from the Charmless Man single.

Watching spiders on the bedroom ceiling
They got big plans, so they're not breathing
Feel the frisson of tomorrow today
I could get up but it won't go away
Do nothing to impress my friends
Just rub my eyes for hours on end
Oh England, my love, you lost me, made me look a fool

I need someone to tell me everything'll be alright
I need someone who'll hold me when the day turns to night
I need someone who loves me more than you do
Oh we say that's not true
And you and me in line as double bill
Surrogate heroes on TV and films

I've never met anyone like you
I've never done the things you like to do
On the way to heaven in a comedy car
The new stars of melancholia
There's nothing to get angry about
We're too hung over to be bash out
Oh England, my love, you've tattooed your past all over me

I need someone to tell me everything'll be alright
I need someone who'll hold me when the day turns to night
I need someone who loves me more than you do
Oh we say that's not true
And you and me in line as double bill
Surrogate heroes and welcome you will
I've got a feeling that nobody's sold
I've got a feeling I should let myself go-go-go

And days will be like this all your life
And days will be like this all your life
And people will always miss all your life
And people will always miss all your life

And days will be like this
And days will be like this
And days will be like this

from the Beetlebum single (#1).

     A long legged someone
     Seen walking away from home
     Look a vacant dreamer
     Walking alone alone

     Ways that turn and turn
     Which is what we'd learn
     As suffering believers
     In the book of Badgeman Brown

     They're dropping like flies
     In a suburban house
     From a lack of anything
     Anything to keep their hands in

     And the town keeps screaming
     From a lonely hill
     Another lack of people
     Those who never will

     Ways that turn and turn
     Which I what we'd learn
     As suffering believers
     In the book of Badgeman Brown

     This is the voice of someone
     Calling from a lonely hill
     For the hard of hearing
     For those who never will

     The days will turn and turn
     Which is what we'd learn
     As average believers
     In the book of Badgeman Brown

from the Popscene single.

I don't want to hurt you, no not ever
No not ever

This is my street I stay here and sleep
Your outside on sunny days
Nicotine flow stops a pain grow
Stay awhile so nearly there

I don't want to hurt you, no not ever
No not ever

This is my street I stay here and sleep
Your outside on sunny days
Be a man can shake you bone bag
One day up is another down

from the 'For Tomorrow' single (#1).

     I've got my pills and I've got my toys
     Like pin-up girls and pin-up boys
     My lips are frozen to another can
     I could kill him but I just kiss his hand

from the Beetlebum single (#2).

     Day, day upon day, day upon day
     Day upon day
     Day, day upon day, day upon day
     Day upon day

     Everybody's here with me
     We're in the smallest rooms you see
     An' although we got nothing to do
     We going to do what do I do

from the 'There's No Other Way' single.

     You're dizzy

     I floated up
     Fifteen miles high
     Stuck my head through
     All the holes in our sky
     I looked out across the universe
     And thought of you

     You're dizzy
     And I am dizzy too

     I became lunatic
     With rolling eyes
     Squirming on the ground
     Frozen in ice
     Called to my mother
     Said "Mother, please
     Feed me before the sky
     Falls in on me"

     You're dizzy

Ahhh

I'm forgetting who I am
That makes me wonder who I am
Trying so hard to find sense when there's none at all

Ahhh
Down

Staring at the sun all day
If you stare too long you get burned away
Now there's nothing left of me so have it all

Ahhh

Forgetting again I blame
My past has just faded away
Now I can tell you everything there is to know about

Ahhh
Down

from the 'She's So High' single.

     Waltzing on an autobahn
     There is cause for alarm
     It's a neurotic thought but you thought it
     And in the future it'll be the same

from the 'Chemical World' single (#2).

It seems I can't be trusted
And I don't disagree
What made you ever think I really
Wanted to be

I can't explain why
And I don't know when
I'm ever going to want to
See her again

So don't ask why I came here
There's nothing I can say
I don't think I'll be staying very long
Anyway

I'm trying to find out why
I came here at all
I don't think it was to see you
After all

I can't explain why
And I don't know when
I'm ever going to want to
See her again

from the 'Bang' single (UK) and the 'There's No Other Way' single (US).

     Did I say I want to know
     Talking about a goal
     Would you please leave me alone
     Can't you see I want to be on my own

     Oh I would like to give you your head
     Just to see if you are dead
     Oh I'd like to get into that pretty head
     And it would amuse me to see
     How you feel about me
     How you feel about always getting fried

     Did I say I wan to know
     We're talking about a goal
     Would you please leave me alone
     Can't you see I want to be on my own
     Can't you see I want to be on my own

     Did I say I want to know
     We're talking about a goal
     Would you please leave me alone
     Can't you see I want to be on my own
     Can't you see I want to be on my own

     Oh I'm going to fry
     Oh I'm going to fry
     Oh I'm going to fry

from the 'Sunday, Sunday' single.

Catatonia
Catalonia stitch
Oh, I've been running for miles
I start to tingle from my head to my toes
Oh, tomorrow it's a taint on the nose
Oh on my nose

Get out of cities, return to the trees, yeah yeah

She's in a sort of perfect capital freeze
guess the petrol's done a whole lot for me
Catatonia itch
Catalonia stitch
Pray tomorrow is itchy nitchy nitch
Go to your bitty bath

Get out of cities, return to the trees, yeah yeah
 

from the 'Song 2' single.

