The Wildhearts

I was outspoken And while my mouth was open I missed a moment I missed a moment And while I was raging That you were busy failing In the war that we were waging And the moments we were wasting While the chances were escaping And I’m holding back the order to r...

That girl is the kind of girl Who's in love with the guy before you That girl is the kind of girl To create you and destroy you That boy is the kind of boy Who takes everything for granted That sex is the kind of sex For which VD was invented Queenie I swear...

Something here sounds like something I heard A trip to the Hollies via Westerberg Singing 'bout the times and occasions when The boomerang seems too far for returning back home again, yeah When they cut you up When the anger flares up When it gets so ha...

The lights are on The ships have gone I'm fine and dry and much to my relief I'm flying high To beat the sky And One by One my blues lie underneath A time to live A time to die A time to open up your eyes and see I'm in love with the rock 'n' roll world I'm...

ba-... (x8) baby strange, what does it take to love you? baby strange, what does it take to loathe you? stuck in occasions unfinished and severed, I'm dead with my eyes open wide heaven above you, tired and lonely, I'm terrified but in an ideal world there'd...

You can’t see the candy for the razors You’re never gonna faze her with what you say She’s got a certain kind of something And I do believe it’s working so what the hey? Come the way you are (Come the way you are) Come the way you please (Come the way you ple...

hold me, baby, try to think of how you made me hold me, baby, while the world gets bored and lazy and hold me, hold me, tighter than I ever thought I could be, tighter than you'd hold a memory... time, bubbling under, I will rise, I will shake material gain i...

You’re better than a Saturday night You’re better than killing a fight You’re maybe better than the gift of sight You’re better, you’re better You’re better than my favourite shoes You’re better than beating the blues You’re better than a new tattoo You’re bet...

What the Hell has come over me? (All over me) Where's the person you used to be? (It's a mystery) Well I'd swear somebody has switched you while I was asleep. Personality interchange. (Face the change) Sitting duck in your firing range. (Baby strange) I'm thin...

Eyes dried tight gotta get myself together need a kickstart cocktail, ten percent coffee with a high rise family size, guaranteed to catonize the little bit of brain I got a-hanging on from last night I need a double take, a-just to get awake to try and coun...

mix up, start, stop, start, wait a minute... shut down losing the plot, losing the plot, losing the plot 'til there's nothing to see but the ground head inside a rut - it's like my mind is shut, I hope I cope this time drink and drugs will only amplify (oo-oo...

Making your way in the world today Takes everything you've got Taking a break from all your worries Sure would help a lot Wouldn't you like to get away? Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name And they're always glad you came You want to be w...

hey, be one of us check your moods there by the door smile, then shoot the shit don't step out our social law thanks but no thanks, here I'll hang outsiders be my drug 

you, with their sadness in your eyes you've got places you can dream to if you'd only take the time I've got the arms to break your fall but you're sad without a reason and that's the baddest kind of all down, down see them drown why do you let it get you d...

Bop, bop, bop, bop, yeah Bop, bop, bop, bop, yeah Bop, bop, bop, bop, yeah Bop, bop, bop, bop, yeah You can’t swim, you’ll take a dive 'Cause if you wake up and you’re feeling you’re alive You’re feeling hard, well that’s alright 'Cause I’m a going dancin’ to...

You broke my heart into a thousand pieces and to skin you alive, oh that would be so easy. So how am I to survive in a world where you're still alive? When you should be... Chorus: Destroyed, choked out, your infection should be destroyed. (Clap) put it o...

shut your mouth, can't you see that I'm ignoring you? your lips are moving up and down, you're trying to get a message through but here and now I'm absolutely miles away I'm thinking of a million things and none (are/of) what you're trying to say you've got to...

And now I'm fine, my mind is clear and nothing bad can touch me here It's all so right, it's all so beautiful so maybe tomorrow when we're coming down for real I'm feeling warm, I want to stay I want to live my life this way protect me still, oh, as I slowly...

