Yes Darling, But Is It Art

Television Personalities Yes Darling, But Is It Art Lyrics
1.Where's Bill Grundy Now?

He knew they would be on the show, ooh ooh ooh
But I guess that he wasn't to know. ooh ooh ooh
We would be asking this question now.

Where's Bill Grundy, now?
Where's Bill Grundy, now?

He got his photo in the news, la la la
but he had to suffer their abuse. la la la la
He led them on now he must go.

Where's Bill Grundy, now?
Where's Bill Grundy, now?

la la la la la la la la la
la la la
Poor Bill Grundy!

They said he had too much to drink, eh eh eh eh eh
They said that he just could not think straight. Ah ah ah ah
He set them up then they knocked him down.

Where's Bill Grundy, now?
Where's Bill Grundy, now?

And all the newspapers did smile. e-e-e-eh
They spread the story out for miles. e-e-e-eh
Till Richard and Liz get married again.

Where's Bill Grundy, now?
Where's Bill Grundy, now?
Where's Bill Grundy, now?
Where's Bill Grundy, now?

Well I ain't seen him......


2.Oxford St, W1


3.Arthur The Gardener


4.The Prettiest Girl In The Wolrd


5.Posing At The Roadhouse


6.Smashing Time


7.I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives (Original)

There's a little man in a little house
With a little pet dog and a little pet mouse
I know where he lives and I visit him
We have sunday tea, sausages and beans
I know where he lives
Cause I know where Syd Barrett lives

He was very famous once upon a time
But no one knows even if he's alive
But I know where he lives and I visit him
In a little hut in Cambridge
I know where he lives
Cause I know where Syd Barrett lives

And the trees and the flowers are so pretty, aren't they?

He was very famous once upon a time
And no one cares even if he's alive (we do)
But I know where he lives and I visit him
In a little hut by the edge of the wood

Oh shut up!


8.14th Floor

I'm looking down on London
But there's little I can see
Cos I'm living so high up
And it looks so small to me
And I'm feeling so frustrated
Cos the lifts are out once more
And when I get home from work tonight
I gotta climb 14 floors, I tell you mate...

14th floor
Oh no, my face don't fit
14th floor Just a number on the council list
14th floor
Oh no, there's nothing to do
14th floor
It's got a roof, it hasn't got a view

I've lived here for seven years now
But I don't know anyone
I think the bloke next door is a Jamaican
But he could be an Irishman
And life's no fun in a tower block
When you're locked behind your door
I think I must have had enough
Of living on the 14th floor, I tell you mate...

14th floor
Oh no my face don't fit
14th floor
No no another number on the council list
14th floor

No no no there's nothing to do
14th floor
No no no it hasn't got a view
14th floor
No no no I've really got to go
14th floor
Had enough of yesterday's show
14th floor
Oh no my face don't fit
14th floor
Just a number on the council list


9.Part Time Punks

Walkin' down the kings road,
I see so many faces
They come from many places
They come down for the day
They walk around together
And try and look trendy
I think it's a shame
That they all look the same

(Chorus):

Here they come
la la la la la la
la la la la la la
The part time punks!

Here they come
la la la la la la
la la la la la la
The part time punks!

Then they go to Rough Trade
To buy Siouxsie and the Banshees
They heard John Peel play it
Just the other night
They'd like to buy the O Level single
or Read about Seymour
But they're not pressed in red
So they buy The Lurkers instead

Here they come
la la la la la la
la la la la la la
The part time punks!

Here they come
la la la la la la
la la la la la la
The part time punks!

They play their records very loud
And pogo in the bedroom
In front of the mirror
But only when their mums gone out
They pay 5 pence fares on the buses
And they never use toothpaste
But they got two fifty to go and see The Clash.
Tonight!

Here they come
la la la la la la
la la la la la la
The part time punks!

Here they come
la la la la la la
la la la la la la
The part time punks!

