XTC

One thousand umbrellas Upturned couldn't catch all the rain That drained out of my head When you said we were Over and over I cried 'Til I floated downstream To a town they call Misery oh oh misery Misery oh oh misery And one million teacups...

The urge to take you grows more strong For time had made me wait too long Each watch I smash apart Just adding to my power Each watch I smash apart Just bringing near the hour of 25 o'clock, that's when you're going to be mine 25 o'clock, we'll be toget...

Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers, Nurses, queens and drones. Wish they'd leave my head tonight, Let me rest my bones. (Ziggedy zig zag just look at 'em. Ziggedy zag, hey hey) A billion feet sound just like a billion drums. A bed is creaking as th...

"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief, "There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief. Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth, None of them along the line know what any of it is worth." "No reason to get exci...

What can I say? Why do we starve a thing thats near extinction? From day to day, These weeds of fear, Are choking our conviction, Life's like a jig-saw, you get the straight bits, But there's something missing in the middle. All of a sudden, We find...

Do something for me, boys If I should die at sea, boys Write a little note, boys Set it off afloat, saying Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls Village and city girls by the quayside Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls Watching and w...

My heart is taken it's not lost in space And I don't want to see your mooney mooney face I say why on earth do you revolve around me Aren't you aware of the gravity Don't need another satellite I'm happy standing on my feet of clay I have no wish to swi...

Are you receiving me? You are deceiving me I know, see I know When we're out walking Your mouth ain't where it's supposed to do the talking When we're in kissing Your lips are missing, are they out on loan to someone else Are you listening? I put it in a lette...

Save us from the ball and chain, Save us from the ball and chain, Save us from the ball and chain, oh yeah, The diggers and the tower cranes, The diggers and the tower cranes. Don't want demolition, Don't want your compensation, It's not just bricks a...

Orange and lemon Raincoats roll and tumble Together, just liked fruit tipped from a tray Pineapple wet heads Watch new hairdos crumble As scenery sunlight shifts away Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Apples and cherries Are...

Battery brides, ha ha have you ever tried To break out of your waiting room And find yourself a waiting groom Ba ba ba ba battery brides Ba ba ba ba battery brides She left school with a million others And worked in a store part time She dreams of a hu...

Do you know what noise awakes you Every morning from your bed A-coming from the farthest hillside A-coming from inside your head You have heard You have heard the loudest sound In this and every world you can think of Chorus: Louder than tanks on the...

B E A T O W N I spoke to your boss this morning He asked why you weren't home? I said sir they left without warning You won't even get them on the telephone They're in Beatown, it's a capital city and all roads lead to Beatown, beatown I spoke to you...

It's your big day, your big day So you want to tie the knot Tie it tight, don't let it rot, the memory of this day Are you deafened by the bells Could be heaven, could be hell In a cell for two Big day come and big day go Life goes on after the show B...

Push me off to start the fun On a bike ride to the moon Lots of room for everyone On a bike ride to the moon And we'll bring back cheese for my Auntie Jane And some magic moon dust that'll stop the rain On my poor Uncle Alfred's head, even though he sta...

When your love's flown out the window and the pain comes through the door once again you've missed the boat and you're stranded on the shore, And you find out that what you had was never yours at all, friends and lovers that you knew so well will never ta...

A demo intended for 'Oranges & Lemons'. Don't ask me what the lyrics mean, each line exists purely as a comment on the previous one. 'Me I like to roam / wasn't built in a day' etc.'' Life is sometimes shorter than you think So take yourself a hike f...

Overall the rootops blue birds fly apart Blue overall Overall the bones that cage this stupid heart Got blues drawing crosses on my front door Blues a'bringing buckets 'round the back Blues trying to push me from me white fence And tar me a darker bluey...

Boarded up Yeah, we're boarded up Nailed up shut Yeah, we're boarded up Music venue has had its day Death watch beetle band moved in to play Groups don't come down from London way Cos we're boarded up Yeah, we're nailed up shut Two-by-four-ded up Y...

Books are burning In the main square, and I saw there The first eating the text Books are burning In the still air And you know where they burn books People are next I believe the printed word should be forgiven Doesn't matter what it said Wisdom hotl...

Made me a suit of bricks and mortar And a matching stove pipe hat, oh yes Brainiacs Daughter Took me on a sleigh ride underwater And I'm crazy for girls like that Oh yes Sir, yes Sir Three bags full Sir All across the land the bells ring out It's nigh...

Difficult age You're just fourteen And you're not friends with your body Painfully thin Look at your skin Play with yourself for a hobby How can they love a man who does that to himself? Difficult age Turn on the page Have that wee drink in the mean...

Bungalow Bungalow By the sea Bungalow In the sea air Climbing rose Time to spare Luxury accommodation traps the sun So we're working every hour that God made So we can fly away Saving it all up for you Bungalow Bungalow Silver shore line...

Never seen her glowing all that bright she's throwing like some aurora from her head it's growing reaching to the ground and all around like a Navajo blanket Never heard her singing now she's gently ringing like copper wind chimes what on earth is br...

What makes you wander far Don't know who you are Now if the vibe is right I'll go out tonight Cause it's Buzzcity talking it's Buzzcity talking Go and find a late night bar If I'm not back, leave the door ajar It's Buzzcity talking Talking to me...

How bright are the fires of thought In a chain of command How bright is the medical torch When it's put in our hand My microbes and I Can't wait to lay down and die We realise that we must be spent Like the cells that dissolve when a brainwave is sent...

I'm floating over strange land, It's a soulless, sequined, showbiz moon. I'm floating over strange land, And then stranger still, there's no balloon. But I'm getting higher, Wafted up by fame's fickle fire 'til the... Chalkhills and children, Anchor my...

