1981 Albion Music Ltd.
Arrangement by Hazel O'Connor and Tony Visconti
Produced by Tony Visconti
Engineered by Gordon Fordyce and Chris Porter
Wesley McGoogan: saxophone, background vocals
Eddie Case: drumkit, electronic drums, background vocals
Neil O'Connor: guitar, background vocals
Andy "Roots" Qunta: keyboards, background vocals
Steve Kmch: bass guitar, background vocals
Lizzie Donovan: a...
Words Music: Hazel O'Connor
The c*** it crowed "It's morning" the donkey said "Ee-aw"
The pigs they grunted expectantly for the farmer to open the door
The chickens started clucking, they could not lay no eggs
They were just plain frightened,
Remembering what the pigs had said "just do as you're told"
Remembering what the pigs had said
And they all sang
[CHORUS:]
We will be happy, we will be f...
They'll tear out your heart, throw it knee-deep in a gut
'cos that's what they do with the scum like me and you
And you feel as if you died, moisture standing on the line
And you wonder all the time why can't you cry?
But the people in control don't care for you
Say you're just a robot with a job to do
And when your use is exhausted, they'll be rid of you
As soon as look at you, go to the back...
I am the black man and you are the white
I am the deviant and you're always right
I am the darkness and you are the light
I am the black man, you're the white
Yeah I go, I'll be good living only if I'm dying, hide your head in your hand
You hear no, see no, speak no no no, don't understand
I am the blackness, I am the dark
I am the alcoholic beast in the park
I am the girl who sold her body to...
Well, I saw your face in a photograph
Cried so much, I nearly laughed
You never really had the chance
To question why did you live some to cry some and die?
Whatandhow writes the song, calls the tune
Says what's right and wrong
Writes the song, calls the tune
Says what's right and wrong
Oh, I'd have caught your eyes, but my hands were tied
Was it truth? Was it lies?
Many words of truth are spo...
There you are, waiting at the station
Searching frantically the place where you belong
Gave you a map that showed you your direction
A shadow tore it up and told you it was wrong
"That way's too long, and that's still in the zone"
Come into the air and guest your body like a care
You belong nowhere and you can't bear it
Come into the air and guest your body like a care
Life just isn't fair if ...
Words Music: Hazel O'Connor
Here I sit so silently, I wait by your opening door
May flit, may fly, may not understand why,
I fear, when I hear you are near me
[CHORUS:]
But did they listen, listen to you today dawn
Dawn, dawn chorus
But did they listen, listen to you today dawn
I hear you, and feel you, not yet born
I hear you, and fear you, not yet born.
I take to the sky, where the angels fe...
Words Music: Jim Webb
Boy, I can understand how it might be
Kind of hard to love a girl like me
I don't blame you much for want-it to be free
I just wanted you to know
I've loved you better than your own kin did
From the very start
It's my own fault what happens to my heart
See I've always known you'd go
[CHORUS:]
So you just do what you gotta do
My wild sweet love
Tho' it may mean that I'll n...
Words Music: Hazel O'Connor
Red ringed the eyes of the women who cried to the night
Black and possessed are the eyes of the man who drank to no foresight
Then suffer little children, a haunted dream
Bright eyes, scared eyes, a silent scream
Now why'd you make me hit you - he'd say
Leave me alone I hate you - she'd say
Suffer little children, hear and have no say
[CHORUS:]
A leopard can't chang...
In the beginning was the word, man said: Let there be more light
Electric scenes and laser beams, neon brights the light abhorring nights
On the second day he said: Let's have a gas
Hydrogen and cholera and pest
Let's make some germs, we'll poison the worms
Man will never be suppressed
And he said: Behold what I have done
I've made a better world for everyone
Nobody laugh, nobody cry
World wit...
'ey you, standing there, what you got to stare at?
I'm not shy if your beady little eyes abuse me like some mishap
Cackling laughter behind you, and you're so funny, you're so blunt
Here's a thing you can understand: You are just a programme
You're a programme, you're a programme
Programme, programme, programme, programme
Give me an inch, and I'll take me a mile
Give me the distance from your ...
Words Music: The Stranglers
Big girl in the red dress
She's just trying to impress us
And she's got the barley fever
But she doesn't make a sound
She's just hanging around
She's just hanging around
Down the court road early
With the Hustlers big and burly
There's a million of 'em selling
And the buyers can be found
They're just hanging around
They're just hanging around
[CHORUS:]
Christ he tol...
