@SONG: The Smiths

     Reel Around The Fountain      
     You've Got Everything Now     
     Miserable Lie                 
     Pretty Girls Make Graves      
     The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
     Still Ill  
     Hand In Glove  
     Hatful Of Hollow                     
     What Difference Does It Make  
     I Don't Owe You Anything  
     Suffer Little Children  

@SONG: Hatful of Hollow

     William It Was Really Nothing         
     What Difference Does It Make          
     These Things Take Time                
     This Charming Man                     
     How Soon Is Now?                      
     Handsome Devil                        
     Hand In Glove                         
     Still Ill                                
     Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now                                     
     This Night Has Opened My Eyes 
     You've Got Everything Now 
     Accept Yourself     
     Girl Afraid    
     Back To The Old House 
     Reel Around The Fountain 
     Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

@SONG: Meat Is Murder

     The Headmaster Ritual                   
     Rusholme Ruffians                       
     I Want The One I Can't Have             
     What She Said                           
     That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore           
     Nowhere Fast
     Well I Wonder
     Barbarism Begins At Home
     Meat Is Murder
     
@SONG: The Queen Is Dead

     The Queen Is Dead                       
     Frankly Mr. Shankly                     
     I Know It's All Over                    
     Never Had No One Ever                   
     Cemetery Gates                          
     Big Mouth Strikes Again
     The Boy With A Thorn In His Side
     Vicar In A Tutu
     There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
     Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

@SONG: The World Won't Listen

     Panic
     Ask
     London                                  
     Big Mouth Strikes Again                 
     Shakespeare's Sister                    
     There is a Light That Never Goes Out
     Shoplifters Of The World Unite          
     The Boy With The Thorn In His Side  
     Asleep
     Unloveable
     Half A Person
     Stretch Out And Wait
     That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
     Oscillate Wildly
     You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
     Rubber Ring

@SONG: Louder Than Bombs

     Is It Really So Strange                 
     Sheila Take A Bow                       
     Shoplifters Of The World Unite          
     Sweet and Tender Hooligan               
     Half A Person                           
     London                                  
     Panic                                   
     Girl Afraid                             
     Shakespeare's Sister                    
     William It Was Really Nothing           
     You Just Haven't Earned It Yet,Baby     
     Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
     Ask
     Golden Lights
     Oscillate Wildly
     These Things Take Time
     Rubber Ring
     Back To The Old House
     Hand In Glove
     Stretch Out And Wait
     Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
     This Night Has Opened My Eyes
     Unloveable
     Asleep

@SONG: Strangeways Here We Come

     A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
     I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
     Death Of A Disco Dancer
     Girlfriend In A Coma
     Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
     Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
     Unhappy Birthday
     Paint A Vulgar Picture
     Death At One's Elbow
     I Won't Share You

@SONG: "Hand in Glove"

     Hand in Glove
     Handsome Devil

@SONG: "This Charming Man"

     (original)
     This Charming Man
     Jeane

     (Manchester)
     This Charming Man (manchester) 
     This Charming Man(London)
     Accept Yourself
     Wonderful Woman

     (New York)
     This Charming Man (New York)
     This Charming Man(instrumental) 

@SONG: "What Difference Does It Make"

     What Difference Does It Make
     Back to The Old House
     These Things Take Time                   (12")

@SONG: "Hand in Glove"  (Sandie Shaw w/The Smiths)

     Hand In Glove
     I Don't Owe You Anything
     Jeane                                    (12")

@SONG: "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now"

     Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
     Suffer Little Children 
     Girl Afraid                              (12")

@SONG: "William It Was Really Nothing"

     William It Was Really Nothing
     Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
     How Soon Is Now? 

@SONG: "How Soon Is Now?"

     How Soon Is Now?
     Well I Wonder
     Oscillate Wildly                         (12")

@SONG: "Shakespeare's Sister"

     Shakespeare's Sister
     What She Said

@SONG: "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore"

     That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
     Nowhere Fast(live)                       (12")
     Stretch Out And Wait(live)               (12")
     Shakespeare's Sister(live)               (12")
     Meat Is Murder(live)


@SONG: "Big Mouth Strikes Again"

     Bigmouth Strikes Again
     Money Changes Everything
     Unloveable                               (12")
 
@SONG: "Panic"

     Panic
     Vicar In A Tutu
     The Draize Train                 (12")

@SONG: "Ask"

     Ask
     Cemetery Gates
     Golden Lights                    (12")

@SONG: "Shoplifters of the World Unite"

     Shoplifters of the World Unite"
     Half A Person
     London                              (12")

@SONG: "Sheila Take A Bow"

     Sheila Take A Bow
     Is It really So Strange? 
     Sweet And Tender Hooligan

@SONG: "Girlfriend In A Coma"

     Girlfriend In A Coma
     I Keep Mine Hidden
     Work Is A Four Letter Word             (12")

@SONG: "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish"

     I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
     Pretty Girls Make Graves
     Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others 

@SONG: "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"

     Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
     Rusholme Ruffians
     Nowhere Fast                          (12")
     William, It Was Really Nothing       (CD)

@SONG: "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"

     Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
     Work Is A Four Letter Word
     Girlfriend In a Coma
     I Keep Mine Hidden

@SONG: "Reel Around the Fountain"

     It's time the tale was told
     of how you took a child 
     and you made him old

     Reel around the fountain
     slap me on the patio
     I'll take it now

     Fifteen minutes with you 
     well, I wouldn't say no
     people said that you were virtually dead
     and they were so wrong

     fifteen minutes with you
     well, i wouldn't say no 
     people said that you were easily led
     and they were half-right

     I dreamt about you last night
     and i fell out of bed twice 
     you can pin and mount me like a butterfly
     but take me to the haven of your bed
     was something that you never said
     two lumps, please
     you're the bee's knees
     but so am I

     Meet me at the fountain
     shove me on the patio
     I'll take it slowly

     Fifteen minutes with you
     oh I wouldn't say no
     people see no worth in you
     oh but I do

@SONG: "You've Got Everything Now"

     As merry as the days were long 
     I was right and you were long

     back at the old grey school
     I would win and you would lose

     But you've got everything now
     and what a terrible mess I've made of my life

     No, I've never had a job
     because I've  never wanted one

     I've seen you smile
     but I've never really heard you laugh

     So who is rich and who is poor?
     I cannot say...

     You are your mother's only son
     and you're a desperate one

     But I don't want a lover
     I just want to be seen in the back of your car

     A friendship sadly lost?
     Well, this is true ...and yet, it's false

     Did I ever tell you , by the way 
     I never did like your face

     But you've got everything now
     and what a terrible mess I've made of my life

     No, I've never had a job
     because I'm too shy

     But I don't want a lover 
     I just want to be tied to the back of your car. 

@SONG: "Miserable Lie"

     So, goodbye
     please stay with your own kind
     and I'll stay with mine

     There's something against us
     it's not time 
     So, goodbye
     I know I hardly say
     how much I love your casual way
     but please put your tongue away
     a little higher and we're well away 
     the dark nights are drawing in 
     and your humour is as black as them
     I look at yours, you laugh at mine
     and"love"  is just a miserable lie
     you have destroyed my flower like-life
     not once-but twice
     you have corrupt my innocent mind
     not once-but twice
     I know that wind-swept mystical air
     it means: I'd like to see your underwear
     I recognise that mystical air 
     it means: I'd like to see your underwear
     what do we get for the trouble and pain?
     just a rented room in Whalley Range
     into the depths of the criminal world
     I followed her...

     I need advice, I need advice
     because nobody ever looks at me twice

     I'm just a country-mile behind
     the world

     I'm just a country mile behind 
     the whole world

     so take me when you go

@SONG: "Pretty Girls Make Graves"

     Upon the sand,upon the bay
     "there is a quick and easy way" you say
     before you illustrate
     I'd rather state:

     "I'm not the man you think I am
     I'm not the man you think I am "

     And Sorrow's native son
     he will not smile for anyone

     And pretty girls makes the graves
     End of the pier, end of the bay 
     you tug my arm and say:"Give into lust,
     give up to lust, oh heaven knows we'll
     soon be dust..."

     But I'm not the man you think I am
     I'm not the man you think I am

     And Sorrow's native son
     he will not rise for anyone

     And pretty girls make graves

     I could have been wild and I could have been free
     but Nature played this trick on me

     She wants it Now
     and she will not wait
     but she's too rough
     and I'm too delicate

     Then on the sand
     another man, he takes her hand
     and a smile lights up her stupid face
     (and well, it would)

     I lost my faith in Womanhood
     I lost my faith in Womanhood
     I lost my faith 

@SONG: "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"

     Please don't cry
     the ghost and the storm outside
     will not invade this sacred shire
     nor infiltrate your mind
     my life down I shall lie
     if the bogey-man should try 
     to play tricks on your sacred mind
     to tease, torment and tantalise
     wavering shadows loom
     a piano plays in an empty room
     there'll be blood on the cleaver tonight
     when darkness lifts and the room is bright
     I'll still be by your side
     for you are all that matters
     and I'll love you till the day I die
     there never need to be longing in your eyes 
     as long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine
     ceiling shadows shimmy by 
     and when the wardrobe towers like a beast of prey
     there's a sadness in your beautiful eyes 
     you're untouched, unsoiled, wonderous eyes
     my life down I shall lie
     should restless spirts try 
     to play tricks on you sacred mind
     but whom I never gave a name
     I just looked into his wonderous eyes
     and said" never never never again"
     all too soon I did return
     just like a moth to a flame
     so rattle my bones all over the stones
     because I'm only a beggar-man whom nobody owns
     see how words as old as sin
     fit me like a glove I'm here and here I'll stay
     together we lie, together we pray 
     there never need be longing in your eyes
     as long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine

@SONG: "This Charming Man"

     Punctured bicycle
     on a hillside desolate
     Will nature make a man of me yet?

     Then this charming car
     this charming man

     Why pamper life's complexities 
     when the leather runs smooth
     on the passenger seat?

     I would go out tonight
     but I haven't got a stitch to wear
     This man said "It's gruesome
     that someone so handsome should care

     A jumped-up pantry boy
     who never knew his place
     He said "Return the ring"
     (he knows so much about these things)

     This charming man 
     This charming man

     I would go out tonight 
     but I haven't got a stitch to wear
     This man said "It's gruesome 
     that someone so handsome should care

     A jumped-up pantry boy
     who never knew his place
     He said "Return the ring"
     (he knows so much about these things)

@SONG: "Still Ill"

     I decree today that life
     is simply taking and not giving 
     England is mine and it owes me a living
     ask me why, and I'll spit in your eye
     ask me why, and I'll spit in your eye
     but we cannot cling to the old dreams anymore 
     no, we cannot cling to the old dreams anymore

     Does the body rule the mind
     or does the mind rule the body?
     I dunno...

     Under the iron bridge we kissed
     and although I ended up with sore lips
     it just wasn't like the old days anymore
     no, it wasn't like those days 
     am I still ill?

     Does the body rule the mind
     or does the mind rule the body ?
     I dunno...

