Random Song Lyrics Thread

[death tribble]

Ner ner-ner-ner ner-ner-ner ner

Ner ner-ner-ner-ner-ner

 

No ! Oh oh oh !

 

Elevate !

 

Unemployment’s rising in the Chigley end of town

And it’s spreading like pneumonia

Doesn’t look like going down

There’s trouble at the fire station someone’s had the sack

And the lads are going to launch a scheme get rid of Captain Flack

 

Tell PC McGarry to get himself a mate

And arm themselves with CS gas

They’re gonna be out late

We’ve had Cant conformism since 1966

And now subversion’s in the air in the shape of flying bricks

 

Someone get a message through to Captain Snort

That they’d better start assembling the boys from the fort

And keep Mrs Honeyman right out of sight

‘Cos there’s gonna be a riot down in Trumpton tonight

 

All this aristocracy has really got to stop

We can overthrow the surgery and kidnap Dr Mopp

And Chippy Minton’s Socialists could storm the Market Square

And make plans to assassinate our autocratic Mayor

 

Windy Militant leads his Basque-like corn grinders to war

With windmill sails and bombs with nails they smash the town hall door

But Snorty and his boys arrive with one big erstwhile crew

Whereupon they bring about a military coup

 

Someone get a message through to Captain Snort

That they’d better start assembling the boys from the fort

And keep Mrs Honeyman right out of sight

‘Cos there’s gonna be a riot down in Trumpton tonight

 

Oh, someone get a message through to Captain Snort

That they’d better start assembling the boys from the fort

And keep Mrs Honeyman right out of sight

‘Cos there’s gonna be a riot down in Trumpton tonight

[death tribble]

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine

I keep my eyes wide open all the time

I keep the ends out for the tie that binds

Because you're mine, I walk the line

 

I find it very, very easy to be true

I find myself alone when each day is through

Yes, I'll admit that I'm a fool for you

Because you're mine, I walk the line

 

As sure as night is dark and day is light

I keep you on my mind both day and night

And happiness I've known proves that it's right

Because you're mine, I walk the line

 

You've got a way to keep me on your side

You give me cause for love that I can't hide

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide

Because you're mine, I walk the line

 

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine

I keep my eyes wide open all the time

I keep the ends out for the tie that binds

Because you're mine, I walk the line

[death tribble]

Telegram Sam Telegram Sam

You're my main man

 

Golden Nose Slim Golden Nose Slim

I know's where you' ve bin

Purple Pie Pete Purple Pie Pete

Your lips are like lightning

Girls melt in the heat

 

Telegram Sam

You're my main man

Telegram Sam

You're my main man

 

Bobby's alright Bobby's alright

He's a natural born poet

He's just outa sight

Jungle faced Jake

Jungle faced Jake

I say make no mistake

About Jungle faced Jake

 

Automatic shoes

Automatic shoes

Give me three D vision

And the California blues

Me I funk but I don't care

I ain't no square with my corkscrew hair

 

Telegram Sam Telegram Sam

 

I'm a howlin' wolf

[death tribble]

Whenever we hold each other
We hold each other
There's a feeling that's gone
Something has gone wrong

And I don't know how much longer I can take it
House made of heart, break it
Take my head in your hands and shake it
In this near wild heaven
Not near enough

(Inside, living inside, living inside)
Near wild heaven

(Living inside, living inside, living inside)
Near wild heaven

Whatever it takes I'm giving
It's just a gift I'm given
Try to live inside
Trying to move inside

And I always thought that it would make me smarter
But it's only made me harder
My heart thrown open wide
In this near wild heaven
Not near enough

(Inside, living inside, living inside)
Near wild heaven

(Living inside, living inside, living inside)
Near wild heaven

(Living inside, living inside, living inside)
Near wild heaven

(Living inside, living inside, living inside)
Near wild heaven

I'm holding my hands together
Holding my feet together
Holding myself together
In this near wild heaven
Not near enough

