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I'm not content to be with you in the daytime.
Girl, I want to be with you all of the time.
The only time I feel alright is by your side.
Girl, I want to be with you all of the time,
All day and all of the night.
All day and all of the night.
All day and all of the night.

How many times have you woken up and prayed for the rain?
How many times have you seen the papers apportion the blame?
Who gets to say, who gets the work and gets to play?
I was always told at school, everybody should get the same


How many times have you been told, if you don't ask you don't get?
How many liars have taken your money, your mother said you shouldn't bet?

See a picturesque decay there
Something for time to tell
See the woman of your dreams there
In a baroque bordello

Swing doors and a blind venetian
Keep her in a walnut shell
Has to rub your eyes to bathe you

I work hard, I'm saving my Marks
Watch what I do when I swim with the sharks
A new race and a new way to race
Feel ashamed as I live a disgrace
Gee, (G.) I'm (M.) living (B.H.) in a bear cage
Gee, (G.) I'm (M.) living (B.H.) in a bear cage
They never told me what was the truth
Just a young man losing his youth

Bitching 'bout the things we've seen
Bitching 'bout the things we'd be
Bitching 'bout the loves we've had
My oh my it wasn't so bad
When we had that to loosen our minds
Hey little baby in the front row, be kind

(bar bitching) Telling you the gospel truth

The Brighton train it goes real soon
My Brighton Belle is in her room
It's burning up time
Burning up time

I wanna burn up while I'm having good times
Don't wanna burn up with other people's bad times
Like a meteor

The enemy has cut down all of the power
London south of the Thames is invaded
Westminster is razed down to the ground
The government has fled
The government has fled
The government has fled for Scotland today

Grey becomes black and white

Dave was from out of town
Manchester's likely too
Had read De Sade to Marx
More read than me and you
Scaffolding pays good bread
It pays for drugs and kicks
Dave only had one love
Had no real need for chicks

Haven't I seen you somewhere around before?
Haven't I seen you somewhere around before?

Bet you're a dead ringer
Bet you're a dead ringer
Bet you're a dead ringer
Bet you're a conkeroonee stringer

Haven't I seen you somewhere around before?
Haven't I seen you somewhere around before?
Bet you're a dead ringer
Bet you're a dead ringer
Bet you're a dead ringer
Bet you're a conkeroonee stringer
Wasn't it you said you was into changing the law?
Wasn't it you said you was into changing the law?

When I saw that Sparta in his eyes
Young death is good
And we decided that to die there
Was no greater love

Hey, little baby!
Don't you lean down low
Your brains exposed

Harry and me we live in a dream
With a friend like him I don't need enemies
I don't know where morning is
It might not come today
That's the trouble when Harry's around
He forces me to play

I should have refused to meet this midnight cheat

Down in the sewer
Picking up quite a lot of empty coca cola cans
And there sure are a lot of them around here

How did I get down here?
Well it's a long story.
I should have stayed down home out on the farm
And kept my tootsies warm instead of freezing them off down here

Duch of the terrace never grew up
I hope she never will
Broken-down TV sits in the corner
Pictures standing still
Standing still
Duch of the terrace knows all her heritage
Says she's Henry's kid
Knows all her history in the family

There is no love inside of me
I gave it to a thousand girls
We build towers of saddened ivory
In our English towns

The dogs they try to possess us
I can hear their anguished cries
They build towers of ivory

What's gonna happen
When the sky turns back?
What will you do
When the sea comes back?

What if there's no way
Of moving back?
What when your face falls apart

I knew she was a feline
She moved with ease and grace
Her green eyes they held mystery

No emotion on her face
She speaks her lips are kissing
The air around her face
I don't always understand her

They crucify you when you get it wrong
When things are fine they put you ahead
They laugh at you with your trousers down
They pick the stones and aim them at your head
When you're alive they won't care what you said
What you deserve and all the blood you bled
It doesn't matter what you try to hide
The sun comes out and then the truth is read

See the little nuclei
Bursting full of information
There's a need to regulate
Bring it down to cells and plasma

Tell you what they're gonna do
Started doing it already
Got to find something new

Didn't have the money round to buy a Morry Thou
Been around and seen a lot to shake me anyhow
Begged and borrowed sometimes I admit I even stole
The worse crime that I ever did was play some rock 'n roll.

