Scritti Politti

I wanna get 'em girl - and teach 'em a lesson
I got the love for you - over and over
They got us workin' girl - under illusion
I got the love for you - over and out

Oh what a trip just to keep us together

Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how'd it get so good)
Baby, baby your love - just about the best thing that i know
Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how 'dit get so good)
Baby, baby your love - still hurtin'
How do they make me wanna do what I do - when I love you

We gotta show them girl - hip to the power
I got love for you - better than ever
They got me lovin' girl - like I was crazy
I got the love for you - over and out

Oh what a trip just to keep 'em in power

Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how'd it get so good)
Baby, baby your love - just about the best thing that i know
Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how 'dit get so good)
Baby, baby your love - still hurtin'
How do they make me wanna do what I do - when I love you

Oh what a trip just to keep us together

Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how'd it get so good)
Baby, baby your love - still hurtin'
How do they make me wanna do what I do - when I love you

Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how'd it get so good)
Baby, baby your love - just about the best thing that i know
Baby, baby your love - you know its just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how 'dit get so good)
Baby, baby your love - still hurtin'

(tell me baby how'd it get so good)

The Tupamaros got a platinum card (all right)
I got a heart of gold and it's time to get hard (and I like it)
A Moto Guzzi I gotta way to get rich (all right)
I gotta library and a seven day itch (and I like It)

I got money oh I got around but my life was going nowhere

I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was
I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was - for me

The Tupamaros an immutable truth (all right)
I got a razor blade an' a beautiful youth (and I like it)
A Moto Guzzi an' a Gaultier pants (all right)
I got a reason girl, was Immanuel Kant's (and I like it)

I got money oh I got around but my life was going nowhere (nowhere)

I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was
I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was - for me

(baby baby baby
ooh yeah
there she was
drivin me out
there she was)

Pharmacopoeia - I got a way with the word (all right)
I got an' alphabet that you never have heard (and I like it)

I got money oh I got around but my life was going nowhere (no where)

I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was
I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was - for me

(Looking for love now) (Are you looking for me?)
(I'm looking for love now) (Wanted to get you girl)

I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was
I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was - for me

When I was seventeen (Tell us about it Green)
there was a world to know about (Check it out)
Everyday she'd call me (What'd she say?)
Is it over yet? Do you love me?

Overnite - and while your trouble's away
Under the stars up above - I'll build you another day
Close your eyes - I'll be home before it's light
And all the tears you cry - will dry in the dead of night

And now I'm in between (Tell us about it Green)
It all became a mystery (Check it out)
Everyday she calls me (What does she say?)
It is over yet? Do you believe them?

Overnite - and while your trouble's away
Under the stars up above - I'll build you another day
Close your eyes - I'll be home before it's light
And all the fears you have - will die in the dead of night

Someday - maybe soon - we could show them a way
I would love just to watch it falling
Oh my pretty one - show me a way

Overnite - I heard a satellite say
There'll be a wind from the west - to blow all your dreams away
Close your eyes - and maybe before it's light
Oh all the hopes that you have - will die in the dead of night

Gonna get that girl and show her the time of my life
Gonna get that girl and show her the end of the world
Maybe I'll be the one thing she needs when I've found her
And worn your world away
Gonna get that girl and show her the time of my life
Gonna get that girl and show her the end of the world
She could be free of all that she sees when I've found her
And worn her world away

We'll believe now - in nothing at all
Nothing compares with the love of the one for
All we are now - and ever could be
Somewhere the forces of love come to disagree

Gonna give that girl a present that never arrives
Gonna give that girl a future that's hard to believe
She could be free of all that she sees when I've found her
And worn her world away
Gonna give that girl a present that never arrives
Gonna give that girl a future that's hard to believe
She could be free of all that she sees when I've found her
And worn her world away

We'll believe now - in nothing at all
Nothing compares with the love of the one for
All we are now - and ever could be
Somewhere the forces of love come to disagree

I wanna get 'em girl - and teach 'em a lesson
I got the love for you - over and over
They got us workin' girl - under illusion
I got the love for you - over and out

Oh what a trip just to keep us together

Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how'd it get so good)
Baby, baby your love - just about the best thing that i know
Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how 'dit get so good)
Baby, baby your love - still hurtin'
How do they make me wanna do what I do - when I love you

We gotta show them girl - hip to the power
I got love for you - better than ever
They got me lovin' girl - like I was crazy
I got the love for you - over and out

