XTC were a New Wave New Wave music band from Swindon, England, active between 1976 and 2005. Though the band enjoyed some significant chart success, including the UK hits "Making Plans for Nigel" (1979) and "Senses Working Overtime" (1982), they are better known for their long-standing critical success than for making hit records. [read more] - Life Is Good In The Greenhouse
Everybody lives somewhere Mud hut or igloo But what I got is the hottest spot And it's away from you Everybody says something Truth lies or both But dear all your hot air Don't encourage my growth Do you wonder why I...
- Super-Tuff
In the car park In the lamplight Go for a walk Clock him shiv-fight Sodium-a-shine on All the faces white now And he got his Docs on Bottle out all right now As you might say Him super-tuff In the corner In the cold...
- Crowded Room
Across a crowded room I first set eyes on you My vision was impaired Obstructed out of view By those - faces in a crowded room them - bodies in a crowded room their - breathing in a crowded room and their - pushing me...
- Battery Brides (Andy Paints Brian)
Battery brides, ha ha have you ever tried To break out of your waiting room And find yourself a waiting groom Ba ba ba ba battery brides Ba ba ba ba battery brides She left school with a million others And worked in a...
- Jumping In Gomorrah
J.U.M.P.I.N.G. jumping in Gomorrah, I'm religion free J.U.M.P.I.N.G. jumping in Gomorrah, I'm religion free Bring your horn of plenty Gold calves, if you got 'em We'll get stuck in history All aboard for Sodom, Bring...
- Red
You better watch your tape boys It's the tint that angers the beast Got their sails in the sunset they've already got the east Red red red Don't you let them make you Don't let them make you see ... red You better...
- Beatown
B E A T O W N I spoke to your boss this morning He asked why you weren't home? I said sir they left without warning You won't even get them on the telephone They're in Beatown, it's a capital city and all roads lead...
- Buzzcity Talking
What makes you wander far Don't know who you are Now if the vibe is right I'll go out tonight Cause it's Buzzcity talking it's Buzzcity talking Go and find a late night bar If I'm not back, leave the door ajar It's...
- My Weapon
I dunno wot she got I dunno wot she got I dunno what she got but it seems to have a grip upon me No telling where she learn the things she do to me And I don't know what she done wrong but I want to hurt her (wanna)...
- I Am The Audience
I am the audience There's no doubt, no consequence I could make the morning papers If I use my capers Let's be the Audience I might lose my patience Polite applause excepted To the ones selected, as the audience... Oh...
- The Rhythm
He makes a beeline for the place Where he gets his only ace Sometimes he's standing in the rain Oh Gene Kelly's hat and cane He has the Rhythm in his head He has the Rhythm, sing! It's chaotic at the bar B & O those...
- Meccanic Dancing (Oh We Go!)
Woolworth beauty Factory beau Arm in arm They must go To the church of dance with the light on low Meccanic dancing oh we go Can't wait until the weekend comes I want to be with all my chums Alcohol is an easy key...
- Deliver Us From The Elements
We can plant a seed And watch it grow Food enough to fill a table Running water down an overflow Eat as much as we are able But would the fruit turn ripe If the rains had never been? Chorus: Oh Lord deliver us from...
- Desert Island
Cast away on a desert islandMe and poor Crusoe are sharing the same fateCast away on a desert islandWith Great Britain written on its name plateWith my umbrella I go walkingThrough all the sands on a building...
- Wonderland
Can't you see Love and affection When it's put In you direction Wrapped in your mysterious wonderland No fast car Can make you grow up Gentlemen You think you've sewn up Locked in your wonderful wonderland No dark...
- Toys
Sindy's spending too much money on clothesKen is going back to*** BobThe Teddy bears swear the neighbourhood's goneSince the moving in of GolliwogRag doll gets beaten up by the Action manThe one with the real life...
- Jump (Love And Swimming Pools)
Scared of love, love and swimming poolsFalling in you said was for foolsBut when you're standing on the edgeYou won't hear me because your blood is singingJump jump go ahead and jump jumpIf it's what your heart is...
- Funk Pop A Roll
Funk pop a roll beats up my soul Oozing like napalm from the speakers and grill Of your radio Into the mouths of babes And across the backs of its willing slaves Funk pop a roll consumes you whole Gulping in your...
