Voices inside my head Echoes of things that you said
How can you say that you’re not responsible? What does it have to do with me? What is my reaction, what should it be? Confronted by this latest atrocity Driven to tears Hide my face in my hands, shame wells in my throat My comfortable existance is reduced to a shallow meaningless party Seems that […]
I’d invite you back to my place It’s only mine because it holds my suitcase It looks home to me alright But it’s a hundred miles from yesterday night Must I be the man in a suitcase Is it me, the man with the stranger’s face Another key for my collection For security I race […]
Woke up in my clothes again this morning Don’t know exactly where I am And I should heed my doctor’s warning He does the best with me he can He claims I suffer from delusions Yet I’m so confident I’m sane It can’t be no optical illusion So how can you explain Shadows in the […]
The general scratches his belly and thinks His pay is good but his officers stink Guerilla girl, hard and sweet A military man would love to meet The President looks in the mirror and speaks His shirts are clean but his country reeks Unpaid bills In Afghanistan hills Bombs away But we’re OK Bombs away […]
First to fall over when the atmosphere is less than perfect Your sensibilities are shaken by the slightest defect You live you life like a canary in a coalmine You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line You say you want to spend the winter in Firenza You’re so afraid to catch a […]
Don’t think me unkind Words are hard to find The only cheques I’ve left unsigned From the banks of chaos in my mind And when their eloquence escapes me Their logic ties me up and rapes me De do do do, de da da da Is all I want to say to you De do […]
Young teacher, the subject Of schoolgirl fantasy She wants him so badly Knows what she wants to be Inside her there’s longing This girl’s an open page Book marking – she’s so close now This girl is half his age Don’t stand, don’t stand so Don’t stand so close to me Her friends are so […]
Turn on my VCR Same one I’ve had for years James Brown on The Tammy Show Same tape I’ve had for years I sit in my old car Same one I’ve had for years Old battery’s running down It ran for years and years Turn on the radio The static hurts my ears Tell me […]
Mother - Police, The
Well, the telephone is ringing Is that my mother on the phone? The telephone is ringing Is that my mother on the phone? The telephone is screaming Won’t she leave me alone The telephone is ringing Is that my mother on the phone? Well, every girl I got out with Becomes my mother in the […]
