the underground
it's got you clapping, Got you shaking, you grease
Street life !
is All you know is all you see
is all you follow is all you believe

Move your feet to the concrete beat
then you can live for a million years
To the sound that comes from underground
it's got you clapping, Got you shaking, you grease
Street life ! Street life?

A strange relationship has started
A strange relationship indeed
It's like a word to call out for me
Between the pages of a dream
And it's calling you
It's calling me
It's calling everyone to be
In a future world with an astrogirl
One on one is all you need
In a future world with an astrogirl
One on one is all you need
A strange experience has started
Between our molecules and me
It's like a cease between us for me
For obsolete technology
And it's calling you
It's calling me
It's calling everyone to be
In a future world with an astrogirl
One on one is all you need
In a future world with an astrogirl
The sky goes on and on for you and me?

In a future world with an astrogirl
There'll be no,you see
Coz we'll be making friends with the supermen
And the sky goes on and on for you and me?
sky goes on and on for you
sky goes on

will you be my lover?
will you be the one?
will you be like no other
for how long?

oh yes i'll be your wild flower
grown through the concrete
and born to the backbeat of the stars

and yes i'm just a stupid guy
crushed like a butterfly
dead-eyed at the drive-by
in a car

and like flies on a windscreen
and like insects in glue
we could stick together
if you wanted to

and yes i'll be your wild flower
grown through the concrete streets
and born to the backbeat of the stars

Mmm..Yes, i'm just a stupid guy
crushed like a butterfly
dead-eyed at the drive-by
in a car

yeah just a stupid guy
crushed like a butterfly
dead-eyed at the drive-by
in a car

is it my imagination
or is that a cardboard sky?
is it just this situation
that's made me lose my mind?
i don't need you to be sorry
i just wanted you to know
that this is one hit to the body
one hit to the soul
it's one hit to the body that won't show
there's a million constellations
up in the make believe sky
and a million dead end situations
you could leave behind
and the lights and the lorries could show you which way to go
and this is one hit to the body
one hit to the soul
it's one hit to the body that won't show

is it something in the air that you breathe?
is it something in the books that you read?
is it something in the things that you do?
is it something in the words that you use?
'Cos the lights and the lorries will show you where you want to go
and this is one hit to the body
one hit to the soul
it's one hit to the body that won't show
well i don't really need anybody i just wanted you to know
that this is one hit to the body that won't show
that won't show

Come out tonight in the puddles
splash some love across the sky
Just you and I bursting bubbles
As the sky is about to cry
When the rain falls
There's a magic in our lives
When the rain falls
We're happy deep inside
When the rain falls
It cleans away the
corners of our minds

When all the world
looks like Atlantis
And car sit
rusting in the drives
Just step outside and hit the
concrete pavement
When the rain falls
down for you and I
When the rain falls
The pretty people run
When the rain falls
The colours cloud the sun
When the rain falls
We'll sit and watch
the children hurry home

Rain falls
Rain falls
Rain falls

And when everything is blue or
green or green or blue or grey
I cross the street to
catch the beat of my heart
And I watch it all
cos there's nothing to do today
And I watch it all fall so hard

oh you might have conversation smashed in a bar
clocking all of the disco dolls that blind you
oh check out some mad situation some silly farce
so real you can feel it twist inside you

everywhere you go
every thing you do
every place you know
every word you choose

im in everybodys eyes
everybodys lives
im in everything you see
you belong to me

oh you might walk down by the station
through garbage and rust
breathing all the diseases just like i do
driving through some conurbation youll step on the gas
and ill be sat right there beside you

cos everywhere you go
every thing you do
every place you know
every word you choose

im in everybodys eyes
everybodys lives
im in everything you see
you belong to me

well you can smash the windows
and break some faces
or spray graffiti on public places
or hang around some dead town but ill be there

everywhere you go
every thing you do
every place you know
every word you choose

im in everybodys eyes
everybodys lives
im in everything you see
you belong to me

Maybe maybe it's the clothes we wear
The tasteless bracelets
and the dye in our hair
Maybe it's our kookiness
Or maybe maybe
it's our nowhere towns
Our nothing places and our
cellophane sounds
Maybe it's our looseness
But we're trash you and me
We're the litter on the breeze
We're the lovers on the streets
Just trash me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do
Or Maybe maybe
it's the things we say
The words we've heard
and the music we play
Maybe it's our cheapness
Or maybe maybe
it's the times we've had
The lazy days and the crazes
and the fads
Maybe it's our sweetness
But we're trash you and me
We're the litter on the breeze
We're the lovers on the streets
Just trash me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do

