MIS-SHAPES
Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits.
Raised on a diet of broken biscuits, oh
we don't look the same as you,
we don't do the things you do,
but we live around here too, Oh really.
Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits,
we'd like to go to town but we can't risk it, oh
cos they just want to keep us out.
You could end up with a smack in the mouth
just for standing out, Oh really.
Brothers, sisters, can't you see?
The future's owned by you and me.
There won't be fighting in the street.
They think they've got us beat, but revenge is going to
be so
sweet.
We're making a move,
we're making it now,
we're coming out of the side-lines.
Just put your hands up - it's a raid yeah.
We want your homes,
we want your lives,
we want the things you won't allow us.
We won't use guns,
we won't use bombs,
we'll use the one thing we've got more of - that's our minds.
Check your lucky numbers,
that much money could drag you under, oh.
What's the point of being rich,
if you can't think what to do with it?
Cos you're so bleeding thick.
Oh we weren't supposed to be,
we learnt too much at school now we
can't help but see,
that the future that you've got mapped out is
nothing much to shout about.
We're making a move,
we're making it now,
we're coming out of the side-lines.
Just put your hands up - it's a raid yeah.
We want your homes,
we want your lives,
we want the things you won't allow us.
We won't use guns,
we won't use bombs,
we'll use the one thing we've got more of - that's our minds
Brothers, sisters, can't you see?
The future's owned by you and me.
There won't be fighting in the street.
They think they've got us beat, but revenge is going to
be so
sweet.
We're making a move.
We're making it now.
We're coming out of the sidelines.
Just put your hands up - it's a raid.
We want your homes,
we want your lives,
we want the things you won't allow us.
We won't use guns,
we won't use bombs,
we'll use the one thing we've got more of - that's our minds.
And that's our minds. Yeah.
PENCIL SKIRT
When you raise your pencil skirt
like a veil before my eyes
Like the look upon his face
as he's zipping up his flies
Oh I know
that you're engaged to him
Oh, but I know
you want something to play with baby
I'll be around when he's not in town
I'll show you how you're doing it wrong
I really love it when you tell me to stop
Oh it's turning me on
You can tell me some lies
about the good times that you've had
But I've kissed your mother twice
and now I'm working on your dad oh baby
If you look under the bed
then I can see my house from here
So just lie against the wall
and watch my conscience disappear now baby
I only come here
cause I know it makes you sad yeah
I only do it
cause I know you know it's bad
Oh yes I know that it's ugly
and it shouldn't be like that oh
But it's turning me on
COMMON PEOPLE
She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge
she studied sculpture at St Martin's college
that's where I
caught her eye
She told me that her Dad was loaded
I said "In that case I'll have rum and Coca-Cola. "
she said "Fine, "
and then in thirty seconds time she said
"I want to live like common people
I want to do whatever common people do
I want to sleep with common people
I want to sleep with common people like you. "
Well what else could I do?
I said "I'll see what I can do. "
I took her to a supermarket
I don't know why, but I had to start it somewhere
so it started there
I said "Pretend you've got no money. "
but she just laughed an said "Oh you're so funny. "
I said "Yeah?
Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here
Are you sure you want to live like common people
you want to see whatever common people see
you want to sleep with common people
you want to sleep with common people like me? "
But she didn't understand
she just smiled and held my hand
Rent a flat above a shop
cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
'cos when you're laid in bed at night
watching roaches climb the wall
if you called your Dad he could stop it all
Yeah
You'll never live like common people
you'll never do what common people do
you'll never fail like common people
you'll never watch your life slide out of view
and then dance, and drink, and screw
because there's nothing else to do
Sing along with the common people
sing along and it might just get you through
Laugh along with the common people
laugh along even though they're laughing at you
and the stupid things that you do
because you think that poor is cool
Like a dog lying in a corner
they will bite and never warn you
Look out
they'll tear your insides out
[something muffled underneath, maybe: I'm sorry,
Mr Dalton, there's no need to be concerned]
'cos everybody hates a tourist
especially one who thinks it's
all such a laugh
yeah and the chip stain's grease will come out in the bath
You will never understand
how it feels to live your life
with no meaning or control
and with nowhere else to go
You are amazed that they exist
and they burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why
Rent a flat above a shop
cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
'cos when you're laid in bed at night
watching roaches climb the wall
if you called your Dad he could stop it all
You'll never live like common people
you'll never do what common people do
you'll never fail like common people
you'll never watch your life slide out of view
and dance, and drink, and screw
because there's nothing else to do
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
Aa-aa-ah la la la la…
Oh yeah.
