Well, it took you seven years to learn my name And I know it's all the drugs and booze that I took, lame Oh, sh-sh-shame (What a shame)
But it took me seven years to forget your name All the drugs, all the fools and all the The hanging around, I fell out of the game What a shame
What would it take for me to be your man? What would it take for me to be your man? What would it take to make you understand? What would it take to make you understand?
Well, all the filthy old Mary's and their Chinese dogs So, is a no go, oh, if you know what I know, what? I know what you know, oh dear
A million common people want to tear your head off Just to show your bones to the night Cause the night is when I'm satisfied Woah, oh, oh
What would it take for me to be your man? What would it take for me to be your man? What would it take to make you understand? What would it take to make you understand? It can't be us ?cause the worlds gone cold
And if the hat don't fit ya Yeah? It don't fucking fit ya
What would it take for me to be your man? What would it take for me to be your man? Well, what would it take to make you understand? What would it take to make you understand? It can't be us ?cause the worlds gone cold
I am a hippy's son I'm into porn and guns, I'm virile, fertile I scream when I come Related to you all by 6 degrees
I am a fire sign I've never swung with the times Spreading honey on thorns and truths that rhyme My stories are all tall
But it's so obvious It's bloody outrageous They try and they try But they'll just never save us
Hush, hush my love Come fall into these arms Hush, hush my love Come fall into my arms Hush, hush my love
I am my father's son I'll kick your teeth in and run A bulldog blinded by rainbows and sun I'm related to you all, I think that you'll all agree I'm naked to all
But it's so obvious It's bloody outrageous They try and they try But they'll just never save us
Hush, hush my love Come fall into these arms Hush, hush my love Come fall into my arms Hush, hush my love
I was your baby boy I was designed to destroy Flushed in crime Fascist's tannoy
I am a hippy's son I am a hippy's son I am a hippy's son I am a hippy's son
You sauntered off and you said how’s tricks You can’t mix drugs with your politics But we took and talked and lost the plot And after that everything seemed fine In this distinct and beautiful collide We drag each others worlds round under the tide With intoxicated hands Cold cold hearts And well laid plans
Are you listening Are you listening As the days Like the waves Pile up behind you
La la la la la Keep it on Melt my plastic heart And help me move on Why can't I move on?
How do you escape The great pails of pouring rain Go to a foreign land or a house in Spain oh La la la la la la oh Oh how I'd kill to go Erect the gutters and rib us in Life or buildings and medicines We all make the same mistakes Our pitfalls pull us together
Are you listening Are you listening As the days Like the waves Pile up behind you
La la la la la Keep it on Melt my plastic heart And help me move on
Kick this round our bedroom floor Hate the daylight hours which you wont ignore But the tide, the tide has drifted away
Are You listening Are you listening As the days like the waves decisively pull us under
La la la la la You keep it all Melt my plastic heart And help me move on La la la la la Keep it on
There's friends for life and accquaintances, There's romance from great distances, There's been so many casualties, But i cannot wallow over these Oh no
How can they be tired of England They'll never know the England that we know Never know where the ones with the dreams go no Never notice the skies with their eyes down low We'll never be tired of England United in rain in the cities To channel the pain and the pity's woe To carry them back to the place below With the blues the greys the green the brown To lonely nights uptown Don't let them bring you down Lonely nights uptown Don't let them bring us down no How can they be tired of London The sense in the air on a warm day Generation of hope that sees better days But moving along in the same old ways We'll never be tired of London From Clerkenwell into the city The state of the roofs is a pity though Generations all cramped with their kids in tow With the blues the greys the green the brown To lonely nights uptown Don't let them bring you down Lonely nights uptown Don't let them bring us down no While the Queen of England sits on her throne Off bingo cards and chicken bones
Don't drink yourself to a lonely death In casinos on crystal meth Don't drink yourself to a lonely death In casinos on crystal meth So sing your song of Banbury Cross Don't breathe a word about your loss Don't trust Old Nick to fall on dawn Half sized cars and top shelf porn How can they be tired of England How can they be tired of England How can they be tired of England How can they be tired of England
Hails to the chancers As boredom kills like cancer We need dreams For the romancers And I'm looking to you Well, the life's so lonely I need my one and only If you know love Come on and show me Now I'm looking to you So come closer, come closer, come closer, come closer, come closer My resistance is low Come closer, come closer, come closer, come closer, come closer I'm not letting you go Had love and I set it free But it never came back to me, now The skies have gone ugly From Bolton to rugby As I’m looking for you Now come closer, come closer, come closer, come closer, come closer My resistance is low Don't pay mind to them you’re most beautiful when you don't bother So just let it go Ohhh ohhh ohhh It's hard to sacrifice so Let me out, Let me out Ohhhhhhh Well it's hard to sacrifice so Let me out I'm gonna find it all, I'm gonna find it all Ohhhh Come closer, come closer, come closer, come closer, come closer My the resistance is low Don't pay mind to them you’re most beautiful when you don't bother So just let it go
The fights, they never end Like the nights, they've taken me over And yeah I get the fear But I cannot be bothered
All this waiting is just hesitating for nothing And the fault lines And all the conjecture from both sides Why oh why can't we change things This is destroying me inside
You know you wanna run away
We shared out dreams And nearly everything in between I'll never forget those Long lost days in a haze Where we lost ourselves with no apology
All this waiting is just hesitating for nothing And the fault lines And all the conjecture from both sides Why oh why can't we change things This is destroying me inside
You know you wanna jump in To the pit Back to life distorted (So sordid) We fell down dead But nobody saw it I got twenty faces and I'm talking in tongues I fell like the devil What does the devil do?
