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Xiu Xiu | Save Me Save Me | /x/xiu+xiu/save+me+save+me_20533357.html | Though this is all you'll ever get
It would be a strange delight
No eyes no nose no mind
The grey light of Porto stay with you
Oh how can you love a tiny bug impressed
By the night when you cut yourself?
Save me save me
Your body rotten as the last melon on the vine
Pull your shirt down save me save me
Press my thumb onto your tongue
Hand a knife up to me
No mouth no neck no rest
The white poem of self hate stays with you
Even though you know a chance to cut
Is still a chance to cure
Pull your legs apart
Save me save me
Your body doomed as the last apple on the tree
So let me hurt you.
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Xiu Xiu | Suha | /x/xiu+xiu/suha_20533356.html | Black lung got you down tonight
Saving it all for work
Suha pins her arms to her side
Watching her twin want to die
I hate my body, I hate the desert
Please, let me escape
When will I be going home?
I hate my husband, I hate my childeren
I'm going to hang myself
When will I be going home?
Black hair got you down tonight
Black love, black cuts from your work
Weep like the busted girl you are
Wash down your hope in that car
My name is Suha, I'm 25 years old
I'm going to hump a cop
When will I be going home?
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Xiu Xiu | The Pineapple Vs. The Watermelon | /x/xiu+xiu/the+pineapple+vs+the+watermelon_20533346.html | Can I pray for your return?
The bird I am looking for is not in me
It is you
It's so clear you missed it
What we saw in you
Green like flame
someone felt something pure
And told it all to you
That was why you killed yourself
To prove it wasn't true
say hello to Cory's mom
Say hello to Freddy's mom
Say hello to Ryan's mom
we're all and have been
On your side
What is worse for you to bear?
it's obscene
Why you missed
What they saw in you
Grey like flame
can I pray for your return?
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Xiu Xiu | Vulture Piano | /x/xiu+xiu/vulture+piano_20533344.html | I'm ready to go,
It's creeping along.
A deep lack of guilt,
And fool's sense of love.
You can say it's nothing,
You can claim there's no-one to hide.
You could be respectable and keep it to yourself,
Cause we know that she was the best that you've had.
Yes I know, she was the best that you've had.
Greased and unclean,
A hiss laid by God.
A duped bridle hole,
And a boyhood slipping in Blood.
You can say it's nothing,
You can claim there's no-one to hide.
You could be respectable and keep it to yourself at least,
Cause we know that she was the best that you've had.
Yes I know, she was the best that you've had.
V you L T you are E - P I A N O!!
You can say it's nothing,
You can claim there's no-one to hide.
You could be respectable and keep it to yourself at least,
Cause we know that she was the best that you've had.
Yes I know, she was the best that you've had.
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Xiu Xiu | Yellow Raspberry | /x/xiu+xiu/yellow+raspberry_20533335.html | No one will eat him
A yellow raspberry
Perched on top of the thorn bush
Up high and ugly
Up high and weird
This minute 20 years ago
Your hair looked just as bad
Talking nonstop to a little rubber pixie
What has changed when you tell
Your doll hello?
More indignant, less recognizable
You became a bag lady's son
Beating off non stop
To the escort pages
What has changed when you tell
The cross hello?
You left with some money
More self righteous, less hopeful
Up high and ugly up high and ZORP
This minute 20 seconds ago
Your face looks just as dumb
Singing nonsense to your voice mail
What has changed as you tell
Your cactus hello?
More fixated, less relief
You became a faggot
Dressed like a bunny
Beating off nonostop
To the escort pages
What has changed as you tell
The mirror hello?
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Xscape | All I Need | /x/xscape/all+i+need_20147660.html | Can't you see your love is all I need,
Without you I'm nothing so please don't ever leave.
Baby, I think you should take the time alone,
To sort out your feelings and be sure you're not going wrong, no.
You see, I know you hear many things that make you cry,
But our love is too strong to be ruined by a lie.
Can't you see your love is all I need,
Without you I'm nothing so please don't ever leave.
Now tell me how I could ever live without you,
I can't live without you,
If you left me now I don't know what I would do.
I've never known anyone who could love me like you do,
You mean the world to me and I feel I mean as much to you.
Can't you see your love is all I need,
Without you I'm nothing so please don't ever leave.
I've never known anyone who could love me like you do,
You mean the world to me and I feel I mean as much to you.
Can't you see your love is all I need,
Without you I'm nothing so please don't ever leave.
Can't you see your love is all I need,
Without you I'm nothing so please don't ever leave.
No I just can't live without you,
Can't live without your love,
So baby please don't leave.
You should take some time to realise,
You're the only one I'm thinking of.
Baby please don't leave,
Thought our love was too strong to fall,
I need you baby so please don't go.
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Xscape | Am I Dreamin' | /x/xscape/am+i+dreamin+feat+keith+sweat_20253470.html | Am I dreaming, baby,
Are you for real?
Verse One:
(Ol' Skool):
Things are kind of hazy,
And my head's all cloudy inside.
Now I've heard talk of angels, baby,
But never thought I would have one to call mine.
(Tiny):
See you are just too good to be true,
And I hope, there's not some kind of mirage,
With you, oh baby.
Chorus:
Am I dreamin',
Am I just imagining you're here in my life?
Am I dreamin',
Pinch me to see if it's real,
Cause my mind can't decide.
Verse Two:
(Ol' Skool): Will this last for one night,
(Kandi): Or do I have you for a lifetime?
(Ol' Skool): Please say that it's forever,
And that it's not an illusion to my eye.
(LaTocha):
And I hope that you just don't up and disappear,
My love, I pray,
That it's not a hoax, and it's for real, oh.
Repeat Chorus
Bridge:
(Ol' Skool): Baby I know,
Sometime, say that sometime,
I need you to show me girl.
Show me that you're not a mirage,
(LaTocha): Oh baby, I need you, I need you, I need you.
Oh, I need you to pinch me, baby.
(Ol' Skool): I need you to pinch me baby,
Am I dreamin baby?
Repeat Chorus
Break:
(Ol' Skool): My mind can't decide, no no,
(LaTocha): Oh, baby,
Touch me baby, feel me baby.
(Ol' Skool): I want to know if you'll be right there,
(LaTocha): Oh oh oh...
(Ol' Skool): I want to know if you'll be right there,
Tell me this is not an illusion.
(LaTocha): Touch me baby, I want you to feel me baby,
(Ol' Skool): Somebody let me know,
I want to know if you'll be right there,
If it's real,
This is not a mirage, no.
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Xscape | Can't Hang | /x/xscape/cant+hang_20147645.html | Let's get down
Let's get down
You claim you've been waiting
With no game
Just anticipating
How it would be
If you and I were in the sack
But to me
You look like you wouldn't know how to act
I need someone to hold me
(All night long)
It must be you my darling
(Am I wrong)
It ain't a damn thing baby
Show me what you can bring
Cause some try to swing but they still can't hang
You and me, let's get down
Even though you claim that you've been around
I betcha can't hang
I betcha can't hang
You and me, let's get down
Even though you claim that you've been around
I betcha can't hang
I betcha can't hang
You claim you can do this this and that
Ain't no shame in my game
If it's wack I gotta tell you that
So you betta be
(Up on your down stroke)
(You gotta know how to keep this boat afloat)
Cause in my mind think your gonna slip baby
I need someone to hold me
(All night long)
It must be you my darling
(Am I wrong)
It ain't a damn thing baby
Show me what you can bring
Cause some try to swing
But they still can't hang!
You and me, let's get down
Even though you claim that you've been around
I betcha can't hang
I betcha can't hang
You and me, let's get down
Even though you claim that you've been around
I betcha can't hang
I betcha can't hang
You talk alot of this
And you talk alot of that
Is it all fact
Brotha man are you Phat
Cause if it's on the real
I come with mad sex appeal
Flip light delicous
You know the deal
Hey that's me
I be the chic
The one with the physique
I freak you in the sheets
I take a nigga deep down under
I make him wonder
How to make the lighting come before the thunder
That's the pleasure I bring
I make a nigga get up and sing:
Tinga linga ling ling
I got the pow
Da boogie and the bang bang
You can't hang don't talk da game
You and me, let's get down
Even though you claim that you've been around
I betcha can't hang
I betcha can't hang
You and me, let's get down
Even though you claim that you've been around
I betcha can't hang
I betcha can't hang
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Xscape | Christmas Without You | /x/xscape/christmas+without+you_20147677.html | [Verse One (Tamika):]
The snow is falling like I knew it would,
Carolers are already singing.
Last year is all that I can think about,
Everytime I hear sleigh bells ringing.
[Bridge (Tamika):]
But I know,
That when summer came I pushed you away,
I should have never let you go, no
Now all I'm really trying to say is...
[Chorus:]
I want you to come home,
I know that there won't be a christmas without you,
I miss you so much.
You're all that I want,
I know that there won't be a christmas without you,
I miss you, come home.
[Verse Two (Kandi):]
I remember all the love we made,
I miss your stocking on the fireplace.
Underneath the mistletoe we stayed,
Twas a very special holiday.
[Repeat Bridge (Tiny)]
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse Three (LaTocha):]
There's a fire that's still burning in my heart tonight,
There's no reason why we both should be alone.
It's the night before Christmas,
And I'm waiting here for you to come home, come home.
[Repeat Chorus to fade]
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Xscape | Do You Want To | /x/xscape/do+you+want+to_20147678.html | Hey baby, I want to know one thing.
Do you want me as much as I want you?
Say you do
Never should have kissed you
Never made that call
I told myself
In love I shouldn't fall
Would've been a pleasure just to know your name
Oh, look at me, silly me, now I'm back in love again
And there's nothing you can tell me
Nothing you can do
I just hope that you're in love with me
The way that I'm in love with you
[Chorus: x2]
Do you want to
Like I want to be in love with you
Say you do
Do you want to
Like I want
I want to make love to you
Say you do
Never understand it
Love that takes control
Oh, I asked myself
Girl should you let it go?
That would be to crazy
Love without you
Hate to think
Happily that you won't be around
Now there's nothing you can tell me
Nothing you can say
Promise me you'll stay with me
Until my dying day
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Xscape | Feels So Good | /x/xscape/feels+so+good_20147649.html | Uh Uh Uh Uh
Yeah
Shit
Yo
This Xscape
For the 9-5
You know how they do
So lay back kick it
And let's get live
Ladies, how often do you have
A man that makes you wanna cry
A man that makes you wanna laugh
Sistas
Well I think I've found the one
That does everything I lke
And knows how to get the job done
He makes me
Clap my hands
Stomp my feet
Every little thing that you do to me
Feels so good
Feels so good
Clap my hands
Stomp my feet
Every little thing that you do to me
Feels so good
Feels so good
Ladies
Never have I felt this way before
He makes me feel so good
He keeps me wanting more
He makes me feel
So good So good
From my head to my toes
All the things that this man does
Everyone should know
And I
Don't ever wanna lose this feeling
His love is real
I'm willing to stay right by his side
Cause I know he'll always be mine
The way he touch me
Makes me lose my control
And when you have a man like that
Love dictates your soul
He makes me Yeah
Clap my hands
Stomp my feet
Every little thing that you do to me
Feels so good
Feels so good
Clap my hands
Stomp my feet
Every little thing that you do to me
Feels so good
Feels so good
This is for those that like to pop the trunk and let it bump
Bump, Bump
This is for those that like to pop the trunk and let it bump
Bump, Bump
This is for those that like to pop the trunk and let it bump
Bump, Bump
This is for those that like to pop the trunk and let it bump
Bump, Bump
Clap my hands
Stomp my feet
Every little thing that you do to me
Feels so good
Feels so good
Clap my hands
Stomp my feet
Every little thing that you do to me
Feels so good
Feels so good
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Xscape | Hard To Say Goodbye | /x/xscape/hard+to+say+goodbye_20147650.html | Time has been short since you left me,
So I can't help but think,
Of how things between us used to be.
You were a piece of my heart,
And I thought we were swell,
Until you told me you were leaving,
To find a better life for yourself.
Oh I...
I wish we were together again,
Loving the way we used to love,
Boy I miss you much.
I wish we were together again,
Oh how I'm missing you,
It's so hard for me to say goodbye.
You know that I love you,
And for you there ain't nothing in this world,
That I won't do.
If you would only come back to me,
And let me show you how loving me could be.