A lie for a lie, but a truth for the truth Church of women is made out of milk which their love turns to butter Church of women will have you give praise with a laugh, bark and stutter Like us men like us men they are nothing like us men Men have gargoy...

Man acting like a farmer and he's treating the woman like a poor cow He got to treat you better from now But man is just a baby and he's needing your milk of kindness I vow To drink as much as you will allow All the way through history Man machine, no my...

Careful, don't look down the wrong end You will see ships that fall out of the sky Who put that nail in your eye You make me want to cry with your... Collideascope Everything looks smashed and broken You will see fishes that drown in the sea If you don...

I ask myself should I put my finger to the left, no I ask myself should I put my finger to the right, no I say it really doesn't matter where I put my finger Someone else will come along and move it And it's always been the same It's just a complicated...

Countdown Countdown to Christmas Countdown to Christmas party time We're so happy We want you to be happy too We're so happy And we want to share the secrets of happiness with you Grab a woman beneath the mistletoe Kiss her lips and make her glow No...

Crocodile No you won't make me jealous That she left me for him Scene one standing Crushed on landing You may have walked out But I'll swallow up my fate Scene two sitting Man in kitchen Bit cold and lifeless like The burger on my plate But there's...

Across a crowded room I first set eyes on you My vision was impaired Obstructed out of view By those - faces in a crowded room them - bodies in a crowded room their - breathing in a crowded room and their - pushing me out down the fire escape In the...

Another year's gone by, The world's grown older, Sometimes I heave a sigh, People grow colder. Every day I do my best to show, I can make it in this world I know, But all the bad thoughts that people bring, My faith in human nature's Getting pretty th...

Watch them go one two three I'm so happy and so is she In a 'Danceband' Show slow Quick quick slow Heel to hell and toe to toe In a 'Danceband' You can do the Bosanova 'Till the night is through You know Gay Gordon You can meet him too But when you h...

Clock in my head Clock on the wall And the two of them Don't agree at all Friday is heaven, Friday is heaven Day in day out Day in day out Wish you were here On the shop floor And together we could Count the dots on the wall Friday is heaven, Frida...

Dear god, Hope you got the letter, And I pray you can make it better down here. I don’t mean a big reduction in the price of beer, But all the people that you made in your image, See them starving on their feet, ’cause they don’t get enough to eat From...

I put on a fake smile And start the evening show The public is laughing I guess by now they know So climb from your high horse And pull this freak show down Dear Madam Barnum I resign as clown You said I was the master of all I surveyed But now I'm sw...

We can plant a seed And watch it grow Food enough to fill a table Running water down an overflow Eat as much as we are able But would the fruit turn ripe If the rains had never been? [Chorus:] Oh Lord deliver us from the elements We at your mercy and...

Cast away on a desert island Me and poor Crusoe are sharing the same fate Cast away on a desert island With Great Britain written on its name plate With my umbrella I go walking Through all the sands on a building site Across the shopping malls and motor...

Just a casual thing Not really worth the mention Didn't hurt a bit That's an end to it But if you didn't mind Can we change the subject now? It's history Anyone can see And after all, I'm a man of the world People come to me 'cause I know the score...

Difficult age You're just fourteen And you're not friends with your body Painfully thin Look at your skin Play with yourself for a hobby How can they love a man who does that to himself? Difficult age Turn on the page Have that wee drink in the mean...

Do what you do what you do ... to me The stars are out and so am I The stars I see ain't in the sky I'm heading for the twilight zone Please don't take me home 

Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper 'Cause I love you when you're wild Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper 'Cause I'd hate you to grow mild Since you took that job with a company You'v...

Hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey (Oh-oh, oh, oh, oh) (Oh-oh, oh, oh, oh) (Oh-oh, oh, oh, oh) (Oh-oh, oh, oh, oh) Man acting like a farmer and He's treated the woman like a poor cow We got to treat you better from now But man is just a baby and...

It frightens me when you come to mind The day you dropped in the shopping line And my heart beats faster when I think of all the signs When they carried you out your mouth was open wide The cat went astray and the dog did pine for days and days And we fel...

I've been praying all the week through At home, at work and on the bus I've been praying I can keep you And to earn enough for us I can take humiliation And hurtful comments from the boss I'm just praying by the weekend I can earn enough for us Found...

Gold sun rolls around Chocolate nipple brown Tumble from your arms Like the ground your breasts swell Land awake from sleep Hares will kick and leap Flowers climb erect Smiling from the moist kiss of her rainbow mouth Stage left Enter Easter and she'...

People rushing round with no time to spare I'm so dizzy, I'm neither here nor there In this traffic jam, I just want to shout Let me off o' this English roundabout (oh, oh, oh) English roundabout (oh, oh, oh) English roundabout (oh, oh, oh) English rou...

Everything, everything, everything We ever thought or said Went in a box labeled "Us" on a shelf In the back of your head Everything, everything, everything We ever shared or did Stored in a jar which I swear had "True Love" Pencilled in on the lid N...

Yes, it's true I want that apple, just like William Tell No more floor gazing, no more head down the well I'm feeling extrovert I should be shaking the stars instead of hugging the dirt I swear! I'm really burning, fit to boil up the sea Human volcano a...

The hunt is on to find the fox Cross patchwork fields and spiny copse Much to and froing White horses showing Their pearly teeth He lead them up into a wood Where he escape I guess he should You know he's a late starter But he's much smarter Than th...

I am the fly on the wall My prying eyes are looking through your bottom drawer I just came flying through your door You didn't notice that your number had been called I see the mother beating the babe I see the money, the pennies you save Stored on comp...

Let us talk about some trivial things we like A bit of this and that Let's chew the fat And pour ourselves a glass of stout And let our Rael Brook shirts hang out Nothing makes us more content To let us wallow in a bit of nonsense We're all so frivolo...

