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[fox69]

Ansaphone

Ansaphone

Oh I know I don't own you
But I don't even know if I should phone you
Someone sending me letters
Saying you've been going with other fellers
And they bored you
But I don't wanna cry or talk for hours to a machine on the end of a telephone line
Oh it just kills me
When all you've got to do is call
Oh do it any time
'cause there's never no-one home
Never no-one home
Leave your message on the ansaphone
I'm not trying to be clever
But at least we're not still living together
All those calls in the evening
If I answered they'd hang up without speaking
And they bored you
But I don't want to cry or talk for hours to a machine on the end of a telephone line
Oh it just kills me
When all you've got to do is call
Oh do it any time
'cause there's never no-one home
Never no-one home
Leave your message on the ansaphone

[Beep!]
"Hello, its me.
I just wanted to call and say it doesn't matter what you get up to.
I just want you to stay in touch. That's all."

Are you really not at home?
Or are you there but not alone?
Screening calls
You don't want to receive meaning calls
Calls that come from me
Oh I need to see you
It's not enough for me just to hear you
You said you'd be here by ten thirty
But you want to stay out and be dirty
Oh it just kills me when all you've got to do is call
Oh do it any time 'cause there's never no-one home
Never no-one home
Leave your message on the ansaphone
I just want you to stay in touch. That's all."

Are you really not at home?
Or are you there but not alone?
Screening calls
You don't want to receive meaning calls
Calls that come from me
Oh I need to see you
It's not enough for me just to hear you
You said you'd be here by ten thirty
But you want to stay out and be dirty
Oh it just kills me when all you've got to do is call
Oh do it any time 'cause there's never no-one home
Never no-one home
Leave your message on the ansaphone

 

[fox69]

Babies

Babies

Well it happened years ago,
When you lived on Stanhope Road.
We listened to your sister,
When she came home from school,
Cos she was two years older,
And she had boys in her room.
We listened outside and heard her.
Alright.
Well that was alright for a while,
But soon I wanted more.
I want to see as well as hear,
And so I hid inside her wardrobe.
And she came round four,
And she was with some kid called David,
From the garage up the road.
I listened outside I heard her.
Alright.

Oh I want to take you home.
I want to give you children.
You might be my girlfriend, yeah.

When I saw you next day,
I really couldn't tell,
Cos you might go and tell your mother.
And so you went with Neve,
And Neve was coming on,
And I thought I heard you laughing,
When his Mum and Dad were gone.
I listened outside, I heard you.
Alright.

Oh I want to take you home.
I want to give you children.
You might be my girlfriend, yeah.

Well I guess it couldn't last too long.
I came home one day,
And all her things were gone,
I fell asleep inside.
I never heard her come.
And then she opened up her wardrobe,
And I had to get it on.
Oh, listen
We were on the bed when you came home,
I heard you stop outside the door.
I know you won't believe it's true,
I only went with her 'cos she looks like you.
Oh I want to take you home.
I want to give you children.
You might be my girlfriend, yeah
You might be my girlfriend, yeah.

Well I guess it couldn't last too long.
I came home one day,
And all her things were gone,
I fell asleep inside.
I never heard her come.
And then she opened up her wardrobe,
And I had to get it on.
Oh, listen
We were on the bed when you came home,
I heard you stop outside the door.
I know you won't believe it's true,
I only went with her 'cos she looks like you.
Oh I want to take you home.
I want to give you children.
You might be my girlfriend, yeah

 

[fox69]

Bad Cover Version

Bad Cover Version

The word's on the street: you've found someone new.
If he looks nothing like me I'm so happy for you.
I heard an old girlfriend has turned to the church - she's trying to replace me, but it'll never work.
'Cos every touch reminds you of just how sweet it could have been
And every time he kisses you it leaves behind the bitter taste of saccharine.
A bad cover version of love is not the real thing.
Bikini-clad girl on the front who invited you in.
Such great disappointment when you got him home - the original was so good; the one you no longer own.
And every touch reminds you of just how sweet it could have been
And every time he kisses you, you get the taste of saccharine.
It's not easy to forget me, it's so hard to disconnect
When it's electronically reprocessed to give a more life-like effect.

Aah, sing your song about all the sad imitations that got it so wrong
It's like a later "Tom & Jerry" when the two of them could talk
Like the Stones since the Eighties, like the last days of Southfork.
Like "Planet of the Apes" on TV, the second side of "'Til the Band Comes in"
Like an own-brand box of cornflakes: he's going to let you down my friend
When it's electronically reprocessed to give a more life-like effect.