I, I've got feelings,
But you act like you don't care,
You treat me so unfair.
Love has no meaning,
Since you walked right out my life.
You've touched a part of me,
Can't you see that I'm in need of you?
I wish we were together again,
Loving the way we used to love,
Boy I miss you much.
I wish we were together again,
Oh how I'm missing you,
It's so hard for me to say goodbye.
I wish we were together again,
Loving the way we used to love,
Boy I miss you much.
I wish we were together again,
Oh how I'm missing you,
It's so hard for me to say goodbye.
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Xscape | Hip Hop Barber Shop Request Line | /x/xscape/hip+hop+barber+shop+request+line_20217500.html | Word up hey
Word up hey
For real doh
Hey this is skitle rock
From the hip-hop barber shop
And once again that was a dedication
Sending out to all my partners percalating in the windy city
What's up on ya mind
Who's on the request line
Tell me your name and wear your calling from
Yo what's up skitle rock
This is Shaquera
Calling from college park
And I want to dedicate
Do you want to by Xscape
To a nigga I was wit last night
He know who he is
Oh no, A I hope you was checking in
I hope you know who you be
That persons you was wit last night
But that was Shaquera
Sending out a dedication
People please pick up the phone call skitle rock's request line
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Xscape | How Do You Love Someone? | /x/xscape/how+do+you+love+someone_20147680.html | [Chorus]
How do you love someone,
Who really cares?
How do you love someone,
Who's always there?
When you feel like going further,
Will end up hurting each other.
So how do you love someone,
Who's a friend so dear?
Feeling so alone,
Calling you, please be at home.
Baby where you go,
I wish that I knew, but I don't.
And there are feelings of love,
That I feel inside for you.
I want to tell you tonight,
But what if you don't feel the way I do.
And I know what love can do,
When the arrow points at you,
But I'm so afraid to trust.
[Chorus]
The clock strikes nine,
I'm hoping you'll be on time.
So hard to cross that line,
That holds us to the right time.
'Cause everything feels wrong,
And I can't go on, like this.
I've got to tell you tonight,
I want you to tell me more what this feeling is.
'Cause I know what love can do,
When the arrow points at you,
Even though I'm afraid to love.
[Chorus]
I know you love me,
Now my feelings just won't take on someone new.
Look at my eyes and say the words,
That make me wonder what to do.
And I still believe that the angels are watching us,
Oh I believe that you and me will be a plus,
For ever and ever.
[Chorus until fade]
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Xscape | Is My Living In Vain? | /x/xscape/is+my+living+in+vain_20147637.html | Is my living in vain?
Is my giving in vain?
Is my singing in vain?
Is my praying in vain?
No, of course not.
It's not all in vain,
Because up the road is eternal gain.
Am I wasting my time?
Can the clock be rewind?
Have I let my light shine?
Have I made ninety nine?
No, of course not.
No, of course not.
No, of course not.
No, of course not.
It's not all in vain,
Because up the road is eternal gain.
No, of course not.
No, of course not.
No, of course not.
No, of course not.
It's not all in vain,
Because up the road is eternal gain.
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Xscape | Keep It On The Real | /x/xscape/keep+it+on+the+real_20147652.html | No no,
Tell me, tell me.
Keep it on the real,
(the real, the real, the real, the real, the real, the real, the real).
Trust is something that we can't live without,
Honesty must be there, ain't got no room for no doubt.
Reality can't waste no more of our precious time,
Trying to escape the pressures of our mind.
I don't ask for much, no no,
Baby if you want me you gotta tell me something, yeah.
All I want from you is just to keep it comin',
Keep it on the real.
(the real, the real, the real, the real, the real, the real, the real)
Faithfully I'll give my loving to you,
Soulfully our spirits will make it through.
Respect me baby and I'll respect you,
What more can two lovers do?
I don't ask for much, no no,
Baby if you want me you gotta tell me something, yeah.
All I want from you is just to keep it comin',
Keep it on the real.
(the real, the real, the real, the real, the real, the real, the real)
I don't ask for much, no no,
Baby if you want me you gotta tell me something, yeah.
All I want from you is just to keep it comin',
Keep it on the real.
(the real, the real, the real, the real, the real, the real, the real)
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Xscape | Let Me Know | /x/xscape/let+me+know_20147639.html | I got something for you,
And I think you're sexy,
And if you want me let me know.
You ain't gotta spend no money,
Just a little time with me honey,
That will let me know you love me so.
There are so many things,
That I want to talk to you about.
Like do you want me, do you love me,
'Cause I have my doubts.
I have a funny feeling,
That you want me around for just one thing,
To push your little ego,
With the knowledge that I bring.
I got something for you,
And I think you're sexy,
And if you want me let me know.
You ain't gotta spend no money,
Just a little time with me honey,
That will let me know you love me so.
You know that I want you,
And I made it very clear.
I would never ever hurt you,
I'd never let you shed a tear.
The only thing I want to know,
Do you feel the love for me.
I'm not gonna keep on waiting,
That's not how it's gonna be,
You got to...
Let me know,
I never knew that love could ever have me slipping.
Let me know,
I sit in my room thinking of you at night trippin'.
Let me know,
I never knew I would ever get caught caking.
Let me know,
And no man would ever have me shaky.
I got something for you,
And I think you're sexy,
And if you want me let me know.
You ain't gotta spend no money,
Just a little time with me honey,
That will let me know you love me so.
I got something for you,
And I think you're sexy,
And if you want me let me know.
You ain't gotta spend no money,
Just a little time with me honey,
That will let me know you love me so.
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Xscape | Let's Do It Again | /x/xscape/lets+do+it+again_20147682.html | Uh, star struck hoes beg me to connect with em
'Cause I look correct with em and knows how to sex them
Houses on two acre lakes in the Peach State
Eat steak and lobster, steady tryin to prosper
Build up my roster like the ol Motown
Too much to hold down and the whole world know now
I demonstrate stackin' paint platinum tapes
And bustin that ass with groups like XSCAPE
What the deal? Uhh
I want to see if you can get down
Get down like you say you do
In the midnight when I want to feel right
All I think about is you
Put me in a fly position
Make me want to scream your name
And just when you think I've had enough
I'm like baby do you think we can do it again?
[Chorus: x2]
'Cause everytime you show me that
And every which way that you throw my back
I just can't get enough
I find myself sayin "let's do it again, let's do it again"
Tingle tingle my body
You make me oohh baby
I ain't been the same since then
That night when you put me in a fly position
You made me scream your name
You can say I'm sprung out, I don't give a damn
I want to do it again and again and again
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
When we made love for the first time
It felt so good inside
I laid across my bed and watched tears run from my eyes
Too good to let it go
So don't disturb this flow
All I know is I can't wait
Can't wait to do it again
[Chorus]
(In the morning) 'cause everytime you show me that
(Sweet love in the summertime) and every which way that you throw my back
(Just your sweet face) I just can't get enough
(all laid up next to mine) I find myself sayin "Let's do it again, let's do it
again"
'Cause everytime you show me that (Let's do it again)
And every which way that you throw my back (again, again)
I just can't get enough
I find myself sayin "let's do it again, let's do it again"
Let's do it, do it, do it, do it, do it again
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Xscape | Love On My Mind | /x/xscape/love+on+my+mind_20147640.html | Boy, I can't wait to get you alone inside my house
'cause, baby, it's you and only you that I keep on thinking about.
I know what you wanted , how good my love could be.
Tonight you'll get the answer.
I'll satisfy your curiosity.
Take me away, in ecstasy.
I wanna know how it feels to be loved, yeah.
Boy, take the time 'cause I have all night.
I'm gonna show you what I 've been thinking of.
I got love on my mind.
I know I should wait, but tonight feels right.
I think it's about that time.
I got love on my mind and I'm in the mood
to be moved and do all the things you want me to.
I've been watching you and thinking to myself
you're looking so, so def to me and I'm feeling so sexy.
You know I never felt this way before.
I really can't help myself 'cause I'm thinking of nothing else.
Take me away, in ecstasy.
I wanna know how it feels to be loved, yeah.
Boy, take the time 'cause I have all night.
I'm gonna shoe you what I 've been thinking of.
I got love on my mind.
I know I should wait, but tonight feels right.
I think it's about that time.
I got love on my mind and I'm in the mood
to be moved and do all the things you want me to.
I got love on my mind.
I know I should wait, but tonight feels right.
I think it's about that time.
I got love on my mind and I'm in the mood
to be moved and do all the things you want me to.
Take me away, in ecstasy.
I wanna know how it feels to be loved, yeah.
Boy, take the time 'cause I have all night.
I'm gonna shoe you what I 've been thinking of.
I got love on my mind.
I know I should wait, but tonight feels right.
I think it's about that time.
I got love on my mind and I'm in the mood
to be moved and do all the things you want me to.
I got love on my mind.
I got love on my mind.
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Xscape | Love's A Funny Thing | /x/xscape/loves+a+funny+thing_20147653.html | Shoop be doop
Shoop be doop doop dah
Shoop be doop
Love's a funny thing
Was only last night I felt you slip away,
I tried so hard to hide the pain inside of me babe.
I held you close but you weren't with me,
I felt your mind a thousand miles away.
I was a fool to let you break me down,
You think by now that I would know,
Just what to expect from you, oh.
Everytime I fall, I make myself believe,
That you are changing,
And some day, the sun will shine through.
Love is a funny thing,
Your love is a funny thing,
Love is a funny thing,
Oooh.
(I don't wanna fall, don't wanna fall in love again)
When I first met you your heart was empty,
You were innocent and so full of joy.
But now you've changed and I don't know you,
You played me baby like a toy.
You see, I was surprised to see you with that girl,
When you said you'd never ever ever ever see her again, no.
I don't want to control you, so baby if she's gonna hold you,
Then why don't you just stay, stay where you've been.
Love is a funny thing,
Your love is a funny thing,
Love is a funny thing,
Oooh.
(I never never wanna fall again, no no no)
Everybody needs someone to hold them through the night,
And everybody needs someone to tell them it's alright.
I gave you my heart and you only turned away,
So tell me baby, what's going to make you stay.
Love is a funny thing,
Your love is a funny thing,
Love is a funny thing,
Oooh.
(I never ever want to fall in love again)
Shoop be doop
Shoop be doop doop dah
Shoop be doop
Love's a funny thing
Shoop be doop
Shoop be doop doop dah
Shoop be doop
Love's a funny thing
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Xscape | Pumpin' | /x/xscape/pumpin_20147641.html | Chorus:
You gotta keep it pumpin'. (x4)
Verse One (Tamika):
I went out looking for a good place,
But everywhere I went was dull.
I went here, and I went there,
But I never found the stuff.
But then I met this boy that said
He had the perfect place,
That I would just love, yeah.
He took me in,
Ooh, let me tell you girlfriend,
The place was jumping,
And it was sho 'nuff pumpin'.
Repeat Chorus
Verse Two (Kandi):
I found my spot,
Nothing about the place seemed dull.
And the stuff I was looking for,
I found the stuff.
The sound was hot, like I never heard before,
The bass was booming,
There were people all over the dance floor.
Then I met another guy,
And he asked me would I like to dance,
He showed me steps I never seen before.
I walked in,
Ooh, let me tell you girlfriend,
The place was jumping,
And it was sho 'nuff pumpin'.
Repeat Chorus
That's the way I like it,
I like it when it's pumpin'.
(repeat x4)
Outro by JD:
If you got a groove that you like and you like it a lot,
Pump it up, pump it up.
You know the place with the bass,
In the neighbourhood hot spot,
Pump it up, pump it up.
To the girl in the blue,
Tell me what 'cha gonna do,
Pump it up, pump it up.
And to the negro in red tell me what I said,
Pump it up, pump it up.
Repeat Chorus to fade
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Xscape | So In Love | /x/xscape/so+in+love_10193161.html | Oooo (x5)
Verse 1:
Its been so many days
So many hours
Since we went our separate ways
And I'm still here missing you
What am I supposed to do?
When there's
So many things
That remind me of
That times that we shared
Just the two of us
I can't understand it..
Why does it have to be this way..
Tell me what..
Chorus:
Baby..what do I do..
When im..so in love with you
I could never..never ever
Love this way again say...
Ooooo(5x)
Verse 2:
Lying in the bed..
We used to share..
The only thing missing..
Is your not here..