     Ask me why, and I'll die
     ask me why, and I'll die
     and if you must go to work tomorrow
     well, if I were you I wouldn't bother 
     for there are brighter sides to life
     and I should know because I've seen them
     but not very often...
     under the iron bridge we kissed
     and although I ended up with sore lips
     it just wasn't like the old days anymore
     no, it wasn't like those days
     am I still ill?

@SONG: "Hand In Glove"

     Hand in glove 
     the sun shines out of our behinds
     no, it's not like any other love 
     this one is different-because it's us

     Hand in glove
     we can go wherever we please 
     and everything depends upon
     how near you stand to me

     And if the people stare
     then the people stare
     I really don't know and I really don't care

     Hand in glove 
     the Good People laugh
     yes, we may be hidden by rags
     but we have something they'll never have

     So, hand in glove I stake my claim
     I'll fight to the last breath 

     If they dare touch a hair on your head
     I'll  fight to the last breath

     The Good Life is out there, somewhere
     so stay on my arm, you little charmer

     But I know my luck too well
     and I'll probably never see you again.

@SONG: "What Difference Does It Make?"

     All men have secrets and here is mine
     so let it be known
     we have been through hell and high tide,
     I can surely rely on you?
     and yet you start to recoil,
     heavy words are so lightly thrown
     but still I'd leap in front of a flying bullet for you

     So, what difference does it make?
     so, what difference does it make?
     it makes none
     but you have gone
     and you must be looking very old tonight

     The devil will find work for idle hands to do 
     I stole and I lied, and why?
     because you asked me to!
     but now you make feel so ashamed
     because I've only got two hands
     well, I'm still fond of you

     So, what difference does it make?
     so, what difference does it make?
     it makes none
     but you have gone
     and your prejudice won't keep you warm tonight

     So, no more apologies
     no more apologies
     I'm too tired
     I'm too sick and tired
     and I'm feeling very sick and ill today

     But I'm still fond of you 

@SONG: "I Don't Owe You Anything"

     Bought on stolen wine
     a nod was the first step 
     you know very well
     what was coming next

     did I really walk all this way
     just to hear you say
     "oh I don't want to go out tonight"

     but you will
     for you must 

     I don't owe you anything 
     but you owe me something
     repay me now

     you should never go to them
     let them come to you
     just like I do

     you should not go to them
     let them come to you
     just like I do 

     Too freely on your lips
     words prematurely said
     oh but I know what will make you smile tonight

     Life is never kind
     life is never kind
     oh but I know what will make you smile tonight

@SONG: "Suffer Little Children"
 
     Over the moors,take me to the moors
     dig a shallow grave
     and I'll lay me down

     Lesley-Anne, with your pretty white beads
     oh John, you'll never be a man
     and you'll never see your home again
     oh Manchester, so much to answer for

     Edward, see those alluring lights?
     tonight will be your very last night 

     a woman said "I know my son is dead
     I'll never rest my hands on his scared head"

     Hindley wakes and Hindley says:
     "Wherever he has gone, I have gone "

     But fresh lilaced moorland fields
     cannot hide the stoild stench of death

     Hindley wakes and Hindley says:
     "Whatever he has done, I have done"

     But this is no easy ride
     for a child cries

          "find me...find me, nothing more 
          we're on a sullen misty moor
          we may be dead and we may be gone
          but we will be right by your side
          until the day you die
          this is no easy ride
          we will haunt you when you laugh
          yes, you could say we're a team
          you might sleep
          BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM!"

     Oh Manchester, so much to answer for
     Oh Manchester, so much to answer for 
     Over the moor, I'm on the moor
     the child is on the moor

@SONG: "William, It Was Really Nothing"

     The rain falls hard on the humdrum town
     this town has dragged you down
     oh, the rain falls hard on the humdum town
     this town has dragged you down 
     and everybody's got to live their own life
     and God knows I've got to live mine
     God knows I've got to live mine
     William, William it was really nothing
     William , William it was really nothing

     How can you stay with a fat girls who'll say:
     "Would you like to marry me
     and if you like you can buy the ring"
     she doesn't care about anything
     would you like to marry me 
     and if you like you can buy the ring 
     I don't dream about anything
     William, William it was really nothing
     William, William.

@SONG: "These Things Take Time"

     Mine eyes have seen the glory of the scared wunderknid
     you took me behind a dis-used railway line
     and you said "I know a place we can go 
     where we are not known"
     and then you gave me something that I won't forget too soon
     but I can't believe that you'd ever care
     and this is why you'll never care
     but these things take time
     and I know that I'm the most inept
     that ever stepped

     I'm spellbound, but a woman divides
     and the hills are alive with celibate cries
     but you know where you came from, you know where
     you're going and you know where you belong 
     you said I was ill, and you were not wrong
     but I can't believe that you'd ever care
     and so, you never cared
     but these things take time
     and I know that I'm 
     the most inept
     that ever stepped

     Oh the alcoholic afternoons
     when we sat in your room
     they meant more to me
     than any living thing on earth 
     they had more worth 
     than any living thing on earth 

     vivid and in your prime
     you will leave me behind
     you will leave me behind

@SONG: "How Soon Is Now?"

     I am the son 
     and the heir
     of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
     I am the son and the heir
     of nothing in particular

     You shut your mouth 
     how can you say 
     I go about things the wrong way
     I am Human and I need to be loved 
     Just like everybody else does

     There's a club, if you like to go 
     you could meet somebody who really loves you
     so you go, and you stand on your own
     and you leave on your own 
     and you go home, and you cry 
     and you want to die

     When you say it's gonna happen "now"
     well, when exactly do you mean?
     see I've already waited too long 
     and all my hope is gone 

@SONG: "Handsome Devil"

     All streets are crammed with things
     eager to be held
     I know what hands are four
     and I'd like to help myself
     you ask me the time
     but I sense something more
     and I would like to give you
     what I think you are asking for
     you handsome devil 
     you handsome devil

     Let me get my hands
     on your mammary glands
     let me get your head
     on the conjugal bed
     I say, I say, I say 

     I crack the whip
     and you skip
     but you deserve it 

     A boy in the bush 
     is worth two in the hand
     I think I can help you get through your exams 

     (refrain)

     And when we're in your scholarly room
     who will swallow whom?

     (refrain)

     There's more to life than books, who know
     but not much more.

@SONG: "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now"

     I was happy on the haze of a drunken hour
     but heaven knows I'm miserable now

     I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
     and heavens know I'm miserable now

     In my life
     why do i give valuable time
     to people who don't care if I live or die

     Two lovers entwined passed me by
     and heavens knows I'm miserable now

     I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
     and heavens know I'm miserable now

     In my life
     why do i give valuable time
     to people who don't care if I live or die

     What she asked of me at the end of the day 
     Caligula would have blushed

     "You've been the house too long" she said
     and I naturally fled

     In my life
     why do I smile
     at people who I'd much rather kick in the eye

     I was happy on the haze of a drunken hour
     but heaven knows I'm miserable now

     "You've been the house too long" she said
     and I naturally fled

     In my life
     why do i give valuable time
     to people who don't care if I live or die

@SONG: "This Night Has Opened My Eyes"

     In a river the colour of lead 
     emerse a baby's head
     wrap her up in the News Of The World
     dump her on a doorstep, girl
     this night has opened my eyes
     and I will never sleep again 

     You kicked and cried like a bullied child
     a grown man of twenty-five
     he said he'd cure your ills
     but he didn't and he never will
     so, save your life
     because you've only got one

     The dream is gone
     but the baby is real
     oh you did a good thing 
     she could have been a poet 
     or, she could have been a fool
     oh you did a bad thing
     am I'm not happy
     and I'm not sad

     A shoeless child on a swing
     reminds you of your own again
     she took away your troubles
     oh but then again
     she left pain
     so, save your life
     because you've only got one

     The dream is gone
     but the baby is real
     oh you did a good thing 
     she could have been a poet 
     or, she could have been a fool
     oh you did a bad thing
     am I'm not happy
     and I'm not sad

@SONG: "Accept Yourself"

     Everyday you must say
     oh how do I feel about my life
     anything is hard to find
     when you will not open your eyes
     when will you accept yourself?
     I am sick and I am dull
     and I am plain
     how dearly I'd love to get carried away
     but dreams have a knack of just not coming through
     and time is against me now
     who and what to blame?
     anything is hard to find
     when you will not open your eyes
     when will you accept yourself?
     anything is hard to find
     when you will not open your eyes
     everyday you must say 
     how do I feel about the past 
     other conquered love-but I ran 
     I sat in my room and I drew up a plan
     but plans can fall through as so often they do 
     and time is against me now
     and there's no one left to blame
     tell me when will you 
     when will you accept your life
     the one that you hate 
     anything is hard to find 
     when you will not open your eyes
     everyday you must say
     how do I feel about my shoes
     they make me awkward and plain 
     how dearly I would love to kick with the fray
     but I once had a dream and it never came true
     and time is against me now
     and there's no one but yourself to blame
     anything is hard to find
     when you will not open your eyes
     when will you accept yourself?

@SONG: "Girl Afraid"

     Girl afraid
     where does his intentions lay?
     Or does he even have any?
     She says:
     "He never really looks at me
      I give him every opportunity
      in the room downstairs
      he sat and stared
      in the room downstairs
      he sat in stared
      I'll never make that mistake again !"

     Boy afraid
     prudence never pays
     and everything she wants costs money 
     "But she doesn't even LIKE me!"
      and I know because she said so 
      in the room downstairs
      she sat and stared
      in the room downstairs 
      she sat and stared
      I'll never make that mistake again!"

@SONG: "Back to the Old House"

     I would rather not go 
     back to the old house
     I would rather not go 
     back to the old house
     there's too many 
     bad memories

     When you cycled by
     here began all my dreams
     the saddest thing I've ever seen
     and you never knew
     how much I really liked you 
     because I never even told you 
     oh, but I meant to

     Are you still there?
     or have you moved away?