We're trash you and me
We're the lovers on the streets
We're the litter on the breeze
Just trash me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do
We're trash you and me
We're the lovers on the streets
We're the litter on the breeze
Just trash me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do

Filmstar propping up the bar
driving in a car it looks so easy
Filmstar propping up the bar
driving in a car tonight
Filmstar giving it class
living it fast it looks so easy
Filmstar giving it class
living it fast tonight
What to believe in
it's impossible to say
What to believe in
when they change your name
wash your brain
play the game again
yeah yeah yeah
Filmstar elegance
a terylene shirt
it looks so easy
Filmstar
an elegant sir in a
terylene shirt tonight
Filmstar propping up the bar
driving in a car
it looks so easy
Filmstar propping up the bar
driving in a car tonight
What to believe in
it's impossible to say
What to believe in
when they change your name
wash your brain
play the game again
Yeah yeah yeah

What to believe in
it's impossible to say
What to believe in
when they change your name
wash your brain
play the game again

Here they come
with their make up on
as lovely as the clouds
come and see them
Boys and girls
and their mums and their words
and their romances
and jobs and their sons
Barking mad kids
lonely dads
who drug it up to
give it some meaning
From the raves
to the council estates
they're reminding us
there's things to be done
But you and me
all we want to be is lazy
you and me
so lazy

Here they come gone 7am
getting satellite and
Sky getting cable
Bills and Bens and their mums
and their friends
who just really
really want to be loved
Uncle Teds and their
legendary vests
helping out around the disabled
From the flats and the maisonettes
they're reminding us
there's things to be done
But you and me
all we want to be is lazy
you and me
so lazy

you and me
all we want to be is lazy
you and me
so lazy
you and me
all we want to be is lazy
you and me
so lazy
It's you and me
it's you and me
it's you and me

Today she's been working, she's been talking,
she's been smoking, but it'll be alright,
Cos tonight we'll go dancing, we'll go laughing,
we'll get car sick, and it'll be okay like everyone says,
it'll be alright and ever so nice,
We're going out tonight, out and about tonight.
Oh, whatever makes her happy on a Saturday night,
Oh whatever makes her happy, whatever makes it alright.
Today she's been sat there, sat there in a black chair,
office furniture, but it'll be alright,
Cos tonight we'll go drinking we'll do silly things,
and never let the winter in,
And it'll be okay like everyone says,
it'll be alright and ever so nice,
We're going out tonight, out and about tonight.
Oh, whatever makes her happy on a Saturday night,
Oh, whatever makes her happy, whatever makes it alright.
We'll go to freak shows and peep shows,
We'll go to discos, casinos,
We'll go where people go and let go
Oh whatever makes her happy

Killing of a Flash Boy


All the white kids shuffle to the heavy metal stutter
And go shaking on the scene like killing machines
And they know that when she's stacked up top
She'll be a sucker for the shotgun show
Shaking obscene like killing machines here we go

It's the same old show, he's a killer he's a flash boy oh
He's a killer he's a flash boy oh

Oh if you shake your fake tan thru aerosol land you'll know
That you'll suffer your sex by the caravenettes oh no
And that shitter with the pout won't be putting it about no more
Or shaking obscene like a killing machine here we go

It's the same old show, he's a killer he's a flash boy oh
He's a killer he's a flash boy oh...

...oh and Athena loves your body
So think of the sea my darling
Think of the sea as you murder me, murder me, murder me,
murder me, murder me...

It's the same old show, he's a killer, he's a flash boy oh
This is the killing of a flash boy oh.

Oh High on
diesel and gasoline
psycho for drum machine
shaking their bits
to the hits
Oh Drag acts
drug acts suicides
in your dad's suits you hide
staining his name again
Oh Cracked up stacked up 22
psycho for sex and glue
lost it to Bostik yeah
Oh Shaved heads rave heads
on the pill
got too much time to kill
get into bands and gangs
Oh here they come
the beautiful ones
the beautiful ones
La la la la la
Here they come
the beautiful ones
the beautiful ones
La la la la la
La la loved up doved up
hung around
stoned in a lonely town
shaking their meat
to the beat
Oh High on diesel
and gasoline
psycho for drum machine
shaking their bits
to the hits
Oh here they come
the beautiful ones
the beautiful ones
La la la la la
Here they come
the beautiful ones
the beautiful ones
Oh oh You don't
think about it
You don't do without it
because you're beautiful
Yeah yeah
And if your baby
is going crazy
that's how you made me La la
And if your baby
is going crazy
that's how you made me Woh woh
And if your baby
is going crazy
that's how you made me
La la la la la
La la La la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la

Maybe, maybe it's the clothes we wear
The tasteless bracelets and the dye in our hair
Maybe it's our kookiness
Or maybe, maybe it's our nowhere towns
Our nothing places and our cellophane sounds
Maybe it's our looseness

But we're trash, you and me
We're the litter on the breeze
We're the lovers on the streets
Just trash, me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do...