Tending my fruit, tending my fruit Ah you've got to have a hobby A man must have a shed to keep him sane Spraying my buds, spraying my buds Got to keep away diseases I mix the poisons and the wife don't complain Some people say That I am out of my tre...

Funk pop a roll beats up my soul Oozing like napalm from the speakers and grill Of your radio Into the mouths of babes And across the backs of its willing slaves Funk pop a roll consumes you whole Gulping in your opium so copiously from a disco Everyth...

Kid, stay and snip your cord off, talk and let your mind loose, can't all think like Chekov but you'll be O.K. Kid is this your first time here? Some can't stand the beauty, so they cut off one ear, but you'll be O.K. Welcome to the garden of earthly deli...

Generals and Majors ah ah they're never too far from battlefields so glorious out in a world of their own They'll never come down till once again victorious Generals and Majors always seem so unhappy 'less they got a war Generals and Majors ah ah li...

Looks as if you're dropping mirrors by the gross Looks as if your nine lives have left town When you paint in grey and drear Eldorado won't appear To run his sword through all the fears that pull you down And it's okay, for the setting sun Will colour ev...

Just take your suitcase from my wardrobe And pack it full of guns and bombs Then CFC's and germ-war microbes We've been destroying stuff too long And there's no home for us Just you raise your voice in chorus Goodbye humanosaurus They'll teach at schoo...

Hey goosey goosey I believe it's for having fun Hey goosey goosey I believe it's for everyone. One red morning With no warning Life comes crashing in To wake you early with its golden din. One blue evening Cruelly leaving It goes breezing out The...

Laying on the grass my heart it flares like fire The way you slap my face just fills me with desire You play hard to get 'Cause you're teacher's pet But when the boats have gone We'll take a tumble excuse for a fumble Shocked me too the things we used to...

Great fire burning You supplied the spark Fores burning spreading through the ark Animals are panicking I'm animal and panicking Your glance a match on the tinderwood You never spoke but I understood Bring water Eyes bring water [Chorus:] Great fire...

Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman He wants to make you his bride Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman Forever to him you're tied And you know for a million years he has been your lover He'll be a million more And you kno...

When we're laying in bed And we're laying in love You and the blackness Fit me like a velvet glove That's why I go crazy When you flick on your lamp I'm dreaming Hang on to the night Hang on to the night Hang on to the night I don't want to see That...

Have you got Miss Fortune, she's the daughter of rich parents, all she does is cry. One four-letter word is all she wants but you can't buy love so there's no supply. Will you take young Master Charge, the boy who's living well beyond his father's means. (...

See the flowers round the altar See the peaches in tins 'neath the headmaster's chair Harvest festival See the two who've been chosen See them walk hand in hand to the front of the hall Harvest festival Harvest festival What was best of all was the L...

Have you seen Jackie? He's a strange strange strange little girl Make up on his face and his hair in curls Have you seen Jackie? She's a strange strange strange little boy Her long black beard is her pride and joy And all the children follow him around...

She likes it hot she likes a tan she steals my infra fed when I'm gone oh no can it be we're heading for a heatwave Her legs are brown a trace of rust she's in love with a MKII deluxe oh no can it be we're heading for a heatwave Her hair is bleached l...

Heaven is paved with broken glass Since your hammer struck my heart This world, a hell of trees and grass All is wrong like north gone south There's a bad taste in my mouth Everything was stars 'Til you had a notion to leave Beauty marks turn scars Be...

Oh heli Oh heli I'm crouching here with a telescope in hand Looking across our lego land I really think it's about time that she came down She a laughing giggly whirlybird She got to be obscene to be obheard I really think its about time that she came do...

Here comes President Kill again, Surrounded by all of his killing men. Telling us who, why, where and when, President Kill wants killing again. Hooray, ring out the bells, King Conscience is dead. Hooray, now back in your cells, We've President Kill in...

(Hold me.) Hold me my daddy, I never felt lower than dirt on the floor. I say hold me my daddy, I never felt like crying oceans before. If this means war, why are we in it? Might've fired off a couple of rounds, I didn't mean to begin it. If these are the...

Canter never stop She has escaped from the world Where they bake beautiful girls Holly up on Poppy Trotting to the top She talks and banners unfurl Their secrets crayoned in swirls Everyday I Have to pluck up Courage to look her in the eyes The eyes...

An alchemy, human alchemy We stole them from their freedom to be sold To turn their skins of black into the skins Of brightest gold An alchemy, human alchemy We stoked the fires of trade with human coals And made our purses from the flailed skins of Pu...

Humble Daisy Form a chain to hold all battleships in check Humble Daisy Knit a ladder down to nature's sunken wreck Ragged rug unbound Tangle trip the lovers Royal barge aground Brighter than all of the others on the window sill I'll sing about you if...

I am the audience There's no doubt, no consequence I could make the morning papers If I use my capers Let's be the Audience I might lose my patience Polite applause excepted To the ones selected, as the audience... Oh I ... am the audience No doubt,...

He came with free drinks just to blur The lies falling out like rain On an average English summer's afternoon I bought myself a new notebook Sharpened my guitar and went to look If this biz was just as bongo as the liarbird made out All he would say I...

And I may as well wish for the moon in hand I own this river, I own this town All of its climbers and its winos sliding down But I can't own her and I never will No I can't own her and that's a bitter pill Taken with rain 'Til the gutter shines like th...

Hot as golden sand in fields We whiled away the hours I'm thinking of the days we had Enormous super powers Yes I'm sleeping, my mind's on the blink I thought a page, like it's written in ink When I remember distant days I remember many things, but Mos...

I'd like that if we could cycle down some lane I'd like that if we could ride into the rain No macs, getting wet I'd be your Albert if you'd be Victoria, hah hah We'd laugh because each drop would make me grow up Really high, really high like a really high thi...

