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- Girls
And Boys
-
- Street's
like a jungle
- So
call the police
- Following
the herd
- Down
to Greece
- On
holiday -
- Love
in the 90's
- Is
paranoid
- On
sunny beaches
- Take
your chances looking for
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- (chorus)
- Girls
who are boys
- Who
like boys to be girls
- Who do
boys like they're girls
- Who do
girls like they're boys
- Always
should be someone you really love
-
- Avoiding
all work
- Because
there's none available
- Like
battery thinkers
- Count
your thoughts on 1 2 3 4 5 fingers
- Nothing
is wasted
- Only
reproduced
- Get
nasty blisters
- Du
bist sehr schön
- But we
haven't been introduced
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- (chorus)
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- Tracy Jacks
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- (Tracy
Jacks) works in civil service
- (Tracy
Jacks) it's steady employment
- (Tracy
Jacks) it's a golfing fanatic
- (Tracy
Jacks) but his put is erratic
- (Tracy
Jacks) saw a harley street doctor
- (Tracy
Jacks) who prescribed healthy living
- (Tracy
Jacks) but he's getting past forty
- (Tracy
Jacks) and all the seams are splitting
-
- Everyday
he got closer
- He
knew in his heart he was over
- I'd
love to stay here and be normal
- But
it's just so overrated
-
- (Tracy
Jacks) left home without warning
- (Tracy
Jacks) at five in the morning
- (Tracy
Jacks) got on the first train to walton
- (Tracy
Jacks) and stood on the seafront
- (Tracy
Jacks) threw his clothes in the water
- (Tracy
Jacks) and ran around naked
- (Tracy
Jacks) got stopped by the police
- (Tracy
Jacks) and escorted back home
-
- Everyday
he got closer
- He
knew in his heart he was over
- I'd
love to stay here and be normal
- But
then it's just so overrated
-
- Tracy
Jacks
- Tracy
Jacks
- Tracy
Jacks
- Tracy
Jacks
-
- And
then it happened on a tuesday morning
- Tracy
Jacks bulldozed down the house he lived in
- Saying
it's just so overrated
-
- Tracy
Jacks
- Tracy
Jacks
- Tracy
Jacks
- Tracy
Jacks
-
- Everyday
he got closer
- He
knew in his heart he was over
- I'd
love to stay here and be normal
- But it
was always overrated
-
-
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-
- End Of A Century
-
- She
said there's ants in the carpet
- Dirty
like monsters
- Eating
all the morsels
- Picking
up the rubbish
- Give
her effervescence
- She
needs a little sparkle
- Good
morning tv
- You're
looking so healthy
-
- (chorus)
- And we
all say
- Don't
want to be alone
- We
wear the same clothes
- Because
we feel the same
- And
kiss with dry lips
- When
we say goodnight
- End of
the century... it's nothing special
-
- Sex on
tv
- Everybody's
at it
- And
the mind gets dirty
- As you
get closer to thirty
- He
gives her a cuddle
- They're
glowing in a huddle
- Good
night tv
- You're
all made up
- And
you know that
-
- (chorus)
-
- Can
you eat her yes you can
-
- (chorus)
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- Parklife
-
- Confidence
is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known
as (parklife)
- And
morning soup can be avoided if you take a route straight
through what is known as (parklife)
- John's
got brewers droop he gets intimidated by the dirty
pigeons they love a bit of it (parklife)
- Who's
that gut lord marching... you should cut down on your
porklife mate... get some exercise
-
- (chorus)
- All
the people
- So
many people
- They
all go hand in hand
- Hand
in hand through their parklife
-
- Know
what I mean
- I get
up when I want except on wednesdays when I get rudely
awakened by the dustmen (parklife)
- I put
my trousers on, have a cup of tea and I think about
leaving the house (parklife)
- I feed
the pigeons I sometimes feed the sparrows too
- it
gives me a sense of enormous well being (parklife)
- And
then i'm happy for the rest of the day safe in the
knowledge
- there
will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it (parklife)
-
- (chorus)
-
- Parklife
(parklife)
- Parklife
(parklife)
-
- It's
got nothing to do with vorsprung durch technic you know
- And
it's not about you joggers who go round and round and
round
- Parklife
(parklife)
-
- (chorus
x 2)
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-
- Bank
Holiday
-
- Grandma
has got new dentures
- To eat
the crust on pizza
- Been
taken out by her daughter
- Because
she thought she ought'a
- The
kids are eating snickers
- Because
they're so delicious
- Then
there's sticky fingers
- And
mother looses her knickers
-
- (chorus)
- Bank
holiday comes six times a year
- Days
of enjoyment to which everyone cheers
- Bank
holiday comes with a six pack of beer
- ....then
its back to work a.g.a.i.n.
