Rialto

At eight o'clock we
said goodbye
That's when I left her
house for mine
She said that
she'd be staying in
Well she had to be
at work by nine
So I get home and have a bath
And left an hour or two pass
Drifting in front of my TV
When a film comes on
that she wants to see
It's Monday morning 5 19
And I'm still
wondering where she's been
Cause every time
I try to call
I just get her machine
And now it's almost 6 am
And I don't want to try again
Cause if she's still not back
then this must be the end
At first I guess she's
gone to Cannes
Her silver pack of cigarettes
A pint of milk for the cat
But it's mid night now
and she's still not back
It's Monday morning 5 19
And I'm still
wondering where she's been
Cause every time
I try to call
I just get her machine
And now it's almost 6 am
And I don't want to try again
Cause if she's still not back
Well heaven knows what then
Is this the end

At half past two
I picture her
In the back of
someone else's car

He runs his fingers
through her hair

Oh you shouldn't left
him touch you there
It's Monday morning 5 19
And I'm still
wondering where she's been
Cause every time
I try to call
I just get her machine
And now it's almost 6 am
And I don't want to try again
Cause if she's still not back
Well heaven knows what then
Is this the end

Milk of amnesia
You make it easier
So raise a glass
In the air and drown out all your cares
Lips round the bottle neck
Soon your gonna forget each other and every regret
And let your dreams set sail
Inside we're feeling warm
Ready for any storm
We ain't got our weather proofs on
But we're feeling strong
A belly full of hope
Lie back and you will float
Drifting on your dream boat
To a distant land
And we can't make it home
We'll sleep on the paving stones
Happy just to be there
Beneath the starlit dome
Milk of amnesia
You make it easier
Milk of amnesia
Everything's fading fast
Forget about the past
Through the bottom of the glass
The world look

In a skyscraper - in a skyscraper's where I want to live: with no elevator, at the top of the stairs where nobody else is. I don't want any trouble in my little bubble...

Up above the clouds, looking at the crowds down on the ground. Watching from the steeple, all the little people running round. Lock the door behind me, no-one's gonna find me to bring me down.

In a skyscraper, we'll send for the papers every now and then. When it's a bit safer, when it's a bit safe we might come down again. We don't want any trouble in our little bubble...

Up above the clouds, looking at the crowds down on the ground. Watching from the steeple, all the little people running round. Lock the door behind us, no-one's gonna find us to bring us down. Oh-oh-oh-oh, in a skyscraper, in a skyscraper. In a skyscraper, in a skyscraper.



Up above the clouds, looking at the crowds down on the ground. Watching from the steeple, all the little people running round. Lock the door behind us, no-one's gonna find us to bring us down. Oh-oh-oh-oh, in a skyscraper, in a skyscraper. In a skyscraper, in a skyscraper??짖€??짝

Vinegar Vera, packed his bags and left home to make his mark. Nobody missed him, because he was back before it got dark.

Vinegar Vera, lying on his bed cursing the ceiling. Because the world turned, and turning it ran over his feelings.

Vinegar Vera, now that you're almost 21. Vinegar Vera, locked in the bathroom at your mum's.

He looks in the mirror, and rolling the words around his mouth. He doesn't want to come out, he doesn't want to come out.

Chip on your shoulder, is harder to hide the more you get older. With every summer, feeling the world get colder and colder.

Vinegar Vera, now that you're almost 31. Vinegar Vera, wondering what you have become.

[CHORUS]

Vinegar Vera, lost his mum in the zoo when he was 5. The Hare Krishnas gave him a biscuit as he sat and cried.



Vinegar Vera, never thought life would come to this. Vinegar Vera, drowning in your own bitterness.

[CHORUS]

He doesn't want to come out, he doesn't want to come out.
He doesn't want to come out??짖€??짝

At eight o'clock we
said goodbye

That's when I left her
house for mine
She said that
she'd be staying in

Well she had to be
at work by nine
So I get home and have a bath

And left an hour or two pass

Drifting in front of my TV

When a film comes on
that she wants to see
It's Monday morning 5 19
And I'm still
wondering where she's been
Cause every time
I try to call
I just get her machine
And now it's almost 6 am
And I don't want to try again
Cause if she's still not back
then this must be the end
At half past two
I picture her
In the back of
someone else's car

He runs his fingers
through her hair

Oh you shouldn't left
him touch you there
It's Monday morning 5 19
And I'm still
wondering where she's been
Cause every time
I try to call
I just get her machine
And now it's almost 6 am
And I don't want to try again
Cause if she's still not back
Well heaven knows what then
Is this the end