Oh what a trip just to keep 'em in power

Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how'd it get so good)
Baby, baby your love - just about the best thing that i know
Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how 'dit get so good)
Baby, baby your love - still hurtin'
How do they make me wanna do what I do - when I love you

Oh what a trip just to keep us together

Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how'd it get so good)
Baby, baby your love - still hurtin'
How do they make me wanna do what I do - when I love you

Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how'd it get so good)
Baby, baby your love - just about the best thing that i know
Baby, baby your love - you know its just about the best thing ever
(tell me baby how 'dit get so good)
Baby, baby your love - still hurtin'

(tell me baby how'd it get so good)

Bam salute and all the right and reason now are out of reach?
They ran away with beauty baby - out to Bop-A-Re-Bop Beach
?Bam Salute and when the work is over what can baby do??
But undermine and overthrow the cheatin' of the chosen few

Bop-A-Re-Bop beach now baby
Oh first and foremost - ooh you gotta get close
?To the money and the madness that are mine - at any time
?And last but not least -- in the heart of the beast
?There's a beauty that was once upon a time - and long ago

Bam Salute and all the just and proper you've been waiting for
?Sailed away with virtue baby - out to Bop-A-Re-Bop shore
?Bam Salute and now the judge and jury - you can lock away
?And all your world's abandoned to - the wages for a working day

Bop-A-Re-Bop shore now baby
Oh first and foremost - ooh you gotta get close
?To the money and the madness that are mine - at any time
?And last but not least -- in the heart of the beast
?There's a beauty that was once upon a time - and long ago

Oh the one thing I know - is that wherever you go?
You won't find the peace of mind you're looking for - not any more
?And since that's the case -- put a smile on your face
?You can love me - we can live above the law
(oh no)

Oh first and foremost --ooh you gotta get close
?To the money and the madness that are mine - at any time
?And last but not least -- in the heart of the beast
?There's a beauty that was once upon a time - and long ago

Oh first and foremost -- ooh you gotta get close?
To the money and the madness that are mine - at any time?-- ahh
oh no
-- ahh

--
Oh first and foremost -- ooh you gotta get close
?To the money and the madness that are mine - at any time?
And last but not least -- in the heart of the beast?
There's a beauty that was once upon a time - and long ago
(oh no)
Oh first and foremost - ooh you gotta get close?
To the money and the madness that are mine - at any time

Get you girl - a part of this world
?Take it and show you nothing is ever what it seems?
Get you girl - a matter of fact
?Teach you a lesson nothing is ever more than dreams

You got it girl with the sugar and spice
?Story of a love in a lost paradise (another day baby)
?Hot and the sweet girl - a word of advice?
Hit me up with a shot of the sugar and spice (anyway baby)

Let you girl - alone to believe?
In a measure for measure in a three standard stoppages for you?
Get you girl - a test of your love?
Don't try and tell me how tough at the top it is for you

You got it girl with the sugar and spice?
Story of a love in a lost paradise (another day baby)
?Hot and the sweet girl - a word of advice?
Hit me up with a shot of the sugar and spice (anyway baby)

(sugar and spice, everything nice
Sugar, looks so nice... everything is nice sugar)

You got it girl with the sugar and spice?
Story of a love in a lost paradise (another day baby)
?Hot and the sweet girl - a word of advice?
Hit me up with a shot of the sugar and spice (anyway baby)
You got it girl with the sugar and spice
?Story of a love in a lost paradise (another day baby)

Get you girl - the best of both worlds?
Do the puppy dog for me girl
?Sugar and spices here for you?
Get you girl - got a way to make it better?
Take it and show you?Sugar and spices here for you

(sugar and spice, the best of both worlds)

I just wanted to be so happy girl 'cos I want you baby I do want you baby?
Got to believe the doctor girl he told me yesterday (yes he did)?
Said you don't need the pharmacology 'cos I want you baby I do want you baby
?Don't need the cardiology to have a change of heart?