- Gold
Looks as if you're dropping mirrors by the grossLooks as if your nine lives have left townWhen you paint in grey and drearEldorado won't appearTo run his sword through all the fears that pull you downAnd it's okay,...
- Me And The Wind
Me and the wind are celebrating your loss Me and the wind are pulling kites and pushing tress Me and the wind are celebrating your loss Me and the wind are feeling freer than air should ever be Should ever be should...
- Love On A Farmboy's Wages
High climbs the summer sun High stands the corn And tonight when my work is done We will borrow your father's carriage We will drink and prepare for marriage Soon my darling, soon my darling Chorus: Shilling for the...
- Beating Of Hearts
Do you know what noise awakes you Every morning from your bed A-coming from the farthest hillside A-coming from inside your head You have heard You have heard the loudest sound In this and every world you can think of...
- Great Fire
Great fire burning You supplied the spark Fores burning spreading through the ark Animals are panicking I'm animal and panicking Your glance a match on the tinderwood You never spoke but I understood Bring water Eyes...
- Ladybird
O ladybird I have heard you wish to walk me through your garden I crave your pardon if I woke you with my thinking Ladybird O ladybird I have heard you wish to walk me through your meadow You'll spread no wings to fly...
- In Loving Memory Of A Name
Boom goes my heart Dancing around your daisies Church bells will start Sat on you reading your ages I drift away In loving memory of a name Covered in moss You may have died for your country Forgotten not lost You're...
- Human Alchemy
An alchemy, human alchemy We stole them from their freedom to be sold To turn their skins of black into the skins Of brightest gold An alchemy , human alchemy We stoked the fires of trade with human coals And made our...
- Science Friction
I look out of my window at night,I see the stars and I'm filled with fright.I have a feeling someone's looking.It ain't the aliens at the foot of my bed,It's more the ale inside my head,I have a feeling something's...
- Set Myself On Fire
Ha Ha Ha Ho Ho Ho Now you see it Now you don't Has no bones To hurt your throat Good and sweet Nice to eat If you like it Just repeat I'll set myself on fire I'll set myself on fire I'll set myself on fire Oh strike...
- Do What You Do
Do what you do what you do ... to me The stars are out and so am I The stars I see ain't in the sky I'm heading for the Twilight Zone Please don't take me home
- Statue Of Liberty
The first time I saw you standing in the water You must have been all of a thousand feet tall Nearly *** - unashamed like Herod's daughter Your love was so big It made New York look small You've been the subject of...
- I'm Bugged
I'm bugged you all look like insects In your brand new sunspecs I'm bugged I'm bugged I drop a little note through my sympathetics door I think I'm going ga ga I just can't take anymore At first I see 'em swarming...
- Heatwave
She likes it hot.She likes a tan,She steals my infra red when I'm gone.Oh no, can it be?We're heading for a heatwave!Oh no, can it be?We're heading for a heatwave!Her hair is bleached like it's been boiled,She browns...
- Dance Band
Watch them go, one two three,I'm so happy and so is she,In a dance band.Show slow, quick quick, slow!Heel to heel and toe to toe!In a dance band.You can do the Bosanova,'Till the night is through.You know***...
- Atom Age
I'm heading into the atom age My contemporary house is all the rage My wife's getting lazy going gadget crazy Wants a pallette shaped coffee table and a matching settee I'm heading into the atom age My kids have gone...
- New Town Animal
I think my watch has bust and so is time I borrowed all my love so nothing's mine There's nothing decent on the TV page Like a new town animal in a furnished cage It's gone eleven and the bar is shut I'm sitting...
- Traffic Light Rock
I'm out and I'm driving,Got my eyes on romance.She says I've got a brand new thingy,Want to show you a dance.I say am I learning it steady,She say Look you're doing it already.It's the traffic light rock.Stop 'n go...
- This Is Pop?
In a milk bar and feeling lost Drinking sodas as cold as frost Someone leans in my direction Quizzing on my juke-box selection What do you call that noise That you put on? This is pop Yeah Yeah This is! On a walkway...
- Spinning Top
I'm like a spinning top Going round and around Well I don't know what's up And I sure don't know what's down Now watch me - I'm like a spinning top Can't tell day from night Well I don't know what's wrong And I sure...