Aah, sing your song about all the sad imitations that got it so wrong
It's like a later "Tom & Jerry" when the two of them could talk
Like the Stones since the Eighties, like the last days of Southfork.
Like "Planet of the Apes" on TV, the second side of "'Til the Band Comes in"
Like an own-brand box of cornflakes: he's going to let you down my friend

 

[fox69]

Bar Italia

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.
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

 

[fox69]

Birds In Your Garden

Birds In Your Garden

It's six o'clock, the birds are singing.
I'm wide awake whilst you're still fast asleep.
I went outside, into your garden.
The sun was bright & the air was cool
And as I stood there listening
Well the birds in your garden they all started singing this song
"Take her now. Don't be scared, it's alright.
Oh, come on, touch her inside.
It's a crime against nature - she's been waiting all night.
Come on, hold her, & kiss her & tell her you care
If you wait 'til tomorrow she'll no longer be there.
Come on & give it to her.
You know it's now or never."
Yeah, the birds in your garden have all started singing this song.

My father never told me about the birds & the bees.
And I guess I never realised that I would ever meet birds as beautiful as these.
I came inside, climbed to your bedroom.
I kissed your eyes awake & then I did what I knew was only natural.
And then the birds in your garden, they all started singing this song
"Take her now. Don't be scared, it's alright.
Oh, come on, touch her inside.
It's a crime against nature - she's been waiting all night.
Come on, hold her, & kiss her & tell her you care
If you wait 'til tomorrow she'll no longer be there.
Come on & give it to her. You know it's now or never."
Yeah, the birds in your garden have all started singing this song.
I kissed your eyes awake & then I did what I knew was only natural.
And then the birds in your garden, they all started singing this song
"Take her now. Don't be scared, it's alright.
Oh, come on, touch her inside.
It's a crime against nature - she's been waiting all night.
Come on, hold her, & kiss her & tell her you care
If you wait 'til tomorrow she'll no longer be there.
Come on & give it to her. You know it's now or never."
Yeah, the birds in your garden have all started singing this song.
Yeah, the birds in your garden, they taught me the words to this song

 

[fox69]

Blue Girls

Blue Girls

The blue girls that bake in the sun
Skin falls in flakes from each one
Like leaves from autumn trees
They float upon the breeze
These girls you have loved
Are slowly decaying
Ah

Drying out in the sun
Before your eyes
Wild stares in your face
They seem to accuse you
Oh

What have you done
To earn this prize?
The flesh underneath candy-pink
Quite a strange affair you might think
They gasp and moan for air
Beached fish on your lawn-chair
These girls you have loved
Are slowly decaying
Ah

Drying out in the sun
Before your eyes
Wild stares in your face
They seem to accuse you
Oh

What have you done
To earn this prize?
Fragments left at the end of the day
A pile of blue that is soon swept away
Goodbye, blue girls, goodbye
Would it be too much to cry?
These girls you have loved
Have slowly decayed
Ah

They dried out in the sun
Before your eyes
Wild stares in your face
They seem to accuse you
Oh

What did you do
To earn this prize?
Fragments left at the end of the day
A pile of blue that is soon swept away
Goodbye, blue girls, goodbye
Would it be too much to cry?
These girls you have loved
Have slowly decayed
Ah

They dried out in the sun
Before your eyes
Wild stares in your face
They seem to accuse you
Oh

What did you do
To earn this prize?

 

[fox69]

Blue Glow

Blue Glow

So late looking up at your window
As it bathes me in your
Blue midnight glow
I wonder why youre not sleeping
And I wonder
If you could know
Tonight
Make it tonight
Tonight
Make it tonight
Crouched down by a bush at the roadside
I watch as
You pass me by
Lost down by the side of the river
And no light comes
From the empty sky
Tonight
Make it tonight
Tonight
Make it tonight
I left home at midnight
Made for the horizon
No sense of direction
I walked on for miles,
Oh I hope that I find you
I hide from the headlamps
No lights in the window
The whole town is sleeping and somewhere you lie,
Oh, I wish I could find you
Oh Im lost by the river
My clothes are in tatters
My face scarred by branches
I shiver with cold,
No, I dont think Ill find you
Tonight
Make it tonight
Tonight
Make it tonight
Wont you make it tonight?
Oh say youll meet me tonight
Wont you make it tonight?
The whole town is sleeping and somewhere you lie,
Oh, I wish I could find you
Oh Im lost by the river
My clothes are in tatters
My face scarred by branches
I shiver with cold,
No, I dont think Ill find you
Tonight
Make it tonight
Tonight
Make it tonight
Wont you make it tonight?
Oh say youll meet me tonight
Wont you make it tonight?
Say youll meet me tonight.

