Suede

I read the news today, oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well, I just had to laugh I saw the photograph then He blew his mind out in a car He didn't notice that the lights had changed A crowd of people stood...

Images of accidents run through your eyes Calling conversations till you break Crawling past the cash machines And the Disney skies Feeling like a fugitive again But you got tomorrow in your eyes And you got the future to come alive Yeah you got tomorr...

Words are flowing out Like endless rain into a paper cup They slither while they pass They slip away across the universe Pools of sorrow, waves of joy Are drifting through my opened mind Possessing and caressing me Jai Guru Deva Om Nothing's gonna...

Take her cold hands Place the snowdrops in her palm And pushing through the wire I have no choice but to follow you Feel the weak sunlight on my skin As I take my spade and place her Forever by the birch trees And there was another But she wasn't tame...

Don't wish it away, just say it's over to my face, I face the morning with dreams that make my pillow wet, She said she was into me but I was always in the way, She pushed me away. But I will always be near I will always be near Always be near I set my clock...

I see you're moving, see you're moving, moving in with her You'll pierce your right ear, pierce your heart there This skinny boy is one of the girls cos around my neck and around her neck hangs everything you are I know you've been inside but what were you...

Like his dad you know that he's had Animal nitrate in mind Oh in your council home he jumped on your bones now you're taking it time after time oh it turns you on, on, on, now he has gone oh what turns you on, on, on, now your animal's gone? Well he said he'...

She takes the blame, takes the pain, but the world smiles 'Cause outside is just a taxi ride to drive away So she packs her bags, calls a cab, and the world smiles 'Cause inside, well, she feels all right, and turns to say: "Yes, it's the end, the fin...

She said,' that is one thing about art' He said, 'that is all I think about art' Glamour creates glamour types Stares at the sea, stars, art Oh, no She said, 'this is what I think it is art' Oh-oh, father, oh-oh, mother Coming down the disco Does thi...

Oh I'm your blue eyed boy I'll suffer your indifference and You can teach me pretty words And we will feed the sparrows Here I am Here I am Talking to my shadow Head in my hands Here I am (here I am) Here I am (here I am) Run to mel Come to me H...

Watching all the women shaking slimming Walking down the road again Looking at the lovers under covers come in and let's be friends Watching all the schoolgirls shaking the rules Coming on and having sex Watching all the women shaking slimming Come in an...

Sunday, Monday We lie around, but it's not easy Someday, one day We'll get sky and move away And like the birds we'll fly tomorrow Obscene machines that glide away And like the birds we'll fly tomorrow And like the birds we'll fly From your Asda town...

A strange relationship has started A strange relationship indeed It's like a watercolour forming Between the pages of a dream And it's calling you It's calling me It's calling everyone to be In a future world With an astrogirl One on one is all you...

Sat on the metro with love on her mind Intimate details of every kind Opening doorways to secret rooms Her emptiness calling to you She give a little bit of attitude Give a little bit of something new Give a little bit of attitude Get a little bit tack...

Aniseed kisses and lipstick traces, lemonade sipped in Belgian rooms couldn't replace the graceful notions that clung to me when I clung to you. And they touched you like no one touched you, when you broke they were there with glue, and their kindness w...

This, this is the age of the high heeled protege Lift, lift off your flesh for nature's honest games Twisting round the roundabout, around everybody Hey, I'll be your dog, be my god Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on Come on, come on, come on, c...

You belong among the wild flowers picked at the side of the road, You belong among the silent hours and broken telephones, You belong among the TV screens with sound turned down again, You belong where there's CCTV watching you every day, Well you bea...

High on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine shaking their bits to the hits Drag acts, drug acts, suicides, in your dad's suits you hide staining his name again Cracked up, stacked up, 22, psycho for sex and glue lost it to Bostik, yeah Shaved...

When you're high on diesel nightly And the traffic starts to roll You smoke a cigarette and watch the black girls In a white boys world Anything is possible for the Bentswood boys Where the karma comes with the kids and the cat food You see Tina push the...

Oh, I lie here staring at the ceiling And I wonder what's happening outside Oh, I know you've got the same blank feeling You don't have to tell me I'm right Beyond the outskirts, come with us We're small town dreaming, we're birds on a wire Beyond the...

Black or Blue There was a girl who flew the world from a lonely shore Through southern snow to Heathrow to understand the law There was a boy who loved the noise of the underground He left the coast and overdosed on that London sound He said, "I don't care if...

She was a girl from Birmingham She just had an abortion She was a case of insanity Her name was Pauline, she lived in a tree She was a no one who killed her baby She sent her letter from the country She was an animal She was a bloody disgrace Bodies,...

(1, 2, 3, 4) Bored(introspection) Yeah(city sights) Bored(no connection) Yeah(got it right) Bored(cold, impatient) Yeah(lonely nights) Bored(no new traces) And Yeah(you got it right) So wire me up to the party people Wire me up to the neon lights...

I got brass in my pocket I got powder and I'm gonna use it Intention I'm feeling myself Gonna make you, make you, make you notice Commotion, extreme emotion I've been driving Detroit leaning No reason just seems so pleasing Gonna make you, make you, m...