     I would love to go 
     back to the old house
     but I never will

@SONG: "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"

     Good times for a change
     See, the luck I've had
     would make a good man 
     turn bad

     So please please please
     let me, let me, let me
     get what I want
     this time

     Haven't had a dream in a long time
     See, the life I've had
     would make a good man bad

     So for once in my life
     let me get what I want
     Lord knows it would be the first time
     Lord knows it would be the first time

@SONG: "The Headmaster Ritual"

     Belligerent ghouls
     run Manchester schools
     spineless swines
     cemented mines
     Sir leads the troops
     jealous of youth 
     same old suit since 1962
     he does the military two-step
     down the nape of my neck
     I wanna go home
     I don't want to stay 
     give up education 
     is a bad mistake
     mid-week on the playing fields
     Sir thwacks you on the knees
     knees you in the groin
     elbow in the face
     I wanna go home
     I don't want to stay 

     Belligerent ghouls
     run Manchester schools
     spineless bastards all
     Sir leads the troops
     jealous of youth 
     same old jokes since 1902
     he does the military two-step
     down the nape of my neck
     I wanna go home
     I don't want to stay 
     give up life
     as a bad mistake
     please excuse me from gym
     I've got this terrible cold coming on 
     he grabs and devours
     he kicks me in the showers
     kicks me in the showers
     and he grabs and devours
     I wanna go home
     I don't want to stay 

@SONG: "Rusholme Ruffians"

     The last night at the fair
     by the big wheel generator
     a boy is stabbed
     and his money is grabbed
     and the air hangs heavy like a dulling wine
     she is famous 
     she is funny
     an engagement ring
     doesn't mean a thing
     to a mind consumed by brass(money)
     and though I walk home alone
     my faith in love is still devout
     the last night at the fair
     from a seat on a whirling waltzer
     her skirt ascends for a watching eye
     it's a hideous trait( on her mother's side)
     and though  I walk home alone
     my faith in love is still devout
     then someone falls in love
     and someone's beaten up
     and the senses being dulled are mine
     and someone falls in love
     someone's beaten up 
     and the senses being dulled are mine
     and though I walk home alone
     my faith in love is still devout
     this is the last night of the fair
     and the grease in the hair
     of a speedway operator
     is all a tremulous heart requires
     a schoolgirl is denied
     she said "How quickly would I die 
     if I jumped from the top of the parachutes?"
     this is the last night of the fair
     and the grease in the hair
     of a speedway operator
     is all a tremulous heart requires
     a schoolgirl is denied
     she said "How quickly would I die 
     if I jumped from the top of the parachutes?"
     scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen
     (this means you really love me)
     scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen
     (this means you really love me)
     and though I walk home alone
     my faith in love is still devout

@SONG: "I Want the One I Can't Have"

     On the day that your mentality
     catches up with your biology

     I want the one I can't have 
     and it's driving me mad
     it's written all over my face

     (repeat)

     A double-bed
     and a stalwart lover, for sure
     these are the riches of the poor

     A double-bed
     and a stalwart lover, for sure
     these are the riches of the poor

     (refrain)

     a tough kid who sometimes swallows nails
     raised on Prisoner's Aid
     he killed a policeman when he was thirteen
     and somehow that really impressed me
     it's written all over my face

     On the day that your mentality
     catches up with your biology

     And if you ever need self-validation
     just meet me in the alley by the
     railway-station
     it's written all over my face


@SONG: "What She Said"

     What she said:
     "How come someone hasn't noticed
     that I'm dead
     and decided to bury me
     God knows, I'm ready"
     What she said was
     but then, all the rejection she's had
     to pretend to be happy
     could only be idiocy
     What she said was not for the job or
     lover that she never had 
     What she read
     all heady books
     she'd sit and prophesise
     (it took a tattoed boy from Birkenhead
     to really really open her eyes)
     What she read
     all heady books
     she'd sit and prophesise
     (it took a tattoed boy from Birkenhead
     to really really open her eyes)
     What she said:
     "I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an 
     early death 
     AND I NEED TO CLING TO SOMETHING
     What she said:
     "I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an 
     early death 
     AND I NEED TO CLING TO SOMETHING!"

@SONG: "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore"

     Park the car at the side of the road
     you should know
     time's tide will smother you
     and I will too
     when you laugh about other people who feel so
     very lonely
     their only desire is to die
     well I'm afraid
     it doesn't make me smile
     I wish I could laugh
     but that joke isn't funny anymore
     it's too close to home
     and it's too near the bone
     it's too close to home 
     and it's too near the bone
     more than you'll ever know
     It was dark as I drove the point home
     and on cold leather seats
     well, it suddenly struck me
     I just might die with a smile on my 
     face after all

     I've seen this happen in other people's lives
     and now it's happening in mine

@SONG: "Nowhere Fast"

     I'd like to drop my trousers to the world
     I am a man of means(of slender means)
     each household appliance
     is like a new science in my town
     and if a day came when I felt a
     natural emotion
     I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump
     in the ocean
     and when a train goes by
     it's such a sad sound

     I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen
     every sensible child will know what this means
     the poor and the needy
     are selfish and greedy on her terms
     and if the day came when I felt a 
     natural emotion
     I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump
     in the ocean
     and when a train goes by 
     it's such a sad song 

     And when I'm lying in my bed
     I think about life
     and I think about death
     and neither one particularly appeals to me
     and if the day came when I felt a
     natural emotion
     I'd get such a shock I'd probably lie
     in the middle of the street and die
     I'd lie down and die

@SONG: "Well I Wonder"

     Well I wonder
     do you hear me when you sleep?
     I hoarsely cry

     Well I wonder
     do you see me when we pass?
     I half-die

     Please keep me in mind
     please keep me in mind

     Gasping-but somehow still alive
     this is the fierce last stand of all I am

     Gasping-dying-but somehow still alive
     this is the final stand of all I am

     Please keep me in mind

@SONG: "Barbarism Begins At Home"

     Unruly boys
     who will not grow up 
     must be taken in hand
     Unruly girls
     who will not settle down
     they must be taken in hand

     A crack on the head
     is what you get for not asking
     and a crack on the head 
     is what you get for asking

@SONG: "Meat Is Murder"

     Heifer whines could be human cries
     closer comes the screaming knife
     this beautiful creature must die
     this beautiful creature must die
     a death for no reason 
     and death for reason is MURDER
     and the flesh you so fancifully fry
     is not succulent, tasty or nice
     it's death for no reason 
     and death for no reason is MURDER
     and the calf that you carve with a smile
     is MURDER
     and the turkey you festively slice
     is MURDER
     do you know how animals die?
     kitchen aroma aren't very homely
     it's not "comforting," "cheery" or kind
     it's sizzling blood and the unholy stench 
     of MURDER
     it's not "natural," "normal" or kind
     the fleas you so fancifully fry
     as you savour the flavour 
     of MURDER
     NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER
     NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER
     who hears when animals cry?

@SONG: "The Queen Is Dead"

     Farewell to this lands cheerless marches
     hemmed in like a boar between arches
     her very Lowness with her head in a sling
     Im truely sorry-but it sounds like a wonderful thing
     dear Charles, dont you ever crave
     to appear on the front of the Daily mail 
     dressed in your Mother's bridal veil?
     So, I checked all the registered historical facts
     and I was shocked into shame to discover
     how Im the 18th pale descendent
     of some, old queen or other
     has the world changed, or have I changed?
     has the world changed, or have I changed?
     as some 9-year old tough peddles drugs
     (I never even knew what drugs were)
     And so, I broke into the Palace
     with a sponge and a rusty spanner
     she said: "Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing"
     I said: "that's nothing -you should hear me play  piano"
     We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
     and we can talk about precious things
     but when you are tied to your mother's  apron
     not one talks about castration
     We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry 
     and we can talk about precious things
     like love and law and poverty
     these are the things that kill me
     We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry 
     and we can talk about precious things
     but the rain that flattens my hair
     theses are the things that kill me
     Passed the Pub that saps your body
     and the church who'll snatch your money 
     the Queen is dead, boys
     and it's so lonely on a limb
     Pass the Pub that wrecks your body
     and the church-all they want is your money 
     the Queen is dead, boys`
     you can trust me, boys
     life is very long, when you're lonely
     life is very long, when you're lonely
     life is very long, when you're lonely
     life is very long, when you're lonely

@SONG: "Frankly, Mr. Shankly"

     Frankly, Mr Shankly, this position Ive held
     it pays my way, but it corrodes my soul
     I want to leave you will not miss me 
     I want to go down in musical history

     Frankly, Mr Shankly, Im a sickening wreck
     Ive got the 21st Century breathing down my neck 
     I must move fast, you understand me
     I want to go down in celluloid history

     Fame, Fame, fatal Fame
     it can play hideous tricks on the brain
     but still I rather be Famous
     than righteous or holy, any day 

     but sometimes Id feel more fulfilled
     making Christmas cards with the mentally ill
     I want to Live and I want to Love
     I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of

     Frankly, Mr Shankly, this position I've held
     it pays my way and it corrodes my soul 
     oh, I didnt realise that you wrote poetry
     (I didnt realise you wrote such bloody awful  poetry)

     Frankly, Mr Shankly, since you ask
     you are a flatulent pain the arse
     I do not mean to be so rude
     but still, I must speck frankly, Mr Shankly

@SONG: "I Know It's Over"

     Oh Mother, I can fell the soil falling over my head
     and as i climb into an empty bed 
     Oh well, Enough said
     I know it's over-still I cling
     I don't know where else I can go
     Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
     see, the sea want s to take me
     the knife wants to cut me
     do you think you can help me?
     Sad veiled bride, please be happy
     handsome groom, give her room
     loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly
     (although she needs you
     more than she loves you)
     and I know it's over
     and it never really began
     but in my heart it was so real
     and you even spoke to me and said:
     "If you're so funny
     then why are you on your own tonight?
     and if you are so clever
     then why are you on your own tonight?
     if you're so terribly good looking
     then why do you sleep alone tonight?
     because tonight is just like any other night
     that's why you're on your own tonight
     with your triumphs and your charms
     while they are in each other's arms.."
     It's so easy to laugh
     it's so easy to hate
     it takes strength to be gentle and kind
     It's so easy to laugh
     it's so easy to hate
     it takes guts to be gentle and kind
     love is Natural and Real
     but not for you, my love
     not tonight my love
     love is Natural and Real 
     but not for such as you and I, my love 
     Oh Mother, I can fell the soil falling over my head
     Oh Mother, I can fell the soil falling over my head
     Oh Mother, I can fell the soil falling over my head
     Oh Mother, I can fell the soil falling over my head
     Oh Mother, I can fell the soil falling over my head

@SONG: "Never Had No One Ever"

     When you walk without ease
     on these
     the very streets where you were raised
     I had a really bad dream 
     it lasted 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days
     Never had no one ever. 

@SONG: "Cemetry Gates"

     A dreaded sunny day 
     so I meet you at the cemetry gates
     Keats and Yeats are on your side
     A dreaded sunny day 
     so I meet you at the cemetry gates
     Keats and Yeats are on your side
     while Wilde is on mine
     So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
     all those people all those lives
     where are they now ?
     with loves, and hates
     and passions just like mine
     they were born 
     and then they lived and then they died
     which seems so unfair
     and I wantr to crv
     You say: "ere thrice the sun hath done salutation to the dawn"
     and you claim these words as your own
     but Im well-read, have heard them said
     a hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
     if you must write prose/poems
     the words you use should be your own
     dont plagiarise or take "on loans"
     there's alweays someone, somewhere
     with a big nose, who knows
     and who trips you up and laughs
     when you fall
     You say: "ere long done do does did "
     words which could only be your own 
     you then produce the text
     from whence was ripped
     (some dizzy whore, 1804)
     A dreaded sunny day 
     so let's go where we're happy
     so I meet you at the cemetry gates
     Keats and Yeats are on your side
     A dreaded sunny day 
     so let's go where we're wanted 
     so I meet you at the cemetry gates
     Keats and Yeats are on your side
     but you lose
     because Wilde is on mine

@SONG: "Bigmouth Strikes Again"

     Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
     when I said Id like to smash every tooth 
     in your head
     Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking 
     when I said by right s you should be
     bludgeoned in your bed
     and now I know how Joan of Arc felt
     now I know how Joan of Arc felt
     as the flames roseto her roman nose
     and her Walkman stared to melt
     Bibmouth, bigmouth 
     bigmouth strikes again 
     and Ive got no right to take my place 
     with the Human race
     and now I know how Joan of Arc felt
     now I know of Joan of Arc felt
     as the flames rose to her roman nose
     and her hearing aid started to melt
     Bigmouth, bigmouth 
     bigmouth strikes again 
     and Ive got no right to take my place
     with the Human race

@SONG: "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side"

     The boy with the thorn in his side
     behind the hatred there lies
     a murderous desire for love
     how can they look into my eyes
     and still they dont believe me
     how can they hear me say those words 
     and still they dont believe me
     and if they don't believe me now
     will they ever believe me?
     and if they don't believe me now
     will they ever believe me?