You know you wanna run away
Fault lines all on the wrong side of daylight Slight on the deck and its fine We can hold on for a lifetime
After a month our friendship waned 'Cause you're ambitious to a fault How did I let you in my brain? Just look in these western eyes
I've been lost a time or two Not knowing what is evil Or where to go
No prizes, no afterglow Nothing left for you But kicks or consumption
Thought Japan was out of bounds But, oh, the boys just got to town Oh no, and it's happening again
You and I have fallen out again We're empty skirts to number ones Why do I humor you in vain? Just look in these western eyes
I've been lost a time or two Not knowing what is evil Or where to go
No prizes, no afterglow Nothing left for you But kicks or consumption
Clawing at the windows when the wheels came off European playground turned out far too much She tells me other people get the best of me So maybe she will never get the best of me There must be a devil at the BBC
I've been lost a time or two Not knowing what is evil Or where to go
No prizes, no afterglow Nothing left for you But kicks or consumption
Shock after shock from the snake she bites Happy hour downtown, ladies night With your townie boys who make your brethren fight Night after night after night after night, go Come on sweetheart, come on sweetheart, oh
It's an eye for any eye 'neath the hurricane sky How will you find me a lover in time? With your muscle vest clad lads who nearly fight Close off your senses and turn out the lights Turn out the lights
She had the best face in the place She had the lip gloss and the grace There's really nothing in the script she said You can have what you want
Oh, heed this sound advice No don't you tell me any lies Look into these eyes, they see right through Well, the skits the same but the face is new, oh oh
On the crying tarts who step And broken hearts are all you get The drinks go on and the beat's the resounding The drinks go on and the beat's still sounding Come on darling, come on darling, come on sweetheart, oh
You look pretty, pretty fit For a pedestrian pounding This nightclubs still shit But be weary of the gypsy boy you're mounting
She had the best face in the place She had the lip gloss and the grace There's really nothing in the script she said You can have what you want
Oh, heed this sound advice No, don't you tell me any lies Look into these eyes, they see right through Well, the skits the same but the face is new, oh oh
The best that's what you'll get before The walk of shame tomorrow And the beat goes on, the beat goes on Your monkey lots, they tumble 'round
You dance your fucking swan song You dance your fucking swan song You dance your fucking swan song To a blundering oracle
So here's to your future And your awful wedded wife
She had the best face in the place She had the lip gloss and the grace There's really nothing in the script she said You can have what you want
Oh, heed this sound advice No don't you tell me any lies Look into these eyes, they see right through Well, the skits the same but the face is new, oh oh
This is where the truth begins Where teardrops glance the sallow skin You lose your will And I can lend you mine
The Westway wall's so tall and bleak Reflect the words we dare not speak By the bottle's end We may have done our time
What you want is to stay away from people like me Who twist most everything they see And leave the gray old world behind you
So sow it up, kid, have some clout We'll do some wine and fall about The sun will shine again tomorrow Oh, oh, oh, we'll look beyond the parapet We are just bums lest you forget We can beg, steal and borrow
Well, you say the pills will sort me out Embolden me against The manifestations of fear and doubt I just forgot who I used to be
So, now I'm strung Somewhere between a dream And the humdrum day to day routine A laurel wreath on the door to my heart
What you want is to wash your face and try to breathe Forget your mind and shut your eyes so that you can see And leave the gray old world behind you
So sow it up, kid, have no doubt We'll walk the line and have it out The sun will shine again tomorrow Oh, oh, oh, for all the friends you've ever met Some you'll love and some forget Just hold on for tomorrow
So here's to now and all of us With our sweet hearts we tried to make a brand new start May the fabric never tear us apart
And some day when we're in the cold Here's a semblance we can hope So pick a posy and put it on your heart for me
