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I get this writer's block, it comes as quite a shock, And now i'm stuck between a hard place and the biggest rock, In my own head consumed. I sit back in my room, Its like the tapestries of life get tangled in the loom, I'm like a butterfly, caught in a hurricane, My heart is quickening as my heart plays a new refrain Im lovin' Mary Jane, flyin' with Lois Lane, On board a bullet train Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Sometimes at night i think too much, About love and life and music and stuff I'm livin' in the past, My clocks an hour fast, Should really go and make a coffee but i can't be arsed, I've lost my mobile phone, You'll have to call my phone, On second thoughts just leave a message when you hear the tone, My grimy windows show the early morning glow, Another day, another dollar in my one man show, Im lovin' Mary Jane, flyin' with Lois Lane, On board a bullet train Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Don't know yet if i'm glad i came Don't know yet if i'm glad i came I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train But now i know i'm glad i- I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train But now i know i'm glad i- I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train But now i know i'm glad i- I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train But now i know i'm glad i came But now i know i'm glad i came But now i know i'm glad i came
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| 2. |
| 3:40 |
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I'm feelin groovy Kicking down the cobble stones And there is music in every sight and every sound No need for headphones I'll tip my cap to the world Even though I don't wear one Grinning at the women in the salon Getting their hair done On the outside looking in Like an aquarium Spinning with the stars in the planetarium Deliriously Mysteriously I'm feeling curiously marvelously Super Duper Like Joss Stone My heart melts like ice cream cones Grinning like a dog digging up dinosaur bones I used to be fossilized But now I'm out of my shell And I'm happier than whores with chivalrous clientele This can't be real I must be dreaming Can somebody slap me I'm feeling so mischievous Original cheeky chappy It must be ages Since I felt satisfied Just to be Just Jack And just that, still in tact Its just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed Shake your head Clear the haze Step out your house And prepared to be amazed It's just another one of those Just another one of those Just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed Shake your head Clear the haze Step out your house And prepare to be amazed It's just another one of those glory days I'm so warm New dawn Reborn New forms And I'm thinking about my boys Joe le chic, and Freshly Sean And I know you're underrated But one day we'll all make it And walk around naked with our bollocks platinumed and plated Anyway I'm off track Gotta stop that And get back to the high street I need something to eat Stop at the caf' Coffee and a salt beef bagel Yea I know I'm caned/Cain'd But now I'm feeling able/Abel I used to get so paranoid in places like this Stayed in my house for days with my weed psychosis My neurosis was thinking everybody is staring at my red eyes And shifty expression But now I'm past caring And I can feel that destiny is on my side And by the looks of things Fate came along for the ride Behind green skies I can see my girl's eyes Damn it I'm in love with this planet You gotta realize Its just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed Shake your head Clear the haze Step out your house And prepared to be amazed It's just another one of those Just another one of those Just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed Shake your head Clear the haze Step out your house And prepare to be amazed Its time to look to the future Just when I was getting Used to The humdrum I realized in the depths of my depression that I really wanted to be someone So lets smash the past like a tacky figurine On the back page of a supplementary magazine But for the time being bump your head to the beat Sit back, put your feet up And relax' Its just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed Shake your head Clear the haze Step out your house And prepared to be amazed It's just another one of those Just another one of those Just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed Shake your head Clear the haze Step out your house And prepare to be amazed
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| 3. |
| 3:01 |
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Shes got a whole lot of disco friends,
Shes got a whole lot of disco friends, Disco ladies and gentlemen, Eating their faces from the inside out, Freaky dancing til the late am, Music slipping down the wall of sweat, Shes catching fishies in a disco net, Throwing kisses in the powder room, Slowly sucking on a cigarette She knows an awful lot of disco kids, Novelty sun glasses and mullet wigs, She says she wants to be a sti-earl-list, Or maybe something in the music biz, Daddies rich, mummies beautiful, They always said she'd make a top model, But now shes hiding out in disco land, A happy clappy trust experience Disco friends Disco friends |
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| 4. |
| 4:56 |
