1.A Day Is Far Too Long
On sticks and sand, lost my money, lost my hands
Blood on my brain, too much salt in my veins
And i thought pain was clean
And i thought hearts were strong
But bones aren't sticks anymore
And a day is far too long
So many days never needing any grace
Live for kicks and danger, there'd be beauty anyway
And i thought pain was clean
And i thought hearts were strong
But bones aren't sticks anymore
And a day is far too long x3
2.All Your Life
Put a new shirt on, wash my face in beer
Fall through the crowd, and disappear
In the teenage magazines, and shopping malls
Walk through the wildlife for miles, and miles
Hold my breath and count a hundred and ten
And back up the hill to start again
Watching spiders on the bedroom ceiling
They got big plans, so they're not breathing
Feel the frisson of tomorrow today
I could get up but it won't go away
Do nothing to impress my friends
Just rub my eyes for hours on end
Oh england, my love, you lost me, made me look a fool
I need someone to tell me
Everything'll be alright
I need someone who'll hold me
When the day turns to night
I need someone who loves me
More than you do
Oh we say that's not true
And you and me in line as double bill
Surrogate heroes on tv and films
I've never met anyone like you
I've never done the things you like to do
On the way to heaven in a comedy car
The new stars of melancholia
There's nothing to get angry about
We're too hung over to be bad shout？？？
Oh england, my love, you've tattooed your past all over me
I need someone to tell me
Everything'll be alright
I need someone who'll hold me
When the day turns to night
I need someone who loves me
More than you do
Oh we say that's not true
And you and me in line as double bill
Surrogate heroes and welcome you will
I've got a feeling that nobody's sold
I've got a feeling that i should let myself go, go, go
And days will be like this
All your life
And days will be like this
All your life
And people will always miss
All your life
And people will always miss
All your life
And days will be like this x3
3.Badgeman Brown
This is the voice of someone
Calling from a lonely hill
To the hard of hearing
For those who never will
A long legged someone
Seen walking away from home
Look a vacant dreamer
Walking alone alone
Ways that turn and turn
Which is what we'd learn
As suffering believers
In the book of badgeman brown
They're dropping like flies
In a suburban house
From a lack of anything
Anything to keep their hands in
And the town keeps screaming
From a lonely hill
Another lack of people
Those who never will
Ways that turn and turn
Which i what we'd learn
As suffering believers
In the book of badgeman brown
This is the voice of someone
Calling from a lonely hill
For the hard of hearing
For those who never will
The days will turn and turn
Which is what we'd learn
As average believers
In the book of badgeman brown
4.Badhead
So far i've not really stayed in touch
Well you knew as much it's no surprise that today
I'll get up early too from a lack of anything to do
And i might as well just grin and bear it
Because it's not worth the trouble of an argument
And you have not really stayed in touch
Well i knew as much it's no surprise that today
I get up for round two with nothing to do
Except get a touch of flu
And i might as well grin and bear it
Because it's not worth the trouble of an argument
And in any case i'd rather wear it
It's like a badhead in the morning
And i know
And i might as well grin and bear it
Because it's not worth the trouble of an argument
And in any case i'd rather wear it
It's like a badhead in the morning
(repeat)
5.Dancehall
There are ghosts in herean easy laze
They dance all night
With a vacant gaze
They stand in rows
And buy alcohol
We're having fun at the dancehall
I've got my pills and i've got my toyspin-up girls and pin-up
boys
My lips are frozen to another can
I could kill him, but i just kiss his hand
6.Day Upon Day
Waiting on this empty day
It's just the same as any day
An' although i got nothing to say
I'm going to say it anyway
Day, day upon day, day upon day
Day upon day
Day, day upon day, day upon day
Day upon day
Everybody's here with me
We're in the smallest rooms you see
An' although we got nothing to do
