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Man about the house
She needs a man about the house
Someone who can do a proper job
A sensitive yet sensible example
Not a helpless good for nothing slob
What good’s a man about the house
When all he does is get under your feet
Go to the football and to the pub
You can pick one up like that on any street
A broken dream machine
That’s way beyond repair
No good to anyone
Oh how she must despair
She needs a man about the house
Someone who won’t get under her skin
Tells herself she’s the only one
Stupid enough to live with him
The only person he loves is himself
He never does a blessed thing
Locks himself away inside his room
Create some idea…berate some idea
One night with Pamela
Sigourney or Jennifer
A Harley Davidson
Trip across America
To get things done around her you might as well do them yourself
In the time that it takes him to think
You could have painted the fence
Wallpapered the living room
You could have fixed that kitchen sink
A broken dream machine
That’s way beyond repair
No good to anyone
Oh how she must despair
One night with Pamela
Sigourney or Jennifer
A Harley Davidson
Trip across America….
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Get Well Soon
04:21
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Yes I do appreciate the calls
Yes I do appreciate the cards
Yes I do appreciate the thoughts
Yes I do appreciate the laughs
I am grateful for my job
Grateful for the sympathy
I am grateful for the understanding
Grateful for the empathy
Get well soon
Get well soon
Get well soon
Get well soon
I believe the doctor knows best
So I put my life in his hands
I need to get myself some rest
I will adhere to my care plans
Get well soon
Get well soon
Get well soon
Get well soon
There’s a voice I can only hear at night
Tells me everything will be OK
But I don’t believe a word
I just want that voice to go away
When I get out of here
I’ll be looking in on you
And you’ll be acting kind of weird
Like you haven’t got a clue
Get well soon
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Guilt Tripper
03:26
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Oh Jesus when will it all end
Say you cant keep up the pace
Got your trousers half way down
Rotten egg upon your face
Another friend of a friend
Says he saw you falling down
And the fence can never mend
The key cannot be found
Saw them running still you kept it hid
Like beating time on your coffin lid
Guilt tripper
As we go breaking cupids law
All conviction sadly lacking
He pins you to the floor
This time he's attacking
If you close not to think
About his age old game
Then your secrets will all stink
And your waiting be in vain
If you catch me running don't you get me wrong
I was so diffident until you came along
Guilt tripper
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Imagine
03:01
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Imagine writing a song called Imagine
Imagine doing anything like that
Sitting at the piano in a white suit
A Japanese girlfriend and siamese cat
They say it came together in the twinkling of an eye
The momentum of the melody was enough to make them cry
For the people all those people in the name of love and peace
Politicians world leaders scumbags and cheats
Imagine writing a song called Imagine
Try and imagine doing something like that
In a darkened room on an eight track machine
On a country estate like the on ewe've all soon
In the film of the song the book of the dream with that really weird kid in the kitchen scene
Is there anyone out there who doesn't know the words
I there anyone still listening to them after all these years
Cause if any son was ever gonna change the world it was this one
Imagine writing a song just like Imagine
Thats the most stupid idea I've ever heard
I'm not fighting some war where everybody dies
Or cheating on a girl telling superficial lies
I'm just trying to get me head around the greatest protest song ever written
Imagine writing a song called Imagine
I imagine doing something like that...
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Jump The Brook Ruth
05:58
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Jump the brook Ruth it isn't very deep
I built a damn but it isn't very deep
Break a leg kid its not alright
Cause you're going home in an ambulance tonight
Jump the brook Ruth do as I say
I sent a trap for you I'm going to make you pay
So we talked some more and she eventually agreed
She took a few steps back and she gathered up speed but she couldn't see the trip wire hidden in the trees
Next minute she lets out a scream
She's lying head first down in the stream
Theres blood in the water people gather round
Theres a siren going off in the distance
Jump the brook Ruth
Jump the brook Ruth
I'm stood there at the waters edge transfixed by fear
I hear the sounds of people as they whisper in my ear
What an evil little boy...
Were gonna tel your parent were gonna tell the school
And it'll be curtains for you
Later that night I was relieved to hear
Ruth had nothing but a few scratches to her ear
She was back at school the very next day
But she didn't call at my house she kept we ll
And we haven't spoken to this day
Jump the brook Ruth show me that you acre
Jump the brook Ruth if you dare
Jump the brook Ruth play the game
I really like you in a way that I cant explain
Jump the brook Ruth...
