Beautiful South

The part of love that I'm scared of is the actual taking off I can take a bumpy landing But the start must be soft soft, soft, soft It must be soft Some men need your attention every minute, every hour Some women need the proof in every chocolate, ev...

I've seen these people described as mad But find men kissing too odd Say all their friends are gay when in fact They gave a man in tight vest a quick nod And all those threats if you keep kissing They're gonna go report you to god Yet if Christ really h...

Close your legs, open your mind Leave those compliments well behind Dig a little deeper into yourself And you may find... Come over here, just sit right down Needn't comb your hair, needn't pout or frown I hear you've turned our young men Into dribbling...

Guard your body with the best barbed wire And ward off foe with the fiercest of fire But let love unguarded into the strangest of nights Wear your dresses like they're up for hire And leave them with your humour in the tumble dryer And watch yourself stu...

I need a little time To think it over I need a little space Just on my own I need a little time To find my freedom I need a little... Funny how quick the milk turns sour Isn't it, isn't it Your face has been looking like that for hours Hasn't it, hasn't it Pr...

Like the contents of your handbag You don't know why it's there People ask you where you're heading You just answer "anywhere" We don't mean to be this vague It just happens that we are No-one asked us to elaborate We just shrug our shoulders and be...

Planning permission tied to post We read when we're waiting for bus Is always double-checked 'cause we so often suspect They plan to build something on us What they'll build, neither here nor there It's what they'll bury that counts And how far down they'll p...

Alone in the world was poor little Anne As sweet a young child as you'd find Her parents had gone to their final reward Leaving their baby behind Did you hear this poor little child Was only nine years of age When mother and dad went away Still she bra...

You've heard it said a thousand times But only heard his Broadway lines So, baby please go Ain't, ain't part of the show 'Cause when Romeo needs no cue or prompt The likelier your little heart be stomped By, by baby don't go Written, written in to his...

Don't think of what we can and can't achieve Perfection like this can't be guaranteed Hearts get lost, lovers leave Let's just see what friendship actually needs And if ever you do wrong, I'm right behind you If ever you may sin, count me in If that dev...

This is the dinner prepared This is the dress that I made This is the child I brought up And this is the woman you laid This is the woman you laid This is the perfume I wore This is the hotel we stayed This is the way that I lay And this is the woman y...

Big coin that you toss for heads or tails Big coin that you let slip down the drain Big coin didn't find where it landed Big coin, big coin Big coin that you dropped in the river Little raft that took you across Little hand that pulled it from the gutte...

Eyes to take you dancing Mouth to leave your wife Legs to run away with And you wonder why? Heart that makes you bypass Every other girl Smile that keeps you grinning At the madness of this world But like the blackbird on the wire I will not take pr...

They're forming in straight line They're going through a tight wind The kids are losing their minds The Blitzkrieg Bop They're piling in the back seat They're generating steam heat Pulsating to the back beat The Blitzkrieg Bop Hey ho, let's go Shoot...

When you say goodbye I really want to know Everything you do and everyplace you go And did you take a regular supply Of those crazy little tampax with you It hurts me deep inside, it hurts me outside too I feel a little pardon and I feel a little used If...

Well I always knew you'd take the crutches and not the skis 1 always knew you'd take the stilts and then your knees When God gave you the sky I knew you'd take the trees Son you've grown those chicken wings You just can't fly They anchored our dream y...

I've been so happy since I walked away I never thought that I could feel as great as I do today 'Cause you were nothing but a big mistake And life is wonderful, now that I'm rid of you Oh I must have been crazy to have stayed with you I can't believe I t...

Well I kept fantasizing your eyes were wide open And it made me long for little last night Yes it was frantic, it was young, it was sweet But a sweet worth every bite Now I'm not normally one to be greedy But I had to be greedy with you 5 days, 6 days....

My Guy and Patches Can only hope to match The evil propaganda that her pen can dispatch And she better love him good Or she'll take it on the chin A woman is a woman To the enemy within She can put up a fight The man will always win And Danielle Steel...

Little sister don't you cry Lay your head down, close your eyes Your heart is aching, mine is aching for you Little sister don't you cry Lay your head down close your eyes And dream of when before your man looked at you Diamonds always shine You'll fi...

Through ugly pints and Sunday breath Sit men whose stare is cold as death Through wide lapels and glued up eyes Through made up kids and made up wives Sitting in the heart of them Is a man who's not like other men Don't you know just who I am A nod, a w...

