AWAY

We're in love,let's be together
happy times or heavy weather
Mother says, "today's a special day"
So let's not fight, o.k....yeah

When you were at school you were a honey
The boys all loved you, you loved the money
The boys would stare, you'd cross your legs
And then you'd toss your hair

A Way
Yes you get by
A Way

Money's scarce, but family honor
Brings it home brings it home
And down the shop, the tongues they snicker
TV dinners, beer and liquor...oh yeah

Skeletons fall out of cupboards
Curtains drawn fall open to allow
The light shows up the dust
That plays around your face

(CHORUS)

Innocence and lies don't make a perfect match
Leave your door unlatched
I know a word can be untrue
And yet still move you

All the time they bring their friends 'round
Dress you up, show you up
And all the time they told you it was true
Well I'll believe you now

But then I just don't know I
Think I have to reconsider, yeah
I know when she got married
She looked fine in white and lacy frills
Oh yeah, she had a baby
It was painful, it was worth it
And all the time they stuck the knife in
Pulled it up and twist it around

(CHORUS 2x)

Well that's fine....fine....fine

BOOKS ON THE BONFIRE

Here we go, doing nothing again
You can come if you like
But please don't bring your friends

Action man's gone to the cleaners
Barbie is working the streets
They took her in, with a handful of sweets

What can you do, what can you say?
The give me disease on the medium wave

I've got things to do, people to see
I've got no time, please don't bother me

They put all the books on the bonfire
2000 years in a flame
I run like a horse in a fairground
Rewind me and play me again

Once I was a boy, which seems funny to me
Yes I threw my stones, read my books, climbed those trees
What can I say to you mister?
Yes, I've been drinking again
You can beat my brains, but don't kiss me again

I've always been like this, since I was young
I'm a truculent bigot, I revel in scum

(CHORUS)

How'd you feel?
I can't use my eyes
What'd you say?
Thanks for my surprise

I wasn't listening, I didn't know
Tell me what happened, where did I go?
I'm pulling my hair, I lay on the floor
The papers aren't funny, not funny no more

(CHORUS)

I wasn't listening, I didn't know
Tell me what happened, where did I go?
I'm pulling my hair, I lay on the floor
The papers aren't funny, not funny no more

I've always been like this, since I was young
I'm a truculent bigot, I revel in scum

You can beat my brains, beat my brains, beat my brains
But don't kiss me again

LINDY'S PARTY

Cold Streets, grey town
Early morning, no one around

Let's steal milk from a closed door
We won't drink it
But that's not what we do it for
Walking around like a runaway kite
These are the days of eternal nights

Say you were laughing at something
When I saw you first time
Such a model, what an actress
I must confess
I never thought that you'd be who you are, do what you do now

Cold streets, grey town
It's bound to get or bring you down

Chorus:
Lindy's party...Lindy's party
We talk about ooarty
Lindy's party

Hey you...Where you been lately
Nothing-ing around in stately style
Well your crew have changed
But they still hang on every word
They worship just the same

They worship just the same
Now you tell me I don't live in the real world
Say I will never understand
Well your hair's still red
You still got the same hands
Who told you you were a country girl
Who told you you were a country girl
Well I know who it was

Say why do you look like you're in pain
Why have your hands become housetrained

Cold streets, grey town
It's bound to get or bring you down

But I remember the way you used to use your eyes
I remember your eyes and your thighs and
The jet black tights you wore underneath your long blue shirt
You bought secondhand to keep you dry on rainy nights
So who told you you were a country girl
Who told you you were a country girl
Star-crossed lovers headed for disaster
You took a lifetime on the morning after

(chorus x2)

HAPPY BOY

Down in the depths
Hidden from sight
My secret identity

And there's a big black dog
Yes a raging canine
Running blind at nothing
Running blind at nothing

Into the valley with a secret sin
Up the stairs with a friend called Jimmy
Walking like ghosts in a sea of tin
Moving it up with a friend called Jimmy

Oh, such a happy boy today
Blew my family clear away
(I'm) going to university
What do you think now?
Such a happy boy today
Listen to the people say,
"Joy of joys, oh happy day"

Look up in the air
There behind a cloud
My dream and desire

And there's a weather man
He's got his cap in his hand
He says he understands
He says he understands

Something happened in the world today
Up the stairs with a friend called Jimmy
I want to live like the folks in the bay
I'm moving it up with a friend called Jimmy

(CHORUS)

Something happened in the world today
Up the stairs with a friend called Jimmy
I want to live like the folks in the bay
I'm moving it up with a friend called Jimmy

(CHORUS)