I can be anything I want to be, anything you hate in me multiplied by twenty three sometimes in my head I think I'm someone else that makes me feel bad, badder than before it's my life, my time, I can do what I wanna do when did I give you an invite to come...

Whatever happened to all that love? How come enough is now not enough? Tell me when I began to annoy you? And will someone else get the blame after I do? Eager to leave ‘er You try to please her Now you’re on your back Like a golden retriever Eager to leave ‘...

life has teeth, and bites the feeding open hand you wanna be in a band? I got to feeling, I got too much, too soon, too fucked up I don't know I got to get to the show well... what have I got to do? what have I got to do to get through to you? well... what hav...

There will be evil that tries to disable They fight, take, start wars Try to make you take the poison Try to get some kind of reaction You don't need this situation Ignore the irritation Get your groove one Some will annoy you And bore you as they do Just st...

getting it cheap, a-getting it free a-getting it safe, a-getting it sussed a-getting it seen, a-getting it praised a-getting it in, a-getting it out, a-getting it erased CHORUS: getting it all the way, so don't ask for what I say when I'm still getting it rig...

the paper's hanging off the walls, there's 'roaches dancing in the halls you still pay your fortune to crawl down misery street the euthanasia dream brigade are melting in the Hampstead shade the zombies of life they parade down misery street CHORUS: so com...

While you were walking round Powis Square I was in Highgate, Y'all know where And you was wearing all my favourite clothes Coz they looked much better on you Your love brings me down like heroin Be the hero in the end in the end of the film Be the hero in the...

{pyro!!}{pyro!!} aaaaaaaahhh... out of the misery {(hup, hup, hup, hup!)} to wash my soul out of the ground with a new eight count I never came to Rock 'n' Roll check in the mirror, and I don't mind same old cracks in the face and glass a-just a little mo...

I just want it, I could need it And I’m just on it, I ain't in it And I shuffle around And I hear those familiar sounds The sounds that I heard before But I don't wanna hear any more Just to go where I want 'em to go As if to say "I told you so" And if I dec...

Ahhh yes, it's just like the time Back in '89, they said "You'll be fine, Jus' suck a little dick" And the standards are fine, i want more Gonna open the bargains in store Why the hell did they wanna sign me? I'm a liability Goodbye East West, God bless In...

honesty will set you free but individuality is wonderland the greatest gift provided, kept inside in case no-one understands add animal instinct here when all is settled and done there's just empathy chains the crowd was second to none but the memory remains...

someone out there really likes me, you'll never be this side of ninety you'll never feel the strength of wonder to get out of the shit I'm under do I sense some depravation? I've got a toothache and an itching the face to face and loser zeros, and I'm a-shouti...

All the stars are out, seems like they know what's going on. I still can't shake the doubt, but it would appear I'm the only one 'cos everywhere the good will filled the air, and it got the crowd to sing so loud that no-one even heard their city crying. Here...

I'm not saying that I know I've just been here Before it's one of those things where the Scratches heal and the scars don't show And if trouble I see then trouble I'll get There ain't been a kind of trouble designed That can kill me yet I'll never let you kn...

When the people ceased to cheer for John Of Violence He resigned to spend his time in a tomb of silence And when he struck out for the third and final time On lifeline number nine There was nothing left to be unafraid of And moments from the bridge Payback is...

(right hand (to left hand)) and of all the feelings it's the only choice that my senses make, it's like I could inject you, babe, aa-aa and of all the faces, you're the only human I ever known but ain't it good to be alone sometimes? it's warmer than blood...

White boy, white lie, two faced dead guy Too lust for life to die along with it Take it, talk it, comb that carpet Pull on the bone and chaser in secret Golden slumber, golden slumber Too weak to lift the rock you're under We know where you've been And we kno...

how you been? it's been awhile, I heard you found someone to make you smile stick around, you got a pen? it's just so great to see your face again a-take a chair, pull up a glass, do you remember when I saw you last? things have changed, and no regret, I'm gla...

