It's time the tale were told of how you took a child and you made him old It's time the tale were told of how you took a child and you made him old you made him old Reel around the fountain slap me on the patio I'll take it now Fifteen minutes with you well, I wouldn't say no oh people said that you were virtually dead and they were so wrong! Fifteen minutes with you I wouldn't say no oh people said that you were easily led and they were half-right It's time the tale were told of how you took a child and you made him old It's time the tale were told of how you took a child and you made him old you made him old Reel around the fountain slap me on the patio I'll take it now Fifteen minutes with you I wouldn't say no oh people see no worth in you oh but I do Fifteen minutes with you oh I wouldn't say no oh people see no worth in you but I do I dreamt about you last night and I fell out of bed twice you can pin and mount me like a butterfly But take me to the haven of your bed was something that you never said two lumps, please you're the bee's knees but so am I Meet me at the fountain shove me on the patio I'll take it slowly Fifteen minutes with you oh I wouldn't say no people see no worth in you oh but I do As merry as the days were long I was right and you were wrong back at the old grey school I would win and you would lose But you've got everything now you've got everything now and what a terrible mess I've made of my life oh what a mess I've made of my life No, I've never had a job because I've never wanted one I've seen you smile but I've never really heard you laugh so who is rich and who is poor? I cannot say... You are your Mother's only son and you're a desperate one but I don't want a lover I just want to be seen in the back of your car A friendship sadly lost? well, this is true and yet, it's false but did I ever tell you, by the way I never did like your face But you've got everything now you've got everything now and what a terrible mess I've made of my life oh what a mess I've made of my life No, I've never had a job because I'm too shy I've seen you smile but I've never really heard you laugh so who is rich and who is poor? I cannot say... You are your Mother's only son and you're a desperate one but I don't want a lover I just want to be tied to the back of your car to the back of your car to the back of your car to the back of your car So, goodbye Please stay with your own kind And I'll stay with mine There's something against us It's not time It's not time So, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye I know I need hardly say How much I love your casual way Oh, but please put your tongue away A little higher and we're well away The dark nights are drawing in And your humour is as black as them I look at yours, you laugh at mine And "love" is just a miserable lie You have destroyed my flower-like life Not once - twice You have corrupt my innocent mind Not once - twice I know the wind-swept mystical air It means: I'd like to see your underwear I recognise that mystical air It means: I'd like to seize your underwear What do we get for our trouble and pain? Just a rented room in Whalley Range What do we get for our trouble and pain? ...Whalley Range! Into the depths of the criminal world I followed her... I need advice, I need advice I need advice, I need advice Nobody ever looks at me twice Nobody ever looks at me twice I'm just a country-mile behind The world I'm just a country-mile behind The whole world Oh oh, oh... I'm just a country-mile behind The world I'm just a country-mile behind The whole world Oh oh, oh... Take me when you go Oh oh, oh... Take me when you go Oh oh, oh... I need advice, I need advice Upon the sand, upon the bay "There is a quick and easy way" you say Before you illustrate I'd rather state: "I'm not the man you think I am I'm not the man you think I am" And Sorrow's native son He will not smile for anyone And Pretty Girls Make Graves Oh... End of the pier, end of the bay You tug my arm, and say: "Give in to lust, Give up to lust, oh heaven knows we'll Soon be dust... " Oh, I'm not the man you think I am I'm not the man you think I am And Sorrow's native son He will not rise for anyone And Pretty Girls Make Graves Oh really? Oh... I could have been wild and I could have Been free But Nature played this trick on me She wants it Now And she will not wait But she's too rough And I'm too delicate Then, on the sand Another man, he takes her hand A smile lights up her stupid face (and well, it would) I lost my faith in Womanhood I lost my faith in Womanhood I lost my faith... Oh... Hand in glove... The sun shines out of our behinds... Oh... Please don't cry For the ghost and the storm outside Will not invade this sacred shrine Nor infiltrate your mind My life down I shall lie If the bogey-man should try To play tricks on your sacred mind To tease, torment, and tantalise Wavering shadows loom A piano plays in an empty room There'll be blood on the cleaver tonight And when darknesss lifts and the room is bright I'll still be by your side For you are all that matters And I'll love you to till the day I die There never need be longing in your eyes As long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine Ceiling shadows shimmy by And when the wardrobe towers like a beast of prey There's sadness in your beautiful eyes Oh, your untouched, unsoiled, wonderous eyes My life down I shall lie Should restless spirits try To play tricks on your sacred mind I once had a child, and it saved my life And I never even asked his name I just looked into his wondrous eyes And said: "never never never again" And all too soon I did return Just like