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Surmount All Obstacles
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Lyrics You must retreat into mysticism to find an originationLocate the base enclaveSurmount all obstaclesSurmount all obstaclesHeinz is guiltyHe says “Look, I let the shot go by accident … I’m a black belt” His face is full of xxxx, cruelty, guiltBlue-eyed, a caring sharing manEmbarrass them into extinctionMust he retreat into mysticism, or locate the…
The Reckoning
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Lyrics I phoned you up from DallasBut your heart was still in marbleAnd your head was reckoningYour friends are dis-compos-mentis And like most in leather jackets are covetingReckoningReckoningAnd you’re sleeping with some hippy halfwit who thinks he’s Mr Mark Smith ReckoningBeckoningReckoningReckoningI’m left alone in Europe consulting an atlasWanderingWanderingAnd it’s evil that you spark offIn disguise…
The $500 Bottle Of Wine
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Lyrics A five hundred dollar bottle of wineA five hundred dollar bottle of wineA five hundred dollar bottle of wineThat’s all we get for being with him all the time I give them a five hundred bottle of wineThat’s all they get most of the timeA five hundred dollar bottle of wineA five hundred dollar…
Hey! Student
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Lyrics When I’m walking down the street it’s always you I seem to meetLong hair down and sneakers on your feetAnd write your letters to the Evening News I clench my fist and sing this tuneI said hey student, hey student, hey student, you’re gonna get it through the headI said hey student, hey student,…
Hey! Fascist
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Lyrics When I’m walking down the streetIt’s always you I seem to meetCar coat on and steel boots on your feet And write your letters to the Evening News I pick up a knife and sing this tuneIt goes, Hey fascist! Hey fascist! Hey fascist!You’re gonna get it through the headI said Hey fascist! Hey…
Happy Holiday
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Lyrics Έλα να δεις και ν’ ακούσεις το Εγγλέζικο σχέδιοΗ εργατική τάξη θέλει λεφτά, κακιά υγεία, ζητάνε τσιγάραΟι σοφοί άνθρωποι ξενιτεύονται σε άλλες πόλειςΣα το μεγάλο σου αδελφόHappy holidayHappy holidayGet awayWell cruised pseudsMuchos queues on cyclesEurope aroundKeeping down figuresHave you ever wondered, coots, what your retirement’s brought unto the people?Happy holidayGrecian, a small town outside…
M5
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Lyrics You’ll never see me try to raise CainYou’ll never see me wear a suit of greenThere’s a slip road up right aheadLeading to the agragarian But I’m city born and bredToo many car fumes in my headJust a well-read punk peasantBut you’d think a country man would understandThe devil makes work for idle handsM5…
Cab Driver/City Dweller
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Lyrics Cab Driver XXXX City Dweller Dictum – message of the Euro-boreRandomIt’s a good life, bowing to the tyrant NoneChristian gang chants sweetRegionalKeep your head down for the moment(That now suit is now in bucketIt’s a good life, Europe)Avoid the dismantledAll heads stuck in bloody plant potsAll looking at themForgetting the endless drive against natureCity…
War
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Originally recorded by Henry Cow/Slapp Happy, appearing on “In Praise of Learning” (1975). Credits: Anthony Moore (music); Peter Blegvad (lyrics).