Back where the dogs bark where still life bleeds the concrete white try not to go too far inside your mind back where the cars decide where the lame star limps an endless mile have I gone too far inside my mind? oh if you were the one would I even notice now...

She can walk out anytime, anytime she wants to walk out, that's fine, She can walk out anytime, anytime she feels that life has passed her by, And when I start my new life I won't touch the ground, I'm gonna try hard this time not to touch the ground. He...

One, two, three la la la la la la, la la la la la la, la la la, la la la la, Emptiness falls, Nothingness calls, Dust settles In my head. A static TV Stares back at me. We are soulless, We are soulless, Yeah, la la la la la la, la la la la l...

I feel real now walking like a woman and talking like a stone age man I feel real now talking like buddha and doing it again I get kick I rip it up kick it up take it like a teenage tough I feel real now talking like sugar and shaking that stuff Singing I...

Ring-roads, stairways, roundabouts I will pick you up Watching traffic heading south I will pick you up With your money in your fist I will pick you up Friendship bracelets on your wrist I will pick you up Oh, with our feet in the snow Oh, where nobo...

You never move in trendy circles You don't have a social life You never seek sophistication You're under qualified You never heard Debussy You never had the time But everything that you do is wonderful You're cheap as the perfume that you wear You're...

Yeah! Well, you can bump and grind It is good for your mind Well, you can twist and shout Let it all hang out But you won't fool the children of the revolution No, you won't fool the children of the revolution No, no, no Well, you can tear a plane I...

The playgrounds are empty The wind, it is still I follow you up to the foot of the hill My life is in the hands of a child The hands of a child Put your cold hands on me Take a spin of the wheel I'll follow, I'll follow you down With your cold hands...

So we'll live for the future Yeah we'll live for our dreams In a world made of different colours There for you and me Like the sky in the morning Like the sycamore trees Everything made of different colours Same as you and me And when you smile The...

She like a loaded gun Sticking in your face Like a stupid child On her roller skates Like a bad sound now That makes you swing Like a real mistake Like a cool thing She like a jet plane Gliding across your mind Like a butterfly Like a lullaby L...

Draw the blinds and watch the show Heard it on the radio Saw it on the news today Heard the lonely people say 'There's a great big crack in the Union Jack There's a great big crack in the Union Jack' Another day, another low Another midday TV show Sa...

You smoke your money, you burn your mind You've done what's left of your social life You sold your life for a big white rock You're sucking on a pipe while the light's turned off You ain't got nothing, you got no plans The crack don't help but the pain d...

Whiplash caught the silver son Took the film to No. I Crashed the car and left us here Broken glass for teenage boys trapped in steel and celluloid Crashed the car and left us here. And daddy burned a million eyes Dared the dogs to criticise He crashed the ca...

Pouring petrol in your bed Clutching glances to your breast You're anaesthetised But you'll learn to rise again And I'm not too scared to love you On the darkest days And I'm not too scared to watch it fail And I'm not too scared to watch you Let i...

Your gentleness is not a weakness Your tenderness is not a fault You tell me you don't feel completed But you could stab me with a word You could crush me with a thought Singing the dawn chorus Shedding your skin before us Touching the sky with your ha...

(spoken dialogue) 'What are we doing?' 'Burying' 'But what? But what, Daddy?' 'You know what' 'The dead bird? You buried it over there'... 

I've drunk too much to belong to you Feel so much older, but I'm only 22 She said she was an artist when I met her in the street She sleeps right through the afternoon and throws up on the sheets She took me to a hotel where she watched the evenings end C...

See my dolly, she's over there See her grooving on down Dressed in thought she is real, yeah Her real hair is what counts Taught my baby the alphabet ABC don't let you down Dressed in thought we are set in jet The jet set messed us around I'm so, so d...

Whatever you think you know Whatever they say about me You know that those words will stay Between us I'm there in the trackless snow A voice in the poplar trees I'll take you to where no one goes But no one ever leaves So don't be afraid if nobody...

All the people in your life say you're down And the strangers in the night say you're down And the loonies on the right, they say you're down And you're down And the ambulances sigh that you're down And the traffic speeding by says you're down And...

You've had your fun Your money's gone Your only friend is the telephone Oh duchess, now you're one of us You stay at home And light the lights It make you smile in the empty night Oh duchess, now you're one of us Well she knows Latinos, and she knows M...

She takes the blame, takes the train, and the world smiles And outside, it's just a taxi ride to drive away She packs her bags, has a fag, and the world smiles 'Cause inside, well, she feels all right, and turns to say: "Yes, yes, yes, it's the end, t...

We got a love that's cold as stone We got a love from our violent homes We got a love and it got no name We kiss our love with lips like pain We got a lotta electricity We got a love like AC/DC We got a love and it got no shame We kiss our love with lips like...

I love that deafening, thundering sound That sounds like buildings tumbling down And people wish that they weren't around When we all rock and roll into town We hear those fearful, piercing screams The kind you find on cinema screens As if they're fit t...

Run with me baby, let your hair down through every station, through every town run with me baby, let's take a chance from Heathrow to Hounslow, from the Eastern Block to France Europe is our playground, London is our town so run with me baby now Run wi...