I'm bugged you all look like insects In your brand new sunspecs I'm bugged I'm bugged I drop a little note through my sympathetics door I think I'm going ga ga I just can't take anymore At first I see 'em swarming from a dark and midnight nest And when I see '...

I'm the man who murdered love Yeah, what do you think to that? I'm the man who murdered love Yeah, what do you think to that? He was begging on his bended knee For me to put him from his misery He hadn't worked at all this century Said I'd do a job for...

Well, would you want me, in your afternoons If I seduced ya, in your Mills and Boons Well, I'll be the master if you'll be the mate But don't you get those headaches In another life I'll bring your milk tray, from a parachute I'll play the Hollywood hun...

Boom goes my heart Dancing around your daisies Church bells will start Sat on you reading your ages I drift away In loving memory of a name Covered in moss You may have died for your country Forgotten not lost You're laid to rest where you're wanted...

Instant tunes only just been made Instant songs never to be played Instant tunes hanging out to dry Let me try to introduce you to Instant tunes Instant tunes Instant tunes Instant tunes Ever and ever will they give us pleasure their instant, still in...

I'm heading into the atom age My contemporary house is all the rage My wife's getting lazy going gadget crazy Wants a pallette shaped coffee table and a matching settee I'm heading into the atom age My kids have gone obscene want to marry at four...

Chant your spirit free Rush to greet truth like a dart (Shake your bag o' bones) (Shake your bag o' bones) That's not traffic roar That's a leopard in your heart (Shake your bag o' bones) (Shake your bag o' bones) Go tell your stale friends Go tell f...

There may be no golden fleece But human riches I'll release Oh, my head is spinning like the world and it's filled with beasts I've seen Let me put my bag down, and I'll tell you it all right from the start Like the scarlet woman who would pick on the boy...

Scared of love, love and swimming pools Falling in you said was for fools But when you're standing on the edge You won't hear me because your blood is singing Jump jump go ahead and jump jump If it's what your heart is wanting to do This is real life you...

.U.M.P.I.N.G. jumping in gomorah, I'm religion free J.U.M.P.I.N.G. jumping in gomorah, I'm religion free Bring your horn of plenty Gold calves if you got 'em We'll get stuck in history All aboard for sodom Bring your burning bush Harlots if you're abl...

Everyone's creeping up to the money god, putting tongues where they didn't ought to be, on stepping stones of human hearts and souls, into the land of "nothing for free." Well the way that we're living, is all take and no giving, there's nothing to believe...

Knights in shining karma Tend your flame And with love for armor They'll remain Ever by your bed Guarding, still sleeping Shield your soul from this rain Knights in shining karma will remain Jealous winter sun... Cold as vichysoisse Steals your smi...

Knuckle down, love his skin It doesn't matter what colour skin he's locked in, knuckle down Knuckle down and love that skin Knuckle down, love his race It doesn't matter if you win or lose a little face Knuckle down and love that race Because one brigh...

O ladybird I have heard you wish to walk me through your garden I crave your pardon if I woke you with my thinking Ladybird O ladybird I have heard you wish to walk me through your meadow You'll spread no wings to fly in fright if I'm beside you Ladybi...

Leisure They taught me how to work, but they can't teach me how to shirk correctly Whoah As you see, science once again robs us of our jobs They've put a microchip in my place I hide behind a screen of aggression nowadays It's just a way of saving some...

Let's make a den What shall we use? Make it out of hay Who will be leader? In it we can play at both being mothers and fathers until we have children of our own. Let's make a den What shall we use? Make it out of wood Who will be leader? Wouldn't it...

I have learnt there's a magical spot at the hop Come with me to the church on the corner the hop There's nuts and crisps and ccc cola on tap A good time had by the boys and girls at the hop Tell me what do you say Tell me what do you say Life begins at t...

Everybody lives somewhere Mud hut or igloo But what I got is the hottest spot And it's away from you Everybody says something Truth lies or both But dear all your hot air Don't encourage my growth Do you wonder why I look so fresh Do you wonder why I...

I'm in the limelight No time for sun ray We are the happening This day is our day I'm in the limelight ah ah Big on my block now ah ah I'm in the limelight ah ah I'm in the limelight I'm in love with myself Please don't break the spell Or give to so...

She's a little lighthouse when she Opens up her huge eyes And streams of diamonds shoot out 'Til we're wading waist deep in her brilliant love She's a little lighthouse when she Opens up her red mouth And gold word ribbons rope and rodeo The dark cloud...

Living through another Cuba it's 1961 again and we are piggy in the middle while war is polishing his drum and peace plays second fiddle Russia and America are at each other's throats but don't you cry just on your knees and pray, and while you're down...

I want a back seat Because I'm dead beat I'm respirating Two [souls / soles] of the [ape here] Gives us sleepyheads, sleepyheads The road ahead it takes us to our bed Sleepyheads, sleepyheads, Our minds they race but our bodies are dead Just like look...

See the lovers all gone crazy looking for romance it seems many sleepless nights will follow some may lose but some succeed Love at first sight what they want is... love at first sight Make a play of lust intention only just one thing in mind make a...

High climbs the summer sun High stands the corn And tonight when my work is done We will borrow your father's carriage We will drink and prepare for marriage Soon my darling, soon my darling [Chorus:] Shilling for the fellow who brings the sheep in Shi...

We're only making plans for Nigel We only want what's best for him We're only making plans for Nigel Nigel just needs this helping hand And if young Nigel says he's happy He must be happy He must be happy in his work We're only making plans for Nigel H...

Never been near a university, Never took a paper or a learned degree, And some of your friends think that's stupid of me, But it's nothing that I care about. Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun, And of mathematics well I want none,...

Me and the wind are celebrating your loss Me and the wind are pulling kites and pushing tress Me and the wind are celebrating your loss Me and the wind are feeling freer than air should ever be Should ever be should ever be should ever And when you lured...

