Gang of Four

How can I sit and eat my tea, with all that blood flowing from the television. At a quarter to six, I watch the news, Eating, eating all my food As I sit watching the red spot In the egg which looks like All the blood you don't see on the television....

Where did it all begin? Where's the proof of life? Who is on my side? Is there a blind man's guide? Can I hitch a ride when the lifeboats slide? Don't know if what I know is true, what's the golden rule, where am I going to? All the workers do what they do,...

Education is their business Women to know that they are equal Why work for love if it shows no profit You'll only earn emotional losses Wasting time a hole in the wallet There is only one condition Stay in bed or in the kitchen Better not (you'll onl...

Who is that? Just what is your business Fate is in your hands And your decisions A man with a good car needs no justification Fate is in my hands and in the transmission I know that you think that you know what I said (Poor Tom, monkey on his back) But...

A piece of my heart cries out loudly For the funeral of innocence To tell the truth, this elaborate story Of goodness not so plausible Stay at home at night The mark of Cain is upon you There's a sign on your forehead There's no way you can stay out A...

Woke up this morning desperation A.M. What I've been saying, won't say them again My heads not empty, it's full with my brain The thoughts I'm thinking like piss down a drain And I feel like a beetle on its back And there's no way for me to get up Love'...

The information I was given as follows: Take care not to fall in love For confirmation I was given as follows: Take care not to fall like dominoes It's okay while we touch It's okay while we touch It's okay in a clutch While we sleep what dreams may com...

Armalite rifle police and ira Armalite rifle use it everyday Breaks down easy fits into a pram A child can carry it do it no harm Armalite rifle and the holy trinity It's used against you for irish jokes and the bbc Armalite rifle please skew the aim Ar...

At home he feels like a tourist At home he feels like a tourist He fills his head with culture He gives himself an ulcer He fills his head with culture He gives himself an ulcer Down on the disco floor They make their profits From the things they sell...

He drives all week Where does he go? Only down one way streets He does not know The car's not his Car's not his What does he care? Does he care? Goes A to Zed A to Zed And back from there And back from there Parks in a mall Hears taped birds cal...

He's not a machine But he's processing that code Intermittent contacts Arc as he overloads You trust in fate You trust in fate [Chorus:] He don't know He don't sleep at night And so he's getting ill He's in a waking dream (He's talking, broken talk...

All the boys are loving all the girls Who screen the sun, can't stand the rain Moving under not over time The sun will shine on Red rust wreck is off his mind Down on the highway there to die Got a Toyota of another kind God built these hands to drive...

Call me up, If I'm home Don't say too much, I might be upset Let us agree to differ We're consumed by competition Having fun is my reason for living (Give me a break) Having fun is my reason for living (Give me a break) Call me up, if I'm alone I do...

The moment I was born I opened my eyes I reached out For my credit card Oh no, I left it in my other suit! Capital, it fails us now Comrade let us seize the time (I left it in my other suit!) On the first day of my life I opened my eyes Guess where...

(I need a cheeseburger to go) I move from one place to the next I hope they keep down the price of gas I shoot fast while you talk dollars See how I will run the table I won't see my dollar go where they rig it High numbers low numbers 8 ball break Th...

Now that everything is true I believe in me and you What I see in magazines I believe in everything I believe in politics When we're playing pick up sticks I believe in five year plans I believe it in advance I believe in innocence College boys wash...

The same again, another disagreement You dreamed of scenes like you read of in magazines A new romance invented in the bedroom Is this so private our struggle in the bedroom Is this really the way it is or a contract in our mutual interest? The same again, a...

The change will do you good I always knew it would Sometimes I'm thinking that I love you But I know it's only lust Your kiss so sweet Your sweat so sour Your kiss so sweet Your sweat so sour Sometimes I'm thinking that I love you But I know it's onl...

Whet the blade on the stone, light the fire from the flint I confess to all of my crimes, tell me more and I'll repeat your lines You're not natural, you're not as God made you, do as I say, do as I do Before I'm burned up in the flames, I will give you all...

I want tomorrow today I didn't think that I'd Have yesterdays all week on someone else's time Yeah, I like that car Suppose the colour's OK Fibre glass and rust are filling in my day I want to see the sunrise in the night time I'm gonna fake... an ali...

Just like you, I was born alone I'm like you but I'm unknown I stand here gutted, talking to myself England is in my bones Windows broken at my home Dela says there's something I stole Bring me my bow, a bird in gold You don't know how slow the hours g...

