Suede Lyrics

2006-03-13T07:43:00.000-08:00

Suede Lyrics by Albums

Dog Man Star
01 Introducing The Band
02 We Are The Pigs
03 Heroine
04 The Wild Ones
05 Daddy's Speeding
06 The Power
07 New Generation
08 This Hollywood Life
09 The 2 Of Us
10 Black Or Blue
11 The Asphalt World
12 Still Life

A New Morning [2002]
01 Positivity
02 Obsessions
03 Lonely Girls
04 Lost in TV
05 Beautiful Loser
06 Streetlife
07 Astrogirl
08 Untitled ...Morning
09 One Hit to the Body
10 When the Rain Falls
11 You Belong to Me

Head Music [1999]
01 Electricity
02 Savoir Faire
03 Can't Get Enough
04 Everything Will Flow
05 Down
06 She's In Fashion
07 Asbestos
08 Head Music
09 Elephant Man
10 Hi-Fi
11 Indian Strings
12 He's Gone
13 Crack In The Union Jack

Coming Up [1997]
01 Trash
02 Filmstar
03 Lazy
04 By The Sea
05 She
06 Beautiful Ones
07 Starcrazy
08 Picnic By The Motorway
09 The Chemistry Between Us
10 Saturday Night

Suede [1993]
01 So Young
02 Animal Nitrate
03 She's Not Dead
04 Moving
05 Pantomime Horse
06 The Drowners
07 Sleeping Pills
08 Breakdown
09 Metal Mickey
10 Animal Lover
11 The Next Life

2005-10-20T01:26:00.000-07:00

Dog Man Star

Introducing The Band

Dog man star took a suck on a pill
And stabbed a cerebellum with a curious quill
Europe, America, Winterland
Introducing the band

Chic thug stuttered through a stereo dream
A fifty knuckle shuffle heavy metal machine
The tears of suburbia drowned the land
Introducing the band

So steal me a savage, subservient son
Get him shacked-up, bloodied-up and sucking on a gun
I want the style of a woman, the kiss of a man
Introducing the band

And as the sci-fi lullaby starts to build
See them whipping all the women, cracked governments killed
Oh let the century die to violent hands
Introducing the band

We Are The Pigs

Well the church bells are calling
Police cars on fire
And as they call you to the eye of the storm
All the people say "Stay at home tonight"

I say we are the pigs, we are the swine
We are the stars of the firing line

And as the smack cracks at your window
You wake up with a gun in your mouth
Oh let the nuclear wind blow away my sins
And I'll stay at home in my house

I say, we are the pigs
we are the swine
we are the stars of the firing line

But deceit can't save you so

We will watch them burn

Heroine

She walks in beauty like the night
Discarding her clothes in the plastic flowers
Pornographic and tragic in black and white
My Marilyn come to my slum for an hour

I'm aching to see my heroine
I'm aching been dying for hours and hours

She walks in the beauty of a magazine
Complicating the boys in the office towers
Rafaella or Della the silent dream
My Marilyn come to my slum for an hour

I'm aching to see my heroine
I'm aching been dying for hours and hours,
been dying for hours and hours

She walks in beauty like the night
Hypnotising the silence with her powers
Armageddon is bedding this picture alright
My Marilyn come to slum for an hour

I'm aching to see my heroine
Aching, been dying for hours and hours
I'm 18, I need my heroines
Aching, been dying for hours
Oh and I'm never alone now
Now I'm with her

The Wild Ones

There's a song playing on the radio
Sky high in the airwaves on the morning show
And there's a lifeline slipping as the record plays
And as I open the blinds in my mind I'm believing that you could stay

And oh if you stay I'll chase the rainblown fields away
We'll shine like the morning and sin in the sun
Oh if you stay
We'll be the wild ones, running with the dogs today

There's a song playing through another wall
All we see and believe is the D.J. and debts dissolve
And it's a shame the plane is leaving on this sunny day
Cos on you my tattoo will be bleeding and the name will stain

But oh if you stay we'll ride from disguised suburban graves
We'll go from the bungalows where the debts still grow every day

And oh if you stay I'll chase the rainblown fears away
We'll shine like the morning and sin in the sun oh if you stay
We'll be the wild ones running with the dogs today
We'll be the wild ones running with the dogs today

Daddy's Speeding

Whiplash caught the silver son
Took the film to No. I
Crashed the car and left us here
Broken glass for teenage boys trapped in steel and celluloid
Crashed the car and left us here.

And daddy burned a million eyes
Dared the dogs to criticise
He crashed the car and I was born

And daddy turned a million heads
Took the teenage dream to bed
He crashed the car and left us here

With dreams of gasoline drying our eyes
Green fields of destiny high in the sky
But oh can you see him?
Oh Daddy's speeding

Whiplash caught the silver son
Killed the sad American
Crashed the car and left us here

And sorrow turns his eyes to mine
Come with me now it's your time
Let's crash the car and I'll be born

And sorrow breaks the silent day
Takes the teenage boys away
They crash the cars and leave us here

With dreams of gasoline drying our eyes
Green fields and death machines high in the sky

But oh can you see him?
Oh, when Daddy's speeding

The Power

Through endless Asia, through the fields of Cathay
or enslaved in pebble-dash grave with a kid on the way
If you're far over Africa on the wings of youth
or if you're down in some satellite town and there's nothing you can do