All our times have come Here but now they're gone Seasons don't fear the reaper Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain We can be like they are Come on baby Don't fear the Reaper Baby take my hand Don't fear the Reaper We'll be able to fly Don't fear...

Think of you with pipe and slippers Think of her in bed Laying there just watching telly Think of me instead I'll never grow so old and flabby That could never be Don't marry her, f**k me * And your love life shines like cardboard But your work shoes...

DJ's got the party started There's no end in sight Everybody's movin to the rhythm that's inside It's a crazy world But tonight's the right situation Don't get left behind I can feel the music Moving through me everywhere Ain't no destination baby We...

Stars shining bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper I love you Birds singing in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me Say nighty-night and kiss me Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me While I'm alone and blue as can be Dr...

It doesn't take a mathematician To add a simple sum Either you are simply beautiful Or I am simply dumb Dumb, dumb, dumb It doesn't take Robert The Bruce To see the web you've spun Either you are simply beautiful Or I am simply dumb Dumb, dumb, dum...

Only buy this if you're lonely Only listen if you're blue If you are married and you are happy This song is not to do with you If you're listening at your work place Feeling small amongst the men Do not sing this to your workmates This song is not to d...

Everybody's talking at me I don't hear a word they're saying Only the echoes of my mind People stopping staring I can't see their faces Only the shadows of their eyes I'm going where the sun keeps shining Thru' the pouring rain Going where the weather...

Well the dice that I roll never seems to land on six and that 48 card pack is short of some of my old tricks The horse I bet on all those years ago is probably still running round the track Like the marriage that I gambled on I'm due my money back We could've...

Build your dream castle out of sand It's bound to get washed up anyway Dream your dreams out of last week They're bound to have come up yesterday If you want to give them flowers Make them paper ones you send Live your life a jigsaw It goes back in the...

Frank loved the blue big open skies Played an old concertina Singing loola-lullabies Frank loved an angel With black Spanish eyes And a smile to remind him of heaven ref. Frank's been missing since Delores telephoned Scared of his shadow, he's...

Water the plants, feed the cat Leave that door key under the mat I'm your number one from now on Set the code, close the door You don't live there anymore I'm your number one from now on Nothing grows so quickly as the vine That wraps you up so tight a...

It's 6.00am and even Big Ben Is trying to get his head down for a kip But no sooner is it down And then it's on with dressing gown For this city very rarely loses grip But I have a friend who's never up by 10.00 He's fast asleep with mouth open wide He...

Head over heels is fine Unless you're in stilettos Love knows no boundaries Unless your in one of loves ghettos Love climb every mountain high But some of us are stuck in a cell All you need is love love love And a bloody good tunnel as well You could...

Girl make a list Go out and find yourself a new plaything Oh girl you need a trip 'Cause he's not worth the misery and pain So just remember how he would tell you lies And then pretend that everything was so sweet No need to sacrifice If you're not sat...

Don't know what I'm doing here I'll carry on regardless Got enough money for one more beer I'll carry on regardless Good as gold but stupid as mud He'll carry on regardless They'll bleed his heart 'till there's no more blood But carry on regardless Car...

Why forbidden fruit always looks so sweet Hanging down like devil's food, from highest branch on tree Yes, woman should be satisfied Be happy with her lot But sometimes half of him Seems better than the whole I've got Yes, sometimes half of hell right he...

I've only got one real fan She is not woman, she is not man She's got her own coat of arms and her tartan and her own clan Her clan surpasses beauty always love and never duty A beauty that feels so alien to this land These feelings should be censored t...

Have fun And if you can't have fun Have someone else's fun 'Cause someone sure had mine They came in now they're having a whale of a time You should grow a beard A beard to tell a thousand stories never told before A beard to tell you tales, whilst th...

Your 'fight them on the beaches' speeches make me despair 'Cause if there's one thing we can guarantee is you will not he there Tidying your room, making up your bed And if your diary's full that week you'll send us lot instead Send us lot instead, put a...

Here it is again, it's so, so mad Turning young and happy into old and sad Here it is again just passed by chance All the way to the lawyer from a sloppy dance It was another holiday argument But she threw him into the sea A glass bottomed boat pulled h...

Hey church I was thinking The Third World seems to be sinking Can't you all get over there And we'll have them all over here And you can learn to catch your own food And you can learn to build your own hut And we'll make up the usual excuse To keep the...

