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1. _ Shore Leave
From London to Lisbon
And all points between
Find people to lean on
And one man to please
We all need someone, we all
need something, we all need...
I'm lustless, lifeless
The scent of my skin
It means nothing without you
That's where it begins
We all need someone,
We all need something,
We all need... We all need...
Get out, for your sakes,
do you want it ?
No promises are spoken
Take it or leave it, do you like it ?
And no man's heart gets broken
One day to another,
I'm head over heels
One room to another,
it sets the same scene
We all need someone,
We all need something,
We all need... We all need...
Every man for himself,
just for a little while
Every man for himself,
just for a short while
You could come around,
we could fool around,
and get down
It's the way it could be
Oh, from London to Lisbon
I'm head over heels
Take it or leave it,
just come as you please
We all need
Someone, somehow,
somewhere
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2. _ Fuel
Go tell the captain
There's no waters left
to navigate
I sailed them all for you
Go tell the engine room
Stop stoking up the fire
We're out of fuel
Doom looms large on my horizon
Mountain toxic river poison
Fools get votes in a democracy
We'll build new ring roads
to go nowhere in particular
Now you've passed your
Highway Code
And make new inroads
into plundering the Earth for
some more fuel
Doom looms large on my horizon
Mountain toxic river poison
Fools get votes in a democracy
Go ask the Government
You voted in on trust
Where is our fuel ?
Doom looms large on my horizon
Mountain toxic river poison
Fools get votes in a democracy
Fools get votes in a democracy
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3. _ Godspeed
My name is Mary Anne,
but they all call me Frances
I saw the coast was clear,
do you mind me being near ?
I've seen faces in high places
messing up for good
Say what am I doing here,
what am I doing here ?
What say you're feeling meek,
saw the writing on the wall
Feel sad and blue
Paradise is close at hand,
in images of elsewhere
I've seen faces in high places
Messing up big style
I log on for company,
my ISP comforts me
Goodbye Godspeed,
I can't give you what you need
if I've sounded distant thus far
it's 'cos I'm as lost as you are
Paradise is close at hand,
in images elsewhere
Goodbye Godspeed,
I can't give you what you need
if I've sounded distant thus far
it's 'cos I'm as lost as you are
Goodbye Godspeed,
I can't give you what you need
if I've sounded distant thus far
it's 'cos I'm as lost as you are
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4. _ Apple Core
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5. _ Blues Song
I do think that you could be
Anything that you want to e
It's easy, easy when
you say that time will tell
It don't mean the last orders
bell is ringing, ringing
And there's always plenty more
G&T in the sea
You keep playing the
same tired old blues songs
Over the same tired
old blues chords
Put those songs to sleep
They don't make me
weep anymore
You're empty glass ain't
no crystal ball
It can't tell you
what the future's bringing,
bringing it's bank
holiday mundane
Medazalan may help to stop
that stinging, stinging
and there's always plenty more
G&T in the sea.
You keep playing the
same tired old blues songs
Over the same tired
old blues chords
Put those songs to sleep
They don't make me
weep anymore
And let it begin again,
let if begin again
With a hearty meal
and a map to read
Oh life's been good to me
So keep playing those same
damn old blues songs.
Keep playing the
same damn old blue songs
Oh they don't make me
weep anymore, anymore
Keep playing the
same damn old blues songs
Over the same damn
old blues chords
Put those songs to sleep
They don't make me
weep anymore
Keep playing the
same damn old blues songs
Over the same damn
old blues chords
*Fade out*
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6. _ Imaginary Friend
Both born of lust and deceit
We are lovers who will
never meet
Once fate put us in the
same room
When you knew not of me
nor I of you
Something inside dies
And we don't stand
up to scrutiny
But we spin by and by the by
A great pain finds
numb haven, humdrum
And we spin by and by the by
Something inside dies
Me and my imaginary friend
Have been going round
the bend for some time now
For some time now
And me and Timmy Turd
Are having trouble being heard
Through the background hum
Above the background hum
And me and Barry C are
going down to Connah's Quay
For all your Telecaster dreams
A Telecaster is all you need
Me and my imaginary friend
Have been going round
the bend for some time now
For some time now
And me and Timmy Turd
Are getting trouble being heard
Through the background hum
Above the background hum
And me and Barry C are
going down to Connah's Quay
For all your Telecaster dreams
A Telecaster is all you need
Something inside dies
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7. _ What It Is
It's whats not there that makes
What's there what it is
It's what's not there that makes
What's there what it is
Seems like we're quite
in demand
More faint praise,
Well I'll be damned
Ships run aground on the rocks
Not all that unorthodox
It's what's not there that makes
What's there what it is
Fate cuts her cloth...