-
- Bar-b-que
is cooking
- Sausages
and chicken
- The
patio is buzzing
- The
neighbours they are looking
- John
is down the fun pub
- Drinking
lots of lager
- Girls
and boys are on the game
- All
the high streets look the same
-
- (chorus)
-
- Back
to work a.g.a.i.n.
-
- (chorus)
-
- Bank
holiday
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Badhead
-
- So far
i've not really stayed in touch
- Well
you knew as much it's no surprise that today
- I'll
get up early too from a lack of anything to do
-
- And I
might as well just grin and bear it
- Because
it's not worth the trouble of an argument
-
- And
you have not really stayed in touch
- Well I
knew as much it's no surprise that today
- I get
up for round two with nothing to do
- Except
get a touch of flu
-
- And I
might as well grin and bear it
- Because
it's not worth the trouble of an argument
- And in
any case i'd rather wear it
- It's
like a badhead in the morning
-
- And I
know
-
- And I
might as well grin and bear it
- Because
it's not worth the trouble of an argument
- And in
any case i'd rather wear it
- It's
like a badhead in the morning
- (repeat)
-
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-
-
- Far Out
-
- I spy
in the night sky don't I
- Phoebe
Io Elara Leda Callisto Sinope
- Janus
Dione Portia so many moons
- Quiet
in the sky at night hot in the milky way
- Outside
in
- Vega
Capella Hadar Rigel Barnard's Star
- Antares
Aldebaran Altair Wolf 359
- Betelgeuse
sun sun sun
- (to
fade)
-
-
-
-
-
-
- To The End
-
- All
these dirty words
- They
make us look so dumb
- Been
drinking far too much
- And
neither of us mean what we say
-
- (chorus)
- Well
you and I
- Collapsed
in love
- And it
looks like we might have made it, yes it looks like we've
made it to the end
-
- What
happened to us
- Soon
it will be gone forever
- Infatuated
only with ourselves
- And
neither of us can think straight anymore
-
- (chorus
x 2)
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-
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- London Loves
-
- A
malady has taken him over
- Coughing
tar in his japanese motor
- The
lights are magic
- And he
feels lucky
- And
he's got money
- Shoots
like an arrow - oh
-
- London
loves
- The
mystery of a speeding car
- London
loves
- The
misery of a speeding heart
-
- Its
love u like, and everyone's at it
- And
words are cheap when the mind is elastic
- He
loves the violence
- Keeps
ticking over
- So
sleep together
- Before
today is sold forever
-
- London
loves
- The
way people just fall apart
- London
loves
- The
way you just don't stand a chance
- London
loves
- The
mystery of a speeding car
-
- O-oh
o-oh o-oh o-oh
-
- London
loves
- The
mystery of a speeding car
- London
loves
- The
misery of a speeding heart
-
- London
loves
- The
mystery
-
- London
loves
- The
way people just fall apart
- London
loves
- The
way we just don't stand a chance
- London
loves
- A
speeding heart
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- Trouble In The
Message Centre
-
- I am
the message centre
- Local
and direct
- Room
to room an operator
- No
calls today they'll just have to wait dear
- I call
and I collect
- So
just strike him softly away from the body
-
- You're
made up too shiny today (in so much trouble)
- Thoughts
are just pissing away (in so much trouble)
-
- I am a
manager
- I am
in control
- As the
local delegator
- No
calls today dear they'll just have to wait dear
- I
offer no guarantee at all
- So
don't take it lightly you'll put yourself under
-
- You're
made up too shiny today (in so much trouble)
- Thoughts
are just pissing away (in so much trouble)
- A new
type face and new day (in so much trouble)
- You
can't remember ten minutes ago (in so much trouble)
- It's
too much trouble
-
- You're
