Just Jack

I get this writer's block, it comes as quite a shock, And now i'm stuck between a hard place and the biggest rock, In my own head consumed. I sit back in my room, Its like the tapestries of life get tangled in the loom, I'm like a butterfly, caught in a hurricane, My heart is quickening as my heart plays a new refrain Im lovin' Mary Jane, flyin' with Lois Lane, On board a bullet train Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Sometimes at night i think too much, About love and life and music and stuff I'm livin' in the past, My clocks an hour fast, Should really go and make a coffee but i can't be arsed, I've lost my mobile phone, You'll have to call my phone, On second thoughts just leave a message when you hear the tone, My grimy windows show the early morning glow, Another day, another dollar in my one man show, Im lovin' Mary Jane, flyin' with Lois Lane, On board a bullet train Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Don't know yet if i'm glad i came I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train But now i know i'm glad i- I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train But now i know i'm glad i- I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train But now i know i'm glad i- I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train But now i know i'm glad i came But now i know i'm glad i came But now i know i'm glad i came

I'm feelin groovy Kicking down the cobble stones And there is music in every sight and every sound No need for headphones I'll tip my cap to the world Even though I don't wear one Grinning at the women in the salon Getting their hair done On the outside looking in Like an aquarium Spinning with the stars in the planetarium Deliriously Mysteriously I'm feeling curiously marvelously Super Duper Like Joss Stone My heart melts like ice cream cones Grinning like a dog digging up dinosaur bones I used to be fossilized But now I'm out of my shell And I'm happier than whores with chivalrous clientele This can't be real I must be dreaming Can somebody slap me I'm feeling so mischievous Original cheeky chappy It must be ages Since I felt satisfied Just to be Just Jack And just that, still in tact Its just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed Shake your head Clear the haze Step out your house And prepared to be amazed It's just another one of those Just another one of those Just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed Shake your head Clear the haze Step out your house And prepare to be amazed It's just another one of those glory days I'm so warm New dawn Reborn New forms And I'm thinking about my boys Joe le chic, and Freshly Sean And I know you're underrated But one day we'll all make it And walk around naked with our bollocks platinumed and plated Anyway I'm off track Gotta stop that And get back to the high street I need something to eat Stop at the caf' Coffee and a salt beef bagel Yea I know I'm caned/Cain'd But now I'm feeling able/Abel I used to get so paranoid in places like this Stayed in my house for days with my weed psychosis My neurosis was thinking everybody is staring at my red eyes And shifty expression But now I'm past caring And I can feel that destiny is on my side And by the looks of things Fate came along for the ride Behind green skies I can see my girl's eyes Damn it I'm in love with this planet You gotta realize Its just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed Shake your head Clear the haze Step out your house And prepared to be amazed It's just another one of those Just another one of those Just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed Shake your head Clear the haze Step out your house And prepare to be amazed Its time to look to the future Just when I was getting Used to The humdrum I realized in the depths of my depression that I really wanted to be someone So lets smash the past like a tacky figurine On the back page of a supplementary magazine But for the time being bump your head to the beat Sit back, put your feet up And relax' Its just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed Shake your head Clear the haze Step out your house And prepared to be amazed It's just another one of those Just another one of those Just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed Shake your head Clear the haze Step out your house And prepare to be amazed

Shes got a whole lot of disco friends,

Shes got a whole lot of disco friends,
Disco ladies and gentlemen,
Eating their faces from the inside out,
Freaky dancing til the late am,
Music slipping down the wall of sweat,
Shes catching fishies in a disco net,
Throwing kisses in the powder room,
Slowly sucking on a cigarette

She knows an awful lot of disco kids,
Novelty sun glasses and mullet wigs,
She says she wants to be a sti-earl-list,
Or maybe something in the music biz,
Daddies rich, mummies beautiful,
They always said she'd make a top model,
But now shes hiding out in disco land,
A happy clappy trust experience

Disco friends

Disco friends

They'll be making sure you stay amused They'll fill you up with drugs and booze Maybe you'll make the evening news And when you're tripping over your dreams They'll keep you down by any means and by the end of the night you'll be stifling your screams Since you became a VIPerson It's like your problems have all worsened Your paranoia casts aspersions On the truths you know And they'll just put you in the spotlight And hope that you'll do alright Or maybe not Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? Why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? So why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? Starz in their eyes? Remember they said you'd show them all Emphasise the rise but not the fall And now you're playing a shopping mall Your mum and dad they can't believe What you appear to have achieved While the rest of these users are just laughing in their sleeves Since you became a VIPerson It's like your problems have all worsened Your paranoia casts aspersions On the truths you know And now the tabloids use your face To document your fall from grace And then they'll tell you that that's just the way it goes That's just the way it goes Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? It's the same old story well they just didn't realise And it's a long way to come from the dog and duck karaoke machine And Saturday night's drunken dreams Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? It's the same old story well they just didn't realise And it's a long way to come from your private bedroom dance routines And Saturday night's drunken dreams Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? Why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? So why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? Starz in their eyes? Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? It's the same old story well they just didn't realise And it's a long way to come from the dog and duck karaoke machine And Saturday night's drunken dreams (When I grow up im going to be famous) Behind the steel barrier and sequence and glitter Five inch heels still knee deep in the litter Each of them a bitter bullshitter, Wrapped up in the cloak of fake glamour, getting lost in the camera Well footprints are fools gold, diamonds crusts on their one off plimsolls So little time for these one off arseholes Rigour mortis Ken and Barbie dolls, A pair of big shades and a push up bra, It's such a short gap between the gutter and stars, That you've come a long way from the place that you started So why'd you wanna go and get so down hearted Welcome to the kingdom of the blagger Uncutting you nose clean, coating you bladder A whole lot happier a whole lot sadder, Used to be satisfied but now you feel like Mick Jagger, Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? It's the same old story well they just didn't realise And it's a long way to come from the dog and duck karaoke machine And Saturday night's drunken dreams Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? It's the same old story well they just didn't realise And it's a long way to come from your private bedroom dance routines And Saturday night's drunken dreams

