SUEDE
Suede (1993)
Because we're young Because we're gone We'll take the tide's electric mind Oh yeah, oh yeah We're so young and so gone Let's chase the dragon, oh Because we're young Because we're gone We'll scare the skies with tiger's eyes Oh yeah, oh yeah We're so young... From our home, high in the city Where the skyline stained the snow I fell for a servant who kept me on the boil We're so young and so gone Let's chase the dragon From our home, home (etc.)
Like his dad, you know that he's had Animal nitrate in mind Oh, in your council home he jumped on your bones Now you're taking it time after time Oh, it turns you on, on, now he has gone Oh what turns you on, on, now your animal's gone Well, he said he'd show you his bed And the delights of his chemical smile So in your broken home he broke all of your bones Now you're taking it time after time Oh, it turns you on... What does it take to turn you on? On, now he has gone Now you're over twenty-one, on, now your animal's gone Animal, he was animal, an animal (etc.)
She'll come to her end Locked in a car somewhere with exhaust in her hair What's she called? I dont know She's fucking with a slip of a man while the engine ran And he said she's not dead She's gone away, gone away he said He said she's not dead Just go away, go away he said In the car he couldn't afford They found his made up name on her ankle chain So don't call, don't call her at home She's fucking with a slip of a man while the engine ran And he said she's not dead She's gone away gone away he said He said she's not dead She's gone away, gone away he said Just gone away, gone away he said She's gone away to someone else's bed
Shame on me, well I had the beast you see And if he can take it, I can take him home with me Shame on her, she's a lovely little number And when we go lassoing you get lassoed, all of you If you can take it, I can take it And we're moving, so moving So we are a boy, we are a girl So moving, so moving Shame on the girl, she's got a big black dog in her And while tough kids sing about tough kids she just skins the world We'll never never play the harp, and we'll stick like sick on the stars And if you can take it, I can take these stones from my heart If you can take it, I can take it And we're moving... If you can take it, I can take it, all of me If you can take it, I can take it all (x2)
I was born as a pantomine horse Ugly as the sun when he falls to the floor I was cut from the wreckage one day This is what I get for being that way Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them? Well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend? I was conned by a circus hand Tragic as the son of a superman I would die for the stars she said This is what I get for my beautiful head Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them? Well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend? Ever tired it that way, have you ever tried it that way? Have you ever tried it that way? (etc.)
Won't someone give me a gun? Oh, well it's for my brother Well he writes the line, wrote down my spine It says: “Oh, do you believe in love there?” So slow down, slow down, you're taking me over And so we drown, sir we drown, stop taking me over Won't someone give me some fun? As the skin flies all around us We kiss in his room to a popular tune Oh, real drowners So slow down...
Angel, don't take those sleeping pills You don't need them, though it's just time they kill Angel, give me your sleeping pills You don't need them, give me the time they kill You're a water sign, I'm an air sign Gone gone to Valium, can you get me some? You're a water sign, and I'm an air sign Too siamese to catch the leaves from those trees Angel, don't take those sleeping pills You don't need them, though it's just time they kill You're a water sign, I’m an air sign Pumped up with Valium, could you get me some? You're a water sign, I'm an air sign With sweet FA to do today, with sweet FA to do today Sweet FA, hey-hey... Angel, don't take those sleeping pills
Back where the dogs bark Where still life bleeds the concrete white Try not to go too far inside your mind Back where the cars decide Where the lame star limps an endless mile Have I gone too far inside my mind? Oh, if you were the one Would I even notice now my mind has gone? Oh, if you were the one Would I even notice? Back where the car was parked Where the canine in the A-line stole your time You can only go so far for womankind Oh, if you were the one... You can only go so far (x3) In your mind Does your love only come? Does your love only come? Does he only come in a Volvo? Does he only come? Does your love only come? Does he only come in a Volvo?
Well she's show, showing it off then The glitter in her lovely eyes Show, show, showing it off then And all the people shake their money in time She sells heart, she sells meat Oh dad, she's driving me mad, come see We shake, shake, shake to the trumpet And through the slippery city we ride Skyline swine on the circuit Where all the people shake their money in time She sells heart...
