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Steady Eddie Steady
03:43
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STEADY EDDIE STEADY
Steady Eddie steady is this the only way out, Eddie hold the gun steady
Gun barrel trembling, gun barrel trembling in your mouth
Gun barrel trembling, gun trembling in your mouth
Steady Eddie steady is this the only way out
Eddie hold the gun steady
Hero stream across the pages
Bewildered friends fall in your wake
Madman’s deadline got to make it
Got to make it through somehow
Loves the woman’s clutching ties
The door’s left yawning wide
Never guessing at reason s why
You have to make it to the other side
Found you out on a railroad track
Your eyes burned speeded black
You made it through that final door
No one’s ever gonna drag you back
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Red Green & Gold
05:12
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RED GREEN & GOLD
Why must I rock against a profit
And so bite the hand that feeds me
I only do this because I hungry
For someone to reach out and touch me
Why must I rock against me brother
And so lock meself in me lonely self
I only do his because I have to
Get me through this living hell
Rock we against the fat man
And so get us out of this mess
Have to do it pretty quick though
And so and so destroy his fortress
Rock we against the hatemonger
It’s easy, easy just to vanish him
With this great power of our loving
He knows, he knows that we will banish him
Red, green and gold
Let this be the color for all
No more black and white game
Together let us overcome all
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DON’T TOUCH ME
Don’t brush me with your limousine
Don’t touch me with your leg
For God’s sake, how much can I take
Before I have to beg
Please don’t touch me, touch me
With your lie
Don’t breathe your dinner in my face
I don’t have to stand for that
If you take a chance on clean romance
You’re gonna find my battery’s flat
And you can’t touch me, touch me
With your lie
Don’t bury me ‘neath neon flowers
Don’t want your lobotomy
If I hang real loose and tell the truth
You really haven’t gotten at me
And you can’t touch me, touch me
With your lie
I DON'T TAKE DRUGS, I DON'T TELL LIES
I don't take drugs
I'd rather get drunk
I don't tell lies
I'd rather tell the truth
SODIUM PENTOTHAL NEGATIVE
Every time you open your mouth all that comes out is lies
When no one believes you why do you act so surprised?
Every time you open your mouth all that comes out is lies
If I was a crow, if I was a crow you know I’d rip out your eyes
Sodium pentothal negative
Truth drug it’s negative so far
Every time that i yawn you know it rains into my mouth
If paradise is so perfect
Do I gotta get out?
Every time that i yawn you know it rains into my mouth
If you want my love if you need my love
You’re gonna find it just laying about
Sodium pentothal negative
Truth drug it’s negative so far
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Citinite
05:46
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CITINITE
He’s a small man
Inside a tall one
Girl of the street
Bought at twilight
Flat on the windscreen
Faces reflecting
Flat on the windscreen
Faces reflecting
Tongue through her lip gloss
Turns me inside out
Leaves me in no doubt
Turns me inside out
She’s got concrete looks
Windows are closed eyes
See her shimmer
In her dress of a thousand lights
Bought in shop windows
If the price is right
Bought in shop windows
If the price is right
Smile so enticing
Turns me inside out
Leaves me in no doubt
Turns me inside out
Laser lover, video friend
Monotone romance
Hologram
Data readout, digital display
Data readout, digital display
She’s a sheet of glass
But she’s real to me
Oh so real to me
Turns me inside out
Citinite – hologram
Citinite – rear light
Citinite – calculate
Citinite – terminate
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Killing Time
02:36
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Oh I, I’m just killing time
Oh I, I just want what’s mine
A clockwork dance, no circumstance
No great distance, between this day and any other
You come to pose, might catch a dose
And no one knows, if you a brother or a sister
You, you, you’re just killing time
You, you, you just want what’s mine
Blind insect light, you move it tight
Hope to excite but you as lost as any other
Dancing around and you are bound
Not by the sound but by the chain of one another
Oh I, I’m just killing time
Oh I, I just want what’s mine
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BIG JOHN
Big John’s living in the Big Apple
Raising cows
Keith’s at the clinic
He’s gotta keep clean, oh so clean
Sidney couldn’t cope
He always had too much rope
Now we all know
We all know now
Self-destruction’s not very easy
Self-destruction’s not very easy
HANOI ANNOYS ME
Hanoi annoys me
I’m not keen on Rome
New York burns me
I’d rather be at home
What about Palestine,
And what about Israel
Hanoi annoys me
What about the Catholics,
The Commies and the Jews
What about the fascists
The Muslins and Hindus
What about the Irish,
The Poles and the blacks
What about the Russians
The Aussies and the Japs
Listen to this
Tell it to the army ‘cos I just don’t want to know
Tell it to the navy ‘cos I just don’t want to know
Tell it to the fly boys ‘cos I just don’t want to know
Tell it to the junta ‘cos I just don’t want to know
Tell it to the generals ‘cos I just don’t want to know
Tell it to the army ‘cos I just don’t want to know
Oh no
Tell it to the people ‘cos I just don’t want to know
And tell it to the army ‘cos I just don’t want to know
No, no.
