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I want to feel like this all the time
I want to feel like this all the time
All the time, all the time
I have abandoned everything
All food and water, in my lonely cage,
Everything, even my own offspring
I got electric shocks on my feet
This morning just so that I could reach
I could reach, I could reach
The lever on the other side
Of my room so I
Can just spend the day pushing down
Feeling great
I want to feel like this all the time
I want to feel like this all the time
I want to feel like this all the time
I want to feel like this all the time
I want to feel like this all the time
I want to feel like this all the time
You are a giant - I am a tiny thing
I can be your experiment
You can be quiet - you can just listen in
I can be your experiment
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2. |
I.T.V. Colour Strike
03:10
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Imagine if the sky was green
If Romulus lost the fight then we’d call Rome Reem
Imagine if the grass was blue
And if you still loved me then I’d still be with you
Or maybe you never loved me
And maybe I’ll die before I know what love means
And one day the Earth will swelter
But maybe before it does, things will get better
I woke up feeling sad again today
Feels like all nuance went away, I don’t know what to do
I want to see things like I did
before the colour strike
Before the black and white
Imagine if the sea was blue
And if I could swim away then that’s what I’d do
It was so vibrant
Now it’s all black and white
ITV colour strike
I miss the old days
Before the grey arrived
We had the bluest sky
November 1970
Technicians at ITV
In a dispute over pay
Took red, green and blue away
That’s how I feel now
I’m on a TV show
That’s all in monochrome
It was so vibrant
Now it’s all black and white
ITV colour strike
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3. |
I Don't Want to Listen
02:56
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Pick it up and put it down
Pick it up and put it down
Every night and every morning
Ringing!
South Sudan is calling
San Marino’s calling
Eswatini’s calling
Ringing!
Argentina’s calling
Pick it up and put it down
Pick it up and put it down
Every night and every morning
Ringing!
Kyrgyzstan is calling
Canada is calling
Eritrea’s calling
Ringing!
Luxembourg is calling
Pick it up and put it down
Pick it up and put it down
I don’t want to listen
I don’t need a lesson
Don’t let them leave a message
Pick it up and put it down
As I turn to china
A globe sits on the dresser
She used to keep the phone there
I’m waking up and passing out
Pick it up and put it down
Pick it up and put it down
Pick it up and put it down
Every night and every morning
Ringing!
U.A.E. is calling
U.S.A. is calling
United K. Is calling
Ringing!
Another day is calling
Pick it up and put it down
Pick it up and put it down
It's too late to listen
I don’t need a lesson
Don’t let them leave a message
Pick it up and put it down
As I turn to china
A globe sits on the dresser
She used to keep the phone there
I’m waking up and passing out
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4. |
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There was a party and I met you there and we’re always there
Louis XIV works in Edinburgh in a call centre
Love isn’t coming
Love isn’t coming
Love isn’t coming, you have to look for it
I had to meet you to get off the fence and have my life make sense
Robert Mugabe’s selling pots and pans in 10th Century France
Love isn’t coming
Love isn’t coming
Love isn’t coming, you have to look for it
You’re not as lucky as us
Who’d understand what I’m talking about?
What I’m talking about?
Yours and mine - the divine right of the king and queen
Is there such thing?
Alfred the Great, he gave in his CV to a bakery
While Cleopatra is head of design at the New York Times
Love isn’t coming
Love isn’t coming
Love isn’t coming, you have to look for it
Love isn’t coming
Love isn’t coming
Love isn’t coming, you have to look for it
You’re not as lucky as us
Who’d understand what I’m talking about?
What I’m talking about?
Yours and mine - the divine right of the king and queen
Is there such thing?