We going to do what do i do
7.Dizzy
I pump poison
Into my body
To forget
That i am me
It feels good
Wonderful
I forget i have feelings at all
You're dizzy
I floated up
Fifteen miles high
Stuck my head through
All the holes in our sky
I looked out across the universe
And thought of you
You're dizzy
And i am dizzy too
I became lunatic
With rolling eyes
Squirming on the ground
Frozen in ice
Called to my mother
Said 'mother, please
Feed me before the sky
Falls in on me'
You're dizzy
8.Es Schmecht
Looking out for number onethe conversation in the dayroom's gone
It's a brutal thought but you thought it
And in the future it'll be the same
Waltzing on an autobahnthere is cause for alarm
It's a neurotic thought but you thought it
And in the future it'll be the same
9.Fried
Oh you are very strange
Sometimes i think you've gone insane
Twisted hearts you've gone insane
In this giddy world
Couldn't you begin to go
Where odd lines we hardly know
Couldn't you put in a goal
Just for me
Did i say i want to know
Talking about a goal
Would you please leave me alone
Can't you see i want to be on my own
Oh i would like to give you your head
Just to see if you are dead
Oh i'd like to get into that pretty head
And it would amuse me to see
How you feel about me
How you feel about always getting fried
Did i say i wan to know
We're talking about a goal
Would you please leave me alone
Can't you see i want to be on my own
Can't you see i want to be on my own
Did i say i wan to know
We're talking about a goal
Would you please leave me alone
Can't you see i want to be on my own
Can't you see i want to be on my own
Oh i'm going to fry
Oh i'm going to fry
Oh i'm going to fry
10.Get Out Of Cities
I got the licence
I got dirty knees
I've been swinging in trees
A paid up member
I've been eating fleas
Running naked in the breeze
Catatonia itch
Catalonia stitch
Oh, i've been running for miles
I start to tingle from my head to my toes
Oh, tomorrow it's a taint on the nose
Hetty hetty hetty hetty oh it's a taint on the nose
Get out of cities, return to the trees, yeah yeahget out of
cities, return to the trees, yeah yeah
Get out of cities, return to the trees, yeah yeah
Get out of cities, return to the trees
She's in a sort ofa capital freeze
Cos the petrol's done a whole lot for me？？？
Catatonia itch
Catalonia stitch
Pray tomorrow is it-chy itchy itch
Go to yourself on your map
Get out of cities, return to the trees, yeah yeahget out of
cities, return to the trees, yeah yeah
Get out of cities, return to the trees, yeah yeah
Get out of cities, return to the trees
Get out of cities, return to the trees, yeah yeah
Get out of cities, return to the trees, yeah yeah
Get out of cities, return to the trees, yeah yeah
Get out of cities, and return to the trees
Get out of cities, return to the trees, yeah yeah
Get out of cities, return to the trees, yeah yeah
Get out of cities, return to the trees, yeah yeah
Get out of cities, and return to the trees
11.Got Yer!
Look at him, grumpy old man
You sour old bed pan
He's gone dropped his fag he's got a fly between his ears
It catches life
And buzzes in my head
It's a long time isn't it
Fumes of life
Who put that bleeding goose in here？
Got yer!
12.Hanging Over
I'm alive
I can breathe the air
I can hurt you
I can float up here
So soft and tingling
You can't touch me
I'm floating away
I woke up
And went down next door
I'm getting up with nothing on my mind
I went down the stairs
With a pain in my head
I should have never got out of bed
Then everything shattered
Just at the point that it mattered (x2)
Aha
I'm alive i can breathe the air
I can hurt you
I can fall down there
Right into your mind
Don't put it around
You can't catch me
And carried away
I woke up, woke up every day
There is noting, nothing to say
Halfway down the stairs
I feel a pain in my chest
I should have never got out of bed
Then everything shattered
Just at the point that it mattered (x2)
Aha
I'm alive, i can breathe the air
I can hurt you
Halfway down the stairs
I get a pain in my chest
I should never got out of bed
I should never ever ever
I should never.
13.Hard + Slow
Treat me hard + slow
Don't let me go
Oooo oooh
Ooooooh
X2
Strip me of my clothes
Kiss hard + slow.