THE INNOCENT
We are innocent, it is not our fault
If we don’t stop moving we won’t ever come to a halt
We are innocent, we are not to blame
If things don’t change they’ll stay the same
We are innocent puppets of the state
If we don’t change it soon it’s going to be too late
Too late to be innocent, often we will find
The things we do with our dirty bodies
Are the things we do with our dirty minds
A different sameness
Is your only defence
Why do you look for
Why do you look for
Why do you look for
A similar difference
Be yourself.
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Die In The West
04:26
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Don’t tell me that you are not impressed
With the miracle we’ve got right here in the West
All you do is scream about the mess we make
Whenever we are happy you have to assume it’s fake
Yeah we always dream of a bigger slice
And we don’t need any of your backwards advice
Whoever eats the dog eats what the dog has eat
Maybe it’s rabies but maybe baby that’s all you can get
Die in the west and you’re halfway
Die in the west and you’re halfway
Die in the west and you’re halfway
To heaven
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Symiane
05:31
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SYMIANE
I get lost in your eyes
Drowned deep, drowned deep in a pool
I ain't no ventriloquist
You ain't nobody's, you ain't nobody's fool
I get lost in your body
So I don't have to, I don't have to breathe
I carry you around in my head girl
Long long after, long long after you leave
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Bike Boys
05:25
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BIKE BOYS
Bike boys, bike boys they know no fear
Highway gangsters in leather top gear
Two up ton up, Two up ton up
Bike boys, bike boys they don’t give a sod
Police left standing, a road riot squad
Bike boys, bike boys the road is their home
White line space boys with hearts of chrome
Bike boys, bike boys want jukebox bliss
Vinyl suicide and it goes like this
He slide the coin in, it go in real smooth
He start to feel better now, now push button white boy
If you wanna make it move
It go 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4
They all say, they all say
She didn’t look like much
But she was someone, someone I could always punch
They all say, they all say
She didn’t look good bruised
But only I and I would buy her food and give her shoes
They all say, they all say
She ought to leave me flat
I lock her in the bathroom
I soon put a stop to all that
Bike boys, bike bike boys
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Wastelife
04:47
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WASTELIFE
Waste life, waste time, pipeline to a perfect crime, perfect crime
Waste life, waste time, pipeline to a perfect crime, perfect crime
Overspill for the master race
Read it in the paper with a blank, blank face
It’s a paper chase but I wonder who’s chasing who
I wonder who is chasing who who who
Who wonder who is chasing who who who – who who
Cool, cool affection is such an easy, easy connection, easy connection
Cool, cool affection is such an easy, easy connection, easy connection
Can’t pretend I’m metal and I don’t fear rust
I’m made out of flesh slowly turning to rust
I hope I’m never too scared to be in love
I hope I’m never too scared to be in love
Lipstick, lip a lip a lip a lip a lipstick
Kissing
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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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