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Look At Me
01:51
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Look at me I'm a real human
Look at me I'm not a joke one
Look at me I'm a real human
Look at me.
Now you see me, Now you don't.
It's out of sight and out of mind with you.
Speak a word - 'yes', 'no' or 'don't know'
Won't you?
Look at me ...
Can you see beyond your mirror?
Do you know that there's a world outside?
Show of hands - 'yes', 'no' or 'don't know'
Look at me ...
When you see me what do you see?
Would you rather not see me at all?
One of three - 'yes', 'no' or 'don't know'
Look at me.
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2. |
Heavy Fish On Mandrax
03:43
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I'm a big film star driving in a flash car
Petrol doesn't go far - only takes 5 star
Hollywood suntan only got one fan
It don't bother me man
Cannabis? You bet it can.
Heavy fish on Mandrax
I'm a big hero
Pornographic pot hole
Starring in a show oh
In my own Hollywood bowl
Heavy fish on soul food
Heavy fish on Mandrax
Heavy fish on filth
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3. |
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Today I feel like a crazy
Today I feel like someone with a sponge for a brain
Keep letting the water out
Crying? I would but I'm lazy
Laughing? I would but I laugh like a drain
And from there it's down to the sewer side
Suicide statistics - I don't want to go like that
'Police say there were no identifying marks'
I don't want to go like that!
I've got to do something, I've got to be somebody
I've got to increase in size
I'm not gonna to take sleeping pills
I'm gonna take the world by surprise
No more take it or leave it
No more walking around till the soles of my feet
Are giving my nose a wipe
Hungry? You'd better believe it
Thirsty? If I was to drink all I could in one go ...
... I'd double the real estate
Release date tomorrow - I don't want to hang around
People craving for new phenomena
I don't want to hang around!
I've got to do something
I've got to be somebody
I've got to hypnotise
I'm not gonna to take no for an answer
I'm gonna take the world
By surprise
Just give me one chance - a chance in a million
One chance - Just give me a chance
Maybe two, Even three
Just what am I asking for?
Helpless? The spirit is willing
Hopeless? Just give me some rope
I've a trick up my sleeve
It gives me some confidence
Confidentially I don't want to spill the beans
Just between me and the room I'm in
I don't want to spill the beans!
I've got to do something
I've got to be somebody
I've got to acclimatise
I'm not gonna take liberties
I'm gonna maybe ....
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4. |
Headache
02:18
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Another morning
Another government health warning
I'm not awake yet
I eat my first cigarette
I read the papers
The policemen are up to their capers
Breaking and entering
On suspicion someone is getting too high
It's a headache, it's a headache
Anyway I look at it it's giving me a headache
Head head head head head head headache
I'm feeling lean
I want to overdose on supermarket caffeine
And white sugar (three please)
I am not easily stirred
I take a packet, Look on the label
What a racket - 'Bits and pieces'
I might as well pick my nose
It's a headache, it's a headache
Monosodium glutomate is giving me a headache
Head head head head head head headache
Headache - I gotta headache - Headache
Gotta head - Tense - Nervous - Headache
Anyway I look at it it's giving me a headache
Monosodium glutomate is giving me a headache
Rubbish in my system and its giving me a headache
Head head head head head head headache
I'm feeling sober (give us a drink)
I want some alcohol to tide me over so I can stagger
(Mind where you're going)
Medicine gets you that way
Go to the chemist
He's got sweeties on his premises
No marijuana - Got to keep inside the law
It's a headache, it's a headache
Anyway I look at it it's giving me a headache
Head head head head head head headache
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5. |
Speed Trap
00:58
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(Nee Naw Knee Gnaw)
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6. |
Sometimes
03:35
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Sometimes you set an example
Then nobody listens
If you can't cope with changing opinion
Try not to be paranoid
Sometimes you're someone to look up to
Then no-one will touch you
Soup of the day or stew in your own juice
Try not to be paranoid
'Cos you can't please everyone all the time
You can't please everyone all the time
You can't please everyone all the time
Sometimes you're setting the fashion
Then the trend is against you
Surface appearance in tricks of the current
Try not to be paranoid
'Cos you can't please everyone all the time
You can't please everyone all the time
You can't please everyone all the time
Sometimes the critics will smash you
Then you're everyone's darling
As a soap powder you have to get dirty
Try not to be paranoid
'Cos you can't please everyone all the time
You can't please everyone all the time
You can't please everyone all the time
You can't please everyone all the time
You can't please everyone
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7. |
Lab Rat
02:43
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(Bleep, burble, woo, wee, click click, 'Waaa ha ha ha ha ha')
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8. |
Assassination
02:27
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It's gonna be curtains - at the window a trigger
The liggers in the street below don't know what's going on
The tickertaping, the cheering, the waving
It's an overture ...
There's gonna be panic in the newsrooms
Typewriting and fighting - who will get the scoop?
The headlines say who did it
'Who did it?'
Assassination
A moment in everybody's life
There's gonna be metal in your memory
A bullet so full it fills your head with pain
Don't know what's going on
The ambulances, swearing, uniforms
... an overture
There's gonna be handcuffs on your pillow
No sleeping or weeping just an empty head
The headlines say who did it
'Who did it?'