     It's a long time isn't it
     fumes of life

     People are bleeding loose in here
     Got yer!

from the 'To The End' single.

     I woke up
     And went down next door
     I'm getting up with nothing on my mind
     I went down the stairs
     With a pain in my head
     I should have never got out of bed

     Then everything shattered
     Just at the point that it mattered
     Just at the point that it mattered
     Aha

     I'm alive I can breathe the air
     I can hurt you
     I can fall down there
     Right into your mind
     Don't put it around
     You can't catch me
     And carried away

     I woke up, woke up every day
     There is noting, nothing to say
     Halfway down the stairs
     I feel a pain in my chest
     I should have never got out of bed

     Then everything shattered
     Just at the point that it mattered
     Just at the point that it mattered
     Aha

     I'm alive, I can breathe the air
     I can hurt you
     Halfway down the stairs
     I get a pain in my chest
     I should never got out of bed

     I should never ever ever
     I should never.

from the 'For Tomorrow' single.

I know, I know, I know it'll come between us
I know, I know

I'd like to get into that pretty head
Just to see, to see if you are dead
And it would amuse me just to see how
How you feel about me and this crowd

from the 'She's So High' single and the 'Leisure' album (US).

     I'm all over
     All over
     All over
     I'm the only one

     I'm hanging around
     Going nowhere
     Waiting for it to happen to me
     I always knew that there would be no-one nowhere
     Who was anything like me

     I'm all over
     All over
     All over
     You're the only one

     I always knew that there would be someone somewhere
     Who had it in for me
     I always knew that there would be no-one nowhere
     Who was anything like me

     I'm all over
     All over
     All over
     You're the only one

from the 'There's No Other Way' single.

     I can't hear you now
     ThereÕs too much that's going around
     You seem a worried fool
     So don't think I'm cool
     Makes me me unsure - of you

     Fear of being left alone
     Can take you over
     Slowly you will choke
     And say it's just a joke
     I'm not sure - of you

from the 'There's No Other Way' single.

     Ah ah ah ah

     Love substitute for the
     Never knew who you were
     Half your life has been explained
     You want the other half

     Ah ah ah ah

     Don't look at me as though I'm not here
     Your only regret what you don't see
     Half my life has been explained

from the 'Bang' single.

     You used to know but now you don't
You used to know but now you don't
You used to know but now you don't
     No one can see when theyÕve got mist in their eyes

     They're papering the walls and the windows
     No logic here in or out
     The heating's on and I'm feeling drowsy
     I fall asleep and dream of burning down the house

     You used to know but now you don't
You used to know but now you don't
You used to know but now you don't
     No one can see when theyÕve got mist in their eyes

     I'm pedaling on my bicycle
     I'm on my way to make a call
     The sun is out and I'm feeling drowsy
     I fall asleep and dream of burning down the house

     You used to know but now you don't
You used to know but now you don't
You used to know but now you don't
You used to know but now you don't
You used to know but now you don't
You used to know but now you don't
     No one can see when they've got mist in their eyes

from the 'Popscene' single.

     you led me away from home
     Just to save you from being alone
     You stole my heart
     That's what really hurts

     All I needed was a friend of lend a guiding hand
     You turned into my lover
     And mother what a lover you wore me out
     Al you do is wreck my bed
     And in the morning kick me in the head
     O Maggie I couldn't have tried anymore

     You led me away form home
     Just to save you from being alone
     You stole my heart
     I couldn't leave you if I tried

     I suppose I could collect my books and go back to school
     Or steal my daddy's cue
     And make a living out of playing pool
     I'll find myself a rock n roll band
     That needs a helping hand
     Maggie I wish I'd never
     Seen your face

     You made a first class fool out of me
     But I was blind as a fool can be
     You stole my heart
     But I love you anyway

from the 'Chemical World' single and the 'Girls & Boys' single (US).

     And I watered it in fears
     Night and morning with my tears
     And I sunn'd it with smile
     And with soft deceitful wiles

     And it grew both day and night
     Till it bore an apple bright
     And my foe beheld it shine
     And he knew that it was mine

     And into my garden stole
     When the night had veiled the pole
     In the morning, glad, I see
     My foe outstretched beneath the tree

     And sometimes I
     See magpie

from the 'Girls and Boys' single.

Then you confuse me
That makes me hateful
When I get hateful
I say stupid things about you
All those things I know about you

Oh, it's the strangest feeling to know
There are a billion people just like you
Feeling like you in their own way, they're...

Just as mixed up as you
Poor little mixed up you
Poor little mixed up you

And all those things
I said about you
I take them back
I eat my words

I didn't mean them
I mean so little
I'm so fickle
I forget you
I forget you

Just as mixed up as you
Poor little mixed up you
Poor little mixed up you

Oh, it's the strangest feeling to know
There are a billion people just like you
They all feel like you
And in their own way, they're just as...

Da da da da da da da da...

from the 'Sunday Sunday' single.

     Say goodbye
     Slowly drift away
     To somewhere

     Mr Briggs needs sleep now
     He's been up for a week
     He can hear a buzz buzz buzzing in his head
     He has a three-bar heater
     But it can't keep him warm
     If he bought another then he'd have three more

     Say goodbye
     Slowly drift away
     To somewhere

     Mr Briggs while on holiday
     Never left his bed
     Walked around in circles but only in his head
     The lady down the hallway
     Is running out of pills
     She could pull herself together but she knows she never will

     Say goodbye
     Somewhere