Oooo oooh
Ooooooh
X2
14.I Wish
I wish the music would play by itself
Shredded fingers - no ideas
I wish this rainy day could be the last
Could the world end - what a god send
I wish i could stop wishing you were here
But i don't want to - cos i still want you
I wish i didn't feel so flippin mad
Don't wanna scare you - just wanna love you
I wish my life could last a thousand years
Then i'd be clever - and build a heaven
I wish i could bring nick drake back to life
He'd understand - hold my hat band
I wish a constant stream of happy shit
Live forever - in world of leather
I wish the rain would just leave me alone
I can't wear that - stupid rain hat
I wish i was in californ-i-a
Perno perfurme - in the danube
I wish the thing of love meant just one thing
Cinderella - salmonella
15.I'm All Over
I always knew that there would be someone somewhere
Who had it in for me
I always knew that there would be no-one nowhere
Who was anything like me
I'm all over
All over
All over
I'm the only one
I'm hanging around
Going nowhere
Waiting for it to happen to me
I always knew that there would be no-one nowhere
Who was anything like me
I'm all over
All over
All over
You're the only one
I always knew that there would be someone somewhere
Who had it in for me
I always knew that there would be no-one nowhere
Who was anything like me
I'm all over
All over
All over
You're the only one
16.In A Salty Sea
Long time on the phone line
There's sunshine when i dial 9
Small breaths form words
Like crystals in warm air
And i want you for my very very own
In a salty sea, our voices meet.
X2
17.Inertia
Fear of being left behind
Can take you over
Suddenly you will choke
Maybe it's just a joke
I'm not sure of you
I can't hear you now
There's too much that's going around
You seem a worried fool
So don't think i'm cool
Makes me me unsure
Of you-
Fear of being left alone
Can take you over
Slowly you will choke
And say it's just a joke
I'm not sure--of you
18.Luminous
Don't look at me as
Your only regret what you don't see
You know more than i
So think for me
Think what your not
Ah ah ah ah
Love substitute for the
Never knew who you were
Half your life has been explained
You want the other half
Ah ah ah ah
Don't look at me as though i'm not here
Your only regret what you don't see
Half my life has been explained
19.Mace
Pedalling on a bicycle
I'm on my way to make a call
I try to touch you
Through the double glazing
But the curtains were drawn
The family gone away
Who is to know
But now you don't
No-one can see
When they get mace in their eyes
They're papering the walls
And the windows
No light in here
In or out
The heating's on
And i'm feeling drowsy
I fall asleep
And dream of burning down the house
I'm pedalling on a bicycle
I'm on my way to make a call
The sun is out
And i'm feeling drowsy
I fall asleep
And dream of burning down the house
20.Maggie May
Wake up maggie
I think i've got something to say to you
It's late september
And i really should be back at school
I know i keep you amused
But i feel i'm being used
O maggie i couldn't have tried any more
You led me away from home
Just to save you from being alone
You stole my heart
That's what really hurts
All i needed was a friend of lend a guiding hand
You turned into my lover
And mother what a lover you wore me out
Al you do is wreck my bed
And in the morning kick me in the head
O maggie i couldn't have tried anymore
You led me away form home
Just to save you from being alone
You stole my heart
I couldn't leave you if i tried
I suppose i could collect my books and go back to school
Or steal my daddy's cue
And make a living out of playing pool
I'll find myself a rock n roll band
That needs a helping hand
Maggie i wish i'd never
Seen your face
You made a first class fool out of me
But i was blind as a fool can be
You stole my heart
But i love you anyway
21.Magpie
I was angry with my friend
I told my wrath, my wrath did end
I was angry with my foe
I told it not, my wrath did grow
And i watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears
And i sunn it with smile
And with soft deceitful wiles
And it grew both day and night
Till it bore an apple bright
And my foe beheld it shine
And he knew that it was mine
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole
In the morning, glad, i see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree
And sometimes i
See magpie
22.Me You, We Two
Me you
We two
Trying to begin x2
Me you
We two
Trying to begin x2
And the wind will blow
But my love won't go
My love won't go
Me you
We two
Trying to begin x2
23.Mr Briggs
Mr briggs is on holiday
But he stays in his room
He's too cold to go out for his evening smoke
The lady down the hallway
Is deaf and dumb to what you say
She's too busy dreaming of chihuahua dog
Say goodbye
Slowly drift away
To somewhere
Mr briggs needs sleep now
He's been up for a week
He can hear a buzz buzz buzzing in his head
He has a three-bar heater
But it can't keep him warm
If he bought another then he'd have three more
Say goodbye
Slowly drift away
To somewhere
Mr briggs while on holiday
Never left his bed
Walked around in circles but only in his head
The lady down the hallway
Is running out of pills
She could pull herself together but she knows she never will
Say goodbye
Somewhere
24.Peter Panic
Hello peter panic
You've landed on our planet
What a strange thing you are
With little pissy eyes
You got in the television
Turned us all old and wisened
Then disappeared
To a distant star
And we remember you as
Peter panic
Who lives forever
Peter panic
As light as a feather
And he says it's ok
When you blow him away
He'll be back for you some other day
When you're running out of sugar
He left his secret with the chemist
Who made it taste very pleasant
Now everyone
Has gone to his star
Happy to be with...