made up too shiny today (in so much trouble)
- Thoughts
are just pissing away (in so much trouble)
- A new
type face and new day (in so much trouble)
- You
can't remember ten minutes ago (in so much trouble)
- It's
too much trouble
-
- La la
la la la
- La la
la la
- (to
fade)
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Clover Over Dover
-
- I'm on
the white cliffs of dover
- Thinking
it over and over
- But if
I jump its all over
- A
cautionary tale for you
-
- I'd
like to roll in the clover
- With
you over and over
- On the
white cliffs of dover
- And
then i'd let you push me over
-
- (chorus)
- And if
that is the fact then in actual fact it's not where it's
at and it's over
- And if
that is the fact then in actual fact it's not where it's
at and it's over
- Yes it
is
-
- And
now the bluebirds are over
- Over
the white cliffs of dover
- So
when you push me over
- Don't
bury me i'm not worth anything
-
- (chorus)
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- Magic America
-
- Bill
Barret has a simple dream
- He
calls it his plan b
- Buildings
in the sky and the air is sugar free
- And
everyone is very friendly
- Plan b
arrived on a holiday
- Took a
cab to the shopping malls
- Bought
and ate until he could do neither anymore
- Then
found love on channel 44
-
- (chorus)
- La la
la la la he wants to go to magic america
- La la
la la la he'd like to live in magic america
- With
all the magic people
-
- Bill
Barrett sent his postcards home
- To
everyone he'd ever known they read
- Fifty
nine cents gets you a good square meal
- From
the people who care how you feel
-
- (chorus
x 2)
-
- With
all the magic people (fade to end)
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Jubilee
-
- Jubilee
slouches in the settee
- He
losing all will to move
- He
gone divy too much telly
- He
watching 24 hours of rubbish
- He got
butane he got plastic bags
- His
eyes are going square oh yeah
- He no
raver just anti social
- He no
going to cut his hair
-
- He
dresses incorrectly... no-one told him seventeen, he not
mean enough
- He
dresses incorrectly... no-one told him seventeen, not
keen on being like anyone else
-
- Jubilee's
dad billy banker
- He
thinks his son is a slob
- He
should get out more stop scabbing
- He
really should go and get a job
-
- He
dresses incorrectly... no-one told him seventeen he not
mean enough
- He
dresses incorrectly... no-one told him where to go but he
just don't get out enough
-
- He
dresses incorrectly... no-one told him talk to girls but
he's just too spotty
- He
dresses incorrectly... no-one told him seventeen he not
keen on being liked by anyone else
- So he
just plays on his computer game
-
- He
dresses incorrectly... no-one told him seventeen he not
mean enough
- He
dresses incorrectly... no-one told him where to go but he
just don't get out enough
-
- He
dresses incorrectly... no-one told him talk to girls but
he's just too spotty
- He
dresses incorrectly... no-one told him seventeen he not
keen on being liked
- Anyone
he's not being like
- Anyone
jubilee's not like
- Anyone
else
-
-
-
-
-
- This Is A Low
-
- And
into the sea goes pretty england and me
- Around
the bay of biscay and back for tea
- Hit
traffic on the dogger bank
- Up the
thames to find a taxi rank
- Sail
on by with the tide and go asleep
- And
the radio says
-
- (chorus)
- This
is a low
- But it
won't hurt you
- When
you are alone it will be there with you
- Finding
ways to stay solo
-
- On the
tyne forth and cramity
- There's
a low in the high forties
- And
saturday's locked away on the pier
- Not
fast enough dear
- On the
malin head, blackpool looks blue and red
- And
the queen, she's gone round the bend
- Jumped
off land's end
- (chorus
x 3)
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