Near wild heaven
Near wild heaven

(Living inside, living inside, living inside)
Near wild heaven

(Living inside, living inside, living inside)
Near wild heaven

(Living inside, living inside, living inside)
Near wild heaven

(Living inside, living inside, living inside)
Near wild heaven

 

[Pariah]

Me and Earl was haulin’ chickens

On a flatbed out of Wiggins

And we’d spent all night on the uphill side

Of thirty-seven miles of Hell called Wolf Creek Pass

Which is up on the Great Divide

 

And we was sittin’ there suckin’ toothpicks

And drinkin’ Nehis and onion soup mix

And I says, “Earl, let’s mail a card to Mother

And then send them chickens on down to the other side

Yeah, let’s give ‘em a ride.”

 

Wolf Creek Pass, way up on the Great Divide

Truckin’ on down the other side

 

Well, Earl put down his bottle 

And mashed his foot down on the throttle

And then a couple of boobs and a thousand cubes

In a 1948 Peterbilt screamed to life

We woke up the chickens

 

We roared up off of that shoulder

Sprayin’ pine cones, rocks, and boulders

And put four hundred head of them Rhode Island Reds

And a couple of burned-out roosters on the line

Look out below

‘Cause here we go!

 

Wolf Creek Pass, way up on the Great Divide

Truckin’ on down the other side

 

Well, we commenced to truckin’

And them hens commenced to cluckin’

And then Earl took out a match and scratched his pants

And lit up the unused half of a dollar cigar and took a puff

Says, “My, ain’t this pretty up here?”

 

I says, “Earl, this hill can spill us

You better slow down or you gonna kill us

Just make one mistake and it’s the pearly gates

For them 85 crates of USDA approved cluckers

You wanna hit second?”

 

Wolf Creek Pass, way up on the Great Divide

Truckin’ on down the other side

 

Well Earl grabbed on the shifter

And he stabbed her into fifth gear

And then the chromium-plated fully-illuminated 

Genuine accessory shift knob come right off in his hand

I says, “You wanna screw that thing back on, Earl?”

 

He was tryin’ the thread it on there

When the fire fell off of his cigar

And dropped on down, sort of rolled around

And then lit the cuff of Earl’s pants and burned a hole in his sock

Yeah, sorta set him right on fire

 

I looked on out of the window

And I started countin’ phone poles

Goin’ by at the rate of four to the seventh power

Well I put two and two together

And added twelve and carried five

Come up with twenty-two thousand telephone poles an hour

 

I looked at Earl and his eyes was wide

And his lip was curled and his leg was fried

And his hand was froze to the wheel

Like a tongue to a sled in the middle of a blizzard

And I says, “Earl, I’m not the type to complain

But the time has come for me to explain

That if you don’t apply some brake real soon,

They’re gonna have to pick us up with a stick and a spoon”

 

Well, Earl reared back, cocked his leg,

And stepped down as hard as he could on the brake

And the pedal went clear to the floor

And it stayed right there on the floor

And he says, “It’s sorta like steppin’ on a plum.”

 

Well, from there on down, it just wasn’t real pretty

It was hairpin county and switchback city

One of ‘em looked like a can full of worms

Another one looked like malaria germs

Right in the middle of the whole damn show

Was a real nice tunnel, now wouldn’t you know?

