Godley & Creme

Early warning
Stranger on the radar
Ripple in the wavelength
Leave it in the hands of fate
Nobody noticed the difference in the readout
The sadness in the answer
A twist in the logic
P.E.R.S.O.N.A.L.I.T.Y.
P.E.R.S.O.N.A.L.I.T.Y.
Low-key discussions
Rumble round the test-bed
Egg-heads in a huddle
A softening of the solid-state
Static alphabet
Rigid stabbing monotone
There's positive or negative
But no inbetween
Are you blind?
Are you looking through a broken pair of eyes
Are you ill-equipped to hear me?
Random brainwave
Groping for receivers
Are you deaf?
Are you one of the cogs
Too busy probing the pleasure centres of dogs
To get near me
Nobody noticed
The difference in the readout
The sadness in the answer
A twist in the logic

I pity inanimate objects
Because they can't move
From specks of dust to paperweights
Or a pound note sealed in resin
Plastic Santas in perpetual underwater snowstorms
Sculptures that appear to be moving
But aren't
I feel sorry for them all
What are they thinking
When they arrive at a place
Do they sigh with disappointment
And when they leave
Do they have regrets?
Is a sofa as happy in one corner
As it is in another
And how does the room feel about it?
I pity inanimate objects
I pity inanimate objects
I pity inanimate objects
I pity them all
Physics isn't fair
Is a tree as a rocking horse
An ambition fulfilled
And is the sawdust jealous?
I worry about these things
Peppercorns don't move
Until they contaminate the ice-cream
Three weeks later
Is the gold in Fort Knox happy gold?
I care about these things
Some things are better left alone
Grains of sand prefer their own company
But magnets are two faced
No choice for sugar
But what choice could there be
But to drown in coffee or to drown in tea
The frustrations of being inanimate
Maybe its better that way
The fewer the moving parts
The less there is to go wrong
I wonder about these things
I pity inanimate objects
I pity inanimate objects
I pity inanimate objects
I pity them all

I find myself a child again
Asleep in Baby Lotion
The air was thick
With Scalextric
And the cars were in slow motion
Going up like an air bubble caught in a vein
Going down like a thermos flask thrown from a train
You go ahead, and I'll follow my phobia down
I cried myself to sleep because
They wouldn't leave the light on
I clawed the rails
With broken nails
Now there's nothing left to bite on
Going up like an air bubble caught in a vein
Going down like a thermos flask thrown from a train
You go ahead, and I'll follow my phobia down
Going up like the corners of Dali's moustache
Going down like the United in the Munich air crash
You go ahead and I'll follow my phobia down
Splendour in the grass
Freeze Frame
A splintering of glass
Steam train
Stop you're going too fast
Please Freeze Frame
Frame, Freeze Frame, Freeze Frame
Please Freeze
I asked my mum about the stains in the kitchen
She said, "Bang you're dead" and truth is stranger than fiction
Truth is stranger than fiction
I find myself designing rooms that
Never let the light in
With no way in and
No way out
And a space to fly my kite in
Going up like an air bubble caught in a vein
Going down like a thermos flask thrown from a train
You go ahead, and I'll follow my phobia down
Going up like a body rejecting a heart
Going down like Neanderthal Man in the chart
You go ahead and I'll follow my phobia down

A public face...
A private eye...
A patent shoe...
A wider belt...
A deeper sigh...
A leaking pen...
A shrunken head...
An open file...
A broken jaw...
An alibi...
A jumped up fee...
A ceiling fan...
Hear no evil
See no evil
Speak no evil
Hear no evil
See no evil
Speak no evil
A heinous crime
It wasn't meant to be
A body blow
On the table waiting
A paperweight
Crashing through the cigar smoke
The answer no
Now I can't remember
Hat check girl
Found necking with a Siamese twin
Dabs on glass
She should have burned the gloves she lost
An alien key
Turning
Walls have ears
Burning
A vital clue...
A public face...
A private eye...
Hear no evil
See no evil
Speak no evil
Hear no evil
See no evil
Speak no evil