Dance across the stars, I'm the latest sensation Shining from above all of your fake adulation I shoot a star beam all over the world I keep a promise for every girl You're L.T.D. I'm crazy Your craziness don't phase me Praise liberty to the L.T.D. force Sh...

Feeling underlined A bad case of loving you now Take a helping hand Just pushed it and crushed it It can't be undone, it's so dumb Living life unsung So run Take what you can and just go Forget what you had it won't show This feeling of hating so bad Compared...

To all that's heeding the call To the freaks that crawl Into sight when the night falls Going out to you It's a shout to do that do 'Til you can’t do it any more I believe it's a good time calling I believe it's a good time calling I believe that they're call...

(clouded/crying) grey and blue my mind is ten miles high and rising misty waters calling down surrounding me with healing to rise, to climb above the chaos, and wash away the filth to hide inside my reason, the only one I need and all I can remember is all I c...

You and me, we didn't even see the writing on the wall Gravity helped to lift our hopes, but never broke our fall With or without, I still need some time to work it out It's going nowhere, and it's almost there You're not the one I've been looking for You're...

well I used to think that bad times lay behind me, I used to think I'd had my share of pain my friends all tried to tell me I was dreaming, yeah but I just stood behind you all the same come take me down and make me dirty, well I guess that's all I've ever bee...

when you're young and you say you believe it, man you're never gonna ch-ch-ch-change you can read about it all in imaginary stories but you never get the glory 'cos in life it ain't the same you give a bit, and you give a bit, and it's all you'll ever d-d-d-do...

In the centre of the thunder Selfishly I wander Along the road of evil Through the canyons where Hope can't find me there And I divorce myself from feeling Nothing's gonna let me down now Nothing's gonna let me down now Shallow breathing makes it so hard to...

There's a fever in the cabin There's a devil in the garden A shark fin in the brainwaves Stopping anything starting Grey skies fight and the sun dies shining Then the telephone rings with a silver lining Take me out, take me out tonight Get me hooked in good...

Up and down Rock and ride And around and around and around and around Mood swings and roundabouts It's all mood and swings and roundabouts It's all mood swings and roundabouts It's in your head, man Sort it out I'm sure that I can't change Get up, get around...

"Gee mister you got the best answering machine message I ever heard" drags me round all day just like a ball on a chain or a tooth pain when I confess... I'm just a mess do I have to take this shit from you every time I look your way or say "HEY! it's...

watch yourself... here it comes... aaaaah... try to run and you try to hide, hide your face in the other side sycophantic or paranoid? suck on the milk of your plan destroyed CHORUS: tell me where, where, where the fuck you been? where, where, where? wh...

here's the eighth of the seven wonders, here's the (pay back) without a crime here's to all the baby-shit so major at the time from the last of the great pretenders to the new television age and the few who still remember passion over rage we changed, we didn...

A world awaits an icon to make a connection A mother complex begs stellar direction He's taking the chair He's living the life He's fucking pretty girls every night But he ain't fucking the wife And he's doing the things we'll never do and he's genuine Judgin...

well I pushed on that button but that button was on too tight - right! that kind of bull shines morning, noon and night then, I get to see her face again, well that sweet Nita Nitro, she's locos tambien should I go? should I stay? should I have another try? w...

Warm and dark and the moon is low I try to think of a better place I'd like to go All alone in a room of rest The kind of night that I almost hope Would never end Up in bed with my night songs Summer fun with the radio on Up in bed with my night songs Feeli...

in the trials of my youth, on my way to being man there was caustic words of ill advice I'd never understand but their hometown dreams were shattered when ambition foiled their plans but you can't be the one who tries, they love to criticise, I know… or at lea...

Hey there sweet thing check out the scene The makers of taste are all peachy and keen The pace is of summer and the height is a climb Now is the colour and blue is the time Hey there sweet thing throw in your keys The party isn't over 'til you're down on your...

