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Ninety-seven lovers twisted out of shape and just one kiss could set them straight Ninety-seven lovers twisted out of shape and just one kiss could set them straight I know a woman with a picture of Roger Moore in a short towel and dressing-gown pinned to her...

Hey man, how come you treat your woman so bad? That's not the way you do it. No, no, no.. you shouldn't do it like that. I could show you how to do it right. I used to practice every night on my wife now she's gone. Yeah, she's gone. You see your mother and m...

Starts so slowly, just a place to stay Somewhere warm where they can spend their days Air is stagnant and he feels unclean Hair hangs greasy and he smells obscene Something's happened and it's not so good Broken bottles in the face of love Mottled flesh under...

I fell asleep on your sofa and had a dream about a small child in dungarees Who caught his hands in the doors of the Paris metro. Then my face cracked open and you were there You were there dressed in green, saying something obscene. But that's why I came h...

On the last night on earth when the horses run free The scriptures foretell of a party in Hackney In a dimly lit room crammed with loathing and hate They’re selling their souls and I just can’t wait I shrivel inside at the sight of her beauty I fall to t...

Sitting alone on a cold bar stool, your cold, hard eyes make me feel a fool. Pastel-white features, high cheek-bones, scarlet-blooded lips and deathly tones. The girl of my nightmares, sultry and corpse-like. The girl of my nightmares. Brittle fingers, and t...

Oh I know I don't own you But I don't even know if I should phone you Someone sending me letters Saying you've been going with other fellers And they bored you But I don't want to cry Or talk for hours To a machine on the end of a telephone line Oh it...

Well it happened years ago, when you lived on Stanhope Road. We listened to your sister, when she came home from school, cos she was two years older, and she had boys in her room. We listened outside and heard her. Alright. Well that was alright for a while, b...

The word's on the street: you've found someone new. If he looks nothing like me I'm so happy for you. I heard an old girlfriend has turned to the church - she's trying to replace me, but it'll never work. 'Cos every touch reminds you of just how sweet it could...

Now if you can stand I would like to take you by the hand, yeah And go for a walk past people as they go to work. Oh, let's get out of this place before they tell us that we've just died. Move, move quick, you've gotta move. Come on it's through, come on it's...

I'm being followed home, I'm being followed home, I don't know what for, I don't know by whom. The smell of your dress, a face in the rain, the pavement shines wet in focus again. Oh... oh... oh... oh. In a dead seaside town I tried to change my mind for a...

The blue girls that bake in the sun Skin falls in flakes from each one Like leaves from autumn trees they float upon the breeze These girls you have loved are slowly decaying Ah Drying out in the sun before your eyes Wild stares in your face they seem to a...

So late looking up at your window as it bathes me in your blue midnight glow I wonder why you're not sleeping and I wonder if you could know Tonight make it tonight Tonight make it tonight Crouched down by a bush at the roadside I watch as you pass me by Los...

Would you like to hear about the things I fear? About my life, and loves too? Well why should I tell you? If I told you a secret you'd be sure to leak it You couldn't keep it inside no matter how hard you tried On boats and trains and and boats and tra...

When you think you're treading water, but you're just learning how to drown. And a song comes on the radio telling you that "The Only Way is Down". You're out of luck, you're out of time, get out of here. Your lover just traded you in for the very same mode...

That coat that I gave you, All shiny and black I'm sorry my darling, But I'm taking it back I don't want to spoil the party, But I've got to go home You can stay if you want to If you want to sleep alone Some were born to greatness, Some were born to...

I thought that you were joking When you said "I want to see you To discuss your contribution To the future of our nation's heart and soul Six o'clock, my place, Whitehall" Well I arrived just after seven But you said "It doesn't matter" "I unders...

She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College That's where I caught her eye She told me that her Dad was loaded I said "In that case I'll have rum and coca-cola She said "fine" And then in 30 second...

"Keep very still, for the strangest things are about to happen." Oh I was seventeen when I heard the countdown start, it started slowly And I thought it was my heart but then I realised That this time it was for real there was no place to hide I had to go out...

Hey Oh now the lonely nights begin and there is nowhere left to go But watch my spirit melt away, down at the D-I-S-C-O I must have died a thousand times The next day, I was still alive And I still believe in you Yes I do Let's do it now No I was not crushed,...