I Reminisce on the love we made
You used to drive me crazy
When you said my name
And when you kissed me there
Ohh baby..ohhh wee baby..
Tell me what do I say?
What do I do..
When I'm still in love with you
Chorus (x2)
oooo (x5)
Bridge:
What did I do to deserve this
All I ever wanted was to make you happy
Baby tell me where did we go wrong
I need to know..where is the love (x2)
Chorus(x2)
ooo (x5)
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Xscape | The Arms Of The One Who Loves You | /x/xscape/the+arms+of+the+one+who+loves+you_20147671.html | I know that you're going
I can't make you stay
I can only let you know I love you anyway
And if the road you take leads to heart break somewhere down the line
If someone ever hurts you
Or treats your heart unkind
You just run to the arms of the one who loves you
You just run to these arms and these two arms will keep you warm
When rain has failed your heart, never fear, I'm never far
You just run to the arms of the one who loves you
I want you happy, I want the best for you
And if you have to leave to find your dream
I hope that dream comes true
But if the world you find brings you hard times, if someone makes you
cry
I'll be there to hold you, I'll be standing by
You just run to the arms of the one who loves you
You just run to these arms and these two arms will keep you warm
When rain has failed your heart, never fear, I'm never far
You just run to the arms of the one who loves you
My love is strong enough you know
Strong enough to let you go
But I always hold you inside my heart
And if you should ever change your mind
You can come back anytime
And when you do (and when you do)
You just run to the arms of the one who loves you
You just run to these arms and these two arms will keep you warm
When rain has failed your heart, never fear, I'm never far
You just run to the arms of the one who loves you
You just run to the arms of the one who loves you
You just run to these arms and these two arms will keep you warm
When rain has failed your heart, never fear, I'm never far
You just run to the arms of the one who loves you
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Xscape | The Runaround | /x/xscape/the+runaround_20147672.html | But you been sleepin' and you're creepin', babe,
But you been creepin' and you're sleepin', baby.
It's Friday night and I've been freakin' out,
900 times, I know I called your house,
So many times your momma cursed me out,
But I'm not sorry.
Saturday morning, I ain't slept at all,
I smelled her perfume and your alcohol,
They say that you and her have had a ball,
Don't you dare lie to me.
[Chorus: x2]
I know I'm gettin' the runaround,
I know that you sleep around,
So don't try and play it down,
I know you're givin' it, I know she's gettin' it.
I grabbed my keys and I jumped in my ride,
I may be hurt but I ain't gonna cry,
Just want to find out what you did last night,
Before I leave you.
I found her number and I know her name,
I gotta front this girl, make her explain,
I can't believe she dipped into my thing,
Yet she's getting over.
[Chorus]
It took a lot for me to give you all my loving, yeah,
And just to think I gave you everything for nothing.
I tried my best to satisfy you,
All the times that I stood right by you,
I think that I'll be better on my own, baby.
Oh baby,
I know your givin' it, I know she's gettin' it.
But you been sleepin' and you're creepin' babe
But you been creepin' and you're sleepin' baby
[Chorus: x2]
Now I can't believe that you did this to me,
Well, you better leave.
You go tell what's her name that it isn't a game,
Boy you messed up your thang.
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Xscape | Understanding | /x/xscape/understanding_20147643.html | What I need from you is understanding
How can we communicate
If you don't here what I say
What I need from you is understanding
So simple as 1,2,3
Understanding is what I need
You don't even know me
You just wanna do what you wanna do
That's not the way it should be no
You should listen to me, boy
I tried so very hard to make you understand
But the chooses you make
Baby they're all demands oh
I tried so very hard
To keep our love alive
But you don't wanna meet me half way
Then the understanding dies
There's no way that we can work it out
If we don't pull together
I don't mean to be demanding
I want some understanding
I wanna be with you
What I need from you is understanding
How can we communicate
If you don't here what I say
What I need from you is understanding
So simple as 1,2,3
Understanding is what I need
I listen to you baby
And I know the things your going through
I try to understand,
That's why i'm still with you baby
See everyday we're living
There's one thing that'll always be unsure
That's why I need you baby, pleading baby
Please let our love endure
I tried so very hard
To keep our love alive
But you don't wanna meet me half way
Then the understanding dies
There's no way that we can work it out
If we don't pull together
I don't mean to be demanding
I want some understanding
I wanna be with you
What I need from you is understanding
How can we communicate
If you don't here what I say
What I need from you is understanding
So simple as 1,2,3
Understanding is what I need
All I need , All I need
All need is understanding
How ow ow ow
If you don't here what I say
Can't you see baby
I tried so very hard
To keep our love alive
But you don't wanna meet me half way
Then the understanding dies
There's no way that we can work it out
If we don't pull together
I don't mean to be demanding
But I want some understanding
I wanna be with you
What I need from you is understanding
How can we communicate
If you don't here what I say
What I need from you is understanding
So simple as 1,2,3
Understanding is what I need
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Xscape | What Can I Do? | /x/xscape/what+can+i+do_20147654.html | My man done left me on a midnight train,
He said he wasn't thinking of ever coming back again.
He told me he wanted me to find somebody else,
He done left me here all by myself.
Tell me...
What can I do?
What, I'm still in love with you.
Tell me what can I do?
What, I'm still in love with you baby.
When it first started it was all good,
The things you done to me I never thought that you would.
Didn't give me a reason why it had to end,
I can't believe you left me for another ladyfriend.
You know I've been searching for someone,
Who could share that special love with me.
I thought you was the one, I gave my trust to you,
I'm such a fool, I want you back,
Tell me what am I to do?
What can I do?
What, I'm still in love with you.
Tell me what can I do?
What, I'm still in love with you baby.
I'm sitting by the phone, all alone,
Tell me what can I do, tell me, tell me...
What can I do?
What, I'm still in love with you.
Tell me what can I do?
What, I'm still in love with you baby.
What can I do?
What, I'm still in love with you.
Tell me what can I do?
What, I'm still in love with you baby.
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Xscape | Who Can I Run To? | /x/xscape/who+can+i+run+to_20147655.html | Verse One:
(LaTocha):
As I stand here contemplating,
On the right thing to decide.
Will I take the wrong direction,
All my life, where will I go,
What lies ahead of me?
(Tamika):
I have strong determination,
And I'm not afraid of change.
I have yet to find that someone,
Who would care to satisfy me,
To stay right by me.
Chorus:
Who can I run to,
To share this empty space?
Who can I run to,
When I need love?
Who can I run to,
To fill this empty space with laughter?
Who can I run to,
When I need love?
Verse Two:
(Tiny):
And my mind is so confusing,
Who would be that special one?
Everyday I'm trying to find you,
All along, I've got to know,
Is there a place for me?
(LaTocha):
I know love has many names,
And a message very clear.
All it takes is time and patience,
To bring you near,
But look at me, tell me
Repeat Chorus
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Xscape | Who's That Man? | /x/xscape/whos+that+man_20147685.html | [Chorus:]
Know, don't you want to know, don't you want to know,
Know, who's that man?
[Repeat]
[Verse One (Kandi):]
He's got a different little style than other men today,
He does his thing with a swing.
And everything you see him do is in a different way,
You never ever seen before.
[Bridge (LaTocha):]
He's not your ordinary slick uptown type of brother,
Don't think twice 'cause you'll never find another.
Because the man behind the mask,
You've never ever seen him before.
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse Two:]
[All]
He's got the flava to do his his thang,
He's got something everybody wish they had,
[Kandi]
And something tells me you don't want to make him mad,
No you don't, no you don't, no you don't.
[Repeat Bridge and Chorus]
[Repeat Chorus]
[Repeat Verse One, Bridge and Chorus]
[Repeat Chorus to fade]
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Xscape | With You | /x/xscape/with+you_20147644.html | [Chorus]
I want to spend my whole life with you,
There's nothing else better than being with you.
I want to spend my whole life, my whole life with you.
Do you remember all those precious times,
We shared back in the past.
No one knew about the things we did,
Out in the grass.
We're older now,
And we both need companionship.
So let's stop these games,
And get on with our relationship.
Ain't no second guessin' about
The way I feel when I'm with you,
It makes me feel so real.
Ain't no living without you,
'Cause you're all the man I need,
And I want you just for me.
[Chorus]
Why is it when I say I love you,
You shy away from me,
When lovin's all I want to do?
Even though we've never been,
More than just friends,
There's no reason
We should have to let our feelings end.
Ain't no second guessin' about
The way I feel when I'm with you,
It makes me feel so real.
Ain't no living without you,
'Cause you're all the man I need,
And I want you just for me.
[Chorus]
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Xscape | Work Me Slow | /x/xscape/work+me+slow_20147656.html | Play me some music, and pour me some wine.
I'm in the mood now, I got love on my mind.
I want you to know, that I like it real slow.
And whenever your ready, you can slide off my clothes.
And touch my body, anywhere,
I'm yours tonight, make it right,
Baby just take me there.
[Chorus]
Take your time and work me slowly (work it),
Cause I'm the kind of girl,
Who needs the kind of guy,
That can last, (work it).
Don't need a man around,
If he's throwin' down too fast,
You gotta work me slowly.
Now change your position, and keep it right there.
Just go with my motions, rub you hands through my hair.
I hope you don't mind it, if I let out a scream,
Cause it's feeling to good to me, it's more than I dreamed.
It's more than pleasure, it's ecstasy,
Up and down, round and round,
Baby just come with me, take your time.
[Chorus]
Then in the morning,
We'll do it all over again,
(do it all over again)
I don't want this feeling to never end.
I can't believe how your loving me,
You give me all,
I can't believe your still stroking me,
Cause baby your taking it all.
[Chorus]
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Xscape | Your Eyes | /x/xscape/your+eyes_10193136.html | You're not in control when there's demands put on your heart.
You don't even know, cause when it's real you fall too hard.
And yet even so, you try to play like nothing's wrong,
No you can't run away, there is no hiding place,
'Cause you can't run from your heart.
[Chorus]
Your eyes they tell me secrets that you, you can't deny.
Your eyes they show me feelings that you hold deep inside.
How do I know the secrets that you try to hide?
'Cause when I look in your eyes, the truth is alive,
I knew you'd be mine.
So now that it's on, it's time to face reality,
It's time to be strong, take all your insecurities, baby.
Don't be afraid, you gotta let your feelings flow,
No you can't run away, there is no hiding place,
You gotta be true to your heart.
[Chorus]
Now that you're all turned out,
Don't you just love the way that it feels?
Now you can't do without my love,
And you know that's for real.
Now why you deny yourself,
I will never never never understand,
Because I love you and you love me too,
And that's just the way that it is yeah.
[Chorus]
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XTC | 1000 Umbrellas | /x/xtc/1000+umbrellas_20147802.html | One thousand umbrellas
Upturned couldn't catch all the rain
That drained out of my head
When you said we were
Over and over I cried
'Til I floated downstream
To a town they call
Misery oh oh misery
Misery oh oh misery
And one million teacups
I bet couldn't hold all the wet
That fell out of my eyes
When you fell out with me
Now I'm crawling the wallpaper
That's looking more like a road map
To misery oh oh misery
How can you smile and forecast
Weather's getting better
And you'll soon forget her
If you let the sunshine come through
How can you smile and forecast
Weather's getting better
If you never let a girl rain all over you
And just when I thought that my vista was golden in hue
One thousand umbrellas opened to spoil the view
One billion salt seas
Recalled from school atlas
Alas would be filled to the brim
Sunny Jim couldn't jump it
How can I be pleased
When I'm handed the keys
To a town they call Misery
Oh oh Misery
So with a mop and a bucket
I'll just say forget her
And carry on sweeping up
Where I've been weeping
The Jesters will creep in
To strike down the newly crowned Monarch
Of Misery oh oh Misery
How can you smile and forecast
Weather's getting better
And you'll soon forget her
If you let the sunshine come through
How can you smile and forecast
Weather's getting better
If you never let a girl rain all over you
Just when I thought that my skies were a June, July blue
One thousand umbrellas opened
Two thousand umbrellas opened
Ten thousand umbrellas opened to spoil the view
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XTC | 25 O'clock | /x/xtc/25+oclock_20147828.html | The urge to take you grows more strong
For time had made me wait too long
Each watch I smash apart
Just adding to my power
Each watch I smash apart
Just bringing near the hour
Of twenty-five o'clock - that's when you're going to be mine
Twenty-five o'clock, we'll be together till the end of time
At twenty-five o'clock
The ticking seconds - hear them call
My spell of hours will make you fall
Each timer that I break
Will halt the flowing sands
Each timer that I break
Will put you in my hands
At twenty-five o'clock - that's when you're going to be mine
Twenty-five o'clock, we'll be together till the end of time
At twenty-five o'clock
Each watch I smash apart
Just adding to my power
Each watch I smash apart
Just bringing near the hour
Of twenty-five o'clock
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XTC | Across This Antheap | /x/xtc/across+this+antheap_20147787.html | Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers,
Nurses, queens and drones.