a moth to a flame So rattle my bones all over the stones I'm only a beggar-man whom nobody owns Oh, see how words as old as sin Fit me like a glove I'm here and here I'll stay Together we lie, together we pray There never need be longing in your eyes As long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine As long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine Mine Climb up on my knee, sonny boy Although you're only three, sonny boy You're - you're mine And your mother she just never knew Oh, your mother... As long... as long... as long I did my best for her I did my best for her As long... as long... as long as... as long I did my best for her I did my best for her Oh... Punctured bicycle On a hillside desolate Will Nature make a man of me yet? When in this charming car This charming man Why pamper life's complexities When the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat? I would go out tonight But I haven't got a stitch to wear This man said "It's gruesome That someone so handsome should care" A jumped-up pantry boy Who never knew his place He said "return the rings" He knows so much about these things He knows so much about these things I would go out tonight But I haven't got a stitch to wear This man said "It's gruesome That someone so handsome should care" This charming man This charming man A jumped-up pantry boy Who never knew his place He said "return the ring" He knows so much about these things He knows so much about these things He knows so much about these things I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving England is mine and it owes me a living ask me why and I'll spit in your eye ask me why and I'll spit in your eye But we cannot cling to the old dreams anymore no we cannot cling to those dreams Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno... Under the iron bridge we kissed and although I ended up with sore lips it just wasn't like the old days anymore no it wasn't like those days am I still ill? am I still ill? Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno... Ask me why and I'll die oh ask me why and I'll die and if you must go to work tomorrow well if I were you I wouldn't bother for there are brighter sides to life and I should know because I've seen them but not very often Under the iron bridge we kissed and although I ended up with sore lips it just wasn't like the old days anymore no it wasn't like those days am I still ill? am I still ill? Hand in glove The sun shines out of our behinds No it's NOT like any other love This one's different Because it's us! Hand in glove We can go wherever we please And everything depends upon How near you stand to me And if the people stare Then, the people stare Oh I really don't know And I really don't care Hand in glove The Good People laugh Yes, we may be hidden by "rags" But we have something they'll never have Hand in glove The sun shines out of our behinds Yes, we may be hidden by "rags" But we have something they'll never have And if the people stare Then, the people stare Oh I really don't know And I really don't care So hand in glove I stake my claim I'll fight to the last breath If they dare touch a hair on your head I'll fight to the last breath For the good life is out there somewhere So stay on my arm, you little charmer But I know my luck too well Yes, I know my luck too well And I'll probably never see you again I'll probably never see you again I'll probably never see you again All men have secrets and here is mine so let it be known For we have been through hell and high tide I think I can rely on you And yet you start to recoil Heavy words are so lightly thrown But still I'd leap in front of a flying bullet for you So what difference does it make? So what difference does it make? It makes none, but now you have gone And you must be looking very old tonight The devil will find work for idle hands to do I stole and I lied, and why? because you asked me to But now you make me feel so ashamed Because I've only got two hands Well, I'm still fond of you So what difference does it make? What difference does it make? It makes none, but now you have gone And your prejudice won't keep you warm tonight Oh the devil will find work for idle hands to do I stole and then I lied just because you asked me to But now you know the truth about me You won't see me anymore Well, I'm still fond of you But no more apologies, no more No more apologies I'm too tired, I'm so sick and tired And I'm feeling very sick and ill today But I'm still fond of you Bought on stolen wine A nod was the first step You knew very well What was coming next Bought on stolen wine A nod was the first step You knew very well What was coming next Did I really walk all this way Just to hear you say: "Oh, I don't want to go out tonight"? "Oh, I don't want to go out tonight" Oh, but you will For you must I don't owe you anything, no But you owe me something Repay me now You should never go to them Let them come to you Just like I do Just like I do You should not go to them Let them come to you Just like I do Just like I do Did I really walk all this way Just to hear you say: "Oh, I don't want to go out tonight"? "Oh, I don't want to go out tonight" But you will For you must I don't owe you anything, no But you owe me something Repay me now Too freely on your lips Words prematurely sad Oh, but I know what will make you smile tonight Life is never kind Life is never kind Oh, but I know what will make you smile tonight Over the moor, take me to the moor Dig a shallow grave And I'll lay me down Over the moor, take me to the moor Dig a shallow grave And I'll lay me down Lesley-Anne, with your pretty