Tracks & Lyrics

1. Sweep & Sooty

Oh let's get down - we're gonna go under
And I've wondered
How this climate came to be
It's a long and tedious story,
And you bore me
When you compare me to things you've seen.

Have you seen the TV?
That nature documentary
On nasty bigits, fragile freaks and those who just can't read.
They round 'em up unfairly
And lock 'em in the telly
Then watch them all unravel,
Fall to bits and pieces
Or EXPLODE.

"I'm great, get me, I'm a bitch and
I like girls - stop the bus, take a picture..."
I'm not like anyone I've seen
In a single magazine
Who should I be?

Crrrrass is the word - too little, overtold
It's the new world
Rolling fights and tits and tears.
And then as the boundaries loosen
E X E C U T I O N
...
...and a band new dance - da-da da-da da-DAH!

You be bad and I'll be goody
I'll be sweep and you be sooty
I'll be a novelty tory
You be a revolting bore and
I'll distort myself and you
Define myself through what I screw
And all the hate intoxicates us
But! we'll be in all the papers.

So alone

But so well known

Someone take me home.

Come out from the stocks and crawl back in your box
And enlighten us dumb congregation
I've got no style
And no feminine whiles
And you've got no imagination
I like beliefs
And peculiar teeth
And I'd rather be fat
Than be Gillian McKeith
And though I am human
Thus often improper
If I had a wife
I don't think I would swap her
And though I am stupid
And sometimes I stammer
I don't seem as if
I've been hit with a hammer
But I've got no elegence
I've got no fashion sense
Got NOTHING!
...but I've got a new dance - da-da da-da da-DAH!
I think tonight we might be in a puppet show
You're very cute, I wish you could do more than squeak, though.
Can't help but notice you forgot to wear some pants, there -
Don't like to make a fuss, a song and dance, da-da da-da da-da

Have you seen the TV?
That nature documentary
On nasty bigits, fragile freaks and those who just can't read.
They round 'em up unfairly
And lock 'em in the telly
Then watch them all unravel,
Fall to bits and pieces
Or explode...

(INS)

Oh just someone take me home.

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2. Magic Tricks

I watch your mouth
As you look down
You are enchanting, aren't you

And I'm a cloud
Of unclear sound
And absorbed vagueness
Till you go.

They put me in the welcome centre
And I can't choose when people enter
My head is full of magic tricks and
Other errors that I'm loathed to fix because

I have thoughts -
Below, above -
You a lover
Me in love -
How odd, how odd.

From the highs
And through the floors
You be my head
I'll be yours
Let's go, let's go...

(INS)

I watch your hands
And understand
That life's not simple for you you

And you won't know
How far I'd go
To make things bearable,
Sharable.

I heard it all this afternoon on radio 4
The characters were us, and the protaganist was either/or
A cold, sardonic play about the issue of repression
The battle of the brain against the evils of confession - oh my God.

I have thoughts -
Below, above -
You a lover
Me in love -
How odd, how odd.

From the highs
And through the flaws
You be my head
I'll be yours
Let's go, let's go...

(INS)

I've had thoughts below, above and
I've been down, my simple sadness
I'm all out of wasting time and all my love -
Let's go.

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1. Bubblewrap

Sugar, you are pushing your luck
You’re a silly girl, you-
You are not all true
Fast forward to the 9 word squall
“It’s all gone wrong and it’s not my fault!”
You’ve made a lovely home with attractive fabrication
Marzipan insulation, white washed walls
Everything is sweet until your enemy The Truth
Comes knocking at your door like the Big Bad Wolf

(Chorus)
Stop the show
Words to you are bubblewrap and sprinkles and snow
Time to let me know or let me go
Yes or no, yes or no
Yes or no yes or no-oh-oh-oh-oh
La da di! Yabba dabba doo I got an answer from you!
I wonder if it’s true
Or more protection, confection, eventual rejection and gloom

Oh you may kid yourself your problem is
You’re trying to please everyone
But is it more that everyone should always think you’re the special one?
The difference is significant, and you my friend magnificent –
Un-altruistic narcissistic patronizing **** Mandolin! ..... Cello!

You’ve made a lovely home with attractive fabrication
Marzipan insulation, white washed walls
Everything is sweet until your enemy The Truth
Comes knocking at your door like the Big Bad Wolf
(Lovely home, super show, sugar glow, pretty snow
Everything’s pretty sweet…)

(Chorus)

(it is time)
Words to you are handy tools
They help you out and keep you cool
They’re sugar sprinkles, pretty jewels
They’re bait for strangers, sweets for fools
They’re bubble wrap, smart deflection
Nobody is grateful
For your protection... you b***h

(Chorus)

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2. Josie oh Jo

Josie oh Jo you’re a helluva girl
You’re a star
You’re strong but I’m certain
We’re gonna get hurt in this bar
Your skin has gone pale
And your jeans won’t stay up past your arse
The customers notice and laugh
“get ‘em off, get em off’ - Jose

People are gory
And terrible stories get passed
Bout girls that have needs
And the time of the night
When yes and no aren’t that far apart
Our new friends aren’t true friends
Of that I am certain enough
The leers and the cheers
“get em off get em off get em off” Jose (eeeeee)

Josie oh Jo it is impossible to understand everyone
(Josie Josie oh Jo you’re a helluva girl)
Most of them are cool, most are harmless and like you
(But you’re lonely – I’m lonely too and it’s)
But one or two are in fact actual scum
(making me do things I won’t be)
Decisions are made in the most indecipherable way
(Happy I’ve done but I’m still going under oh)
Distorted importance the bubble, the trouble we face
(stop me)
Josie oh Jo get em off get em off get em off me
(Josie oh jo get em off get em of get em off get em off…)

Get em off get em off get em off get em off get em off me
Distorted importance the bubble, the trouble we’re facing
It’s enough it’s enough it’s enough it’s enough it’s enough see
It’s insane to think we’ll handle
Any of this plan
This is stupid smash and grab and get em off Jose

Places take and people change
Hale devolve and the mental age
At an alarming speed are we harming people
Or are they harming themselves?

People take and places change
Try you may, can’t recreate a certain
Balmy evening, that parting feeling
Or that safe little spot on your own
(get em off…)

Be faithful
Be thankful
We’ll take a spiritual angle
This empty trust becomes us
Oh just enjoy the numbness

Your darkness, your lessons
Your Hans Christian Andersons
You shout inside your head
But never say a word out loud to me (eeeee)

(get em off…)
I shout inside my head
But never have I said
I am not as strong as you, Josie.

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3. Love's Young Dream

Som-ni-o
tim-our…

You have the smile of a doomed woman
Tortured and tired but strangely euphoric
That’s what I thought when I met you that night
In the Black Prince

You have the look of a terrapin
Solemn face, hard case, soft on the inside
That’s what I thought on reflection
It might have been the absinthe

I miss you (I miss you)
I miss you more (No I miss you more)
I miss you so much
I’ve been crying
Throwing myself against a wall
Screaming your name

Ok it does sound like you miss me more
But I love you (I need you)
I love you more (No I miss you more)
I love you
I want you
I worship you
Follow you
Haunt you and swallow you
Dote on you
God it’s a shame that…

We are so badly matched its unreal
A simply terrible cosmic error will
Surely explain this appalling arrangement
We’re so unsuited it’s untrue
Venus and Mars will have rolled around laughing
When they programmed me hopelessly in love with you
You are so… good (…thanks!)

You have the way of a cabbage-patch kid
Yes you are unique but you’re really not that sweet
Oh no no no no
And you give me the creeps

You are as bad as a black… -Woh! That’s Racist!
…widow -Oh sorry.
Devout carnivore you devour those that bore you
Your venom goo is seeping through

You have the manner of a kiss-a-gram at a funeral
Brazen, bizarre and deeply inappropriate
Every caress brings another fine mess
But the good bits are stopping us
Stating the obvious…

We are so badly matched its unreal
One should never kiss one’s nemesis
What can I do, you are such a good screw
We are so unsuited it’s untrue
Aphrodite went all spiteful and premenstrual
Determined me terminally in love with you
It’s just so….gay

You have the look of a drunk who wants to
Change their past with magic potion
Got to love the talent of a lady who
Doles out advice for other people’s lives
But when it comes to pathos doesn’t have a clue

You’re such a little hero in your kaftan
But sanctimony doesn’t make you Batman
Da-na-na-na

Gotta keep on running
If we stop and think we’re done in
This is bloody Armageddon
And you bloody do my head in
This is evil and unnatural
And I thought we wanted casual
This is not exactly what I planned
I thought you were a one-night stand

We are, we are, we are so-o-o
We are, we are, we are so-o-o in love

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4. Madalini (Live 2009)

a-1 a-2 a-1 2 3 4!

I heard a woman took carrying a cross-bow,
That way no-one was inclined to try and speak to her
Small talk, niceties and tittle tattle only made her mean
Good girl
It wasn't that she was averse to interaction,
More that years of serving beer and bar banalities
Meant her tolerance had wavered over certain things
Over most things actually.

"Oh shame! Symptom of society or
Some same sentimental piety
This country's just gone down, down, down.
I say - another scary tale have you
Read, in The Daily Mail is this
Seat free?"
I wouldn't recommend it.
Peyow! Peyow! Pwyow!

(INS)

A-ha-ha-ha-hha-ha-ha-ha hoh!
Now don't you worry Madalaini's little cross bow
Only launches rods with little orange sucker pads
She makes a point of never using actual weaponry
Not since the accident
But even still, poor Madalini gets an ASBO,
Who'd have thought her charming silence loving subtlety
Would lead to an encounter with a WPC
I don't think they're called that anymore.
Shut up, Rachel.

