ANGOLA U-N-I-T-A

Round again my love
I will see you one more time
"Flow my tears, said the policeman"
Cause I'm stuck here in some country
And nobody has no mercy
And I'm tired of eating gravel

Like Angola, with U-N-I-T-A
Can't go out
And they're shelling anyway
If anybody sees
Takes my review
Can I still run back to you

Let's make believe, my love
That we've never been afraid
Throw my tears at the policemen
Cause I'm tired of this country

Like Angola, and U-N-I-T-A
Get on board
Or get out of my way, if
I'm betrayed
I'm reviewed
All that's left is to come to you

To Africa run away
To Africa run away
Always a new escape
From the pain

Like Angola, U-N-I-T-A
Can't go out
And they're shelling anyway
If anybody sees
What will I do
All that's left is to come to you

Oh Angola, U-N-I-T-A
Get on board
Or get out of my way, if
I'm betrayed
I'm reviewed
All that's left is to come to you

ART SCHOOL DROPOUT
(Running in Circles)

Wal-Mart roller pig
Go to Disneyland
Deer head on the wall
Don't make me stand

Alone with a TV
You lay your hands
Please take me in your fold
Your native land

But why won't you touch me?
I'm not the one with a rifle
And you don't even know me
Kiss your fist, if I think it will break it
On the stage, pumping notes through a Vox amp
Rainy day women all sleeping
Go your way, when I'm looking in circles
I'll go mine

Turn from brown to blonde
Playin' the keytar
Doin' the robot
On the VTR
Dinner at your mom's
Walkin' round the club
Late night little snack
A brand new sub
Light a cigarette
Start to smile
If you look this way again
We can talk awhile

But why won't you touch me?
I'm not the one with no mercy
And you don't even know me
Kiss your fist, if I think it will break it
On the stage, pumping notes through a Vox amp
Rainy day women all sleeping
Go your way, when I'm looking in circles
I'll go mine

Look away
Runnin in circles
I don't mind the pain
'Cuz you don't even know me
Runnin in circles
Such a shame
Going in circles
Such a pain
Keeping it perfect
Go your way
When we're runnin' circles
I'll go mine

FIBROMYALGIA

Oh Anne, be a natural man
I been runnin' out, and runnin' down,
and runnin' out again
But Annie you're the natural one
I want to be you

Give me a light, look this way again
I would say that we've come so far,
but-when I turn-around, I see
we're in the same goddamn, old place again

But Annie, your face
hits me a like a raygun
Like the news we read from Korea
Or our fibromyalgia

What is the future well I don't care
All the same mistakes
The notes to take
When we stand outside the church I'm scared

But Annie if you look away
Well I guess I'll see ya
Like all rastas are looking for Jah
Or our fibromyalgia

Well I don't know you
So I'll add a comma
Distant glimmers that I never saw
Or our fibromyalgia

Is this the end
Well I don't care
On the rampway there
With the people's stares
It all seems so delicate

Well goodbye
With my best regards
This sucks so I'll go
An election where I can't withdraw
Like our fibromyalgia

Well goodbye
With my best regards
This sucks so I'll go
Distant glimmers that we never saw
Like our fibromyalgia

GET THE LOOK

Baby, you're gonna' get the look
I know I'll catch you in the center
Before you bait the hook
Baby, you're gonna' make it real
I know you're gonna' come out angling
No matter what I feel

One day, prét a porter
You're gonna' have it, your little way
You're gonna' splash it, in West L.A.

Baby
You're gonna' model right
I know you're gonna' come out squawking
You're gonna' last all night
Baby, You're gonna' rule the scene
I know you're gonna' put on purple
To make the queens all green

One day, prét a porter
You're gonna' have it, your little way
You're gonna' splash it, in West L.A.