It's Monday morning 5 19
And I'm still
wondering where she's been
Cause every time
I try to call
I just get her machine
And now it's almost 6 am
And I don't want to try again
Cause if she's still not back
Well heaven knows what then
Is this the end

If you were an angel I would cut off your wings
To keep you with me I would do anything
Like broken bottles that slip from drunken hands
I've watched my star falling and shatter on the ground
First you wash your hair then you wash your hands
Oh yeah I think I understand
Untouchable if I'm not fit
To even crawl if I'm too sick
I'll soak my skin in alcohol until I feel untouchable

I blew my chances as you blowdried your hair
I thought of my answers as you walked down the stairs
D'you think I'd defile you, if you were to close?
D'you think I'd infect you?
D'you think I'd give you a dose?
First you wash your hair then you was your hands
Oh yeah I think I understand

I'll drink until my skin is full and I will feel untouchable
Untouchable…… untouchable……

At eight o'clock we
said goodbye
That's when I left her
house for mine
She said that
she'd be staying in
Well she had to be
at work by nine
So I get home and have a bath
And left an hour or two pass
Drifting in front of my TV

When a film comes on
that she wants to see
It's Monday morning 5 19
And I'm still
wondering where she's been
Cause every time
I try to call
I just get her machine
And now it's almost 6 am
And I don't want to try again
Cause if she's still not back
then this must be the end
At half past two
I picture her
In the back of
someone else's car

He runs his fingers
through her hair
Oh you shouldn't left
him touch you there
It's Monday morning 5 19
And I'm still
wondering where she's been
Cause every time
I try to call
I just get her machine
And now it's almost 6 am
And I don't want to try again
Cause if she's still not back
Well heaven knows what then
Is this the end

It's Monday morning 5 19
And I'm still
wondering where she's been
Cause every time
I try to call
I just get her machine
And now it's almost 6 am
And I don't want to try again
Cause if she's still not back
Well heaven knows what then
Is this the end

At eight o'clock we
said goodbye
That's when I left her
house for mine
She said that
she'd be staying in
Well she had to be
at work by nine
So I get home and have a bath
And left an hour or two pass
Drifting in front of my TV

When a film comes on
that she wants to see
It's Monday morning 5 19
And I'm still
wondering where she's been
Cause every time
I try to call
I just get her machine
And now it's almost 6 am
And I don't want to try again
Cause if she's still not back
then this must be the end
At half past two
I picture her
In the back of
someone else's car

He runs his fingers
through her hair
Oh you shouldn't left
him touch you there
It's Monday morning 5 19
And I'm still
wondering where she's been
Cause every time
I try to call
I just get her machine
And now it's almost 6 am
And I don't want to try again
Cause if she's still not back
Well heaven knows what then
Is this the end

It's Monday morning 5 19
And I'm still
wondering where she's been
Cause every time
I try to call
I just get her machine
And now it's almost 6 am
And I don't want to try again
Cause if she's still not back
Well heaven knows what then
Is this the end

Here comes the star of the show, but he's got piss on his clothes - still he's the man with all the front. Ladies and gentlemen, let's have your warmest welcome for the world's biggest little cunt.

There's no curtain call, no screaming applause.

Little comedian, flat on my face again; and no one's laughing, little comedian.

Knock knock, I wonder who's that? Knocking everyone's drinks back and treading shit into the rug. It's the boy with the poison inside. The funny-man with the weak little spine, still he's his mother's favourite thug.

There's no curtain call, no screaming applause.

[CHORUS]



8am, last nights dawning. I feel the bathroom calling, with my 3 minute sickness warning.
Head hung over the basin, memories of last night racing, to the mirror with sick face in

There's no curtain call, no screaming applause.

[CHORUS]

The Underdogs
Keep running after shining motorbikes
Trying to keep up while they look back
And laugh
Oh we're so tired of dragging our hearts
It's the chrome and steel
And all the power that we want to feel
So when we catch them
We will rip them apart
Cos it's no more than they did to us
[chorus]
We've been waiting so long
We know just what we want
We will cheat and we'll rob
Cos we are underdogs
The underdogs
And we've had too much shit
Kicked out of us
To stop us howling
At the moon through the night
And if it keeps them up
Well that's alright
To be bitter and alone
Is such a dirty little job
We're jaded to our brittle bones
Cos we are the underdogs
Yes we are the underdogs
[chorus]
We've been waiting so long....
The underdogs
We are the underdogs
The underdogs
We are the underdogs

I had a dream
but I just can't remember it
what could it mean
How did I ever let it slip
I'm a modern guy
I can't help but be sarcastic
it's a brand new day
well isn't that fantastic
Hey it's alright
at the end of the day
there's gonna be more nights
Everything's OK
no need to get uptight
we can dream
another dream tonight