 

The sign says clearance at the twelve-foot line

But the chickens was stacked to thirteen-nine

Well, we shot that tunnel around a hundred and ten

And like gas through a funnel and eggs through a hen

We took that top row of chickens off slicker than the scum off a Louisiana swamp

 

We went down and around and around and down

And we run out of ground at the edge of town

And bashed into the side of the feed store

In downtown Pagosa Springs

 

Wolf Creek Pass, way up on the Great Divide

Truckin’ on down the other side

Wolf Creek Pass, way up on the Great Divide

Truckin’ on down the other side

[Ternaugh]

I need to remember the day
When we said goodbye for the very last time
There was still so much to say
But time came between us and quietly stole you away

Let me remember the day
We walk to the garden and sit for a while
The hours are slipping away
Still I try to hold them and freeze them in time
So leave me believing we'll meet here again
Promise me some kind of sign

As each day turns into night
I blow out the candle and turn down the sheet
And now that you've risen so high
I know that you watch over me as I sleep
Always believing we'll meet up again
Waiting for some kind of sign

So now I remember the day
When we said goodbye for the very last time
But no one can take you away
'Cause here in my memories there's never a very last time
Never a very last time...

[Greywind]

Whispering our goodbyes
Waiting for a train
I was dancing with my baby
In the summer rain
I can hear him saying
Nothing will change
Come dancing with me baby
In the summer rain

I remember the rain on our skin
And his kisses hotter than the
Santa Ana winds
Whispering our goodbyes
Waiting for a train
I was dancing with my baby
In the summer rain

I remember laughing til we almost cried
(There at station that night)
I remember looking in his eyes

Oh my love, it's you and that I dream of
Oh my love, since that day
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain

Doesn't matter what I do now
Doesn't matter what I say
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain

I can hear the whistle
Military train
I was dancing with my baby
In the summer rain
I can here him singing
Ooh "Love Is Strange"
Come dance with me baby
In the summer rain

I remember the rain pouring down
And we poured our hearts out
As the train pulled out
I can see my baby
Waving from the train
It was last time that I saw him
In the summer rain

Every time I see the lightening
Every time I hear the thunder
Every time I close the window
When this happens in the summer
Oh the night is so inviting
I can feel that you are so close
I can feel you when the wind blows
Blows right through my heart

Every night and every day now
Though I know you've gone away
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain

[Pariah]

There are no words to say

I see in your eyes that you're fading away

Your crown on the floor by your side

My dream will not be denied

 

Now that your world is mine

No one will share in the riches I find

Your castle will burn in the sun

My will shall not be undone

 

No tears as I sleep tonight

My only fear is no tomorrow

 

Wearing this velvet gown

The power I feel thunders deep in the ground

White lightning strikes twice in the sky

Drowning out angels who cry

 

Now in your final bow

Hoping that starlight can save you somehow

And floating like ashes that burn

You drift away and never return

 

No tears as I sleep tonight

My only fear is no tomorrow

 

No tears as I sleep tonight

My only fear is no tomorrow

[Greywind]

Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
But sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one
They showed you a statue and told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
But they never told you the price that you pay
For things that you might have done...
Only the good die young

You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd
We ain't too pretty, we ain't too proud
We might be laughing a bit too loud
But that never hurt no one
So, come on, Virginia, show me a sign
Send up a signal I'll throw you the line
The stained-glass curtain you're hiding behind
Never lets in the sun
Darling, only the good die young

You got a nice white dress and a party on your confirmation
You got a brand new soul
And a cross of gold
But, Virginia, they didn't give you quite enough information
You didn't count on me
When you were counting on your rosary

They say there's a heaven for those who will wait
Some say it's better but I say it ain't
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
The sinners are much more fun...
You know that only the good die young

You say your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation
She never cared for me
But did she ever say a prayer for me?

Come out, come out, come out
Virginia, don't let me wait,
You Catholic girls start much too late,
But sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one,
You know that only the good die young
Tell you baby
You know that only the good die young
Only the good die young
Only the good
Only the good die young

[Pariah]

Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait

You Catholic girls start much too late

But sooner or later it comes down to fate

I might as well be the one

 

<snip>

 

This was in the running for my Senior class song in high school. It finished second.

/aside

[death tribble]

I never thought I'd die alone

I laughed the loudest who'd have known ?