But the money's no good
Just get a grip on yourself
But the money's no good

Golden brown texture like sun
Lays me down with my mind she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with golden brown

Every time just like the last
On her ship tied to the mast

Your streets were paved with love
Your skies were blue
Goodbye Toulouse

I walked your streets in fear
I washed your streets with tears
Toulouse

Big girl in the red dress
She's just trying to impress us
And she's got the barley fever
But she doesn't make a sound
She's just hanging around
She's just hanging around

Once I knew a man in love with money
He said it solved his worries and his cares
Then one day
I heard him say
Something I hear everywhere

Once I knew a man in love with power
He bought a uniform and he kept it clean

I feel like a wog people giving me the eyes
But I was born here just like you
I feel like a wog
Got all the dirt shitty jobs
But everybody's got to have something to do with their time

I feel like a wog
I don't wanna go home

I hate you now I always will
And when youre dead Ill hate you still
Ill have my way Ill make you pay
And I dont care if you suffer cause I know that it
will surely make my day

You betrayed my trust you ate my food
You soiled my house, with your falsehood

It's 45 in the shade
This fire can't escape
Losing sleep in my dreams
Coldsweat I'm somewhere in between
Someday soon I'll find the strength to lose
Then I'll find the wisdom of the fool
And make some sense of it all

And if you could see your hand
That would help you understand
All the things that we endured
To be here right now
On the way I lost some dreams
Shattered other people's too
Those remaining are my friends
And they light a trail to you

In this place I call home
There's a place where I'm alone
to speak with you now you're gone
Now the autumn has come
In this place I call home
Even though the leaves have gone
I can speak with you now
And the winter will come

It only takes two to tango
It only takes two to start the dance
You gotta begin with circumstance
It takes two to tango
It only takes two

It only takes two to tango
It only takes two to start the war

Let Me Down Easy
Let Me Down Easy
Let Me Down Easy
Let Me Down Easy
When I rest my weary head
After all my words are said
When my eyelids close with the weight of a hundred years
Please Let Me Down Easy Let Me Down Easy

I love the family
Longer than longevity
Mother tells me what to be
Taller than the tallest tree
I love the family
Sister loves me tenderly
Sitting on my daddy's knee
Let me introduce you to the family

Little lady
With Dingwall's bullshit
You're so stupid
Affected brainwaves
Little lady
What really happens
When you see mirrors
You get the shivers

Woke up on a good day
And the world was wonderful
A midnight summer dream had me in its spell

I dreamt about an old man
Sat and watched the rain all night
He couldn't sleep a wink as all the drops fell

We came acoss the West Sea
We didn't have much idea
Of the kind of climate waiting
We used our hands for guidance
Like the children of a preacher
Like a dry tree seeking water
Or a daughter
Nice 'n' sleazy

Just look at that girl
She knows the world owes her something
And she's alright
Just look at that girl
She knows she's got that something
And she's alright
She's got diamond rings from her dad
She's got fancy things from her dad

We Came Across The West Sea
We Didn't Have Much Idea Of The
Kind Of Climate Waiting
We Used Our Hands For Guidance
Like The Children Of A Preacher
Like A Dry Tree Seeking Water
Or A Daughter
Nice 'N' Sleazy

Every day you're working like a slave
Sweating buckets hoping that you get it right
Will it be as tough tomorrow
Have to wait and see
Life shows no mercy

Every day your love is getting warmer
Just look at her and love her did you get it right

Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky?
He got an ice pick
That made his ears burn

Whatever happened to dear old Lenny?
The great Elmyra, and Sancho Panza?
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?

I saw an orange robe burning
I saw a youth on fire
I saw metal machines that were turning
On a generation that hadn't yet tired
I heard of two generations being murdered
In a Europe that was shrouded in black
I witnessed the birth pains of new nations
When the chosen people finally went back

Somewhere outside Tokyo
Invented time
Someone in a factory
Invented time
If people wanted proof to
Carry on they'd like to buy one

50 million watches with a

Strolling along minding my own business
There goes a girl and a half
She's got me going up and down (x2)
Walking on the beaches looking at the peaches

Well I got the notion girl that
You got some sun tan lotion in that bottle of yours
Spread it all over my peeling skin baby

The day is sticky yellow
The night was so untight
The cows go moo moo moo
Is everything alright?

Baby digit at my face
Who's the man with the smile, mum?
Do you like it like that?

