Big Macs for the fat, lo-cal wraps for the call centre battery hens, Japanese snacks for the choice-spoilt citizens, caviar kickbacks for the citadel denizens.
Airport shoeshines servicing the suits among the little silver stereos and hand-rolled cheroots, First class passengers file on last after the scum are packed in with their tax-free loot.
Checkout calamity, you're cheated out of loyalty points, ten more years at this joint you'd be home & dry, Beggars beat round the cash machines but you just slip between them with the usual lie.
Terrible tales of kidnapped kids keep you focused on the family and filling up the fridge, Neighbourhood watchers shop dole dodgers, stick their semis on the market & start racking up the bids.
Should you stand and fight, should you die for what you think is right So your useless contribution will be remembered? If you're asking me I say no, surrender.
Constant growth the cancerous cure, a swarming race of profiteers ensure Cheap cars for the rich, cheap lives for the poor, cheap weeks in the sun, free drinks at the door.
Puerile propaganda plugs up the TV, keep folk following the money so they'll never be free Keep them swallowing the swill, the celebrities, the paedophiles, the immigrants invading from the Camp over the hill.
War talk, the big debate, footsoldiers in the capitol liberating new kinds of hate Cum-shots of human dots caught in the spotlight's glare; he dies who dares.
Fatuous fast-trackers sneering at the shelf-stackers, little Middle-Englanders can't stand the backpackers, Fortress Freedom, come on in, take your chances-you might win.
Should you stand and fight, should you die for what you think is right So your useless contribution will be remembered? If you're asking me I say no, surrender.
Sunset beaches security patrolled, keep out the undesirables who won't accept the code Equal opportunity to live in total poverty, execute the ignorant incarcerate the slow
Car caressing managers choking up the avenues, brain dead patriots standing in salute Paperwork raining again and again so that billionaires can claim there's an enemy to shoot
Pill pushers, doorsteppers, personal goal shoppers, lifestyle trendsetters, meditating mindbenders, Hare-brained share sellers pumping out stocks til you're choking on a chain-letter avalanche of dross.
God squads crawling through every country tracking down fools who are bullshit hungry Blinded by divinity followers fall into the man-traps set along the Wailing Wall.
Athletes compete in grand charades while tanks flatten streets and a nation laughs, Visa holders gape at the changing guards while creeps bribe bums to take their photographs.
Film fans flock to the latest schlock, blockbusters block out even the vaguest thought Bankrupt schools grind out fool after fool then feed them to a system where idiots rule.
Polling booths, phone votes, bogus questionnaires, you get a say as if anybody cares Joe Public doesn't want to play so liquidate his life as he looks the other way.
Don't get sick, don't get wise or they'll gut you with a jistice where everything is lies March down Main Street, complain if you want but it's twenty years straight for the losers at the front.
Lovers leave their traces like jets across the sky They find in all those faces, lines they recognize My keepsakes have there places At the back of a drawer Or slipped between pages and stuck on a shelf
But I'm still in love I'm still in love I'm still in love With nothing but myself
Yes, sometimes I remember The way they signed their names And always in December, I feel some kind of shame The heart, it stays so tender I reminisce like a hangman wishing his prisoners well
But I'm still in love I'm still in love I'm still in love With nothing but myself
And I know their mother's ages And I know all the stories so well And I know I'll see their faces in Hell So wipe away their traces Blow the dust off of the shelf
Because I'm still in love I'm still in love I'm still in love With nothing but myself
Once I get my heart back in my hand I'll squeeze out every drop of love I can To rid myself of you I want with all my soul But what I want is out of my control, my control
All I have to do is fool around Drag out this old carcass on the town I know how it is done Just shake the dice and roll But what I want is out of my control
Why can't I free myself, climb out of this hole Deep inside you have taken hold I try, try, try, but every time I just find It's out of my control
Twenty planes, they leave the runway every day Taking yet another chance away But I could cut and run Take half what makes me whole But what I want is out of my control
The thing that makes your eyes glitter isn't always gold dust The wings you think life's given you, they couldn't lift a bread crust
A siren in the sky calls my body home The last remaining high leaves me low-down and alone The maps of where you are can be found in every bar Where those cozy little hommelies hang
The things makes your eyes glitter isn't always gold dust The wings you think life's given you, they couldn't lift a bread crust
The confidence of kings leaches from my hands Where Jupiter did sing a drunken janitor now stands To figure who you are you look in every single car Where they stick those tired sideways looks at life
The thing that makes your eyes glitter isn't always gold dust The wings you life's given you, they couldn't lift a bread crust
Alone, that ain't the word It's just a groan in the morning nobody ever heard
The thing that makes your eyes glitter isn't always gold dust The wings you think life's given you, they couldn't lift a bread crust
Only love makes killing time so cruel The hours come and you drag them round with you When she is gone the whole hang dark house aches And you hum along to the sound of heartbreaks You think you hear in every song But only love will make you wait so long
For the little gifts that keep you holding on A scribbled ring around the town she's staying in The little dent in the bed you're laying in The heady scent she leaves on you But only love makes killing time so cruel
So many things that you must get round to A dripping tap, a month's mail to sort through If you could just get your mind to clear But it's only love, and it keeps you waiting here
Baby, I was not the one I guess you know that now But I kept you real distracted for a while.
