Boomtown Rats

I never loved Eva Braun (oh no?) No, a thousand people say I did (oh yeah?) Yeah, she was just some girl who was on the make (Yes, we see) Boy she wanted to be so big. And in the end it got to be a drag, She's doing her exercises every day No matter wha...

If you see her say hello If she asks how I'm doing let her know If she says is he O.K. say it's slow But he's coming round And if you sleep with her Through the darkest night And you wake beside her in the early light Kiss her gently like I might And b...

One two three four So what’s the story? So what's the score? What did we do? What are we guilty of? When they shoot you down Bring you to your knees Until you hit the ground And kick you in the teeth And I dreamed I was standing, on my own, Staring ou...

Everybody's got a hole to fill It doesn't matter if your name is Jack or Jill Everybody's got a hole that they need filled She wakes up Still looking lost And says what's the point of this And I say not a lot Still she gets up And through her weary sm...

Here she comes like a Queen all through the wintertime Skirts that billow long after she's gone Yes I could smell her smell on the pillow late at night She's a rose that blooms at night And all the streets were wet and slicked with rain Outside my green...

A storm breaks over our head We take shelter We do as we're told A storm breaks over our head We take shelter Come in from the cold Life's OK If you drink Oh Life's OK If you dream Oh I can hear it I can feel it All around the air is freezing...

I was reading in New Zealand about Ian Smith I was thinking they were lucky to be rid of that shit. The people here can still believe in stiff lips and stiff collars They're speaking deals in English But they're making deals in dollars. They're breaking u...

Later on that evening when I thought I'd had enough I sat down in a restaurant and Over powdered drugs I ordered up some dew-soaked lettuce Picked by virgin hands Nestling on a bed of Pearl encrusted clams Well the waiter's name was Renee and He told...

I'll take another photograph Before the old one fades It reminds me of those things that past And quickly passed away But it comes on in the early night Creeping up on you Those scenes of devastation Crushing down on cue These days are growing colder n...

Chorus: Banana Republic Septic Isle Screaming in the suffering sea It sounds like crying Everywhere I go Everywhere I see The black and blue uniforms Police and priests And I wonder do you wonder While you're sleeping with your whore Tha...

It was cold that night from across the west and the days had lost their spark And the yellow lights split the rain so bright and the dogs had lost their bark What Hitchcock plots were hatched that night behind the shuttered door When the curtain shook and the...

Did they never tell you 'bout it baby Did they never say it's tough Are you never going to give up on that Big romantic stuff That French song playing on the radio at noon The singer's name was Jean Michel and he's singing 'bout la lune And she shivers...

On blind dates You meet in corners, You take a jump into the unknown They're classified, they're top secret, An antidote to being on your own. You're standing waiting, You're hesitating, You're thinking maybe...well I don't know Your nerve is breaking, You've...

Can't stop And face the facts I'm high strung and I can't relax. Tune me down cause I'm feeling sharp. My blood's too weak and it strains my heart. And hearts of gold can turn to grey. And wills of iron can melt away. Hey, this looks like the place, We...

Charmed lives Nothing much to do tonight Charmed lives Oh no, oh no Charmed lives I think I'll do my hair tonight Charmed lives Cos it's so, it's so Well, it's OK, it's OK, it's OK But it drives me insane Can't do a thing with it Look at it This w...

I've been standing here five minutes And you haven't said a word Maybe you did Maybe I haven't heard Well you better hurry up and say something Or else i'm gonna go (long pause) Ok, that's fine by me Cheerio-o-o-o-o Cheerio-o-o-o-o Cheerio-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o 

(I said) Down at the street around half past nine I heard someone scream I found someone dying His throat was slit from ear to ear He mumbled so low I could hardly hear I bent down low so i could hear what he said He said tell me the truth am I nearly that dea...

Here comes the night again, babe. Same night as every night, babe And in the candle light, babe Your beauty's like a knife That slices through my life and... You drive me crazy Makes my world fall apart I've been trying lately To take control of my he...

