The Stranglers

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"Tramp"

"Tramp"


Takes the time to stay one place
Though his clothes aren't finest lace
Read the lines on a tramp's face
Taking his time just like you just like me
Wandering so fancy free
Searching for love in the call of the wild
Travelling lost like a child
Law has missed him every day
Doesn't need it anyway
Life is the next meal away
A lost woman long ago
Does she miss him does he know?
Does it matter in the snow?
Taking his time just like you just like me
Wandering so fancy free
Searching for love in the call of the wild
Travelling lost like a child
Taking his time just like you just like me
Wandering so fancy free
Searching for love in the call of the wild
Travelling lost like a child

 

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"Tucker's Grave"

"Tucker's Grave"


Committed a crime that no longer exists
Was left at the crossroads at a place that is jinxed
Committed a crime against god and his king
All that's left is a cider drinking inn

See my summer soon

Sit around telling stories by the fire
About the good old days and the things they had for hire
So my friend if you're feeling especially brave
Take a trip down to old Tuckers grave

See my summer soon

Enter this place and you'll not come out the same
Tucker makes sure that he'll enter your brain
And when the last drop's drunk and the gods have their way
There's every chance you'll think you're halfway insane
There's no turning back now there's no one can save
A poor soul who visits old Tuckers grave

See my summer soon.

 

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"Two Sunspots"

"Two Sunspots"


Two sunspots are staring at me
One to the left and one to the right of me
Never seen a heat so extraordinaire
Just two sunspots so so so scared
Just two sunspots
Just two sunspots
Just two sunspots

Spots are burning a hole in my eyes
Just two rough round red raw real sunspots
Rough to the touch and shy of the air
They start a little fire and the weather ain't fair.

Just two sunspots
Just two sunspots
Just two sunspots

Just two sunspots
Just two sunspots
Just two sunspots

Better pull the blind down
Deny they exist
But anything you seen once
You're just gonna miss
Just two sunspots
Just two sunspots
Just two sunspots
Just two
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Just two sunspots (Just two sunspots)
Just two (Just two sunspots)
Just two (Just two sunspots)
Two more (Just two sunspots)
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"Ugly"

"Ugly"


I could have read
A poem called
Ozymandias
To her instead

I lived for the moment
It was a futile
Gesture anyway
I was here
And she was here

And being broad
Of minds and hips
We did the only
Thing possible

I guess I shouldn't have strangled her to death
But I had to go to work and she had laced my coffee with acid

Normally I wouldn't have minded
But I'm allergic to sulphuric acid
Besides she had acne
And if you've got acne well I apologise for disliking it instensely.
But it's understandable that ugly people have got complexes
I mean it seems to me that ugly people don't have a chance

It's only the children or the fucking wealthy who turn out to be good looking

An ugly fart
Attracts a good looking
Chick, if he's got money

An ugly fart
Attracts a good looking
Chick, if he's got money

An ugly fart
Attracts a good looking
Chick, if he's got money

It's different for Jews somehow
I'd like to see
A passionate
Film between
The two ugliest
People in the world.
When I say ugly
I don't mean rough looking
I mean hideous

Don't tell me that
Aesthetics are
Subjective, you
Know all the truth
When you see it
Whatever it is

Muscle
Power, muscle
Power, muscle
Power, muscle
Power

 

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"Unbroken"

"Unbroken"


I've been beaten around my head
I've been beaten nearly dead
Been beaten till they thought they had me broken
I've been shamed before my peers
I've been old before my years
Even been confused about my orientation

You can try you can try to make cry
You can try you can try to make die
But I've been different because I've been tried
I need nothing from you

Ooh ooh baby slap my thigh
I wear these suspenders if it gets you high
But don't tell my mummer you'll make her cry
Unbroken

I've been skinned by those I love
I've been favored from above
Even had to face my limitations
Seen my self
Before a false someone
I didn't no at all
Now I don't have to meet your expectations

You can try you can try to make cry
You can try you can try to make die
But av been different because av been tried
I need nothing from you

Ooh ooh baby slap my thigh
I wear these suspenders if it gets you high
But don't tell my mummer you'll make her cry
Unbroken

Some think hit me right since the place he left
And we still made it to erol
Every night hes on your tv screen
Getting you to sell him your soul
Getting you to sell him your soul

Ooh ooh baby slap my thigh
I wear these suspenders if it gets you high
But don't tell my mummer you'll make her cry
Unbroken.