Maybe, maybe it's the things we say
The words we've heard and the music we play
Maybe it's our cheapness
Or maybe, maybe it's the times we've had
The lazy days and the crazes and the fads
Maybe it's our sweetness

But we're trash, you and me
We're the litter on the breeze
We're the lovers on the street
Just trash, me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do

Run with me baby,
Let your hair down
Through every station, through every town
Run with me, baby
Let's take a chance,
From Heathrow to Hounslow
From the Eastern Block to France.

Europe is our playground,
London is our town
So run with me baby now.

Run with me baby,
Let your hair down.
Through every station, through every town
Run with me, baby
Let's make a stand
From peepshow to disco
From Spain to Camber Sands

Europe is our playground,
London is our town
So run with me baby now.

Europe is our playground
London is our town
So run with me baby now.

Run with me, come with me
Run with me baby now...

Every Monday Morning Comes


Oh when you and I
Watch the planes go by
Silver in the sky
We do whatever we like

Oh when you and me
See the birds and the sea
The people on the streets
We do whatever we please

But every Monday morning comes,
Every Monday morning, yeah, yeah
Oh every Monday morning comes,
Every Monday morning, yeah

Oh when you and I
Watch the London sky
The traffic rolling by
We do whatever we like

So we chase the day away
And feel the morning rain
Piss our money down the drain
And do whatever they say

But every Monday morning comes,
Every Monday morning, yeah, yeah
Oh every Monday morning comes,
Every Monday morning, yeah

Maybe, maybe it`s the clothes we wear,
The tasteless bracelets and the dye in our hair,
Maybe it`s our kookiness,
Or maybe, maybe it`s our nowhere towns,
Our nothing places and our cellophane sounds,
Maybe it`s our looseness,
But we are trash, you and me,
We`re the litter on the breeze,
We`re the lovers on the streets,
Just trash, me and you,
It`s in everything we do,
It`s in everything we do
Maybe, maybe it`s the things we say,
The words we`ve heard and the music we play,
Maybe it`s our cheapness,
Or maybe, maybe it`s the times we`ve had,
The lazy days and the crazes and the fads,
Maybe it`s our sweetness,
But we`re trash, you and me,
We`re the litter on the breeze,
We`re the lovers on the street,
Just trash, me and you,
It`s in everything we do,
It`s in everything we do
instrumental break
But we`re trash, you and me,
We`re the lovers on the street,
We`re the litter on the breeze
Just trash, me and you,
It`s in everything we do,
It`s in everything we do
ah you and me,
We`re the lovers on the streets,
We`re the litter on the breeze,
ah you and me,
It`s in everything we do,
It`s in everything we do.......
ah you and me...

You are the dust and,
I am the rain,
Let's go out in the rust and
Let's gather the change
Let's take to the streets
You and I we're life's refugees
But like Bonnie and Clyde we're free
Don't say there's nothing between us
You stain the pavements
I'll take the blame
Our love is our saviour
Our life is our grave
Let's take to the streets
You and I we're life's refugees
But like Bonnie and Clyde we're free
Don't say there's nothing between us
cause we're all refugees
And we're all drifting like leaves
But like Bonnie and Clyde we're free
Don't say there's nothing between us
We'll live for the sunshine
And smile through the rain


And we're all refugees
And we're all drifting like leaves
But like Bonnie and Clyde we're free
Don't say there's nothing between us
So let's take to the streets
You and I compete with the freaks
And like Bonnie and Clyde we're free
Don't say there's nothing between us
Well there's nothing between us
Well there's nothing between us

And the morning comes with coffee we can share
And the smell of cigarettes is in your hair
There's the sound of shouts outside the hotel room
Like the night before when cameras flattered you
And if we don't have a future
If our lives split like shattered bits of glass
And if we don't have a future
Just leave your autograph
Your autograph
And the night that saw the neon lit our fate
And our shadows painted many different shapes
But now the moon has turned complex and altered you
There's just the smell of cigarettes left in the room
And we made saved conversation
And we kick through broken bits of glass
And it's all just complication
And too complex to ever last
cause if we don't have a future
And if this kiss dissolves into the past
And if we don't have a future
Just leave your autograph
Your autograph
Just leave your autograph
Your autograph
Just leave your autograph
Your autograph