Assassination
A moment in everybody's life
There's gonna be postcards on the counter
In colour another souvenir or two
Don't know what's going on
The cheap mementos, badges, tee shirts
... an overture
There's gonna be scandal in the papers
His habbits, like rabbits, more and more each day
The headlines say who did it
'Who did it?'
Assassination
A moment in everybody's life
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9. |
Friend Of Mine
04:30
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You're laughing aloud and making the crowd peel away from my eyes.
You thrill me.
And happy I am to know that you are a friend
You make me feel so good I could hug you
Sometimes we cross swords
and I can feel the hordes blocking the way between us
But never for long, we kiss and make up friend
Friend of mine
You make me feel so good I could hug you
Friend of mine
And you can feel good too
What's wrong with that?
We can feel good together
No question of jealousy or brooding on whether we will have regrets
Who needs it?
You've given me more, more than I hoped for friend
Friend of mine
You make me feel so good I could hug you
Friend of mine
And you can feel good too
What's wrong with that?
We can feel good together
You make me feel so good
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10. |
Bad Reception
01:40
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Getting bad reception like a TV when the weather is hazy
You get a bad reception like a TV when the weather is hazy getting
Hounds are baying for the redcoats - You're the camp entertainment
Eyes are making accusations as in pupil and teacher
And the lines appearing on your forehead are a lie detector
Your palms are sweating it's a fry up in a desert oasis
And the sound of laughter from the sand dunes is giggling water
Which is broken long before the midwife has a chance to assist in your delivery
Long before the midwife has a chance to prevent you getting bad reception
Like a TV when the weather is hazy getting
Bad reception like a TV when the weather is hazy
Getting bad reception
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11. |
Nerve Ends
04:57
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Nerve ends tingling
Nerve ends
Why does everything seem to go there, go there, go there?
(Look out)
Keep your eyes on the distant horizon
Look out for passers by
Eye of the cat that sees you can give you measure
Hair of the dog that bit you can cure your ills
But day of the following night can take your conversations away
Look out for the silent night
No spark of life just burning petrol
Crushed bodies (petrol for burning)
Crushed (burning)
Heat is a mere by-product of violence.
Energy - the spirit of those you have pushed through pistons
Breath can be effortless when you've been practicing all your life
You can do it in your sleep
You can do it with your mouth shut
Earth slipping underneath
Never supporting
Feet never dancing but firm on the bone
No tread ever said anything only tells others you've travelled on
Mile after mile, yard after yard, inch by inch, life, afterlife
(Ocassionally we bump into each other but seldom do we ever seem to touch)
Ocassionally we bump into each other ...
I could have loved you
But I passed you by without either of us knowing
But I passed you by ...
Free as a bird, free as the wind, fresh as the dew, free as a bird
'Free as a bird' is a myth fed to the land-locked
'New' - a word which ambition sings
No cloud is allowed to cross frontiers unseen
Somebody's mining for the silver lining
No standing still no staying here
(No no no nostalgia)
No standing still
No no no no no no
Earth slipping under never supporting
Feet never dancing firm on the bone
No tread ever said anything only tells others you've travelled on
The only way to keep a jigsaw puzzle ............ Break it up
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12. |
Plug Me In
03:45
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Electricity - plug me in - oh
Unconnected I'm dejected
Nobody likes to work to dead lines
Wireless I'm in a mess
Without my yellow-green, blue, black, brown and red lines
Turn the juice to my advantage into my vein
Straight from the main
Switch it on and let me have a current affair
Light up my hair!
With electricity ...
Running junk in my trunk
Wrap around me like a coil heater
Keep me cooked, nice and hooked
Feed my body, fill the meter!
Turn the juice to my advantage ...
Low fuse self abuse
High resistance getting larger
Beat it raw - I can't withdraw
Life's a great big battery charger!
Turn the juice to my advantage into my vein
Straight from the main
Switch it on and let me have a current affair
Light up my hair!
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13. |
Simmer
03:21
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Arguments waiting for delivery of the last word
Wallpaper murmuring and the carpet dressing down to grey
(Heel snapping) Neurosis bites
(Pressure cooking) and it just can't seem to get the message
(Pressure cooking) and the letter going to the wrong house
(Pressure cooking) and it only waiting to be opened
(Pressure cooking) and it always seems to simmer
Too many rafters seem to be holding up a bad roof
Clear out the rooms and the vacuum gleaning never ends
(Heel snapping) Neurosis bites ...
Always seems to simmer
Pressure getting high
Hypochondria is a common symptom of the illness
Organs in perfect order but there's something sticking in the pipes
(Heel snapping) Neurosis bites ...
So so close to boiling
You talk and I talk and we talk and the talk
And the talk-talk talker
The talk-talk talking is gumming up my earholes
One simple truth and the vicious circle disappears
(Pressure cooking) ...
and it always seems to simmer
To simmer
Always seems to simmer
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14. |
Alien Cavalry
02:02
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So calm
Relentless
Don't tell me that things can't be changed
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15. |
Friend Of Mine reprise
01:28
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I could hug you
You're laughing aloud and making the crowd peel away from my eyes.
You make me feel so good.
And happy I am
Friend of mine I could hug you
You thrill me
What's wrong with that?
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