Tiger Lillies are a three-piece band, formed in 1989 and based in London. They have toured worldwide and won acclaim with their opera Shockheaded Peter Shockheaded Peter (musical) .
Their surreal style has been described as dark, darkly humorous, strangely humorous, Brecht Bertolt Brecht ian, and gypsy Romani people cabaret. They are also notorious for singing controversial songs involving bestiality, prostitution and blasphemy. In... [read more] - Down And Out
Someone is saying that all of these things are nothing and all in your mindWell you see quite clearly except when you're down and then you forget all the timeYou see it clearly, you follow it nearly and understand the...
- War
Strike some medals don't make a fussForget about the two of usWe're off to warDoesn't matter if you agreeYou're hear to kill, you seeWe're off to warOff you go and do your bestStick some bayonets in some chestsWe're...
- Obscene
I took him some flowersPassed pillars and towersThe statue defaced and uncleanAnd though he might lie thereI don't think that you careAnd your graffiti confirms the sceneHis birthday arrivedYou just can't stand...
- Boatman
The boatman sits on his boat by the riverTry as he might, he cannot forgive herAs he watches the corpse turning blueHe laughsThe boatman he sits on his boat by the riverAnother grey corpse he pulls out before...
- Sodsville
Valium glances beneath plastic flowersHeathens and sinners and men of the hourIn *** parlours on bended kneesYou always wanted to pleaseIn SodsvilleIn SodsvilleFishnets, a mini and a barrel of smackSpend half your...
- The Flowers
And you with your insufferable powerBreaking hearts by the hourWe die with the flowersAnd you, a poisonous showerThat breaks as we cowerWe die with the flowersAnd slaves have lost their chainsThink they've lost their...
- Jacky
Jacky, she's a fake whore,She'll obstruct you on your way.And she'll hit you and she'll beat you,Every day.And, Jacky, she's a fake whore,And she's seen better days.She will kick you down the stairway,Every day.And,...
- Normal
Normal the troubleNormal the fearNormal the distressNormal the tearsNormal the yearning when you go awayNormal you want them to stayAnd these tears that run down your faceHide them it's a disgraceNormal your blunting...
- Autumn Leaves
Those autumn leaves go past my window.Those autumn leaves of red and gold.I see your lips those summer kisses,Those sunburned hands I used to hold.Since you went away the nights grow long,And soon I'll yearn old...
- Circle Line
- Repulsion
Vomit stains mixed with bloodSomeone somewhere is in loveRepulsion, repulsionEpileptic's foaming mouthMental sickness burns you outRepulsion, repulsionBrand new shiny diseaseWhich eats you up, a corpse to...
- Prison House Blues
Sitting there in your cellWith your anguish and your hellAnd no cure, no cure for youWhen you're prison house blueFour walls on which you stareNobody loves you, nobody caresNobody's waiting out there for youWhen...
- Wake Up
Vilification of what you saidNow all the roses are almost deadVilification of time's gone byWell, it's funny how we sometimes cryOne day we'll wake upOne day we'll wake upWell, complications along the wayMake our...
- Larger Lout
Sitting in a death house and smiling with a leerHappy, I should say so, hiding every fearAsking you some questions, chance it is untrueTwisted, corrupted and shot blueThey don't love you, Larger LoutAll of your white...
- Your World
You climbed the mountain tops until the pennies droppedIn your worldYou climbed the mountain tops until the pennies droppedIn your worldIn your worldIn your worldYou work a thousand miles if it's in the right styleFor...
- Heroin And Cocaine
Jimmy was just coming out of schoolWhen the drug-dealer cameGive me some of that heroinSome of that cocaineHeroin, heroin and cocaineHeroin, heroin and cocaineHeroin, heroin and cocaineHeroin, heroin and...
- Haunting Me
Haunting meAll you ever did was haunting meWith a shadow of a smile for a whileHaunting meFrom the cradle to senilityWell, I shouldn't lie, should ISentimental violation of another childHaunting meUsing and abusing...
- Open Your Legs
You were seventeen, pretty in the headSent in some photographs, this is what they saidOpen your legsOpen your legsYou wanna be a model, and this could be a startThey're only jealous when they call you a tartOpen your...
- Sense Of Sentiment
Desire and despair and decadenceAll wrapped up in providenceYour misery which you let bleedYour sense of sentimentYou climb the stairs and have no care***cept tomorrow and except despairI wish that I had half your...
