SKIN STORM

Delight

See our faces are both shining

And I've never felt so wanted

Than when you cling with arms and legs

I tremble

You crush my burning lips like ashes

With so much skin to travel over

While my head spins (and you knew it would)

And oh, what a storm !

We shelter in our skin storm

I feel

Feel your breath burn on my body

You touch my senses, tingling brightly

Slip-and-sliding into heaven

Love could be a wonderful emotion

With such a rush of pleasure motion

When I'm dancing on our skin

And oh, what a storm !

We shelter in our skin storm

And oh, what a storm !

We shelter in our skin storm

HARRY RAG

Ah, Tom is young and Tom is bold

Tom is as bold as the knights of old

But whenever he gets in a bit of a jam

There's nothing he won't do to get a harry rag

Harry rag, harry rag

Do anything just to get a harry rag

And he curses himself for the life he's led

And rolls himself a harry rag and puts himself to bed

Ah, Tom's old ma is a dying lass

Soon they all reckon she'll be pushing up the grass

And her bones might ache and her skin might sag

But still she's got the strength to have a harry rag

Harry rag, harry rag

Do anything just to get a harry rag

And she curses herself for the life she's led

And rolls herself a harry rag and puts herself to bed

Ah, bless you tax man, bless you all

You may take some but you never take it all

But if I give it all, I won't feel sad

As long as I got enough to buy a harry rag

Harry rag, harry rag

Do anything just to get a harry rag

And I curse myself for the life I've led

And roll myself a harry rag and put myself to bed

Ah, the smart young ladies of the land

Can't relax without a harry in their hand

And they light one and they boast and brag

So content because they got a harry rag

Harry rag, harry rag

Do anything just to get a harry rag

And they'll light one and they'll boast and brag

So content because they got a harry rag

Harry rag, harry rag

I'll do anything just to get a harry rag

And I curse myself for the life I've led

And roll myself a harry rag and put myself to bed

EAST WEST

East West

Over the ocean

Perpetual motion

Travelling around

No rest

Singing and playing

Night out and day in

Doing the rounds

What a great life this must seem !

Swelled joints

Everything classy

Nothing is tacky

Only the best

Lush girls

Older and dying

Sighing and crying

"This is success !"

What a great life this must seem !

But when I hear your voice

Singing out

The Bells Of Home

Are ringing out

And I feel all alone

(And I think of my home)

Cold times

A wind through the houses

The bleakness arouses

A longing to leave

Time flew

I wanted to see you

Somehow I could not do

Because of success

What a strange life this can be !

But when I hear your voice

Singing out

The Bells Of Home

Are ringing out

And I feel all alone

(And I think of my home)

GET OFF THE STAGE

Oh, you silly old man

You silly old man

You're making a fool of yourself

So get off the stage

You silly old man

In your misguided trousers

With your mascara and your Fender guitar

And you think you can arouse us ?

But the song that you just sang

It sounds exactly like the last one

And the next one

I bet you it will sound

Like this one

Downstage, and offstage

Don't you feel all run in ?

And do you wonder when they will take it away ?

This is your final fling

But then applause ran high

But for the patience of the ones behind you

As a verse drags on like a month drags on

It's very short, but it seems very long

And the song that you just sang

It sounds exactly like the last one

And the next one

I bet you it will sound

Like this one

So, get off the stage

Oh, get off the stage

And when we get down off of the stage

Please stay off the stage - ALL DAY !

Get off the stage

Oh, get off the stage

And when we've had our money back

Then I'd like your back in plaster

Oh, I know that you say

How age has no meaning

Oh, but here is your audience now

And they're screaming :

"Get off the stage"

Oh, get off the stage

Because I've given you enough of my time

And the money that wasn't even mine

Have you seen yourself recently ?

Oh, get off the stage

For whom, oh ...

Get off the stage

For whom the bell tolls

HEIR APPARENT

I came back to my old city

With fierce determination

And I couldn't find my way out of the station

It's all changed

You were there

Departing, starting

A trek I had once took

With that "no-one's gonna stop me when I feel this way" look

Apparent, apparent

Heir apparent

You think it's so easy, I tell you - it isn't

But you may change minds with your winning smile

I fell down in my old city

Such sad degradation

So I tried to make my way back to the station

You were still there

Gleaming and leaving

Wide-eyed and awestruck

Saying "How can anybody hate me

If I love them first off?"

Apparent, apparent

Heir apparent

You think it's so easy, I tell you - it isn't

But you may change minds with your winning smile

Heir, heir, heir

But you may be OK, I don't know

I'll see you back here

In a few bruised years

Pray

I'll see you here

Apparent, apparent

Heir apparent

You say that you want it, I'm sure that you'll get it

They'll seduce your heart and then they'll slap your arse

Heir, heir, heir

I CAN HAVE BOTH

Staring in the window of the shop that never opens

Planning my selection from all the treats inside

Should I take as I desire - oh shall I, oh shall I ?

Or should I hang around to be enticed inside ?

