Unreleased Songs

The Chameleons Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Mad Jack

Lyricist:Mark Burgess, David Fielding, John Lever, Reginald Smithies

He's cold to the kiss
In ignorance he's dangerous
In innocence he's bliss
And he stalks the night

With sonar senses
And he holds you tight
Masturbates the madness in you

He dreams when he's not sleeping
Plays the trusted friend
Trust him, friend
About as far as you can piss

And he holds the night
Walks in shadow
And avoids the light
Masturbates the madness in you

His frightened eyes
Can't disguise
Blatant lies, blatant lies
Step inside

Well, just watch him now
Where he's walking?
It's a vacuum world
And every word

A silent, strangled scream
He's God tonight
Walks on water
And he's always right

Talks about the madness in America
Oh, he's God tonight
He walks on water
And he's always right
Talks about the madness in Africa

His frightened eyes
Mad Jack's eyes
Can't disguise
Blatant lies

Frightened eyes
Mad Jack's eyes
Are open wide
It's been a long time Jack

Welcome back
Have some speed
Have some smack

If you want to dance Jack
Don't look back


2.Swamp Thing

Lyricist:Mark Burgess, David Fielding, John Lever, Reginald Smithies

I can already hear your tune
Calling me across the room
When the world and his wife
Are on my back again
Not enough pleasure
Too much pain

When the world is too much with me
Please leave, just go away
Before I lose my mind completely
Please leave, just go now

In the side street something's moving
Look around, look around, all around you
Walls are tumbling down
Stop staring at the ground

I can practically see your face
And another revolutionary falls from grace
Hear the thunder in your brain
Not enough sunshine
Too much rain

When the light of life has gone
No change for the meter
Then the king of spivs will come
Selling blood by the liter

When nothing's sacred anymore
When the demon's knocking on your door
You'll still be staring down at the floor

Not too many hours from this hour
So long? The storm comes
Or is it just another shower?

Picking up the pieces
Half alive in a nine 'til five
Vacant eyes, is it any wonder?
Primal scream at the TV screen
Close your eyes

Now the world is too much with me
Please leave, just go away
Before I lose my mind completely
Just leave, please go now

Now nothing's sacred anymore
When the demon's breaking down your door
You'll still be staring down at the floor

Not too many hours from this hour
So long? Now the storm has come
Or is it just another shower?


3.Childhood

Lyricist:Mark Burgess, David Fielding, John Lever, Reginald Smithies

I saw innocent kids turn cruel
In the playground at school
Poor Claudius played the fool
Survival is cool

One for the space to prowl as you please
Two for the pulpit down on your knees
We've opened out hearts to shame
No one's to blame

Hey, everything was clearer than today
You have to hang on to your childhood
Open your eyes or stay as you are my friend
You have to hang on, hang on

My life is a Milbury's home
On Hereford Way
My life is a Barclays' loan now
And a mortgage to pay

Let's drink to freedom and family ties
Here's to the bags that are under my eyes
We've opened our eyes to pride
But there's nothing inside

Hey, everything was clearer than today
You have to hang on to your childhood
Open your eyes or stay as you are my friend
You have to hang on, hang on

How have you been, I hope you go far
Together we'll stand and prop up the bar
I'm watching you now, cleaning your car
Open your eyes or stay as you are

Just a little more heart now
Just a little bit, hang on


4.In Answer

Lyricist:Mark Burgess, David Fielding, John Lever, Reginald Smithies

One afternoon
A part of me parted too soon
It slipped away
I don't know what to say

Eyes that drew me in
To wonderful, wonderful sin
And it blew me away
I don't know what to say

In answer
Nothing matters to me

One cold gray afternoon
A part of me parted too soon
And it blew me away
I don't know what to say

Eyes that drew me in
To wonderful, wonderful sin
And it blew me away

In answer
Nothing matters to me
Believe me
You own my soul completely

And from day to day
And from hour to hour
I will be always in your power
Set my spirit free

As I fell to the ground
My head swam around and around
And I didn't know
Which way was up or down

One cold gray afternoon
A part of me parted too soon
It slipped away
I don't know what to say

In answer, in answer
You're all that matters to me


5.Tears

Lyricist:Mark Burgess, David Fielding, John Lever, Reginald Smithies

It's just coincidence
Well, you can talk that way
But I have to say I don't believe in it
It was a chill of chance
I decided to dance the days away

And I wasn't worried at all
Sneaking through the back door
No, I wasn't worried at all
Dreams are what you live for

Waiting for the light to turn green
Carry me home
To the kindest eyes that I've ever seen
Carry me home

Well, can you tell me how will it be now?
How will it be?
Can you tell me how will it be now?
How will it be?