- Bones
She sits in the sunlight each morningAnd waits for her memory to fadeIf she tells you she's got a messiahIt's one that she's already madeShe's no longer taking shortcutsIn her village of RomeAnd nobody's homeBy the...
- Despite
Despite imagination being burnt and being blindDespite your price for mercy, well I smile and feel refinedDespite your allegories for love and hate and warI will love you for reasons insecureAnd despite your wish is...
- Tears
Skinheads have all goneEngland's bastard sonsPissed on all those yearsI guess nothing matches tearsNothing matchesNothing matchesYou wore your Union JackAs you knifed me in the backWell I could feel your fearsYes...
- Her Room
People with cigarettes,Singers with violetsSome who have no regretsIn her roomMen with no hairGirls in their underwearBoys who are debonairIn her room, In her roomIn her room, In her roomIn her room, In her roomWhere...
- Lily Marlene
This one's a dodoThis one's a flopThis one's a moronAnd I'm fit to dropCross-fire chatterCaught in the slumsShe's off to her Chelsea HotelHer friend was.out...Another one diedShe felt depressedShe almost criedAnd then...
- Hell
Climbing up the heavenly stairsYou know where you're going when you know whereYou're going to hellYes, you're going to hell.You're going down a hundred eighty degrees,You can see when you can seeYou're going to...
- Crap
there's crap on the records, there's crap on CD,it's got to be crap, it's an industry.this crap makes me angry, this crap makes me sad,cause this crap, yes this crap, yes this crap is so bad.yes this crap (X19) this...
- Jesus
well, you went to your shrink in Brighton,he said there's nothing he could do,you went to the hospital, they hadn't a cure for you.your mother wants you committed and your father, he does too, and you live in an...
- Suicide
(yodelling)I thought I'd try suicide, i thought it might be a laugh.i stuck my head in an oven but the oven wasn't gas.(yodelling)so then I thought I'll take some pills, i bought the wrong ones,all i got was diarrhoea...
- George
George, George, he lost his life did George,I always had a soft spot for the mother of my dad,George,George, George.he knew a good thing did George, the National Front aspiredand George was up for hire, oh George,...
- Ghetto
God holds your hand then, and she is so strong,she's got a hand brake that lasts so long,and God how she loves you when you feel blue.crushed, you're so crushed, you don't know what to do.this world is a ghetto where...
- Smell
I saw the piss running down your leg, I knew that you were not well, I saw the vomit come out of your mouth and I knew that you were in hell. And I love you though you smellI saw you down in Finsbury park, you were...
- Five O'Clock
its our little penthouse, we call it our own,it's got lots of features, a gold plated phoneand it's all that we've got to lower the toneat five o'clock in the morning.it's cock up and shut up, it's right and it's...
- Darkness
darkness the master, darkness the king,open your heart, only darkness it brings,only darkness, darkness.you're a slave, a servant to this thing,you're only messiah, the only thing,only darkness, only darkness.give...
- Beat Me
beat me till I'm black, beat me till I'm blue,i will,I will love you.beat me till I cry, beat me till I die,I will love you.and burn my house to the ground,I will not make a sound.beat me till I bleed, beat me, yes...
- Snakeskin Shoes
split your guts, sing the blues and at parties never mind your Ps and Qs and the pimps, well they all wear snakeskin shoes.Mr. Hammond, at a clip joint, some recordings he wishes to anoint.and the pimps, well they all...
- Social Reject
he puffs and he blows and he wears funny cloths,He wears beads round his neck, his shirts a green checkalcoholically, flair'sgrowls like a bear. pulls on his jamson a doll with no armssocial reject so what do you...
- Swine
I've drunk whiskey, I've drunk gin, to allay, to allay my sins.I've been nasty, I've been unkind, I'm a swine, I'm a swine, I'm a swine.I've drunk Cointreau and Cognac so I could stab you, stab you in the back. I've...
- Whore
you are my whore, you are the one I adore,you are the one that my twisted heart adores,like a dog I will gnaw, like a dog I will paw,you're the one that my twisted heart adores.you are my whore, even now, old and...
- Dribble
your legs ache,your back aches, you dribble down your chin. your steps are like mountains and so you must begin, to gasp and stagger, and dribble down your chin,you dribble, you dribble, you dribble down your chin.the...
- Gypsies
well these gypsies, they are singing in the market in the square, and these gypsies they are singing to a world that doesn't care. these gypsies take you down, these gypsies see the truth, these gypsies, they don't...
- Disease
he isn't deceiving, that's twenty this evening,he's starting to feel rather sick.the cubicle door, well it opens again,he never quite gets used to it.and the drugs in his veins, they don't ease the pain,he started at...
