King of Misery
Dowling (Warner Chappell Music Ltd.)One jump from the pan to the fire
And a new sensation no salvation
Too bad you were thinking of yourself again
You should rise up - keep your big mouth shut
Rise to the surface, take a belly full of air
It's a long way down but you know I'll meet you there
Do your best and don't ask questions
Follow every dumb suggestion
Bad blues player sitting in the corner
With his teeth capped gold and he thinks that's soul
Sometimes you're a lot like him
With your half-assed poses,
Wake up smell the roses
Some say that the clothes make a man
But if the suit don't fit, then why are you wearing it?
You seem to think you're a real earth-shaker
Underneath you're still a faker
And now,
We find,
You've lost your mind
They want you still,
Perhaps they always will
One last try -
Give me something of significance
A dream to cling to,
Songs I can sing to
Once more to the breach my friends
Keep your head down low I'll see you at the other end
And now,
We find,
You've lost your mind
They want you still,
Perhaps they always will
You may well be,
The King of all you see
But all you see,
You fill with misery
And now,
We find,
You've lost
No Please Don't
Dowling / Jagdhar (Warner Chappell Music Ltd. / Copyright Control)The good the bad the plain indecent, trapped in black and white -
A summers evening by the poolside 1985 -
You look so young and slightly drunk - but even then you knew -
You said she left to meet her sister, now I know the truth
She said "No, Please don't - No", (it should have been enough)
"No - I don't want to - No", (it wasn't good enough)
She pretends it never happened, why I can't decide
Something that she won't admit to, buried deep inside
It must be hard to disregard, the way you made her feel
You said she was your one true love, how could that be real?
She said "No, Please don't - No", (you couldn't let it go)
"No - I don't want to - No", (you had to push her though)
And now you say it's in the past,
A teenage slip you pushed too fast
But what you did was steal her thunder,
she's so scared and it's no wonder
You can't blame the drink or drugs, the way she led you on
You left her scarred you went too far, and what you did was wrong so wrong
She said "No, Please don't - No", (you couldn't it go)
"No - I don't want to - No", (you had to push her though)
Hide behind your lame excuses, twisting words for different uses
What you've done there's no escape, the only word I know is rape
How I wish that you could feel a fraction of her pain
You laugh it off as youth gone wild, and think she feels the same
But she can't let nobody close, you stole her trust as well
And if I could I'd steal it back, but I guess time alone will tell -
She said "No, Please don't - No", (you couldn't let it go)
"No - I don't want to - No", (you had to push her though)
She said "No, Please don't - No", (it should be good enough)
"No" - and she meant it, "No" (it wasn't good enough
"No" - it should be good enough
"No" - it should be good enough
Go Away
Dowling / Jagdhar (Warner Chappell Music Ltd. / Copyright Control)I don't want to be here breathing your infected air
I'm happy to ignore you and pretend that you're not there
Don't make me speak my mind
I can tell that you won't like it
Why - yi - yi - yi - yi - yi
Do you waste your life on accusations
I wouldn't -
Be near you
I couldn't
Wait for tomorrow
For tomorrow I think I'll go away
Gave me your opinion which I've chosen to ignore
Endless contradictions
Christ you're such a mindless bore
Don't make me laugh out loud
I can see your favourite number's
Wo - wo - wo - wo - wo - wo - one
You're self obsessed completely fake
I wouldn't -
Be near you
I couldn't
Wait for tomorrow
For tomorrow I think I'll go away
(I shouldn't stay here) Go away
(I shouldn't stay here) Go away
I shouldn't stay I'm suffocating
You keep saying you don't see a future
So you tell me you're living for today
You want to die but you need the motivation
So come to me and I'll show you
'Cos I've found a way
Found a way
Ah - ah - ah - ah - ah - ah - ah - ah
I wouldn't -
Be near you
I couldn't
Wait for tomorrow
For tomorrow I think I'll
Go away
(I shouldn't stay here)
Go away
(I shouldn't stay here)
Go away
(I shouldn't stay here)
Go away
(I shouldn't stay here)
Go away
(I shouldn't stay here)
(There's something strange in my head)
Go away
(I shouldn't stay here)
(I've found a way the only way)
Powerless
Dowling (Warner Chappell Music Ltd.)Today's humiliation
No communication
No word of compensation
Corporate evasion
Tell it to the nation
No one wants to hear about it
Powerless
Democratic placebo
Powerless - Give me cheap innuendo
Powerless - You're a drop in the ocean and you're
Powerless - Hopeless - Powerless - Hopeless
Health and education
Urbanisation
Fair taxation
Privatisation
Damage Limitation