25.Polished Stone
Now i fall to the groundi can't get up, well never mind
I know you'll pull me up by my bones
And say i'm sand to polished stone
Today's gone and it won't be longbefore we fall asleep and
forget what we've done
We won't get up cos today is fun
We're alone
Now you bite my tongueand when the alcohol's gone
I won't feel a thing
So you can't carry on
Today is gone and it won't be long
Before we fall asleep and forget what we've done
We won't get up cos today is funwe're alone
It's numb
It's numb
It's numb
26.R U Lonely？
When all the nights are dream
And not really what they seem
I cut my hair in spite
And set my hands on fire
Are you lonely？ x3
In the daylight hours
I go out and kill the flowers
Faces all to clear
Keep on looming near
Are you lonely？ x3
27.Sing
I can't feel
I am numb
I cant feel
So whats the worth
In all of this
Sing to me
So whats the worth in all of this
If the child in your head
If the child is dead
Sing to me
28.Swallows In A Heatwave
I want to contributeto natural selection
Find myself a razor
Watch swallows in a heatwave
Meet the rebel leaders
They're coming cause they need us
Ooohooooohoooooo
Ooohooooohoooooo
I don't have a history.
For religion
Going out to get one
Get into my volvo
Drive into the mountains
Watch swallows in a heatwave
Ooohoooooohooooo x7
29.That's All I Wanna Do
I saw you today
You were too far away
It had hurt me to say
Hurt me to say
The words
The words i have to say
There ain't no sound
When you're not around
And it gets me down
Yeah it gets me down
My life feels so brown
I just want to be with you
That's all i wanna do
X2
Inside my brain
It's just not the same
Cos it started to rain
It's started to rain.
I just want to be with you
That's all i wanna do
X2
30.Theme From An Imaginary Film
What if i told you i love you
What if i called you with rhyme
In this world there's nothing that's left
Well nothing that's new
What if i told you without you
Loving is limply a lie
Although she moves into the night
O tell me your mine
Please say it's true
O shame is over
I was the light and the days of them all
Well push me over
I'm flat on my back and having a ball
And just look who's laughing
What if i flew like a dove dear
What if i would you in rhythm
There's nothing left
Nothing that's good left for me now
O i'll just go and sleep with strangers
I'll live like a lord in a tower
'cos in the city there's too much air
That i can't dream at night
Well not anymore
O shame it's over
It been such fun and we had a ball
Well push me over
But i'll be the last of people to fall
Well just look who's laughing
O shame it's over
How like a cow bloated on grass
Well push me over
Me on my back and you on your arse
Such a shame it's all over
There are so few days left to grasp
So push me over
We on our back and you on your lazy arse
Well just look whose laughing
31.Threadneedle Street
The time has come
Not to be cautious
He must be careful not to make mistakes
For every half hour
In twenty-four
And operations rose
Faster than they did yesterday
And the lending rates on your side
So there won't be
Much of a problem
Then past midnight
There is a rise
When everybody's asleep at home
He becomes nervous
And sees a change
Today futures
Watch the markets from the street
In a pocket in a grey flannel suit
Read tomorrow's crash today
And check your pulse
Base metals crawled onto the kerb
And softs dropped in a summer turn
And sugar melted in the mouth
Of a rude girl
Who knew a better option
She thinks for a while
And it could be
A long time before he thinks again
And then he looks at the papers
And looks again
Today futures
32.Waiting
Waiting for my friend x4
And i don't want no one to know
I can't talk with you x4
If you don't want me to
Waiting for my friend x4
And i don't want no one to know
33.Where'd You Go？
Where'd you go？
Dark eyed traveller
I almost feel you breathe
Where'd you go？
Dark eyed traveller
Can you even hear me speak？
You make things bright
When they took the night away
Led me inside and kissed all my tears away
Said you were here to stay
Where'd you go？
In the morning
When i was way down with dream
Where'd you go？
In the morning
When fever pulled me down stream
You made things bright
And you took the night away
Lend me your eyes and show me a brand new way
Now i just feel dead today.
