Elastica

Keeping a brave face
In circumstances
Is impossible
Cannot describe
So many decisions
It's impossible
To know which is
The proper order
The best position
To be in
Take advantage
Or so it seems
The way it goes.

It's tragic / Sandman comes
Laid down on your side / Two to one
Too easy / In the dark
You know that, you know / Dark reflections
You're soaking wet / In my head
You talk too much / In my bed
It's not necessary / Again

Before the ice melts / Sandman goes
I just want to say / Two in tow
This racket's yours / Wet and dumb
Don't ask for more / Three's the number
'Cause somewhere along the line / Coming down
Coming round again
I've forgotten already

Annie, told me,
Get out of here, head for the sea,
The sun is hot and the air is clean
The best things in the world are free
And Mister Murphy
Likes his Jackanory
Holsten Export times three
Jimi Hendrix and Thin Lizzy

Annie, Annie, Annie

Met a mate in the afternoon
Holsten shore line pub crawl
Looking for some cold beer
Missed the stone punch drunk Judy
Tony, brandy, M.G., Andy
Vodka, scotch and loads of beer
It's so great we want to stay here


Annie, Annie, Annie

Ba-ba-ba ba-ba, ba-ba-ba ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba ba-ba, ba-ba-ba ba-ba
Aie-aie-aie

This is the song
Hell of a song
Twelve inches long
It's easy, it's easy, it's easy for some, oh

This is the way
To be queen for a day
So play away
If you don't care what they say

You work so hard, they just expect you to
Work so hard, they've got it in for you
Work so hard, nothing is getting through
They just got sick of you

Ba-ba-ba ba-ba, ba-ba-ba ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba ba-ba, ba-ba-ba ba-ba
Aie-aie-aie

This is the sound
Of the hare and the hound
With its feet on the ground
Are you in for a penny or in for a pound?

You work so hard, they just expect you to
You work so hard, they've got it in for you
You work so hard, nothing is getting through
They just got sick of you

Ba-ba-ba ba-ba, ba-ba-ba ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba ba-ba, ba-ba-ba ba-ba

We were sauced right there on Brighton beach
You a goth and I was such a peach
I sought to be the best at it
PC Plod he still arrested it
We're getting over it
We're sweating over it
That makes you happy
I'm happy too.
You're game in spite of everything
[Page theme] and then she'll be some things
Your name carved on my Brighton rock
My name can be your mental block
We're getting over it
We're sweating over it
That makes you happy
I'm happy too.

Da Da Da - Elastica


( Trio )

What you do and what you don't
What you will and what you won't
What you can and what you can't
This is what you got to know
Loved you though it didn't show

Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht (4X)

da da da (4X)

Da da da, I don't love you, you don't love me (4x)

Da da da (4x)

I know why you went away
Understand you couldn't stay
Wonder where you are today
After all is said and done
It was right for you to run

Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht (4x)

da da da (4x)

Da da da, I don't love you, you don't love me (4x)

Da da da (4x)

Da da da (4x)

You could call me a car lover
'Cause I love it in a motor
And the way it feels
To rob a man on four wheels

I hardly know you
But I think I'm going to
Let's go Siesta
In your Ford Fiesta

Here we go again
I'm riding in your car
Let me count to ten
'Cause it's gone way too far

Up my street to nowhere
You know what detours are
Here we go again
And it's gone way too far

If you wanna win me over
You should get yourself a Rover
Every shining bonnet
Makes me think of my back on it

If you wanna see me veering
You should get yourself four-wheeling
Even in a Honda
You look like Peter Fonda

Here we go again
I'm riding in your car
Let me count to ten
'Cause it's gone way too far

Up my street to nowhere
You know what detours are
Here we go again
And it's gone way too far

Generator - Elastica


I'm a sonic generator
It's as far as I can take it
Aren't you glad that I can make it
Oh oh in the money
Baby put your arms around me
Aren't you glad that you have found me
You want it? I've got it...
Oh oh on and on it

I'm a self taught regulator

Eeny meeny miney moaner
Catch a poet by the toga
You want it? I've got it
Oh oh on and on it
I'm a spastic generator
It's as far as I can take it
I was lying...
In all mat cocoa butter

Dead, dead in the water

I'm a third rate imitator
I'm a second hand fornicator
I'm a spastic generator

...see you later, alligator

Don't stop shaking
It's my head that makes me want to second guess
at a distance
Hoping there's a method to your madness baby
I might just understand if you obey me.