I've had a drink and a smile in every port of heaven And from 5 on the dial I'm at 8, 9, 10 and 11 I gotta find a way I gotta fix me a buzz I've got a pain like a pain And I want it to stay Could be mine, could be yours Could be there any time I want Nurse,...

2,3, ow nagh! Are we rollin’? Whoa! Yeah! Whoa! Yeah! Down down, it’s-a getting me down Whoa! Yeah! Whoa! Yeah! Down down, it’s-a getting me down Whoa! Yeah! Whoa! Yeah! Down down, it’s-a getting me down Whoa! Yeah! Whoa! Yeah! Down down, it’s-a getting me do...

The one, the where, the why The home below the sky The only thing that men will sing about throughout the world One love, one life and one girl The light you gave to me that even I can see If beauty shines like a precious stone Then you're the only pearl One...

It's only love That keeps you going when you're far away It's only love And it keeps on growing Deeper every day It's only love that makes the world go 'round And when you're feeling down It picks you up, and gives you all the strength you're needing Still yo...

Coming on strong, moving along Taking a dive, being alive Found us away - climbing up a rainbow Ending the day - at a place we all know Pass it around - hitting on the wall now Never look down - that's the way it all does One step outside everything is feelin...

Everybody go' Fetch the stereo Take a ride in the car to a place I know Monkeys in the park, shaking after dark We'll be back in the morning With the scars to show Feel a little sick, feel a little fine And it all feels better by the second time Home is where...

I’ve been looking for a new direction Found the cheapest way of selling out You’ve got the science down to perfection So do what you want Do what you will But do it now You’ll learn something Your cred means nothing The world wants nothing but hits Until it m...

Did you listen to your mother? To your sister or your brothers? Were you there for one another? Not putting it on Just a lack of conversation Only adds to the frustration Never reach a destination Stop putting it on Stop putting it on Another pride thing for...

red light, you're lonely, and nobody cares… I'm tired of hanging round, I'm tired of this old town, and trying to run me up a million ways I want to take a trip, get on a rocket ship, I'll be a satellite in fourteen days I take a pack of paracetamol, then I c...

Wyle E Coyote, Cybermen, Tony Montana, Yosemite Sam, Sylvester the Cat, The Triffids, The Fly. Put 'em in lights, put 'em in lights. Falcon Eddie, Doctor Phibes, Captain Hook, Frankenstein, Chupacabra, Bonnie & Clyde. Put 'em in lights, put 'em in light...

and once upon a time, so pure and crystalline the sounds would change to what the mood defined it didn't play a role, it just said bare the soul and then we left it up to crowd control without a code of dress within the fold then I heard somebody shout: "hair...

passing information, now I'm waiting at the station for the train fools that threw their mouths about with nothing more to do than pass the blame seems there isn't any reason to remain, yeah second, third and fourth hand words their twisted lips spit out the...

She's all that, she's all that it takes to convict you. She's all that, she's all that it takes to convince you. You might make most of them believe you, but not me; I have got your number. I'm on you like a shadow. I follow your every lie. It ain't me that's...

waking up with an 8.2 when it seemed like the easiest thing to do when someone said "here's one for you!" mouth's so dried and I just spit ash in a hole in my pocket full of wasted cash but it's all right it was just bad stash "jump inside" he said, (I tried...

back on my planet, they laugh at my jokes, and everyone drinks and everyone smokes no-one speaks 'less there's something to say, there's no posh words just telecommunique back on my planet you cannot tell lies, 'cos everyone would see it by the look in your e...

And so it began the dreams we had were sold unto the man. And keen they arrived, picture perfect and pleasing to the eye. Here's where you sign. Now welcome to the great design. All that you are will not be recognised 'till we decide. Chorus Like lambs to th...

I like your big decisions But I love the way you change your mind I like your strength of vision But I love the way that love is blind I like that you've got bigger balls that almost all of The Special Forces And I need you leaving me like UFO's need horses S...

