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| 1. |
| 3:29 | 
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The facts and the figures
They overwhelm and stifle Everything that you thought you knew The facts and the figures They overwhelm and stifle From the very first breath you drew The facts and the figures They overwhelm and stifle And the petty decisions That you think make a difference So tiny that they blow away like dust So tiny that they blow away like dust So tiny that they blow away like dust Through all the devilish things we do Through all the devilish things we do Through all the devilish things we do Through all the devilish things we do Through all the devilish things we do (I can't help my stupid hopes) Through all the devilish things we do (I can't help my stupid hopes) Through all the devilish things we do (I can't help my stupid hopes) Through all the devilish things we do (I can't help my stupid hopes) Through all the devilish things we do (I can't help my stupid hopes) Facts and the figures The overwhelming stifling Everything that you thought you knew So tiny that they blow away like dust We are all embers from the same fire We are all embers from the same fire We are all embers from the same fire We are all embers from the same fire |
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| 2. |
| 3:58 |
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I watched her smile,
Dissolve like alco sell sell And in all honesty, Man, I wish I could have helped her But the words I spoke, Fell ? to the ground Hitting that carpet, With a muffled clanging sound I remember sitting later on the 253, Trying not to cry but the cryings on me, Sick to my stomach feeling so guilty But a cant change the fact that She had nothing that a needed, So over years the love receded A bit like her old man's hair line, And mine And at first she was all that I could see, Till other girls appeared in my periphery And we lost something or so it seems, Faded like her favorite jeans I can't read her face, It's in an unknown language I just hold her pretty hand, 'Cause that's about all I can manage I wish you wouldn't look at me that way, Knowing I'm a selfish bastard She'll be thanking me one day And maybe we can even part this disaster I remember sitting later on the 253, Trying not to cry but the cryings on me, Sick to my stomach feeling so guilty But a cant change the fact that She had nothing that a needed, So over years the love receded A bit like her old man's hair line, And mine And at first she was all that I could see, Till other girls appeared in my periphery And we lost something or so it seems, Faded like her favorite jeans No, no, no, no promises No, no, no, no promises No, no, no, no promises No promises, no promises And this is the final curtain call, As in and out of love we fall And its to late to change that Aw its to late to explain that She had nothing that a needed, So over years the love receded A bit like her old man's hair line, And mine And at first she was all that I could see, Till other girls appeared in my periphery And we lost something or so it seems, Faded like her favorite jeans She had nothing that a needed, So over years the love receded A bit like her old man's hair line, And mine And at first she was all that I could see, Till other girls appeared in my periphery And we lost something or so it seems, Faded like her favorite jeans No, no, no, no promises No, no, no, no promises No, no, no, no promises No promises, no promises No, no, no, no promises No, no, no, no promises No, no, no, no promises No promises, no promises |
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| 3. |
| 3:36 |
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Drag myself from my bed
Around twenty past six Get my kids up, make breakfast One egg, two toast, three Weetabix And as I sit down I look up And you're standing in the doorway, sun at your back In my old brown dressing gown Well, no one can love you more than I love you now But I gotta go, running for the bus Coat flying and I try not to miss it this time But the drivers waiting and that's strange Kids on the top deck, quiet for a change And there's no rain and no roadworks In the bus lane and all my hurts run away And I'm smiling as I'm punching in The day I died was the best day of my life The day I died was the best day of my life Tell my friends and my kids and my wife Everything will be alright The day I died was the best day of my life The secretaries they got a smile for me And the in tray on my desks almost empty I get a memo from executive Joe Saying Rob the gob is getting kicked out For embezzling funds from the company account And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't chuffed 'Cause I always hated Rob And now they'll probably offer me Robs old job And in the park at lunch There's no whinos on my favorite bench None of that drunk chatter, none of that pissy stench And the scrawny little pigeons with the gammy legs Decide to dive bomb from someone else's sandwich instead And there's something about the city today Like all the colors conspire to overwhelm the gray And this close to the fire I can feel no cold But a rainbow halo around my soul The day I died was the best day of my life The day I died was the best day of my life Tell my friends and my kids and my wife Everything will be alright The day I died was the best day of my life So I leave work, get to the high street and I miss my bus Should I wait for another? No I can't be arsed, I begin to walk And rush hour crowd seem to part like the red sea And I'm stopping at the offy Twenty cigarettes and a six pack to relax me And as I cross back over the street I guess I never saw that taxi The day I died was the best day of my life The day I died was the best day of my life Tell my friends and my kids and my wife Everything will be alright The day I died was the best day of my life |
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| 3:34 |
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Most of these boots are hypnotized