Woolworth beauty Factory beau Arm in arm They must go To the church of dance with the light on low Meccanic dancing oh we go Can't wait until the weekend comes I want to be with all my chums Alcohol is an easy key Helps you unwind And dance with me...

Programmes of violence As entertainment Brings the disease into your room We know the germ Which is man made in metal Is really a key to your own tomb Prevention is better than cure Bad apples affecting the pure You'll gather your senses, I'm sure Th...

Higher! I'm a king, yes, I'm a head of state. But I'm the kitchen boy who'll wash your dirty plate. I had no message and the message was, we're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! I'm merely a man and I bring nothing but love for you. I'm merely a man...

From pools of xylophone clear From caves of memory I saw the children at heart That we once used to be Borne on foaming seahorse herd Compose with trumpeting shell From lines across their hands A song as new as new moon As old as all the sands Shrank...

We'd like to wish you Just the merriest Christmas The merriest Christmas You've ever seen We'd like to wish you Just the merriest Christmas The merriest Christmas There's ever been  

We smelled your soup on the fire cooking We saw your toys and your pencils looking bright So bright and yet they come from oh so far away We heard your flags and your banners flapping We felt the air from from your hands all clapping time In time, I'm sur...

I'm 12 o'clock, all daylight hours, I'll warm your bed, I'll grow your flowers. Like I'm a miniature sun this ball ignited when she told me I was her only one. I'm not the same now. I'm not that plain little boy. I'm all aflame now. I'm king up here like a...

Fine art never moved my soul No vintage wine designer clothes But my world shakes for me My bird sings sweetly A different kind of tinsel Decorates my tree Yes my bird performs A thousand Cheshire cats Grin inside of me Yes my bird performs There she...

In my heart, in my heart You want some lovely, I got some lovely In my head, in my head Where the lions wear the right tie, where the gems roar, there be lovely You want some lovely, I got some lovely In my bed, in my bed Where the ocean wears the sho...

My love explodes all over the world for you, yeah you My love explodes in diamonds and pearls for you, just you When the straight plastic bowler men Grab your soul and pull you down down down Call my name on your dream telephone Catch a saucer and I'll b...

All of Paris giggles with flags Laughing lions leap up from the page My the world looks good from where you are My the world looks good from where you paint from Barcelona, nuclear festive, wire women Wriggle from life's cage My the world looks good fro...

My train is coming I can see it up the line My train is coming And what's on it's all mine My train is coming I can hear it up the track My train is coming Bringing sugar time back Oh little darling Since you've gone I've been so sad and blue Littl...

I dunno wot she got I dunno wot she got I dunno what she got but it seems to have a grip upon me No telling where she learn the things she do to me And I don't know what she done wrong but I want to hurt her (wanna) take it out on her Take it out on her...

Hey - what you going to do now You're standing there and wondering how You've got to make some noise Just like one of the girls Or even one of the boys When you do it It ain't no disgrace I can see it written all across your face Neon Shuffle and shuf...

I think my watch has bust and so is time I borrowed all my love so nothing's mine There's nothing decent on the TV page Like a new town animal in a furnished cage It's gone eleven and the bar is shut I'm sitting waiting like a real good mutt I watch TV w...

There is no language in our lungs to tell the world just how we feel no bridge of thought no mental link no letting out just what you think there is no language in our lungs there is no muscle in our tongues to tell the world what's in our hearts no we...

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The insect-headed worker-wife will hang her waspies on the line. Her husband burns his paper, sucks his pipe while studying their cushion-floor, his viscous poly-paste breath comes out. Their wall-paper world is shattered by his shout. A boy in blue is busy...

Really love the things you do Even when I was just eight years old (eight years old) Officer Blue Is it true what they say? That when you work you're still at play (still at play) Oh Officer Blue I really love the things you do It's magical People in...

Climb up here beside me We can ride and find a friend unfound Put your foot upon the laughing gas And drive your grin around Omnibus, take all of us All of us, take Ain't nothing in the world like a white skinned girl Make your Union Jack and make your flag un...

I got so much to say But I'm afraid it'll come out wrong. I'm not akin to the Eighties thing, Where you look after number one. But I won't rock the boat, 'Cause I'm scared what might happen. I won't rock the boat, 'Cause I'm one of the millions. Who n...

She has six swans singing in her sauna So she can't hear what's going on No she can't hear what's going on In the outside world In the outside world In the outside Bad black and white men Standing in their pigpen Selling guns to simpletons To shoot 'em in the...

So pale and precious is the light that will shine Out of the windows in her head So pale and precious like the sun as it climbs Up every morning on her bed If all of her moments were put down in a book Then I could read it 'til I went blind If all of th...

Paper, iron, won't buy Eden working for paper and for iron work for the right to keep my tie on working for paper and for iron work for the unicorn and lion I pray the kids aren't starving no chicken for the Sunday carving I'll stay for one more farthi...

Anytime you rise, I'm here, And I'm crazy for you pink thing. You make me want to laugh, You make me want to cry, When I stroke your head I feel a hundred heartbeats high, Pink thing. I want to take you out and show you round the world, Pink thing it'l...

I climb up, spending daylight slide down drunken on the other side Some sweet girl, playing my wife, runs off with a boy whose bike she'll ride Playground (it's a playground) Marked by the masters and bruised by the bullies in the Playground (it's a pla...

Poor skeleton steps out, Dressed up in bad blood, Bad brains, bad thoughts, and others deeds. Poor skeleton no doubt, One of these days, You can cast aside your human, be free. When the cities run with blood, And you drink our health in mud, "All fle...

Shooto sunzen mune ga hikisakane sou nandomo koe wo agete Break out! It's Not Over owaranai yoru wo kakenukete ike atsui chi ga karada no naka wo meguru saigo ni kuchihateta shunkan wa It's All Over utsuro na yume no kakera ga ukanderu mou nidoto modo...