"Oh shame! Symptom of society or
Some same sentimental piety
This country's just gone down, down, down.
I say - the world's gone mad and everybody's gay
And have you seen the weather
Is this seat free?"
I wouldn't recommend it
Peyow! Peyow! Peyow!

(INS)

No fair - they took away the cross bow
Life's tough but you gotta learn'a let go
We all do - it's kinda good for you
These towns'll get ya if ya let them
Close you in with fumes and threats then punish
When ya get a small bit screwy and
Oh GOD enough - I don't want this fuss
Maybe read my look
Let me read my book……..or die.

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5. Tinnitus and Me (Live 2009)

We were watching street performers in the sun
And I cowered as you proclaimed
"Oh the things you see when you've not got a gun"
And wondered why I walked away

You see, you're not comedic
You're a let down
You're a plagiarist at best and
Either you learn now
Or some juggler's gonna get you good
The girl that works at alldays
Will smash in your face
And the man from Marks'll finish you - leave you with tinnitus and
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

You were born of those almost reptilian
And with climate you can change
I am colder now then you have ever been
And you're conveniently deranged

It seems that as an actor
And a musician
Your plans don't come to fruition
But as an addict
You're surprisingly pro-active
You steal - you're not bohemian
'cos you've no freedom
You can't leave the sleaze you're buried in
You may well be running - you can't stop the ringing …

(eeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeee )

"ooooh lets just get wasted, baby
ooooooh you look like you need it, darling
oooooh lets just erase this, baby
ohhhh and go somewhere seedy… darling"

(spoken)
Well now I have a headache
And I didn't want this anyway
The squalor in the attic
And the death in the living room
I didn't want the sound of a key in a door to cause a rush of despair
And a bolt for the first floor
The man who we owe money to's
Not even in the country
And the bitch who shares our
House won't stop complaining 'bout the humming
And I dunno how you're doing this,
But she can hear your tinnitus
And I can just hear promises that bond us then evaporate
You've really done it now you know,
You've gone and got it wrong again
The sea's full of disease and all the streets are full of people
Who would kill you soon as see you
And they'll hurt me if they hear you so just
Keep the ruddy noise down and just drop it and Christ, let's just GO

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1. Lonely Ownio

Burn the roof, the rafters
I'll to my ever after
Wreck the memory no
Requiem for me, no.
Here they come, the horsemen
Here they come, the hangmen
Demon's grow in the spaces
That we create by waiting.

Use your words for justice
Use a pen to message
Speak with telephonic devices
Your telephonic devices!
Use your words for justice
Use a pen to message
Speak with telephonic devices...
Or why not send a text? or, like, email? or myspace or facebook or something? or just come round?
But I don't want to seem desperate.
Although I am.
No I'm not - that was a joke.
Anyway, where was I?
Something about... the Four Horsemen of the Apolcolypse...?
Uhhhm
Oh yeh...
If you don't soon use some means of comminucation
The world will end, all death and tragic devastation
Call...me or text.
You never use your telelphone
I'm on my lonely ownio
You never come on MSN
I'm standing in your garden!

If you don't soon indulge my innocent fixation
The sky will fall, the earth implode, anhialation.
Call...me or text.

Sometimes I fear you're letting go
Like when you said you were hetero
What did she mean I boggle?
In my night vision goggles.

If you...

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2. Peace and Love

Well have you seen the storm?
It's headed here for sure
Well gosh it looks as if we'll have to stay the whole damn night
When this confusing war's
Not distant any more
I'll meet you here
And we will have ourselves some wine
We'll drink to peace and love
And other hippy stuff
Sing all we know
By Mama Cass
And Kisty MacColl
We'll drink to these 4 walls
The roof and big strong door
We'll drink to one another
And to absent friends

It's alright
For tonight

We knew the score (that the world's evolving truly cruelly)
We told them all (Blah blah blah blah)
But no-one heard (cos we smell a bit of pachuli)
What about that storm? (what about that Pinot Noir?)

It's alright
For tonight

Through the light box
Through the mail box
A monsters invavding my home
(and my own problems become misuscule)
it's a nightmare
global heartbreak - I need to have everyone close

Lets drink some wine, some wine and whi-eee-i-eeeing but forget about the
things that aren't really that important

Tut and sigh, and cry-eeee-i-eee-i but remember to hold every person you
have thoughts for.

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3. Where The Gotten Go

The bed is cold and all the coins I stole weigh me down
And make it hard to keep afloat

Concise I'm not, my memory's shot - that's the trouble,
I forgot to mention I'm not your whore. I'm not yours.

Devil come, so all the walls turn red, and I am pinned inside this world and drowning in my bed

Clever girl
Looks like I've won
Ding dong!
Let's put this twisted night behind us
Try to get along

Chicken run, run, run
You can't stay where you are
They bred you so your wings are useless for a reason, girl

And I don't want your blood down my pinafore
Cos once it's splattered
Then you've had it and there's
Only seven hours 'til I cower
Stuck in Red's Room.

She's a button nose
You're a number not a name
No-one knows she goes
No-one knows she knows the game

Where The Gotten go
Where The Gotten go to get
Get The Gotten gone
Get The Gotten
Gone to bed
You've forgotten though
Get to bed and there it's red
And you're The Gotten now
You're The Gotten, run from Red
Red runs round the room
Down the walls and on the bed
Red runs into you
Down your eyeballs, up your legs
You're The Gotten now
You're the chicken, you're The Gone, it won't be long
It's time to run, run, run

Button run, run, run
I'm not repairable
They push your head until it's under or they make you kill

And you don't want my blood round your head at all
I'm the patterns
Lines of Saturn
And I fell through Red's room.

I'm not your...

I'm a succubus
You're a number not a name
No-one knows 'bout us
No-one knows we knows the game

Where The Gotten go
Where The Gotten go to get
Get The Gotten gone
Get The Gotten, gone to bed

You've forgotten though
Get to bed and there it's Red
And you're The Gotten now
You're The Gotten, same as Red
Red's all fallen through
And you're waiting now to land
Red runs out of you
Down the creases in your hands
You're The Gotten now
You're the chicken
You're The Gone
I can't hold on
It's time to run.

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4. Graffiti

Amongst all of the scrawl
On the toilet wall
The words are written;

"I've tried saying no to the drugs
But they just won't listen"

Also Kaz is a slag
And apparently shags
For Bacardi Breezers

So we're sharing our feelings
With underhand dealings
And sleaze - oh jesus

I've got a heart full of love
But what does it matter?
'Cos when it touches yours
They both just shatter
Got a pen in my hand
And there's ink pouring over my fingers
And I seem to mess up
Every person I touch
And do 'things' with, as do you

So I'm leaving the loos
And I'm trying to move
To a song I'm loathing
She says "You don't dance
Badly for a straight man" so I
Make a mental note
To change my clothing

Fay thinks it's funny
To superglue money
To floors and ceilings
And watch the idiot's prayers
As they try to get what isn't theirs
And she laughs and I don't
'Cos I know the feeling

I've got a heart full of love
It's frequently broken
'Cos when it touches yours
They both burst open
And I'm trying to look cool
But the snot bubbles don't really do it
But at least I'm not Clare she's got
Legoman hair, she's a....

I've got a heart full of love
And you've got some peanuts
A high risk of torture
And anaphylaxis between us
And you're making me swoon
But it might be the fumes from your marker
Our eyes meet and bam,
Self restraint we have lost it
A spell binding kiss mildly spoiled
When I was sick

Great deflate
The hedonism's starting
To stagnate
And while I'm sitting here
I contemplate
If I have got time to manicure?
I read all the walls
They are poignant with poetic merit
But if Rachel's so cool
Then in Heaven's name
Why can't she spell it?

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5. Sweep and Sooty

Oh let's get down - we're gonna go under
And I've wondered
How this climate came to be
It's a long and tedious story,
And you bore me
When you compare me to things you've seen.

Have you seen the TV?
That nature documentary
On nasty bigits, fragile freaks and those who just can't read.
They round 'em up unfairly
And lock 'em in the telly
Then watch them all unravel,
Fall to bits and pieces
Or EXPLODE.

"I'm great, get me, I'm a bitch and
I like girls - stop the bus, take a picture..."
I'm not like anyone I've seen
In a single magazine
Who should I be?

Crrrrass is the word - too little, overtold
It's the new world
Rolling fights and tits and tears.
And then as the boundaries loosen
E X E C U T I O N
...
...and a band new dance - da-da da-da da-DAH!

You be bad and I'll be goody
I'll be sweep and you be sooty
I'll be a novelty tory
You be a revolting bore and
I'll distort myself and you
Define myself through what I screw
And all the hate intoxicates us
But! we'll be in all the papers.

So alone

But so well known

Someone take me home.

Come out from the stocks and crawl back in your box
And enlighten us dumb congregation
I've got no style
And no feminine whiles
And you've got no imagination
I like beliefs
And peculiar teeth
And I'd rather be fat
Than be Gillian McKeith
And though I am human
Thus often improper
If I had a wife
I don't think I would swap her
And though I am stupid
And sometimes I stammer
I don't seem as if
I've been hit with a hammer
But I've got no elegence
I've got no fashion sense
Got NOTHING!
...but I've got a new dance - da-da da-da da-DAH!
I think tonight we might be in a puppet show
You're very cute, I wish you could do more than squeak, though.
Can't help but notice you forgot to wear some pants, there -
Don't like to make a fuss, a song and dance, da-da da-da da-da

Have you seen the TV?
That nature documentary
On nasty bigits, fragile freaks and those who just can't read.
They round 'em up unfairly
And lock 'em in the telly
Then watch them all unravel,
Fall to bits and pieces
Or explode...

(INS)

Oh just someone take me home.

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6. Magic Tricks

I watch your mouth
As you look down
You are enchanting, aren't you

And I'm a cloud
Of unclear sound
And absorbed vagueness
Till you go.