Well we were born within one hour of each other. Our mothers said we could be sister and brother. Your name is Deborah, Deborah. It never suited ya. Oh they thought that when we grew up, we'd get married, and never split up. We never did it, although oft...

I am not Jesus though I have the same initials - I am the man who stays home and does the dishes. & how was your day? Is that woman still trying to do your head in? A man told me to beware of 33. He said, "It was not an easy time for me" but I'll get t...

You say you've got to go home cos he's sitting on his own again this evening. I know you're gonna let him bore your pants off again. Oh God, it's half past eight, you'll be late. You say you've never been sure, though it makes good sense for you to be together...

Dogs are everywhere almost everywhere that I go They have too much and then They have too much again and then more They leave their scent behind them everywhere they go Oh dogs are everywhere that I go Oh dogs are everywhere almost everywhere that I go They ha...

Do it. Don't lose it. He wants to use it but don't change a single thing. He wants to put it down on paper and put it in a song to sing: How your Father went away. How your Mother got her way. How your brothers never let you join in. Didn't do too well at scho...

There's not much time for talking, all your friends are going to walk away. If there was time for talking all too soon you'd be lost for things to say. Don't you know she could break you, every bone that's inside of you? Then again she might make you everythin...

On the night that I was leaving, the moon rose in the sky As I came to fetch my suitcase and then you began to cry I've never seen you look so ugly as the way you did that night That night was eighteen months ago Now I'm two hours from the station Yeah I'm co...

Nadadum dadadada dada da... Take me down to the river where I would not go before Through the trees and the rushes to a place we both know And I'm feeling much younger as I kneel on the ground Dip my toe in the water of the river where I watched you drown Nad...

The room is cold and has been like this for several months. If I close my eyes I can visualise everything in it right down Right down to the broken handle on the third drawer down of the dressing table. And the world outside this room has also assumed a f...

As the signs outside proclaimed, nature sometimes makes mistakes. Was it the mother or the father to blame, inside the damp grass and tilted tent? As the signs outside proclaimed, nature sometimes makes mistakes. Was it the mother or the father to blame, in...

Come & play the tunes of glory - raise your voice in celebration of the days that we have wasted in the cafe in the station. & learn the meaning of existence in fortnightly instalments. Come share this golden age with me in my single room apartment &am...

Now it's coming to the end of the evening The time when the ceiling sways and objects jerk out of place Your eyelids heavy, you make your way down the yellow streets past rows and rows of houses Curtains drawn tight against the cold night air To a flight of...

Well, imagine it's a film & you're the star & pretty Soon we're coming to the part where you realise that you should give your heart Oh give your heart to me. Now the orchestra begins to make a sound That goes round & round & round & rou...

First you let him in your bed. Now he's moved inside your head. And he directs all the dreams you are dreaming. I saw a friend of yours today She called me over just to say "I dunno if you've seen her lately but God she's looking rough". No don't go round to...

Help the aged, one time they were just like you, drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue. Help the aged, don't just put them in a home, can't have much fun in there all on their own. Give a hand, if you can, try and help them to unwind. Give them...

I've got the time And you've got the space I'm wanna wipe you down And lick the smile off your face The smile off your face Though we know that it's wrong: Towel sets, matching combs Oh, it looks so good but does it turn you on? Oh, I want you...

Here comes your bedtime story: Mum & Dad have sentenced you to life. Don't think twice; it's the only reason I'm alive. I feel alright as long as I don't forget to breathe. Breathe in, breathe in, breathe out. Look at all these buildings & houses I...

I spy a boy, I spy a girl. I spy the worst place in the world, in the whole wide world. Oh, you didn't do bad, You made it out, I'm still stuck here, oh, but I'll get out. Oh yeah, I'll get out. Can't you see the giant that walks around you seeing throu...

Hey, you can look, you can look just like anyone else if that's what you want to do. I, I could laugh, I could laugh in your face if I want oh, but I'm not going to. When we met last week on Saturday, I couldn't make a sentence, I couldn't even say w...

Laid here with the advertising sliding past my eyes Like cartoons from other peoples lives, I start to wonder what it takes to be a man. Well I learned to drink And I learned to smoke And I learned to tell a drity joke. If that's all there is then there's no p...

Hey you're treading on my life You're leaving marks, but that's alright In a year or so, I'll look back and I'll smile These things last only for a while In many ways this is a waste of time what will become of it all? I make you cry know you in crowd...

