Simon Gilbert

Maybe, maybe it's the clothes we wear,
The tasteless bracelets and the dye in our hair,
Maybe it's our kookiness,
Or maybe, maybe it's our nowhere towns,
Our nothing places and our cellophane sounds,
Maybe it1s our looseness,

But we're trash, you and me,
We're the litter on the breeze,
We're the lovers on the streets,
Just trash, me and you,
It's in everything we do,
It's in everything we do...

Maybe, maybe it's the things we say,
The words we1ve heard and the music we play,
Maybe it's our cheapness,
Or maybe, maybe it's the times we1ve had,
The lazy days and the crazes and the fads,
Maybe it's our sweetness,

But we're trash, you and me,
We're the litter on the breeze,
We're the lovers on the street,
Just trash, me and you,
It's in everything we do,
It's in everything we do...

She can
start
to walk out
if she wants
Because we're young
because we're gone
We'll take
the tide's electric mind

so young
so gone
let's chase the dragon
Because wer're young
because gone
We'll scare the skies
with tigers eyes We're

so young and
so gone
let's chase the dragon
Let's chase the dragon
Let's chase the dragon
dragon from our home
high in the city
where the sky
line stained the snow
I fell
for a servant
who kept me on the boil

so young
so gone
let's chase the dragon
from our home

from our home
from our home

Like he's dead you know
that he's had
Animal nitrate in mind
Oh in your council home
he jumped on your bones
Now you're taking
it time after time
Oh it turns you on
on now he has gone
Oh what turns you on on
now your animal's gone
Well he said
he'd show his bed
And the delights of a
chemical smile
So in your broken home
he broke all your bones
Now you're taking
it time after time
Oh it turns you on on
now he has gone
Oh what turns you on on
now you're animal's gone

What does it take to
turn you on on
Now he has gone
Now you're over 21
Now your animal's gone
animal he was animal
an animal
animal he was animal
an animal
animal
animal
he's just an animal
an animal animal
he was animal

She'll come to her end locked in a car somewhere
with exhaust in her hair
What's she called? I dunno,
she's fucking with a slip of a man while the engine ran

And he said She's not dead,
she's gone away, gone away he said
He said She's not dead, just go away, go away he said

In the car he couldn't afford they found his made up name
on her ankle chain
So don't call, don't call her at home,
she's fucking with a slip of a man while the engine ran

And he said She's not dead,
she's gone away, gone away he said
He said She's not dead,
she's gone away, gone away he said
Just gone away, gone away he said
She's gone away to someone else's bed

Shame on me well I had the beast you see
And if he can take I can take him home with me
Shame on her she's a lovely little number
and when we go lassooing you get lassoed, all of you
if you can take, I can take it
And we're moving, so moving, so we are a boy, we are a girl
So moving, so moving...
Shame on the girl, she's got a big black dog in her
And while thogh kids sing about tough kids she just skins the world
We'll never never play the harp, and we'll stick like sick on the stars
And if you can take it, I can take these stones from my heart
If you can take it, I can take it
And we're moving, so moving, so we are a boy we are a girl
So moving, so moving...
If you can take it, I can take it, all of me
If you can take it, I can take it all
If you can take it, I can take it, all of me
If you can take it, I can take it all!

I was born as a pantomime horse
Ugly as the sun when he falls to the floor
I was cut from the wreckage one day
This is what I get for being that way
Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them?
Well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend?
I was conned by a circus hand
Tragic as the son of superman
I would die for the stars she said
This is what I get for my beautiful head
Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them?
Well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend?

Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them?
Well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend?
...ever tried it that way
have you ever tried it that way?
have you ever tried it that way?
...ever tried it that way
have you ever tried it that way?
have you ever tried it that way?
...ever tried it that way
have you ever tried it that way?
have you ever tried it that way?
...ever tried it that way
have you ever tried it that way?
have you ever tried it that way?
...ever tried it that way
...ever tried it that way
...ever tried it that way
have you ever tried it that way?