Oh when you and I Watch the planes go by, silver in the sky, Do whatever we like, Oh you and me See the birds in the sea People on the streets, do whatever we please But every Monday morning comes, Every Monday morning, yeah Oh every Monday morning co...

Watch the early morning sun Drip like blood from the day See the crazy people run So many games to play See the blue suburban dream Under the jet plane sky Sleep away and dream a dream Life is just a lullaby Ah Ah Ah And everything will flow Ah Ah Ah You kno...

You shudder when I crawl by You suffer my smile Bluebottles that I have killed Adorn the window sill I offer you these hands To do your simple plans Like falling planes Like falling planes Like falling planes Like falling planes Like falling plan...

With the sunrise burning into your green eyes, Adam and Eve on faultlines greet the golden dawn. Is it birdsong or is it just the car alarms Making us feel so young, naked as the faun? Celebrate the pale dawn, celebrate the birdsong, Celebrate, this is your t...

Flying all night Can feel alright Can feel alright Can feel alright Flying all night Can feel alright Can feel alright Can feel Feel Feel Feel Feel 

Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car, it looks so easy, Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car tonight, Filmstar, giving it class, living it fast, it looks so easy, Filmstar, giving it class, living it fast tonight. What to believe in,...

We'll play on the road Flytipping, careful as you go And we'll watch as the lorries Transport their precious loads With a bag in our hands Flytipping, me and my patient man Just by the hard shoulder There's few who'll understand What is mine and what...

Lips like semaphore to my heart We slither and slide and slip Stings like aerosol in my eyes And nothing compares to this And its ever so clear And its ever so plain For the strangers the strangers And its ever so clear And its ever so plain For the all stran...

You raised me on Whitesnake On Prince tapes, on summer sounds And you saved me and gave me Dance songs and hand-me-downs You said that we were just good friends But we jump red lights all the way to the end There you go, there you go again You looked...

See that animal get some heavy metal Watch the world go singing, 'sha-la-la-la' White stick happiness Will we ever know how it feels How it feels? I feel your tattoo on mine But I can't wash it out this time Oh, it's time Oh, it's time Oh, it's time...

Can you feel our minds in motion? Can you feel these thoughts I've sung? Can you feel our steel devotion? Can you feel our love become strong? Can you hear these words like winter? Can you see how far we've come? Can you feel this moment splinter As yo...

Graffiti women draw pictures on the wall Graffiti slogans and situations fall Just made up people who wander through the rain Graffiti people got nothing got no name And you sleep but they'll find you And they'll carve their number in your minds And they...

She's gonna shock your system She's gonna hit and run She's blowing up the nation With a bubble gum I said, 'Hey! Hard candy You've only got yourself to sell' I said her, 'Hey! Hard candy We're gonna see your face in We're gonna see your face in hell'...

Have you ever been this low? The taxis take you where you wanna go Broken windows, endless television shows I haven't ever been so low I am the one, I sing the song My lights are on but there's nobody home So much happening today A thousand people come...

I wake up every day, But I don't want it that way I take my thoughts to the round about Cause me and them we like to get out Oh what you do in your head, You do in your head Oh if he is dead He said he had a horrible house I looked in it and learnt to...

Tears on a pillow Eyes on the phone You pour all the love that you keep inside Into a song Like 'He's Gone' And these are the thoughts that you keep inside You smile from your window And stand all alone And pour all the love that you keep inside Into...

Lonely skies Empty minds We walk by to the rock and rhyme I said, oh come on do it again City signs Business minds We walk by with head hi-fi You know oh I wanna do it again And we lose it to the music And we lose it to the beat And get stupid, come...

Took me on a limb You've taken everything Everything As the clouds come in As the rain begins Rain begins Heroin Heroin I'm out of it No more songs to sing No more love to bring Love to bring As the rain begins Such a silly thing Heroin Hero...

She walks in beauty like the night Discarding her clothes in the plastic flowers Pornographic and tragic in black and white My Marilyn, come to my slum for an hour I'm aching to see my heroine I'm aching, been dying for hours and hours She walks in the...

Slipping through the city, sliding train to train Sulking on the subway, music in our brains She and me together in the city sound Me and Mona Lisa on the underground Hi-fi in the White City, yeah-yeah Hi-fi in the White City, yeah-yeah Slipping th...

You'll hide among the covers And wave as the aeroplanes go by There's nothing to say when you sleep all day But "bye bye" Your mind will find another And that's where the days have gone And all you can hear is a stereo somewhere Playing a pig of...

You touch the place where we meet Where you and I become she and he I'm not as strong as I pretend to be You feel the scratches and scars You feel the parts of me we call ours But drop me once And I will fall to bits Come on and hit me With your majesty Come...

Camilla waits in the afternoon In a uniform There's no escape from the tender chin When the curtain's drawn. I feel the space and the emptiness Where all life starts My hands caress on the open dress And feel her heart And feel her heart Howl like t...

Free the starling from the tower and face the light Ignore the muttering and the chattering outside I seem to paper over all of my mistakes But the more I do the more I seem to make Alive in the human tide Under neon mistakes I submit to the hate Of th...