I look back and nothing much Ever comes to mind Sometimes I can picture half a smile
We were thick as thieves Hung on each others sleeves Kissing all the time
But if I ever loved you shouldn't I be crying Shouldn't I be cracking up And drinking all the time? Yeah, if I ever loved you how come I feel alright How come the nights are so easy And the mornings look so bright?
I try to figure what has gone I seem to look the same Maybe there's a tightness around my eyes
Sometimes the evening comes I think I miss someone And then I realise
That if I ever loved you shouldn't I be crying Shouldnt I be cracking up And drinking all the time? Yeah, if I ever loved you how come I feel alright How come the nights are so easy And the mornings look so bright?
Love it can make your world Bring you alive But I wasn't dead before So baby, you ain't hard to survive.
Maybe I was not the one But I had to try And in the end there's no such thing As wasted time I was the interim Between nothing-ness and him So how is that a crime?
But if I ever loved you shouldn't I be crying? Shouldn't I be cracking up and drinking all the time? Yeah, if I ever loved you how come I feel alright? How come the nights are so easy And the mornings looks so bright?
Sometimes I love you Sometimes I hate you I know you struggle, too It's in your nature
'Cause you and me were never meant to be together But you took off your dress And something in that mess Got changed forever
Some days, a break through Some days, a break down When I fall out of love, you Meet me on the way down
Because you and me were never meant to be together But you took off your dress And something in that mess Got changed forever
Forever, stains and scratches Written on the leather And when the sun comes slanting in I swear it's raining feathers 'Cause I can't find myself Among this stuff we've thrown together Because somewhere here, a shirt of mine Is twisted in the arms of your sweater
And sometimes I love you And sometimes I hate you I know that you do, too It's in your nature
Because you and me were never meant to be together But you took off your dress And something in that mess Got changed forever, forever...
Honey, sometimes those big blue eyes Can make me fall out of bed in surprise In the bright morning sun, In the howling wind, in the shirt you sleep in, You're the one
'Cos it's you, that I tried to find Every day and every night through all that nothing
The hands of fate, couldn't have done it all As if the rain ever cared where it falls And there were times when I know that I Just fell in love to give myself an alibi.
'Cos it's you I was waiting for Every day and every night through all that nothing
So it's true now, I can see All that nothing that I knew Was so something like you'd Come to me...
You sent greetings from Liverpool and I took the next train Passed by people putting flowers on graves and We got delayed When I arrived you had vanished like steam and left me in a diesel day So I walked around and spent ten pounds in amusement arcades
Felt like I was in a field looking for a pin
It's a kind of loneliness It's a kind of emptiness But I'm not trying I'm just rehearsing For the perfect day
When I want you, I'll come looking for you Yes I will, yes I will, yes I will.
I took a spoon to the swimming pool to drain your trace away And I changed my name so only my looks remain And if looks could kill I'd need a license for my face 'Cos where his fists put bruises A scheming smile now takes their place
Felt like I was in a field looking for a pin
It's a kind of loneliness It's a kind of emptiness But I'm not trying I'm just rehearsing For the perfect day
When I want you, I'll come looking for you Yes I will, yes I will, yes I will.
People say you are a stand up guy You'd never hurt no one and you'd never try And you laugh and you cry And you do all the things that anybody does to show they are alive.
Friends say you are a careful man You always favour reason where you can And you laugh and you cry And you do all the things that anybody does to show they are alive.
But wherever you go, whatever you do You know that they won't find a fool quite like you.
Yeah life is full (of easy choices) Yeah life is full (of simple rules) But when love comes you don't have no room When life is full.
