Special Beat Service

sooner or later
your legs give way,
you hit the ground
save it for later
don’t run away and let me down
“Save It For Later”

Lyrics


i confess

Just out of spite,
I confess I’ve ruined three lives
Now don’t sleep so tight
Because I didn’t care till I found out
that one of them was mine.

Night after night time time after time.
Done too much of both types of w(h)ining.
Still wasn’t right fight after fight
Till “Get out of my life get away from me
get away from that gun”

“No it’s not a joke it’s cards on the table time
Yes I could have phoned
I could have wrote
But how to break the news
without beaking your heart
Being dead don’t hurt,
No only dieing
Cards on the table time,
Sometimes it’s right to say goodnight.”

Always searching for paradise,
I’ll admit that I’m good as blind
Darling I confess yes I’ve ruined three lives
And didn’t care till I found out
that one of them was mine.

I confess
Our love seems like a punishment
And I confess,
If it’s all the same to you I’ll stay indifferent

I confess I confess I confess
I confess I confess I confess.

No-one wins and there’s no denying,
Don’t pretend like you don’t know why,
Just a little word here a little push there darling
I confess look, I confess that I don’t really care

I confess I confess I confess.

Out like a light,
Another boy who’s given up trying,
Blinded by fright,
He scream my life’s not open,
Please get out,
I know I’m shouting,
I like to shout.

It’s not a joke it’s cards on the table time
It’s not a joke it’s cards on the table time
I could have phoned
I could have wrote
But how to break the news
without beaking your heart
Being dead don’t hurt,
No only dieing
Cards on the table time,
Sometimes it’s right to say goodnight.”

Always searching for paradise,
I’ll admit that I’m good as blind
Darling I confess yes I’ve ruined three lives
And didn’t care till I found out
that one of them was mine.

I confess
I deserve some type of punishment
I confess
If it’s all the same to you I’ll stay indifferent
I confess I confess I confess
I confess I confess I confess
I confess I confess I confess
I confess I confess I confess
I confess I confess I confess

 

jeanette

All set luncheonette,
kitchenette to let
I bet to get hamburgerette again.

We met in a launderette
and kissed beneath the air jet
No threat no sweat
Another one in the back of the net.

When I met Jeanette,
Substitute Ronette,
She said “Will you remember?”
Said I could never forget her
Au naturalette,
Her mom’s a millionette
So we shared one last cigarette
and swapped false addresses,
Jeanette,
Jeanette.

Dangerous
She’s like damp dynamite
Oh boy, enjoy, have a nice night
Won’t you promise to wrote me whenever you can
Make sure you warn me
if you’re coming to Birmingham.

I get Jeanette
Substitute Ronette
She said “Will you remember?”
Said I could never forget her,
Jeanette
No no no I’ll never forget you.

Touching your skin has proved one thing,
That love’s still exciting.
We’re getting there
We’re nearly there
Just one final fling,
Pushing into a new love
steady deep and strong
Steady on
You know we shouldn’t talk like this.

I met Jeanette
Substitute Ronette
She said “Will you remember?”
Said “I could never forget you.”
Au naturalette,
Her mom’s a millionette
So we shared one last cigarette
and swapped false addresses,
Jeanette

No no no I’ll never forget you.
Jeanette
No no no I’ll never forget you.

 

sorry

Try to live but it’s more like worry.
Each time I try to speak
it does sound like “sorry”
Setting up races you’ve gotta keep winning
Imaginary races,
You jump until you’re bleeding
and you’re needing
And you’re wanting it so badly timed
your sighing,
All lying
And she’s trusting you completely stupid
“Sorry”

Feeling attack put up defences
Nothing you’ve ever said made much sense
Words are just another violence
Nothing rings as true as silence.

Dream I can fly in desperation,
Sorry
Must have mixed up remorse with anticipation,
Sorry
Each time I try to break this hurry,
Sorry
Start off apologizing for saying sorry.

Leaving,
Me pleading
All through wanting it so badly timed
my sighing
All lying
And you trusted me completely foolish.

Sounds like “sorry”
It sounds like “sorry”
It always sounds like “sorry.”

 

sole salvation

Of course I want there to be an us,
I’ve always wanted that
But how
And if giving time and patience
Trying hard to understand
We never feel the power of our own hands
Sense the danger late
And only vaguely ever grasp
the means of our sole salvation?

What then?
Do it right, do it now!
Here there, everywhere
Shouting out “I’m mad as hell”
He pushes his legs against the bed
And feels the triumph flooding through his head
He could conquer,
He could win,
Now that dying only means
you’re not in next week’s programme
Stop being a baby

Will you stop, will stop it
Won’t you stop play-acting little man?
Just how long till you drop it
Will it be this year, next year, sometime, never?
Stop, when you feel like saying,
“Have a heart but don’t take mine”
There’s a new dance “The Tolerence,”
And it just might be your sole salvation

sole salvation
sole salvation
sole salvation
Skabadoo ooh yeah,
Yeah skabaday,

Make a cross,
Make amends,
Set the record straight
We’ve never said
the only things we should have ever
Bothered saying
Lets write out a list of things we need
Lets strike a brand new deal
That’s stron for any man,
But has a woman’s understanding in it
and then finish!