white beads Oh John, you'll never be a man And you'll never see your home again Oh Manchester, so much to answer for Edward, see those alluring lights? Tonight will be your very last night A woman said: "I know my son is dead I'll never rest my hands on his sacred head" Hindley wakes and Hindley says: Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, and says: "Oh, wherever he has gone, I have gone" But fresh lilaced moorland fields Cannot hide the stolid stench of death Fresh lilaced moorland fields Cannot hide the stolid stench of death Hindley wakes and says: Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, and says: "Oh, whatever he has done, I have done" But this is no easy ride For a child cries: "Oh, find me... find me, nothing more We are on a sullen misty moor We may be dead and we may be gone But we will be, we will be, we will be, right by your side Until the day you die This is no easy ride We will haunt you when you laugh Yes, you could say we're a team You might sleep You might sleep You might sleep BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM! Oh, you might sleep BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM! You might sleep BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM!" Oh Manchester, so much to answer for Oh Manchester, so much to answer for Oh, find me, find me! Find me! I'll haunt you when you laugh Oh, I'll haunt you when you laugh You might sleep BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM! Oh... Over the moors, I'm on the moor Oh, over the moor Oh, the child is on the moor The rain falls hard on a humdrum town this town has dragged you down oh the rain falls hard on a humdrum town this town has dragged you down And everybody's got to live their life and God knows I've got to live mine God knows I've got to live mine William, William it was really nothing William, William it was really nothing it was your life How can you stay with a fat girl who'll say: "Would you like to marry me and if you like you can buy the ring" she doesn't care about anything "Would you like to marry me and if you like you can buy the ring" I don't dream about anyone except myself William, William it was really nothing William, William My eyes have seen the glory of the sacred wonderkind you took me behind a disused railway line and said "I know a place where we can go where we are not known" and you gave me something that I won't forget too soon But I can't believe that you'd ever care and this is why you will never care these things take time I know that I'm the most inept that ever slept I'm spellbound, but a woman divides and the hills are alive with celibate cries but you know where you came from you know where you're going and you know where you belong you said I was ill, and you were not wrong But I can't believe that you'd ever care and this is why you will never care these things take time I know that I'm the most inept that ever slept Oh the alcoholic afternoons when we sat in your room they meant more to me than any than any living thing on earth they had more worth than any living thing on earth Vivid and in your prime you will leave me behind you will leave me behind Punctured bicycle On a hillside desolate Will Nature make a man of me yet? When in this charming car This charming man Why pamper life's complexities When the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat? I would go out tonight But I haven't got a stitch to wear This man said "It's gruesome That someone so handsome should care" A jumped-up pantry boy Who never knew his place He said "return the rings" He knows so much about these things He knows so much about these things I would go out tonight But I haven't got a stitch to wear This man said "It's gruesome That someone so handsome should care" This charming man This charming man A jumped-up pantry boy Who never knew his place He said "return the ring" He knows so much about these things He knows so much about these things He knows so much about these things I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar I am the son and heir of nothing in particular You shut your mouth how can you say I go about things the wrong way I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar I am the son and the heir of nothing in particular You shut your mouth how can you say I go about things the wrong way I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does There's a club if you'd like to go you could meet somebody who really loves you so you go, and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home, and you cry and you want to die When you say it's gonna happen "now" well, when exactly do you mean? see I've already waited too long and all my hope is gone You shut your mouth how can you say I go about things the wrong way I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does All the streets are crammed with things eager to be held I know what hands are for and I'd like to help myself you ask me the time but I sense something more and I would like to give you what I think you're asking for you handsome devil you handsome devil Let me get my hands on your mammary glands and let me get your head on the conjugal bed I say, I say, I say I crack the whip and you skip but you deserve it you deserve it, deserve it, deserve it A boy in the bush is worth two in the hand I think I can help you get through your exams oh you handsome devil Let me get my hands on your mammary glands and let me get your head on the conjugal bed I say, I say, I say I crack the whip and you skip but you deserve it you deserve it, deserve it, deserve it And when we're in your scholarly room who will swallow whom? and when we're in your scholarly room who will swallow whom? you handsome devil Let me get my hands on your mammary glands and let me get your head on the conjugal bed I say, I say, I say There's more to life than books you know but not much more oh you handsome devil I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving England is mine and it owes me a living ask me why and I'll spit in your eye ask me why and I'll spit in your eye But we cannot cling to the old dreams anymore no we cannot cling to those dreams Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno... Under the iron bridge we kissed and although I ended up with sore lips it just wasn't like the old days anymore no it wasn't like those days am I still ill? am I still ill? Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno... Ask me why and I'll die oh ask me why and I'll die and if you must go to work tomorrow well if I were you I wouldn't bother for there are brighter sides to life and I should know because I've seen them but not very often Under the iron bridge we kissed and although I ended up with sore lips it just wasn't like the old days anymore no it wasn't like those days am I still ill? am I still ill? I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour But heaven knows I'm miserable now I was looking for a job, and then I found a job And heaven knows I'm miserable now In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die Two lovers entwined pass me by And heaven knows I'm miserable now I was looking for a job, and then I found a job And heaven knows I'm miserable now In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die What she asked of me at the end of the day Caligula would have blushed "You've been in the house too long" she said And I naturally fled In my life Why do I smile At people who I'd much rather kick in the eye I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour But heaven knows I'm miserable now "You've been in the house too long" she said And I naturally fled In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die In a river the colour of lead Immerse a baby's head Wrap her up in the News Of The World Dump her on a doorstep, girl This night has opened my eyes And I will never sleep again You kicked and cried like a bullied child A grown man of twenty-five He said he'd cure your ills But he didn't and he never will So, save your life Because you've only got one The dream has gone But the baby is real Oh you did a good thing She could have been a poet Or, she could have been a fool Oh you did a bad thing And I'm not happy And I'm not sad A shoeless child on a swing Reminds you of your own again She took away your troubles Oh but then again she left pain So please save your life Because you've only got one The dream has gone But the baby is real Oh you did a good thing She could have been a poet Or, she could have been a fool Oh you did a bad thing And I'm not happy And I'm not sad As merry as the days were long I was right and you were wrong back at the old grey school I would win and you would lose But you've got everything now you've got everything now and what a terrible mess I've made of my life oh what a mess I've made of my life No, I've never had a job because I've never wanted one I've seen you smile but I've never really heard you laugh so who is rich and who is poor? I cannot say... You are your Mother's only son and you're a desperate one but I don't want a lover I just want to be seen in the back of your car A friendship sadly lost? well, this is true and yet, it's false but did I ever tell you, by the way I never did like your face But you've got everything now you've got everything now and what a terrible mess I've made of my life oh what a mess I've made of my life No, I've never had a job because I'm too shy I've seen you smile but I've never really heard you laugh so who is rich and who is poor? I cannot say... You are your Mother's only son and you're a desperate one but I don't want a lover I just want to be tied to the back of your car to the back of your car to the back of your car to the back of your car Everyday you must say so how do I feel about my life anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes when will you accept yourself? I am sick and I am dull and I am plain how dearly I'd love to get carried away oh but dreams have a knack of just not coming true and time is against me now Who and what to blame? anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes when will you accept yourself? for heaven's sake anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes everyday you must say how do I feel about the past Others conquered love - but I ran I sat in my room and I drew up a plan but plans can fall through as so often they do and time is against me now And there's no one left to blame tell me when will you when will you accept your life the one that you hate for anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes everyday you must say how do I feel about my shoes They make me awkward and plain how dearly I would love to kick with the fray but I once had a dream and it never came true and time is against me now time is against me now And there's no one but yourself to blame anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes anything is hard to find for heaven's sake anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes when will you accept yourself? when? Girl afraid Where do his intentions lay? Or does he even have any? She says: "He never really looks at me I give him every opportunity In the room downstairs He sat and stared In the room downstairs He sat and stared I'll never make that mistake