- Larder
she is there, she is there in the larder,preserved for all time for his ardour,she's been dead sixteen months in September,since they burned her coffin to an ember.well, he loved her too much to let her die with the...
- Snip Snip
Conrad's mother said Conrad dearI must go out and leave you here.but mind now, Conrad, what I say,don't suck your thumbs while I'm away.snip! snipthat great tall tailor, he always comesfor naughty boys who suck their...
- Bumhole
in Polynesia the weather is fine,the Frenchies experiment all of the time,we are all full of shit, we know this is true,but when you ain't got a bumhole, you feel blue.bumhole, bumhole, give us a bumhole do.the...
- Pimps, Pushers And Thieves
worked forty years as a stevedore, five hungry mouths to feed, when they grew up you wanted more, they were pimps, pushers and thieves.worked forty years for a pittance of pay and now it's his judgement day, all those...
- Murder
murder is easy, murder is fun, it's better than ***, I always come, I like to stalk those I abuse, I like them to struggle so I can refuse.murder is easy, murder is fun, it's better than ***, I always come. I like to...
- Violet
Violet said she was angry, she said she was angry with me, she said she was coming round my house to murder me. she had a big knife, she wanted to stick it in me.I took out a baseball bat, now it's her that's dead,...
- Shot Your Load
on the dockside, of the portside, that's where they go.to shoot their load, shoot their load.she's got big tits, for all the gits,and she hates them so, as they shoot their load, shoot their load. as you whisper...
- The Tiger Lillie Line
Things are getting hard now, getting hard to find.Your livers piccalilli, your kidneys are unkind.Wake up every morning, you'd lie if you felt fine,Stick you fingers down your throat now, nihilistically...
- Banging In The Nails
I'm crucifying Jesus, banging in the nails,And I am so happy, because old Jesus failed.I'm crucifying Jesus, nail him to the cross,The poor old bastard bleeds to death and I don't give a toss.I'm bang, bang, bang,...
- Heaven To Hell
I thought I'd be happy in heavenI thought it would be swellI thought I'd be happy in heavenIn fact I'm as unhappy as hellThe harps, they all bore meSt. Peter's jokes are a farceThe angels look down their nosesbecause...
- Millionaire
Baby is just a millionaireHe's 'orrible and unkindBaby is just a millionaireand he will rob you blindAnd he'll have you on MondayHe'll have you on TuesdayHe'll have you on Wednesday as wellBaby is just a...
- Slough
1,2,3,2,2,3Well it's grim up northBut it's grimmer than that in SloughI'll sing you a songIf you drop a bomb on SloughDriving about in your car.making another box of Mars BarsIn Slough, Slough.Well the shift-works a...
- Nightingale
Slow death to the nightingaleHis voice would always failIn tenement towersand on railsAnd all of these praising wordsThey all seem so absurd, so absurdYour poverty you declareThe paint blisters on your stairsThe...
- Mortuary
My liver chokes, my kidney's bloatThere goes another yearHeads in pain, down the drainFace the end with fearHeart's been broke, downward slopeMortuary is nearCan't delay the fateful dayThe mortuary is nearYeah, the...
- Reap What You Sow
He's got to have a hobbyHe's got to have a viceIt's just that his hobbyWell, it isn't very nice.He tells you don't tell no-oneOr else you're gonna dieScars them for a lifetimeAnd every night they cryWell both of his...
- Alone With The Moon
Searching for sunlight, there in your room.Trolling for one light, there in the gloomYou dream of a better day, alone with the moon.All things are nothing, there in your tombAll things are nothing, assured is your...
- Roll Up
Tattooed we dance the tango, in a melancholy way,Bearded ladies, muscle men, freaks entering the affray.Crowds come in from the suburbs to observe the perverse,Jimmy the pick-pocket he's on the loose,Mind out and...
- Russians
It's pissing down with rainThe dogs they all do howlJust beneath the surface, the faces all do scowlSelling off an empire, they sell it by the poundThe Russians in the market squareGive him 15 Deutschmarks for an old...
- Decline
Well, the tree it does whitherYou're hands like peaches grow oldYour back bends like a willowWith nobody left now to holdYour dreams, hopes, aspirationsHave all turned to dustYou've nobody left now to talk toAnd...
- Sailors
And the sailors, they sing sad songs,About the sea that eats them whole.And the sailors they sing sad songs,Food for fishes shoals.And the wind it blows inland,And the death you can smell.Smashed on rocks and smashed...