Just stop, when you feel like saying,
“Have a heart, but don’t take mine”
Try a new dance “The Tolerence,”
It just might be our sole salvation,
sole salvation sole salvation sole salvation
sole salvation,
sole salvation?
Oooh yeah yeah
Skab-a-doo, skab-a-day
Skab-a-doo, skab-a-day.

 

spar wid me

In a me yard,
You noh fe gwan like you hard.
In a me yard in a me yard.

Dats why you,
spar wid me,
I you have to pray to de Lord.
In a me yard.
Dats why you,
Spar wid me,
I hope you will agree noh
climb up in de tree like a chimpanzee,
Spar wid me, spar wid me.
Cho Lord,
A man ah should always feel free.
Malegego,
Malegego malegego malegego.

Woy,
Me seh me a littla darta.
By de name of Marge,
She says to me you are de one in charge.
Tek out de car out of de garage.
Denme drive her all the way down to de barge.

Dats why she,
Spar wid me, spar wid me.
I don’t want to see your bad company
Spar wid me, spar wid me.
Cho Lord,
A man ah should always feel free.

You bredda Matt noh bopther gwan lik a rat.
Because de rat him get a bend up by de cat
You sister Pat noh bother gwan like dat.
Because we all know dat Elvis died fat.

So you fe,
Spar wid me, spar wid me.
I don’t want to see your bad company
We need technology so,
Spar wid me spar wid me,
Spar wid me.

rotating head

Rotating head, keeps on the right side
Coiled up and tense remains on the lookout
Expects to be shot or get given the bullet.
Rotating head tries to
look on the bright side of things.

Rotating head, friends in high places
No need to guess what he’s got in that briefcase
A mind like a gin-trap, one swollen ankle.
The rotating head tries to
stay on the right side of things,
On the right side of things.

Living on tip-toe,
Waiting for the next step,
The wages of death
What a life for a swivelhead.

Understand, underhand, underarm protection
Each new passer-by a new wave of suspicion.
In less than an hour the plane will be leaving
The lights and the cameras
Then sleeep on a prayer and a wing
Rotating.

Living on tip-toe,
Waiting for the next step,
The wages of death
What a life for a swivelhead.

Rotating head look on the bright side
Colied up and tense remains on the lookout.
A mind like a gin-trap, one swollen ankle.
The rotating head tries to stay
on the right side of things,
That’s the right side of things.


save it for later

Two dozen other dirty lovers,
Must be a sucker for it,
Cry cry but I don’t need my mother.
Just hold my hand while I come
to a decision on it

Sooner or later
Your legs give way, you hit the ground
Save it for later
Don’t run away and let me down
Sooner or later
You hit the deck, you get found out
Save it for later
Don’t run away and let me down
You let me down

Black air and seven seas are rotten through
But what can you do?
I don’t know how I’m meant to act
with all of you lot
Sometimes I don’t try,
I just now now now
now now now now now now now now
Now now now now now now now now
now now now!

Sooner or later
Your legs give way, you hit the ground
Save it for later
Don’t run away and let me down.
Sooner or later
You hit the deck, you get found out.
Save it for later
Don’t run away and let me down.
You let me down
You runaway and let me down.

Two dozen other stupid reasons
Why we should suffer for this.
Don’t bother trying to explain them
Just hold my hand while I come
to a decision on it

Sooner or later
Your legs give way, you hit the ground.
Save it fellator
Don’t run away and let me down.
Sooner or later
you hit the deck, you get found out.
Save it fellator
Don’t run away and let me down
You let me down
You run away run away
Runaway runaway runaway and let me down.

 

she’s going

Don’t want him
But she can’t bear to tell him
Don’t love him
Love is uncompromising
Can’t leave him
No never never,
So next time she meet him
they’ll both be in heaven.

In a de corner,
But she hardly makes a sound
She never get the energy to hit the ground.

Like her prescription
The drink tastes bitter
As she turns round
Found out that something hit her
Would he notice?
No never never never
Would he miss her?
She doesn’t really care

I guess you thought it was an ordinary row.
Well you were wrong.
Just take a look at her now.

She’s leaving,
Too late to take her home.
She’s going,
Too late to tell her you love her.
She’s freezing,
Rather be dead than alone.
She’s going,
I think you’re too late she’s gone.

Worry worry
Over the way things are
She tried to tell him
About the way they might have been happy!,
But now it’s gone too far
She’d rather die than live to behave so badly,

She found out that you don’t give a damn
Just watch the spirit slipping out of her hand.