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They'll be making sure you stay amused They'll fill you up with drugs and booze Maybe you'll make the evening news And when you're tripping over your dreams They'll keep you down by any means and by the end of the night you'll be stifling your screams Since you became a VIPerson It's like your problems have all worsened Your paranoia casts aspersions On the truths you know And they'll just put you in the spotlight And hope that you'll do alright Or maybe not Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? Why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? So why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? Starz in their eyes? Remember they said you'd show them all Emphasise the rise but not the fall And now you're playing a shopping mall Your mum and dad they can't believe What you appear to have achieved While the rest of these users are just laughing in their sleeves Since you became a VIPerson It's like your problems have all worsened Your paranoia casts aspersions On the truths you know And now the tabloids use your face To document your fall from grace And then they'll tell you that that's just the way it goes That's just the way it goes Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? It's the same old story well they just didn't realise And it's a long way to come from the dog and duck karaoke machine And Saturday night's drunken dreams Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? It's the same old story well they just didn't realise And it's a long way to come from your private bedroom dance routines And Saturday night's drunken dreams Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? Why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? So why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? Starz in their eyes? Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? It's the same old story well they just didn't realise And it's a long way to come from the dog and duck karaoke machine And Saturday night's drunken dreams (When I grow up im going to be famous) Behind the steel barrier and sequence and glitter Five inch heels still knee deep in the litter Each of them a bitter bullshitter, Wrapped up in the cloak of fake glamour, getting lost in the camera Well footprints are fools gold, diamonds crusts on their one off plimsolls So little time for these one off arseholes Rigour mortis Ken and Barbie dolls, A pair of big shades and a push up bra, It's such a short gap between the gutter and stars, That you've come a long way from the place that you started So why'd you wanna go and get so down hearted Welcome to the kingdom of the blagger Uncutting you nose clean, coating you bladder A whole lot happier a whole lot sadder, Used to be satisfied but now you feel like Mick Jagger, Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? It's the same old story well they just didn't realise And it's a long way to come from the dog and duck karaoke machine And Saturday night's drunken dreams Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes? It's the same old story well they just didn't realise And it's a long way to come from your private bedroom dance routines And Saturday night's drunken dreams
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| 5. |
| 5:49 |
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Picture this 2.30 on the hottest night in June
He awakes for no reason and checks his watch by the moon And his mouth feels as dry as his eyes as he struggles to rise And stops to contemplate his wife's thighs as he does up his flies He finds his slippers where he left them under the chair behind the 2 cups and an old copy of marie claire He switches the on the coffee machine that of course works like a dream catches sight of his reflection in the silver surface sheen And It's a face he knows well although it should look less abused With all these moisturisers and the skin products he's used As he moves through the kitchen, his homage to brushed steel Across the new pine flooring that's plastic but looks real Past the plasma with the widescreen and the cinema surround sound And he stops on his favourite spot by the window and looks down On the orange lit street at the edge of the private car park Where his Audi TT is waiting safely in the dark Keeping it all inside of you Something will have to give And if you could you'll take it back But you lose your way in the way you live Now he can hear wind chimes tinkling out on the balcony And his phone beeping out a text message in the same key He checks it and it's Jill who used to be his secretary Before they started an affair and things began to get really scary Now his wife Mary is getting weary of his lies Like she's read the whole sordid story in his eyes It doesn't help that Jill's now saying that she's 2 weeks late His mental state is really starting to deteriorate He never knew how he got so out of his depth Or why he's broken more than all these promises kept And it's been ages since he slept Properly, his sleeps now broken by these dreams of extra-marital activity Trying to recapture the rapture that he used to get from his material possessions And endless retail therapy sessions Shoulda listened to what his dad said before he died The best things in life are the ones you can't buy son Keeping it all inside of you Something will have to give Wish you could buy a ticket back But you lose your way in the way you live He used to feel so safe up here in his shrine to Ikea Away from the shouts and the louts and the girls with the over-painted pouts And the queers and the dykes and the kids in their box-fresh Nikes Delivering rocks to the house across the street on rusty mountain bikes Aah aah Aah aah aaahh He used to feel so safe up here in his shrine to Ikea Away from the shouts and the louts and the girls with the over-painted pouts And the queers and the dykes and the kids in their box-fresh Nikes Delivering rocks to the house across the street on rusty mountain bikes Aah aah Aah aah aaah |
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| 6. |
| 4:16 |
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Sometimes I don't say the right things