There's nothing you can do about it
Powerless
Democratic placebo
Powerless - Give me cheap innuendo
Powerless - You're a drop in the ocean and you're
Powerless - Hopeless - Powerless - Hopeless
And you're suggesting that the strong survive
With an equal chance for all
That's an easy observation to make
From your house behind the wall
Home repossession
Phone reconnection
Political persuasion
Police intimidation
The lottery nation
There's nothing they will do about it
They print the money then they buy the law
Which amounts to a license to kill
And Jesus may forgive them all of their sins
But I know I never will
Race discrimination
White domination
The promise of change but the creeps backstage
Keep the audience guessing with the puppets they're manipulating
Powerless
Powerless
Powerless
You're a drop in the ocean and you're
Powerless - Hopeless - Powerless - Hopeless
Powerless - Democratic placebo
Powerless - Give me cheap innuendo
Powerless - You're a drop in the ocean and you're
Powerless - Hopeless - Powerless - Hopeless
Powerless - Hopeless - Powerless - Hopeless
Powerless
The Genius is Loose
Dowling (Warner Chappell Music Ltd.)Endless search for the sound of the minute
Style and suss make them passionate with it
Someone who can set you free, to live your life vicariously
Ring that bell we'll announce the decision
Rise to the name like a man with a mission
The tortured soul will linger on, through every word of every song
Get him on - He's the one
And he must be missing something now he's just misunderstood
He's loose, (Don't make a sound)
The genius is loose (He's so profound)
He took me with a wink of his eye
He's changing my life
He speaks the truth, (If you're ready for it)
The genius is loose
Some say pain is connected to pleasure
One more slice you're a national treasure
What those people put you through
It's hard to let your yin shine through
Weeks supply form the seven eleven
Suffocate your hate in your vision of heaven
Broken hearts and shattered pride
You share your dreams of genocide
We're alive - And we're wired
And we only want a piece of you you're dumb enough to give
He's loose, (Don't make a sound)
The genius is loose (He's so profound)
He took me with a wink of his eye
He's changing my life
He speaks the truth, (If you're ready for it)
The genius is loose
Let's pin our hope upon him
Until we tire of him
We'll sit and watch him 'til he fumbles for a gun
The jobs done
Late last night at a charity function
Collapsed on stage in the usual fashion
And now we see a million flaws,
He's only human after all
He really should have died when his life was elastic
Stole our hearts - Now he's part of the fabric
Don't he just look old and grey,
Slightly sad with shit to say
We were wrong - All along
And I'm only thinking something that I know you've thought yourself
Good, Good Feeling
Dowling (Warner Chappell Music Ltd.)Wake up spaced out, living on a handout
Numb to the bone,
Too complacent to complain about it
Brain dead, stay in bed, hear the music in your head
Take a break for pity's sake before you make the same mistake
Ring tone, answerphone,
Can't you leave me on my own
Daytime me, flicking channels on the t.v.
Smoked out doped up,
Couldn't really give a fuck
Day to fill, time to kill,
Let it kill me better still
It should be easy,
Don't even think about it
It should be easy
I got a good, good feeling that the best is yet to come
And the good vibrations see me through
Let a new sensation take me over for a while
And I'm laughing like a child
Chance missed, clenched fist, - ever the pessimist
Such a run of bad luck lately even God would seem to hate me
So tired, let me sleep, - I'm in a rut so deep I'm
Nothing special underneath a psychopath with perfect teeth
It should be easy,
Don't even think about it
It should be easy
I got a good, good feeling that the best is yet to come
And the good vibrations see me through
Let a new sensation take me over for a while
And I'm laughing like a child
....... a good good feeling,
....... a good good feeling,
....... a good good feeling,
....... a good good feeling,
....... a good good feeling,
....... a good good feeling,
(Got a good, good feeling) a good good feeling
(Got a real good feeling) a real good feeling
(Got a good, good feeling)
(I've got a feeling) a good good feeling
(Got a real good feeling)
(I've got a feeling) a real good feeling
If I Had A Life
McRae (Sony Music Publishing)If I had a life I could get right to the heart of it
But I'm so damn tired
And I don't have time
I'm an alright guy
And you know that you're the best for me
But you, take away the rest of me
When I social climb
Up the steep incline
Another liar another cheat to light your day
Another egocentric fool
That doesn't have anything
I guess that's why
I wouldn't do the things I do
If I had a life
Can I change your mind?