I see you're moving, see you're moving Moving in with her You'll pierce your right ear, pierce your heart there This skinny boy is one of the girls 'Cause around my neck and around her neck hangs everything you are I know you've been inside, but what were you in for? Animal lover, animal lover Animal lover, la-la-la-la-la I see you're moving, see you're moving Like wildlife from the waist But when your name's scratched in on a shiny ring Your waist is my resting place And around my neck and around her neck hangs everything you are I know you've been inside, but what were you in for? Animal lover... (etc.)
See you in your next life When we'll fly away for good Stars in our own car We can drive away from here Far away, so far away Down to Worthing and work there Far away, we'll go far away And flog ice creams ‘til the company's on its knees See you in your next life When we'll fly away for good
Dog Man Star (1994)
Dog man star took a suck on a pill And stabbed a cerebellum with a curious quill Europe, America, Winterland Introducing the band Chic thug stuttered through a stereo dream A fifty knuckle shuffle heavy metal machine The tears of suburbia drowned the land Introducing the band So steal me a savage, subservient son Get him shacked-up, bloodied-up and sucking on a gun I want the style of a woman, the kiss of a man Introducing the band And as the sci-fi lullaby starts to build See them whipping all the women, cracked governments killed Oh let the century die to violent hands Introducing the band
Well the church bells are calling Police cars on fire And as they call you to the eye of the storm All the people say “Stay at home tonight” I say: we are the pigs, we are the swine We are the stars of the firing line And as the smack cracks at your window You wake up with a gun in your mouth Oh, let the nuclear wind blow away my sins And I'll stay at home in my house I say: we are the pigs... But deceit can't save you so We will watch them burn (etc.)
She walks in beauty like the night Discarding her clothes in the plastic flowers Pornographic and tragic in black and white My Marilyn come to my slum for an hour I'm aching to see my heroine I'm aching, been dying for hours and hours She walks in the beauty of a magazine Complicating the boys in the office towers Rafaella or Della the silent dream My Marilyn come to my slum for an hour I'm aching to see my heroine I'm aching, been dying for hours and hours Been dying for hours and hours She walks in beauty like the night Hypnotising the silence with her powers Armageddon is bedding this picture alright My Marilyn come to slum for an hour I'm aching to see my heroine I'm aching, been dying for hours and hours I'm eighteen, and I need my heroines I'm aching, been dying for hours and nobody knows I'm never alone now, now I'm with her With her, with her and nobody knows
There's a song playing on the radio Sky high in the airwaves on the morning show And there's a lifeline slipping as the record plays As I open the blinds in my mind I'm believing that you could stay And oh, if you stay I'll chase the rainblown fields away We'll shine like the morning and sin in the sun Oh, if you stay We'll be the wild ones, running with the dogs today There's a song playing through another wall All we see and believe is the DJ and debts dissolve And it's a shame the plane is leaving on this sunny day ’Cause on you my tattoo will be bleeding and the name will stain And oh, if you stay we'll ride from disguised suburban graves We'll go from the bungalows where the debts still grow each day And oh, if you stay I'll chase the rainblown fears away We'll shine like the morning and sin in the sun Oh, if you stay We'll be the wild ones, running with the dogs today We'll be the wild ones, running with the dogs today
Whiplash caught the silver son Took the film to number one Crashed the car and left us here Broken glass for teenage boys Trapped in steel and celluloid Crashed the car and leave us here And daddy burned a million eyes Dared the dogs to criticise He crashed the car and I was born And daddy turned a million heads Took the teenage dream to bed He crashed the car and left us here With dreams of gasoline drying our eyes Green fields of destiny high in the sky But oh, can you see him? Oh, daddy's speeding Whiplash caught the silver son Killed the sad American Crashed the car and left us here And sorrow turns his eyes to mine Come with me now it's your time Let's crash the car and I'll be born And sorrow breaks the silent day Takes the teenage boys away They crash the cars and leave us here With dreams of gasoline...
Through endless Asia, through the fields of Cathay Or enslaved in pebble-dash grave with a kid on the way If you're far over Africa on the wings of youth Or if you're down in some satellite town and there's nothing you can do Just give me, give me, give me the power And I'll make them bleed Give me, give me, give me the power Although I'm just the common breed You might live in a screen kiss, it's a glamorous dream Or belong to a world that's gone, it's the English disease But give me, give me...