So, now I move and if you're in It wouldn't hurt just to give it a try and win Don't forget who you're meant to be
What you want is to get a bike and do wheelies But I bet you can't do 'em half as good as me Throw it out when it's over, it's over
So sow it up, kid, have some clout We'll go to mine and sulk about How the sun will shine tomorrow For all the friends you've not yet met Some would die for you, I'll bet So hold on for tomorrow
So sow it up, kid, have some clout We'll go to mine and fuck about The sun will shine again tomorrow For all friends you've not yet met Some would die for you, I bet So hold on for tomorrow
This is where the truth begins For more than seven deadly sins And even though I may have hurt your mind
We could throw ourselves in a road But receive no comfort from street lights Why not come in for a jamens and escape life? We're idle in the mean time Aristocrats and architects with broken dreams
Well, I say the dead sea is dying You say you're going underground for a while Well, we all need to be recognized for something Not sure if the devil's eyes are blue Work and days of underpaid still hold the key
I see this place from my window It goes on the corner like the rest There are the buzzards and the crows Making eyes of a sea, self obsessed
Now, if commandment 11 is, "Don't get caught" Then 12 must be, "Don't ever tell" Then ask yourself do you believe you'll go to hell? My mate went to the crossroads to see the devil He never showed and if he says that I believe
I hear the place from my window Call me like a lighthouse to the sea There swarm the buzzards and the crows Swirling wide talking wise and there's me
You and I hanging around Lads who've got childish names Scissors, we cut it out Shining before by the waves
And I need to be recognized 'Cause we could be self-assured We could be happy indoors
I know this place from my window I trip out and fall to the ground down below Hoods up for the buzzards and the crows Who believe in the void of themselves Still believe in the void of themselves
Four more rotations and no one will hurt These are the things I dream of I've been thinking through the drinking Though my confidence is shrinking
That I might be fine The north would be so proud of you
Ooh, what would you do? Ooh, when stars fall from the sky And you're only two seconds from crying?
Paraffin, Anadin, sick as disguise So we take our snappy patterns And use them as knives Now, there's nothing left for me to try My own arrogance and humble pie
But I'll be alright The north would be so proud of you
So, I'll see you tomorrow, shall we call it one Trying to get the sparks to light Seeing as they've gone You don't know how to value that But I know how to value that
I think we'll be fine The north would be so proud of you
Ooh, what would you do Ooh, when stars fall from the sky And you're only two seconds from crying?
You look smart but that's not enough You need a course in attitude, nobody's fussed You can spend all your days planning what to buy And then the signs all spin around, you'll pay your debts in time
You wanna shake, shake, shake to fit in all that much There seem to be holes in everything his cold hands touch And we'll take, take, take and swallow the whole way down We may fall forever but we won't fall down
We'll, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, woah, oh Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, woah, oh and it's on
There's blood on my shoes Nobody knows Because of you
Where did you go? Where did you go? Nobody knows Where did you go?
You're pretty, so pretty And if somebody loves you then leave us alone All the rich get richer but still they cry They sing the city is after us and we don't know why
Profound is the debt, the debt you owe You owe it to sorrow and sorrow you owe For when we're down the ship is all you've ever known You go to glamor for the glamor but it's never your own, so alone
There's blood on my shoes Nobody knows Because of you
Where did you go? Where did you go? Nobody knows Where did you go?
With our cock-eyed wistful vision we're oblivious To all the hell we've raised, baby, that's how it should stay When we don't feel change or pain or hate or love We're going to reach for the sedative but it's never enough
For our fake, fake spirit and our masquerade We have so many colors but still we dwell in the shade I play the pugilist, the apathist in so many ways It's always tomorrow or never, forever and a day, so alone
There's blood on my shoes Nobody knows Because of you
Where did you go? Where did you go? Nobody knows Where did you go?