Behind the Counter
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Lyrics They’re always hitting on meBut I’m getting thin from waiting onThey just want me to be behind the counterBehind the counterBehind the counterThe hen centre was always picking on meThere they are tucking in all over shopGot no time for dinner or teaBehind the counterEvery car I see is always picking on meThey take…
Light/Fireworks
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Lyrics Cold, cold, can’t controlCold, can’t controlLight up a cigarette, cos it might be your lastCold, cold, can’t controlCold, can’t controlLight up a cigarette, cos it might be your lastCold, cold, can’t controlCold, cold, can’t controlCold, can’t controlFireworks, darknessCascading with fireworksFireworks, can’t read itFireworks, can’t fathom itFireworksComing up to the dawn hereWhat are those burnt…
A Past Gone Mad
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Lyrics The Infotainment Scan Serial killers were always a bore in my bookAlong with Spangles and soccer booksRid us of old fogeys scuttling and swerving over the roadsComma, kids in pubsPassableWhy is Pete Gabriel always following us?PassableAnd before the grub comes a moralist Dissonance of infotainmentA past gone madAlive and well, he is on all…
League Moon Monkey Mix
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Lyrics You know when you end up in some sort of a cinema complex and the person next to you is someone you hate?Well well well well well well well well with me, I end up like that, all around and inside leftAll through the wallsIt suppuratesLook it up! I’m immobileIs your house for sale?…
The League of Bald-Headed Men
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Lyrics You know when you end up in some sort of a cinema complex and the person next to you is someone you hate?Well well well well well well well well with me, I end up like that, all around and inside leftAll through the wallsIt suppuratesLook it up! I’m immobileIs your house for sale?…
Service
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Lyrics Why do you have a cloud in your eye?Why do you have a cloud in your eye?Walked downstairs, got my hat and my corny brown leather jacketStreets were grey and clean for a change, must have been the rainThought transferenceAnd this man in digs with me would spit out two or three teeth a…
Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room
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Lyrics Paranoid man in mid- thirties At the height of paranoiaAt the zenith of his powersBy bed replica shooterZenith dissolvingBy his bed replica shooterParanoid man in his early thirties, at the zenith of his powersWhen girls pass, puts head down, in the streetHis neighbours now are listening to thisShakes in the chemist’s while buying his…
It’s a Curse
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Lyrics It’s a curseWell thy forsoothWho is that interesting hack over there?By Gad, verilyCracked curseDislikedDislikedBurdenedIt’s a curseAnd I’m not unguilty of using itYou, your tone isYou tone of everybodyTrying to bolt out ofTrying to get overOperation mind fuck I do not like your tone, it has ephemeral whinging aspectsIt’s a curseIt’s a curseI am not…
Ladybird (Green Grass)
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Lyrics And there’s a big concert going down in this townPeople cannot see society broken downI sat upon the green grass but it just brought me downAnd the wife said “get up” and it just brought me roundFly ladybird, get right outta townUse your transparent wingsLadybird fly, fly ladybird Green grass was purple black and…
I’m Going to Spain
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Lyrics Steve Bent XXXX The Fall I’ve sold my car, thrown in my job, I’m thirty-four years oldI think it’s time I saw the world, and not AustraliaI’ve sold my car, thrown in my job, I’m thirty-four years oldI think it’s time I saw the world cos I hate the cold and rain and grey…
Lost in Music
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Lyrics Sister Sledge We’re lost in musicCaught in a trapNo turnin’ backWe’re lost in musicWe’re lost in musicFeel so aliveI quit my nine-to-fiveWe’re lost in music[Verse 1]Have you ever seen some people lose everything?First to go is their mind (Huh)Responsibility to me is a tragedyI’ll get a job some other time, uh-huhI want to join…
Glam-Racket
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Lyrics Stop eating all that chocolate, eat salad instead In fact, you’re a halfwit from somewhere or otherWhy don’t you bog off back to Xanadu in IrelandGlam RickGlam Rick(Glam Rick)Don’t try to cheat me, I’m fragileYou hang around with camera crews in shell-suitsYou lecture on sweetsYou read Viz comicGlam Rick(Glam Rick)Glam Rick(Glam Rick)You are bequeathed…
Why Are People Grudgeful?
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Lyrics People Grudgeful (Joe Gibbs) People Funny Boy (Lee Perry) The Fall All over the world – deference, deferenceAll over Europa – deference, deferenceCome on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come onWhen you were down and outI always helped you outAnd when you go outYou just chat and…
C’n’C-Hassle Schmuck
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Lyrics Three months, three yearsThree months, three yearsMore lecturesYes it’s them againYou’ve heard Blob 59We’re gonna move on three yearsMusic centre irritantGet yer suits off, get yer jeans onI can see, I have dreamsI was by the fireplace at home The date was two O one OAll England was a university town, all you could…
Words of Expectation