Won't someone give me a gun?Oh, well it's for my brotherWell he writes the line wrote down my spineIt says "Oh do you believe in love there?"So slow down, slow down, you're taking me overAnd so we drown, Sir we drown, stop taking me

Angel, don't take those sleeping pills
you don't need them
Though it's just time they kill
Angel, give me your sleeping pills
you don't need them
Give me the time theykill
You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
Gone gone to Valium,can you get me some?
You're a water sign, and I'm an air sign
Too Siamese to catchthe leaves from those trees
Angel, don't take those sleeping pills
you don't need them
Give me the time theykill
You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
Pumped up with Valium, could you get mesome?
You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
With sweet F.A. to dotoday
sweet F.A. to do today

Angel, don't take those sleeping pills

Back where the dogs bark,
Where still life bleeds the concrete white,
Try not to go too far inside your mind.
Back where the cars decide
Where the lame star limps an endless mile
Have I gone too far inside my mind
Oh, if you were the one
Would I even notice now
My mind has gone
Oh, if you were the one
Would I even notice
Back where the cars decide
Where the lame star limps an endless mile
Have I gone too far inside my mind
Oh, if you were the one
Would I even notice now
My mind has gone
Oh, if you were the one
Would I even notice

Does your love only come,
Does your love only come,
Does he only come in a Volvo?

Well she's show showing it off then
The glitter in her lovely eyes
Show show showing it off then
And all the people shake their money in time
She sells heart she sells meat
Oh dad she's driving me mad come see

We shake shake shake to the trumpet
And through the slippery city we ride
Skyline swine on the circuit
Where all the people shake their money in time

She sells heart she sells meat
Oh dad she's driving me mad, come see

She sells heart she sells meat
Oh dad she's driving me mad, come see

She sells heart she sells meat

I see you're moving, see you're moving,
moving in her You'll pierce your right ear,
pierce your heart here,
this skinny boy is one of the girls
'Cos around my neck and around her
neck hangs everything you are
I know you've been inside but what were you in for?
Animal lover, animal lover, animal lover?
I see you're moving, see you're moving like
wildlife from the waist
But when your name's scratched in
on a shiny ring your waist is my resting place
And around my neck and around her neck
hangs everything you are
I know you've been inside but what were you in for?
Animal lover, animal lover, animal lover?

Animal lover, animal lover, animal lover?

See you in your next life
when we'll fly away for good
Stars in our own car
we can drive away from here
Far away so far away
down to Worthing
and work there
Far away we'll go far away
and flog ice creams
'til the company's on its knees

See you in your next life
when we'll fly away for good

You say what you want to say
Your diamonds are drops of rain
Your smile is your credit card
And your currency is your love
And the morning is for you
And the air is free
And the birds sing for you
And your positivity
Watch out
So you play where you want to play
On the main streets where the creeps all prey
And you can sill Iike your ( )
And you can be what you want to be
And the morning is for you
And the air is free
And the birds sing for you
And your positivity

And the cars crash for you
And the sunshine is free
And the sirens call you
Yes the morning is for you
Yes the air is free
And yes the world spins for you
And your positivity
Positivity

It's the way you pick your clothes off the floor
It's the way you scratch your skin when you yawn
It's the t-shirts that you choose
like you're in the Air Force
Yeah the language that you use reacts like chemicals
Obsessions in my head Don't connect with my intellect
It's called obsession Can you handle it?
It's connected to the hip sounds
And it moves with the underground
It's called obsession When you're around
It's the way you close the doors of my car
It's the stupid things you bought with my credit card
It's the way you don't read Camus or Brett Easton Ellis
Yeah the TCP you use, it stings when we kiss
Obsessions in my head Don't connect with my intellect
It's called obsession Can you handle it?
It's connected to the hip sounds
And it moves with the underground
It's called obsession When you're around

Obsessions is like sex It's simple and complex
It's called obsession Can you handle it?
It's connected to the hip sounds
And it moves with the underground
It's called obsession When you're around