I was about to write a song about the fear and the doubt But my pen ran out It captured the emotions of a lover and a lout But my pen ran out So the picture wasn't painted and the story wasn't told No one knows the author 'cause the record never sold And...

No one wrote a song for me Just instrumental not too long As sure as sure could ever be You'd only get the lyrics wrong No solo Chet Baker ever played lowered me slowly to my grave The prose that Keats and Yates would save was for King and Queen not kn...

There's something very English about 'forever' 'Hugs and kisses' are English too 'Forever and a day' has to be American But 'hold me close' is me and you 'Hold me close' is me and you So pilots do it in the air And surfers do it wave after wave But soo...

She'd given everything she could give Twenty years of kindness made her sad Kindness never made enough to live So she sold the very last thing that she had As she held her hand out to him As he drove around the block He mouthed through the window 'just...

Vagabonds don't fall in love They just wheel and they deal So if I turn a funny colour when you kiss me I can't help the way that I feel Hooligans don't fall in love They just break up others lives So when I come to you on bended knee Don't forget my t...

If you could pull yourself away from that mess Surely if you could pack a punch then you can pack a dress 'Cause hot on the trail of self pity is wilderness Like hot on the heels of heartbreak is happiness It's an upward struggle just to be yourself (To b...

How long's a tear take to dry When a woman has no breeze? How long's a tear take to dry When a woman's, when a woman's on her knees? How long's a tear take to dry When a woman hasn't sinned? How long's a tear take to dry When the weather, when the weather bri...

Tables turned over and curtains ripped Bottles uncollected, collected here Nothing seems to shine like these razor edges do It's a crazy little world without you I went to see a doctor and she said 'Yes, go ahead' 'Throw yourself into the sea' I wrote a...

Birds are singing in the trees As we rise up on a beautiful morning But I can't hear That beautiful sound Because I'm permanently yawning What about the time of the fancy dress When you came dressed as your mum And there I was splendid in my penguin su...

With a face like a crab's bus ticket And skin like a llama's door mat He was always gonna struggle Nature had seen to that He dreamt of those old-fashioned movies Where Bogart gets the dame But a lorry load of Lorre Is still the score of pain And he...

I'm walking through these pastures I'm picking up sweet fruit I'm shaking hands with people That previously I'd shoot But nothing will dissuade me Nothing will dilute I want to execute I want to execute And you tend to meet a lot of scum en route It...

If, if you choose that we will always lose Well then I'll sail this ship alone And if, if you decide to give him another try Well then I'll sail this ship alone Well they said if I wrote the perfect love song You would take me back Well I wrote it but I...

If I could I'd like to be, a great big movie star Overnight sensation, drive a big expensive car I would buy you everything your little heart desire These things I do, 'cause I'm stone in love with you If I were a business man, I'd sit behind a desk I'd...

I was handed down the looks of a man with a broken nose That's the way our family was I suppose But at least you gave me deeply profound As we lay and chatted late upon the cricket ground You didn't have to love me Where others got rid You didn't have t...

This is the Awards for Industry and Free Enterprise So let me sit you down and tell you how I won first prize I took on your free enterprise and your pretty little shops Walked in with empty bags and walked out with the lot So I've come for my award, I've...

If we crawl at two We could crawl at twenty-two And grovel at The drop of a hat And once they've got you down there It's so hard to re-straighten your back It we crawl at two We could crawl at one hundred and two And the target brainless don't quite...

When you called me a useless druggie At least you got half of it right When you called me a hopeless alcoholic I'm only hopeless after nine at night And when I said you came staggering home blind drunk If I didn't you'd get terrible fright And if this is the...

I came in here, just to see his guilty face I'm just checkin' He's been dead twenty years but I sort of miss the chase I'm just checkin' I've seen folk just like her, pop their noses round the door They're just checkin' If this is where their husband wa...

Ce souvenir, je te l'rends Des souvenirs, tu sais, j'en ai tellement Puisqu'on repart toujours à zéro Pas la peine de s'charger trop Ce souvenir, je te l'prends Des souvenirs comme ça, j'en veux tout l'temps Si par erreur la vie nous sépare Je l'sortirai d'mo...

The superfly guy that you're courting now Used to be a super-swot And the clothes he thinks look retro Are more 'Land That Time Forgot' And if he knows where he was standing When J.F.K was shot Chances are though time's passed him by He's still standing...