Hold me now I need assistance
I'd take somebody else if I could.

Walking down tree lined place so pensive in the country
I can't take the voodoo that you do
Just lust easier sussed real love makes me untrue
Hard to make a stew when the meat keeps looking up at you.

Hold me now I need assistance
Follow down the path of least resistance
Hold me now don't keep your distance
I'd take somebody else if I could
~
Hold me now I need assistance
Who don't you take the path of least resistance
Hold me now do I need a license to hold you?

Hold me now i need assistance
Follow down the path of least resistance
Hold me now will it take a lifetime to hold you?

BBC Radio 1 Evening Session 05/08/96

Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

Give me a, headache
Give me a, heartbreak
The pains you, don't fake
I want you, oo-oo, ooh

Sometimes you're bruisin'
Sometimes you're cruisin'
And when you're (losin' usin')
I want you, oo-oo, ooh

I count on you I do
I want you
I count on you I do
I want you

Give me a, headache
Give me a, heartbreak
Some pains I, can't fake
I want you, oo-oo, ooh

Sometimes I'm, bruisin'
Sometimes I'm, cruisin'
But when I'm, (losin' usin')
I want you, oo-oo, ooh

I count on you I do
I want you
I count on you I do
I want you

I've seen you, (shake it)
I've seen you, (make it)
Go on and, break it

I've seen you, (shake it)
I've seen you, (make it)
But when you, (break it)

I want you, oo-oo, ooh
I want you, oo-oo, ooh
I want you, oo-oo, ooh
I want you

I've seen you, (skinnin')
I've seen you, (winnin')
But when you're, (grinnin')
I want you

[I'm working for the dogs in the city]
Your mind was strong but your body was weak
Now your body's here but your mind has snuffed it
I think it's time that somebody stopped it.
On the screen there's a boy with no name
It looks like like you but it's just not the same
You're so damn gone, I can hardly see you
It must have been a double at the BBC
Oh yeah...
In the city, in the disco
[Think you're] pretty, [ ... ]
It's a shit-hole, you're a hero,
You're a freak-oh....
Just when I think I'm getting the knack
I'll see you and have a panic attack
I'm an acrobat on the channel changer
And it seems I'm out of danger
Oh yeah....
In the city, in the disco
[Think you're] pretty, [ ... ]
It's a shit-hole, you're a hero,
You're a freak-oh....

Hey!

From a [promise], yeah
In ???
From your [teen] years
Throw one down

Hey!

Real [time]
Out of sync
From your [teen] years
Throw one down

Hey!

??? for kickin' it out [4X]

Real [time]
Out of sync
From your [teen] years
Throw one down

Out of sync
Is out of sync

From a [promise]
Throw one down

??? for kickin' it out [4X]

Real [time]
Out of sync
From a [promise]
Throw one down

Drivel Head wears her glad rags,
She's got her keys, money and fags,
I know that her mind is made up,
To get rocked.

Drivel Head needs a new man,
As only a drivel head can,
He's a hormonal nightmare,
So beware.

(chorus:)
Another victim of
Line up in line, line up in line,
Is all I remember
Oh, how their favours change,
You could have been kinder.
Yes, yes, another victim of
Line up in line, line up in line,
Is all I remember.
Oh, how their favours change,
You could have been kinder.

Drivel Head knows all the stars,
Loves to suck their shining guitars,
They've all been right up her stairs,
Do you care?

Drivel head knows all the bands,
Knows them like the back of her hands,
You can't see the wood for the trees,
On your knees.

(repeat chorus)

A morbid fascination with all things in extremes
A limited sport will leave its spot on me
Early in the morning, I've given up on sleep
I'm in the attention, but all I hear is my heart beat

Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)

His spastic aspirations will make a man of me
Brought him for his playing, such sensitivity
Monsters of the present are the monsters of the past
Took a look in your lyric book, your head's right up your arse

Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)

It's unbelievable
The way you've got all
It seems improbable
Oh, oooh

The inner city fauna is crying 'round your feet
I never really noticed how your eyebrows seemed to meet
In perpetual fear of being swallowed whole
Beached in the suburbs in the body of a whale

OOOW!

Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)

Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Whoaaaaaaaaa! (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)

(louder)

When you're stuck like glue
Vaseline
When you need some goo

When you're stuck like glue
Vaseline
When you're black and blue
Vaseline

la la la la la la la la la la

When you're stuck like glue
Give me some

When you're stuck like glue
If you'd like to woo
Vaseline

la la la la la la la la la la

If it's hot like you
Give me some

Do you need a clue
I want some

Vaseline
Vaseline
Vaseline
Vaseline
Vaseline
Vaseline

I'd work very hard,
But I'm lazy
I can't take the pressure and it's starting to show,
In my heart
You know how it pains me
A life of leisure is no life you know

(Chorus:)
Waking up and getting up has never been easy,
Oh I think you should know
Waking up and getting up has never been easy,
Oh I think you should know
Oh I think you should go
Make a cup of tea
and put a record on.

I'd work very hard
But I'm lazy
I've got a lot of songs but they're all in my head
I'll get a guitar
And a lover who pays me
If I can't be a star I won't get out of bed

(Rpt chorus X2)

Your Arse...My Place - Elastica


1, 2, 3

I twist, you shout
I'm in, you're out
Too sharp, too flat
It's fate, and that's that

Get with it, baby

Bonjour, adieu
Can't win, with you
You're hard, i'm not
You're shit, shit hard

Get with it, baby

Cocaine, it's crack
Bloody, was black
I'm class, you're ace
Your arse, in my place

Get with it, baby

I like it like that ...........

You could call me a car lover,
cause I love it in a motor,
And the way it feels,
To ride around on new wheels.

I hardly know you,
But I think I'm going to,
Let's go siesta,
In your Ford Fiesta.

(chorus:)
Here we go again,
I'm riding in your car,
Let me count to ten,
Cause it's gone way too far,
Up my street to nowhere,
You know what detours are,
Here we go again,
And it's gone way too far.

Sometimes I just can't function,
My heart's spaghetti Junction,
Every shining bonnet,
Makes me think of my back on it.

I just can't escape the feeling,
That I'd rather be free wheeling,
In every little Honda,
There may lurk a Peter Fonda,

(repeat chorus)

( Trio )

What you do and what you don't
What you will and what you won't
What you can and what you can't
This is what you got to know
Loved you though it didn't show

Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht [4X]

da da da [4X]

Da da da, i don't love you, you don't love me [4X]

Da da da [4X]

I know why you went away
Understand you couldn't stay
Wonder where you are today
After all is said and done
It was right for you to run

Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht [4X]

da da da [4X]

Da da da, i don't love you, you don't love me [4X]

Da da da [4X]

Da da da [4X]

I'm a sonic generator
It's as far as i can take it
Aren't you glad that i can make it
Oh oh in the money
Baby put your arms around me
Aren't you glad that you have found me
You want it? i've got it...
Oh oh on and on it

I'm a self taught regulator

Eeny meeny miney moaner
Catch a poet by the toga
You want it? i've got it
Oh oh on and on it
I'm a spastic generator
It's as far as i can take it
I was lying...
In all mat cocoa butter

Dead, dead in the water

I'm a third rate imitator
I'm a second hand fornicator
I'm a spastic generator

...see you later, alligator

'E' the possibilities

'L' keep going on

'spell' no way out

'L' not here, y'all

'A' come a little closer

'S' not mere, dear

'T', 'I', 'C & A' break through these class barriers & a glass barrier style... magazine

'E' extra special

'L' last chance

'A' pre & post

'S' check out of this life

'T' take that

'I' impossible

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'E' the possibilities

'L' keep going on

'spell' no way out

'L' not here, y'all

'A' come a little closer

'S' not mere, dear

'T', 'I', 'C & A' break through these class barriers & a glass barrier style... magazine

'E' extra special

'L' last chance

'A' pre & post

'S' check out of this life

'T' take that

'I' impossible

'C & A', 'spell', 'elle'... magazine new volcanic, volcanica break through these class barriers and a glass barrier

I was only human
Of flesh and blood
I would relate to you
You know I could

I long to hold you
Just like you do
Ten times I've thought about it
The things you do

And so you see [them]
It's such a shame
It's just the way it goes
There is no pain

I long to hold you
Do what you would
Do dancing like you want to
You know I could

Should the image change
Would the rest look better
Surface dissolves skin and bone
We're on the other side
It might be better
If i left you now
Talk for hours
But it doesn't change
This feeling won't go away

Should the image change
Cost effects the measure
It does explain a second chance
I keep it all inside
It might be better
If i left you now
Talk for hours
First impressions last
And cast shadows on the rest

Hey!

