Chumbawamba

And the company director spins the globe Looks into on atlas of the world A supermarket lifestyle for as all A thousand nations under company control Coca-Cola got machines in every land No-one got the teeth to bite the hand Stole their labor, their culture,...

Chapt. Two - Guess who? Manfred The Great The great king bashed down his goblet on the oaken table as kings do when they want more wine. Everyone was silent. 'Minstrel the noise of chattering women grates on my ears. Play me some music,' he bellowed. A...

The councilor comes with his battered old suit And his head all filled with plans Says “It's not for myself, for the fame or wealth But to help my fellow man.” Fist in the air and the first to stand When the Internationale plays Says “We'll break down the...

Oh, where are you now George? Now that wingers have been laid to rest And shirts have adverts across their breast And it’s all about who’s the richest Where are you now George? With those boots that laced up the side And that Irish shirt that you wore wi...

A Man walks into a bar He Says, "Give me a Bacardi and Coke." The back of beyond repair Welcomes the broken and the broke The latter hitches a ride On the back of second-hand smoke And the man, Well he'd be the punch line In someone elses Joke I'll b...

People would have to be told that if they refuse to answer questions when they might be expected to answer questions, that is something which can be used at the trial and which might strengthen the case against them. Hang Michael Howard, oh c'mon... Act one,...

I'm a loner, alone with neuroses and hate Anger is a permanent character trait My letter bombs are primed and they're ready to send Would you like to add me as a friend? I'm a wound-up whiner with a fetish for guns I'm almost 50 and I live with my Mum I hope m...

Thirty years of the same old shit Of music, money, hit after hit Smiles, lies, sales, walls That's thirty years of rock and roll They changed it's name once or twice Get rebellious with a company deal Business thrives where honesty fails Contracts? Con tricks!...

Anybody can press a button and blow up a ship Anybody can use an atom bomb Anybody can pick up a big whip and whip you Anybody can stick a knife into you Anybody can pull a trigger But where's the man with the character, as can take a punch on the nose and kee...

A visionary pause in the cycle When she refused to buy or sell When the daughters of perfect wives Said there must be more sacrifice Needed more than symbolic change More than silent wasting away In factories and sterile marriages He was God, she was powerless...

A wave for the cameras All fur coat and no knickers Jayne Mansfield she came down To cheer up the town Lord Bono and his pals They were a bit too busy saving the world Well you have to take your hat off to The Edge Those were the days my friend We took the...

I wish I wish But it's all in vain But it's all in vain I wish I wish But it's all in vain But it's all in vain I wish I wish But it's all in vain But it's all in vain Different colours, different faces Different schools in different places Scour the mornin...

Sitting on the shelf when someone called my number With a template in one hand, scissors in the other 'What lump of clay is this?' Said the king maker to me Dull, gray matter, perfect for his alchemy The future flesh and blood on the bones of the big lie A no-...

(Sometimes nuts are tough to crack) (Sometimes nuts are tough to crack) (Sometimes nuts are tough to crack) (Sometimes nuts are tough to crack) Beginning to wonder (Sometimes nuts are tough to crack) (Sometimes nuts are tough to crack) Beginning to wonder (So...

Welcome to Never Mind The Ballots. The phone lines are now open. If you'd like to put a question to the candidates the number to ring is 0532779463. You want jobs? I've got jobs! Hospitals? Top of my list! Tax cuts and platform shoes For every small business...

Goodbye to the summer Sold down the river Unhappy ever after Why did you ever? Did you ever reach for the glued-down penny? Same old joke and it's not that funny Burns are red, bruises blue Out with the old, cheated by the new Do you suffer from long-term memo...

Words to describe Nicaragua of old Cash crops and hunger and US control Coffee and sugar on company land Made to supply what the boss would demand Then one July morning in seventy-nine Nicaragua decided to leave it behind [Chorus] And the people are learning...

The powdered milk That the adverts sell To third world mothers Deprived and ill The little tins Of milk-white-lies For the starving child That wants Yet dies Lured away From the mother's breast By lies imported from the west She cannot keep the bottle cl...

Puppy eyes puppy eyes tearing claws spitting pride Roll over! Roll over! Roll over! Roll over! Pretty please pretty play chase away chase away Nasty nasty snapping nasty biting spitting nasty nasty Hammer hammer teeth nails sit sit sit sit Bitch won't beg bitc...

Daddy was a bankrobber But he never hurt nobody He just loved to live that way And he loved to steal your money Some is rich and some is poor And that's the way the world is But I don't believe in lying back And sayin' how bad your luck is Daddy was a bankro...

The future glints like the moon on an old slate roof And everything you say sounds like the truth The things you did made half my dreams come true And I wanted to be with you And I wanted to be with you Sing your songs of what could be Of all the things you b...

Smiling angels on your milk-white shoulders Scared of heaven and accusing whispers Angles always get the worst advice But they can hire the sharpest lawyers Someone's always telling you how to behave Someone's always tellïng you how to behave Boys and g...

The world is waking outside my window Bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao Drags my senses into the sunlight For there are things that I must do Wish me luck now, I have to leave you Bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao With my friends now up t...

I caught you with your head down the toilet as you were gulping up dirty words, then later dressed in suit and tie, whilst playing to the laughing crowds, you were gargling, spitting, fingers down your throat, making yourself so sick. Vomiting the words that y...

Fighter breaks the web, lights a fire, quite nature Hearing laughter, still and silent, AWAKE THE HUNTER... Man tore the tree of knowledge down and made it into paper money thinking he could buy - himself a better world. MORE MONEY WON'T BUY A BETTER WORLD M...

I'm the boss of the BBC I'm the monkey at the top of the media tree Your version of the riots in Cape Town Comes second-hand from me Chewing and spewing this revolution For popular TV All your opinions are carefully chosen By what we'll let you see Televised c...

When I first came to Commons Lords Life was simple for me Took the milk from the children's mouths You get nothing for free Now if I should sleep… Bury me deep Waging war on those mutineers Cut the heart took the soul Broke the back of the working man...

Watching a butterfly Move over moorland So pretty and colourful Wings catch the sun Such simple beauty attracting a mate For creation of life For the cycle to carry on To carry on Contrast the bomber that turns in the sky Ugly and lifeless and serving no...

