Pulp were an English alternative rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978. Upon their split in 2002, their lineup consisted of Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar), Candida Doyle (keyboards), Mark Webber Mark Webber (guitarist) (guitar), Steve Mackey (bass) and Nick Banks (drums).
Throughout the 1980s, the band struggled to find success, but gained prominence in the UK in the mid-1990s with the release of the albums His 'n' Hers in 1994 and... [read more] - Anorexic Beauty
Sitting alone on a cold bar stool,your cold, hard eyes make me feel a fool. Pastel-white features, high cheek-bones, scarlet-blooded lips and deathly tones.The girl of my nightmares,sultry and corpse-like.The girlof...
- Life Must Be So Wonderful
Life must be so wonderful, living here on your own,please callaround to see.And maybe I've been loving you for too long, and now blind,I watch you bleed.You rot in your bedroom, you cry on the phone.Well I'm sorrybut...
- There's No Emotion
As I laydown in the bedroom,there came a sound from far away.As I strainedmy ears to listenI could heara thin voice say: "In your heartthere's no emotion, and your soul,your soul just dried away.There's no love,no...
- Fairground
As the signs outside proclaimed,nature sometimes makes mistakes.Was it the mother or the father to blame,inside the damp grass and tilted tent?As the signs outside proclaimed,nature sometimes makes mistakes.Was it the...
- The Never-Ending Story
When all should be done and gone,he comes round again to see,he can't keep himself away.He touches her hand and it starts again.His work is an ugly mess. He prods and it cries in pain. He kicks and it starts to...
- Common People (Extended Lyrics)
She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledgeShe studied sculpture at St Martin's collegeThat's where I....Caught her eyeShe told me that her Dad was loadedI said "In that case I'll have rum and coca-cola."She...
- Bar Italia
Now if you can stand,I would like to take you by the hand, yeah,and go for a walk,past people as they go to work.Oh, let's get out of this place,before they tell us that we've just died.Move, move quick, you've gotta...
- Mis-Shapes
Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits.Raised on a diet of broken biscuits, ohwe don't look the same as you,we don't do the things you do,but we live around here too, Oh really.Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits,we'd like to go to...
- Monday Morning
There's nothing to do so you just stay in bed,oh poor thing,why live in the world when you can live in your head?Mmm when you can go out late from Monday,till Saturday turns into Sunday,and now you're back here at...
- Pencil Skirt
When you raise your pencil skirt,like a veil before my eyes,like the look upon his face as he's zipping up his flies.Oh I know that you're engaged to him.Oh but I know that you want something to play with baby.I'll be...
- Live Bed Show
She doesn't have to go to work,but she doesn't want to stay in bed,cos it's changed from something comfortable,to something else instead.This bed has seen it all,from the first time to the last,the silences of now,and...
- Common People
She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge,she studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College,that's where I,caught her eye.She told me that her Dad was loaded,I said "In that case I'll have a rum and...
- Underwear
Why don't you shut the door,and close the curtains,cos you're not going anywhere.He's coming up the stairs,and in a moment he'll want to see your underwear.You couldn't stop it now.There's no way to get out.He's...
- Disco 2000
Well we were born within one hour of each other.Our mothers said we could be sister and brother.Your name is Deborah, Deborah.It never suited ya.And they said that when we grew up,we'd get married, and never split...
- I Spy
I spy a boy, I spy a girl.I spy the worst place in the world,in the whole wide world.Oh you didn't do bad,you made it out,I'm still stuck here oh but I'll get out.Oh yeah I'll get out.Can't you see the giant that...
- F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
The room is cold,and has been like this for several months.If I close my eyes,I can visualise everything in it,right down, right down to the broken handle on the third drawer downof the dressing table.And the world...
- Something Changed
I wrote the song two hours before we met.I didn't know your name or what you looked like yet.Oh I could have stayed at home and gone to bed.I could have gone to see a film instead.You might have changed your mind and...
- Sorted For E's & Wizz
Oh is this the way they say the future's meant to feel?Or just 20,000 people standing in a field.And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is.But that's okay cos we're all sorted out for E's and wizz.And...
- Help The Aged
Help the aged,one time they were just like you,drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue.Help the aged,don't just put them in a home,can't have much fun when they're all on their own.Give a hand, if you can,try and...
- Seductive Barry
Here in the night love takes control.Making me highmaking me whole.I don't know.Oh no no no.No I don't know.No no no.No I don't know.When I close my eyes I can see you lowering yourself to my level.I don't know where...
- TV Movie
Without you my life has become a hangover without end.A movie made for TV:bad dialogue, bad acting, no interest.Too long with no story and no ***.Is it a kind of weakness to miss someone so much? To wish the day would...