Against your better judgement
Put your hand in mine
Take another line
Come into my world and I'll show you what is best for you
And I'll take away the rest of you
I'm a social crime
With a broken mind
But it's all right
'Cos I haven't got a clue
Yes it's all right
'Cos I fake enough for two
If I had a life (If I had a life)
If I had a life (If I had a life)
If I had a life (If I had a life)
If I had a life
I Hate Myself And Everybody Else
Dowling / Jagdhar (Warner Chappell Music Ltd. / Copyright Control)The drag of living in a Godless world
When there's nothing I can change
Blank white page and a head with a hole
I got to push myself but I don't want to know
If there's a way to escape through a bottle or five
Then I'm fine
I'll waste this time
Endless day to the edge of the night
I got to say my piece but it don't make it right
I want to shake this world but I'm high as a kite
And I've crossed that thin white line
So I'll just waste this space I'm taking
This is why I hate myself
This is why I hate myself
Why I hate myself, why I hate myself
I hate myself and everybody else.
Liars and misfits taking a hold
They got a sleeve tattoo and a cliché to go
And you can ask them why but they don't want to know
Cos they're fine they waste your time.
Young pretenders jumping the throne
They give me sweet salvation, throw me a bone
But when the shit comes down then I'm out on my own
And I'm tired of all these lies
The sounds I hear when I lay dreaming
Wake me up to hear me screaming
Homeless people walking the streets
So I dig in my pocket get them something to eat
But there's another one close and she's coming my way
And I've got no change so I'm looking away
And as another year brings more famine and pain
And I feel so powerless, who do I blame
And I know my government put me to shame
So I'll just get drunk 'til the memory fades
And this is why I hate myself
This is why I hate myself
Why I hate myself, why I hate myself
I hate you
Another innocent victim carried away
And as the jails are filling up and the idiots say
That we should string them all up as a lesson to all
To end crime - why waste your time
Nothings cured with a rope or a gun
They're just a fix for revenge but the damage is done
You got to dig at the roots
Pull the desperate and weak form the slime that sucks them down
But I can't change the whole damn system
Shut my mouth 'cos no ones listening
This is why I hate myself
This is why I hate myself
Why I hate myself, why I hate myself
I hate myself and everybody else.
I hate myself and everybody else.
I hate myself and everybody else.
I hate.
Animals
Dowling (Warner Chappell Music Ltd.)There's a grain of truth that says you shouldn't open up your mouth
Until you have solutions to the problems that you criticise.
Generate enthusiasm for the world around you concentrate upon the truth
And do your best to keep a focus on the lies.
So I tried
This is to say, I'll be dead before you wake to greet the day,
I'll make it clean and not too gruesome so you
Don't have to clean my blood off the carpet,
Its ugly and painful that way.
Maybe there's a reason maybe God is in his heaven or perhaps
We are experiments of creatures from another star.
But nothing that I've seen or heard has managed to persuade me
That the animals who greet me every day is what we are.
What we are
I have to say, all the friends I had got lost along the way,
And though I'm tempted to go back sometimes
I'd rather they found me, symbolically lifeless
Empty of anger and hate
What do you see?
What can you feel?
How can you tell if it's something that's real?
Is it the truth?
Could it be lies?
Will it be there when you open your eyes?
Ask me why I feel this way, but you're only a heartbeat away
And tomorrow you'll believe it strange, but you're only a heartbeat...
Maybe there's a reason maybe God is in his heaven or perhaps
We are experiments of creatures from another star.
But nothing that I've seen or heard has managed to persuade me
That the animals who greet me every day is what we are.