Pulsing pulsing, There's a beat in his arm still. Pulsing pulsing, Like the throb of an anthill. Pulsing pulsing, No death in the rain. I've been washing my hands, In the stuff I wash my brains. I'm pulsing. You're pulsing. Who's pulsing?. What's p...

Gather 'round! Punch and Judy, Did it truly, And were married in a haste, In love, maybe, Using the baby, as a kind of romance paste, She's grown fatter, Her hair cut shorter, Looks much older than nineteen, He's a drinker, Not a thinker, Baby spo...

There's a message up in China That they getting in Japan Bouncing off an ocean liner Make em shake em in Siam All the kids are complaining That there's nowhere to go All the kids are complaining That the songs are too slow All I'm saying is you're deaf To the...

In this secret time, invading on our privacy Unknowing we mime, we play for the ministry The can film you in bed Or when you take a bath They can tape every cry They can tape every laugh They can turn you around so you won't know what's Real by reel Busy litt...

You better watch your tape boys It's the tint that angers the beast Got their sails in the sunset they've already got the east Red red red Don't you let them make you Don't let them make you see ... red You better watch your lead boys it's already in...

Red brick dream Windows scream As the rusting North Star shines above And drops its iron beams Crashing down upon the rooves of Swindon Town I heard the engine's dying breath Castles and kings all starved to death I dropped the Coronation cup Sshh, pl...

Reign of blows Reign of blows Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and symb...

It's in the order of their hedgerows it's in the way their curtains open and close it's in the look they give you down their nose all part of decency's jigsaw I suppose Heard the neighbour slam his car door don't he realise this is respectable street Wh...

Hey! I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus Take a packet of seeds Take yourself out to play I want to see River of Orchids where we had a motorway Push your car from the road Push your car fro...

Am I asleep Or am I fast You every race You first, you last Roads girdle the globe We all safe in your concrete robe Hail mother motor Hail piston rotor Hail wheel Roads girdle the globe Am I tied in Or do I turn Your sacred incense You tyre burn Steer me Anna...

Birds beware, expect me up there me and air are feeling light today jets should hide, I'll fly alongisde me and pride are bolted tight today I've been set off by a pretty little girl I'm like a rocket from a bottle shot free I've been just explosive si...

Rook, rook Read from your book Who murders who and where is the treasure hid? Crow, crow Spill all you know Is that my name on the bell? Rook, rook Gaze in the brook If there's a secret can I be part of it? Crow, crow Before I'll let go, say is that my name on...

Oh, run-a, oh, run-a, oh, runaways Ah Oh, run-a, oh, run-a, oh, runaways (Please come home) Oh, run-a, oh, run-a, oh, runaways (Please come home) Daddy hit you in a temper, but he's sorry now (Please come home) Just a quarrel had with mummy, just a fa...

Fire they cried So evil must die And yields are good So men pull back hoods and smile The scapegoat blood spilled Spittled and grilled it crackled and spat And children grew fat on the meat Change must be earnt Sacrificial bonfire must burn Burn up th...

Hope you enjoyed your flight in one of our new straw aeroplanes, you'll find things here are just like what you're used to. There's lots of waste and razor wire and no one gives a damn about the land, we just stand around and stare like you folks do. For...

I look out my window at night I see the stars and I'm filled with fright I have a feeling someone's looking It ain't the aliens at the foot of my bed It's more the ale that's inside my head I have a feeling something's cooking Science friction burns my...

Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man Putting end to evil doers games Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man Maybe you are in his book of names Maybe you are in his book of names So be kind and helpful to your mother Just think twice be...

It's raining on the beach She inches close but out of reach The waves look painted on Seagulls screaming The sea is warship grey It whispers ''Fool!'' then slides away Black coastline slumbers on Seagulls screaming kiss her, kiss her And all the flags that f...

Season cycle moving round and round Pushing life up from a cold dead ground It's growing green It's growing green, well Darling don't you ever stop to wonder About the clouds about the hail and thunder 'Bout the baby and its umbilical Who's pushing the...

Hey, hey, the clouds are whey There's straw for the donkeys And the innocents can all sleep safely All sleep safely My, my, sun is pie There's fodder for the cannons And the guilty ones can all sleep safely All sleep safely And all the world is footb...

Ha Ha Ha Ho Ho Ho Now you see it Now you don't Has no bones To hurt your throat Good and sweet Nice to eat If you like it Just repeat I'll set myself on fire I'll set myself on fire I'll set myself on fire Oh strike my hand On a stone Joan God knows this is y...

I'm enlisting, overseas aid need assisting, help with a maid get the expert, on mademoiselles he could diffuse, any bombshell If I could only be tough like him then I could win my own, small, battle of the sexes Sgt. Rock is going to help me make the...

Here he come again Dress in all that skin Like he was still human being Look at he long ears And he big brown eyes And with them truth he is seeing Isn't it a shame you kicked that girl Isn't it a shame she kicked you back, jackass She really shake...

Awful plastic boots that come above her ankle Dayglo mini skirts just like a pop art spangle Digs Vanilla Fudge, buys lipstick by the pound Gets that 'English' look resembles Kath McGowan Have you seen her hair it's a style from heaven Ah! she's nowhere...

Hiding faces turning pages Still they read and read Double deckers full of smokers Look who's gone to seed Well the sun's getting higher Think I'll take a flyer The thought of it's causing me pain Ooh! Talk a walk under the subway See an old school ch...

I'm living in my smokeless zone My house is not a happy home I got to do something 'fore I kick the bucket I'm living in this smokeless zone I clean my dusty windowsills Everything I grow it kills I don't want to stay in this street any longer living in...