She’s leaving,
Too late to take her home.
She’s going,
Too late to tell her you love her.
She’s freezing,
Rather be dead than alone.
She’s going,
I think you’re too late she’s gone.

 

pato and roger ago talk

Pato and Roger ago talk
(Right)
Aha, uhu,
Pato and Roger ago talk.

You come in a de dance,
You jump up and prance,
And when tek a stop
A so we hold dem in a trance.

Aha, uhu,
Pato and Roger ago talk.
(Right)
Aha, uhu,
Pato and Roger ago talk.
(Right)

Come on everybody mek me have some fun,
We all get together and live as one.
Give dis yah rockers strictly to de nation.
Then little after that it’s in your radio station.
Cause me seh, him Ranking Roger,
Seh him really, really tall
And him Ranking Pato
Seh him really, really small,
We both get together and we nice up de hall.
And when we take a stop,
Even the rain can’t fall.

Aha, uhu,
Pato and Roger ago talk.
(Right)
Aha, uhu,
Pato and Roger ago talk.
(Right)

Cause me seh,
man in a pance,
And a woman in a frock,
And everything we chat dem
to have to musically rock.
Come move your little feet.
Come and rock to the beat.
Then little after that,
Them sam ‘so unique.’

Girls and boys hear the schooll bell ring,
Run to your classes
cause it’s time to come in,
Pick up your shoes and run-a-mile
Cause Pato and Roger seh
dem come and make you smile.

Because we rock together,
Toast together,
Skank together,
Move together,
We a bredda.
Ay tell dem,
Ay tell them.

 

sugar and stress

This world is upside down
The right’s and wrong’s
don’t get much wronger.
Mistakes found in the past
Turn into rules protecting power.
It’s falling down
It weighs a lot
So you should not depend on it.
This world is upside down
But look I can’t hang on for much longer.

Sugar ‘n’ stress,
Do everything at least twice
Catch your fingers in your private vices
Sugar ‘n’ stress
With a heart like ice
Hope heaven comes in a number of size.

These thought are so unfair
“If somethings there then it’s worth taking.”
We know where our hearts are
-right behind our wallets,
Yes and that’s where they’re staying
Grow up together but we grow apart
Always climbing up is our downfall.
A change of blood or a change of heart?
Another change of address will do no good.

Sugar ‘n’ stress,
Do everything at least twice
Catch your fingers in your private vices
Sugar ‘n’ stress
With a heart like ice
Hope heaven comes in a number of size.

This world is upside down
This world is upside down
This world is upside down
But look I can’t hang on for much longer.

 

end of the party

She said to leave it till
the end of the party
Do it now, you know
there’s never a next time
How come the feeling
that it’s only just started
Pull back your cover,
I could love you for all time
But do it now,
you know there’s never a next time.

The bees are busy,
Now there’s gold on the hill
The branches waving
But our hearts are wrapped up inside
And then you leave me,
so I start missing you a lot
No argument oh do I love you or not
No argument,
you have all the love that I see as mine
Pull back your cover,
I could love you for all time
But do it now
you know there’s never a next time.

She said to leave it till the end of the party
How come the feeling
that it’s always just starting
The bees are busy,
Now there’s gold on the hill.
The branches waving
But our hearts are wrapped up inside
Soon as you leave me then I start
missing you a lot
No argument oh do I love you,
I love you or not.

Oh treat him like a baby please,
All night.
Oh treat him like a baby please,
All night.

Strength is not the same as anger
Put the taste back into hunger
Searching the box?
looking for what?
I love you, I love you or not?
Strength is not the same as anger
Put the taste back into hunger
Searching the box?,
looking for what?
Pushing the gear back into top?
Put the first back into class
Lose your bottle break the glass
You’ll wind up high and dry
with just this slow cold comfort.

Oh treat him like a baby please,
All night.
Love you or not?
Oh treat him like a baby please.

 

ackee 1 2 3

Cross your fingers say you’re on high
Pretend you’re in den
and see what life brings.
But always taking things as they come
Tends to make you forget
to put anything in.
The longer you dwell the more it’s like hell
You sit by the well just making a wish.
It would be a shame
to take too much blame
Look we’re all the same
It’s only a game.

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Did I just catch you laughing?
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Forward where the knocks are hardest
Some to failure some to fame.
Never mind the cheers or hooting
Keep your head and play the game
Try to keep your feet on the ground
Without getting them stuck in the mud.
You will soon be over the moon
or twice as hot as the sun!

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So cross your fingers say you’re on high
Pretend you’re in den
and see what life brings.
But always taking things as they come
Tends to make you forget
to put anything in.
The longer you dwell the more it’s like hell
You sit by the well just making a wish.
To make it plain I’ll say it again
We’re all the same
It’s only a game.

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Did I just catch you laughing?
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Someone just smiled
for no special reason,
It looks liken the smile’s
come back into season
It’s so easy.
It doesn’t have to be a nice day,
Just the only one you’ve got
And it’s coming ready or not!
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