I wake up every day to see her back again Screaming my name through the astral plane And in this catalogue town she takes me down Down through the platinum spires Down through the telephone wires And we shake it around in the underground And like a new generation rise And like all the boys in all the cities I take the poison, take the pity But she and I, we soon discovered We'd take the pills to find each other Oh, but when she is calling here in my head Can you hear her calling and what she has said? Oh, but when she is calling here in my head It's like a new generation calling, can you hear it call? And I'm losing myself, and I’m losing myself to you Losing myself, and I’m losing myself I wake up every day, to find her back again Breeding disease on her hands and knees While the styles turn and the books still burn It's there in the platinum spires It's there in the telephone wires And we spread it around to a techno sound But like a new generation rise ’Cause like all the boys in all the cities I take the poison, take the pity But she and I we soon discover We take the pills to find each other Oh, but when she is calling...
She-rocker, you're wasting your time 'Cause you're only a girl She-rocker sacked the factory line for a chance of a dance in a surreal world She said, come rescue, rescue me from this Hollywood life Come rescue, rescue me from this Hollywood life She-rocker hear the audience scream for the death of the king But a hand-job is all the butchery brings 'Cause fame ain't as easy as him (how sad) Come rescue... Come take this Hollywood life
Lying in my bed, I think of you That song goes through my head, the one we both knew In each line lies another line full of sacred sound But you're outside where the companies dream and the money goes round Lying in my bed, watching my mistakes I listen to the band They said that it could be the two of us The snow might fall and write the lines on the silent page But you're outside making permanent love to the nuclear age Two silhouettes by the cash machine make a lovers dance It's a tango for the lonely wives of the business class Lying in my bed, watching my mistakes I listen to the band Lying in my bed, nothing much to say So I listen to the man He said that it could be the two of us I heard you call from across the city through the stereo sound And so I crawled there sickeningly pretty as the money went round Lying in my head, watching my mistakes I listen to the band And the drums beat in my head, pianos chime the sound In this prison of the house And as the illness comes again, can you hear me through the rain as I listen to the band? As I sing the silent song, mime each lonely word Please listen to the man He said that it could be the two of us Alone but not lonely, you and me Alone but loaded
There was a girl who flew the world from a lonely shore Through southern snow to Heathrow to understand the law There was a boy who loved the noise of the underground He left the coast and overdosed on that London sound I don't care if you're black or blue Me and the stars stay up for you I don't care who's wrong or right And I don't care for the UK tonight So stay, stay And then one day she moved away from those garden walls She left some flowers, he smoked for hours, she understood the law I don't care if you're black or blue... There was a girl who flew the world
I know a girl, she walks the asphalt world She comes to me and I supply her with Ecstasy Sometimes we ride in a taxi to the ends of the city Like big stars in the back seat, like skeletons ever so pretty I know a girl, she walks the asphalt world But where does she go? And what does she do? And how does she feel when she's next to you? And who does she love in time-honoured fur? Is it me or her? I know a girl, she walks the asphalt world She's got a friend, they share mascara, I pretend Sometimes they fly from the covers to the winter of the river For these silent stars of the cinema, it's in the blood stream, it's in the liver I know a girl, she walks the asphalt world But where does she go?... With ice in her blood and a dove in her head Well, how does she feel when she's in your bed? When you're there in her arms and there in her legs Well I'll be in her head 'Cause that's where I go and that's what I do And that's how it feels when the sex turns cruel Yes both of us need her, this is the asphalt world
This still life is all I ever do There by the window, quietly killed for you In this glass house my insect life Crawling the walls under electric lights I'll go into the night, into the night She and I, into the night Is this still life all I'm good for too? There by the window, quietly killed for you And they drive by like insects do They think they don't know me, they hired a car for you To go into the night, into the night She and I, into the night And this still life is all I ever do There by the window, quietly killed for you And this still life is all I ever do But it's still, still life But it's still, still life But it's still, still life
Coming Up (1996)
Oh maybe, maybe it's the clothes we wear The tasteless bracelets and the dye in our hair Maybe it's our kookiness Or maybe, maybe it's our nowhere towns Our nothing places and our cellophane sounds Maybe it's our looseness But we're trash, you and me We're the litter on the breeze, we're the lovers on the streets Just trash, me and you It's in everything we do, it's in everything we do Oh aybe, maybe it's the things we say The words we've heard and the music we play Maybe it's our cheapness Or maybe, maybe it's the times we've had The lazy days and the crazes and the fads Maybe it's our sweetness But we're trash, you and me...