Well, we were younger then
And the days were long and slow
But were we wiser then?
I couldn't say, I wouldn't know

But I wasn't worried at all
I had someone to run to
And I wasn't worried at all
I knew which way the wind blew

Counting out the chaos and gloom
Carry me home
And I watched the ceiling spin round the room
Carry me home

Well, can you tell me how will it be now?
How will it be?
Can you tell me how will it be now?
How will it be?

In the real world, how will it be?
In a cold world, how will it be?
In a lonely world, how will it be?
Will the ghosts just stop following me?

No, now drawn into the sun
He was the only one

In the real world, how will it be?
In a cold, cold world, how will it be?
Beck and call, beg and crawl, how will it be?
Will the ghosts just stop following me?

No, now drawn into the sun
He was the only one

And so I'll remember you
I'll remember the days
And the thousands of ways
You pulled me through

And dream of all the things
You've seen
Of all the faces and all of the places
You have been

Now you have no phone and you have no name
And you have no number
And it comes to an end in the blink of an eye
And it makes me wonder


6.Free For All

Lyricist:Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz

See the wheel turning round
See the wheel turning round
See the mad parade of clowns
Shouting all the others down

Too much lager and jukebox sound
Too much lager and jukebox joviality
Stop the wheel turning round

What are we going to do?
Won't someone tell us what to do?
What are we going to do?
Bah, bah

See the wheel turning round
Stop the wheel turning round
Stop this mad parade of clowns
Shouting all the others down

Balloons are bursting all around
Celebrities turn on the crowds
Stop the wheel turning round
Stop the wheel turning round

Like a carrot before the donkey
Lead them to a better world
Well, I don't believe in you
Or your world

Like a carrot before the donkey
Lead them to a better world
Well, I don't believe in you

What are we going to do?
Won't someone tell us what to do?
Who do we turn to?
Won't someone tell us what to do?

What are we going to do?
Someone tell us what to do
What are we going to do?
Someone to turn to
Someone to turn to. to rule us. yeah

Someone to take our problems to
Someone to rule us, yeah
Make my life as easy as you can
Bah


7.Love Is

Lyricist:Foster Jerry G, Rice Wilburn S

Reeling with confusion
You always fill my head with useless information
And it's contributing to my frustration
If I shout or if I scream
It's just a reflex reaction
And it's always aimed at you

You think my efforts are pointless
And handled in a way that is totally thoughtless
Defending all you love
But the enemy's faceless
It's a cancer and a cure must always elude us
As it eats its way through you

But this feeling's rebounding off you
But this feeling's rebounding off you
But is this the best we can do?
But this feeling's rebounding off you

Reeling with confusion
You always fill my head with useless information
And it's contributing to my frustration
If I shout or if I scream
It's just a reflex reaction
And it's always aimed at you

But this feeling's rebounding off you
But this feeling's rebounding off you
But is this the best we can do?
But this feeling's rebounding off you


8.In Shreds

Lyricist:Mark Burgess, David Fielding, John Lever, Reginald Hope
Smithies

I grasp at life's fading light
I need you tonight
I need to be heard
Your actions speak
Louder than words

Ignored by you all
I stumble and fall
I suddenly knew
My life meant nothing at all

In shreds, I stare down at the street
Yearning for sleep
That blissful escape
But when it comes it's always too late

The whore in my bed
The noise in my head
A hole in my pride
It's coming and there's
Nowhere to hide

It seems to me
To be self-contradictory
It seems to me you count
Your victories while they're there

Ignored by you all
I stumble and fall
I suddenly knew
My life meant nothing at all

The whore in my bed
The noise in my head
The hole in my pride
It's coming and there's
Nowhere to hide

It seems to me to be self-contradictory
It seems to me you count
Your blessings while they're there
You count your blessings while they're there
Count your victories while they're there

It seems, it seems, it seems
It seems to me to be
To be self-contradictory
It seems to me you've
Become part of the machinery

Part of the machinery
Part of the machinery
Become part of the machinery
Machinery


9.Inside Out

Lyricist:Mark Burgess, Fielding David (gb), John Lever, Reginald Hope
Smithies

Love and laughter fills his life today
Dragged into this world and thrown away
She never wanted you
Better things to do

You won't remember
Drawn to the door
Whizzing through the week
Dancing round the fire with the rest of the freaks

Oh, no, no, things are different now
Don't let these days of doubt
Turn him inside out

His second mother holds him to her breast
She sees her children come and go
Ripping the heart from her
All of them part of her