- X Wires
It's the airwaves of the world Not the hairwaves on your head Oh But anything can be On land and in the sea When you've got Crosswires When you've got Crosswires Everything is Buzz Buzz Everything is Beep Beep Strange...
- Neon Shuffle
Hey - what you going to do now You're standing there and wondering how You've got to make some noise Just like one of the girls Or even one of the boys When you do it It ain't no disgrace I can see it written all...
- Radios In Motion
There's a message up in China That they getting in Japan Bouncing off an ocean liner Make em shake em in Siam All the kids are complaining That there's nowhere to go All the kids are complaining That the songs are too...
- Grass
Laying on the grass my heart it flares like fire The way you slap my face just fills me with desire You play hard to get 'Cause you're teacher's pet But when the boats have gone We'll take a tumble excuse for a fumble...
- Big Day
It's your big day, your big day So you want to tie the knot Tie it tight, don't let it rot, the memory of this day Are you deafened by the bells Could be heaven, could be hell In a cell for two Big day come and big...
- Another Satellite
My heart is taken it's not lost in space And I don't want to see your mooney mooney face I say why on earth do you revolve around me Aren't you aware of the gravity Don't need another satellite I'm happy standing on...
- Summer's Cauldron
Drowning here in Summer's Cauldron Under mats of flower lava Please don't pull me out this is how I would want to go Breathing in the boiling butter Fruit of sweating golden Inca Please don't heed my shout I'm relax...
- The Meeting Place
Meet you in the secret place Scuffling in the dirt I wait Whistle will blow, whistle will blow, Share a joke the laugh's on me But when I get you on your own we'll see Someone might hear, someone might hear You're a...
- The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold The man who walked across his heart Who took no compass,...
- Mermaid Smiled
From pools of xylophone clear From caves of memory I saw the children at heart That we once used to be Borne on foaming seahorse herd Compose with trumpeting shell From lines across their hands A song as new as new...
- 1000 Umbrellas
One thousand umbrellas Upturned couldn't catch all the rain That drained out of my head When you said we were Over and over I cried 'Til I floated downstream To a town they call Misery oh oh misery Misery oh oh misery...
- Ballet For A Rainy Day
Orange and lemon Raincoats roll and tumble Together, just liked fruit tipped from a tray Pineapple wet heads Watch new hairdos crumble As scenery sunlight shifts away Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting...
- That's Really Super, Supergirl
I can't hold you down If you want to fly Can't you see I'm all broke up inside Well just you use your two X Ray eyes Hurt like Kryptonite Put me on my knees Now that I've found out just what you're doing With your...
- Sacrificial Bonfire
Fire they cried So evil must die And yields are good So men pull back hoods and smile The scapegoat blood spilled Spittled and grilled it crackled and spat And children grew fat on the meat Change must be earnt...
- Earn Enough For Us
I've been praying all the week through At home, at work and on the bus I've been praying I can keep you And to earn enough for us I can take humiliation And hurtful comments from the boss I'm just praying by the...
- Season Cycle
Season cycle moving round and round Pushing life up from a cold dead ground It's growing green It's growing green, well Darling don't you ever stop to wonder About the clouds about the hail and thunder 'Bout the baby...
- Dying
It frightens me when you come to mind The day you dropped in the shopping line And my heart beats faster when I think of all the signs When they carried you out your mouth was open wide The cat went astray and the dog...
- Complicated Game
I ask myself should I put my finger to the left, no I ask myself should I put my finger to the right, no I say it really doesn't matter where I put my finger Someone else will come along and move it And it's always...
- Making Plans For Nigel
We're only making plans for Nigel We only want what's best for him We're only making plans for Nigel Nigel just needs this helping hand And if young Nigel says he's happy He must be happy He must be happy in his work...
- Ten Feet Tall
Happy I'm floating Around on my feet now You make me go dizzy I'm weak at the knees I feel like I'm walking Round ten feet tall Well you say I'm faking And I say don't worry The way that I bubble There's something in...
- Scissor Man
Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man, Putting end to evil doers games. Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man, Maybe you are in his book of names. Maybe you are in his book of names. So be kind...
- Real By Reel
In this secret time, invading on our privacy Unknowing we mime, we play for the ministry The can film you in bed Or when you take a bath They can tape every cry They can tape every laugh They can turn you around so...