again!" Boy afraid Prudence never pays And everything she wants costs money "But she doesn't even LIKE me! And I know because she said so In the room downstairs She sat and stared In the room downstairs She sat and stared I'll never make that mistake again!" I would rather not go back to the old house I would rather not go back to the old house there's too many bad memories too many memories When you cycled by here began all my dreams the saddest thing I've ever seen and you never knew how much I really liked you because I never even told you oh, but I meant to Are you still there? or have you moved away? or have you moved away? I would love to go back to the old house but I never will I never will I never will I never will Good times for a change see, the luck I've had can make a good man turn bad So please please please let me, let me, let me let me get what I want this time Haven't had a dream in a long time see, the life I've had can make a good man bad So for once in my life let me get what I want Lord knows it would be the first time Lord knows it would be the first time Belligerent ghouls Run Manchester schools Spineless swines Cemented minds Sir leads the troops Jealous of youth Same old suit since 1962 He does the military two-step Down the nape of my neck I wanna go home I don't want to stay Give up education As a bad mistake Mid-week on the playing fields Sir thwacks you on the knees Knees you in the groin Elbow in the face Bruises bigger than dinner plates I wanna go home I don't want to stay Belligerent ghouls Run Manchester schools Spineless bastards all Sir leads the troops Jealous of youth Same old jokes since 1902 He does the military two-step Down the nape of my neck I wanna go home I don't want to stay Give up life As a bad mistake Please excuse me from the gym I've got this terrible cold coming on He grabs and devours Kicks me in the showers Kicks me in the showers And he grabs and devours I want to go home I don't want to stay The last night of the fair by the big wheel generator a boy is stabbed and his money is grabbed and the air hangs heavy like a dulling wine she is Famous she is Funny an engagement ring doesn't mean a thing to a mind consumed by brass (money) and though I walk home alone my faith in love is still devout the last night of the fair from a seat on a whirling waltzer her skirt ascends for a watching eye it's a hideous trait (on her mother's side) and though I walk home alone my faith in love is still devout then someone falls in love and someone's beaten up someone's beaten up and the senses being dulled are mine and though I walk home alone my faith in love is still devout this is the last night of the fair and the grease in the hair of a speedway operator is all a tremulous heart requires a schoolgirl is denied she said: "How quickly would I die if I jumped from the top of the parachutes?" this is the last night of the fair and the grease in the hair of a speedway operator is all a tremulous heart requires a schoolgirl is denied she said: "How quickly would I die if I jumped from the top of the parachutes?" scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen (this means you really love me) and though I walk home alone my faith in love is still devout On the day that your mentality Catches up with your biology I want the one I can't have And it's driving me mad It's written all over my face [repeat] A double-bed And a stalwart lover, for sure These are the riches of the poor A double-bed And a stalwart lover, for sure These are the riches of the poor [refrain] A tough kid who sometimes swallows nails Raised on Prisoner's Aid He killed a policeman when he was thirteen And somehow that really impressed me It's written all over my face On the day that your mentality Catches up with your biology And if you ever need self-validation Just meet me in the alley by the railway-station It's written all over my face What she said: "How come someone hasn't noticed that I'm dead and decided to bury me God knows, I'm ready" What she said was sad but then, all the rejections she's had to pretend to be happy could only be idiocy What she said was not for the job or lover that she never had What she read all heady books she'd sit and prophesise (it took a tattooed boy from Birkenhead to really really open her eyes) What she said: "I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death AND I NEED TO CLING TO SOMETHING !" What she said: "I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death AND I NEED TO CLING TO SOMETHING !" I'd like to drop my trousers to the world I am a man of means (of slender means) each household appliance is like a new science in my town and if the day came when I felt a natural emotion I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump in the ocean and when a train goes by it's such a sad sound I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen every sensible child will know what this means the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy on her terms and if the day came when I felt a natural emotion I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump in the ocean and when a train goes by it's such a sad sound And when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me and if the day came when I felt a natural emotion I'd get such a shock I'd probably lie in the middle of the street and die I'd lie down and die Well I wonder do you hear me when you sleep? I hoarsely cry Well I wonder do you see me when we pass? I half-die Please keep me in mind please keep me in mind Gasping - but somehow still alive this is the fierce last stand of all I am Gasping - dying - but somehow still alive