Picture this 2.30 on the hottest night in June
He awakes for no reason and checks his watch by the moon
And his mouth feels as dry as his eyes as he struggles to rise
And stops to contemplate his wife's thighs as he does up his flies
He finds his slippers where he left them under the chair behind the 2 cups and an old copy of marie claire
He switches the on the coffee machine that of course works like a dream
catches sight of his reflection in the silver surface sheen
And It's a face he knows well although it should look less abused
With all these moisturisers and the skin products he's used
As he moves through the kitchen, his homage to brushed steel
Across the new pine flooring that's plastic but looks real
Past the plasma with the widescreen and the cinema surround sound
And he stops on his favourite spot by the window and looks down
On the orange lit street at the edge of the private car park
Where his Audi TT is waiting safely in the dark

Keeping it all inside of you
Something will have to give
And if you could you'll take it back
But you lose your way in the way you live

Now he can hear wind chimes tinkling out on the balcony
And his phone beeping out a text message in the same key
He checks it and it's Jill who used to be his secretary
Before they started an affair and things began to get really scary
Now his wife Mary is getting weary of his lies
Like she's read the whole sordid story in his eyes
It doesn't help that Jill's now saying that she's 2 weeks late
His mental state is really starting to deteriorate
He never knew how he got so out of his depth
Or why he's broken more than all these promises kept
And it's been ages since he slept
Properly, his sleeps now broken by these dreams of extra-marital activity
Trying to recapture the rapture that he used to get from his material possessions
And endless retail therapy sessions
Shoulda listened to what his dad said before he died
The best things in life are the ones you can't buy son

Keeping it all inside of you
Something will have to give
Wish you could buy a ticket back
But you lose your way in the way you live

He used to feel so safe up here in his shrine to Ikea
Away from the shouts and the louts and the girls with the over-painted pouts
And the queers and the dykes and the kids in their box-fresh Nikes
Delivering rocks to the house across the street on rusty mountain bikes

Aah aah
Aah aah aaahh

He used to feel so safe up here in his shrine to Ikea
Away from the shouts and the louts and the girls with the over-painted pouts
And the queers and the dykes and the kids in their box-fresh Nikes
Delivering rocks to the house across the street on rusty mountain bikes

Aah aah
Aah aah aaah

Sometimes I don't say the right things
to make you love me even more than you do.
Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things
I'm putting you through

I talk too much.
And that's why I'm doing in your head (tonight).
We talk too much.
Some things are better left unsaid (that's right).

My evil tongue does seem to run,
with a mind of it's own.
I must be cursed, I always make it worse,
You may aswell just take me home

Sometimes I don't say the right things
To make you love me even more than you do.
Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things
I'm putting you through

Well I know that you've been through it and you have your scars.
All the women are from Venus and the men are from Mars.
I could tell you everytime I admit the charge (so wrong).
Last thing I want to do is to cause you grief.
When I hide your clean soul from the dark beneath.
When it comes to the feeling I can make this brief (so strong)

Below the horizon suns dip.
We're playing our hand with ond chip.
How could we think we had so little to lose.

And in the flights of fireflies.
There is a pattern recognised.
How could we think we had so little to lose

Sometimes I don't say the right things
To make you love me even more than you do.
Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things
I'm putting you through
[*2]

And the breath I waste,
Just to fill the space,
It has built a taste,
In your mouth everytime,
And yes I'm blessed,
And self-obsessed,
She gives you more,
But I give you less, and less

Well I know that you've been through it and you have your scars.
All the women are from Venus and the men are from Mars.
I could tell you everytime I admit the charge (so wrong).
Last thing I want to do is to cause you grief.
When I hide your clean soul from the dark beneath.
When it comes to the feeling I can make this brief (so strong)

She says I know you know what you do but you still keep doing it

I'm not a young man anymore
But I've got the face of a
19 year old
Probably be a dad soon
Sitting in my front room
With my kids, play doe mold

But I just hold on to
What I've got
Right now

I'm not who I used to be
Trust me
I've got plans everyday next week
You know your getting older
When the kids on the corner
Have you baffled every time they speak

So lets just hold on to
What we've got
Right now

Looking round at my friends
And I see that the end of an era
Has come to pass
The fun and the games
And the fluid in our brains
Have all been reduced by half

So lets just hold on to
What we're got
Right Now

I'm not a young man anymore
But I've got the face of a
19 year old
Everything's changed
But I can't complain
Cause I'm doing pretty well all talk

Your two eyes they speak to me
Special treats and delicacies
In your velvet corridors
Sticky walls and sugar floors

Your fingers they speak to me
Butterfly wings on a slender tree
You can take a walk down my avenue
Sorbet sunshine melting through

There's a symphony of sirens in the air
Tiny diamonds fall like rain upon your hair
Got feeling completely beyond compare
And I don't care, no I don't care

You're the kinda girl I dreamt about
But I had to do without
Now I'm simply ravenous
I just need a little push

Your mouth it speaks to me
Flicking tongues so sneakily
I don't want this night to end
Close my eyes and count to ten
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10

There's a symphony of sirens in the air
Tiny diamonds fall like rain upon your hair
Got feeling completely beyond compare
And I don't care, no I don't care

My girl she's luminous
She gives me such a rush
Feels like a teenage crush
But I just can't get enough
My girls a genius
She knows all kind of stuff
Feels like my head might bust
But I just can't get enough
<i>[x2]</i>

There's a symphony of sirens in the air
Tiny diamonds fall like rain upon your hair
Got feeling completely beyond compare
And I don't care, no I don't care
<i>[x2]</i>