Stephanie stares at the posters on the wall
Tina sits and waits for a telephone call
Maxine mixes alcohol with paraphin and paint

Sylvie stays in bed on her own
She can heat the cats outside and wanders where they to
And if you call her answer phone,
she'll get back to you one day

And lonely girls, lonely girls
feel the words

Julie dreams while she's typing away
Jackie Kills time while the company pays
Tracie is still ? ringing in her brain

Jane slaps ? on the wallsof her home
Leenie sings when she thinks she's alone
Jeane gets drunk and wanders home
Through the car parks to meet her Jane

Yeah, lonely girls, lonely girls
Feel the words

And they smile through the summer
And they laugh in the rain
And sing through the winter
But never show the pain

Sometimes our lives are not what they seem
Sometimes things aren't like what they are
in lifestyle magazines
We see what we want to see in this miracle of clay

Well, lonely girls, lonely girls
Feel the words

I see you in my life I see you on the screen
An ascending socialite Orbiting the scene
Everybody wants you now
Everybody wants to be a part of your crowd
But baby it seems sometimes you're lost in TV
Lost in a dream baby
We wander through our minds
With images and scenes With animated lives
Rehearsing for our dreams
Everybody wants it now
Everybody wants to be a face in the crowd
But baby it seems sometimes we're lost in TV
Trapped in a screen lost in a scene Lost in TV baby
Everybody wants it now
Everybody wants to be a face in the crowd
But baby it seems sometimes we're lost in TV
Lost in a dream baby

you belong among the wild flowers
picked at the side of the road
you belong among the silent hours
and broken telephones

you belong among the tv screens
with the sound turned down again
you belong where there's cctv
watching you every day

well you beautiful loser
well you beautiful lay
well you beautiful loser
you're coming down the hard way

you belong under electric lights
with the hand-me-down surrounds
you belong out in the countryside
with your hands deep down in the ground

well you beautiful loser
well you beautiful lay
well you beautiful loser
i said you're coming down the hard way

your brain is drip-connected to the satellite
your heart is not a part of your brain
aesthetics and inventions well they pass you by
and complicate your day

you belong sat on a motorbike
doing 161 in the rain
50cc through the wild life
getting trashed in the slow lane

well you beautiful loser
well you beautiful lay
well you beautiful loser
i said you're coming down the hard way

well you loser
well you beautiful lay
well you beautiful loser
you're coming down the hard way
you're coming down the hard way
you're coming down the hard way

Street life,
into the night with the syncopated melody
Street life, look like a brat,
she's got the lips from a magazine
Cheap sound comes from underground coming to ?
Street life, it's so right you get
your dips from a popular sound
It's the beat of a concrete street
that you'll love for a million years
It's the sound that comes from the underground,
It's got you clapping, got you shaking, you grease
Street life!
Street life,
step to the mine with your sexual equality
Street life, look like a brat,
she's got the lips from a magazine
Cheap sound comes from underground,
it's like a pace drum kicking along
Street life, sweet light ? going on and on
To the beat of a concrete street,
she can live for a million years
A drum sound that comes from the underground
it's got you clapping, Got you shaking, you grease
Street life !
is All you know is all you see
is all you follow is all you believe

Move your feet to the concrete beat
then you can live for a million years
To the sound that comes from underground
it's got you clapping, Got you shaking, you grease
Street life ! Street life?

A strange relationship has started
A strange relationship indeed
It's like a word to call out for me
Between the pages of a dream
And it's calling you
It's calling me
It's calling everyone to be
In a future world with an astrogirl
One on one is all you need
In a future world with an astrogirl
One on one is all you need
A strange experience has started
Between our molecules and me
It's like a cease between us for me
For obsolete technology
And it's calling you
It's calling me
It's calling everyone to be
In a future world with an astrogirl
One on one is all you need
In a future world with an astrogirl
The sky goes on and on for you and me?