What we are
What we are (that's what we are)
What we are (that's what we are)
What we are (that's what we are)
What we are (that's what we are)
That's what we are
Animals (that's what we are)
We're animals (that's what we are)
Animals (that's what we are)
We're animals (that's what we are)
Samantha Pope
Dowling (Warner Chappell Music Ltd.)Samantha Pope has gone away - (I don't know why she's leaving)
It only happened yesterday - (A rumour to believe in)
She used to meet the ice-cream man - (He's over twice her age)
Late after school inside his van - (And all the children say)
She'd do it all for 99's - (I wonder if its true)
Parked on the double yellow lines
And when her monthly friend was late to arrive
She figured she was better dead than alive
She went for overdose, 'til she was comatose
Goodbye to innocence
Goodbye Samantha Pope
I used to think it so unfair - (I'd dream of what she did)
What I would give to be with her - (Like all the older kids)
They could have told her more in class - (Instead of mystery)
They just used threats and photographs - (Dressed as biology)
She seemed untouchable and wild - (Don't think I understood)
That she was no more than a child
And now my recollection dishes the blame
They made her guilty and they scarred her with shame
Responsibility, is in authority
Goodbye to innocence
Goodbye Samantha Pope
And then her old man, a sergeant major
Put Mr. Whippy in a bed with a hammer in his head
They made a picture, like a scripture
Thou shalt not kill but you pushed me so I will
And all mommy could do
Was send the children to the Sunday school
Saying "Never let it happen to you"
There was a whisper, in circulation
That they were moving her around to the other side of town
To a new life, in a girls school
Where they would teach her shame with a bible and a cane
And nobody would say
If we would ever get to see her again
And I'm curious as I was then
No one ever said
I took a walk through Eldon square - (Something lead me to)
Perhaps I thought I'd see her there - (Just like I used to do)
I'll never know quite what she felt - (I'm only guessing now)
If only someone could have helped - (Although I don't know how)
I wonder if she made it through - (And if she's still around)
For all the shit they put her through
So goodbye to innocence
Goodbye Samantha Pope (Goodbye to innocence)
Goodbye Samantha Pope (Goodbye to innocence)
Goodbye Samantha Pope
Samantha Pope (Goodbye)
Samantha Pope (Goodbye)
Samantha Pope (Goodbye)
Paperman
McRae / Dowling (Sony Music Publishing / Warner Chappell Music Ltd.)And when he thinks of all they put him through
He gets so down
It's all so wrong
He tries to keep his cool and speak his mind
But still he finds
They push him around
To stay objective is too hard
We're only human after all
They suck you in and spit you out
So he lies - he lies - he lies
Look at him now - he's a paperman
Look at him now - A chameleon
And I can't believe my eyes
Look at him now he's in disguise
And if he's truly understood
Should he hide
Deep inside
Would it do him any good
To share his mind
On the line
You simply turn your head away
If you don't see you can't complain
Try kiss the narcissistic fool
And you lie - you lie - you lie
Look at him now - he's a paperman
Look at him now - A chameleon
And I can't believe my eyes
Look at him now he's in disguise
Something strange and imperceptible
Has crept its way like a velvet noose to strangle
Every ounce of hope and truth from me
It takes its time like cancer biting so
Silently but just as deadly
Eating me up from inside
Eating me up from inside
Look at me now - I'm a paperman
Look at me now - A chameleon
And I can't believe my eyes
Look at him now I'm in disguise
Sitting At Home
Dowling / Jagdhar (Warner Chappell Music Ltd. / Copyright Control)I guess I'm getting used to compromise
But I only do it just to keep you still - (I'll make it clear)
You got a bad reception, sucked in by this deception
Waiting in line, I'm biding my time
I'll shut the door behind me, sweet relief
It's a simple trick I learned when I was young - (escape it)
Don't think too hard about it, I can't survive without it
Sheltered inside, whatever you try
And I'm fine - Wouldn't be anywhere else
Doing fine - Keeping it all to myself
And I'm tired of all the endless lying
And you can say that I'm not trying
But you know I'm OK here sitting at home
You can't believe I can be comfortable
By ignoring all you say and all you do - (it's easy)
I can't get mad about it - I'd sooner live without it
Isn't it plain - You're feeling the strain
I'll poke my head outside and feel the rain
It reminds me that it's good to be alive - (despite it all)
This may be obvious - You're so ridiculous
I'm free from it all within these four walls
I've only two complaints to make about the way you are
That's all you say and all you do (You're such a fool)
You think I'm lazy but I'm happy to be miles away
Inside my luxury cocoon - See you soon
Sick and tired of all the lying
You could say that I'm not trying