Trapped in heaven life style (Locked in Lock Kesh) Now looking out for pleasure (H-block torture) It's at the end of the rainbow (White noise in) The happy ever after (A white room) Dirt behind the daydream Dirt behind the daydream The happy ever af...

We're not moving, we're going slow There's bodies at the side of the road Everybody wants to come This is what is turning us all on I'm alive, I'm not dead I like to watch, it's better than getting head Listen up, to hear the guns Sex charged barrels...

I lived in tunnels Sometimes there was no rice and the water was bad I was married, and very happy My husband was just a regular guy, but he was killed In my room, light from a light bulb Smoke from fire I think of Sony and Toyota I see smiling faces, n...

Look through the window Look through the window Look through the window I'm looking through a pane of glass Look through the window and what do you see? Look through the window and what do you see? Look through the window and what do you see? I'm looki...

All this talk of blood and iron Is the cause of all my shaking All this talk of blood and iron Is the cause of all my shaking All this talk of blood and iron Is the cause of all my shaking All this talk of blood and iron It's the cause of all my shakin...

The family's head gives orders In the end, what he says goes This system's well constructed She owes him all she gets The army has it's uses In times of civil crisis 'Allo boys!Seen any action? Hey boys, seen any...action? Pull together with your mat...

Who is wanting to be perfect? Too many angels in heaven You're looking at a road block At least my fingerprints are mine Hey yeah, we got it all Refugees come flooding in Sell them all our cigarettes And send them home like friends If I can't find tr...

Le monde arabe etait, pour nous, un lieu de passions incontrollees, une colonie que nous pouvions seulement controle par la force Les plus grandes artistes francais ont fantasme sur les harems, une fuite de la sexualite bourgeoise enchainee. 

What I'd like to hear desert people's history Not the styles of strategic combat We could lose our bent we hear about They weren't the ones to get it in the neck Fighting it out for some other's causes They're invisible they didn't exist! History's bunk...

Now, confess Face your fears I'm tuned in for Your drivetime tears Don't hold back Share your shame Feel the pain You're not to blame I forcefeed on the ruins of childhood And lovers crimes This showtrial Come on down victim mic Don't hold back...

A face like that locked you in so that you lost all your friends Sleep. Wake. Sleep. Wake. Sleep. Wake. Sleep. Wake How could she be your idol? It was a fluke you first saw her She was marooned in a shop door But you forget how you met her Everybody a...

You weren't around in the compound Could not be found, had gone to ground Hiding out in a public space, everyone was on display I can't forget your lonely face On your nights out, you danced alone You loved the sights, the siren's moan All the other los...

All inhibitions gone & on display All innocence has gone & flown away A winner now when that time there was none To reinterpret all that's redundant To be true to all my illusions As for contentment all that's behind me A loser now when I thought...

Aim for the body rare, you'll see it on TV The worst thing in 1954 was the bikini See the girl on the TV dressed in a bikini She doesn't think so but she's dressed for the H-bomb (For the H-bomb) I found that essence rare, it's what I looked for I knew...

Time with my girl I spent it well I had to be strong for my woman (You must be joking, oh man you must be joking) She needed to be protected The good life was so elusive Handouts, they got me down I had to regain my self-respect So I got into camouflag...

Look at me, ain't I fine Brand new me, dig my mine I parade myself One on one, I am nouveau Here I come, there I go I parade myself Catch my eyes, aren't we a pair I'm not shy, touch me there I parade myself I win When I invent myself again I pa...

We are not prisoners - although we're putting in the hours We are not innocent - although we're singing in the choir If there's a revolution then you'll stay at home You want to pay the ransom but don't know who to phone If there should be a rapture you wo...

Take me, dance with me I want to be Everything a man should be Their world is shrinking But as they dance the dollar is falling Do you love me? Do you love me? Their world is shrinking But as they dance the dollar is falling Do you love me? No long...

If I could keep it for myself What did you say I am confused I don't remember what did we do last week Can you imagine in the dark Everything has been cynically shot it's gone Are there no surprises anymore? It was hot then it was cold The view imagined...

Can't catch it again, can you? Can't catch it again, can you? I think I'm getting it back again I think I'm getting it back again I'm getting a headache Mutated/Transmogrified Mutated/Transmogrified 

Heads down, down to the floor Run past the windows and close the door Whatever you do stay calm Show me a ditch and I'll dive it I'll feel safe beyond the cares of the world Good news is prospect Excluding the six feet under Marshall music the beat go...