From a [promise], yeah
In ???
From your [teen] years
Throw one down

Hey!

Real [time]
Out of sync
From your [teen] years
Throw one down

Hey!

??? for kickin' it out [4X]

Real [time]
Out of sync
From your [teen] years
Throw one down

Out of sync
Is out of sync

From a [promise]
Throw one down

??? for kickin' it out [4X]

Real [time]
Out of sync
From a [promise]
Throw one down

Getting better, on your feet
Take a look, kept in deceit
A love like ours will never die

Break my bonds, break my back
Not a lot to break apart
A love like ours will never die
A love like ours will never die

Break my bonds and break my back
Not a lot to [break] apart
A love like ours will never die
A love like ours will never die

Getting better, on your knees
Three times blind, could not please
A love like ours will never die
A love like ours will never die
A love like ours will never die

Don't need a credit card to make my charge complete
Don't want you on your back i just got on my feet
Don't want the same boy another time
Don't bother making love don't want to make you mine

Don't need this anymore ???
I want to get you down
Don't need this anymore ???
I want to

Be myself, gonna get in your way, yeah
Be myself, gonna get it under
Be myself, gonna get in your way, yeah
Be myself, you're the one

You're the one, last one...

Please yourself
You gotta be yourself
You gotta check yourself
Don't forget yourself

Don't need a credit card to make my charge complete
Don't want you on your back i just got on my feet
Don't want the same boy another time
Don't bother making love don't want to make you mine

You know i'm waiting for my man
Just because i can
You know i'm waiting another time
I want to

Don't need a credit card to make my charge complete
Don't want you on your back i just got on my feet
Don't want the same boy another time
Don't bother making love don't want to make you mine

Don't need this anymore ???
I want to get you down
Don't need this anymore ???
I want to

Be myself, gonna get in your way, yeah
Be myself, gonna get it under
Be myself, gonna get in your way, yeah
Be myself, you're the one

You're the one, last one...

Please yourself
You gotta be yourself
You gotta check yourself
Don't forget yourself

Don't need a credit card to make my charge complete
Don't want you on your back i just got on my feet
Don't want the same boy another time
Don't bother making love don't want to make you mine

You know i'm waiting for my man
Just because i can
You know i'm waiting another time
I want to

What I want
Mornings to the winter and afternoons to the summer

What I want
Is for you to be waiting round the other side of every door

What I want
To walk through the wardrobe of other bodies we have known

What I want
Is fifteen minutes of you

What I want
A lover who loves me when others have loved me not

What I want
Is a big love, two spoons in a drawer, the master plan

What I want
A lover who can love me slowly

What I want
To make your heartbeat faster

What I want
Is a room with a three-bar fire, like the one you had before,
When you were poor and i just liked you more

What I want
To be in the park in the morning, the
Long shadows on the grass and the swans still asleep

What I want
Is to love you everywhere and everyhow

What I want
To kiss you until our lips are numb

What I want
Kiss you 'til everywhere hurts

What I want
Is to hear the rain against the window again

Took back time, take an instant pleasure
Credit is due for the life of leisure
Get to work and work gets done
Best at being was not best at all

Face the facts, being best got bitter
Simple tastes won't suit me better
Used to matter but that got done
Best at being was not best at all

Nothing stays the same
Always change to remain

Less than fine peace of mind
Keep in check there is no time

Tasks take time and time took effort
Packed in pieces and pieced together
Tend to work and work gets done
Best at being was not best at all

When i work all day
Just the way i like it
Sing a song with a subtle hand
When i need to spike it
And i'm living all right
And i'm doing ok
Had a lover who was made of sand
And the wind blew him away

But i've got a good idea..

