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Koreema know just what it is she doesIt cant be hard for her to get a buzzDown in the street belowYou can hear the drunken prophet sing"I know whats on your mind my boyI can see oh everythingLead pipes are fortune made wellTake a tip from meClimb up to her window ledge or you'll forever be Just walking under ladders as the people round you hear you crying please" Who really knows just what it is she doesIt cant be hard for herTo get a buzzThe rapture of vertigoAnd letting goMe myself i was never sureWas it the liquorOr was it my soul?

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From way far across the seaCame an Eritrean maiden sheHad a one track mind and eyes for meHalf blinded in the war With a pale young AnglicanWho said he'd help her all he canShowed her Jesus and his little unholy friendShe had no mind to please himJust say 'ta-ra' and leave him behind There's a little boy in a stairwell who Says "I hate people like you,I got match sticks and cable TVHalf of less than 50p"We all clambered over the balconyBanging on the window waking SteveBringing with a true love his unholy friendSinging if you really need itYou just wont leave it behind So baby please kill meOh baby don't kill meBut don't bring that ghost 'round to my doorI don't wanna see him anymore Please kill meOh baby don't kill meJust don't bang on about yesterdayI wouldn't know about that anyway Monkey said to the mouse beforeIf she loved anybody more than heIt turns you into stone nowAnd I'm reversing down a lonely streetCheap hotel where I can meet the pastPlay it off and keep it sweetAh, It's sweet like nothing ohIt's just like nothing at all Yes I've seen you thereHow could I help but stareIt rips the heart out of your babyTaken far too much to see or think or touchWhats real stranded on this streetThat paved my only way homeIf you really need it ohYou just won't leave it behind Oh, please kill meOh no don't kill meDon't bring that ghost round to my doorI don't wanna see him anymore Please kill me Oh no don't kill meDon't go on about yesterdayYou know I wouldn't know about that any way oh no He got nothing ohHe got nothing at allHe got nothing ohHe got nothing at all

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Did you see the stylish kids in the riotShovelled up like muckSet the night on fireWombles bleed truncheons and shieldsYou know I cherish you my love But there's a rumour spread nasty disease around townCaught around the houses with your trousers downA head rush in the bushYou know I cherish you my loveOh how I cherish you my love Tell me what can you want Now you've got it all I've seen is obsceneTime will strip it away, a year and a dayAnd Bill Bones,Bill Bones knows what I mean Yes it's eating, it's chewing me upIt's not right for young lungs to be coughing up bloodAnd it's allIt's all in my handsIt's all up the walls The stale chips are up and the hopes stakes are downIts these ignorant faces that bring this town downYeah I sighed and sunken with prideYou know passed myself down on my kneesYes I passed myself down on my knees Now tell me what can you want When you've got it all I've seen is obsceneTime will strip it away, a year and a dayAnd Bill Bones,Bill Bones knows what I mean There are fewer more distressing sights than thatOf an Englishman in a baseball capAnd we'll die in the class we were bornThat's a class of our own my loveA class of our own my love Did you see the stylish kids in the riotShovelled up like muckSet the night on fireWombles bleed truncheons and shieldsYou know I cherish you my loveAnd I cherish you my love.

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I've been following Your minds instructionsOh how just to slowly, sharply screw myself to death Ah yes, there is a screwIt's pointed at my head Then look a dream peddlarAnd a stick of light through my bones"Don't get on the wrong one" "Oh you and you what's your game" Laying me down to waste laying me downPin me up or put me downUh uh uh uh ohNow let it all go It's a horror show, you should come on roundHorror show, the horse is brownUh uh oh left something in Moscow She said "I'll show you a pictureA picture of tomorrow There's nothing changingIt's all sorrowOh no please dont show meI'm a swine, you don't wanna know me I've been following Your minds instructionsOh how just to slowly, sharply screw myself to death Ah yes, there is a screwIt's pointed at my head Laying me down to waste laying me downPin me up or put me downUh uh uh uh ohNow let it all go It's a horror show, you should come on roundHorror show, the horse is brownUh uh oh left something in Moscow I've been following Your minds instructionsOh how just to slowly, sharply screw myself to death Ah yes, there is a screwIt's pointed at my head Laying me down to waste laying me downPin me up or put me downUh uh uh uh ohNow let it all go It's a horror show, you should come on roundHorror show, the horse is brownUh uh oh left something in Moscow