- Day In Day Out
Clock in my head Clock on the wall And the two of them Don't agree at all Friday is heaven, Friday is heaven Day in day out Day in day out Wish you were here On the shop floor And together we could Count the dots on...
- Outside World
She has six swans singing in her sauna So she can't hear what's going on No she can't hear what's going on In the outside world In the outside world In the outside Bad black and white men Standing in their pigpen...
- That Is The Way
Go and speak to your niece (do this do that) Kiss your aunt on the cheek Don't talk back, now run along It's gone eight, say goodnight That's the way that it's done Boy and girl, girl and boy This is how you do it and...
- Roads Girdle The Globe
Am I asleep Or am I fast You every race You first, you last Roads girdle the globe We all safe in your concrete robe Hail mother motor Hail piston rotor Hail wheel Roads girdle the globe Am I tied in Or do I turn Your...
- Limelight
I'm in the limelight No time for sun ray We are the happening This day is our day I'm in the limelight ah ah Big on my block now ah ah I'm in the limelight ah ah I'm in the limelight I'm in love with myself Please...
- Chain Of Command
How bright are the fires of thought In a chain of command How bright is the medical torch When it's put in our hand My microbes and I Can't wait to lay down and die We realise that we must be spent Like the cells that...
- Millions
We smelled your soup on the fire cooking We saw your toys and your pencils looking bright So bright and yet they come from oh so far away We heard your flags and your banners flapping We felt the air from from your...
- Helicopter
Oh heli Oh heli I'm crouching here with a telescope in hand Looking across our lego land I really think it's about time that she came down She a laughing giggly whirlybird She got to be obscene to be obheard I really...
- When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty
When you're near me I have difficulty respirating When you're near me I have difficulty concentrating When you're near me I have difficulty standing upright When you're near me I have difficulty sleeping at night I...
- Yacht Dance
(Andy Partridge)We, we will dance like tiny boats with cotton sails upon the tops of the seas, That would pull us down to the depths and crush us flat if given half a chance. No need to look back to pictures of lost,...
- It's Nearly Africa
(Andy Partridge)Chant your spirit free; Rush to greet truth like a dart Shake your bag o'bones, Shake your bag o'bones. That's not traffic roar, That's a leopard in your heart, Shake your bag o'bones, Shake your bag...
- Leisure
(Andy Partridge)Leisure They taught me how to work, But they can't teach me how to shirk correctly. As you see, Science once again robs us of our jobs. They've put a micro-chip in my place, I hide behind screen of...
- Knuckle Down
(Andy Partridge)Knuckle down, Love his skin, It doesn't matter what colour skin he's locked in, Knuckle down, Knuckle down and love that skin. Knuckle down, Love his race, It doesn't matter if you win or lose a little...
- Runaways
(Colin Moulding)Oh run-a, oh run-a, oh runaways, (Please come home) Oh run-a, oh run-a, oh runaways (Please come home) Daddy hit you in a temper, But he's sorry now, (Please come home) Just a quarrel had with mummy,...
- Ball And Chain
(Colin Moulding)Save us from the ball and chain, Save us from the ball and chain, Save us from the ball and chain, oh yeah, The diggers and the tower cranes, The diggers and the tower cranes. Don't want demolition,...
- Jason And The Argonauts
(Andy Partridge)There may be no golden fleece, But human riches I'll release Oh, my head is spinning like the world and it's filled with beasts I've seen, Let me put my bag down and I'll tell you it all right from the...
- Snowman
(Andy Partridge)It isn't even winter and I'm freezing, freezing, This sort of feeling isn't pleasing, And what I want to know, man, why, oh why, Does she treat me like a snowman? She's been building me, Up quite...
- All Of A Sudden (It's Too Late)
(Andy Partridge)What can I say? Why do we starve a thing thats near extinction? From day to day, These weeds of fear, Are choking our conviction, Life's like a jig-saw, you get the straight bits, But there's something...
- No Thugs In Our House
(Andy Partridge)The insect-headed worker-wife will hang her waspies on the line; The husband burns his paper, sucks his pipe while studying their cushion-floor; His viscous poly-paste breath comes out, Their...
- Fly On The Wall
(Colin Moulding)I am the fly on the wall, My prying eyes are looking through your bottom drawer. I just came flying through your door, You didn't notice that your number had been called. I see the mother who's beating...
