- Alice What's The Matter
Something about you really puts me down,
You're the life of the party you're the toast of the town,
Something about you really picks me up,
Like a hot cup of coffee in a hot coffee cup.
Feels like a Saturday, free and easy going,
Reminded its a Sunday, to stop the flow from flowing,
You can see clearly now the rain has gone,
- American TV
He was born diseased with a twisted mind
His hands his feet his elbows tied
Sleeps by the day and in the night he cries
The bastard son of a travelling man
Conceived and born in a caravan
Lives where he could and comes out when he can
Death of a rock star played by an actor
Gotta make a film 'cos he died in a fast car
- Come Home Beanie
Come home Beanie, Beanie come home,
Your mother's worried sick, sitting by the telephone,
She's gravely concerned about her little girl,
Who's been blown away by the big bad world,
Beanie's all alone,
Beanie come home,
I've been around the world, around the world, around, around, around,
- D'Ya Wanna Go Faster
Late at night and all alone,
Late night traffics constant drone,
A voice comes on the telephone,
Yeah late at night and all alone,
It tells me quicken up , pick up the pace,
CÂfmon more speed and a little less haste,
Get along no time to waste,
Telephone voice calmly says,
- Day After Day
Nobody loves you not quite the way you do,
Not saying they hate you, oh no it's more the things you do,
If you've got a choice of things to say,
You chose to use that certain way, that says,
Day after day I think a little bit, I run it through my brain,
All the ways I've heard you say,
You've had a little think and thought it best to think again,
- Discotheque Wreck
He's in the bar, he's in your hair,
With his sports keyring jangling he's everywhere,
He's in your view, he's in your face,
Straight out of the seventies to straight out of place.
His collars turned up high he's on top of the world,
Sliding down the bar he's always falling, falling,
With his one good eye he winks at what he thinks is girls,
Opens toothless grin and then he's crawling, crawling.
- Don't Shoot My Dog
Listening to the story of an angry old man
He had the whole world in his pocket but
He had a hole there in his hand
Never had much trouble fitting into his surroundings
Dived headlong into life
And ended up by drowning
Died by drowning
His blood is pure venom and his teeth are solid gold
- Fists of Fury
More work, less pay, is what everybody says is all that I deserve,
So why they kicking my butt and breaking my bones now,
And as the trouble flares I'm drunk, who cares that this life ain’t meant for me,
So I’m just holding my breath for a brand new day now.
Well go on, I’ll be damned mother said I kicked off long before I could walk,
She said that I swore and I cursed long before I could talk,
For I’ve an infliction, a terrible thing,
- Hide the Dead Girl
They may be able to pin the tail on the donkey
But they can't get anything to hold us down
She was ducking for apples and we'll stick to that story
We just held her breath for her and sadly she drowned
No body of evidence if you haven't got a body
Proofs in the pudding there's food for thought
We've all got a conscience that makes us feel guilty
And we're sick of feeling guilty when we haven't been caught
- Human Being
Don't cry baby rest your weary head
Don't cry mama daddy didn't mean what he said
Wake up baby it's a brand new day
Wake up mama I think he's gone away
And it's always on my mind we're only human
What do you want it's more than I can give
Man I'm just a human being
- In Your Shoes
It really wouldn't happen in my day,
None of this was going on,we had to make our own fun and games,
I didn't fight two wars to be this way,
I'm looking forward to my sixties again maybe this time round we'll make it past the grade,
Past eighty eight,
On past the grade,
On to fun and games,
- My House
In my house there's a place I can hide
When I feel a surge of self pity
In my house there's a place where I sit
And watch the violence on the telly
In my house there's a kitchen
Where we eat drink and cook
And in my house there's an attic at the top
Where my sister and her boyfriend go
- Oblivion
If all the people in the world camped out in your back garden
Would you write and tell the king or would you grab a tent and join 'e
I can see that all the possibilities for freedom,
Could just sway your first decision to subject them all to oblivion
And do you feel your life is threatened by fabricated stories
Dreamt up by the sons of campers that you killed back in the forties
I could see that all the possibilities for conflict
- Some People Say
Some people say that what I know should be kept secret,
Some people say I don't know anything at all,
Some people say that what I do could be dangerous,
Some people say I don't do anything at all.
Some people say this is a song that needs the drums in,
Some people say no it's a song for the bass,
Some people say that they can't stand what they're hearing,
Some people say who gives a damn what they say.
- Still The Rhythm
And we've all got sick with our cooler than thou,
Holier than shit attitudes,
Still the war goes on just drop the bomb,
There's nothing left to lose.
There's a bullet in this gun so you've got till,
the count of one before they shoot.
Let's get a disease there's nothing better to do,
So we'll give it to you and then do as we please,
- Stop the Bus
I've sold the bus man 'cause I bought myself a train,
In a village that was man but it's now a motorway,
The house has gone man, 'cause we couldn't afford the rates,
Only a few left now, where the new age stayers stay.
I've got no job man 'cause I couldn't afford the taxes,
And I can't work away 'cause the world's being run by nazis,
They say, stay put 'cause there's no room at the inn,
- Tom Petty Loves Veruca Salt
Maybe it's time to make a bee-line
No more sitting on the sideline
Haven't got the time to waste time
So maybe it's time to make a bee-line
Hold on, wait just a minute
Stop right there, don't go nowhere, stay where you are
Oh, keep on don't give in to it
- What the Doctor Ordered
went off to the doctors for the open plan surgery,
He said I just can't believe what's lying here in front of me,
It looks like what you couldn't drink you'd just have to smoke,
You've been living in a frying pan, what you need is health.
So I burgled a few houses took the candy from the baby,
In search of the prescription that was driving me crazy,
The policeman turned the corner looking down at me,