     The boy with the thorn in his side 
     behind the hatred there lies 
     a plundering desire for love
     how can they see the Love in our eyes
     and still they don't believe us
     and after all this time 
     they don't want to believe us
     and if they dont believe us now 
     will they ever believe us ?
     andd when you want to Live 
     how do you start ?
     where do you go ?
     who do you know?


@SONG: "Vicar in a Tutu"

     I was minding mind business
     lifting some lead off
     the roof of the Holy Name church
     it was worthwhile living a laughable life 
     just to set my eyes on a blistering sight
     of a vicar in a tu-tu
     he's not  strange
     he just wants to live his life this way 
     a scanty bit of a thing
     with a decorative ring
     that wouldn't cover the head of a child 
     as Rose collects the money in the cannister 
     who comes sliding down the bannister
     the vicar in a tu-tu
     he's not  strange
     he just wants to live his life this way 
     the monkish monsignor
     with a head full of plaster 
     said "my man, get your vile soul dry-cleaned"
     as Rose counts the money in the cannister
     as natural as rain 
     he dances again
     vicar in a tu-tu
     The next day in the pulpit
     with Freedom and Ease
     combating ignoranca,dust and disease
     as Rose counts the money in the cannister 
     as natural as rain 
     he dances agian 
     the fabric of a tu-tu
     any man could get us to 
     and I am a living sign .

@SONG: "There is a Light that Never Goes Out"

     Take me out tonight
     where there's music and there's people
     who are young and alive
     driving in your car 
     I never never want to go home
     because I havent got one
     anymore
     take me out tonight 
     because I want to see people  and I
     want to see lights
     driving in your car 
     oh please dont drop me home
     because it's not my  home, it's their
     home, and Im welcome no morw
     and if a double-decker bus 
     crashes in to us 
     to die by your side
     such a heavenly way to die 
     and if a ten ton truck 
     kills the both of us
     to die by your side
     the pleasure and the privilege is mine
     take me out tonight
     oh take me anywhere, I dont care
     and in the darken underpass
     I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last 
     (but then a strange fear gripped me  and I 
     just couldn't ask)
     take me out tonight
     take me anywhere, I dont care
     just driving in your car 
     I never never want to go home
     because I havent got one
     I havent got one.

@SONG: "Some Girls are Bigger Than Others"

     From the ice-age to the dole-age
     there is but one concern
     and I have just discover
     some girls are bigger than others
     some girls are bigger than others
     some girls mothers are bigger than 
     other girls mothers

     As Anthony said to Cleopatra
     as he opened a crate of ale:
     some girls are bigger than others
     some girls are bigger than others
     some girls mothers are bigger than 
     other girls mothers. 

@SONG: "Panic"

     Panic on the streets of London 
     Panic on the streets of Birmingham
     I wonder to myself
     Could life ever be sane again 
     on the Leeds side-streets that you slip down 
     I wonder to myself
     Hopes may rise on the Grasmeres
     But Honey Pie, you're not safe here
     So you run down 
     To the safety of the town
     But there's Panic on the streets of Carlisle
     Dublin, Dundee, Humberside
     I wonder to myself
     Burn down the Disco
     Hang the blessed D.J.
     Because the music that they constantly play
     IT SAYS NOTHING TO ME ABOUT MY LIFE
     Hang the blessed D.J.
     Because the music they constantly play
     On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down 
     On the provincial towns that you jog 'round
     Hang the D.J.,. Hang the D.J.,.Hang the D.J..
     Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J..
     HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J.
     HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J.

@SONG: "Ask"

     Shyness is nice, but
     Shyness can stop you 
     From doing all the things in life
     That you'd like to
     So, if there's something you'd 
     like to try 
     ASK ME-I WON'T SAY "NO"-HOW COULD I?
     Coyness is nice, but ,
     Coyness can stop you 
     from saying all the things in 
     life that you want to 
     If there's something that you'd 
     like to try 
     ASK ME-I WON'TSAY"NO"-HOW COULD I?
     Spending warm, Summer days indoors
     Writing fringhtening verse
     To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg
     ASK ME, ASK ME ,ASK ME
     ASK ME, ASK ME ,ASK ME
     Because if it's not Love
     Then it's the Bomb
     That will bring us together
     Nature is a language-can't you read?
     Nature is a language-can't you read?
     ASK ME, ASK ME ,ASK ME
     ASK ME, ASK ME ,ASK ME
     Because if it's not Love
     Then it's the Bomb
     That will bring us together

@SONG: "London"

     Smoke
     Lingers 'round your fingers
     Train
     Heave on - to Euston
     Do you think you've made
     The right decision this time?
     You left 
     Your tired family grieving
     And you think they're sad because you're leaving 
     But didn't you see the Jealousy in the eyes
     Of the ones who had to stay behind?
     And do you think you've made
     The right decision thins time?
     You left 
     Your girlfriend on the platform
     With thei really ragged notion that you'll return
     But she knows
     That when he goes 
     He really goes
     So do you think you've made 
     The right decision this time?

@SONG: "Shakespeare's Sister"

     Young bones groan
     And the rocks below, say:
     "throw your skinny body down, son "
     But I am going to meet the one I love
     So, please don't stand in my way
     Because I'm going to meet the one I love
     No, Mamma, let me go!
     Young bones groan
     And the rocks below, say:
     "Throw you white bidy down"
     But I am going to meet the one I love
     At last! At last ! At last !
     I am going to meet the one I love
     La-de-da, la-de-da
     No, Mamma, let me go !
     I thought that if you had
     An acoustic guitar
     Then it meant that you were
     A Protest Singerr
     Oh I can smile about it now
     But at the time it was terrible
     No, Mamma. let me go 

@SONG: "Shoplifters of the World Unite"

     Learn to love me
     Assemble the ways
     Now, today, tomorrow and always 
     My only weakness is a list of crimes 
     My only weakness is...well, never mind
     Shoplifters of the world 
     Unite and take over
     Shoplifters of the world
     Hand it over
     Hand it over 
     Hand it over
     Learn to love me
     Assemble th e ways 
     Now, today, tomorrow and always
     My only weakness is a listed crime
     But last night the plans of a future war
     Was all I saw on Channel Four
     Shoplifters of the world
     Unite and take over
     Shoplifters of the World
     Hand it over
     Hand it over
     Hand it over
     A heartless hand on my shoulder
     A push-and it's over
     Alabaster crashes down
     (Six months is a long time )
     I tried living in the real world
     Instead of a shell
     But I was bored before I even began
     I was bored before I even began 
     Shoplifters of the world
     Unite and take over
     Shoplifters of the world
     Unite and take over
     Shoplifters of the world
     take over

@SONG: "Asleep"

     Sing me to sleep 
     Sing me to sleep 
     I'm tired and I
     I want to go to bed 
     Sing me to sleep 
     Sing me to sleep 
     And then leave me alone
     Don't try to wake me in the morning
     "Cause I will be gone
     Don't feel bad for me
     I want you to know
     Deep in the cell of my heart
     I will feel so glad to go 
     Sing me to sleep 
     Sing me to sleep 
     I don't want to wake up 
     On my own anymore
     Sing to me 
     Sing to me 
     I don't want to wake up
     On my own anymore
     Don't feel bad for me 
     I want you to know 
     Deep in the cell of my heart 
     I really want to go 
     There is another world
     There is a better world
     Well, there must be
     Well, there must be
     Bye bye

@SONG: "Unloveable"

     I know I'm unloveable
     You don't have tpo tell me
     I don't have much in my life 
     But take it-it's yours
     I know I'm unloveable
     You don't have to tell me 
     Message received 
     Loud and clear
     I don't have much in my life
     But take it-it's yours
     I wear Black on the outside
     Because Black is how I feel on the inside
     And if I seem a little strange Well, that's because I am 
     But I know that you would like me 
     If only you could see me 
     If only you would meet me

@SONG: "Half a Person"

     Call me morbid, call me pale
     I've spent six years on your trail 
     Six long years on your trail 
     Call me morbid, call me pale
     I've spent six years on your trail 
     Six full years of my life on your trail 
     And if you have five seconds to spare
     Then I'll tell you the story of my life:
     Sixteen, clumsy and shy
     I went to London and I 
     I booked myself in at the Y...W.C.A
     I said: "I like it here...can I stay?
     I like it here can I stay?
     And, do you have a vacancy
     For a Back-scrubber?"
     She was left behind, and sour
     And she wrote to me on the hour
     She said: "In the days when you were 
     hopelessly poor
     I just liked you more..."
     So if you have five seconds to spare 
     Then I'll tell you the story of my life:
     Sixteen, clumsy and shy
     I went to London and I 
     I booked myself in at the Y...W.C.A
     I said: "I like it here...can I stay?
     I like it here can I stay?
     And, do you have a vacancy
     For a Back-scrubber?"Call me morbid call me pale
     I've spent too long on your tail 
     Far too long 
     Chasing your tail 
     And if you have five seconds to spare 
     Then I'll tell you the story of my life:
     Sixteen, clumsy and shy
     That's the story of my life
     Sixteen, clumsy and shy
     The story of my life
     That's the story of my life
     That's the story of my life
     That's the story of my life

@SONG: "Stretch Out and Wait"

     Off the high-rise estate
     What's at the back of your mind
     Your face I can see
     And it's desperately kind
     But what's at the back of your mind?
     Two icy-cold hands conducting the way
     It's the Eskimo blood in my veins
     Amid concrete and clay
     And general decay
     Nature must still find away
     So ignore all; the codes of the day 
     Let your juvenile impulses sway
     This way and that way
     This way and that way
     God, how sex implores you
     To let yourself lose yourself
     Stretch out and wait
     Stretch out and wait
     Let you puny body lie down, lie down 
     As we lie, you say 
     As we lie, you say 
     Strectch out and wait
     Strectch out and wait
     Let you puny body lie down, lie down 
     As we lie, you say:
     Will the world end in the day time?
     (I really don't know )
     Or will the world end in the night time?
     (I really don't know)
     And is there any point ever having children ?
     I really don't klnow 
     All I do know is that we're Here and it's Know
     So stretch out and wait
     Strectch out and wait
     There is no debate, no debate, no debate 
     How can you consciously contempplate
     When there's no debate, no debate
     Stretch out and wait

@SONG: "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby"

     If you're windering why 
     All the lovethat you long for eludes you 
     And people are rude and cruel to you
     I'll tell you why 
     I'll tell you why 
     I'll tell you why 
     You just haven't earned it yet, baby 
     You just haven't earned it yet, son 
     You just haven't earned it yet, baby 
     You must suffer and cry for a longer time 
     You just haven't earned it yet, baby 
     And I'm telling you now
     If you're wondering why 
     When all I wanted from life is to be Famous
     I have tried so long, it's all gone wrong
     I'll tell you why 
     I'll tell you why 
     I'll tell you why 
     You just haven't earned it yet, baby 
     You just haven't earned it yet, son 
     You just haven't earned it yet, baby 
     You must suffer and cry for a longer time 
     You just haven't earned it yet, Baby 
     And I'm telling you now
     Today I am remembering the time 
     When they pulled me back 
     And held me down 
     And looked me in the eyes and said
     You just haven't earned it yet, baby 
     You just haven't earned it yet, son 
     You just haven't earned it yet, baby 
     You must suffer and cry for a longer time 
     You just haven't earned it yet, baby 
     And I'm telling you now.