- Pretty Soon
Pretty soon, it will be you judgement dayPretty soon, you will be in decayPretty soon, on a marble slab you'll lieHope some-ones with you when you diePretty soon, you body will be in painEvery muscle and sinew will...
- Arthur
Arthur I love youThough you've got B.O.And you trainers are dirtyand your brains rather slowAnd Arthur I love youThough you read The SunAnd you wear a leisure suitWhen you're having funAnd your not a fascistYou're...
- Terrible
On Mondays murder children, little girls and boysI put my hands around their throats till they don't make a noiseTuesdays torture animals, pluck off small birds wingsWatch them as they bleed to death, then they don't...
- Old Gracefully
The shit-stains on your sheetsShow you've got three more weeksYou won't grow old gracefullyThe skin pulled from your cheeksYou're voice is growing weakYou won't grow old gracefullyAnd I remember whenYou didn't...
- Gypsy Lament
The Nationalists, the Socialists,The Communists, the CapitalistsThey all agree you don't existAnd they all watch as you slash your wristsGypsy lament, Gypsy lamentGypsy lament, Gypsy lamentThey treat you like you're a...
- Crime
My mother was a prostituteMy father was a thiefMy auntie ran a brothelIt gave cheap reliefCrime, crimeCrime doesn't payAnd my sister worked in peep showsCarrots between cheeksMy brother pimped for call girlsFostered...
- Car Crash
Goodbye, English RoseYou hit that concrete pillar hardYou knew you could not winAnd shards of glass have piercedYour organs and your skinYour arteries, your arteries, your arteries were slashedWell I suppose we've all...
- Swing 'em High
The Gigolo, the Gigolo is charging twice the priceTo the priest in holy orders who lives a life of viceHe pleads for mercy, God says noSwing 'em high, swing 'em lowThe old lady's savings time do erodeShe can't pay for...
- Angel
She sang like an angelTo the chattering platesBut your pimp and your pusherYou both thought were greatWell, you earned enough moneyTo pay for your stuffIt's great having brown skinIt doesn't show upYou sang like an...
- Dead Souls
A thousand candles burning, far as the eye can seeA hundred figures stooped to light them endlesslyThe wind like the Grim-reaper, blows the flames awayJust like our lives are blown out every momentDead souls dayThe...
- Rapist
She worked in a brothelFrom the age of 13She never made much moneyHer pimp her purse would cleanShe worked in that brothelAnd in that brothel she was rapedAnd the rapist had HIVThat's what I call a bad breakAnd the...
- Soho Boy
Well, you've always got schoolbooksYou've always got toysYou never go hungry likeSome of the boysBut something is not quite rightIt's not what it seemsSoho's best dressed boyHe doesn't feel cleanFather - no father,...
- Start A Fire
I like burning houses down, and factories as well.I like burning anything, it's the truth I tell.Libraries and museums, both of them have fell,I like burning things, burning things is swell.I would like to start it as...
- Maria
He picks you up, in his car,He opens every orifice and scar.Maria, MariaHe cuts you down, in your primeYou will not wither or decline.Maria, MariaHe tortures you, he holds you downHe beats you black, blue, green and...
- Killer
I could have been a killer, ha-ha-ha-haI could have been a killer, ha-ha-ha-haI could have been a killer, ha-ha-ha-haI could have been a killer, ha-ha-ha-haI could've been a killerWho thought that he was GodMy victims...
- Salvation
And the band play for salvationThe ***ney army tuneAnd a cripple in a wheel chairHe plays the silver spoonsWell, Jesus is their saviourThey fight the good fightThe drummer who plays with themHe goes home and beats...
- Neighbour
Wake up every morningTake a coffee downThen it's in the tube trainIn the rush hour to drownWell, your wife she ***s a neighbourAnd calls you a jerkAnd when you find out you go berserkYou take a poker to herAnd you...
- Bad
I'll pick you up earlyFrom the school gates at 3:30I'll take you down SohoBe ready to Go-GoThe perverts will be readyThe queue it will be steadyI'll charge you 50 percentAnd then I'll charge you for the rentAm I...
- Clown
My whole life it is miseryMy whole life it is griefThe face-paint it just hides my soulMy life is a deceitMy makeup lies redundant nowBetween my canvas wallsThe lip rouge and the face-paintAre no longer on callAnd my...
- Crack Of Doom
And so your life's been a successAnd you have pleasure in excessDon't worry it will all end soonThe crack of doom is coming soonAnd so your future's looking brightAnd you've reached the giddy heightsDon't worry it...