White heat, grey stone
White heat, grey stone
White heat, grey stone
Wish you were here
White heat, sizzling
Thinking of Brazilia
White heat, sizzling
Thinking of Brazilia
White heat, grey stone
Thinking of Brazilia
White heat, hollow
Thinking of Brazilia
White heat, always
Wish you were here
Thinking of Brazilia
White heat, grey stone
White heat, grey stone
Lonely is Brazilia
White heat, hot, vast, crisp, empty
No more "Yariva, yariva"
Wish you were here
White heat, grey stone
Show me Brazilia
And I'll show you no Mardi Gras
In the glass Cantina
White heat, grey stone
White heat, grey stone
White heat, grey stone
Is anybody there
White heat, sizzling, sizzling, sizzling, sizzling
Is anybody there
Is anybody there
Hello
Is anybody there
Brazilia
Wish you were here
Is anybody there?
Big mistake, Brazilia
Brazilia. Open air museum. Wish you were here.

Mugshots, mugshots
Mugshots, mugshots
I was just a lonely boy
Every day a different toy
I fell in love with Hubcap Jenny
And she fell in love with me
She taught me how to steal a car
And sling a brick
She taught me what the coppers are
And how and where to kick 'em
Mugshots
I'm taking her advice
Mugshots
'Cause Hubcap Jenny's nice
I was just an only child
Running free and running wild
But I stole one hubcap too many
And the law came down on me
They taught me how to give salutes
And take some stick
To know the sound of policeman's boots
And now and then to lick 'em
They taught me how to sleep at night
In the lion's den
Forget about the dynamite
And dream of Hubcap Jenny
Shoot 'em in black and white
Bring me the prints tonight
I know, you know there's a mug in the shot!
Mugshots
"Where were you on the night in question?"
Mugshots
"I was home in bed M'Lord"
Mugshots
"I submit that last suggestion"
Mugshots
"Puts him in contempt of court"
Mugshots
"I'd give you proof but there isn't any"
Mugshots
"And there my lord I rest my case"
Mugshots
"There's no such girl as Hubcap Jenny"
Mugshots
"We have no record of her face in the mugshots"
Shoot 'em in black and white
Bring me the prints tonight
I know you know there's a mug in the shot!
Give me a hint of style
Give me "The Kray Profile"
I know you know there's a mug in the shot!

I spend the night with Radio Luxembourg
Pop music crackles me to sleep
I tune the dial to Radio Luxembourg
It's better than counting sheep
I wrote away to Radio Caroline
I need to hear your saddest reggae song
And I'll wallow like a zombie in it
Tear up my Ipi Tombi ticket
Let chocolate buttons limbo under my tongue
I've never liked the taste of Lucozade
Another sip of hospital champagne
Charge your glasses "Radio Luxembourg"
Get well soon
Get well soon
Get well soon
Am I the only one tuned in to Luxembourg tonight
Do they only programme music to accompany my cough
Lousy words and drab percussion
Fading in and out of Russian
I haven't got the strength to turn it off
Get well soon, get well soon
Get well soon, get well soon
Get well soon, get well soon
208 - fabulous - 208
Fabulous - 208 - fabulous - 208
Contagious flu cold faint
Contagious flu cold faint
Contagious flu cold faint
Contagious flu!
I'm getting better thanks to Luxembourg
But I didn't stop to thank the radio
Today when I was downstairs eating
It's Ever Ready heart stopped beating
Was it just coincidence, who knows?
Get well soon, get well soon

I spend the night with Radio Luxembourg
Pop music crackles me to sleep
I tune the dial to Radio Luxembourg
It's better than counting sheep
I wrote away to Radio Caroline
I need to hear your saddest reggae song
And I'll wallow like a zombie in it
Tear up my Ipi Tombi ticket
Let chocolate buttons limbo under my tongue
I've never liked the taste of Lucozade
Another sip of hospital champagne
Charge your glasses "Radio Luxembourg"
Get well soon
Get well soon
Get well soon
Am I the only one tuned in to Luxembourg tonight
Do they only programme music to accompany my cough
Lousy words and drab percussion
Fading in and out of Russian
I haven't got the strength to turn it off
Get well soon, get well soon
Get well soon, get well soon
Get well soon, get well soon
208 - fabulous - 208
Fabulous - 208 - fabulous - 208
Contagious flu cold faint
Contagious flu cold faint
Contagious flu cold faint
Contagious flu!
I'm getting better thanks to Luxembourg
But I didn't stop to thank the radio
Today when I was downstairs eating
It's Ever Ready heart stopped beating
Was it just coincidence, who knows?
Get well soon, get well soon