SALLY. IF I had a clue and a room, I would need a car to get you home tonight, again
o yeah again, got to get your hearing right or the fright, never know what you're getting
into, now again oh yeah again, so you tell me lend me an ear, you're to hear I'm the one
and only hand that you can hold, again o yeah again, not to say a bird in the hand should
be glad, some small mercies all you will ever have, again o yeah again, So the stakes
couldn't make, I don't need the help of you, could you try out of sight, for I haven't got
a clue, haven't got what it takes to. Got it wrong Sally's won, denim suits get it, that's
just what I was told, and I don't care if I was sold, so you were right, Sally flyed, I don't
know what to hit, I accept and can take the blame, can you fake when the fake is lame. Changing
round I have found, whether you're in can only leave you drowned, again o yeah again, get the
message loud and clear for my dear, places I will go to lumber with my gear, again o yeah
again. If you need a little help to move let me know, cause hardly I can wait, to say to
you let it go, vilify me if it makes the cut turn you on, and I'm sure by the time you gain.
J.J.'S SONG. Handy it's for you, even though you're not supposed to, go away Sue fool Sue, with
a smile at your creation, of a mass anticipation, go away Sue go on Sue, give a milder man his
place to, give a silencer it's grace to, go ahead Sue go on Sue. Try to get it straight, I'm
in action and I hate it, can I write my eager list, with a message on the end, you can reach me
at the station, I will swear to keep you waiting, am I joking am I hell, I'm a user and I'm
closer. It's a silly kind of meaning, I can see sense in your reason, go away fool away fool,
either way to be tight fisted, other means have been enlisted, in your name fool name fool, take a
second to decide if, you and I are going to croak if, you are maimed fool maimed fool. So let it
go, lady leave it out, oh why cause I read so, caught you on the ground again, and it looks so,
fully is the fake without any cuts show, filling in the time before. About time, they convince
you to agonise, take a cut when you get the prize, About time, make a limp cause he's at the
door, with a splint you can ask for more. About time, press eject when the fund it ends, then
again on the gravy train. About time, Did it up I tried to, qualify a lie to hurt you, go ahead
Sue go on Sue, be a dear and say to no one, never know you might be told on, go ahead Sue go on
Sue, I am always by your side to, tell a lie if I'm allowed to, go ahead Sue go on Sue.
DIDN'T EVEN TRY. So after all you never kid yourself alone, see you standing senile ever
overblown, I knew a chance of changing back, would re-appear again, but I can jump right
over you say when. Tell me driver I can't seem to understand, better be the leader than
to hold the major's hand, looking forward I can see a happy tree, a normal unaffected family.
So what d'you mean, you didn't even try, but it's alright with me, I can hold myself I
know myself, hold on tight and you can feel the strain, but it's alright with me, I can
change. Driving by hello remember me'amour, I'm the dandy member that you once
adored, mirrored in the window underneath a sunny glare, a reflection only you could bear.
Never ending nightmares you present to me, knowing that the problem is the problem, that I
see, certain self control preventing unashamed, from doing what I might regret again.
MEXICAN WAVE. Hello I'm the same boy, the one you left behind, and if you find disturbing
I will eagerly rewind, knowing what's important, is everything ok, slowing down was
helpful, but if only it was when. All is said and done, with the blame you would've hung,
to be building all these years, what amounts to amounts to. Fear of reinvention discoloring
your eyes, if I can stare right through them, who am I to recognise. Ailment in the full,
fully blown's the way it looks, can I make my meaning clear, no attention to attention.
Hey Billy yes it's me, come around we'll have a field day, a relay around the back, hey
Billy ain't this sweet, I can't try to find a reason, to give you any slack, hey Billy hang
around, I've a little box of raisins found, and if you like I can make you feel alright, and
undone. Now it's not so easy, waiting baited breath, fearing for the day when the voices
in my head, giving up instructions, intelligence is claimed, lending up a garden path, of
where to who knows when. All is said and done, with the blame you would've hung, to be
building all these years, what amounts to amounts to. Heads spinning round, I can hardly
touch the ground, and if I stand by your side, would you mend.
SEVERED. So you won't even pay the fare, I'll hit you with my change gun, having got the
whole thing right, I won't meet the test of time, with your hair and your soft top shoes, I
could never be you, unending routes have been severed, aboard you've all been tethered. Only
with the grace allowed thee, turn this bus around, before we run the rim that's in our way,
below we lie below we dive today. Collect ticket skinhead you try it on, pull the other
with the bells on, you can smoke your smoke outside, dragging hard against the tide, wipe
your feet if you want to stay in, does it matter when your lungs fill, regarding the rules
have been severed, aboard you've all been tethered. Don't you make a sound, I'll stop it any
time you pay me, I can't hold this course, did I tell you stand, did I say that anyone could
touch me, I can't hold this course, pity about your friends, pity that none of them could
save face, I can't hold this course, did you touch the brake, did you touch anything I said no,
I can't hold it I can't make you see.