to make you love me even more than you do. Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things I'm putting you through I talk too much. And that's why I'm doing in your head (tonight). We talk too much. Some things are better left unsaid (that's right). My evil tongue does seem to run, with a mind of it's own. I must be cursed, I always make it worse, You may aswell just take me home Sometimes I don't say the right things To make you love me even more than you do. Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things I'm putting you through Well I know that you've been through it and you have your scars. All the women are from Venus and the men are from Mars. I could tell you everytime I admit the charge (so wrong). Last thing I want to do is to cause you grief. When I hide your clean soul from the dark beneath. When it comes to the feeling I can make this brief (so strong) Below the horizon suns dip. We're playing our hand with ond chip. How could we think we had so little to lose. And in the flights of fireflies. There is a pattern recognised. How could we think we had so little to lose Sometimes I don't say the right things To make you love me even more than you do. Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things I'm putting you through [*2] And the breath I waste, Just to fill the space, It has built a taste, In your mouth everytime, And yes I'm blessed, And self-obsessed, She gives you more, But I give you less, and less Well I know that you've been through it and you have your scars. All the women are from Venus and the men are from Mars. I could tell you everytime I admit the charge (so wrong). Last thing I want to do is to cause you grief. When I hide your clean soul from the dark beneath. When it comes to the feeling I can make this brief (so strong) She says I know you know what you do but you still keep doing it |
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| 2:25 |
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I'm not a young man anymore
But I've got the face of a 19 year old Probably be a dad soon Sitting in my front room With my kids, play doe mold But I just hold on to What I've got Right now I'm not who I used to be Trust me I've got plans everyday next week You know your getting older When the kids on the corner Have you baffled every time they speak So lets just hold on to What we've got Right now Looking round at my friends And I see that the end of an era Has come to pass The fun and the games And the fluid in our brains Have all been reduced by half So lets just hold on to What we're got Right Now I'm not a young man anymore But I've got the face of a 19 year old Everything's changed But I can't complain Cause I'm doing pretty well all talk |
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| 8. |
| 4:21 |
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Your two eyes they speak to me
Special treats and delicacies In your velvet corridors Sticky walls and sugar floors Your fingers they speak to me Butterfly wings on a slender tree You can take a walk down my avenue Sorbet sunshine melting through There's a symphony of sirens in the air Tiny diamonds fall like rain upon your hair Got feeling completely beyond compare And I don't care, no I don't care You're the kinda girl I dreamt about But I had to do without Now I'm simply ravenous I just need a little push Your mouth it speaks to me Flicking tongues so sneakily I don't want this night to end Close my eyes and count to ten 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 There's a symphony of sirens in the air Tiny diamonds fall like rain upon your hair Got feeling completely beyond compare And I don't care, no I don't care My girl she's luminous She gives me such a rush Feels like a teenage crush But I just can't get enough My girls a genius She knows all kind of stuff Feels like my head might bust But I just can't get enough <i>[x2]</i> There's a symphony of sirens in the air Tiny diamonds fall like rain upon your hair Got feeling completely beyond compare And I don't care, no I don't care <i>[x2]</i> Give me your tricks for free |
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| 3:52 |
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This is for every life story Every detail Ex-dot com millionaires With shitty jobs in retail Every ingrown toenail Pile of junk mail Driving test drive fail Vain search for the Holy Grail Every move you make Every breath you take Every 12in record your dumb(dumped?) girlfriend decided to break And all the underachieving geezers getting more lean and peezer on melon Bacardi Breezers and skinny plastic cached reefers And every impotent porn star And the girls with the red lights doing tricks for Mars bars And all the ravers that wish they were back in '89 Jack jack jack jack your body Because everything was so much better the first time And all the bastards looking for change in the station Every money grabbing musical collaboration And every last member of the X generation Addicted to the Internet drugs and masturbation Forget me this is all about you Forget us this is all about you Forget we this is all about you We are just the siphon the sounds come through Forget me this is all about you Forget us this is all about you Forget we this is all about you We are just the siphon the sounds come through This is for every life story Every chapter Every memory stored And photograph captured Cause even the most mundane things can shine forth like a beacon Make your palms sweaty and knees' weaken Well there is an awful lot of false gods speaking We're scratching in the dark for something true to believe in Just keep breathing And hope that in the long run That's a real hand you're tightly squeezing This is for everybod' who