I SPY
I spy a boy, I spy a girl.
I spy the worst place in the world,
in the whole wide world.
Oh you didn't do bad,
you made it out,
I'm still stuck here oh but I'll get out.
Oh yeah I'll get out.
Can't you see the giant that walks around you seeing through
your petty lives?
Do you think I do these things for real?
I do these things just so I survive.
And you know I will survive.
It may look to the untrained eye,
I'm sitting on my arse all day.
I'm biding time until I take you all on.
My Lords and Ladies,
I will prevail,
I cannot fail.
Cos I spy.
Oh I've got your numbers,
taken notes,
I know the ways your minds work;
I've studied.
And your minds are just the same as mine
except that you are clever swines,
you never let mask slip,
you never admit to it,
you're never hurried.
Oh no no no.
And every night I hone my plan
how I will get my satisfaction,
how I will blow your paradise away away, away.
Cos I spy.
And it's just like in the old days -
I used to compose my own critical notices in my head.
"The crowd gasp at Cocker's masterful control of the
bicycle,
skilfully avoiding the dog turn next to the corner shop.
"
Imagining a blue plaque
above the place I first ever touched a girl's chest,
but hold on,
you've got to wait for the best.
You see you should take me seriously.
Very seriously indeed.
Cause I've been sleeping with your wife for the past sixteen
weeks,
smoking your cigarettes,
drinking your brandy,
messing up the bed that you chose together.
And in all that time I just wanted you to come home unexpectedly
one afternoon,
and catch us at it in the front room.
You see I spy for a living,
and I specialise in revenge,
on taking the things I know will cause you pain.
I can't help it,
I was dragged up.
My favourite parks are car parks,
grass is something you smoke,
birds are something you shag.
Take your "Year in Provence"
and shove it up your arse.
Your Ladbroke Grove looks turn me on, yeah.
With roach burns in designer dresses,
skin stretched tight over high cheek-bones,
and thousands of tiny dryness lines beating a path to the
corners of your eyes.
And every night I hatch my plan,
it's not a case of woman v man.
It's more a case of haven's against haven'ts.
And I just happen to have got what you need,
just exactly what you need yeah.
La la la la la la la la la la,
in the midnight hour.
La la la la la la la la la la,
I will come to you,
I will come to you,
I will take you from this sickness,
dinner parties and champagne,
I'll hold your body and make it sing again.
Come on - sing again,
let's sing again, oh yeah,
Cos I spy,
yes,
I spy.
I spy a boy,
and I spy a girl.
I spy the chance,
to change the world,
to change your world.
DISCO 2OOO
Well we were born within an hour of each other.
Our mothers said we could be sister and brother.
Your name is Deborah, De-bor-ah. It never suited you.
And they said that when we grew up, we'd get married
and never split up. Oh we never did it, although I often
thought of it.
Oh Deborah, do you recall? Your house was
very small
with wood-chip on the wall. When I came round to call
you didn't notice me at all, and I said: "Let's all
meet up in
the year 2000.
Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown?
Be there two o'clock by the fountain down the road. "
I never knew that you'd get married. I would be living
down here on my own on that damp and lonely Thursday years
ago.
You were the first girl at school to get
breasts and Martin said
that
you were the best. Oh, the boys all loved you, but I was
a
mess.
I had to watch them try and get you undressed. We were friends
and
that's as far as it went. I used to walk you home sometimes
but
it meant;
Oh, it meant nothing to you 'cause you were so popular.
Do it, Oh yeah, Oh yeah. And now it's all
over. You've paid your
money
and you've taken your choice and I know we'll never meet
again.
