Standards And Practices

Face To Face Standards And Practices Lyrics
1.What Difference Does It Make?

All men have secrets and here is mine
So let it be known
We have been through hell and high tide, i can surely rely on
you?
And yet you start to recoil, heavy words are so lightly thrown
But still i'd leap in front of a flying bullet for you

So, what difference does it make?
So, what difference does it make?

It makes none but you have gone
And you must be looking very old tonight
The devil will find work for idle hands to do
I stole and i lied, and why? because you asked me to!
But now you make feel so ashamed because i've only got two hands
well, i'm still fond of you

So, what difference does it make?

It makes none but you have gone and your prejudice won't keep
you warm tonight

The devil will find work for idle hands to do
I stole and i lied, and why? just because you asked me to! but
you know the truth about me you won't see me anymore, i'm still
fond of you

So, no more apologies no more apologies i'm too tired i'm too
sick and tired and i'm feeling very sick and ill today
But i'm still fond of you


2.Chesterfield King

We stood in your room and laughed out loud.
Suddenly the laughter died and we were caught in an eye to eye.

We sat on the floor and did we sit close. i could smell your
thoughts and thought. do you want to touch a lot like me? too
scared to say a thing. i left your house and kicked myself. i
put those
Ings on a shelf to die. i guess i'm not a gambling type but
think of what the two of us had lost.

Had lost.

I needed some time to think it out. 7-eleven parking lot. a
toothless woman turned and stopped. i gave her a dime and a
chesterfield. she leaned down and kissed my cheek. i was scared
but it fel
Et.

Felt so sweet.

She asked me if i had a name. i told her i was glued up on some
chick. we sat and smoked against the wall.
Drank a beer, felt the chill of fall.

Of fall.

I took my car and drove it down the hill by your house. i drove
so fast. the wind it couldn't cool me down, so i turned it
around and came back up. you were waiting on your step, steam
showing o
Ur breath and water in your eyes. we pulled each other into one,
parkas clinging on the lawn and kissed right there.

Said all my chicks they smoke these things and handed you a
chesterfield king. held your hand and watched tv and traced the
little lines along your palm.

Your palm.

I took my car and drove it down the hill by your house.
I drove so fast.
The wind it couldn't cool me down, so i turned it around
And came back up.
You were waiting on your step, steam showing off your breath
And water in your eyes.
We pulled each other into one, parkas
Clinging on the lawn and kissed right there.

Right there.


3.Don't Change

I'm standing here on the ground
The sky above won't fall down
See no evil in all direction
Resolution of happiness
Things have been dark for too long

Don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me

I found a love i had lost
It was gone for too long
Hear no evil in all directions
Execution of bitterness
Message received loud and clear

Don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me


4.Sunny Side Of The Street

Seen the carnival at rome
Had the women i had the booze
All i can remember now
Is little kids without no shoes
So i saw that train and i got on it with a heartful of hate
And a lust for vomit

Now i'm walking on the sunnyside of the street

Stepped over bodies in bombay
Tried to make it to the u.s.a.
Ended up in nepal
Up on the roof with nothing at all
And i knew that day i was going to stay

Right where i am, on the sunnyside of the street

Been in a palace, been in a jail
I just don't want to be reborn a snail
Just want to spend eternity

Right where i am, on the sunnyside of the street

As my mother wept it was then i swore
To take my life as i would a whore
I know i'm better than before
I will not be reconstructed

Just wanna stay right here, on the sunnyside of the street

On the sunnyside of the street


5.Planet Of Sound

One fine day in my odd past
I picked me up a transmission
I turned the fission ignition
Went looking for the broadcaster
And when i first touched some ground
They simply told me leave
Was kind of hard to believe
'cause there was not one around

This ain't the planet of sound
This ain't the planet of sound
This ain't the planet of sound
This ain't the planet of sound

I had a talented wine
That land o' classical gas
And on the planet of glass
They sent me skipping through time
I got to somewhere renowned
For its canals and color of red
And lots of guys who shook their heads
Rhythmically to resound

This ain't the planet of sound
This ain't the planet of sound
This ain't the planet of sound
This ain't the planet of sound