I traced the cord back to the wall

No wonder it was never plugged in at all

I took my time, I hurried up

The choice was mine I didn't think enough

I'm too depressed to go on

You'll be sorry when I'm gone

 

I never conquered, rarely came

16 just held such better days

Days when I still felt alive

We couldn't wait to get outside

The world was wide, too late to try

The tour was over we'd survived

I couldn't wait till I got home

To pass the time in my room alone

 

I never thought I'd die alone

Another six months I'll be unknown

Give all my things to all my friends

You'll never step foot in my room again

You'll close it off, board it up

Remember the time that I spilled the cup

Of apple juice in the hall

Please tell mom this is not her fault

 

I never conquered, rarely came

16 just held such better days

Days when I still felt alive

We couldn't wait to get outside

The world was wide, too late to try

The tour was over we'd survived

I couldn't wait till I got home

To pass the time in my room alone

 

I never conquered, rarely came

Tomorrow holds such better days

Days when I can still feel alive

When I can't wait to get outside

The world is wide, the time goes by

The tour is over, I've survived

I can't wait till I get home

To pass the time in my room alone

[Michael Hopcroft]

I was fine with the men

Who would come into her life now and again

I was fine 'cause I knew

That they didn't really matter until you

 

I was fine when you came

And we fought like it was all some silly game

Over her, who she'd choose

After all those years I never thought I'd lose

 

It's over, isn't it? Isn't it?

Isn't it over?

It's over, isn't it? Isn't it?

Isn't it over?

You won and she chose you

And she loved you and she's gone

It's over, isn't it?

Why can't I move on?

 

War and glory, reinvention

Fusion, freedom, her attention

Out in daylight my potential

Both, precise, experimental

 

Who am I now in this world without her?

Petty and dull with the nerve to doubt her

What does it matter? It's already done

Now I've got to be there for her son

 

It's over, isn't it? Isn't it?

Isn't it over?

It's over isn't it? Isn't it?

Isn't it over?

You won and she chose you

And she loved you and she's gone

It's over, isn't it?

Why can't I move on?

It's over, isn't it?

Why can't I move on?

[Greywind]

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on now
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see.

But if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you can not change, oh, oh, oh, oh.
And this bird you can not change.
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows I can't change.

Bye, bye, baby, it's been a sweet love, yeah,
Though this feeling I can't change.
But please don't take it so badly,
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame.

But if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you'll never change, oh, oh, oh, oh.
And this bird you cannot change.
And this bird you cannot change.
Lord knows, I can't change.
Lord, help me, I can't change.

Lord, I can't change.
Won't you fly high, free bird, yeah?

[death tribble]

I wanna love you and treat you right;

I wanna love you every day and every night:

We'll be together with a roof right over our heads;

We'll share the shelter of my single bed;

We'll share the same room, yeah ! - for Jah provide the bread.

Is this love - is this love - is this love -

Is this love that I'm feelin' ?

Is this love - is this love - is this love -

Is this love that I'm feelin' ?

I wanna know - wanna know - wanna know now !

I got to know - got to know - got to know now !

 

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I - I'm willing and able,

So I throw my cards on your table !

I wanna love you - I wanna love and treat - love and treat you right;

I wanna love you every day and every night:

We'll be together, yeah ! - with a roof right over our heads;

We'll share the shelter, yeah, oh now ! - of my single bed;

We'll share the same room, yeah ! - for Jah provide the bread.

 

Is this love - is this love - is this love -

Is this love that I'm feelin' ?

Is this love - is this love - is this love -

Is this love that I'm feelin' ?

Wo-o-o-oah ! Oh yes, I know; yes, I know - yes, I know now !

Yes, I know; yes, I know - yes, I know now !

 

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I - I'm willing and able,

So I throw my cards on your table !

See: I wanna love ya, I wanna love and treat ya -

love and treat ya right.

I wanna love you every day and every night:

We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads!

We'll share the shelter of my single bed;

We'll share the same room, yeah ! Jah provide the bread.

