Blue Rock

Recorded at Real World Studios, Bath and Mountain Studios, Montreux

Mixed at Roundhouse Studios, mastered at Townhouse Studios

Released 9th September 1991 in Germany (and also in Japan)

Bad Attitude

New Dark Ages

Dirty Mind

Baby It's Alright

Ain't Put Nothin' Down

The Also Rans

Millionaire

Put It All Down To Love

Hand of Fools

Life Changes

Not on the album

Heartland

Bad Attitude

(Words and music by The Cross)

Broadsword calling Danny boy

You know what I feel

They say I gotta

They say I gotta - a bad attitude

You wanna buy a picture of your sister in her birthday suit

No gratitude

Street tough talkin' but you always get screwed

Hey your face don't fit burn down the school

Only way to stay cool gotta break some rules

Systems made for fools

No aptitude

You get real slow and you slide into decrepitude

It's all platitudes

This one way street always ends in penal servitude

Get out there (get out there)

Get on the street go on and break some rules

You know what I feel

Rip it up - I gotta bad attitude

Tear it down - I gotta bad attitude

A bad attitude

You can't think straight when you're raised on junk food

No solitude

Somebody help me gotta getta grip on my latitude

You're just a destitute

Your folks don't like it when they see you starrin' on the news

You know what I feel

Rip it up - I gotta bad attitude

Tear it down - I gotta bad attitude

You're just a destitute

Some kinda prostitute

Sometimes I just wanna sit back and relax and get me some pulchritude (ha ha)

Lets get stewed

Get crude

A bad attitude

Rip it up - I gotta bad attitude

Tear it down - I gotta bad attitude

Rip it up - I gotta bad attitude

Tear it down - I gotta bad attitude

So don't tell me what I gotta do

I'm sick of wise guys feeding me all these verisimilitudes

I ain't a fool

You'd better watch out honey - I'm one pissed off dude

I gotta bad attitude.

New Dark Ages

(Words and music by Roger Taylor)

Welcome

How do you do - what do you say

Welcome to a new dark age

Let's go straight to bed

Love's got outta hand

You must be outta your head

When you feel in the night

This can't happen to you

It's a war that we fight

Yes we do

Welcome to the new dark ages

Ooh yeah

Only love can save us now

Love has become a four letter word

It's past its best and seldom heard

Love's left on the shelf like cigarettes

It's bad for your health

And you feel in the night

It's a scary thing

You believe in what's right

Take care - stop to think

Welcome to the new dark ages

Stop - Take - Care - Think

Is - this - real - love

And you feel in the night

Can this bad dream be true

It's a war that we fight

Don't let it happen to you

Welcome to the new dark ages

Welcome

New dark ages

Welcome to the new dark ages

Welcome to

New dark ages

New dark ages.

Dirty Mind

Some people look for love and affection

That was never my scene

I was looking for a different perfection

I wanna girl that talks mean

Some people go for poets and flowers

Means nothing to me

She's gotta look good in the shower

I'll stay in there for hours and hours

I've been around the world

I wanna lover (I wanna lover)

I wanna lover with a dirty mind

I wanna lover (I wanna lover)

I wanna lover with a dirty mind

Some people look for faith and devotion

They're bringin' me down

Why swim against the tide of emotion

When you could be tied down

I'm gonna treat romance like a tumour

I'm cuttin' it out

I'm sick to death of hearsay and rumour

I need a girl with some sense of humour

I've been around the world

I wanna lover (I wanna lover)

I wanna lover with a dirty mind

I wanna lover (I wanna lover)

I wanna lover with a dirty mind

Every now and then it occurs to me

I'm caught up in the web of morality

Well I've been around the world

And nowhere could I find - yeah

I don't care if she's woman or a girl

I wanna lover with a dirty mind - yeah

I wanna lover (I wanna lover)

I wanna lover

I wanna lover with a dirty mind

I wanna lover (I wanna lover)

I wanna lover with a dirty mind...

Baby It's Alright

I could be your lover

I could be your friend

It's one or the other

Or is that where it ends

'Cos I never see you

And you never call

I want to be near you

To hold you that's all

Be there if you fall

Baby it's all right

Oh for the first time I could be strong

I need you near me tonight

Must be the right time

How could it be wrong

You gave me my heartache

You give me my blues

I'm here in your doorway

I got nothing to lose

And cryin's no use

Baby it's all right

Oh for the first time I could be strong

I need you near me tonight

Must be the right time

How could it be wrong

Baby it's all right

Oh for the first time I could be strong - yeah

I need you near me tonight

Must be the right time

How could it be wrong - yeah

And if you should decide honey

You need a love that's good

It ain't about pride

It ain't about manhood

And baby it's all right

Baby it's all right

Honey it's all right

Baby it's all right.