Filmstar, propping up the bar Driving in a car, it looks so easy Filmstar, propping up the bar Driving in a car tonight Filmstar, giving it class Living it fast, it looks so easy Filmstar, giving it class Living it fast tonight What to believe in? It's impossible to say What to believe in when they change your name? Wash your brain, play the game again, yeah, yeah, yeah Filmstar, an elegant sir A terylene shirt, it looks so easy Filmstar, an elegant sir in a terylene shirt tonight Filmstar, propping up the bar Driving in a car, it looks so easy Filmstar, propping up the bar Driving in a car tonight What to believe in?...
Here they come with their make-up on As lovely as the clouds, come and see them Boys and girls, and their mums and their words And their romances and jobs and their sons Barking mad kids, lonely dads Who drug it up to give it some meaning From the raves to the council estates They're reminding us there's things to be done But you and me, all we want to be is lazy You and me, so lazy Here they come, gone 7 AM Getting satellite and Sky, getting cable Bills and Bens and their mums and their friends who just really, really want to be loved Uncle Teds and their legendary vests Helping out around the disabled From the flats and the maisonettes They're reminding us there's things to be done But you and me...
She can walk out anytime Anytime she wants to walk out, that's fine She can walk out anytime Anytime she feels that life has passed her by And when I start my new life I won't touch the ground I'm gonna try hard this time not to touch the ground He can walk out anytime Anytime he wants to walk out, that's fine He can walk out anytime Across the sand, into the sea, into the brine And when I start my new life... So we sold the car and quit the job And shook some hands and wiped the make-up right off And we said our good-byes to the bank Left Seven Sisters for a room in a seaside shack And when I start my new life... It's by the sea we'll breed (x4) Into the sea we'll bleed (x4)
She - Walking like a killer She - Another night, another pillow Nowhere places, nowhere faces, no one wants to see No education, it's the arse of the nation She is bad, she is bored, she is bony, she is She, sh-shaking up the karma She, injecting marijuana Nowhere places, nowhere faces, no one wants to see No education, it's the arse of the nation She is bad, she is bored, she is bony, she is She (x3) Nowhere faces, nowhere places, no one wants to be No stimulation in this privatisation She is bad, she is bored, she is bony, she is she She (etc.)
High on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine Shaking their bits to the hits Drag acts, drug acts, suicides, in your dad's suits you hide Staining his name again Cracked up, stacked up, twenty-two, psycho for sex and glue Lost it to Bostik, yeah Shaved heads, rave heads, on the pill, got too much time to kill Get into bands and gangs Oh, here they come, the beautiful ones The beautiful ones, la-la-la-la Loved up, doved up, hung around, stoned in a lonely town Shaking their meat to the beat High on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine Shaking their bits to the hits Oh, here they come... You don't think about it, you don't do without it Because you're beautiful And if your baby's going crazy That's how you made me, la-la-la-la (x3) La-la, la-la...
She's star-starcrazy, electric-shock-bog-brush-hair Flat on her back in the 80's, in the 90's going nowhere Star-starcrazy, got a kicking transistor inside A heavy metal stutter that brains me And an electric love in her eyes Oh, she don't want education She got nothing to say She got no imagination (so they say) Why does she feel this way? Why does she feel this way? 'Cause she's star-starcrazy, getting stupid on the streets tonight And shaking like a mechanical thing With an electric love in her eyes Oh, she don't want education...
