Worthless Thing - Goodbye Cruel World

How many times can you jump out of the cupboard Before someone gets suspicious or someone gets discovered You can live forever in a split second of fame Come on down the price is right what’s your name While a crocodile makes good shoes and a dog may change his coat I can’t change what’s […]

Turning The Town Red - Goodbye Cruel World

You’ve been taught that this won’t do They put me in the picture but the film turned blue A glimpse of you, turning the town red. A head full of brand new words and a mouth full of shocks You’re a big boy now, with a face to stop clocks. Turning the town red. (x2) […]

The Only Flame In Town - Goodbye Cruel World

I know a girl got my mind in a mess I never heard her say goodnight and god bless She’s not the only flame in town And when we’re alone we never quarrel I’m miles away now here’s the moral She’s not the only flame in town She’s not the only flame in town She’s […]

The Great Unknown - Goodbye Cruel World

They took old danny boy for a ride From the arms of his bride to be Threw him into the murky waters By the dog biscuit factory Quick dry the tears and stifle cheers As he sinks just like a stone Footprints set in sentimental cement Now burden down his bones Lest we forget Here […]

The Deportees Club - Goodbye Cruel World

The demo of "deportee" has essentially the same lyrics as this earlier version of the song In the arrivederci roma nightclub, bar and grill Standing in the fibreglass ruins watching time stand still All your troubles you confess To another faceless backless dress Schnapps chianti porter and ouzo Pernod vodka sambuca i love you so […]

The Comedians - Goodbye Cruel World

I fell under such gentle persuasion You can’t refuse it’s like a home from home Meanwhile in the motor car kingdom They’re finding that all that glitters is not chrome The social circle have these cardiac complaints Their hearts are empty when their hands are full All these new found fond acquaintances Turn out to […]

Sour Milk-cow Blues - Goodbye Cruel World

You like coffee and you like tea Much more than you like me And everybody says watch out yeah For the sour milk-cow blues You like your coffee just a little too sweet Without your sugar life is incomplete And everybody says watch out yeah For the sour milk-cow blues I think about you everyday […]

Sleepless Nights - Goodbye Cruel World

Through the sleepless nights I cry for you And wonder who Is kissing you Oh, these sleepless nights Will brake my heart in two Somehow, through the day I don’t give in I hide the tears That wait within Oh, these sleepless nights Will break my heart again Why did you go? Oh, why did […]

Room With No Number - Goodbye Cruel World

Picture a hotel room Clothes scattered across the floor Covers pulled back from the pillow A sign hung on the door Two lovers locked up tight Through the endless days and nights Hiding something they can’t show Something no-one must know Chorus There’s a room without a number While the sign outside says there’s No […]

Peace In Our Time - Goodbye Cruel World

Out of the aeroplane stepped chamberlain with a condemned man’s stare But we all cheered wildly, a photograph was taken, As he waved a piece of paper in the air Now the disco machine lives in munich and we are all friends And i slip on my italian dancing shoes as the evening descends And […]