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I Came Back As a Girl
04:31
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They said I was no more
Said I’d been and gone
My time was all over
All over and done
My star had faded out
Out of time and out of space
But I returned
To restart the race
Swore it was the end of the world
But I came back
Back as a girl
Sugar and spice and all things nice
My hands were tiny
You said they were good for porn…not that I ever did any
My heart was big
My soul reborn
I tasted of pear drops and strawberry lip-gloss
My shoes were stacked up high
I couldn’t read maps
But I would try I’d try…oh how I’d try
Swore it was the end of the world
But I came back
Back as a girl
Sugar and spice and all things nice
I could be devious
I could be serious
I could be cruel and I could be Oh so mischevious
Thought it was the end of the world
Then I came back as a girl
I had waited all my life
To be somebody’s lover
To be somebody’s wife
I know it sounds a little absurd
But I came back as a girl
Sugar and spice and all things nice
Back in extra time
Back in the firing line
Back on the town with Terry and Dave
On to the pub and on to the rave
Dancing my life away
Was I straight or was I gay?
I grew my hair and my nails
Got a dolphin tattoo
Kinky sex under the stars
In my best knickers and bras
I shopped until I dropped
So easily I cried
At Sleepless in Seattle and the one about the virgin bride…
No one believed me
When I said
The real me is dead
They thought I’d lost
My head
They thought it was the end of the world
And then I came back as a girl
I came back as a girl…
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Mr Low
03:06
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Can I get my ball back Mr Low
I lost it in your garden many years ago
Been hanging on to stuff that others have let go
So can I get my ball back?
Do I want to get my teeth into this life?
Do I want the job, the mortgage and the wife?
You used to tell me everything would be alright
So can I get my ball back…Mr Low?
The house is on fire and the children have gone
Back to the place they are from
As bury my head in a time capsule with a prize day poem from junior school
Can I get my ball back Mr Low?
It’s bright and cheap it’s all I’ve got to show
Sorry for the trouble the lengths you had to go
But can I get my ball back?
There’s no time like the past to reinvent the wheel
To change the way you are distort the way you feel
I’ve done it or so long now I’ve no idea what’s real
So can I get my ball back?
Mr Low…The Davenports man brings beer to your home
Rolfs on TV with a stylophone…
And your Dad’s having a moan
So can I get my ball back??
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Broken Scissors
03:00
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If the timing is wrong and music is crass
And the melody sucks I'll be taken to task
For trying to write in tablets of stone
With broken scissors and an old megaphone
If the dreams that you have all fade and die
And the sadness returns when there is no reply
If the song in your head can never be heard
Then all I can do is give you my word
All I wanted to say from the bottom of heart
Sounds like an obvious line for the part
But I want you to know I'm here for you
Whatever comes around that much I know is true
When it all fades away into second hand art
I will take to the stage and die on my arse
But I want you to know this song is for you
And its dying from trying to reach you
All I have to say as we come to an end
My love remains strong on that you can depend
I just want you to know I'm here for you
Like Elvis Costello my aim is true
So here I go again sharing my fears
A cabaret singer nobody hears
In the lap of the gods on a wing and a prayer
Still missing you dearly and lost in despair
Still missing you dearly and lost in despair
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Never Heard of You
04:42
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Please let me in let me into the club
I'm a famous face not the one you're thinking of
Years ago I looked a bit like him
I was younger then handsome and slim
Now I'm waiting at the nightclub door
Flashing this ID from 1984
When I played guitar and I played the fool
Travelled the world I broke every rule
I'm sorry sir I've never heard of you
So take your place at the back of the queue
I'm sorry sir its just the house rules
The policy of the establishment can appear a little cruel
Did I tell you I was on Top of the Pops
I met Ruby Flipper and Sam Fox
I've got my very own radio show
I'm exactly the kind of person you ought to know
I've slept with three thousand women in my life
I have a wonderfully understanding wife
She's at at home with the kids doing the chores
She loves every single one of my come back records
I'm sorry sir I've never heard of you
So take your place at the back of the queue
I'm sorry sir its just the house rules
The policy of the establishment can appear a little cruel
Ok I can see we're not getting anywhere here
I want to speak to the manager I want to make myself clear
This kind of thing never happens to me
You'll regret it just wait and see
I'm sorry sir I hear what you say
But its more than my job is worth so please just go away
I'm sorry sir heres the back of the line
You had your fifteen minutes now its someone else time....