@SONG: "Rubber Ring"

     A sad fact widely known
     How the most impassionate song
     To a lonely soul
     Is so easily outgrown
     But don't forget the songs
     That made you smile
     And the songs that made you cry 
     When you lay in awe
     On the bedroom floor
     And said: "Oh, smother me, Mother..."
     The passing of time
     And of all its crimes
     Is making me sad again
     The passing of time 
     And all of its sickening crimes
     Is making me sad again
     But don't forget the songs 
     That made you cry
     And the songs that saved your life
     Yes, you're older now
     And you're a cleaver swine
     But they were the only ones that stood by you 
     The passing of time leaves empty lives 
     Waiting to be filled
     The passing of time
     Leaves empty lives
     Waiting to be filled
     I'm here with a cause
     I'm holding a torch
     In the corner of your room
     Can you hear me?
     And when you're dancing  and laughing
     And finally living
     Hear my voice in your head 
     And think of me kindly

     Do you 
     Love me like you used to ?

@SONG: "Is It Really So Strange?"

     I left the North 
     I travelled South
     I found a tiny house
     I can't help the way I feel 
     Oh yes you can kick me 
     and you can punch me 
     and you break my face
     but you can't change the way that I feel
     'Cause I love you 
     And is it really so strange?
     Is it really so, really so strange?
     I say No, you say Yes
     (but you will change your mind)
     I left the Sout
     I travelled North
     I got confused-I killed a horse
     I can't help the way I feel
     Oh yes you can kick me
     and you can butt me
     and you can break my spine
     but you won't change the way that I feel 
     'cause I love you 
     And is it really so strange ?
     Is it realy so strange?
     Is it really so, really so strange?
     I say No, you say Yes
     (but you will change your mind)
     I left the North agin 
     I travelled South again 
     I got confused-I killed a nun 
     I CAN'T HELP THE WAY I FEEL
     I CAN'T HELP THE WAY I FEEL
     (I lost my bag in Newport Pagnell)
     Why is the last mile the hardest mile 
     My throat was dry, with the sun in my eyes
     And I realised, I realised
     That I could never
     I could never, never go back home again 

@SONG: "Sheila Take A Bow"

     Is it wrong to want to live on your own ?
     No, it's not wrong-but I must know
     How can someone so young
     Sing words so sad?
     Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow
     Boot the grime of this world in in the crotch, dear 
     And don't go home tonight
     Come out and find the one that you love and who loves you 
     Is it wrong not to always be glad
     No, it's not wrong-but I must add
     How can someone so young 
     Sing words so sad?
     Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow
     Boot the grime of this world in the crotch,dear
     And don't go home tonight
     Come out and find the one that you love and who loves you 
     Take my hand and off we stride
     You're a girl and I'm a boy
     Take my hand and off we stride
     I'm a girl and you're a boy
     Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow
     Throw your homework on to the fire
     Come out and find the one that you love
     Come out and find the one that you love

@SONG: "Sweet and Tender Hooligan"

     he was a sweet and tender hooligan
     and he swore that he'd never, never do it again 
     and of course he won't (not until the next time)
     poor old man 
     he had an "accident" with a three bar fire
     but that's OK
     because he wasn't very happy anyway 
     poor woman
     strangled in her very own bed as she read
     but that's OK
     because she was old and she would have died anyway
     DON"T BLAME
     this sweet and tender hooligan
     because he'll never, never do it again
     (at least not until the next time)
     So jury you've heard every world
     but before you decide
     would you look into those "Mother-me" eyes
     I love life for you my love, you my love
     you my love, you my love
     So jury you've heard ever word
     but before you decide
     would you look into those "Mother-me" eyes
     I love you for you my love, you my love
     I love you just for you my love, you my love
     don't blame
     the sweet and tender hooligan
     who claims that 
     "In the midst of life we are in debt ETC"
     ETC! ETC! ETC! ETC!
     IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEBT ETC!

@SONG: "Golden Lights"

     Golden lights displaying your name
     golden lights it's a terrible shame
     but oh my darling
     WHY DID YOU CHANGE?
     Boy in a million, idol, a big star
     I didn't tell you how great you were
     I didn't grovel or scream
     Or rip your brand new jacket at the seams
     You made a record, they liked your singing
     All of a sudden the phone stop ringing
     I never thought that you would let 
     The glory make you forget 
     Golden lights displaying your name
     golden lights it's a terrible shame
     but oh my darling
     WHY DID YOU CHANGE?
     Top ten idol, king of your age
     but who do you turn to when you're backstage?
     Don't you remember you once knew a girl
     Who loved you more than the world
     Is life always like this, brother
     Good for some but bad for the other
     I must put you behind me tonight
     'Cause you belong to the lights
     Golden lights displaying your name
     golden lights it's a terrible shame
     but oh my darling
     WHY DID YOU CHANGE?

@SONG: "A Rush and A Push and the Land Is Ours"

     HELLO
     I am the ghost of Troubled Joe
     hung by his pretty white neck
     some eighteen months ago
     I travelled to a mystical time zone
     but I missed my bed
     so I soon came home
     they said:
     "there's too much caffeine
     in your bloodstream
     and a lack of real spice
     in your life"
     I said:
     "leave me alone
     because I'm alright, dad
     just surprised to still
     be on my own...."
     Ooh, but don't mention love
     I'd hate the real strain of the pain again
     a rush and a push and the land that 
     we stand on is ours
     it has been before
     so it shall be again
     and people who are uglier than you and I
     they take what they need, and leave
     Ooh, but don't mention love
     I'd hate the pain and the strain all over again
     a rush and a push and the land that
     we stand on is ours
     it has been before
     so why can't it be now?
     and people who are weaker than you and I
     they take what they want from life
     Ooh, but don't mention love
     no - just don't mention love!
     a rush and a push and the land that
     we stand on is ours
     your youth may be gone
     but you're still a young man
     so phone me, phone me, phone me
     so phone me, phone me, phone me
     Ooh, I think I'm in love
     Ooh, I think I'm in love
     Ooh, I think I'm in love
     Urrgh, I think I'm in lerv


@SONG: "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish"

     The lanes were silent
     with nothing or no one around for miles
     I doused our friendly venture
     with a hard-faced
     three-word gesture
     I started something
     I forced you into a zone
     and you were clearly
     never meant to go
     hair brushed and parted
     typical me, typical me
     typical me
     I started something
     ...and now I'm not too sure
     I grabbed you by the guilded beams
     that's what Tradition means
     and I doused another venture
     with a gesture
     that was...absolutely vile
     I started something
     forced you to a zone
     and you were clearly
     never meant to go
     hair brushed and parted
     typical me, typical me
     typical me
     I started something
     ...and now I'm not too sure
     I grabbed you by the guilded beams
     that's what Tradition means
     and now eighteen months' hard-labour
     seems...fair enough
     I started something
     forced you to a zone
     and you were clearly
     never meant to go
     hair brushed and parted
     typical me, typical me
     typical me
     I started something
     and now I'm not too sure

@SONG: "Death of a Disco Dancer"

     The death of a disco dancer
     well, it happens a lot 'round here
     and if you think Peace
     is a common goal
     well, that goes to show
     just how little you know
     The death of a disco dancer
     well, I'd rather not get involved
     I never talk to my neighbour
     I'd just rather not get involved
     Love, peace and harmony?
     Love, peace and harmony?
     Oh, very nice
     very nice
     very nice
     very nice
     ...but maybe in the next world.


@SONG: "Girlfriend in a Coma"

     Girlfriend in a coma, I know
     I know - it's serious
     Girlfriend in a coma, I know
     I know - it's really serious
     there wree times when I could 
     have 'murdered' her
     (but, you know, I would hate
     anything to happen to her)
     NO, I DON'T WANT TO SEE HER
     Do you really think
     she'll pull through?
     Do you really think
     she'll pull through?
     Girlfriend in a coma, I know
     I know, it's serious
     there were time when I could
     have 'strangeled' her
     (but, you know, I would hate
     anything to happen to her)
     WOULD YOU PLEASE 
     LET ME SEE HER!
     Do you really think
     she'll pull through?
     Do you really think
     she'll pull through?
     Let me wisper my last goodbyes

     I know - IT'S SERIOUS

@SONG: "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"

     Stop me, stop me
     stop me if you think that you've
     heard this one before
     stop me, stop me
     stop me if you think that you've
     heard this one before
     nothing's changed
     I still love you, oh I still love you
     ...only slightly less than I used to
     I was delayed, I was way-laid
     an emergency stop
     I smelt the last ten seconds of life
     I crashed down on the crossbar
     and the pain was enough to make
     a shy, bald buddhist reflect
     and plan a mass-murder
     who said I'd lied to her?
     who said I'd lied because I never
     who said I'd lied because I never
     I was detained, I was restrained
     he broke my spleen
     he broke my knees
     (and then he really laid into me)
     Friday night in Out-patients
     who said I'd lied to her?
     who said I'd lied - because I never
     who said I'd lied - because I never
     Oh, so I drank one
     or was it four
     and when I fell on the floor
     ...I drank more
     stop me, stop me
     stop me if you think that you've 
     heard this one before
     nothing's changed
     I still love you
     I still love you
     but only slightly
     less than I used to

@SONG: "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"

     Last night I dreamt
     that somebody loved me
     no hope - but no harm
     just another false alarm
     Las night I felt
     real arms around me
     no hope - no harm
     just another false alarm
     so, tell me how long
     before the last one?
     and tell me how long
     before the right one?
     this story is old - I KNOW
     but it goes on
     this story is old - I KNOW
     but it goes on


@SONG: "Unhappy Birthday"