But Deborah,
I just wanted you to know I remember every single thing.
Oh, what are you doing Sunday, baby? Would
you like to come and
meet me, maybe?
You can even bring your baby. Ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh. What
are you
doing Sunday, baby?
Would you like to come and meet me, maybe? You can even
bring
your baby.
Ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ooh
F. E. E. L. I. N.
G. C. A. L. L. E. D. L. O. V. E
The room is cold,
and has been like this for several months.
If I close my eyes,
I can visualise everything in it,
right down, right down to the broken handle on the third
drawer
down
of the dressing table.
And the world outside this room,
has also assumed a familiar shape,
the same events shuffeled in a slightly different order
each
day.
Just like a modern shopping centre.
And it's so cold - yeah it's so cold.
It's so cold yeah, it's so cold.
What is this feeling called love.
Why me, why you, why here, why now.
It doesn't make no sense no.
It's not convenient no.
It doesn't fit my plans no.
It's something I don't understand oh.
F. E. E. L. I. N. G. C. A. double L. E. D. L. O. V. E.
Oh what is this thing that is happening to me.
And as I'm standing across this room,
I feel as if my whole life has been leading to this one
moment.
And as I touch your shoulder tonight,
this room has become the centre of the entire universe.
So what do I do? I've got a slightly sick feeling in my
stomach,
like I'm standing on top of a very high building, oh yeah.
All the stuff they tell you about in the movies,
but this isn't chocolate boxes and roses.
It's dirtier than that,
like some small animal that only comes out at night.
And I see flashes of the shape of your breasts,
and the curve of your belly,
and I may have to sit down and catch my breath.
Oh. What is this feeling called love.
Why me, why you, why here.
And why now.
It doesn't make no sense no.
It's not convenient no.
It doesn't fit my plans,
but I got that taste in my mouth again oh.
F. E. E. L. I. N. G. C. A. double L. E. D. L. O. V. E.
What is this thing that is happening to me
F. E. E. L. I. N. G. C. A. double L. E. D. L. O. V. E.
What is this thing that is happening to me.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
LIVE BED SHOW
She doesn't have to go to work,
but she doesn't want to stay in bed,
cos it's changed from something comfortable,
to something else instead.
This bed has seen it all,
from the first time to the last,
the silences of now,
and the good times of the past.
And it only cost ten pounds,
from a shop just down the road,
but that was seven years ago,
and things were very different then.
It didn't get much rest at first,
the headboard banging in the night.
The neighbours didn't dare complain,
oh everything was going right.
Now there's no need to complain,
cos it never makes a sound.
Something beautiful left town,
and she doesn't even know its name.
Now every night she plays the sad game
ooh ah ah,
called pretending nothing's going wrong oh,
oh but she knows,
if this show was televised,
no one would watch it,
not tonight but seven years ago.
La la la la la la la
Now there's no need to complain,
cos it never makes a sound,
something beautiful left town,
and she never even knew its name.
She doesn't have to go to work,
but she doesn't want to stay in bed,
cos it's changed from something comfortable,
to something else instead.
SOMETHING CHANGED
I wrote the song two hours before we met.
I didn't know your name or what you looked like yet.
Oh I could have stayed at home and gone to bed.
I could have gone to see a film instead.
You might have changed your mind and seen your friends.
Life could have been very different but then,
something changed.
Do you believe that there's someone up above?
Does he have a timetable directing acts of love?
Why did I write this song on that one day?
Why did you touch my hand and softly say.
Stop asking questions that don't matter anyway.
Just give us a kiss to celebrate here today.
Something changed.
When we woke up that morning we had no way
of knowing,
that in a matter of hours we'd change the way we were going.
Where would I be now if we'd never met?
Would I be singing this song to someone else instead?
I dunno but like you said
something changed.
SORTED FOR E'S AND
WIZZ
Oh is this the way they say the future's meant to feel?