Just give me, give me, give me the power
And I'll make them bleed
Give me, give me the power
(Although I'm just the common breed)

You might live in a screen kiss, it's a glamorous dream
Or belong to a world that's gone, it's the English disease

But give me, give me the power
And I'll make them bleed

Give, give me, give me the power
(Although I'm just the common breed)

New Generation

I wake up every day to see her back again
Screaming my name through the astral plane
And in this catalogue town she takes me down
Down through the platinum spires
Down through the telephone wires
And we shake it around in the underground
And like a new generation rise

And like all the boys in all the cities
I take the poison, take the pity
But she and I, we soon discovered
we'd take the pills to find each other

Oh but when she is calling here in my head
Can you hear her calling
And what she has said?
Oh but when she is calling here in my head
It's like a new generation calling
Can you hear it call?
And I'm losing myself, losing myself to you

I wake up every day, to find her back again
Breeding disease on her hands and knees
While the styles turn and the books still burn
Yes it's there in the platinum spires
It's there in the telephone wires
And we spread it around to a techno sound
But like a new generation rise

Cos like all the boys in all the cities
I take the poison, take the pity
But she and I we soon discover
We take the pills to find each other

Oh but when she is calling here in my head
Can you hear her calling?
And what she has said?
Oh but when she is calling here in my head
It's like a new generation calling

Can you hear her call?

And I'm losing myself, losing myself to you

This Hollywood Life

"She-rocker you're wasting your time,
Cos you're only a girl"
She'rocker sacked the factory line for a chance of a dance in a surreal world

She said, "come rescue, rescue me from this Hollywood life
come rescue, rescue me from this Hollywood life"

She'rocker hear the audience scream for the death of the king
But a hand-job is all the butchery brings
Cos fame ain't as easy as him (how sad)

Oh, come rescue, rescue me from this Hollywood life
come rescue, rescue me from this Hollywood life

Come take this Hollywood life

The 2 Of Us

Lying in my bed, I think of you
That song goes through my head, the one we both knew
In each line lies another line full of sacred sound
But you're outside where the companies dream and the money goes round

Lying in my bed.
Watching my mistakes,
I listen to the band they said that it could be the 2 of us

The snow might fall and write the lines on the silent page
But you're outside making permanent love to the nuclear age
Two silhouettes by the cash machine make a lovers dance
It's a tango for the lonely wives of the business class

Lying in my bed
Watching my mistakes
I listen to the band
Lying in my bed
With nothing much to say so I listen to the man
He said that it could be the 2 of us

I heard you call from across the city through the stereo sound
And so I crawled there sickeningly pretty as the money went round

Lying in my head watching my mistakes
I listen to the band
And the drums beat in my head
Pianos chime the sound in this prison of the house
And as the illness comes again can you hear me through the rain
As I listen to the band?
As I sing the silent song
Mime each lonely word
Please listen to the man he said that it could be the 2 of us

Alone but not lonely, you and me
Alone but loaded.........

Black Or Blue

There was a girl who flew the world from a lonely shore
Through southern snow to Heathrow to understand the law
There was a boy who loved the noise of the underground
He left the coast and overdosed on that London sound

He said,
"I don't care if you're black or blue,
me and the stars stay up for you
I don't care who's wrong or right
and I don't care for the U.K. tonight so stay, stay"

And then one day she moved away from those garden walls
She left some flowers, he smoked for hours
She understood the law

I don't care if you're black or blue
Me and the stars stay up for you
I don't care who's wrong or right
And I don't care for the U.K. tonight
So stay, stay, stay, stay.........
........there was a girl who flew the world

The Asphalt World

I know a girl she walks the asphalt world
She comes to me and I supply her with Ecstasy
Sometimes we ride in a taxi to the ends of the city
Like big stars in the back seat like skeletons ever so pretty
I know a girl she walks the asphalt world

But where does she go?
And what does she do?
And how does she feel when she's next to you?
And who does she love in time-honoured fur?
Is it me or her?

I know a girl she walks the asphalt world
She's got a friend, they share mascara I pretend
Sometimes they fly from the covers to the winter of the river
For these silent stars of the cinema
It's in the blood stream, it's in the liver
I know a girl, she walks the arse felt world

But where does she go?
And what does she do?
And how does she feel when she's next to you?
And who does she love in time-honoured fur?
Is it me or is it her?

With ice in her blood
And a Dove in her head
Well how does she feel when she's in your bed?
When you're there in her arms
And there in her legs
Well I'll be in her head

Cos that's where I go
And that's what I do
And that's how it feels when the sex turns cruel
Yes both of us need her, this is the asphalt world

Still Life

This still life is all I ever do
There by the window quietly killed for you
In the glass house my insect life
Crawling the walls under electric lights

I'll go into the night, into the night
She and I into the night

Is this still life all I'm good for too?
There by the window quietly killed for you
And they drive by like insects do
They think they don't know me
They hired a car for you

To go into the night, into the night
She and I into the night

And this still life is all I ever do
There by the window quietly killed for you
And this still life is all I ever do
But it's still, still life
But it's still, still life
But it's still, still life

2005-10-20T01:25:00.000-07:00

A New Morning [2002]

Positivity

you say what you want to say
your diamonds are drops of rain
your smile is ypur credit card
and your currency is your love

and the morning is for you
and the air is free
and the birds sing for you
and your positivity

watch out

so you play where you want to play
on the main streets where the creeps all pray
and you can feel like you're in dynasty
and you can be what you want to be

and the morning is for you
and the air is free
and the birds sing for you
and your positivity

and the car crash for you
and the sunshine is free
and the sirens call you

yes the morning is for you
yes the air is free
and yes the world spins for you
and your positivity

positivity

Obsessions

It's the way you pick your clothes off the floor
It's the way you scratch your skin when you yawn
It's the t-shirts that you choose
like you're in the Air Force
Yeah the language that you use reacts like chemicals

Obsessions in my head
Don't connect with my intellect
It's called obsession
Can you handle it?