She said she trained to be a dancer but she had a proper job by day Charlie Chaplin knew her father before he passed away She asked could I help her with a problem She doesn't get out much no more "I'm not looking for a lover - no, no, no I wanna...

I hate to complain, you know, but then again I cannot pretend nothing's wrong Looking at my present situation, the act cannot last for long Viewed from outside these pursuits I might try seem possessed of a certain allure Now they're no longer a source of...

We like driving on a Saturday night Past the Leisure Centre, left at the lights. We don't look for trouble but if it comes we don't run. Looking out for trouble is what we call fun. Hey you, you in the Jesus sandals Wouldn't you like to come over and watch...

If you stay out all nite that's alright by me but if you must kiss those guys you could at least clean your teeth I don't mean to put you down / but you've taken everything that I own Don't tell me you want some more 'cos I'm closed Who is this laughing bo...

Life must be so wonderful, living here on your own, please call around to see. And maybe I've been loving you for too long, and now blind, I watch you bleed. You rot in your bedroom, you cry on the phone. Well I'm sorry but he's not at home. You give me...

Don't bother saying you're sorry. Why don't you come in? Smoke all my cigarettes - againe. Every time I get no further. How long has it been? Come on in now, Wipe your feet on my dreams. You take up my time, Like some cheap magazine, When I could have been le...

No wonder you're looking thin When all that you live on is lipgloss and cigarettes. And scraps at the end of the day When he's given the rest to sommetaeone with long black hair. All those nights in, making such a mess of the bed. Oh you never ever want to go...

You're just a little girl (with blue eyes) Everybody looks at you (well, it's your day) and you're stepping from the black car but you'll be getting back in soon (and on your way) Little girl (with blue eyes) there's a hole in your heart and one between your...

She doesn't have to go to work But she doesn't want to stay in bed 'Cause it's changed from something comfortable To something else instead The bed has seen it all From the first time to the last The silences of now And the good times of the past And it only...

I woke up in the morning i was still alive The mirror says i'm fifty-five years old If i don't look his way, i'm gonna do okay I'm gonna last another day without your love Ma ma ma ma ma ma Last another day without your love Oh no one lives alone for more than...

Sure you had something to hide I took your bag and looked inside I was looking for life Nothing inside but memories the same as those I keep with me I'm still looking for life Yes I'm looking for life Yes I'm looking for life There's more to love than...

Give me the city. Give me the sea. Give to me everything I need. The future is shining like a giant metal beast. It shines so bright tonight, with its legs open wide And love is blind. Falls in love with itself again, like it never should, the way it always ca...

I thought so long and suddenly I realised I love love I thought so long and suddenly I realised I love love Am I loving the girl or the feeling I feel? Is it just the idea that I like or is it for real? I recall a special friend, I invited her home for tea...

Manon Manon keeps a corpse in his home Manon Manon picks the flesh from her bones Manon Manon Manon Manon hard and white as a stone Manon Manon sits alone, all alone Manon Mano Manon Oh, Manon Manon Manon leave her body alone Manon Manon put a match to your h...

I am the master of this universe and I've got so big it hurts Raise your eyes and graze your knees oh for your master is displeased because you dared to doubt his word his polished surface dulls and cracks Your bitter laughter breaks his back I am the maste...

We didn't have nowhere to live, we didn't have nowhere to go til someone said "I know this place off Burdett Road." It was on the fifteenth floor, it had a board across the door. It took an hour to prise it off and get inside. It smelt as if someone had died...

Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits. Raised on a diet of broken biscuits, oh Oh we don't look the same as you, And we don't do the things you do, But we live round here too. Oh really. Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits, We'd like to go to town but we cant risk it, Oh '...

There's nothing to do so you just stay in bed, oh poor thing, why live in the world when you can live in your head? Mmm when you can go out late from Monday, till Saturday turns into Sunday, and now you're back here at Monday, so we can do it all over again. A...

You know sometimes ... when we're lying together ... and I know you're asleep ... I can hear the soft sound of your breathing ... so I get up ... and I go to the window ... Outside ... I can see all the houses ... Curtains shut tight against the night ......

Come up to my lighthouse for I have something I wish to say It can wait for a moment; well in fact it can wait all day I just wanted to bring you up here so you could have the chance to see the beauty of this situation that you could share with me It may s...

I used to try very hard to make friends with everyone on the planet. I've seen you havin' it, havin' it yeah but now you've just had it. Entertainment can sometimes be hard when the thing that you love is the same thing that's holding you down. This man...