PLEDGE. Take stock of your time and ability, make room for the noise on your page, can't
give enough can't give enough, I'm the man with the means and the influence, I will leave
you alone in my own time, can't give enough can't give enough. So you rank with the names
on the underground, they hope to see a sign of me fallin down, knock knock knock knocking
on my window sill, another sweet reminder just to pay the bill, I can't see the jokes am I
hearing right, I can't see the point of this circle tight, can we hang around we won't say
a word, remember it's us now. Conditioned not to wait, I intended to be late, take stock
of your time and ability, make room for the noise on your page, trust you not to learn, when
the tables turned the tables turned. Substandard sounds stand and take a bow, pat each
others back oh really, can't you feel it now, you can blow your trumpet, I don't have to
listen in, unfortunate like mine it's just another din, easily misread easily mistook, read
about yourself when you create a look, we can manage to run on our own stream, remember it's
us now. All the stories I told, you couldn't hear me, all the things that you wrote, you
wouldn't teach me, every word that you say I am believing, even I was aware you didn't need
me, I told you nothing, I know the words have got no meaning.
ON THE TURN. I can't seem to think straight, I know I've had a little much too, am I over
acting this time, I know, so give me a try, could you have a little patience, I know I really
didn't mean it, you're the limit on the inside, at least it's on the turn. I don't mind
if you don't speak, do I care for your retreat, will you let me come around oh yeah, pucker
up it couldn't hurt you, let me go and then I'll work you, simmer down we'll struggle in
the end. I can't seem to walk straight, I know I've had a little much too, am I over acting
this time, I know, so give me a try, could you have a little patience, I know I really didn't
mean it, you're the limit on the inside, at least it's on the turn. Leaning over from behind,
work on the assumption, wrecking heads I will comply, to your lame suggestion, spinning is
the face I see, is it your complexion, I know that the joke's on me, when it's my reflection.
SECURE. It' a different kind of bleeding, that makes the fear react, and if I could try to
make some sense, I'm sure that you'd relax, in answer to the question asked, I hope that my
reply, relieves you of the tension here, if only for a while. And I will help, get you out,
you're not home, but you've got to know to. See me see me smile, cause I don't think I got
things right this time, guess who's in control, now that I managed just to clear my eyes,
maybe I'm a goner, but at least I've tried to work it out, ain't you feeling happy, when you're
on your own. It's a different kind of cold now, you've just come in the room, if you or I
could gain some ground, then neither'd be the fool, but you insist on teasing me, gets closer
to the bone, and if I can't be responsible, if I am left if I am left. Short change shooter,
it can only get you flack, and if I said that I was sorry, would you let me take it back, how
do you know, so do you care, now that what we've got was never meant to be, always ends up
beat. Up on the roof, an angel next to me, cos I saw your face in a magazine, show me the eyes,
you know that I despise, the joke decides the way that you or I will descend. Deal with
this or help yourself to more, thanks a lot I'll show you to the door, see me see me smile,
cause I don't think I'm born to get things right, guess who's in control, I just cleared my
eyes.
LESSER SHELF. Every time a day goes by, Bridie comes to mind, maybe cause I'm stupid or irate,
I'd rather face the future, with undefective eyes, cause I can see no solace, in the past.
Bridie had a friend she couldn't keep, crooked was the eye that failed to see, dad was a drunk
who never knew, the state of the man that he got to, sat on the edge of a lesser shelf, the man
only lived cause he knew. No tape parade no fuss made, the dead beats allowed and I'm so proud.
Think of now old loves old friends, old meanings pass us by, all your tricks don't interest me
at all, every other dealing done, with every other high, sends me right back, waiting for a
chance. Facing fact is none to bad, with curtains on my side, happy now that what was done's
denied, never mind the seed has gone, through coloured glass I see, hoping that you see yourself
in me. On a lesser shelf, on a lesser shelf, on a lesser shelf, on a lesser shelf, on a lesser
shelf, on a lesser shelf, on a lesser shelf, on a lesser shelf. No tape parade no fuss made,
the dead beats allowed and I'm so proud.
POINTLESS. Seven times I rang you, seven times you said you were bored, how do I know by the
tone in your voice, you will be there, time enough I've humoured thoughts, that situations
change, help me to know because all I will drop, just to be there. So why are you taut and
confusing, I heard that once, nothing comes between. Did you see the sun outside today, burning
the bridges I made yesterday, memory serves me never quite so well, so I broke it, I fell.
Tried and tried to listen hard, and gave you all I had, back in the face and the bile, I could
taste in your reasons, save for him all your frivolous chat, and I'm sure for your reward, a
house of your own and a book, full of nuns to remember. What you know is just a lie, I wouldn't
tell you what to do for me. I have what's best inside, I saw the man your eye's on, we're so
weird it hurts, and I don't even mind if that's all the plan, I'm fully careless with this.
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