Ragged mean
You miss the ceremony
He sleeps, she wakes,
then she tires
Leave us to our frying pan
and fires
It's what's not there that makes
What's there what it is
It's sculpture, sculpture
feed me to the vultures
It's what's not there that makes
What's there what it is
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8. _ Immediate Circle
I'm gonna change my
immediate circle of friends
I'm gonna run away and
join the circus, oh yeah
They've been leading me
around in circles, round
and round
I'm gonna change my
immediate circle of friends
In my darkest hour of need
They all become make believe
And they pretend that they
are sleeping
I raise my game as the stakes
stack higher, higher
You cry wolf like you're the
town cryer, cry girl
The queen of clubs drinks
in pubs on days off, over
Swills down dregs, drags
on duck arsed cigarettes
In my darkest hour of need
They all become make believe
And they pretend that they
are sleeping
I'm gonna change my
immediate circle of friends
I'm gonna run away and
join the circus, oh yeah
I'll be assistant to the
blinde knife thrower
Better than being
factory fodder order
In my darkest hour of need
They all become make believe
And they pretend that they
are sleeping
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9. _ Village Idiots
I found me a pulse
I found me a pulse
And I came to the
screaming city baby
I found me a pulse
I bought me some clothes
I bought me some clothes
And I played in the
screaming city baby
I got given clothes
We're village idiots
And words tie us up in knots
But it's OK
I lose me some clothes
And my GP upped my dose
I crave acclaim not your
simpering pity maybe
I won't give up the ghost
I'll be the hostess with the most
And I won't give up my post
I come alive in the
screaming city baby
And I won't give up the ghost
But we're village idiots
And the party never stops
But it's OK
'Cos to struggle
would be meaningless
We are what we are
Everyone one of us
You love those disco thrills
Oh you love those disco thrills
Oh you really take
the biscuit baby
You love those disco thrills
But we're village idiots
And the party never stops
But it's OK
'Cos to struggle
would be meaningless
We are what we are
Everyone one of us
But it's OK
But it's all right
But it's OK
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10. _ Arabian Derby
I never feard the rain
Until you turned to me
and said you'd failed again
It makes a perfect day so lame
And leads us halfway
to nowhere
And so the players
have changed
Soon we'll memorise the names
But somehow something's
never quite the same
Still we'll stake a claim,
you can count us in again
And everyone's a winner baby
Hedge your bets,
get set and maybe
We could be the first
to cross the line
Get up, get set, get ready
get high, get low, get even
'Cos we're living
in inimitable style
Chasing the ultimate prize
You'd make a fine millionaire
It's only natural to celebrate
But someone's got to
be there to pay
And we never get there
So take some time on our own
We burn enough alone
Close but still not fully grown
Pulling marrow from a bone
But there's no turning back,
so count us in again
And everyone's a winner baby
Hedge your bets,
get set and maybe
We could be the first
to cross the line
Everyone's a winner baby
Everyone's a winner baby
Going back to the old house
the Marigolds just go to show
that some of us should
never have left home
But see I'm still counting
Another flash in the pan
A cheap and instant forming tan
it seems to grown on me
Taking inches from a mile (No change there)
But I'm all for throwing
it on the line
'Cos everyone's a winner baby
Hedge your bets,
get set and maybe
We could be the first
to cross the line
Get up, get set, get ready
get high, get low, get even
'Cos we're living
in inimitable style
Chasing the ultimate prize
Oh everyone's a winner baby (baby)
Oh Everyone's a winner baby (baby)
Everyone's a winner baby (baby)
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11. _ The Mother of Misogyny
Did you find that some
Autumn day
Your life was in disarray
forlorn for good
Did you do what your
parents done ?
Find some mad equillibrium
Now I can say honestly,
you're a masculine travesty
For-warned is for-armed
Your purple patch came
and went
All those love letters never sent
He was the mother
of misogyny, mother of
Mother of m-i-s-o-g-y-n-y,
misogyny
Mother of, mother
of misogyny, misogyny
You're so much a part of me
It's lifes greatest tragedy
Unarmed and undone
Still you do what you
always done
Find some mild equillibrium
He was the mother
of misogyny, mother of
Mother of m-i-s-o-g-y-n-y,
misogyny
Mother of, mother
of misogyny, misogyny
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12. _ Stone by Stone
You always her the shouts
from my battalion
I send toy soldiers out to
help me stand
And when I see you hide
behind these curtain folds
I cross the room to turn the
lights down low
On common ground
we'll build our castle walls
We'll build them stone
by stone and how
With more and more
you know it won't take long
Where it burned orange
let it burn gold
I wouldn't like to learn
a lesson everyday
Good times, bad times,
it's just the price to pay
But given half the chance
of turning back the tide
I'll stay at home and keep
my boys in line
On common ground
we'll build our castle walls
We'll build them stone
by stone and how
With more and more
you know it won't take long
Where it burned orange
let it burn gold
And given half the chance
To turn the hands of time
I'm always the bridesmaid
Couldn't live with myself
if I tried to be the bride
On common ground
we'll build our castle walls
We'll build them stone
by stone and how
With more and more
you know it won't take long
Where it burned orange
let it burn gold
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13. _ Is Everybody Here On Drugs ?
She takes her happy pills
They keep her happy
Is everybody here on drugs ?
Mad cows like bumble bees
With chemistry degrees
Is everybody here on drugs ?
Here on drugs
Here on drugs
The Uberlords did stop the flow
No snow, no show, bad scene
The Uberlords when they see fit
Will give our lives new meaning
Spin doctor aim for free
Lest we speak honestly
Is everybody here on drugs ?
Here on drugs
Here on drugs
The Uberlords did stop the flow
No snow, no show, bad scene
Uppers, downers you
don't hang around us
We'll give our lives no meaning
Don't need your poison,
me I'll dig the melancholy
Is everybody here...
Uppers, downers you
don't hang around us
We'll give our lives no meaning
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