I woke up this morning, my temperature high (buy, buy, buy) "I'll never buy nothing again," I lied (buy, buy, buy) My doctor, he told me to stay out of town (buy, buy, buy) He said, "affluenza will get you down" (buy, buy, buy) What did you do in the war, dad...

Don't waste the days when I'm dead and I'm gone Wind up the clocks, ring around, carry on Don't gather flowers, dry your eyes, call your friends For all I sang was a start, not an end. Catch your breath, feel the life in your bones Enjoy what's to come,...

Big tall courthouse, a clock upon the wall A hammer on the table and a copper on the door A judge in front and a jury at the side A judge in front and a jury at the side A judge in front and a jury at the side And a Bible on the stand to say I won't tell lies...

The good folks pull together It's July 4th forever Down in Celebration, Florida The neighbors bring you coffee And everyone's always happy Down in Celebration, Florida There's a bake sell at the schoolhouse And they're selling innocence They're keeping out the...

All of nature in its place By hand of the designer Comes our Charlie spins the world From here to Asia Minor In between the Platypus And perfect Aphrodite Charlie come with opposing thumb To question the Almighty Over the river and over the sea Through h...

A hundred years, a thousand years, We're marching on the road The going isn't easy Yet we've got a heavy load, We've got a heavy load The way is blind with blood and sweat, And death sings in our ears But time is marching on our side, We will defeat the years...

(Woof, woof, woof, woooo) Got my photograph taken with Elvis Circled round the earth in a rocket ship Found the world cup in a garden And I must've saved a million drowning babies You can imagine what a come down Drug-busts and house fires I didn't orbit the...

The summer was over the season unkind In harvest a snow, how uncommon to find The times were oppressive and well it be known That hunger will stronger [?] fences break down Twas then from theirselves the black gentry stepped out With bludgeons determined...

Come on baby Let's do the revolution Six for the record And seven for the t-shirt A picture of the band and a ticket for the promised land Watching all the bouncers Systematically beating up the dancers To the rhythm of a pocket of change Here's the group wit...

I'm the wife of the boss of the company And I always make my husband answer to me With what he says about the blacks, I totally agree The main problem is, they're not civilized, you see Look at the way that they squabble between themselves Rioting at funerals...

The day drags on and stumbles I'm far too tired to smile From the kitchen to the tables I must've walked a thousand miles The man at table number seven He's not where he wanted to be He's far too tired, or he's just been fired, So he takes it all out on...

What a wonderful world... A loose door-jam, a light left on The oldest national lottery Enter Johnny-Go-Darkly Come to spoil my party Smell of faeces lingers Echo of light fingers Cold comfort blankets Steeped in creeping anger Flatfoot comes poking Compound...

Here comes Nicholas, fiddle in hand, into a world that he can't understand. You can't keep pace with the master race, his feet they're going all over the place - he can't see his moves cos there's egg on his face. Dance, idiot, dance! His body's as stiff...

Man found dead in armchair Sitting next to wife transfixed and knitting Channel stays unchanged They dumbly watch, don't make a sound They're force-fed shit From breakfast-time To the closedown T.V. tells them what to be And what to say and what to do How t...

Give me land, lots of land under starry skies above Don't fence me in Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the easy breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Set me up forever but I ask...

Didn't he know it was a waste of time All stitched up by a thin blue line Didn't he know it was a waste of time All stitched up by a thin blue line Well, the facts said yes But the judge said no Go straight to jail and don't pass go He didn't understand And h...

It's a long walk to the gallows It's a small step to swing free The crying in the tower For my conspirators and me Gunpowder and modem And a dream of liberty And then they'll tell you Don't try this at home Oh yes, they'll tell you Don't try this at home If...

Eat, sleep and crap For to prey on your needs Down a dark street In backwater Leeds I seen yer comin' Come in, lads! You seen the ad? Too bad, bad, bad What you get Is what you see It's a trickledown theory And it's coming to me Life's a whip-round And I've g...

All the runners running downhill All the throwers with strap-on muscles Gold, silver, and bronze To the designer-drugs and anabolic steroids Random testing doesn’t exist No promoters will take the risk Street-price injection for a personal best Praise to Roche...

Are you happy here In Themepark, U.K.? And do you sometimes wish That your life was plug and play? And are the words to this song Concise enough to follow? Is your smart food Simple enough to swallow? We're dumbing down Dumb-dee-dumb-dumb Dumbing down Dumb-d...

One, two, one, two, three, four Things were rather different in great grandfather's day He just put a chain around their ankles and made them work for no pay He took everything they owned and yet still demanded more He did a bloody good job in taming the poor...

Theyre the bosses of tomorrow Theyre called the fcs Fascist conservative sheep Who claim to know whats best Tied to dads finances And only just out of school They want progressive capitalism And imperialist rule And it just goes to show That higher education I...

Listen close to this crooked mouth For my story I will tell–o Lived in Mexico by the name of Wenseslao Moguel–o Left my home in Santiago The heart of the city of Merida Served with my brothers and sisters all For the army of Pancho Villa Stand me strai...

HMV, in their moral righteousness, refuse to sell records which contain four-letter words as they are regarded as obscene and in bad taste, and yet Thorn-EMI, their parent company, manufacture and export weapons of war and instruments of torture worldwide. D...

Open your eyes, time to wake up Enough is enough is enough is enough Open your eyes, time to wake up Enough is enough is enough is enough Enough is enough is enough Give the fascist man a gunshot Enough is enough is enough Give the fascist man a gunshot Trying...

It's like the time that this, uh, minister in Indiana claimed that the theme song for Mr. Ed, that old television show (yeah) about the talking horse (mmhmm), if you played the Mr. Ed theme song backwards it said "Satan is the source" Misinformation Misinform...

Some set their hearts on a rocking chair The better to sleep out the days But I'm looking for a reason to kick and scream I don't want to fade away Fade away, fade away I don't want to fade away We think that the power is in our hands 'Cos we're holding the r...

Those who stand accused And those who point the finger Are closer than you want to be 

Lilac growing up the walls This sunny afternoon is ours, after all The sip, sip, sip of the dripping tap Raise the pirate flag and laugh This town, as ugly as sin Hidden from our secret garden We make it up as we go along Sometimes it turns into a song, this...