Don't need to be right
Don't need to be wrong
Been torn with a subtle hand
That's why i sing this song
It's a rolling ride, oh yeah
That look in your eyes, oh no
Hold me with another hand
It'll be all right

[Justine: "The big drum straight away, Jus..."]

1, 2, 3

I twist, you shout
I'm in, you're out
Too sharp, too flat
It's fate, and that's that

Get with it, baby

Bonjour, adieu
Can't win, with you
You're hard, i'm not
You're shit, shit hard

Get with it, baby

Cocaine, it's crack
Bloody, was black
I'm class, you're ace
Your arse, in my place

Get with it, baby

I like it like that

Human - Elastica


I was only human
Of flesh and blood
I would relate to you
You know I could

I long to hold you
Just like you do
Ten times I've thought about it
The things you do

And so you see them
It's such a shame
It's just the way it goes
There is no pain

I long to hold you
Do what you would
Do dancing like you want to
You know I could

[I'm working for the dogs in the city]
Your mind was strong but your body was weak
Now your body's here but your mind has snuffed it
I think it's time that somebody stopped it.
On the screen there's a boy with no name
It looks like like you but it's just not the same
You're so damn gone, I can hardly see you
It must have been a double at the BBC
Oh yeah...
In the city, in the disco
[Think you're] pretty, [ ... ]
It's a shit-hole, you're a hero,
You're a freak-oh....
Just when I think I'm getting the knack
I'll see you and have a panic attack
I'm an acrobat on the channel changer
And it seems I'm out of danger
Oh yeah....
In the city, in the disco
[Think you're] pretty, [ ... ]
It's a shit-hole, you're a hero,
You're a freak-oh....

A morbid fascination with all things in extremes
A limited sport will leave its spot on me
Early in the morning, I've given up on sleep
I'm in the attention, but all I hear is my heart beat

Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)

His spastic aspirations will make a man of me
Brought him for his playing, such sensitivity
Monsters of the present are the monsters of the past
Took a look in your lyric book, your head's right up your arse

Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)

It's unbelievable
The way you've got all
It seems improbable
Oh, oooh

The inner city fauna is crying 'round your feet
I never really noticed how your eyebrows seemed to meet
In perpetual fear of being swallowed whole
Beached in the suburbs in the body of a whale

OOOW!

Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)

Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Whoaaaaaaaaa! (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)

A morbid fascination with all things in extremes
A limited sport will leave its spot on me
Early in the morning, I've given up on sleep
I'm in the attention, but all I hear is my heart beat

Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)

His spastic aspirations will make a man of me
Brought him for his playing, such sensitivity
Monsters of the present are the monsters of the past
Took a look in your lyric book, your head's right up your arse

Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)

It's unbelievable
The way you've got all
It seems improbable
Oh, oooh

The inner city fauna is crying 'round your feet
I never really noticed how your eyebrows seemed to meet
In perpetual fear of being swallowed whole
Beached in the suburbs in the body of a whale

OOOW!

Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)

Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Oh oh ah ah oh (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)
Whoaaaaaaaaa! (you've got it, I want it, you want it, I've got it)

it's nearly eleven
do you think we'll stand the test of time
you're a cloud short of heaven
but you know i want you to be mine
and i sitting here waiting
yeah and it's getting frustrating

got to go to the garage
got to get some fags and make some tea
can you lend me enough wedge
do you want to walk up there with me
and i'm sitting here waiting
yeah i'm tired of debating

we've been up all night
i can feel a strange attraction
now it's getting light
but i can't spur you into action
sure not alone
but so on my own oh

it's a quarter to seven
don't you think we've stayed up half the night
you're a cloud short of heaven
but i'd love to see you strut your stuff
and i'm sitting here waiting
yeah and it could be x-rated
we could be oh so happy
we could be oh so happy

Annie, told me,
Get out of here, head for the sea,
The sun is hot and the air is clean
The best things in the world are free
And Mister Murphy
Likes his Jackanory
Holsten Export times three
Jimi Hendrix and Thin Lizzy

Annie, Annie, Annie

Met a mate in the afternoon
Holsten shore line pub crawl
Looking for some cold beer
Missed the stone punch drunk Judy
Tony, brandy, M.G., Andy
Vodka, scotch and loads of beer
It's so great we want to stay here


