Men At Work

Skip de skip, up the road Off to school we go "Don't you be a bad boy Johnny Don't you slip up Or play the fool" "Oh no Ma, Oh no Da, I'll be your golden boy I will obey ev'ry golden rule" Get told by the teacher Not to day-dream Told by my mother: Be good Be...

Sometimes the sun shines And I close the blinds 'cos I can't stand to see the light of day I have no use for pain But I don't mind the rain 'cos I can stare outside and hear the sound Today I looked right down to the ground With nothing in between to break my...

Experience babe Kickin' stones and cans Experience babe Cigarette-stained hands It's not too late Hear it in the wind It's not too late for you Feel passion creepin' in Intoxication Familiar smells of the hotel infatuation Of knowing who are you...

All the girls and boys have gone away They never really had much to say They took off all their clothes and their shoes Politely asked to be excused They're the children on parade They have a secret they can share They're the children on parade And nob...

I called you up on the telephone You weren't there, you weren't at home He didn't know what to do Now he's sniffin glue Honey you're driving him Crazy, hazy, crazy I'm amazed if, 'mazed if I get through, go I went down to the corner street Bought a re...

Down by the sea I found your hidden treasure Just you and me, We overdosed on pleasure Yonnies in the wind, We're ruggin' up for winter Putting out the bins In cold and windy weather Down by the docks Live all the silent sea-ships Crates are stored on blocks...

Travelling in a fried-out Kombi On a hippie trail, head full of zombie I met a strange lady, she made me nervous She took me in and gave me breakfast And she said, "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder? Can't you hear, ca...

Dr. Heckyll works late at the laboratory Where things are not as they seem Dr. Heckyll wishes nothing more desperately Than to fulfill all of his dreams Letting loose with a scream in the dead of night As he's breaking new ground Trying his best to unlo...

Moving up and down and from side to side With so many things to do I want to go again I want another ride This time should see it through We never realised as the years rolled by No we never really had a clue But we knew one day we'd come alive And in the end...

If there should be the faintest traces Of you in my summer sky My heart would pound and race And people ask me why Did I pull those funny faces When I walk by the waterside I look for things to say And still I find you I won't give up Don't talk of giving up...

Don't ask me to love my neighbour Cause I don't love the man Don't ask me for my favours I won't lend a hand And if I had real power Then I could disappear Wouldn't have to be around you I'd sink into the atmosphere Then I wouldn't hear Your hard luck story I...

I stay in my room, All alone in the gloom, What need I of light? Machines they can see in the night, And I feel no pain Metal heart and a metal brain, But something is wrong ’cause I still feel that signal coming in so I stand at your door, I guess...

Feel so washed up today Haven't really got much to say Blood on the pillow of my bed Explains the pain that's in my head Sometimes I don't know which way to go Sometimes I can't tell, but it's just as well 'cos I'm walking on a high wire High wire Oh won't...

By your leave, I think that I'll be going now I think I've stayed a little long I looked up all my mother's recipes I can't think what I did wrong We go to a restaurant, but you don't like wine You say it's love you want, but there is no time I realize, I can...

I like to pull the plug in the tub Sit and watch the water flow down the drain I like to, I like to I like to look at pictures in a book Never read the writing just put it down I like to, I like to I'd really like to know What would you like to do I'd...

Jump down the shelters to get away The boys are cockin' up their guns Tell us general, is it party time? If it is can we all come Don't think that we don't know Don't think that we're not trying Don't think we move too slow It's no use after crying Saying It...

Travelling in a fried-out combie On a hippie trail, head full of zombie I met a strange lady, she made me nervous She took me in and gave me breakfast And she said, Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder? Can't you hear, can't yo...

Like a man who has two hearts, Both of them worlds apart, Both of them play their part you know Like a man who has two wives, His life the becomes alibis, Nobody asks him why you know Can there be peace, Between the heart and the brain? No release, always th...

Maria was born in the country She loved her homeland Maria was from a poor family For their girl they had greater plans Across the sea not yet twenty Sailed our Maria, a man to see Perhaps marry dreams our Maria This was to be eventually for our Maria Maria...

Give me no restrictions on what I do or say Don't speak of tomorrow when it's still today Leave me to my selfish ways, I'm well enough alone That is what I tell myself as I stumble home Derelict across the street in the garbage bin Looks like he's found someth...

Pull out the stop plugs, drain all the waste Who needs it anyway Fill all the big holes, leave no trace No sign of yesterday I was all the dishes and I clean up my place No sign of yesterday I stare at the photographs of your dark face No sign of yesterday O...

I can't get to sleep I think about the implications Of diving in too deep And possibly the complications Especially at night I worry over situations I know will be alright Perahaps its just my imagination Day after day it reappears Night after night my heart...

I'm not tryin' to impress you with my lines They don't mean nothin' at all It's just another expression of mine It don't mean nothin' at all Mystifying, oh no Crystalizing, you know People just love to play with words People just love to play, haven't you hea...

Now there is this place With so much space It's at the bottom of the world So it lay unspoiled Wind and rain, hurricane And the blackman reigned Till the white man came They sailed to you Sail to you People talk there And they talk here About the new world...

Settle down, an eat your peas and gravy, my boy Settle down, settle down my boy settle down Stop wasting all your time with running around the town Settle down, settle down my boy settle down Knuckle down and find a job and take some responsibility Settle dow...

I can stand but I don't like the feeling I could fall but I'm always on the floor You could make a million staring at the ceiling You could break your back and still be poor One for the liar One for the cheat One for the man who you'll never meet Piece of the...

Outside these, four walls lies, anarchy babe Unnatural acts and sights abound Glass glaring, eyes staring, young pairing, maybe What does the world care if I'm not around Cos, I think I'd rather stay at home With people I know I could watch the whole thing on...

There's a picture in the hall, I know And it's from a time when feelings showed Though I hold it close before my eyes My heart refuses to see Loving you could have been, oh so easy But there is something you don't understand Through the times when two were on...

Wind is in the east They stare at us with eyes of wonder Like beggars at a feast We can't even count the number What you gonna do? Send them table scraps we're leaving The ones who care are few Spend their time in endless meetings Dear father Do you...

Till the money runs out Till the money runs out Till the money runs out Till the money runs out Till the money runs out Till the money runs out Till the money runs out Till the money runs out Till the money runs out Till the money runs out Till the...

Hello to you, my sweet young friends Have you got money perhaps you could lend? I wash my leather face in the afternoon sun My shirt's turn my time's near done Touching the untouchables but they don't know Respect the disrespectables, but in the end you know...

Don't take the fire from your eyes Must make them feel the heat They build castles underground for the rich and politic elite Keep all the home fires burning, Don't let the lights go out The streets are empty, and there's nobody about. We'll be alright...

No one knows what I can see and and what I see it pleases me on my roof South Pacific hot sea pool, Coney Island amusement school for mispent youth Its all in my own front yard, seagulls grazing in the park and foreshore South-East wind pins back my ears, Luna...

Who can it be knocking at my door? Go away, don't come round here no more. Can't you see that it's late at night? I'm very tired, and I'm not feeling right. All I wish is to be alone; Stay away, don't you invade my home. Best off if you hang outside, Don't com...