It's connected to the hip sounds
And it moves with the underground
It's called obsession
When you're around

It's the way you close the doors of my car
It's the stupid things you bought with my credit card
It's the way you don't read Camus or Brett Easton Ellis
Yeah the TCP you use, it stings when we kiss

Obsessions in my head
Don't connect with my intellect
It's called obsession
Can you handle it?

It's connected to the hip sounds
And it moves with the underground
It's called obsession
When you're around

Obsessions is like sex
It's simple and complex
It's called obsession
Can you handle it?

It's connected to the hip sounds
And it moves with the underground
It's called obsession
When you're around

Lonely Girls

Stephanie stares at the posters on the wall
Tina sits and waits for a telephone call
Maxine mixes alcohol with polythene and paint
Sylvia stays in bed on her own
She can hear the cars outside
and wonders where they go
And if you call her answer phone
She'll get back to you one day

And lonely girls, lonely girls fill the world

Oh, Julia dreams while she's typing away
Jackie kills time while the company pays
Tracy still hears 808 ringing in her brain
Jane slaps paints on the walls of her home
Lydia sings when she thinks she's alone
Jean gets drunk and wonders home,
Through the car parks that need her change

Yeah, lonely girls, lonely girls fill the world

And they smile through the summer
And laugh in the rain
And sing through the winter
But never show the pain

Oh sometimes our lives are not what they seem
Sometimes things aren't like they are
in lifestyle magazines
We see what we want to see
In this miracle of clay

Well lonely girls, lonely girls fill the world

Lost in TV

I see you in my life
I see you on the screen
An ascending socialite
Orbiting the scene

And everybody wants you now
Everybody wants to be a part of your crowd
Ooh

Baby it seems sometimes you're lost in TV
Lost in a dream [instant sunshine]
Baby

We wandered through our minds
With images and scenes
And with animated lives
Rehearsing for our dreams

Everybody wants it now
Everybody wants to be a face in the crowd
Ooh

Baby it seems sometimes we're lost in TV
Trapped in a screen
Lost in a scene
Lost in TV [instant sunshine], baby

Everybody wants it now [sunshine]
Everybody wants to be a face in the crowd
Ooh

Baby it seems sometimes we're lost in TV
Lost in a dream [instant sunshine]
Baby

Beautiful Loser

You belong among the wild flowers
Picked at the side of the road
You belong among the silent hours
And broken telephones

You belong among the TV screens
With the sound turned down again
You belong where there's CCTV
Watching you every day

Well you beautiful loser
Well you beautiful lay
Well you beautiful loser
You're coming down the hard way

You belong under electric lights
With the hand-me-down surrounds
You belong out in the countryside
With your hands deep down in the ground

Well you beautiful loser
Well you beautiful lay
Well you beautiful loser
I said you're coming down the hard way

Your brain is drip-connected to the satellite
Your heart is not a part of your brain
Aesthetics and inventions well they pass you by
And complicate your day

You belong sat on a motorbike
Doing 161 in the rain
50cc through the wild life
Getting trashed in the slow lane

Well you beautiful loser
Well you beautiful lay
Well you beautiful loser
I said you're coming down the hard way

Well you loser
Well you beautiful lay
Well you beautiful loser
You're coming down the hard way
You're coming down the hard way
You're coming down the hard way

Streetlife

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, check it out!

Street life into the night with the syncopated melodies
Street life look left to right
she got the lips from a magazine
Cheap sound that comes from the underground communicates to everyone
Street life fits so right
she gets your tips from a popular song

It's the beat of the concrete street
that you'll love for a million years
It's the sound that comes from underground
ThatæŠ¯ got you clapping, got you shaking your rears

Street life, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

Street life step to the night with your sexual equality
Street life look left to right
she got the lips from a magazine
Cheap sound that comes from the underground
Is like a bass drum kicking along
Street life sweet life cheap life
It's street life going on and on

To the beat of the concrete street
you can live for a million years
Dumb sound that comes from underground
ThatæŠ¯ got you clapping, got you shaking your rears

Street life, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

It's all you know
It's all you see
It's all you follow
It's all you believe

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

Move your feet to the concrete beat
and you can live for a million years
To the sound that comes from underground
clap your hands, get shaking your rears

Street life, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Street life, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

Astrogirl

A strange relationship has started
A strange relationship indeed
It's like a watercolour forming
Between the pages of a dream

And it's calling you
It's calling me
It's calling everyone to be

In a future world
With an Astrogirl
One on one is all you need

In a future world
With an Astrogirl
One on one is all you need

A strange experience has started
Between her molecules and me
It's like two seas
Between us forming
From obsolete technology

And it's calling you
It's calling me
It's calling everyone to be

In a future world
With an Astrogirl
One on one is all you need

In a future world
With an Astrogirl
The sky goes on and on for you and me
The sky goes on and on for you and me
The sky goes on and on for you and me

In a future world
With an Astrogirl
There'll be no obstacles, you'll see

Cos we'll be making friends with the supermen
The sky goes on and on for you and me
The sky goes on and on for you and me
The sky goes on and on for you and me
The sky goes on and on for you
The sky goes on and on

8 - Untitled

Will you be my lover?
Will you be the one?
Will you be like no other?
For how long?