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You walk in like you never seen the light,You walk in like it every night,But I've never seen you dance and I never heard you sing, So how could it mean a single thing? It's all so rudimentary You're talking like your handy in a fight, You talk about it every night,But I've never seen those flowers in the barrell of your gun,All I've ever seen you do is run, It's nice of you to mention But tell me baby how does it feel?I know you like the roll of the limousine wheel yeahAnd they all get them out for (- they all get them out)For the boys in the band (- only for the boys in the band)They twist and they shout for (- they twist and they scream and shout)For the boys in the band (- only for the boys in the band) You walk in like you never seen the lightYou walk in like it every night But then I stopped to think and I asked myself 'why?'It's one of those things that darling you must try It's all so rudimentary And now I'm jealous I'm jealous of my own I've no homestead but through these hearts I will roam yeahThey all get them out (- they all get them out)For the boys in the band (- only for the boys in the band)They scream and they shout for (- they twist and they scream and shout)For they boys in the band (- only for the boys in the band) (guitar solo) But tell me baby how does it feel?I know you like the roll of the limousine wheel yeahAnd they all get them out for (- they all get them out)For the boys in the band (- only for the boys in the band)They scream and they shout for (- they twist and they scream and shout)For the boys in the band (- only for the boys in the band) Yes they all want them out for (- they all want them out)For they boys in the band (- only for the boys in the band)They scream and they shout for (- they twist and they scream and shout)For the boys in the band (- only for the boys in the band)

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If I get the callI'll call across radio AmericaRight across America I will callYes I will call across radio AmericaRight across America I will callIf call I must do To take my love, my love to you And all across Africa, China and Australia I will callCall you down in New Mexico, New Brighton and TokyoI will callIf call we must doTo take my love, my love to you For well it may hap that these are they:Your happiest daysOh my good old friendI see you chanced your arm again The red faced president Took afternoon tea with her majesty QueenAnd they watched old films flickerAcross the old palace screen, crying"What a shame as she slipped in the rainPoor dancing girl well she won't dance again"And they tell me this was a transmissionTo take my love, my love to youAnd only to youYes this was a transmissionTo take my love, my love toYou (repeated)

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Yelled:Get out of it I saw two shadow men on the Vallance roadThey said they'd pay me for your addressOh, I was so boldI said, you see these two cold fingersThese crooked fingers I show?You's a way to mean noWell, they didn't like that much, I can tell youThey said, sunshine, I wouldn't wanna be in your shoesAnd they chased me up three flights of stairsCaught me in the lift, I sighed and said helloBut you're impossible But it's just like he's in another worldHe doesn't see the danger on showHe'll wind up like Joseph, bloody in the holeIt's just like she's in another worldHow they suit each other, ohBut you never get closeIt's impossible Saw the same two men on the Cally roadSaid now they'd double their offer, I was so boldTo say, you see these two cold fingers, I knowThese crooked fingers I show?Oh, you's a way to mean no But it's just like he's in another world He doesn't see the danger on showHe'll end up like Joseph, bloody in a holeIt's just like she's in another worldAnd how they suit each other, oh, noOh, you never get closeUnstoppable It's just like we're in another worldHow we suit each other, oh, noBut you never get closeThat's close enough

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I've got a little secret for ya Even now there's something To be proud aboutYou come up the hard wayAnd they'll remind you every dayYou're nothing Oh my words in your mouth Are mumbled all aboutYou're like a journalist How you can cut and paste and twistYou're awful Tell it to your kingTell him everything you knowTell him you know how I feelTell him you know how I feel at the palace gatesOh I'm all levered off my faceAnd just to work out what it's on aboutAnd see snakes in eyes And danger signs If you were late you mustn't dare complainAnd you won't like this at allThere's nothing to break your fall Oh tell it to your kingTell him everything you knowAnd you know how I feel out of placeUntil I'm levered off my faceAnd I can't work out what your on aboutDidn't they explainYou have to play the game, oh-oh He drinks and smokes his cares awayHis heart is in the lonely wayLiving in the ruinsOf a castle built on sand

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The boy looked at Johnny and saidMy word that was fun When he did it with his hat on Like in a saddle with his gun We're in slow motion eating breakfast At the side view hotel Oh sipping down a treatEverything's going so well New York city's very pretty in the night time But don't you miss Soho Where everybody goes La de di la de di da diddy The boy looked at Johnny He said "Don't you know who I think I am" Well I knew you once before Now Im trying all I can Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeahNo no no no noYeah yeah yeah yeah yeah New York city's very pretty in the night time But don't you miss Soho Where everybody goes La de di la de di da diddy

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All animals we areRound the bench, in the parkYour sisters in the dark todayWatery pinned eyes, my soulHas gone a little cold And maybe, maybe next yearIf it isn't too dearWe'll get ourselves Some good time girlsRemember when you payYou'll pay in many many ways And he's crossing the roadTo get his daily sport Oh now they're begging youThey're begging you, what will you do?Oh lord, they're begging youYour friend begging youWhat will you do? And have you heard the singerSaid he's a dead ringer for A feeling that I used to knowOh she cries "Oh hell, oh noIt's a funny way to go" And he's crossing the roadPicking up his daily sport Oh now they're begging youThey're begging you, what will you do?Oh lord they're begging youYour friends begging youWhat will you do?

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