Alone in my room
I switch on the tube
And wave at the screen
It stares back at me
So I turn to the sky
And watch as it cries
Just waiting in here
For the car to appear
cause when we're together the world smiles
And when we're together it feels right
We'll live for the future and its scenes
When we're together, my co-star and me
Your plane is delayed
So I walk from the gate
But when you appear
I'll stick to you dear
And we'll stumble outside
And dance in the sunlight
Like ice in the sun
We'll melt into one
Yes when we're together the world smiles
And when we're together it feels right
We'll live for the future and its scenes
When we're together, my co-star and me
When we're together the planets align
When we're together I burn from the inside
We'll live for forever in this insanity
When we're together, my co-star and me


When we're together the world smiles
And when we're together it feels right
We'll live for the future and its scenes
When we're together, my co-star and me
When we're together the planets align
And when we're together the stars gonna shine
We'll live for forever in this insanity
When we're together, my co-star and me

You grow your nails too long
There's scratches on your arms
You taste like orange chocolate
You always put your hands in my pockets
Your teeth are not quite straight
Your mood swings oscillates
Your language is appalling
And you play with my hair in the morning
Your imperfections are so beautiful
I can't control my animal soul
Your imperfections have got me on a chain
Can't concentrate
I'm a sucker for your beautiful mistakes


And sometimes when we kiss
You touch my fingertips
Synthetic words can't hide me
Passion creeps like death inside me
And slowly we become one
We stick like chewing gum
I want your language to be appalling
I want you to play with my hair in the morning
Your imperfections are so beautiful
I can't control my animal soul
Your imperfections have got me on a chain
Can't concentrate
I'm a sucker for your beautiful mistakes


Your imperfections are so beautiful
I can't control my animal soul
Your imperfections have got me on a chain
Can't concentrate
Your imperfections make you what you are
My defective star
My inelegant love
Your imperfections are so beautiful
I'm out of control
I'm a sucker for the defects in your, your soul

I threw out the photographs
Like yesterdays flowers
I tried to erase the past
But it won't go away
And those where the curtains
That you had made
One thing's for certain
The ghost of you stays
I painted the second room
And cleared out the basement
And smelled some of your perfume
On the scarf that you made
The Salvation Army collected your things
I gave them the jewellery, all the bracelets and rings
Your clothes in black bin bags I gave them away
I tried to move on but the ghost of you stays
The ghost of you stays
The ghost of you stays


I threw out the photographs
Like yesterdays flowers
I tried to erase the past
But it won't go away
I wake in the morning
And try to be brave
But it's hard to move on
When the ghost of you stays


It's hard to move on
When the ghost of you stays
The ghost of you stays
The ghost of you stays

This country looks like one big car park
The winters are so very long
And everybody wonders where the light has gone
And Europe has its moving state lines
But Africa has winter sun
And you and me we're just two creatures on the run
And we'll go where the crowds don't stare
And no one laughs at what we wear
The phone might ring
The rain might sting oh but we don't care
We'll fly over the endless ocean
We're heading for the winter sun
'Cause you and me we're just two creatures on the run


And Europe has its moving state lines
But Africa has winter sunshine
And you and me we're just two creatures on the run
And we'll go where the crowds don't stare
And no one hates us for our hair
The phone might ring
The rain might sting oh but we don't care


We'll fly over the endless ocean
We're heading for the winter sun
'Cause you and me we're just two creatures on the run
America's our supermarket
In India we'll take some stopping
'Cause you and me we're just two creatures on the run
In Asia we can mend our breakdown
'Cause you and me we must escape now
And you and me we're just two creatures on the run
You and me we're just two creatures on the run
You and me we're just two creatures on the run
You and me we're just two creatures on the run

She shivers in the rain
it's the capital connecting
with her veins
Stepping under statues and
on trains 'till we are under covers
She giggles like a child with
no sign of all the tension
in her life
It's written on her T shirt and
in her eyes that there is no other
Cos we are the lovers
we are the lovers
We're different colours
but we stand up as one
We are the lovers
we are the lovers
Two different colours
but we stand up as one
All the silly things
we do just remind me of the
flippancy of youth
Kissing under statues
throwing food and getting
into trouble
She shivers in the cold
it's the capital connecting
with her bones
Jumping into taxis here we go
yes there is no other
Cos we are the lovers
we are the lovers
We're different colours
but we stand up as one
We are the lovers
we are the lovers
Two different colours
but we stand up as one

We are the lovers
we are the lovers
We're different colours
but we stand up as one
We are the lovers
we are the lovers
Two different colours
but we stand up as one

Eyes that stare through television
Intermission in his mind
Where there once was such ambition
Blared like a bass line when the bass line's right
Shame he's just this fallen idol
Shattered like some broken glass
Shame he's just this fallen idol
Bits of paper for his past
Years are scattered like the rain drops
Sits at the window through the empty day
Competitions in the paper
Stares in the sky
When the sky turns grey
Shame he's just this fallen idol
Shattered like some broken glass
Shame he's just this fallen idol