And yes I'll be your wild flower
Grown through the concrete
And born to the backbeat of the stars

And yes I am just a stupid guy
Crushed like a butterfly
Deadeye at the drive by in a car

Like flies on a windscreen
Like insects in glue
We could stick together
If you wanted to

And yes I'll be your wild flower
Grown through the concrete streets
And born to the backbeat of the stars

And yes I am just a stupid guy
Crushed like a butterfly
Deadeye at the driveby in a car

Yeah just a stupid guy
Crushed like a butterfly
Deadeye at the driveby in a car

One Hit to the Body

Is it my imagination
Or is that a cardboard sky?
Is it just this situation
That's made me lose my mind?

I don't need you to be sorry
I just wanted you to know
That this is one hit to the body
One hit to the soul
It's one hit to the body that won't show

There's a million constellations
Up in the make believe sky
And a million dead end situations
You could leave behind
And the lights and the lorries could show you which way to go
And this is one hit to the body
One hit to the soul
It's one hit to the body that won't show

Is it something in the air that you breathe?
Is it something in the books that you read?
Is it something in the things that you do?
Is it something in the words that you use?

Cos the lights and the lorries will show you where you want to go
And this is one hit to the body
One hit to the soul
It's one hit to the body that won't show

Well I don't really need anybody I just wanted you to know
That this is one hit to the body that won't show
That won't show

When the Rain Falls

Come out tonight in the puddles
Splash some love across the sky
Just you and I bursting bubbles
As the sky is about to cry

When the rain falls
There's magic in our lives
When the rain falls
We're happy deep inside
When the rain falls
It cleans away the corners of our minds

When all the world looks like Atlantis
And cars sit rusting in the drives
Just step outside and hit the concrete pavement
As the rain falls down for you and I
When the rain falls
The pretty people run
When the rain falls
The colours cloud the sun
When the rain falls
We'll sit and watch the children hurry home
Rain falls
Rain falls
Rain falls

And when everything is blue or green or green or blue or grey
I cross the street to catch the beat of my heart
And I watch it all cos there's nothing else to do today
And I watch it all fall so hard

You Belong to Me

Oh, well you might have some conversation
Smashed in a bar
Clocking all of the disco dolls that blind you
Or check out some mad situations
Some silly farce
So real, you can feel it twist inside you

But everywhere you go
Everything you do
Every place you know
Every word you choose

I'm in everybody's eyes
Everybody's lives
I'm in everything you see
You belong to me

Oh, well you might walk down by the station through garbage and rust
And breath in all the diseases just like I do
Or driving through some conurbation you'll step on the gas
And I'll be sat right there beside you

Cos everywhere you go
Everything you do
Every place you know
Every word you choose

I'm in everybody's eyes
Everybody's lies
I'm in everything you see
You belong to me

Well you can smash the windows
and break some faces
or spray graffiti on public places
or act round some dead town
But I'll be there

Cos everywhere you go
Everything you do
Every place you know
Every word you choose

I'm in everybody's eyes
Everybody's lies
I'm in everything you see
You belong to me

2005-10-20T01:21:00.000-07:00

Head Music [1999]

Electricity

We got a love that's as cold as stone,
We got a love to a violent homes
We got a love that ain't got no name
We kiss our love with lips like pain
We gotta lotta electricity,
We got a love like ac/dc
We got a love that ain't got no shame
We kiss our love with lips like pain,
Kissing our love with lips like pain,

I said 'oh it's bigger than the universe,
Bigger than the universe, bigger than the 2 of us.
Oh, it's bigger than you me,
We got a love between us and it's like electricity'

We got a love like a violent mind,
We get our love from the white, white lines,
We got a love that ain't got no name,
We kiss our love with lips like pain
We got a love from the nowhere town,
We got a love like electric sounds,
We got a love that ain't got no shame,
We kiss our love with lips like pain
Kissing our love with lips like pain

I said 'oh it's bigger than the universe...'

Savoir Faire

She live in a house, she stupid as a mouse
And she going where the lights are on,
She shaking obscene like a fucking machine
She's gone, gone, gone
She cooking crack giving us heart attack
And she living in a kooky show,
She open your mind for the millionth time
And then go, go, go

And she got everything she needs,
And she got pretty, pretty feet,
And she got flowers in her hair,
Yeah, yeah, she got savoir faire,
Yeah, yeah

She shaking the scene outside, in between,
And she rocking to the loony tunes,
And she make love and swallow a dove in her room, room, room,
She speeding away thru the city today
And she living in a kooky show
With show life, low life watching her go
And then moan, moan, moan,

And she got everything she needs
(harmony ecstasy yeah, yeah, yeah)
And she got pretty pretty feet
(painted toes soft, soft soles yeah, yeah, yeah)
And she got flowers in her hair
(daffodils from window sills)
She got savoir faire, yeah, yeah