Right now, somewhere Somebody stopped living Fed up of holding Onto the hand they been given In the 25 seconds This song’s been playing Maybe 25 mothers Lost 25 children And we all get bruised And we all get sore But some people out there Feel the pain a litt...

Days stuck in the memory and the nights in doubt I need somebody friendly when the lights go out I ain't too crazy about Elvis But I'm sure there's a few there in Memphis And I don't know about Jesus But I'd still walk the waters between us And all of my life...

(Yeah, nice one (done)...) there's a light in my room so that it's always night or day I know that being responsible will help me find my way well… I'd swim an ocean to be around it but I've been swimming since the age I found it the sweet affliction, people...

Something got me sinking in the bathtub Thinking how to figure you out Trying to figure out a way how to open your mouth When the monologues cut When the comfort of silence Kind of scares it back shut Something got me talking (Got me talk, talk, talking) Some...

play, relax, enjoy 'cos we're frying tonight again it's raw, unclean, uncut and it's all for the art of pain just make-up there the effects and the movies that twist the brain my TV screen is dripping red, with gates of hell and evil dead I cannot wait to see...

Check it out Just see it, just see it So what’s getting in your way? Better get out now Just leave it, just leave it They can’t hear a word you say And all of his chances are slim And nobody wants to be him The time has come to work it out It’s stormy in the...

can't believe that I got so down I dropped my guard again hit me! hit me! palpitations and goo-goo eyes, the transformation is sad and sickly she pulled out a "Tyson" from out of the blue, and met with a sickening crunch CHORUS: she got me... woah, she got...

New motel and dirty beds, freezing showers, overheads are through the roof, the crew is moaning, boiling strings and Milton Keynes too. Waiting 'round for soundcheck at five, doors are nine and we ain't playing 'til eleven and there's something about a curfew...

Neither Ghost nor a transient spirit Just a face staring out another window Looking through all the lights of Brooklyn Where the dark has a million other faces I I I like getting lonely I I I miss this feeling I I I feel no fear in being Lonely, lonely...

she's always busy caring 'cos that's all she's ever done she's a thousand Florence Nightingales all rolled up into one and (well) people take advantage but she loves her fellow friend with a slow, slow count from ten... when strangers die around her she still...

We are born into a time of innocent Americans attacked for trying to job while some Bin Laden motherfucker takes the credit, but instead of heading to Afghanistan to take him out they went to bomb Iraq and kill some families. Children die because of some imag...

These are the words that I've saved Saved for the perfect day But they won’t get used If I keep waiting on you This is the way that I feel I wish that it wasn't real But it's more than true I can't keep waiting on you So open your eyes and see where I'm stan...

They welcome you with broken arms And wary eyes to stave off harm And they move around exactly like we do They're paranoid, they keep their space, They live in dreams they can't erase And they carry ghosts around the place like glue And they'll keep you at th...

Pictures of dying going nationwide, while they're cold and hungry on the streets outside. Broken promises make broken homes. And they're all queuing up for a government loan. Pledging your millions off a TV screen while the shit on your doorstep remains unc...

Over here, we have some guy Conducting a very open meltdown in London Yeah! Over here, we have a scene of domestic discord Played out in public Yeah! And so it appears that the laws that govern privacy Have all stopped working, the rock stopped rocking The tr...

Come sucker fucking away the pain, doing the rounds again, bound, held down in a self made Hell that you picked in your own design and you would change your mind if you could turn back time. Taking the piss out of the men you kissed. Every cock you took, you...

Well, I'd forgotten how lonely being alone can be And now I'm finding it out well, I've been hiding a Memory that's coming to get me coming back: and how Because there's only one hell you can put me through You can't hurt me more than you already do Well, I'd...

And this is all - relax There is no time to relapse Take it green... take it blue And with the world in his hands Where there were fields now there's land We made it here, made it this time Because I can't picture a day when we was Born with nothing to say I...

