The Stranglers

[fox69]

"Something Better Change"

"Something Better Change"


Don't you like the way I move when you see me?
Don't you like the things that I say?
Don't you like the way I seem to enjoy it?
When you shout things but I don't care

Something's happening and it's happening right now
You're too blind to see it
Something's happening and it's happening right now
Ain't got time to wait
I said something better change
I said something better change
I said something better change
I said something better change

Don't you like the way I dance?
Does it bug you?
Don't you like the cut of my clothes?
Don't you like the way I seem to enjoy it?
Stick my fingers right up your nose

 

[fox69]

"Sometimes"

"Sometimes"


Someday I'm going to smack your face
Someday I'm going to smack your face
Somebody's going to call your bluff
Somebody's going to treat you rough
Sometimes there is only one way out
I've got to fight

Sometimes I get to feel so mean
Sometimes I get to feel so mean
Sometimes you look like you're too clean
Sometimes I see the in-between
Sometimes only one way
I've got to fight

You're way past your station

Beat you honey till you drop

You're way past your station
It's useless asking you to stop
I got morbid fascination
Beat you honey till you drop

Sometimes you're going to get some stick
Sometimes you're going to get some stick
Somebody's standing in our way
Somebody's gonna have to pay
Sometimes there is only one way
I've got to fight

 

[fox69]

"Souls"

"Souls"


Just like an Indian I climb
Offering sacrifice
Up to the temple on the hill
Can human heart suffice?
Can I survive the world alone
Without a well within my home
Without the one idol's love
Shining down upon me?
She eats Souls
She eats Souls
All that I'm offering's the heart
That's all I have to give
With all this heat surrounding me
My deity forgives
And if she needs it every day
I'll climb the steps my savage way
Uttering incantations up up above me
She eats Souls
She eats Souls
Souls
Can I survive the world alone
Without a well within my home
Without the one idol's love
Shining down upon one?
She eats Souls
She eats Souls

 

[fox69]

"Southern Mountains"

"Southern Mountains"


I'll take you down
Down to Southern Mountains
Where streams wash away our sins
In water from Heaven
And you will be with me
In that play place by the sea
A dream

I know
I must have been here once before

Send me back
Back to Southern Mountains
There I just was
Instead of always being
And you in your way
Made me long for other days
And dreams

I know
I must have been here once before

And was your mother always beside you
When you kissed me
I thought I saw shadows
Creeping past your eyes
Maybe they were mountains

I'll take you down
Down to Southern Mountains
Where streams wash away our sins
In water from Heaven
And you will be with me
In that place by the sea
A dream
A dream
I know I must have been here once before

 

[fox69]

"Spain"

"Spain"


Found a place in the southern reaches
A day or two in a saddle ride
If you're looking for leather breeches
They've got some damn good hides
If you're looking for the wild country
And you can live without John Wayne
There's a place that is down in history
Under the name of Spain
Under the name of Spain

If you want to leave the clouds behind you
Take a walk into sunshine
Plenty of it in the southern reaches
Where they're making future wine
Looks a little like California
Prickly pears and rolling plains
It's a place I could fly my flag today
Under the name of Spain
Under the name of Spain

-- yo deseo que todos los niños Españoles...
y por eso envio un beso a todos los niños del mundo.

We knew that it was love at first sight

Watch them move into the future
Got a lot of catching up to do
Hope they take a lesson from their neighbours
That'll show 'em what not to do
Should've happened for them in the 30's
But the pleasure got caught in pain
Ended up like the bull in the china shop
Under the name of Spain
Under the name of Spain

-- yo deseo que todos los niños Españoles...
y por eso envio un beso a todos los niños del mundo.

We knew that it was love at first sight
We knew that it was love at first sight

Spain!
Spain!
Spain!

Spain!
Spain!
Spain!

Spain!
Spain!
Spain!

Spain!
Spain!
Spain!

-- yo deseo que todos los niños Españoles...
y por eso envio un beso a todos los niños del mundo.