We'll share the shelter of my single bed

[death tribble]

Mull of Kintyre
Oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

Far have I traveled and much have I seen
Dark distant mountains with valleys of green
Past painted deserts the sunsets on fire
As he carries me home to the Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre
Oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

Sweep through the heather like deer in the glen
Carry me back to the days I knew then
Nights when we sang like a heavenly choir
Of the life and the times of the Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre
Oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

Smiles in the sunshine
And tears in the rain
Still take me back where my memories remain
Flickering embers grow higher and high
As they carry me back to the Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre
Oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre
Oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

 

[death tribble]

Southern man

better keep your head

Don't forget

what your good book said

Southern change

gonna come at last

Now your crosses

are burning fast

Southern man

 

I saw cotton

and I saw black

Tall white mansions

and little shacks.

Southern man

when will you

pay them back ?

I heard screamin'

and bullwhips cracking

How long ? How long ?

 

Southern man

better keep your head

Don't forget

what your good book said

Southern change

gonna come at last

Now your crosses

are burning fast

Southern man

 

Lily Belle,

your hair is golden brown

I've seen your black man

comin' round

Swear by God

I'm gonna cut him down !

I heard screamin'

and bullwhips cracking

How long ? How long ?

[death tribble]

There's colors on the street

Red, white and blue

People shufflin' their feet

People sleepin' in their shoes

But there's a warnin' sign

on the road ahead

There's a lot of people sayin'

we'd be better off dead

Don't feel like Satan,

but I am to them

So I try to forget it,

any way I can.

 

Keep on rockin' in the free world,

Keep on rockin' in the free world

Keep on rockin' in the free world,

Keep on rockin' in the free world.

 

I see a woman in the night

With a baby in her hand

Under an old street light

Near a garbage can

Now she puts the kid away,

and she's gone to get a hit

She hates her life,

and what she's done to it

There's one more kid

that will never go to school

Never get to fall in love,

never get to be cool.

 

Keep on rockin' in the free world,

Keep on rockin' in the free world

Keep on rockin' in the free world,

Keep on rockin' in the free world.

 

We got a thousand points of light

For the homeless man

We got a kinder, gentler,

Machine gun hand

We got department stores

and toilet paper

Got styrofoam boxes

for the ozone layer

Got a man of the people,

says keep hope alive

Got fuel to burn,

got roads to drive.

 

Keep on rockin' in the free world,

Keep on rockin' in the free world

Keep on rockin' in the free world,

Keep on rockin' in the free world.

[death tribble]

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew

Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb

 

Let it happen bass player…

 

Time flies by when you’re a driver of a train

Speeding out of Trumpton with a cargo of cocaine

I get high when I’m the pilot of a plane

Touching down in Camberwick I’m stoned out of my brain

 

Under bridges, over bridges, to our destination

Careful with that spliff Eugene, it causes condensation

 

Every Saturday I get the Chigley skins

And they always smash my windows ‘cos the home side always wins

Yeah, time flies by when you’re a driver of a train

Gonna get me syringes out and crank up once again

 

Under bridges over bridges to our destination

Careful with that spliff Eugene it causes condensation

[death tribble]

Garden party held today 

 

Invites call the debs to play 

 

 

Social climbers polish ladders 

 

 

Wayward sons again have fathers 

 

 

Hello, Dad, hello, dad 

 

 

 

 

 

Edgy eggs and queuing cumbers 

 

 

Rudely wakened from their slumbers 

 

 

Time has come again for slaughter 

 

 

O on the lawns by still Cam waters 

 

 

A slaughter, it's a slaughter 

 

 

 

 

 

Champagne corks are firing at the sun again 

 

 

Swooping swallows chased by violins again 

 

 

Straafed by Strauss they sulk in crumbling eaves again 

 

 

Oh God not again 

 

 

 

 

 

Aperitifs consumed en masse 

 