When you raise your pencil skirt like a veil before my eyes Like the look upon his face as he's zipping up his flies. Oh I know that you're engaged to him. Oh but I know that you want something to play with baby. I'll be around when he's not in town, I'...

You'd better watch what you're wearing, if you want him to come round and see you tonight. He doesn't care what it looks like, just as long as it's pink and it's tight. Oooh, so what should you do? Should you stop being you? Just to be how he wants you? Oooh,...

The trouble with your brother He's always sleeping with your mother And I know that your sister missed her time again this month Am I talking too fast or are you just playing dumb? If you want I can write it down It should matter to you ‘cos aren't you the one...

The feel of my arm around your waist, the pale blue nightdress that you wore. Your hair in braids, your sailor top: the things I don't see anymore. You lost your suitcase in my hotel room, a subway token from your Ma. The sun reflecting off the water on you...

She / she used to live with his brother Now she's an unmarried mother / with another / on the way He's seond rate / twisted out of shape and he looks a state, it costs so much to look this rough They go to town / they like to shop around / and look at all thos...

Here in the night love takes control. Making me high making me whole. *I don't know. Oh no, no, no. No I don't know. No, no, no. No I don't know. When I close my eyes I can see you lowering yourself to my level. I don't know where you got those clo...

As the sun shines down on the land so her heart is crying for love And there is no-one there, no-one to hear her voice and she will sleep alone again tonight Now the moon is high in the sky In her room she calls out his name But he is somewhere else somewhe...

Are you trying to put me on? I turned around and it was gone. Did I leave it in your car? On a table in a bar? Or in your bed between the sheets? The places where we used to meet. Wherever love has gone I need to know. 'Cos she's a woman, Oh yeah, she's a...

She's dying everybody came to see She's falling and I know I'll never see her face again And I don't really know just why she's leaving All she ever said was she just had to go And I watch her as she walks away from me Yeah, I can see her then I know that in a...

Oh, there's a place for you You'd better stay in it A place for everything And of course all you can do is talk about it Oh, you've got it all Yes you've got it all Yes you've got it all You've got it all It let you down Now it doesn't seem so simple That dirt...

She likes to watch the moon As it travels through the sky Because she’s heard it’s romantic Though she really can’t see why Someone should have helped her through the day Someone like the moon So she drinks a cup of coffee And telephones a friend And she asks...

I wrote the song two hours before we met. I didn't know your name or what you looked like yet. Oh I could have stayed at home and gone to bed. I could have gone to see a film instead. You might have changed your mind and seen your friends. Life could have...

Oh, is this the way they say the future's meant to feel? Or just twent thousand people standing in a field And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is But that okay cos we're all sorted out for E's and wizz* And tell me when the spaceship lands...

You said you wanted some space ... Well is this enough for you? ... This is what you've waited for ... No dust collecting in the corners ... No cups of tea that got cold before you drank them ... Tonight ... travelling at the speed of thought ... We're g...

Village maiden picking mushrooms by the woodland lakes and brooks She don't want no Soviet loves All she wants is Srpski jeb Hoi! Village maiden picking mushrooms by the woodland lakes and brooks She don't want no Soviet sex All she wants is Srpski je...

I saw you standing at the stop in your crochet halter top and your sky-blue training bra I know you're gonna go too far You're driving all the boys insane down by the sports hall in the rain Chewing-gum, a navy dress, a purple shirt and all the rest Oh ther...

I used to hate the sun because it shone on everything I'd done. Made me feel that all that I had done was overfill the ashtray of my life. All my achievements in days of yore range from pathetic to piss-poor, but all that's gonna change. Because here comes...

You look just like Sylvia: Well you look like her to me - the way she wore her hair then. Oh, the way she used to be. I've not seen her for a long time though I've heard she's still around. Her father's living with some girl who's a year younger than her...

It's six o'clock, the birds are singing. I'm wide awake whilst you're still fast asleep. I went outside, into your garden. The sun was bright & the air was cool And as I stood there listening Well the birds in your garden they all started singing this...

The dust has settled, replaced the bulbs in all the lights. I guess I'll get no sleep tonight. A revolution happened. Oh, sorry you haven't heard? We are the children of the new world. If you're quiet you can watch if you like. They say the future's beg...