 

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"Uptown"

"Uptown"


Gonna grab my crop gonna grab my hat
Gotta change my situation
I'm gonna pick a steed who's been built for speed
Who's a flat-racing sensation
I'm racing Uptown gotta saddle up
So I take my seat I'm off to the meet
Don't know when I'm getting back
I don't care who wins as the race begins
It's a pleasure at the track
I'm racing Uptown gotta saddle up
I'm racing Uptown gotta win that cup
We're all meeting at the track uptown
We're all meeting at the track uptown
I'm racing Uptown gotta saddle up
I'm racing Uptown gotta win that cup
You gotta rein in strong if the race is long
You'll be hoping for a place
Can you believe your luck
You're uptown and stuck
But every jockey won the race
We're all meeting at the track uptown
We're all meeting at the track uptown
I'm racing Uptown gotta saddle up
I'm racing Uptown gotta win that cup

 

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"Valley Of The Birds"

"Valley Of The Birds"


Ray decided to be silly after all
He'd died a 1000 times before in the viet war
So he strapped himself in and he took his chances
Into the valley of the bird, absurd
I don't remember what it was the old man said
I know I' d tempted fate a 1000 times before
So we strapped ourselves in and we took such chances

And had a flight for the brother who can't be
Birdman, looking for the
Wasteland, trying to get my
Face tanned it's beautiful here
Doing it we're flying in the valley of the birds- fly

We decided one for all and all for one
And when I do, I really want to go in style
So without a sense of reason we explored
Like throwing stones into the great unknown

Birdman, looking for the
Wasteland, trying to get my
Face tanned it's beautiful here
Doing it we're flying in the valley of the birds- fly

 

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"Vicious Circles"

"Vicious Circles"


She sure digs the cut and thrust,
She loves the sound of noses busting,
Just like her mama always said,
It goes with her head.

And she thinks it's just amazing,
When she cuts somebody's face,
Just like her mother always said,
It goes to her head.

She likes to move.
In Vicious Circles.

Daddy was the law which may explain,
The way his daughters acting,
She likes to bite the hand that feeds,
She bites to the bone.

And you'll never find her in the school,
That girl is far too cool,

Now Shes gone to scratch that itch,
She's fallen to bits.

She likes to move.
In Vicious Circles.

She's a cutie little mermaid,
In a sea of sharks,
But when the dogs come sniffing,
That's when the trouble starts.
She's so blind she can't see when it's getting dark.

Now her leather jacket's empty,
Like the gun they found beside her,
Just like her mother always said,
It went to her head.

She likes to move.
In Vicious Circles

 

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"Vietnamerica"

"Vietnamerica"


It's over linger
On nightmares of the waste
The pagan values a bloodsweet crimson taste
Treasures captured
Pleasures enraptured
Lose their friendship
Vietnamerica
Vietnamerica
Vietnamerica

The native plaintive
Cry in ancient lands
Omnipotent gods have burnt their hands
Lightning providers
Fatal dividers
Spread heads inside us
Vietnamerica
Vietnamerica
Vietnamerica

So friends, Oh! Friends
Paint the mother's face Liars conspire
To hide within God's grace
Treasures captured
Pleasures enraptured
Lose their friendship
Vietnamerica
Vietnamerica
Vietnamerica.

 

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"Viva Vlad"

"Viva Vlad"


Vladimir's own cruel hand had delivered a blow to himself all right.
The Police laughed at his fantastic tale of misguided love in a tempting night.
For fun, he was bound and taken down to the harbour on the other side of the island.
There he was set adrift in a small dinghy donated by a frightened fisherman.

Guns were drawn and so were corks, and pot shots taken at his floating corpse.
Luckily for Vlad, their aim was high and they soon tired when the bullets ran dry.
All through the night he floated on and fell asleep until dawn arrived and he found himself aground on a beach with fish around, the waters run deep.

He stumbled up from the shore and fell at the doors of a bar called "Matador".
Vladimir, confused and tired, hungry with aching head.
The bar man, Miguel, showed his kindness, and fed and clothed the wretch who's first enquiry was in stumbled English :
- "Where am I?"
- "Senor, you are in Mexico"

Relieved and feeling better Vladimir soon realised the extent of his good fortune.
He decided to change his identity in this Mexican Paradise.
In return for his lodgings, food and beer.
The simple world Miguel gave him began to change Vladimir.
He basked in the sun and learned to fish and even learned how to cook a pretty mean tortilla dish.
He discovered more and more about his whereabouts.
It was the lea side of a resort visited by Yanks and Krauts on the Ukatem peninsula of Mexico.
This was an area famed for its Mayan ruins, fabulous fishing and tropical weather.

One glance at the dusty map hanging behind the bar at the "Matador" showed Vladimir just how close he was to Miami, Florida, a place he had always heard hushed stories about back in the USSR.
A place he became increasingly curious about. A place which he determined would be his next destination.