I'm so sorry to hear about the news Don't you worry, I'll buy us a bottle and we'll drink in the petrol fumes I'm so sorry to hear about your world Don't you worry, there's a gap in the fence down by the nature reserve Hey, such a lovely day, such a lovely day Such fun, looking at the lovers in a lay-by with my little one I'm so sorry to hear the news today Don't you worry, there's been a speeding disaster so we'll go to the motorway I'm so sorry to hear about the scene Don't you worry, just put on your trainers and get out of it with me Hey, such a lovely day... We could go dancing, we could go walking We could go shopping, we could keep talking We could go drinking, we could sit thinking We could go speeding, or we could go dreaming, see? Hey, such a lovely day...
And maybe we're just kids who've grown, and maybe not And maybe when we're on our own, we don't have much But oh, we are young and not tired of it Oh, we are young and easily lead Oh, while all the kids getting out of their heads Oh, Class A/Class B, is that the only chemistry? Oh, Class A/Class B, is that the only chemistry between us? And maybe were just Streatham trash, and maybe not And maybe we're just capital flash in a stupid love But oh, we are young and not tired of it...
Today she's been working, she's been talking She's been smoking, it's gonna be alright 'Cause tonight we'll go dancing, we'll go laughing We'll get car sick, and it'll be OK Like everyone says, it'll be alright and ever so nice We're going out tonight, out and about tonight Oh, whatever makes her happy on a Saturday night Oh, whatever makes her happy, whatever makes it alright Today she's been sat there, sat there in a black chair And it'll be okay like everyone says, it'll be alright and ever so nice We're going out tonight, out and about tonight Oh, whatever makes her happy... We'll go to feeak shows and peep shows We'll go to discos, casinos We'll go where people go and let go Oh, whatever makes her happy...
Head Music (1999)
We got a love that's cold as stone We got a love from our violent homes We got a love and it got no name We kiss our love with lips like pain We got a lotta electricity We got a love like AC/DC We got a love and it got no shame We kiss our love with lips like pain I said oh, it's bigger than the universe It's bigger than the universe It's bigger than the two of us Oh, it's bigger than you and me We got a love between us and it's like electricity We got a love like a violent mind We get our love from white white lines We got a love and it got no name We kiss our love with lips like pain We got a love from nowhere town We got a love like electric sounds We got a love and it got no shame We kiss our love with lips like pain Kissing our love with lips like pain I said oh, it's bigger than the universe...
She lives in a house, she's stupid as a mouse And she going where the lights are on She shaking obscene like a fucking machine And she gone-gone-gone She cooking crack giving us heart attack And she living in a kooky show She open your mind for the millionth time And then go-go-go She got everything she needs She got pretty-pretty feet And she got flowers in her hair, yeah-yeah She got savoir faire, yeah-yeah (incomplete)
I feel real now, walking like a woman and talking like a stone age man I feel real now, talking like buddha and doing it again I get kick, I rip it up, kick it up Take it like a teenage tough I feel real, now talking like sugar and shaking that stuff Singing I can't get enough (x2) I feel schizo, every so psycho Kicking at an old tin can I feel real, like a man, like a woman Like a woman, like a man I make dead space, feel like a headcase Take it like a teenage tough I feel real now, watching those wheels And shaking that stuff Singing I can't get enough (x4) I feel real now, walking like a woman And talking like a stone age man I feel real now, talking like buddha And doing it again So give me this and give me that Smother me and give me some of that bad stuff I feel real now, talking like sugar and shaking that stuff Singing I can't get enough (x4)
Watch the early morning sun, drip like blood from the day See the crazy people run, so many games to play See the blue suburban dream under the jet plane sky Sleep away and dream a dream, life is just a lullaby Ah-ah-ah, and everything will flow Ah-ah-ah, you know everything will flow Watch the day begin again, whispering into the night See the crazy people play, hurrying under the light A million cars, a million trains, under the jet plane sky Nothing lost and nothing gained, life is just a lullaby Ah-ah-ah, and everything will flow Ah-ah-ah, I said everything will flow Ah-ah-ah, you know everything will flow The neon lights in the night tonight will say: Everything will flow The stars that shine in the open sky will say: Everything will flow The lovers kissed with an openness will say: Everything will flow The cars parked in the hypermarket know: Everything will flow
All the people in your life say you're down And the strangers in the night say you're down And the loonies on the right say you're down, and you're down And the ambulances sigh that you're down And the traffic speeding by says you're down And the people in your life say you're down, and you're down Hey, you chase the day away Hey, you draw the blinds and blow your mind away And there's a sadness in your style And there's a blankness in your smile And the people in the park say you're down And the strangers in the dark say you're down And the pissheads in the bars say you're down, and you're down And the audiences cry that you're down And the ambulances sigh that you're down And the boyfriends in your life say you're down, and you're down Hey, you chase the day away...
