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Six Ways From Sunday
02:20
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Six Ways From Sunday
So are you sitting comfortably and are you finally getting warm?
Did you get your shit together in the calm before the storm?
Or did you get so full of hate?
That you couldn’t see it straight?
And has insanity become the norm?
Are you all stocked up with popcorn to see the tragedy unfold?
Are you thinking for yourself or are you doing what you’re told?
Is it ever gonna stop?
Will the penny ever drop?
Has it already been bought and sold?
We got Six Ways from Sunday for exacting retribution
We got Six Ways from Sunday to erode the constitution
We got Six Ways from Sunday…will we even get to Monday?
We got Six Ways to throw it all away...
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Behind The Makeup
03:14
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Behind the Makeup
If I look behind the makeup
Tell me what I’ll find
Flailing fists and housing lists
You‘ve got to leave behind
Tip-toe
Down the stairs
You leave a note
But no one cares
Waving your life goodbye
When they look behind the make up
They often hit a wall
It takes a certain kind of dog
To understand the call
The cycle
begins again
a magnet for
repellent men
Waving your life goodbye
Kids in pyjamas
Carried out a search
They first heard of heaven
Crying in an a mostly empty church
When they scrubbed off all the makeup
They found the girl had gone
Anything she’d ever been
Had been hidden for so long
Smashed by
The hand of fate
Her reconstruction
Comes too late
Waving your life goodbye
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Government Surplus
03:22
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Government Surplus
Now I'm government surplus
No longer required
Seems that my civil circus
Membership has expired
I hear the national anthems
And I choke on the tunes
Unless I misunderstand them
They're gonna send in the goons
My security clearance
And my future's withdrawn
My disappearance
Surprises no-one
I came up with the facts
Instead of the goods
The dark actor acts
And I'm dead in the woods
They wouldn’t dare have an inquest
In case questions are asked
And most people lose interest
Before the monster's unmasked
You can always recycle
The honour you gave
Like St George and St Michael
Were just a pawn and a knave
Death is a picnic
compared to the pain
What I was proud of
now feels like a stain
They called me distinguished
On Her Majesty's list
Then they had me extinguished
With a trick of the wrist...
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A Walk In The Park
03:02
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A Walk In The Park
They’re re-assembling F-Troop
And you can’t ignore the sign
You saddle up the Honda
and cross the county line
There are witnesses to silence
and scandals to avoid
But it all comes back to haunt you
in that set-piece Polaroid
Names and dates and licence plates
Whispers in the Dark
With absent friends the story ends
with a Walk in the Park
She used to have the sweetest kiss
not just the cruellest tongue
A friendship spilling over
when the body count was young
A gunshot splits the afternoon
but no-one hears a sound
You know you’re in too deep
when your feet won't touch the ground
Names and dates and licence plates
Whispers in the Dark
With absent friends the story ends
with a Walk in the Park
You don't need Hubbles telescope
to see right through the fog
If you want a friend in Washington
You better get a dog
Names and dates and licence plates
Whispers in the Dark
With absent friends the story ends
with a Walk in the Park
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Say Something Happened
03:32
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Say Something Happened
Fingertips on photographs like floodgates
Reverse-engineering broken dreams
Nightmares are much easier to live with
Cos everything’s exactly as it seems
What are you going to do...say something happened?
When everything you have just slips away
What are you going to do...say something happened?
Something happens every single day...
Memories are slipped back into shadows
Throats are cleared and tears are quickly dried
It’s a long way from the moment that it kills you
To the moment that the headstone says you died
What are you going to do...say something happened?
When everything you have just slips away
What are you going to do...say something happened?
Something happens every single day...