Like you said when we crawled down from the trees We're in transition I don't want to remain on the edge We must embrace the new conditions I'm alright, I'm alright Through it's a contradiction It's enough but less than I imagined I'll get used to this...

No one lives in the future, no one lives in the past The men who own the city make more sense than we do Their actions are clear, their lives are their own But you, went behind glass Don't let this boy go, don't let this boy go So long to the city, we'll...

They call me obscene There's just no empathy But I'm at the top of the world No one looks down on me From commercial road To the old city Every day we invent The economy [Chorus:] I look around, and I'm pleased And I buy into everything I see I buy...

If I keep my eyes on it I will have more than I might need To have the fingers crossed for The break that I'm not sure may be It don't matter It don't matter It don't matter Before they slip away Just look at where I'm at today Not bad, huh, what do y...

It is not enough Here we go again I'd like to see something new It's all so familiar I wanted to be a good wife I wonder if I've lived before this life Or seen it on television I can't stand the repetition It is not enough It is just a habit Nostal...

It was never gonna turn out too good for me I was born in the winter in Manchester 3 With the rain in my face From the East came the men that meant I'd never work again They do the work that you won't If this is Jerusalem why do they speak in tongues Br...

Items daily press views to suppress Subject story on the front page suffering from suffrage Title unsung heroine of Britain position to attain Housewife heroines addicts to their homes It's her factory it's her duty it's her factory Paternalist journalist...

Don't stop out too late at night Stop! It's a caution Don't cross the red light Stop! It's a caution To act for the good for congressman is money A balance of power will ensure our safety (Making money is making sense) Life! (Making money is making...

Innocents all, kept in the dark Centre cannot hold, things fall apart Sex and death walk hand in hand And Elvis's body will never be found Put another quarter in the bandit machine And then you come alive in the Vegas Dream I'm still waiting for payday...

Don't feel like eating, I don't wanna drink All I need is a handkerchief to keep out the stink Don't feel like sleeping, I don't wanna dream All I need is a hit to cut the bullshit Look at the cars parked in the motel And nobody in them They must be hun...

Don't help me I can save myself If I'm incomplete don't fill the gaps Save me from the people who would save me from myself They got muscle for brains For reasons that are not mysterious The weak are sent to the wall They have reservations in heaven Do...

The problem of leisure What to do for pleasure Ideal love a new purchase A market of the senses Dream of the perfect life Economic circumstances The body is good business Sell out, maintain the interest Remember Lot's wife Renounce all sin and vice D...

No weak men in the books at home The strong men who have made the world History lives on the books at home The books at home It's not made by great men It's not made by great men It's not made by great men It's not made by great men The past...

Who owns what you do? Who owns what you use? This land is your land This land is my land Right now to touch flesh is real Let us think only of the instant There was something that I can't remember Did you say "I've had enough"? We are in a happy stat...

He's become nostalgic Wants to own tomorrow Discipline - is his passion Now - he says there's none Outside the trains don't run on time He believes it's no coincidence He thinks sunblock will track him down Home - it's no castle He wants his wife to r...

Blinkered, paralysed Flat on my back They say our world is built on endeavor That every man is for himself Wealth is for the one that wants it Paradise, if you can earn it History is the reason I'm washed up Blinkered, paralysed Flat on my back M...

Head away from the years, you're on the price list Head away from the years, you're on the price list Head away from the years, you're on the price list Everything will stop your new changing The grid will be filled Go to Scotland no obligation We'll se...

I wake up you are there Silhouette against the glare Electric skin shocks me like lightning You say to me: I give you this You can have all you can kiss If it tastes good prove it to me Shoot me up - I'm your moon Turn me round coming soon I wanna b...

She is an accident Her shape's coincidence He said she's beautiful An invention that is useable She will collaborate He will embrace her fate You made a thing of me Don't feel, won't kneel, don't ask, won't steal She said you made a thing of me That...

HOTEL flash, shadows mash grey and black to white 40 watt bulb has shot out it's last light Sirens uncoil the sound of the nighttime Got no smoke and drunk the wine Cable's on Porno 1 - sound off - lips are red Silent stud pumping between her legs Throu...

I don't walk, I always take the car Tune to talkshow talk about the stars I don't speak, I got nothing to say I'm a Capricorn anyway I don't act, I react Live as if, then I will be Shrinkwrapped I'm Shrinkwrapped Fate's barcoded in my DNA I've been...

Your look will always find me hypnotized Behind every cloud there's a silver lining There's a pain in my heart Is it for real or on show Let's try to just make a point Let's try to get to the point You worry too much kid About how to say it You worry t...