You gotta new and dangerous condition boy?
He said you know you're gonna lose your own volition boy
?Philosophy now

Oh for a girl (the bomb baby) Fix me a world (the blue shoes)?
Oh for it stirred or it shaken (to get to know you)?
Pull me through (the bomb baby) what can I do? (the blue shoes)?
Oh now I know I'm mistaken (to get to love you)

Could you get me a new philosophy 'cos I want you baby I do want you baby?
I got to see a prophet girl before the day is out (yes I do)
?And I don't want apothecary girl 'cos I want you baby I do want you baby
?I got to see the Avatar to talk the world away

?You gotta new and dangerous condition boy
?He said you know you're gonna lose your own volition boy?
Philosophy now

The Tupamaros got a platinum card (all right)
I got a heart of gold and it's time to get hard (and I like it)
A Moto Guzzi I gotta way to get rich (all right)
I gotta library and a seven day itch (and I like It)

I got money oh I got around but my life was going nowhere

I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was
I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was - for me

The Tupamaros an immutable truth (all right)
I got a razor blade an' a beautiful youth (and I like it)
A Moto Guzzi an' a Gaultier pants (all right)
I got a reason girl, was Immanuel Kant's (and I like it)

I got money oh I got around but my life was going nowhere (nowhere)

I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was
I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was - for me

(baby baby baby
ooh yeah
there she was
drivin me out
there she was)

Pharmacopoeia - I got a way with the word (all right)
I got an' alphabet that you never have heard (and I like it)

I got money oh I got around but my life was going nowhere (no where)

I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was
I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was - for me

(Looking for love now) (Are you looking for me?)
(I'm looking for love now) (Wanted to get you girl)

I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was
I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was - for me

Let him go cos he is rocking
He is sorry that he never changed
Let him go, he is sorry
He's been talking in the tongues again
And he will worry yeah
But please don't ever let him go
Don't you ever, ever let him go at all
At all, at all all all, at all

Let him go, let him go cos he is sorry
Let him never be the same again
Let him swing and let him worry
Wah it's asylums in Jerusalem
'cause they are worried yeah
Then please don't ever let him go
Don't you ever, ever let him go at all
At all, at all all all, at all

Let him shake a little, let him rock a little
Let him worry
He's in awe but he hates himself
Let him hip hop hippety hop now hurry
It's asylums in Jerusalem
Don't let him worry, no
Then please don't ever let him go
Don't you ever, ever let him go at all
Don't let that boy go
Don't let him go - at all

Well I know that it rocks
And I know that it shakes
And I know it's got to fall because
It's made it's last mistake

(Now) he's a saint oh but there's so many
They built asylums in Jerusalem
Let him shake a little, let him rock a little
Let him worry
Let him never be the same again
Oh he will worry yeah
An' he wants to be above the law
But he doesn't know what he's fightin' for at all
At all, at all all all, at all

Let him pop a little let him swing
And he is sorry
Cos there's something that he couldn't say at all
Let him shake a little, let him step a little
Let him worry
Cos it's asylums in Jerusalem
Don't let him worry, no
With his hammer and his popsicle
They put him in h-hospital for good
Don't let that boy go
Don't let him go - at, at, at all
Oh oh oh ohh at all

You, you who have no one
There is nothing I can tell you that you need
You want for nothing
There is no one I can show you any better

Each time you take it
It gets so hard, it gets so very hard to do - oh and
Each time we break it
Much greater than before

You, you heard all those sweet things
But you know too much to ever let it happen
You know how to listen
How to look and find there's no one worth your worry

Each time you wake up
It's every time I see there's somethin' left to do - oh and
You who have nothing
Much greater than before

(Don't need what you want)
(Don't want what you need)
You better think twice and I'll call you at home

No one can blame - not one single thing
There isn't something to make you go home

(Know that I need you)
I don't understand

(know that I need you)
It's just much too bad

You who have no one
Much greater than before

You stuck in North London
Your days will drag and linger for a lifetime
You know too much baby
Than to think that his gentle arms will make it better

It's gonna beat you
You've seen too much to ever get to feel at ease - oh and
Y'can't get away baby - oh no
As easy as before

Please don't settle for less
You're the only thing i know I really need
You - I guess you get lonely
But I know your heart won't settle for a second

But you get more sickness
It gets so hard, it get so very hard to do - oh and
But you got more sadness
Much greater than before

Please don't forget - oh no

I'm in love with the bossanova
He's the one with the cashanova
I'm in love with his heart of steel
I'm in love
I'm in love with the bossanova
He's the one with the cashanova
I'm in love with his heart of steel

I'm in love

How come no-one ever told me
Who I'm working for
Down among the rich men baby
And the poor

Here comes love for ever
And its here comes love for no-one
Oh here comes love for Marilyn
And it's oh my baby oh-oh my baby
What you gonna do?
In the reason - in the rain

Still support the revolution

I want it I want it I want that too
B'baby B'baby it's up to you
To find out somethin' that you need to do
Because