Can't Get Enough

I feel real now walking like a woman talking like a stone age man,
I feel real now talking like buddha and doing it again,
I get kicks I rip it up, kick it up, take it like a teenage tough,
Feel real now talking like sugar and shaking that stuff,

Singing 'i can't get enough'

I feel schitzo everso psycho, kicking at an old tin can
I feel real like a man, like a woman, like a woman, like a man
I make dead space feel like a head case take it like a teenage tough
Feel real now watching those wheels and shaking that stuff

Singing 'i can't get enough'

I feel real now walking like a woman talking like a stone age man,
I feel real now talking like buddha doing it again,
So give me this give me that smother me give me some of that bad stuff,
I feel real now talking like sugar and shaking that stuff

Singing 'i can't get enough'

Everything Will Flow

Watch the early morning sun, drip like blood from the day,
See the pretty people run, so many games to play
See the blue suburban dream, under the jet plane sky,
Sleep away and dream a dream
Life is just a lullaby

Oh, and everything will flow,

Watch the day begin again,
Whispering into the night,
See the pretty people play
Hurrying under the light,
A million cars, a million trains under the jet plane skies
Nothing lost nothing gained
Life is just a lullaby

The neon lights in the night tonight will say 'everything will flow'
The stars that shine in the open sky will say 'everything will flow'
The lovers kissed with an openness will say 'everything will flow'
The cars parked in the hypermarket know 'everything will flow'

Down

All the people in your life say you're down
And the strangers in the night say you're down
And the loonies on the right say you're down, and you're down,
And the ambulances sigh that you're down
And the traffic speeding by says you're down
And the people in your mind say you`re down, you're down

Hey, you chase the day away,
Hey, you draw the blinds and blow your mind away,
There's a sadness in your eyes, there's a blankness in your smile,

And the people in the park say you're down,
And the strangers in the dark say you're down,
And the pissheads in the bars,
Say you're down you're down
And the audiences cry that you're down,
And the ambulances sigh that you're down
And the boyfriends in your life say you're down, you're down

Hey, you chase the day away
Hey, you draw the blinds and blow your mind away,
There's a sadness in your style,
There's a madness in your smile

She's In Fashion

She's the face on the radio, she's the body on the morning show
She's there shaking it out on the scene, she's the colour of a magazine
She's in fashion, she's in fashion,

She's employed where the sun don't set and she's the shape of a cigarette,
And she's the shake of a tambourine and she's the colour of a magazine
She's in fashion, she's in fashion

Oh and if she tells you 2 is 1 then 2 is 1 my love,
Oh and if she tells you you should know, then you should know my love,

She is strung out on a tv dream, and she's the taste of gasoline,
And she's as similar as you can get to the shape of a cigarette
And she's in fashion

(and the sunshine it blows my mind, and the wind blows my brain)

Asbestos

Watching all the women shaping, slimming
Walking down the roads again
Looking at the lovers under covers, come in and let's be friends
Watching all the school girls breaking the rules, running round and having sex
Watching all the women shaking slimming
Come in an cash the cheques

The suburban girls, they're making noise
They're making eyes at suburban boys,

Watching all the lovers undercovers,
Watching all the roads bend,
Listening to lulu, amazula, come in and let's pretend
Watching all the women shaking slimming
Walking down the roads again
Scheming like a school boy watching you boy
Come in and let's be friend

The suburban girls, and they're making noise,
They're making eyes at suburban boys

Head Music

Lonely skies, empty minds, we walk by to the rock rhyme,
I said 'oh, come on do it again'
City signs, business minds, we walk by with head hi-fi,
You know oh, I wanna do it again,
We loose it to the music, and we loose it to the beat get stupid,
Come on loose it cos it all means nothing to me,

So give me head, give me head, give me head music instead,
Oh is it all in the mind?

Kids get high, cities die, we just smile cos it's all inside
You know, oh yes it's all in the mind
So come on loose it to the music loose it to the beat get stupid,
Come on loose it cos this all means nothing to me

So give me head, give me head, give me head music instead,
Oh is it all in the mind?
Yes it's all in the mind

Elephant Man

I love that deafening, thundering sound
That sounds like buildings tumbling down,
And people wish that they weren't around
When we all rock and roll into town
We hear those fearful piercing screams
The kind you find on cinema screens
And if they're fit to burst at the seams
If they could say what all of this means

I am, I am the elephant man
It is incredible how I can,
Look just like an elephant man,
Just like, just like my elephant fans

We love that satisfying, rattling crash,
The sound of registers full of cash,
We'll be all over your town like a rash
We'll steal your children and smoke all your hash

I am the elephant man...

I love that deafening, thundering sound
The sounds like buildings tumbling down
And people wish that they weren't around
When we all rock roll into town

I am, I am the elephant man,
It is incredible how I can,
Look just like just like an elephant man,
Just like, just like my elephant fans

We are, we are the elephant men,
Take heed, we'll be stampeding again,
Look out all of you fairweather friends
Because elephants never forget

Hi-Fi

Shipping through the city, sliding train to train,
Sulking on the subway, music in our brain
She me together in the city sound,
Me mona lisa on the underground,

Hi-fi in the white city

Shipping through the city sliding brain to brain
Sulking on the subway listening to the trains
She me together speed through space time
Grafitti in our eyes music in our mind

Hi-fi in the white city, yeah, yeah

Indian Strings

Open up my heart and see what's inside,
Take a look inside me, inside my mind
And you'll see my heart is broken in two
'cos I've seen the real you

Images of violence fill up my mind,
And you see the silence feel it inside
And you'll see my heart is broken in two
Cos I've seen the real you

So sad we seem, so far we've been
She knows the scene
And I see your heart is broken too,
'cos I've seen the real you.