Can a man make a difference? Could our God have a preference? When tomorrow needs a legacy Where will the unit shifters be? When the future needs a soundtrack Not a name on a contract Only justice and quality Not a face on a TV When melody and words a...

I've got a feeling of an Afterglow and the second That the sorrow goes Will breed a new career And I wanna open up my eyes And see, 'cos the agony and Ecstasy look all the same From here You don't get no view Like you do on the top Of the world the top of th...

do you remember British achievement, and living when times were good? watching the start of the end of an era, would you go back if you could? when I was younger, the smell of the hunger, in all of the music you played kept me believing you lived for the lifes...

I'm living on a land-mine my body's ticking away, my cartoon eyelids and my skin, a sickly grey and if I waited by the 'phone line I'd wait a couple of days so I'm here lying on my bed, until I fade I flick the channels one to one, I flick them through again...

The future clear as darkened stone Console yourself, you're on your own The Welcome lights are way behind Eclipsed and down, you're pressure blind Under the waves über alles Under the waves über alles Dive, dive, dive The dream is not a dream no more Just s...

Okay, you're right! I mean it's only fair The up's gotta share with the down's Hows about we go out tonight? Lets just go walking around Okay, so you piss me off, just like everyone Only the ego is sacred You're a little too soft and you think I'm a little too...

gift given time, gift given time open to changes in bearing press covered lies, press covered hearsay, conjecture as detail set image plan, set image plan owing to rank in the scene CHORUS: well I'll try, I guess, I'll never be affected like a bigshot I'll ne...

Turn the radio down Turn the radio down, down Vanilla Radio Down with the music go-round Down with the music go-round-round Vanilla Radio Vanilla Radio Vanilla Radio Remember radio? Being lost in the audio? I want my radio: Where's my Elvis? All that the ki...

In his search for the latest in autodestruct It was faith that he stumbled upon And though weakened by fighting for most of his life It was violently clear That the cause of this mess Was overuse of fear, not of fearlessness And when every beginning is every...

Monday comes crashing in and all the world looks grey again faces on the train seem grim when yesterday the same were smiling another week to kill, another week where time stands still and shuffling masses feel the chill that comes with their routine the worki...

Regardez, this ones a whiner, this ones a wimp Walks with a smile And talks with a limp Lives by excuses, thinks we believe Then gets more confused and in time more na've Stays in the past cuz the future has gone into Trying to remember which story to be on Su...

I used to feeling alright, I'm used to being alone I'm used to staying out nights without a-having a phone and now you're well in my life, I never saw you arrive CHORUS: woah shit, you got through! I suppose I l... my friends are out of the view, you're...

Wo-Woah! Wo-Woah! Wo-Woah! Wo-Woah! You’ll never see her out on her own She always seems like a tower of stone She’s never angry, most of the time She’s outta sight and I’m out of my mind Wo-Woah! Wo-Woah! Wo-Woah! Wo-Woah! She’ll never judge and she’s neve...

Try to imagine the deepest of places With beautiful cultures and mixing of races It’s you, it’s not too far, Shangri-la Shangri-la It’s coming down, all around, on a scale my brain defied I swing around, upside down, like a fool can’t seem to hide I’m dreamin...

Butter coconut as a welcome smell Baby pigeon seed on the window sill Kitchen cupboard full of granola bars Walking through the city beneath the stars And loving every dog on the Lower East Side Fighting for the bill in the taxi ride Your pink knickers sit on...

When you talked about your suicide I never took it serious at all Out of sight but never out of mind I didn't see no writing on the wall You were the man that I thought that I wanted to be I miss having you around Now you're six feet underground When I was 1...

It’s kinda hard to relax when the city’s alive Man, what a place Got to hustle Got to show everyday Being good ain’t enough Got to beat other guys This approach ain’t a race It’s a fight to the death There is no second place Only first Kinda weird don’t you t...