This is our Music from A Bachelors Den - the sound of loneliness turned up to ten. A horror soundtrack from a stagnant water-bed & it sounds just like this. This is the sound of someone losing the plot - making out that they're okay when they're not. Y...

The mark of the devil is upon you Your look is no happier than mine Damnation is waiting in the mirror but you shouldn't mind Their legs start a feeling in your stomach Their eyes knock you backwards with a glance Your pride sinks unnoticed in the river given...

When all should be done and gone, he comes round again to see, he can't keep himself away. He touches her hand and it starts again. His work is an ugly mess. He prods and it cries in pain. He kicks and it starts to scream. He hurries away when she cannot see....

'There's a light that shines on everythin' and everyone And it shines so bright, brighter even than the sun' That's what Minnie thinks as she walks to meet her brother Who is nearly two years older, on a Saturday night He's DJing at some do on the edge of...

I took an air-rifle, shot a magpie to the ground And it died without a sound. Your skin so pale against the fallen Autumn leaves And no-one saw us but the trees. Yeah, the trees, those useless trees produce the air that I am breathing. Yeah, the trees,...

Walking from the scene of some humiliation feeling like a dog. Walking from the scene of some romantic triumph feeling like God. Walk towards the small town lights, felt brighter than the lot of them Can have anything, can never fail. The will to power, the...

As I lay down in the bedroom, there came a sound from far away. As I strained my ears to listen I could hear a thin voice say: "In your heart there's no emotion, and your soul, your soul just dried away. There's no love, no love left in your body; standin...

His body loved her, his mind was set on other things Keep your face out of sight and your thoughts to yourself And this went on for several nights festering in silence, growing in the dark And this they saw as love. Love So sad to see They suffocate at night...

He's in a room He sees the floor He sees the wall He sees the roof He sees the door It's nine thirty-eight So he goes up to the door and he finds himself in another room identical to the one before The clock still reads nine thirty-eight So he goes out of...

You are hardcore, you make me hard. You name the drama and I'll play the part. It seems I saw you in some teenage wet dream. I like your get-up if you know what I mean. I want it bad. I want it now. Oh can't you see I'm ready now. I've seen all the pictures, I...

Tunnel The tenth of July, 1985 Don't ask stupid questions I got bored I had nothing to do I was bored I had, I had not ? Fifteen weeks since the light has gone Fifteen weeks with the same shirt on A thousand bodies stink and sweat and somebody's trying to roll...

Without you my life has become a hangover without end. A movie made for TV: bad dialogue, bad acting, no interest. Too long with no story & no sex. Is it a kind of weakness to miss someone so much? To wish the day would go away? Like you did yesterd...

Why don’t you shut the door And close the curtains Cos you’re not going anywhere He’s coming up the stairs And in a moment, he’ll want to see your underwear Ahh... Chorus: I couldn’t stop it now There’s no way to get out He’s standing far too near How the hel...

We are the boyz And we are class act Getting trashed so make some noise We are the boyz We are the lads We sleep with slags We nick their fags We got no choice We are the boyz Oh we are the boyz And we don't ask why Because we're alive We are the...

We came across the North Sea With our carriers on our knees Wound up in some holdin' camp Somewhere outside Leeds Because we do not care to fight My friends, we are the weeds Because we got no homes, they call us "Smelly refugees" Ah ah ah ah ah Ah...

This is the true story of the weeds: the origin of the species. A story of cultivation, exploitation, civilization. Found flowering on wasteland unnoticed, unofficial, accidental. A cutting was taken but weeds do not thrive under hothouse conditions & wi...

As I was goin' over the Cork and Kerry mountains I met Captain Farrell and his money he was countin' I first produced my pistol and then produced my wager I said stand and deliver or the devil he may take ya Oh ring dum a doo dum a da / Wept for my daddy-o...

Just behind the station, before you reach the traffic island, a river runs thru' a concrete channel. I took you there once; I think it was after the Leadmill. The water was dirty & smelt of industrialisation Little mesters coughing their lungs up &...

When I was with this girl last night she held me tight; it turned me on The moon was dark and those clothes were tight her perfume strong; it turned me on Fleeting moments touched in the night then so strong but banished by the light Her presence gone, me...

All day / I'm doing fine / 'cos there are things / to pass the time Smoke a cig / and drink some tea / watch a programme / on TV I just don't care where you are now / 'cos I'm sorted out, and how I've got it all set up you see / But when I close my eyes it hap...