- XYZ
A is for the AngerB is for the BileC is for the Caustic nature of my smileD, E and F are Dread, Envy and FearG and H - the Greed and Hatred I feel through the yearsI is for my IgnoranceJ- my jaundiced viewsK is for...
- Doctors & Nurses
In the boulevards of broken dreamsWhere smiles don't mean a thingDoctors, nurses and your criesThe flicker of your silhouetteAs you smoke your last cigaretteDoctors, nurses and your criesI saw a boy like youDown the...
- Violin Time
Violin time at the port sideAnd the whores say pretty wordsTo an old man who is dyingAnd his cries they do disturbViolin time for the soldierHe curses as you squealAnd he kills you for a reasonPatriotic imbecileViolin...
- Our Hearts
The sweetest word I ever knewShooting into the avenues of our heartsOur heartsThe sweetest word I ever knewShooting into sky of blue and our heartsOur heartsWhy do they come hereWhy are they wiseWhy do they come...
- Crappy
The clowns are jumping in and outThey laugh, they scream, they jump and shoutThe audience think they are so braveto stand up there and misbehaveEscapism that's what we needYou are too miserable indeedWe came to be...
- Fallen Hero
Fallen hero is fighting at the FezFallen hero is loosing, nobody caresAnd they found him deadIn the back of his carShot through the heartUnder cold, blue starsFallen hero, the hero of the pastFallen hero, don't you...
- Thank You
When they pulled me from the wreckageI asked three things to be explainedIs it rainingIs it pouringAnd will I feel much painEveryone was so nice to meI knew there must be a punchlineEveryone was so nice to meI knew...
- Blind Willy
Blind Willy, leads me to your doorBlind Willy, wants you more and more and moreBlind Willy vomits on your floorBlind Willy says you're the one that he adoresBut after he's made his entrance he's quickly at your...
- Gouge My Eyes Out
I won't work in your factoryI won't work on your landAnd I won't obey you any more than I canYour politics disgustingYour system makes me retchThe poor are getting poorerThe weak ones more repressedI won't crawl up...
- Just Because
Just because you're sometimes stupidJust because you're sometimes madJust because you play the idiotJust because you're sometimes madJust because you knew you ought toWhen you never ever wouldDoesn't mean you'll never...
- Way On Down
Pick her up around a quarter to sixAnd don't forget that you love herTake her out half an hour or soAnd then you can drop herWay on down, down, way on downChildren waiting with your wifeAnd the good fairyYou'll be...
- Stitch Me Up
Train running down the trackBlood pouring down my backHere we go, beat me blue and blackThis knife it bears its scarsAnd this heart it beats too hardAnd these memories I will discardWell, it must have been an angelAnd...
- Ealing
Do you ever get a feelingYou should be watching EalingThe heroes of our youth are all thereGeorge and Bill, Alec and WillAll so religiously squareWell, I'm sick of blue denimAmerican venomBut sadly you really don't...
- Sinner
God, I've been a sinnerGod, I know I'm damnedI'm a homo***ual hermaphroditeAnd a dirty old manGod, I've been a sinnerat the Pearly GatesSt Peter slipped it in againHe always comes to lateGod, I've been a sinnerAnd now...
- Suffering
We're in love with our emotionsAnd with sadness they bringWe're in love with hunger, hatredAnd with our sufferingWe could be honestOr we could be trueOr we could be blueWe're in love with the moonbeamsThat...
- Heaven
The people here are happyIn heaven in the skyAnd sometimes when you're sufferingWell, sometimes they do cryIn heaven , in heavenSo throw away your foolish prideIt is no good to cryFor people here are snappyThe people...
- Weird
Well we think you're very braveBreak, you know the rulesThink you're individualeven think you're coolWell you know, you're gonna anger 'emall our customers agree,You see, we're dying to book you, swear solemnlyYou're...
- Promised Land
I don't know why we're singingNobody hearsI don't know why we're happy sometimesWhile we're full of fearThen you take us by the handLead us to the promised landI don't know where we're goingAnd for how many yearsI...
- Weak
I was walking down the streetWith a terrible deceitIn my heartI had lots of precious plansTo find the flamesAnd then departAnd all of these wordsWell, they're just a deceitTo hide what within is weakYour evil has no...
- Jackie's Bar
Why do I, Etyania, insist in adding the song title and artist name here in the lyrics part? I should be spanked, or something.In Jackie's bar, is where the sailors, they all drinkAnd the next day, when it opens,...