- The Day After The Revolution
The dust has settled,replaces the bulbs in all the lights.I guess I'll get no sleep tonight. A revolution happened.Oh, sorry, you haven't heard?We are the children of the new world.If you're quiet you can watch if you...
- Sylvia
You look just like Sylvia:Well you look like her to me -the way she wore her hair then.Oh, he way she used to be.I've not seen her for a long timethough I've heard she's still around.Her father's living with some...
- Party Hard
I used to try very hard to make friends with everyone on the planet.I've seen you havin' it, havin' it yeahbut now you've just had it.Entertainment can sometimes be hardwhen the thing that you loveis the same thing...
- A Little Soul
Hey man,how come you treat your woman so bad?That's not the way you do it.No no no you shouldn't do it like that.I could show you how to do it right.I used to practice every night on my wife, now she's gone.Yeah,...
- Dishes
I am not Jesus though I have the same initials -I am the man who stays home and does the dishes.And how was your day? Is that woman still trying to do your head in?A man told me to beware of 33.He said,"It was not an...
- This Is Hardcore
You are hardcore, you make me hard.You name the drama and I'll play the part.It seems I saw you in some teenage wet dream.I like your get-up if you know what I mean.I want it bad.I want it now.Oh can't you see I'm...
- The Fear
This is our "Music from A Bachelors Den" -the sound of loneliness turned up to ten.A horror soundtrack from a stagnant water-bedAnd it sounds just like this.This is the sound of someone losing the plot -making out...
- Glory Days
Come and play the tunes of glory -raise your voice in celebrationof the days that we have wasted in the cafein the station.And learn the meaning of existence in fortnightly instalments.Come share this golden age with...
- Like A Friend
Don't bother saying you're sorry.Why don't you come in?Smoke all my cigarettes - againe.Every time I get no further.How long has it been?Come on in now,Wipe your feet on my dreams.You take up my time,Like some cheap...
- Babies
Well it happened years ago,when you lived on Stanhope Road.We listened to your sister,when she came home from school,cos she was two years older,and she had boys in her room.We listened outside and heard...
- Have You Seen Her Lately?
First you let him in your bed.Now he's moved inside your head.And he directs all the dreams you are dreaming.I saw a friend of yours today,she called me over just to say,"I dunno if you've seen her lately but God...
- She's A Lady
Are you trying to put me on?I turned around and it was gone.Did I leave it in your car?On a table in a bar?Or in your bed between the sheets?The places where we used to meet.Wherever love has gone I need to know. Cos...
- Lipgloss
No wonder you're looking thin,when all that you live on is lipgloss and cigarettes.And scraps at the end of the day when he's given the rest,to someone with long black hair.All those nights up making such a mess of...
- Acrylic Afternoons
I fell asleep on your sofa,and had a dream about a small child,in dungarees,who caught his hands in the doors of the Paris metro.Then my face cracked open and you were there,you were there dressed in green,saying...
- Joyriders
We like driving on a Saturday night,past the Leisure Centre, left at the lights.We don't look for trouble,but if it comes we don't run.Looking out for trouble,is what we call fun.Hey you, you in the Jesus...
- Do You Remember The First Time?
You say you've got to go homecos he's sitting on his own again this evening.I know you're gonna let him bore your pants off again.Oh God, it's half past eight,you'll be late.You say you've never been sure,though it...
- David's Last Summer
We made our way slowly down the path that led to the stream,swaying slightly, drunk on the sun, I suppose. It was a real summer's day.The air humming with heat whilst the trees beckoned us into their cool green...
- Happy Endings
Well, imagine it's a film and you're the starand pretty soon we're coming to the partwhere you realise that you should give your heart,oh, give your heart to me.And now the orchestra begins to make a sound,that goes...
- Someone Like The Moon
She likes to watch the moon,as it travels through the sky,cos she's heard that it's romantic,though she really can't see why.Someone should have helped her through the day.Someone like the moon.So she drinks a cup of...
- Razzmatazz
The trouble with your brother, he's always sleeping with your motherAnd I know that your sister missed her time again this monthAm I talking too fast or are you just playing dumb?If you want I can write it downIt...
- Pink Glove
You'd better watch what you're wearing,if you want him to come round and see you tonight.He doesn't care what it looks like,just as long as it's pink and it's tight.Oooh, so what should you do?Should you stop being...
- Looking For Life
Sure you had something to hideI took your bag and looked insideI was looking for lifeNothing inside but memoriesthe same as those I keep with meI'm still looking for lifeYes I'm looking for lifeYes I'm looking for...
- In Many Ways
Heyyou're treading on my lifeYou're leaving marks, but that's alrightIn a year or so, I'll look back and I'll smile These things last only for a whileIn many waysthis is a waste of timewhat will become of it all?I...