She's the face on the radio She's the body on the morning show She's there shaking it out on the scene And she's the colour of a magazine And she's in fashion, uh-uh-uh (x2) She's employed where the sun don't set And she's the shape of a cigarette And she's the shake of a tambourine And she's the colour of a magazine And she's in fashion, uh-uh-uh (x2) Ah-ah, and if she tells you two is one Then two is one my love Ah-ah, and if she tells you you should know Then you should know my love She is strung out on a TV dream And she's the taste of the gasoline And she's as similar as you can get To the shape of a cigarette And she's in fashion, uh-uh-uh (etc.) (The sunshine will blow my mind) (And the wind blows my brain)
Watching all the women shaking, slimming Walking down the road again Looking at the lovers under covers Come in and let's be friends Watching all the schoolgirls shaking the rules Coming on and having sex Watching all the women shaking, slimming Come in and cash the cheques The suburban girls And they're making noise And they're making eyes at suburban boys Watching all the lovers under cover Watching all the roads that bend Listening to lulu, amazula Come in and let's pretend Watching all the women shaking slimming Walking down the road again Scheming like a schoolboy watching you boy Come in and let's pretend The suburban girls... (etc.)
Lonely skies, empty minds We walk by to the rock and rhyme I said, oh come on do it again City signs, business minds We walk by with head Hi-Fi You know, oh I wanna do it again And we lose it to the music And we lose it to the beat And get stupid, come on lose it 'Cause it all means nothing to me So give me head, give me head Give me head music instead You know, oh is it all in the mind Give me head, give me head Give me head music instead You know, oh yes it's all in the mind Kids get high, cities die We just smile 'cause it's all inside You know, oh yes it's all in the mind So come on, lose it to the music And lose it to the beat And get stupid, come on lose it 'Cause this all means nothing to me Come on come on and Give me head...
I love that deafening, thundering sound That sounds like buildings tumbling down And people wish that they weren't around When we all rock and roll into town We hear those fearful, piercing screams The kind you find on cinema screens And if they're fit to burst at the seams If they could say what all of this means I am, I am the elephant man It is incredible how I can Look just like an elephant, man Just like, just like my elephant fans We love that satisfying, rattling crash The sound of registers full of cash We'll be all over your town like a rash We'll steal your children and smoke all your hash I am, I am the elephant man... I love that deafening, thundering sound The sounds like buildings tumbling down And people wish that they weren't around When we all rock and roll into town I am, I am the elephant man... We are, we are the elephant men Take heed, we'll be stampeding again Look out all of you fairweather friends Because elephants never forget
Slipping through the city sliding train to train Sulking on the subway music in our brains She and me together in the city sounds Me and mona lisa on the underground Hi-Fi in the white city, yeah-yeah Hi-Fi in the white city, yeah-yeah Slipping through the city sliding brain to brain Sulking on the subway listening to the train She and me together speed through space and time Grafitti in our eyes and music in our mind Hi-Fi in the white city, yeah-yeah...
Open up my heart and see what's inside Take a look inside me, inside my mind And you'll see my heart is broken in two 'Cause I've seen the real you Images of violence fill up my mind And you see the silence, feel it inside And you'll see my heart is broken in two 'Cause I've seen the real you So sad we seem, so far we've been She knows the scene, and I see your heart is broken too 'Cause I've seen the real you, seen the real you
Tears on a pillow, eyes on the phone You pour all the love that you keep inside into a song like "He's Gone" And these are the thoughts that you keep inside You smile from your window and stand all alone And pour all the love that you keep inside into the phone, into the phone And like the leaves on the trees, like the Carpenters song Like the planes and the trains and they lives that were young He's gone, and it feels like the words to a song With the style of a widow and the place of your own You pour all the words that you keep inside into the phone and sit alone And these are the thoughts that you keep inside And smile from your window and stand all alone And pour all the love that you keep inside into a song, into a song And like the leaves on the trees, like the Carpenters song Like the planes and the trains and they lives that were young He's gone, and it feels like the words to a song And like the stains on the names of the lives of the young He's gone, and it feels like the words to a song And like the leaves on the trees...