Wish they'd leave my head tonight,
Let me rest my bones.
(Ziggedy zig zag just look at 'em. Ziggedy zag, hey hey)
A billion feet sound just like a billion drums.
A bed is creaking as the messiah comes.
The cars are crashing and the bacon is hacked.
The coffin's lowered and the lunches get packed.
Still segregating 'cause we insects are too proud.
Doesn't matter what colour of cat you are there's no dogs allowed.
And the screaming sky won't let me sleep.
The stars are laughing at us,
As we crawl on and on across this antheap.
War planes go over but no wages go 'round.
A sign goes up to say hey we're twin towned.
The dough is rising but no bread will be baked.
The fur is genuine but the orgasm's faked.
We're spending millions to learn to speak porpoise,
When human loneliness is still a deafening noise.
And the screaming sky won't let me sleep.
The stars are laughing at us,
As we crawl on and on across this antheap.
Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers,
Nurses, queens and drones.
Wish they'd leave my head tonight,
And let me rest my bones.
And all the world's babies are crying still.
While all the police cars harmonize with power drills.
As jets and kettles form a chord with screeching gulls.
Accompanied by truncheons keeping time on human skulls.
And the screaming sky won't let me sleep.
The stars are laughing at us,
As we crawl on and on past lovers who'll leap.
On and on past widows who'll weep.
On and on no more than skin deep.
On and on across this antheap.
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XTC | All You Pretty Girls | /x/xtc/all+you+pretty+girls_20147817.html | Do something for me, boys
If I should die at sea, boys
Write a little note, boys
Set it off afloat, saying
Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls
Village and city girls by the quayside
Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls
Watching and waiting by the sea
Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls
Quiet or witty girls by the quayside
Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls
Watching and waiting by the sea
I think about your pale arms waving
When I see the caps upon the green
And the rocking roller-coaster ocean
Think about you every night when I'm fathoms asleep
And in my dreams
We are rocking in a similar motion
I think about the salt sea rolling
Down in pearly tears upon your cheeks
Just like the day the harbor pulled away
I think about your warm white sheets unfolding
The more I have to drink
The more that I can think to say
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XTC | Ball And Chain | /x/xtc/ball+chain_20147939.html | Save us from the ball and chain,
Save us from the ball and chain,
Save us from the ball and chain,
Oh yeah,
The diggers and the tower cranes,
The diggers and the tower cranes.
Don't want demolition,
Don't want your compensation,
It's not just bricks and mortar,
We are lambs to slaughter.
Save us from the ball and chain,
Save us from the ball and chain,
Save us from the ball and chain,
Oh yeah,
The diggers and the tower cranes,
The diggers and the tower cranes.
Must we live in fear,
From those who shed no tears?
Our one and only shelter,
Your games, your helter skelter.
Motorways and office blocks,
They're standing on the spot
Where stood a home,
Crushing on the memories of people,
Who have since turned to stone.
(Ahh)
They've turned to stone,
(Ahh)
They've turned to stone.
Save us from the ball and chain,
Save us from the ball and chain,
Save us from the ball and chain,
Oh yeah,
The diggers and the tower cranes,
The diggers and the tower cranes.
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XTC | Beating Of Hearts | /x/xtc/beating+of+hearts_20147760.html | Do you know what noise awakes you
Every morning from your bed
A-coming from the farthest hillside
A-coming from inside your head
You have heard
You have heard the loudest sound
In this and every world you can think of
[Chorus:]
Louder than tanks on the highway
Louder than bombers in flight
Louder than noises of hatred
Dancing us from darkest night is the rhythm of love
Powered on the the beating of hearts
And did you know you had this power?
Drumming on it always stays
Never try to use it badly
Tunes of good are all it plays
You have heard
You have heard the loudest sound
In this and every world you can visit
[Chorus]
For a heart without love is a song with no words
And a tune to which no-one is listening
So your heart must give love and you'll find that
You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening
You have heard
You have heard the loudest sound
In this and every world you can think of
Louder than thoughts of dictators
Louder than rattling swords
Louder than loading of rifles
Louder than screaming warlords
[Chorus]
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XTC | Beatown | /x/xtc/beatown_20147738.html | Beatown
I spoke to your boss this morning
He asked why you weren't home?
I said sir they left without warning
You won't even get them on the telephone
They're in Beatown, it's a capital city and all roads lead to
Beatown, beatown
I spoke to your owner this lunchtime
He asked why you weren't home?
I said they thought it was hunchtime
You won't even see them standing on their own
Beatown, it's a capital city and all roads lead to
Beatown, beatown
He says he wants his money back sir
He says you're all communists sir
I said they beat you fair and square sir
They use the head, and not the fist
Beatown, beatown
Beatown
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XTC | Blue Overall | /x/xtc/blue+overall_20147836.html | Blue overall
Overall the rooftops blue birds fly apart
Blue overall
Overall the bones that cage this stupid heart
Got blues drawing crosses on my front door
Blues a'bringing buckets 'round the back
Blues trying to push me from me white fence
And tar me a darker bluey black
For all this time
I really thought you loved me
For all this time
You only rubber gloved me
Blue overall
Overall my anvil gives no further sparks
Blue overall
Overall my fears swim hammer headed sharks
Got blues drinking beer out in the kitchen
Blue dog is barking to be fed
Got blues spilling wine upon me heartrug
They're holding a party in my head
For all this time
I really thought you loved me
For all this time
You merely went and shoved me
I tried to lose myself in labour
The more I push the mirth
I'm giving birth to a baby's turning
Blue overall
Feeling blue overall
All over I'm turning blue
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XTC | Boarded Up | /x/xtc/boarded+up_20147958.html | Boarded up
Yeah, we're boarded up
Nailed up shut
Yeah, we're boarded up
Music venue has had its day
Death watch beetle band moved in to play
Groups don't come down from London way
Cause we're boarded up
Yeah, we're nailed up shut
Two-by-four-ded up
Yeah, we're boarded up
Touring companies stay away
Rats and mice take the center stage
Carpenter's mate have a field day
Boarded up
Yeah, we're nailed up shut
[don't mind me at all]
Two-by-four-ded up
Yeah, we're boarded up
Pubs and clubs had the chop
Making way for a superstore plot
Some town planner didn't know when to stop
Boarded up
Come and see us
Boarded up
Don't wait too long, now 'cause we're
Boarding up
Yeah, boarded up
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XTC | Books Are Burning | /x/xtc/books+are+burning_20147770.html | Books are burning
In the main square, and I saw there
The first eating the text
Books are burning
In the still air
And you know where they burn books
People are next
I believe the printed word should be forgiven
Doesn't matter what it said
Wisdom hotline from the dead back to the living
Key to the larder for your heart and head
Books are burning
In our own town, watch us turn 'round
And cast our glances elsewhere
Books are burning
In the playground
Smell of burnt book is not unlike human hair
I believe the printed word is more than sacred
Beyond the gauge of good or bad
The human right to let your soul fly free and naked
Above the violence of the fearful and sad
The church of matches
Anoints in ignorance with gasoline
The church of matches
Grows fat by breathing in the smoke of dreams
It's quite obscene
Books are burning
More each day now, and I pray now
You boys will tire of these games
Books are burning
I hope somehow, this will allow
A phoenix up from the flames
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XTC | Bungalow | /x/xtc/bungalow_20147771.html | Bungalow
Bungalow
By the sea
Bungalow
In the sea air
Climbing rose
Time to spare
Luxury accommodation traps the sun
So we're working every hour that God made
So we can fly away
Saving it all up for you
Bungalow
Bungalow
Silver shore line
In the gorse
You can be mine
Standing prime position for the town
Working for this vision through our lives
So we can fly away
Saving it all up for you
Bungalow
Bungalow
You wait and see
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XTC | Cairo | /x/xtc/cairo_20147839.html | Well, let me tell you about my girlie
She goes by the name of sleepy shirley
She become a real life wiro
Since she learned how to do the cairo
And she go
Up up down down
Up up down down
She pours out the sand on the kitchen floor
Then we start to camel through the living room door
She was cool to me, but now her heart's afiro
Since she learned how to do the cairo
And she go
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XTC | Chalkhills And Children | /x/xtc/chalkhills+children_20147940.html | I'm floating over strange land,
It's a soulless, sequined, showbiz moon.
I'm floating over strange land,
And then stranger still, there's no balloon.
But I'm getting higher,
Wafted up by fame's fickle fire 'til the...
Chalkhills and children,
Anchor my feet.
Chalkhills and children,
Bringing me back to earth,
Eternally and ever Ermine Street.
(Even I never know where I go when my eyes are closed.)
I'm skating over thin ice,
Upon blunted blades of metal soft.
I'm skating over thin ice,
While some nonesuch net holds me aloft.
But I'm getting higher,
Lifted up on lucks' circus wire 'til the...
Chalkhills and children,
Anchor my feet.
Chalkhills and children,
Bringing me back to earth,
Eternally and ever Ermine Street.
Even I never know where I go when my eyes are closed.
Even I never spied that the scenes were posed.
Even I never knew this is what I'd be.
Even eyes never mean that you're sure to see.
Still I'm getting higher,
Rolling up on three empty tyres, 'til the...
Chalkhills and children,
Anchor my feet.
Chalkhills and children,
Bringing me back to earth,
Eternally and ever Ermine Street.
I'm soaring over hushed crowds,
The reluctant cannonball it seems.
I'm soaring over hushed crowds,
I'm propelled up here by long dead dreams.
Still I'm getting higher,
Icarus regrets and retires puzzled.
Chalkhills and children,
Anchor my feet.
Chalkhills and children,
Oddly complete.
(Even I never know where I go when my eyes are all closed.)
Here I go again.
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XTC | Church Of Women | /x/xtc/church+of+women_20147959.html | A lie for a lie, but a truth for the truth
Church of women is made out of milk
which their love turns to butter -er -er
Church of women will have you give praise
with a laugh, bark and stutter -er -er
Like us men like us men they are nothing like us men
Men have gargoyles 'round their hearts
I'm on my knees but dancing
Want to worship at the church of women
Breathe 'em in until my head goes spinning around
Want to worship at the church
Let me worship at the church of women
Church of women is making donations of loving and giving -ing -ing
Church of women performing that miracle raising the living -ing -ing
Like us men like us men will they ever like us men?
Men have thorns around their minds
I'm on my mountain preaching
Want to worship at the church of women
Breathe 'em in until my head goes spinning around
Want to worship at the church
Let me worship at the church of women
Lie for a lie, but a truth for the truth
Give 'em back their house: the walls, the doors, the floors and roof
And stop tryin' to diet on the wafers and wine and submit we're in control
Now let's put things right
Let's multiply the loves and kisses
'Til we have enough to love and eat forever
Want to worship at the church of women
I want to worship at the church of women now
Breathe 'em in until my head goes spinning around
I'll breathe 'em in until my head goes spinning 'round
Want to worship at the church
Let me worship at the church of women
Want to worship at the church of women
(Repeat X3 and fade)
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XTC | Commerciality | /x/xtc/commerciality_20147844.html | Fire sign, indicate luminous pornography
Heliograph and morse photography
Signal ad, signal ad, signal ad
Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality
Coherent, match and blazing cuneiform wide open
Sales pitch, high pitch, noise
Brakes too soft to burn, envisage this
Signal ad, signal ad, signal ad
Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality
Package, carton, package and carton, sell and package and carton
Sell and package and carton, sell and package and carton
Sell, package and sell, package
Just revitalize, revitalize, revitalize, what's this now?
Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality, commerciality
Sell and revitali-, vitalize and home pride
From tractors to tea-bags, from here to eternity, oh god, help me
Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality, commerciality, commerciality
Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality, commerciality, commerciality
Signal ad, signal ad, signal ad
Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality
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XTC | Complicated Game | /x/xtc/complicated+game_20147709.html | I ask myself should I put my finger to the left, no
I ask myself should I put my finger to the right, no
I say it really doesn't matter where I put my finger
Someone else will come along and move it
And it's always been the same
It's just a complicated game
A little girl asked me should she part her hair upon the left, no
A little girl asked me should she part her hair upon the right, no
I said it doesn't really matter where you part your hair
Someone else will come along and move it and it's
Always been the same
It's just a complicated game
A little boy asked me should he put his vote upon the left, no
A little boy asked me should he put his vote upon the right, no
I say it really doesn't matter where you put your vote
Someone else will come along and move it
And it's always been the same
It's just a complicated game
They wanted Tom
They wanted Joe
To dress 'em up and stick 'em out on show
They were arrows in a very bad aim
It's just a complicated game
God asked me should he ought to put his world on the left, no
God asked me should he ought to put his world on the right, no
I said God, it really doesn't matter where you put your world
Someone will come along and move it
And it's always been the same
It's just a complicated game
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XTC | Countdown To Christmas Party Time | /x/xtc/countdown+to+christmas+party+time_20147845.html | Countdown
Countdown to Christmas
Countdown to Christmas party time
We're so happy
We want you to be happy too
We're so happy
And we want to share the secrets of happiness with you
Grab a woman beneath the mistletoe
Kiss her lips and make her glow
No more fighting, no more fuss
Ah, it's Christmas!
Countdown
Countdown to Christmas
Countdown to Christmas party time
We're so happy
We want you to be happy too
We're so happy
And we want to share the secrets of happiness with you
Eat and drink and dance some more
Invite the whole street through your door
Sing out loud, don't swear or cuss
Ah, it's Christmas!
Countdown
Countdown to Christmas
Countdown to Christmas party time
Countdown
Countdown to Christmas
Countdown to Christmas party time
We're so happy
We want you to be happy too
We're so happy
And we want to share the secrets of happiness with you
Countdown
10 days
Countdown to Christmas
9 days
Countdown
8 days
Countdown to Christmas
7 days
Countdown
6 days
Countdown to Christmas
5 days
Countdown
4 days
Countdown to Christmas
3 days
Countdown
2 days
Countdown to Christmas
1 day
Ah, it's Christmas!
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XTC | Dear Madam Barnum | /x/xtc/dear+madam+barnum_20147773.html | I put on a fake smile
And start the evening show
The public is laughing
I guess by now they know
So climb from your high horse
And pull this freak show down
Dear Madam Barnum
I resign as clown
You said I was the master of all I surveyed
But now I'm sweeping up
The last in line in your circus parade
Children are clapping
As I fall to the floor
My heart torn and broken
And they just scream for more
If I'm not the sole fool
Who pulls his trousers down
Then dear Madam Barnum
I resign as clown
You tread the high wire
Between truth and lies
Your safety net just walked out
Much to your surprise
Strike up the band love
And let the show begin
For this is the last time
I'm painting on a grin
If I'm not the sole fool
Who pulls his trousers down
Then dear Madam Barnum
I resign as clown
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XTC | Deliver Us From The Elements | /x/xtc/deliver+us+from+the+elements_20147761.html | We can plant a seed
And watch it grow
Food enough to fill a table
Running water down an overflow
Eat as much as we are able
But would the fruit turn ripe
If the rains had never been?
[Chorus:]
Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
We at your mercy and your reverence
Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
We've no defense we are impotent
You can travel far to distant lands
Some so hot no man could bear
You can conquer peaks with winds of sand
Where Mother Nature didn't care
Would not our world turn cold
If the sun refused to shine
[Chorus]
And when the world grows old
And we know more than our brains can hold
Nature will be law
Well we're as helpless now as we've ever been before
Would not our world turn cold
If the sun refused to shine
[Chorus]
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XTC | Desert Island | /x/xtc/desert+island_20147847.html | Cast away on a desert island
Me and poor Crusoe are sharing the same fate
Cast away on a desert island
With Great Britain written on its name plate
With my umbrella I go walking
Through all the sands on a building site
Across the shopping malls and motorways
Birds from Heathrow fill the
Night with people flying to escape
Friday comforts me and says it's pay day
Cast away on a desert island...
The game and coconuts is plentiful
You pick 'em right off of a supermarket shelf
And all the man-eaters are parked away
Down in garages
While their selfish owners drinking to escape
Lord of flies with cocktails in his conch shell
Don't rescue me, no
This is my home sweet home dear
Don't rescue me, no
I am far from alone here
Cast away on a desert island
Me and one nation are sharing the same fate
Cast away on a desert island
With Great Britain written on its name plate
Cast away on a desert island
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XTC | Disque Bleu | /x/xtc/disque+bleu_20147849.html | The bar is crowded and bright
But inside I feel empty and decaying
The smoky air full of music and words
It's our record that is playing
Disque Bleu is all that I hear
Songs that we loved now make me cry
Disque Bleu brings only a tear
You were singing good
But you were singing your good-byes
To me tonight
The night is warm and the pavement
Below is a river of young lovers
A radio drifting in makes me hide
With my heart beneath the covers
Disque Bleu is all that I hear
Songs that we loved now make me cry
Disque Bleu brings only a tear
You were singing good
But you were singing your good-byes
To me tonight
You gave no indication
This was happening to us
You showed no hesitation
As you quickly waved
From your seat on the bus
That pulled away
Disque Bleu is all that I hear
Songs that we loved now make me cry
Disque Bleu brings only a tear
You were singing good
But you were singing your good-byes
To me tonight
You gave no indication
This was happening to us
You showed no hesitation
As you quickly waved
From your seat on the bus
That pulled away
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XTC | Down In The Cockpit | /x/xtc/down+in+the+cockpit_20147724.html | Man acting like a farmer and,
He's treated the woman like a poor cow,
We got to treat you better from now,
But man is just a baby and,
He's needing your milk of kindness.
I vow to drink as much as you will allow.
All the way through history,
Man, machine, no mystery,
All the way through history,
Girl have the brain to act like the weaker sex.
Down in the cockpit,
Man need the woman to pull him right out of it,
Down in the cockpit,
Man need the woman to pull him right out of it.
Queen wants the castle,
Back from the rascal,
Queen wants the castle.
The girl tribe are growing up and,
Filling the world full with a new soul,
To get so far they payed a high toll.
Try not to make,
The same mistakes,
As man has done, or you'll fall in that hole,
And you will see us changing our role.
All the way through history,
Man, machine, no mystery,
All the way through history,
Girl have the brain to act like the weaker sex.
Down in the cockpit,
Man need the woman to pull him right out of it,
Down in the cockpit,
Man need the woman to pull him right out of it.
Queen wants the castle,
Back from the rascal,
Queen wants the castle.
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XTC | Dying | /x/xtc/dying_20147807.html | It frightens me when you come to mind
The day you dropped in the shopping line
And my heart beats faster when I think of all the signs, all the signs
When they carried you out your mouth was open wide
The cat went astray and the dog did pine for days and days
And I felt so guilty when we played you up
When you were ill, so ill
What sticks in my mind is the sweet jar
On the sideboard. And your multicolored tea cozy
What sticks in my mind is the dew-drop hanging off your nose
Shriveled up and blue
And I'm getting older, too
But I don't want to die like you
Don't want to die like you, don't want to die like you
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XTC | Earn Enough For Us | /x/xtc/earn+enough+for+us_20147942.html | I've been praying all the week through
At home, at work and on the bus
I've been praying I can keep you
And to earn enough for us
I can take humiliation
And hurtful comments from the boss
I'm just praying by the weekend
I can earn enough for us
Found a house that won't repair itself
With it's windows cracking
And a roof held together with holes
Just because we're on the bottom of the ladder
We shouldn't be sadder
Than others like us
Who have goals for the betterment of life
Glad that you want to be my wife, but honest
I've been praying all the week through
At home at work and on the bus
I've been praying I can keep you
And to earn enough for us
So you're saying that we're going to be three
Now, a father's what I'll be
Don't get me wrong, I'm so proud
But the belt's already tight
I'll get another job at night, but honest
I can take humiliation
And hurtful comments from the boss
I'm just praying by the weekend
I can earn enough for us
Just because we're at the bottom of the ladder
We shouldn't be sadder
Than others like us
Who have goals for the betterment of life
Glad that you want to be my wife, but honest
I can take humiliation
And hurtful comments from the boss
I'm just praying by the weekend
I can earn enough for us
I can earn enough for us
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XTC | Easter Theatre | /x/xtc/easter+theatre_20147749.html | Gold sun rolls around
Chocolate nipple brown
Tumble from your arms
Like the ground your breasts swell
Land awake from sleep
Hares will kick and leap
Flowers climb erect
Smiling from the moist kiss of her rainbow mouth
[Chorus]
Stage left
Enter Easter and she's dressed in yellow yolk
Stage right
Now the son has died, the father can be born
Stand up
If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke
New life
We'd applaud a new life
Odin mounts the tree
Bleeds for you and me
Splashing on the lamb
Gamboling with spring's step
Buds will laugh and burst
Racing to be first
Turning all the soil
As the promptress fingers through her spinning script
[Chorus]
Easter, in her bonnet
Easter, in her hair
Easter, are the ribbons
She tied everywhere
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XTC | English Roundabout | /x/xtc/english+roundabout_20147725.html | People rushing round with no time to spare.
I'm so dizzy,
I'm neither here nor there.
In this traffic jam,
I just want to shout,
Let me off o' this English roundabout
English roundabout
And all the the horns go 'beep! beep!'
All the people follow like sheep,
I'm full of light and sound,
Making my head go round, round.
Everyone is cursing under their breath,
I'm a passenger,
I feel close to death,
Hopeless situation,
I have no doubt.
Stop the madness, English roundabout
English roundabout
And all the cars go 'brum! brum!'
And in my ears I feel a hum,
The neons blind my eyes,
All those tempers rise, rise.
Cars and buses go,
Puffing out their smoke,
Roll my window down,
I begin to choke.
I have had enough,
I just want to get out.
Let me off o' this English roundabout.
English roundabout.
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XTC | Fly On The Wall | /x/xtc/fly+on+the+wall_20147726.html | I am the fly on the wall,
My prying eyes are looking through your bottom drawer.
I just came flying through your door,
You didn't notice that your number had been called.
I see the mother who's beating the babe,
I see the money,
The pennies you save,
Stored on computers,
From birth to the grave.
The fly on the wall,
He's seeing it all.
I am the fly upon the wall,
You're in the index of the files that stand so tall.
Although your health is rather poor,
We have a place for those who cannot find a cure.
I know your income,
Your daily crust,
I know your pleasures,
Your passion,
Your lust,
I know when you're living and I know when you're dust.
The fly on the wall,
He's seeing it all.
One is born and one will die, it's all understood
The bit that's in the middle doesn't count
I am the fly on the wall,
My prying eyes are looking through your bottom drawer.
I just came flying through your door,
You didn't notice that your number had been called.
I see the mother who's beating the babe,
I see the money,
The pennies you save,
Stored on computers,
From birth to the grave.
The fly on the wall,
He's seeing it all. I am the fly
I am the fly upon the wall,
You're in the index of the files that stand so tall.
Although your health is rather poor,
We have a place for those who cannot find a cure.
I know your income,
Your daily crust,
I know your pleasures,
Your passion,
Your lust,
I know when you're living and I know when you're dust.
The fly on the wall,
He's seeing it all.