In a future world with an astrogirl
There'll be no,you see
Coz we'll be making friends with the supermen
And the sky goes on and on for you and me?
sky goes on and on for you
sky goes on

will you be my lover?
will you be the one?
will you be like no other
for how long?

oh yes i'll be your wild flower
grown through the concrete
and born to the backbeat of the stars

and yes i'm just a stupid guy
crushed like a butterfly
dead-eyed at the drive-by
in a car

and like flies on a windscreen
and like insects in glue
we could stick together
if you wanted to

and yes i'll be your wild flower
grown through the concrete streets
and born to the backbeat of the stars

Mmm..Yes, i'm just a stupid guy
crushed like a butterfly
dead-eyed at the drive-by
in a car

yeah just a stupid guy
crushed like a butterfly
dead-eyed at the drive-by
in a car

is it my imagination
or is that a cardboard sky?
is it just this situation
that's made me lose my mind?
i don't need you to be sorry
i just wanted you to know
that this is one hit to the body
one hit to the soul
it's one hit to the body that won't show
there's a million constellations
up in the make believe sky
and a million dead end situations
you could leave behind
and the lights and the lorries could show you which way to go
and this is one hit to the body
one hit to the soul
it's one hit to the body that won't show

is it something in the air that you breathe?
is it something in the books that you read?
is it something in the things that you do?
is it something in the words that you use?
'Cos the lights and the lorries will show you where you want to go
and this is one hit to the body
one hit to the soul
it's one hit to the body that won't show
well i don't really need anybody i just wanted you to know
that this is one hit to the body that won't show
that won't show

Come out tonight in the puddles
splash some love across the sky
Just you and I bursting bubbles
As the sky is about to cry
When the rain falls
There's a magic in our lives
When the rain falls
We're happy deep inside
When the rain falls
It cleans away the
corners of our minds

When all the world
looks like Atlantis
And car sit
rusting in the drives
Just step outside and hit the
concrete pavement
When the rain falls
down for you and I
When the rain falls
The pretty people run
When the rain falls
The colours cloud the sun
When the rain falls
We'll sit and watch
the children hurry home

Rain falls
Rain falls
Rain falls

And when everything is blue or
green or green or blue or grey
I cross the street to
catch the beat of my heart
And I watch it all
cos there's nothing to do today
And I watch it all fall so hard

oh you might have conversation smashed in a bar
clocking all of the disco dolls that blind you
oh check out some mad situation some silly farce
so real you can feel it twist inside you

everywhere you go
every thing you do
every place you know
every word you choose

im in everybodys eyes
everybodys lives
im in everything you see
you belong to me

oh you might walk down by the station
through garbage and rust
breathing all the diseases just like i do
driving through some conurbation youll step on the gas
and ill be sat right there beside you

cos everywhere you go
every thing you do
every place you know
every word you choose

im in everybodys eyes
everybodys lives
im in everything you see
you belong to me

well you can smash the windows
and break some faces
or spray graffiti on public places
or hang around some dead town but ill be there

everywhere you go
every thing you do
every place you know
every word you choose

im in everybodys eyes
everybodys lives
im in everything you see
you belong to me

Maybe maybe it's the clothes we wear
The tasteless bracelets
and the dye in our hair
Maybe it's our kookiness
Or maybe maybe
it's our nowhere towns
Our nothing places and our
cellophane sounds
Maybe it's our looseness
But we're trash you and me
We're the litter on the breeze
We're the lovers on the streets
Just trash me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do
Or Maybe maybe
it's the things we say
The words we've heard
and the music we play
Maybe it's our cheapness
Or maybe maybe
it's the times we've had
The lazy days and the crazes
and the fads
Maybe it's our sweetness
But we're trash you and me
We're the litter on the breeze
We're the lovers on the streets
Just trash me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do

We're trash you and me
We're the lovers on the streets
We're the litter on the breeze
Just trash me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do
We're trash you and me
We're the lovers on the streets
We're the litter on the breeze
Just trash me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do