They put me in the welcome centre
And I can't choose when people enter
My head is full of magic tricks and
Other errors that I'm loathed to fix because

I have thoughts -
Below, above -
You a lover
Me in love -
How odd, how odd.

From the highs
And through the floors
You be my head
I'll be yours
Let's go, let's go...

(INS)

I watch your hands
And understand
That life's not simple for you you

And you won't know
How far I'd go
To make things bearable,
Sharable.

I heard it all this afternoon on radio 4
The characters were us, and the protaganist was either/or
A cold, sardonic play about the issue of repression
The battle of the brain against the evils of confession - oh my God.

I have thoughts -
Below, above -
You a lover
Me in love -
How odd, how odd.

From the highs
And through the flaws
You be my head
I'll be yours
Let's go, let's go...

(INS)

I've had thoughts below, above and
I've been down, my simple sadness
I'm all out of wasting time and all my love -
Let's go.

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7. La La La I m Not Listening

I should hear a battle in my head I think my
Rationale is sleeping or it's dead I've no control today
Perspiration isn't a good choice of bed wear
Much as I ignore the little voice it's in there anyway
Asking me annoying questions

Is this thing worth risking?
La la la I'm not listening
Rational forward thinking'
Only getting in my way...

I can't remember driving in to work today
Is this a normal thing?
Or should I be concerned?
Who chose my clothes today?

I slowly see the perils of the nightclub
When I realise
The kids are playing Fight Club
And my colleagues say
Am I ok? 'cos OFSTED are on their way (shit!)

Rejoice, rejoice, I've found my cashcard
Tell the world I've found my rightful path
I much prefer my manner
And my posture
Since I started my relationship with
Vodka - We're so loving!

(Done and done it's strangely calming,
quite cathartic, hardly harming)

And while I'm not averse to some destruction
I occasionally wait on some instruction
But the voice in my head
Is quite possibly dead
It says nothing.

RAH!

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8. Cheer Up, Frowny Face

I tell you
I cut here
To get away from me,
The cause a
Disorder
Disordered mentally.

Rosie:I tell you
I fight me
With blades and other things The cause a
Disorder
And you say back to me...

Rachel: Oooooh CHRRIISST!
I only came her for a quiet pint,
And now I'm feeling so LOW
I may as well just go HOME
Or STAB myself in face - she's so depressing!

SHHHHH!

Sarah:My friend, she's got this problem,
Her world just closes in on her from time to time
And other times she's fine
But when it hits her, all she sees is darkness, she gets so LOOOW

Sometimes I see it coming
It starts with morbid thoughts and oh! she can't relax
Anxiety attacks
I wish that there was something I could say to make it GO Ohhh

RaHave you tried saying...

Cheer up, frowny face!
You've got such a pretty smile
But you've been sulking for a while
You're bringing down the place.

I don't really think it's that simp-

Two words; Lighten. Up.
I can understand you cried
When your bereavement councillor died,
But you've been sad enough.

I've never known you to be this insensitive!

Sarah:My friend, she's got this problem,
Her world just closes in on her from time to time
And other times she's fine
But when it hits her, all she sees is darkness, she gets so LOOOW

I also had a friend once (well done!)
She lost her job, her man and oh! she was a mess
Suicidally depressed
I had to tell her that she had to pull her socks up
So now, she's fine!

Depression IS actually a serious ILLNESS - "Oh it is NOT!"

Anyway I think you'll find that
When you're in need of sound advice and empathy
You can always count on me
There's nothing life can throw at you that can't be healed by these
Uplifting words...(5-6-7-8)

Cheer up, frowny face!
You've got such a pretty smile
But you've been sulking for a while
You're bringing down the place.

Two words; Lighten. Up.
I can understand you cried
When your bereavement councillor died,
But you've been sad enough.

Ro:I'm hyperventilating
My head might burst if I don't run away from here
Or fill myself with beer
Tomorrow I'll shiver under a duvet in a pool of self loathing

Sometimes I see it coming
It starts with morbid thoughts and oh! I can't relax
Anxiety attacks
I wish that there was something I could do to stop it coming
Cos I can't control my breathing
All I think about is leaving
And my head is near exploding
And my sanity's eroding
Every minute I can feel it
And I think that I can heal it
With a blade I'll fix it fast
Or with a broken shard of glass
And I can't stand the way I do this
It just makes things more confusing
But I can't control the shakes and all the terrible mistakes -
I can't cope.

(CHORUS)

Well. I hope I don't KILL myself tonight.

Ra: If YOU've been effected by any of the issues raised in tonights broadcast of
"Cheer Up Frowny Face" or, you would like my top tips on any other issues,
Such as what to do if someones having an asthma attack
Or has just been diagnosed with termi-
"Shut UP Rachel."

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9. Guide To Survival 08

I see myself in a healthy kind of way
I can balance serotonin with an 8 pack and a blade
There's a gun at my Dad's house that I think I can mend
And a tingling in my fingers which just won't go away
I'm gonna find myself a lover
And treat her really well
I'm gonna take her to the river
And give her .....silly things

Having fun are we?
Having none.

I read my book it tought me everything I know
You know I wrote that book it taught me everything I know:
Always keep your feeling in your fists,
And always check for breathing when you've gone too far again.

My my, my mother told me not to worry
My my, my other half concerns the neighbours
My my, stick and stones will break my bones and
My my, words'll never hurt when I'm out cold.

I read my book...

My my, my dress was new on just this morning
My my, my balance isn't what it could be
My my, sticks and stones will break my bones and
My my, my life will never hurt when I'm out cold

Keep to well lit streets and don't repeat what you have seen of me
Try to understand - this wasn't planned - this wasn't planned

I see myself...
I feel nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

My my, my other half is sleeping soundly
My my, survial guide was missing pages
My my I never knew not to cook with nightshade
Oh my! accidents will happen all the time.

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10. Ow

And so the evening goes -
Just as I turn to go home
You find some brandy and some gin ... uh-oh.

I'm in another home
You're in another country
And we can't see the state we're in - oh no.

Ah-ah-OW you said
You've climbed right in my head
It's getting light and we are so inebriated

Uh-uh-oh my lord.
We've both been here before
So I am damned and you are too, we can't create a

Mood without a song
And what a song
You chose for me

How careless and how wrong
And how in love
We seem to be.

(INS)

I lose a lot of things
My card, my health, my house keys
My appropriateness again.

I meet up with my friends
Oh girls you gotta help me
Please shut me up and shut me in - but then,

Ah-ah-OW you said
You've climbed right in my head
It's getting light and we are so inebriated

Uh-uh-oh my lord.
We've both been here before
So I am damned and you are too.

So what goes?
I don't know,
I am unable and undone.

I'm just slow -
I spose so,
I think I'll go.

(INS)

Ah-ah-OW you said
You've climbed right in my head
It's getting light and we are so inebriated

Uh-uh-oh my lord.
We've both been here before
So I am damned and you are too.

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11. You're Spoiling Us

Got my heart in my mouth as I look at the stairs
I wonder if I should go up , 'cos you're there
And I'm desperate to say - it's not up to you to decide
When I know, when I don't, what I can and can't handle
You're failing, I'm falling - what in the world is going on?

It's been weird for a while and nothing adds up
Your stories are vague and edgeless
You're in pain and you're pleading with me to shut up
I wish I would shut up too, I annoy me
My clawing and full blown paranoi-ing
Indulge me, oh spoil me - and tell me what is going on.

I'm aware I've a bad imagination
(Got my heart in my mouth)
And it wouldn't be the first time
(As I look at the stairs)
I've believed my own creation
(I wonder if I)
There's a big black cloud that hangs above our bed
(Can go up)
It was in the middle of the night
('Cos you're there)
And I thought you might be dead
(And I'm desperate to say)

No stalling, no stories,
Tall tales or Jackanories
You're failing
I'm falling
What in the world is going on?

I can deal with most things
But when you censor information
I just fill in the gaps with my deprived imagination
Oh my heart is in my mouth and I'm lamely wishing hard
For an easy explanation
As I'm walking up the stairs
And I'm opening the door, and I'm looking at your face
And it looks like you know that I know that you're so
Spoiling us

Got my heart in my mouth as I tell you how much
I love you
Now it's your turn to talk
And I can handle anything
So long as it's everything

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12. I've Fallen into a Hole

All sides are wanting answers - today's the day I speak
I'm almost overpowering my mighty cowardly streak
But wait... oh no.

I've fallen into a hole
Therefore lost all control
Thus can not be held responsible for anything
The fire service are here
A man is yelling at me
"You must inform us where you are
Or how can we be there to help you out?"

I like the slugs and insects
(This hole is home)
We've all become good friends
(Drip, drip, damp down here, we like to chuckle and to scuttle)
And they don't judge my feelings
(If you fall down, drip drip, damp down here)
Not like the ones up there
(Don't be scared we're all your friends)

I've fallen into a hole
Therefore lost all control
Thus can not be held responsible for anything
(Tick tock, take stock, drip drop, time to stop)
A crowd have gathered to see
I wonder why that should be
It's not like I'm important - just ignore me, I'm exhausted
Please don't shout.

If you think I'm in trouble now
You should have seen me just an hour ago
They swarm, these painful choices - close my eyes and fall....

I've fallen into a hole
Therefore lost all control
Thus can not be deemed of rational mind
At this current time
If your enquiry's really urgent
Leave a message with the earthworms
If they pass it on, I will respond, if I re-emerge.

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1. Ow

And so the evening goes -
Just as I turn to go home
You find some brandy and some gin ... uh-oh.

I'm in another home
You're in another country
And we can't see the state we're in - oh no.