34.Who The Fuck？
I stole the bottle of gin from over the counter and ran,
I knew i'd been seen. i scarpered stifling giggles down
The street and hid round a corner on a side street.
I heard him huffing and the sound of his big feet against
The paving, he was getting close. as he rounded the corner
I sighted him up down the barrel of the gun and on seeing
His expression change to one of horror + confusuib jerked
Back the trigger. his body was jolted back by the force of
The bullet + his feet flew foward. i saw a bright little rivulet
Of blood are into the air and i slid the gin into the waistband
Of my trousers.
Who you fuckin lookin at？
Who the fuck you lookin at？
Who the fuck you lookin at？
Who the fuck you lookin at？
Is there really a thing like feeling too much？
Can you really escape + numb the real？
There's a way of saying, a way of sayin a shape - i feel a
Certain shape and it's complicated it's not like a square or
A circle it's like crystal or diamond, it's clean, hard,
Unfathomable and it ends in an augmental kiss
It ends in an augmental kiss
Who the fuck you lookin at？
Who the fuck you lookin at？
Who the fuck you lookin at？
Who the fuck you lookin at？
Rock stars are not cool
They're full of his guy they call satan,
Kids stuff oozing from their mouths.
They wear the shoes of dead soldiers shot by soldiers, valium
Horses trotting squeezing through their rasberry blood.
Sometimes i feel so stoopid i wanna quit - get out of it cus
I hate this world and everyone in it - the fat bald men who
Run it - the fat bald men
Who the fuck you lookin at？
Who the fuck you lookin at？
Who the fuck you lookin at？
Who the fuck you lookin at？
35.Won't Do It
So much to be and so much to see
There's very little here for me
It's really hard to get through
So won't do it anymore
Don't feel it anymore
Won't do it anymore
Can't feel it
There's so much i'd like to say
You're not bothered either way
It's really hard to talk to you
So won't do it anymore
Don't do it anymore
Won't do it anymore
Can't feel it
So won't do it anymore
Don't feel it anymore
Won't do it anymore
Can't feel it
So won't do it anymore
Don't feel it anymore
Won't do it anymore
Can't feel it anymore
So won't do it anymore
Don't feel it anymore
Won't do it anymore
Can't feel it
36.Woodpigeon Song
Disingenious and tame
Everybody makes mistakes, sometimes
Woodpigeon in strip light
Does it every night
It's a feeling that's around
It's a feeling that's around
Woodpigeon in strip lightdoes it every night
37.Young And Lovely
Friday's child is planning to go out for the first time
Says
Don't worry mum
I won't be out that late
Done me playing those passive games right now
They're out of date
You're awfully sweet
Haven't got the time
Growing up so fast
Got better things to do
You can get what you want
So young and lovely
Kicking around in the centre of the town
Looking in shop windows
Those mannequins
Look far too real at night
Friday's child doesn't know if it's awake
Or if it's dreaming
Says
Don't worry dad
I'll do my bit
I'll raise the flag
I'll be just like you
You can get what you want
So young and lovely
Don't worry mum
I'm not that dumb
I'll be just like you
Oh, no, why
Why d'you do it？
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