And the sea is calling to her: “Come alone” As she dials a number with her fingers on her phone And her keys are falling from her coat As I weave my fingers round her perfumed throat No I can’t give her what she wants I can’t give her what she really nee...

Remember when we were standing Dappled and still unshaved Hiding from hidden cameras In the shadow of the cranes The things that I stole I gave you The things that you said you liked I bought you those pretty things But you gave them back Now I don't...

That boy Smith's got lard for a tongue He looks like a bun, or a bum, or a bung He's a basket case, he's asylum fodder His face is odd, but his voice is odder Yeah, Implement Yeah! Yeah! That boy Smith's called Saul, a Scotch homo A bald, insane, sat...

Open up my heart and see what's inside Take a look inside me, inside my mind And you'll see my heart is broken in two Cos I've seen the real you Images of violence fill up my mind And you see the silence, feel it inside And you'll see my heart is broken in tw...

Happiness is in your head Emptiness a skin you shed Cos the summer stone is getting louder It's kicking like a goosestep in your mind Everybody smiles cos we shock the winter Everybody sits round to watch the sky Cos all you need is sunshine Instant su...

Dog man star took a suck on a pill And stabbed the cerebellum with a curious quill Europe, America, Winterland Introducing the band Chic thug stuttered through a stereo dream A fifty knuckle shuffle heavy metal machine The tears of suburbia drowned the...

Like a cause without a martyr, Like an effigy of balsa, Like a hairline crack in a radiator, Leaking life I shout out but it just spins faster, I crawl up but my knees are water, I cling on by my nails to the sweet disaster And then I fall to the floo...

We're the sun that lights the sky We're the winter in your mind The love that lives inside We're the litter on the breeze We're the winter in your mind The words that sit inside When you run with me Do you feel human? And you come with me Come, take...

Oh, jumble sale mums What are they on? Kids just sit Hanging round the street And they've got Somebody else's clothes on Jumble sale dads Boil in the bag Says some things that I can't repeat And he swears... Oh, this ain't the high life This ain't...

Just a girl, North of England way Came to me one sweet December day Is your heart, dear, as cold as your room? I told her several times that I Didn't like her tunes Come to me softly, come to me sweet Are we so pale because we don't eat meat? Are your...

She is a natural killer She has a strange disguise And she is cold as vanilla She has that look in her eyes And she, she hasn't any fear And she got nothing on her mind She is a natural killer She is the thorn in your side She is a natural killer Sh...

All the white kids shuffle to the heavy metal stutter And go shaking on the scene like killing machines And they know that when she's stacked up top She'll be a sucker for the shotgun show Shaking obscene like the killing machines here we go It's the sam...

A travers la vaste Asie Dans les champs de Cathay Ou prisonnier d'une tombe caillouteuse Un enfant au giron Si tu es loin au dessus de l'Afrique Sur les ailes de la jeunesse Ou coincé dans une ville de banlieue Ne faisant jamais rien Donnez-moi, donn...

Here they come with their make-up on as lovely as the clouds, come and see them, Boys and girls and their mums and their words and their romances and jobs and their sons, Barking mad kids, lonely dads who drug it up to give it some meaning, From the rave...

Every word That I’ve ever said Is empty as air Like gossamer thread I come tumbling out Of a single bed To be with you again And isn’t it strange That the method I choose Is a way to get close But I get further from you? I try to step away But I...

See the sun drip from the sky Mascara stains clouding your eyes Slowly the raindrop falls See the rain fall from the day The fire escape is leading the way Somewhere a taxi calls So you're leaving, girl, and seal your fate Leaving, girl, and run, run...

You say you wanna let go The way that some you knew let go You say you wanna dive in With none of the inhibitions I have been Well, there's no need to hold on You've proven that you don't need to belong You say you wanna let go The way that some you kn...

The same blood runs through your veins The same strange way of talking The same thoughts sink through your pillow The same crooked smile You're not alone, look up to the sky and be calm Not alone, look into the light and be heard You're never alone, you...

Oh through the red lights, the amber, the silent mannequins The crumpled mothers in their seats Pull into morning through the stations the smell of chemicals Do I want you because you're out of reach? Oh, it’s all there for us Oh, it belongs to us Oh, a...

Stephanie stares at the posters on the wall Tina sits and waits for a telephone call Maxine mixes alcohol with polythene and paint Sylvia stays in bed on her own She can hear the cars outside and wonders where they go And if you call her answer phone Sh...

I see you in my life I see you on the screen An ascending socialite Orbiting the scene And everybody wants you now Everybody wants to be a part of your crowd Ooh Baby it seems sometimes you're lost in TV Lost in a dream [instant sunshine] Baby We...

I love the way you love, love me, baby Love the way you love, love me, baby Love the way you love me, baby I watch the sky and I watch the rain I count the drops dripping down the drain Takes 30 seconds to talk about my day I sit and watch you on a vid...

Well she's show showing it off then the glitter in her lovely eyes show show showing it off then and all the people shake their money in time She sells heart, she sells meat oh dad, she's driving me mad, come see We shake shake to the trumpet and through the...