Filmstar propping up the bar
driving in a car it looks so easy
Filmstar propping up the bar
driving in a car tonight
Filmstar giving it class
living it fast it looks so easy
Filmstar giving it class
living it fast tonight
What to believe in
it's impossible to say
What to believe in
when they change your name
wash your brain
play the game again
yeah yeah yeah
Filmstar elegance
a terylene shirt
it looks so easy
Filmstar
an elegant sir in a
terylene shirt tonight
Filmstar propping up the bar
driving in a car
it looks so easy
Filmstar propping up the bar
driving in a car tonight
What to believe in
it's impossible to say
What to believe in
when they change your name
wash your brain
play the game again
Yeah yeah yeah

What to believe in
it's impossible to say
What to believe in
when they change your name
wash your brain
play the game again

Here they come
with their make up on
as lovely as the clouds
come and see them
Boys and girls
and their mums and their words
and their romances
and jobs and their sons
Barking mad kids
lonely dads
who drug it up to
give it some meaning
From the raves
to the council estates
they're reminding us
there's things to be done
But you and me
all we want to be is lazy
you and me
so lazy

Here they come gone 7am
getting satellite and
Sky getting cable
Bills and Bens and their mums
and their friends
who just really
really want to be loved
Uncle Teds and their
legendary vests
helping out around the disabled
From the flats and the maisonettes
they're reminding us
there's things to be done
But you and me
all we want to be is lazy
you and me
so lazy

you and me
all we want to be is lazy
you and me
so lazy
you and me
all we want to be is lazy
you and me
so lazy
It's you and me
it's you and me
it's you and me

Today she's been working, she's been talking,
she's been smoking, but it'll be alright,
Cos tonight we'll go dancing, we'll go laughing,
we'll get car sick, and it'll be okay like everyone says,
it'll be alright and ever so nice,
We're going out tonight, out and about tonight.
Oh, whatever makes her happy on a Saturday night,
Oh whatever makes her happy, whatever makes it alright.
Today she's been sat there, sat there in a black chair,
office furniture, but it'll be alright,
Cos tonight we'll go drinking we'll do silly things,
and never let the winter in,
And it'll be okay like everyone says,
it'll be alright and ever so nice,
We're going out tonight, out and about tonight.
Oh, whatever makes her happy on a Saturday night,
Oh, whatever makes her happy, whatever makes it alright.
We'll go to freak shows and peep shows,
We'll go to discos, casinos,
We'll go where people go and let go
Oh whatever makes her happy

Killing of a Flash Boy


All the white kids shuffle to the heavy metal stutter
And go shaking on the scene like killing machines
And they know that when she's stacked up top
She'll be a sucker for the shotgun show
Shaking obscene like killing machines here we go

It's the same old show, he's a killer he's a flash boy oh
He's a killer he's a flash boy oh

Oh if you shake your fake tan thru aerosol land you'll know
That you'll suffer your sex by the caravenettes oh no
And that shitter with the pout won't be putting it about no more
Or shaking obscene like a killing machine here we go

It's the same old show, he's a killer he's a flash boy oh
He's a killer he's a flash boy oh...

...oh and Athena loves your body
So think of the sea my darling
Think of the sea as you murder me, murder me, murder me,
murder me, murder me...

It's the same old show, he's a killer, he's a flash boy oh
This is the killing of a flash boy oh.

Oh High on
diesel and gasoline
psycho for drum machine
shaking their bits
to the hits
Oh Drag acts
drug acts suicides
in your dad's suits you hide
staining his name again
Oh Cracked up stacked up 22
psycho for sex and glue
lost it to Bostik yeah
Oh Shaved heads rave heads
on the pill
got too much time to kill
get into bands and gangs
Oh here they come
the beautiful ones
the beautiful ones
La la la la la
Here they come
the beautiful ones
the beautiful ones
La la la la la
La la loved up doved up
hung around
stoned in a lonely town
shaking their meat
to the beat
Oh High on diesel
and gasoline
psycho for drum machine
shaking their bits
to the hits
Oh here they come
the beautiful ones
the beautiful ones
La la la la la
Here they come
the beautiful ones
the beautiful ones
Oh oh You don't
think about it
You don't do without it
because you're beautiful
Yeah yeah
And if your baby
is going crazy
that's how you made me La la
And if your baby
is going crazy
that's how you made me Woh woh
And if your baby
is going crazy
that's how you made me
La la la la la
La la La la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la
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La la la la la la la
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We got a love that's cold as stone
We got a love to a violent home
We got a love that ain't got no name