This ain't no rock and roll town
This ain't no fuckin' around

This ain't no planet of sound

I met a guy in a rover
He said it's one more over
It's just there where you're bound

This ain't the planet of sound
This ain't the planet of sound
This ain't the planet of sound
This ain't the planet of sound


6.The Kkk Took My Baby Away

She went away for the holidays
Said she's going to l.a.
But she never got there
She never got there, she never got there, they say

She went away for the holidays
Said she's going to l.a.
But she never got there
She never got there, she never got there, they say

The kkk took my baby away
They took her away
Away from me
The kkk took my baby away
They took her away
Away from me

Now i don't know where my baby can be
They took her away from me
They took her away from me
I don't know where my baby can be
They took from me
They took from me

Ring me, ring me, ring me up the president
And find
Out where my baby went
Ring me, ring me, ring me up the fbi
And find out if baby's alive
Yeah, yeah, yeah

O-o-o-o-o-o o-o-o-o-o-o
Yeah, yeah, yeah
O-o-o-o-o-o o-o-o-o-o-o

She went away for holidays
She went away for holidays
The kkk took my baby away
The kkk took my baby away
They took my girl

They took my baby away


7.Heaven

Heaven
Is the whole of the heart
And heaven
Don't tear you apart
Yeah heaven
Is the whole of the heart
And heaven
Don't tear you apart

There's too many kings wanna tear you down
And a world at the window gone underground
There's a hole in the sky where the sun don't shine
And a clock on the wall and it counts my time

And heaven
Is the whole of the heart
And heaven
Don't tear you apart
Yeah heaven is the whole of the heart
And heaven
Don't tear you apart

There's a song on the air with a love-you-line
And a face in a glass and it looks like mine
And i'm standing on ice when i say that i don't hear planes
And i scream at the fools wanna jump my train

And heaven
Is the whole of the heart
And heaven
Don't tear you apart
Yeah heaven
Is the whole of the heart
And heaven
Don't tear you apart
Yeah heaven

And heaven yeah heaven


8.Merchandise

When we have nothing left to give
There will be no reason for us to live
But when we have nothing left to lose
You will have nothing left to use

We owe you nothing
You have no control

Merchandise keeps us in line
Common sense says it's by design
What could a businessman ever want more
Than to have us sucking in his store

We owe you nothing
You have no control

You are not what you own


9.Helpless

Another time
Time after time
You make me feel so helpless i

I never tried to change your mind
I keep it to myself
It's sometimes i've got to tell you
Is it this time i'll tell you
We've got to go to places
Somewhere i don't mind it's special
And now you find as time goes by
You're left with nothing meaning much
The meaning i will have to try
To take your mind to places
I wish that i could help you
But you seem less than helpless
I always tried to tell you
Someday that it'd seem so special

Time after time
What's on your mind
You make me feel so helpless i
You never tried what's on your mind
You make me feel so helpless i

I feel so helpless i

You're left alone with something
And i hope for you it's one thing
That something you and yours can hold
And hold as something special

And now you find as time goes by
You're left with nothing meaning much
The meaning i will have to try
What's on your mind so helpless i

I feel so helpless i


10.That's Entertainment

A police car and a screaming siren
A pnuematic drill and ripped up concrete
A baby waiting and stray dog howling
The screech of brakes and lamplights blinking

That's entertainment

A smash of glass and the rumble of boots
An electric train and a ripped up 'phone booth
Paint splattered walls and the cry of a tomcat
Lights going out and a kick in the balls

That's entertainment

Days of speed and slow time mondays
Pissing down with rain on a boring wednesday
Watching the news and not eating your tea
A freezing cold flat and damp on the walls

That's entertainment

Waking up at 6 a.m. on a cool warm morning
Opening the windows and breathing in petrol
An amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard
Watching the tele and thinking about your holidays

That's entertainment

Waking up from bad dreams and smoking cigarettes
Cuddling a warm girl and smelling stale perfume
A hot summers' day and sticky black tarmac
Feeding ducks in the park and wishing you were faraway

That's entertainment

Two lovers kissing amongst the scream of midnight
Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude
Getting a cab and travelling on buses
Reading the grafitti about slashed seat affairs

That's entertainment