(Is she really going out with him? Not anymore!) Georgina's cooking supper for her husband All her friends are coming 'round to see the show Because the thief she calls a husband won't be hungry When he sees what's on the end of his fork Georgina isn't askin...

[CHORUS:] Look! No strings! Just paper, glue, and card Hark! The angels sing 'Paste the Lord' That was the Armley tabernacle choir. Next we'll be hearing the true story of an American housewife who claims to have taken mid-air photographs of Jesus Christ in t...

Albert! Bobby! For gods sake burn it down! (Chorus) Nothing ever burns down by itself, every fire needs a little bit of help Nothing ever burns down by itself, every fire needs a little bit of . . Give the anarchist a cigarette. Cos that's as close as h...

Our Glorious Leader Declares by decree: 'The music of the Glorious State from this time on will be Square-jawed and dreary For the good of us all.' Hammer, stirrup and anvil under state control My name is Dimitri Man of some renown In this symphony of spi...

If you want to find the general I know where he is I know where he is I know where he is If you want to find the general I know where he is He's pinning another medal on his chest I saw him, I saw him Pinning another medal on his chest Pinning another medal on...

I'm having a wonderful time drunk on communion wine One sin over the seven Sick all over the stairway to heaven Bullshit, bullshit, priests without a pulpit Shake shake shake your blessed bells Ding dong, heaven calling, buzz buzz buzz, haircut sir You put you...

Tall as houses Small as spiders Undefined this buzz inside us Tightrope walker Chaos order I fell right into heaven/hell Devil take me God forsake me Made my home in heaven/hell Out of ruins growing pains Wide-eyed pirates crossing bones Tightrope walker Ch...

Her majesty's a pretty nice girl but she doesn't have a lot to say Her majesty's a pretty nice girl but she changes from day to day I wanna tell her that I love her a lot, but I gotta get a belly full of wine Her majesty's a pretty nice girl someday I'm gon...

Why settle for what we're shown When there is so much more? Sometimes the Book of Law Is only half the story Means and ends: Deciding where to draw the line Loss or work in Sellafield homes Or the threat of cancers yet to come? The choice is obvious: There is...

Good evening, topping nightcast--a possible link between murder and music Hey, hey, we're the Junkies! Hey, hey, we're the Junkies! Sticky pages in Hello with Hopper as Nero on Rome See the social big guns going bang, bang, bang Hey, hey, we're the Junkies! He...

One year later This queue never moved I've got well dressed slugs Crawling over my shoes And all these bouncers Pushing me around Well I'll huff and I'll puff I'll blow your house down In these hard times No money for the arts No money for a bonus And my car w...

Outside the ground at luton town A crazy opportunist has sprayed upon a wall A simple proclamation for all to read "revolution is a better game than football" 

(Your world, my world) (Your world, my world) San Christobal on New Year's Day (your world, my world) Sunny beach, L.A. (your world, my world) Blue and coral Kirkstall skies (your world, my world) Timorese sunrise (your world, my world) Fairfield Horsesho...

Up behind the bus stop in the toilets off the street There are traces of a killing on the floor beneath your feet Mixed in with the piss and beer are bloodstains on the floor From the boy who got his head kicked in a night or two before. Homophobia-the wo...

I'm the Boss of the company And I've got hunger working for me Listen and you'll begin to understand I built my profits on stolen land It's the economics of supply and demand And I make the demands around here Product sells, people die Same manipulation wrappe...

Of larks trains windows and brooks The poet he writes it all down in his book Won't meet your eye but he wants you to look In Hull or hell he lies Lambs in the winter and swans in the spring Children at play they're like birds on the wing And the poet he w...

Rejoice, just rejoice at that news This girl has got the midlife blues She lost her favourite marble again It rolled down the nearest drain A swing to the right and she's under attack Much-sought-after property, completely detached Plunging at the neck and da...

We'll be singing When we're winning We'll be singing 2x I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down Pissing the night away Pissing the night away He drinks a whisky drink He drinks a vodka drink He drinks a lager drink...

Brown shirts don't make it Brown shirts don't make it Brown shirts don't make it Brown shirts don't make it Brown shirts don't make it Brown shirts don't make it With a little bit of luck (I bet, I bet) With a little bit of luck (I bet, I bet) With a little b...

Blue-rinse sugar. Wipe-clean couple. Pinched last supper. Counting pretty penny John Betjeman. Some dead liar. Quiet pink picture. Under heavy manners. [BRIDGE] This is Tearoom England. They'll kick your face in So politely. This is Tearoom England. They'll k...

Six in the morning don't want to wake Sun laying low and the world sleeping late Hate like the river runs heavy and deep Oh I wish that they'd sack me and leave me to sleep Five days from seven the week's hardly mine The alarm clock's gone over to enemy line...

Ahh, let's kiss and make up Ahh, Let's dig the grave up Ahh, let's have a shake up Ahh, let's kiss and make up I'm coming out I had a fling with Doris Day I'm coming out I almost got her in the family way I'm coming out I gotta see what the papers say I'm comi...

C'mon Norman Rockwell come on in Hang your dirty coat on the door Don't you worry 'bout the cops downstairs They're just digging up the cellar floor I'm in trouble again I'm in trouble again I'm in trouble again Tried to be so squeaky clean but I'm in trouble...

By the time I got to Woodstock It was going up in flames In June under a silvery moon Why do all your songs turn out the same? Got got got got, not got Got got got got, not got Got got got got, not got Got got got got, not got I'm not sorry I was having fun I...

Stupid, stupid, stupid... [repeats] Guess what? I'm with stupid Guess what? 'Cause I'm with you Guess what? I'm with stupid Guess what? 'Cause I'm with you Another white boy band They're happy on demand Everything is planned Until the singer gets a habit Guess...

Have you been to work at Idris? No we won't go in today! For we're standing by our comrade And we'll never run away She stood bravely by the Union And she spoke up for us true And if she gets the sack No we never shall go back What e'er they do, what e'er...

If it is to be, it is up to me [repeats] And as we sail, blows wild the gale And as we sail, blows wild the gale If it is to be, it is up to me [repeats] Sweet flows the water Yellow as royal piss Speech turns to stammer Your lips are too tight to kiss I've...

In the dark times, will we be singing? Yes, we'll be singing of the dark times. Every new day's dawn Brings a song of it's own Waiting to be sung. Every new day's dawn Brings a song of it's own 

The first world's got greedy, we're consuming it all The third world's got hunger and military control This unequal balance is a master plan One gets rich from the other's land They've got it all worked out and we give our consent They've got it all worked o...