this is the final stand of all I am Please keep me in mind Unruly boys Who will not grow up Must be taken in hand Unruly girls Who will not settle down They must be taken in hand A crack on the head Is what you get for not asking And a crack on the head Is what you get for asking Unruly boys Who will not grow up Must be taken in hand Unruly girls Who will not settle down They must be taken in hand A crack on the head Is what you get for not asking And a crack on the head Is what you get for asking No, a crack on the head Is what you get for not asking And a crack on the head Is what you get for asking A crack on the head Is just what you get Why, because of who you are And a crack on the head Is just what you get Why, because of what you are A crack on the head Because of The things you said That you said The things you did Unruly boys Who will not grow Must be taken in hand Unruly girls Who will not grow They must be taken in hand Ah, oh, no, oh, no Ah, oh, no, oh, no No, no, no, no Ah, oh, no, oh, no Ah, oh, no, oh, no No, no, no Heifer whines could be human cries Closer comes the screaming knife This beautiful creature must die This beautiful creature must die A death for no reason And death for no reason is MURDER And the flesh you so fancifully fry Is not succulent, tasty or kind It is death for no reason And death for no reason is MURDER And the calf that you carve with a smile Is MURDER And the turkey you festively slice Is MURDER Do you know how animals die? Kitchen aromas aren't very homely It's not "comforting", "cheery" or "kind" It's sizzling blood and the unholy stench Of MURDER It's not "natural", "normal" or kind The flesh you so fancifully fry The meat in your mouth As you savour the flavour Of MURDER NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER Who hears when animals cry? Farewell to this land's cheerless marches Hemmed in like a boar between arches Her very Lowness with her head in a sling I'm truly sorry but it sounds like a wonderful thing I say Charles don't you ever crave To appear on the front of the Daily Mail Dressed in your Mother's bridal veil? And so I checked all the registered historical facts And I was shocked into shame to discover How I'm the 18th pale descendent Of some old queen or other Oh has the world changed, or have I changed? Oh has the world changed, or have I changed? Some nine year old tough who peddles drugs I swear to God, I swear I never even knew what drugs were So I broke into the Palace With a sponge and a rusty spanner She said: "Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing" I said: "that's nothing - you should hear me play piano" We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry And talk about precious things But when you are tied to your mother's apron No-one talks about castration We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry And talk about precious things Like love and law and poverty These are the things that kill me We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry And talk about precious things But the rain that flattens my hair These are the things that kill me Passed the pub that saps your body And the church who'll snatch your money The Queen is dead, boys And it's so lonely on a limb Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money The Queen is dead, boys And it's so lonely on a limb Life is very long, when you're lonely Life is very long, when you're lonely Life is very long, when you're lonely Life is very long, when you're lonely Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I've held It pays my way and it corrodes my soul I want to leave you will not miss me I want to go down in musical history Frankly, Mr. Shankly, I'm a sickening wreck I've got the 21st century breathing down my neck I must move fast, you understand me I want to go down in celluloid history Mr. Shankly Fame, fame, fatal fame It can play hideous tricks on the brain But still I'd rather be famous Than righteous or holy, any day, any day, any day But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled Making Christmas cards with the mentally ill I want to live and I want to love I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I've held It pays my way and it corrodes my soul Oh, I didn't realise that you wrote poetry I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry Mr. Shankly Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask You are a flatulent pain in the arse I do not mean to be so rude Still, I must speak frankly, Mr. Shankly Oh, give us money! Oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head And as I climb into an empty bed Oh well, enough said I know it's over still I cling I don't know where else I can go, mother Oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head See, the sea wants to take me The knife wants to slit me Do you think you can help me? Sad veiled bride, please be happy Handsome groom, give her room Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly Although she needs you more than she loves you And I know it's over Still I cling I don't know where else I can go It's over, it's over, it's over I know it's over And it never really began But in my heart it was so real And you even spoke to me and said: "If you're so funny Then why are you on your own tonight? And if you're so clever Then why are you on your own tonight? If you're so very entertaining Then why are you on your own tonight? If you're so very good looking Why do you sleep alone tonight? I know because tonight is just like any other night That's why you're on your own tonight With your triumphs and your charms While they are in each other's arms" It's so