- Melt The Guns
(Andy Partridge)Programmes of violence, As entertainment, Brings the disease into your room. We know the germ, Which is man-made in metal, Is really a key to your own tomb. Prevention is better than cure, Bad apples...
- Down In The Cockpit
(Andy Partridge)Man acting like a farmer and, He's treated the woman like a poor cow, We got to treat you better from now, But man is just a baby and, He's needing your milk of kindness. I vow to drink as much as you...
- English Roundabout
(Colin Moulding)People rushing round with no time to spare. I'm so dizzy, I'm neither here nor there. In this traffic jam, I just want to shout, Let me off o' this English roundabout English roundabout And all the the...
- Senses Working Overtime
(Andy Partridge)Hey hey, The clouds are whey, There's straw for the donkeys, And the innocents can all sleep safely, All sleep safely. My, my, Sun is pie, There's fodder for the cannons, And the guilty ones can all...
- I Can't Own Her
And I may as well wish for the moon in handI own this river, I own this townAll of its climbers and its wino's sliding downBut I can't own her and I never will No I can't own her and that's a bitter pillTaken with...
- Your Dictionary
H-A-T-E Is that how you spell love in your dictionary K-I-C-K Pronounced as kind F-U-C-K Is that how you spell friend in your dictionary Black on black A guidebook for the blind Well now that I can see my eyes won't...
- River Of Orchids
Hey! I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus Take a packet of seeds Take yourself out to play I want to see River of Orchids where we had a motorway Push your...
- Greenman
Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman He wants to make you his bride Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman Forever to him you're tied And you know for a million years he has been your lover...
- Knights In Shining Karma
Knights in shining karma Tend your flame And with love for armor They'll remain Ever by your bed Guarding, still sleeping Shield your soul from this rainKnights in shining karma will remain Jealous winter sun... Cold...
- Frivolous Tonight
Let us talk about some trivial things we likeA bit of this and thatLet's chew the fatPour ourselves a glass of stoutAnd let our Rael Brook shirts hang outNothing makes us more contentTo let us wallow in a bit of...
- The Last Balloon
The last balloon is leaving, the last balloon from fearThe last balloon is leaving, form that line right hereClimb aboard, climb aboard you menfolkYou won't need any bombs or knivesClimb aboard, climb aboard you...
- Fruit Nut
Tending my fruit, tending my fruitAh you've got to have a hobbyA man must have a shed to keep him saneSpraying my buds, spraying my budsGot to keep away diseasesI mix the poisons and the wife don't complainSome people...
- Harvest Festival
See the flowers round the altar See the peaches in tins 'neath the headmaster's chair Harvest festival See the two who've been chosen See them walk hand in hand to the front of the hall Harvest festival Harvest...
- I'd Like That
I'd like That if we could cycle down some lane I'd like that if we could ride into the rain No macs, getting wet I'd be your Albert if you'd be Victoria, hah hah We'd laugh because each drop would make me grow up...
- Easter Theatre
Gold sun rolls around Chocolate *** brown Tumble from your arms Like the ground your breasts swell Land awake from sleep Hares will kick and leap Flowers climb erect Smiling from the moist kiss of her rainbow mouth...
- Boarded Up
Boarded upYeah, we're boarded upNailed up shutYeah, we're boarded upMusic venue has had its dayDeath watch beetle band moved in to playGroups don't come down from London wayCos we're boarded upYeah, we're nailed up...
- In Another Life
Well, would you want me, in your afternoonsIf I seduced ya, in your Mills and BoonsWell, I'll be the master if you'll be the mateBut don't you get those headachesIn another lifeI'll bring your milk tray, from a...
- We're All Light
And I won't take from you Don't you know 'bout a zillion years ago Some star sneezed, now they're paging you in reception Don't you know Jack and Jill-ion years ago Some dinosaur dropped the pail when it saw our...
- Playground
I climb up, spending daylight slide down drunken on the other side Some sweet girl, playing my wife, runs off with a boy whose bike she'll ride Playground (it's a playground) Marked by the masters and bruised by the...
- Stupidly Happy
I'm stupidly happy Everything's fine I'm stupidly happy My heart pumping wine I'm stupidly happy With idiot grin I'm stupidly happy You won't catch me in All the birds of the air call your name as they land on my...