 

Display their owners on the grass 

 

 

Couples loiter in the cloisters 

 

 

social leeches quoting Chaucer 

 

 

 

 

 

Doctor's son a parson's daughter 

 

 

W where why not and should they oughta 

 

 

Please don't lie upon the grass 

 

 

Unless accompanied by a fellow 

 

 

May I be so bold as to perhaps suggest Othello 

 

 

 

 

 

Punting on the Cam is jolly fun they say 

 

 

Beagling on the downs, oh please do come they say 

 

 

Rugger is the tops, a game for men they say 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm punting, I'm beagling, I'm wining, reclining, I'm rucking, I'm f**king 

 

 

So welcome, it's a party 

 

 

 

 

 

Angie chalks another blue 

 

 

Mother smiles she did it too 

 

 

Chitters chat and gossips lash 

 

 

Posers pose, pressmen flash 

 

 

 

 

 

Smiles polluted with false charm, locking on to Royal arms 

 

 

Society columns now ensured, returns to mingle with the crowds 

 

 

Oh what a crowd 

 

 

 

 

 

Punting on the Cam, oh please do come they say 

 

 

Beagling on the downs, oh please so come they say 

 

 

Garden party held today they say 

 

 

Oh please do come, oh please do come, they say.

 

[death tribble]

I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence 

I am the assassin, providing your nemesis 

 

On the sacrificial altar to success, my friend 

Unleash a stranger from a kiss, my friend 

No incantations of remorse, my friend 

Unsheathe the blade within the voice, my friend 

 

Who decorates the scarf with the fugi knot 

Who camouflaged emotion in a thousand yard stare 

Who gouged the notches from the family tree 

Who hypnotised the guilt in career rhythm trance 

 

Assassing, assassing, assassing, assassing 

 

Listen as the syllables of slaughter cat with calm precision 

Patterned frosty phrases rape your ears and sow the ice incision 

Apocalyptic alphabet casting spell the creed of tempered diction 

Adjectives of annihilation bury the point beyond redemption 

Venomous verbs of ruthless candour plagiarise assassins fervour 

A friend in need is a friend that bleeds 

Let bitter silence infect the wound 

 

You were a sentimental mercenary in a free fire zone 

Parading a Hollywood conscience 

You were a fashionable objector with a uniform fetish 

Pavlovian slaver at the cash till ring of success 

A non com observer - I assassin the collector - defector 

 

So you resigned yourself to failure, my friend 

And I emerged the chilling stranger, my friend 

To eradicate the problem, my friend 

Unsheathe the blade within the voice 

 

I am the assassin 

I am the assassin 

 

And what do you call assassins who accuse assassins anyway, my friend ?

[Greywind]

You're givin' me the fever tonight
I don't wanna give in, I'll be playin' with fire
You forget, I've seen you work before
Take 'em straight to the top, leave 'em cryin' for more
I've seen you burn 'em before

Fire and ice, you come on like a flame
Then you turn cold shoulder
Fire and ice, I wanna give you my love
You'll just take a little piece of my heart
Please tear it apart

Movin' in for the kill tonight
You got every advantage when they put out the lights
It's not so pretty when it fades away
'Cause it's just an illusion in this passion play
I've seen you burn 'em before

Fire and ice, you come on like a flame
Then you turn cold shoulder
Fire and ice, I wanna give you my love
You'll just take a little piece of my heart

So you think you got it all figured out
You're an expert in the field without a doubt
But I know your methods inside and out
I won't be taken in by fire and ice

Fire and ice, you come on like a flame
Then you turn cold shoulder
Fire and ice, I wanna give you my love
You'll just take a little piece of my heart

You come on like a flame
Then you turn cold shoulder
Fire and ice, you come on like a flame
And you turn cold shoulder
Fire and ice

[death tribble]