We kiss our love with lips like pain
We got a lotta electricity
We got a love like AC/DC
We got a love that ain't got no shame
We kiss our love with lips like pain,
Kissing our love with lips like pain

I said, "Oh it's bigger than the universe
bigger than the universe,
bigger than the 2 of us.
Oh it's bigger than you and me
We got a love between us and it's like electricity

We got a love like a violent mind
We get our love from the white, white lines,
We got a love that ain't got no name,
We got a love that ain't got no name,

We kiss our love with lips like pain
We got a love from the nowhere towns,
We got a love like electric sounds
We got a love that ain't got no shame
We kiss our love with lips like pain
Kissing our love with lips like pain

I said, "oh it's bigger than the universe
It's bigger than the universe
It's bigger than the 2 of us
Oh it's bigger than you and me
We got a love between us and it's like electricity

Oh it's bigger than the universe
It's bigger than the universe
It's bigger than the 2 of us
Oh it's bigger than you and me
We got a love between us that's like electricity

She live in a house, she stupid as a mouse
And she going where the lights are on
She shaking obscene like a fucking machine
And she's gone, gone, gone

She cooking crack giving us heart attack
And she living in a kooky show,
She open your mind for the millionth time
And then go, go, go

And she got everything she needs
And she got pretty, pretty feet
And she got flowers in her hair, yeah, yeah
She got savoir faire, yeah, yeah

She shaking the scene outside, in between,
And she rocking to the loony tunes,
And she make love and swallowed a dove
In her room, room, room,

She speeding away through the city today
And she living in a kooky show
With show life, low life watching her go
and then moan, moan, moan,

And she got everything she needs
(harmony and ecstasy yeah, yeah, yeah)
And she got pretty, pretty feet
(painted toes and soft, soft soles yeah, yeah, yeah)
And she got flowers in her hair, yeah, yeah
(daffodils from window sills)
She got savoir faire, yeah, yeah
She got savoir faire yeah yeah

I feel real now walking like a woman
and talking like a stone age man,
I feel real now talking like buddha
and doing it again
I get kick I rip it up, kick it up,
take it like a teenage tough,
And feel real now talking like sugar
and shaking that stuff,

Singing "I can't get enough"
Singing I can't get enough

I feel schizo every so psycho,
kicking at an old tin can,
I feel real like a man like a woman,
like a woman like a man
I make dead space feel like a head
case take it like a teenage tough
And feel real now watching those
wheels and shaking that stuff,

Singing "I can't get enough"
Singing I can't get enough
Singing I can't get enough
Singing I can't get enough

I feel real now walking like a woman
and talking like a stone age man
I feel real now talking
like Buddha and doing it again
So give me this and give me
that smother me and give me
some of that bad stuff,
I feel real now talking like sugar
and shaking that stuff,

Singing "I can't get enough"
Singing I can't get enough
Singing I can't get enough
Singing I can't get enough

Watch the early morning sun
Drip like blood from the day
See the buzy people run
So many games to play
See the blue suburban dream
Under the jet plane sky
Sleep away and dream a dream
Life is just a lullaby

Oh, and everything will flow
Oh you know everything will flow
Oh

Watch the day begin again
Whispering into the night
See the busy people play
Hurrying under the light
A million cars, a million trains
Under the jet plane sky
Nothing lost and nothing gained
Life is just a lullaby

Oh and everything will flow
Oh I said everything will flow
Oh you know everything will flow
Oh
Oh and everything will flow
Oh you know everything will flow