Annie, Annie, Annie

John's gone his senses loaded
Over by your house, you know
It's so basic

John's gone, his senses loaded
over by your house it's so basic
I think you're faking
have a good time but don't get into my head
Do you recommend I wait a while
direct and live or keep it constant
and selective blue
I can read your mind
if you want to I will let you blue
I can read your mind if you want to

John's gone, he needs attention
do you understand his inclination
I've seen you shaking
come down here and I'll show you the wrong way
try to rearrange this tired old line
connect this smile and keep it standard
and reflective blue
I can read your mind
If you want to I will let you blue

You could call me a car lover,
cause I love it in a motor,
And the way it feels,
To ride around on new wheels.

I hardly know you,
But I think I'm going to,
Let's go siesta,
In your Ford Fiesta.

(chorus:)
Here we go again,
I'm riding in your car,
Let me count to ten,
Cause it's gone way too far,
Up my street to nowhere,
You know what detours are,
Here we go again,
And it's gone way too far.

Sometimes I just can't function,
My heart's spaghetti Junction,
Every shining bonnet,
Makes me think of my back on it.

I just can't escape the feeling,
That I'd rather be free wheeling,
In every little Honda,
There may lurk a Peter Fonda,

(repeat chorus)

Riding on any wave, That is the luck you crave,
They don't believe it now, They just think it's stupid,
So got anything?
Anyone could have done, Who would've cared at all,
Not you.

Another heart has made the trade,
Forget it, forget it, forget it,
I don't understand how a heart is a spade,
But somehow the vital connection is made.

Riding on anything, Anything's good enough,
Who would've thought it of
Someone like you, Just as they brought me round,
Now that they brought you down,
Roundabout and roundabout
Who wants a life anyway?

Another heart has made the grade,
Forget it, forget it, forget it,
I don't understand how the last card is played,
But somehow the vital connection is made.

Don't stop shaking
It's my head that makes me want to second guess
at a distance
Hoping there's a method to your madness baby
I might just understand if you obey me.

Hold me now I need assistance
I'd take somebody else if I could.

Walking down tree lined place so pensive in the country
I can't take the voodoo that you do
Just lust easier sussed real love makes me untrue
Hard to make a stew when the meat keeps looking up at you.

Hold me now I need assistance
Follow down the path of least resistance
Hold me now don't keep your distance
I'd take somebody else if I could
~
Hold me now I need assistance
Who don't you take the path of least resistance
Hold me now do I need a license to hold you?

Hold me now i need assistance
Follow down the path of least resistance
Hold me now will it take a lifetime to hold you?

If you want to
Then you've got to
Let it show
It is waiting
It is waiting.

If you want to
Then you'be got to
Let it go
It is waiting
It is waiting

If you want to
Then you've got to
Let it show
It is waiting
It is waiting

Drivel Head wears her glad rags,
She's got her keys, money and fags,
I know that her mind is made up,
To get rocked.

Drivel Head needs a new man,
As only a drivel head can,
He's a hormonal nightmare,
So beware.

(chorus:)
Another victim of
Line up in line, line up in line,
Is all I remember
Oh, how their favours change,
You could have been kinder.
Yes, yes, another victim of
Line up in line, line up in line,
Is all I remember.
Oh, how their favours change,
You could have been kinder.

Drivel Head knows all the stars,
Loves to suck their shining guitars,
They've all been right up her stairs,
Do you care?

Drivel head knows all the bands,
Knows them like the back of her hands,
You can't see the wood for the trees,
On your knees.

(repeat chorus)

It's a sign of devotion
You made everybody else seem insane
You filled my head with your notions
You made everybody else seem so tame
In your bed I lay reeling
You made everybody else seem a shame
I knew from the way I was feeling
Nothing could ever be quite the same

I moved straight into your shoes
I took up your cause and answered your phone
I couldn't really imagine
What life was like when I was alone
Then I started to worry
I thought of our lives left on the shelf
Too much TV and curry
Too much time spent on ourselves

We were sitting in waiting
And I told you my plan
You were far too busy writing
Words that didn't scan
And you lent me your records
And I leant you an ear
Funny how it seems to me now
That you were never here
Never really here

In our bed I lay reeling
You made everybody else seem a shame
I knew from the way I was feeling
Nothing could ever be quite the same
It's a sign of devotion
You made everybody else seem so plain
Then it felt like going through the motions
First impressions never remain

We were sitting in waiting
And you told me your plan
I was far too busy writing
Rhymes that'll never scan
Now I've sold all your records
'Cause they give me the fear
Funny how it seems to me now
That you were never here
Never really here
Never really here

And now we find
Looking back at your state of mind,
Was it all just a cover up?
Woke your mother up
You were on TV

Did the devil say to you
You can make it through
I'll take you to the top
And now that you're heaven bent
And it pays the rent
Is it hard to stop?