I knew all along That I was right at the start About the seeds of the weeds That grew in your heart Self satisfaction for the factions Who formed to tear us apart Oh I gave you the Midas touch As you turned round to scratch out my heart Oh what did you expect? Oh tell me what did you expect? To lay it on my head? So is it all upon my head? Bang bang you're dead! Oh I'm so easily lead Bang, bang, you're de-e-ead! Put all those rumours to bed Bang, bang you're dead
I knew all along But I was loathed to believe There was nothing but spite Fury and lies in the words that you weave Bring our illusion to a conclusion With all our unsold dreams Put it to bed, kick it in the head Oh won't they just let it be
Bang bang you're dead! Oh I'm so easily lead Bang, bang, you're de-e-ead! Put all those rumours to bed Bang, bang you're dead
Oh what did you expect? Oh tell me what did you expect? To lay it on my head? So is it all upon my head? Bang bang you're dead! Oh I'm so easily lead Bang, bang, you're de-e-ead! Put all those rumours to bed Bang, bang you're dead
You got the world boy This all you make it? You had the choice lad You wouldnt take it The oldest charm Only the best for you And the years of my life, Some they were so good, But now and again I feel I was a coward Are the holes in my soul In tatters for all these tears Well you dont see it that way A way, a way We’lll have it today The dancing ones they really mean it But something boy, somethings gonna change A way, a way Youve got it they say How do they know When theyve never seen it? And what will you do When they forget your name? Well you’ll up and get another one Don’t give me that face I know when I should live in disgrace Not dig up the deadwood I knew this place was never the place for me And of the years that rolled by Yeah some were so good But now I know that You were the coward The holes in your soul In tatters for all these years But you cant see it that way A way, a way Well have it today The dancing ones they really mean it And mark my words Something’s gonna change A way, a way Youve got it they say But how do they know When theyve never seen it? And what will you do When they forget your name? Well you’ll up and get another one A way, a way We’ll have it today The dancing ones they really mean it But something boy somethings gonna change A way, a way Youve got it today But how do they know When theyve never seen it? And what will you do When they forget your name? Well you’ll up and get another one
You got the world boy This all you make it? You had the choice lad You wouldnt take it The oldest charm Only the best for you And the years of my life, Some they were so good, But now and again I feel I was a coward Are the holes in my soul In tatters for all these tears Well you dont see it that way A way, a way We’lll have it today The dancing ones they really mean it But something boy, somethings gonna change A way, a way Youve got it they say How do they know When theyve never seen it? And what will you do When they forget your name? Well you’ll up and get another one Don’t give me that face I know when I should live in disgrace Not dig up the deadwood I knew this place was never the place for me And of the years that rolled by Yeah some were so good But now I know that You were the coward The holes in your soul In tatters for all these years But you cant see it that way A way, a way Well have it today The dancing ones they really mean it And mark my words Something’s gonna change A way, a way Youve got it they say But how do they know When theyve never seen it? And what will you do When they forget your name? Well you’ll up and get another one A way, a way We’ll have it today The dancing ones they really mean it But something boy somethings gonna change A way, a way Youve got it today But how do they know When theyve never seen it? And what will you do When they forget your name? Well you’ll up and get another one
There's a heart in a girl on a ship on a sea And I know that girl is thinking of me There's a heart in a girl and I know that it beats like a drum But every time that I think of the girl my heart gets heavy and I'm stuck in a whirlwind I turn to my shadow and my heart starts to beat like a drum Said oh you might upon a steeple set Broken crumbling battlements Puffin on a coffin nail With a wry little smile that she keeps up her shell And she hides that forest from the house that hide from the sun Puffin on a coffin nail With a friend of a friend and an arse like a whale Well there's a girl with a friend who was stuck in a disco rut Slut Oh give me the strength just to give fate a try Though my hands get sweaty and my mouth goes dry Just to think every time that my plans go awry, you see Just give fate a passage but she was just a bore And the letters are crazy and a bit cocksure And you can't find your mind and my heart on a coffin and agree Come with outcry and panting breast And break upon the slippery wreck Puffin on a coffin nail With a friend of a friend with an arse like a whale But this girl is a friend of a friend you see Stuck in a disco rut Puffin on a coffin nail Yes she gives you a chance and you give me the mail And she works for the mail but she's out on bail Well you scream So I'm sad to say that my heart shattered this way I knew she'd be no better Yes I knew if I'd have met her That I'd soon enough forget her Now face your hero's just pretend And I've had a word with him (random talk) Puffin on a coffin nail Yes she's talking like Elvis cos she's just done a rail But her lover's on bail with a dealer like a snail on speed Puffin on a coffin nail Yes I gave her a something just to tell me a tale And she told me a tale but she told me a tale About you So this is the end of the road And this is the path that you chose Well it's no skin off my nose A lover with a brick has had the rose End of the road