Ah Dumaladipa amadui amadui Dumaladipa amadui amadui It isn't even winter and I'm freezing, freezing This sort of feeling isn't pleasing And what I want to know, man (Why, oh, why) Does she treat me like a snowman? Ah It isn't even winter and I'm f...

I'm like a spinning top Going round and around Well I don't know what's up And I sure don't know what's down Now watch me - I'm like a spinning top Can't tell day from night Well I don't know what's wrong And I sure don't know what's right Now watch me It sta...

I'm standing, standing in for Joe Joe called round to ask me, Would I do a favour? While he's gonna be out of town He says his girl needs company, she gets so restless Would I keep her safe and sound? Softly, softly in the night Why, you can guess the r...

The first time I saw you standing in the water You must have been all of a thousand feet tall Nearly naked - unashamed like Herod's daughter Your love was so big It made New York look small You've been the subject of so many dreams Since I climbed your torso...

I’m stupidly happy Everything’s fine I’m stupidly happy My heart pumping wine I’m stupidly happy With idiot grin I’m stupidly happy You won’t catch me in All the birds of the air call your name as they land on my kitchen roof All the fish in the sea...

Drowning here in Under mats of flower lava Please don't pull me out this is how I would want to go Breathing in the boiling butter Fruit of sweating golden inca Please don't heed my shout I'm relax in the undertow When Miss Moon lays down And Sir Sun s...

In the car park In the lamplight Go for a walk Clock him shiv-fight Sodium-a-shine on All the faces white now And he got his Docs on Bottle out all right now As you might say Him super-tuff In the corner In the cold rain Sting like iodine In my brain Fist yo...

Happy I'm floating Around on my feet now You make me go dizzy I'm weak at the knees I feel like I'm walking Round ten feet tall Well you say I'm faking And I say don't worry The way that I bubble There's something in the make I feel like I'm walking Round ten...

Go and speak to your niece (do this do that) Kiss your aunt on the cheek Don't talk back, now run along It's gone eight, say goodnight That's the way that it's done Boy and girl, girl and boy This is how you do it and Who am I to reason why Wear a shirt, wear...

That wave Pulled me into your eyes Through the greeney grey pebbles And countless cathedrals arriving That wave Lift me into your mouth Turning spires and spittle of pearls To perplex the young diver I flew down to the bottom of the sea Where I questioned the...

I can't hold you down If you want to fly Can't you see I'm all broke up inside Well just you use your two X Ray eyes Hurt like Kryptonite Put me on my knees Now that I've found out just what you're doing With your secret identities That's really supe...

Pubs and clubs and opening hours Was all he knew One arm bandits and Affiliated members Women taboo Had his own tankard And the evening Standard And a trophy from darts That he kept over the bar He'd nothing to fear He had his beer B-E-E-R! Then cam...

Peter Pumpkinhead came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the vatican what gold's for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees Hooray for Peter Pumpkin Who'll pray for P...

The disappointed All shuffle round in circles Their placards look the same With a picture and a name Of the ones who broke their hearts The disappointed All congregate at my house Their voices sob with grief That they want to be chief Of the tribe with broken...

Smalltown, snoring under blankets Woken by the clank It's just the milkman's dawn round Smalltown, hiding undercovers The lodgers and the lovers Are asleep 'round Smalltown Shiney grey black snake of bikes He slithers Bearing up the men and boys To w...

The last balloon is leaving, the last balloon from fear The last balloon is leaving, form that line right here Climb aboard, climb aboard you menfolk You won't need any bombs or knives Climb aboard, climb aboard you menfolk Leave all that to your former...

All around the world, Every boy and every girl, Need the loving. The humble and the great, Even those we think we hate, Need the loving. Soldiers of the Queen, All the hard men that we've seen, Need the loving. Babies at the breast, Those in power a...

The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold The man who walked across his heart Who took no compass, guide or chart To rope and tar his b...

Never been near a university, Never took a paper or a learned degree, And some of your friends think that's stupid of me, But it's nothing that I care about. Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun, And of mathematics well I want none, And I...

Meet you in the secret place Scuffling in the dirt I wait Whistle will blow, whistle will blow, Share a joke the laugh's on me But when I get you on your own we'll see Someone might hear, someone might hear You're a working girl now You've got money of...

If you think there's something wrong Holes appearing on your lawn Don't you blame the man next door It's not him Flowers walk from place to place Dark spot moves around your face Objects vanish without trace It's not you I'm the mole from the Ministr...

He makes a beeline for the place Where he gets his only ace Sometimes he's standing in the rain Oh Gene Kelly's hat and cane He has the Rhythm in his head He has the Rhythm, sing! It's chaotic at the bar B & O those sweaty drops We are all mesmorized To...

Well man created the cardboard box to sleep in it And man converted the newspaper to a blanket Well you have to admit that he's come a long way Since swinging about in the trees We're the smartest monkeys The smartest monkeys The evidence is all around Our bra...

Untie the gown, float to the ground She revolve round, making no sound Air leaving slow Still breathing though Decaying through brown, diving she's bound Hours swum down, treasure unfound Air leaving slow Still breathing though Somnambulist Somnambu...

First there's the handshake It's so warm that you could bake by it Designed to take attention from their Ugly Underneath Then there's the wedding The co-ordinated bedding And the fairy tale shredding Boy it's Ugly Underneath After the pretty There's a gluttony...

I've got the plow if you've got the furrow I've got the rabbit if you've his burrow home I've got the pen if you've got the paper Time is but clay and I'll see you and the wheel turn You and the wheel turn And if the pot won't hold our love If the pot w...

Then she appeared, apple venus on a half open shell Then she appeared, the first photograph on Fox Talbots gel I was a little frightened Flying with my senses heightened Cherubim cheered Then she appeared Then she appeared, as the giggling crew of Marie Celest...