First time that I saw you You were standing in the hall You said you knew everything But I knew you knew fuck all There were tremors in your cheekbones There was longing in your eyes But I thought I smelt a nameless fear Buried in your thighs You cruci...

Dave'd called me up yesterday Everything he loved had moved away I felt despair come crawling through that phone I know the feeling but don't get me wrong Dave I've always thought that you were touched by fate It's never easy but why throw it away? Maybe...

Traffic's wild tonight" Diamond smiles her cocktail smile. Tonight she's in heavy disquise. She looks at her wrist to clock the passing time. "Weather's mild tonight" She wonders will her glamour survive, She wonders do they notice her eyes, And can th...

He rodent into town Fangs were getting himdown He whiskered around thejuke joint Where the coolcats hang around Down at the mouse trap Fangs were getting hot Squealing with delight Their legs began to hop They're doin' the rat Keep your trap shut Do...

It's Christmas Time There's no need to be afraid At Christmas time We let in light and banish shade And in our world of plenty We can spread a smile of joy Throw your arms around the world At Christmas time But say a prayer Pray for the other ones A...

Watch out for your baby, watch out for her now She ain't no lady, she's a stupid cow She wears the trousers She's got a tongue that stings, I know that woman She's gonna do you in. She's high and mighty, she wears a crown of steel She'll dominate you, she's g...

As soon as I wake up every day, I look at the papers to see what they say, I know most what I read will be a lot of lies, But then you learn really fast to read between the lines, 'Cos I know (he knows) What I read ain't true I know (he knows) And I'm t...

You don't have to be afraid You just have to make the leap of fate I'm not thinking in quantum jumps No I think in lines but I speak in lumps When you say those things it seems so crude Do you think you're clever ah you're so rude Please don't talk to m...

Drag me down in colors pink and gold (Like a ship that's going under.. Bring me home in rain and thunder) Bless the night before the day grows old (Like a ship that's going under... Bring me home in rain and thunder) Drag me down in colors pink and gold...

Put your head between your knees and breathe real deep Let it in Let it out Until it's over. I might scribble, I might scrawl I might claw at the wall I might storm and rage and thunder Oh Christ but then later In the incinerator Something inside see...

She keeps her lover on ice, She keeps a fire in the grate, He's got a movement in his cellar, He's a danger to the state. Watch out for the normal people There's more of us than there's of you. Well you're a really lucky bugger, That you haven't been discovere...

These are danger days What sort of day is this? These are troubled times D'ya know what time it is? There it goes again Another gear being slipped I must be near the sea A single cod n' chips A cup of tea for three An' 6 including v.a.t. Around the r...

My camera, Sees things my eyes can't see. I have it focused, From here to eternity. Catch the moment, catch the light, catch your breath Let me freeze your frame. We'll synchronize machine and brain, But don't mind me... I'm having my picture taken....

He bought and sold a video Made a fortunein between A thousand well-known faces Passed across that stupid screen He turned them down He never thought they had so much to say He watched those faces come and go Up close He saw the strain And he watches...

I heard Tarzan outside playing on the Jungle Blues I know 'cos I saw him shimmer in a Kenyan pool Coming on in the vines with his leopard-skin lioncloth cool Bony Watusi fingers Beating on the bark of a tree Now Tarzan and me, well, obviously we're like t...

I gotta listen to you I gotta hear about the things I should or shouldn't do all about the deals I blew how do you do I shook a thousand hands I met a man with master plans and sweaty hands Do you wanna be a rich man How do you do But then it's al...

I don't want to listen But I think I see you screaming And it hurts. Instant Solzhenitsyn I get salt mines when I hear your voice It hurts. Kiss the hurt off her Kung Fu tongue I turn off when she turns on That's why I'll say Hurts hurts. Who an'...