got cussed down in the playground And every bad boy who shitted when his mates weren't around And all the bedroom DJ's perfecting their skills And every girl with a complex and a handful of slimming pills Forget me this is all about you Forget us this is all about you Forget we this is all about you We are just the siphon the sounds come through Forget me this is all about you Forget us this is all about you Forget we this is all about you We are just the siphon the sounds come through This is for every life story Every intertwined tale of guts and glory ' Course some of them are nice and bright and corny And some of them will shake your hand less warmly Outlook still stormy Every sweeping saga from the here now to the here after Tall tales around the campfire Tragedies of fallen empires And everything that will and won't transpire Sometimes it's just too dire Bollackal Carrying our stories like DNA in hair follicles Lugging chronicles like baggage handlers I'm not sticking around I'm shipping out with the ramblers Collecting chapters of fractures and raptures High on a cactus with a bunch of backpackers Toasting backwards? with a shot of Cacha'a? But that's another story And I'll tell it if you let me But in the meantime just remember to forget me Forget me this is all about you Forget us this is all about you Forget we this is all about you We are just the siphon the sounds come through Forget me this is all about you Forget us this is all about you Forget we this is all about you We are just the siphon the sounds come through
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Well how many times have we rowed and thrown tantrums, and how many times have we loaded and cocked the hammers on our verbal guns, And how many times has crockery and cutlery and cups of tea been thrown at me, And how many times have i thrown words back at you i knew could cut you to the bone, How many times have we slept side by side, a thousand miles apart? And how many times have we thought we could finish something we could never even start? How many times have i said i love you and i hate you in the same breath? And how many times have we tried to grab something when there was nothin'... We got no time we got no time we got no time left at all Well how many times have our friends warned us against this, and i can't remember a time when i have felt so restless, and how many times have you said 'I'm leavin' you no matter what you do' and how many times have i thrown words back at you i knew could kill you waits and, How many times have we slept side by side, a thousand miles apart? And how many times have we thought we could finish something we could never even start? How many times have i said i love you and i hate you in the same breath? And how many times have we tried to grab something when there was nothin'... We got no time we got no time we got no time left at all See i don't want to talk about it, the way you broke my heart, I hate so many things about you i wouldnt know where to start [x2] We got no time we got no time we got no time left at all [x2] We got no time left now [repeat til end]
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| 11. |
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Morning lights don't scratch my eyes
Just let me wash up on the shore I used to have the strangest dreams But they don't come here anymore My duvet's laid out like an atlas with stains to mark the borderlines Indentations in my pillow I hope won't fade with time Smoke the roach left in the ashtray on which I choked the night before Stuck my toes under a clothes like mountain ranges on the floor. I pick my way through crusty dishes and their greasy chemistry I washed two cups and the remember that you've left already. I let you go so reluctantly and I can still hear your lazy symphony And just when I found my calling, it's another mourning morning The say the devil's in the detail I'm gonna blow my eyes instead I put my memories in a landscape where only reckless angels tread I watch the fingerprints you left like a secret code upon my skin And I remember when you told me a guilded crown won't make a king I really want you to stay but I know you have to go I really want you to stay but sometimes it doesn't show I really want you to stay but I know you have to go I really want you to stay let the conversation flow I really want you to stay but I know you have to go I really want you to stay but sometimes it doesn't show I really want you to stay but I know you have to go, have to go again I let you go so reluctantly and I can still hear your lazy symphony And just when I found my calling, it's another mourning morning I really want you to stay but I know you have to go <i>[X7]</i> have to go again |
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Life is but a dream in a greater scheme, waking up is hard to do. Even if you`re quick, something holds you back, Always waiting in a queue for someone, To tell you you`re broke, Or you should not smoke anymore cigarettes. Planets will align, if you give them time. When you least expect, everything connects, Even when the hope is gone there is you, And you`ll keep your name, And the things in your brain just might see you through. `Cos you are light, and in darkest night you shine. And I guess we`re doing fine, But there`s no escaping our spectacular failure. Digging in between things we`ve never seen, Trying to find the missing links. All these scientists are trying every trick Just before the city sinks without trace. So much we`ve achieved, So I hope when we leave there`s a smile on our face. `Cos you are light, and in darkest night you shine. And I guess we`re doing fine, But there`s no escaping our spectacular failure.
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