I'm in love with a Jacques Derrida
Read a page and know what I need to
Take apart in my baby's heart
I'm in love
I'm in love with a Jacques Derrida
Read a page and know what I need to
Take apart in my baby's heart
I'm in love

To err is to be human
To forgive is too divine
I was like an industry
Depressed and in decline

Here comes love for ever
And its here comes love for no-one
Oh here comes love for Marilyn
And it's oh my baby oh-oh my baby
What you gonna do?
In the reason - in the rain

Still support the revolution

I want it I want it I want that too
B'baby B'baby it's up to you
To find out somethin' that you need to do
Because

Oh, I'm in love with a bop sh'dayo
Out of Camden Town for a day - oh
I'm in love with just gettin' away
I'm in love
Oh, I'm in love with a militante
Reads Unita and reads Avanti
I'm in love with her heart of steel
I'm in love

He held it like a cigarette
Behind a squadee's back
He held it so he hid its length
And so he hid its lack - oh
An' it seems so very sad
(all right)

Well I want better than you can give
But then I'll take whatever you got
Cos I'm a grand libertine with the
Kinda demeanour to overthrow the lot
I said rapatious
Rapatious you can never satiate
(ate what?) desire is so voracious
I wanna eat your nation state

I got incentive that you can't handle
I got the needs you can't assuage
I got demands you can't meet
'n' stay on your feet
I want more then your living wage

Well I want better than you can give
But then I'll take whatever you got
Cos I'm a grand libertine with the
Kinda demeanour to overthrow the lot
I said rapatious
Rapatious you can never satiate
(ate what?) desire is so voracious
I wanna eat your nation state

My diplomacy, my security, my hope and my ice-cream
My tomorrow and my temperature, my lips and my selfishness
My cigarette, my uncertainty, my penetration
My notebook and my limit, my importance and my glycerine
My customer, my function, my lawlessness, my charm
My hunger, my refusal, my tissue and my vodka
My ommission, my ability, my telephone and my holler
My relaxing, my distress, my bedroom, my cassette
My dictation and my pulse, my fortune and my death
My flake and my restlessness, my headache and my dirt
My paper and my charity, my rose and my pallor
My guess and my closet, my light 'n' my time
My worry, my perversity, my transgression
My temptation and my polythene, my gunshot
My jealousy and my water
My demands 'n' my angels 'n' my waiting 'n' my distance
My death, my curtness, my insulin, my memory
My partner 'n' my sadness, my story, my wantoness
My wish, my despair, my erasure, my plantation
My white chocolate, my thoughtlessness, my gracelessness
My courage and my crying, my pockets 'n' my mistakes
My body and my sex, my gaze and my helplessness
My letter, my sugar, my homework, my walk
My records, my smile and my struggle
My reflection, my eyelid, my fragility, my discretion
My hair, my austerity, my tattoo, my demise
My fooling and my terror, My problem and my judgement
Oh my disguise, my tongue
My ownership, my formula, my property, my thought, my razor
My blessing and my silence, my lust and my practise
My sincerity, my penecillin, my window and my androgyny
My mother, my recorder, my pity and my posing
My light, my carelessness, my drummer, my drummer, my drummer, my drummer
My tenderness 'n' my car, my undoing and my history
My bottle and my drugs, my drugs, my drugs
Tomorrow, my temperature, my lips and my selfishness
My cigarette, my uncertainty, my penetration, my notebook

My limit, my importance and my glycerine, my customer, my function
My lawlessness, my charm, my hunger
My refusal, my tissue and my vodka, my admission

My ability, my telephone and my holler, my relaxing
My distress, my bedroom, my restlessness, my headache
My dirt, y paper and my charity, my rose
My pallor, my guess and my closet
My light 'n' my time, my worry, my perversity
My transgression honey, my temptation honey
My polythene, my jealousy
My water, my demands, my angels
My waiting 'n' my distance, my death, my curtness, my insulin
My memory, my partner, my refrigerator
My sadness, my story, my wantoness, my skipping
My wish and my despair, my erasure, my plantation, my chocolate
My thoughtlessness, my gracelessness, my courage and my crying
My pockets, my homework
Like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number
Oh yeah.