Ah-ah-OW you said
You've climbed right in my head
It's getting light and we are so inebriated

Uh-uh-oh my lord.
We've both been here before
So I am damned and you are too, we can't create a

Mood without a song
And what a song
You chose for me

How careless and how wrong
And how in love
We seem to be.

(INS)

I lose a lot of things
My card, my health, my house keys
My appropriateness again.

I meet up with my friends
Oh girls you gotta help me
Please shut me up and shut me in - but then,

Ah-ah-OW you said
You've climbed right in my head
It's getting light and we are so inebriated

Uh-uh-oh my lord.
We've both been here before
So I am damned and you are too.

So what goes?
I don't know,
I am unable and undone.

I'm just slow -
I spose so,
I think I'll go.

(INS)

Ah-ah-OW you said
You've climbed right in my head
It's getting light and we are so inebriated

Uh-uh-oh my lord.
We've both been here before
So I am damned and you are too.

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2. Cheer Up, Frowny Face

I tell you
I cut here
To get away from me,
The cause a
Disorder
Disordered mentally.

Rosie:I tell you
I fight me
With blades and other things The cause a
Disorder
And you say back to me...

Rachel: Oooooh CHRRIISST!
I only came her for a quiet pint,
And now I'm feeling so LOW
I may as well just go HOME
Or STAB myself in face - she's so depressing!

SHHHHH!

Sarah:My friend, she's got this problem,
Her world just closes in on her from time to time
And other times she's fine
But when it hits her, all she sees is darkness, she gets so LOOOW

Sometimes I see it coming
It starts with morbid thoughts and oh! she can't relax
Anxiety attacks
I wish that there was something I could say to make it GO Ohhh

RaHave you tried saying...

Cheer up, frowny face!
You've got such a pretty smile
But you've been sulking for a while
You're bringing down the place.

I don't really think it's that simp-

Two words; Lighten. Up.
I can understand you cried
When your bereavement councillor died,
But you've been sad enough.

I've never known you to be this insensitive!

Sarah:My friend, she's got this problem,
Her world just closes in on her from time to time
And other times she's fine
But when it hits her, all she sees is darkness, she gets so LOOOW

I also had a friend once (well done!)
She lost her job, her man and oh! she was a mess
Suicidally depressed
I had to tell her that she had to pull her socks up
So now, she's fine!

Depression IS actually a serious ILLNESS - "Oh it is NOT!"

Anyway I think you'll find that
When you're in need of sound advice and empathy
You can always count on me
There's nothing life can throw at you that can't be healed by these
Uplifting words...(5-6-7-8)

Cheer up, frowny face!
You've got such a pretty smile
But you've been sulking for a while
You're bringing down the place.

Two words; Lighten. Up.
I can understand you cried
When your bereavement councillor died,
But you've been sad enough.

Ro:I'm hyperventilating
My head might burst if I don't run away from here
Or fill myself with beer
Tomorrow I'll shiver under a duvet in a pool of self loathing

Sometimes I see it coming
It starts with morbid thoughts and oh! I can't relax
Anxiety attacks
I wish that there was something I could do to stop it coming
Cos I can't control my breathing
All I think about is leaving
And my head is near exploding
And my sanity's eroding
Every minute I can feel it
And I think that I can heal it
With a blade I'll fix it fast
Or with a broken shard of glass
And I can't stand the way I do this
It just makes things more confusing
But I can't control the shakes and all the terrible mistakes -
I can't cope.

(CHORUS)

Well. I hope I don't KILL myself tonight.

Ra: If YOU've been effected by any of the issues raised in tonights broadcast of
"Cheer Up Frowny Face" or, you would like my top tips on any other issues,
Such as what to do if someones having an asthma attack
Or has just been diagnosed with termi-
"Shut UP Rachel."

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3. Magic Tricks

I watch your mouth
As you look down
You are enchanting, aren't you

And I'm a cloud
Of unclear sound
And absorbed vagueness
Till you go.

They put me in the welcome centre
And I can't choose when people enter
My head is full of magic tricks and
Other errors that I'm loathed to fix because

I have thoughts -
Below, above -
You a lover
Me in love -
How odd, how odd.

From the highs
And through the floors
You be my head
I'll be yours
Let's go, let's go...

(INS)

I watch your hands
And understand
That life's not simple for you you

And you won't know
How far I'd go
To make things bearable,
Sharable.

I heard it all this afternoon on radio 4
The characters were us, and the protaganist was either/or
A cold, sardonic play about the issue of repression
The battle of the brain against the evils of confession - oh my God.

I have thoughts -
Below, above -
You a lover
Me in love -
How odd, how odd.

From the highs
And through the flaws
You be my head
I'll be yours
Let's go, let's go...

(INS)

I've had thoughts below, above and
I've been down, my simple sadness
I'm all out of wasting time and all my love -
Let's go.

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4. Sweep and Sooty

Oh let's get down - we're gonna go under
And I've wondered
How this climate came to be
It's a long and tedious story,
And you bore me
When you compare me to things you've seen.

Have you seen the TV?
That nature documentary
On nasty bigits, fragile freaks and those who just can't read.
They round 'em up unfairly
And lock 'em in the telly
Then watch them all unravel,
Fall to bits and pieces
Or EXPLODE.

"I'm great, get me, I'm a bitch and
I like girls - stop the bus, take a picture..."
I'm not like anyone I've seen
In a single magazine
Who should I be?

Crrrrass is the word - too little, overtold
It's the new world
Rolling fights and tits and tears.
And then as the boundaries loosen
E X E C U T I O N
...
...and a band new dance - da-da da-da da-DAH!

You be bad and I'll be goody
I'll be sweep and you be sooty
I'll be a novelty tory
You be a revolting bore and
I'll distort myself and you
Define myself through what I screw
And all the hate intoxicates us
But! we'll be in all the papers.

So alone

But so well known

Someone take me home.

Come out from the stocks and crawl back in your box
And enlighten us dumb congregation
I've got no style
And no feminine whiles
And you've got no imagination
I like beliefs
And peculiar teeth
And I'd rather be fat
Than be Gillian McKeith
And though I am human
Thus often improper
If I had a wife
I don't think I would swap her
And though I am stupid
And sometimes I stammer
I don't seem as if
I've been hit with a hammer
But I've got no elegence
I've got no fashion sense
Got NOTHING!
...but I've got a new dance - da-da da-da da-DAH!
I think tonight we might be in a puppet show
You're very cute, I wish you could do more than squeak, though.
Can't help but notice you forgot to wear some pants, there -
Don't like to make a fuss, a song and dance, da-da da-da da-da

Have you seen the TV?
That nature documentary
On nasty bigits, fragile freaks and those who just can't read.
They round 'em up unfairly
And lock 'em in the telly
Then watch them all unravel,
Fall to bits and pieces
Or explode...

(INS)

Oh just someone take me home.

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1. As Life Dissolves

She's woken up
In the past
To see it standing blank above her bed

And good for her -
The sun bleaches invisible
The strange things that are said

"I need to be near you and I don't know what it means,
The more I adore you, the more rational it seems."

A pounding thought,
That ricochets between the two -
Head, stomach, heart
Head stomach

And life dissolves,
So neither are aware their words
Are over-heard by others.

"I need to be near you and I don't know what it means,
The more I adore you, the more rational it seems."

There's been a whole lot of talking, and I think you should know
That they've heard all about you, and you've gotta go home
There's a key in the kitchen
And a torch you can borrow -
You'll be fine across the gardens, if you do it alone.

As for you, just be quiet because as you well know
There's the same kind of hatred that just finished off all
Of the friends and the lovers -
Non-compliers and foes
That dared to walk the world without their values in tow.

(INS)

They all arrive
And make her bathe outside
And hope the thought runs from her body:

"I washed myself just like you said -
I cleaned my thought until I bled
I still don't feel that sorry.
You over-hear my love and me
And under-see me, naturally
I'm so damn cold I'll freeze, God damn you."

"I'm starting to fall
I'm sick of it all
I've sat outside everyone for years
I don't even have a single intention.
I'm missing the world,
I'm missing my girl,
You think we'll respond to all this fear?
Well I'm sorry, but you're sadly mistaken."

(INS)

There's been a whole lot of talking and I think you should know,
That they've heard all about you, and you've gotta go home,
It'll spread like a sickness through the chatter and fear of it,
You're running out of spaces that they'll let you just be,
I always thought it would be different, thought you'd be free
I always thought you'd be the things that I've forgotten to be
'Cause I remember you from years ago
Remember thinking secretly,
Friend and a lover
Non-complier and above the ways of
Others who are nothing without vaidation from a source of
Questionable origin and questionable morals
Don't forget to write a letter to the ones who will remember you
Friend and a lover
Non-complier and above the ways.

I'm not evil, I'm not even near it.

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2. Small Anxious Waltz

I've been stuck in the moment for hours,
And still there's no sign of a hole in the ground for me
No!
What have I done?
The words came out wrong
My nerve has disowned me and gone.

What have I done?

You've a house full of unfinished things,
Half an inch oh shampoo in a dozen containers
I laugh!
What chance have we?
If you cannot see
When something's as good as empty.

What chance have we?

When I met you I found you astounding
So promptly behaved like a moron around you
Oh God!
Why am I me?
Why can't I just be
A bit less inept socially.

Why am I me?

My folks came to stay and saw you from the doorstep
Mum said "he looks gorgeous, is he in the forces?"
Oh Mum.
That's not a man.
You don't understand.
Don't wanna go through this again.

But that's not a man.

(INS)

When I see you I find you astounding
So Promptly behave like a moron around you
Although,
When we talk you glow,
Your nerves start to show
You're not that cool either, you know.

Perhaps we just go.