I'm an understudy for myself I'm on standby waiting at the gate I'm a window shopper staring at an empty shelf I'm sleepwalking while I'm awake I'm a phoney guest drinking at a wake I'm a milktooth werewolf in the lambing barn I'm a sucker swallowing th...

I volunteer to serve myself Words, comma, sentence, end. Addicted to sentiment Hopes, postponed sleepless, end. Necrophiliac desires Cock culture, I defend Overdose nostalgic rides Pause, scarequotes, fullstop. Fuel stop, steak, wipe its arse Somethi...

I'm a rebel, soul rebel I'm a capturer, soul adventurer See the morning sun on the hillside Not living good, travel wide. Said I'm a living man; I got work to do If you're not happy children, then you must be blue People say: I'm a rebel, soul rebel =...

Standin' on a corner Suitcase in my hand Jack is in his corset, Jane is in her vest And me I'm in a rock 'n' roll band. Huh. Ridin' in a Stutz Bearcat, Jim Ya know, those were different times All, all the poets studied rules of verse And those ladies, they rol...

(Can't make out what he is saying) Like you Like you You don't know who I am You don't know where I come from From the soul of this land I am lost and you're soon gone I don't want you to change I love you just as you are Don't go biting your nails...

I wore out time Used up all that should be mine Shit faced, watch soaps I only laugh at my own jokes Gunfingered, I pop Competitors on gameshow spots Lucked out, she wins A home to fake orgasms in Sirens they call to me "Come on the dark ride" Sire...

When I was in my mother's womb Social structure seemed a simple thing After birth I cursed my luck Then went down to breakfast What I know fills me up It is an everlasting cup What I believe will never change My consolation for the night Mother had f...

Make the grade in our republic We all are loyal subjects The paper stirring dregs of no great causes Action is none of my business I'm unconcerned with what's in store (I don't give a shit what's in store) I'm unconcerned with what's in store Better t...

In my arms we shall begin with none of the rocks, well, theres no charge In this land right now some are insane, a million charge To hell with poverty, well get drunk on cheap wine To hell with poverty, the check will arrive, well turn the boast again To h...

Hi baby, what do you want to talk about? I'm here, right here Behind me the road, in front, a grey wall There is no background, no story to tell, no point The search is over I bet you're naked, I know what you're doing Don't imagine I'm honest I dres...

He's so alienated he doesn't even understand That, that what he's asking for is what he already knows He would expect to masturbate She's very two dimensional, you know, deliberately so I mean she, in the interchange, she has no personality She could be...

Everybody is in too many pieces No-man's-land surrounds our desires To crack the shell we mix with others Some lie in the arms of lovers The city is the place to be With no money you go crazy I need an occupation! You have to pay for satisfaction We...

This wheel spins letting me off It's not the lack of trying Can't put my finger on it You can't help being hard up Can't trust the gods we trusted Don't think that's any insurance Could I be happy with something else I need something to fill my time...

Turn you back on London's bitter pride In melancholic isolation Force-feed yourself sentimentality With golden age mythology A feudal lord doesn't live no more But in the night, the ravens call False memories, fake history Next you'll talk of racial pu...

The pilgrim can't sleep The pilgrim's a spy! The pilgrim can't sleep 'cause his prayers won't fly The dumb won't speak The truth is lies! The dumb won't speak make their tongues get fired The cripple won't walk The crooks all cry The cripple won't walk pu...

We've all got opinions. Where do they come from? Each day seems like a natural fact, And what we think changes how we act. We've all got opinions. Where do they come from? Distant thunder from the east Won't disturb a morning car wash. Each day seems...

This was my first night in woman town But I somehow feel (I knew), I'd been here before It ain't no wonder that you caught on How long it took I want to get all my kicks and thrills I've seen the pictures Enchant the eyes of all who pass by She said it'...

This sombitch nowhere's jewelled lights Overflashing trade marks at war "Hungry eat cake!" - "Thirsty Drink Cola!" Piss stained boy slumps in a door His hundred year old teenage eyes Watch the lights chase green to red Stuck to his head seed bun and fri...

I'm watching you step round the room Show me the rabbit and watch me run, When you're stripped and looking fun You give me hope, it is a noose Kiss and tell and don't regret, I know that the line is dead You're the one who asks for proof You look good w...

You'll never pay for the farm Someone should raise the alarm I think you're losing your charm You can't undo all the harm You can't regret what you get You can't get back what you bet You can't divorce from your fate You're lying drunk at the wake Yo...