Draw the blinds and watch the show Heard it on the radio Saw it on the news today Heard the lonely people say There's a great big crack in the Union Jack (x2) Another day, another low Another midday TV show I saw it on the news today I heard the lonely people say There's a great big crack in the Union Jack (x2) In the Union Jack
A New Morning (2002)
You say what you want to say Your diamonds are drops of rain Your smile is your credit card And your currency is your love And the morning is for you And the air is free And the birds sing for you And your positivity So you play where you want to play On the main streets where the creeps all pray And you can feel like you're in dynasty And you can be what you want to be And the morning is for you... And the cars crash for you And the sunshine is free And the sirens call you Yes, the morning is for you Yes, the air is free Yes, the world spins for you And your positivity Positivity
It's the way you pick your clothes off the floor It's the way you scratch your skin when you yawn It's the t-shirts that you choose like you're in the Air Force Yeah, the language that you use reacts like chemicals Obsessions in my head, don't connect with my intellect It's called obsession, can you handle it? It's connected to the hip sounds and it moves with the underground It's called obsession, when you're around It's the way you close the doors of my car It's the stupid things you bought with my credit card It's the way you don't read Camus or Brett Easton Ellis Yeah the TCP you use, it stings when we kiss Obsessions in my head... Obsessions is like sex, it's simple and complex It's called obsession, can you handle it? It's connected to the hip sounds and it moves with the underground It's called obsession, when you're around
Stephanie stares at the posters on the wall Tina sits and waits for a telephone call Maxine mixes alcohol with polythene and paint Sylvia stays in bed on her own She can hear the cars outside and wonders where they go And if you call her answer phone She'll get back to you one day And lonely girls, lonely girls fill the world Oh, Julia dreams while she's typing away Jackie kills time while the company pays Tracy still hears 808 ringing in her brain Jane slaps paints on the walls of her home Lydia sings when she thinks she's alone Jean gets drunk and wonders home Through the carparks that eat her change Yeah lonely girls, lonely girls fill the world And they smile through the summer and laugh in the rain And sing through the winter but never show the pain Oh sometimes our lives are not what they seem Sometimes things aren't like they are in lifestyle magazines We see what we want to see in this miracle of clay Where lonely girls, lonely girls fill the world
I see you in my life, I see you on the screen An ascending socialite orbiting the scene And everybody wants you now Everybody wants to be a part of your crowd, ooh Baby it seems sometimes you're lost in TV Lost in a dream (instant sunshine), baby And we wandered through our minds with images and scenes And with animated lives, rehearsing for our dreams Everybody wants it now Everybody wants to be a face in the crowd, ooh Baby it seems sometimes we're lost in TV Trapped in a screen, lost in a scene Lost in TV (instant sunshine), baby Everybody wants it now (sunshine) Everybody wants to be a face in the crowd, ooh Baby it seems sometimes we're lost in TV Lost in a dream (instant sunshine), baby
You belong among the wild flowers Picked at the side of the road You belong among the silent hours and broken telephones You belong among the TV screens With the sound turned down again You belong where there's CCTV Watching you every day Well you, beautiful loser Well you, beautiful lay Well you, beautiful loser I said you're coming down the hard way You belong under electric lights With the hand me down surrounds You belong out in the countryside With your hands deep down in the ground Well you, beautiful loser... Your brain is drip connected to the satellite Your heart is not a part of your brain Aesthetics and inventions, well they pass you by And complicate your day You belong sat on a motorbike Doing 161 in the rain 50cc through the wild life Getting trashed in the slow lane Well you, beautiful loser...
