Psychomodo

Steve Harley Psychomodo Lyrics
1.Sweet Dreams

Pop paper people printing 'rebel insane'
They in my head and digging into my brain
I need umbrella to keep out the rain
I can't hope to keep the pace i have made
Maybe i'll settle in the country and fade

It's all too much for me to handle with ease
I'm sinking fast- i'll soon be down on my knees
Dreams of loretta and lorraine and louise
I can't hope to be the 'devil-may-care'
Maybe i'll settle with you all in my hair

Broke three fingers last night
Ain't got the energy to fight
They tell me everyfhing's gonna be all right
I can't dope to do more than my best
It's so easy. this is really no test!


2.Psychomodo

I been losing my head
I been losing my way
I been losing my brain cells at a milllon a day
I been so disillusioned
I'm on suicide street
I seen everything
In every shape
I seen 1984 in a terrilble state
I seen you ouazimodo
Hanging on my gale

Oh! he wa so hung-op and wasted
Oh! he wa so physically devastated
He was young enough
He was well-slung enough

I seen my own epitaph
I been to heaven and back
Was introduced to st. peter; we were having a chat
I feii him losing his mind
So i began to retreat . ..
Desdemona a and me
We had a ball in a tree
She read my palm in a moment: it was shocking to me
Oh, we were so mystified
Began to scream out of fear

Oh! he wa so hung-op and wasted
Oh! he wa so physically devastated
He was young enough
He was well-slung enough
I been writing a song

We all been singing along
It's ilke a wild schizophrenia-wondering where we belong!
Sling it all out the window
Start all over again . .
Come into my heart
Come in and tear me apart
I wanna be claustrophobic-got a passion-ha ha!
I'm so confused i wish i could die

Oh! he wa so hung-op and wasted
Oh! he wa so physically devastated
He was young enough
He was well-slung enough


3.Mr. Soft

Mr soft, turn around and force the world
To watch the things you're going through
Mr soft, believe everything they tell you
And be dammed if they'll thank you
You paint everything so cruel,
Coming on like mrcool;
Paint your face and shut the gate,
Noone's coming home till late

Don't you know, life gets tedious enough
Without this extra grudge to bare
You. so slow, shift your ideas, make your mind up
In a jiffy, let's be fair
We'll be taking off tonight,
Turn off your eyes and shut the light,
You're the most, you're so unreal
We'd all be dead without your spiel!

Mr soft, go to town and bring the dawn in,
In the morning on your way
Mr soft, put your feet upon the water
And play jesus for the day
You begin to hear them mumble,
Spot the starman, rough-and-tumble,
Fight the good fight, sling your axe.
Watch the speaker lead the packs


4.Singular Band

Thinking lots of a pretty face
When we were yong, such smashing days
We'd pass the time in such pleasant ways
Happy just to be iiving-oh yeah!
Too many summers controlled our heads
Too many memories - so many dead
We fall behind but we also lead them
Listened all the time to a singular band

Put our resources into one appollo
We only had to watch and follow
Then swoop around like a possessed swallow
Thinking only of winning oh yeah!
And all the iime defending ourselves
Brushed aside all the tempting sea-shells
Charging-up like battery cells
Looking all the time for a singular band

You and me getting everywhere now
On the land and in the air now
Got no worries of getting there now
(consider what we're attempting-oh yeah!)
And now we have lots of pretty clothes
Many friends and many foes
Looking wonderful but heaven knows
Who will want us now we're turning into singular band


5.Ritz

Hark to rouall's white insanity
Clowns in drag concealing vanity
This is hardly paradise
We're still in search of petty scorn

Images so dead, in mourning
Clap and cheer the man performing
This is hardly paradise
We're still in search of petty scorn

Couch my disease in chintz-covered kisses
Glazed calico cloth, my costume this is
Come to pablo fanque's in indigo
We'll show you pastel shades of rhyme

It's okay to laugh in harmony
See the white-faced auguste's army
Come to pablo's-fanque's in indigo
We'll show you pastel shades of rhyme

Take a letter ophelia, write
'sorry desdemona.' bright
Peeking through the nimbus covers
We see the twisted tale of man

Catch us in the cornfield hiding
Me, maryse and moonbeams gliding
Peeking through the nimbue covers
We see the twisted tale of man

Careless, caress, curt up beside me
Visit, sleep and smile and drown me
March together, slay like nero
Now we have something you understand

Oh! the clown, his stare is eyeless
Shall he make you laugh or cry.yes
March together, slay like nero
Now we have sometning you understand

It is time to hide my body
Shall we start to speak of holly
I don't wanna be that superhero
'til you have something we anderstand

Heard they're moving pisces into june
Shall we put together a platoon
I don't wanna be that superhero
'til you have something we understand


6.Cavaliers

Make mine old time, or i'il spit in your eye
It's better than lying, anytime . . .
I'm horrified of modern times, i'm trying
Very hard to keep up my guard
Everything's becoming drag, we'd best be off
Escape the bad- could be very sad
Misery coming over me, i'm thinking about
Going blind and don't want to see.