Jacob's ladder Like rusty old nails, at the bottom of the sea Telling no tales, for the good of the Admiralty You jump when you're told to, through the open door And the King of Norway, hes the man you all died for On this, Jacob's Ladder The only way u...

And I'll give you a free ride to this underground stadium. They'll pick up the fair and they'll even tip you, don't even worry about it, man. You'll love this joint. We'll stop off, we'll buy some booze, and, uh, you'll bring it in and it's just incredible. Th...

It is a real pleasure to be here with you this afternoon. I always count it a priviledge whenever I have the opportunity to stand before a group of students in an assembly such as this. You know, most of you are at the point in life when you're making the deci...

And uh, uh, every (security) (no, let him stay) no (let him stay) well at least it's a fruit pie (let's pray for him right now, Anita, let's pray, Anita, why don't you pray, that's all right) father, we want to thank you for the opportunity of coming to Des Mo...

Don't tell me lies I want it all [Repeat] I don't need fingerprints So button up your coat Before you catch your death of cold Throw away your books They're building windmills Three miles up Out on the moors There's an empire waiting [Chorus] Look at me now...

The weekend booze-up, out with your mates To the indian restaurant--open til late Mugs out of nightclubs, hungry and cold Last chance for action before they stagger home Work, ties, empty minds. Years of lies, dumb and blind Caged, bound and ready to ruck Crud...

Sometimes when I'm feeling lonely I just want some arms around me It doesn't matter how he walks It doesn't matter how he talks It doesn't matter if he's pretty It doesn't matter if he's ugly I just want to feel those arms around me and kiss 'Cause what's a ki...

There's a hole in your knickers, dear Calvin, dear Calvin, There's a hole in your knickers, dear Calvin, A hole! Now let's see what happens with Ba-ba-black sheep... Ba-ba-black sheep, have you any wool? Dramatic! 

We're the ladies for compassionate lynching We fight for all the things we believe We spend all of our time on your talk shows We put the stickers on your record sleeves 

Sometimes feels like singing your life away F sharp minor up and down the motorway Too dog-tired; wouldn't want it any other way Laughter in a time of War Love on a Monday, football on a Saturday Home-grown strawberries to justify the rain Sometimes I d...

I courted a man from the Lancs Fusiliers He gave me his heart and so I loved him dear For he took me a-courting and he taught me to dance Then he marched with the infantry over to France He told me to wait he'd be back in a year Now seventeen months I have wi...

It's such an easy step From let's forget to lest we forget We haven't learned this yet From Cold Harbor lane to Oklahoma and back again The problems stay the same It's such an easy step From let's forget to lest we forget We haven't learned this yet We haven'...

There's always been a pattern of struggle and defeat Never that cycle incomplete Never enough to tip the scales Too many people rotting in jails Or bloodied on the battlefields The history books from every age Have the same words written on every page Always s...

Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie I failed the audition for celebrity squares Your life is a dream, then you wake up You watch friends together, then you break up I could win an oscar, i could be so sincere Lie lie...

Look, no strings--just paper, glue, and card Hark, the angels sing 'Paste the Lord' That was the Armley tabernacle choir. Next we'll be hearing the true story of an American housewife who claims to have taken mid-air photographs of Jesus Christ in the skies of...

Lord Bateman runs an inn out on the A65 Sort of place where everybody drinks before they drive Weekends runs a motorbike to Scarborough and back He’s not too many brandies from a second heart attack John Barleycorn he works the land and drinks at Bateman’s Inn...

Here's the devil in disguise Hits me right between the eyes Like a thief out of the night Someone taught him how to fight [Chorus] Love can knock you over Love can knock you over Tongue-tied and crucified Cross my heart and hope to die But I'll get up again A...

I'm an anarchist I'm the anti-christ Well sort of not really It's not big not clever And I'm quite a reansonable fella Your friendly uncle good with kids good ol' paternalist pop good cop bad cop good cop bad cop good cop good cop I was a wannabe and wannabe d...

Marching round in circles round another institution Whilst the people on the inside are planning our destruction Marching round in circles round another institution Another demonstration that our freedom's an illusion They knew that we were coming We asked th...

No virgin me For I have sinned I sold my soul For sex and gin Go call a priest All meek and mind And tell him, "Mary Is no more a child." It's raining stones It's raining bile From the luxury Of your denial So I don't deny I don't make do I'll p...

Here we are at Menwith Hill they dug a hole on land not theirs. filled with computers called Menwith Hill: 7 floors down, hidden from view, official secret, don't let us know how they spend money whilst people starve. They call it progress, "this year's thing"...

Walking down the street on my own Lost in the world of my headphones Uhhhuuhuu... Safe inside the boom and the hiss Marking out the time with my feet The d and the s of the beat Uhhhuuhuu... Wondering if there's something that I missed 

Well, madam, how'd you like it, maybe plenty off the back? I heard the coiners took the scissors to the Union Jack, With a snipper and a clipper and a bloody close shave Making fivers, tenners, twenties, change. What's your size? What's the hours? No, you don...

Children in school forced to the desk Finger the atlas and study the text Lies and opinion presented as fact Taught to accept and never to ask Those smiling workers in Ladybird books They're not picking coffee at all They're busy with bricks and mortar Buildi...

Unholy Sunday A winter's day (Mine is the kingdom) Church bells ring a million miles away (Forever and ever) Nowhere to go, nothing to do But stay here warm in bed with you The morning after The night before Sunday after Saturday (The morning after) Sunday...

Oh, Charleton Heston, your father's favorite son Walks in whistling Casey Jones Moses with a gun Oh, Charleton Heston, your father's favorite son Round and round and ad infinitum 

(Chorus) Can't hear you 'cause your mouth's full of shit Can't hear you 'cause your mouth's full of shit Do something about it (Repeat chorus) Well I'm really back to basics right beside a bar Choke the double trouble big one to the joker with the card Good ca...

Mr. Heseltine you drove into our town The northern rain always drizzling down Shoppers at the window stop to look As you sign another copy of your book 'Cause you have all the power And you have all the wealth And we've got nothing but ourselves We've got noth...

