These lyrics are listed in the order of release (I think).
You think you were my first love
You think you were my first love but you're wrong
You were the only one who's come and gone
When thirteen years old
Who dyed his hair gold
Oh I know very well, I don't need to be told
You think you were my first love
You think you were my first love but you're wrong
You were the only one who's come and gone
You were the only one who's come and gone
Oh never learn
I'll never learn
Chapter one again
Here I go again
I found the fountain of youth,
And I fell in
How could I ever win
I'll never learn
I'll never learn
I'll never learn
Why should I mind?
Why should I care?
I'll never learn
I'll never learn
Along this way
Outside the prison gates
I love the romance of crime
And I wonder does anybody feel the same way I do?
And is evil just something you are, or something you do?
Sister I'm a
Sister I'm a, all over this town
All over this town
They pull over in their Citroen vans
Not to shake your hands
With meths on their breaths
And you with youth on your side
All alone waiting at the light
But not this time
Sister I'm a
Sister I'm all over this town
He was just somebody's luckless son
Oh but now look what he's done
Oh look what he's done
Your gentle hands are frozen
And your unkissed lips are blue
Your thinning clothes are hopeless
And no one was mad about you
Michael's bones were very young
But they were never to know
Impetuous fun
Mr. Policeman
I don't know where you get such notions from
His gentle hands are frozen
And his unkissed lips are blue
But his eyes still cry
And now you've turned the last bend
And see are we all judged the same at the end?
Tell me, tell me
Oh you lucky thing
You are too brave
And I'm ashamed of myself as usual
East West
Over the ocean
Perpetual Motion
Traveling around
No rest, singing and playing
Night out and day in
Doing the rounds
What a great life this must seem!
Swelled joints
Everything classy
Nothing is tacky
Only the best!
Lush girls, older and dying
Sighing and crying
This is success!
What a good life this must seem!
But when I hear your voice
Singing out
The Bells Of Hope
Are ringing out
And I feel all alone
(And I think of my home)
Cold times
A wind through the houses
The bleakness arouses
A longing to leave
Time flew
I wanted to see you
Somehow I could not do
Because of success
What a strange life this can be!
But when I hear your voice
singing out
The Bells Of Home
Are ringing out
And I feel all alone
(And I think of my home)
There is a different mood all over the world
A different tune, unfamiliar views,
And dearest it could all be for you,
So will you come down and I'll meet you
With no more poems, with nothing to hit
Oh darling, it's all for you...
And you my invalid friend
You slammed the receiver when you say
"If I had your limbs for a day
I would steal away"
I'm calling you from the foyer
Of this awful hotel
Where the slime and the grime gel
And I cannot, or I do not
And oh, my room is cold
And I'm envying you never having to choose
And you my invalid friend
You slammed the receiver when you say
"If I had your limbs for a day
I would steal away"
I'm calling you from the foyer
Of the Sands Hotel
It's not low-life, it's just people having a good time
And oh, my invalid friend, oh my invalid friend
In our different ways we are the same
You silly old man
In your misguided trousers
With your mascara and your Fender guitar
And you think your can rouse us
But the song that you just sang
It sounds exactly like the last one
And the next one
I bet you it will sound
Like this one
Downstage, and offstage
Don't you feel all run in?
And you wonder when they will take it away
This is your final fling
But then applause ran high
But for the patience of the ones behind you
As a verse drags on like a month drags on
It's very short but it seems very long
And the song that you just sang
It sounds exactly like the last one
And the next one
I bet you it will sound
Like this one
So get off the stage
Oh, get off the stage
And when you get down off of the stage
Please stay off the stage, Ol
Get off the stage
Oh, get off the stage
And when we've had our money back
Then I'd like your back in plaster
Oh I know that you say
How age has no meaning
Oh but here is your audience now
And they're screaming
Get off the stage
Oh, get off the stage
'Cuz I've given you enough of my time
And the money that wasn't even mine (have you seen the silvery [screen])
Oh get off the stage...