The neon lights in the night tonight
will say "everything will flow"
The stars that shine in the open sky
will say "everything will flow"
The lovers kissed with an openness
will say "everything will flow"
The cars parked in the hypermarket
know "everything will flow

All the people in your life say you're down
And the strangers in the night say you're down
And the loonies on the right say you're down,
and you're down,
And the ambulances sigh that you're down,
And the traffic speeding by says you're down,
And the people in your mind say you're down,
and you're down

Hey, you chase the day away,
Hey, you draw the blinds and blow your mind away,
And there's a sadness in your eyes,
And there's a blankness in your smile,

And the people in the park say you're down,
And the strangers in the dark say you're down,
And the pissheads in the bars, say you're down
and you're down
And the audiences cry that you're down
And the ambulances sigh that you're down,
And the boyfriends in your life say you're down
and you're down

Hey, you chase the day away
Hey, you draw the blinds and blow your mind away,
And there's a sadness in your style
And there's a blankness in your smile

Hey you chase the day away
Hey you draw the blinds and blow your mind away
And there's a sadness in your style
And there's a madness in your smile

She's the face on the radio
She's the body on the morning show
She's there shaking it out on the scene
She's the colour of a magazine
And she's in fashion
She's in fashion

She's employed where the sun don't set
And she's the shape of a cigarette
And she's the shake of a tambourine
And she's the colour of a magazine
And she's in fashion
And she's in fashion

Oh and if she tells you 2 is 1
then 2 is 1 my love,
Oh and if she tells you, you should know
then you should know my love

She is strung out on a TV dream
And she's the taste of gasoline
And she's as similar as you can get
To the shape of a cigarette
And she's in fashion
And she's in fashion

(And the sunshine it blows my mind
and the wind blows my brain)

Watching all the women shaking, slimming
Walking down the roads again
Looking at the lovers under covers
come in and let's pretend
Watching all the school girls breaking the rules
running round and having sex
Watching all the women shaking slimming
Come in an cash the cheques

The suburban girls and they're making noise
And they're making eyes at suburban boys

Watching all the lovers under cover
Watching all the roads bend
Listening to lulu, amazulu
Come in and let's pretend

Watching all the women shaking slimming
Walking down the road again
Seeming like a school boy watching you boy
Come in and let's pretend

The suburban girls, and they're making noise
And they're making eyes at suburban boys
Suburban girls and they're making noise
And they're making eyes at suburban boys
At suburban boys
At suburban boys
At suburban boys

Lonely skies,
Empty minds,
We walk by to the rock and rhyme
I said "Oh, come on do it again"

City signs,
Business minds,
We walk by with head hi-fi
You know oh, I wanna do it again

And we loose it to the music,
And we loose it to the beat
And get stupid, come on loose it
Cos it all means nothing to me

So give me head, give me head,
give me head music instead

Oh is it all in the mind?
So give me head, give me head,
give me head music instead
You know, oh yes it's all in the mind

Kids get high,
Cities die,
We just smile cos it's all inside
You know, oh yes it's all in the mind

So come on loose it to the music
And loose it to the beat
And get stupid, come on loose it
Cos it all means nothing to me

Come on come on and
Give me head, give me head,
give me head music instead...

I love that deafening, thundering sound
That sounds like buildings tumbling down,
And people wish that they weren't around
When we all rock and roll into town

We hear those fearful, piercing screams
The kind you find on cinema screens
And if they're fit to burst at the seams
If they could say what all of this means

I am, I am the elephant man
It is incredible how I can,
Look just like, just like an elephant man,
Just like, just like my elephant fans

We love that satisfying, rattling crash
The sound of registers full of cash
We'll be all over your town like a rash
We'll steal your children and smoke all your hash

I am, I am the elephant man
It is incredible how I can
Look just like, just like an elephant man,
Just like, just like my elephant fans

I love that deafening, thundering sound
That sounds like buildings tumbling down
And people wish that they weren't around
When we all rock and roll into town

I am, I am the elephant man
It is incredible how I can,
Look just like, just like an elephant man,
Just like, just like my elephant fans

We are, we are the elephant men
Take heed, we'll be stampeding again
Look out all of you fairweather friends
Because elephants never forget

Slipping through the city, sliding train to train
Sulking on the subway, music in our brain
She and me together in the city sound
Me and Mona Lisa on the underground

Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah
Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah

Slipping through the city sliding brain to brain
Sulking on the subway listening to the train
She and me together speed through space and time
Graffiti in our eyes and music in our mind

Hi-fi in the white city, yeah, yeah...