This coat my royal gown A stolen hand-me-down No need to scrape and bow We can be heroes now For more than just one day Heres how Look both ways when crossing roads Dont wear slippers till youre old Never do what you are told Never do what you are told Never d...

These red azaels Never grew so tall This well of loneliness Could rise and drown us all There is no right or wrong Thigs fall as they do Pulled by the sun & the moon Forever comes too soon People come/people go But still I’ll never let go Ideas come/idea...

In the event of something happening to me There is something I would like you all to see It's just a photograph of someone that I knew Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones? Do you know what it's like on the outside? Don't go talkin' too loud, you'll cause a landsl...

First time in New York, just seventeen in a motel full of poets, drunks and queens. I walk the city streets into the night to see Manhattan in the early morning light. On the corner of a street they laugh and talk, the young men watch me coming, block my...

[Chorus] Wondering Have I given up dreaming? Come down from the ceiling I won't do that again Thinking My misspent history Mistakes to teach me I won't do that again Dreams I kept as a child Kept me quiet and hypnotized Cooked away my valentines Served myself...

I dreamt the cliffs and ride the waves And no one comes to save me My arms are sprawled against the tide Nothing knocks me over Nothing knocks me over Nothing knocks me over From the fire into the frying pan I jump because I can I choose to gamble with my lif...

Same seven notes and some slag poet's quotes Stick them together with glue You can mix a fine cocktail from memories And pretend what you're drinking is new But there's nothing that's new under heaven [Chorus] There's nothing that hasn't been done Pour me anot...

Mr Kokoschka, it just happened again (sad, so sad) They struck the museum like a hurricane (sad, so sad) All of our culture, it's dead and it's gone (sad, so sad) From Babylon, baby, back to Babylon (sad, so sad) There's stuff you find along the way and stuff...

Pontius Pilate came to our town Up to the dockyards to see the picket line We asked him to help but he just turned around He's the leader of the union now Leader of the union All of our questions he ignored He washed his hands and he dreamt of his reward A se...

Peace won't come Peace won't come Peace won't come by words alone There's a world in front of you You've only got a certain space to go I go to me factory and come back That's supposed to be my bit of seeing the world The whole world in front of you The whole...

Outsider Outsider Outsider Outsider... I'm not alone, you're not alone You see me, you hear me There are millions think just like me I'm not alone, you're not alone You see me, you hear me There are millions think just like me I'm not alone, you're not al...

Shiny button-down clown suit Oxymoron [Repeat] Fucked up the simplest of chores Mister constant consternation And his declaration of war Makes a fist out of demands With his plasticene hands Matey makes a big, big deal And matey makes a big big meal Boasts of...

Come on, come on, come on Send this song to twenty people Add your name, don't break the cycle Pass it along by word of mouse Save the world, don't leave the house Because a virtual office in a virtual home Means you'll never have to drive through the wrong pa...

Attention please, this is the final call for flight one seven two one Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Jack Straw, bye bye, all bye bye Billy Graham, Gerhard Schroeder, Tony Blair, bye bye, all bye bye Boris Yeltsin, Mick Hucknall, Tipper Gore, bye bye, all bye by...

Preserved and safe on a high-up shelf Where soiled little fingers can't mess Catalogued labeled and rarely-played Polished and pure and possessed Aaahaa - That's not music Aaahaa - That's a pickle Aaahaa - That's not music Aaahaa - That's a pickle Best keep...

A phonebox rendezvous, don't whisper a word Half a million by Monday Or Roger Waters gets it My little baby, they cut off his ear Half a million by Tuesday, then Don't whisper a word Shhh 

'Poverty poverty knock,' my loom is a saying all day Poverty poverty knock, gaffer's too skinny to pay Poverty poverty knock, keeping one eye on the clock I know I can guttle when I hear my shuttle go, 'poverty poverty knock' Up every morning at five, I wonde...

Maria, she sits in the same easy chair Framed by the sun from outside Sings 'Madame Butterfly' over again Black daisies For the bride [opera in background] Encores and curtain calls, flowers and cheers And so many people to see! Puccini said "One day, Miss...

Hear the ghosts of ever after Yell of anger Ring of laughter Don't go gently into the night Rage against the dying of the light 

[Spoken word piece:] Leaving at 11:00, walking past your windows see the kitchen, full of television?? men who grow up in silence, need a voice old and ordinary, she didn't understand... Logic was simple, based upon reason a nice girl wouldn't be out alone SO...

[Chorus] And if you survive me I Never gave up Tell them this I Never gave up And if you survive me I Never gave up Tell them this Almost as if I were planning ahead I drank, I ate, I made love I learnt to snatch whatever I could I never asked for pity and I n...

George looks gorgeous in pinstripes, pocket handkerchief and cravat, swaggering out of the Band On The Wall in a burgundy Homberg hat, singing "Ratatatay, ratatatay!" George after-hours and the worse for whisky when somebody shouts "Hey, you!" in a pitch...

Dreaming that you're quietly driving by Waking, wiping sleep out of your eyes Watching firry cocktails in the sky Rebel code, rebel code Huddled in the cellars underground They're tapping out a code to bring you down Hacking into every home in town Rebel code...

It's good of you to ask me sir How I spend my days Water glass and ladders sir Working for my pay Back home I saw a future sir Learnt my father's trade But here that counts for nothing sir Paradise betrayed Looking through the windows All your world to se...

Goodbye RP Let our words go free Coo and howl Lay flat your vowels Ah ay ee Goodbye RP Tongue uncross your t's Slang and slur Bah and burr They thy thee Goodbye RP Teachered tyranny Speed this end Our ows to bend... Who were he wi'? 

Thirty years of the same old shit; (of rock and roll ignorance) of music, of money of hit after hit... from blue swede shoes and back again different era same old game. They changed it's name once or twice, dressed if different, and upped the price and if any...

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree How bent your branches seem to be Nineteen twenty-one and all's well Another fifteen years and we'll be laughing in hell One bullet straight through the heart Rubens caught a ricochet, Durer's lady cried today Cracked old m...

I don't love you for your graveyard eyes I don't love you for your shaven thighs I just love you for that Beat-beat-beat-beat-beating I don't love you for your tattered tie I don't love you, and I don't know why I just love you for that Beat-beat-beat-...