Shift around this one-song town
Like a sparrow with a broken wing -feeling blue!!!
Terrified to step outside, it's so easy
To make a suicide come true
Masturbation-getting off; you can scoff
Your ideals offer nothing new!
I'm getting ready to run and hide,
Looking for a suitable bitch to crucify.

We're all beginqing to
Testify, testify-it's getting fierce
We're all beginning to testify,
Testify, to be cavaliers
How does it feel now you've testified?

Love to have god next to me with his
Hands around my throat in harmony
Take away the silver tray, fetch me water
God, give me strength, i'm in pain
Seeing, blow-job blues and boogaloos
Ten little niggers hooked on absinthe and daffodils
Telling tales of white gardinia,
Honky-tonking all the love that's in ya!

We're all beginqing to
Testify, testify-it's getting fierce
We're all beginning to testify,
Testify, to be cavaliers
How does it feel now you've testified?

Long-tailed coat, a silly joke; they drink
Like men then see them choke on coca-cola
Morgue-like iips and waitress tips and you
Shuffle around on your sabrina hips
Make mine old time or i'll spit in your eye
It's better than lying-anytime
Horrified to step outside, trying very
Hard to keep up my guard.

We're all beginqing to
Testify, testify-it's getting fierce
We're all beginning to testify,
Testify, to be cavaliers
How does it feel now you've testified?


7.Bed In The Corner

I've just been speaking to the one who holds the key
When she asked me would i like to wait and to see?
Would i like to try and explain?
Would i like to try and explain?
How my heart is feeling tonight with all the strain?
And i said i could take much more from such a friend
Although i hoped we weren't very far away from the end
For the time it's a-getting late,
Yeah, the time it's a-getting late
And my heart is hurting a little bit from the weight

She just said:
'i've got a bed here for you
I've got a bed here for me
So you can look into my eyes
And tell me what you see . . .'

She's like a rosebud in my heart and in my dreams
See her flow into the night like rivers and streams
How i'd love to lie in her arms
How i'd love to lie in her arms
But i don't seem able to win her with my charms

She just said:
'i've got a bed here for you
I've got a bed here for me
So you can look into my eyes
And tell me what you see . . .'


8.Sling It

The ship was sailing through a tempest of fear
There was lightning and explosions galore
And the waves came whooshing and crashing and boy!
It was panic as we swam for the shore
There were ladies and babies being trampled to hell
Where ihe flames flickered happy and sad
And the honey-coloured moon was bouncing around
He was laughing, saying: 'dear, this is mad!!!'
Oh, come on!
Oh, come on!
Oh, come on! let's sling it and do it again!'

Then a message flashed in the sky by the sun:
'be careful, ihis is only a game!
If you believe what you see, you'll be rewarded by me
And be drownded or burned - it's all ihe same!'
Oh the fear in our hearts was diminished at once
We began to restore love and peace
And though the ship had gone down, there was a moral we found:
'if this is life, then it's hard to believe!'

'oh, come on!
Oh, come on!
Oh, come on! iet's sltng it and do it again!'

'oh, come on!
Oh, come on!
Oh. come on! let's sling it and do it again!'


9.Tumbling Down

Gee, but it's hard when one lowers one's guard to the vultures
Me, i regard it a tortuous hardship that smoulders
Like a peppermint eaten away
(will fight, will i swagger or sway?)
Hee, hee, m'lady, she cries like a baby to scold us
See her tumbling down, tumbling down

Hail! to the monkey; we're having a funky reunion
Wasted and sunk, he can only have sunday communion
He got nicotine stains in his eyes
He got nothing to protect but his pride
Oh! smother ihe kiss or be drownded in blissful contusion
See it tumbling down, tumbling down

Juvenile tale, (see ihe titanic sail into brighton)
The hemingway stacatto, the tragic bravado can frighten!
To be here, there and everywhere's fine
But do you have to be so swift all the time?
Deliver the dawn to the moulin-rouge on the horizon
Watch it tumbling down, tumbling down

(reirain) oh! dear, look what they've done to the blues, blues,
blues