I'm trying to explain to myself

I can have both

I'm trying to explain to the voice inside

I can have both

There's nobody around to say no

Who've brain-washed the small shy boy inside

He doesn't know he can have both

Smiling through the window to the one who never serves you

I've not been feeling myself tonight

Should I take as I feel like it - well shall I, oh shall I ?

Or should I wait and hope to be dragged inside ?

Oh ...

I'm trying to explain to myself

I can have both

I'm trying to explain to the voice inside

I can have both

There's nobody around to say no

Who've brain-washed the small shy boy inside

He doesn't know he can have both

I can have both

There's no need to choose

Because

I can have both

There's no need to choose

I can have both

There's no need to choose

Because

I can have both

There's no need to choose

I can have both

There's no need to choose

I KNOW HOW I GOT MY NOTE WRONG

A child in a curious phase

A man with a sullen way

Oh, I know very well how I got my name

You think you were my first love

You think you were my first love, but you're wrong

You were the only one

Who's come and gone

When thirteen years old

Who dyed his hair gold ?

Oh, I know very well, I don't need to be told

You think you were my first love

You think you were my first love, but you're wrong

You were the only one

Who's come and gone

You were the only one

Who's come and gone

When they're duff, they really are fucking duff...

I KNOW VERY WELL HOW I GOT MY NAME

A child in a curious phase

A man with sullen ways

Oh, I know very well how I got my name

You think you were my first love

You think you were my first love, but you're wrong

You were the only one

Who's come and gone

When thirteen years old

Who dyed his hair gold ?

Oh, I know very well, I don't need to be told

You think you were my first love

You think you were my first love, but you're wrong

You were the only one

Who's come and gone

You were the only one

Who's come and gone

JOURNALISTS WHO LIE

Journalists who lie

Stealing the money

Prospering with spite

Hate-In-A-Hurry

Oh, see how :

They're only trying to make their name

By spreading Biz myth-lies

About the ones who've made their name

Stick in the knife

Journalists who lie

The truth is, it happens

Praise, then crucify

Just follow this pattern

And see how :

They're only trying to make their name

By spreading sickening lies

About the ones who've made their name

Mate, give us the knife

Give us the knife

Journalists who lie

So happy in malice

Rock star - out of line

So happy in malice

Oh ...

Journalists who lie

So sick and belaboured

They only want to be favoured

See how :

They're only trying to make their name

With unprovable lies

About the ones

Who've made their name

In the black hole

Of your soul

Still bargaining away the Truth

So easily

Truth

Journalists who lie

Stealing the money

Prospering with spite

And Hate-In-A-Hurry

Journalists who lie

The truth is, it happens

Praise, then crucify

Just follow this pattern

Journalists who lie

So sick and belaboured

They want to be favoured

They only want to be favoured

LOST

Jet trails in the sky

Leave one word behind

A hand bangs into sand a name

And we all understand

Everybody's Lost

But they're pretending they're not

Lost

Oh, Lost

Jet trails in the sky

Leave one thought behind

A hand bangs into sand a name

And we all understand

Everybody's Lost

But they're pretending they're not

Lost

Oh, Lost

So if I see you

And I tell you

How I've watched you

I'm just Lost

So if I see you

And I tell you

I've watched you

Don't make fun of me later

Cause I'm just Lost

If I see you

And I tell you

How I've watched you

Don't make fun of me later

Cause I'm just Lost

If I see you

And I tell you

How I've watched you

Don't make fun of me later

Cause I'm just Lost

Lost Lost Lost Lost Lost Lost

NOW I AM A WAS

Once I was complete and

Safe within your heart

Me - with a preference for

Making things worse

So, now I am a was

Now I am a was

I started at the top

And I worked my way down

Once I was so smugly

Foremost in your thoughts

Me - with a talent for

Making you cry

So, now I am a was

Now I am a was

I started at the top

And I worked my way down

So, now I am a was

I am a was

So, now I am a was

I am a, I am a, I am a, I am a,

I am a, I am a, I am a, I am a ...

OH WELL, I'LL NEVER LEARN

Looking up at the sign

It said: "PLEASE KEEP AWAY"

And so in I ran

You see ...

I'll never learn

Oh, I'll never learn

I'll never learn

Chapter one again

Here I go again

I found a fountain of youth

And I fell in

How could I ever win ?

I'll never learn

Why should I mind ?

Why should I care ?

I'll never learn

PLEASE HELP THE CAUSE AGAINST LONELINESS

Please help the cause against loneliness

Would you like to note my home address ?

Please help the cause against loneliness

Would you kindly note my inside leg ?

Oh, I don't mind what time you come round

If it's the daytime then I might be in bed - oh

I'm so very young

I am so really, really young ... oh, oh

Please help the cause against loneliness

Would you like a list of my dislikes ?

There are people with problems

I know this ... I've know this for years

There are paupers and peers

Who have problems, oh

I don't mind what time you come round

If it's the weekend then I have to be dead, oh

I'm so very young

I'm so really, really young ... oh, oh

I'm so young - really, really (yeah yeah yeah)

I am so young

I am so really, really young

I am so young

So young

STRIPTEASE WITH A DIFFERENCE

This re-shuffled pack brings back the sickness of luck,

Because the ace in my hand is such a shock

Exchanging queen for your two while you're out of the room,

Have a shufty over your shoulder (well it's a shady game)

And I want to lose

Oh, please let me lose

It's nothing to you

I'm cutting this queen

(well, this six is chewed)

You're all un-disguised

(I'm stuck on shoes)

So, have you ever met a bad winner ?