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XTC | Fruit Nut | /x/xtc/fruit+nut_20147688.html | Tending my fruit, tending my fruit
Ah you've got to have a hobby
A man must have a shed to keep him sane
Spraying my buds, spraying my buds
Got to keep away diseases
I mix the poisons and the wife don't complain
Some people say
That I am out of my tree
Or just a strawberry fool
Someday they'll see
'Til then I'll blow you a raspberry
'cause apples and pears are me
So I'm tending my fruit
And I don't give a hoot
'Cause it keeps me sane, it keeps me sane
Some people say
That I am out of my tree
Or just a strawberry fool
Someday they'll see
'Til then I'll blow you a raspberry
'Cause apples and pears are me
So I'm tending my fruit, tending my fruit
Ah you've got to have a hobby
A man must have a shed to keep him sane
To keep him sane, to keep him sane, to keep him sane
Oh the wife can't complain
To keep him sane, to keep him sane, yeah keeps him sane
Yeah to keep him sane, to keep him sane, yeah it keeps him sane
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XTC | Funk Pop A Roll | /x/xtc/funk+pop+a+roll_20147943.html | Funk pop a roll beats up my soul
Oozing like napalm from the speakers and grill
Of your radio
Into the mouths of babes
And across the backs of its willing slaves
Funk pop a roll consumes you whole
Gulping in your opium so copiously from a disco
Everything you eat is waste
But swallowing is easy when it has no taste
They can fix you rabbits up
With your musical feed
They can fix you rabbits up
Big money selling you stuff that you do not need
Funk pop a roll for fish in shoals
Music by the yard for the children they keep
Like poseable dolls
The young to them are mistakes
Who only want bread but they're force-fed cake
Funk pop a roll the only goal
The music business is a hammer to keep
You pegs in your holes
But please don't listen to me
I've already been poisoned by this industry!
Funk pop a roll beats up my soul
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XTC | Garden Of Earthly Delights | /x/xtc/garden+of+earthly+delights_20147790.html | Kid,
Stay and snip your cord off,
Talk and let your mind loose,
Can't all think like Chekov,
But you'll be o.k.
Kid,
Is this your first time here?
Some can't stand the beauty,
So they cut off one ear,
But you'll be o.k.
Welcome to the garden of earthly delights.
Welcome to a billion Arabian Nights.
This is your life and you do what you want to do,
This is your life and you spend it all.
This is your life and you do what you want to do,
Just don't hurt nobody,
And the big reward's here,
In the garden of earthly delights.
Kid,
Pick up with another,
Some will even drop you,
But hearts are built like rubber,
So you'll be alright.
Kid,
Swallow but believe us,
You won't die of boredom,
Should you have to leave us,
It'll be alright.
Welcome to the garden of earthly delights.
Welcome to a billion Arabian Nights.
This is your life and you do what you want to do,
This is your life and you spend it all.
This is your life and you do what you want to do,
Just don't hurt nobody,
'less of course they ask you,
In the garden of earthly delights.
Welcome to the garden of earthly delights.
Welcome to a billion Arabian Nights.
This is your life and you do what you want to do,
This is your life and you spend it all.
This is your life and you do what you want to do,
Just don't hurt nobody,
Welcome to the garden of earthly delights.
Welcome to a billion Arabian Nights.
This is your life and you do what you want to do,
This is your life and you spend it all.
This is your life and you do what you want to do,
Just don't hurt nobody,
Less of course they ask you,
In the garden of earthly delights
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XTC | Generals And Majors | /x/xtc/generals+majors_20147984.html | Generals and Majors ah ah
They're never too far
From battlefields so glorious
Out in a world of their own
They'll never come down
Till once again victorious
Generals and Majors always
Seem so unhappy 'less they got a war
Generals and Majors ah ah
Like never before are tired of being actionless.
Calling Generals and Majors
Generals and Majors everywhere
Calling Generals and Majors
Your World War III is drawing near
Generals and Majors ah ah
They're never too far
Away from men who made the grade
Out in a world of their own
They'll never come down
Until the battle's lost or made
Generals and Majors ah ah
Like never before, are tired of being in the shade
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XTC | Gold | /x/xtc/gold_20147857.html | Looks as if you're dropping mirrors by the gross
Looks as if your nine lives have left town
When you paint in grey and drear
Eldorado won't appear
To run his sword through all the fears that pull you down
And it's okay, for the setting sun
Will colour everything around you gold
And it's okay, for the setting sun
Will colour everything around you gold
Looks as if you need a lighthouse in your dark
Looks as if I'm now your native guide
When the fog is drawing in
Snarling dragons break to grin
And trample over all the things that pull you down
And it's okay...
And all those pebbles in your shoes are precious stones
And all the skeletons in closets
Merely piles of harmless bones
...And it's okay, as the setting sun
Will colour everything around you gold
Even though it's brown, you'll
See your old brick town go gold
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XTC | Goosey Goosey | /x/xtc/goosey+goosey_20147859.html | Hey goosey goosey
I believe it's for having fun
Hey goosey goosey
I believe it's for everyone.
One red morning
With no warning
Life comes crashing in
To wake you early with its golden din.
One blue evening
Cruelly leaving
It goes breezing out
The very second that you figure it out
What it's all for.
Everybody has a magic lantern
Everybody has an inner eye
Everybody has a magic carpet
Seems a shame if you don't let it fly
Tell you why
Hey goosey goosey
Some bright daytime
Worker's playtime
You get country-bound
Pick your girl up
Throw your oil-can down
Some dark nighttime
Final frighttime
As the reaper knocks
The wisdom of the ancients in a box
But it's too late
Everybody has a magic lantern
Hey goosey goosey
Yes I do
Goosey goosey gander
Wither do you wander?
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XTC | Grass | /x/xtc/grass_20147809.html | Laying on the grass my heart it flares like fire
The way you slap my face just fills me with desire
You play hard to get
'Cause you're teacher's pet
But when the boats have gone
We'll take a tumble excuse for a fumble
Shocked me too the things we used to do on grass
If you fancy we can buy an ice-cream cone
Your mate has gone
She didn't want to be alone
I will pounce on you
Just us and the cuckoos
You are helpless now
Over and over we flatten the clover
Shocked me too the things we used to do on grass
It would shock you too the things we used to do on grass
Grass, grass.
Things we did on grass
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XTC | Great Fire | /x/xtc/great+fire_20147763.html | Great fire burning
You supplied the spark
Fores burning spreading through the ark
Animals are panicking
I'm animal and panicking
Your glance a match on the tinder wood
You never spoke but I understood
Bring water
Eyes bring water
[Chorus:]
Great fire burning through
Great fire burning through my house
Great fire burning through my house and heart
Great fire burning
All because of you
Fires burning spreading through the zoo
Animals are panicking
I'm animal and panicking
No round of drinks can extinguish this
Feeling of love and engulfing bliss
Bring water
Eyes bring water
[Chorus]
I've been in love before
But it's never been as hot as this
Smoke curling round the door
Memories of old loves crack and blister
Mister fireman bet you couldn't put me out if you tried
Your glance a match on the tinder wood
You never spoke but I understood
Bring water
Eyes bring water
[Chorus]
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XTC | Greenman | /x/xtc/greenman_20147689.html | Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman
He wants to make you his bride
Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman
Forever to him you're tied
And you know for a million years he has been your lover
He'll be a million more
And you know for a million years he has been your lover
Down through the skin to the core
Heed the Greenman
Heed the Greenman
Please to dance round for the one called the Greenman
He wants to make you his child
Please to dance round for the one called the Greenman
Dressed in the fruits of the wild
And you know for a million years he has been your father
He'll be a million more
And you know for a million years he has been your father
Run to his arms at the door
Lay your head, lay your head, lay your head, lay your head on the Greenman
Lay your head, lay your head with mine
Lay your head, lay your head, lay your head, lay your head on the Greenman
Build a bed out of oak and pine
See the Greenman blow his kiss from high church wall
And unknowing church will amplify his call
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XTC | Hang On To The Night | /x/xtc/hang+on+to+the+night_20147860.html | When We're laying in bed
And We're laying in love
You and the blackness
Fit me like a velvet glove
That's why I go crazy
When you flick on your lamp
I'm dreaming
Hang on to the night
Hang on to the night
Hang on to the night
I don't want to see
That dawn light
Burn your window
When we're feeling drunk
In a city park
Put away that torch
I'm changed in the dark
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XTC | Happy Families | /x/xtc/happy+families_20147861.html | Have you got Miss Fortune, she's the daughter of rich parents,
All she does is cry. One four-letter word is all she wants
But you can't buy love so there's no supply.
Will you take young Master Charge, the boy who's living well
Beyond his father's means. (Happy families.) See his mother
Kill herself with work to keep her dandy in the latest jeans.
(Happy families.)
Happy families is a kid's game. Happy families is your main
Aim. It starts out with a dealing in the middle of the night,
And ends up with a full house if you play your cards out
Right. Mum says Dad is cheating, you should see the grown-ups
Fight for happy families, the game that's sure to please.
Have you got young Master Race the bigot son who, like his dad,
Is fooled with fear. (Happy families.) Not so much a sun,
More of a stormtrooper, to burn the books when Dad's not here.
(Happy families.)
Happy families is a kid's game. Happy families is your main
Aim. You start out with your first cub and you think that
Life's a song. You'll end up with a wolfpack if you lay your
Cards out wrong. Dad says Mom is cheating, you can see the
Children long for happy families, the game that's sure to please.
Have you got Miss Carriage, she's the girl who wants a baby
That she cannot find. (Happy families.) Strange, the ones
Who want to win the race are usually the ones who fall behind.
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XTC | Harvest Festival | /x/xtc/harvest+festival_20147690.html | See the flowers round the altar
See the peaches in tins 'neath the headmaster's chair
Harvest festival
See the two who've been chosen
See them walk hand in hand to the front of the hall
Harvest festival
Harvest festival
What was best of all was the
Longing look you gave me
That longing look
More than enough to keep me fed all year
See the children with baskets
See their hair cut like corn neatly combed in their rows
Harvest festival
Harvest festival
What was best of all was the
Longing look you gave me
That longing look
Across the hymnbooks and the canvas chairs
The longing look you gave me
That longing look
More than enough to keep me fed all year
What a year when the exams and crops all failed
Of course you passed but you were never seen again
We all grew and we got screwed and cut and nailed
Then out of nowhere invitation in gold pen
See the flowers round the altar
See that you too got married and I wish you well
Harvest festival
Harvest festival
What was best of all was the
Longing look you gave me
That longing look
Across the hymnbooks and the canvas chairs
The longing look you gave me
That longing look
More than enough to keep me fed all year
Harvest festival
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XTC | Heaven Is Paved With Broken Glass | /x/xtc/heaven+is+paved+with+broken+glass_20147865.html | Heaven is paved with broken glass,
Since your hammer struck my heart,
This world, a hell of trees and grass.
All is wrong like north gone south,
There's a bad taste in my mouth.
Everything was stars,
'Til you had a notion to leave,
Beauty marks turned to scars,
Bet you had a laugh up your sleeve.
Congratulations love, love, love, love.
You made a fool of me and physics.
Heaven is paved with broken glass,
Since your hammer struck my heart,
This world, a hell of trees and grass.
All is wrong like north gone south,
There's a bad taste in my mouth.
Everything was gold,
'Til you thought you were above me,
Soldier turns to rogue,
Pretty turns to pretty ugly.
Congratulations love, love, love, love,
You made a fool of me and physics.
And I'm feeling cheated,
And I'm feeling used,
And what's even worse is,
You just look amused.
Heaven is paved with broken glass,
Since your hammer struck my heart,
This world, a hell of trees and grass.
Since your hammer struck my heart.
Heaven is paved with broken glass.
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XTC | Helicopter | /x/xtc/helicopter_20147711.html | Oh heli Oh heli
I'm crouching here with a telescope in hand
Looking across our lego land
I really think it's about time that she came down
She a laughing giggly whirlybird
She got to be obscene to be obheard
I really think its about time that she came down
And I object to all the air male that she pick up
The air male that she pick up
The air male that she pick up
When she's up there twirling round
Just like a helicopter - copter
She's landing on the town
It's about time that I stopped her - stopped her
When she's up there twirling round
Just like a helicopter - copter
Oh heli - Oh heli
Now she's away from convent she's gone wild
Grown from a nice young lady to a child
I really think its about time that she came down
She a laughing giggly whirlybird
She got to be obscene to be obheard
I really think it's about time that she came down
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XTC | Here Comes President Kill Again | /x/xtc/here+comes+president+kill+again_20147791.html | Here comes President Kill again,
Surrounded by all of his killing men.
Telling us who, why, where and when,
President Kill wants killing again.
Hooray, ring out the bells,
King Conscience is dead.
Hooray, now back in your cells,
We've President Kill instead.
Here comes President Kill again.
Broadcasting from his killing den.
Dressed in pounds and dollars and yen,
President Kill wants killing again.
Hooray, hang out the flags,
Queen Caring is dead.
Hooray, we'll stack body bags,
For President Kill instead.
Ain't democracy wonderful?
Them Russians can't win!
Ain't democracy wonderful?
Lets us vote someone like that in.
Here comes President Kill again,
From pure White House to Number 10.