     I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
     I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
     because you're evil
     and you lie
     and if you should die
     I may feel slightly sad
     (but I won't cry)
     Loved and lost
     and some may say
     when usually its Nothing
     surely you're happy
     it should be this way?
     I say "No, I'm gonna kill my dog"
     and: "May the lines sag heavy
     and deep tonight XXX"
     I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
     I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
     because you're evil
     and you lie
     and if you should die
     I may feel slightly sad
     (But I won't cry)
     Loved and lost
     some people say
     when usually its Nothing
     surely you're happy
     it should be this way?
     I said "No"
     and then I shot myself
     so, drink, drink, drink
     and be ill tonight
     from the one you left behind
     from the one you left behind
     from the one you left behind
     from the one you left behind


@SONG: "Paint A Vulgar Picture"

     At the record company meeting
     On their hands - a dead star
     and ooh, the plans that they weave
     and ooh, the sikening greed
     At the record company meeting
     on their hands - a dead star
     the sycophantic slags all say:
     "I knew him first, and I knew him well"
     Re-issue! Re-package! Re-package!
     Re-evaluate the songs
     double-pack with a photograph
     Extra Track (and a tacky badge)
     A-list, playlist
     "Please them, please them!"
     "Please them! Please them!"
     (sadly, THIS was your life)
     but you could have said no
     if you'd wanted to
     you could have said no
     if you'd wanted to
     BPI, MTV, BBC
     "Please them! Please them!"
     (sadly this was your life)
     but you could have said no 
     if you'd wanted to
     you could have walked away
     ...couldn't you?
     I touched you at the soundcheck
     you had no real way of knowing
     in my heart I bgged "please, take
     me with you...
     I don't care where you're going"
     But to you I was faceless
     I was fawning, I was boring
     just a child from those ugly new houses
     who could never begin to know
     who could never really know
     Best of? Most of?
     Satiate the need
     slip them into different sleeves!
     Buy both, and be decieved
     climber - new entry, re-entry
     World tour! ("media whore")
     "Please the Press in Belgium!"
     (THIS was your life...)
     and when it fails to recoup?
     Well, maybe:
     You just haven't earned it yet, baby
     I walked a pace behind you at the soundcheck
     you're just the same as I am
     what makes most people feel happy
     leads us headlong into harm
     so, in my bedroom in those 'ugly new houses'
     I dance my legs down to the knees
     but me and my 'true love'
     we will never meet again...
     At the record company meeting
     on their hands - at last! - a dead star!
     but they cannot taint you in my eyes
     no, they cannout touch you now
     No, they cannot hurt you my darling
     they cannot touch you now
     but me and my 'true love'
     will never meet again

@SONG: "Death At One's Elbow"

     Ooh Glenn
     don't come to the house tonight
     Ooh, Glenn
     don't come to the house tonight
     because there's somebody here
     who really really loves you
     stay home
     be bored
     (it's crap, I KNOW)
     Ooh, Glenn
     don't come to the house tonight
     Ooh, Glen
     don't come to the house tonight
     because there's somebody here
     who'll take a hatchet to your ear
     how the frustration renders me
     hateful, Glenn!
     don't come to the house tonight
     don't come to the house tonight
     because you'll slip on the
     trail of my bespattered remains
     and so, that's why
     GOODBYE MY LOVE, GOODBYE MY LOVE
     GOODBYE MY LOVE, GOODBYE MY LOVE
     GOODBYE MY LOVE, GOODBYE MY LOVE
     Belch

@SONG: "I Won't Share You"

     I won't share you
     I won't share you
     with the drive and ambition
     and the zeal I feel
     this is my time
     as the note I wrote
     was read, she said
     has the Perrier gone
     straight to my head
     or is life plainly sick and cruel, instead?
     "YES!"
     No-no-no-no-no-no
     I won't share you
     I won't share you
     with the drive 
     and the dreams inside
     this is my time
     Life tends to come and go
     well, that's OK
     just as long as you know
     Life tends to come and go
     well, that's OK
     just as long as you know
     I won't share you
     I won't share you
     with the drive 
     and the dreams inside
     this is my time
     this is my time

@SONG: Morrissey

Viva Hate
Morrissey                      Voice
Stephen Street                 Bass Guitar, Guitar
Vini Reilly                    Guitar, Keyboard
Andrew Paresi                  The Drums

John Metcalfe                  Viola
Fenella Barton                 Violin
Mark Davies                    Cello
Richard Koster                 Violin
Robert Woollard                Cello
Rachel Maguire                 Cello


     Alsatian Cousin
     Little Man, What Now?
     Everyday Is Like Sunday
     Bengali in Platforms
     Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together
     Late Night, Maudlin Street
     Suedehead
     Break Up the Family
     Hairdresser On Fire
     The Ordinary Boys
     I Don't Mind If You Forget Me
     Dial-A-Cliche
     Margaret On the Guillotine


@SONG: Bona Drag

     Piccadilly Palare
     Interesting Drug
     November Spawned A Monster
     Will Never Marry
     Such A Little Thing Makes Such A Big Difference
     The Last of the Famous International Playboys
     Ouija Board, Ouija Board
     Hairdresser on Fire
     Everyday Is Like Sunday
     He Knows I'd Love to See Him
     Yes, I'm Blind
     Lucky Lisp
     Suedehead
     Disappointed


@SONG: Kill Uncle

Morrissey                Voice
Andrew Paresi            Drums and Precussion
Mark E. Nevin            Guitars
Bedders                  Basses
Steve Heart              Keyboards
Seamus Beaghen           Keyboards
Nawazish Ali Khan        Violin
Linder                   Additional Voice

     Our Frank
     Asian Rut
     Sing Your Life
     Mute Witness
     King Leer
     Found Found Found
     Driving Your Girlfriend Home
     The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye
     (I'm) The End of the Family Line
     There's a Place In Hell For Me and My Friends
     Tony the Pony

@SONG: "Suedehead"

     Suedehead
     I Know Very Well How I Got My Name
     Hairdresser On Fire
     Oh Well, I'll Never Learn

@SONG: "Everyday Is Like Sunday"

     Everyday Is Like Sunday
     Sister I'm A Poet
     Disappointed
     Will Never Marry

@SONG: "The Last of the Famous International Playboys"

     The Last of the Famous International Playboys
     Lucky Lisp
     Michaels Bones

@SONG: "Interesting Drug"

     Interesting Drug (Morrissey/Street)
     Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference (Morrissey/Street)
     Sweet and Tender Hooligan (Morrissey/Marr)

@SONG: "Ouija Board, Ouija Board"

     Ouija Board, Ouija Board (Morrissey/Street)
     Yes, I Am Blind (Morrissey/Rourke)
     East West (Grahm Gouldman)

@SONG: "November Spawned A Monster"

     November Spawned A Monster (Morrissey/Langer)
     He Knows I'd Love to See Him (Morrissey/Armstrong)
     Girl Least Likely To (Morrissey/Rourke)

@SONG: "Piccadilly Palare"

     Piccadilly Palare (Morrissey/Armstrong)
     At Amber (Morrissey/Street)
     Get Off The Stage (Morrissey/Rourke)

@SONG: "Our Frank"

     Our Frank (Morrissey/Nevin)
     Journalists Who Lie (Morrissey/Street)
     Tony the Pony (Morrissey/Nevin)

@SONG: "Sing Your Life"

     Sing Your Life (Morrissey/Nevin)
     That's Entertainment (Paul Weller)
     The Loop (Morrissey/Nevin)

@SONG: "Alsatian Cousin"

     Were you and he Lovers?
     and would you say so if you were?
     on a forecourt
     on a Friday
     passing my way
     Were you and he Lovers?
     and if you were, then say that you were!
     on a groundsheet
     under canvas
     with your tent-flap
     open wide
     A note upon his desk:
     "P.S. Bring Me Home And Have Me!"
     Leather elbows on a tweed coat
     - Oh! -
     Is THAT the best you can do?
     So came his reply:
     "...but on the desk is where I want you!"
     So I ask (even though I know):
     were you and he Lovers?

@SONG: "Little Man, What Now?"

     An afternoon nostalgia
     television show
     you spoke in silhouette
     (but they couldn't name you)
     although the panel were
     very polite to you
     but I remembered you
     from Friday nights 1969
     ATV - you murdered every line
     too old to be a child star
     too young to take leads
     four seasons passed
     and they AXED you
     nervously juvenile
     (WON'T SMILE!)
     What became of you?
     did that swift eclipse torture you?
     a star at eighteen
     and then-suddenly gone
     down to a few lines
     in the back page of a teenage annual
     oh but I remembered you
     I looked up to you

@SONG: "Everyday Is Like Sunday"

     Trudging slowly over wet sand
     back to the bench
     where your clothes were stolen
     this is the coastal town
     that they forgot to close down
     Armageddon - come Armageddon!
     Come Armageddon! Come!
     Everyday is like Sunday
     everyday is silent and grey
     Hide on the promenade
     scratch out a postcard
     "how I dearly with I was not here"
     in the seaside town
     ...that they forgot to bomb
     Come! Come! Come - nuclear bomb!
     Everyday is like Sunday
     everyday is silent and grey
     Trudging back over pebbles and sand
     and a strange dust lands on your hands
     (and on your face)
     Everyday is like Sunday
     "Win Yourself A Cheap Tray"
     share some greased tea with me
     everyday is silent and grey

@SONG: "Bengali in Platforms"

     No no no
     he does not want to depress you
     oh no no no no no
     he only wants to impress you
     Bengali in platform
     she only wants to embrace your culture
     and to be your friend forever
     Bengali, Bengali
     oh shelve your Western plans
     and understand that life is hard enough when you belong here
     A silver-studded rim that glistens
     and an ankle-star that...blinds me
     a lemon sole so very high
     which only reminds me, to tell you
     so I break the news gently
     I break the news to you gently
     "Shelve your plans"
     Bengali, Bengali
     its the touchy march of time
     that blinds you
     don't blame me
     don't hate me
     just because I'm the one to tell you
     that life is hard enough when you belong here
     life is hard enough when you belong here
     shelve your western plans
     life is hard enough when you belong here

@SONG: "Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together"

     Angel, Angel
     don't take your life tonight
     I know they take
     and that they take in turn
     and they give you nothing real
     for yourself in return
     and when they've used you
     and they've broken you
     and wasted all your money
     and cast your shell aside
     and when they've bought you
     and they've sold you
     and they've billed you for the pleasure
     and they've made your parents cry
     I will be here
     BELIEVE ME
     I will be here
     ...believe me
     Angel, don't take your life
     some people have got no pride
     they do not understand
     the Urgency of life
     but I love you more than life
     I love you more than life
     I love you more than life
     I love you more than life

@SONG: "Late Night, Maudlin Street"