Shame he's just this fallen idol
Scattered on the bit of grass
Shame he's just this fallen idol
Bits of paper for his past
Bits of paper for his past

The pages burn, the babies scream
And lovers text in Japanese
The more you give, the more they need
The more you live, the less you see


Religion breeds
(Religion breeds)
Like a disease
(Like a disease)
More people spit on refugees
(can't get in with immigration)
The more you live, the less you see
The more you give, the more they need
In this brave new century


So mother where do I belong?
And mother what should I believe?
Just look what's happened to your son
In this brave new
In this brave new century


We sit and choke
(We sit and choke)
On magazines
(On magazines)
And worship shit celebrities
(No more mental masturbation)
The more you give, the more they need
The more you live, the less you see
In this brave new century


Century
Century
Century
Century
Century

I'm shaking and aching and talking to the sky
I shiver in the night but I can't sleep
You're as dark as the mascara that drips down from your eyes
Look what you've done to me
You're as dark as the ocean
As cold as the rain
You've got me weak with emotion
You're such a beautiful pain
Such a beautiful pain
So I shelter in the wardrobe
And shiver on the stairs
And I slide down in the gutter with the leaves
And I tried to talk to God as if he is really there
Look what you've done to me
You're as dark as the ocean
As cold as the rain
You've got me weak with emotion
You're such a beautiful pain
And I cling to my pillow
And scratch out my veins
You kiss like a killer
You're such a beautiful pain
Such a beautiful pain
Such a beautiful pain
(Such a beautiful pain)


As dark as the ocean
As hard as the rain
You've got me weak with emotion
You're such a beautiful pain
And I cling to my pillow
And scratch out my veins
You kiss like a killer
Such a beautiful pain

When I hear the men outside my window kicking down my door
All the megaphones are screaming letters of the lord
Would you walk in through the gate and visit me?
Would you please?, in the asylum


When they're counting out the chemicals
and doing daily tasks
Giving out presciption drugs and putting on their masks
Would you wander through the ground to visit me?
As they opened up the gates and turned the key
Would you please?, in the asylum


If they burn my brain away would you understand?
If they try to hold me down would you hold my hand?
Could you stand?, stand the asylum


In the asylum
In the asylum
In the asylum

Estuary girl you're not the one
You don't belong to the world that I'm from
Your lazy words blow like confetti in the wind
In the wind
Estuary girl you're not part of my scene
Your feet don't belong in my upholstery
Sometimes I sink when you call me on the phone
On the phone
Oh but if you follow me I will follow you to the unknown
Oh like Apollo, like Apollo we'll fly to the moon
Oh yes if you follow me I will follow you to the unknown
Oh like Apollo, like Apollo 13 we'll explode
Sad as a song, a child of the streets
Your skin don't belong on my designer sheets
In eyeliner you wrote me a note that I'll never read at all
Estuary girl
Oh but if you follow me I will follow you to the unknown
Oh like Apollo, like Apollo we'll fly to the moon
Oh yes if you follow me I will follow you into the unknown
Oh like Apollo, like Apollo 13 we'll explode
Oh yes if you follow me I will follow you into the unknown
Oh like Apollo, like Apollo we'll sink like a stone
(You don't belong to the world that I'm from)
Oh yes if you follow me I will follow you into the unknown
(Estuary girl you're not the one)
Oh like Apollo, like Apollo 13 we'll explode
(You don't belong to the world that I'm from)
(Estuary girl you're not the one)
(You don't belong to the world that I'm from)
(Estuary girl you're not the one)
You don't belong to the world that I'm from

We're all looking for a love as strong as death
That's part of our mind and part of our flesh
Looking for a love that takes away our breath
It's equally heart and equally head
To be a wave that crashes over us
To be a wave that crashes over us
Like summer rain that washes over, over us
Like summer rain that washes over
Looking for a love as strong as death
It's equally heart and equally head
And I wonder if this love
That people say is as strong as death
Is out there somewhere (or just in their heads)
Is it a wave that crashes over us?
Is it a wave that crashes over us?
Or summer rain that washes over, over us
Or summer rain that washes over, over us


Over us
Over us
Over us
It's over

Come to my house tonight
We can be together in the nuclear sky
And we will dance in the poison rain
And we can stay a while in Heaven today

Let's stay together
Let's stay, these days are ours
Let's die together?
Two hearts under the skyscrapers

There's a time bomb in the high rise
There's a blue suburban dream
Will I see you up in paradise
Or have you come to catch me?

