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Stairway To Nowhere
04:31
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STAIRWAY TO NOWHERE
First foot on the first step baby
Second foot on the second step baby
Take a step up on the third step baby
You’re on a stairway to nowhere baby
Keep your eyes on the top step baby
No time to breathe and don’t stop baby
No time for love and no regrets baby
You’re on a stairway to nowhere baby
You’re right here on a stairway to nowhere
Always knew that you would make it baby
Never known you to fake it baby
Take a deep breath and hold it baby
You’re on a stairway to nowhere baby
This is your time so just grab it baby
Nothing to say, you can blag it baby
Need it to go, you can bag it baby
Here on this stairway to nowhere baby
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Beauty Is Mine
04:57
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TRUTH IS BEAUTY
Time is money
Money is time
Truth is beauty
Beauty is mine
Words are empty
Deeds undone
You might have to go
But I’ve got to come
And baby says “don’t worry,
No don’t frown”
Yeah baby says “don’t worry
It’s just lights going down
Lights going down
I used to dream of living in the sun
No I miss the rain
I used to hate where I come from
But there is not to blame
Complications
Lick my lips
Acceleration
Breaking my grip
Time is dying
Dying is time
Truth is beauty
Beauty is mine
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Shining Son
05:41
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SHINING SON
And as you listen to these boring pompous gits
You are young and strong and know you are the shit
You are the breath of air the music sorely needs
The boy to bring down all this boring corporate greed
Because
You are the one
You are the shining son
You are the loaded gun
And you have only just begun
Mistakes are things that only happen in the past
No one can shoot you down because you move too fast
You know the end can only come from your own hand
When you have had enough of no one understanding
Because
You are the one
You are the shining son
You are the loaded gun
And you have only just begun
Out beneath the steel skies of stinking Brum
You turn your back on friends and family and run’
You face the future like an addict faces pain
Set your sights on final destination fame
Because
You are the one
You are the shining son
You are the loaded gun
And you have only just
Yeah you have only just
Yeah you have only just
Begun
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Slow Radiation
03:32
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SLOW RADIATION
Slow radiation
Turning your head
Every silver cloud has a
Lining of lead
Slow radiation
Eating your heart
Only come together when your
Falling apart
Slow radiation
Slow radiation
Slow radiation
Slow radiation
The medicine is false
Hands in your pockets boys
Your fingers on the pulse
Slow radiation
Your face becomes a trap
How do you pull your coat on with that
Knife stuck in my back?
Slow radiation
Slow radiation
Slow radiation
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Strength
03:37
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STRENGTH
Yeah I’ve got the strength
The strength to get out
To twist the strength out
Yeah I’ve got the strength
The strength to be strong
To never go wrong
Don’t you take a pleasing reason
Something to believe in
And use it instead of a human in your bed
The difference pours in and the difference pours out
Just what is this thing
Called the twist and the shout
Sh, sh, sh, shout
Shout, shout
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6. |
Calling
04:33
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CALLING
Locked away from the light of day
And the world has disappeared
And nobody has got anything to say
About ever getting out of here
Chained down on the floor
Left lying in our filth
No food, no water, no light, no heat
No proof of any guilt
You can shop for your peace of mind
Living in the day to day
Oh you can all sleep safe in your beds
Now you’ve locked them all away
Can’t you hear me?
Do you see me?
Can’t you feel me?
Can’t you hear me?
Calling
Calling
Falling
Calling
Wrapped up in a foreign flag
Freedom lost without a trace
Do you really think the world is any safer
Just because you built this place
You can call this a war on terror
‘Cos you fight the fear every day
But I don’t think you’ll ever feel safe
Until everybody’s locked away
Can’t you hear me?
Do you see me?
Can’t you feel me?
Can’t you hear me?
Calling
Calling
Falling
Calling
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TURNING LEFT AT GREENLAND
Be careful turning left at Greenland
And biting off more than you had planned
It’s a gigantic heavily-armed
Drive-thru barbecue
And all your dreams of fortune and fame
And somehow coming out ahead of the game
Can lead you to a rubber room
And a jacket that fastens up the back
I’m turning left, I’m turning left, I’m turning left
I’m turning left, I’m turning left, I’m turning left
At Greenland
For here in the land of excess
One of the definitions of success
Is how much food you can cram into your mouth
In a single day
And the only crime you have to worry about
And they will leave you in no doubt
Is being poor or old
Or a color other than white
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Cute Stupid
05:55
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CUTE STUPID
Cute Stupid lying in the sun
Playing with a loaded glamour gun
Shoots himself just to feel how it feels
Guesses that the pain might be real
Cute Stupid in illusion's grip
Kiss like rubber suction lips
Cute Stupid spend your money fast
You don't know love and your looks won't last
When there is no one else
At least you know there's always you
When you have no one close
Then you
You can always look at yourself
You can always talk to yourself
You can always love yourself
Cute Stupid is as Cute Stupid seems
A heart full of hard and hollow dreams
Cute Stupid appetites ablaze
Slicked back, hopped up, a little crazy
Cute Stupid not of woman born
Sprang to mind fully formed
Cute Stupid he's your darkest fear,
Your own dumb voice whispering in your ear
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European Cure
04:56
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EUROPEAN CURE
Now she’s cured of Europeans
She’s not so sure they’re human beings
Thinks they belong in a museum
Baby took that European cure
Now she’s cured of Europeans
She doesn’t even want to see ‘em
They’re just a bunch of refugeums
Baby took that European cure
Now she’s had her fill of Eurotrash
She took that European cure
And no don’t think that you can do her
No matter how Euro you are
Baby took that European cure
Now she’s had her fill of Europeans
Now she’s cured of Europeans
And mausoleum coliseums
All those cathedrals and Te Deums
Baby took that European cure
She took that European cure
And got her heart up out the sewer
And now she says she feels so pure
Baby took that European cure
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Dance Dance Dance
03:55
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DANCE DANCE DANCE
She was too young
She was too sweet
You could say
You could say that
We were doomed
Not to meet
So we just
So we just
Dance dance dance
I was too young
I was so sweet
You could say
You could say that
We were doomed
Not to meet
So we just
So we just
Dance dance dance
Nobody knows your face
And don’t you know that
Nobody
Knows your name
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11. |
Bad Day In Heaven
04:47
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BAD DAY IN HEAVEN
In this garden of earthly delight
I find that I don't sleep well most nights
In this vehicle, my second skin
I have to lock the door to keep myself in
Yeah but here I am, yeah I am here
When I close my eyes it's not the darkness that I fear
When I shut my eyes, when my eyes are closed
Sometimes I'm so full of light gets so hard to know
Gets so hard to know, gets so hard to tell
If it s a bad day in heaven or a good day in hell...
And the way that you live won't forget or forgive
The things you do today
And you will always remain the only one held up to blame
No matter what you say
And the devil who's an angel in your mirror in the morning Doesn't know his name
Use every trick in the book
To try and change the way you look
You still look the same
You still feel the same
You still be the same
Here in this land where nightmare reigns
We feed off each other and shift the blame
Here in Walt’s kingdom the dream has died
We just sit back and yeah enjoy the ride
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Luke Skyscraper James San Francisco, California
Luke Skyscraper James was the singer/guitarist with the original line up of "Fáshiön music" (1978-80)
His current band is:
"This Twisted Wreckage" with Ricky Humphrey.
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