Cupid draw back your bow And let your arrow go Straight to my lover's heart for me, for me - Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me
Now - I don't mean to bother you but I'm in distress There's danger of me loosing all of my happiness For I love a girl who doesn't know I exist And this you can fix, so.....
Cupid draw back your bow And let your arrow go Straight to my lover's heart for me, Nobody but me - Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me
Now - Cupid if your arrow makes her love strong for me I promise I will love her until eternity I know between the both of us her heart we can steal Help me if you will, so.....
Cupid draw back your bow And let your arrow flow Straight to my lover's heart for me, o nobody but me - Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me
Now - Cupid, don't you hear me, I'm calling you, I need you, Cupid help me . . .
The dreams and hopes of men are powered by addiction And who am I to say that this is an affliction When everybody gets suckered in and lives their lives like fiction Writing their own stories of success
They say they want you for your colourful evocation The way you turn a cliche into a sensation But all they ever wanted was that same vibration The one that shimmers round success
Success success Success success Success success Success success All you ever need: Success
You can't be happy while someone else has a fistful They glow from TV screens healthy strong and fiscal And everybody slaps their back while you're alone with a wristful Jerking to the rhythm of success
Success success Success success Success success Success success All you ever need: Success
The kid's left home, the kid's got a kid of her own Don't knock that door, don't knock it, nobody's home The mystery sign, turn off and follow it blind The interstate is jammed and crammed with exhaust mist It only leads to somewhere you'll never miss You'll never miss
Get on the blue highways, follow the blue highways You know that they're there, you know that they're there Where the real America lies
The rusty chrome, the shutters swing open and closed Don't knock that door, don't knock it, nobody's home The blood runs cold, the blood runs cold There must be gold where fools are That's what we are, that's what we are
Get on the blue highways, follow the blue highways You know that they're there, you know that they're there Where the real America lies Blue highways, blue highways, blue highways
The mona lisa's sister doesn't smile She tried to pose but only for a while Leonardo sent her home since then she has lived alone With her few belongings and a copy of a painting of herself unhappy She is going to burn it when she's ready
Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire
Marilyn was lying all alone with an empty bottle by the phone Kennedy was not around she was cold when she was found But she'd gone where the goddesses are sleeping Where the molten tongues of flame are leaping Or where the angel's hearts are beating
Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire
Joan of arc was burning at the stake somebody had made a big mistake She had lit a cigarette in an aiport where you get All your fingers taken off for smoking. Meanwhile up the road a factory's choking The ones who killed her work there I'm not joking
Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire
You stop in the old cafe where you used to play pinball And look for the air-raid shelter but it's gone and the cafe seems so small and all the gardens that had trees and stolen apples now have small businesses flourishing in cinder blocks Then they will call your name and hand you a gold watch Then they will call your name but it doesn't sound like much And you'll never discover why it's like an old lover you can't touch anymore It doesn't mean much anymore when you go back in time back in time
You head down to the local try to find a focal point A scratch in the wallpaper but it's all been wallpapered over Down at the newsagents it's all pornography And you try to get high again but it's like time-lapse photography Then they will call your name and hand you a medal Or something more practical like a whistling kettle and it'll test your metal Just try to keep grinning knowing that this feeling is indulgence worse than sinning trying to go back in time yeah
Photographs with a glossy finish letters lovers never finished And there in a dusty drawer a necktie you once wore And a girl you tried to court made you feel about two feet short Where is she now today? What would she have to say? Then they will call your name and hand you a pension A bottle of pills that guarantee life extension and give you a mention in the local boy makes good section But all the old news is like print stains across your mind when you try to go back in time
Yes all this old news is just print stains across your mind when you try to go back in time Back in time back, back in time
All the dirt's lying under the carpet He swallowed a drink and then checked her heartbeat Her wedding gown has been burned to ashes Fanned by the flutter of her false lashes One last chance to kiss again She looked so good he looked so sane Not forever could they last Under the mask under the mask Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness
She got colder with each incision No-one knew he had a fatal vision One last chance to kiss again Your mother knows her baby's pain Not forever could they last Under the mask under the mask Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness
Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask
Look at them walking look at them kiss What a picture of domestic bliss Laughing and laughing like clockwork toys Until they're broken girls and boys
One last chance to kiss again she looked so good he looked so sane Not forever could they last Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask,
Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness
I used to think that it all stopped happening by the time you reached twenty one They said there's nothing like the first love you get boy They were wrong, oh so wrong, they hung on and hung on, to their dream, I know
CHORUS Life gets better yeah When ever I'm in her arms Just to know I'm not the average fella I'm the one, I'm the one for her
Well it's a shame what they do to these young kids Just encourage them to act like clowns And then they think that they don't have much longer Knocked up the first time she let em get down Put four walls around and then scream, but I know
REPEAT CHORUS
Life stretches before me an endless mystery And nothing can bore me, when she's with me I feel the heartbeat of the world in the hands of this girl But it takes so much time to, to finally see, see, see
I get a thrill when I think how it really is Noone can ever take that away They try to put rubber bands around your heart But they're wrong, oh so wrong, they hung on and hung on, to their dream, but I know
Life gets better yeah When ever I'm in her arms Just to know I'm not the average fella I'm the one, I'm the one for her
Oooh Life gets better yeah, When ever I'm in her arms Just to know I'm not the average sucker, I'm the one, I'm the one for her
Oooh Life gets better yeah, Oooh Life gets better yeah Oooh Life gets better yeah
You're always kidding me something's happening but it isn't true You're getting rid of me you know exactly what I'm trying to Oh baby I am drained of colour I can't go anywhere You just left me in another grey area
You say you're loving me but it's nothing but a red rag You call this ecstasy but suddenly it's let the stone drag Oh baby I have just discovered I don't belong anywhere Your love left me in another grey area Another grey area
When I start thinking can't stop sinking Everybody left me holding the baby Everything's the same no-one took the blame That's the colour of another grey area That's the colour of another grey area
I can't follow it the information that is coming through I never swallow it the black feeling that is all blue Oh baby I've just discovered I can't go anywhere Your love left me in another grey area Yeah You left me in another grey area That's the colour of another grey area Another grey area
Another grey area Another grey area That's the colour That's the colour
Better listen to me, You better stay blind and you better not see You think it feels alright but you don't have to lie awake all night
Fumble with the money and fumble with the keys Somebody has to end up on his knees Go to a funeral dressed in pink Stop to love and not stop to think
Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero
They all lose their cool They all see the money and they start to drool They all shuffle their feet They shuffle their cards and they turn up the heat They tell you
Fumble with the money and fumble with the keys Somebody has to end up on his knees Go to a funeral dressed in pink Stop to love and not stop to think
Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero
Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero Big fat zero