Such a happy boy today
Such a happy boy today

MARY

All that you want, and all you lost
Running wild through your head
Just another little thing that you think about
Lying in your bed

Little things that remind you
Of the days gone by
Best not to look behind you
Keep your eyes on the sky

I thought she was the goddess
When she walked in through that door
Oh Mary, I thought you wanted more

Mary, don't come down here no more
It all got too much
It's kind of hard to keep yourself from falling
When you're, when you're out of luck

I saw her once at the station
Carrying her guilt in her arms
Ain't it weird how the one's who say they love you
Are the ones that do you harm

I thought she was the goddess
When she walked in through that door
Oh Mary, I thought you wanted more

More than just a passing phase, waning up on high
Oh Mary, I thought that you could fly...you could fly

Mary, Mary, Mary, hail Mary
Mary, Mary, Mary, hail Mary

I thought she was the goddess
When she walked in through that door
Oh Mary, I thought you wanted more

More than just a passing phase, waning up on high
Oh Mary, I thought that you could fly...you could fly

Mary, Mary, Mary, hail Mary
Mary, Mary, Mary, hail Mary

SUNDAY MORNING

I remember when I was young
Feeling sick on Sunday morning
I don't wanna do it anymore

Standing in a line with a dirty mind
Clean it up on Sunday morning
I don't wanna do it anymore

One day a week we turn the cheek (x2)

Oh, how we'd kneel down
Oh, we were so quiet
Never any light there
I don't care, it's not right there

Get up early, do your hair
Sunday best on Sunday morning
I don't wanna see it anymore

Tea and toast in the social hall
We had it all on Sunday morning
I don't wanna see it anymore

We come in fear , to worship here (x2)

(CHORUS)

It's wrong to feel, It's wrong to care
You must not steal, you must not swear

(CHORUS)

I don't wanna do it anymore
I don't wanna see it anymore

T.V. MAN

Wake up, switch on
I eat my breakfast and the picture goes wrong
Give it a slap, give it a jog
I better hurry or I'll miss the epilogue
Ride high without a saddle
Down the rapids on a boat without a paddle
I am the scourge of the high seas
Just you watch 'em running when they hear about me

One two three... hail t.v.
Watching dirty harry made a man of me
Here I stand, t.v. man
I've got all the angels eating out of my hand...
I got the good, bad and ugly traits
But even dirty harry was allowed to make mistakes...

Knock, knock, there's someone at the door
I can't imagine, I can't imagine
I can't imagine what they come around here for...
Could be the rent... or h.p.
Whatever it is they gonna bleed me
I've got no money... nothing to borrow
Just you go away now, don't come back tomorrow

(CHORUS)

It's so hot here under the sun
Just him and me and a couple of six guns
I look at him he looks at me
Out come the guns who will it be...

A FUNNY THING

He turned around
He looked much older
I scuffed the ground
The room got colder

And then he says, "It's a funny thing,
Stranger than fiction"

I looked away
As he reset his face
And began the benediction

I can't stand to look at you, any more
It only takes one like you...there are many more

He would not go
I condescended
I loathed myself
He looked offended

And then he says, that I really am
Such a disgrace

I looked around for a good-sized brick
And pushed it in his face

I can't stand to look at you, any more
It only takes one like you...there are many more
At home like you, tell me are there more?

I don't have to look at you
You put me on the floor
At home like you
Tell me are there more?

I can't stand to look at you, any more
Are there any more like you?
Are there any more?

You won't get me to look at you
You put me on the floor

FOXES

Out in the woods for a breath of fresh air
Picked up a leaf, turned 'round and she was there

So I looked in her eyes, there was too much for me
So I went for a swim, but I fell in the sea

And I saw for a moment in a wrap-around smile
A strange kind of passion with an animal's guile

Inside, outside
Who are you, what are you?
I said, inside, outside
Who are you, what are you?

And I thought I was fine, so I got right inside
Then I had to escape from a born-again rape
And I asked her to dance and she wanted to dance
Then the floor spun around and I felt myself fall

She said, " now we're friends, would you please come to tea?"
So like a lamb, I went to meet the family...family
Well I had to say grace, and I had to say when
At a table of foxes with the manners of men

Well I made my excuses and got up to leave
But they pulled at my arm and they tore at my sleeve

Inside, outside
Who are you, what are you?
I said, inside, outside
Who are you, what are you?

Then she hung on a gate and she whistled a tune
And she said to me soft , " won't you come again soon?"
And I wanted to run, the floor wasn't there
And I started to run, and I felt myself fall...fall...fall

Listen to me...