On a day without a night Eyes, the green of seawater And skin so white You're nothing like my mother Do you hold him like her? Do you need him like her? Is he all that you've got? Oh So you stayed with him again You fled with him And travelled in hi...

come on to me my winter son we could lie on the rails and when the morning comes we'll be miles away, miles away slipping away while the city sleeps running away from this cruel disease miles away, miles away modern boys, modern boys hand in hand sic...

You thought you'd come and amaze me, honey You thought you'd come on and amaze me with your money You thought you'd come and amaze me, honey Get flash, get cash, get phoney Thought you'd come and amaze me, honey Thought you'd come on and amaze me with yo...

Sleepy head get out of bed Big bad world is calling Step in your shoes and catch the news It's another morning Morning, It's morning Morning, It's morning again Rub your eyes as nature sighs The population's yawning Just step in your shoes there's...

Shame on me Well, I had the beast, you see And if he can take it I can take him home with me Shame on her She's a lovely little number And when we go lassoing You get lassoed, all of you If you can take it I can take it And we're moving, so moving...

Music like sex you like to have sex to Who will buy this false alarm? Who will buy this emotion? Who will exchange their body parts For some imaginary notion? Who will suspend their common sense For this unique occasion? Who will exchange their violenc...

In a hired car she will come to England from the sea And as the tide flows the London snows will come. And from the skyline shines the lies of the government's singular history So in a hired world she will buy a gun And she will come from India with a lov...

In the high life I've got this feeling now I've got this horrible feeling On the escalator they took it out on him As the ridiculous world went... by Oh, he is gone He's my insatiable one Oh, he is gone He's my insatiable one... oh On the high...

I wake up every day to see her back again Screaming my name through the astral plane And in this catalogue town she takes me down Down through the platinum spires Down through the telephone wires And we shake it around in the underground And like a new generat...

I've seen you in the mirror When the story began And I fell in love with you I love your mortal sin Your brains are locked away But I love your company I only ever leave you When you got no money I got no emotions for anybody else You better understa...

Twisted mistress, pissed, in lipstick A tuppence for your dance The rosebud kissing and my feast is More than we could ask Shadowbox with paper darts The cards against your chest A tapestry of intimacy Your love still hurts the best There is no holdi...

How long will it take to mend? How long will it take? It depends How long will I blow my money on Parade and paperbacks? Another moment to make me wonder Another sentence to help me through Fight the sorrow Fight the sorrow Fight the sorrow Like the...

Sing me your servant song Sing it in the servant tongue Fold me like paper And crush me like ice I picked you daffodils But you've got no more vases to fill With the wind on our skin With the west in our eyes Nothing can stop us now Nothing can sto...

It's the way you pick your clothes off the floor It's the way you scratch your skin when you yawn It's the t-shirts that you choose like you're in the Air Force Yeah the language that you use reacts like chemicals Obsessions in my head Don't connect wit...

We sit in silence, A marriage license Is all you know, All you know, All you know. We sit and chew gum, Watch television, And you know, And you know, And you know... But there's oceans between us, Light years that screen us, Oceans that drift awa...

Is it my imagination or is that a cardboard sky? Is it just a situation that made me lose my mind? I don't need you to be sorry I just wanted you to know That this is one hit to the body One hit to the soul It's one hit to the body That won't show...

And, baby, is it One love, one mind, one word the kids all follow? One word, one mind, one love the kids all follow? And they're the ones that rock the beats With the language of the streets One love, one mind, one word the kids all follow One word,...

By the roadside shrine there's a place Selling bouquets of cellophane That's where they meet in this desolate place And the more they see the more they say Thrown like two winter roses into a broken vase They're playing the hand they play Caught in the...

Picking poppies in the sky Tripping as the world went by Licking lollies in the sun Melting like your sugar, love Oh You, you were my oxygen You, were my winter sun You were my only one Oh, you, you were my oxygen Painting pictures in the grass Pee...

Oh, painted people get you going And I'll smother that pig in a holy scene It ain't too hard to see Oh, the paint, my love, gets you going Like you wanna be got for the next world scene It ain't too hard to see The pills' taken everything The pills y...

Pale are the snowflakes That fall for us There's one tiny shoe Outside in the corridor Pale are the peonies You grew, my love The colour of your skin Pale and paper thin Will you have the courage Of your tenderness When the wolf is at your door...

I was born as a pantomime horse Ugly as the sun when he falls to the floor I was cut from the wreckage one day This is what I get for being that way Well, did you ever, did you ever go round with them? Well, did you ever, did you ever go round the bend?...

I'm so sorry to hear about the news, Don't you worry, I'll buy us a bottle and we'll drink in the petrol fumes, I'm so sorry to hear about your world, Don't you worry, There's a gap in the fence down by the nature reserve, Hey, such a lovely day, such a...

In the corner of your mind There's a place you go to hide Where the lonely years reside There's a secret life for sale Watch the world inside your brain Where the people come to say Take the pieces of your life Send the message to the sky Mend the pie...

Poor little rich girl, you're a bewitched girl Better beware Laughing at danger, virtual stranger Better take care The life you lead sets all your nerves a-jangle Your love affairs are in a hopeless tangle Though you're a child, dear Your life's a wild...

