John Pedder

He had a bad old man who beat him
put a hammer to his knees just to please him
Now hes 35 and half alive
He's an open mouth in a beehive
He's gonna smile and be happy
let everyone know that hes happy
Put his smiling face on a billboard
kiss from your car, he's happy
He's not happy

With his swollen lips round his early teens
in his dress he can't believe its in his genes
Some days he's half man
and then he's half god
but on his blue days
he wouldn't touch his greens
He's gonna make you smile and be happy
make everyone know that hes happy
Put his smiling face on the TV
Kiss him from your chair make him happy
He drowned his stepson in the duck pond
let the wife-beater out to make a pop song
He put razor blades in the ice-cream
shot a paedophile in a wet dream

He's got a young man who feeds him
whispers sweet nothings just to please him
he makes him cool for the TV
makes half the man he is a celebrity
With his swollen lips around his early teens
in his dress he cant believe its in his genes
He's half a man and half a god
One half bitch one half dog
He drowned his stepson in the duck pond
let the wife-beater out to make a pop song
put razor blades in the ice-cream
made nobody famous on the big screen.
Put the whole wide world on remote control
he put a five times rapist on his tv show
on every single channel in every single home
you can even hear his voice on the telephone

He found you, on the roadside
Little cuts and bruises underneath your chin
You begged him to bury you
Before your life sets in
She sees me in the garden
Pulling petals off the flowers
She closes all the windows
Shuts down on the bed and shivers

Take her back in time to the place before it happened
Before it happened
Take me back in time to the place before it happened
Where it happened

He scratched your eyes, your pretty eyes
With a handful of rusty nails
And then he pushed you into a ditch
With the slugs and the snails
I'm so angry she's not angry
Every second of every hour
She shuts the door and slides the latch in
Tries to wash him off in the shower

Take her back in time to the place before it happened
Before it happened
Take me back to the roadside where it happened
Before it happened, where it happened

You lay there for three days
Your heart held in his knuckles
He tried to pull out your hair
Rip the scalp with his buckle
Look at you now, you're like no girl i know
I would have stabbed him (who would have stopped me?)
I would have stabbed him (you would have stopped me)
Dead

We were happy being stupid
happy being dumb
Sad not being happy happy having fun
And the rain comes down
and makes a fool out of us
We wet our hair and murder the raindrops
Oh but we don't hear it coming
we don't hear it coming
La la la, la la la la, la la la la , la la la.
I won't say goodbye
because I was never here
And I won't say hello
because it wouldn't be true
And if I told you that the sky was green today
lying upside down looking at the grass
would you believe me
would you understand
why I told you what I did?
Would you understand me
or just put me down as another fool?

and you can't say goodbye
because I am always here
and you can't say you love me
because it wouldn't be true
And the rain comes down
and makes a fool out of us
We wet our lips and murder the raindrops
Oh but we don't hear it coming
we don't hear it coming
But the cats and the birds do
so what does that say about us?

I I I was never here never here never here
I I I I I I

Put the car in reverse
and come back to me
without you this house is a hearse without wheels
you can't work out which cringing
which cringing feels worse
when i touch you like this
on the place that it hurts

Give me all that you have
if you don't i will steal it
all the things that you've lost
i can reel them in
i'm falling apart every minute of every hour
but you're there to put me back together again
When i don't know where you are
i feel lost
your trail feels so warm
but i'm covered with frost
when i left in the morning
she smelled so good
then i whispered quite nicely, quite rightly
I can make you feel good
you can make me feel bad
i'll never get you back
so you'll never be sad
give me all that you have
if you dont i will steal it
all the things that you`ve lost
i can reel them in
now you`re falling apart
every moment of every day
you`re not here to put me
back together again

I hold you closely you push me away
I want forever you just want today
Give me your fingers wash out your mouth
Bite off my tongue on this bloody couch
But I don't blame you
You're always right
I'm like a bad day
On your good good night
I hear the tick of a bomb
All your hair in a fuse
You ask me for a light
To blow away these blues
Run me a bath, then plug me in
I'm like a T.V. learning to swim

But I don't blame you
You're always right
I'm like a bad day
On your good good night
I hold you closely you push me away
I want forever you just want today
Give me your fingers wash out your mouth
Bite off my tongue on this bloody couch
But I don't blame you
You're always right
I'm like a bad day
On your good good good good night

Baby bird...don't you cry
Don't you fly away from me
..don't you fly
..don't you fly
La la la...
I've gift-wrapped you a tiny tree
With golden leaves for you & me
To set-up home in a beautiful nest
You can lie here on my soft red chest
My soft red chest
La la la...
Baby baby bird...I'm so lonely
And the sky is so cold & unstable
Baby bird...don't you cry
Don't you fly away from me
..don't you fly
(x4)
Baby baby bird...let me be
The cage around your Christmas tree
You out there, me in here
Never, never set me free
Baby bird...set me free
..set me free
..set me free

Way up in the clouds
Angels don't fly
Big silver birds
Re-writing the sky
Taxi & take off now
I close your eyes
Look out of the window
Watch the ground die
I live all day-to vacate the place-I love-uh huh
I work all day-to leave the way I live-behind
Way down on the ground
People don't fly
But here we at the airport
Like ladybirds in July
Just like back home
I wish that you were here
If I had a cellular phone
I'd drown it in my beer
I was once like you
Dreaming you were me
Locked inside your pretty head
Wishing I was free
But I was so different then
And you were roughly the same
Love was in your pretty head
And sex was on my brain

We are not cool
We are not crazy
We steal cars
Because we're lazy
We are not risky
We are not bad
We burn down houses
Just to make us sad
I'm too handsome to be homeless
We are not famous
We are not known
We break into hotels
Just to feel at home
We cannot read
We cannot write
We makeout in cars
Then we set them alight
I'm too handsome to be homeless
We die for pleasure
We kill for fun
We give you children
But we won't make you come
Hug your wives
Kiss your sons
Corkscrew your fingers
Round our no-good tongues

I'll sing about love
'Till I'm 45 & fat
I'll take almost anything
But I won't take that
You can tie me up in knots
But I'll keep on coming
You can take away my voice
But I'll keep on humming
c-o-c-a
c-o-l-a
'Till I turn blue
Sing-singing about love
I'll take any old tat
But I won't take that
We'll teach the world to sing
You all know the words
So singalong, singalong, singalong
For a better world
C-o-c-a
C-o-l-a