Give me your tricks for free

This is for every life story Every detail Ex-dot com millionaires With shitty jobs in retail Every ingrown toenail Pile of junk mail Driving test drive fail Vain search for the Holy Grail Every move you make Every breath you take Every 12in record your dumb(dumped?) girlfriend decided to break And all the underachieving geezers getting more lean and peezer on melon Bacardi Breezers and skinny plastic cached reefers And every impotent porn star And the girls with the red lights doing tricks for Mars bars And all the ravers that wish they were back in '89 Jack jack jack jack your body Because everything was so much better the first time And all the bastards looking for change in the station Every money grabbing musical collaboration And every last member of the X generation Addicted to the Internet drugs and masturbation Forget me this is all about you Forget us this is all about you Forget we this is all about you We are just the siphon the sounds come through Forget me this is all about you Forget us this is all about you Forget we this is all about you We are just the siphon the sounds come through This is for every life story Every chapter Every memory stored And photograph captured Cause even the most mundane things can shine forth like a beacon Make your palms sweaty and knees' weaken Well there is an awful lot of false gods speaking We're scratching in the dark for something true to believe in Just keep breathing And hope that in the long run That's a real hand you're tightly squeezing This is for everybod' who got cussed down in the playground And every bad boy who shitted when his mates weren't around And all the bedroom DJ's perfecting their skills And every girl with a complex and a handful of slimming pills Forget me this is all about you Forget us this is all about you Forget we this is all about you We are just the siphon the sounds come through Forget me this is all about you Forget us this is all about you Forget we this is all about you We are just the siphon the sounds come through This is for every life story Every intertwined tale of guts and glory ' Course some of them are nice and bright and corny And some of them will shake your hand less warmly Outlook still stormy Every sweeping saga from the here now to the here after Tall tales around the campfire Tragedies of fallen empires And everything that will and won't transpire Sometimes it's just too dire Bollackal Carrying our stories like DNA in hair follicles Lugging chronicles like baggage handlers I'm not sticking around I'm shipping out with the ramblers Collecting chapters of fractures and raptures High on a cactus with a bunch of backpackers Toasting backwards? with a shot of Cacha'a? But that's another story And I'll tell it if you let me But in the meantime just remember to forget me Forget me this is all about you Forget us this is all about you Forget we this is all about you We are just the siphon the sounds come through Forget me this is all about you Forget us this is all about you Forget we this is all about you We are just the siphon the sounds come through

Well how many times have we rowed and thrown tantrums, and how many times have we loaded and cocked the hammers on our verbal guns, And how many times has crockery and cutlery and cups of tea been thrown at me, And how many times have i thrown words back at you i knew could cut you to the bone, How many times have we slept side by side, a thousand miles apart? And how many times have we thought we could finish something we could never even start? How many times have i said i love you and i hate you in the same breath? And how many times have we tried to grab something when there was nothin'... We got no time we got no time we got no time left at all Well how many times have our friends warned us against this, and i can't remember a time when i have felt so restless, and how many times have you said 'I'm leavin' you no matter what you do' and how many times have i thrown words back at you i knew could kill you waits and, How many times have we slept side by side, a thousand miles apart? And how many times have we thought we could finish something we could never even start? How many times have i said i love you and i hate you in the same breath? And how many times have we tried to grab something when there was nothin'... We got no time we got no time we got no time left at all See i don't want to talk about it, the way you broke my heart, I hate so many things about you i wouldnt know where to start [x2] We got no time we got no time we got no time left at all [x2] We got no time left now [repeat til end]

Morning lights don't scratch my eyes
Just let me wash up on the shore
I used to have the strangest dreams
But they don't come here anymore
My duvet's laid out like an atlas with stains to mark the borderlines
Indentations in my pillow I hope won't fade with time

Smoke the roach left in the ashtray on which I choked the night before
Stuck my toes under a clothes like mountain ranges on the floor.
I pick my way through crusty dishes and their greasy chemistry
I washed two cups and the remember that you've left already.

I let you go so reluctantly and I can still hear your lazy symphony
And just when I found my calling, it's another mourning morning

The say the devil's in the detail
I'm gonna blow my eyes instead
I put my memories in a landscape where only reckless angels tread
I watch the fingerprints you left like a secret code upon my skin
And I remember when you told me a guilded crown won't make a king

I really want you to stay but I know you have to go
I really want you to stay but sometimes it doesn't show
I really want you to stay but I know you have to go
I really want you to stay let the conversation flow
I really want you to stay but I know you have to go
I really want you to stay but sometimes it doesn't show
I really want you to stay but I know you have to go, have to go again

I let you go so reluctantly and I can still hear your lazy symphony
And just when I found my calling, it's another mourning morning

I really want you to stay but I know you have to go <i>[X7]</i>
have to go again

Life is but a dream in a greater scheme, waking up is hard to do. Even if you`re quick, something holds you back, Always waiting in a queue for someone, To tell you you`re broke, Or you should not smoke anymore cigarettes. Planets will align, if you give them time. When you least expect, everything connects, Even when the hope is gone there is you, And you`ll keep your name, And the things in your brain just might see you through. `Cos you are light, and in darkest night you shine. And I guess we`re doing fine, But there`s no escaping our spectacular failure. Digging in between things we`ve never seen, Trying to find the missing links. All these scientists are trying every trick Just before the city sinks without trace. So much we`ve achieved, So I hope when we leave there`s a smile on our face. `Cos you are light, and in darkest night you shine. And I guess we`re doing fine, But there`s no escaping our spectacular failure.