Chorus:

S.O.F.T Thought you knew the score
S.O.F.T Always wanted more
S.O.F.T Are you sure you're sure
S.O.F.T

And now we find
Looking back at your state of mind
Was it all just a cover up?
Broke your mother up
On my TV

Did the devil say to you
You can make it through
I'll take you up the shop
And in a dress too small
To be a dress at all
Is it hard to stop?

Rpt. Chorus

See that animal get some heavy metal
Watch the world go singing sha-la-la-la
White stick happiness,
will we ever know how it feels, how it feels?
I feel your tatoo on mine,
but I can't wash it off this time
Oh it's time, oh it's time,
oh it's time, oh it's time.

See that drug act, that AC/DC drag act on the wires in the sky tonight
Fifteen new cities, but will we ever know
how it feels, how it feels.
I feel my tatoo on you,
it's a sweet thing Terry, but it's not true
It's not true, It's not true,
It's not true, It's not true.

Peaches and cream
Where have you been?
Did you know I've been waiting all night?
Whose bed were you in?
Whose head were you turning?
Don't you know I've been out of my mind
Cause I know what you fear you will find...

...oh why...

Sweetness and light
I don't want to fight you
But I don't want to listen to lies
Your face is a mess
You know you should drink less
I said I don't want to hear how time flies
Cause I know from the look in your eyes

You were talking to some girl
Who'd seen you on her TV set
She said that she felt like she knew you
Although you'd only just met...

Oh yeah...

Ohh Don't stop talking shop
I'll see you down the time swap
I've been tested and tried
Lost on the tide
So cold inside
Do you know I've been out of my mind?
Cause I know what you fear you will find

You were talking to some girl
Who said that she'd seen you before
Oh my head's such a mess
Till I hear you key in the door...

...Oh yeah...

...Oh Yeah.

No need to whine boy
Like a wind up toy you stutter at my feet
And it's never the time boy
You've had too much wine to stumble up my street
Well it isn't a problem
Nothing we can't keep between the sheets
Tell me you're mine love
And I will not wait for other bedtime treats

(Chorus:)
Is there something you lack
When I'm flat on my back
Is there something that I can do for you?
It's always something you ate
Or it's something you hate
Tell me is it the way that I touch you?
Have you found a new mate
And is she really great
Is it just that I'm much too much for you?

Don't feed me a line boy
I can hear that voice you use upon the phone
And there's no need to be coy
That is something you can do upon your own
Well it isn't a problem
Nothing we can't solve so just relax
Am I on the wrong train love
And will I have to tie you to the tracks

(rpt chorus)

I really want you to
I really want you to

(louder)

When you're stuck like glue
Vaseline
When you need some goo

When you're stuck like glue
Vaseline
When you're black and blue
Vaseline

la la la la la la la la la la

When you're stuck like glue
Give me some

When you're stuck like glue
If you'd like to woo
Vaseline

la la la la la la la la la la

If it's hot like you
Give me some

Do you need a clue
I want some

Vaseline
Vaseline
Vaseline
Vaseline
Vaseline
Vaseline

I'd work very hard,
But I'm lazy
I can't take the pressure and it's starting to show,
In my heart
You know how it pains me
A life of leisure is no life you know

(Chorus:)
Waking up and getting up has never been easy,
Oh I think you should know
Waking up and getting up has never been easy,
Oh I think you should know
Oh I think you should go
Make a cup of tea
and put a record on.

I'd work very hard
But I'm lazy
I've got a lot of songs but they're all in my head
I'll get a guitar
And a lover who pays me
If I can't be a star I won't get out of bed

(Rpt chorus X2)