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.