But you know I'm OK here sitting at home
I'm sitting at home
Sitting at home
(I'm all right) I'm sitting at home
(I'm all right) Sitting at home
(I'm all right) Sitting at home
(I'm all right) I'm sitting at home
(I'm all right) Sitting at home
(I'm all right
Parasite
Dowling (Warner Chappell Music Ltd.)I'm as wet as rainy Monday
So I'll take my shelter here - It's easy
You make it feel like home
Feel my way into your conscience
Eat away at what I find - And you'll never know
I'm the using kind
You'll never know
Parasite Parasite Parasite - I'll drain you of life
Prey upon your every weakness
Watching while you waste away - Like a vampire
I'll suck you 'til you're dry
If you dare to bleat objections
I'll twist the knife until you bleed - And you're guilty
Parasite Parasite Parasite - I'll drain you of life
All that you have - I'll take it all
All you desire- I'll make it
Close to impossible to break away from me
Drain you of life
Drain you of life
Mr Ultrasheen
McRae / Jagdhar (Sony Music Publishing / Copyright Control)Always on the scene
Always Mr. Ultrasheen
Looking all around
Searching for his beauty queen
All the fakers and the takers
Gather round
Now he's on his own
Reaching for the telephone
He's a prisoner without it
And there's no doubt about it
You can say what you will
It's a predatory game
Oh, oh he's the one
Breaks on the scene
Don't know where he's been
Call him Mr. Ultrasheen
Always Mr. Ultrusheen
He's never gonna give
You're hanging by a thread again
So see it like it is
He doesn't even know your name
Fool your mother and your brother
Just to get yourself inside
Now he's in your head
You're contemplating suicide
But when tryin' to hide it
You can never deny it
You can show how you feel
It's a predatory game
Oh, oh he's the one
Breaks on the scene
Don't know where he's been
Call him Mr. Ultrasheen
Oh, think he is a simple man
Always number one
Bleed you till you're numb
Take away your self esteem
Call him Mr. Ultrasheen
Poor Mr. Ultrasheen
Trapped in his world of dreams
Poor Mr. Ultrasheen
Trapped in his world of dreams
He's a prisoner without it
And there's no doubt about it
You can say what you will
It's a predatory game
Oh, Oh he's the one
Breaks on the scene
Don't know where he's been
Call him Mr. Ultrasheen
Oh, can't you see
That you're boring me
Messing me around
Such a funky clown
Give away your self esteem
Call him Mr. Ultrasheen
All Gone Wrong
Dowling (Warner Chappell Music Ltd.)You abandon hope
Another cliche
On your TV screen
What can it mean
You catch the weekly soap
There is no life
Behind your plastic sheen It's squeeky clean
You saw the news today (Oh boy)
The stocks and shares you love
Were meaning nothing out away
Your motivation slips away
And the price you pay
For your peace of mind
Keeps you locked in safe
From the world outside
And you're a little afraid
You built on sand
It didn't quite work
The way you planned
And you spend your time in idle chatter
Talking coffee table matters
Trapped under deception
What bloated your perception
Daydream of hazy thinking
You find your soul is sinking
Beneath the weight
Of lies and hate
The times are moving on
Perhaps your moment's been and gone
And left you in disgrace
It's written on your face
And it's all gone wrong
First time second thoughts
Have never slowed you down
Or stopped you in your tracks
There is no turning back
You keep your head held high
And the show goes on
But the stage is burn
And the crowd is gone
And you tell your soul
To get them back
You miss how it feels
To be ace in the pack
Stood standing in wonder
What sickness dragged you under
Your fragile illusion
It shattered in confusion
Daydream of hazy thinking
You find your soul is sinking
Beneath the weight
Of lies and hate
The times are moving on
Perhaps your moment's been and gone
And left you in disgrace
It's written on your face
And it's all gone wrong
Give me a wave to say you're fine
There's nothing but love
Can change your mind
Letting the days drift slowly by and by
(Letting the days drift by)
Were you surprised to see it end
There's nothing can change it back again
The king is in his counting house
With nothing in his hands
His life, the queen and both his kids
And he's facing it, facing it, facing it
Still standing in wonder
What sickness dragged you under
Your fragile illusion
It shattered in coufusion
Daydream of hazy thinking
You find your soul is sinking
Beneath the weight
Of lies and hate
The times are moving on
Perhaps your moment's been and gone
And left you in disgrace
It's written on your face
Still Dead (...and Then There Were Three)
Dowling (Warner Chappell Music Ltd.)Still dead
Even after all you said
Long gone
Something went spectacularly wrong
I'll wait
Maybe you're not thinking straight
Time heals
But I can't forget the way this feels
Could you stay a little longer
Won't you give me something more
I can hold on to
You'll be getting little stronger
'Cause I'm only killing time
Until the word gets through
So strange
Almost like it's prearranged
Still dead
Even after all you said