 

[fox69]

Boats And Trains

Boats And Trains

Would you like to hear
About the things I fear?
About my life, and loves too?
Well why should I tell you?
If I told you a secret
You'd be sure to leak it
You couldn't keep it inside
No matter how hard you tried
On boats and trains and
And boats and trains and
Funny things and
Funny things and
On boats and trains and
And boats and trains and
Funny things and
Funny things and
La la la...

 

[fox69]

Death Comes To Town

Death Comes To Town

Ah ah ah ah ah...
Tonight's the night
Open your door and I'll come inside
Don't be afraid, it will be alright
I will change your whole life tonight
And you're so beautiful
Too beautiful for this dead-end world
I'm taking you to a better place
Oh, far away from this stupid race, oh
Come with me
For ever and ever
Please come with me for ever
No, don't let me down
Oh, don't make me cry
Lie in my arms and be mine tonight
Do it
Oh, did I tell you that there was no need to be afraid?
Oh, you've got such a beautiful body
Oh, you'll make such a beautiful body
I smoke these yellow-lit cul-de-sacs at night
You hear my foot-step on your bedroom stair
And I will take the first one in every house in town
I'll take your sisters and I'll lay them down
I'll lay them down
Tonight!
Mother (mother)
Father (father)
Brother (brother)
Take them all a-
Ba ba ba ba...
Make you mine
I want your body
Mother (mother)
Father (father)
Brother (brother)
The wind (the wind)
Streets (streets)
Those girls (girls)
Mother (mother)
Father (father)
Brother (brother)
Take them all a-
Ba ba ba ba...
Make you mine
I want your body
Mother (mother)
Father (father)
Brother (brother)
The wind (the wind)
Streets (streets)
Those girls (girls)
I walked into town (town) (town)

 

[fox69]

Deep Fried In Kelvin

Deep Fried In Kelvin

Oh children of the future
Conceived in the toilets at Meadowhall
To be raised on the cheap cold slabs of garage floors
Rolling empty cans down the stairway
(don't you love that sound?)
Whilst the thoughts of a bad social worker ran through his head
Trying to remember what he learnt at training college
Lester said he wasn't allowed in here
So why don't you get lost?
And if you grow up
Then when you grow up, maybe
Maybe you can live
Live on Kelvin
Yeah you can live in Kelvin
On the promenade with the concrete walkways
Where pidgeons go to die
(a woman on the fourteenth floor noticed that the ceiling was bulging as if under a great weight.
When the council investigated
They discovered that the man in the flat above
Had transported a large quantity of soil into his living-room,
In which several plants he had stolen from a local park were growing.
When questioned, the man said all he wanted was a garden.
When questioned, the man said all he wanted was a garden.)
Oh God, I think the future's been fried
Deep fried in Kelvin
And now it's rotting behind the remains of a stolen motorbike
I haven't touched it, honest
But there isn't anything else to do
We don't need your sad attempts at social conscience
Based on taxi-rides home at night when exhibition opens
We just want your car radio
And those Reflux speakers
Now
Suffer the little children to come to me
And I will tend their adventure playground splinters with cigarette burns
And feed them fizzy orange and chips
And then they grow up straight and tall
And then they grow up to live
On Kelvin
Yeah
We can have ghettos too
Only we use air-rifles instead of machine-guns
Stitch that
And we drunk driving lights
In the end
The question you have to ask yourself is
Are you talking to me
And those Reflux speakers
Now
Suffer the little children to come to me
And I will tend their adventure playground splinters with cigarette burns
And feed them fizzy orange and chips
And then they grow up straight and tall
And then they grow up to live
On Kelvin
Yeah
We can have ghettos too
Only we use air-rifles instead of machine-guns
Stitch that
And we drunk driving lights
In the end
The question you have to ask yourself is
Are you talking to me
Or are you chewing a brick?