Somewhere a screen door slammed Somewhere, someplace, somebody's killing a man Down the road I'm told five people died And I wonder are you making love to anyone tonight. Cos she and I, we're still sitting here Our eyes are dry but we're bored to tears...

The silicon chip inside her head Gets switched to overload. And nobody's gonna go to school today, She's going to make them stay at home. And daddy doesn't understand it. He always said she was as good as gold. And he can see no reason, 'Cause there are...

Everybody's gonna catch their death In the pouring rain Everybody better hold their breath In the pouring rain Everybody's gonna walk on by Everbody hide away Everbody's gonna pull their blinds And stay inside and pass these days I know I've seen a lot...

Sooner or later when the dawn was breaking The joint was jumping and the walls were shaking Joey sneaked in the backdoor way Pretending he was with the band, he never used to pay He was no great draw at pulling the chicks He used to lie against the wall l...

Oh, in her two pound coat She really thinks she's cloaked in mystery She's actin' like some character from Agatha Christie I got a pain in my shoes and all I wanna do is dance Uh-oh, I can remember those carefully sharpened eyeballs Sparkling like bloodshot d...

I don't get my kicks no more from cake or lemonade Bud I can't get served no smokes or drinks They tell me that I'm underage At sixteen years old I don't stand a chance but on Saturday when I get to the dance It's time-out from life Got to learn to boogaloo '...

My friend she's on fire She's burning like a juniper tree She don't know what to do But I do 'Cause she do it to me Let it go let it go It's not nice to be like ice It's much better if you feel like fire Yes there's a bad moon coming up And I can see...

I'm not disconnected I'm not unaware I'm in one place at one time I'm neither here nor there I'm hooked to the mainstream, Tuned into the world Plugged into my surroundings, I'm not out on a limb. I'm thinking in a straight line, I'm thinking that the...

Night fell fast, like it did in the past when the phone rang Twice and a voice said "I think I'm alone" I gave my advice and the voice said "Nice, but suicide leaves such a bad aftertaste on the soul." Chorus: Oh ain't you glad that we live on an island...

The world owes me a living I've waited on this dole queue too long I've been standin' in the rain for fifteen minutes That's a quarter of an hour too long. I'll take all they can give me And then I'm gonna ask for more Cos the money's buried deep in the...

It was last night baby when I caught your eye Sssh don't tell nobody but I almost died And like a beach bunny sobbing on a shag pile rug I thought of "Going to a Go-Go" And the Family Stone frug So we twist and shout then when it's feeling great She drif...

Here they go, lying again beating everybody at their favourite game but in the end nobody wins no Here they go let's pretend the rules have changed but the names the same and in the end nobody wins no Do you think they don't know what they're doing Do...

Sittin' in the front row Mary of the fourth form Turnin' all the boys on She's turnin' all their heads around Hitchin' up her short skirt Stretchin' out her long legs Pullin' up her stockings She's combing out her long hair Starin' at the teacher Open...

Hand me down a strong panacea, One that's guaranteed to make me feel like Hercules, There's flies everywhere, buzzing in the air, Filling my body with filth and disease....and I think, He thinks he should develop a complex, He thinks that he really owes...

Somewhere up town late last night around 9 o'clock There was a black snake crawling up the Latin American stairs With his Slicked Black Cockroachair He was greasy lightning He was looking for someone else He said "I know you, you know me, heyheylezzos...

All the birdies swimming in the sea All the fishies hanging in the trees All the people down on their knees Rise up as one and sing And in the middle of my troubled sleep My hippy angel came to me Saying chill out, be cool, stay free I said I'm not sure...

Life pours down into the neon heart (It's late at night) Cement City is all a-spark (Yeah that's right) The whores are loose and the dames are abroad (My pants are tight) There's a price on their hearts you can't fail to afford. Drink to the bitch and we'...

Tell me what you're doing coming in so late at night I wanna know You say you're going out with childhood friends from way back when Where do you go? Tell us what you want, we'll give you what you need Just show respect for your daddy, little girl, You k...