For whom the bell tolls
Police car with a screaming siren
Pneumatic drill on ripped up concrete
Baby wails, a stray dog howling
Brakes screech at a lamp light blinking
That's Entertainment
That's Entertainment
Smash of glass and a rumble of boots
Electric train and a ripped up phone booth
A hot day and a sticky black tarmac
A hot day and I'm wishing I was far away
That's Entertainment
That's Entertainment
Days of speed and a slow time Mondays
Wake up at 6 AM and think about your holidays
Open window and breathe in petrol
Cold flat with a dump on the walls
Yes, That's Entertainment
That's Entertainment
Two lovers kissing over screams of midnight
Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude
Read grafitti about slashed seat affairs
Splattered walls and a kick in the balls
Is all that you get, in the name of entertainment
I just wanna say
I haven't been away
I'm still right here
Where I always was
So one day when you're bored
By all means call
Because you can do
But you might not get through
I tremble
You crush my burning lips like ashes
With so much skin to travel over
While my head spins and you knew it would
And oh what's in store?
And oh what's in store?
We shelter in our skin storm
I feel
Feel your breath burn on my body
You touch my senses tingling brightly
Slipping sliding into heaven
Love could be a wonderful emotion
With such a rush of pleasure motion
When I'm dancing on our skin
And oh what's in store?
And oh what's in store?
We shelter in our skin storm
I'll dance myself into the tomb
I'll dance myself into the tomb
Is it strange to dance so soon?
Is it strange to dance so soon?
Is it wrong to understand?
The fear that dwells inside a man?
What's it like to be alone?
I liken it to a balloon
Oh, Oh
Outside There Is A Pain
Emotional Air Raids Exhausted My Heart
And It's Safer To Be Inside
So, I'm Changing My Plea
And No One Can Dissuade Me
Because Freedom Is Wasted On Me
See How You're All Spoiled Again
Something I Have Learned
If There Is One Thing In Life I've Observed
It's That Everybody's Got Somebody
Oh No, Not Me
So I've Changed My Plea To Guilty
And Reason And Freedom Is A Waste
It's A Lot Like Life
Pashernate love
Could make your sister erupt into wild blisters and boils
But as for me
It still doesn't understand me
It wouldn't lay one single finger on me
Pashernate love
Could make your grandmother zoom rollerskating back from the grave
Pashernate love
could make your old daddy feel like he may have a reason to live
But as for me
It still doesn't understand me
And it wouldn't lay one single finger on me
I'm always there
It's always elsewhere
Whoah, Pashernate love
Where are ya, where are ya, where are you GIIIIRL
You told me all the things
That you think are wrong with me
I just wish you'd stayed around and helped me put them right
But nevertheless
There
There speaks a true friend
There speaks a friend for life
You listed all the things
That people cannot stand about me
I just wish you'd stayed around and helped me to improve
Because I've tried, I've tried
I've really really tried
You say I don't know how to live
(And that's true)
You say I don't deserve to live
Oh where would I be without my friends to help me?
I just can't imagine where I'd be, can you?
NO!
Why you were pining
You haven't a clue
Ya ya ya ya yai
You've had her
And it's all over now
It's all over now
For you
For you
And it's all only starting
For her pleas
Everyone knows
Everyone knows
And the one thing on your mind is
Where is the next in line
As the words to all of the love songs
Start making sense
To the girl so far away
*****live ending
crash into my arms
I want you
you don't agree
but you don't refuse
I know you
*****studio ending
and no one knows a thing about my life
I can come and go as I please
If I want to I can stay
And if I want to I can leave
nobody knows me
nobody knows me
nobody knows me
ah ha, nobody knows me
ah ha, nobody knows me
ah ha, nobody knows me
I am a simple man
Not much to gain or lose
And I don't know why I held out so long for me and you.
Until he drew a swallow on my neck
And the more, I will not say
He drew a swallow deep and blue
And soon, everyone knew.
Then I was wrecked again
With the men full of bluff and honour
From a well-known funeral parlour.
I am a simple man
Not much to gain or lose
"Older and wiser" never applies to me.
And so he drew a swallow on my neck
And the more, I will not say
He drew a swallow deep and blue
And soon, everyone knew.
You have been telling me
That I have been acting childish
Foolish, foolish, and childish
I know, I know, I know!
I know, I know, but I don't mind
I don't mind
I don't mind
Oh, I don't mind, ah...
Black-eyed Susan, rest and do nothing
'Cause it's the only thing that you do quite well
Black-eyed Susan, rest and do nothing
'Cause it's the only thing that you do quite well
Black-eyed Susan, rest and do nothing
'Cause it's the only thing that you do quite well
Black-eyed Susan, please remember
We were the first, we were the first.