Part punk, part God almighty Part fuck you, part Mister X-ray Eyes I didn't choose to be shouting for a living It happened Something snapped and I don't know why Too many slaps? Too many priests? Fumbled sex in parks? Or just a part of the me, me, me generati...

Salt fare, North Sea (repeats) Roll on, roll off With these words I drown Topmast secured Hatches battened down Sometimes I think It must be different on land But from the mast I can only see tyrants Still in command Fish and Chip supper Battered, no bones Hun...

Lately it seems no-one cares anymore That peace is a place where we rest between wars I know oh I know we've been here before It's the same old It's the same old It's the same old same old. 

Aftershave and smoke And the same unfunny jokes They say they'll take you "Anywhere but there" Believe every half whispered Half remembered lie Where truth is a luxury They can't afford to buy Scapegoat Looking for a scapegoat Scapegoat Looking for...

They try in vain our minds to chain They try in vain our minds to chain I'm up in the stars Looking down at the gutter When I'm good I'm very good But when I'm bad I'm better Oh barman, fill this glass again And keep on pouring 'til death says when Oh barman...

Shake it, shake it Shake it, shake it Shake, baby, shake the memories away (Shake it, shake it) Shake this grown-up Barbie doll of a day (Shake it, shake it) She gets Hugh Hefner, but she forgets the year She just shakes her yeah, yeah, yeah Shake it, shake...

She's got all the friends that money can buy She's the apple of her Daddy's eye She's got all the friends that money can buy She's the apple of her Daddy's eye The family money has a magnetic pull (yeah yeah yeah) Her social diary is always full And both her...

[Chorus] Hear nothing, see nothing, feel nothing, say nothing Hear nothing, see nothing, feel nothing, say nothing L A U G H I N G laughing L A U G H I N G laughing Just when you figured it out someone lets you down Who'll make all the wrong decisions when the...

Hey diddle diddle, here's a brand new riddle What's shallow and cheap with a hole in the middle? [CHORUS:] Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies (Behave!) All I want is the truth; just give me some truth (Behave!) Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies (Be...

I don't want to sing about anger and hate I don't want to sing about fear and defeat I don't want to sing about the things I always sing about I wish I could sing about love I don't want to sing about war and greed I don't want to sing about those we can't...

Half the front's out there, half-buried Some of them alive The rest of us, we freeze and pray for Spring "Dearest Mother, fill my lungs till victory or food arrives" What else can we do out here but sing? Sixteen years and never been kissed Singing out the...

This is the last one Organize, occupy, kick the bastards out Don't wear the gold lam In keeping with the fashion for charity, not change Here's out contribution--we've called it Slag Aid For every pop star that we slag off today Twenty-five million pounds will...

One, two, three, four Slap Fleet Street fell in love But the girl proved hard to get Took a seat at the old boy's club But wouldn't share the bed Cuppas for the troops Bubbly-gum and wire Trojan horses, Black & Tans They're running for their lives Royals c...

And every morning comes too soon All your nights are sleepless Poison arrows (To ruin your tomorrows) Below suspicion Cafes full of people dressed as spies And all I know (Is guilt for being different) It's always raining stones (There's a killer in th...

Rain on me o friendly fire Smart bomb! Me 'n' Audrey gonna sing it for ya Smart bomb! A headache pill to die for Smart bomb! From all participating stores Smart bomb! Oooh Smart bomb! Shine on me o benign virus Smart bomb! Uranium from Arms-R-Us Smart bomb! He...

Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde, can you tell me where you've been? I've been down to London town to pay a visit to the Queen. Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde, can you tell me what you saw? I saw the Queen and all her coutiers cooking up new laws; I saw the corridors of pow...

Attend you gallant Irishmen and listen for a while I'll sing to you the praises of the sons of Erin's Isle It's of those gallant heroes who voluntarily ran To release two Irish shamrocks from an English prison van My lads for freedom, let's all join heart and...

La la la la la la la la la... Built with lives Remembered in plans A history of no-ones: For the glory of just one man Should Smith now fall Then Taylor takes his place We're measuring our progress By burying our waste Pyramids, palaces Railways and mills...

Well madam how'd you like it, maybe plenty off the back? I heard the coiners took the scissor to the Union Jack, with a snipper and a clipper and a bloody close shave making fivers, tenners, twenties, change. What's your size? What's the hours? No, you don't n...

I'm just scraping the social dogma from the bottom of my soul No beat, no rhythm No beat, no rhythm No beat, no rhythm Can you name him? We'll bring you the answer when we come back 

Two little ducks sank with a knock, knock, knock She got twenty on tick and smoked the bloody lot The fridge was bare, the dog was bones Weavin' and a-bobbin' when the tallyman calls Mary, Mary, she went up the wall And she kissed bye-bye to the holiest Joe Pl...

For someone To drop that bomb Someone else must play a part A link in the chain eight hours a day Never thinking of morality Follow commands, blindly obey Someone else Could it be you? Think about what you do And for who Who Who Someone else must tell the...

Two little ducks sank with a knock knock knock She got twenty on tick and smoked the bloody lot The fridge was bare, the dog was bones Weavin' and a-bobbin' when the tallyman calls Mary, Mary, she went up the wall And she kissed bye bye to the holiest Joe Play...

I'm not the kind of man Who'd live a quieter life Just for a minute's silence One, two, three, four Some say it all without a word Silence can be mightier than the sword They took the two three five They turned it upside down Why run away to the circus When...

I'm always waiting I'm sick of waiting For the day my luck will change I've spent enough time In queues and bread lines In hope of better days These thieves and scroungers And lazy bastards If I move they'll steal my place Steal like this State does And who's...

You working men of England, one moment now attend While I unfold the treatment of the poor upon this land For nowadays the factory lords have brought the labor low And daily are contriving plans to prove our overthrow So arouse you sons of freedom, the...

Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die fo... A dog stares into a gramaphone trumpet Waits for his call to...

I'm having a wonderful time Drunk on communion wine One sin over the seven Sick all over the stairway to heaven Bullshit, bullshit, priests without a pulpit Shake, shake, shake your blessed bells Ding dong, Heaven calling, buzz, buzz, buzz, haircut, sir You...

So this husband came home drunk each night And he thrashed her black and he thrashed her white He thrashed her to within an inch of her life Then he slept like a log, did her husband But as he lay and snored in bed A strange idea came into her head So she went...