I'll tear down the sky Don't stop now No never in a million years I'd spit in their eye Don't stop now But I won't be a volunteer And now I'm always dreaming of dreams That lie in state Waiting for me to wake And make A life for them I know I'll...

Through tunnel vision watch him rant and rave He says there's life beyond the grave He lost his slice of the eternal cake Well, God's in His Heaven and He's on the take That's nice (that's nice) that's neat (that's neat) It's bitter and it's sweet, is it tric...

I got home late last night about 8 There was nothing on the T.V. as usual Just the normal repeats and things I had the City Prices edition of the Evening Standard Which was not as good as the Late Night one Mainly because it doesn't have the full cinema l...

Turn on the TV Turn on the radio. Turn down that sound Turn down that sound Open the curtains Open the windows. What's happening around What's happening around I'll do some washing I might go shopping I'm going downtown I'm going downtown Someon...

I was walking down the street I was walking down the street with the queen of hearts She does the monkey, the polish and the spit, I do the all-age favorite the epileptic fit. Polo-neck, polo-neck, she don't wear a shirt I suppose it's because it disquise...

There was a lot of rocking going on that night Cruising time for the young, bright lights Just down past the gasworks, by the meat factory door The five lamp boys were coming on strong The Saturday night city beat had already started and the The puls...

I'm driving on the road that Hitler built I'm driving on the road that Hitler built This is the place where history stopped to shit And I'm driving on the road that Hitler built I'm driving on the road that Stalin built next There's more holes in Joe's t...

Sha-la-la-la-la Sha-la-la-la-lee Sha-la-la-la-la I feel free When I woke up I was freezing Shaking like a leaf I was stuck up on a shelf With the other guys in Room 19 Then the brain here right beside me Speaking telepathically Said "Hi, my name is...

La-la-la-la She's so 20th century She's so 1970's She knows the right things to say She's got the right clothes to wear Cos she's a modern girl, oh yeah A modern girl yeah, ga-ga-ga-ga-ga. A modern girl, oh yeah. And Suzie is a jewel, She flashes whe...

Skin on Skin Nothing more or less than Skin on skin I want to lick the sweat off Skin on skin But don't talk to me about right or wrong Skin on skin I want to cut in deep in Skin on skin I need to sink my teeth in Skin on skin But don't talk to me...

I'm so wired, Very tired, Why can't I Close my eyes. Times speeding It's day, it's night, it's night, it's day And it's time I went to sleep. Chorus: Tired and sick, I'm sick and tired, I'm falling on my feet Tired and sick, I'm sick and tired, Wh...

I was bleeding before I saw the blood I was screaming but I soon woke up on that night on that night with you I realized it was gonna be me or you Ooh and it made me feel strange so strange, strange So I knelt down and said my prayers that night...

On a night like this I deserve to get kissed at least once or twice You come over to my place screaming blue murder, needing someplace to hide. Well, I wish you'd keep quiet, Imaginations run riot, In these paper-thin walls. And when the place comes ablaz...

Hey, she'll set the world alight She's looking lost with life But no-one's on fire And still she burns She waits her turn Straight up. Sometimes at least it seems She hears the whole place scream But she finds sleep With light hand relief She's goin...

Why are you talking in code? You talk so loud sometimes we don't understand C'mon give us a sign Wave us a flag or flash me an eye Cos I need you tonight I need you right now I got sweat on my mind But you're taking your time Yeah kiss where it stings...

To the bitter end We go all the way It isn't too far It isn't too far To the bitter end With our wills of iron Souls of coal Hearts of gold To the bitter end Sit on a fence all day Looking for change Any spare change To the bitter end And on the...

Jungle Joe say to Uncle Sam He say leave me alone Let me be just as I am Money grow on tree As we say in Japanee Down Amazonia way Up all night I've been out with the in crowd Uptight, outtasight, alright outtamind You know what I'm trying to say But...