Don't whisper love and dream of wedding bells Don't do all the talking Let love speak up itself Let love speak up itself So when you feel a little tatty and unhappy with your face Let it breathe into us and put you back in place Let it breathe, let it b...

Well sitting in a bar alone where no-one knows your name is like laying in a graveyard wide awake You're scared that if you cough or yawn you might wake up the dead So pretend to read a paper or just drink instead I'm a stand-up comedian but I'd sit...

When was the last time you felt so happy You had to give yourself a good pinch When did you ever fail one of life's highs Without using stepladder or winch That's why the lifeless crave the past 'Cause when they're flogged, stoned, lynched They can watch...

Your lying lips don't cry, don't cry Keep telling me you're forever You're forever, you're forever Your lying lips don't cry, don't cry Keep telling me you're forever Your lying lips don't cry, don't cry Keep telling me you're forever Your lying lips...

You can't write a novel from a briefcase You can write a poem from a trench You can dream a dream from A to B But you can't catch a bus from a bench You don't back a horse called Striding Snail You don't name your boat Titanic II So why when I see your...

Sailin' away on the crest of a wave It's like magic Rollin' and ridin' and slippin' & slidin' It's magic And you, and your sweet desire, You took me, Higher and higher, baby It's a livin' thing, It's a terrible thing to lose It's a given thing What a terr...

Look what I found in my beer A couple of dancing ladies and a ticket out of here Look what I found in my beer A start to being lonely and an end to my career Look what he found in his gin Lights' looking lively when love's looking dim Look what he found...

I'm losing things That's what old-fashioned love brings Lost the key to the house The feeling in my mouth I'm losing things I'm forgetting things That's what old-fashioned love brings Forgot the number of the street The shoes on your feet I'm forgett...

Ooh you care, you really, really care From the first 12" I made to the colour of my underwear Ooh you know, you really, really know Inside, outside in, from head to toe But where were you in the colder days? I'd like to know, I'd like to know And where...

Love wars, Love wars Love wars, Love wars Absence makes the heart grow fonder But its taking me under Since you're not here Its better when its hard to get But this hide and go seek Well it's making me weep I promise to stop boxing you round So don...

If you could see me now The one who said that she would rather roam The one who said she'd rather be alone If you could only see me now If I could hold you now Just for a moment, if I could really make you mine Just for a while turn back the hands of time If...

From Northenden to Partington it's rain From Altrincham to Chadderton it's rain From Moss Side to Swinton hardly Spain It's a picture postcard of "wish they never came" And whilst that deckchair in the garden it makes no sense It doesn't spoil the view o...

That grand facade Will finally diminish When he breaks your heart From start to finish Sisters dream of isles in paradise That ain't no use when the captain's just capsized The smile that you now know was a guise Left his clever lips and stole the priz...

Jack confides in Catherine That he's filing for divorce Catherine gives her promise To keep it secret but of course As soon as backs are turned in soaps They're sharpening their claws Meanwhile my whole world is collapsing The congregation's nervous E...

They say always use a condom, I say always use a whip They say be careful where you come at night, I just shoot straight from the hip When it comes to loves great fountain, I won't just take a sip I'll swallow and I'll gulp until the fountain makes me sick...

They could be fat or could be thin They could be black, they could be white Tell me who's knocking at the knocking shop door tonight Not much a door can do but open or close Those things are above doors Not much legs can do but open or close Those thing...

Here he comes - Mother's Pride With the first ever satchel she bought him swinging by his side Here he comes Mother's Pride With a headful of 'get your laces tied' and 'woe betide' With a year's supply of sandwiches and fairy cakes That she provides for...

It's not like moths we crave the light We just take it cause it's ours Like the tiger chases human Like the human chases stars We're not like bees who profess to love flowers Then just penetrate and fly Climb on board, enjoy themselves Then head toward...

This is my life and this is how it reads For every chapter, a thousand memories A murder, a mystery where everybody bleeds A fantasy, a thriller with romance and disease Diary entry 9th of May '62 We've had some ugly babies but none were quite like you Diary...

There he stood, gun in hand At the door, the day she chose to leave Half of him stood comforting The other half that couldn't quite believe Believe that she had left him Believe that she had found another love Believe that she decided When push came to...