There's a storm In every port There's a storm There's a storm In every port In Liverpool or South Georgia Listen to the words of a bribed reporter Propaganda keeps us dumb Believing all the shit that we read in The Sun There's a storm In every port There's...

[spoken] "Bang, the little drummer takes a solo, reaching his young hands all over traps and kettles and cymbals and foot-peddle BOOM in a fantastic crash of sound – but what will happen?" The dance halls are dark now The ballrooms are closed No wax for my n...

OK, this one's called "Whitewash" When was the very first time you saw Chumbawamba? In my dreams! Ha! Working in a forge, black lungs, burnt skin Callouses, arched back, hammering, hammering Stalin watching over us pigeon shit head We'd spit on the floor at th...

The merry brown hares came a-leaping Over the crest of the hill Where the clover and corn lay a-sleeping Under the moonlight so still Leaping so late and so early ‘Till under their bite and their tread The swedes and the wheat and the barley Lay cankered and t...

There are those Spend the night under bridges Over by the river Down in the park through the winter But there's a house that I know Safe and warm And no-one ever goes there (Down where the priests bless the wine...) She's been born into the wrong time She ke...

Full employment, slave labor, and schemes An unemployed workforce, the capitalist's dream But lets keep Britain working--either way we must keep Britain working Conventional weapons to kill people nicely Nuclear weapons to keep the peace But weapons definitely...

Oh where are you going? said Milder to Moulder Oh we may not tell you! said Festel to Fose We're off to the wood! said John the Red Nose We're off to the wood! said John the Red Nose And what will you do there? said Milder to Moulder Oh we may not tell you! sa...

We're taught that after the war the Nazis vanished without a trace But battalions of fascists still dream of a master race The history books, they tell of their defeat in '45 But they all came out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died? They say the pri...

If you should walk out in the morning To fetch your water from the well Good people please beware Little children do take care Watch out for the devil's interval When strumming through the woods in springtime When evening blackbirds coo and caw Such sounds of...

You noble diggers all stand up now, stand up now You noble diggers all stand up now The wasteland to maintain sin (?) cavaliers by name Your digging does maintain and persons all defame Stand up now, stand up now Your houses they pull down stand up now,...

Fairless, Bailey, Pharaoh, Hepperties, Rally, Ruffle, Challen, So... Travelga, Fiddister, Irisy, Fiscay, Umber, Forfend, Promity forth time. This is the Good Ship Lifestyle All my friends jumped ship I elect me the captain This is the loneliest voyage I've ev...

That was really good Yeah, wasn't it? Yeah... Uh, what about the record? Ah, they'll get it... It's a no-no I've gotta heave-ho I got no stomach for a dumbed-down tomato Gene genie, rogue soya beanie Get thee behind me patent margarinie Here's to you and yo...

Have a word with your Patron Saint Cover up the cracks with a lick of paint All The exit doors are all double-locked Because St Sebastian sways but doesn't rock Here's to you - you put up a fight You're the last to leave, now turn out the light You danced to...

The Ogre does what Ogres can One prize beyond his reach – Conquers those who write the world But cannot master speech Among the hurt and slain On subjugated plain The Ogre's words so morbid and mundane. 

The Folk Society meet on Thursday nights Clear their throats and put their coughs to flight To sing the dusty cobwebs from the room A repertoire both in and out of tune Don't assume a singalong, or worse This history in song and countless verse Pays homage to...

Once upon a time Days of wine and roses and smug suburban swine Same old songs, same old cabaret A fairytale in Notting Hill Take your partners for the standing still Once upon a time Not so happy ending for the Mersey and the Tyne Who said the story had to en...

No more chant your old rhymes about old Robin Hood His feats I do little admire I'll sing the achievements of General Ludd Now the hero of Nottinghamshire. Brave Ludd was to measures of violence unused 'till his sufferings became so severe That at last to def...

I meet my love under the stars So far from watching eyes Five long years we've met this way My love, the night and I So much in love we walked 'til dawn Far away from city walls In forest shelter-covered field A flower blooms as darkness falls This love so b...

Said the party to the ad-man We'll conjure up a gimmick The way to lead an ass Is with a carrot and a stick Dig down for minorities Promise them concessions Ride in on their backs And then teach them all a lesson Unemployment means depression You're just victi...

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go Old Thomas Edison, mixing up the medicine Messing up time from Accrington to Amazon See them all come with their wires and booms And their itchy little...

In sixteen forty-nine to St. George's Hill A ragged band they called the Diggers came to show the people's will They defied the landlords, they defied the laws They were the dispossesed reclaiming what was theirs 'We come in peace,' they said, 'to dig and sow'...

Through eating too much supper Before I went to bed Strange thoughts came o'er my slumber Strange thoughts came in my head This world was topsy-turvy And people of renown Were doing the most peculiar things As they world turned upside down I dreamt all men w...

I'm Judas Judy, panicking, got everything and nothing Happy birthday mister president I'm here to call your bluff From the top of the world I'm gonna jump, jump, jump I'm so perfectly imperfect and I did it for your love I'm as small as Thumbelina, sugar fairy...

This girl She didn’t turn out Quite the way she was supposed to do Ooh This girl She got bored of all the things They brought her up to say She newer meant them anyway This girl She got caught out On the multi-storey car park Throwing goodbye notes...

Roll up roll up The greatest show on Earth Animals clowns freaks misfits contortionists Fun for all the family Currently residing in the 'where are they now' file All tied up in elastic Stubborn like weeds they've been here all the while I saw the egis...

Heads bowed, eyes down, here comes the enemy To hail the people's victory! Which people? What victory? It's the People's Army that murdered the people They've come to glue the shattered, battered statues in the square Heads bowed, eyes down, here comes the ene...

Stop now Whats that sound Everybody looks whats going down I am a timebomb A ticking ticking ticking timebomb Unattented on the railway station In the litter at the dancehall Sitting pretty near the fast-food counter In the backseat of a vauxhall I am a time...

Bert told Brecht Brecht told Bert Words like birds flew right around the world Right around the world Right around the world Words flew right around the world Beware! Don't look away! Hear what the poet has to say Songs and rhymes for the worst of times Paper...

And now, the reverand Abraham Meakley- saver of souls Though they broke my legs, they gave me a crutch to walk Though they broke my legs, they gave me a crutch to walk Though they broke my legs, they gave me a crutch to walk Though they broke my legs, they gav...