With eyes of blue And eyes of green And eyes that watch The drum machine And eyes of green And eyes of blue A thousand eyes Stare back at you They watch the sky They watch the sun They watch them all They're having fun With eyes of blue And eye...

You say what you want to say Your diamonds are drops of rain Your smile is your credit card Your currency is your love And the morning is for you And the air is free And the birds sing for you And your positivity You play where you want to play On the main s...

Sad as a story, my rainy day girl Sat on her hands in a sugar-free world Mimed in a million video games Bad to the bone, like the garbage she's made And the world is calling you Like the stranger stalling for you Like the pollen falling Falling for you...

If only people ran the show If only traffic weren't so slow If only thoughts would come and go This is the nothingness I know Read my mind Come on if you read my mind Come on if you see inside You won't see nothing If only friends would call again I...

And we're all refugees Walking in circles Dragging our feet Wiping the windows Hoping to please All refugees Standing at the traffic lights Threading through the hostile cars Staring with our almond eyes Not allowed in certain bars Yes, we're all r...

You dress me up, I'm your puppet You buy me things, I love it You bring me food, I need it You give me love, I feel it And look at the two of us in sympathy With everything we see I never want anything, it's easy You buy whatever I need But look at m...

(spoken words) Today I found a dead bird Crushed into the Wealdland clay Brittle bones like snapped twigs Velvet for the scurrying things I cross myself, forlorn you lie Scraped and dressed by the wind Savaged by the tyres and tossed in the tar Broke...

She knows that there are places I won't go But if I did, I'd make her follow A trail of seeds that leads across the road And colours like a raven's shadow Alone in the climate of her greed Her heels on the wheels of nothing Her love is sabotage Our lov...

Inside her is the suburbs, in the sodium lights and the streets In the parked cars and the pretty parks, and in every disease In the new loves under covers, in the cold touch of the right In the dead flowers and the silent hours Cold, cold as the night, hi...

You live on Lancaster Road And you've got a computer And you go, when the library's closed And sit and think of the future Oh, oh, oh, Sam Oh, oh, oh, Sam Oh, oh, oh, Sam You're my main man You've got a mum by the name of Anne And she has got a daug...

Today she's been working, she's been talking, she's been smoking It's gonna be alright. Cos tonight we'll go dancing, we'll go laughing, we'll get car sick, and it will be okay like everyone says, it will be alright and ever so nice. We're going out tonight, o...

She live in a house, she stupid as a mouse And she going where the lights are on She shaking obscene like a fucking machine And she's gone, gone, gone She cooking crack, giving us heart attack And she living in a kooky show, She open your mind for the m...

She walks the streets of summer Walking all day She likes the steel inside her Nothing to say She lives inside the winter Walking around Stoned like the wheels in real life Wandering round You see that girl You see that girl When she falls, she'll...

She, walking like a killer, She, another night another pillow. Nowhere places, nowhere faces, no one wants to see, No education, it's the arse of the nation, She is bad, she is bored, she is bony, she is She, sh-shaking up the karma, She, injecting mar...

She's the face on the radio She's the body on the morning show She's there shaking it out on the scene She's the colour of a magazine And she's in fashion She's in fashion She's employed where the sun don't set And she's the shape of a cigarette And she's the...

she'll come to her end locked in a car somewhere with exhaust in her hair What's she called? I dunno, she's fucking with a slip of a man while the engine ran And he said "She's not dead, she's gone away, gone away" he said He said "She's not dead, just go awa...

Is it worth it A new winter's coat and shoes for the wife And a bicycle on the boy's birthday It's just a rumour that was spread around town By the women and children "Soon we'll be shipbuilding" Well, I ask you The boy said, "Dad, they're going to ta...

Open your eyes and live again And I'll open my heart and love again I'll open my mind deep inside yes I know its blue We all believed in Amsterdam Paris and Spain and Vietnam No one believed you when you said your heart was blue It's raining inside A...

Since you went away Every night and day I've been drinking too much wine I've been sitting in doorways on Circle line Since you went away Every night and day I've been staring into space I've been stumbling slowly through cityscapes And I go where th...

Lonely lives, stolen hair Twisted smiles, vacant stares Stoney hearts, lonely tunes Empty minds...in you And we wanna be the only ones And we wanna be the loaded guns We'll make decisions and then smile at you Sit - situations...oooh Open hearts, lon...

Angel, don't take those sleeping pills, you don't need them Though it's just time they kill Angel, give me your sleeping pills, you don't need them Give me the time they kill You're a water sign, I'm an air sign Gone gone to Valium, can you get me some? You'r...

The air is still, we are struck like matches Too beautiful to really care what's right The rumours burn like roman candles In the broken light This blood has lived in her This blood has lived in you For one snowblind moment This love has lifted her Th...

Because we're young, because we're gone We'll take the tide's electric mind, oh yeah? Oh yeah We're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon, oh Because we're young, because we're gone we'll scare the skies with tigers eyes, oh yeah? Oh yeah We're so yo...

All the colours in the rainbow don't compare With one look in your impossible eyes And I walked into the trap with my eyes wide shut But I never knew what it would be like All the plans were made In the wooded glade Where your body was split wide open And I c...