People say you are a patient guy You'd never rush something if it ain't right And you make those mistakes that everybody does And you deal with them as you go From tripping on a shoelace to falling in love You keep things under control
Baby, hold it, just let me try For just one minute be this other guy Live his life With my home and my faithful wife And your pretty face to kiss some nights
Ain't I a lucky guy, I get what I want Ain't I a lucky guy, unlucky for some.
Baby, I like it, it feels alright Now that I see it through his cheating eyes I can't stop smiling How could I not be satisfied So glad I ain't the one on the losing side
Ain't I a lucky guy, I get what I want Ain't I a lucky guy, unlucky for some.
No need to feel guilty baby I'm happy to be The one that you come to babe, instead of me
So I don't know where tonight Love will lead me but that's alright 'cos
Ain't I a lucky guy, I get what I want Ain't I a lucky guy, unlucky for some.
What I want is everything to clear So let the clocks be wrong Let the evening be longer let me drown in here What I want gets clouded by the sun I can't see beyond The petty things that living here brings everyone. So get lost with me, let the whole world wait Make it always be too late
What I want is right before my eyes So set me up a drink Pull the shutters down on all those prying satellites 'Cos what I want is everything to be clear So if you stop your watch You might stop the morning's cruel hammer falling here
So get lost with me, let the whole world wait Make it always be too late
it seems like weeks since you looked at me baby without that look of distaste i don't know why your feelings are changing but i've seen it in your face all those times when our lips were kissing our tongues were telling lies and all those signs that i've been missing were right there in your eyes so come on babe let's kiss this thing goodbye
i sometimes feel when we're together baby everything has turned out wrong and i know you feel exactly the same way but still we carry on i've been waiting up by the window watching these cars go by and i tell myself that i'll go through the motions for the last time tonight
so come on babe let's kiss this thing goodbye
now i'm watching the fumes foul up the sunrise i'm watching the light fade away and i'm hoping tonight that i'll open the door and you'll stand here and say
come on babe let's kiss this thing goodbye better make it sooner than later before it all turns sour we'd better kiss this thing goodbye
We could be away from here By ten o'clock tonight Pennies won't get us to heaven, I know But a borrowed car just might Look through my wallet There's enough for a hotel room But no, no, no, you say "I wanna stay in and get wet with you".
Why do you take the opposite view?
We could be different people tonight Who do you want to choose? I'll book a table in a suit and tie And you can wear your sister's shoes Look through my wallet Which cities will we travel through? But no, no, no, you say "You just got paid, Money's not for wasting it's for holding onto".
Why do you take the opposite view?
Is it something in your nature That makes it hard to say, "Baby, I do". You don't have to agree When someone says they love you But you don't have to take The opposite view
We can walk on the roofs tonight And watch the midnight traffic flow Unscrew the lightbulbs babe, And we'll throw them from the 14th floor I say we're yellow If we don't do something new But you just laugh and start filling up my glass As if it's not true.
Why do you take the opposite view?
Every precious second is a chance to change The present tense is perfect baby, Let's rearrange it.
A struck match faded like a nervous laugh Beyond the halo of a naked bulb Your low voice mingles with your other half's; School friends in second-hand clothes Eventually your world will shrink within four walls Of neglected debts and stolen stereos.
So move away jimmy blue Before your small, small town turns around And swallows you
A drunk mother was the cue For the legendary things that you do Behind a carnival tent with mud on your face Behind the old glue factory too.
So move away jimmy blue Before your small, small town turns around And swallows you
Wet feet visit the same old places Finding nothing new It's a binful of tissues from made-up faces In a townful of nothing to do A love match with the moon In a lay by, while insects hum and You got put in the darkness of a woman's womb Jimmy blue.
So move away, yeah, Move away jimmy blue Before your small, small town Turns around and swallows you.
Everybody in the funhouse Says they want out But we’re taking our time ’Cos we’re in love with time Whole generations thinking of themselves As infidels and pop stars While the bomb loses patience We line up and just lean against the bar Stone cold sober, looking for bottles of love. Caught in the headlights Wide-eyed and ready to receive We are the dead life Locked in dogfights, lost in disbelief And these dark days Make the nights seem brighter than they are So while Fleet Street rolls and the moon glows In the funhouse the fun starts Stone cold sober, looking for bottles of love. Born in the half-light Of threats and bribes In a hopeless porn parade We get the dog’s life, tidbits train us What to wear, what not to say When you’re footloose but you just feel limbless Life gets in the way So we get loaded or totally legless But stay the same Stone cold sober, looking for bottles of love.