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3. Tinnitus and Me

We were watching street performers in the sun
And I cowered as you proclaimed
"Oh the things you see when you've not got a gun"
And wondered why I walked away

You see, you're not comedic
You're a let down
You're a plagiarist at best and
Either you learn now
Or some juggler's gonna get you good
The girl that works at alldays
Will smash in your face
And the man from Marks'll finish you - leave you with tinnitus and
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

You were born of those almost reptilian
And with climate you can change
I am colder now then you have ever been
And you're conveniently deranged

It seems that as an actor
And a musician
Your plans don't come to fruition
But as an addict
You're surprisingly pro-active
You steal - you're not bohemian
'cos you've no freedom
You can't leave the sleaze you're buried in
You may well be running - you can't stop the ringing …

(eeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeee )

"ooooh lets just get wasted, baby
ooooooh you look like you need it, darling
oooooh lets just erase this, baby
ohhhh and go somewhere seedy… darling"

(spoken)
Well now I have a headache
And I didn't want this anyway
The squalor in the attic
And the death in the living room
I didn't want the sound of a key in a door to cause a rush of despair
And a bolt for the first floor
The man who we owe money to's
Not even in the country
And the bitch who shares our
House won't stop complaining 'bout the humming
And I dunno how you're doing this,
But she can hear your tinnitus
And I can just hear promises that bond us then evaporate
You've really done it now you know,
You've gone and got it wrong again
The sea's full of disease and all the streets are full of people
Who would kill you soon as see you
And they'll hurt me if they hear you so just
Keep the ruddy noise down and just drop it and Christ, let's just GO

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4. Dear Friend

Dear friend.
*Sigh*
I've been trying to figure out exactly how to let you know
That you're awful and I hate you,
Without hurting your feelings.
Should I…
Write it in a letter,
P'raps a poem in a card,
Should I wait until you're unawares
And punch you very hard?

But 'cause I don't agree with violence -
I think it's wrong (ish)
I've taken all my twisted bile
And put it in a song! (ish)

There's a reason you don't see me
When you do I'm not on form,
It's not because I'm over-tired,
A bit stressed or forlorn,
It's not 'cause I'm hungover
(though in fairness that's not helping),
It's actually because I've been
Pretending that I like you, and I don't.

These thought as yet haven't actually left my head
So it's not long before I hear the words that fill my very soul with dread:

"Would you like…
Would you like…
Would you like to come to my house for tea tonight?"
What are we, ten?
Anyway. Before I've thought about it,
"Yeah! That'd be lovely!"
I've answered.

Obviously what I should have said was…

There a reason you can't see me although thanks for the invite,
The problem being of course, the fact that my life is finite.
To spend a night with you
When I've so few
Here in the first place
Would be a waste of precious time, and possibly a crime to all mankind.

See, why couldn't I have just said that?
Thanks very much mouth!
Now I've got to go to her stupid HOUSE and eat her stupid FOOD and look at her
STUPID FACE ALL NIGHT!

Oh.

How long had you been there?
"Were you just talking about me?"
No! No-ho-ho-ho!
I was talking …
About

My…

Rabbit.

"oh! That's alright then! Don't be late tonight, we're having tofu and henna with cous-cous!"

I've got my conscience on the left it tells me
"Sarah, just be nicer -
She's very sweet,
It's not her fault
I don't want us to fight her"
My bad side on the right says I've been
"being far too reasonable -
It makes more sense to lay a trap,
And poison her if feasible…"

Oh no!
What should take precedence?
(bearing in mind my bad side's twice the size of my conscience)
Oh no!
Should I be nice for once?

And then, I hear a voice -
It's kinda, like, spritual
Like an angel or
The baby Jesus - I dunno
But it's inside me
Like this one true voice
That makes more sense that anything else in this world…
"
Just tell her to cock off."

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5. Girl

Girl paints a picture and the morning turns surreal
Her room slants sideways, there's an odd, uneven keel
So what if fall forward and
So what if I fall back,
I just want you.

Girl throws her hands up and the days become unused
She burns the pictures and
No longer breathes the fumes
So what if I've been stabilised,
So what if I've been good,
I don't have you.

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6. Floating

Inconceivable - they're unbelievable,
I hadn't planned to come this way at all
But they shouldn't expect you
To drop what protects you
Without it you're tiny and soft and accessible

Please don't let me fall
Please don't let me fall

Life has a habit of
Suddenly grabbing, of
Lifting you high above all you can fathom
Then dropping you facing
The place you escaped from
And launching you over the top
For the hell of it

So why I was partly an ocean
I could not be entirely sure
They truly disrupted my floating
By asking me what I was floating for

At times it's kicking up evenings
That should be sunken and gone
Of you incredible hero
And me incredible con
You soon become a real person
As heroes frequently do
And I just gradually worsen,
Remain enchanted with you
I'm tired of answering questions,
You know full well that I lie
And I'm not in the position
To tell you anything nice

Cos now you sleep with a stranger
And I just sleep in the sea
And though I know I'm no better
You know it's meant to be me

(you may float - I may fall
you may hold other worlds…)

How predictable
That we can't shift it all
Mountains of baggage - your luggage and rubbish
I know that you're in there
You must be there somewhere - if I remove one part,
another might crush you though.

Please don't let me go
Please don't let me go

Often at night there's
A recurring nightmare
Life's got you again
By the scruff of the neck
And I can't move at all
While you're flung against walls
And I'm helpless to help you
I can't even see you there.

Iiiiiiii I cannot sink now - asleep with a stranger
Iiiiiii I cannot sink now - I've too much to tell you

They truly disrupted my floating
By telling me what I was floating for

I started picking up signals
Which I assumed were from you
A psychological taunting
Of signs imagined and true
The scraps of poems you've torn up
And ends of paintings you've burned
that dance and dash down the river
all reach me just to confirm
that you're not properly living
and I'm not properly gone
'cos I've been picking up signals
and you've been hearing those songs
but now you sleep with a stranger
and I just sleep in the sea
and I can't shout any longer
you know it's meant to be me.

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7. The Worst Thing I've Done This Year

Regret and Regress
Are very close neighbours,
Remorse stunts your growth -
Don't breath in the vapours

This is by far
The worst thing I've done this year
When I took your heart
I forgot where I left it, dear
I found it tonight
Along with some lighters
That also aren't mine
-Must have been in my bag all this time

Our time was fun -
I wouldn't retract it…
Though you underplayed,
And I overacted.

This is by far
The worst thing I've done this month
When I took your heart
I used it in badminton
I found it tonight
Along with a frisbee
I hope you don't mind
Must have been on my roof all this time

Well I've heard some things
But this is ridiculous
You say that I'm fickle -
I quickly lose interest

Well this is by fa….(loses interest and starts texting)

This is by far
The worst thing I've today
When I took your heart
You asked for it back again
And I said ok (and I thought oh God)
It must be here somewhere (I know that it's not)
Could not bear to say
That I've already sold it on ebay

This is by far that worst thing I've done this year….

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8. Hornswoggled

We've been had
We've been duped somehow
Been deceived and cheated
Outwitted and gullible

We've been screwed
We've been stitched up good
We've been led
A merry dance,
The garden path
And by the nose (wu-ho)

So we walked for miled and miles with millions more in London
This is awesome - it's amazing - this is so exhilarating
It's the new style,
Sadly futile.

(It) doesn't take a lot for things to seem improved and brighter
Like when even our Northampton can seem gorgeous in the sunshine-
Well it can - sometimes.

We've been wronged
We've been fooled and conned
Been naïve
Been easy prey
Born yesterday
Kept in the dark

We've been strudled
Gone and been bamboozled
Been sucked in
Confounded
Surrounded
+ Gullible (wu_ho)

Says something when folks agree from every known religion:
"this is crazy, this is madness, this will only bring disaster"
And it has - well fancy that.

When your average men and women say with quiet despondence
"I can see just what you're up to but I don't know how to stop you"
-We've been had - for now.

(we've been strudled…)

Hook, line sinkered
Boggled, tricked, hoodwinkered
Been deluded,
Swindled, skinned,
Been taken in
And Another thing:

We're been humbugged
And weirdly out-numbered
Double crossed
Been laughed at
Been shafted
But dry your tears -
It's just another four years.

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9. Madalini's Aversion To Smalltalk Had Become Really Rather Extreme

a-1 a-2 a-1 2 3 4!

I heard a woman took carrying a cross-bow,
That way no-one was inclined to try and speak to her
Small talk, niceties and tittle tattle only made her mean
Good girl
It wasn't that she was averse to interaction,
More that years of serving beer and bar banalities
Meant her tolerance had wavered over certain things
Over most things actually.

"Oh shame! Symptom of society or
Some same sentimental piety
This country's just gone down, down, down.
I say - another scary tale have you
Read, in The Daily Mail is this
Seat free?"
I wouldn't recommend it.
Peyow! Peyow! Pwyow!

(INS)

A-ha-ha-ha-hha-ha-ha-ha hoh!
Now don't you worry Madalaini's little cross bow
Only launches rods with little orange sucker pads
She makes a point of never using actual weaponry
Not since the accident
But even still, poor Madalini gets an ASBO,
Who'd have thought her charming silence loving subtlety
Would lead to an encounter with a WPC
I don't think they're called that anymore.
Shut up, Rachel.

"Oh shame! Symptom of society or
Some same sentimental piety
This country's just gone down, down, down.
I say - the world's gone mad and everybody's gay
And have you seen the weather
Is this seat free?"
I wouldn't recommend it
Peyow! Peyow! Peyow!

(INS)

No fair - they took away the cross bow
Life's tough but you gotta learn'a let go
We all do - it's kinda good for you
These towns'll get ya if ya let them
Close you in with fumes and threats then punish
When ya get a small bit screwy and
Oh GOD enough - I don't want this fuss
Maybe read my look
Let me read my book……..or die.