Game show afternoons
is that all I was born
for sitting in my room
just waiting to be called for
Hey it's alright
at the end of the day
there's gonna be more nights
Everything's OK
no need to get uptight
Another dream tonight
another dream tonight
Dream another dream tonight

Hey it's alright
at the end of the day
there's gonna be more nights
Everything's OK
no need to get uptight
we can dream
another dream tonight
Dream another dream tonight
dream another dream tonight
Dream another dream tonight
dream another dream tonight

Last thing I remember
I was standing on a hill
Shaking out my long black hair
I heard the song of an angel
Rising from the trees
I made my way to the source
And it was gone
Now here I am
I don't recognize this village
Where things are made of
Glass and metal
A man is walking toward me
And he's looking pretty strange
He says,

Kamikaze seagull planes
Fighting over chip shop
take away remains
When you're walking on the cliffs
You can't help thinking of
How far down the sea is
And what if it should give
I didn't mean to bring you down
Summer's over seaside town
She says we shouldn't
have come so far
This seaside town summer's over
Empty pubs echo with sounds
Juke box selections that keep
going Round and round
Maybe rain is all we need
To come and wash
The summer rubbish off the beach
Oh let just go to sleep
I didn't mean to bring you down
Summer's over seaside town
She says we shouldn't
have come so far
This seaside town

I didn't mean to bring you down
Summer's over seaside town
She says we shouldn't
have come so far
This seaside town summer's over
In the back of the arcades
Kids borrow money to play
One more final game
While mothers wait in family cars
I wonder why we ever
chose To come so far
But I wish you wouldn't ask
I didn't mean to bring you down
Summer's over seaside town
She says we shouldn't
have come so far
This seaside town
I didn't mean to bring you down
Summer's over seaside town
She says we shouldn't
have come so far
This seaside town summer's over
This summer's over seaside town
This seaside town

summer's over

summer's over
summer's over
summer's over

If you were an angel I would cut off your wings
To keep you with me I would do anything
Like broken bottles that slip from drunken hands
I've watched my star falling and shatter on the ground
First you wash your hair then you wash your hands
Oh yeah I think I understand
Untouchable if I'm not fit
To even crawl if I'm too sick
I'll soak my skin in alcohol until I feel untouchable

I blew my chances as you blowdried your hair
I thought of my answers as you walked down the stairs
D'you think I'd defile you, if you were to close?
D'you think I'd infect you?
D'you think I'd give you a dose?
First you wash your hair then you was your hands
Oh yeah I think I understand

I'll drink until my skin is full and I will feel untouchable
Untouchable…… untouchable……

Sugar high, then she drops me from the sky, but it never stops me.

From the very first taste it began: i only wanna make her understand, hold her as she melts into my hands, even if she acts like she can't stand me - that's just my hard candy, that's just my ha
Ndy.

Glycerine is in my veins, it's serene until she runs out again...

Ever since the first taste it began: i only wanna make her understand, hold her as she melts into my hands, even if she acts like she can't stand me - that's just my hard candy, that's just my h



Andy.

Candy...

Such a waste when she leaves me - a bitter taste when i want her to feed me.

All the shiny paper's just a sham - i only wanna make her understand, hold her as she melts into my hands, even if she acts like she can't stand me - that's just my hard candy, that's just my ha
Ndy.

That's just my hard candy, that's just my hard candy.
That's just my hard candy, that's just my hard candy.

In the evening rush she takes her seat by the window, and when she lights up nobody speaks - they adjust their clothes. She sits on the train from 5.15 to 5.50; It's always the same: ";The way,"; she says, ";they look at me,"; from Saturday to Saturday.

Contact unclean, lock me up in quarantine.

Bathed in the blue wash of a TV screen, surfing served-up dreams, to the happy glow of the burger bar, watching the passing cars, from Saturday to Saturday.

[CHORUS]

Contact unclean, lock me up in quarantine. Contact, I'm unclean, lock me up in quarantine.

Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.
Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.
Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.
Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.

It's only fiction that causes all the sparks.
They come between us and blow the world apart.
It's only tension that I can't diffuse.
You really made you mark, I've still got the bruise.
And now there's nothing left, just another twisted wreck,
with love like Semtex.
Like a dud fire work that goes off in your face,
we should have lit the sky, but we burnt down the whole place.
And now there's nothing left, just another twisted wreck,
with love like Semtex.
More like a letter bomb blast than a valentine card,
with love like Semtex
And now there's nothing left, just another twisted wreck,
with love like Semtex.
More like a letter bomb blast than a valentine card,
with love like Semtex.
Goodbye and all the best, with love like Semtex.