Are you such a dreamer?
To put the world to rights?
I'll stay home forever
Where two & two always
makes up five
I'll lay down the tracks
Sandbag & hide
January has April's showers
And two & two always
makes up five

IT'S THE DEVIL'S WAY NOW
THERE IS NO WAY OUT
YOU CAN SCREAM
& YOU CAN SHOUT
IT IS TOO LATE NOW
BECAUSE
YOU HAVE NOT BEEN
PAYING ATTENTION
I try to sing along
I get it all wrong
Eezeepeezeeeezeepeeezee
NOT
I swat em like flies but
Like flies the buggers
Keep coming back
NOT
Maybe not

All hail to the thief
But I'm not!
Don't question my
Authority or put me
In the dock
Cozimnot!
Go & tell the king that
The sky is falling in
When it's not
Maybe not.

2). Sit Down. Stand Up.
Snakes & Ladders.

Sit down.
Stand up.
Walk into
The jaws of hell.
Anytime. Anytime.
We can wipe you out
Anytime. Anytime.
THE RAINDROPS

3). Sail to the Moon.
Brush the Cobwebs out of the Sky.

I sucked
The moon
I spoke
Too soon
And how much did
It cost?
I was dropped from
Moonbeams
And sailed
On shooting stars
Maybe you'll
be president
But know
right from wrong
Or in the flood you'll
build an Ark And sail us to the moon

4). Backdrifts.
Honeymoon is Over.

We're rotten fruit
We're damaged goods
What the hell
We got nothing more to lose
One gust & we
Will probably crumble
We're backdrifters.
This far but no further
I'm hanging off a branch
I'm teetering on the brink
Oh Honeysweet
So full of sleep
I'm backsliding.
You fell into our arms
We tried
But there was nothing
We could do
All evidence has been buried. All tapes have been erased.
But your footprints
Give you away so
You're backtracking

5). Go to Sleep.
Little Man being Erased.

Something for the rag & bone man
Over my dead body
Something big is gonna happen
Over my dead body
Someone's son or someone's daughter
Over my dead body
This is how I end up getting sucked in
Over my dead body
I'm gonna go to sleep let this wash all over me
We don't wanna wake the monster
Tiptoe round tie him down
We don't want the loonies taking over
Tiptoe round tie them down
May pretty horses
Come to you
As you sleep
I'm gonna go to sleep
Let this wash
All over me

6). Where I End and You Begin.
The Sky is Falling in.

There's a gap in between
There's a gap where we meet
Where I end & you begin
And I'm sorry for us
The dinosaurs roam the earth
The sky turns green
Where I end & you begin
I am up in the clouds
I am up in the clouds
And I can't
& I can't come down
I can watch but
Not take part
Where I end & where you start
where you you left me alone
You left me alone.
X will the mark the place
Like parting the waves
Like a house falling
into the sea
I will eat you all alive
And there'll be no more lies

7). We Suck Young Blood.
Your Time is up.

Are you hungry?
Are you sick?
Are you begging for a break?
Are you sweet?
Are you fresh?
Are you strung up by the wrists?
(Fois-gras style)
We want the young blood.
Are you fracturing?
Are you torn at the seams?
Would you do anything?
Flea-bitten? Motheaten?
We suck young blood.
Won't let the creeping ivy
Won't let the nervous bury me
Our veins are thin
Our rivers poisoned
We want the sweet meats.
We want the young blood.
We suck young blood.
We want the young blood.

8). The Gloaming.
Softly Open our Mouths in the Cold.

Genie let out the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Murderers you're murderers
We are not the same as you
Funny haha funny how
When the walls bend
With your breathing
They will suck you down
To the otherside
To the shadows blue & red
Your alarm bells
Should be ringing
This is the gloaming

9). There there.
The Boney King of Nowhere.