She's star, starcrazy Electric shock bog brush hair Flat on her back in the '80s In the '90s going nowhere Star, starcrazy Got a kicking transistor inside A heavy metal stutter that brains me And an electric love in her eyes Oh, she don't want educat...

Come to my house tonight We can be together in the nuclear sky And we will dance in the poison rain And we can stay a while in heaven today Let's stay together Let's stay, these days are ours Stay together Two hearts under the skyscrapers There's a t...

This still life is all I ever do There, by the window, quietly killed for you In the glasshouse my insect life Crawling the walls under electric lights I'll go into the night, into the night She and I, into the night Is this still life all I'm good for...

Street life, into the night With the syncopated melodies Street life, look left, look right You've got your lips from a magazine Cheap sound that comes from underground Communicates to everyone Street life, it's alright You get your tips from a popu...

You and I, we want to ride the ocean You and me, we want to sail the stars You superglue me to a new emotion Mend the pieces of my broken heart And I dissolve into a kind of limbo When I watch you on a VCR Like Al Pacino or a young De Niro I'm gonna pi...

Lying in my bed, I think of you That song goes through my head, the one we both knew In each line lies another line full of sacred sound But you're outside, where the companies dream and the money goes round Lying in my bed, watching my mistakes I listen...

I know a girl, she walks the asphalt world She comes to me, I supply her with Ecstasy Sometimes we ride in a taxi to the ends of the city Like big stars in the back seat, like skeletons ever so pretty I know a girl, she walks the asphalt world But where...

I watch the slow hand Kill the day,I see my starring mode take away, I watch the skyline,for him to come And when he comes alone,we'll be gone. And we'll go into the city,into the light We'll be there in the headlines, in care of the night Cause this i...

And maybe we're just kids who've grown, and maybe not, And maybe when we're on our own, we don't have much, But oh, we are young and not tired of it, Oh, we are young and easily lead, Oh, with all the kids getting out of their heads. Oh, Class A, Class B...

Won't someone give me a gun? oh well it's for my brother well he writes the line wrote down my spine It says "Oh do you believe in love there?" So slow down, slow down, you're taking me over And so we drown, sir we drown, stop taking me over Won't someone gi...

On the platform you are waiting Your arms are bare There’s a warning in your eyes And the cold earth waits for me there As I hurry past the railings You brush your dress And with the mourning in your eyes And that look of hungriness And who knows wha...

The world waits for you and And the dawn breaks for you and And the media will watch And she will change her mind I try to win for you and I shed my skin for you and I loved you like my own I fed you like a child I stay in bed and feed the day With...

Where's all the money gone? I'm talking to you. All up the hole in your arm is the needle, A much better screw. But oh, what will you do alone? 'Cause I have to go. Where is this life of fun that you promised me? Nothing here works but your works and I...

We passed upon the stair We spoke of was and when Although I wasn't there He said I was his friend Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes "I thought you died alone A long-long time ago" Oh, no, not me We never lost control You're face to...

See you In your next life When we'll fly away For good Stars In our own car We can drive away From here Far away So far away Down to Worthing And work there Far away We'll go far away And flog ice creams Til the company's on its knees See you In you...

Through endless Asia, through the fields of Cathay Or enslaved in a pebble-dash grave, with a kid on the way If you're far over Africa on the wings of youth Or if you're down in some satellite town and there's nothing you can do Just give me, give me, giv...

She walks the streets of summer Inside her there's no future She walks the streets to pass the time The cash machines are laughing At plastic people passing She walks the streets to pass the time Sadie, Sadie in the sound of the streets Insane as anythi...

There's a song playing on the radio Sky high in the airwaves on the morning show And there's a lifeline slipping as the record plays And as I open the blinds in my mind I'm believing that you could stay And oh if you stay I'll chase the rain-blown fiel...

Lay Lady Lay and Band of Gold A Day in the Life, And Dream of Sheep Seasong and Vincent and Death Disco Listen to the music in your sleep These are the sad songs, the broken words These are the sad songs, the lies you've heard These are the good times yo...

She-rocker, you're wasting your time, 'Cause you're only a girl. She-rocker sacked the factory line, For a chance of a dance in a surreal world. She said, "oh, come rescue, rescue me from this Hollywood life, Oh, come rescue, rescue me from this Hollywo...

Oh, day after day, every morning The city sighs and cars collide Oh we take the train Through the winter hinterlands and garage bands An we wash it away, we wash it away this grey Wash it away Oh, cos this time is yours and mine Oh hear the city sound,...

Hold on, he's coming Through the wheels of the star machine Hold on, he's coming Through the tears of your shit stained dream In an anthem for the world Let him waltz you down the river Let him feel like boy or girl With his sci-fi lullaby Let the lig...

Tides are pulling Pulling me back to you Dragging me under Making me new It's wonderful It's wonderful It's making me scared I don't know where it's going Clothed in pale gray Rolling like driftwood Waving at distant planes I feel it against my pap...

You seem to love me When I’m not around When I have to go to ground You just seem to want me When I’m never there Silence is everywhere On a tightrope with you Too scared to look down Through my fingers Walking a tightrope with you I made my mist...