You've got the look
Just like Antonioni's Blow Up
But you keep me hangin' on
Like a B-film makeup artist, on the run
Baby, one day I'm gonna' prove
All the things you had to gain by staying
All the things you'll lose

One day, prét a porter
You're gonna' have it, your little way
You're gonna' splash it, in West L.A.

CESSIE, LOCKPORT OR BLUE RIBBON HIGHWAY

Cessie was a girl
Lived down by the water
And the sister
Of a girl I knew

Putting bugs in jars
Hanging with the cats
And of course
Looking for that rougarou

So take the middle ground
The lonely middle ground
If I can't
Maybe no one can

And like an ultrasound
You see the things I'm hiding down
And I can't
Go back where we began

Let's go to the farm
Stare down at the water
And pretend
We'll be here all day

Cessie died so young
Seems so long ago
Like a dream
Or something blown away

So take the middle ground
The lonely middle ground
If I can't
Maybe no one can

'Cause like an ultrasound
You see the things I'm hiding down
And I can't
Go back where we began

MENAGE A TROIS

"Que du monde; what a world,"
she said (ba ba, ba ba)
"Some coq au vin?
Voulez-vous white or red?"
"A quel dommage
Sometimes I'm so sad
You were the best petit mouton
That I ever had"

We met in Spain,
I wanted sweet romance
You fell for him, and
took us back to France
(je m'appelle menage a trois)

You need love, "comment vous?"
"ca va"
Always keep me holding on
to this menage a-a trois

Menage a trois

Well every dog needs a cat to wig
Like every dude needs a chick to dig
Every wolf needs a little pig
A Marlboro man, qui fument,
needs a little cig

Menage a trois

You need love, "comment vous?"
"ca va"
Always keep me holding on
to this menage a-a-trois

NEW YEAR'S EVE 3005

Up in Bristol
They spin it down
With some Kraftwerk and Air at the Lizard Lounge
But in Berlin after Mitte's Goldmine
You head to Schwarzes at 5
'cause it's breakfast time

And in Toulouse
Yeah, you shake it with the bands
We head to Cockpit for dancing and a wristband
Apartment hunting can wait 'til the dawn
'Til the smoke and lights and the music's gone
The DJ's tracks seem to give them away
'Cause they play it in a heartfelt way
Cue it up, digital display
Music skyway

In Barcelona
With the Boozy Crew
We comb the streets with Paloma and her guru
She took-a-hit of "flamingo-lingerie"
Then left him at the corner for a cabaret
You'd never know it from the sound of the bass
The shaggy carpet and incense
at the Capsule Space
But when they want a little fun and anticrime
You can watch all the wigs make a bee-line

The DJ's tracks seem to give them away
'Cause they play it in a heartfelt way
Cue it up, digital display
Music skyway
Oh, oh, oh, happy days spent on the rue
Let's never say, we remember things
That we used to do

New Year's Eve 3005
The talking holograms run from the city drive
Electric beads and a neo-Mersey Beat
And when you look down
you're dancing with 1,000 feet

Jean Genie with Laurent Garnier
Daft Punk, where the neon lights get played
You need to take a little break after it's done
Before you know it, it's time for a rerun

DEFILER

IDF, IDF, IDF, IDF
Defiler
Inverted to a tune
Watchin' the asphalt dry
And speakers go to blue
And I know, what's in your eyes
You see me watchin' you
You're wonderin', that after all
You were a defiler, too

For a working model
Can't we rebuild it again
And hard to follow
And just no way I can win
And hard to swallow
A working model

Come in, bring out your girls
It's the easiest thing, the easiest thing to do
The easiest thing

Can I love her?
Like a mountain loves a stream?
Can I love her?
Can I go on dreaming?

When I recognize the signs
Should I go on sex vacation?
If I'm way out of line, are we on fire
Or is it my imagination?