- Devil's Child
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHA sailor came to townA little seaside townHe courted there, a country girlTo her heart, he foundWhen she, in love, gave himHer body, and her limbsHe took her...
- Cadavers
The cadavers, they are smelling, down by Elesian fieldsThe water's been corrupted, and people do feel illThe death carts visit, visit your house todayTo take away the loved ones that have passed awayThe plague shows...
- By The Shore
In tattoo parlours by the shore, they do anchors by the scoreNeptune and mermaids, and girls from far awayIn tattoo parlours by the shoreIn *** parlours by the shore, they do sailors by the scoreEven when business...
- Captain Bligh
The whaler goes on, out to seaThe bats are in the belfryCaptain Bligh, harpoon in handCat-o-ninetails every manCaptain Bligh meets his endEaten up by revengeEaten up full of hateGrisly is his fateMoral given, never...
- Fishermen
On the portside, whores are singingWhile the rubbers, they are flingingFrom a night of fornicatingFrom a night of lubricatingFrom a night of fornicatingWith sailors far away While the sun, it is setting, The fishermen...
- Drunken Sailor
Raped a girl, stabbed her brotherKilled her father and her motherLooking now, to ***anotherAliye in the morningBurnt a church down, near the quayThrown some children out to seaHe'll kill you, and he'll kill meAliye...
- Chicago Sunset
In the red Chicago sunsetI could smell his rotting bonesI could smell greed and corruptionThe old corpses gently moanIn the red Chicago sunsetThe cars, they gently droneWhile in cement foundationsLies the victims, now...
- Over You
The angels in the sky well each one watched you die & each one sheds their tears for you.The angels in the sky well each one they do cry & each one they feel sad & blue.Over you over you.God reserves a place a very...
- Danced All Night
We could have danced all night into the morning light in that cheap penny arcadeWe could have danced all night into the morning light in that cheap penny arcadeBut fate is cruel sometimes, Fate is so unkind in the...
- Bearded Lady
He loves the bearded lady she loves the tattooed manthis one he's an acrobat each one of thems damnedJimmy the pickpocket will take you by the handhe'll smile at you politely but your purse it will be damnedA whore...
- Sleep With The Fishes
We sail in a ship and the timbers are weakThrough the storm clouds the rainbows the rainbows we seekWe sail for horizons that one day will endTo sleep with the fishes on that we dependThe storm when it breaks we...
- Cheapest Show
The lion he has got false teeth, the fire eater is a cheatthe exotic dancer is antique.The high-wire artist broke his nose, the dancing bears got gangrened toes,& all the artists need new clothes.Cut price is the...
- Send In The Clowns
Isn't it rich, aren't we a pair.Me all alone on the ground, you in mid-air.Isn't it bliss, don't you approve.One who keeps tearing around, one who can't move.Just when I stopped opening doors,realizing what I wanted...
- Freakshow
Albino dwarfs & dancing bears & midgets with full body hairA girl who has a fishes tail, a boy the body of a snailA man with the head of a bird, a girl who shits bricks as turdsSiamese twins joined at the head, a girl...
- Pretty Lisa
Pretty Lisa's selling candy, selling candy by the barPretty Lisa's working hard to be a high wire starWell her life is just a journey upon a roundaboutEvery thing is very pretty until the ride runs outDashing Tony is...
- Circus Clown
Ice Cream and candy floss, parents with dosh, those were the times I liked bestDancing the tango with my mon amour, better than all of the rest.Children they laugh, children they scream, parents with balloons they all...
- Souvenirs
He's been around the world and much of it was queerHe got a nasty little rash from a brothel in Tangiers.A knife it missed his artery in a harem in AlgiersAnd from a whore in Rotterdam he got Gonorrhoea.Now he works...
- Pall Bearers
The Pall bearers bear the body and the body it is lightThe pall bearers bear the body its food for maggots tonightThe pall bearers bear the body and they bear them with griefThough each one of them is a liar a...
- Moon Over Soho
As the moon shines over Soho,the thieves all settle down,and a corpse is floating downstream,well I wonder, how it drowned.And the moon shines on a bodyand that body oozes blood;is it Macky, with his switchblade,or is...
- Why (Mackie's Childhood Song)
Wwwwwwwwwwhy was my father so nasty?Why did he beat me up?Why did he abuse me daily,threaten my throat to cut?Why did he... beat up my mother,beat up my mother, as well?Why did he make both of our livesinto a living...
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