OH
It gets hard when there’s too much to know / I coulda given up a long time ago / I put my feelings on pause for a second and I don’t say a word while you speak then I can only say Oh / I didn’t know it was criminal / I can’t remember everything that I’ve ever done / Oh / I’m not trying to be minimal but now I feel I’m looking down the barrel of a gun / there are things you’d like me to forget / I was someone else before we met / if I was to deny them for a second I would turn forget into forgot / I would turn an e to an o / and you can’t do a puzzle with half the pieces missing and half of them fake / oh / and it’s gonna spell trouble when the picture that you’re looking at is all a mistake / cos it’s a hard question / I know / you’re coming on like a wrecking ball though / you say you care well it don’t show / I just called to say h e l l o / cos it’s a hard question / I know / you’re coming on like a wrecking ball though / you say you care well it don’t show / you say yeah but did you really mean no? / cos it’s a hard question / I know / you’re coming on like a wrecking ball though / you say you care but I can’t tell / I just called to say h e l l o

HONEY I AIN’T MADE OF MONEY
If I had money in my bank account I’d buy you a new pair of shoes / you can spend any amount on whatever you choose / but for now I’d better keep count ain’t got ten dollars to lose / but with a little good luck and a cash discount we can get ten dollars of blues / I would tell you different if it wasn’t true / I would laugh if it were funny / but I’m the one who’s always gotta tell you the news / honey I ain’t made of money / if I had cash and I weren’t in debt I wouldn’t put it in the bank / I wouldn’t act flash or try to get higher up the social rank / tell our friends in the horsey set I don’t feel too swank / putting a deposit on a cigarette and a bottle of sauvignon blanc / blanc blank / I would tell you different if it wasn’t true / I’d laugh if it were funny / but I’m the one to tell you the news / honey I ain’t made of money / jet set roulette television set / I ain’t there yet, no I haven’t even left the house yet / I said honey don’t be upset don’t let your eyes get wet just yet / cos I ain’t going far with the vcr cos the movie of my life is on a dvd-r / we will skip through most of it to get to the best bits / a few good lines but forget about the rest of it

TROUBLE
Join the army if ya trust yourself to be a soldier / fight for what you feel you must but not for what they told ya / but don’t pick up a gun if you don’t know what it’s for / and don’t fight in anyone else’s war / get out of your uniform if you want destruction / get on the microphone / make your introduction / don’t pick up a gun if you don’t know or you’re not sure / when to put it down again or you’ll start a war / there’s trouble / you started it / look what you done / I ain’t got my heart in it / ain’t got a gun / there’s trouble / you star in it / dropping your bombs / take out the world with a guitar and a drum / get your finger off the trigger if it’s time for violence / get on the kit / join the bigger struggle against silence / don’t play with a guns / play me a chord / it’s more fun than starting a war

SLUMMING
I went down to 610 I wanted to see a band / I took in 2 drinks I’ve only got one pair of hands / came outside at midnight / the crowd was 20 deep / it was like ann st was overrun with sheep / they all looked the same but it’s only cosmetic / I felt ashamed / I could relate to the aesthetic / appropriating culture is like picking flowers / but is a vulture what it devours? / I know when the milk runs black a bad rain’s gonna fall / down here quite literally the writing’s on the wall / I went round the corner / there’s no room to move / the valley’s full of fucking wankers with something to prove / I’ll stand back and watch the changing of the guard / I wish you the best and I send you my regards / but passing on the baton never should be very hard / I’ll stand up and watch rebellion take its course / tearing up the rule book never gave me much remorse / thumbing through the phone book looking for the stores to buy it / warming up your cheque book for when you can afford to try it / I don’t know much about fashion as a rule / we get around like we just got home from school / but I know a bad shirt and I know bad hair / is it such a crime being told what to wear? / is it the postmodern way / everything comes around? / ripping off the most superficial bits of the underground / down in the disco the sheep are wearing black / you can have it / I don’t want it back / I’ll stand back and watch the changing of the guard / I wish you the best and I send you my regards / but passing on the baton never should be very hard / I’ll stand up to watch rebellion take its course / tearing up the rule book never gave me much remorse / thumbing through the phone book looking for the stores to buy it / don’t put the same old saddle on the horse / pissing on the past won’t get you round the course / it’s only implied / you’re never gonna have to live by it / it’s only implied / you’ll never have to deny it