He's Gone

Tears on a pillow, eyes on the phone,
You pour all the love that you keep inside into a song,
Like 'he's gone', and these are the thoughts that you keep inside,
You smile from your window, and stand all alone
And pour all the love that you keep inside into the phone, into the phone

And like the leaves on the trees, like the carpenters song,
Like the planes and the trains and the lives that were young,
He's gone and it feels like the words to a song

With the style of a widow, and the place of your own
You pour all the words that you keep inside into the phone, and sit alone
Cos there are the thoughts that you keep inside
And you smile from your window and stand all alone
And pour all the love that you keep inside into a song, into a song,

And like the leaves on the trees, like the carpenters song,
Like the planes and the trains and the lives that were young,
He's gone and it feels like the words to a song

And like the stains on the names of the lives that were gone,
He's gone and it feels like the words to a song,

So gone, so gone...

Crack In The Union Jack

Draw the blinds and watch the show,
Heard it on the radio, saw it on the news today,
I heard the lonely people say

'there's a great big crack in the union jack'

Another day, another low, another midday tv show,
Saw it on the news today, heard the lonely people say

'there's a great big crack in the union jack, in the union jack .'

2005-10-20T01:14:00.000-07:00

Coming Up [1997]

Trash

Maybe, maybe it's the clothes we wear,
The tasteless bracelets and the dye in our hair,
Maybe it's our kookiness,
Or maybe, maybe it's our nowhere towns,
Our nothing places and our cellophane sounds,
Maybe it's our looseness,

But we'e trash, you and me,
We'e the litter on the breeze,
We'e the lovers on the streets,
Just trash, me and you,
It's in everything we do,
It's in everything we do...

Maybe, maybe it's the things we say,
The words we'e heard and the music we play,
Maybe it's our cheapness,
Or maybe, maybe it's the times we'e had,
The lazy days and the crazes and the fads,
Maybe it's our sweetness,

But we'e trash, you and me,
We'e the litter on the breeze,
We'e the lovers on the street,
Just trash, me and you,
It's in everything we do,
It's in everything we do...

Filmstar

Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car, it looks so easy,
Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car tonight,
Filmstar, giving it class, living it fast, it looks so easy,
Filmstar, giving it class, living it fast tonight.
What to believe in, it's impossible to say?
What to believe in when they change your name,
Wash your brain, play the game again, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Filmstar, elegance, a terylene shirt, it looks so easy,
Filmstar, an elegant sir in a terylene shirt tonight,
Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car, it looks so easy,
Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car tonight.
What to believe in, it's impossible to say?
What to believe in when they change your name,
Wash your brain, play the game again,
Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Lazy

Here they come with their make-up on
As lovely as the clouds, come and see them,
Boys and girls and their mums and their words
And their romances and jobs and their sons,
Barking mad kids, lonely dads
Who drug it up to give it some meaning,
From the raves to the council estates
They're reminding us there's things to be done.
But you and me, all we want to be is lazy,
You and me, so lazy...
Here they come gone 7 am
Getting satellite and sky getting cable,
Bills and bens and their mums and their friends
Who just really, really want to be loved,
Uncle teds and their legendary vests
Helping out around the disabled,
From the flats and the maisonettes
They're reminding us there's things to be done.
But you and me, all we want to be is lazy,
You and me, so lazy...
It's you and me, it's you and me, you and me...

By The Sea

She can walk out anytime, anytime she wants to walk out, that's fine,
She can walk out anytime, anytime she feels that life has passed her
By,
And when I start my new life I won't touch the ground,
I'm gonna try hard this time not to touch the ground.
He can walk out anytime, anytime he wants to walk out, that's fine,
He can walk out anytime, across the sand, into the sea, into the
Brine,
And when I start my new life I won't touch the ground,
I'm gonna try hard this time not to touch the ground.
So we sold the car and quit the job
And shook some hands and wiped the make-up right off,
And we said our good-byes to the bank
Left seven sisters for a room in a seaside shack,
And when I start my new life I won't touch the ground,
I'm gonna try hard this time not to touch the grounds
...it's by the sea we'll breed
...into the sea we'll bleed...

She

She, walking like a killer,
She, another night another pillow.
Nowhere places, nowhere faces, no one wants to see,
No education, it's the arse of the nation,
She is bad, she is bored, she is bony, she is...
She, sh-shaking up the karma,
She, ³injecting marijuana²,
Nowhere places, nowhere faces, no one wants to see,
No education it's the arse of the nation,
She is bad, she is bored, she is bony, she is...
She...
Nowhere faces, nowhere places, no one wants to be,
No stimulation in this privatization,
She is bad, she is bored, she is bony, she is she.