They'll be making
sure you stay amused
They'll fill you up with
drugs and booze
Maybe you'll make the
evening news
And when you're tripping
over your dreams
They'll keep you
down by any means
and by the end of the night
you'll be
stifling your screams
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And they'll just put you
in the spotlight
And hope that you'll do alright
Or maybe not
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Remember they said you'd
show them all
Emphasise the rise
but not the fall
And now you're playing a
shopping mall
Your mum and dad they
can't believe
What you appear to
have achieved
While the rest of these
users are just
laughing in their sleeves
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And now the tabloids
use your face
To document your
fall from grace
And then they'll
tell you that that's
just the way it goes
That's just the way it goes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
Saturday night's drunken dreams
When I grow up
im going to be famous
Behind the steel barrier and
sequence and glitter
Five inch heels still knee
deep in the litter
Each of them a bitter bullshitter
Wrapped up in the
cloak of fake glamour getting
lost in the camera
Well footprints are fools gold
diamonds crusts on their
one off plimsolls
So little time for these
one off arseholes
Rigour mortis Ken and
Barbie dolls
A pair of big
shades and a push up bra
It's such a short
gap between the
gutter and stars
That you've come a long
way from the
place that you started So
why'd you wanna go and get
so down hearted
Welcome to the
kingdom of the blagger
Uncutting you nose clean
coating you bladder
A whole lot happier a whole lot
sadder Used to be satisfied but
now you feel like Mick Jagger

Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday
night's drunken dreams

They'll be making
sure you stay amused
They'll fill you up with
drugs and booze
Maybe you'll make the
evening news
And when you're tripping
over your dreams
They'll keep you
down by any means
and by the end of the night
you'll be
stifling your screams
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And they'll just put you
in the spotlight
And hope that you'll do alright
Or maybe not
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Remember they said you'd
show them all
Emphasise the rise
but not the fall
And now you're playing a
shopping mall
Your mum and dad they
can't believe
What you appear to
have achieved
While the rest of these
users are just
laughing in their sleeves
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And now the tabloids
use your face
To document your
fall from grace
And then they'll
tell you that that's
just the way it goes
That's just the way it goes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
Saturday night's drunken dreams
When I grow up
im going to be famous
Behind the steel barrier and
sequence and glitter
Five inch heels still knee
deep in the litter
Each of them a bitter bullshitter
Wrapped up in the
cloak of fake glamour getting
lost in the camera
Well footprints are fools gold
diamonds crusts on their
one off plimsolls
So little time for these
one off arseholes
Rigour mortis Ken and
Barbie dolls
A pair of big
shades and a push up bra
It's such a short
gap between the
gutter and stars
That you've come a long
way from the
place that you started So
why'd you wanna go and get
so down hearted
Welcome to the
kingdom of the blagger
Uncutting you nose clean
coating you bladder
A whole lot happier a whole lot
sadder Used to be satisfied but
now you feel like Mick Jagger

Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday
night's drunken dreams

They'll be making
sure you stay amused
They'll fill you up with
drugs and booze
Maybe you'll make the
evening news
And when you're tripping
over your dreams
They'll keep you
down by any means
and by the end of the night
you'll be
stifling your screams
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And they'll just put you
in the spotlight
And hope that you'll do alright
Or maybe not
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Remember they said you'd
show them all
Emphasise the rise
but not the fall
And now you're playing a
shopping mall
Your mum and dad they
can't believe
What you appear to
have achieved
While the rest of these
users are just
laughing in their sleeves
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And now the tabloids
use your face
To document your
fall from grace
And then they'll
tell you that that's
just the way it goes
That's just the way it goes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
Saturday night's drunken dreams
When I grow up
im going to be famous
Behind the steel barrier and
sequence and glitter
Five inch heels still knee
deep in the litter
Each of them a bitter bullshitter
Wrapped up in the
cloak of fake glamour getting
lost in the camera
Well footprints are fools gold
diamonds crusts on their
one off plimsolls
So little time for these
one off arseholes
Rigour mortis Ken and
Barbie dolls
A pair of big
shades and a push up bra
It's such a short
gap between the
gutter and stars
That you've come a long
way from the
place that you started So
why'd you wanna go and get
so down hearted
Welcome to the
kingdom of the blagger
Uncutting you nose clean
coating you bladder
A whole lot happier a whole lot
sadder Used to be satisfied but
now you feel like Mick Jagger

Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday
night's drunken dreams

They'll be making
sure you stay amused
They'll fill you up with
drugs and booze
Maybe you'll make the
evening news
And when you're tripping
over your dreams
They'll keep you
down by any means
and by the end of the night
you'll be
stifling your screams
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And they'll just put you
in the spotlight
And hope that you'll do alright
Or maybe not
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Remember they said you'd
show them all
Emphasise the rise
but not the fall
And now you're playing a
shopping mall
Your mum and dad they
can't believe
What you appear to
have achieved
While the rest of these
users are just
laughing in their sleeves
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And now the tabloids
use your face
To document your
fall from grace
And then they'll
tell you that that's
just the way it goes
That's just the way it goes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
Saturday night's drunken dreams
When I grow up
im going to be famous
Behind the steel barrier and
sequence and glitter
Five inch heels still knee
deep in the litter
Each of them a bitter bullshitter
Wrapped up in the
cloak of fake glamour getting
lost in the camera
Well footprints are fools gold
diamonds crusts on their
one off plimsolls
So little time for these
one off arseholes
Rigour mortis Ken and
Barbie dolls
A pair of big
shades and a push up bra
It's such a short
gap between the
gutter and stars
That you've come a long
way from the
place that you started So
why'd you wanna go and get
so down hearted
Welcome to the
kingdom of the blagger
Uncutting you nose clean
coating you bladder
A whole lot happier a whole lot
sadder Used to be satisfied but
now you feel like Mick Jagger

Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday
night's drunken dreams

They'll be making
sure you stay amused
They'll fill you up with
drugs and booze
Maybe you'll make the
evening news
And when you're tripping
over your dreams
They'll keep you
down by any means
and by the end of the night
you'll be
stifling your screams
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And they'll just put you
in the spotlight
And hope that you'll do alright
Or maybe not
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Remember they said you'd
show them all
Emphasise the rise
but not the fall
And now you're playing a
shopping mall
Your mum and dad they
can't believe
What you appear to
have achieved
While the rest of these
users are just
laughing in their sleeves
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And now the tabloids
use your face
To document your
fall from grace
And then they'll
tell you that that's
just the way it goes
That's just the way it goes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
Saturday night's drunken dreams
When I grow up
im going to be famous
Behind the steel barrier and
sequence and glitter
Five inch heels still knee
deep in the litter
Each of them a bitter bullshitter
Wrapped up in the
cloak of fake glamour getting
lost in the camera
Well footprints are fools gold
diamonds crusts on their
one off plimsolls
So little time for these
one off arseholes
Rigour mortis Ken and
Barbie dolls
A pair of big
shades and a push up bra
It's such a short
gap between the
gutter and stars
That you've come a long
way from the
place that you started So
why'd you wanna go and get
so down hearted
Welcome to the
kingdom of the blagger
Uncutting you nose clean
coating you bladder
A whole lot happier a whole lot
sadder Used to be satisfied but
now you feel like Mick Jagger

Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday
night's drunken dreams

They'll be making
sure you stay amused
They'll fill you up with
drugs and booze
Maybe you'll make the
evening news
And when you're tripping
over your dreams
They'll keep you
down by any means
and by the end of the night
you'll be
stifling your screams
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And they'll just put you
in the spotlight
And hope that you'll do alright
Or maybe not
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Remember they said you'd
show them all
Emphasise the rise
but not the fall
And now you're playing a
shopping mall
Your mum and dad they
can't believe
What you appear to
have achieved
While the rest of these
users are just
laughing in their sleeves
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And now the tabloids
use your face
To document your
fall from grace
And then they'll
tell you that that's
just the way it goes
That's just the way it goes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
Saturday night's drunken dreams
When I grow up
im going to be famous
Behind the steel barrier and
sequence and glitter
Five inch heels still knee
deep in the litter
Each of them a bitter bullshitter
Wrapped up in the
cloak of fake glamour getting
lost in the camera
Well footprints are fools gold
diamonds crusts on their
one off plimsolls
So little time for these
one off arseholes
Rigour mortis Ken and
Barbie dolls
A pair of big
shades and a push up bra
It's such a short
gap between the
gutter and stars
That you've come a long
way from the
place that you started So
why'd you wanna go and get
so down hearted
Welcome to the
kingdom of the blagger
Uncutting you nose clean
coating you bladder
A whole lot happier a whole lot
sadder Used to be satisfied but
now you feel like Mick Jagger

Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday
night's drunken dreams

They'll be making
sure you stay amused
They'll fill you up with
drugs and booze
Maybe you'll make the
evening news
And when you're tripping
over your dreams
They'll keep you
down by any means
and by the end of the night
you'll be
stifling your screams
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And they'll just put you
in the spotlight
And hope that you'll do alright
Or maybe not
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Remember they said you'd
show them all
Emphasise the rise
but not the fall
And now you're playing a
shopping mall
Your mum and dad they
can't believe
What you appear to
have achieved
While the rest of these
users are just
laughing in their sleeves
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And now the tabloids
use your face
To document your
fall from grace
And then they'll
tell you that that's
just the way it goes
That's just the way it goes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
Saturday night's drunken dreams
When I grow up
im going to be famous
Behind the steel barrier and
sequence and glitter
Five inch heels still knee
deep in the litter
Each of them a bitter bullshitter
Wrapped up in the
cloak of fake glamour getting
lost in the camera
Well footprints are fools gold
diamonds crusts on their
one off plimsolls
So little time for these
one off arseholes
Rigour mortis Ken and
Barbie dolls
A pair of big
shades and a push up bra
It's such a short
gap between the
gutter and stars
That you've come a long
way from the
place that you started So
why'd you wanna go and get
so down hearted
Welcome to the
kingdom of the blagger
Uncutting you nose clean
coating you bladder
A whole lot happier a whole lot
sadder Used to be satisfied but
now you feel like Mick Jagger

Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday
night's drunken dreams

They'll be making
sure you stay amused
They'll fill you up with
drugs and booze
Maybe you'll make the
evening news
And when you're tripping
over your dreams
They'll keep you
down by any means
and by the end of the night
you'll be
stifling your screams
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And they'll just put you
in the spotlight
And hope that you'll do alright
Or maybe not
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Remember they said you'd
show them all
Emphasise the rise
but not the fall
And now you're playing a
shopping mall
Your mum and dad they
can't believe
What you appear to
have achieved
While the rest of these
users are just
laughing in their sleeves
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And now the tabloids
use your face
To document your
fall from grace
And then they'll
tell you that that's
just the way it goes
That's just the way it goes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
Saturday night's drunken dreams
When I grow up
im going to be famous
Behind the steel barrier and
sequence and glitter
Five inch heels still knee
deep in the litter
Each of them a bitter bullshitter
Wrapped up in the
cloak of fake glamour getting
lost in the camera
Well footprints are fools gold
diamonds crusts on their
one off plimsolls
So little time for these
one off arseholes
Rigour mortis Ken and
Barbie dolls
A pair of big
shades and a push up bra
It's such a short
gap between the
gutter and stars
That you've come a long
way from the
place that you started So
why'd you wanna go and get
so down hearted
Welcome to the
kingdom of the blagger
Uncutting you nose clean
coating you bladder
A whole lot happier a whole lot
sadder Used to be satisfied but
now you feel like Mick Jagger

Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday
night's drunken dreams

They'll be making
sure you stay amused
They'll fill you up with
drugs and booze
Maybe you'll make the
evening news
And when you're tripping
over your dreams
They'll keep you
down by any means
and by the end of the night
you'll be
stifling your screams
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And they'll just put you
in the spotlight
And hope that you'll do alright
Or maybe not
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Remember they said you'd
show them all
Emphasise the rise
but not the fall
And now you're playing a
shopping mall
Your mum and dad they
can't believe
What you appear to
have achieved
While the rest of these
users are just
laughing in their sleeves
Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems
have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know
And now the tabloids
use your face
To document your
fall from grace
And then they'll
tell you that that's
just the way it goes
That's just the way it goes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
So why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
Saturday night's drunken dreams
When I grow up
im going to be famous
Behind the steel barrier and
sequence and glitter
Five inch heels still knee
deep in the litter
Each of them a bitter bullshitter
Wrapped up in the
cloak of fake glamour getting
lost in the camera
Well footprints are fools gold
diamonds crusts on their
one off plimsolls
So little time for these
one off arseholes
Rigour mortis Ken and
Barbie dolls
A pair of big
shades and a push up bra
It's such a short
gap between the
gutter and stars
That you've come a long
way from the
place that you started So
why'd you wanna go and get
so down hearted
Welcome to the
kingdom of the blagger
Uncutting you nose clean
coating you bladder
A whole lot happier a whole lot
sadder Used to be satisfied but
now you feel like Mick Jagger

Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from the dog and duck
karaoke machine
And Saturday night's
drunken dreams
Now why do you wanna go and put
starz in their eyes
It's the same old story
well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come
from your private bedroom
dance routines
And Saturday
night's drunken dreams

The facts and the figures
They overwhelm and stifle
Everything that you thought you knew

The facts and the figures
They overwhelm and stifle
From the very first breath you drew

The facts and the figures
They overwhelm and stifle
And the petty decisions
That you think make a difference

So tiny that they blow away like dust
So tiny that they blow away like dust
So tiny that they blow away like dust

Through all the devilish things we do
Through all the devilish things we do
Through all the devilish things we do
Through all the devilish things we do

Through all the devilish things we do
(I can't help my stupid hopes)
Through all the devilish things we do
(I can't help my stupid hopes)
Through all the devilish things we do
(I can't help my stupid hopes)

Through all the devilish things we do
(I can't help my stupid hopes)
Through all the devilish things we do
(I can't help my stupid hopes)

Facts and the figures
The overwhelming stifling
Everything that you thought you knew

So tiny that they blow away like dust
We are all embers from the same fire
We are all embers from the same fire
We are all embers from the same fire
We are all embers from the same fire

I watched her smile,
Dissolve like alco sell sell
And in all honesty,
Man, I wish I could have helped her

But the words I spoke,
Fell ? to the ground
Hitting that carpet,
With a muffled clanging sound

I remember sitting later on the 253,
Trying not to cry but the cryings on me,
Sick to my stomach feeling so guilty
But a cant change the fact that

She had nothing that a needed,
So over years the love receded
A bit like her old man's hair line,
And mine

And at first she was all that I could see,
Till other girls appeared in my periphery
And we lost something or so it seems,
Faded like her favorite jeans

I can't read her face,
It's in an unknown language
I just hold her pretty hand,
'Cause that's about all I can manage

I wish you wouldn't look at me that way,
Knowing I'm a selfish bastard
She'll be thanking me one day
And maybe we can even part this disaster

I remember sitting later on the 253,
Trying not to cry but the cryings on me,
Sick to my stomach feeling so guilty
But a cant change the fact that

She had nothing that a needed,
So over years the love receded
A bit like her old man's hair line,
And mine

And at first she was all that I could see,
Till other girls appeared in my periphery
And we lost something or so it seems,
Faded like her favorite jeans

No, no, no, no promises
No, no, no, no promises
No, no, no, no promises
No promises, no promises

And this is the final curtain call,
As in and out of love we fall
And its to late to change that
Aw its to late to explain that

She had nothing that a needed,
So over years the love receded
A bit like her old man's hair line,
And mine

And at first she was all that I could see,
Till other girls appeared in my periphery
And we lost something or so it seems,
Faded like her favorite jeans

She had nothing that a needed,
So over years the love receded
A bit like her old man's hair line,
And mine

And at first she was all that I could see,
Till other girls appeared in my periphery
And we lost something or so it seems,
Faded like her favorite jeans

No, no, no, no promises
No, no, no, no promises
No, no, no, no promises
No promises, no promises

No, no, no, no promises
No, no, no, no promises
No, no, no, no promises
No promises, no promises

Drag myself from my bed
Around twenty past six
Get my kids up, make breakfast
One egg, two toast, three Weetabix

And as I sit down I look up
And you're standing in the doorway, sun at your back
In my old brown dressing gown
Well, no one can love you more than I love you now

But I gotta go, running for the bus
Coat flying and I try not to miss it this time
But the drivers waiting and that's strange
Kids on the top deck, quiet for a change

And there's no rain and no roadworks
In the bus lane and all my hurts run away
And I'm smiling as I'm punching in

The day I died was the best day of my life
The day I died was the best day of my life
Tell my friends and my kids and my wife
Everything will be alright
The day I died was the best day of my life

The secretaries they got a smile for me
And the in tray on my desks almost empty
I get a memo from executive Joe
Saying Rob the gob is getting kicked out
For embezzling funds from the company account

And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't chuffed
'Cause I always hated Rob
And now they'll probably offer me Robs old job

And in the park at lunch
There's no whinos on my favorite bench
None of that drunk chatter, none of that pissy stench
And the scrawny little pigeons with the gammy legs
Decide to dive bomb from someone else's sandwich instead

And there's something about the city today
Like all the colors conspire to overwhelm the gray
And this close to the fire I can feel no cold
But a rainbow halo around my soul