A working model
This is the tour where we care
And hard to follow
So fast it's time to disappear
And hard to swallow

Come in, bring out your girls
It's the easiest thing, the easiest thing to do
The easiest thing

STAND UP, BE A MAN

Hope you understand
You're not getting any younger
Stand up, be a man
Take a while and think it over
Dream is still a chance
While the world is spinning
Hope you under- understand
You're not getting any younger

Hope you understand
We're not living for tomorrow
Take me by the, by the hand
We weren't made for sorrow
See you on TV
But you are getting colder
Stand up, won't you be with me
We're not getting any younger

My father you might say he tries
Maybe he could try a little more
It's easy to close my eyes and see him at that door
So where do I run?
Who can I be?
This time I can try, I know I can
Less like a child this time
Not afraid to fall if I should stand

Hope you understand
While this old world is spinning
Won't you tell me who I am
We were both made for winning
See you on TV
But now you're going under
Stand up, won't you be with me
We're not getting any younger

My father you might say he tries
Maybe he could try a little more
It's easy to close my eyes and see him at that door
So where do I run?
Who can I be?
This time I can try, I know I can
Less like a child this time
Not afraid to fall if I should stand

STAND-IN

Every time I pick up your signal,
You're there with him
Through many countries, though
In my dreams,
You call me on the telephone

Oh-oh
Like some stand-in stand-in
Stand-in stand-in

All these years, everything changing
Though I've changed too
Seems life has passed me by
Can't believe, how I used to cry

My counselor says, "Play nice,
Life is never worth the price of flight"
But he's a con artist
From harder to hardest
We learn to fight

Outside, snow ploughs are steaming
It's warm inside
But colder inside my soul
I think of all the things that time has
Stolen

On the road,
The peaks and valleys flow into night
Whisker wheat, dimming light
Let me not be cynicism's fool

My counselor says, "Play nice,
Anger is never worth the price of life"
But he's a con artist
From harder to hardest,
We learn to fight

Wintertime, all of the birds
Are fast asleep
They're making straw pillows
And in their dreams
They dream of being
Birds

THE INVINCIBLES

That night on the dark stairway I thought of the heather
And our old TV screen
Though the Ashton-on-Mersey couldn't keep it together
Like the clubs that we loved
Like these places we've been

Walking through old Chinatown or down by the docks
Chilly walks by the pier
Happy times at the quay
Your mother in Bristol and me with my clock
While we looked to the future and what's never to be

It doesn't really matter what you say
We're gonna' feel it anyway
And not invincible again
See it through to the end
And you know I can, and you know I can
Let this be my portent

When I got back home I had to read it in a letter
You'd gone to Mable's K.O.
So I combed my hair
And then I got my bags together
For a long trip to Spain
By the way of Merlot
Alone in the train with my brain turned up high
Trying-to-drown-out-the-sound of the things that we'd said
Suicide has never been my personal style
With this goat mountainside I'm really better off dead

I say it doesn't matter what you say
We're gonna' feel it anyway
And not invincible again
See it through to the end
And you know I can, and you know I can
Let this be my portent

Walking through the streets of Cordoba and I'm thinking
That this is really okay
You with Casanova but I've still got my drinking
But all this life's in my way
In the end it's simple, shed a tear and I'm tender
Or flex this muscle, I'm strong
Fill me up, I'll even take return it to sender
When all my hope is gone

POP MUSIC UNITED

Is it worth it?
A new leather coat and boots
For yourself
Walking by Big Ben, or Pop-In
PMU, London or Paris, Berlin
All this music so united
Will life let me in?

But now that I'm on my own
You might say I'm better off now that
I'm living alone
And not thinking of you
Or of anyone else

In front of some keyboard
Or watching people go by
As they toil at the grind
Another daydream, another seaboard
How many rolls do I have to unwind
Just to feel without attachments?
Where can I feel kind?

But would you live forever?
(Would you write it all down?
United, united, united)

After the party
A little time to be all by myself
Now that the lasers are over
Time to forget the things that I felt
Flying from you and life and London
To some asteroid belt

(Will you fight forever
'Cause no one lives forever)