- Love Love
I thought so long and suddenly I realisedI love loveI thought so long and suddenly I realisedI love loveAm I loving the girlor the feeling I feel?Is it just the idea that I likeor is it for real?I recall a special...
- Joking Aside
I hate to complain, you know, but then againI cannot pretend nothing's wrongLooking at my present situation, the act cannot last for longViewed from outside these pursuits I might tryseem possessed of a certain...
- Boats And Trains
Would you like to hearabout the things I fear?About my life, and loves too?Well why should I tell you?If I told you a secretyou'd be sure to leak itYou couldn't keep it insideno matter how hard you triedOn boats and...
- This House Is Condemned
He's in a roomHe sees the floorHe sees the wallHe sees the roofHe sees the doorIt's nine thirty-eightSo he goes up to the doorand he finds himself in another roomidentical to the one beforeThe clock still reads nine...
- Wishful Thinking
When I was with this girl last nightshe held me tight; it turned me onThe moon was dark and those clothes were tighther perfume strong; it turned me onFleeting moments touched in the nightthen so strong but banished...
- Countdown
Oh I was seventeen,when I heard the countdown start, it started slowly,and I thought it was my heart but then I realised,that this time it was for real there was no place to hide,I had to go out and feel,but there was...
- Master Of Universe
I am the master of this universeand I've got so big it hurtsRaise your eyes and graze your knees oh for your master is displeasedbecause you dared to doubt his wordhis polished surface dulls and cracksYour bitter...
- Cocaine Socialism
I thought that you were joking,when you said "I want to see you,to discuss your contribution,to the future of our nations heart and soul","Six o'clock my place Whitehall",but I arrived just after seven,but you said...
- Blue Girls
The blue girls that bake in the sunSkin falls in flakes from each oneLike leaves from autumn treesthey float upon the breezeThese girls you have lovedare slowly decayingAhDrying out in the sunbefore your eyesWild...
- Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)
You're just alittle girl (with blue eyes)Everybody looks at you(well, it's your day)and you'restepping from the black carbut you'll be getting back in soon(and on your way)Little girl (with blue eyes)there's a hole in...
- Don't You Want Me Anymore?
On the night that I was leaving, the moon rose in the sky. As I came, to fetch my suitcase,and then you began to cry.I've never seen you look so ugly as the way you did that night.That night was eighteen months...
- Death II
Oh now the lonely nights begin,and there is nowhere left to go,but watch my spirit melt away,down at the D-I-S-C-O.I must have died a thousand times,The next day, I was still alive.And I still believe in you,Yes I...
- They Suffocate At Night
His body loved herhis mind was set on other thingsKeep your face out of sight and your thoughts to yourselfAnd this went on for several nightsfestering in silence, growing in the dark and this they saw as loveLoveSo...
- My Legendary Girlfriend
You know sometimes...when we're lying together...and I know you're asleep...I can hear the soft sound of your breathing...so I get up...and I go to the window...Outside...I can see all the houses...curtains shut tight...
- Death Goes To The Disco
Tonight's the nightOpen your door and I'll come inside Don't be afraid, it will be alrightI will change your whole life tonightand you're so beautiful too beautiful for this dead-end worldI'm taking you to a better...
- 97 Lovers
Ninety-seven loverstwisted out of shape and just one kisscould set them straightNinety-seven loverstwisted out of shapeand just one kisscould set them straightI know a womanwith a picture of Roger Moorein a short...
- Don't You Know
There's not much time for talking,all your friends aregoing to walk away.If there was time for talkingall too soon you'd be lost for things to say.Don't you know she could break you, every bone that's inside of...
- Is This House?
Is this house?Is this house?Is this house?etc etc etc
- Love Is Blind
Give me the city. Give me the sea.Give to me everything I need.The future is shining like a giant metal beast.It shines so bright tonight, with its legs open wideAnd love is blind.Falls in love with itself again, like...
- Dogs Are Everywhere
Dogs are everywherealmost everywherethat I goThey have too much and then They have too much againand then moreThey leave their scent behind themeverywhere they goOh dogs are everywherethat I goOh dogs are...
- She's Dead
She's dying everybody came to see She's falling and I know I'll never see her face again And I don't really know just why she's leaving All she ever said was she just had to go And I watch her as she walks away from...
- My Lighthouse
Come up to my lighthouse for I have something I wish to sayIt can wait for a moment; well in factit can wait all dayI just wanted to bring you up here so you could have the chance to seethe beauty of this situation...
- Being Followed Home
I'm being followed home,I'm being followed home,I don't know what for, I don't know by whom.The smell of your dress,a face in the rain,the pavement shines wetin focus again.Oh...oh...oh...oh.In a dead seaside townI...
- I Want You
Hey,you can look, you can look just like anyone elseif that's what you want to do.I,I could laugh,I could laugh in your face if I wantoh, but I'm not going to.When we met last week on Saturday,I couldn't make a...