The day I died was the best day of my life
The day I died was the best day of my life
Tell my friends and my kids and my wife
Everything will be alright
The day I died was the best day of my life

So I leave work, get to the high street and I miss my bus
Should I wait for another? No I can't be arsed, I begin to walk
And rush hour crowd seem to part like the red sea
And I'm stopping at the offy

Twenty cigarettes and a six pack to relax me
And as I cross back over the street
I guess I never saw that taxi

The day I died was the best day of my life
The day I died was the best day of my life
Tell my friends and my kids and my wife
Everything will be alright
The day I died was the best day of my life

Most of these boots are hypnotized
Staring at her bits and shiny thighs
Diamond jewel tips and they're Wiley eyes
But they just don't recognize

I see her walk
Looking side to side
And everybody stops
Looking Petrified

Move down the block causing quite a stir
And she's looking pretty fresh man, I must concur
But I see through her exterior, and it's not that superior
The lip gloss bubble is bound to burst, you won't be the last, you can't be the first

She's not much verse, mostly chorus
Between those ears, mostly sawdust
She's mostly lovely, mostly never
Blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever

Doctor, Doctor
Can't you see'
My minds been playing
Jokes on me

And I've been trying to save my soul
I've been trying to do right
But all I'm getting is the tunnel
At the end of the line

Look at her now, she's laughing it up
And with a sex shooting verb, she'll be slapping them up
And in the meantime, she loves jacking them off
And with a smile telling them their not making the cut

Now why you looking at me like I'm making this up
And why you looking at me like I'm floaty and hinged
Like I'm a little bit singed after a JD and Prozac binge
And just realized I try but can't win

I'm getting sicker, I can't see
My eye lids flicker but I can't delete
The image that I have running in my brain
A chance that I've missed and I can't regain

Everybody knows apparently
I must just be a transparency
The thing I've been hiding so hopelessly is
That I just want this girl to know it's me

Doctor, Doctor
Can't you see'
My minds been playing
Jokes on me

And I've been trying to save my soul
I've been trying to do right
But all I'm getting is the tunnel
At the end of the line

Paranoid delusion all lovesick only lust
Nasty, jealous insecurity, that's how I'm coming across
Paranoid delusion all lovesick only lust
Nasty, jealous insecure at least that's how I'm coming across

I'm getting sicker, I can't see
My eye lids flicker but I can't delete
The image that I have running in my brain
A chance that I've missed and I can't regain

Everybody knows apparently
I must just be a transparency
The thing I've been hiding so hopelessly is
That I just want this girl to know it's me

Doctor, Doctor
Can't you see'
My minds been playing
Jokes on me

And I've been trying to save my soul
I've been trying to do right
But all I'm getting is the tunnel
At the end of the line

Doctor, Doctor
Can't you see'
My minds been playing
Jokes on me

And I've been trying to save my soul
I've been trying to do right
But all I'm getting is the tunnel
At the end of the line

Doctor, Doctor
Can't you see'
My minds been playing
Jokes on me

And I've been trying to save my soul
I've been trying to do right
But all I'm getting is the tunnel
At the end of the line

Girl's so high now
Don't know how she's walking in the high heels now
All the boys are stalking
Picking up the scent now
And she's wondering how she's gonna pay the rent now

Checking out the young bucks
Salivating
As they circle around her snake hips
Only letting one boy kiss her on the fake lips
As she's working out exactly how to play this

Riding in a cab now
All across the city
Heading to his penthouse
Sliding sticky fingers up of her flanks
As the lies easily sliver from her wet mouth

Grinding in the hallway
?
And as they're falling through the doorway
Pulling back
She's stealing just enough time to say
I believe a girl deserves a bit of foreplay

It's nothing personal
All the users get used in the end
It's nothing personal
All the users get used in the end
It's nothing personal
All the users get used in the end,
End, end, end, end, end, end, end, end

Pouring out the drinks now
Keeps him talking
Takes a bottle from her handbag
Can't believe she's still relying on the same rag
But at least she never had to wear a name tag

Walking in the streets now
Back across the city
Pulling off her wig now
As she drops his empty wallet in a black bag
Stuffed into a gutter
Calling for a ?

All the users get used in the end
All the users get used in the end

A kid got stuck on a sliver of silver
Watched in the street by a gang of builders
Blood running down into the gutter

Next kid's caught climbing out the window
Policeman switched off his Nintendo
Mom couldn't do anything but stutter

Now the first kid's laid out on a stretcher
Red mask scrawled on a hooded sweater
Stand back for the defribulator

And the second kid's steady four walls pacing
He's thinking about the crime and the time he's facing
Mom just said "I'll see you later"

And I still love you
You'll always be my little soldier
I still love you
Whatever, whatever, whatever you do

Gayle stop dead hanging out the laundry
Reggie's dream with the words "I'm horny"
Blood drains from my face so quickly

Mom gets home half an hour later
Kicks off her shoes to read the paper
Gayle just sits there looking sickly

Mum says "Baby, what's the matter?"
Tears fall as she begins to blabber
At that moment Daddy walks in

An atmosphere a knife could cut through
Mum says "We know what you've been up to"
"I think you should pack your things, don't you?"