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Shock of the New
03:10
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Into the display arena steps a vacuum cleaner
Encased in glass and so dust free
Like it was never designed to be
here in this living space objects are out of place
Out of time and then Shazam
The magic and the sure I am
She's all round the corners and waiting in the wings
Another name to play the game now what is it she brings
She's all around the houses with some future generation
Its such a change from yesterday but it only seems like yesterday
Want a blast want a hit
Want a different kind of fit
Want the first in the queue
You want the shock of the new
She so well hidden now but it won't take long
When she shows these moments will be dated
Its history well more or less
Its a picture but its such a mess
And she knows the game is over
And she knows she doesn't care
It takes much more than facts and fate
To driver her to despair
Want a bet want a heart
Want a world thats worlds apart
Want that face with a view
This is shock of the new
Into the display arena steps a vacuum cleaner
Encased in glass and so dust free
Like it was never designed to be
here in this living space objects are out of place
Out of time and then Shazam
The magic and the sure I am
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War All The Time
03:17
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Its a set to and I'll get you and I'll rub your face in the mud
Wash out your mouth with the soap of my love
The Christmas crackers are exploding in your face
But you were never here and I was never there in the first place
War all the time
As Penny drops her big idea it crashes like a test plane
We clear the room and put in a chest drain
Nobody goes in nobody comes out
Theres a familiar knock on the door
If the best mans speech don't you make you cry
Then the bridesmaids with give you want for
War all the time
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Two Fat Lovers
03:21
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The two fat lovers are smoking in silence
They stand apart they gaze into the distance
They could be young but most probably older
They could be looking over your shoulder
They work together here in this building
And they’re not going anywhere
And if they’re happy they don’t ever show it
No gym club membership no weight watchers and no keep fit
For the two fat lovers…
He reads a magazine and she reads the echo
They look not unlike a biblical tableau
Will they get married and live close by?
Will they have babies grow old and die?
They work together here in this building
And they have nothing to declare
And if they’re happy they don’t ever show it
No gym club membership no weight watchers and no keep fit
Not the two fat lovers
Always seen together
Everyday lasts forever
Through all incumbent weather
And they look into each others eyes but not very deeply
They’re going home to bacon and eggs
They can’t buy their clothes off the pegs
And as the years pass them by they’ll get a nasty friction burn to the thigh
The two fat lovers…
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Unhappy Painter
03:52
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Canvass remaining blank thoughts cloud and moments null
The gardener is a waiter
Some distant drummers beat way down a one way street
Leave everything until later
We photograph the trash this car was made to crash
Ten seconds after midnight
The signing of a cross a look of total loss
No matters of fact or insight
I am an unhappy painter and I cant draw to save my life
The images are growing fainter
And the reasons all but disappeared from sight all but disappeared from sight
The tender mercy squad they want you for their god a soul remains on trial
For books you never read things you never said some day they'll be a trial
Seeds of bureaucracy shape the hypocrisy and turn brave heads to stone
The rancid government sets crime and punishment
What good is one man alone
I am an unhappy painter and I cant draw to save my life
The images are growing fainter
And the reasons all but disappeared from sight all but disappeared from sight
If all the world were paper
And all the sea were ink
And all the trees were bread and cheese
What would we have to drink?
So much for golden rules for playing kings and fools
No points are given away
He moves from liquor stores and onto distant shores
In search of where to pray
The queen of hearts she fled
the four and she got wed
She never made a fuss
But its no wonder that the proletariat get so delirious
I am an unhappy painter and I cant draw to save my life
The images are growing fainter
And the reasons all but disappeared from sight all but disappeared from sight
There they go now...
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Before My Very Eyes
04:05
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Action statement impact displacement
Buzz word fuzz word when talking seems so absurd
Concrete n complex and working with the concept
Speak up you act tough we're here and now but for the big muff
You gotta switch on n latch you hung around until your star shown ne
Do-wop you shop for every click now you cant stop cause its a
One two three four five right before my very eyes
Six seven eight nine ten I just let it go again
Direction protection and looking at your own reflection
Team a and team b and following a team c
See saw and little bo a nursery rhyme to end the show
Fiction dereliction we draw upon a contradiction
Heaven sent and you invent the explanation tell me what it meant
Shore lines and side lines the lazy mars and shooting star signs
Forever ever for never never for feeling dumb and acting clever its a
One two three four five right before my very eyes
Six seven eight nine ten I just let it go again
With a virtue to see me through as waiters wait always too late
Nice time to feel fine new gods on offer make you feel devine
Great reward for pen and sword a baby book she wrote with Betty Ford
A single line and never mine but back in my head a nursery rhyme
Days long mays song is drifting out to where it feels strong
Its all here so don't fear I'm giving you the all clear and its a
One two theres four five right before my very eyes
Six seven eight nine ten I just let it go again
And its a one two three four five right before my very eyes
Six seven eight nine ten then I just let it go again
I just let it go ....again
Right before my very eyes...