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10. Photograph

(random voices)

Before you got here
I think I might have been just
Staring out of and into nothing

If you use clichés
Then you'll get nowhere near me
Please use real words when you're speaking

I've told you of
A small tin of objects
That help me to remember who I am
And you think that I'm
Bizarre and pretentious
And I think you're amazing all the time.

(INS)

There is a story
With a simple irony
Children - one young, and one is older

The older cries at night
For fear the younger one will be
Taken harshly away forever

The younger one
Is crying now most nights
Because the elder's actually gone
And you'd rather I
Said nothing of either
So I would rather say nothing at all.

(INS)

Silence is bad enough
It's bad enough
But nothing's worse than speaking without real words
And I've had enough
I've had enough
The next thing that you hear will be the door.

'Cause I've told you of
The people in my life
The ones I love all in a photograph
And you think that I'm
A long way from virtue
And I think I'm a long way from your heart.

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11. Wondergirls

They told me I had to tone it down
Stop getting distracted by things and
Something else that I can't recall -
I'd seen a cat by then

You are a weirdo.
But I'm glad that you're my friend
You talk to yourself
And sing when you want to

I've been on a motorbike and
I've had me some stupid fights and
I'm all full of great ideas so
Phone in sick and
We'll do some silly things

We'll get on a train to somewhere new
Think of the places we could move
Show off and think that everyone
Finds us hilarious

You are a weirdo.
But I'm glad that you're my friend
You see things I can't
And say things I want to

I'm wearing some brand new shoes they're
Good for dancing,
And for kicking.
I'm all full of great ideas so
Phone in sick and
We'll do some silly things

Da da-da da da da-da dun
Da da-da da da da-da dun

You are a weirdo.
But I'm glad that you're my friend
You never give in
And rarely stop laughing

I'm going on an aeroplane and
I've played me some stupid games and
I'm all full of great ideas so
Phone in sick and
We'll do some silly things

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12. Ha Ha Ha Ha

Ha ha ha ha you said,
I've shot you down and now you're dead
So let the actress now enjoy her final, fatal, finest hour
Hee hee hee hee says me
I'm wearing lots of Kevlar, see,
And where I'm standing, this is home,
You know full well you're not allowed'a

Shoot me when I am standing on this stone
Cos on this stone I
Have made a little home where I am safe from
You and your kind
And if I happen to fall off it
Then I guess you might just get me and I'd hate that.

(INS)

So through the streets and over streams
and in and out of houses running over fields and moors and shocking sheeps and scaring cowses
Jumping overt things and falling in recycling bins
And hiding down a manhole - I can't believe the council allow this

Shoot me when I am standing on this stone
Cos on this stone I
Have made a little home where I am safe from
You and your kind
And if I happen to fall off it
Then I guess you might catch get me and I'd hate that

(INS)

So come close, I need to tell you something
Come hear and close the door
So come close I can't keep saying nothing…

Shoot when I am on this stone
'cause on this stone I am at home
Come here and face it, dear
I'll get my own back

Ha ha ha ha I said I've shot you dead
so let the actress now enjoy her final fatal finest hour
Hee hee hee hee says thee
I'm wearing lots of Kevlar, see
And where I'm standing this is home
You know full well you're not allowed'a (repeat)

So come close, I need to tell you something
Come hear and close the door
So come close I can't keep saying nothing

Shoot me when I am standing on this stone
Cos on this stone I
Have made a little home where I am safe from
You and your kind
And if I happen to fall off it
Then I guess you might just touch me and I'd hate that.

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1. Take Care Fool

So. Same spot, same girls
Same bag of traumas
Same clothes I'm wearing
Though your attire is quite surprising
Found the city
Now don't be silly
You'll still get muddy
Yeah, you'll get really muddy, buddy.

Watch out you,
You don't know what you've got yourself into
You really think you wanna be here
It's a long way home and there's so much you've got to do
Take care fool,
'Cause that is something she won't do for you
You may well fit right in here
But when you get home,
You know you've got to tell the truth

Slo-o-o-o-ow do-o-o-o-o-wn
Slo-o-o-o-ow right do-o-o-o-own

Sit still, slow down your words diddle-iddle-iddle-on't make sense
With no giddle-iddle-iddle-aps or breaths some things are sometimes best unspoken, thus unbroken

Sit still, slow down

(INS)

Watch out you,
You don't know what you've got yourself into
You really think you wanna be here
It's a long way home and there's so much you've got to do
Take care fool,
'Cause that is something she won't do for you
You may well fit right in here
But when you get home,
You know you've got to tell the truth

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2. A Million Ways To Go

We don't know how this occured but
We don't care if it all goes wrong
And as soon as it's fixed we won't bother to find out what broke it

I would dream of magazines and
I was nothing 'til something came
Took my view of the world and set fire to it from all four corners.

I think the man in black's my idle
He says there's a million ways to go
There are times I'm scared that I live in those dreams
Where I just cannot move forward.
You and I have such a cool time,
Sod the word and laugh for hour and hours
Problem pages have the answers,
Reasons to, and reasons not to.

Did you think you'd still be pretty
When they found your body?
Do you think the world will shut down soon?
And if so will you leave without me?
Leave me here, in my sleep.

The motorways'll sprawl and tangle
Concrete spines in our design
Each one is a fake escape route
We know we
Can easily
Find the right one
I think I'd like to take my time though,
There's plenty here I'd like to see
Through your eyes and mine this fated, failing earth
Can be quite charming

I have always loved you to be
Irresponsible like me
If you think the world will shut down soon
Please say you won't leave without me
Please don't don't leave in my sleep.

INS

I would like to take my time and
Take a few more fake escape routes

I think the man in black's my idol
He says there's a million ways to go
He says that we live more in one single day
Than some do ever.

Did you think you'd still be pretty
- did you think you'd change all that you knew
Did you want my world to shut down too
- did you even know just what you'd leave.

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3. Wool

Those cats in the wool
Their babies and all
Jonathan puts them in water, says
There's not enought food
These people keeps guns
And traps, trips and bombs
And poison that won't only damage those
Named on the bottle

I should be in my own home
I'm sorry I'm here
But my Dad's not around and I've seen something drowning
It's the sad absent gaze
Only seen on the dead
I confess
I'm a mess
and I know I should not be.

You've found a new friend
Who won't let you laugh at anything
You've found a new junior oppressor who
Saves you from thinking

But one day he'll leave
Replaced with a similar thing
Prescriptions that won't only damamge those
Named on the bottle

I've ask how you are and they say that you're fine,
Sometimes work gets you down - children sure do exhaust you
And of course you're not fine
And you've probably never been
And you won't let it go
You believe you should not be.

We'll sleep in the wool
Protected from everything
How pointless to cry over nature and
Life's grim solutions.

I should be in my own home
I'm sorry I'm here
But there's no-one around and I've seen someone drowning
It's the sad absent gaze
Only seen on the dead
I confess
I'm a mess
and I know I should not be.

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4. Treachery, Conspiracy and Doom

This is serious I'm thinking
A travesty I believe
And as nobody seems willing to explain it,
I'll mix my own conclusion in my head
From the grownups' evening murmers
Half overheard from my bed
And the bulletins that spill into the playground
And any gaps filled with a reasoned guess -
My God, it's true!
They take the water from the rivers and they put
It into bottles made of plastic and the view -
They take the moors to practise wars they cannot lose
They'll take the breath right out the earth if they want to.

So I see it as my duty
To notify my peers -
I've discovered Nostradamus, life around us
Will definitely end this afternoon (ta da!).
And the thanks I get for sharing
My informed thoughts and wisdom
As they all go pale and one or two start crying
I'm moved to my own desk across the room...

But God, it's true!
They take the water from the rivers and they put
It into bottles made of plastic and the view -
They take the moors to practise wars they cannot lose
They'd take the magic out of living if they could.

INS

Once proven wrong I quickly find more treachery
I tell the woman this, and she says back to me:

"If they catch you then they'll kill you
Or so you'd have me believe.
You are nothing if good humoured in your theories
Of treachery, conspiracy and doom
Though I know now to be wary
Of these astounding stories
As I smile at your inpired imagination
Part of me, despite myself exclaims
My God, It's true...they'll take the breath right out the earth if they take you."

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5. I Can Count

You're telling me how many times
I've over-stepped your understanding
I can count, thanks
I just don't to you.
I can think
Thank-you
I just don't
With you - face it
We are clowns, aren't we?
We put pictures in our skin
We sure screw, don't we?
We sure screw up everything.

So I must still have that picture
The one where you just hate me
Sometimes it's on the mirror
Sometimes it's in my diary
I burnt it and I binned it
But it turns up of an evening
A picture in a bottle,
Magnified and quite distorted.

'Cause when I threw with fighting I can agonise for England
And when I though with writing down my thoughts I'll be alone
With a notion that'll hurt me cause I'm such a fucking weakling
With emotions that don't even seem to come from me

And I'm scared to see the morning cause I'm fragile in the starkness
And I'm scared to leave the house in case somebody sees my artwork
And I've turned into a cliche, I'm a stupid bloody martyr
And I've turned into the person that my other self despises.

We are clowns, aren't we?
We put pictures in our skin
We sure screw, don't we?
We sure screw up everything.

The boys and girls are anxious
They want something to happen
They want something that's tangable and real.

The nurses and the doctors
They just want what's best for us
And that is understandable I ...

(1 ...2...feel...4...5...6...god, breath ... 8)

So I must still have that chapter
The one where I am unclean
Sometimes it's on a lecturn
Sometimes it's on the TV
I burnt it and I binned it
But sometimes it's right inside me
But sometimes I just see it, I just see it and I'm just free.

Someone told me you had been abandoned like a building
That nobody had made safe and asound though plenty people tried
It would just take one inquisitive and naive individual
And the whole lot would come crashing down with them inside.