The part time punks!
The part time punks!
The part time punks


10.The Dream Inspires


11.Favourite Films


12.Me And My Desire


13.Miracles Take Longer


14.Three Wishes

So frightened, so worried
So cold and it's raining
My naive illusions
Distraught by confusion
You're laughing, I'm crying
Outside it's still raining
Graveyard of soldiers
No flowers on their graves

So helpless and lonely
Outside it's still raining
To afraid to ask why
No questions are made
You're laughing, I'm crying
I feel like I'm dying
My naive illusions
Distraught by confusion

If I had three wishes
I'd wish for three more
But dreams are for lovers
And love is so precious
You're laughing, I'm crying
I feel like I'm dying
My naive illusions
Distraught by confusion

If I had three wishes
If I had three wishes
If I had three wishes


15.And Don't The Kids Just Love It


16.Happy Families


17.She's Only The Grocer's Daughter

Well if she makes you sad and blue
There's one thing that you can do
Relax your mind and float downstream
Pretend it's all a very bad dream

She's a witch and she's absurd
I'd like to give her what she really deserves
I'd like to knock her greenhouse down
And trample on her roses

We don't love you anymore
We don't want you like before
We don't love you anymore
So now you know the score

Don't you let her get you down
Oh no she's only the grocer's daughter
Don't you let her get you down
Oh no she's only a grocer's daughter

She's a devil in disguise
I'd like to poke her in the eyes
All dressed in blue
Blue hair blue shoes

I'd like to paint her in the nude
And I've heard it is her birthday soon
Gonna buy her a ticket to the moon
And a leather bound set of Mills and Boon

We don't love you anymore
We don't want you like before
We don't love you anymore
So now you know the score

Don't you let her get you down
Oh no she's only the grocer's daughter
Don't you let her get you down
Oh no she's only a grocer's daughter

I think I ought to slap her face

Well if she makes you sad and blue
There's one thing that you can do
Relax your mind and float downstream
Pretend it's all a very bad dream

Never buy a second hand car from a grocer's daughter
Never buy a second hand car from a grocer's daughter
I'd like to put her across my knee
I think somebody ought to
But she's only the grocer's daughter
But she's only the grocer's daughter


18.Now You're Just Being Ridiculous

Well if I told you that I loved you
You'd only laugh and ridicule me
You say you think of me like a brother
And that's the way it's always been
You say you don't mind me telephoning
But you never have much to say
You're always busy your mother tells me
And now I feel your friendship slipping away

Now you're giving me those looks that say
Well now you're just being ridiculous
You're giving me those looks that say

Well now you're just being ridiculous
Again
Time and time again

I remember when you used to hang on every word I said
I remember all those silly ideas you put inside my head
I remember all those glorious days we sailed on your father's
boat
And how I felt so cold on winter's night when I lent you my top
coat

Now you're giving me those looks that say
Well now you're just being ridiculous
You're giving me those looks that say
Well now you're just being ridiculous
Again
Time and time again

We promised ourselves we'd never grow old
But now I'm on my own
Since you found someone who told you things
That you had never known
But I can't forget the happiness
The days in Greenwich Park
As long as I see you home before it's dark


19.A Sense Of Belonging

Once there was confidence but now there is fear
Once there was laughter but now only tears
Once there were reasons for our optimism
But now we're all drowning in a sea of cynicism

But I hope and I pray in my own naive way
That one day we can reach some sort of understanding
Try a little more sharing
Yry a little more giving
Might find a sense of belonging
Might find a sense of belonging

And I know you think I'm young and naive
Because I go on CND marches, well that's my decision
I think that you're the one who's naive
If you believe all the things you see on television
It's all propaganda and like a fool you accept it
And like a fool you ignore it
Why don't you try and stop it
To try and find a sense of belonging

I know you watch 'World In Action' and 'Panorama'
And to you it's just another soap opera drama, it can't happen
here
Have a nice cup of tea and we'll all stay calm
And we'll come to no harm in our nice warm underground shelters
There'll be helter skelter
There'll be babies dying, you'll hear their mothers crying
I've seen the devil smiling, I've seen the devil smiling
Try to find a sense of belonging
A sense of belonging

And you laugh and make jokes about what you will do
When the button is pressed and we hear the four minute warning
And if you think it's funny now wait 'till the bomb goes off
You'll all be in fucking hysterics
You'll see babies dying, you'll hear mothers crying
I'm only asking for one thing
Just want a sense of belonging

No more weapons and no more wars
No more violence
What's it all for anyway?