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Lyrics These are the words of expectationThese are the words of success expectationFrom a pleasing mugFrom a pleasing pan Every now and then I would like to try something like thisIt is a modicum of my career I would like at the bottom of my [ ]These are the words of expectationThese are the words…
Kimble
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Lyrics Lee Perry XXXX The Fall I’m hot!I warn yaHe’s out!Rrrrrrrr tch tch tch tch tch tch tchYou never knew I was aroundThat’s why you tried to climb on my backYou step on my toes and pretend you never knewBut you mess with this catBut let me warn you my friend, never do that again…
The Knight, the Devil and Death
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Lyrics AccelerateQualifies, that’s what Göring said The knight, the devil and deathThe knight, the devil and deathUsurpingThe knight, the devil and deathThe knight, the devil and deathUsurping cost cuts, that’s why we [ ] [ ] smart-alecThe knight, the devil and deathThe knight, the devil and deathThe knight, the devil and deathUsurpingUsurpingAccelerate! Accelerate! Accelerate!The knight,…
Pumpkin Head Xscapes
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Lyrics Laughing now? You’re happy now?As the senile morons who run KLF flatsKLF flats in their brains Pumpkin head escapesPumpkin head escapesWe’re coming, we’re coming, LeoWe’re coming, we’re coming, Leo But you will not appreciate anything on your lifeUntil your life veers straight to the crossFull autobiograph self-pity crapSearching now, you’re happy nowSearching now, you’re…
Ed’s Babe
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Lyrics Edward lived with MaryLike sister and brotherTill one nightMen are this, men are that(DIY)Women too (DIY)(DIY)Then there was three(DIY)A new start(DIY)A weird wake(DIY)It all changed after Ed’s babe(DIY) (DIY)Ed’s babeEd’s babeEd’s babeSee Ed on a plane(DIY)White bundle(DIY)In his arms(DIY)Ed’s baby(DIY)See them working away(DIY)In bar working(DIY)Folly is a cloak of knavery(DIY) (DIY)Ed’s babeEd’s babeEd’s babeEd’s…
Married, 2 Kids
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Lyrics In 1978, was in a hotel in Notting Hill GateNow in 1992, staying in a hotel in Notting Hill Gate AbjectI’m too busy to thinkToo busy to workJust can’t cut itMarried, two kidsMarried, two kidsI pretend to go to workI pretend to go to workGot a porta-faxAftershave like mustard Two pints of lager do…
Gentlemen’s Agreement
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Lyrics We plough the fields togetherIn all types of intemperanceOur bones cracked in unisonGentlemen’s, gentlemen’s agreementYou know what he is, and probably still isSticking his colours to whatever new mast there isBut our agreement is overI thought we had some kind of agreementBut with you it was just prurienceYou’re addicted to excitementMy energies are down…
Just Waiting
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Lyrics Hank Williams The old maid’s waitin’ for leap year to comeThe crooner’s just waitin’ to singThe old cow’s standin’ by the Bull Durham signJust awaitin’ for the grass to turn greenThe bar-fly’s waitin’ for an easy markAn’ the hitch-hiker’s waitin’ for a rideThe life-termer’s waitin’ for a prison breakThe beachcomber’s waitin’ for the tideFarmer’s…
Two-Face!
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Lyrics Two-face, that’s what they call meThey call me a two-faceTwo-face, that’s what they call meThey call me a two-faceTwo-face, boat race disgraced, his face displaced againInto two dimensionsInto two directionsTwo-face, boat race displaced, my face disgraced againInto the dimensionsInto two directionsNowhere for him to goNowhere for him to goThat’s what they call meThey call…
Immortality
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Lyrics You try and change itYou try and arrange itYou try and shape itBut it’s immortality, yeahIt’s immortality You cannot change itOr rearrange itIt’s immortalityImmortalityImmortalityThat’s where you’re at, dearYou’re shedding your mentalityBut it’s immortalityAnd you cannot buy itYou cannot put it in your pocket bookYou can’t put it in your BCI Don’t try and shape…
Time Enough At Last
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Lyrics It’s time I started thinking on my feet instead of on my backNow I got time, time enough at lastTime enough at last, boyTime enough at lastIt’s been the bane of my lifeBut I’ve got time enough at lastI got timeTime enough at lastTime enough at last, boyTime enough at lastAnd sometimes people think…
The Birmingham School of Business School
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Lyrics The car is at the roundaboutThe policeman is at the roundabout But I’m full of surprises nowAnd my friend, he said I’m full of surprises nowLet me tell you about scientific managementAnd the theft of its concealmentThe Birmingham School of Business SchoolIn BirminghamIt’s main themeWeave a web so magnificentDisguise in the art of conceitGive…
Dangerous
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Lyrics The selfish smiling fool and the sullen frowning fool shall both be thought wiseThinkThinkLike mountain climbing or skiing in the AlpsThink of it, I don’tIt was a big fat FebruaryWet, the ugly pavement crackedPause, unsafeI thought, insect posse will be crushedIt was a bit of Code SelfishThere was not much going on in the…
Return
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Lyrics God bless the cold winds and its refreshing consequence, uh huhOh please, returnHellas did tremble Hellas did go to wasteFinding it difficult to stand in its fury over the ironing boardBut still this golden curl vented its Hellas furyReturnBaby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, come back to meCome back to meReturnI was told to…