And I'm scared to see the morning cause I'm fragile in the starkness
And I'm scared to leave the house in case somebody sees my artwork
And I've turned into a cliche, I'm a stupid bloody martyr
And I've turned into the person that my other self despises.

We are clowns, aren't we?
We put pictures in our skin
We sure screw, don't we?
We sure screw up everything.

The boys and girls are anxious
They want something to happen
They want something that's tangable and real.

The nurses and the doctors
They just want what's best for us
And that is understandable I ...

(1 ...2...feel...4...5...6...god, breath ... 8)

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6. Therapy For The Morning After

Half past 10
It's Sunday or something
Yet again
I wake with that feeling
What in God's name
Possessed me to say those things?
I am a twat.
I'm such a twat.

The situation escalates
With paranoia
And self hate
'Cos at the time
I thought that I
Was being so funny
And so great
And then I thought that I was totally justified
When I cried and cried and cried and cried.

And cried and cried and cried.

And cried.

And cried.

So you pick up the phone
And ring your good good friend
You know you don't have to
But you wanna explain

At the start of the night
We were giggly and close
In the middle I was tiddly
And overly verbose
By the end I was plain boring
Tediously morose
So I guess I'm just calling to say
That I'm sorry I'm a twat
I was messed up on red wine
I'm not normally like that.

And she's, like, "hey hey hey
That's OK
You're my friend and you were just fine
And I know what it's like
To be messed up on red wine
Though I have to admit
It entertained me a bit
When you saw a little bagpuss
And started crying again".

This place is wonderful
There's music and there's alcohol
This place is wonderful
There's music and there's alcohol here.

So you pick up the phone
And ring the pub you were in last
You know you don't have to
But you're scared that you're barred

At the start of the night
I was sweetness and light
In the middle I was tiddly
But vaguely polite
By the end I asked your bar maid
If you wanted a fight

So I guess I'm just calling to say
That I'm sorry I'm a twat
I was screwed up cider I'm not normally like that .

And he's like "hey hey hey that's OK
'Cos you're not much of a fighter
And I know what it's like
To be screwed up on cider
If I barred everyone
Who was stupid when drunk
I'd have an empty pub
Which though appealing
Isn't really economically realistic".

This place...

So you pick up the phone
And it's the hardest one yet
'Cos it's your other half
And you've a lot to regret

At the start of the night
I missed you and were sad
In the middle I was tiddly
And boasting like mad
By the end I was unfaithful
And I'm feeling so bad
So I guess Im just calling to say
That I'm sorry I'm a twat
I was fucked up on vodka
I'm not normally like that

And she's like "hey hey hey
That's ok
I forgive ya
'Cos I love ya
And I know what it's like
To be fucked up on vodka
If you do it again
I will kill you in the night
And make it look like an accident

This place is wonderful
There's alcohol and music here
Any time spent worrying
Is wasted time and energy

So the moral of this story
Is self explanatory
If you're messed up
On red wine
Be sure you have a happy time
If you're screwed up on cider
Be sure you don't get violent
If you're fucked up on vodka
Then come and see me after

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1. Inside this Room

My reverse psychology is working
At least we're certainly reversing
Our attempts of continuous elation
Make the saddest situation

This is such a mess
It goes from something
Into nothing
Into less
We've said it's wrong
It still goes on
Inside this room

I give in
I'm locked out
Let you down
I fucked up
It fell through
It's gone under
It's over
It's over

And I've tried all I can
But I can't understand
Why you won't even try
To stand up and defy it

And I thought every day
It'd just go away
You'd decide to give in
And invite it back in

And I've tried to control
And I've not to care
but we're both so aware
That life shouldn't be like this

Oh. My love is dead,
My love is dead
My love just died with everything else
That we destroyed
While we avoided
That life shouldn't be like this

Nothing on earth
Makes me more annoyed than I do
So God knows what I do to you

Nothing on earth
Makes you more depressed than you do
So God knows what we're going to do

There's a room in our world
And it seems to control
Every mood
And the moment
Is coated and coded

It's like painting by numbers
Ignoring the numbness
Re-watching a film
And expecting the ending to change just this once

And then strangely it doesn'
So we'll change what we playeded it on,
Watch it again
And then strangely the ending
Remains just the same
So we'll change what we played it on
Should it be like this?

Oh my love....

I tried it once and found it
Didn't kill me, didn't kill
And by the third time
I've forgotten that it ever will

I give in I'm locked out...

Nothing on earth...

It fell through and it's over...

Makes me more annoyed than I do...

There's a door
But it's broken
It sticks when you close it
It's best just to leave it alone when it's open.

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2. Someone

Well what do'ya know
Someone's ruined my life
It was like this when I got here
I was out of the room
So it can't have been me
Someone should have done something to stop it

Well what do'ya know someone's fucked with my head
And I only left it for a second
They were clever and cruel
And my life is now doomed
Shouldn't someone do something to fix it

Well what do'ya know someone got me a job
And it sucks, and I hate every minute
When my weekend is here
Someone fills me with beer
I just can't believe someone would do that

My life my soul and my plans
My head my heart - in your hands.

Well what do'ya know
someones broken my heart
and I think that they did it in purpose
And I've run out of luck and my friends are all fuckers
They don't understand about someone.

Your life is my situation now.

Well what do'ya know
Someone's strangled my future
I'm waiting for someone to fix it
I could reach for the stars
And achieve all I wanted
But only if Someone would let me.

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3. I know a boy

Emma's party
Made you nervous
You were partly
Under influence of beer and fools
And fear of solitude
Take your hand down
From your mouth now
No-one's going to
Laugh at you at least not to your face
Unless you run away

I know a girls who wants to be with you
I know a girl who loves the things you do
She's got a sexy alter-ego wrapped in tin foil in her pocket
It might turn her into Venus or it might just make her violent.

Push your hair back
From your face now
'Cause you know you're
Most ingenious on days like these
You're lovely and you're free

Every glance is utter poetry
And your chance is
Now or so it seems
It's all so smooth
And beautiful
And cruel

I know a boy who wants to be with you
I know a boy who love the things you do
He's got a sexy way of meaning much more than he is saying
And his eyes stay you much longer than anyone he's seeing.

And all you really want is to
Be anywhere but here
Just anywhere as long as you're not there.

I know a girl who wants to be with you
I know a girl who love the things you do
She'll take your love as an absolutely permanent fact
So she might become just a little unstable
When you ask for it back.

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4. Sex

This is my only
My one and only
Don't try to stop me
I have a theory

There's a season for good will
A season for sunshine
A season for sickness
And fog in your front room
There's days for a good girl and
Days for a bad girl
And days to keep quiet and hide all the papers.

When God closes a door
Then he opens another
If one man gets tired
Then there's always his brother
And over the hall lies their unmarried sister
Awaken her gently
Offer to F-F-F-F
Find her an ideal man
Gold rings
Tamazipam
It's easy (easy)
Love and marriage
Horse and Carriage
Start the car and close the garage - easy (easy)

It's such fun to awake from the most confusing evening off your head
Have a try - identify - who is with you in your bed
With a hop
And a skip
And a dirty, dirty mind
Wonder through our market town
Come and see what you can find

When God....

A delicate romance is
Filling the air
Somewhere between Bridge Street and The Moon On The Square
A sophisticated gentlemen
Strokes the lady's hair
And whispers sweet nothings
Such as:

"Darling. No really. I mean it. I really really love you. I love you. I love you.
I really really mean it. No really. I mean it. I really really love you. I love you. I love you"

He said that she said...I'm not sure if it's true
but the one who used to see that man....
well...
apparently....
she's...
WHAT? lesbian! NO! ARRGH!
There's a season to be jolly
There's a season to get trollied
There's a season to go mating, dating and debating
Who will be the lucky lady
Who will be there are you heterosexual,
homosexual, anyone-who'll-have-me-sexual...?
Those rumours had an awful sting
But nobody can prove a thing
I stumbled home at 7.30
That is why my knees were dirty
Thought I'd covered all my tracks
Nearly had a heart attack
There's CCTV cameras on Abingotn Square.

There's a season....

Right then. I will then. Just watch me.
I really will go home now.
Go home now. Go home now.Ireally really mean it. No really. Imean it. I really will go home now. Go home now. Go home now.

Can I stay?

When God closes a door
Then he laughs at you inadequacies
One mangets tired
'Cos you're not as good at that as he is
Over the hall
Well she's with your old PE teacher

Climb out the window
And wash yourself down
Some might say you're public spirited
Some might say you're a slag.

Don't feel bad.

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5. Beautiful

There's a game you can play when you're a little insane dear
It's good to show
Yourself you're bad
Catch your breath in a little green net and be done here
I'm pleased for you
And sad for me
If I recall the only time
I ever saw you really smile
I think it was the day they sent the rain
No matter how ard the rain smashed down
And soaked your face
And ruined your clothes
It never washed away your smile that day.

How can being precious make you angry
How can being wonderful prove virtually fatal
How can being thoughtful drive you crazy
How can being beautiful be sad?

There's a game you can play when you know you're insane dear
I'd like to know
If we're playing now
Your computerised friends love you more than you will know
Or I can tell you
They join your bed at night and keep you safe
If I recall the only time
I ever saw your timeless eyes
Gazing through my head into my heart
Every foot-print you make

Changes somebody's life in a good way
It's time for you
To change your own

How can...

Things'll happen - melodrama is a woman we all know
Things'll happen in a manner, in a manger, on the dole
Things are stranger in the mornings things are sadder when you're sleeping
Or trying to.
Take a minute to remember just exactly where you are
Take your medication with you on your alcoholic falls
Things are stranger in the mornings
Things are sadder when you're sleeping

There's a face that you have when there's no-one around you
It's beautiful
It makes me smile
Every footprint you make
Changes somebody's life in a good way
It's time for you
To change your own.