Don't take your life 'cause your bicycle won't fly You may be going to heaven tonight Don't spoil the show for the love of some albino You won't be going to heaven alone I see her by the window Waiting every night So I wouldn't give a shit if my bi...

She was standing smoking counting stolen change Don't someone have the guts to complain? Said "superman I'm a big fan Let's get something straight Well you don't have the guts to complain" Now your son's coming out to play Your son's coming out to play...

Maybe, maybe it's the clothes we wear, The tasteless bracelets and the dye in our hair, Maybe it's our kookiness, Or maybe, maybe it's our nowhere towns, Our nothing places and our cellophane sounds, Maybe it's our looseness, But we're trash, you and me, We'r...

Cars are crawling in the microtowns Women hide the decay Boys bounce to the disco sounds Lights go inside with the grey Gas clouds paint the cityscapes Lovers whisper the lies Hip chicks, drugs and fornicate But in my head I am up in the sky On a UFO...

Oh, oh, what are we gonna do? Union, Union, Union City blue Tunnel to the other side It becomes daylight I say, he's mine Oh, power, passion plays a double hand Union, Union, Union City man Arrive, climb up four flights To the orange side Rearrange m...

Will you be my lover? Will you be the one? Will you be like no other For how long? Oh yes I'll be your wild flower Grown through the concrete And born to the backbeat of the stars And yes i'm just a stupid guy Crushed like a butterfly Dead-eyed at t...

Dressed as a cowboy on top of a hill It's sadder than it probably sounds He gets lovely the more he's ill Don't o.d. on him now Dressed as a woman with horrible hair And singing to the birds in town Who goes walking through traffic out there? Don't o.d...

I watch you drift away Around the room in that dress The jewels on your bracelet Have seen their best I watch the sweat form Against your clothes I've seen the look on their faces I think they know That the clock is ticking away And the wind is call...

In the undertow Of a muddy river's ebb and flow Is a hand that will not let go The current is strong The river is deep In the afterglow Of the fire that tore through the room below Someone calls through the smoke "All you can do is try to breathe To...

Well the church bells are calling Police cars on fire And as they call you to the eye of the storm All the people say "Stay at home tonight" I say we are the pigs, we are the swine We are the stars of the firing line And as the smack cracks at your win...

It ain't that hard to find it, it ain't that hard at all It ain't too hard to see what's on your wall From Madagascar to Europe they never get known at all It ain't too hard to see what's in your balls 'Cause we believe in showbiz we believe it all we b...

Dressed as a cowboy on top of a hill It's sadder than it probably sounds He gets lovely the more he's ill Don't o.d. on him now Dressed as a woman with horrible hair And singing to the birds in town Who goes walking through traffic out there? Don't...

I don't want to go to heaven I just want to go when I go And if you miss me there And the cloths of heaven tear around you Then the river that ebbed through me Will flow through you And you will see That you, and I, and us, made the best trinity But...

And the mysteries of love are not for us It's the little things that are tearing us up As the telephone emits a brittle sigh Only one of us will reach it in time What are you not telling me? What are you not telling me? As I blow away the dandelion clock Wil...

I don't know the meaning of much I don't know the right expressions I don't have too much intuition Or too many credentials I don't know the meaning of much I never make the best impressions And I don't have the means of expression To explain my obsess...

The chocolate kiss that sealed her fate Is fading like morning's dew we break She's scraping her boots on frozen dirt Her heels are plastic, rock the brass The drip of the tap upstairs won't stop The twist of the key inside the lock The cellophane taped...

Come out tonight in the puddles Splash some love across the sky Just you and I, bursting bubbles As the sky is about to cry When the rain falls There's magic in our lives When the rain falls We're happy deep inside When the rain falls It cleans away...

So softly you’ll run From the sound of your brother’s gun But you know it’s not just a game In the brambles you’ll hide Till the caretaker comes outside And everyone calls your name When you are young There are battle plans and distant drums When you...

When you were young There were battle plans and distant drums When you were young There was nothing right and nothing wrong You would play in the maze Till your mother, she called you away 

Out in the sticks, out in the stickiness They're chasing round in stolen ice cream vans They're sparking up with someone, oh They're covering up their jumpers in roses, woo oh Where pigs don't fly, woo oh Out over there, out in the sticky wire fire, Yo...

We are only young But we style our future With a cattle gun And we aren't idle rich So we smile for tomorrow With a bitch of an itch 'Cause when the firelight shocks Like a cop shop pyre We'll sack the politics With premonition and fire And we'l...

I've the sun for the spoken word And you're obscene, but never heard You couldn't do your hair You couldn't do your job You couldn't liven us up with a cattle prod But here you come, like I knew you would Do I just love you 'cause you look quite good?...

oh you might have conversation smashed in a bar clocking all of the disco dolls that blind you oh check out some mad situation some silly farce so real you can feel it twist inside you everywhere you go every thing you do every place you know every wor...

Tony only reads Asian Babes Danny's doing doves down the raves Terry drinks his money away Oh, god, and his sons play drums all day On the scene, on the dole In your eyes, in your soul The young men, young men You are the ones Are the scene, are the s...