Ain't Put Nothin' Down

(Words and music by Clayton Moss)

You ain't put nothin' down down

You ain't put nothin' down

You ain't put nothin' down boy

You ain't put nothin' down

You know you hide from yourself

You know you're turning away

Sometimes you've got to face the world

Take it day by day

Hey sometimes you've got to take a look around

Keep your ear to the ground

You ain't put nothin' down

Gotta stop this foolin' around boy

'Cos you ain't put nothin' down

You know you're running away

You've got to win on this race

Give it all that you've got

This human race needs a lot

'Cos you ain't put nothin' down down

You ain't put nothin' down

You've got to turn yourself around

You ain't put nothin' down

Hey - hey

So many questions - you ask yourself

Better find some answers - don't get left on the shelf

This is your - cry for help

Better help yourself

You ain't put nothin' down down

You ain't put nothin' down

You ain't put nothin' down down

You ain't put nothin' down

Better turn yourself around boy

You ain't put nothin' down

You had to turn yourself around boy

You were lost but now you're found

Lost

Now you're found

Lost

But now you're found

Lost

Now you're found

Lost

But now you're found

Lost

Now you're found

Lost.

The Also Rans

(Words and music by Roger Taylor)

Fucked

Again

I was born on the twenty second floor of a bird cage

I was bound to rock - I was born to rage

When your daddy gets drunk and your ma has no hope

And you're tough and you're young and you got enough rope

And you make a wrong turn and you make some mistakes

You run outta control and you ain't got no brakes

And the country's a wreck and the government's cruel

Then you better check out - if you wanna be cool

It's a hard road - in a world that stinks

God have mercy on the man that thinks

It's a hard road - in a world that sucks

God don't love you when you're out of luck

So I work real hard and I earn my pay

And I drink all night - it's the only way

To make some fun outta life - just a little bit more

And when I get up my nerve - I'm gonna rob me a store

Or even find me a girl - you never know your luck

And she'll cook and she'll clean - just to make a few bucks

It's a grand old world - going down the pan

And there ain't no cure - for an also ran

Yeah it's a hard road - in a world that stinks

God have mercy on a man that thinks

Yeah it's a hard road - we're going down the pan

God have mercy on the also rans

You gotta have mercy on the also rans

If you wanna get out you gotta be desperate Dan

You know what I mean

A hard road

It's a hard road - when you're on your own

It's a hard road - when your skin's the wrong tone

It's a hard road - if your face don't fit

It's a hard road - you gotta take a lotta shit

'Cos God don't love you when you got no bucks

It's a hard road - oh yeah

God don't love you when you're outta luck - yeah

God have mercy (hard road)

Have mercy (hard road) on the also rans

(hard road)

God have mercy (hard road)

God have mercy (hard road) on the also rans

Yeah.

Millionaire

(Words and music by Clayton Moss, Peter Noone and Josh Macrae)

Trash my guitar - I got a lot to spare

Well I can do what I want - it just don't seem fair

Let your fingers do the walking

What you hear is money talking

So love me now

Love me here

Love me good honey

I'm a millionaire

A millionaire

I got a swimming pool

You know it keeps me cool

Got a car that's flash

I gotta rash from cash

Let your fingers do the walking

What you hear is money talking

So love me now

Love me here

Love me good honey

I'm a millionaire

A millionaire yeah

I think I can safely say

I'm on my way to my first million

I say

Hey I'm a famous dude and I just exude

I gotta Cadillac - a bowling alley in the back

Weren't you thrilled to bits - with my Greatest Hits

Ain't I a loveable guy

So love me now

Love me here

Love me good

I'm a millionaire

So love me now

Love me here

Love me good

I'm a millionaire

I'm rich - I am stinking ruddy well rich

Love me now - yeah

He's a lovely geezer na na na na na

I've got no small change

Well you'd better go and get some hadn't you old garcon

He's got lots of money na na na na na

Have to stop now guys - you can't afford me any more.

Put It All Down To Love

Yeah

Well looky over here - comin' down the street

It's long face Sally - the saddest girl to meet

She's got all the world's problems - she carries all of our sins

Oh but wait a minute Sally - you gotta mile wide grin

She's got something to smile about

She's found a lover and she wants to shout

Put it all down to love

You know you gotta put it all down to love

You better put it all down to love

Do my eyes deceive - on the other side

Oh it's my pal Joey - the greatest man alive

He's a clown he's a joker - he'll bring you down to your knees

Ah but wait a minute Joey - what are these tears I see

He's gotta reason to cry today

He had a lover but she's gone away

Put it all down to love

You know you really gotta put it all down to love

Put it all down to love

Love's the reason for all the thing's we do

Love's the reason I'm not over you

I'll be the golden bullet in your genetic gun

So look out baby here I come here I come

Yeah all right

Go get 'em Joey

Little joker

She's got something to smile about

She's found a lover and she wants to shout

Put it all down to love

You really gotta put it all down to love

Put it all down to love

You really gotta put it all down to love

Put it all down to love.

Hand Of Fools

(Words and music by Peter Noone)

Streets echo the last retreat

Dust falls to the ground

A mother cries help

While walking in paradise

Look around and you'll see

We're stripping it bare

Soon there'll be no place to turn

Who plays the hand of fools

With who's God given right

It's out of control

Don't it show

While profit oils the big machines

And we're short changed the facts

Where does it stop

The lifeblood is slipping away every day