Did you ever have to do The thing you swore you’d never do Something filthy and impatient, Something churlish bold and shrewd Well sit down my boy And i’ll tell you exactly how i crawled right Through Gather in your confidence And hear the story of a man Who came undone First you weigh up your commitments Where your loyalties really lie And if you bump into jesus You just look him in the eye Tell him that you’re fine Silently return to sharpening your knife Finally when the time comes think of who you really need And close your eyes so tightly you think they’ll bleed Don’t drop your guard don’t let Them know the thoughts inside your head Just do what you’ve always done Though they all wish you were dead They’ll crush your heart Your spirit and your soul but keep your eyes ahead And you know when the time comes there’ll be nowhere new to hide He’ll just be in your heart and you’ll lose pride Never break the line Never click your heels in time If your heart’s anything like mine that’s not the way Don’t get comfortable down there Don’t pretend that it’s always fair With your fingers crossed it’s not your loss If you really want to you can stay You can stay Never drop your guard and let them Know the thoughts inside your head Just do what you’ve always done They'll all wish you were dead They’ll crush your heart The spirit and your soul but keep your eyes ahead Then someday when your bones break And you dont know gifts from theft Drink yourself away one to my left Never break the line, never click your heels in time If your heart's anything like mine that's not the way Don’t get comfortable down there Don’t pretend that it's always fair And your fingers crossed And it’s not your loss So if you really want to you can stay You can stay
This all you make it? You had the choice lad You wouldnt take it The oldest charm
Only the best for you
And the years of my life, Some they were so good, But now and again I feel I was a coward Are the holes in my soul In tatters for all these tears Well you dont see it that way
Away, away
We’lll have it today
The dancing ones they really mean it
But something boy, somethings gonna change
A way, a way
Youve got it they say How do they know When theyve never seen it?
And what will you do When they forget your name?
Well you’ll up and get another one
Don’t give me that face I know when I should live in disgrace Not dig up the deadwood I knew this place was never the place for me
And of the years that rolled by Yeah some were so good But now I know that You were the coward The holes in your soul In tatters for all these years
But you cant see it that way
A way, a way
Well have it today The dancing ones they really mean it And mark my words Something’s gonna change
A way, a way Youve got it they say But how do they know When theyve never seen it? And what will you do When they forget your name?
Well you’ll up and get another one
A way, a way We’ll have it today The dancing ones they really mean it But something boy somethings gonna change
A way, a way Youve got it today But how do they know When theyve never seen it? And what will you do When they forget your name?
I knew all along That I was right at the start About the seeds of the weeds That grew in your heart Self satisfaction for the factions Who formed to tear us apart Oh I gave you the Midas touch As you turned round to scratch out my heart Oh what did you expect? Oh tell me what did you expect? To lay it on my head? So is it all upon my head? Bang bang you're dead! Oh I'm so easily lead Bang, bang, you're de-e-ead! Put all those rumours to bed Bang, bang you're dead
I knew all along But I was loathed to believe There was nothing but spite Fury and lies in the words that you weave Bring our illusion to a conclusion With all our unsold dreams Put it to bed, kick it in the head Oh won't they just let it be
Bang bang you're dead! Oh I'm so easily lead Bang, bang, you're de-e-ead! Put all those rumours to bed Bang, bang you're dead
Oh what did you expect? Oh tell me what did you expect? To lay it on my head? So is it all upon my head? Bang bang you're dead! Oh I'm so easily lead Bang, bang, you're de-e-ead! Put all those rumours to bed Bang, bang you're dead
To think that the last of the small town playboys was a little bit like me Hold on Well what could that mean? Well Im still looking around for leads Cos when it comes to playboys Small towns are bursting at the seams England's getting fat But this suit is wearing thin So deal me another hand Before the games begin Well what do you do if the world owes you something? What else is there to do When the world owes you something new? I want you just to forget myself I need you just to forget myself I want you just to forget myself And so the last of the small town playboys Is a little bit like me Hold on Now what could that mean? No hope of hope and glory Spilling down the Camden Road Im in it for the story That you spit at me in code Well, my hearts in a headlock and my soul goes on unsung Unsung for the lonely Well what do you do when your world owes you something? Oh what is there to do When the world owes you something new? I want you just to forget myself I need you just to forget myself I've got you just to forget myself I need you I want you Ive got you just to forget myself I need you I want you I've got you just to forget myself