     The last night on Maudlin Street
     goodbye house
     goodbye stairs
     I was born here
     I was raised here, and
     ...I took some stick here
     love at first sight
     may sound trite
     but it's true, you know
     I could list the details
     of everything you ever wore
     or said, or how you stood that day
     and as we spend the last night
     on Maudlin Street, I say
     "goodbye house-forever!"
     I never stole a happy hour
     around here
     Where the world's ugliest boy
     became what you see
     here I am - the ugliest man
     Its the last night on Maudlin Street
     and truly I do love you
     oh, truly I do love you
     When I sleep with that picture of 
     you framed beside my bed
     oh, it's childish and it's silly
     but I think it's you in my room
     by the bed (...yes, I told you it was silly...)
     and I know
     I took strange pills
     but I never meant to hurt you
     oh truly I love you
     I came home late one night 
     everyone had gone to bed
     nobody stays up for you
     when you have sixteen stitches
     all around your head
     the last buss I missed to Maudlin Street
     so, he drove me home in the Van
     complaining: "Women only like me for my mind..."
     don't leave your torch behind
     power-cuts ahead
     as we crept through the park
     but no I cannot steal a pair of jeans
     off a clothesline for you
     but you...without clothes
     oh I could not keep a straight face
     me - without clothes?
     well a nation turns its back and gags...
     I'm packed
     I am moving house
     a half-life disappears today
     every slag waves me on
     (secretly wishing me gone
     well, I will be soon
     oh - I will be soon)
     There were bad times on Maudlin Street
     when they took you away in a police car
     dear Inspector - don't you know?
     don't you care?
     don't you know - about Love?
     Your gran died
     and your mother died
     on Maudlin Street
     in pain and ashamed
     with never time to say
     those special things
     I took the keys from Maudlin Street
     well, it's only bricks and mortar!
     and...truly I do love you
     wherever you are
     wherever you are

@SONG: "Suedehead"

     Why do you come here
     why do you hang around
     I'm so sorry
     I'm so sorry
     Why do you come here
     when you know it makes
     things hard for me
     when you know, oh
     why do you come?
     Why do you telephone?
     and why send me silly notes?
     I'm so sorry
     I'm so sorry
     why do you come here
     when you know it makes
     thing hard for me
     when you know, oh
     why do you come?
     You had to sneak into my room
     'just' to read my diary
     was it just to see all the things
     you knew I'd written about you?
     and...so many illustrations
     I'm so very sickened
     oh, I am so sickened NOW

@SONG: "Break Up the Family"

     The strange logic of your clumsiest line
     stayed emblazoned on my mind
     break up the family
     and lets begin to live our lives
     I went to see all my friends tonight
     it wasn't Youth, it wasn't even Life
     born Old, sadly wise
     resigned (well, we were)
     to ending our lives
     I'm so glad to grow older
     to move away from those awful times
     I want to see all my friends tonight
     Yes you found love but you weren't
     at peace with your life
     home late, full of Hate
     despise the ties that bind
     oh I'm so glad to grow older
     to move away from those younger years
     now I'm in love for the first time
     and I don't feel bad
     Let me see all my old friends
     let me put my arm around them
     because I really do love them
     now, does that sound mad?
     Captain of games, solid framed
     I stood on the touchline
     hailstones, driven home
     in his car - no breaks? I don't mind
     I'm just so glad to grow older
     to move away from those darker years
     I'm in love for the first time
     and I don't feel bad
     so wish me luck my friends
     goodbye

@SONG: "Hairdresser on Fire"

     Here is London
     here is London
     is it home of the free,
     or what?
     can you squeeze me
     into an empty page of your diary
     and psychologically save me
     I've got faith in you
     I sense the power
     in the fingers
     within an hour the power
     can totally destroy me
     or it could same my life
     here is London
     'home of the brash, outrageous
     and free'
     you are repressed
     but you're remarkably dressed
     is it Real?
     but you're far to busy
     busy scissors
     busy clippers
     hair dresser on fire
     all around Sloane Square
     and you're far too busy
     to see me
     "busy,busy"
     hairdresser on fire
     was a client over-cautious 
     he made you nervous
     and when he said
     "I'm gonna sue you"
     I really felt for you
     so can you squeeze me 
     into an empty page of your diary
     and supernaturally change me
     CHANGE ME, CHANGE ME

@SONG: "The Ordinary Boys"

     Ordinary boys, happy knowing nothing
     happy being no one, but themselves
     Ordinary girls, supermarket clothes
     who think it's very clever to be cruel to you
     for you were so different
     you stood all alone
     and you knew
     that it had to be so
     avoiding ordinary boys
     happy going nowhere, just around here
     in their rattling cars
     and ordinary girls
     never seeing further
     than the cold, small streets
     that trap them
     but you were so different
     you had to say no
     when those empty fools 
     tried to change you, and claim you
     for the lair of their ordinary world
     where they feel so lucky
     so lucky, so lucky
     with their lives laid out before them
     they're so lucky, so lucky
     so lucky, so lucky

@SONG: "I Don't Mind If You Forget Me"

     I don't mind
     I don't mind if you forget me
     having learned my lesson
     I never left an impression on anyone
     so now you send me your hardened 'regards'
     when once you'd send me 'love'
     sincerely I must tell you
     your mild 'best wishes'
     they make me suspicious
     but I don't mind
     I don't mind if you forget me
     having learned my lesson
     I never left
     an impression on anyone
     the pressure to change, to move on
     was strange
     and very strong
     so this is why I tell you
     I really do understand
     BYE BYE
     I don't mind if you forget me
     no no no no no no no
     REJECTION IS ONE THING
     BUT REJECTION FROM A FOOL
     IS CRUEL
     REJECTION IS ONE THING
     BUT REJECTION FROM A FOOL
     IS CRUEL
     and I don't mind if you forget me
     I don't mind if your forget me

@SONG: "Dial-A-Cliche"

     Further into the fog I fall
     well, I was just
     following you!
     when you said:
     "Do as I do and scrap your fey ways"
     (dial-a-cliche)
     "grow up, be a man, and close your mealy-mouth!"
     (dial-a-cliche)
     But the person underneath
     where does he go?
     does he slide by the wayside?
     or...does he just die?
     when you find that you've organized 
       your feelings, for people
     who didn't like you then 
     and certainly don't like you now
     yet still you say:
     "Do as I do and scrap your fey ways"
     (dial-a-cliche)
     "grow up, be a man, and close your mealy-mouth!"
     (dial-a-cliche)
     "the Safe way is the only way!
     there's always time to change, son!"
     yes well I've changed
     but I'm in pain!
     dial-a-chiche

@SONG: "Margaret On The Guillotine"

     The kind people
     have a wonderful dream
     Margaret on the guillotine
     because people like you
     make me feel so tired
     when will you die?
     when will you die?
     when will you die?
     when will you die?
     when will you die?
     because people like you
     make me feel so old inside
     please die
     and kind people
     do not shelter this dream
     make it real
     make the dream real
     make the dream real
     make it real


@SONG: "Piccadilly Palare"

     Off the rails I was and
     off the rails
     I was happy to stay
     GET OUT OF MY WAY
     on the rack I was
     "easy Meat"
     but a reasonably good buy
     a reasonably good buy
     the Piccadilly palare
     was just a silly slang
     between me and the boys in my gang
     "so bona to vada, OH YOU
     your lovely eek and
     your lovely riah"
     We plied an ancient trade
     where we threw all life's
     instructions away
     exchanging lies and digs (my way)
     well, in a belted coat
     oh I secretly knew
     that I hadn't a clue
     the Piccadilly palare
     was just a silly slang
     between me and the boys in my gang
     exchanging palare
     you wouldn't understand
     good sons like you
     NEVER DO
     So why do you smile
     when you thing about Earls Court?
     but you cry when you think of all
     the battles you've fought (and lost)?
     it may all end tomorrow
     or, it could go on forever
     (in which case; I'm doomed)
     it could go on forever

@SONG: "Interesting Drug"

     There are some bad people on the rise
     there are some bad people on the rise
     they're saving their own skins by
     ruining people's lives
     bad, bad people on the rise
     Young married couple in debt
     - ever felt had?
     young married couple in debt
     - ever felt had?
     on a government scheme
     designed to kill your dream
     oh mum, oh dad
     once poor - always poor
     la la la la
     interesting drug
     the one that you took
     God, it really really helped you
     I wonder why you're only half-ashamed?
     "Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!
     and look around...
     ...can you blame us? CAN you blame us?

@SONG: "November Spawned A Monster"

     Sleep on and dream of Love
     because it's the closest you will get to love
     poor twisted child
     so ugly, so ugly
     poor twisted child
     oh hug me, oh hug me
     one November
     spawned a monster
     in the shape of this child
     who later cried
     "But Jesus made me, so
     Jesus save me from
     pity, sympathy
     and people discussing me"
     a frame of useless limbs
     what can make GOOD
     all the BAD that's been done?
     And if the lights were out
     could you even bear
     to kiss her full on the mouth
     (or anywhere?)
     poor twisted child
     so ugly, so ugly
     poor twisted child
     oh hug me, oh hug me
     one November
     spawned a monster
     in the shape of this child
     who must remain
     a hostage to kindess 
     and the wheels underneath her
     a hostage to kindess
     and the wheels underneath her
     a symbol of where mad, mad lovers
     must PAUSE and draw the line
     So sleep and dream of love
     because it's the closest 
     you will get to love
     that November
     is a time
     which I must
     put OUT of my mind
     oh one fine day
     LET IT BE SOON
     she won't be rich or beautiful
     but she'll be walking your streets
     in the clothes that she went out
     and chose for herself

@SONG: "Will Never Marry"

     I'm writing this to say
     in a gentle way
     Thank You - but no
     I will live my life as I
     will undoubtedly die - alone
     I'm writing this to say
     in a gentle way
     Thank you...
     I will live my life as I...
     for whether you stay
     or you stray
     an inbuilt guilt catches up with you
     and as it comes around to your place
     at 5 a.m. it wakes you up
     and laughs in your face

@SONG: "Such A Little Thing Makes Such A Big Difference"

     Such a little thing
     such a little thing
     but the difference it made was grave
     there you go
     wielding a bicycle chain
     oh why won't you change
     cange and be nicer?
     such a little thing
     a gentle tone of kindness
     or written words on paper
     - can you write?
     How I love all of
     the very simple things of life
     (God's good air)
     how I love all of
     the very simple things of life
     such a little thing
     a fumbling politeness
     the difference it saved me
     wielding a bicycle chain
     "I WILL NOT CHANGE
     AND I WILL NOT BE NICE"
     Most people keep their brains
     between your legs
     (don't you find?)
     Leave me alone - I was only singing
     leave me alone because
     I was only singing
     leave me alone - I was only singing
     leave me alone
     you have just proved (again)
     MOST PEOPLE KEEP THEIR BRAINS
     BETWEEN THEIR LEGS

@SONG: "The Last of the Famous International Playboys"

     Dear hero imprisoned
     with all the new crimes that you are perfecting
     oh I can't help quoting you
     because everything that you said rings true
     and now in my cell
     (well, I followed you)
     and here's a list of who I slew
     Roger Kray - do you know my name?
     don't say you don't 
     please say you do, I am:
     the last of the famous
     international playboys
     the last of the famous
     international playboys
     and now in my cell
     (well, I loved you)
     every man with a job to do
     Ronnie Kray - do you know my face?
     don't say you don't
     please say you do, I am:
     the last of the famous
     international playboys
     the last of the famous
     international playboys
     In our lifetime those who kill
     the newsworld hands them stardom
     and these are the ways
     on which I was raised
     these are the ways
     on which I was raised
     but I never wanted to kill
     I'M NOT NATURALLY EVIL
     such things I do
     just to make myself
     more attractive to you
     HAVE I FAILED?