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The Fox That Came To Stay
Surfaced in the Lebanon
Captivating everyone
The socialites were all switched on
With effortless panache
Looking, somehow, strangely cute
Dressed only in your birthday suit
Became the toast of old Beirut
Making quite a splash
The sound of laughter fills the air
But trails away when you’re not there
Nonchalant and debonair
At everyone’s request
Eloquent and so discreet
That hearts and minds both skip a beat
Enough to sweep us off our feet
Just like all the rest
Everyone fell
Under your spell
And loved every day
Since you came our way
You played it so well
That no one could tell
And couldn’t say
What price we’d pay
For taking in the fox that came to stay
Nothing happens happenstance
Someone given half a chance
Starts makes the shadows dance
On a mission of their own
So our best friend and nemesis
Is vacating the premises
To leave behind an awful mess
The like we’ve never known
Everyone fell
Under your spell
And been crushed since the day
That you sailed away
You played it so well
That no one could tell
And wouldn’t say
What price we paid
For taking in the fox that came to stay
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
03:44
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
If you don’t want to have nightmares
you should look away now
all you’d been taught to believe in
will be leaving anyhow
you can sit in your favourite armchair
frantically mopping your brow
at the ritual self-destruction
of another sacred cow
when you seem to encounter corruption
whichever way that you turn
in a car park south of the river
the only lesson to learn
Is that vengeance is fire and brimstone
and only the innocent burn
it’s the long arm that steadies the cradle
and nurtures the darkest of arts
the charade of an investigation
won’t add up to the sum of its parts
make it look like the work of a madman
endowed with the hardest of hearts
and the demon barflies of Fleet Street
were in it all right from the start
If you’re desperate for something to cling to
in the hope that it’s something it’s not
then I’ve got some bad news to bring you
we’re the land that justice forgot
and the bystanders witness the car-crash
of the finest that England has got
Whiskey...Tango...Foxtrot
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All The Things You Love
03:35
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All The Things You Love...
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Outnumbered, But Never Out Clashed
Jonesy says to Joe
You wanna join the show?
Strummer says OK
Paul learns to play
Terry is gone
Topper comes along
And Bernie can’t do right for doing wrong
Signed off the dole
Out on parole
Take it on trust
Sandy bites the dust
And there’s Johnny Green
He helps to keep things mean
and fires up the heart attack machine
Kings for a day
The US of A
Ran out of road
Watched it explode
Too perfect to last
too much for the past
Outnumbered but never out Clashed
I don’t trust them but I trust you...
And all those years gone by...
I see it, I hear it, I don’t even have to try
Much too perfect to last
Outnumbered but never out Clashed
Much too much for the past
Outnumbered but never out Clashed
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The Spy Who Stayed Out In The Cold
Born in the cruellest of towns
I swallow up all that surrounds
Disgust for the cruelty of kings
Destined for nobler things
My loyalty is not to be sold
Can’t buy me with silver or gold
I’m gathering moss
One last bridge to cross
I’m the spy who stayed out in the cold
My life IS my disguise
They taught me to steal with my eyes
Followed wherever i go
Can anyone say that they know...
My loyalty is not to be sold
Can’t buy me with silver or gold
I’m gathering moss
One last bridge to cross
I’m the spy who stayed out in the cold
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Different Train on a Different Track
Deals are brokered fates are sealed
Hearts are broken over track and field
Make sure the devil gets his due
Coming soon to a town near you
Out of the sky on a Sunday night
Secret cargo on a scheduled flight
Threats identified hit the road
Drop zone compromised lock and load
Had the wind been blowing a different way
Had you ventured out on a different day
Had you never angered the men in black
But there’s a different train on a different track
Emergency over enemies found
Couple of kids goofing around
Easily neutralised admittedly crude
Witnesses silenced...objective secured
Mission accomplished tie up loose ends
The end of the line for a couple of friends
Murder scene covered up tragedy staged
The war on truth continually waged
Had the wind been blowing a different way
Had you ventured out on a different day
Had you never angered the men in black
But there’s a different train on a different track
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12. |
Imagine My Surprise
01:34
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Imagine My Surprise
Imagine my surprise
When I looked into your eyes
And saw what you want to see
And it didn’t look like me
Though I appreciate your efforts to disguise
It’s like seeing some old friend
I hoped I’d never see again
I don’t know him anymore
I keep showing him the door
But i know that he’ll be with me til the end
Recriminations now commence
but I’ll say this in my defence
it was my name that was missed
off everybody’s list
until we were overtaken by events...
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