Taking lives with a smoking pen,
President Kill wants killing again.
Hooray, everything's great,
Now President Kill is dead.
Hooray, I'll bet you can't wait,
To vote for President Kill instead...
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XTC | Hold Me My Daddy | /x/xtc/hold+me+my+daddy_20147792.html | Hold me my daddy,
I never felt lower than dirt on the floor.
I say hold me my daddy,
I never felt like crying oceans before.
If this means war, why are we in it?
Might've fired off a couple of rounds, I didn't mean to begin it.
If these are the bullets that every father and son must chew,
Well then hold me my daddy, I forgot to say I love you.
Hold me my daddy,
It hurts me to see grown men fighting this way.
I say hold me my daddy,
The young and the old dog aren't having their day.
This civil war, why are we in it?
There's nobody on this flat earth, would ever want to win it.
If these are the hot coals that every father and son walks through,
Well then hold me my daddy, I forgot to say I love you.
And if you agree we can make amends.
All this squabbling I've hated.
In another time and another place where our history bends,
We could've been the best of friends and not merely related.
Well these are the right words to say,
They're difficult but still true,
Well then hold me my daddy,
I forgot to say I love you.
(Hold him. Tight. Hold him like he was a baby.)
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XTC | Holly Up On Poppy | /x/xtc/holly+up+on+poppy_20147774.html | Holly up on Poppy
Canter never stop
She has escaped from the world
Where they bake beautiful girls
Holly up on Poppy
Trotting to the top
She talks and banners unfurl
Their secrets crayoned in swirls
Everyday I
Have to pluck up
Courage to look her in the eyes
The eyes of storms
Anyway I
Love to watch her
Ride and play the alchemy
That love performed
Laughing
Holly up on Poppy...
Everytime I
Look at my watch
I'm reminded we are poor
In hours per day
Every second
Spent with her
's a bulging wallet overstuffed
With angels pay
Laughter!
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XTC | Human Alchemy | /x/xtc/human+alchemy_20147764.html | An alchemy, human alchemy
We stole them from their freedom to be sold
To turn their skins of black into the skins
Of brightest gold
An alchemy, human alchemy
We stoked the fires of trade with human coals
And made our purses from the flailed skins of
Purest souls
An alchemy, human alchemy
Other lands became a larder full of all the good things
All we had to do was go and take
Blood the colour rain that grew our wicked harvest
Black the colour icing on our cake
An alchemy, human alchemy
We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves
Although we held the whip, you knew we were
The real slaves
To alchemy, human alchemy
Alchemy, human alchemy
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XTC | Humble Daisy | /x/xtc/humble+daisy_20147775.html | Humble Daisy
Form a chain to hold all battleships in check
Humble Daisy
Knit a ladder down to nature's sunken wreck
Ragged rug unbound
Tangle trip the lovers
Royal barge aground
Brighter than all of the others on the window sill
I'll sing about you if nobody else will
Humble Daisy
Cast the milk and coins of morning's cash about
Humble Daisy
I fell down to heaven as you picked me out
We'll look up together
Browsing through some old sky
Sipping in the weather
You've got me dizzy, the fly that climbed the sugar hill
I'll lay upon you 'till somebody else will
Humble Daisy
We'll look up together
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XTC | I Am The Audience | /x/xtc/i+am+the+audience_20147741.html | I am the audience
There's no doubt, no consequence
I could make the morning papers
If I use my capers
Let's be the audience
I might lose my patience
Polite applause excepted
To the ones selected, as the audience...
Oh I...am the audience
No doubt, no consequence
Cause I'm the audience
Let's be the audience
I might lose my patience
Polite applause excepted
To the ones selected
I am the audience
Breakdown the pretence
No longer be silent
Let's turn to violence
I am the audience
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XTC | I Bought Myself A Liarbird | /x/xtc/i+bought+myself+a+liarbird_20147818.html | I bought myself a liarbird
He came with free drinks just to blur
The lies falling out like rain
On an average English summer's afternoon
I bought myself a new notebook
Sharpened my guitar and went to look
If this biz was just as bongo as the liarbird made out
All he would say
Is 'I can make you famous'
All he would say
All he would say
'Just like a household name' is
All he would say
Methinks world is for you
Made of what you believe
If it's false or if it's true
You can read it in your bible
Or on the back of this record sleeve
I bought myself a liarbird
Things got more and more absurd
It changed to a cuckoo
And expanded filling up with all I gave
I bought myself a big mistake
He grew too greedy, bough will break
And then we will find that liarbirds
Are really flightless on their own
All he would say
Is 'I can make you famous'
All he would say
All he would say
'Just like a household name' is
All he would say
Methinks world is for you
There's no handing it back
If it's false or it's true
You can read it in your prayer book
Or on the side of a cornflake pack
I gave away a liarbird
A couple less drinks and now I've heard
The truth shining out like sun
On an average English winter's afternoon
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XTC | I Can't Own Her | /x/xtc/i+cant+own+her_20147691.html | And I may as well wish for the moon in hand
I own this river, I own this town
All of its climbers and its wino's sliding down
But I can't own her and I never will
No I can't own her and that's a bitter pill
Taken with rain
'Til the gutter shines like the swirling sky
Like the swirling sky
I've got all morning, I've got all year
It's down in my pocket with the daylight folded there
But I can't own her and I never will
No I can't own her and that's a bitter pill
Taken with rain
How I'd wash her hair like the swirling sky
Like the swirling sky
And when I say I can't own her
I don't mean to buy her
It's nothing at all to do with money
I simply want her in my arms forever more.
Is that an odd request?
Is that something so funny?
And I may as well wish for the moon in hand
Yes there's more chance of that coming true
But I can't own her and I never will
No I can't own her and that's a bitter pill
So I can't own her (Of all the things you've got the thing you want the most
is her)
And I never will (And she's the one thing that you just can't have)
No I can't own her (Of all the things you've got the thing you want the most
is her)
And that's a bitter pill (And she's the one thing that you just can't have)
Taken with rain
Which I swallow down with the swirling sky
With the swirling sky
But I can't own her
And I may as well wish for the moon in hand
No I can't own her
Yes there's more chance of that coming true
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XTC | I'd Like That | /x/xtc/id+like+that_20147692.html | I'd like That if we could cycle down some lane
I'd like that if we could ride into the rain
No macs, getting wet
I'd be your Albert if you'd be Victoria, hah hah
We'd laugh because each drop would make me grow up
Really high, really high like a really high thing
Say, a sunflower
I'd like that
I'd like that (What would you like?) if we could lay before my fire
I'd like that (What would you like?) if you could slide me from this wire
Toasting fork, I'll be done
I wouldn't hector if you'd be Helen of Troy, oh boy
We'd laugh because each flame would make me grow up
Really high, really high like a really high thing
Say, a sunflower
I'd Like that
I'd smile so much my face would crack in two
And you could fix it with your kissing glue
I'd like that
Yes, I'd like that
I'd like that (what would you like?) if we could float away in bed
I'd like that (what would you like?) if I could row your heart and head
With you laid on one arm
I'd be your Nelson if you'd be my Hamilton, what fun
We'd laugh because each stroke would make me grow up
Really high, really high like a really high thing
Say, a sunflower (repeats)
Say a sunflower I became
I'd be growing in your lane
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XTC | I'll Set Myself On Fire | /x/xtc/ill+set+myself+on+fire_20687697.html | Ha Ha Ha
Ho Ho Ho
Now you see it
Now you don't
Has no bones
To hurt your throat
Good and sweet
Nice to eat
If you like it
Just repeat
I'll set myself on fire
I'll set myself on fire
I'll set myself on fire
Oh strike my hand
On a stone Joan
God knows this is yuk
Do it all in unison
Ha ha ha
Ho ho ho
We have the pool
Ah - no that's cruel
Why do you take me for
A fool?
Try the rails
It's just not me
No no no
No - Siree
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XTC | In Another Life | /x/xtc/in+another+life_20147961.html | Well, would you want me, in your afternoons
If I seduced ya, in your Mills and Boons
Well, I'll be the master if you'll be the mate
But don't you get those headaches
In another life
I'll bring your milk tray, from a parachute
I'll play the Hollywood hunk, you can dye your roots
Or I'll be your Burton if you'll be my Liz
And there might be flying pigs
In another life
That's how we're built, love
Don't let it wilt, love
I'll take your flat feet
Well, if you'll take my habits, it all works out in the end
Ah, but in another life
I'll be the stranger, in your horoscope
The cheeky builder, calling with his quote
Or maybe a Chippendale, on girls' night out
Make mine the biggest pouch
In another life
That's how we're built, love
Don't let it wilt, love
I'll take your mood swings
Well, if you'll take my hobbies, it all works out in the end
Ah, but in another life
Well, I'll be your Burton if you'll be my Liz
There might be flying pigs
In another life
And you'd give up the cigs
In another life
And beer tastes good in tins
Test matches we might win
And your mother buys her gin
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XTC | In Loving Memory Of A Name | /x/xtc/in+loving+memory+of+a+name_20147765.html | Boom goes my heart
Dancing around your daisies
Church bells will start
Sat on you reading your ages
I drift away
In loving memory of a name
Covered in moss
You may have died for your country
Forgotten not lost
You're laid to rest where you're wanted
I stare awhile
In loving memory of a name
England can never repay you
You gave your life to be buried alongside
The place you loved
The sermons attended when you were young
Still echo round these churchyard walls
Heroes and rogues
Together surrounded by nature
Lump in my throat
Sat in the land of your maker
I drift away
In loving memory of a name
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XTC | It's Snowing Angels | /x/xtc/its+snowing+angels_20147870.html | It's snowing angels, on my front porch
Take a broom and sweep one in
I'm such a lucky guy, such a lucky guy
Even though my shoes have broken
I can't deny my toes
The right to fresh air
And the joy of poking through
It's snowing angels
Hope I'll catch me one
It's snowing angels
By my window
Take a net and fish one in
I'm such a lucky guy, such a lucky guy
Even though I got no money
This bear won't be hibernating
Or I'd miss the sight of all the honey strolling by
It's snowing angels
Hope I'll catch me one
I'm such a lucky guy, such a lucky guy
Even though my shoes have broken
I can't deny my toes
The right to fresh air
And the joy of poking through
It's snowing angels
Hope I'll catch me
Hope I'll catch me
Hope I'll catch me one
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XTC | Jason And The Argonauts | /x/xtc/jason+the+argonauts_20147728.html | There may be no golden fleece,
But human riches I'll release
Oh, my head is spinning like the world and it's filled with beasts I've seen,
Let me put my bag down and I'll tell you it all right from the start,
Like the scarlet woman who would pick on the boys she thought were green,
And the two faced man who made a hobby of breaking his wife's heart.
Seems the more I travel,
From the foam to gravel,
As the nets unravel,
All exotic fish I find like Jason and the Argonauts
There may be no golden fleece,
But human riches I'll release
I was in a land where men force women to hide their facial features,
And here in the west it's just the same but they're using make-up veils.
I've seen acts of every shade of terrible crime from man-like creatures,
And I've had the breath of liars blowing me off course in my sails.
Seems the more I travel,
From the foam to gravel,
As the nets unravel,
All exotic fish I find like Jason and the Argonauts
There may be no golden fleece,
But human riches I'll release.
I have watched the manimals go by
Buying shoes, buying sweets, buying knives.
I have watched the manimals and cried
Buying time, buying ends to other peoples lives.
Jason and the Argonauts
There may be no golden fleece,
But human riches I'll release.
Jason and the Argonauts
There may be no golden fleece,
But human riches I'll release.
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XTC | Jump | /x/xtc/jump_20147871.html | Scared of love, love and swimming pools
Falling in you said was for fools
But when you're standing on the edge
You won't hear me because your blood is singing
Jump jump go ahead and jump jump
If it's what your heart is wanting to do
This is real life you're dreaming through
And there is no glue to hold you down, so go ahead and...
Go ahead and jump
Scared of love, love and aeroplanes
Falling out I said takes no brains
But if your flight is going rough
Your soul will lead you to the nearest exit
Jump, jump...
While you're waiting
Time is grinning
Clocks and watches laughing at your indecision
While you're waiting
Worlds are spinning
Find another heart and drive into collision
Knowing this can you tell me you're...