Everything Hurtz
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Lyrics Come to meCome unto meAll ye that labourYou that are heavy ladenCos everything hurtsAnd everything hurtsI’ve been pursuing the fuel too longGot a big fat pain in my chest boneGot an empty pocketbookGot a big fat no no in my chequebookAnd everything hurtsAnd everything hurtsI got the disease tinnitusI’m speakin’ like I’ve got Tourette’sAnd…
Free Range
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Lyrics In 2001, a life codeIt pays to talk to no-one, no-one!Proliferating across the earthAlso Sprach ZarathustraFaction EuropaFree rangeFree range2001 – Also Sprach ZarathustraProliferating across the earthPressure guiltGrudge matchTwelve c.m. flak unitRange one stroke thirty-fiveThis is the spring without endThis is the summer of malcontentThis is the winter of your mindFree rangeFree rangeBy 2001, Also…
Sinister Waltz
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Lyrics He must go downHe must go downHe must come downHe mustHe must go downHe must go downHe must go downHe mustWas fraternising with JamesHe embraced the hordes from eastHe must go downHe must go downHe must come downHe must go downHe must go downHe must go downDown with the curseHe must go downAnd reinforced…
Rose
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Lyrics The step goes downI hope you are alrightI am alrightThere’s a letter marked “urgent”I have not yet read itRoseRose RoseI hear you are in Hampstead I hope you can get marriedRoseRoseHear that wah-wah going?Remember you started itFrecklesRoseIt is now all the rage with the younger set Your replacement, he is a good manRose RoseI’ve…
The Mixer
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Lyrics The Mixer The mixer is close to meHe turns his head and smiles at meAnd I am blessed he earns my salary The mixer In Español restaurants the people and staff they clapThe mixer sweatsIn comic type lettersThe voices are sayingClap, clap The mixer sweatsThe mixer sweatsThe mixer of Jamaican originBorn, raised in the…
You Haven’t Found It Yet
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Lyrics Where are you going?This work has not yet reached cessationYou haven’t found it yetHaven’t found it yetYou just haven’t found it yetFound it yetFound it yetFound it yetLook at the glass, turn your headYou haven’t found it yetMoving down the lane insideIt’s flashy Camden Town It’s that London lyric againYou haven’t found it yetYou…
Shift-Work
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Lyrics She’s ten-to-five But I’m shift-workAnd my woman aliveShift-workShift-workI thought shift-work would work but it’s good as broken us apartLights flash over meTwenty-four hour bulbI’m just home for teaBut she’s in work modeShift-workShift-workAnd they will shake you by the hands for shift-workBut being abandoned by your woman is the price for shift-workShift-workShift-workShift-workShift-work, you let me…
The War Against Intelligence
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Lyrics The war against intelligenceWar versus intelligenceNotebooks out plagiarists The war against intelligenceWar versus intelligenceThey got a lot of debris yesterdayThey stuck out its golden hornsAnd volunteered its essenceThe war against intelligenceThe war against intelligenceThe war versus intelligenceThe war against intelligenceHey pseud! Why did you defect to the other side?Hey dude! Give the info a…
The Book of Lies
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Lyrics You keep reading me the Book of Lies You keep reading me the Book of LiesAnd you keep giving meAnd you keep reading me The Book of LiesThe Book of LiesBook of LiesYou keep telling me, Book of LiesThe Book of LiesBook of LiesBook of LiesThe Book of LiesYou keep reading me the Book…
Pittsville Direkt
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Lyrics No current is waned where it wants to goSome are only happy in the throes of bitter argumentsReady and packedTo ride there by train ride, by plane ride, by walkingOr from the insidesI can’t deal with Pittsville DirektI don’t wanna go Pittsville DirektNo, no, no, no, Pittsville DirektYes, yes, yes, Pittsville DirektStood off the…
Edinburgh Man
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Lyrics It’s springtime but I still miss the streets at dawnAnd in the morning walking your bridges homeAs I sit and stare at all of England’s soresI tell you somethingI wish I was in EdinburghI don’t mind being by myselfDon’t wanna be anywhere elseJust wanna be in EdinburghI wish I was an Edinburgh manYou can…
Idiot Joy Showland
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Lyrics Idiot groups with no shape or formOut of their heads on a quid of blowThe shapeless kecks flapping up a storm Look at what they are, a pack of wormsIdiot Joy ShowlandIdiot Joy ShowlandIdiot Joy ShowlandIdiot Joy ShowlandThe nylon leaves are fallingFrom the twisted shell of your craniumYour mystic jump-suits cannot hideYour competitive plagiarismIn…
So What About It?
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Lyrics So What About It? Fall advice!Fall advice!Fall advice!Fall advice!Fall advice!Fall advice!Fall advice!Fall advice!Fall advice!The Year Number One has gone and turned into Year of Bomb TV wars twenty-four hours, but it happensFall advice!Fall advice!Fall advice!Shaking my bones down the M40, passenger seat gripped tightIn a Series ThreeI cannot sleep, but I’m happyI cannot eatSo…