easy to laugh It's so easy to hate It takes strength to be gentle and kind It's over, over, over It's so easy to laugh It's so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind It's over, over, over Love is natural and real But not for you, my love Not tonight my love Love is natural and real But not for such as you and I, my love Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head When you walk without ease On these streets where you were raised I had a really bad dream It lasted 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days And I know that, I know that I never had no one ever Now I'm outside your house I'm alone And I'm outside your house I hate to intrude I know I'm alone I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone And I never, never had no one ever I never had no one ever A dreaded sunny day So I meet you at the cemetery gates Keats and Yeats are on your side A dreaded sunny day So I meet you at the cemetery gates Keats and Yeats are on your side While Wilde is on mine So we go inside and we gravely read the stones All those people all those lives Where are they now? With the loves and hates And passions just like mine They were born And then they lived and then they died Seems so unfair And I want to cry You say: "ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn" And you claim these words as your own But I've read well, and I've heard them said A hundred times, maybe less, maybe more If you must write prose and poems The words you use should be your own Don't plagiarise or take "on loans" There's always someone, somewhere With a big nose, who knows And who trips you up and laughs When you fall Who'll trip you up and laugh When you fall You say: "ere long done do does did" Words which could only be your own And then you then produce the text From whence was ripped some dizzy whore, 1804 A dreaded sunny day So let's go where we're happy And I meet you at the cemetery gates Oh Keats and Yeats are on your side A dreaded sunny day So let's go where we're wanted And I meet you at the cemetery gates Keats and Yeats are on your side But you lose because weird lover Wilde is on mine Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking When I said I'd like to Smash every tooth in your head Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking When I said by rights you should be Bludgeoned in your bed And now I know how Joan of Arc felt Now I know how Joan of Arc felt As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt Bigmouth, bigmouth Bigmouth strikes again And I've got no right to take my place With the human race And now I know how Joan of Arc felt Now I know of Joan of Arc felt As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her hearing aid started to melt Bigmouth, bigmouth Bigmouth strikes again And I've got no right to take my place With the human race The boy with the thorn in his side Behind the hatred there lies A murderous desire for love How can they look into my eyes And still they don't believe me How can they hear me say those words And still they don't believe me And if they don't believe me now Will they ever believe me? And if they don't believe me now Will they ever believe me? The boy with the thorn in his side Behind the hatred there lies A plundering desire for love How can they see the love in our eyes And still they don't believe us And after all this time They don't want to believe us And if they don't believe us now Will they ever believe us? And when you want to live How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to know? I was minding my business Lifting some lead off The roof of the Holy Name church It was worthwhile living a laughable life To set my eyes on the blistering sight Of a Vicar in a tutu He's not strange He just wants to live his life this way A scanty bit of a thing With a decorative ring That wouldn't cover the head of a goose As Rose collects the money in a canister Who comes sliding down the banister? The Vicar in a tutu He's not strange He just wants to live his life this way The monkish monsignor With a head full of plaster Said : "My man, get your vile soul dry-cleaned" As Rose counts the money in the canister As natural as rain He dances again My God! The Vicar in a tutu Oh yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Oh... The Vicar in a tutu Oh yeah Oh... The next day in the pulpit With freedom and ease Combatting ignorance, dust, and disease As Rose counts the money in the canister As natural as rain He dances again and again and again In the fabric of a tutu Any man could get used to And I am the living sign And I'm a living sign I am a living sign I'm a living sign I am a living sign I'm a living sign Sign I am a living sign Take me out tonight Where there's music and there's people Who are young and alive Driving in your car I never never want to go home Because I haven't got one anymore Take me out tonight Because I want to see people And I want to see life Driving in your car Oh please don't drop me home Because it's not my home, it's their home And I'm welcome no more And if a double-decker bus Crashes in to us To die by your side Is such a heavenly way to die And if a ten ton truck Kills the both of us To die by your side Well the pleasure, the privilege is mine Take me out tonight Take me anywhere, I don't care I don't care, I don't care And in the darkened underpass I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last But then a strange fear gripped me And I just couldn't ask Take me out tonight Oh take me anywhere, I don't care I don't care, I don't care Driving in your car I never never want to go home Because I haven't got one No, I