Scared of love, love and swimming pools
Stubbornness, I say is for mules
But if you're standing on the edge
You won't hear me because your blood is singing
Jump jump go ahead and jump jump
If it's what your heart is wanting to do
This is real life you're dreaming through
And there'll be no wake up
Jump jump go ahead and jump jump
If it's what your heart is wanting to say
This is really your lucky day
And there is no glue to hold you down, so go ahead and...
Go ahead and jump
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XTC | King For A Day | /x/xtc/king+for+a+day_20147946.html | Everyone's creeping up to the money god,
Putting tongues where they didn't ought to be.
On stepping stones of human hearts and souls,
Into the land of "nothing for free."
Well the way that we're living,
Is all take and no giving,
There's nothing to believe in,
The loudest mouth will hail the new found way,
To be king for a day.
Everyone's licking up to the new king pin,
Trying to get way up with a smile.
Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click,
Ain't my way of living in style.
Cause the ladder gets longer,
And ambition gets stronger,
I can't satisfy the hunger,
That bad old moon has got you in its sway,
To be king for a day.
You're only here once so you got to get it right.
(No time to fuss and fight.)
Cause life don't mean much if measured out with someone else's plight.
(In time you'll see the light.)
Cause the way that we're living,
Is all take and no giving,
There's nothing to believe in,
The loudest mouth will hail the new found way,
To be king for a day.
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XTC | Knights In Shining Karma | /x/xtc/knights+in+shining+karma_20147693.html | Knights in shining karma
Tend your flame
And with love for armor
They'll remain
Ever by your bed
Guarding, still sleeping
Shield your soul from this rain
Knights in shining karma will remain
Jealous winter sun...
Cold as vichyssoise
Steals your smile for fuel
They'll ignite with braziers
Of warming stars
Knights in shining karma
Wash your feet
And with spotless dharma come complete
Ever by your sink drying
Up tea tears
Shield your soul from this heat
Knights in shining karma come complete
Swollen summer moon
Hot as boiling air
Poach your dreams to ash
They'll bring sips from restful slumbers
Cooling keg
Jealous winter sun
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XTC | Little Lighthouse | /x/xtc/little+lighthouse_20147873.html | She's a little lighthouse when she
Opens up her huge eyes
And streams of diamonds shoot out
'Til we're wading waist deep in her brilliant love
She's a little lighthouse when she
Opens up her red mouth
And gold word ribbons rope and rodeo
The dark clouds in bouquet above
For how long will this dark age last?
For how long must we wait to learn?
Across the black and fossil ocean vast
I spy love and she doth brightly burn
Love sure lives in the right house
She's a little lighthouse when she
Opens up her huge mind and
Thoughts descending spears of crystal
Build a Jacob's ladder up to love
She's a little lighthouse
When she opens up her red dress
Show skin of rubber marble
Lit by knowledge and the fireflies above
And can others see this splendid beam?
Or do they navigate in dark?
If you ever want to dock your dream
Well you'll need love to guide your fragile ark
Love sure keeps a bright house
She's a little lighthouse
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XTC | Living Through Another Cuba | /x/xtc/living+through+another+cuba_20147986.html | Living through another Cuba
It's 1961 again and we are piggy in the middle
While war is polishing his drum and peace plays second fiddle
Russia and America are at each other's throats
But don't you cry
Just on your knees and pray, and while you're
Down there, kiss your arse goodbye
We're the bulldog on the fence
While others play their tennis overhead
It's hardly love all and somebody might
Wind up red or dead
Pour some oil on the water quick
It doesn't really matter where from
He love me, he loves me not
He's pulling fins from an atom bomb
This phenomenon happens every twenty years or so
If they're not careful your watch won't be the
Only thing with a radioactive glow
I'll stick my fingers in my ears
And hope they make it up before too late
If we get through this lot alright
They're due for replay, 1998
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XTC | Love At First Sight | /x/xtc/love+at+first+sight_20147987.html | See the lovers all gone crazy
Looking for romance it seems
Many sleepless nights will follow
Some may lose but some succeed
Love at first sight
What they want is...
Love at first sight
Make a play of lust intention
Only just one thing in mind
Make a slip could be forever
Wedding bells, the shotgun kind
Love at first sight
What they want is...
Love at first sight
Mouse takes the bait
So soon as he leaves his seat
There's no escape, very soon their eyes will meet
Love at first sight etc.
Take your partner to surrender
Then your misdemeanor's done
Sacrifice of maidenhood
But little boys must have their fun
Love at first sight.
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XTC | Love On A Farmboy's Wages | /x/xtc/love+on+a+farmboys+wages_20147767.html | High climbs the summer sun
High stands the corn
And tonight when my work is done
We will borrow your father's carriage
We will drink and prepare for marriage
Soon my darling, soon my darling
[Chorus:]
Shilling for the fellow who brings the sheep in
Shilling for the fellow who milks the herd
Shilling for the fellow with a wife for keeping
How can we feed love on a farmboy's wages?
Deep under winter snow
Deep lay the lambs
And tonight by the full moon's glow
Flask of wine on my feather bedding
We will drink and prepare for wedding
Soon my darling, soon my darling
[Chorus]
People think that I'm no good
Painting pictures carving wood
Be a rich man if I could
But the only job I do well is here on the farm
On the farm
And it's breaking my back
We will borrow your father's carriage
We will drink and prepare for marriage
Soon my darling, soon my darling
[Chorus]
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XTC | Making Plans For Nigel | /x/xtc/making+plans+for+nigel_20147713.html | We're only making plans for Nigel
We only want what's best for him
We're only making plans for Nigel
Nigel just needs that helping hand
And if young Nigel says he's happy
He must be happy
He must be happy
He must be happy in his work
We're only making plans for Nigel
He has his future in a British steel
We're only making plans for Nigel
Nigel's whole future is as good as sealed
And if young Nigel says he's happy
He must be happy
He must be happy
He must be happy in his work
Nigel is not outspoken
But he likes to speak
And loves to be spoken to
Nigel is happy in his work
Nigel is happy in his work
We're only making plans for Nigel
We only want what's best for him
We're only making plans for Nigel
Nigel just needs this helping hand
And if young Nigel says he's happy
He must be happy
He must be happy
He must be happy in his work
We're only making plans for Nigel
We only want what's best for him
We're only making plans for Nigel
Nigel just needs this helping hand
We're only making plans for Nigel
He has his future in a British steel
We're only making plans for Nigel
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XTC | Me And The Wind | /x/xtc/me+the+wind_20147768.html | Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
Me and the wind are pulling kites and pushing tress
Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
Me and the wind are feeling freer than air should ever be
Should ever be should ever be should ever
And when you lured me into your syrup
All I could think of was what a lovely way for me to go
I never really realised that
Just like the struggling summer flies that
I was drowning no matter how sweet or how slow
Have I been such a fool
Have I been sitting on your stool
While you cracked the whip
While you cracked the whip
I danced imprisoned in your drumbeat
Your tune of spring had me whirling like a mad march
Merry hare
It never really came to mind that
The strings of your instrument were strangling me
Inside their snare
Have I been such a fool
Have I been sitting on your stool
While you held the hoop
While you held the hoop
Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways
Freed from a love more like murder
I should be singing but in liberation
Feel like a ship with no rudder
Me and the wind are celebrating your loss
Have I been such a fool
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XTC | Melt The Guns | /x/xtc/melt+the+guns_20147731.html | Programmes of violence,
As entertainment,
Brings the disease into your room.
We know the germ,
Which is man-made in metal,
Is really a key to your own tomb.
Prevention is better than cure,
Bad apples affecting the pure,
You'll gather your senses I'm sure
Then agree to,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
And never more to fire them.
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
And never more desire them.
Children will want them,
Mothers supply them,
As long as your killers are heroes.
And all the media
Will fiddle while Rome burns,
Acting like modern-time Neros.
Prevention is better than cure,
Bad apples affecting the pure,
You'll gather your senses I'm sure
Then agree to,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
And never more to fire them.
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
And never more desire them.
I'm speaking to the Justice League of America.
The you S of A,
Hey you,
Yes you in particular!
When it comes to the judgement day and you're standing at the gates with your
weaponry,
You dead go down on one knee,
Clasp your hands in prayer and start quoting me,
'cause we say...
Our father we've managed to contain the epidemic in one place, now,
Let's hope they shoot themselves instead of others,
Help to civilize the race now.
We've trapped the cause of the plague,
In the land of the free and the home of the brave.
If we listen quietly we can hear them shooting from grave to grave.
You ought to,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
And never more to fire them.
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
And never more desire them.
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XTC | Merely A Man | /x/xtc/merely+a+man_20147794.html | Higher.
I'm a king, yes, I'm a head of state.
But I'm the kitchen boy who'll wash your dirty plate.
I had no message and the message was,
We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz.
I'm merely a man,
And I bring nothing but love for you.
I'm merely a man,
And I want nothing that you can't do.
And you know it's true.
That with logic and love we'll be lifting humanity higher.
Higher.
I'm all religious figures rolled into one,
Gaddafy Duck propelled from Jimmy Swaggart's tommy gun.
Don't promise rainbows with some golden pot,
In fact what I can offer I know you've already got.
I'm merely a man,
And I bring nothing but love for you.
I'm merely a man,
And I want nothing that you can't do.
And you know it's true.
That with logic and love we'll have power enough,
To raise consciousness up and for lifting humanity higher.
Higher!
And you know it's true.
We should chase superstition and fear from our hearts,
If we're going to survive and take levels of sanity higher.
Kick it up...higher.
I'm merely a man,
And I bring nothing but love for you.
I'm merely a man,
And I want nothing that you can't do.
And you know it's true.
That with logic and love we'll have power enough,
To raise consciousness up and for lifting humanity higher.
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XTC | Mermaid Smiled | /x/xtc/mermaid+smiled_20147810.html | From pools of xylophone clear
From caves of memory
I saw the children at heart
That we once used to be
Borne on foaming seahorse herd
Compose with trumpeting shell
From lines across their hands
A song as new as new moon
As old as all the sands
Shrank to stagnant from Atlantic wild
Lost that child 'til mermaid
Smiled
Summoned by drum rolling surf
As laughing fish compel
The young boy woken in me
By clanging diving bell
Breakers pillow fight the shore
She wriggles free in the tide
I'm locked in adult land
Back in the mirror she slides
Waving with comb in hand
I was lucky to remain beguiled
Grown to child since mermaid
Smiled
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XTC | Miniature Sun | /x/xtc/miniature+sun_20147795.html | I'm twelve o'clock,
All daylight hours,
I'll warm your bed,
I'll grow your flowers.
Like I'm a miniature sun.
This ball ignited when she told me I was her only one.
I'm not the same now.
I'm not that plain little boy.
I'm all aflame now.
I'm king up here like a miniature sun.
No life comes close,
I'm rising higher,
On holiday,
On ball of fire,
You made a miniature sun.
There's no more shadows in this world she says I'm her only one.
I'm not the same now.
I'm not that plain little boy.
I'm all aflame now.
I radiate like a miniature sun.
Now everything looks right today,
A billion watts of bright today.
And I'm a blazing kite today.
I think I'll float around her house,
And tell her exactly how she makes me glow.
But then the other man leaving merely doffs his hat,
And I'm the last to know.
Now everything looks wrong today.
An out of tune sung song today.
I've grown from big King Kong today,
Right down to miniature...
Don't come too close,
I'll burn your arm,
I'll bleach your hair,
Dustbowl your farm,
I'll blind your eyes,
You blinded mine,
I'll spin with rage,
All summertime,
You made a miniature sun.
Just take a look up in the nightsky, I'm not the only one.
I'm not the same now.
I'm not that vain little boy that I was.
I'm all to blame now,
Look out below here I come!
Man crashing down like a miniature sun
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XTC | My Bird Performs | /x/xtc/my+bird+performs_20147776.html | (Colin Moulding)
Fine art never moved my soul
No vintage wine designer clothes
But my world shakes for me
My bird sings sweetly
A different kind of tinsel
Decorates my tree
Yes my bird performs
A thousand Cheshire cats
Grin inside of me
Yes my bird performs
There she goes
Shakespeare's sonnets leave me cold
The drama stage and the high brow prose
But my world shakes for me
My bird sings sweetly
The brightest fireworks
Are lighting up my sky
Yes my bird performs
The cage is open
But she's no desire to fly
'Cause my bird performs
There she goes
And you keep saying what you got
You keep saying what you got
Look out!
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