Staring at her bits and shiny thighs Diamond jewel tips and they're Wiley eyes But they just don't recognize I see her walk Looking side to side And everybody stops Looking Petrified Move down the block causing quite a stir And she's looking pretty fresh man, I must concur But I see through her exterior, and it's not that superior The lip gloss bubble is bound to burst, you won't be the last, you can't be the first She's not much verse, mostly chorus Between those ears, mostly sawdust She's mostly lovely, mostly never Blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever Doctor, Doctor Can't you see' My minds been playing Jokes on me And I've been trying to save my soul I've been trying to do right But all I'm getting is the tunnel At the end of the line Look at her now, she's laughing it up And with a sex shooting verb, she'll be slapping them up And in the meantime, she loves jacking them off And with a smile telling them their not making the cut Now why you looking at me like I'm making this up And why you looking at me like I'm floaty and hinged Like I'm a little bit singed after a JD and Prozac binge And just realized I try but can't win I'm getting sicker, I can't see My eye lids flicker but I can't delete The image that I have running in my brain A chance that I've missed and I can't regain Everybody knows apparently I must just be a transparency The thing I've been hiding so hopelessly is That I just want this girl to know it's me Doctor, Doctor Can't you see' My minds been playing Jokes on me And I've been trying to save my soul I've been trying to do right But all I'm getting is the tunnel At the end of the line Paranoid delusion all lovesick only lust Nasty, jealous insecurity, that's how I'm coming across Paranoid delusion all lovesick only lust Nasty, jealous insecure at least that's how I'm coming across I'm getting sicker, I can't see My eye lids flicker but I can't delete The image that I have running in my brain A chance that I've missed and I can't regain Everybody knows apparently I must just be a transparency The thing I've been hiding so hopelessly is That I just want this girl to know it's me Doctor, Doctor Can't you see' My minds been playing Jokes on me And I've been trying to save my soul I've been trying to do right But all I'm getting is the tunnel At the end of the line Doctor, Doctor Can't you see' My minds been playing Jokes on me And I've been trying to save my soul I've been trying to do right But all I'm getting is the tunnel At the end of the line Doctor, Doctor Can't you see' My minds been playing Jokes on me And I've been trying to save my soul I've been trying to do right But all I'm getting is the tunnel At the end of the line |
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| 5. |
| 3:20 |
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Girl's so high now
Don't know how she's walking in the high heels now All the boys are stalking Picking up the scent now And she's wondering how she's gonna pay the rent now Checking out the young bucks Salivating As they circle around her snake hips Only letting one boy kiss her on the fake lips As she's working out exactly how to play this Riding in a cab now All across the city Heading to his penthouse Sliding sticky fingers up of her flanks As the lies easily sliver from her wet mouth Grinding in the hallway ? And as they're falling through the doorway Pulling back She's stealing just enough time to say I believe a girl deserves a bit of foreplay It's nothing personal All the users get used in the end It's nothing personal All the users get used in the end It's nothing personal All the users get used in the end, End, end, end, end, end, end, end, end Pouring out the drinks now Keeps him talking Takes a bottle from her handbag Can't believe she's still relying on the same rag But at least she never had to wear a name tag Walking in the streets now Back across the city Pulling off her wig now As she drops his empty wallet in a black bag Stuffed into a gutter Calling for a ? All the users get used in the end All the users get used in the end |
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| 3:38 |
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A kid got stuck on a sliver of silver
Watched in the street by a gang of builders Blood running down into the gutter Next kid's caught climbing out the window Policeman switched off his Nintendo Mom couldn't do anything but stutter Now the first kid's laid out on a stretcher Red mask scrawled on a hooded sweater Stand back for the defribulator And the second kid's steady four walls pacing He's thinking about the crime and the time he's facing Mom just said "I'll see you later" And I still love you You'll always be my little soldier I still love you Whatever, whatever, whatever you do Gayle stop dead hanging out the laundry Reggie's dream with the words "I'm horny" Blood drains from my face so quickly Mom gets home half an hour later Kicks off her shoes to read the paper Gayle just sits there looking sickly Mum says "Baby, what's the matter?" Tears fall as she begins to blabber At that moment Daddy walks in An atmosphere a knife could cut through Mum says "We know what you've been up to" "I think you should pack your things, don't you?" And I still love you Even though you fucked us over I still love you Whatever, whatever, whatever you do So it is, so it was, so it always will be So it is, so it was, so it always will be I still love you Blood is always thicker than water I still love you Whatever, whatever, whatever you do |
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| 5:07 |
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I don't know who directs those films
I watch when I sleep I'm not sure who the producer is but I don't think it's Serweinstien Sometimes they're made of Lego Sometimes they're made of gold And sometimes it's hard to let go Of the ones I just can't bear to hold All the lights are off while I watch projections in my mind I don't know who does the casting But they got a strange sense of humor Sometimes I'm seeing strangers Sometimes I'm watching friends And sometimes the feeling's painless And I hope the visions never end There are strangest things I have ever beheld So barmy and beautiful They're monstrously minuscule And I would be a bigger fool if I told you There are strangest things I have ever beheld So barmy and beautiful They're monstrously minuscule And I would be a bigger fool if I told you Because you told me they bore you to tears I bought you a ticket to my one seat cinema But I can't find the box of fizzle So I'll just try to describe it Sometimes you try to listen And sometimes you fall to sleep But sometimes the stories glisten And sometimes they sound so weak There are strangest things I have ever beheld So barmy and beautiful They're monstrously minuscule And I would be a bigger fool if I told you There are strangest things I have ever beheld So barmy and beautiful They're monstrously minuscule And I would be a bigger fool if I told you Because you told me they bore you to tears (I have never seen such beauty) |