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Too Soon The Darkness
06:40
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Now you are gone
I try on your waistcoat
Too big
Feels strange
And I wear the hat
The hat that you wore [when you were]
On stage
Watch the DVD
Again, watch the DVD again
And I say thank you thank you
I will always treasure them as I
Try and embrace Dr deaths absurdism
We used to go
To the match
On Boxing Day
You told the time
Without a watch you’d say
It’s exactly 12 minutes to two
And you were always right and
You built us a kite and an igloo
We kids thought the world of you
And the humanist preacher
Spoke of a thinker and a teacher
At the funeral I wept self piteously
And I thought to myself
This is how it will be for me
A group of old musicians
In a cemetery
Telling stories distorted by memory
Adding bits on for the sake of a story
The one about the child
He never did see
The one about the lover
He never managed to please
The one about the career that never took off
The loves that he fought he won and he lost
Oh
Life goes out like a light
Too soon the darkness comes
Too soon the darkness comes
To soon too soon
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Uniform
02:32
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You wear me out I’ll wear you in
Don’t get too fat don’t get too thin
You fit so well I won’t take you off
Now I am found no longer lost
My point of view was never clear
My new beginning starts right here
I swear I was a living ghost
Until you gave me what I needed most
My Uniform
My Uniform
My brand new uniform
I stood for nothing until you spoke
About belonging to the club [I used to think you were a joke…]
I do exactly what I’m told
I have a function I have a role
I know my fate I know my foes
I know pleasure of putting creases in my clothes
The outside world don’t stand a chance
You call the tune and I will dance
My Uniform
My Uniform
My brand new uniform
Maintain a distance I play it cool
Feels like going back to school
I have a new identity
Thank you for coming to rescue me
To be the best dismiss the rest
With flying colours on every test
To keep the peace maintain the norm
I will comply I will conform
My Uniform
My Uniform
My brand new uniform
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Trial By Lingerie
03:31
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Trial by Lingerie
She needed some new underwear
We went to the Trafford Centre
And after the cinema
Found ourselves in
Marks and Spencer
These will do the trick she said…nice
I say the thong seems to have given way to something altogether more rounded?
The Brazilian she said
That’s what the new shape is called
Oh …
I thought that was something to do with shaving I say, a little too smugly – no reaction
Some ten minutes later she’s paying at the counter at the front of the queue when she shouts across the shop floor
‘Can you just bring me another size 12 in the black?’
‘They’re on offer, thanks’…
At this point the women in the queue all turn around, they too are looking at me
I feel like I’m on trial, on trial by lingerie
I return to the briefs and bras section but in haste get all confused and start to panic, I can’t find them, I’m going round in circles, bras and knickers, briefs and stockings I am overwhelmed, overcome,
Oh dear…
We have a further verbal and this time she’s raised her voice, ‘I can see them from here’ she says until she finally with much huffing and gesture she leaves the queue, marches towards me and duly identifies the required knickers giving them a little wave in the air signaling success, result!
Out of the corner of my eye I can see other women in the queue smiling, nudge nudging, wink winking, and collectively groaning ‘men egh’…
I have behaved to type, and they know it, and I know it…
I apologize
Back at the till
The girl at the till is patient and polite
It’s easy to get confused she says a little too sweetly
It happens all the time
The store is closing
We say goodbye
Do you mind if I go to HMV I say?
Only if you promise to be quick is the reply…
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Antony Gormley’s statues impose
Seen on the beach in silent repose
Look out to sea and not far from me in Crosby
Antony Gormley’s men look a treat
Swinging their dicks right down to their feet
Scaring the children and intriguing the lonely the dog walkers
They go
Ooh wee that’s the most incredible penis we ever did see
Ooh wee that’s a fine old sausage but its not very sexy
Antony Gormley just can’t resist
Wrapping himself up in plaster of Paris
His helpers say it’s just another day at the office
Antony Gormley is molding the cast
Takes off his clothes off and he sits in the bath
The lazy the assistants know just how to wrap him up oh yes they do
They go
Ooh wee that’s the most existential penis we ever did see
Ooh wee that’s a fine old sausage but its not very sexy
Antony Gormley’s cock on display
Some of us wish he’d just put it away
But he says no I’ve got something to say to the people
People like you and people like me
People that like to walk by the sea
People in love and people who work in the city
They all sing
Ooh wee that’s the most amazing existential penis I ever did see
Ooh wee that’s a fine old sausage but its not very sexy
Not very sexy
Not very sexy
Not very sexy
Not at all
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There comes a time of no reply
There comes a time to say goodbye
And now the time is here
Goodbye my love my dear goodbye
Never mind the hurt and the cruel regret
Nor the bitter tears the tears we shed
Put the photographs away
For another rainy day to come in April
It doesn't matter how far I move away
part of me with be with you forever
I know it sounds absurd but I wish that I could stay
In your loving arms forever
But I don't want to be your new best friend
So I can never see your again
Theres nothing more to add
I'm just so very sad today
Just so very say today.
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Vinny Peculiar Worcester, UK
Vinny Peculiar variously described as – ‘An under sung national treasure’ [UNCUT Magazine]– a warm hearted Morrissey [Q Magazine] and ‘The missing link between Jarvis Cocker and poet Roger McGough and some of the wittiest lyrics this side of Wreckless Eric’ IRISH TIMES ... more
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