Come to my arms tonight
Just you and me together under electric light
And she will dance in the poisoned den
Just you and me forever by the motorway there

Let's stay together
Let's stay, these days are ours
And we can stay together
Two hearts under the skyscrapers

There's a time bomb in the high rise
There's a blue suburban dream
Will I see you up in Paradise
Or have you come to catch me?

Come to my arms I'm lost
Just you and me together in the year of the horse
Single file in the nuclear night
And we could feel a little closer
As we tumble through the sky

Let's stay together, let's stay these days are ours
Let's stay together
Two hearts under a skyscraper
Let's stay together, let's stay in this broken down love
Let's stay together, two hearts under the skyscrapers

Where's all the money gone?--
I'm talking to you,
All up the hole in your arm,
Is the needle a much better screw?
But oh, what will you do alone?
'Cos I have to go.

Where is this life of fun that you promised me?
Nothing here works but your works and I mean it
I have to leave
But oh, what will you do alone?
'Cos I have to go.

If I was the wife of an acrobat would I look like the living dead, boy?
You're on the wire and can't get back, let's talk about the living dead
Could have had a car, could have had it all,
Could have walked in the sky but we stare at the wall.

I know where the money's gone--
I know what you do
'Cos I've seen the hole in your arm and
The needle's a much better screw
But oh, what will you do alone?
'Cos I have to go.

In a hired car she will come to England from the sea,
And as the tide flows the London snows will come.
And from the skyline shines the lies of the government's singular history
So in a hired world she will buy a gun

And she will come from India with a love in her eyes
That say, oh how my dark star will rise

In rented gear 2000 years we waited for a man
But with a tattoed tit she'd die for us all tonight.

And she will come from India with a gun at her side,
Or she will come from Argentina
With her cemetery eyes that say
Oh, how my dark star will rise,

...and she will rise.

See my dolly she's over there, see her grooving on down
Dressed in thought she is real yeah,
her real hair is what counts
Taught my baby the alphabet, ABC don't let you down
Dressed in thought we are set in jet,
the jet set messed us around

I'm so so down
Are you never coming round?
So so down
Are you never coming round?

See my dolly on three wheels yeah,
see her grooving on down
Dressed in thought she is real yeah, her real hair is what counts
Bought my baby an ambulance,
driving her mad around town
She'll take the hand of a lucky man, in dogshit land

We're so so down
Are you never coming round?
So so down
Are you never coming round?

So so down
Are you never coming round?
Never coming round...

You'll hide among the covers and wave
as the aeroplanes go by,
There's nothing to say when you sleep all day,
but "bye-bye".

Your mind will find another,
and that's where the days have gone,
And all you can hear is a stereo somewhere playing
a pig-of-a-song

And you'll know her, know her, when she comes.
When you turn the light out, light out, she'll come.

She called you from across the city,
you hired a car to crawl,
But with the high rise still in your eyes you wonder
who's out there at all.

And you'll know her, know her, when she comes.
When you turn the light out, light out, she'll come.
When you turn the light out, she'll come.

Stop making me older, start making me new.

Come to my house tonight
We can be together in the nuclear sky
And we will dance in the poison rain
And we can stay a while in Heaven today

Let's stay together
Let's stay, these days are ours
Let's die together?
Two hearts under the skyscrapers

There's a time bomb in the high rise
There's a blue suburban dream
Will I see you up in paradise
Or have you come to catch me?

Come to my arms tonight
Just you and me together under electric light
And she will dance in the poisoned den
Just you and me forever by the motorway there

Let's stay together
Let's stay, these days are ours
And we can stay together
Two hearts under the skyscrapers

There's a time bomb in the high rise
There's a blue suburban dream
Will I see you up in Paradise
Or have you come to catch me?

Come to my arms I'm lost
Just you and me together in the year of the horse
Single file in the nuclear night
And we could feel a little closer
As we tumble through the sky

Let's stay together, let's stay these days are ours
Let's stay together
Two hearts under a skyscraper
Let's stay together, let's stay in this broken down love
Let's stay together, two hearts under the skyscrapers

In the high life I've got this feeling now
On the escalator they took it out on him
As the ridiculous world went by
I've got this horrible feeling

He's my insatiable one...
Oh he is gone
There wobbles one hell of a retard
On the high wire dressed in a leotard

As the ridiculous world goes by
Oh he is gone
He's my insatiable one
On the escalator we shit paracetamol
And he was my inflatable one

음원불량...2008.7.14



Watch the early morning sun
Drip like blood from the day
이른 아침의 햇살을 지켜봐
하루의 혈액이 흘러넘치는 것 같아

See the pretty people run
So many games to play
바삐 움직이는 아름다운 이들을 봐
각자의 목적을 위해서

See the blue suburban dream
Under the jet plane sky
변두리 사람들의 우울한 꿈을 봐
제트 비행기가 나는 하늘 아래의