William the Conqueror is a border guard at the Euro Star
New ways to love you as we drive around your hometown
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5. |
I'm a Tourist
02:50
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I’ve been slumming it in Europe
I’m not like other tourists. English and French
songs all sounding like Beethoven
Italians in Lederhosen makes fashion sense
Everything near is far
the Autobahn’s
a road that leads to Rome
Hack me into little pieces
Lest I write another line
There’s no going going back
Hackney Hackney Hackney cab
West Eurasian Summer taught me
from Malta up to Orkney you’ll always see
Matadors around the maypole
and Pearly Kings on the payroll in boulangeries
champagne topped with beer
Gondoliers
who punt in Amsterdam
Hack me into little pieces
Lest I write another line
There’s no going going back
Hackney Hackney Hackney cab
I’m not moving
(moving on)
I’m guessing
(dressing up)
Not moving
(moving on)
I’m going nowhere
all the things I borrow
I won’t give them back tomorrow
I won’t give them back the next day
or the next
Put the Shakespeare in the shredder
Poetic and Prose Edda into the fire
grind the stained glass into powder
and let the Eiffel Tower sink in the mire
amnesia’s the magic word
and don’t be scared
there’s nature to exploit
Hack me into little pieces
Lest I write another line
There’s no going going back
Hackney Hackney Hackney cab
Hack me into little pieces
Lest I write another line
There’s no going going back
Hackney Hackney Hackney cab
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I’m putting down the phone
Saying yes, saying yes, saying yes
I’m putting on my coat
Saying yes, saying yes, saying yes
I’m running down your road
And I bet you can guess
Now I’m standing right in front of you
Saying yes, saying yes, saying yes
You ask me what I want from you
I thought you knew
You ask me if I want to marry you
You know I do
I’m jumping on the bus
Saying yes, saying yes, saying yes
I’m causing quite a fuss
Saying yes, saying yes, saying yes
Everyone’s looking up
I don’t care I confess
Now I’m standing right in front of you
Saying yes, saying yes, saying yes
I’m running for the train
Saying yes, saying yes, saying yes
Chemicals in my brain
Saying yes, saying yes, saying yes
And if it’s not delayed
I’m gonna be out of breath
Soon I’ll be standing right in front of you
Saying yes, saying yes, saying yes
You ask if me if I’m still in love
You know I am
You ask me if I’ll love you all my life
Well that’s the plan
I’m putting down the phone
Saying yes, saying yes, saying yes
I’m putting on my coat
Saying yes, saying yes, saying yes
I’m running down the road
And I bet you can guess
Now I’m standing right in front of you
Saying yes, saying yes, saying yes
I’m standing right in front of you
Saying yes, saying yes, saying yes
Now I’m standing right in front of you
Saying yes!
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7. |
I Call it Love
03:53
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You’d call it anything else
But the thing you bring
I call it love
And it’s enough
I call it love, love, love
They call me the grim reaper as I take them. I call it love
I love the sound of weeping on a ward cos I call it love
Old lovers always worry who I’ll take first, I call that love
They never think that I will hurry, hurry the end of love
Live your life but know you oughta
Tell your sons and tell your daughters
That I’m always round the corner
Waiting
Now you’re anticipating
Tell them, tell them!
The way that people hate to be alone well I call it love
When you upset each other you atone and I call it love
The time we spend just playing on our phones well I call it love
When you were born you never would have known you’d have so much love
Show them, show them
Cos you never will know when
I’ll come see you
They call me the grim reaper as I take them. I call it love
You’ll never know how lucky you are to have this much
You know that there’s a thing I love to see when I do my job?
Now what’s the word, now what’s the word that I’m thinking of?
I call it love, love, love
You’d call it anything else
But the thing you bring
I call it love
And it’s enough
I call it love, love, love
You’d call it anything else
But the thing you bring
I call it love
And it’s enough
I call it love, love, love
You’d call it anything else
But the thing you bring
I call it love
And it’s enough
I call it love, love, love
You’d call it anything else
But the thing you bring
I call it love
And it’s enough
I call it love, love, love
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8. |
I Hear Nobody Talks
03:41
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I was hanging out in my room
I was playing and singing tunes
On my Casio - songs from musicals
That’s when I heard a knock,
Knock, is somebody at my door?