Words Music: Hazel O'Connor
Hello old friend long time no see
Except the sea between you and me
And that's physical and that's impenetrable
Left you laughing at the dreams that I told you
Now I'm laughing at the dreams that they sold me
It's such a shame, you had to join their nasty game
[CHORUS 1:]
You didn't hold on
You didn't hold on
You didn't hold on
To a dream,
Ain't it obscene
The silen...
What do you do when they turn on the light?
You guard your heart, so they steal your sight
You reach out in blindness, touch the alone
Its icicle fingers chill you to the bone
What do you do when the cat gives her tongue?
No way to tell it's all going wrong
Now that the words are locked in the phone
Nobody answers, nobody's home
What's done has been done, and I won't be the one
Who despairs in...
Words Music: Lou Reed
Men of good fortune
Often cause empires to fall
While men of poor beginnings
Often can't do anything at all
The rich son waits for his father to die
While the poor just sit there and cry
And me ... ah ...
I just don't care at all
Men of good fortune
Very often can't do a thing
While men of poor beginnings
Often can't do anything
At heart they try to act like a man
Handle ...
What kind of things are you that live on papers
White papers that you say apply to me
Reams of rules constructed for protection
Protection for yourselves, but not for me
You hide behind your walls of bureaucracy
I find that you've nothing to do with me
You're all aliens
I opened up my eyes, and saw to my surprise
Monsters in disguise, wearing bowler hats and notes for ties
Today you went out t...
Words Music: Hazel O'Connor
Don't promise you'll never leave me
Cos, that would be a lie
We don't perceive the change of time
Tomorrow's the throw of the dice
Believe me I have tried for you
As much as I could
But I wouldn't couldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't
I couldn't couldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't
I couldn't give up my freedom
Not for you, or for anyone else for you
I guess I've lived alone too...
Words Music: Hazel O'Connor
You hate yourself, so you hate everybody else
People can make you feel small
Small is a size when age just won't rise fast enough
So you wait for the day, to be up get away
Run run as fast as you can
Over and Over and Over the hill far away
[CHORUS:]
Runaway
Is there something you're trying to say
Runaway
Please come home one day
Runaway
Is there something you're tr...
Words Music: Hazel O'Connor
So you're born, so you're torn
From a place that's safe and warm
I took a journey to see a world
And you're born
And you're torn
So you're pulled from pillar to post
And you're told it's best to be the one who knows the most
Yet the more I know, I know nothing
Nothing at all
Yeh, you're born
I met a man, who sung a song
And the know-it-intellects said each note was ...
Round and round and round again
Increasing circles, what a fun game
We think we're different, we're not the same
As you and he and she and he
And we always believed that we're something unique
And new little rich bands want us in their clique
And we'll play, we'll play all of our days away
There's you scratching my back, me scratching yours
Rub up the right way, it always ensures
We'll know th...
Words Music: Hazel O'Connor
Ah come on
Let's go
Let's all play mums and dads, come on
Where do babies come from, mum?
Shut up you naughty boy
And put your clothes back on
[CHORUS:]
Mucky pup, cover up
Strip it down, cover round
Dirty muck, cover up
Look at us we got cover plus
'Cos we're all grown up, we're all grown up
Peel off black nylon in the red light
Silly old men leer through their gun...
Living in the shadow of the mushroom tower
Who needs it?
Find no shelter from that kind of shower
Who needs it?
Nuclear rain, melting my brain
Who needs it - not you, not me, who needs this insanity?
At the top of the tower there's a creature who wants power
Who needs it? Who needs it?
If he gets in the dungeon, he could just press the button
Who needs it? Who needs it?
He'll flee inside, and ...
You drink your coffee and I sip my tea
And we're sitting here playing so cool, thinking "What will be, will be"
But it's getting kind of late now
Oh I wonder if you'll stay now, stay now, stay now, stay now
Or will you just politely say goodnight?
I move a little closer to you, not knowing quite what to do
And I'm feeling all fingers and thumbs, I spill my tea, oh silly me
But it's getting kin...
Down a tunnel, in a tube, on the floor, knocked down by booze
Busy man has blown his fuse while crossword people look for clues
I say sir, get your nose out the paper, take a good look at what's going down
Get clued into the shape of, the shape of things to come
Have you seen the writing on the wall?
Have you seen the writing on the wall?
Reaching out for your calls
Have you seen the writing o...