In a milk bar and feeling lost Drinking sodas as cold as frost Someone leans in m direction Quizzing on my juke-box selection What do you call that noise That you put on? This is pop Yeah Yeah This is! On a walkway and moving fast All I get is transistor bl...

Ah well, that's this world over Ah well, next one begins Will you smile like any mother As you bathe your brand new twins? Will you sing about the missiles As you dry odd numbered limbs? Ah well, that's this world over Ah well, next one begins Ah wel...

I shout this, You shout that, The clouds are coming over looking awful black. It's all hot air. You say go, I say stay, Clear blue sky goes Sheffield grey. It's all hot air. I've grown immune to your claws, Pussycat, I know... All your threats are...

Towers of London when they had built you did you watch over the men who fell Towers of London when they had built you Victoria's gem found in somebody's hell Pavements of gold leading to the underground Grenadier Guardsmen walking pretty ladies around...

Sindy's spending too much money on clothes Ken is going back to Gay Bob The Teddy bears swear the neighbourhood's gone Since the moving in of Golliwog Rag doll gets beaten up by the Action Man The one with the real life hair He walks and he talks in a co...

I'm out and I'm driving Got my eyes set on romance She says I've got a brand new thingey Want to show you this dance I say am I learning it steady She say Look you're doing it already It's the traffic light rock Stop 'n go All of the time It's the tr...

Me train running low on soul coal They push+pull tactics are driving me loco They shouldn't do that no no no They shouldn't do that Me train running low on dream steam They pull me whistle too hard me bound to scream And they shouldn't do that no no no...

You've learnt no lessons All that time so cheaply spent There's no youth culture Only masks they let you rent. Travels, travels in Nihilon. We've seen, no Jesus come and gone Fashion, their vampire Drapes itself across your back As you fall from styl...

Someone's knocking in the Distance But I'm deaf and blind She's not expected home this evening So I leave the world behind for the The Yes she'd give you a twirl But she vanishes from my world So burn my letters and you'd better leave Just one pint a...

Wait till your boat goes down That's when you'll need me most Wait till your boat goes down And you're washed up on some foreign and Unfamiliar coast Yachting's fine Sailing round and round in social circles In a sea of diamonds and wine Wait till you...

You put your cleanest dirty shirt on Then you stagger down to meet the dawn You take a ride upon a bus, it's just a fuss You know it keeps you born You get to know a morning face You get to join the human race You get to know the world Has passed you by...

There's an epidemic Stirring passions in young hearts Even the old campaigners Have got it really bad Well we ain't seen nothing like it Since coronation day But when the street parties sound I'm going underground To keep the rabid hounds at bay Oh my my this...

Mother's in the kitchen steaming up the window panes Smell of boiling cabbage comes up from an open drain But no amount of scrubbing could ever shift a gravy stain Washaway washaway washerette Washaway washaway every dirty stain you get Streets lay dese...

And I won't take from you Don't you know 'Bout a zillion years ago Some star sneezed, now they're paging you in reception Don't you know Jack and Jill-ion years ago Some dinosaur dropped the pail when it saw our reflection Don't you know We're all li...

2032 Housewives shock in blue What in the world is it coming to What in the world 2033 Cannabis in tea What in the world. Acid is free What in the world If daddy could see today he'd be turning in his grave If mummy could see the way The boys and g...

When you're near me I have difficulty respirating When you're near me I have difficulty concentrating When you're near me I have difficulty standing upright When you're near me I have difficulty sleeping at night I used to stand proud like a sphinx In a noble...

Can't you see Love and affection When it's put In you direction Wrapped in your mysterious wonderland No fast car Can make you grow up Gentlemen You think you've sewn up Locked in your wonderful wonderland No dark horse like me can cramp all of your...

Well I stumbled and I fell like a wounded horse When I found out you'd been riding another man Well I staggered round in circles on a loser's course When I found out you'd been riding another man Well my friends all said Just climb back in the s...

Some folks see the world as a stone Concrete daubed in dull monotone Your heart is the big box of paints And others, the canvas we're dealt Your heart is the big box of paints How coloured the flowers all smelled As they huddled there, in petalled prayer They...

It's the airwaves of the world Not the hairwaves on your head Oh But anything can be On land and in the sea When you've got Crosswires When you've got Crosswires Everything is Buzz Buzz Everything is Beep Beep Strange things happen everyday It's confusious the...

We, we will dance like tiny boats with cotton sails upon the tops of the seas That would pull us down to the depths and crush us flat if given half a chance No need to look back to pictures of lost, when all was rust We, we will skim across the surfac...

And every morning before I'm awake I walk around the world to make sure she's alright And every evening 'fore I bolt the door I give the stars a stir to make sure they will spin all night For I see people who will scratch and spit and kick and fight And I...

Well you're a good man Albert Brown And you was wounded in the war And though you shot some people down You're still a good man Albert Brown Well you're a good man Albert Brown Though you are drunk upon the floor And if you're buying the next round Then...

You take me to heaven from deeper than hell ever dug And you fly me higher than a trip on a magical rug Confessions unravel You bang with your gavel And here I stand guilty In a court where you are the judge You're the drug You've got to come on round and pick...

What was I supposed to do? I turned around with the world and she simply was there My blood ran like ice right through She had your face and your lips And your eyes and your hair You're the wish you are I had You're the wish you are I had You're the wish that...

H-A-T-E Is that how you spell love in your dictionary K-I-C-K Pronounced as kind F-U-C-K Is that how you spell friend in your dictionary Black on black A guidebook for the blind Well now that I can see my eyes won't weep Now that I can hear your song...

You gold dress is whirling around Like a fan it's lifting you high High above the ground Never coming down You gold dress is burning alight Deafens me with the sound of the sun Setting fire to the night And everything's all right Vibrations coming my way Whe...