It’s the guy from the second floor
“can you please keep it down, you’re awful”
I couldn’t believe my luck
It was my music he’d come to discuss
And so began my first conversation in months
Nobody talks
All I hear is that nobody talks
Nobody talks
When you’re near, I hear nobody talks
Nobody talks
All I hear is that nobody talks
I hate it here
When I’m near, I know nobody talks
Nobody ever tells me a goddam thing
The only thing I know is that no one talks
So let’s make them sing
I don’t have any friends in this city
No outlet for creativity
I only have songs of self pity
So I devote my life to
Every night karaoke
Where everyone seems to love me
They’re just kidding when they heckle me
I’d like to buy the world a big double Jack Daniels and Coke
Music can make us talk, if we’re in on the joke
Nobody talks
All I hear is that nobody talks
Nobody talks
When you’re near, I hear nobody talks
Nobody talks
All I hear is that nobody talks
I hate it here
When I’m near, I know nobody talks
Nobody ever tells me a goddam thing
The only thing I know is that no one talks
So let’s make them sing
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I forget I’m someone else sometimes
you put me in focus with all the lines
and when you looked at me and smiled we went outside and
everywhere was grainy there
we’ll forget we’re people anywhere
I forget I’m someone else sometimes
through the window comes no real sunshine
you and I now stand in the best light
boom above your head
tell the world the words of love you said
the rippling sky -
a cyclorama hanging high
I’ve seen behind it
thought I’d found the truth then I find it
what was real
about the way we used to feel?
It’s not like anything’s going wrong
We got it right in one take
we’ve seen the edges and we’ve seen beyond
we’re seeing angels like William Blake
I always thought these walls were made of stone
then I saw them wobble when the door was closed
and when you told me how you felt it all made sense
it felt divine like freezing time
or like seeing colour in black and white
I forget I’m someone else sometimes
you and I now stand in the spotlight
boom above your head
tell the world the words of love you said
the rippling sky -
a cyclorama hanging high
I’ve seen behind it
thought I’d found the truth then I find it
what was real
about the way we used to feel?
boom above your head
tell the world the words of love you said
the rippling sky -
a cyclorama hanging high
I’ve seen behind it
thought I’d found the truth then I find it
what was real
about the way we used to feel?
And everything’s to be continued
And everything’s to be continued…
(I forget I’m someone else sometimes
you put me in focus with all the lines
and when you looked at me and smiled we went outside and
everywhere was grainy there
we’ll forget we’re people anywhere)
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(What is that tower?)
If I was there, a person on the ground
(Why did they build it?)
I would stand, awkwardly, around
I’d be the guy, looking so lonely
(What is that tower?)
Look at me, standing all alone
(Why did they build it?)
I don’t know why I’m here at all
Call me a cab, I’m feeling queasy
The first one to see the sun
The morning the clocks go forward
I’d look right at home in London
But here I just feel so awkward
14th arrondissement
to disappoint you
I’m the one with the beautiful view
I wish we could both enjoy it
(What is that tower?)
I’m stood here, counting knives and forks
(Why did they build it?)
Walk away, you don’t want to talk
It’s 7am, the party is over
The first one to see the sun
The morning the clocks go forward
I’d look right at home in London
But here I just feel so awkward
14th arrondissement
to disappoint you
I’m the one with the beautiful view
I wish we could both enjoy it
And if I was a person
Down on the ground
(Knock it all down
Knock it all down)
At your birthday party
I’d stand around
(Knock it all down
Knock it all down)
If I had friends
If I had anyone around
Standing here with me
Not off in the distance
Someone like me
Someone could build a friend for me
The first one to see the sun
The morning the clocks go forward
I’d look right at home in London
But here I just feel so awkward
14th arrondissement
to disappoint you
I’m the one with the beautiful view
I wish we could both enjoy it
The first one to see the sun
The morning the clocks go forward
I’d look right at home in London
But here I just feel so awkward
14th arrondissement
to disappoint you
I’m the one with the beautiful view
I wish we could both enjoy it
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