We knew that it was love at first sight

Watch them move into the future
Got a lot of catching up to do
Hope they take a lesson from their neighbours
That'll show 'em what not to do
Should've happened for them in the 30's
But the pleasure got caught in pain
Ended up like the bull in the china shop
Under the name of Spain
Under the name of Spain

 

[fox69]

"Spectre Of Love"

"Spectre Of Love"


I never knew what made me do it
I just remember it was wrong
I've questioned why I put you through it
Who would have thought you'd be so strong
I should have wrapped you up and kept you safe
Instead I turned my back on you

[Chorus:]
You can't deny there’s a spectre of love
He keeps the hawk and dove
You can't deny there’s a spectre of love

I keep your picture by my window
You're smiling and you look so young
If I could only speak your language
You’d know that you're the only one
I feel like stepping out in dead mans shoes
And only you can save me now

[Chorus]

And if the time should give up
This can be undone I swear it

Salvation can be found in times like these
I just need you when I found mine

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Still Life"

"Still Life"


While standing naked at the window watching the night
The thunder crashing all the lightening and the rain
I wondered if I could or even if I should
Attempt to see you or be with you ever again

Your smile is painted on a thousand faces

Still lying in my mouth still blowing through my hair
My legs are strong but they won't carry me away
Keep hiding sheets of lead what's that the things you said
While eyes are heavy they won't promise me to sleep

Your smile is painted on a thousand places
What of me now as I fade still life goes by

Cold sweat you haunt my skin
Your fingers echoing your name is written here in blood of life of sin?
Still burning on my bed your light goes out I'm dead
Who says the heads the law has nothing left to break

Your smile is painted on a thousand dreams I can't forget

What of me now as I fade still life goes by
What of me now here I stay and still life goes by

 

[fox69]

"Straighten Out"

"Straighten Out"


The break of day has come, I see the cracks have just begun
To line the walls, line the walls
I want to see the little girls and boys destroy their toys
And line the walls, line the walls
What a fate for little girls
British boys minds in a whirl
Tell you things that'll make your curls
Straighten out, straighten out
Straighten out, straighten out

I'm twenty years or more, just tell me what we're living for
So tell me now, tell me now
Frustrated intellect, the government capitulation
Follows now, follows now
What a fate for little girls
British boys minds in a whirl

Tell you things that'll make your curls
Straighten out, straighten out
Straighten out, straighten out

The break of day has come, I see the cracks have just begun
To line the walls, line the walls
I want to see the little girls and boys destroy their toys
And line the walls, line the walls
What a fate for little girls
British boys minds in a whirl
Tell you things that'll make your curls
Straighten out, straighten out
Straighten out, straighten out

Straighten out, straighten out
Straighten out, straighten out

 

[fox69]

"Strange Little Girl"

"Strange Little Girl"


One day you see a strange little girl look at you
One day you see a strange little girl feeling blue

She'd run to the town one day
Leaving home and the country fair
Just beware
When you're there
Strange little girl

She didn't know how to live in a town that was rough
It didn't take long before she knew she'd had enough
Walking home in her wrapped up world
She survived but she's feeling old
And she found all things cold

Strange little girl
Where are you going?
Strange little girl
Where are you going?
Do you know where you could be going?

Walking home in her wrapped up world
She survived but she's feeling old
'Cause she found all things cold

Strange little girl
Where are you going?
Strange little girl
Where are you going?
Do you know where you could be going?

Strange little girl
Where are you going?
Strange little girl
Where are you going?
Do you know where you could be going?

 

[fox69]

"Sugar Bullets"

"Sugar Bullets"


Hey Chairman have you heard the news
The red man just got the blues
From sucking on sugar bullets

Hey Chairman look over the wall
The little man is walking tall
From sucking on sugar bullets

Well I never thought I'd see
The sun set in the East
Or the walls come tumbling down
So let us drink to missing friends
And call them to the feast

We'll bury the broken bones
Under the precious stone

And it just goes to show
Nobody knows what's in the future
And it just goes to show
Nobody knows at all

Hey Chairman don't look now
The new man will not kow tow
He's sucking on sugar bullets

I threw the coins last night
Broken lines in a blood red sky
And someone loading sugar bullets

[Repeat chorus]

The black queen with the ivory smile
The wild dog and the mystery smile
Are sucking on should be bullets

So Chairman don't feel bad
We think of the fun you're gonna have
Sucking those sugar bullets