Sleep away and dream and dream
Life is just a lullaby
끊임없이 잠을 자며 꿈을 꿔대 봐
삶은 단지 자장가일 뿐이야

*
Oh and everything will flow
Oh you know everything will flow
그리고 모든 것은 흘러갈 거야
넌 모든 것이 흘러갈 거라는 걸 알고 있어

Watch the day begin again
Whispering into the night
다시금 하루가 시작되는 걸 지켜봐
속삭이는 듯한 밤으로부터

See the pretty people play
Hurrying under the light
아름다운 이들의 움직임을 봐
빛 아래서 서두르고 있어

A million cars a million trains
Under the jet plane skies
백만 대의 자동차, 백만 대의 열차
제트 비행기가 나는 하늘 아래의

Nothing lost and nothing gained
Life is just a lullaby
아무 것도 잃지 않았고 아무 것도 얻지 못했어
삶은 단지 자장가일 뿐이야

* *

The neon lights in the night tonight
will say 'everything will flow'
오늘 밤 네온 불빛은 말할 거야, '모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

The stars that shine in the open sky
will say 'everything will flow'
열린 하늘에 반짝이는 별빛은 말할 거야, '모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

The lovers kiss with an openness
will say 'everything will flow'
숨김없이 키스하는 연인들은 말할 거야,' 모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

The cars parked in the hypermarket
know 'everything will flow'
하이퍼마켓에 주차된 차들은 알고 있어, '모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

음원불량...2008.7.14



Watch the early morning sun
Drip like blood from the day
이른 아침의 햇살을 지켜봐
하루의 혈액이 흘러넘치는 것 같아

See the pretty people run
So many games to play
바삐 움직이는 아름다운 이들을 봐
각자의 목적을 위해서

See the blue suburban dream
Under the jet plane sky
변두리 사람들의 우울한 꿈을 봐
제트 비행기가 나는 하늘 아래의

Sleep away and dream and dream
Life is just a lullaby
끊임없이 잠을 자며 꿈을 꿔대 봐
삶은 단지 자장가일 뿐이야

*
Oh and everything will flow
Oh you know everything will flow
그리고 모든 것은 흘러갈 거야
넌 모든 것이 흘러갈 거라는 걸 알고 있어

Watch the day begin again
Whispering into the night
다시금 하루가 시작되는 걸 지켜봐
속삭이는 듯한 밤으로부터

See the pretty people play
Hurrying under the light
아름다운 이들의 움직임을 봐
빛 아래서 서두르고 있어

A million cars a million trains
Under the jet plane skies
백만 대의 자동차, 백만 대의 열차
제트 비행기가 나는 하늘 아래의

Nothing lost and nothing gained
Life is just a lullaby
아무 것도 잃지 않았고 아무 것도 얻지 못했어
삶은 단지 자장가일 뿐이야

* *

The neon lights in the night tonight
will say 'everything will flow'
오늘 밤 네온 불빛은 말할 거야, '모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

The stars that shine in the open sky
will say 'everything will flow'
열린 하늘에 반짝이는 별빛은 말할 거야, '모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

The lovers kiss with an openness
will say 'everything will flow'
숨김없이 키스하는 연인들은 말할 거야,' 모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

The cars parked in the hypermarket
know 'everything will flow'
하이퍼마켓에 주차된 차들은 알고 있어, '모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

음원불량...2008.7.14



Watch the early morning sun
Drip like blood from the day
이른 아침의 햇살을 지켜봐
하루의 혈액이 흘러넘치는 것 같아

See the pretty people run
So many games to play
바삐 움직이는 아름다운 이들을 봐
각자의 목적을 위해서

See the blue suburban dream
Under the jet plane sky
변두리 사람들의 우울한 꿈을 봐
제트 비행기가 나는 하늘 아래의

Sleep away and dream and dream
Life is just a lullaby
끊임없이 잠을 자며 꿈을 꿔대 봐
삶은 단지 자장가일 뿐이야

*
Oh and everything will flow
Oh you know everything will flow
그리고 모든 것은 흘러갈 거야
넌 모든 것이 흘러갈 거라는 걸 알고 있어

Watch the day begin again
Whispering into the night
다시금 하루가 시작되는 걸 지켜봐
속삭이는 듯한 밤으로부터

See the pretty people play
Hurrying under the light
아름다운 이들의 움직임을 봐
빛 아래서 서두르고 있어

A million cars a million trains
Under the jet plane skies
백만 대의 자동차, 백만 대의 열차
제트 비행기가 나는 하늘 아래의