20.And How I Learned To Love The Bomb

Well there's no more sleepless nights for me
Now it's easier from now on
Cos I've realised exactly where I've been going wrong
Well I've been lying awake at night
Worrying about the Russians
But the Russians are my friends
Cos we've got a love that will never end

Cos now I've learned to love the bomb
Now I've learned to love the bomb

Well once we had a plan to go to Greenham Common
And steal a Polaris missile
And we'd put it on the back of a lorry
Now I keep it in my bedroom
And it's yellow black and grey
And I'll polish it every day
And I don't care what the neighbours say

Cos now I've learned to love the bomb
Now I've learned to love the bomb

Don't you be so stupid
No no no

You should like the bomb like you love your mum

And if you want to live in a peaceful world
There's only one thing to do
You've gotta choose Cruise

Cos now I've learned to love the bomb
Now I've learned to love the bomb

Don't you be so stupid
No no no

What the hell do you take me for?
If you going to make bombs you're longing for war

Don't you be so stupid
Now I've learned to love the bomb

The days I've spent on CND campaigns
Just walking, just walking in the pouring rain
Time and time again

How I learned to love the bomb


21.A Girl Called Charity

Well I'd do anything for just once kiss
Just to get my hands around her hips
And when she puts her tongue between my lips
I'm thinking, 'Wow, this really could be it!'
But then she smiles and says, 'It's much too sweet'
She's eyeing every other guy in the street
So I'm in the bathroom every night of the week
With a photograph of Charity

Oh Charity, Charity
Why don't you show some to me?
Oh Charity, oh Charity
You're nothing but a small town tease

Boy, everyone says I'm a tease.
Don't you know that's why they call me Charity?
I give to everybody. Freely.

I remember she came round one day
When my parents were on holiday
She said, 'I'm lonely, do you mind if I stay?'
And I said, 'Sure baby, yeah, that's ok.'
Well she asked if she could have a bath
And I said 'I'd wash your back', for a laugh
Well, when she said alright
I thought tonight's the night, then in walked my mum and dad

Oh Charity, Charity
Why don't you show some to me?
Oh Charity, oh Charity
You're nothing but a small town tease

Boy, stop bugging me
I've got something else to do tonight
Wash my hair? You must be joking
Gotta file my nails. So it's back

Well when I ask her if 'tonight's the night'?
If she says no I get the feeling she might
And when she's near girl thinking I could blush
I think she's travelling on a different bus

She's just a girl called Charity

Hullo honey. What are you doing out here?
Boy, I told you, stop bugging me
You're too sweet
Why don't you go away for some sugarpops or something?
Why don't you go down the cinema?
I've got better things to do
Go away


22.King And Country

Do you always clean your medals on a wet weekend?
And polish all your military ornaments?
I bet you tell romantic stories about the war
You never explained what it's all for

It's hard for me to understand
The fascination of a gun for a man
Still you tell romantic stories about the war
You never explained what it's all for

Do you wake up screaming in the middle of the night
When your mind recalls the firing line?
Still you tell romantic stories about the war
You never explained what it's all for

King and Country
King and Country


23.That's What Love Is


24.God Snaps His Fingers

They found Joe lying on his bed
Hammer blows rained to his head
Pyjama jacket on the back of a chair
And an empty bottle of pills by Kenneth's side
No one cried

And we don't care and we're so young
For us our lives have just begun
But it makes me feel so sick inside
When a young man's only dream is a place in heaven

Then God snaps his fingers again
And you come running to him

All I have is all I need
My hopes, my dreams, ambitions
I wouldn't question your beliefs
But I don't want religion
And if every thing that happens is God's will
I can't accept it
But I might feel different when I've lived my life
But for now I must reject it

And they say that the good die young

Then God snaps his fingers again
And you come running to him

And if I said my prayers would the fighting stop
Would the killing cease, will it ever?
And I can't say much for the biggest priest
When a prince and the Pope can't even say a prayer together
Could they ever?