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather

Whiplash girlchild in the dark

Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him

Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

Downy sins of streetlight fancies

Chase the costumes she shall wear

Ermine furs adorn the imperious

Severin, Severin awaits you there

I am tired, I am weary

I could sleep for a thousand years

A thousand dreams that would awake me

Different colors made of tears

Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather

Shiny leather in the dark

Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you

Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

Severin, Severin, speak so slightly

Severin, down on your bended knee

Taste the whip, in love not given lightly

Taste the whip, now plead for me

I am tired, I am weary

I could sleep for a thousand years

A thousand dreams that would awake me

Different colors made of tears

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather

Whiplash girlchild in the dark

Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't forsake him

Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

[death tribble]

Now I've got a cousin called Kevin

He's sure to go to heaven

Always spotless clean and neat

The smoothest you can get them

He's got a fur lined sheepskin jacket

My ma said they cost a packet

She won't even let me explain

That me and Kevin were just not the same

 

Oh my perfect cousin

What I like to do he doesn't

He's his family's private joy

His mothers little golden boy

 

He's gotta a grade in economics

Maths - physics and bionics

He thinks that I'm a cabbage

'cause I hate university challenge

Even at the age of ten

Smart boy Kevin was a smart boy then

He always beat me at Subbuteo

'cause he flicked the kick

And I didn't know

 

Oh my perfect cousin ..

 

His mother bought him a synthesizer

Got the Human League into advise her

Now he's making lots of noise

Playing along with the art school boys

Girls try to attract his attention

But what a shame it's in vain total rejection

He will never be left on the shelf

'cause Kevin he's in love with himself

 

Oh my perfect cousin

[death tribble]

There was one of the gang, who had Scalextric and because of that he thought he was better than you.

Every day after school,

You'd go around there to play it,

Hoping to compete for some kind of championship,

But it always took about 15 billion hours to set the track up.

And even when you did, the thing never seemed to work.

It was a dodgy transformer, again and again.

A dodgy transformer, again and again.

It was a dodgy transformer, again and again

A dodgy transformer that cost 3 pounds 10.

 

So he sent his doting mother

Up the stairs with the stepladder,

To get the Subutteo out of the loft.

It had all the accessories required for that big-match atmosphere.

The crowd and the dugout, and the floodlights, too.

And you'd always get palmed off

With a headless center-forward,

And a goal-keeper with no arms,

And a face like his.

And he'd managed to get hold of

A Dukla-Prague Away Kit,

His uncle owned a sports shop and he'd kept it to one side.

And after only five minutes

You'd be down to ten men,

And then he said sent off your right back for taking the base from under his left-winger.

Come to half-time, you were losing four-nil.

Each and every goal, a hotly disputed penalty

So you smash up the floodlights

And the game was abandoned,

And the dog would bark

And you'd be banned from his house.

And your travelling army

Of synthetic supporters

Would be taken away from you

And thrown in the bin.

 

And now he's working

In a job with a future.

He hands me my Giro every two weeks.

And me I'm on the lookout

For a proper transformer.

[Greywind]

Standing in your doorway
Nothing much to see
Remember conversations
Between you and me
Forgot about the feeling
Forgot about the pain
Forgot about the hopeful nights
Calling again
Just a victim of the moment-
Nobody's fault, nobody fooled
Ah, it's funny how things seem to slip away
From me and you...so I keep going

From eye to eye
Face to face
Moving oh so fast
Never getting any place
I keep going
Eye to eye
And face to face
Will I ever find you, will I ever find you?

Looking in a window
Nothing much to do
Almost feeling humble
Needing you
Most of my embraces
Don't hold on so tight
But after all, if I don't try
What will feel right?
Yes, it has to make me wonder-
I'm so alone and yet so free
Ah, it's funny how things seem to slip away
From you and me - still I keep going

From eye to eye
Face to face
Moving oh so fast
Never getting any place
I keep going
Eye to eye
And face to face
Will I ever find you, will I ever find you