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1. I've got a little axe

Up the pole
What the hell
Out to lunch and supper
Back in time to read into some tragedy and gum disease
I am infused
Need to consume
Keep a little hip flask full of toothpaste
Riddle me sweet
Never be clean
Every answer begs a similar question.

It all comes out of plastic bags
And envelopes with my initials the wrong way round
The impersonal reading junk
Impersonally speaking I sould really tell
Every single day coming down like an idiot
Searching for a steep hill
24 ways to stand still

I keep my money in my trainers
Can't keep hold of it dear
I keep one hand fast on my bra strap
And one hand
Clenched behind my back

I keep my secrets
Hidden in a rock pool
I keep my house keys pressed against my thigh
I keep my freedom
Well away from the front door
I keep my bad skin covered in daylight
I lie under my table
Eating out of a cup dear
Wash with peroxide
When I'm shopping I pray dear
I've got a little time dear,
I've got a little thought dear,
I've got a little fear, dear
And I've got a little axe, dear.

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2. Vodka + Claustraphobia

Got another clue that I prised from you clenched fist
It didn't take me by surprise
'Til I saw you weren't sleeping.

Found another part of the map in you kitchen
They sellotaped it to the walls
When they fastened the bolts to you you cupboards

The first and last thing that you see everyday
Are the people on the walls
Make you hate every bone in your body

Betcha love the girls don'tcha
Betcha love the gear don'tcha
Betcha love the feeling of anyone touching you.

I said you were a kind man
You said I was stupid
I said you were a deaf man
You said I was part of the problem

So tell me another story
I've heard it before
But I won't let you know

'Til you've proved to yourself that you're
Boring

So tell me you think you love me
I've known all along
It's the unsatisfactory needing you'll prove to yourself that you're
Useless

Don't try to tell me you don't care what anybody says
I've seen the words tied together
Right around your neck
Draw some parallels
Euthinasia
And conclusions
Preparation
Inspiration

I'll come round shall I?
To your insomnia
Saw it on the TV
Saw it in the vodka
And your claustaphobia

I said you were a kind man
You said I was stupid
I said you were a deaf man
You said I was part of the problem.

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3. Neverlanding

Skip to the song
That's too easy
Slip to the wrong
Kind of reason
We all know you
We all feel the same
Kind of lame
Satisfaction
Re-curring stain
In a world of
Instant pleasure
Temporory peace
You can't hear me
The words I'm saying don't belong to this person
They just float around (and never land)
Like the woman
Torn and twisted by a lifetime of people
She can run down
Every street she knows and screams at the strangers
She'll just float around and never land

These are people passing through,
They're dead now (we all know you)
If you want them to be.
Floating out of lives and into bottles
Forgotten.

I can't hear you - the words you're saying sound so damn incidental
I'll just hear the noise that the voice makes
It sounds so desperate when the streets are so empty
Somebody should take you home
It won't be me
I'll always let you down.

She can run...

Don't look down and
Don't look kind
And don't look for words
And don't look for her

Floating out of lives and into bottles
Forgotten.

Don't look angry
Tired or crazy

I can't hear you
For the sound of floating words in the street.

Somebody should take you home - it wont be me
I'll always let you down.

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4. About You

Some day
You will
Regret
All the things you've taught yourself
About you

Some day
You will
Agree
All the things I know I love
About you

I don't know
I don't know when you'll see the things I see
We'll still do each others heads in
but you will.

Some day we'll wake without my fears
About you
Some day you'll know and understand
About you

I think one thousand thoughts a minute
And that's how I know how reall it is.

Some day
You will
Agree
All the things I know I love
About you.

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5. Guide To Survival

I see myself in a healthy kind of way
I can balance serotonin with an 8 pack and a blade
There's a gun at my Dad's house that I think I can mend
And a tingling in my fingers which just won't go away
I'm gonna find myself a lover
And treat her really well
I'm gonna take her to the river
And give her .....silly things

Having fun are we?
Having none.

I read my book it tought me everything I know
You know I wrote that book it taught me everything I know:
Always keep your feeling in your fists,
And always check for breathing when you've gone too far again.

My my, my mother told me not to worry
My my, my other half concerns the neighbours
My my, stick and stones will break my bones and
My my, words'll never hurt when I'm out cold.

I read my book...

My my, my dress was new on just this morning
My my, my balance isn't what it could be
My my, sticks and stones will break my bones and
My my, my life will never hurt when I'm out cold

Keep to well lit streets and don't repeat what you have seen of me
Try to understand - this wasn't planned - this wasn't planned

I see myself...
I feel nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

My my, my other half is sleeping soundly
My my, survial guide was missing pages
My my I never knew not to cook with nightshade
Oh my! accidents will happen all the time.

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6. Give Back My Brain

This is strange, I think I like it though-
If I had to make a choice
I think I'd make it so
And I want to
Believe me
I want to

It feels funny when you talk that way
But if the conversation ends I'll be a wreck all day
And I want to
Believe me
I want to

It feels funny to be in this room
With a dozen people wondering
Just what we do
But I want to
Believe me
I want to

You're a strange girl
But I like you though
And if I had to make a choice
I think I'd make it so
And I want to,
Believe me
I want to

These days make no sense thanks to you-
The sun is out
And I'm confused
Give back my brain
You're just so pretty - I'm so scared
We get so drunk
We'll end up dead
Give back my brain.

You're an angel
But I think you're weird
If I tell you what I'm thinking will you drop your shield
'cos I want to
Believe me
I want to

You're an angel
But you're awkward though -
How am I supposed to understand your secret code
And I want to
Believe me
I want to

I think the things I'd like to say would make some people stare
I think the things I'd like to do could get us killed out there
But I want to
Believe me
I want to

You're an angel
But I think it's weird
People calling me by your name makes me run with fear
And I want to
Believe me
I want to

You're an angel
If you whine much more
Then I'll have to put your head through the bathroom door
And I want to
Believe me
I want to

So here we are standing all nervous and on edge again
Here we are not knowing who should speak first again
Here we are wanting things uneasy to obtain
Here we are - who are you again?
So here we are standing all nervous and on edge again
Here we are not knowing who should speak first again
Here we are here we are since we're here should we start all over again?

You're a strange girl
But I like you though
And if I had to mare a choice
I think I'd make it so
And I want to
Believe me
I want to.

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7. We Simple Things

Speak in whispers
Paste and paper
Simple things -
My body wants to be unconcious
Now.
Padlocked doors and
Dreamless sleep are
All I need -
Take these images out of my head
I don't need changing
They like to speak in unison and
Don't remember why
I like to see the sinking sun
This calm oblivion
Quietly standing on a bridge above the motor way
It's colder here than anywhere -
All I'll ever notice are the things that I can't see.

I don't remember why we're kicking cars and smashing up each other
All the time I'll notice real fear - of what I'll think of next - I could be gratified or crippled by an easy answer
Any explanation you can give - we don't believe you

I was killing time when all the sand slipped through my fingers
I was freaking out and ageing fast while I was sleeping
There comes a time you know
I can't do this any more
If only you could see me now I really think I'd like to kick the bullshit out of you
And I won't feel anything
If you screw me down
Then I won't go anywhere
Uh -huh - that's right
Well up until this moment honey

Say slowly
Stay home

I don't remember how we ever felt the strength to keep on running -
all the time I'll notice real fear - I never understood
I could be gratified of crippled by an easy answer
Any explanation you can give - we don't believe you.

We'll tie our hands and our feet just to prove
It wasn't anything other than circles in my head
in my houe, in my room, and the types of people I always seem to meet.

(I was killing time....)

So when I'm running through the streets in nothing but a vest
When I'm breaking both my hands in a Nightclub fight
When I'm falling in love
When I'm learning something new
When I'm spending all my money
When I'm laughing uncontrollably
All I'll ever notice is

You'll try to stop me.

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"Invocal boast tight, original and highly accomplished musicianship… and even when they sing angsty love songs they’re lucid and quirky" - DIVA Magazine

"Listening to Invocal is a bit like being in a Tim Burton movie" - Mad Dog Mcrea

"I should say something nice about Invocal here but I can't think of anything" - Onvical

"Girls shouldn't sing about beer." - NME

Tracks & Lyrics

1. Sweep & Sooty

2. Magic Tricks

1. Bubblewrap

2. Josie oh Jo

3. Love's Young Dream

4. Madalini (Live 2009)

5. Tinnitus and Me (Live 2009)

1. Lonely Ownio

2. Peace and Love

3. Where The Gotten Go

4. Graffiti

5. Sweep and Sooty

6. Magic Tricks

7. La La La I m Not Listening

8. Cheer Up, Frowny Face

9. Guide To Survival 08

10. Ow

11. You're Spoiling Us

12. I've Fallen into a Hole

1. Ow

2. Cheer Up, Frowny Face

3. Magic Tricks

4. Sweep and Sooty

1. As Life Dissolves

2. Small Anxious Waltz

3. Tinnitus and Me

4. Dear Friend

5. Girl

6. Floating

7. The Worst Thing I've Done This Year

8. Hornswoggled

9. Madalini's Aversion To Smalltalk Had Become Really Rather Extreme

10. Photograph

11. Wondergirls

12. Ha Ha Ha Ha

1. Take Care Fool

2. A Million Ways To Go

3. Wool

4. Treachery, Conspiracy and Doom

5. I Can Count

6. Therapy For The Morning After

1. Inside this Room

2. Someone

3. I know a boy

4. Sex

5. Beautiful

1. I've got a little axe

2. Vodka + Claustraphobia

3. Neverlanding

4. About You

5. Guide To Survival

6. Give Back My Brain

7. We Simple Things