UNEDUCATED GUESS
Are you gonna come and have your dinner now or just let it go cold? / are you gonna surrender yourself unto the television’s hold? / are you gonna do as you are told? / sit there till you are very very old / I don’t know but since you mention it that’s the first time I’ve thought to question it / I’m not interested in questioning / I’m just into sitting and listening / don’t want to have to mess about / don’t wanna make an uneducated guess about / don’t wanna get up and get dressed and go out / because I couldn’t really care any less about / are you going to pay for what you’ve stolen or put it in your pocket and run? / are you going to buy what you’re being sold or will you just try to have some fun? / I can’t tell if it’s already begun / but if it has I would also like some

CHORUS GHETTO
Tomorrow I will not be here any more / you wanted me home early I didn’t come home at all / tomorrow I’m gonna get on a plane and not come back / I don’t need to even come home to pack / and I feel I should belong in this boring part of town / but I know I don’t belong / oh yeah / I’m doing something that doesn’t feel quite right / but that’s only because it doesn’t really feel very wrong / oh yeah / monday I decided it would be best if I left / and on tuesday I felt just the same as that / wednesday I felt a little unsure and thursday I was even more unsure so I came back / friday and saturday I was so confused like why did I leave only to return? / on sunday I realised that you just gotta go round and round in a circle if it’s the only way you’re gonna learn / and I feel I should belong in this boring part of town / but I know I don’t belong / oh yeah / I’m doing something that doesn’t feel quite right / but that’s only because it doesn’t really feel very wrong / oh yeah / and though I feel I don’t belong in the places I come from / there’s good and bad things everywhere / oh yeah / and it’s confusing to think about me losing my sense of self if I wasn’t there / oh yeah / I was not lost but I knew not the way / I was not lost but I knew not the way / there is a cost that I will have to pay / and there is not a lot more to say

BOYS AND GIRLS
How long will it take you to work out you’re not the only person in the world? / it’s a big planet and there’s lots of other boys and girls / but the illusion has been put in place so well / don’t introduce me to your world we already know each other / when it lets you down like it did me you will discover / life ain’t like the telly or the magazine cover / don’t be sad to throw your world away when you are through with it / I would give you my one but you wouldn’t know what to do with it / you’ve got a big mouth and you want something to chew with it

WHERE WAS I?
I’m not involved with too many of the people I spent my early 20s or my youth hanging ’round / I don’t know where they all are but I know where the ones that matter are and they know where I can be found / it doesn’t matter if you remember wrong / there aren’t many things that last very long / I can’t pretend that I can explain how but I know that’s where I was before I was where I am now / I’m getting lazy with the details of my conception I’ve often been told of the occasion / dry leaves was dreamy and summer was setting the light mixed with smoke made me feel like forgetting / it doesn’t matter if you negate the question / the question is only have I learned my lesson? / I can’t pretend that I can explain how but I know that’s where I was before I was where I am now / the night air was cold and it burnt at my lungs / and my knee hurt and I could not run very far / the stars were gonna get put to bed any minute / like my teen years being folded up with everything in it / before I take a lighter to my past one more time I will reconcile with all the promises I would forget / cos things they never come out how you think that they’re gonna come out / and you won’t always get to where you think you’re gonna get / it doesn’t matter if you remember wrong / there aren’t many things that last very long / I can’t pretend that I can explain how / but I know where I was before I was where I am now / I know where I was before I was where I am now / I know where I was before I was where I am now / I know where I was before I was where I am now

WRONG WRONG WRONG
Good times they have been had / everything from now on is gonna be bad / we’re trying to wake up but we’re falling asleep / we’re wasting opportunities not to be sheep / and we blanche at the chance to get it right in case we’re wrong / you ain’t gonna sing if you can’t sing along / wake up you’ve had your fun / everything good has already been done / the last decade ended / it couldn’t get worse / we’re driving its ashes around in a hearse / like a sacred reminder of days that are gone / you will never get back to where you feel you belong / the future’s a glare / I don’t want to listen / the past doesn’t care and the present’s indifferent / I just said a prayer that it don’t last very long long long / let me get it wrong wrong wrong wrong / think back it won’t take long / everything exciting happened when you were young / you didn’t get faded you didn’t get drowned / you didn’t get jaded from injustices around / but compromise pervaded / you got cliched / the things that you traded were the wrong things to trade / one day you’ll change your mind / the future will come and it won’t be kind / if you can get yourself into a different shirt / you will miss a bit of the inevitable hurt / the body feels tight / the sleeves a little long / but you can’t leave the house if you can’t get it on / the future’s a glare / the present is hurtin’ / the past’s coming down around me like a curtain / I hope this uncertainty doesn’t last very long long long / just let me get it wrong wrong wrong wrong / the future’s reverting / the present is hurtin’ / the past’s coming down around me like a curtain / I hope this uncertainty doesn’t last very long long long / let me get it wrong wrong wrong wrong