- I'm The Man Who Murdered Love
Chorus:I'm the man who murdered loveYeah! What do you think to that?I'm the man who murdered loveYeah! What do you think to that?He was begging on his bended kneeFor me to put him from his miseryHe hadn't worked at...
- You And The Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful
And every morning before I'm awakeI walk around the world to make sure she's alrightAnd every evening 'fore I bolt the doorI give the stars a stir to make sure they will spin all nightFor I see people who will scratch...
- Church Of Women
A lie for a lie, but a truth for the truthChurch of women is made out of milk which their love turns to butter -er -erChurch of women will have you give praise with a laugh, bark and stutter -er -erLike us men like...
- The Wheel And The Maypole
I've got the plow if you've got the furrow I've got the rabbit if you've his burrow hole I've got the pen if you've got the paper Time is but clay I'll see you and the wheel turn You and the wheel turn chorus: And if...
- Standing In For Joe
I'm standing, standing in for JoeJoe called round to ask me, Would I do a favor?While he's gonna be out of townHe says his girl needs company, she gets so restlessWould I keep her safe and sound?Softly, softly in the...
- My Brown Guitar
In my heart, in my heartYou want some lovely, I got some lovelyIn my head, in my headWhere the lions wear the right tie,where the gems roar, there be lovelyYou want some lovely, I got some lovelyIn my bed, in my...
- I Remember The Sun
Hot as golden sand in fields We whiled away the hours I'm thinking of the days we had Enormous super powers Yes I'm sleeping, my mind's on the blink I thought a page, like it's written in ink When I remember distant...
- All You Pretty Girls
Do something for me, boys If I should die at sea, boys Write a little note, boys Set it off afloat, saying Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls Village and city girls by the quayside Bless you, bless you, all...
- The Everyday Story Of Smalltown
Smalltown, snoring under blankets Woken by the clank It's just the milkman's dawn round Smalltown, hiding undercovers The lodgers and the lovers Are asleep 'round Smalltown Shiney grey black snake of bikes He slithers...
- Wake Up!
You put your cleanest dirty shirt on Then you stagger down to meet the dawn You take a ride upon a bus, it's just a fuss You know it keeps you born You get to know a morning face You get to join the human race You get...
- You're The Wish You Are I Had
What was I supposed to do? I turned around with the world and she simply was there My blood ran like ice right through She had your face and your lips And your eyes and your hair You're the wish you are I had You're...
- I Bought Myself A Liarbird
I bought myself a liarbird He came with free drinks just to blur The lies falling out like rain On an average English summer's afternoon I bought myself a new notebook Sharpened my guitar and went to look If this biz...
- Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her
It's raining on the beach She inches close but out of reach The waves look painted on Seagulls screaming The sea is warship grey It whispers ``Fool!'' then slides away Black coastline slumbers on Seagulls screaming...
- Shake You Donkey Up
Here he come again Dress in all that skin Like he was still human being Look at he long ears And he big brown eyes And with them truth he is seeing Isn't it a shame you kicked that girl Isn't it a shame she kicked you...
- This World Over
Ah well, that's this world over Ah well, next one begins Will you smile like any mother As you bathe your brand new twins? Will you sing about the missiles As you dry odd numbered limbs? Ah well, that's this world...
- Train Running Low On Soul Coal
Me train running low on soul coal They push+pull tactics are driving me loco They shouldn't do that no no no They shouldn't do that Me train running low on dream steam They pull me whistle too hard me bound to scream...
- Reign Of Blows
Reign of blows Reign of blows Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds...
- Travels In Nihilon
You've learnt no lessons all that time so cheaply spent there's no youth culture only masks they let you rent Travels, travels in Nihilon we've seen, no Jesus come and gone Fashion, their vampire drapes itself across...
- Rocket From A Bottle
Birds beware, expect me up there me and air are feeling light today jets should hide, I'll fly alongside me and pride are bolted tight today I've been set off by a pretty little girl I'm like a rocket from a bottle...
- Living Through Another Cuba
Living through another Cuba it's 1961 again and we are piggy in the middle while war is polishing his drum and peace plays second fiddle Russia and America are at each other's throats but don't you cry just on your...
- Paper And Iron (Notes And Coins)
Paper, iron, won't buy Eden working for paper and for iron work for the right to keep my tie on working for paper and for iron work for the unicorn and lion I pray the kids aren't starving no chicken for the Sunday...