Beautiful ones

High on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits,
Drag acts, drug acts, suicides, in your dad's suits you hide
Staining his name again,
Cracked up, stacked up, 22, psycho for sex and glue
Lost it to bostik, yeah,
Shaved heads, rave heads, on the pill, got too much time to kill
Get into bands and gangs,
Oh, here they come, the beautiful ones, the beautiful ones
Loved up, doved up, hung around, stoned in a lonely town

Shaking their meat to the beat,
High on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits,
Oh, here they come, the beautiful ones, the beautiful ones.
You don't think about it,
You don't do without it,
Because you're beautiful,
And if your baby's going crazy
That's how you made me,
La, la, la, la...
Beautiful Ones

High on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits,
Drag acts, drug acts, suicides, in your dad's suits you hide
Staining his name again,
Cracked up, stacked up, 22, psycho for sex and glue
Lost it to bostik, yeah,
Shaved heads, rave heads, on the pill, got too much time to kill
Get into bands and gangs,

Oh, here they come, the beautiful ones, the beautiful ones

Loved up, doved up, hung around, stoned in a lonely town
Shaking their meat to the beat,
High on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits,

Oh, here they come, the beautiful ones, the beautiful ones.

You don't think about it,
You don't do without it,
Because you'e beautiful,
And if your baby's going crazy
That's how you made me,

La, la, la, la...

Starcrazy

She's star, starcrazy, electric-shock-bog-brush-hair,
Flat on her back in the 80¹s, in the 90¹s going nowhere,
Star, starcrazy, got a kicking transistor inside,
A heavy metal stutter that brains me,
And an electric love in her eyes,
Oh, she don't want education,
She got nothing to say,
She got no imagination (so they say)
Why does she feel this way?
Cos she's star, starcrazy, getting stupid on the streets tonight,
And shaking like a mechanical thing
With an electric love in her eyes,
Oh, she don't want education,
She got nothing to say,
She got no imagination (so they say)
So why does she feel this way?

Picnic by the motor way
I'm so sorry to hear about the news,
Don't you worry,
I'll buy us a bottle and we'll drink in the petrol fumes,
I'm so sorry to hear about your world,
Don't you worry,
There's a gap in the fence down by the nature reserve,
Hey, such a lovely day, such a lovely day,
Such fun, looking at the lovers in a lay-by with my little one.
I'm so sorry to hear the news today,
Don't you worry,
There's been a speeding disaster so we'll go to the motor way,
I'm so sorry to hear about the scene,
Don't you worry,
Just put on your trainers and get out of it with me,
Hey, such a lovely day, such a lovely day,
Such fun, looking at the lovers in a lay-by with my little one.
Hey, such a lovely day, such a lovely day,
Such fun, looking at the lorries in the litter with my lovely one,
We could go dancing, we could go walking,
We could go shopping, we could keep talking,
We could go drinking, we could sit thinking,
We could go speeding, or we could go dreaming, see? oh hey...

Picnic By The Motorway

I'm so sorry to hear about the news,
Don't you worry,
I'll buy us a bottle and we'll drink in the petrol fumes,
I'm so sorry to hear about your world,
Don't you worry,
There's a gap in the fence down by the nature reserve,

Hey, such a lovely day, such a lovely day,
Such fun, looking at the lovers in a lay-by with my little one.

I'm so sorry to hear the news today,
Don't you worry,
There's been a speeding disaster so we'll go to the motorway,
I'm so sorry to hear about the scene,
Don't you worry,
Just put on your trainers and get out of it with me,

Hey, such a lovely day, such a lovely day,
Such fun, looking at the lovers in a lay-by with my little one.
Hey, such a lovely day, such a lovely day,
Such fun, looking at the lorries in the litter with my lovely one,

We could go dancing, we could go walking,
We could go shopping, we could keep talking,
We could go drinking, we could sit thinking,
We could go speeding, or we could go dreaming, see? oh hey...

The Chemistry Between Us

And maybe we're just kids who're grown, and maybe not,
And maybe when we're on our own, we don't have much,
But oh, we are young and not tired of it,
Oh, we are young and easily lead,
Oh, with all the kids getting out of their heads.

Oh, class a, class b, is that the only chemistry?
Oh, class a, class b, is that the only chemistry between us?

And maybe we're just streatham trash, and maybe not,
And maybe we're just capital flash in a stupid love,
But oh, we are young and not tired of it,
Oh we are young and easily lead,
Oh, by all the kids getting out of our heads.

Oh, class a, class b, is that the only chemistry?
Oh, class a, class b, is that the only chemistry between us?

Saturday Night

Today she's been working, she's been talking, she's been smoking,
But it'll be alright,
Cos tonight we'll go dancing, we'll go laughing, we'll get car sick,
And it'll be okay like everyone says, it'll be alright and ever so nice,
We're going out tonight, out and about tonight.

Oh, whatever makes her happy on a saturday night,
Oh whatever makes her happy, whatever makes it alright.

Today she's been sat there, sat there in a black chair, office furniture,
But it'll be alright,
Cos tonight we'll go drinking we'll do silly things,
And never let the winter in,
And it'll be okay like everyone says, it'll be alright and ever so nice,
We'le going out tonight, out and about tonight.

Oh, whatever makes her happy on a saturday night,
Oh, whatever makes her happy, whatever makes it alright.

We'll go to peepshows and freak shows,
We'll go to discos, casinos,
We'll go where people go and let go

Oh whatever makes her happy on a saturday night...