- Blue Glow
So late looking up at your windowas it bathes me in yourblue midnight glowI wonder why you're not sleepingand I wonderif you could knowTonightmake it tonightTonightmake it tonightCrouched down by a bush at the...
- The Mark Of The Devil
The mark of the devil is upon youYour look is no happier than mine Damnation is waiting in the mirror but you shouldn't mindTheir legs start a feeling in your stomachTheir eyes knock you backwards with a glanceYour...
- Down By The River
Take me down,to the river,where I would not go before.Through the trees and the rushes,to a place we both know.And I'm feeling much younger,as I kneel on the ground,Dip my toe in the water,of the river where I watched...
- Sunrise
I used to hate the sun because it shone on everything I'd done. Made me feel that all that I had done was overfill the ashtray of my life. All my achievements in days of yore range from pathetic to piss-poor, but all...
- Wickerman
Just behind the station, before you reach the traffic island, a river runs thru' a concrete channel. I took you there once; I think it was after the Leadmill. The water was dirty & smelt of industrialisationLittle...
- The Birds In Your Garden
It's six o'clock, the birds are singing. I'm wide awake whilst you're still fast asleep. I went outside, into your garden. The sun was bright & the air was cool And as I stood there listeningWell the birds in your...
- I Love Life
Here comes your bedtime story: Mum & Dad have sentenced you to life. Don't think twice; it's the only reason I'm alive. I feel alright as long as I don't forget to breathe. Breathe in, breathe in, breathe out. Look at...
- Bob Lind (The Only Way Is Down)
When you think you're treading water, but you're just learning how to drown. And a song comes on the radio telling you that "The Only Way is Down". You're out of luck, you're out of time, get out of here. Your lover...
- The Trees
I took an air-rifle, shot a magpie to the ground & it died without a sound. Your skin so pale against the fallen Autumn leaves & no-one saw us but the trees. Yeah, the trees, those useless trees produce the air that I...
- The Night That Minnie Timperley Died
"There's a light that shines on everything & everyone. And it shines so bright - brighter even than the sun". That's what Minnie thinks as she walks to meet her brother, who is nearly two years older, on a Saturday...
- Weeds II (The Origin Of The Species)
This is the true story of the weeds: the origin of the species.A story of cultivation, exploitation, civilization. Found flowering on wasteland unnoticed, unofficial, accidental. A cutting was taken but weeds do not...
- Weeds
We came across the North Sea with our carriers on our kneesWound up in some holding camp somewhere outside Leeds. Because we do not care to fight, my friends - we are the weeds. Because we got no homes they call us...
- Bad Cover Version
The word's on the street; you've found someone newIf he looks nothing like meI'm so happy for youI heard an old girlfriendHas turned to the churchShe's trying to replace meBut it'll never workCos every touch reminds...
- Roadkill
The feel of my armAround your waistThe pale blue nightdress that you woreOhYour hair in braidsYour sailor topThe things I don't see any moreNo, noYou lost your suitcaseIn my hotel roomA subway token from your MumThe...
- Manon
ManonManonkeeps a corpse in his homeManonManon picks the flesh from her bonesManonManonManonManonhard and white as a stoneManonManonsits alone, all aloneManonManonManonOh, Manon ManonManonleave her body...
- Simultaneous
Oh, there's a place for youYou'd better stay in itA place for everythingand of course all you can do is talk about itOh, you've got it allYes you've got it allYes you've got it all You've got it allIt let you downNow...
- Aborigine
Starts so slowly, just a place to stay Somewhere warm where they can spend their daysAir is stagnant and he feels uncleanHair hangs greasy and he smells obsceneSomething's happened and it's not so goodbroken bottles...
- Goodnight
Now it's coming to the end of the evening The time when the ceiling sways and objects jerk out of placeYour eyelids heavy, you make your way down the yellow streetspast rows and rows of housescurtains drawn tight...
- Tunnel
The tenth of July, 1985Don't ask stupid questionsI had nothing to do I was boredI had, I had notFifteen weeks since the light has goneFifteen weeks with the same shirt onA thousand bodies stink and sweatand somebody's...
- The Will To Power
Walking from the scene of some humiliation feeling like a dog.Walking from the scene of some romantic triumph feeling like God.Walk towards the small town lights, felt brighter than the lot of them,can have anything,...
- Last Day Of The Miners' Strike
Kids are spitting on the Town Hall stepsand frightening old ladies,I dreampt that I was living back in the mid 1980's.People marching, people shouting,people wearing pastel leather.The future's ours for the taking...
- Separations
As the sun shines down on the land,so her heart is crying for love.And there is no-one there,no-one to hear her voice.And she will sleep alone again tonight.Now the moon is high in the sky.In her room she calls out...
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