Some days when the air is thick
And the people try to breathe the air
I try to thread the needles eye
And reach across the street to where
The presence on the corner stands
Watches from the corners of their eyes
They need permission
And your submission

She's a centrespread special size of the month
She's the one on the wall
Watched by him she's scared to move
She's very well known only in the one stance
She's the girl that survived over a hundred million glances
She's the pin up
She's always on his mind a technicolor dream
The secret weapon

She's gone and left me
I don't know why
That girl she's crazy
She made me cry
She's gone and left me
I don't know why
Yeah she's the queen of the street
What a piece of meat

The world it gets the final love on us
All of our dreams and all our hopes enough
We need the music to soothe the savage breast
You look inside a thousand lives or two
You know the meaning when she smiles at you
She plays the music to soothe the savage breast
Music to soothe the savage breast

A fine day for the classroom and the pupils are here
Julie's got a headache but the others don't care
Sarah's got to stay behind and help with the drill
Teacher's got his eye on her
Moves in for the kill.
Nobody can see or hear the things that they do
All the books stay closed, there must be something they do
Only teacher knows about the subjects they span - span

Many people tell you that they're your friend
Believe them, you need them for what's round the river bend
Make sure that you're receiving the signals they send
'Cause brother, you've only got two hands to lend

Maybe there's someone who makes you weep
And some nights they loom up ahead when you're asleep
Somedays, there's things on your mind, you should keep

Don't you like the way I move when you see me?
Don't you like the things that I say?
Don't you like the way I seem to enjoy it?
When you shout things but I don't care

Something's happening and it's happening right now
You're too blind to see it
Something's happening and it's happening right now

Someday I'm going to smack your face
Someday I'm going to smack your face
Somebody's going to call your bluff
Somebody's going to treat you rough
Sometimes there is only one way out
I've got to fight

Sometimes I get to feel so mean

I never knew what made me do it
I just remember it was wrong
I've questioned why I put you through it
Who would have thought you'd be so strong
I should have wrapped you up and kept you safe
Instead I turned my back on you

Chorus: You can't deny there's a spectre of love

While standing naked at the window watching the night
The thunder crashing all the lightening and the rain
I wondered if I could or even if I should
Attempt to see you or be with you ever again

Your smile is painted on a thousand faces

Still lying in my mouth still blowing through my hair

The break of day has come, I see the cracks have just begun
To line the walls, line the walls
I want to see the little girls and boys destroy their toys
And line the walls, line the walls
What a fate for little girls
British boys minds in a whirl
Tell you things that'll make your curls
Straighten out, straighten out

one day you see a strange little girl look at you
one day you see a strange little girl feeling blue

she'd run to the town one day
leaving home and the country fair
just beware
when you're there
strange little girl

I can sign for one, two
Or three or four
Get three weeks off in a year or more
Save up and get my very own SLR
'Cause I can drive my very own tank
Yes, I can

Can you see the bullet's high velocity

I don't think things can be (Malfunction malfunctioning)
Pretty or ugly (Malfunction malfunctioning)
All that you can say (Malfunction malfunctioning)
Is if your existence is not threatened in any way (Malfunction malfunctioning)

You are quite safe with me (Malfunction malfunctioning)
I've got my very own philosophy (Malfunction malfunctioning)
All that you can say (Malfunction malfunctioning)

If ever you had counted
The centuries you threw away
And all the lies that you had started
And all the chances thrown away

If I set sail for new horizons
Could I still leave you waiting here
I would chase just one set of chances

I had a woman ship
I took her overseas
She left her hold unlocked
I had to find a dock
I was a toiler on the sea
I was a toiler on the sea

We didn't use cruel words

Takes the time to stay one place
Though his clothes aren't finest lace
Read the lines on a tramp's face
Taking his time just like you just like me
Wandering so fancy free
Searching for love in the call of the wild
Travelling lost like a child
Law has missed him every day

Ray decided to be silly after all
He'd died a 1000 times before in the viet war
So he strapped himself in and he took his chances
Into the valley of the bird, absurd
I don't remember what it was the old man said
I know I' d tempted fate a 1000 times before
So we strapped ourselves in and we took such chances

It's over linger
On nightmares of the waste

The pagan values
A bloodsweet crimson taste

Treasures captured
Pleasures enraptured

if you see me walking down the streets
and i start to cry
each time we meet

walk on by
aahh walk on by
make belive
i can see the tears

Came down on a Monday
Somewhere in the midlands
Tasted man tasted flea
Couldn't tell the difference
Asked around on Tuesday
Got nothing from a tree
The guide had said what talks is red
That's all there is to see