And I still love you
Even though you fucked us over
I still love you
Whatever, whatever, whatever you do

So it is, so it was, so it always will be
So it is, so it was, so it always will be

I still love you
Blood is always thicker than water
I still love you
Whatever, whatever, whatever you do

I don't know who directs those films
I watch when I sleep
I'm not sure who the producer is but I don't think it's Serweinstien
Sometimes they're made of Lego
Sometimes they're made of gold
And sometimes it's hard to let go
Of the ones I just can't bear to hold
All the lights are off while I watch projections in my mind
I don't know who does the casting
But they got a strange sense of humor
Sometimes I'm seeing strangers
Sometimes I'm watching friends
And sometimes the feeling's painless
And I hope the visions never end

There are strangest things I have ever beheld
So barmy and beautiful
They're monstrously minuscule
And I would be a bigger fool if I told you

There are strangest things I have ever beheld
So barmy and beautiful
They're monstrously minuscule
And I would be a bigger fool if I told you

Because you told me they bore you to tears

I bought you a ticket to my one seat cinema
But I can't find the box of fizzle
So I'll just try to describe it
Sometimes you try to listen
And sometimes you fall to sleep
But sometimes the stories glisten
And sometimes they sound so weak

There are strangest things I have ever beheld
So barmy and beautiful
They're monstrously minuscule
And I would be a bigger fool if I told you

There are strangest things I have ever beheld
So barmy and beautiful
They're monstrously minuscule
And I would be a bigger fool if I told you

Because you told me they bore you to tears

(I have never seen such beauty)

Living in a bedsit
Close to the world's end,
Sitting in his y-fronts
Sponging off his girlfriend Carey
She says life's right there babe
Should be getting on with it
? better tell her that you've all but squandered it
It's silly

And his relatives all think that it's a shame
And they'd say that it's a mystery if his Dad wasn't exactly the same
The same

He's been a space cadet for years
Says one day he'll be an astronaut
Floating in the hemisphere
And looking down on Hampton Court
But he's always late
And knows one day he'll graduate
Then he'll be floating in the ozone
High above the empire
High above the empire
State state state state
He's living in a
State state state state
He's in a proper
State state state state
They've got him in a
State state state state

Sofa suffer, likes a little gamble
A few dodgy debts that he says he can handle
Maybe
Never not ?
Stays in most nights
Jostling to pixelated princesses on websites
Frantically

And his family all say that it's a waste
And they wash their mouths out with self-righteousness
To hide the bitter taste
The taste

He's been a space cadet for years
Says one day he'll be an astronaut
Floating in the hemisphere
And looking down on Hampton Court
But he's always late
And knows one day he'll graduate
Then he'll be floating in the ozone
High above the empire
High above the empire

Carey's love is cold and congealed
Like last night's take-away
And she feels
She might have to do some kind
Of midnight flit
All there is to say has been said
And as the sky's turning pink
She leaves her keys by the sink
And takes one last look at our hero's face

He's been a space cadet for years
Says one day he'll be an astronaut
Floating in the hemisphere
And looking down on Hampton Court
But he's always late
And knows one day he'll graduate
Then he'll be floating in the ozone
High above the empire
High above the empire
High above the empire state

Oh oh la la la la
Oh oh la la la la
Oh oh la la la la

Now life goes on
It will be played out
But something's s'posed to happen man before the fade out

Now life goes on
It will be played out
But something's s'posed to happen man before the fade out

Now life goes on
It will be played out
But something's s'posed to happen man before the fade out

Now life goes on
It will be played out
But something's s'posed to happen man before the fade out
Before the fade out
Before the fade out
Before the fade out
Before the fade out
Before the fade out

Oh there's a Goth in the disco,
Yeah there's a Goth in the disco,
Oh there's a Goth in the disco,
Yeah there's a Goth in the disco

Pale face, black vest,
Steady watching, she's got a cure for this emptiness
Melting vinyl, burning hair, suicidal, in the disco yeah

She hates all the music can't stand the lights,
But there's nothing else to do on a Saturday night
And she doesn't like the people can't stand to dance,
So they're all going home in an ambulance (woop, woop)

(All going)
(Can't stand Saturday night)
(Can't stand disco)

(All going)
(Can't stand Saturday night)
(Can't stand disco)

Empty bottle, dirty rag,
Can of petrol she's got a cocktail for these fucking slags
Melting vinyl, burning hair, suicidal, in the disco yeah

She hates all the music can't stand the lights,
But there's nothing else to do on a Saturday night
And she doesn't like the people can't stand to dance,
So they're all going home in an ambulance (woop, woop)

Oh there's a Goth in the disco,
Yeah there's a Goth in the disco,
Oh there's a Goth in the disco,
Yeah there's a Goth in the disco

(All going)
(Can't stand Saturday night)
(Can't stand disco)
(All going)
(Can't stand Saturday night)
(Can't stand disco)

She hates all the music can't stand the lights,
But there's nothing else to do on a Saturday night
And she doesn't like the people can't stand to dance,
So they're all going home in an ambulance (woop, woop)

(All going)
(Can't stand Saturday night)
(Can't stand disco)
(All going)
(Can't stand Saturday night)
(Can't stand disco)

(Can't stand disco)

I said Lo..
Lo and behold
I just wanna know
Why I'm so cold
And I hope I learn, before I get old
How I can burn
When I feel so co-oh-oh-old

I've been inside for days
Watching curtains as they sway
Rain just falling like a blade
On me and Mr. Calloway

I got one direction home
Police tape blocking off half the road
Bit fragments of some kid's phone
And a white bouquet on a traffic cone

And there's the man
With four cans of super tea
Having heated conversations
With those I can't even see
And hopefully..
Tomorrow we'll swallow today

I said Lo..
Lo and behold
I just wanna know
Why I'm so cold
And I hope I learn, before I get old
How I can burn
When I feel so co-oh-oh-old

Come and go
The hollow ways
Passing the queue for the pharmacy
Another little bottle of side effects
Another blue pill for your tired sex
And this rain it keeps on falling
Hollywood stars on the black tarpaulin
I swallow, choke
And then take it all in
All in

And there's the man behind the counter in the shop
The one the kids take the piss out of
And I wish that they would stop
But they will not
And tomorrow, we'll laugh at today

I said Lo..
Lo and behold
I just wanna know
Why I'm so cold
And I hope I learn, before I get old
How I can burn
When I feel so co-oh-oh-old