Open up my heart and see what's inside
Take a look inside me, inside my mind
And you'll see my heart is broke in two
'Cos I've seen the real you

Images of violence fill up my mind
And you see the silence feel it inside
And you'll see my heart is brok in two
Cos I've seen the real you

So sad we seem, so far we've been
She knows the scene
And I see your heart is broken too
'Cos I've seen the real you
Seen the real you

Tears on a pillow
Eyes on the phone
You pour all the love that you keep inside
Into a song
Like "He's Gone"
And these are the thoughts that you keep inside

You smile from your window
And stand all alone
And pour all the love that you keep inside
Into the phone
Into the phone

And like the leaves on the trees
Like the Carpenters song
Like the planes and the trains
and the lives that were young
He's gone
And it feels like the words to a song

With the style of a widow
And the place of your own
You pour all the words that you keep inside
Into the phone
And sit alone

Cos these are the thoughts that you keep inside
And you smile from your window
And stand all alone
And pour all the love that you keep inside
Into a song
into a song

And like the leaves on the trees,
Like the Carpenters song,
Like the planes and the trains and the
lives that were young He's gone
And it feels like the words to a song

And like the stains on the names of the
lives of the young He's gone
And it feels like the words to a song

So gone, so gone...

Draw the blinds and watch the show,
Heard it on the radio,
Saw it on the news today,
I heard the lonely people say
"There's a great big crack in the union jack"
There's a great big crack in the union jack

Another day, another low,
Another midday TV show,
Saw it on the news today,
Heard the lonely people say
"There's a great big crack in the union jack"
There's a great big crack in the union jack,
In the union jack

Maybe, maybe it's the clothes we wear
The tasteless bracelets and the dye in our hair
Maybe it's our kookiness
Or maybe, maybe it's our nowhere towns
Our nothing places and our cellophane sounds
Maybe it's our looseness

But we're trash, you and me
We're the litter on the breeze
We're the lovers on the streets
Just trash, me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do...

Maybe, maybe it's the things we say
The words we've heard and the music we play
Maybe it's our cheapness
Or maybe, maybe it's the times we've had
The lazy days and the crazes and the fads
Maybe it's our sweetness

But we're trash, you and me
We're the litter on the breeze
We're the lovers on the street
Just trash, me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do

Run with me baby,
Let your hair down
Through every station, through every town
Run with me, baby
Let's take a chance,
From Heathrow to Hounslow
From the Eastern Block to France.

Europe is our playground,
London is our town
So run with me baby now.

Run with me baby,
Let your hair down.
Through every station, through every town
Run with me, baby
Let's make a stand
From peepshow to disco
From Spain to Camber Sands

Europe is our playground,
London is our town
So run with me baby now.

Europe is our playground
London is our town
So run with me baby now.

Run with me, come with me
Run with me baby now...

Every Monday Morning Comes


Oh when you and I
Watch the planes go by
Silver in the sky
We do whatever we like

Oh when you and me
See the birds and the sea
The people on the streets
We do whatever we please

But every Monday morning comes,
Every Monday morning, yeah, yeah
Oh every Monday morning comes,
Every Monday morning, yeah

Oh when you and I
Watch the London sky
The traffic rolling by
We do whatever we like

So we chase the day away
And feel the morning rain
Piss our money down the drain
And do whatever they say

But every Monday morning comes,
Every Monday morning, yeah, yeah
Oh every Monday morning comes,
Every Monday morning, yeah