Payola: The Demos

The Cribs Payola: The Demos Lyrics
1.Men's Needs (Demo)

Have you noticed
I've never been impressed
By your friends from New York and London?
I'll level, accusations like the press
til you realise that you've dressed yourself in tatters

Because a man's needs, man's needs
Are found on greed, are found on greed
A man's needs, man's needs
Are lost on me
A man's needs, man's needs
Are found on greed, are found on greed
A man's needs

I'm not bothered, what you say or how you dress
I'm a mess, so you've always seemed inviting
But really, this all seems quite meaningless
And I remember, that you never seem to see

The fact that men's needs, men's needs
Are found on greed, are found on greed
A man's needs, man's needs
Are lost on me
A girl's needs, girl's needs
Just don't agree, just don't agree
With a man's needs

Have you noticed, I've never been impressed
By your friends from New York and London?
But really, this all seems quite meaningless
And I remember that you never seem to see

The excuse that men's needs, men's needs
Are found on greed, are found on greed
A man's needs, man's needs
Apply to me
You say your man's needs, man's needs
Apply to me
I don't agree
A man's needs

Oh-oh! Oh-oh!


2.I'm A Realist (Demo)

I'm a realist
I'm a romantic
I'm an indecisive piece of shit

I'm a realist
I'm a romantic
I am indecisive and that's about it

And you dream that's the same thing
That's the same life you lead
I don't agree and so you drink
Don't wanna think
That's 'cause your mind is already made up

I'm a realist
I'm a romantic
I'm an indecisive piece of shit

I admit it
I'm up to my old tricks
Did you see her eyes (Oh no I tried)
She looked surprised

And you dream that's the same thing
that's the same life you lead
I don't agree and so you drink
Don't wanna think
That's 'cause your mind is already made up

How you dream that's the same thing
That's the same life you lead
I don't agree and so you drink
Don't wanna think
That's 'cause your mind is already made up
No

I know that it's only a matter of time
Before you know it
I'll be leaving town, see it in my eyes
That no one will do
No one will ever do

I know that it's only a matter of time
Before you know it
I'll be leaving town, seen it in your eyes
That no one will ever do
No one will ever do for you


3.Glitters Like Gold (Demo)

It's so strange seeming
Like a friend's mother's perfume
That you can be what you want.
Anointed genius, poets, good fucks
Yeah you can be what you want
Anyway
Getting the feeling, spent all my splendour long ago
And though I rarely see it
Your other side glitters like gold.

It never shows that my
Mind will always fight me
With both sides claiming victory
Kiss my stiff upper lip and forever release me
Vanity dance around me
Whatever you think about me
I'm the whale beneath the ship
Who would ever believe me?

Should I say something?
It seems they'd like me better
If I just sing nonsense
Anyway
Never written honest, though sometimes I think I should
But to share these feelings
Would only hurt the ones I love.

They know enough that my
Mind will always fight me
With both sides claiming victory
Kiss my stiff upper lip and forever release me
Vanity dance around me
Whatever you think about me
I'm the whale beneath the ship
Who would ever believe me?

I guess I got what you wanted
A naive streak that I won't shake
Keeps me cold

My mind will always fight me
With both sides claiming victory
Kiss my stiff upper lip and forever release me
Vanity dance around me
Whatever you think about me
I'm not half the kid I used to be
Who would ever believe me?


4.Happy In Town


5.Diclomax Retard


6.Melmac


7.Another Number (Demo)

I'm alone and I'm cold
Just another number on another road
I'm alone and I'm cold
Just another number on another road
And I never knew my name
And I never knew my name

I'm alone and I'm cold
Just another number on another road
I'm alone and I'm cold
Just another number on another road

I get sucked in for hours
Over the smallest things, yeah
I get sucked in for hours
Bah dah, bah dah dah
Bah bah bah dah dah dah
Bah dah, bah dah dah
Bah bah dah dah dah dah

And I never knew my name
And I never knew my name


8.Martel Miniatures (Demo)


9.Our Bovine Public (Demo)

Didn't think I'd have to choose
didn't think I'd wear brown shoes
didn't think that I'd ever have to read about this in the news
you gonna have a go
well I don't want to know
I just thought that I should try and say hello to those who'd

never exist without being generic
you have to impress our bovine public
you'd never exist if you wasn't generic
you have to impress our bovine public
I'll never forget how all this begun
and I will never regret a thing I have done but
you would never exist without us

so maybe I do not have the time
fair-weather friends of mine
a year's a long time
you're doing nothing with your life
I heard you felt alert
well I'm hoping that it hurt
cos we've spent too much time in groundwork
to be ground in to the dirt by those who'd

never exist without being generic
you'll have to impress our bovine public
you'd never exist if you wasn't generic
you'll have to impress our bovine public
I'll never forget how all this begun
and I will never regret a thing I have done
but you would never exist without us

so maybe I do

well you say nothing
so you'll always mean nothing to me
and if what you say means nothing
then what you say will always mean nothing to me

d'you think I have the time fair-weather friends of mine
a year's a long time to be doing nothing with your life
I heard you felt alert
well I'm hoping that it hurt
cos we've spent too much time in groundwork
to be ground into the dirt by those

who'd never exist without being generic
you have to impress our bovine public
you'd never exist if you wasn't generic
you'll have to impress our bovine public
I'll never forget how all this begun
and I will never regret the one thing I've done
but you would never exist without us

so maybe I do


10.We Were Aborted (Demo)

In the grey of yesterday
A breeze blew over exposing
A memory so small
What is it here for

Your virility, makes me forget empathy
Dig your hole
That's what we're here for

To make you feel important
cause you knew we were aborted
It's the same things that we're saying all the time

And they have have everything
They kept there ribs, i'm sure of it
It's what they're all about
But getting inside counts

Mass virility, has made me forget empathy
Dig your hole
It's what we're here for

To make you feel important
cause you knew we were aborted
It's the same things that were saying all the time
(they may be views , but they'll never be mine)

The mid-shelf masturbation
Leaves a smear on half the nation
Its the same things that they're saying all the time

Oh your virility, has made me forget empathy
dig your hole
its what they're here for

To make you feel important
cause you knew we were aborted
its the same things that we're saying all the time

The mid-shelf masturbation
Leaves a smear on half the nation
It's the same things that they're saying all the time


11.Cheat On Me (Demo)

I could be someone else if you'd rather
Try to win you over like a new step father
smart but still a sucker for whoever asks you
i pictured the scene
so you wont have to spell it out for me

cause things go together
better than others
like manic depression
and active sexuality

that's another, that's another
cheat on me, cheat on me yeah
that's another, that's another
cheat on me, cheat on me yeah

Giving up, without a thought
And then you'll be the chosen one
Through which your friends live vicariously
cause things go together
better than others
like manic depression
and active sexuality

That's another, that's another
Cheat on me, cheat on me yeah
that's another, that's another
cheat on me, cheat on me yeah


12.Come On, Be A No-One (Demo)

Come on, I'll be a no one
For you
Got you wrong, it's not your fault
Sometimes I'd rather feel cheap
You can't keep suckling me
'Cos I was trying so hard to enjoy everything
I ended up enjoying nothing
Seriously I'm really well fed up
Grievously y'need me like a hole in the head but

Come on, I'll be a no one
For you
Stay home and write a song
For you

Shooting star, change of heart
Something that you rarely see
Smell the lilies on me
Yeah

Roadside, covered in flies
And caustic soda
We're giving off the same odour
Seriously I'm really well fed up
Grievously y'need me like a hole in the head but

Come on, I'll be a no one
For you
Stay home and write a song
For you
For you