And some will remember
Time heals all wounds they say
She can't let them
Take her boy away

This son, oh, she would die without
Don't let these days of doubt
Turn her inside out

When she was young
The world was a different place
After all

And his heart is in his home
There helplessly waiting for someone
To smash his world to pieces
Ignorant and cruel, social student fools

Pull him to the right, pull him to the left
Pull him by the arms, pull him by the legs
Let go

Oh, things are different now
Don't let these days of doubt
Turn them inside out

When you were young, they wore a different face
When she was young, the world was a different place
When you were young, they wore a different smile


10.Home Is Where the Heart Is

Lyricist:Kapp David, Tobias Charles

So here we are waking
Savages shaking
The road that we're taking
We've walked before

And if these times
Should seal our fate
You won't see me
At Heaven's gate

Danger is lurking
Evil is working
Yet here we are hiding
Behind our doors

Come out, come out
It's time to grow
Enjoy the ride
One more time before we go

According to Hoyle
All cards on the table
What else can you do
When life is unstable

The night's growing colder
The enemy bolder
But as you grow older
You ceased to care

But if we run or try to hide
And turn our face
There'll be no hopes
To keep alive

According to Hoyle
All cards on the table
Reactions cool
The world unstable

So here we are hiding
Danger is lurking


11.View from a Hill

Lyricist:Mark Burgess, David Fielding, John Lever, Reginald Hope
Smithies

Feel myself falling to the ground
Solitary silence there's no sound
Open my eyes and look around
Colors and concepts that confound all around

Pick myself up and take the air
The fragrance of children everywhere
Slowly absorbed into my square
Debating what is and isn't there, who cares?

You wait until your time comes round again


12.Paradiso

Lyricist:Mark Burgess, David Fielding, John Lever, Reginald Hope
Smithies

I recall a closing door, and I remember
Seeing shadows cross a stained glass sky
Long before the strangers came down to steal our clothing
And our consciences and long before

Eyes were empty, hearts were cold
We'll watch the rattlesnakes slide
Slowly swerve into view
To tease and tantalize

To sucker your senses and spit out the pieces
Hey magazine girl
She was living in a different world
Or is it a he?

Pull back the curtain my son
I look around, the color has gone
And slowly darkness descends upon me
Paradiso, I know you lied, that much I see

Well the serpent sings his song
To so many sleeping staring eyes
Like sheep they sing along
And clap in time to a heart that's beating

Crazy child, she was wicked
Oh, she was wild
Her eyes are open
Pull back the curtain today

I look around
The color is gray
Gray as the ghost town that towers above me
Paradiso, I know you lied, that much is clear, to me

I see the poet and the fool
Walking hand in hand to school
I recall a lonely outcast and I remember
Laughing children, it was long before
Their eyes were empty, hearts were cold

So, dance this final dance with me
I'll wrap my sting round your spine
Will poison wash away the fear
Wipe the world from my mind?

Look up, what can you do?
I looked around the color was blue
Wise up, It's in your head
I looked around me and the color is red

Red as the words that I read on the wall
Paradiso, kingdoms rise, so must they fall
And only ashes remain in the end
Paradiso, I know you lied, lies without end
I'll see it again and again and again


13.Ever After

Lyricist:Mark Burgess, Fielding David (gb), John Lever, Reginald Hope
Smithies

I don't believe in fascists or flashing females or factory
floors
I don't believe in speeding, I don't believe in spreading spores
I don't believe in Cupid or his laden arrows out of the blue
All of that is stupid but then again it's up to you

Disguise and distort all you will
I'm burning up I can't stand still
I'm finding out I always will
For ever after

I don't believe in fireworks, I don't believe in CND
It's just another slogan from a student library
I don't believe in justice, I don't believe in love on the dole
I don't believe in wham-bam, I don't believe in what comes now

Disguise and distort all you will
I'm burning up I can't stand still
I'm finding out I always will
For ever after

It's just another avenue to walk down

Disguise and distort all you will
I'm burning up I can't stand still
I'm finding out I always will
For ever after

Everybody's crazy


14.Paper Tigers

Too much makes me lazy
Not enough and it makes me crazy
Too much makes me crazy
Not enough and it makes me lazy

Time stops, just for a moment
Then again it's only an instant
Time stops, just for an instant
Then again it's only a moment

They always keep themselves clean
Know what I mean?

You have to face them sooner or later
These tigers made of paper
Don't pay now, you have to pay later
Confront your tigers made of paper

They always keep themselves clean
I can't shake this feeling
Something's going to happen