I wasn't sure if it was Marx or Hitler that was in this year I hadn't been to Brighton for a while so it wasn't too clear So imagine my surprise when I opened my eyes To find it was the Liberals who were hip to sloganeer I'm out tonight and can't decide b...

Old Red eyes is back Red from the night before the night before Walked into the wrong bar walked into a door Old Red's in town And sitting late at night he doesn't make a sound Just adding to the wrinkles on his deathly frown They're only red from all...

Like the toupee on a fading fame The final whistle in a losing game Thick lipstick on a five year old girl It makes you think it's a plastic world A plastic world and we're all plastic too Just a couple of different faces in a dead man's queue The world...

I once had a friend who I loved from my heart But I went on and left her 'fore I'd made a start Now I'm moaning the blues like the rest of the charts Take me back So I'll cry with a limp Just get by on a limb Till these blue eyes of mine they are closed...

He picks up the pieces Of long gone days Of old fashioned people And old fashioned ways He picks up the pieces Where nothing remains And puts them away 'Til they're wanted again One for the memory One for the road One man's rubbish Is another man's...

She's a perfect 10, but she wears a 12 Baby keep a little 2 for me She could be sweet 16, bustin' out at the seams It's still love in first degree When he's at my gate, with a big fat 8' You wanna see the smile on my face And even at my door, with a poor, poo...

Here comes Pockets His trousers hold a thousand deadly sins The maddest things we ever found in bins He clutches them and looks at you and grins Here comes Pockets The children wary of what they may contain The linen may have changed, the contents same...

'I fought hard in the Second World War' You hear them shout No good bragging about the Afrika Korps It was Beadle's About They dressed you up and took you off to World War One Armed you and surrounded you with wire Sat in stinking mud you sung your stup...

Is it Cologne with it's great cathedral? Milan with it's glamour and it's pace? London with it's river and it's bridges? Lisbon with it's beauty and it's grace? Funny looking buses Climb it's pot-bellied hills And a solitary jogger Times the time he...

Line One is the time That you, you first stayed over at mine And we drank our first bottle of wine And we cried Line Two we're away And we both, we both had nowhere to stay Well the bus-shelter's always OK When you're young Now you're older a...

You're kind of pretty you can cover in make-up Cover in perfume too Moonlight, mud fight, any kinda sunlight Still comes shining through Stuff it with cakes, see if it breaks Put it in the oven, see how she bakes Your kind of pretty you can gas mark 11...

All the secrets we have shared Have moved to a couple better paired So if he impales himself on javelin or spike I will try my best to be the perfect lookalike And if he wants to be smart And enter a property quiz Every weed in the garden's mine but the...

Where is my master, the Rebel Prince, Who will shut all these windows? It's these windows all around me, It's these windows who are telling me To rid my dirty mind of all of its preciousness. Where is my master, the Rebel Prince? They're breaking everyt...

And the women tug their hair Like they're trying to prove it won't fall out And all the men are gargoyles Dipped long in Irish stout The whole place is pickled The people are pickles for sure And no-one knows if they've done more here Than they ever wou...

Imagine sailing solo around the world Only to find you've missed a continent out And as your happy turns choppy and tidal wave swirls You're wondering why there's no one about At least Captain Scott actually stood on the spot Where he planned to put up U...

I should've kept my eyes shut But I had to go and peep But when you saw what I saw Well, it's hard just to roll back to sleep I would've kept my eyes shut But I thought I heard you scream And I've a penchant for violence You don't seem to find in a dre...

The perfect love song it has no words it only has death threats And you can tell a classic ballad by how threatening it gets So if you walk into your house and she's cutting up your mother She's only trying to tell you that she loves you like no other No o...

I love you from the bottom of my pencil case I love you in the songs I write and sing Love you because you put me in my rightful place And I love the PRS cheques that you bring Cheap, never cheap I'll sing you songs till you're asleep When you've...

If there's space out there enough for the moon Surely your little heart can make some room If there's room in the hemisphere for so many stars There's surely a satellite we can name ours They're building brand new centres, brand new bars Shoving lonely p...

I meant every word I said But only said half the words I meant There's a load more where they came from I suppose will get left unsent Like conversation started but don't know which way it went Lips don't miss the wish for a kiss, And time doesn't care...

Why don't you sing 'I need you baby'? 'Cause it rhymes with crazy and it rhymes with maybe It rhymes with lady and much much more And it doesn't rhyme with the 'f' word Well Simon le Bon stayed round my house before And he was sick on the plants and he w...