Words on a postcard from far away Spoke of a time long ago Laughed ourselves daft on that Saturday Singing here we go I'm a taxi driver I'm a postal worker I'm an office cleaner I'm a striking docker I'm a ballet dancer I'm a Zapatista I'm a pop singer I'm a w...

Well, we got James Hetfield And we tied him up tight Naked and cold We kept the strip lights bright Said what have you got for us James He said nothing at all So we dragged some speakers In from the hall James James James Just give us names names names James...

Product sells People die Same revolution Wrapped in lies In these sexist, drugged-up Rock and roles The biggest prizes To the biggest fools Ask the puppet-masters Who pull the strings 'Who makes the money When the puppets sing?' Ask the corporations 'Where...

(The truth is, I thought it mattered) (I thought that music mattered.) (But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter) (We'll be singing, when we're winning, we'll be singing) I get knocked down, but I get up again You nay ever gonna keep me down...

Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Your ugly Your ugly Your ugly houses look so (repeat) 

You sometimes wonder and you sometimes wonder Ten thousand Deutschmarks to hand me over Oh you sometimes wonder and you sometimes wonder You can make a living sometimes wondering Don't think these bones can be sold when I'm long gone Don't think that I should...

Lights out, the fun begins. Can't sleep when I'm listening in. Under cover, that sound - My connection to the underground. Underground... My connection to the underground. Transistor, tiny spark. A bigger, better world in the dark. Under cover, I found My con...

(White-whitewash, white-whitewash) When you don't want to feed the world When you just want to feed your bank balance Wash your guilt away (Whitewash) Unilever Washes whiter (whitewash) Soap to clean those dirty hands And a slap for the people who work the l...

In the age before the information age Making history and living for the days We told our stories then in oh so many ways We were unpindownable The moth it changed between the chimney and the tree I grew feet so I could crawl out from the sea No-one dares...

Seigfried Sassoon on the Dunbar End (Everyone sang) When strangers became your new best friends (Everyone sang) It was Armistice Day, and peace broke out (Everyone sang) Sometimes a melody is louder than a shout. (Everyone sang) Somebody struck up a song We d...

I'm laying on the pavement And the last thing I recall Picked up by the arms and legs And taken from the hall For squaring up to culture In the circle and the stall All because they're playing Wagner at the opera All because they're playing Wagner at the oper...

My name is Gary Tyler, Louisiana-born Shadow of the poplar tree on fields all ripe with corn Sixteen years I counted on the rising of the sun I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home Of all the Disunited States divided black and white Louisiana taught me...

Just take a ticket It takes you nowhere They saw us coming It's them and us here Just keep your voice down And light another I am a patient girl I wait, I wait, I wait It's not your money Don't call me stupid Not big, not clever Mean can mean awkward It's Wiga...

A new crusade to the Holy Land Walking into battle with the Lord An army of men under my command Walking into battle with the Lord Fight the good fight here at home Walking into battle with the Lord Send those men to kingdom come Walking into battle wit...

Driving on the bypass to Damascus I saw a preacher trying to hitch a ride With a pair of broken wings And a suitcase full of sins He gathered up his dreams and jumped inside Pulling Malatesta from his suitcase He lifted up his voice and began to sing 'My hymns...

Tap, tap, tap in the chatrooms We're learning how to make a bomb Hmm, well whatever We don't want to sing along We don't want to sing along We don't want to sing along We know every word to the song But we don't want to sing along Oh Marilyn, she'll desert m...

We know what we want We know what we've got But what do we need? 

When Alexander met Emma The first day she came to New York Sachs's Cafe in Manhattan Coffee and cigarettes and talk Sun beating down on the East Side Introductions are made in the haze Emma, meet Alexander - Emma just smiles as she says: "Take my hand. I'll t...

Along with the shoes and the shirts and the ties There's a library that's lost when an old man dies. 

With her friends on a road less travelled On a journey of do's and dares Looking back on a fear of leaving And forgetting how it felt to be scared There are those paying fancy prices To pretend they have fancy lives But at every charity banquet The majority...

They try in vain our minds to chain They try in vain our minds to chain I'm up in the stars Looking down at the gutter When I'm good I'm very good But when I'm bad I'm better Oh barman, fill this glass again And keep on pouring 'til death says when Oh barman...

William Francis, noble lord His fortune built on sweat and sword Built an empire tall as a hill But he don't have fun and he never will My, my Sees the world so far below And though he tries, he'll never know Friends to greet the breaking of day And love to p...

I wish, I wish, but it's all in vain It is a great thing that we have an unarmed police force in this country. It is perhaps an even greater thing that a force that is unarmed is able to shoot so many people. On hands and knees Floors like these Washing away...

Strap these words Around your waist Open arms A last embrace Go make your peace Commonplace Take the train A last goodbye Throw your rhymes At passers-by ‘One Love' On your hi-fi Words Words is all Around the underground And ticket halls Declaring peace...

April morning summer come soon Clouds follow after Morning sun is hidden by noon Day shrouded over Tears to face the morning news We watch our future burn And wonder if we'll ever learn That words can save us War in Broken Promise Land Fame fear and gunfire...

With a w and a w and a w dot With a w and a w and a w dot With a w and a w and a w dot Ooh Mr. Murdoch can I show you around? A new religion, no beat no rhythm Just Wal-Mart wall to wall A Kodak baby in the land of plenty Honey, I blew up the world With a w an...

For all those feet in ancient times For stepping out of line Dragging time and tide Against the keepers of the past The flags of class and caste Limp upon the mast All your week you were someone's slave Today you're a free man If they tell you you can't Then...

You can't trust anyone nowadays [Repeat] Brown shirts don't make it [Repeat] I'm not so brave and I'm not too crazy And I'd rather be a coward than pushing up daisies Never rocked the boat, never tipped the scales Never got off the fence, never had that much t...

Take a seat, have a cigarette We're here to help you to forget To snap you shut like a castanet Tell me where it all went wrong Why don't you write the kind of songs For people to sing along? I used to play The violin Now I spend my days just Listening in...

You watched me dance from right to left You watched me dance from left to right And every time I learned the steps You changed them overnight Every twist every turn Every waltz I danced alone Now the steps are old and worn You watched me dance.