Street life into the night With the syncopated melodies Street life, look left, look right You've got lips from a magazine Cheap sound that comes from the underground Communicates to everyone Street life, it's all right You gets your tips from a popular song It's the beat of the concrete street That you'll love for a million years It's the sound that comes from underground That's got you clapping, got you shaking your rears Street life, ooh-ooh-ooh Street life, step to the mike With your sexual equality Street life, look left, look right You've got the lips from a magazine Cheap sound that comes from the underground is like a bass drum kicking along Street life, sweet life, cheap life It's street life going on and on To the beat of the concrete street You can live for a million years The dumb sound that comes from underground That's got you clapping, got you shaking your rears Street life, ooh-ooh-ooh It's all you know, it's all you see It's all you follow, it's all you believe Move your feet to the concrete beat And you can live for a million years To the sound that comes from underground Clap your hands, get shaking your rears Street life, ooh-ooh-ooh Street life, ooh-ooh-ooh
A strange relationship has started A strange relationship indeed It's like a watercolour forming Between the pages of a dream And it's calling you, it's calling me It's calling everyone to be In a future world with an astrogirl Where one on one is all you need In a future world with an astrogirl One on one is all you need A strange experience has started Between her molecules and me It's like disease between us forming From obsolete technology And it's calling you, it's calling me It's calling everyone to be In a future world with an astrogirl Where one on one is all you need In a future world with an astrogirl The sky goes on and on for you and me The sky goes on and on for you and me The sky goes on and on for you and me In a future world with an astrogirl There'll be no obstacles, you'll see 'Cause we'll be making friends with the supermen Where the sky goes on and on for you and me
Will you be my lover? Will you be the one? Will you be like no other? For how long? Oh yes, I'll be your wild flower Grown through the concrete And born to the backbeat of the stars And yes, I'm just a stupid guy Crushed like a butterfly Dead-eyed at the drive-by in a car And like flies on a windscreen, and like insects in glue We could stick together if you wanted to And yes, I'll be your wild flower...
Sleepy head, get out of bed Big bad world is calling Step in your shoes and catch the news It's another morning Morning, it's morning Morning, it's morning again Rub your eyes as nature sighs The population's yawning Just step in your shoes there's so much to do It's a brand new morning Morning, it's morning Morning, it's morning again And all around this cardboard town, the cops are crawling The sirens scream and break your dreams, it's morning It's morning, it's morning
Is it my imagination or is that a cardboard sky? Is it just this situation that's made me lose my mind? I don't need you to be sorry, I just wanted you to know That this is one hit to the body, one hit to the soul It's one hit to the body that won't show There's a million constellations up in the make-believe sky And a million dead-end situations you could leave behind And the lights and the lorries will show you which way to go And this is one hit to the body... Is it something in the air that you breathe? Is it something in the books that you read? Is it something in the things that you do? Is it something in the words that you use? 'Cause the lights and the lorries will show you where you want to go And this is one hit to the body... Well I don't really need anybody, I just wanted you to know That this is one hit to the body that won't show That won't show
Come out tonight in the puddles Splash some love across the sky Just you and I, bursting bubbles As the sky is about to cry When the rain falls there's magic in our lives When the rain falls we're happy deep inside When the rain falls, it cleans away the corners of our minds When all the world looks like Atlantis And the cars sit rusting in the drives Just step outside and hit the concrete pavement As the rain falls down for you and I When the rain falls the pretty people run When the rain falls the colours cloud the sun When the rain falls we'll sit and watch the children hurry home Rain falls, rain falls, rain falls And when everything is blue or green or green or blue or gray I cross the street to catch the beat of my heart And I watch it all 'cause there's nothing else to do today And I watch it all fall so hard
We sit in silence A marriage license is all you know All you know, all you know We sit and chew gum Watch television, and you know And you know, and you know But there's oceans between us Light years that screen us Oceans that drift away Oceans that fade to grey We sit and rot here Resenting each year, will you go? Will you go? Will you go? We sing the old songs The beat box plays on, and you know And you know, and you know But there's oceans between us Light years that screen us Like oceans we drift away Oceans, we fade to gray Between us there's oceans There's life in slow motion Quietly we drift away Quietly we fade to gray