- Love At First Sight
See the lovers all gone crazy looking for romance it seems many sleepless nights will follow some may lose but some succeed Love at first sight what they want is... love at first sight Make a play of lust intention...
- Towers Of London
Towers of London when they had built you did you watch over the men who fell Towers of London when they had built you Victoria's gem found in somebody's hell Pavements of gold leading to the underground Grenadier...
- No Language In Our Lungs
There is no language in our lungs to tell the world just how we feel no bridge of thought no mental link no letting out just what you think there is no language in our lungs there is no muscle in our tongues to tell...
- Generals And Majors
Generals and Majors ah ah they're never too far from battlefields so glorious out in a world of their own They'll never come down till once again victorious Generals and Majors always seem so unhappy 'less they got a...
- Burning With Optimism's Flames
Never seen her glowing all that bright she's throwing like some aurora from her head it's growing reaching to the ground and all around like a Navajo blanket Never heard her singing now she's gently ringing like...
- Respectable Street
It's in the order of their hedgerows it's in the way their curtains open and close it's in the look they give you down their nose all part of decency's jigsaw I suppose Heard the neighbour slam his car door don't he...
- Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)
I'm enlisting, overseas aid need assisting, help with a maid get the expert, on mademoiselles he could diffuse, any bombshell If I could only be tough like him then I could win my own, small, battle of the ***es Sgt....
- Holly Up On Poppy
Holly up on Poppy Canter never stop She has escaped from the world Where they bake beautiful girls Holly up on Poppy Trotting to the top She talks and banners unfurl Their secrets crayoned in swirls Everyday I Have to...
- My Bird Performs
(Colin Moulding)Fine art never moved my soul No vintage wine designer clothes But my world shakes for me My bird sings sweetly A different kind of tinsel Decorates my tree Yes my bird performs A thousand Cheshire...
- Wrapped In Grey
Some folks see the world as a stone Concrete daubed in dull monotone Your heart is the big box of paints And others, the canvas we're dealt Your heart is the big box of paints How coloured the flowers all smelled As...
- Crocodile
Crocodile No you won't make me jealous That she left me for him Scene one standing Crushed on landing You may have walked out But I'll swallow up my fate Scene two sitting Man in kitchen Bit cold and lifeless like The...
- The Ugly Underneath
First there's the handshake It's so warm that you could bake by it Designed to take attention from their Ugly Underneath Then there's the wedding The co-ordinated bedding And the fairy tale shredding Boy it's Ugly...
- Books Are Burning
Books are burning In the main square, and I saw there The first eating the text Books are burning In the still air And you know where they burn books People are next I believe the printed word should be forgiven...
- Then She Appeared
Then she appeared, apple Venus on a half open shell Then she appeared, the first photograph on Fox Talbot's gel I was a little frightened Flying with my senses heightened Cherubim cheered When she appeared Then she...
- Dear Madam Barnum
I put on a fake smile And start the evening show The public is laughing I guess by now they know So climb from your high horse And pull this freak show down Dear Madam Barnum I resign as clown You said I was the...
- The Smartest Monkeys
Well man created the cardboard box to sleep in it And man converted the newspaper to a blanket Well you have to admit that he's come a long way Since swinging about in the trees We're the smartest monkeys The smartest...
- War Dance
There's an epidemic Stirring passions in young hearts Even the old campaigners Have got it really bad Well we ain't seen nothing like it Since coronation day But when the street parties sound I'm going underground To...
- The Disappointed
The disappointed All shuffle round in circles Their placards look the same With a picture and a name Of the ones who broke their hearts The disappointed All congregate at my house Their voices sob with grief That they...
- That Wave
That wave Pulled me into your eyes Through the greeney grey pebbles And countless cathedrals arriving That wave Lift me into your mouth Turning spires and spittle of pearls To perplex the young diver I flew down to...
- Rook
Rook, Rook Read from your book Who murders who and where is the treasure hid? Crow, Crow Spill all you know Is that my name on the bell? Rook, Rook Gaze in the brook If there's a secret can I be part of it? Crow, Crow...
- Omnibus
Climb up here beside me We can ride and find a friend unfound Put your foot upon the laughing gas And drive your grin around Omnibus, take all of us All of us, take Omnibus Ain't nothing in the world like a white...