PLEASE

Please Miss Lolita, don't make me burn my eyes
Please Miss Lolita, don't make me burn my eyes
I've been standing at the stage door
Waiting on my prize
So please Miss Lolita, don't make me burn my eyes

I wait such a long time
I wait such a long time, Please
Don't send me back to the cheap seats

Please Mistress Bacon, don't sell me to your son
Please Mistress Bacon, don't sell me to your son
He's been hanging 'round the cat flap
Waiting for someone
So please Mistress Bacon, don't sell me to you son

I wait such a long time
I wait such a long time, Please

Don't send me out for a bite to eat

Please

Please Mr. Policeman, don't tell me to move along
I've been waiting for years just to hear my song

I wait such a long time
I wait such a long time, Please

Don't send me back to the city streets

MASTER OF THE WORLD

He's the master of the world
With a shotgun and a string of pearls
Says he couldn't care less
Acts just like a princess
Can't tell if he's a boy or a girl

He's the shiny golden one
He's a supermodel's favorite fun
He's brighter than a nova
Romeo in clover
He's finished when you've just begun

I seen him on a comets tail
Waving to me as he sails
Deeper into outer space
He a hyperactive tracer
Planetary racer
He's the finest of the human
Finest of the human race

He's the master of the world
With a shotgun and a string of pearls
He's going to walk to China, jump the Asia Minor
He's bigger than the planet Earth

He's the lord of space and time
And he's talking at the speed of light
Well he's going to the sun
Show him what he's done
And then he's gonna pick a fight...well alright

I seen him on a comets tail
Waving to me as he sails
Deeper into outer space
He a hyperactive tracer
Planetary racer
He's the finest of the human
Finest of the human race

See him fly...don't know why...he's up there in the sky...

He's the master of the world
With a shotgun and a string of pearls
Says he couldn't care less
Married to an heiress
And now he is the Duke of Earl

(CHORUS)

Racing through the stratosphere
Surfing on the atmosphere
A smile as bright as any star
He's an interstellar traveler
Universe unraveler
He's gonna show us who we, gonna show us who we are

He's the master of the world
He's the master of the world
He's the master of it all and all and all
He's the master of the world

SOMEONE'S DAUGHTER

I wish I knew the secret of success
Then I could laugh about it, I could say I couldn't care less
I don't want to wait for the dinner plate (No Way)
Is there any hope for the record plate (Today)
I don't see no sign, I don't see no sign
I just got to get out there and find the thing and make it mine

Can you see her?
Can you see her?
I can see her by the water, looks like someone's daughter
I just want to be with her and talk about it

Oh, here it comes again that old feeling
I've had since I don't know when, don't ask me to explain, no
I'm no different, I'm the same, yes
There was once a time when I knew how to (Do Things)
I just don't care, very debonair (No Strings)
I've had lesson one, I've had lesson one
If you get half of what you want out of this life , you're lucky son

Can you see her?
Can you see her?
I can see her by the water, looks like someone's daughter
I just want to be with her and talk about it

(CHORUS)

GIANTS

Everything looks red
Could the tide be turning?
Voices in my head
Paranoia burning
Paranoia burning

I don't feel safe
Things do not feel roomy
I can't save the waif
Giants they get to me

Turn another page
I take another bride
I don't need to act my age
'Cause god is on my side

Giants they get to me

Lock the door
Live in dread
Giants get you
In your bed

(repeat)

BARROWLANDS

Walking through the barrowlands
I heard and felt the wind
Was it the cold breath of history
A soldier's last gasp, his last sin

Walking through the barrowlands
A field of crows took flight
Or were they dark familiars
Ministers of night

When it gets dark
When it gets cold
When the mist comes on down
When you feel old
When there's no more talk
You will believe bones can walk

Walking through the barrowlands
I heard the distant guns
Or was it the dreadful barrowbrock
About his dismal fun

Walking through the barrowlands
I turned towards the spire
Or was it once the highest height
To which all men could aspire... yes

(CHORUS)

When there's no more talk you will believe bones can walk

WEST OF LONDON TOWN

sounds good...mics sound good...alright

A 1,2,3,4,
I tell ya, one time back in the old west
Now that was the time where everybody knew
Where they going and what they were doing
I just wanted to know if you can still, can still
Get that sound, still get that sound of the old west

Everyone's looking out, looking for something new
There is still one old sound that still rings true
Out there upon the hill, out there upon the plain
You can still hear the cowboys sing again

Everyone knows what's done
Everyone knows that songs must still be sung

If you can see the big sky, if you can hear the call
Maybe you might just be west of London Town
That's London Town

West of London Town
West of London Town
West of London Town
West of London Town
Yippie Yie Yay
Up yer kilt