Sadness has filled a lonely place Before that there was just a hole At least now there's sadness on my face My lower lip has finally found its role So the wind and the rain and the snow Had no particular place to go So they thought they'd come and spend...

Tears have rolled down many good cheek So when it comes down to your turn Don't be afraid of admitting you're weak Cause these are tears that you earn Strangers, new neighbours, they'll both understand Who hasn't been there? Hold up your hand Strangers,...

We've come a long way from the cave What, you started to shave? Now we know just how to behave Since chivalry decided to bathe And as the skirts we wore were increasingly high Till the hem was just a cloud in the sky And the chat up lines got increasingly fly...

Woman goes to heaven, it's not important when 'Cause as soon as she arrives God has to send her down again 'You've got an extra five years to clean up after men' 'I mean no disrespect God, but you better make it ten' Well if heaven's an improvement I won'...

Don't feel bad if you wake up feeling suddenly old More the realisation that you've let yourself be covered by mould Age is not something you wrap up if you're feeling the cold It's a laugh ten times harder at a joke eleven times told Down to the churchyard,...

If I walk like a fool, I've walked like that since school But maybe it's the lure of the sea Who knows the effect, that whisky could've had on me It could've been the lure of the sea 'Cause leather ain't as strong as the weather But leather can strangle...

Little seas can be big seas To the wrong or long of sights But the Mediterranean Looks like aspirin tonight The Doctor told me the chemist He had nothing for my plights But the Mediterranean Looks like aspirin tonight This ocean puts in motion All o...

There was a pool table there at the wedding That most of the men stood and played Whilst the women danced in their melancholy Till the last record started to fade And as D.J. turned the lights up And packed his records away He noticed a lonely figure sti...

Love takes time we all agree and time's not the easiest to cheat The water changes one degree When will the shiver of this river turn to sea The river does no good, no harm Tempts us like pirates to its calm Lover's shanty, devil's psalm Goddamn this...

Here I walk, here I walk Looking for an angel's wings in the den of the hawk Here I am, here I am With a choice between an also ran and a sunbed tan And you thought you'd found your own little look How I misjudged, how I mistook And you thought you'd f...

Daddy was the local drunk Mommy was the loosest girl in town Brother just some two-bit punk Rode his Harley D into the ground Distant friends and relatives Each of them a problem they would share From the in-laws to the out-laws Quietly she would soak...

When you're too old for the swings You tend to choose the slide And they never seem to warn you The slide's your final ride And when you're at the top of it And you cannot see the end Either don't let go son - Or grab the nearest friend The slide is no...

Ginger Elvis Presley Looked a fraction sad Roaming the whole town From bin to bin Well, living on the streets Wasn't all that bad Where no one seemed to know That he was King The sound of New York City Isn't police sirens wailing It's the sound of Wall Stree...

This table has four sturdy legs A heart of very near wild oak When others would have screamed out loud, my friend This one never even spoke ref. I I've been sat upon ooh I've been spat upon ooh I've been treated like a bed Been carried like a stretcher When s...

There's a bench in every park dedicated to Those who sat there once but didn't make it through There are names carved deep in bark on every tree By those who spent their time like you and me And wherever geography may place you now There's a piece of his...

It was '96 in South Carolina, that's the place and not the god-damn year. Sitting on the porch out at Bobby's place, just tugging on a lukewarm beer. And there I was peeping like an old sidewinder, just an inch or so above the mud. The first to find out...

The warmth of your love's Like the warmth from the sun And this will be our year Took a long time to come... Don't let go of my hand Now the darkness has gone This will be our year Took a long time to come... And I won't forget The way you helped me up when...

Your figure like your friendship Gradually grows and grows The clothes that you thought that you'd shrunk Their size just froze When the body that you thought of as yours Just ups and goes I'll be happy with the weight Of the partner that I chose You...

Let's not fight it anymore Unpack the bags and close the door I'll never leave you, no no Though you lied right from the start I can't convince my stupid heart Not to believe you, no no You've got two good men strung out And there's not the slightest do...

She'd brought along the oranges He'd brought the tea They'd both brought along a sick-bag just in case The plate of chicken sandwiches Were lovely they agreed And I watched him spit the bits into her face 'Do you love me like you used to' he sighs 'I...