2005-10-20T01:13:00.000-07:00

Suede [1993]

So Young

Because we're young, because we're gone,
We'll take the tide's electric mind, oh yeah? , oh yeah,

We're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon, oh,

Because we're young, because we're gone,
We'll scare the skies with tigers eyes, oh yeah? oh yeah,

We're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon, oh
Let's chase the dragon...

...from our home high in the city where the skyline
Stained the snow, I fell for a servant who kept me on the boil

We're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon from our home!

Animal Nitrate

Like his dad you know that he's had
Animal nitrate in mind,
Oh in your council home he jumped on your bones
Now you're taking it time after time

Oh it turns you on, on, now he has gone
Oh what turns you on now your animal's gone?

Well he said he'd show you his bed
And the delights of the chemical smile,
So in your broken home he broke all your bones
Now you're taking it time after time

Oh it turns you on, on, now he has gone
Oh what turns you on now your animal's gone?

What does it take to turn you on, on,
Now he has gone?
Now you're over 21?
Now your animal's gone?
...animal, he was animal, an animal.

She's Not Dead

She'll come to her end locked in a car somewhere with exhaust in her hair,
What's she called? I dunno, she's fucking with a slip of a man
While the engine ran

And he said 'she's not dead, she's gone away, gone away' he said
He said 'she's not dead, just go away go away' he said

In the car he couldn't afford they found his made up name on her ankle chain,
So don't call, don't call her at home, she's fucking with a slip of a man
While the engine ran

And he said 'she's not dead, she's gone away gone away' he said
He said 'she's not dead, she's gone away gone away' he said 'just gone away
Gone away' he said
She's gone away to someone else's bed.

Moving

Shame on me well I had the beast you see
And if he can take it I can take him home with me,
Shame on her, she's a lovely little number
And when we go lassooing you get lassood, all of you
If you can take it, I can take it

And we're moving, so moving, so we are a boy, we are a girl
So moving, so moving...

Shame on the girl, she's got a big black dog in her
And while tough kids sing about tough kids she just skins the world,
We'll never never play the harp, and we'll stick like sick on the stars
And if you can take it I can take these stones from my heart
If you can take it, I can take it

And we're moving, so moving, so we are a boy we are a girl
So moving, so moving...

If you can take it, I can take it, all of me
If you can take it, I can take it all
If you can take it, I can take it, all of me
If you can take it, I can take it all!

Pantomime Horse

I was born as a pantomime horse
Ugly as the sun when he falls to the floor,
I was cut from the wreckage one day
This is what I get for being that way,

Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them?
Well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend?

I was conned by a circus hand
Tragic as the son of superman,
'i would die for the stars' she said
This is what I get for my beautiful head,

Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them?
Well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend?

...ever tried it that way, have you ever tried it that way?

The Drowners

Won't someone give me a gun?
Oh, well it's for my brother,
Well he writes the line wrote down my spine
It says 'oh do you believe in love there? '

So slow down, slow down, you're taking me over
And so we drown, sir we drown, stop taking me over

Won't someone give me some fun?
(and the skin flies all around us)
We kiss in his room to a popular tune
Oh, real drowners

Slow down, slow down, you're taking me over
And so we drown, sir we drown,
Stop taking me over!

Sleeping Pills

Angel, don't take those sleeping pills, you don't need them
Though it's just time they kill,
Angel, give me your sleeping pills, you don't need them
Give me the time they kill,

You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
Gone gone to valium, can you get me some?
You're a water sign, and I'm an air sign
Too siamese to catch the leaves from those trees

Angel, don't take those sleeping pills, you don't need them
Though it's just time they kill,

You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
Pumped up with valium, could you get me some?
You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
With sweet f.a. to do today, with sweet f.a. to do today...

...angel, don't take those sleeping pills.

Breakdown

Back where the dogs bark, where still life bleeds the concrete white,
Try not to go too far inside your mind.
Back where the cars decide, where the lame star limps an endless mile,
Have I gone too far inside my mind?

Oh, if you were the one, would I even notice now my mind has gone?
Oh, if you were the one, would I even notice?

Back where the car was parked, where the canine in the a-line stole your time,
You can only go so far for womankind,

Oh, if you were the one, would I even notice now that he has gone?
Oh, if you were the one, would I even notice?

Does your love only come, does your love only come,
Does he only come in a volvo?

Metal Mickey

Well she's show showing it off then
The glitter in her lovely eyes
Show show showing it off then
And all the people shake their money in time

She sells heart, she sells meat
Oh dad, she's driving me mad, come see

We shake shake shake to the trumpet
And through the slippery city we ride
Skyline swine on the circuit
Where all the people shake their money in time

She sells heart, she sells meat
Oh dad, she's driving me mad, come see

Animal Lover

I see you're moving, see you're moving, moving in with her
You'll pierce your right ear, pierce your heart here,
The skinny boy is one of the girls
'cos around my neck and around her neck hangs everything you are
I know you've been inside but what were you in for?

Animal lover, animal lover, animal lover?

I see you're moving, see you're moving like wildlife from the waist
But when your name's scratched in on a shiny ring
Your waist is my resting place
And around my neck and around her neck hangs everything you are
I know you've been inside but what were you in for?

Animal lover, animal lover, animal lover?
The Next Life

See you in your next life when we'll fly away for good,
Stars in our own car we can drive away from here

Far away, so far away, down to worthing and work there
Far away, we'll go far away and flog ice creams
'til the company's on it's knees...

...see you in your next life when we'll fly away for good.