Nothing lost and nothing gained
Life is just a lullaby
아무 것도 잃지 않았고 아무 것도 얻지 못했어
삶은 단지 자장가일 뿐이야

* *

The neon lights in the night tonight
will say 'everything will flow'
오늘 밤 네온 불빛은 말할 거야, '모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

The stars that shine in the open sky
will say 'everything will flow'
열린 하늘에 반짝이는 별빛은 말할 거야, '모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

The lovers kiss with an openness
will say 'everything will flow'
숨김없이 키스하는 연인들은 말할 거야,' 모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

The cars parked in the hypermarket
know 'everything will flow'
하이퍼마켓에 주차된 차들은 알고 있어, '모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

음원불량...2008.7.14



Watch the early morning sun
Drip like blood from the day
이른 아침의 햇살을 지켜봐
하루의 혈액이 흘러넘치는 것 같아

See the pretty people run
So many games to play
바삐 움직이는 아름다운 이들을 봐
각자의 목적을 위해서

See the blue suburban dream
Under the jet plane sky
변두리 사람들의 우울한 꿈을 봐
제트 비행기가 나는 하늘 아래의

Sleep away and dream and dream
Life is just a lullaby
끊임없이 잠을 자며 꿈을 꿔대 봐
삶은 단지 자장가일 뿐이야

*
Oh and everything will flow
Oh you know everything will flow
그리고 모든 것은 흘러갈 거야
넌 모든 것이 흘러갈 거라는 걸 알고 있어

Watch the day begin again
Whispering into the night
다시금 하루가 시작되는 걸 지켜봐
속삭이는 듯한 밤으로부터

See the pretty people play
Hurrying under the light
아름다운 이들의 움직임을 봐
빛 아래서 서두르고 있어

A million cars a million trains
Under the jet plane skies
백만 대의 자동차, 백만 대의 열차
제트 비행기가 나는 하늘 아래의

Nothing lost and nothing gained
Life is just a lullaby
아무 것도 잃지 않았고 아무 것도 얻지 못했어
삶은 단지 자장가일 뿐이야

* *

The neon lights in the night tonight
will say 'everything will flow'
오늘 밤 네온 불빛은 말할 거야, '모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

The stars that shine in the open sky
will say 'everything will flow'
열린 하늘에 반짝이는 별빛은 말할 거야, '모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

The lovers kiss with an openness
will say 'everything will flow'
숨김없이 키스하는 연인들은 말할 거야,' 모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

The cars parked in the hypermarket
know 'everything will flow'
하이퍼마켓에 주차된 차들은 알고 있어, '모든 것은 흘러갈 거야'

I don't want to go to heaven
I just want to go when I go
And if you miss me there
And the cloths of heaven tear around you

Then the river that ebbed through me
Will flow through you
And you will see
That you and I and us made the best trinity

But don't let it break your resolve
The earth still revolves; it's turning for you
And as the aisles fill again
Close your eyes and count to ten and remember

It's not the weight of the world on your shoulders
It's just the weight of your head

So, I don't want to go to heaven
I just want to go when I go
And if you miss me there
Let the cloths of heaven tear around...

See the sun drip from the sky
Mascara stains clouding your eyes
Slowly the raindrop falls

See the rain fall from the day
The fire escape is leading the way
Somewhere a taxi calls

You're leaving girl
to seal your fate
Leaving girl
to run, run away

To see the sun
To see the light
Leaving girl, live your life

I see your love has slipped from your life
The winter sun and suburban skies
Are calling your name this time

I see the rain
Fall from the day
The fire escapes the blues and the greys
Will always remain the same

So you're leaving girl
to seal your fate
Leaving girl to run, run away
To see the sun, to see the light
So you're leaving girl, to live your life
And live your life

So you're leaving girl
to seal your fate
To see the world and run, run away
To see the sun to see the light
So you're leaving girl to catch the plane
To see the world and run right away
To see the sun to see the light
So you're leaving girl to live your life
Live your life

1, 2, 3, 4

Bored (introspection)
Yeah (city sights)
Bored (no connection)
Yeah (got it right)

Bored (cold, impatient)
Yeah (lonely nights)
Bored (no new traces)
Yeah (you got it right)

So wire me up to the party people
Wire me up to the neon lights
Oh, come on, come on
Come-a running along
And we'll sing a little song for the afterlife

Bored (stoned elation)
Yeah (no new sights)
Bored (no connection)
Yeah (you got it right)

Bored (lonely places)
Yeah (astral lights)
Bored (so impatient)
Yeah (you got it right)

So wire me up to the party people
Wire me up to the neon lights
Oh, come on, come on
Now we're running along
And we'll sing a little song for the afterlife

Bored - yeah
Bored - yeah