"Well, how do you do..."

THE EDGES ARE NO LONGER PARALLEL

The edges are no, no longer parallel

And there is no law of averages here

If you feel down

Then you're bound to stay down

All of the things you said

So meaningful

They are all so suddenly meaningless

And the looks you gave

So meaningful

They are all so suddenly meaningless

Oh ...

And there is no law of averages here

If you feel down

Then you're bound to stay down

My only mistake is I'm hoping

I'm hoping

My only mistake is I'm hoping

I'm hoping

My only mistake is I'm hoping

I'm hoping

My one mistake is I'm hoping

I'm hoping

My only mistake is ...

My only mistake is I keep hoping

My only mistake is I'm hoping

I'm hoping

My only mistake is I'm hoping

I'm hoping

THERE SPEAKS A TRUE FRIEND

Now, there

There speaks a true friend

There speaks a friend for life

You told me all the things

That you think are wrong with me

I just wish you'd stayed around and helped me put them right

But nevertheless :

There ... mm

There speaks a true friend

There speaks a friend for life

You listed all the things

That people cannot stand about me

I just wish you'd stayed around and helped me to improve

Because I've tried, I've tried

Oh, I've really really tried

You say I don't know how to live

(And that's true)

You say I don't deserve to live

Oh, where would I be without my friends to help me ?

I just can't imagine where I'd be, can you ?

THIS IS NOT YOUR COUNTRY

Road blocks and fire

Barb wire upon barb wire

This is not your country

Armoured cars, corrugated scars

Grafitti scrawls:

"This is not your country"

Home sweet fortress

Gunshot - we hate your kind

Get back !

This is not your country

I need some air

And I'm stopped and repeatedly questioned:

"Born and raised ?"

But this is not my country

We're old news

All's well

Say BBC scum

One child shot, but so what ?

Laid my son

In a box, three feet long

And I still don't know why

A short walk home becomes a run

And I'm scared

In my own country

We're old news

All's well

Say BBC scum

Everybody's under control

Of our surveillance globes

We're old news

All's well

And thirty years could be a thousand

And this Peugeot ad

Spins round in my head

British soldier pointing a gun

And I'm only trying to post a letter

A short walk home becomes a run

And I'm scared, and I'm scared, I am scared

Old news

All's well

BBC scum

You've got more than the dead, so zip up your mouth

Zip up your mouth

You've got more than the dead, so zip up your mouth

Zip up your mouth

You've got more than the dead, so zip up your mouth

Zip up your mouth

You've got more than the dead, so zip up your mouth

YOU MUST PLEASE REMEMBER

A small boy, big ideas

You must please remember

A long road, with no turn-off

Oh, you must remember

Caught in your headlights

Like a frightened animal

You must remember

Someone cries twice nightly

Of course, I do remember

Someone cries and you think quite rightly so

But you refuse to remember

Caught in your headlights

Like a frightened animal

Oh, you must remember

Oh ...

Remember, remember

Oh ...

Remember, remember

Low-lights and long nights

I try hard to not remember

And you - too beautiful

I can't look

I've done so very many stupid things

It's too late (remember)

Oh ...

Remember, remember

Oh ...

Remember, remember

Oh ...

Oh, remember

Oh ...

Remember, oh ...

Oh ...

Oh, remember

Oh ...

Remember, oh

Oh ...

Oh, remember, oh

Oh ...

Remember, oh

Oh ...

Oh, remember, oh

Oh ...

Remember, oh

YOU'VE HAD HER

Things you have cherished

Now making you squirm

Ya ...

YOU'VE HAD HER

And it's all over now

Why you were pining

You haven't a clue

Ya ...

YOU'VE HAD HER

And it's all over now

It's all over now - for you

It's all only started - for her

Ah ...

And the one thing on your mind

Is : where is the next in line ?

As the words to all the love songs

Start making sense

To the girl

Far

Away

TRASH

Trash

Don't take your love away

Trash

Don't take your love away

Trash

Don't try to take my life away

And please don't you ask me why

I love you ...

Because I don't know if I do

I know it's ...

And what will I do with you ?

I'd go to Lover's Leap with you

I'd go to Fairyland with you

I'd go to Planet Blue with you

But I just don't know if I do ...

MY INSATIABLE ONE

In the high life, I've got this feeling now

I've got this horrible feeling

On the escalator, they took it out on him

As the ridiculous world went by

Oh, he's gone

He's my insatiable one

Oh, he is gone

He's my insatiable one

Oh...

On the high wire, dressed in a leotard

There wobbles one hell of a retard

On the escalator, you shit paracetamol

As the ridiculous world goes by

Oh, he is gone

He's my insatiable one

Oh, he is gone

He's my insatiable one

Oh...

Oh, he is gone

He's my insatiable one

Oh, he is gone

And he was my inflatable one

Oh...