Or just twenty thousand people standing in a field
And I just don't quite understand what this feeling is
But that okay cos we're all sorted out for E's and Wizz
And tell me when the spaceship lands
Cos all this has just got to mean something
In the middle of the night
It feels alright but then tomorrow morning
Ohh Ohh when you come down
Oh yeah the pirate radio told us what was
going down
Got the tickets from some messed up bloke in Camden Town
And no one seems to know exactly where it is
But that's okay, cos we're all sorted out for E's and Wizz
At 4 0'clock the normal world seems very very very far away
Hey hey
Just keep on moving
Everybody asks your name they say we're all the same
And now it's "Nive one, Geezer"-that's far the
conversation
went
I lost my friends, I dance alone, it's 6 o'clock, I wanna
go
home
But it's no way not today, makes you wonder what it meant
And thi hollow feeling grows and grows and grows and grows
And you wanna call your mother and say,
"Mother, I can never come home again because I seem
to have
left
an important part of my brain somewhere in a field in
Hampshire. "
Alright
Ooohh Oohh when you come down
Oohh what if you never come down?
UNDERWEAR
Why don't you shut the door
And close the curtains
Cos you're not going anywhere
He's coming up the stairs
And in a moment, he'll want to see your underwear
Ahh…
I couldn't stop it now
There's no way to get out
He's standing far too near
How the hell that you get here
Semi naked in somebody else's room
I give my whole life just to see it
Just you, Stood there
Only in your underwear
If fashion is your trade
Then when you're naked
I guess you must be unemployed
But once it's on the way
There's no escaping
The fact that you're a girl and he's a boy
Ahh…
If you could close your eyes
And just remember
That this is what you wanted last night
So why is it so hard
For you to touch him
For to go, give yourself to him
Oh Jesus…
Come on… come on… come on now…
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo…
Oh yeah, I want to see it
Want to see you standing in your Underwear
Aahh…
MONDAY MORNING
There's nothing to do so you just stay in bed,
oh poor thing,
why live in the world when you can live in your head?
Mmm when you can go out late from Monday,
till Saturday turns into Sunday,
and now you're back here at Monday,
so we can do it all over again.
And you go aah ah ah
I want a refund,
I want a light,
I want a reason,
to make it through the night, alright.
And so you finally left school,
so now what are you going to do?
Now you're so grown up,
yeah you're oh oh oh oh oh so mature oh.
Going out late from Monday,
chuck up in the street on Sunday,
you don't want to live till Monday,
and have to do it all again.
and you go aah ah ah
I want a refund,
I want a light,
I want a reason for all this night after night after night
after
night.
Oh I know that it's stupid but,
I just can't seem to spend a night at home,
cos my friends left town,
and I'm here all alone ow.
Oh yeah they say the past must die for the
future to be born,
in that case die little mother, die - ooh.
Stomach in,
chest out,
on your marks,
get set, go.
Now, now that you're free,
what are you going to be?
And who are you going to see?
And where, where will you go?
And how will you know,
You didn't get it all wrong?
Is this the light of a new day dawning?
A future bright that you can walk in?
No it's just another Monday morning.
Do it all over again, oh baby.
La la la la la la
Do do do do do do
BAR ITALIA
Now if you can stand,
I would like to take you by the hand, yeah,
and go for a walk,
past people as they go to work.
Oh, let's get out of this place,
before they tell us that we've just died.
Move, move quick, you've gotta move.
Come on it's through, come on it's time.
Oh look at you, you,
you're looking so confused,
just what did you lose?
If you can make an
order could you get me one?
Two sugars would be great,
cos I'm fading fast,
and it's nearly dawn.
If they knocked down this place, this place,
it'd still look much better than you.
Move, move quick, you've gotta move.
Come on it's through, come on it's time.
Oh look at you, you,
you're looking so confused,
what did you lose?
Oh, it's ok it's just your mind.
If we get through this alive,
I'll meet you next week, same place, same time.
Oh move, move quick you've gotta move.
Come on it's through, come on it's time.
Oh look at you, you,
you're looking so confused,
what did you lose?
That's what you get from clubbing it.
You can't go home and go to bed,
because it hasn't worn off yet,
and now it's morning.
There's only one place we can go.
It's around the corner in Soho,
where other broken people go.
Let's go.