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| 3:44 |
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Living in a bedsit
Close to the world's end, Sitting in his y-fronts Sponging off his girlfriend Carey She says life's right there babe Should be getting on with it ? better tell her that you've all but squandered it It's silly And his relatives all think that it's a shame And they'd say that it's a mystery if his Dad wasn't exactly the same The same He's been a space cadet for years Says one day he'll be an astronaut Floating in the hemisphere And looking down on Hampton Court But he's always late And knows one day he'll graduate Then he'll be floating in the ozone High above the empire High above the empire State state state state He's living in a State state state state He's in a proper State state state state They've got him in a State state state state Sofa suffer, likes a little gamble A few dodgy debts that he says he can handle Maybe Never not ? Stays in most nights Jostling to pixelated princesses on websites Frantically And his family all say that it's a waste And they wash their mouths out with self-righteousness To hide the bitter taste The taste He's been a space cadet for years Says one day he'll be an astronaut Floating in the hemisphere And looking down on Hampton Court But he's always late And knows one day he'll graduate Then he'll be floating in the ozone High above the empire High above the empire Carey's love is cold and congealed Like last night's take-away And she feels She might have to do some kind Of midnight flit All there is to say has been said And as the sky's turning pink She leaves her keys by the sink And takes one last look at our hero's face He's been a space cadet for years Says one day he'll be an astronaut Floating in the hemisphere And looking down on Hampton Court But he's always late And knows one day he'll graduate Then he'll be floating in the ozone High above the empire High above the empire High above the empire state Oh oh la la la la Oh oh la la la la Oh oh la la la la Now life goes on It will be played out But something's s'posed to happen man before the fade out Now life goes on It will be played out But something's s'posed to happen man before the fade out Now life goes on It will be played out But something's s'posed to happen man before the fade out Now life goes on It will be played out But something's s'posed to happen man before the fade out Before the fade out Before the fade out Before the fade out Before the fade out Before the fade out |
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| 3:56 |
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Oh there's a Goth in the disco,
Yeah there's a Goth in the disco, Oh there's a Goth in the disco, Yeah there's a Goth in the disco Pale face, black vest, Steady watching, she's got a cure for this emptiness Melting vinyl, burning hair, suicidal, in the disco yeah She hates all the music can't stand the lights, But there's nothing else to do on a Saturday night And she doesn't like the people can't stand to dance, So they're all going home in an ambulance (woop, woop) (All going) (Can't stand Saturday night) (Can't stand disco) (All going) (Can't stand Saturday night) (Can't stand disco) Empty bottle, dirty rag, Can of petrol she's got a cocktail for these fucking slags Melting vinyl, burning hair, suicidal, in the disco yeah She hates all the music can't stand the lights, But there's nothing else to do on a Saturday night And she doesn't like the people can't stand to dance, So they're all going home in an ambulance (woop, woop) Oh there's a Goth in the disco, Yeah there's a Goth in the disco, Oh there's a Goth in the disco, Yeah there's a Goth in the disco (All going) (Can't stand Saturday night) (Can't stand disco) (All going) (Can't stand Saturday night) (Can't stand disco) She hates all the music can't stand the lights, But there's nothing else to do on a Saturday night And she doesn't like the people can't stand to dance, So they're all going home in an ambulance (woop, woop) (All going) (Can't stand Saturday night) (Can't stand disco) (All going) (Can't stand Saturday night) (Can't stand disco) (Can't stand disco) |
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| 10. |
| 2:52 |
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I said Lo..
Lo and behold I just wanna know Why I'm so cold And I hope I learn, before I get old How I can burn When I feel so co-oh-oh-old I've been inside for days Watching curtains as they sway Rain just falling like a blade On me and Mr. Calloway I got one direction home Police tape blocking off half the road Bit fragments of some kid's phone And a white bouquet on a traffic cone And there's the man With four cans of super tea Having heated conversations With those I can't even see And hopefully.. Tomorrow we'll swallow today I said Lo.. Lo and behold I just wanna know Why I'm so cold And I hope I learn, before I get old How I can burn When I feel so co-oh-oh-old Come and go The hollow ways Passing the queue for the pharmacy Another little bottle of side effects Another blue pill for your tired sex And this rain it keeps on falling Hollywood stars on the black tarpaulin I swallow, choke And then take it all in All in And there's the man behind the counter in the shop The one the kids take the piss out of And I wish that they would stop But they will not And tomorrow, we'll laugh at today I said Lo.. Lo and behold I just wanna know Why I'm so cold And I hope I learn, before I get old How I can burn When I feel so co-oh-oh-old |
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