- Humble Daisy
Humble Daisy Form a chain to hold all battleships in check Humble Daisy Knit a ladder down to nature's sunken wreck Ragged rug unbound Tangle trip the lovers Royal barge aground Brighter than all of the others on the...
- The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead
Peter Pumpkinhead came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the Vatican what gold's for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees Hooray...
- Bungalow
Bungalow Bungalow By the sea Bungalow In the sea air Climbing rose Time to spare Luxury accommodation traps the sun So we're working every hour that God made So we can fly away Saving it all up for you Bungalow...
- Miniature Sun
I'm 12 o'clock, All daylight hours, I'll warm your bed, I'll grow your flowers. Like I'm a miniature sun. This ball ignited when she told me I was her only one. I'm not the same now. I'm not that plain little boy. I'm...
- Here Comes President Kill Again
Here comes President Kill again, Surrounded by all of his killing men. Telling us who, why, where and when, President Kill wants killing again. Hooray, ring out the bells, King Conscience is dead. Hooray, now back in...
- Garden Of Earthly Delights
Kid, Stay and snip your cord off, Talk and let your mind loose, Can't all think like Chekov, But you'll be O.K. Kid, Is this your first time here? Some can't stand the beauty, So they cut off one ear, But you'll be...
- Pink Thing
Anytime you rise, I'm here, And I'm crazy for you pink thing. You make me want to laugh, You make me want to cry, When I stroke your head I feel a hundred heartbeats high, Pink thing. I want to take you out and show...
- Poor Skeleton Steps Out
Poor skeleton steps out, Dressed up in bad blood, Bad brains, bad thoughts, and others deeds. Poor skeleton no doubt, One of these days, You can cast aside your human, be free. When the cities run with blood, And you...
- Merely A Man
Higher. I'm a king, yes, I'm a head of state. But I'm the kitchen boy who'll wash your dirty plate. I had no message and the message was, We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz. I'm merely a man, And I bring...
- Chalkhills And Children
I'm floating over strange land, It's a soulless, sequined, showbiz moon. I'm floating over strange land, And then stranger still, there's no balloon. But I'm getting higher, Wafted up by fame's fickle fire 'til the......
- The Loving
All around the world, Every boy and every girl, Need the loving. The humble and the great, Even those we think we hate, Need the loving. Soldiers of the Queen, All the hard men that we've seen, Need the loving. Babies...
- King For A Day
Everyone's creeping up to the money god, putting tongues where they didn't ought to be. On stepping stones of human hearts and souls, Into the land of "nothing for free." Well the way that we're living, Is all take...
- Hold Me My Daddy
Hold me my daddy, I never felt lower than dirt on the floor. I say hold me my daddy, I never felt like crying oceans before. If this means war, why are we in it? Might've fired off a couple of rounds, I didn't mean to...
- The Mayor Of Simpleton
Never been near a university, Never took a paper or a learned degree, And some of your friends think that's stupid of me, But it's nothing that I care about. Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun, And of...
- Scarecrow People
Hope you enjoyed your flight, In one of our new straw aeroplanes, You'll find things here are just like what you're used to. There's lots of waste and razor wire, And no one gives a damn about the land, We just stand...
- Cynical Days
Another year's gone by, The world's grown older, Sometimes I heave a sigh, People grow colder. Every day I do my best to show, I can make it in this world I know, But all the bad thoughts that people bring, My faith...
- One Of The Millions
I got so much to say But I'm afraid it'll come out wrong. I'm not akin to the Eighties thing, Where you look after number one. But I won't rock the boat, 'Cause I'm scared what might happen. I won't rock the boat,...
- Across This Antheap
Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers, Nurses, queens and drones. Wish they'd leave my head tonight, Let me rest my bones. (Ziggedy zig zag just look at 'em. Ziggedy zag, hey hey) A billion feet sound just like a...
- Say It
Open up your heart, say the things you want to sayMay be a delicate subject, but say it anywaySay it very soon, when you take your tea and toastDon't leave the house without sayingWhose toast you love the mostCos...
- Are You Receiving Me?
Are you receiving me? You are deceiving me I know, see I know When we're out walking Your mouth ain't where it's supposed to do the talking When we're in kissing Your lips are missing, are they out on loan to someone...
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