This reign of plastic That replaced the reign of gold Couldn't have known that you Would feel so undersold If love was built on hindsight Then you surely would have seen You were joining hands With the Tupperware Queen Yes you gave a groan When I too...

Everybody - all you people gather round And get your body busy - move it up and groove it down We're gonna use it up - gonna wear it out Ain't nothin' left in this whole world I care about I said one two three shake your body down (Shake it down to me) One two...

Valentine. Won't you be my Valentine. And introduce your heart to mine And be my Valentine. Summertime. We could run and play like summertime With storybooks and nursery rhymes. So be my Valentine. Candy heart. If anyone could, you could have a candy heart....

And I think that I wish I was virgin And I smile and I think of you And my first, very first entry Clumsy and romantic My special mix in you Clumsy like the first step Clumsy like the first conker off the tree And romantic, like the wind that cuts your...

There's no more little secrets we haven't yet disclosed We bore the living daylights of anyone too close And all our cards at Christmas are written to us both Count them up who's got the most? Said we'd be close Said we'd work perfectly Said that we'd t...

Revolutions come and go but we'll just have to wait The time is nigh to sit and plot exactly who you hate Sirens in the neighbourhood The gun must be misunderstood A warden in a pool of blood The palace laugh and so they should Across the world in ever...

Some people are made of plastic. You know some people are made of wood. Some people have hearts of stone. You know some people are up to no good. But baby I'm for real, I'm as real as real can get. If what you're lookin' for is real love then What you s...

Queuing with the old folk There's and old man with a wicked smile Not through smug politeness He's doing it in style No savings book or flannel slacks No "Pardon" when I heard them ask Just a vodaphone and a filofax When I'm 64 I'll dream on They a...

woman: You’ll know when romance is dead Your make up in a toolbox somewhere in the shed His face is unshaven, the grass overgrown From the shed to the bed is a web you call home You’ll know when romance is dead That deathly cold blast from his side of t...

White teeth, white teeth Talent is rugged determination Skill is a little more dull Genius buggers straight conversation Makes sure that it's ass is full So good looking people don't write no poetry They're too busy holding their hands You don't go to...

Who's gonna tell the orange they're actually brown Who's gonna mop up for grey when they've painted the town It's the news that everyone dreads that we're no longer painting it red that our gag's still funny but they've opted for a different clown You...

One day I'm loaded, next day I'm broke Spent all my money on whisky and coke Riding high 'till the rock hit the spoke It's like window shopping for blinds Spent all my money on a sunbed tan Spoke the best that a young girl can Ended up with a blind drun...

He was just a social drinker but social every night He enjoyed a pint or two or three or four She was just a silent thinker, silent every night He'd enjoy the thought of killing her before Well he was very rarely drunk but very rarely sober And he didn't...

The sheets won't need changing everyday The freezer supply should last a year Those hidden little points that you're away Nothing much has changed since you were here Our paths will cross some day Our paths will cross some day While you're out jogging a...

How do you feel? Now they've swapped that good old carthorse for a car? How do you feel? Now he's handed in his sword and taken a dart? Are your tiny hands starting to warm? Does your battered heart feel less torn? Enter perfect couple, he owns all the...

You look a younger more beautiful version of death But I'm scared to hold you close or smell your breath Now your body's facing east your heart is west And you can call me leisure and I can call you rest We can't stop thinking that we should've guessed W...

You just can't smile it away It's much more than passion it's love And I've heard some people say They've seen love move mountains You just can't laugh it away It's too deep inside it's love Not just some game you can play For a laugh then go on your w...

ref. You know your problem: you keep it all in 2x That's right, the conversation we had last night When all I wanted to do was knife you in the heart I kept it all in ref. Midnight, a husband getting ready to fight A daughter sleeps alone with the...

There's a boy with a brace across his teeth White socks, tattooed underneath Bus tickets crunched up in his palm Stood there he's spinning a yarn There's a girl with a plastic pair of shoes Two eyes permanently bruised Can't find the time to be alarmed...

I got chills They're multiplying And I'm losing control 'Cause the power you're supplying It's electrifying! You better shape up 'Cause I need a man And my heart is set on you You better shape up You better understand To my heart I must be true Not...

It was the middle of winter And I drove us in my car The snow started falling So we stopped off at a bar The beer started flowing And your mother and I took the floor But by the last dance we were tired So I booked a room next door So if anyone asks...