Tears of sorrow, tears of joy
Oh come at once for the sweetest boy
(nobody knows)
That's the price that the boy has paid
To choose not to be afraid

That's the price that the girl has paid
Oh for all the promises she made
(y'look pretty good)
She is triple hep 'n' blue
She'll never ever know what's true

Fallout of love
It's the fallout of love
(what you want and you need)
Do right, they do wrong, they understand
That they're never ever ever ever gonna win

These are the better times
(oh yeah darlin'!)
I'm a hetero-genius
I wanna testify (oooh)
But she does it but she doesn't understand

Faithless now I just got soul (baby)
Ooh look at the girl go (baby)
Oh look at the girl go
She looks so fine (so fine)

Do you do you do (baby)
Do you do you do
(But you looks so good)
Do you do-oh
Do you do
Do you do-oooh

Oh who coulda seen it
(who coulda heard)
Who coulda told them
(who coulda known)

Oh who coulda seen it
(who coulda heard)
Who coulda told them
(who coulda known)

They do it but they never understand

Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me now

Tears of sorrow, tears of joy
Oh come at once for the sweetest boy
(nobody knows)
That's the price that the boy has paid
To choose not to be afraid

Fallout of love
Ow! The fallout, baby, fallout of love
(nobody knows)
The girl is righteous and she understands why

These are the better times
All the boys down at the club
They say "Now she must be something"
I said "You don't know the half of it Jack!"

She does it but she doesn't understand.

Sex sex sex - well don't bush around the beat
This is the soul of indiscretion so let's get indiscreet, yeah
Sex sex sex - watch you break out in a sweat
It's what you gonna get
Sex sex sex (uh-huh) - but you got the motion that the boys and
girls all wanna touch and take it home
Just cut that small talk 'n' the floorplay
Just cut that cute display
(get it up, get it on)
Just cut that chi chi 'n' machismo
I said oh oh oh

Sex sex sex - well you came here just to dance
Well c'est ci bon don't worry it's the same jouissance, yeah
Sex sex sex - don't ever let that go
You find any reason for what you wanna do now
But you got the motion that the boys 'n' girls all wanna touch and take it home
Get up and jump to debasement
Get up and masterstroke
(get it up, get it on)
Amoral disarmament baby
I said oh oh oh - yeah

Sex sex sex - well your angle is acute
You gotta lotta finesse in your sharkskin suit now
Sex sex sex - you don't need no excuse
Your body has a function so you put it to a use, yeah
But you got the motion that the boys 'n' girls all wanna touch and take it home
Just cut that small talk 'n' the floorplay
Just cut that cute display
(get it up, get it on)
Amoral disarmament baby
I said oh oh oh - yeah

Sex sex sex

Sex sex sex - c'mon 'n' break that rule
Let's break t into pieces that are long 'n' sweet 'n' cool, yeah
Sex sex sex (oooh)- you ain't got no money
But you will afford to loosen up and let it go
Get up and jump to debasement
Get up and masterstroke
(get it up, get it on)
Just cut that chi chi 'n' machismo
I said oh oh oh - yeah

Sex sex sex - well let's lay it on the line
You can let me know with your eyes an' I'll let you know with mine, yeah
Sex sex sex - but don't bush around the beat
This is the soul of indiscretion, let's get indiscreet, yeah

You got the motion that the boys and girls all wanna touch and take it home
Just cut that small talk 'n' the floorplay
Just cut that cute display
(get it up, get it on)
Amoral disarmament baby
I said oh oh oh - yeah

The girls are hip 'n' the men are divine
'n' everything is gin and roses
You are new to me an' I'm so happy
You can whisper and I will listen
The world becomes a motion picture
I got it beat oh I got it licked, yeah
Rock-a-girl blue
It seems so sad

But the film goes dim like a faraway star
A frozen frame like silver paper
When the kissing gets very hard
Just to try and get at something
When the representatives turn to leaders
As long as you know as long as you need us
We'll be there
You know it's true

Don't they love like a rock-a-boy should
Don't they rock like lonely lovers
Don't they want to make the money
Don't they want to be the Beatles
Things ain't clear, they're just transparent
The trick of the trade is to make them apparent-ly
Rock-a-boy blue
You know that I said that you know that

I learnt to live with the beats in the bar
Made me sick with repetition
I learnt to love that one note samba
No surprise or definition
I guess I can learn to love what I'm used to
If you can get used to just getting used by
Rock-a-boy blue
Baby, then more fool you

I learnt to live with the beats in the bar
That made me sick with repetition
I learnt to love that one note samba
No surprise or definition
I guess I can learn to love what I'm used to
If you can get used to just getting used by
Rock-a-boy blue
Baby, more fool you