Did you slip the noose when the beast broke loose The elephants graveyard ain't the place to be And white turns black, dies of heart attack The elephants graveyard needs the change of scene You got the money, but who needs the tension And fear's no cheape...

Though it strikes you as seeming a little absurd I'm here to announce the end of the world It'll happen sometime between now and high noon It doesn't give you much time as it's happening real soon It'll start with a whimper, it'll end with a bang It'll le...

I don't mind if you go I don't mind if you take it slow I don't mind if you say yes or no I don't mind at all I don't care if you live or die Couldn't care less if you laugh or cry I don't mind if you crash or fly I don't mind at all I don't...

Every morning 'Bout the break of day Every evening She comes up and she says Na, Na, Na.... She gets up Then she goes outside She don't know what she does But it feels alright She says I I'm a sunny girl Yeah I'm feeling good And it's a shiny worl...

So I turned on the radio and everyone was listening to chicken jazz... See that man over there... He's got cold feet He'd march to the drum But the drummer's Dead beat He's fragile tonight But he says he's clean He's uncertain when he's speaking But...

This is the moment that we come alive I'm handing out the breath and the kiss I'm electric with the snap and the crackle of creation I'm mixing up the mud with the spit So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus Let's traipse the high bronze of t...

I can sleep alone I know how I stay here on my own And now. I wake from sleep with little rest It's 10 by 9 and in a mess A window shut but facing west A worn out rug, an old address And This is my room Yes This is my room I often stay at home I...

I hear a heart beat It's ringing out across the universe It sounds so lost and lonely It must come from somewhere deep inside of us And the operator says "All is calm All is quiet Close your eyes and sleep tonight" This is the world calling This is e...

Oh, I don't wanna have to take your arm But I will, said I will Don't wanna have to damage anyone But I'd kill, kiss and kill I don't intend to take this lying down With my head between my hands, no I don't intend to copy any bird That keeps it's head s...

Too late It's too late God Didn't you get my message Too late It's too late God Didn't you get my call How long How long con Combien ans avant mon respond How long Un a cent Un a cent a mort (or more) Time flies Like a brick Sliding down my face...

Under their thumb Kicked and beaten like an angry rabid dog Under their thumb Squashed and squeezed like a dried-up, rinsed out worm You can't do a thing Best lie still 'til you wait your turn Can't do a thing Your day will come You're under their thum...

Up all night Ooh za za Ooh staying up all night African jungle Big city street The only real difference is in The people you meet Up all night Ooh za za Ooh staying up all night It's an agreeable town It's neat and sedate Why even the muggers ar...

Dark skies are falling down on my head tonight But I looked up and I could clearly see that moon For a second I thought I was somewhere Romantic like Mississippi But I was walking down Chelsea Bayou It takes you by suprise the places you find yourself in...

Live fast Be a spark and glow a while You'll be dead a long, long time Be a shooting star And in one mad moment Burning bright Light the night And make us stand in awe Live fast Be a supernova Explode now while you can Then flashing in the pan Be a...

The offices are emptying their pale-faced wards into the street, Flickering their strip-light eyes, shivering they readjust their lives From the air-conditioned heat. The humdrum and mundane Is nearly driving them insane. But you get hooked so quick to an...

I took a tube train through the subway systems. I rode those tunnels like a six foot mole. I came back out and I was gasping for air. I made it to your place, I was praying you'd be home. We really shouldn't be alone tonight. Let's go to a movie where eve...

Don't be confused You're back in time again It's funny but it's true They state your case Praise your name and the last place Where you lived without a trace Except that face that shone for you That faith belonged to you It saw you through again Those...

If I fall down on my knees And my tear-stained cheeks say please Well yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah And if you take me From this world Of lies and pain and hurt Well yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah From your mouth you breathe The breath of Summer's kiss The magic w...