EVERY LITTLE TEAR
I went to see the doctor / what did he say? / he said you’re gonna regret the moment that you let that girl get away / stop being so stupid / just get it into your head / stop worrying about your hurt feelings and every little tear you’ve already shed / cos there are emotions other than pride / you’re gonna cry an ocean for every little tear that you’ve already cried / every little tear / I don’t need to x ray you to tell you what I already know / nothing is actually broken if your dignity takes a blow / I’ll give you my prognosis it ain’t good but it won’t take long / I don’t need to look down your throat to tell you that you’re going about this all wrong / cos there are emotions that you shouldn’t hide / you’re gonna cry an ocean for every little tear that you’ve already cried / every little tear / cos there are emotions other than pride / you’re gonna cry an ocean for every little tear that you’ve already cried

ALL MOUTH
You’re all mouth and no trousers / coming on all cocky about how you’re so much fun / just keep talking / it allows ya to get on with the business of getting nothing done / you’re all tall talk and no action / none of your plans ever eventuate / find an excuse or another distraction / it will your inaction validate / in the aisles of the supermarket / in the pages of the magazines / there are people that I like to look at / and places I would like to say that I have been / you’re all mouth and no trousers / always talking up the things you’re never gonna do / a little bit of something’s better than a whole lot of nothing / which is what I’m realising it amounts to / you’re all bark and no bite and / you’re gonna smash my fuckin head against the wall / I’m not fifteen and I’m not frightened / next time you feel intimidatory give me a call / in the aisles of the supermarket / in the pages of the magazines / there are people that I like to look at / and places I would like to say that I have been / I hear you calling but you can’t come over / I hear you knocking but you can’t come in / a deep seated long standing issue about where you belong versus where you fit in / you’re all fur coat and no knickers / promising the world but do you think you will deliver? / I see through you just as quick as / it takes me to work out an equally facile response to give ya

ALWAYS
I know there’s things you’ve been waiting to hear / I wanna tell you them each time I see ya / but it’s a non starter this new career of giving you what you have earned / how can I relate to you if you can’t relate to me? / I’m not saying I know you / not saying it’s too late for me / how can I show you what I’ve been thinking lately and presume you’d be concerned? / always always maybe never ending / talking to no-one just to feel something / making a circle out of a square / trying to work out if you would care about things that I know if they weren’t only shared between me and a couple of mates / cos I’ve got a key only I’m scared of breaking it / forcing the lock is as pointless as faking it / as pointless as pushing the point by taking it further than my garden gates / always always maybe saying nothing / talking to no-one just to feel something / always always maybe never ending / longing for belonging / not always just pretending / always always nothing fits completely / nothing will complete me / always always if you can say it sweetly you get out of it cheaply / you can say what you like because no-one will hear / it’s easy to come across insincere / I don’t want to be ya / just wanna be near enough to whisper in your ear

ZINEY ANECDOTAL
I’m taking aim now / aiming at your knees / you’re calling in the army and you’re calling in the police / you said it was an eye opener / I said it was just a tease / have you got a can opener? / can you open these? / I came to tell you it ain’t what you know / I like kicking around you know / but not when I fall off the wall / I took all your longing and soon broke into song / it was uncomplicated and lent itself to me singing along / can I can I come out tonight? / can I come out too? / like you kinda own me / but I don’t own you / it is like a candle to my getting to know ya ball of steel / like your kinda ordinary worlds that make me feel / it’s like a fever / I am never cold / I won’t feel the winter on my lips or so I am told / got caught up in the dancing / and on a whim I crawled a little further out along my limb / talk about the filament of feeling I will feel it soon / I am not a camel I can’t make it through the afternoon / I can’t turn myself off like a tap that you left on / I can’t stop the movie rolling once it’s begun / I can’t stop the dogs from howling / I am one