In pitch dark
I go walking in
Your landscape
Broken branches
Trip me as I speak
Just because you feel it
Doesn't mean its there
Just because you feel it
Doesn't mean it's there
There's always a siren
Singing you to shipwreck
Steer away from these rocks
We'd be a walking disaster
Just because you feel it
Doesn't mean it's there
Just because you feel it
Doesn't mean it's there There there
Why so green
& lonely?
Heaven sent you to me
We are accidents
Waiting
Waiting to happen
We are accidents
Waiting
Waiting to happen

10). I Will.
No man's Land.

I will
Lay me down
In a bunker
Underground.
I won't let this happen to my children.
Meet the real world coming out of my shell
With white elephants
Sitting ducks.
I will
Rise up.
Little babies' eyes.

11). A Punchup at a Wedding.
No no no no no no no no no.

I don't know why you bother
Nothing's ever good enough for you

I was there
And it wasn't like that
You've come here
just to start a fight

You had to piss on our parade
You had to shred our big day
You had to ruin it for all concerned
In a drunken punch-up at a wedding

Hypocrite opportunist
Don't infect me with your poison

A bully in a china shop

When I turn 'round

you stay

Frozen to the spot
The pointless snide remarks
Of hammerheaded sharks
The pot will call the kettle black
It's a drunken punch-up at a wedding

12). Myxomatosis.
Judge, Jury & Executioner.

The mongrel cat came home
Holding half a head
Proceeded to show it off
To all his new found friends
He said
I been where I liked
I slept with who I liked
she ate me up for breakfast
she screwed me in a vice
And now
I don't know why I feel so
tongue tied

I sat in the cupboard
And wrote it down in neat
They were cheering & waving
cheering & waving
twitching & salivating
like with myxomatosis
But it got edited, fucked up
Strangled, beaten up
Used as a photo in Time magazine
Buried in a burning black hole in Devon
I don't know why I feel so tongue tied
don't know why I feel so skinned alive.
My thoughts are misguided &
A little naive
I twitch & salivate
like with myxomatosis

You should put me in a home or you should put me down
I got myxomatosis
I got myxomatosis
Now no one likes a smart arse
But we all like stars
That wasn't my intention
I did it for a reason
He shook hands with the cripples &
He gave them all milk
He did a few card tricks
For his mafia geeks
But now
I don't know why I feel so
tongue tied

13). Scatterbrain.
As Dead as Leaves.

I'm walking out
In a force ten gale
Birds thrown around
Bullets for hail
The roof is pulling off
By its fingernails
Your voice is rapping
On my window sill
Yesterday's headlines
Blown by the wind
Yesterday's people
End up
SCATTERBRAIN
Then any fool can
Easy pick a hole
(I only wish I could fall in)
A moving target
In a firing range
Somewhere I'm not
Scatterbrain
Somewhere I'm not
Scatterbrain
Lightning fuse
Powercut
SCATTERBRAIN

14). A Wolf at the Door.
It Girl. Rag Doll.

Drag him out the window
Dragging out your dead
Singing I miss you
Snakes & ladders flip the lid out pops the cracker smacks you in the
head knifes you in the neck kicks you in the teeth steel toe caps takes
all your credit cards step up get the gunge
Get the eggs get the flan in the face the flan in the face the flan
in the face

Dance you fucker dance you fucker don't you dare
Don't you dare don't you
Flan in the face
Take it with the love its given take it with a pinch of salt take it
to the taxman
Let me back let me back I promise to be good don't look in the mirror
at the face you don't recognize
Help me, call the doctor, put me inside put me inside put me inside
put me inside put me inside
I keep the wolf from the door but he calls me up calls me on the phone
tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up
Steal all my children if I don?t pay the ransom & I'll never see them
again if I squeal to the cops...

Walking like a giant cranes & with my X ray eyes I strip you naked in
a
Tight little world & are you on the list?
Stepford wives who are we to complain?
Investments & dealers. Investments & dealers
Cold wives & mistresses.
Cold wives & Sunday papers city boys in First Class don't know we're
born just know
Someone else is gonna come & clean it up
Born & raised for the job
Someone always does I wish you'd get up go over get up go over &
turn this tape off