@SONG: "Ouija Board, Ouija Board"

     Ouija board
     would you work for me?
     I have got to say Hello
     to an old friend
     Ouija board, ouija board
     would you work for me?
     I have got to get through
     to a good friend
     She has now gone
     from this Unhappy Planet
     with all the carnivores
     and the destructors on it
     ouija board, ouija board
     would you help me
     because I still do feel
     so horribly lonely
     would you, ouija board
     would you, ouija board
     would you help me
     because I just can't find
     my place in this world
     she has now gone
     from this Unhappy Planet
     with all the carnivores
     and the destructors on it
     Oh hear my voice ("hear my voice")
     oh hear my voice ("hear my voice")
     The table is rumbling...
     the table is rumbling
     the glass is moving
     "No, I was NOT pushing that time"
     it spells S.T.E.V.E.N.
     the table is rumbling
     the glass is moving
     "no, I was NOT pushing that time":
     P.U.S.H.O. double F.

@SONG: "He Knows I'd Love To See Him"

He Knows (he knows)
Or, I think he does
because when I lived 
in the Arse of the world...
     he knows, he knows
     he knows I'd love
     to see him happy
     (or as close as is allowed)
     because when I lived
     in the Arse of the world
     he knows, he knows
     he knows I'd love
     to see him happy
     (or as close as possible
     as close as possible
     as close as is allowed)
     My name still conjours up deadly deeds
     and a bad taste in the mouth
     the police - they actually knew me
     they said:
     "You're just another person in the world
     you're just another fool with radical views
     you're just another who has maddening views
     you want to turn it on its head
     by staying in bed!"
     I said: "I know I do"

@SONG: "Yes, I am Blind"

     Yes, I am blind
     no, I can't see
     the good things
     just the bad things
     Yes, I am blind
     no, I can't see
     there must be something
     horribly wrong with me?
     Love's youg dream
     I'm the one who shopped you
     I'm the one who stopped you
     'cause in my sorry way I love you
     Love's young dream
     aren't you sorry
     for what you've done?
     well, you're not the only one
     and in my sorry way I love you
     Yes, I am blind
     but I do see
     Evil people prosper
     over the likes of you and me
     ALWAYS
     Little lamb
     on a hill
     run fast if you can
     good Christians
     want to KILL you
     and your live has not even begun!

@SONG: "Lucky Lisp"

     When your gift unfurls
     when your Talent becomes apparent
     I will roar from the stalls
     I will gurgle from the circle
     The Saints smile shyly
     down on you
     they couldn't get over
     your nine-leaved clover
     Lucky lisp was not wasted on you
     lucky lisp was not wasted on you
     When your name is with the best
     will my name be on your guest list?
     I will roar from the stalls
     oh the balcony fool was me, you fool
     Jesus made this all for you, love
     He couldn't get over
     your Grandma's omen
     Lucky lisp was not wasted on you
     lucky lisp was not wasted on you

@SONG: "Disappointed"

     Our unsleepable friend
     gets the message on an ill-wind
     'all your friends and your foes
     would rather die than have to touch you'
     TO SAY THE LEAST: truly disappointed
     truly, truly, truly
     Drank too much
     said too much
     and there's nowhere to go - but Down
     young boy - I wanna help you
     SEE THESE LINES?: truly disappointed
     truly, truly, truly
     Don't talk to me now
     about people who are "nice"
     'cause I have spent my WHOLE LIFE
     in RUINS...
     because of people who were "nice"
     This world may lack Style, I know
     but each bud must blossom and grow
     Young girl one day we really will be old
     but the thing is: I love you NOW
     This is the last song I will ever sing
     No I've changed my mind again
     GOODNIGHT
     AND THANK YOU

@SONG: "Our Frank"

     Our frank and open
     deep conversations
     they get me nowhere
     they bring me down, so
     give it a rest, won't you?
     give me a cigarette
     God give me patience
     just no more conversation

     Give us a drink
     and make it quick
     or else I'm gonna be sick
     sick all over
     your frankly vulgar
     red pullover
     now see how the colours blend

     Our frank and open
     deep conversations
     they get me nowhere
     they bring me down, so
     give it a rest, won't you?
     now will you just give over
     the world may be ending
     but look, I'm only human

     Give us a drink
     and make it quick
     or else I'm gonna be sick
     all over
     your frankly vulgar
     red pullover
     now see how the two colours blend

     Won't somebody stop me
     from thinking all the time
     about everything
     so deeply
     so bleakly

@SONG: "Asian Rut"

     Day oh so late
     strangely the sun still shone
     oh Asian boy
     what are you on?
     Day oh so late
     strangely the sun still shone
     what drugs are you on?
     Tooled-up Asian boy
     has come here to avenge
     the cruel, cold killing
     of his very best friend
     Tooled-up Asian boy
     has come here to take revenge
     for the cruel, cold killing
     of his only friend
     Peace through the school
     so quiet in the hall
     it's a strange sign for one
     of what's to come
     Tough and hard and pale
     oh they may just impale you on railings
     oh English boys
     it must be wrong
     three against one?
     Brakes slammed, and
     a gun jammed, and
     as far as I could tell
     brave Asian boy
     dealt a blow and fell
     I'm just passing through here
     on my way to somewhere civilised
     and maybe I'll even arrive
     maybe I'll even arrive?

@SONG: "Sing Your Life"

     Sing your life
     any fool can think of words that rhyme
     many others do
     why don't you?
     do you want to?
     Sing your life
     just walk right up to the microphone 
     and name
     all the things that you love
     all the things that you loathe
     sing your life
     all the things that you love
     all the things that you loathe
     oh sing your life
     oh sing your life
     Others sang your life
     but now's your chance to shine
     and have the pleasure of
     saying what you mean
     the rare pleasure of
     meaning what you sing
     oh, make no mistake, my friend
     all of this will end
     so sing it now
     all the things you love
     all the things you loathe
     oh sing your life
     all the things that you love
     all the things that you loathe
     oh sing your
     oh sing your
     Don't leave it all unsaid
     somewhere in the wasteland of your head
     and make no mistake, my friend
     your pointless life will end
     but before you go
     can you look at the truth?
     You have a lovely singing voice
     a lovely singing voice
     and all of those 
     who sing on key
     they stole the notion 
     from you and me

@SONG: "Mute Witness"

     Your poor witness
     crying so loudly on the floor
     oh but she's only trying to tell you 
     what it was that she saw
     she is only trying to tell you
     what it was that she saw
     Now see her standing on the table
     with her small arms flailing
     and you feel such compassion
     in your soul for
     Your poor mute witness
     still testing the strength 
     of our patience
     oh but she's only trying to tell you 
     what it was that she saw
     Now see her pointing to the frisbee
     with a memory too fuzzy
     as her silent words
     describe the fright of last night
     4 a.m. Norhtside, Clapham Common
     who knows what she was doing there?
     will she sketch the answer later?
     Well, I'll ask her
     "now dry your tears, my dear"
     Now see her mime in time so nicely
     it would all have been so clear
     is only she had never volunteered
     "your taxi is here, my dear"

@SONG: "King Leer"

     Your boyfriend, he
     went down on one knee
     well, could it be
     he's only got one knee?
     I tried to surprise you
     with Vodka
     or, Tizer
     I can't quite remember
     but you didn't thank me
     you didn't even thank me
     because you never do

     Your boyfriend, he
     has the gift of the gab
     or, could it be
     the gift of the grab?
     I tried to surprise you
     I lay down beside you
     and...nothing much happened
     and you didn't phone me
     you didn't even phone me
     because it's not your style
     to dial

     Your boyfriend, he
     displays to me
     more than just
     a hint of cruelty
     I tried to surprise you
     I crept up behind you
     with a homeless chihuahua
     you gushed for an hour
     you handed him back and said
     "You'll never guess
     I'm bored now"

@SONG: "Found Found Found"

     found found found
     found found found
     someone who's worth it 
     in this murkiness
     someone who's never
     seeming scheming
     found found found
     found found found
     someone who's worth it 
     in this murkiness
     someone who's never
     seeming scheming
     Oh, but if I'd never found
     oh, but if I'd never found
     oh, but if I'd never found
     I do believe that
     the more you give your love
     and I do believe that
     the more you offer trust
     the more you chase
     the more you cry
     the more you're bound to lose
     the more you're bound to lose
     Oh, but if I'd never found
     oh, but if I'd never found
     somebody
     who wants to be
     who wants to be
     with me
     all the time

@SONG: "Driving Your Girlfriend Home"

     I'm driving 
     your girlfriend home
     and she's saying
     how she never chose you
     "turn left", she says
     so I turn left
     and she says
     "So how did I end up
     so deeply involved in
     the very existence
     I planned on avoiding?"
     and I can't answer
     I'm driving
     your girlfriend home
     and she's laughing
     to stop herself crying
     "drive on", she says
     so I drive on
     and she says
     "So how did I end up
     attached to this person
     when his sense of humour
     gets gradually worser?"
     and I can't tell her
     I'm parking 
     outside her home
     and we're shaking hands
     goodnight, so politely

@SONG: "The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye"

     Churchillian legs
     hair barely there
     the harsh truth of the camera eye

     Your eyes signal pain
     because of the strain
     of smiling
     the harsh truth of the camera eye

     telling you all
     that you never wnated to know
     showing what 
     you didn't want shown

     My so friendly lens
     zooms into
     "the inner you"
     and it tells the harsh truth
     and nothing but

     Laugh with us all here
     that's if you can
     then take the pictures home
     and scream

     telling you all 
     that you never wanted to know
     showing you what
     you didn't want shown

     This photographer
     he must have really had it in for you

     "Oh, I don't want
     to be judged anymore
     I don't wnat to be judged
     I would sooner be Loved
     I would sooner be
     just blindly Loved..."

@SONG: "(I'm) The End of the Family Line"

     With no complications
     fifteen generations
     (of mine)
     all honouring Nature
     until I arrive
     (with incredible style)

     I'm the end fo the line
     the end of the family line
     the end of the line
     No baby pulled screaming
     out into this seething whirl
     by chance or whim
     (or even love?)
     our family tree hacked into decline
     and I'm spared the pain
     of ever saying 
     ("goodbye")

     I'm the end of the line
     the end of the family line
     the end of the line

@SONG: "There's a Place In Hell For Me And My Friends"

     There is a place 
     reserved
     for me and my friends
     and when we go
     we all will go
     so you see
     I'm never alone
     there is a place
     with a bit more time
     and a few more
     gentler words
     and looking back
     we do forgive
     (we had no choice
     we always did)
     all that we hope
     is that when we go
     our skin
     and our blood
     and our bones
     don't get in your way
     making you ill
     the way they did
     when we lived
     There is a place
     a place in hell
     reserved
     for me and my friends
     and if ever I
     wanted to cry
     then I will
     because I can