haven't got one And if a double-decker bus Crashes in to us To die by your side Is such a heavenly way to die And if a ten ton truck Kills the both of us To die by your side Well the pleasure, the privilege is mine Oh, there is a light and it never goes out There is a light and it never goes out There is a light and it never goes out There is a light and it never goes out There is a light and it never goes out There is a light and it never goes out There is a light and it never goes out There is a light and it never goes out There is a light and it never goes out From the ice-age to the dole-age There is but one concern I have just discovered Some girls are bigger than others Some girls are bigger than others Some girls mothers are bigger than other girls mothers As Antony said to Cleopatra As he opened a crate of ale Oh I say Some girls are bigger than others Some girls are bigger than others Some girls mothers are bigger than other girls mothers "Send me the pillow The one that you dream on" "Send me the pillow The one that you dream on" And I'll send you mine Panic on the streets of London Panic on the streets of Birmingham I wonder to myself Could life ever be sane again? The Leeds side-streets that you slip down I wonder to myself Hopes may rise on the Grasmere But Honey Pie, you're not safe here So you run down To the safety of the town But there's Panic on the streets of Carlisle Dublin, Dundee, Humberside I wonder to myself Burn down the disco Hang the blessed DJ Because the music that they constantly play IT SAYS NOTHING TO ME ABOUT MY LIFE Hang the blessed DJ Because the music they constantly play On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down Provincial towns you jog 'round Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ HANG THE DJ Shyness is nice, and Shyness can stop you From doing all the things in life You'd like to Shyness is nice, and Shyness can stop you From doing all the things in life You'd like to So, if there's something you'd like to try If there's something you'd like to try ASK ME - I WON'T SAY "NO" - HOW COULD I? Coyness is nice, and Coyness can stop you From saying all the things in Life you'd like to So, if there's something you'd like to try If there's something you'd like to try ASK ME - I WON'T SAY "NO" - HOW COULD I? Spending warm Summer days indoors Writing frightening verse To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME Because if it's not Love Then it's the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb That will bring us together Nature is a language - can't you read? Nature is a language - can't you read? SO... ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME Because if it's not Love Then it's the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb That will bring us together If it's not Love Then it's the Bomb Then it's the Bomb That will bring us together SO... ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME Oh, la... Smoke Lingers 'round your fingers Train Heave on - to Euston Do you think you've made The right decision this time? Oh... You left Your tired family grieving And you think they're sad because you're leaving But did you see Jealousy in the eyes Of the ones who had to stay behind? And do you think you've made The right decision this time? You left Your girlfriend on the platform With this really ragged notion that you'll return But she knows That when he goes He really goes And do you think you've made The right decision this time? Young bones groan And the rocks below say : "Throw your skinny body down, son!" But I'm going to meet the one I love So please don't stand in my way Because I'm going to meet the one I love No, Mamma, let me go! Young bones groan And the rocks below say : "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last! At last! At last! I'm going to meet the one I love La-de-da, la-de-da No, Mamma, let me go! No... I thought that if you had An acoustic guitar Then it meant that you were A Protest Singer Oh, I can smile about it now But at the time it was terrible No, Mamma, let me go No... Learn to love me Assemble the ways Now, today, tomorrow and always My only weakness is a list of crime My only weakness is... well, never mind, never mind Oh, shoplifters of the world Unite and take over Shoplifters of the world Hand it over Hand it over Hand it over Learn to love me And assemble the ways Now, today, tomorrow, and always My only weakness is a listed crime But last night the plans of a future war Was all I saw on Channel Four Shoplifters of the world Unite and take over Shoplifters of the world Hand it over Hand it over Hand it over A heartless hand on my shoulder A push - and it's over Alabaster crashes down (Six months is a long time) Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began... I was bored before I even began Shoplifters of the world Unite and take over Shoplifters of the world Unite and take over Shoplifters of the world Unite and take over Shoplifters of the world Take over Sing me to sleep Sing me to sleep I'm tired and I I want to go to bed Sing me to sleep Sing me to sleep And then leave me alone Don't try to wake me in the morning 'Cause I will be gone Don't feel bad for me I want you to know Deep in the cell of my heart I will feel so glad to go Sing me to sleep Sing me to sleep I don't want to wake up On my own anymore Sing to me Sing to me I don't want to wake up On my own anymore Don't feel bad for me I want you to know Deep in the cell of my heart I really want to go There is another world There is a better world Well, there must be Well, there must be Well, there must be Well, there must be Well... Bye bye Bye bye Bye...